VIEWS OF OUR HEAVENLY HOME-
From each of the earths in our system, great electrical ans magnetic rivers flow out and in, to and fro, like a ceaseless tide.(76)
The flowings and ebbings of these elemental Gulf Streams- those Amazonian rivers, which sweep through the upper atmospheres and onward far away among the interstellar spaces- correspond in a general way, to the forward and backward movements of the blood, which floats upon currents yet more vital, from its governmental centre, the heart, to the finest and most remote points, the outermost of the human body.
As the crimson fluid of your heart, which is both positive (arterial) and negative (venous), and which with corresponding reciprocations pulsates
to and fro, in and out, throughout the arteries and veins of the human body; so, and upon like principles of motion, and with similar functions, the
magnetic and electrical streams of the upper regions start from geo-centres (earths) and from helio-centres (suns) and flow with every
conceivable form of beauty through the heavenly atmospheric fields. The directions of these streams are as various as are the radial lines
from a globe, and in numbers they are strickly countless. These great living currents promote the refinements and assimilations of atoms among
the organs (globes) of the infinite body of God. They form and flow forth between all the solar centres and the inhabited globes in space; and thence they stream onward and inward into the next great sphere of human existance, which we now call the Summerland. (77) Fire, Heat, Light, and Electricity are the essentials from which the universe, as it now is, was unfolded from least to the greatest.
`Fire' being the name for both a condition and an effect; so, also, of the other three successive terms. Electricity was evolved from Light; light from
Heat; heat from the central, primordial condition, Fire. If the language of scientists would better meet the popular necessity, I would affirm that Matter and Motion, or Substance and Force, are the eternal twin principles at the origin and foundation of the umiversal whole. The primitive or lowest form of motion is angular; hence, as the first legitimate effect, Fire; the next advancement in the form of the motion, ascending out of the angular, evolved Heat; when the perfect curcular motion was developed, then Light flowed thoughout infinitude; the next step in
the progression of motion infolded the spiral, and forwith, as from an inconceivable vortex of substance and force, a boundless ocean of Electricity
overwhelmingly floods and enchains the systems of immensity. (79) The earth is literally a perpetual motion; it is really a revolving electrical machine; it is prictically an imense magnetic battery. From its vast mineral mountains beneath the sea- from its great beds of iron, copper, sinc, silver, antimony, potassium, bismuth, platinum, gold, tin- an unceasing rain, sometimes a terrific storm, of electricity ascends like the breathings of lightning into the atmosphere. It is an incessant electrical storm, literally speaking; and the great enveloping volume of atmosphere is its receiving and distributing reservoir. The motion of electricity, as before said, is spiral; in this connection I mean the electricity of space. With a swiftness beyond imagination, it streams in great ribbons, and winds itself upon its own natural spool at the north. The north magnetic pole of our earth, you will remember, is not the same in location as its axis of revolution. The north-centre is an immense helix, an atmospherically coiled receptable, for the multitudinous electrical currents arising from all parts of the globe. The simultaneous and incessant rush of terrestrially evolved electricity to this great north spiral center, results in the instant fromation of a never-ceasing self-illumination vortex. The luminous lightnings evolved by this great battery, and from the inconceivably rapid motion of the collected electric storms within the polar vortex, make those
wonderous manifestations known as the aurora borealis, which especially characterize the northern hemisphere. Immediately on its arrival at the north helix, electricity is instantaneously transformed into a more refined from of motionary and motive force, which I have been deeply impressed should be called `Etherium;' but for all ordinary purposes it may be very properly denominated CELESTIAL MAGNETISM.
This has the effect of warming the region at the extreme north. In certain years and centuries mountains of ice surround a warm vivifying, magnetic
centre capable of sustaining life. (82) The incessant formation of countless streams of ribbon-like rivers of electricity in the air, and from three to ten miles above the heads of mankind all over the round would, is in itself a scientific wonder, and is the cause of `more things (sights and signs) in heaven and earth' than is weitten down in any philosopher's volume. It is an invisible, natural fact at the basis of all atmospheric motions; it causes all electric
variation; and explains the dipping and fluttering freaks of the magnetic needle. It is the primal cause of climatic alterations in the far upper strata of the atmosphere; the cause of the formation of banks of auroral vapor, and of certain boreal clouds of unrivalled brightness and beauty; the cause, in a word, of almost all the remarkable auroral and boreal splendors- the magnificnt waves of prosmatic light in the North, in the Eastern horizon, and sometimes brilliantly centering and unfolding like a blossomed rose at the Zenith; the cause of flashes of blood-red flame in the sky, or of undulations of various colors at prodigious altitudes, forming a corona of orange, green, blue, purple, terminating in a cnetre which seems to rotate like a wheel; the cause of the fearful development of floods of light resulting from the flight and ignition and sudden precipitation of cosmic atoms a few miles above the earth's surface, which