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 of the sun of the spiritual world. In the sun originates, through influx from the spiritual world, that activity which is communicated throughout the aura, a universally diffused substance, and manifested as the force of gravity according to the laws heretofore set forth. The drawing force of Divine Love, having passed through the successive degrees of the spiritual world, becomes in the sun and the aura the drawing force of gravity, the activity being of such a form and character as to move all objects toward a common center.

The force of attraction is derived from that of gravity. It is gravity's force received from the aura by particles or bodies of grosser matter, and is sent out again modified by the character of the receiving form. It has the general nature of gravity—that of drawing together. As it is the nature of the Divine Love of the Creator to draw all things to Him, and gravity, the derived force of Divine Love, draws things together, so the smallest particles of grosser matter, acting as from themselves, likewise draw together. Thence originates attraction. Matter, differing in kind, composition, and atomic structure variously receives the force of attraction, and manifests