It brings back images of experiments with twitching frogs' legs and that famous weekend when Shelley, Byron, Mary Godwin and Doctor Galivari(?) were banged up during that thunderstorm, when everyone wrote a short horror story except Mary who wrote Frankenstein.

However, I think you will find the single overall life-giving and sustaining principle has a longer history than that.
How about the Logos of Heraclitus, for example, which was coopted by the gentile Christians to be the universal life spirit which manifested in Jesus?

One thing which always fascinated me when in premie land was the constant reference by different Masters historically to the Holy Name, which now appears in Rhadasoami as Sant Nam.

The HN is presumably the translation of Logos (Word, Name).

How come Nanak and the Sikhs used this?
Or did some early Xtian translator of Sikh texts supply Holy Name to a Sikh concept because he hadn't any other word available?