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 The examinations of a few of the operations of force will illustrate the principles by which the kinds of force may be distinguished.

In general there is always a transformation of force when activity passes from a higher discrete degree to a lower; consequently as the natural world derives its forces from the spiritual, there is a transformation of force in the communication of spiritual forces to the natural world. It will be recalled that as the universe and man are of the same form by the similar arrangement of discrete degrees, the transformation of the forces of the spiritual world into those of the natural is illustrated and explained by the passing of mental or spiritual forces in man into muscular or physical forces. That is, as the force of the will, or of desire, which is a spiritual force, causes by means of the human form the stroke of the oar, so the forces of the spiritual world, through the constitution of the universe, produce natural forces. Herein there are ample illustrations of the transformation or metamorphosis of force in the only true sense of these terms. When love produces thought, and when thought produces act, there is such transformation. Affection and thought become the forces of the heart and lungs, and of