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Magnetism and other forces
relating to it.
MAGNETISM is a force to be found everywhere,
same.
but the mistake that people commit with regard to this force as connected with the spiritual state is in confounding it with spiritual force. It is not the The Hindus divide the properties of matter into three classes, the first passivity and purity, the second activity, the third grossness. While all there properties exist on the physical plane, all of them operate on the mental and physical planes also. When all act on the physical plane, the third property, grossness, takes the form of slothfulness and ignorance, and the person is altogether on the lowest plane of physical exister ce. On the mental plane the same property is darkness or ignorance, and on the emotional and psychic planes it is the state of being mastered by the passions. Thus the same property on the higher plane becomes active in mind, emotions, likes and dislikes, etc.
The second quality, on the physical plane, is heat, electricity, magnetism and other forces, purity of the body, and the white color; and all other conditions of
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