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habit the earth. These were all formed and per- 

 fected through ages of response to the varying 

 electric currents of life-giving power. 



Then the animal form evolved a brain, and 

 acquired the sense of feeling and sight and hearing 

 by reason of the electric currents that impinged on 

 the sensitive tissues of the brain, and animal in- 

 stinct was slowly and gradually developed and the 

 animal organism raised to the highest grade of the 

 perfected mammal. All this was done under electric 

 law by magnetic energy. Then the Creative Deity 

 said, " Let us make man." And it is likely He took 

 a perfected mammal, enlarged his brain-pan, stood 

 him erect to front the stars, and breathed into him 

 an atom of his own spirit, "and man became a 

 living soul." The psychic power of glowing thought 

 and reasoning mind, inspiring hope and heaven- 

 bound love, and truth, and language, music, poetry, 

 and dreams of heaven, were implanted as a celestial 

 fire in his deathless spirit. This is man, the soul, 

 the spirit, the divine, eternal spark of Deity him- 

 selfnot the body; that is merely the overcoat of 

 atoms for the spirit, the temple for the soul, the 

 house in which it dwells. 



It will be seen from the foregoing that electricity 

 is the creative, evolving force of the universe, the 

 word of omnipotent power, the creative machinery 

 of suns and worlds. That it creates suns and worlds 

 and all animal and vegetable organisms, that it 

 can evolve all forms, and give animal instinct as 

 the result of balancing the experience of one sense 

 with another through long ages of experience. 



But it cannot create mind, soul or the spirit of 

 Deity. It could not create man as a psychic being. 



