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the machine, for any defect, becomes incapable of conveniently working this transformation, the body is depleted and dies.

4 – Favorable and unfavorable energies – Nature, this is, the sum of all energies, is neither good nor evil; it is indifferent. Only the effects of natural phenomena over human life are good or bad. Thus for example, rain itself is neither good nor bad, however the same rain, in the same place, at the same time, can be good for one farmer and bad for another, depending on the kind of agricultural work or the topographic conditions.

For humanity therefore, there are only favorable and unfavorable energies.

5 – Useful energy – In this world, the vital problem of human beings, as for any other being, has to do with enjoying the energies that are favorable to their organisms, while voiding and diverting the unfavorable energies.

A waterfall that alters the navigation of a river is an unfavorable energy, but if captured to move turbines and supply electricity it becomes a favorable energy.

The energies susceptible of use by humanity are useful energies.

Now we can define good and evil with precision. Good is all that contributes to maintain or increase the usefulness of energies, and evil is everything that contributes to decrease or obstruct the usefulness of these energies.

6 – Five aspects of human energy – Human beings as transformers of cosmic energies, manifest these energies in their social existence in a fivefold aspect: physical, mental, moral, practical and social. The first ones are vulgarly called vigor and health; the second ones, intelligence and culture; the third ones, will and character; the fourth ones, ability and vocation; the fifth ones, altruism and sociability.

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