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II. Sakti. Kamarupa (the Perispirit). IV. The entity evolved out of the combination of Jiva (Life-Soul). Brahmam, Sakti and Prakriti. V. The entity evolved out of the combination of Physical Intelligence (or Brahmam and Prakriti. animal soul). VI. The entity evolved out of the combination of Spiritual Intelligence (or Soul). Brahmam and Sakti. VII. Brahmam. The emanation from the ABSOLUTE, &c. (or pure spirit.) Before proceeding to examine these nature of these seven entities, a few general explanations are indispensably necessary. I. The secondary principles arising out of the combination of primary principles are quite different in their nature from the entities out of whose combination they came into existence. The combinations in question are not of the nature of mere mechanical juxtapositions, as it were. They do not even correspond to chemical combinations. Consequently no valid inferences as regards the nature of the combinations in question can be drawn by analogy from the nature [variety?] of these combinations. II. The general proposition, that when once a cause is removed its effect vanishes, is not universally applicable. Take, for instance, the following example:--If you once communicate a certain amount of momentum to a ball, velocity of a particular degree in a particular direction is the result. Now, the cause of this motion ceases to exist when the instantaneous sudden impact or blow which conveyed the momentum is completed; but according to Newton's first law of motion, the ball will continue to move on for ever and ever, with undiminished velocity in the same direction, unless the said motion is altered, diminished, neutralized, or counteracted by extraneous causes. Thus, if the ball stop, it will not be on account of the absence of the cause of its motion, but in consequence of the existence of extraneous causes which produce the said result. Again, take the instance of subjective phenomena. Now the presence of this ink-bottle before me is producing in me, or in my mind, a mental representation of its form, volume, colour and so forth. The bottle in question may be removed, but still its mental picture may continue to exist. Here, again, you see, the effect survives the cause. Moreover, the effect may at any subsequent time be called into consci
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