[mkirkpatrick]

According to the ancient wisdom,at the moment the first element came into
existance .Before this time,matter was not.It is equally impossible to concieve
of matter without energy,as energy without matter;from one point of view both
are convertible terms.Before the birth of atoms,all those forms of energy,which
became evident when matter acts upon matter,could not have existed-they
were locked up in the protyle(the before)as latent potentialities only.Coincident
with the creation of atoms,all those attributes and properties,which form the means of discriminating one chemical element from another,start into existance
fully endowed with energy.All atoms are eternal and come from the One-atom.
The Protyle atom from which came-All which has not been comminuted or
subtilzed has passed into a plane or unmanifestedness,and is unknowable.
So it would seem an impossible task to find it!!

kind regards michael.