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the electric flashes that come from every part of 

 his body, that tingle on his nerves, and beat upon 

 the brain, and touch the garments of the living soul. 

 He sees through the medium of the electric etheric 

 waves of light that come from the vibrations of the 

 air around him. By these swift electric flashes the 

 infinitesimal rays of electric light enter the retina 

 of the eye and touch the quick vision of the soul. 

 He hears by the atmospheric waves of electricity 

 that beat upon his ear drums. He tastes and smells 

 by the same electric process ; and his five senses are 

 but the inward communication of outer surround- 

 ing conditions and substances to his spiritual per- 

 ception by means of electricity. Thus the Creative 

 Deity hears and knows, and by the same forces 

 directs and sustains all things. 



Man as an electric engine is far more efficient than 

 any known engine in which there is a consumption 

 of fuel. In general the amount of work a man 

 does bears a certain proportion to the fuel he puts 

 into his boiler. Plants also constitute forms of 

 electric engines to embalm the suns rays and use 

 the products rejected by men and animals. 



By the radiant energy of the sun, plants are able 

 to decompose carbonic acid. They form storage 

 cells in which a current of electricity decomposes the 

 liquid into oxygen and hydrogen and form materi- 

 als which again give electricity, motion and heat. 

 The sun enables the plant engine to work. It also 

 enables the man engine and animal engine, and 

 world engine to work by furnishing them all with 

 the electric energy and working power of the uni- 

 verse, that they may do their part in the ever living 

 forces of cosmic life. The cells of protoplasm are 

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