CHAPTEK XI. 



PARTICULAR CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE GENESIS AND 

 MODUS OPERANDI OP THE SOLAR SYSTEM. 



LITTLE more needs to be said, by way of applying the fore- 

 going principles to the genesis and modus operandi of our own 

 Solar System. It has been before intimated that the identical 

 principles are involved here that were concerned in the origin 

 and government of the universe, as a whole, with some 

 modifications in the form of their results, as owing to differ- 

 ences of conditions, and that the seven-fold series is observed 

 in the laws, operations, and successive stages of unfolding, in 

 both instances. In both instances there are the successive and 

 ascending degrees of Chaos, Nucleation, Spheroidation, Circu- 

 lar Agregation, Segregation, Secondary Spheroidation, and the 

 complete and ultimate cosmical unfolding. In both cases the 

 dynamic agents of Heat, Light, and Electricity, with their 

 corresponding triad of odic elements are involved, to which, 

 in both cases, is superadded the all-pervading and controlling 

 Divine Life Principle. 



The chief differences in the specific forms of developments 

 in the two cases, lies between their fourth, fifth, sixth, and 

 seventh degrees. In the series of developments through which 

 we have supposed the universe, as one whole Body, to have 

 passed, we have supposed the fourth development to be that 

 of nebulous rings, surrounding the primary spheroid or, at 

 least, segments of rings so large, and of such various parts, as 