flight occurs in a method somewhat periodical; the cause, in connection with the voluminous streams of terrestrial magnetism, of a certain proportion of the motion of the tides, of the alterations of the zones and of changes in inhabitable regions; and finally, and most remarkable of all, these mighty streams and revers of electricity and magnetism, which are evolved from the inexhaustible fountains of the globe, have as much to accomplish in promotion and maintaining the REVOLUTION of the globe itself, regulated by the universal law of compensation or equivalents, as the vital forces, generated in and by the nerve-centres of the heart and brains and lungs in man's body, are compelled to accomplish in sustaining the involuntary motions of these organs by which they are energized whith streams and rivers of life and animation, not to speak of the elements of the future spiritual body which those same organs and forces are constantly attracting, evolving, and refining.(84) Great streams of electricity speed with a thought's celerity, into the spiral electric helex at the great north centre; whereby is generated and evolved a flood of magnetism, which is positive and warm to the negative and cold volumes of electricity; which positive golden Amazonian river, like a warm Gulf-Stream tending toward regions far, far among the stars, first rises high in the air, and, flowing above the South-pole, pulsates onward and outward and upward and INWARD, until it breaks like a note of immortal melody upon the welcoming shores of the Summer-land.(85) THE GREAT HARMONIA- Volume 1 - The physician. Vitality is a part of the Divine Mind associated whith, and specifically acting upon, organized matter. (46)
It is evident that the Deity has several and specific modes of acting upon matter. In the secret recesses of hte earth there is constantly going on
a process of composition, of decomposition, of cegregation and consolidation - in other words, there are chemical and mechanical movements perpetually occurring with undeviation precision and unvarying results. The same principle which chemically prepares in the earth, such specific and fixed compositions as iron, zinc, copper, silver, and gold, is also engaged in rolling the earth, and all the planets and satellites, on their axes, around
one Parental Centre. The Deity is a substance moving substance. The Deity is an organized substance whcih has seven distinct modes of acting upon substance. They are anatomically, physiologically, mechanically, chemically, electrically, magnetically and spiritually. (48) The first three modes, by the Divine substance acts upon and moves the substance of Nature-viz: the amatomical, physiological, and mechanical modes- are simply manifestations of the Principle of Motion. Also that the fourth and modes- viz: the chemical and electrical- are manifestations of the Principle of Life; that the six- the magnetic action- is only another name for the Principle of Sensation; and that the seventh - the Spiritual mode of action- is a manifestation of the highest principle of vitality, which we term INTELLIGENCE. (49) The harmony or Health, which we behold in the formatiion of planets, in their revolutions, in the structure of all bodies, and in their undeviating manifestations of distributive justice, is alone referable to the harmonious circulation of the Divine essence or vitality through the expansive universe. Health and harmony are identical. Harmony is an equilibrium in the diffusion of the Divine vitality throughout the organism of nature. (50) The cerebrum, or anterior portion of the brain, is the superior or positive; and the cerecellum, or posterior portion, is the inferior and negative department of the mental structure. The human brain is a spiritual or vital galvanic battery. Those relations which subsist between the zing and copper plates in the galvanic battery, are represented, upon a scale infinitely more perfect, in the formation, and relation to each other, of the cerebrum and cerebellum. (51) The general anatomy and physiology of the encephalon are made up of more minute and internal anatomical and phsiological brains; which minute brains, by being progressively arranged and develoled, are so many miniature galvanic batteries. Hence it is that some of the intellectual or other organs of the brain can be sometimes infured without displacing the mind or impairing, but to a very limited extent, the usual characteristics of the intellect.(53) In the first place, the cerebrum and the cerebellum are, when viewed as a whole, globular in formation - its general appearance, however, is more of an oblate-spheroidal structure. The cerebellum is composed of an infinite number of corresponding structures, which extend down the spine until they are lost in a material basis or terminate in ramified marrow. The marrow, which is encased by the spinal column, is a continuation and extension of the materials of the brain. The cerebellum may, therefore, be considered as an elongated galvanic battery; and therefore, be considered as an elongated galvanic battery; and this portion of the brain, which extends down the back, is perpetually Negative, or it is in a condition to receive, diepense, impart, and reciprocate whatever is communicated to it by the cerebrum. The cerebrum, or front brain, is a closer organization of materials. It is, however, organized in a manner corresponding to the posterior lobe. It is not only a perfect battery within itself, but its most interior departments are perfect battery within itself, but its most interior departments are
perfect batteries, each performing specific and corresponding duties; and it is constantly Positive. (54) The Deity is a substance engaged in moving substance; and the moving pronciple is superior to the principle which is moved. So with the human spirit, which physiologists term vitality. It is an organized substance engaged in moving an organized substance- the body. (55)

