The spark is from dead wisdom, but the fire is life.
And as an example--a very simple one--of how a scientist of the most innocent modern sort may hint at truths which, when stated, he would laugh at as fantastic nonsense, let us quote a word from the already old-fashioned "Golden Bough." "It must have appeared to the ancient Aryan that the sun was periodically recruited from the fire which resided in the sacred oak." Exactly.

The fire which resided in the Tree of Life.

That is, life itself.

So we must read: "It must have appeared to the ancient Aryan that the sun was periodically recruited from life."-- Which is what the early Greek philosophers were always saying.

And which still seems to me the real truth, the clue to the cosmos.