Activities of the Macrocosm 167 



its mass. The space between them has been meas- 

 ured and it is estimated to be from nine to ten 

 thousand miles broad. The inner and outer rings 

 are over 10,000 miles in width, and the middle one 

 is more than a third broader, being 16,500 miles 

 wide. 



To the knower of the Tattvas, the only possible 

 hypothesis is that these rings are Tattvic emana- 

 tions from the mother bowl of Akdsha, and their 

 peculiarities so far as known perfectly agree with 

 their natural identification. Thus, the "gauzy," 

 " crepy " inner ring is Fdyu (air), whence emerges 

 the brightest and broadest ring, Tejas. The ex- 

 pansive nature of this Tattva explains its greater 

 width, and the qualities of light and heat and its 

 characteristic color, its superior brilliancy. The 

 outer ring appears to be Prithivi. Color and vol- 

 ume corroborate this suggestion, while in the mid- 

 night-gap that separates it from Tejas, Akdsha 

 must hold Apas (water) in a latent state. This 

 order of visibility corresponds perfectly with the 

 planetary sequence, and also with the changes of 

 the Tattvas in the currents of Prdna within our 

 bodies, as described in Chapter XIII, where your 

 attention was attracted to the peculiarity that the 

 order of evolution (see Chapter V ) was violated. 

 I am satisfied that we find in the planetary sequence 

 the explanation for this, and the famous rings of 