FIRST- The vital principle acts anatomically upon the dependnet system, is evinced by the fact that, should any structure of the organism be in any
manner impaired, there is manifested immediately a disposition on the part of the living body, to remove the affected portion and supply all eficiencies.
Should a bone be broken, or should the muscles be bruides, or mutilated, then that divine force which lies back of, and which is superior to, bone
and muscle, exerts itself forthwith to repair the damages.

SECOND - The spirit acts physiologically, by preserving the various organs in
a state of harmony; and also by stimulating them to the prompt discharge of their appropriate and numerous functions. For instance, the spirit operates upon the infoluntary muscles of the entire system, without exciting the least thought to make the individual conscious of the wonderful process.
It moves the lungs, the heart, the liver, the kidneys, the stomach, the intestines, and the entire Brain, avery instant of time, from the first to the
last moment of existing relations between them. The expansion, and contraction, idgestion, and secretion, must occur in the spiritual organization, before these phenonena can be developed by the lungs, the heat, and the stomach.

THIRD - The spirit acts mechanically upon the organization. This proposition is totally at variance with the decisions of any physiologists. The process of mastication is perectly mechanical; the joints of the body
move to and fro upon the principle of the hinge; the bones are levers; the tendons are pulleys; and the muscles are ropes or chains; the spleen
is a reservoir; the heart is a force-pump; and the brain, in both its mechanical or anatomical construction and mode of action, is a galvanic
battery.

FOURTH - The spirit acts chemically upon the organization. The chemistry, of the human organism is vastly different from that chemistry, which is mechanically exhibited in the laboratories of experimenters. Nature goes on chemically preparing gold and silver in her laboratories, and while she is furnishing the most beautiful specimens of crystallization, the artificial chemist can decomplse, but can not reproduce nor manfacture them. (59)
There is constantly going on in the human organism, a process of decomposition, of assimilation, of secretion, of absorption, and of excretion; and so
perfectly harmonious are these processes, in the healthy body, that there is not a single atom which fails to find and remain in its proper position.
Matter is continually refined.

