ocean 21,000 miles above us, and 4,000 miles from the centre of
the globe. It gave us an entirely new conception of the earth,
and of our place in it.

"We saw that we lived in a narrow belt, or skin, of the earth,
not more than 100 miles thick, perhaps not more than ten miles.
Within this belt the prakritic elementary substances varied their
condition, combined, and made forms by increasing or decreasing
vibration. It was the creative and destructive zone, the
evolutionary "mother"--the liquid level of the prakriti--the
seat of all physical phenomena. Fifty miles above, the masses of
nitrogen and oxygen and argon were too cold to change their rate
of vibration. Fifty miles below the surface of the earth all
things were too hot for changes in vibration. In this kinetic
belt, between two static masses our bodies had been made, and
also, in all probability, all combinations of the elementary
substances. It was four thousand miles to the centre of the
static prakritic mass beneath us; twenty-one thousand miles to
the surface of the static prakritic mass above us, and the small
kinetic belt between was only one hundred miles thick. But we
had one consolation, the prakriti we had was all kinetic, and the
best in the whole mass.

"The second lesson it taught us was that as the earth had been
made in the etheric globe, in a corresponding skin or plane of
kinetic etheric energy, with our ether the best of the solar
output, that we ourselves were subject through our ether to the
phenomena of that kinetic solar plane in precisely the same way
we now are to the phenomena of the kinetic prakritic plane. Once
rid of the fallacious notion that we were creatures of the