EVERY IMPORTANT STUDY is built in the form of a structure. Its foundations rest in the bosom of Nature. Its superstructure may rise, part on part, to the topmost section on which rest the spires that point to a power above. Bedded in Nature it seeks the sky. Thus all things proceed. The tree borrows its material fund from the lap of Nature, and responds to the vital forces of the heavens which draw its substance from the ground by the magnetism of the sun. A force holds all things to the earth; and another force gives them the outstretching arms that seek the Giver of Life.

Magnetism as a study has its basic foundations in Nature. But it rises to the sources of Nature.

It is wholly a subtle and intangible force, yet it is the most powerful force in all the universe.

Beyond this world we find the solar system of which our globe is a part. Beyond our solar system, we discern many other similar systems that unite to form our universe. Beyond our universe, there are countless other universes; yet they are all bound together by the subtle and intangible force known as magnetism. If this force were absent, all creation would fly apart and be lost in chaos.

The constellations that form our universe are held together by this same force. If it were absent, all the constellations would drift away or in fact would have been wanderers in space and lost by this time to our gaze.

Our own solar system consists of the central sun, the planets, and planetary orbs that are invisible to the eye; all held by magnetism to the sun; all revolving around it; all repelling the efforts of the sun to draw them into its mass; and yet all held in leash by the very sun they repel. Were this magnetism lacking, the whole mass would take one of two courses. If the inherent magnetism of the orbs that repel the inviting power of the sun were absent, they would be absorbed in that great fire. If the inherent magnetism of the sun that holds them in leash were lacking, all the planets and orbs would wander off in space, aimlessly and endlessly, with no future except that of frozen ice balls, useless in the plan of creation.

These are the giant energies of magnetism. Yet this force is subtle and intangible.

What we call gravity for lack of a better name, is the same magnetism. It keeps all things within the embrace of the earth. Without it no living being could remain on the ground. The first step that was raised in walking would lift man from the globe and he would continue to rise until he had met the of the orbs that had wandered of into the abysses of space. Every object, animate or inanimate, that moved at all, would move off the earth never to return. If you were to rise from a chair you would keep on rising until you reached the ceiling, if indoors, or until you passed out of view in the sky, if out of doors.

All growth in the kingdom of plants, flowers and trees is due to the magnetism of the sun in drawing the material from the earth. If this were lacking, nothing would have life. The needed elements that build the plant or tree are actually lifted outof the soil; while the needed vitality from the sun is actually drawn from that orb, woven into growing things, and eventually stored away in the earth itself.

We have spoken of the universe as composed of solar systems, each with a central governing orb. It was not known until veryrecently that this form of structure is reproduced in miniature in all substance that is called matter. In chemistry there aremore than ninety elements; each element being supposed to consistof a fixed arrangement of molecules, or small particles that never vary their plan of structure unless disturbed by some such influence as radioactivity. One such arrangement results in the element known as iron, another in hydrogen, another in oxygen, another in gold, and so on through all the chemical elements. These molecules are held together in each fixed arrangement by the magnetism called cohesion. If this were lacking, there could be no elements, no iron, no gold, no oxygen, no metals or gases, and no combinations of elements such as sustain life and give shape to all things. Everything would be resolved to dust, or a condition much finer than dust. There would be no animal life, no plant life, no buildings, no tools with which to work, nothing whatever tangible.

Thus we see the wonderful provision of the Creator in giving to all the earth this form of magnetism.

Yet what we call shapes of things are held together not only by this kind of magnetism, but by laws within themselves similar to the laws that govern the universes of the sky. Each molecule which is the basis of an element, is itself composed of atoms. While these are invisible, their activities and nature are well known and easily studied. Each atom, once supposed to be the beginning of all things and regarded as holding the secret of creation, is now known to be composed of electrons; and here we really have the first cause of creation.

Each atom is a universe, or rather a solar system in itself; it has a central orb or sun, which is an electron; around which all the other electrons revolve. There is present in the atom the same law of magnetism that holds together the stars and planets.

Our sun is a ball of fire inconceivably hot, shooting forth tongues of flame that extend a hundred thousand miles beyond its surface. The central orb in an atom is relatively active, and possesses the same relative amount of fire, energy and magnetism; yet a thousand billion of these atoms thus constructed in the form of solar systems could not, if massed together, present enough substance to be seen by the naked eye.

It is of such atoms that the human body, the human brain, the entire nervous system, all the organs, and all the flesh and bones, are composed. The energy that is locked up in a single atom holds enough potential power to destroy the body itself if setfree. Every drop of blood is charged with latent and active magnetism. There is no particle of life in a human being that is not a slumbering dynamo.

While electricity and magnetism are not the same, both come from the same source, make use of the same laws, and proceed in the same manner to manifest themselves. The air about us is charged to excess with unlimited funds of electricity and magnetism. If you set up a giant generator in a small room having walls ten feet thick; a floor of masonry ten feet deep; and a ceiling overhead made of concrete or stone material ten feet high; and if you lock up that room with a door ten feet thick, and set the generator working to draw out of the air all the electricity available; you will never find an end to the flow of current that will supply that engine or dynamo. It will be able to find this power a million years from now. You cannot shut out the supply, exhaust it, or even reduce it. Where does it come from? How does it get through those walls?

We have spoken of drawing electricity from the air, as if it were located in the atmosphere. But when a dynamo is placed in a vacuum and set in motion, the flow of electricity is still maintained. This shows that the air is not the agency of supply.

There are three oceans by which influences are transmitted:

1. The atmosphere through which the magnetism of the voice is carried in waves from one person to another.

2. The light-ether which fills all space between the orbs of the sky, and through which light waves pass, as well as electric energy,

3. The thought-ether through which waves of thought pass from mind to mind, and which connects life on this earth with all life beyond.

Human magnetism employs all three of these means of communication in the passing of its influence from person to person. But while the waves of sound in the air carry the tones of the voice, and are in that way the agency of the magnetic voice, the actual magnetism is conveyed either by the light-ether or by the thought-ether.

The sound of the human voice travels on air waves at the rate of 1,087 feet per second. Light travels at the rate of 186,300 miles per second. Electricity moves at the rate of 230,000 miles per second. Thought is able to reach the farthest orb in space, trillions times trillions of miles, in less than a second; and yet it moves in waves, uniting not only human beings on this planet, butall beings in the universe.