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The Influence of Geomagnetism on Weather and Man

A Himalayan Master of Wisdom · The Masters Speak Series · 21 pages

Twenty-one pages of questions and answers with an abstract and train of thoughts at the front and a note to students. Its full subject, given on the title page, is the karmic influence of geomagnetism on weather and on man, described as the living barometer.

The physical account begins conventionally enough and then departs sharply from the meteorology of its day. Earth currents, terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity are all attributed to the earth being an electrified conductor whose potential changes constantly through its rotation and orbital motion, the heating and cooling of air, and the formation of cloud, rain, storm and wind — with all such changes traced to an akashic magnetism generating electric currents which restore a disturbed equilibrium by producing weather. The departure is stated flatly: it is the earth's magnetism that produces wind, storms and rain, and *the sun has nothing whatever to do with rain and very little with heat*. The mechanism proposed is meteoric. High above the surface the air is said to be filled with magnetic or meteoric dust which does not even belong to our solar system, millions of meteors and fine particles reaching us daily unchanged and held in cohesion by the earth's magnetism. From this the file draws consequences that can at least be looked for: that the distribution of land and water may be due to the accumulation of meteoric dust, since snow — especially in the north — is full of meteoric iron and magnetic particles, and such deposits are found even on the beds of oceans; and that the northern hemisphere therefore receives a greater share of it. The unifying claim is that the meteoric dust forms a single mass, and that every atmospheric change and abrupt disturbance is due to the combined magnetism of the two great masses between which our atmosphere is compressed.

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