breath of life

• breath of life

28:5.21I as­sure you that all these trans­ac­tions of the spirit world are real, that they take place in ac­cor­dance with es­tab­lished us­ages and in har­mony with the im­mutable laws of the uni­ver­sal do­mains. The be­ings of ev­ery newly cre­ated or­der, im­me­di­ately upon re­ceiv­ing the breath of life, are in­stantly re­flected on high; a liv­ing por­trayal of the crea­ture na­ture and po­ten­tial is flashed to the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters. Thus, by means of the dis­cern­ers, are the Cen­sors made fully cog­nizant of ex­actly “what man­ner of spirit” has been born on the worlds of space.

• local universe Mother Spirits contribute

34:2.5In the cre­ation of a uni­verse of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures the Cre­ative Mother Spirit func­tions first in the sphere of uni­verse per­fec­tion, col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Son in the pro­duc­tion of the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Sub­se­quently the off­spring of the Spirit in­creas­ingly ap­proach the or­der of cre­ated be­ings on the plan­ets, even as the Sons grade down­ward from the Mel­chiz­e­deks to the Ma­te­rial Sons, who ac­tu­ally con­tact with the mor­tals of the realms. In the later evo­lu­tion of mor­tal crea­tures the Life Car­rier Sons pro­vide the phys­i­cal body, fab­ri­cated out of the ex­ist­ing or­ga­nized ma­te­rial of the realm, while the Uni­verse Spirit con­tributes the “breath of life.”

• local universe Mother Spirits contribute

36:6.4When the Life Car­ri­ers have de­signed the pat­terns of life, af­ter they have or­ga­nized the en­ergy sys­tems, there must oc­cur an ad­di­tional phe­nom­e­non; the “breath of life” must be im­parted to these life­less forms. The Sons of God can con­struct the forms of life, but it is the Spirit of God who re­ally con­tributes the vi­tal spark. And when the life thus im­parted is spent, then again the re­main­ing ma­te­rial body be­comes dead mat­ter. When the be­stowed life is ex­hausted, the body re­turns to the bo­som of the ma­te­rial uni­verse from which it was bor­rowed by the Life Car­ri­ers to serve as a tran­sient ve­hi­cle for that life en­dow­ment which they con­veyed to such a vis­i­ble as­so­ci­a­tion of en­ergy-mat­ter.

• early man regarded as differentiating living from dead

86:4.3Early man was also much con­cerned about his breath, es­pe­cially in cold cli­mates, where it ap­peared as a cloud when ex­haled. The breath of life was re­garded as the one phe­nom­e­non which dif­fer­en­ti­ated the liv­ing and the dead. He knew the breath could leave the body, and his dreams of do­ing all sorts of queer things while asleep con­vinced him that there was some­thing im­ma­te­rial about a hu­man be­ing. The most prim­i­tive idea of the hu­man soul, the ghost, was de­rived from the breath-dream idea-sys­tem.