FIFTH - The spirit acts electrically upon the organization; but here it is well to remark, that vital or spiritual electricity is not that gross electricity
which is generated by the decomposition of mineral bodies, or by the action of metallic plates. That electricity which the spirit, through the
co-operation of the cerebral apparatus, generates and dispenses to the dependent systems, is as mich more fine and gentle than that electricity
which pervades external nature, as the latter is finer than water. It is this spiritual electricity which penetrates and inspires the various particles
of matter in the human body to seek their proper locality. (60) The vital principle causes atoms to circulate and assimilate with such remarkable precision in the system. While vital chemistry decomposes and prepares organic and other substances to assimilate with, and build up, the various organs and tissues anew, vital electricity inspires those prepared substance with certain predilections or tendencies, and thus causes the phenomena of secrection and assimilation. Decomposition is an effect of spiritual chemistry; and combination is an effect of spiritual electricity.(61)

SIXTH - The spirit acts magnetically upon the organization. By magnetic action, (the galvanic action) which begins at, and with, the brain, and thenceexpands in a corresponding manner throughout every department of the organism. The cerebrum is the positive, and the cerebellum is the negative portion of the mental galvanic battery. There is a perfect correspondence between the structure and effects of these brains, and the structure and effects of the galvanic or voltaic apparatus. One represents the Zinc plates; the other the plates of Copper. (61) A piece of steel can be magnetized, and it can be demagnetized, by a simgle stroke of the horseshoe magnet; the first by the downward movement, the second by the upward - showing an exact correspondence between the magnetical operations of Nature, and the action of the Spirit in and upon, the human body. When the spirit desires to move the organism, it first moves the brain to contraction; this contraction expels a volume of spiritual vitality which, rushing through every nerve and nuscle, befets motion. (63) Now, when the positive force of this vitality is expended, the brain expands its numberless ventricles, and attracts the exhausted element back to its original fount; where this element, by unfergoing a process of re-vitalization, is again prepared to make another revolution, and to persue its course, discharging its appropriate mission, which is to beget muscular locomotion. The blood goes only when and where the spirit bids it go. (64)


SEVENTH - The spirit acts spiritually upon the organization. The Brain being positive over other portion of the system, constantly attracts particles to itself; these particles are made to pass through the many and complicated laboratories or crucibles of the cerebral substance, and thus they are purified, and rendered comparatively immaterial.

Solids are ultimately convered into fluids; fluids into ether or vital electricity; and vital electricity is refined into vital magnetism; and vital magnetism is ultimately changed into that pure and divine substance, by which we reason, love, will, decide, and act. I do not mean that particles of organic, muscular, vascular, or membranous matter are drawn magnetically to the brain, in the gross state in which the physiologist finds them; but I mean, that visible particles are refined and sublimated, far beyond the power of chemical instruments to detect, ere the brain or spirit recerves, prepares, and appropriates them to its own constitution.(67) This digestive process refines and attenuates the particles, until they are capable of associating with higher and more spiritual compounds - until, in truth, the particles are qualifies to enter into the principle of motion, which is the first element of mind. According to this law of progressive development and attenuation, these particles of motion ascend to life, which is the second principle of mind; these progress to sensation, which is the third element of mind; and the next ascension converts the sensational particles or elements into the very organization of mind or spirit itself. This process of spiritualization if conducted exclusively by the vital electricity, the magnetism, and the cerebral galvanism, with which the system is endowed.(68)


