78 THE GENESIS OF WORLDS. 



The evident effect of the fall of any of the planets into the 

 sun would be the diffusion of highly-heated vapors far out into 

 the spaces that surround it probably far enough to reach the 

 next outlying planet, and thereby to increase its retardation and 

 hasten its fall into the mighty caldron. So one by one the 

 planets dissolve and their elements fill the void of space. The 

 expanding gases catch up the waves of radiant heat that have 

 long been wandering from planets and suns and the nebula is 

 again seething and surging with its mighty contending forces. 

 Sun-system reaches out to sun-system, and star-galaxy mingles 

 with star-galaxy, till through all the abysmal depths matter is 

 again " without form and void, and darkness is upon the face of 

 the deep." Chaos has returned once more, again to be breathed 

 upon by the Omnipotent Spirit that reforms and recreates. 



