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instantly, from which, however, we are forced to exempt
those that are burned up, somewhat reluctantly admitting
the truth of the theosophical belief that the astral or
or spiritual body remains until the last remnant is decayed,
and of which the radiation of life force from apparently
dead plants, but still endowed with particles of extant
vitality, have given us an exemplification as demonstrated
by the frost flowers frequently referred to in this paper.
If it be true that the Portuguese fisher folk can restore
life yet after twenty-four hours immersion in the water,
why has not the world at large utilized this knowledge? I heard it related already in my youth, and have since read about it, as a mere curious item, but have to acknowledge
having hitherto been as reprehensibly silent upon the matter as those to whose function or department it cer- tainly belonged to elucidate the world.
From our observation of ice tracings the frost seems in a manner to supply the means of astral resurrection ol plants, which Paracelsus and Dr. Hartmann refer to as being one of the secrets of the alchemists of bygone ages, for the plants plainly demonstrated by their ice palingenesis that they possess an innate power of extending their influence even into frost. With frost and cold we generally associate death, just as with genial heat we associate
life. But ice is not death, as witness the whole arctic region, replete with cold blooded animal life. Thus, then, we may infer that the frost flowers have been for the nonce imbued with life from their parent efflorescent plants, for else how could they have been called into exist- ence? And exist they must certainly do. Do we not here stand face to face with another wonder of creation — ice palingenesis, or evolution of a plant into a frost flower counterpart, an ice shadow of its material ego, which
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