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 the ultimate, it can not ascend as influx, but must ascend as reacting effects. This is illustrated by the sun's influx into nature. Nature has no influx into the sun, but the sun's influx ascends as the reactive effects of heat, light, electric action, and gravity. A still better illustration is the reactive effect of affection and thought in acts. The passion of music is increased from the reactive effect of singing or of executing. Eloquence is stimulated by the reactive effect of speaking. Zeal is augmented by the reactive effect of doing: that is, affection and thought flow down to the act, and then ascend as effects. How each plane receives according to its form from one stream of influx may be illustrated by the reception of a common current of electricity by three mechanisms, one manifesting the influx as heat, another as light, and another as power. How each plane acts from itself according to its form is illustrated by the sun's activity being communicated to the aura, the ether, and the air, which receive the energy, and reproduce it according to the respective nature and genius of aura, of ether, and of air. In this way the whole human organism, both spiritual and natural, is vitalized and operated by the influx of life from the Divine Human of the Creator, each thing receiving life or power from the one source,