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shells as money, but this shows that they knew the conductivity of different substances and knew what electricity was. I have read recently that a manuscript has been found concerning the nature of electricity showing that the ancients understood this. Our monks also observe many other rules, besides the moral rules I gave you in the beginning. But it has been said by one of them that in the highest condition, the most developed condition, it is not necessary to observe any rules at all. Such a person is on a different plane, and few of us are on that plane, so that it may be necessary for people under the ordinary conditions to observe the rules which are fitted to those conditions.
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