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Magnetism and other forces
relating to it. M AGNETISM is a force to be found everywhere,
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 same. The Hindus divide the properties of matter into three classes, the first passivity and purity, the second activity, the third grossness. While all these properties exist on the physical plane, all of them operate on the mental and psychical planes also. When all act on the physical plane, the third property, grossness, takes the form of slothsulness and ignorance, and the person is altogether on the lowest plane of physical existence. 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 matter in which it is supposed to be in a state of purity. On the mental plane it becomes intelligence. Magnetism is not the same as the spiritual nature of the soul. One great mistake which people who
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