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human being a gross body, but in the case of other beings a subtle body is generated, and this body is changeable so far as its forin and dimensions are concerned. Therefore if the forces generated while we live any kind of life are of different kinds, then in the case of some being, it may be necessary that he should be born in the human condition, and pass through the actual conditions which must be obeyed if the human being is to be born, while if the forces generated are different in their character, he may be born on some other planet, where birth is manifested in a different way, without any necessity of the combination of the male and the female principle. There are so many different planes of life that the mere study of the human life ought not to be made to apply to all the forms of life. We have studied only a few forms of the life of animals, human beings, etc.. but that is only the part which, under the present development of our science, of our eyesight even, we are able to study. We are not able to study other forms of life, innumerable in the universe, and therefore we ought not to apply the laws thus discovered to all forms of life. Our study is introspective, because our idea is that the soul is able to know everything under the right circumstances. The knowledge acquired in these conditions is of a sounder nature and of a more correct kind because the obstacles which come in the way of the science are not there. Scientists do commit mistakes and think they do not ; still knowledge is derived from inferences which we
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