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fundamental properties are indestructible, we reach 

 the startling conclusion, that all energy, in all bodies, 

 at all times, is automatic. This does not leave room 

 for a Creator. Whatever energy exists in any body 

 capable of performing a certain action, we can also 

 rely upon it being inviolably performed. 



Automatism, moreover, is an absolute necessity in 

 physical operations, for in no other way could the 

 dance of millions of atoms on the point of a needle 

 be regulated. 



(6) The Duality of Energy : 



From the fact that matter is dual and that 

 reciprocity between the metallic and non-metallic 

 elements is essential both to production and repro- 

 duction, this reciprocity is virtually a Dual or 

 Sexual law of energy. The importance of such a 

 law in such a fertile world as ours may be imagined. 



While the above are the general principles of 

 energy in the world, if not in the universe, there are 

 also, what is more important to scientists, the definite 

 laws of energy for producing definite effects and 

 controlling definite phenomena. Some of these laws 

 are new and some old, but the old ones are placed by 

 us on a higher pedestal than they have hitherto 

 occupied. 



(7) The chief of these is : — Magnetism : 



The longest known, most familiar, and least under- 

 stood of all natural forces is magnetism or electricity, 

 for both forces are practically identical. Ever since 

 Jupiter hurled thunderbolts out of Olympus, the 



