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Matter in its elemental form is invisible and eter- 

 nal; electricity and spirit are invisible and eternal. 

 Thus when the real man throws off his overcoat of 

 atoms and steps out of this "mortal coil," he is 

 free from the limitations of matter and can com- 

 mand the electric energy to go where destiny points 

 and draws him, which is to the electric and spiritual 

 center of our planetary system, the self-luminous and 

 perfected world, the all-life-giving sun. 



The oxygen of the air keeps alive the fire of physi- 

 cal life, and the body may be compared to a flame 

 being fed unceasingly according to the laws of com- 

 bustion. A want of oxygen extinguishes the flame 

 of life as it extinguishes the flame of a lamp. 



It is said a human being dies every second. In 

 ten thousand years, two hundred thousand mil- 

 lions of human bodies have been formed by means 

 of respiration and alimentation from the earth and 

 atmosphere, and have returned to them again. 

 They have enriched the earth and entered again 

 into atmospheric circulation. 



The earth is to-day formed in part of the myriads 

 of brains which have thought and organisms which 

 have lived. We walk over our ancestors as those 

 who come after us will walk over us. It would be 

 difficult to take a step upon the planet without 

 walking over the remains of the dead, or to eat or 

 drink without reabsorbing what has been eaten and 

 drank a thousand times before, or to breathe with- 

 out using the same air already many times used by 

 the dead. 



But this is not all there is of humanity. All the 

 souls that have lived still exist. Souls are the seed 

 of terrestrial population. We have no reason to 

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