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while going away coming back some other time anchoring, as 

 it were 



Azuria is pretty bad, but Azuria is no worse than Neith. 



Astro physical Journal, 1-127: 



A light-reflecting body, or a bright spot near Mars: seen Nov. 

 25, 1894, by Prof. Pickering and others, at the Lowell Observatory, 

 above an unilluminated part of Mars self-luminous, it would seem 

 thought to have been a cloud but estimated to have been about 

 twenty miles away from the planet. 



Luminous spot seen moving across the disk of Mercury, in 1799, 

 by Harding and Schroeter. (Monthly Notices of the R. A. S., 

 38-338.) 



In the first Bulletin issued by the Lowell Observatory, in 1903, 

 Prof. Lowell describes a body that was seen on the terminator of 

 Mars, May 20, 1903. On May 27, it was "suspected." If still 

 there, it had moved, we are told, about 300 miles "probably a dust 

 cloud." 



Very conspicuous and brilliant spots seen on the disk of Mars, 

 Oct. and Nov., 1911. (Popular Astronomy, Vol. 19, No. 10.) 



So one of them accepted six or seven observations that were in 

 agreement, except that they could not be regularized, upon a world 

 planet satellite and he gave it a name. He named it "Neith." 



Monstrator and Elvera and Azuria and Super-Romanimus 



Or heresy and orthodoxy and the oneness of all quasiness, and our 

 ways and means and methods are the very same. Or, if we name 

 things that may not be, we are not of lonely guilt in the nomencla- 

 ture of absences 



But now Leverrier and "Vulcan." 



Leverrier again. 



Or to demonstrate the collapsibility of a froth, stick a pin in the 

 largest bubble of it. Astronomy and inflation: and by inflation 

 we mean expansion of the attenuated. Or that the science of 

 Astronomy is a phantom-film distended with myth-stuff but always 

 our acceptance that it approximates higher to substantiality than 

 did the system that preceded it. 



So Leverrier and the "planet Vulcan." 



And we repeat, and it will do us small good to repeat. If you 

 be of the masses that the astronomers have hypnotized being them- 

 selves hypnotized, or they could not hypnotize others or that the 

 hypnotist's control is not the masterful power that it is popularly 



