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aether, and unto the end will chaos become aether. The 

 aether is the apparent nothing, and thus it is the chaos. 

 This was not the latter and not the former, but an existing 

 nothing. 



172. The aether is the imponderable matter, because 

 it is gravity and totality itself, because it is the infinite 

 matter. 



173. The aether has no life ; it is the only mortuum, 

 because it is the heavy 0. In aether, however, reside all 

 the principles of life, all numbers ; it is the substratum, 

 the essence of life. There is only one universal substratum 

 in nature. 



HEAVENLY BODY, POINT, CENTRE, GRAVITY. 



174. Everything which emerges out of aether and is 

 posited as a finite matter, can be nought else than a repe- 

 tition of the sphere. 



175. The aether subdivides into an endless number of 

 subordinate rotating spheres, and so it must, because the 

 world is not a whole devoid of parts, but only a whole in 

 the parts, only a repetition of positions. The chaotic 

 sphere of aether consists essentially at one and the same 

 time of an infinity of spheres. 



176. A chaos has never existed. The General never 

 exists, but only the Particular. Chaos was from eter- 

 nity a multiplicity of aetherial globes. Chaos is only 

 inventive. 



177. Every sphejg of aether is complete in itself and 

 clpjejd, and therefore rotating around its axis and around 

 the universal axis of the aether. 



178. The new rotation in the heavenly bodies condensed 

 jlLthe periphery of the aether, follows as a necessary result, 

 on account of the unequal velocity of its outwardly and 

 inwardly lying points. 



179. Every individual sphere has two motions in 

 itself; the one depends upon the representation of the 

 primary act in itself by the special rotation ; the other 

 re-attempts to regain the primary centre, through the 

 general rotation around the universaljyds. 



