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III.] only a series of impressions of the spirit. Others maintain that matter, though helpless without spirit, is co-eternal with it ; and when it comes into union with the spirit, it becomes active and procreant. It is not intended to dwell at length on the details of this system. Suffice it to say, that it recognises Man as a microcosm possessing parts corresponding to the globe, and describes him as made up of the following twenty-five principles (tattvas):—