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THE POWER OF KARMA finally human. Geology provides us with no traces of man in the first ages of the earth, though the debris of the animal kingdom is found in profusion; and we may conclude that man was never included in the animal kingdom. He must accordingly be viewed as a phenomenal manifestation in whom all the inferior kingdoms were comprised, and to whom they were subordinate. Man is thus destined to be the link which unites the superior or divine kingdom with the inferior kingdom of physical matter, the link that completes a chain of communication between all beings. The perfected essence of the kingdoms of nature is united in him. As we may conceive of God as being the centre and circumference of all that which is, so Man is the centre and circumference of the sphere which he inhabits. It is his will-power, freewill's scope, which makes him the living type of the universe, and the image of God himself. That part of the Kabala which treats of magic explains how vibrations act and react between the visible and invisible side of nature, and formulates the character of things and their forms in regard to weight, measure and number. It embodies the knowledge of the laws of harmony which exist throughout the Universe. In the golden age of Atlantis human beings
