the earth's crust, which, according to my father's estimate and
my own, is about three hundred miles in thickness from the
"inside" to the "outside" surface. Relatively speaking, it is no
thicker than an egg-shell, so that there is almost as much
surface on the "inside" as on the "outside" of the earth.

The great luminous cloud or ball of dull-red fire -- fiery-red in
the mornings and evenings, and during the day giving off a
beautiful white light, "The Smoky God," -- is seemingly suspended
in the center of the great vacuum "within" the earth, and held
to its place by the immutable law of gravitation, or a repellant
atmospheric force, as the case may be. I refer to the known power
that draws or repels with equal force in all directions.

The base of this electrical cloud or central luminary, the seat
of the gods, is dark and non-transparent, save for innumerable
small openings, seemingly in the bottom of the great support or
altar of the Deity, upon which "The Smoky God" rests; and, the
lights shining through these many openings twinkle at night in
all their splendor, and seem to be stars, as natural as the stars
we saw shining when in our home at Stockholm, excepting that they
appear larger. "The Smoky God," therefore, with each daily
revolution of the earth, appears to come up in the east and go
down in the west, the same as does our sun on the external
surface. In reality, the people "within" believe that "The Smoky
God" is the throne of their Jehovah, and is stationary. The
effect of night and day is, therefore, produced by the earth's
daily rotation.

I have since discovered that the language of the people of the