Every expansion and contraction, every action and reaaction of the heart, or the lungs, or the muscles, is attended with a positive exhaustion of a portion of that principle of motion which produced the phenomenon. I do not mean that the essential ingredients of the spiritual organization are thus exhausted and dissipated, but that some of the elements by which the spirit moves the body, are changed by every muscular movement, both in their character and locality. For instance, if you alter the position of your arms, which action requires but a second of time, that element by which the muscles were immediately moves, can not again perform that function, - hence it is, that to alter the position of those muscles again, you must first will to do so. - In other words, you must supply a fresh element of motion. The exhausted element is drawn back to the positive brain, there to be re-vitalized, or re-spiritualizws, to the end that it may take a higher position in the scale of material refinement. Every organic and muscular motion, is
invariably accompanied with some important change, both in the spiritual and on the material departments of the organism; and, in consequence of the
unuversality of hte law of progressive refinement and reciprocation, no change can possibly occur in the healthy state, without being succeeded
by an advancement in the general condition of the various atoms and forces that constitute the living whole.(69)
The spirit not only draws from the food which enters the stomach, but from the electrical and magnetic elements which pervade all nature, - it draws from the atmosphere which enters the lungs; from the element of light, which inspires the eye, and permeates the system, it draws form odors that
penetrate the senses - in truth, the spirit, draws from all nature, and appropriates to itself every particle which is capable of assimilating with its exalted organization. (70) I know by interior observation, that the muscles, the nerves, the arteries, and etc., are not merely instrumentalities, but that they are especial vessels and receptacles, desighned for the circulation and reception of particular currents of vitality. The veins and arteries are attached to the heart, and it is through them that the blood is electrically forced, and magnetically drawn, through the system; so the muscles and nerves are attached to the brain, and it is through them that the spiritual life is circulated from centre to circumference- from the general into all the particular parts and particles of the body. (75) The vitality of vegetables and animals, which we consume, is extracted - refined - organized - and distributed throughout the receiving vessels. (76) The spirit draws from the vegetable a principle of Life, The blood receives this life, after it has undergone due preparation of refinement, and thus the blood is particularly umpregnated with a living organized element. So also, the spirit draws from animal substances a principle of Sensation; this principle, when properly prepared and sublimated, is made to flow into the nerves. (76)


Contrasted with magnetism, electricity is cold and negative. Electricity is generated by chemical decomposition; and it emanates from the mineral beds
which exist in the earth. Whenever the temperature of the atmosphere is cold, this electrical element abounds in superabundance; so likewise when the human system is cold - when the spirit is repelled from the surface, to the most interior recesses of the body - the electrical conditions particularly preponderate. The action of electricity supplies the spirit with new life, with fresh vigor, and with elements for refinement and organization; and it serves, in connection with another element, to regulate organic and atomic motions, and to balances the temperature of the organized whole. And thus health is maintained. Electricity repels the spirit - magnetism attracts it. Electricity is cold, and negative; magnetism is warm, and positive. The two regulate all physical motion, and balance all temperature. (84) And chemistry has proved, what I am impressed to affirm, that that electricity,
which resides in certain containing metals or substances, is a universal element; that the different gases - such as nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon, and
etc., are but manifestations of the dissimilar combinations of the same imvisible principle. Concerning the `containing substances', it is well to
remark, that some metals or metallic compounds impede the progress of electricity from one locality to another; while other substances accelerate its instantaneous passage. The retaining substances are termed nonconductors; but those substances which assist the flight of electricity are termed conductors. It is well to know that those bodies which do conduct electricity possess in themselves but little of it; but those bodies which do not conduct it, contain the same in abundance. The substance that accumulate and retain electricity, and from which it can be readily produced, are glass - hair - silk - wax - amber - dried wood - feathers - and many other things; those substances which constantly receive and transmit electricity, by
altering its condition and relations, are iron - all the metals - water - steam - vapor - animal and human organizations, and the different vegetables.(85)
Terrestrial electricity is capable of developing itself, or of being developed, into a degree of refinement vastly superior to the lightning, or to artificially-produced electricity. The difference between conductors and non-conductors consists simply in this: - conductors do not contain so much of elecatricity as non-conductors. It is wholly by the deconposition of material substances that electricity is developed. In truth, it is by decomposition that matter is refined into electricity; hence, where we find matter we find the electric element; the two cannot be separated. By matter I mean plants, water, animals, metals, earth, light, vapor, steam, and all conceivable compounds; and by Elements I mean those invisible principles which move the organization of nature. Matter is continually in motion; this motion changes the relations which subsist between particles; and it is by these changes that electricity is generated and evolved. The electricity thus evolved or developed is, at first that gross kind which manifests itself in the clouds, in the atmosphere, and which can be obtained by artificial means. This primary development of electricity is instantaneously communicated or conducted from the myriads of iron - zinc - silver - gold - copper, and from the various mercurial beds, which exist in the earth, into comtiguous and superior mediums; it passes, as quick as thought, through millions of substances into water, into vapor, and iinto the expanded atmosphere. The mighty bodies of water that flow between country and country, hemisphere and hemisphere, are conductors of this liberated electricity; which is thus locally generated and evolved in the interior departments of the earth. But it should be remembered that every medium, through which electricity passes, is a digestive apparatus - is a stomach. Each medium does something toward changing the relation of the atoms composing this element, and something, also, toward refining it, and altering its mode of manifestation. First, the mineral bed will be charged with positive electricity; next, the ocean; and next, the congregation of clouds, which are moving, above the waters, in the firmament. Thus, where is a constant exchange or reciprocation of matter in nature; and every alteration, in any organized substance, is invariably attended with a change and elevation in the relation of its atoms. Particles are
perpetually changing places; and every change alters and improves the actual condition of those particles. (87)


