CHAPTER XI 



ETHER AS THE VEHICLE OF DIVINE POWER AND THE 



HUMAN SOUL 



I HAVE had something to say upon the origin of matter 

 out of vortex-rings of ether. I now wish to show that 

 the theory is feasible which supposes God to be wherever 

 ether is supposed to be. That is, they are both infinite 

 in space. 



Ether penetrates all matter, inorganic and organic 

 alike ; and as it is the vehicle for all kinds of physical 

 forces, so it may be the instrument of the soul of man 

 when parted from the body. It, therefore, may be the 

 universal inter-communicating medium of all conscious 

 beings in the universe. 



I do not think, therefore, that we can conceive of 

 anything in Nature better than the ether, capable of 

 " imaging," so to say, an Infinite Spiritual Power. 



If ether be a fact, then it must be practically infinite 

 and eternal, and is not matter, as we understand matter. 

 The evidence of its existence depends upon induction 

 based on the transmission of light and other vibratory 

 forces. We do not think of those which cause light in 

 our brains as self-conscious ; but that own self-concious- 

 ness may be dependent, not so much on the matter of 

 our bodies, as upon the ether which inter-penetrates the 

 substance of our brains ; hence, we can begin to imagine 



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