24 THE UNIVERSE 



and lifeless space. There was nothing in all that 

 seemingly chaotic universe; nothing but cold, dark- 

 ness and silence. But these are the home of atoms 

 and ions, the star dust and cosmic force, creative 

 Deity had scattered by the breath of His power 

 through the highways of space in the beginning of 

 primeval creation. While these seem as nothing to 

 man, they are the foundation stones of all creation. 



This nothingness of space was the fallow ground of 

 the universe and the formless shadow of suns and 

 worlds. It was a universe in solution, as viewless 

 as either and as intangible as mind. The electric 

 energy of space was yet unstirred by the divine fiat 

 or shook into vibrating force by the word of crea- 

 tive power. 



Then at the creative behest, " Let There Be Light," 

 the ions of force, like an electric clothing of light 

 and life, leaped into power, permeated all atoms, 

 and wrapped as in swaddling clothes a new-born 

 universe. Then atoms and ions of electric force 

 met in fond and unending embrace, substance and 

 energy clasped hands, and matter and persistent 

 force were woven into each otner's arms and satu- 

 rated with electric life-giving energy. 



The sun magnet, being larger and more powerful 

 than all the others combined, would hold the others 

 we call planets in the magnetic field of his sovereign 

 power, and become the electric heart and command- 

 ing force of his system of world magnets. He would 

 draw his electric life and energy from his vast elec- 

 tric magnetic field embracing his solar system, 

 which with our sun is six billions of miles in diam- 

 eter. 



As these bodies grew in size under the law of 



