bastion. In the cloud mass of Auriga there are two 

 separate phenomena one the result of the living force 

 of the triple star, the other proceeding from the cosmic 

 mass of decomposed and decomposing gases. 



I have said before that every cloudspot is a dead or 

 dying body, which has lost the organs of vital motion. 

 All active cosmic bodies asteroids, moons, planets, 

 suns and stars have a spherical shape, a fact which is 

 illustrated in the case of our own solar system. On the 

 contrary dead cosmic bodies, cloudspots comets and pla- 

 netary clouds have an oval shape. It is evident from 

 this that bodies of the latter class are floating with the 

 cosmic tide, and have no rotatory movement round their 

 own axis. The cosmic stream flows in the opposite di- 

 rection to the foward movement of the planets, and 

 therefore it is not difficult to conclude that the cloud- 

 matter floating with this stream is lifeless, Life is a for- 

 ward movement, and shews itself such, in all the starry 

 universe, in one eternal progress, All that is falling back 

 and drifting down is dead material without the vital prin- 

 ciple, and if such matter has a meaning and a use for 

 living worlds, it is as food and nourishment. In the 

 cloud-mass of Auriga we are therefore presented with a 

 double phenomenon ; the vital star, and the extinct ma- 

 terial of a system already perished. 



The clouds in Andromeda and Aquarius serve as a 

 link in our chain of evidence. They clearly confirm my 

 theory. Both, as we saw, are strikingly similar in their 

 oval rings, whilst their spectral analysis produces oppo- 

 site results, showing that whilst the former cloud is a 

 still vital system, the latter is an extinct mass of incan- 

 descent gas 



The photograph of the cloud in Aquarius shews that 

 this was at one time a solar system. In the middle of 

 it we see an oval mass with ring-like sections, and at 

 the sides two similar oval fragments - as it were the 

 remains of orbs. At some period or other, when this 

 system became extinct, the cosmic force of oxo-hydrogen 



