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189. The tension of aether is an action, which operates 

 according to the line. This linear activity, which makes 

 its exit from the central mass and is excited hence to the 

 peripheral mass, is Light, or in short, light is tension of 

 aether. 



190. Light is a traction of lines or radial action ; con- 

 sequently an antetype of magnetism. A ray of light is 

 a radius. The ray of light has two extremities different 

 from each other ; that turned towards the sun is 0, that 

 which comes in contact with the planets is . Light is, 

 therefore, a splitting, rending action. 



191. Light is the life of the aether. Hitherto the 

 aether was an inactive nothing, mere substratum for a 

 future. This nothing, when it becomes centroperipheric, 

 seeks to tear the mathematical point into radii and cir- 

 cumferences, appears; and this centroperipheric mani- 

 festation we call light. 



192. The untensed, indifferent aether is, therefore, 

 darkness, and this is the essence, the rest of aether. Chaos 

 was thus darkness ; the world arose out of darkness 

 when light became. Light has originated out of darkness 

 when the chaos was moved. Were it possible therefore 

 for all light to vanish, the world would again return into 

 its old nothing ; for darkness and nothing are one. God 

 has separated the light from the darkness. 



193. If light be only a column of aether in a state of 

 tension, light is or exists only between the planet and the 

 sun ; near to the planet and behind it is darkness. The 

 primary sphere is a dark sphere, transpierced only by 

 single rays of light. Each star, however, stands in a 

 state of tension with anotheju thus many thousand 

 rays of light stream forth from each, and fill out the 

 world-space in all directions. There is therefore no 

 absolute darkness, because there are infinitely numerous 

 rays of light. In the night also there is always as much 

 light present as is necessary to maintain the heavenly 

 bodies in their action. For the world there is no night, 

 but only for the planets. It will be shown that the air 

 maintains its existence simply through the operation of 



