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nets we can argue with reason that each world glows 

 with its own proper colour. 



Now let us look more attentively at our solar system. 

 We shall note a suggestive gradation in the size of suc- 

 cessive planets. The earth we see is larger than Mars, 

 Jupiter is larger than Saturn and Uranus should cer- 

 tainly be larger than Neptune. If until now scientific 

 observations do not confirm this relation in the last-named 

 cas I am convinced that this is owing either to mistaken 

 calculations of the relative bulk of these planets, or there 

 exists a hitherto undiscovered planet united with Uranus 

 as an arithmetical double unit. It, follows that the stron- 

 ger and more energetic a planet the swifter its move- 

 ment. The time must come when the orbit of Uranus 

 will unite with that of Neptune, that of Jupiter with that 

 of Saturn, and that of Earth with that of Mars. Bearing 

 in mind then that the spheres are governed by cosmic 

 reason, it is obvious that the result ol this approxima- 

 tion will be not any conflict or collision but ultimately 

 the exhibition of cosmic sympathies in the form of new 

 double stars. The investigation of this process is diffi- 

 cult, but in the colours of the double stars and in the 

 colours of our planets we cannot but remark analogies 

 more or less elucidative, and pointing in the direction 

 I indicate. Finally if we turn to the star Albirea in the 

 constellation of the Swan, we shall notice in this double 

 star a phenomenon which we shall also note in embrio 

 in the solar system. The double star in question con- 

 sists of two suns, one golden-yellow another sapphire; 

 and, strangest of all, it is surrounded by a ring of cos- 

 mic matter like our planet Saturn. This ring illuminated 

 at once by both its suns gleams blue and yellow and 

 green, and in the half darkness of night it shines fanta- 

 stically. 



Take Jupiter and Saturn: Jupiter is the most ener- 

 getic of the solar planets in our system, and 1300 times 

 larger than the earth; Saturn is the second planet and 

 exceeds Earth only 864 times. Jupiter is therefore the 



