THE HEALING
AND RENEWING FORCE OF SPRING
YOUR body is acted on
in its growth and changes by the same
laws and elements which govern the growth
and enter into all other organized bodies,
such as trees, plants, birds, and animals.
In the early spring of
every year, there comes and acts on this
planet a force from the sun which affects
all organized forms of life,--trees, birds,
animals, and, above all, man. Man's being
the highest, most complicated, and most
powerful mental organism on the planet,
absorbs the most of this power, and will
absorb far more in the future, and to
far greater advantage than at present,
as he learns to place himself in the best
states to receive it.
Material science calls
this force "heat''; but the quality
known as heat is only its outward or physical
manifestation. The quality known as heat
which comes from the sun is not converted
into heat until it reaches our planet
and acts on the earth elements. There
is little or no heat a few miles above
the earth's surface. Were this force in
the form of heat on leaving the sun, or
during its passage, the air on the mountain
tops would be as warm as that of the valleys.
As we know, on the highest peaks snow
and ice are perpetual, for the sun-force
at such elevation is not sufficiently
mingled with earth elements to convert
it into that degree of heat felt in the
valleys and plains.
This force causes the
the increased movement and
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