their planets, were tearing their way through the ether like so
many fish on a dipsy-hook from a Marblehead fishing smack running
before the wind?

"Did it never occur to you that the ether of this solar system
must be revolving around this central sun? The whole solar
system, ether and planets, are revolving around Alcyone, and the
reason why their minor revolution around the sun is not affected
by it is because the solar system is a vast globe of ether,
having a thinner and rarer medium to revolve in, the same as our
earth has. It is the motion of a fly in a moving car.

"Now fix your attention on this globe of ether, this solar globe.
You must do it to get the concept before you. You have known of
it all your life without once really apprehending it, for you
have never learned to think, or to utilize the knowledge that was
given you. The idea is as new and as strange as if you had never
known it.

"What lies beyond the surface of the solar globe? Something
must; something as much rarer and thinner than the ether as the
ether is rarer and thinner than prakriti. Can you not guess?

"It is Prana, the life force of the universe. As prakriti is
made from ether, so ether is made from prana. It is made in the
same way. Each atom of the ether is the centre of a molecule of
prana, surrounded by an atmosphere of pranic atoms, exactly as
your prakritic atom is surrounded by an atmosphere of etheric
atoms. You say that each atom of prakriti is the centre of a
molecule of ether. So it is. But each atom of that etheric