1.6 that distance. And the exact distance for a one-day moon,
for a moon that would always be in the same place in the heavens,
moving as the earth revolved on its axis, would be about 24,998
miles.

"This gives us the line of 24-hour axial rotation, the true
surface of the earth, and the sheer-line of prakritic matter.
Beyond that line is the ether; within that line is prakriti.

"It is the line of no weight, where gravity and apergy exactly
balance. Inside that line gravity exceeds apergy and everything
revolving in less time, or that time, must fall to the centre.
It is the true surface of any 24-hour globe of this size and
weight. A moon to revolve around the earth in less than one day
must move faster than the earth to develop enough apergy to
overcome the attraction. That phenomenon we see in the moons of
Mars, which are within its atmosphere; within the planet itself.

"We of the East learned this true size of the earth over six
thousand years ago, from observing the moons of Jupiter. The
times of the first three are doubled. We asked ourselves what
this meant and found that their distance was increased by the
cube root of 4 when their times were increased by the square root
of 4; that time was to distance as 1.6 was to 2. Then we
applied the key, and found it unlocked many mysteries.

"The first lesson this taught us was that we did not live on the
earth, but within the earth, at the line of liquid and gaseous
changes, where the three forms of matter meet and mingle and
interchange with each other. We lived at the bottom of a gaseous