234 THE UNIVERSE 



leaped into power and enwrapt as in swaddling clothes 

 a new born universe. And wherever the breath of 

 Deity was blown there was the glowing nucleus of 

 a sun, or the revolving center of a world. Then 

 atoms and electricity met in fond and unending 

 embrace, substance and energy clasped hands, and 

 matter and persistent force were woven into each 

 other's arms and saturated with electric, life-giving 

 energy. 



The first starting point of the universe was the 

 intellectual volition of Deity. The second was the 

 law of nature impressed upon matter by electricity, 

 the right hand of Deity and the tongue and word 

 of His power. Spirit cannot act directly upon mat- 

 ter; it must have a medium controlled by spirit 

 at one end and working on matter at the other. This 

 medium is electricity. Matter is held together by 

 the electric attraction of the molecules of which 

 it is composed. 



The molecules are composed of invisible magnets 

 called atoms. This electric attraction acts con- 

 tinuously. Were it to stop its action for a second, 

 solid bodies would instantly crumble to invisible 

 atoms, our material forms would vanish into thin 

 air, and the universe disappear in viewless ether. 



The electro-magnetic force holds firmly the mole- 

 cules of solid bodies and gives them their strength 

 and solidity. It is more feeble in its cohesive grasp 

 on liquid bodies and is very feeble in gaseous bodies. 

 Molecules are in a ceaseless state of activity and 

 motion, forever vibrating to the touch of electric 

 energy. 



The ever-restless and varying motions of the in- 

 visible molecules constituting all matter is like a 



