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 ism of the mind; and spiritual forces are not convertible into Divine Force, for Divine Force is the vital activity in the Creator from which all force is derived and momentarily sustained. In other words, higher forces do not originate in lower ones. The forces of a lower degree are not convertible into the forces of a higher degree. The higher forms of force, which are more complex forms of activity in superior substance, can by no law be derived from the lower, though the lower forces may produce such condition that the higher communicate activity to a lower plane. Yet there is reaction from the forces in the lower planes, for if there was not, the interior and volatile substances would not be contained, and so would be dissolved, whereupon their forces would cease to appear.

The involuntary functions of the body are operated by the continual influx of the life-force, which, by Correspondence, becomes the organic forces of the body. The involuntary forces are possible and as powerful as they are because the mind is a mechanism open to the constant and immeasurable forces in the spiritual world, from which by Correspondence the mind receives its powers.