IDENTICAL CHANGES 



of light where there is no organized material, it is 

 equally impossible to conceive that a sun can give 

 out light by decomposing before it is itself or- 

 ganized. And an eternal sun or succession of suns 

 is just as incomprehensible as an eternal identical 

 Primary Cause. 



We look upon sunlight as the primary cause of 

 earth life. And everything living upon the earth is 

 looked upon as directly or indirectly the result of 

 sunlight. Therefore, naturally, light is looked upon 

 as the King Force, as of greater importance than 

 other manifestations of force. 



But no manifestation of Force can in reality be 

 greater than another manifestation of force. For, 

 in the endless circle of cause and effect, every cause 

 is an effect and every effect is a cause. We look 

 upon sunlight, and upon our artificial light as the 

 result of incandescence, and upon incandescence, as 

 the result of the dismemberment of something that 

 light has built up. And yet heat, the cause of in- 

 candescence, is itself the result of a movement of 

 void matter from one body to another. 



Is, then, light that which holds a substance to- 

 gether in its own identical form? Certainly not, 

 for between two living identities in the manifesta- 

 tion of light, it is only a displacement. But the 

 displacement caused by light is more direct between 

 source and recipient than that which causes gravity. 

 For in light transmission intensity is increased, 

 after the square, by lessening of distance, and in 

 gravity after the inverse square. And yet the pres- 

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