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of the complexity of the pile of energies that organic life receives and to which it reacts

constantly. Nevertheless, they provide us with a notion of this complexity and the
variety of the levels of energy which it calls forth. This concerns the quantitative aspect;

but the qualitative element is of no less importance. The variations are as numerous in

this domain as well: apart from all book-knowledge, we know by experience that there

is a difference in the influence that solar rays exercise on the human organism when the
latter is directly exposed to them or when it is exposed to the very same rays reflected

by the Moon.

Organic life acts as a vast laboratory towards this pile of energies it receives. The

extent of transformations undergone by solar energies on our planet is considerable. It
is even more so because life appears in more complex forms and because the

interaction of psychic and physical elements assumes a greater importance. These

transformations then combine to concoct finer and finer energies. This qualitative

aspect has important repercussions on the general movement of expansion of the Ray
of Creation and also on the personal evolution of human beings; and, by the latter, on

the rest of organic life. We will have the occasion to consider one aspect in the chapter

on nutrition.

Once the solar or cosmic radiations are transformed by organic life, they are re-
transmitted to our satellite and the transmitter is chiefly that part of the Earth that is

not lighted by the Sun. Here is a new application of the law of analogy. According to

Tradition, each cosmos