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cold principles, of which the heat predominates over the cold in fire and the cold is not therefore easily discernible in it. Still, by holding a tumbler over the burning flame, you can clearly see drops of water collecting all around its brim and dripping from it. Besides this, if you carefully look into the flame you can discover within it a light blue colour which the cold principle always assumes. It is from this inseparable union of heat and cold principles that energies of all kinds are generated and it is these energies that bring about the creation, the preservation and the destruction of both the animate and the inanimate bodies of the universe. Whether you call the two principles the positive and negative electricities, whether you call them red and blue, or male and female, whether you call them Siva and Uma, or father and mother, whether you call them a line and a circle when their actions manifest themselves in inanimate matter, in all these and elsewhere the law is the same without any deviation. The steam-power which works wonders in material bodies is a visible instance in which we easily recognize how the heat and cold principles work together to generate the energy required for moving heavy and massive bodies. And in the organic scales of life from the vegetable to the animal kingdom the same two principles work together for bringing forth more and more complex and intricate organisms for the use of lives as they climb more and more in the ladder of intelligence and intelligent capacity. And when we reach the high human level, in which the operation of the heat and cold principles has expressed itself in its maximum intensity, we comprehend in full the high divine purpose of a benevolent Providence in the disinterested love borne by the human father and mother towards their offspring.
Disinterested love in the Divine Being has no limit set to it, since all lives from the very lowest to the very highest are nurtured by it, whereas in the human it moves only within a limited range. Except for this difference, the disinterested love borne by our Heavenly and earthly parents towards their children is the same in substance. We see every where all around us every creature endowed with organism, the minute and complex structure of which
