Although I asked for it she would not let it leave her hands, but dictated the following scheme to me.
I can remember clearly that in the course of the winter of 1895 we spoke several times in S. W.’s presence of the forces of attraction and repulsion in connection with Kant’s “Natural History of the Heavens”; we spoke also of the “Law of the Conservation of Energy,” of the different forces
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of energy, and of the question whether the force of gravity was perhaps a form of movement. From this talk S. W. had plainly created the foundation of her mystic system. She gave the following explanation: The natural forces are arranged in seven circles. Outside these circles are three more, in which unknown forces intermediate between energy and matter are found. Matter is found in seven circles which surround ten inner ones. In the centre stands
