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circle. I can not but regard these results as exceedingly inter- 

 esting and important, as showing the relative degrees and 

 states of polarity of particular points and directions of the 

 earth's surface, and of the surrounding and celestial spaces 

 thus, as suggesting the different qualities or states of the ma- 

 terials of which the earth and all correlative creations are 

 composed thus, as suggesting the correlative affinities and 

 forces by which these materials became associated in their 

 present structural form and finally, as suggesting something 

 of the perpetually repeated round of changing influences and 

 ethereal forces through which (in analogy to the revolving 

 magnet) the earth and all celestial bodies pass in performing 

 their rotary and orbitual revolutions. If there is any validity 

 in these suggestions, then these degrees of polarity, states and 

 affinities of matter, changing ethereal forces, etc., all exemplify 

 the seven-fold series as corresponding to the seven colors of the 

 iris, which, in the experiment referred to, were successively 

 given forth by the revolving magnet. And, applying these 

 remarks (as analogy would justify us in doing) to all mundane 

 organizations to the solar system, the sidereal systems, and 

 to the whole universe as one Body as well as to the earth, 

 we have in the " odic light" a universal dynamic correlative 

 of the fifth law the law of segregation, or the law by which 

 unity is divided into parts of different and connected grada- 

 tions. 



Concerning the third member of this trinity of agents the 

 " odic," electroid, or ethereal emanation which was found to 

 produce such marked and singular effects on the sensitive hu- 

 man nerve, the following remarks may be submitted : 



1. All things subjected to careful experiment, whether in 

 the animal, vegetable, or mineral Kingdoms, or in the 

 celestial spaces, were found to send forth this subtile eman- 



