This can be seen in connection with man, a Heavenly Man and a solar Logos, and their bodies of objectivity. In man this polarity is achieved, the three different types of electrical phenomena are demonstrated, and the light blazes forth, irradiating the causal body, and lighting up the entire sutratma, or thread (literally the Path) which connects the causal vehicle with the physical brain. Then disintegration or destruction ensues; the causal body vanishes in a blaze of electrical fire, and the real "man" or self is abstracted from the three world-bodies. So will it be seen in the body of a Heavenly Man, a planetary scheme, and so likewise in the body of the Logos, a solar system.

The difficulty in apprehending these thoughts is great, for we are necessarily handicapped by lack of adequate terms, but the main ideas only are those I seek to deal with, and the one we are primarily concerned with in this division is the electrical manifestation of magnetism, just as earlier we dealt cursorily with the same electrical phenomena, manifesting as the activity of matter.

Therefore you have: [316]

1. Activity - electrical manifestation of matter.
2. Magnetism - electrical manifestation of form.
3. Vitality - electrical manifestation of existence.

This is literally (as pointed out by H. P. B. - S. D., I 567. II, 258.) fire by friction, solar fire, and electric fire.

Fire by friction is electricity animating the atoms of matter, or the substance of the solar system, and resulting in:

• The spheroidal form of all manifestation.
• The innate heat of all spheres.
• Differentiation of all atoms one from another.

Solar fire is electricity animating forms or congeries of atoms, and resulting in:

• Coherent groups.
• The radiation from all groups, or the magnetic interaction of these groups.
• The synthesis of form.

Electric fire is electricity demonstrating as vitality or the will-to-be of some Entity, and manifests as: