40 ASTRAL DAYS AND ASTRAL NIGHTS. 



a self-luminous star disappears from the heavens, is 

 it not more legitimate to suppose that the star which 

 has ceased to be visible, has been darkened rather 

 than annihilated ? And when a new star appears 

 in the heavens, is it not more legitimate to suppose, 

 that a dark star in the firmament has become self- 

 luminous, than to suppose that this new star is a new 

 creation ? 



55. How is it, that during the historical period of 

 astronomical science, stars have disappeared from 

 our firmament, and remain still invisible ? And 

 stars, that were before invisible, are now self- 

 luminous ? Is it from this cause : In the sidereal 

 heavens an economy obtains of Astral Days and 

 Astral Nights, and because of this, every star in the 

 firmament undergoes, at distant intervals, a periodic 

 change from light to darkness, and again from dark- 

 ness to light ? 



56. Captain Jacob, of the Madras Observatory, 

 in a revision of a portion of the British Association's 

 Catalogue of 8,377 Stars, has made the remarkable 

 discovery, that 46 of those stars, whose positions 

 had been determined, are missing. Is it so, that 

 those stars are now benighted stars, that they have 

 ceased to be self-luminous, because their Astral Night 

 has set in upon them ? 



