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maintains the sovereignty of attraction over matter 

 in body, while electricity, another phase of the same 

 force, maintains the sovereignty of repulsion over 

 matter in space. 



Fourth For these reasons electricity is a universal 

 power joining together the two kingdoms of the 

 heavens and the earth of matter in body and mat- 

 ter in space. And these forces in their unity of 

 harmonious work can suffer no disturbance equal 

 "to the dust in the balance." 



Fifth These floods of electricity and magnetism 

 affect the least and the greatest, "directly as to 

 mass, and inversely to the square of the distance." 



Sixth The sun and planets are vast magnets be- 

 cause they are held in charge of electro-magnetic 

 forces in an immense magnetic field. These forces 

 are not from these bodies originally, but these 

 bodies are from these forces; and these forces 

 antedate all forms of visible matter. 



Seventh The primary state of matter is the dif- 

 fused etheric, invisible state, and the building of mat- 

 ter into body is the work of these forces when in 

 charge of matter under organic affinities. Magnetic 

 lines of force fix centres and build around such cen- 

 tres by drawing elemental matter from the radiant 

 sea of space by magnetic energy, into globular 

 forms that become growing worlds, drawing their 

 power and increase of form from the sea of invisible 

 matter in which they are fixed by their axis and 

 orbit lines of motion and force, constituting them 

 working electro-magnets. 



Eighth These electro-magnetic forces are the eter- 

 nal cosmic forces of perpetual motion, ever work- 

 ing by the law of action and reaction, attraction 