By the perpetual and unceasing generation and evolvment of electricity, from the different matallic bodies, the water on the earth, together with the
atmosphere, which surrounds the earth, are being constantly renewed, and refined. The human body, in perfect health, is changed and renewed throughout once in about ten years; so likewise, are the Water and Atmosphere, upon and surroundin our globe, totally made anew, once in about ten thousand years. Thus matter is momentarily undergoing changes, alteration, and improvement. Electricity, constantly assuming positive and nefative relations, scends, from the interior portions of the earth, into water, into atmosphere, and finally it is refined into Magnetism. There is not a substance, through which electricity passes, which does not refine it, and give it offaagain, in a state infinitely more subtle and improved. The pre-eminently attenuated portion of the electric element invariably represents the positive pole, or the positive condition of the fluid; while the negative pole, or condition, is always represented by the grosser portion. The positive portion of electricity, is magnetism; the negative portion is that residuum, which, contrasted with the higher indications of this element, is still unrefined, and undeveloped. Electricity, in its progresseve ascenfion, form its original receptacles, through the infinite stomaach-substances, into atmospherical magnetism, unfolds all the various alkali, acids, gases, fluids, water, air and etc., which we see or feel upon the earth. These forms of matter are nothing but modifications of one principle in nature - just as blue, yellow, red, and all the prismatic colors, are caused and developed by different arrangements and modifications of the element of light. (88)


