IN THE article on the Soul in this issue, if carefully read, it can be perceived that what we call the Earth, is but a great mass of consciousness, consisting of every phase of being or life, from the mineral state of consciousness, up through the animal and human; on into the water, fire and air states; and shall we say into the etheric, astral and mental states as well.

Everyone who has done any thinking knows that what makes the mineral state is its slowed-down and very “dense” vibration; that the vegetable is a more quickened and “fluidic” vibration; the animal a still more quickened and “forceful” vibration; the human a much higher and “self conscious” vibration; while water, fire, air, the etheric, astral and mental states, all have their own distinctive vibrations, each definitely in evidence on its own plane of consciousness.

Science has admitted that even minerals have life, and their chemical reactions to each other indicate they have intelligence, which of course is evidence of consciousness. Therefore we can see that the consciousness that is in all the different kingdoms of matter that comprise our Mother Earth is inextricably interrelated; in fact, it is the same consciousness merely active on its different planes of expression—mineral, vegetable, animal, human, etc.

It can be likened to the consciousness of man, whose consciousness, as we have shown, is really the soul of man; but it acts by directing the life expression of the minerals in the bones and teeth; of the vegetable nature in the nails, hair, eyes and ligaments; and of the animal nature in the flesh and blood—by directing the life ex-

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