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The Earth, therefore, received life from the Sun, and the Sun is the mainstay of life on

this planet. In the case of the Earth and the Moon, Absolute III, which ensures the
procreation of the species on earth, is also responsible for the vivification of the

satellite. If one makes an abstraction of the time factor, the mechanisms are

comparable from one stage to another, although the analogy should not be pushed too

far because of the roles assigned at each stage in a larger context.
In outline, how does the transmitting-station Earth function? By what mechanism and

in which form does it communicate solar energy to its satellite? How can the energies

produced by human activity (and especially the energy which results from sexual life in

the largest sense of the term), reach the Moon and vivify it?
To simplify the exposé, we will consider only two of the numerous movements of the

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terrestrial globe : the gravitation around the Sun and the rotation on its own axis.
In the first of these movements, the inclination of the ecliptic provokes a rhythm of

the seasons which becomes clearer and clearer as it goes farther and farther away from
the equator. Following this rhythm, floral life goes through four phases: sowing, growth,

development - which ends up in fructification - and repose. The unfolding of these

phases is much less apparent in the case of fauna and even less so for man. In the case

of the latter, the rhythm of city-life obstructs this unfolding though it does not obliterate
it entirely. Follo-

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Ref. T. I, p. 122, French original version; pp. 122-123, English manuscript.