42 THE INVISIBLE WORLD 



The arrangement of the electrons within the rings is 

 also varied. The rings are all exceedingly complex, 

 but some may be more complicated than others. 



Hence come the different kinds of vortex rings 

 - eighty or more in number. They are the chem- 

 ical elements. By virtue of magnetic and electric 

 forces these atoms are locked together in molecules. 

 The molecules are attracted together and form 

 nebulae, vast bodies of gas. Ten thousand or 

 more of these bodies are now mapped on astronom- 

 ical charts. Millions more exist. They are the 

 raw material out of which, by the further pro- 

 cesses of Evolution, solar systems, constellations, 

 star clusters and milky ways are manufactured. 



Thus the Ether is the storehouse of infinite 

 energy. Out of this storehouse by Evolution and 

 transmutation comes the matter of the material 

 universe. By Dissolution matter is constantly re- 

 turning. 



Here is the Great Cycle. Thousands of other 

 and smaller cycles are traced in all departments of 

 the material world. In a thousand ways matter 

 appears in certain forms, disappears only to reap- 

 pear in the same or similar forms. But from the 

 Ether to worlds and back again, is the cycle which, 

 in a sense, includes all other cycles. 



