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180. Such a sphere rotating for itself is called a 

 Heavenly body. A heavenly body again is the image or 

 metatype of the Eternal; it is a whole, it is alive ; every- 

 thing, even the highest, can originate out of it ; every- 

 thing develop itself out of the coagulated, individualized 

 sether. The heavenly body has a double life, an indi- 

 vidual and an universal, since it is for itself and at the 

 same time in the general centre. Every Individual must 

 have ajjbuble Ufcu^ 



181. The heavenly bodies are as old as the sether, 

 consequently they are from the beginning, and endure 

 also without end. As they are only coagulated aether, so 

 are they susceptible of being resolved into the same, such 

 as are probably the comets. 



b. LIGHT, LINE. (Second form of the World. Motion.) 



182. The aether is from eternity, not merely monas, 

 but also dyas ; from eternity it stands in a state of ten- 

 sion with itself, when, as the image of the existing pri- 

 mary act, it has emerged out of itself into two poles. 

 This self-egression or self-manifestation of aether, or of 

 substance simply, is the self-egression of the point into 

 the periphery. As dyas, aether exists under the form of 

 polarity, of central and peripheric effort ; the aether in a 

 state of tension is a centroperipheric antagonism. 



183. The aether is separated from eternity into a cen-t 

 tral and peripheric substance, and that indeed through \ 

 its simple position as a globe. The universe is a dupli- 

 city in the form of aether ; it is both indifferent and dif- 

 ferent aether, both central and peripheric. The central 

 mass of aether may be called sun, the peripheric planet. 

 Only one sun can originate in a globe of aether, but 

 many planets. 



184. Between the central and peripheral mass of the 

 aether, between the sun and planets, there is tension. 

 Through this solar-planetary tension the aether fluctuating 

 between the two becomes polarized. 



185. The tension of the aether proceeds from the 



