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associate, match, and arrange together in such a way as to 
develop in them high-spirited and estimable qualities. 
By selecting, drilling, and arranging a lot of the most 
worthless and unattractive of things, he can turn out some 
of the most beautiful, useful, and valuable combinations 
that have in these times enriched the world. But besides 
the changes in regard to qualities easily recognised by our 
senses, such as colour, taste, and smell, there are many 
other and more subtle changes which he can effeCt that are 
not so readily appreciated by us. 
The exaCt rationale of these changes is, I suspeCt, almost 
beyond our comprehension. With regard to colour, knowing 
as we do that Electron, if not identical with light, is allied 
and even superior to it, and may therefore be believed to 
have some command of those elementary colours contained 
in light, and it is quite conceivable that the molecules and 
the ultimate atoms of matter may have, through the influence 
of Electron, special affinities for certain of these coloured 
elements, or specially eleCtrised atoms, if such they be, 
as we know that they have for the other speCtroscopic ele- 
ments of light, and that they will, in consequence, reflect 
some but absorb others, appearing in that colour which they 
reflect, and showing black if they absorb all, but white if 
they reflect them all. 
So subtle and all-embracing is the essence of this great 
Genie that there is no part of the World, or of what it con- 
tains, that is not more or less imbued with it. But, though 
embracing all things, he shows a decided preference for 
some above others, and this in so manifest a way that the 
Magi who are devoted to his service have had no difficulty 
in making out a list of things in the order of his preference 
for them. Among those for which he shows the highest 
favour and attachment are the great family of the metals, 
and it is chiefly through their means that mankind have 
been enabled to become acquainted with his character and 
qualities, and with at least some of the laws by which he is 
governed in the work which God has ordained him to do. 
By their means it is, too, that his extraordinary powers are 
being more and more applied to the direCt service and benefit 
of mankind. For example, while we can travel at the rate 
of a mile per minute along an iron railway, one of the same 
material, at a fraction of the cost, can be made to convey 
Electron with whatever store of intelligence we choose to 
entrust to him, thousands of miles, and to any part of the 
world, in the same space of time. 
(To be continued. 