The inconceivable volumes of electricity, which are generated and evolved in various partions of the earth, are ultimately drawn into one mighty
current; which current rushes with unimaginable velocity to the magnetic pole of our globe. But here let us perfectly understand the nature of
refined electricity - I mean magnetism. Magnetism invariably occupies a higher position than electricity; it is the purest, the highest, and the
master of all terrestrial elements. As electricity is refined, its finest particles ascend, and combining in the atmosphere, they constitute a positive influence. This influence is continually attacting the electricity from the earth, from water, from man, and from the surrounding mediums.
Hence, there is an incessant draught upon the inferior electric elements, which abound in, and upon, the earth; and these, in their progression to
the point of attraaction, become digested and purifies; and so thorough is this purification and change, that we can not properly continue to term it
electricity; it is therefore magnetism. Thus it is seen that there is a positive and a negative relation subsisting between the most inerior portions
of the earth, and the most superior portions of the pervading atmosphere. The positive portion, which is magnetism, is warm; and the negative portion,
which is electricity, is cold. (90)
When a current of electricity passes over the body, it produces a sensation of coldness; but when a ray of the sun streams to the skin, it imparts a
warmth, unlike that which any artificial heat could possibly produce. The reader is requested, not to confound the phenonena of magnetism, which
we are now considering, with those perculiar powers, usually manifested by the loadstone, the magnet, and by electro-magnetic instruments.
I have said, that the various volumes of electricity, that are generated and evolved in the earth, are make to concentrate into one mighty current in
the atmosphere; and that this current flows constantly to the magnetic pole of our globe; but its evolvement is not the same in all places of the earth.
It usually ascends from those localities, and through those mediums, which are particularly adapted to its generation, and conduction upward. Thus there is more electrical emanation in the region of mineral mines, and where water is abundant, particularly if the water be unenlivened by the sun's powerful rays. From this the inference is legitimate, that the accumulating fluid is eccentric in its passage from various localities to the amin current, which flows to the north. This eccentricity of the minute streams of the electric fluid, gives rise to the dia=magnetic currents which flow from east to west, above the earth's surface, and which has been discovered crossing the magnetic needle at right angles. All the various currents of electricity, which are locally generated and eliminated, rush from every possible direction, in straight lines, towerd and into the main current of attraction; and thus it is that the needle is made to alter its position; and thus, also is it that streams of electricity are found in superabundance, in some localities, rushing
in every appreciable degree of angle, to one extreme point - to the north, or magnetic pole. To electricity, the north pole of the earth is positive.
A positive and a negative attract each other - but two positives or negatives, are, to one another, unconditionally repulsive. This truth is manifested throughout the empire of nature. Hence all electrical emanations from the earth, are attracted by their proper positive power; they accumulate in a general stream, in the atmosphere, and unitedly flow directly north. This stream is about fifteen hundred miles wide; it is very thin; and is formed,
about sic miles above the general surface of the earth. This body of electricity, by undergoing various processes of refinement in its flight to the north, is totally changed on its arrival there, and thence flies off in an opposite direction. In other words, those particles which are sufficiently sublimated to change their electric relations change also their position and locality; that, which is electricity, cold and negative, previous to reaching the north pole, becones, by its progressive advancement, magnetism, warm, and positive, upon its arrival there - when it instantly passes off, in another stream, to the magnetic pole at the south. There is, therefore, a stream of electricity tending from all parts of the earth to the north; and a stream of magnetism, evolved or developed out of electricity, tending from the north to the south. They flow from opposite sides of the atmospherical evolvement, like a girdle, round the earth. They occupy opposite positions; because the electrical current is negative and the magnetic is positive; the former is cold, the latter is warm; and the two as before stated, regulate all physical motion and balance all temperature. (92)


Electricity is liberated from the igneous masses and mineral bodies in the earth. It passes from substance to substance, or from stomach to stomach, till it is ultimately evolved from the earth; when, being highly refined, it forms mightly stream which runs to the north. On its arrival there it ceases to
be negative; by progressive refinement, it has become atmospheric magnetism. This magnetism, thus generated, then passes on the opposite side of the earth to the south. In its passage, and by the perpetual and inconceivable friction of its atoms, this refined magnetism becomes more highly refined;
and when it reaches the south pole its internal and atomic relations are greatly changed, and have become too fine and positive for any organism on
earth; and hence it flies off and commingles with the magnetism of immemsity. Thus the local or special electricity of planets is ultimately
refined and blended with the universal magnetism of nature; which latter element passes from planet to planet; from solar system to solar system; and,
by its positive and negative relations, regulates all atomic motions and all physical temperature. (93)


