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the level of organic life, after having crossed the atmosphere - certain elements or
influences proceeding from our solar system and beyond from the world of galaxies.
According to Tradition, each of these elements bears the qualitative stamp of the
source from which it comes. Thus, every living body can absorb and assimilate, following
its state of being, all sorts of material influences which proceed from the whole
Universe. For example, the same air is inhaled by a crowd of people assembled in a
given place, but each one exhales a different air. That is because each person present
has an unequal power of absorption, a power which depends on his or her respective
level of being, on the physical, psychic and spiritual planes and which manifests itself in
the functioning of the three scales of nutrition of which we will speak later in chapter XI.
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Now, let us examine the relationship between organic life on Earth and the Sun.
Tradition has always considered the Sun as the Absolute of this life, that is to say, as the
Being which conditions life entirely. It is not just a laboratory where chemical reactions
or physical, magnetic and electrical phenomena which occur at a few million degrees,
are reduced finally to purely mechanical combinations.
It is universally admitted today that, apart from its action in the physical domain, the
Sun exercises an important influence over man's psychicism. This action is parti-