If one of the Sages of the East could be called up and put on the
stand to be questioned, he would say, substantially:

"You are right in regard to your ether, and to prakriti being
ether that has been dropped a great octave in vibration. Your
physical atom is surrounded by a molecule of ether, this molecule
containing many atoms of ether. The chording vibration does
produce all physical phenomena.

"But where did the ether atom come from? How can you explain how
and whence life comes, or what it is? This explains physical,
but how do you explain vital phenomena?

"You are wrong in assuming that all the matter of the universe
apart from the earth or planets is ether and only ether. The
etheric world in which you are interested ends with your solar
system. It ends with each solar system, to the people of that
system. Between each solar system and another there is another
form of matter that is not ether.

"This etheric solar world of ours is very large, many billions of
miles in diameter; but it is not the whole universe. You know
that the sun and all its planets are revolving around the star
Alcyone. Your astronomers told you that years ago, and they have
recently given you the rate of speed as 4,838 miles per hour.

"Did you not see and know that if they had this revolution around
a central sun it must be within a solar globe?

"Did you think that the sun and its planets, and other suns and