Nature explains how she acts upon the human spirit magnetically. By Electricity the spirit or nervous energy is chilled and expelled from the surface of the body to the vital organs and internal membranes; and by Magnetism the spirit is warmed and attracted outwardly - the two, in a state of equilibrium, preserve perfect harmony throughout the human organization. It is only by the superabundance or preponderation of one of these elements over the other, that the spirit is disturbed, and the body is afflicted with temperatural changes - either cold or heat , agues or fevers.
The reader will understand that I do not contend that electricity and magnetism are the principal sources of cold and hear; but he will perceive, as
we advance, that these opposite conditions (cold and heat) are never unassociated with electricity and magnetism. A cold state is an electrical
state, and a warm state is a magnetic state - the states and the elements are inseparable. (94)
The galvanic or magnetic battery is constructed of two distinctly opposite metallic plates or surfaces: the one zinc - the other copper. Zinc generates
a positive, and copper a negative fluid; but this phenomenon can be produced only by introducing sulphuric acid into the vessels in which these metallic plates are situated. (119)
Here we find the origin of vital magnetism and vital electricity - fluids which are vastly superior, in refinement, to that mineral magnetism and
electricity which emanate from the earth, and which flow from its south pole into immensity. The food we eatk the air we breathe, the water we drink - these substances contain more or less of the gross kinds of magnetism and electricity; but, by entering the incalculably numerous and various galvanic batteries that constitute the human body, these gross elements are inexpressibly refined and sublimated. What was mineral electricity and
terrestrial magnetism yesterday, may, by this most wonderful process of refinement, constiture tomorrow a part of what we call our thinking
principle. (121)
In the negative state there will be manifested a preponderation of alkali; in the positive state, there would be a superabundance of acid; and electricity
is always associated with alkali, and magnetism (or finer electricity) is associated with acids. (122)
Should there exist a superabundance of electricity, the system will be thrown into a negative state; because terrestrial electricity repels the spirit
from the surface to the vitals, just as hatred and sorrow cause the spirit to shrink into itself; but should there exist a superabundance of magnetism,
the system will be thrown into a positive state; because terrestrial magnetism attracts the spirit from the vital recesses to the surfaace, just
as friendship and joy cause the spirit to come forth from its invisible chambers to respond to the attraction. (133)

Harmonial Philosophy- AJD
Celestial Rivers in Space
From each of the earths in our system great electrical and magnetic rivers flow out an in, like a ceaseless tide. On their soft, golden bosom all death-emanicipated men, women and children float into their celestial home. By the same means they and all other voyagers may and do return again and again. The flowing and ebbing of these elemental Gulf Streams correspond in a general way to the forward and backward movements of the blood from its governmental center- the heart- to the outermost of the human body. As the crimson fluid of the heart pulsates throughout the arteries and veins of the buman body, so the magnetic and electric streams of the upper regions start from geo-centers and helio-centers, flowing though the heavenly fields. The directions of these streams are as various as the radial lines from a globe. These living current promote the refinement and assimilation of atoms among the organs- that is to say, globes – the the infinite body of God. They form and flow forth between all the solar centers and inhabited gloves of space, whence they steam onward and inward into the next great sphere of human existence, which we call the Summer Land.
The earth on which we live is a revolving electrical machine, an immense magnetic bettery. With a swifness beyond imagination the earth’s electricity streams in great ribbons and winds iself upon its own natural spool at the North, where it is transformed into a more refined motive force-an ethereium or celestial magnetism. This is positive and warm to the nagive and cold volumes of electricity. Its warm stream, rising high in air and flowing above the South Pole, pulsates onward and upward, outward and inward, until it breaks like a note of immortal melody on the shores of the Summer Land.
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As there is a vital circulation in the human body so there is a circulation of living forces between the spiritual world and the several planets. The South Pole of the earth sends forth a magnetic stream, and the tide passes through the orbits of Venus and Mercury, very near the surface of the sun, whence it surges silently but swiftly on till it reaches the Spirit Land. From another section of the Spirit Land there starts a lighter fluid ,which is also a tidal river, toward the North Pole of earth, and this is unchangeably electrical. It is a positive stream which flows from us to the spiritual world and a negative one from the latter to our own planet. I have observed very often the spirits of our human friend, when at death they pass out of the corporeal body, ascend to a height of some seven miles, where they meet with the celestical river and are transported therby to their Spirit Home. As there are thus streams of communication between our globe and this bourne of souls, so are there, others which connect the latter with every world belonging to our planetary system.