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however, remain unobserved, and this observation is even 

 that of light. I 



196. Matter has become by means of light, is a child 



of light, is but illuminating aether. Every binary division^u<>< 

 of matter manifests itself as light. 



197. The whole universe is transparent, because every- 

 thing has issued out of the tension of aether. Everything 

 which is matter is light, and without light there is 

 nothing. Without light the universe is not only dark 

 but it is even not. Light is the universe, and every Finite 

 is only a different position of light. The world is a 

 thoroughly illuminating globe, a rotating globe of light. 

 The solar system must have been created according to the 

 laws of light. The phenomena of the world are only 

 representations of optics, consequently of living geometry. 

 What we see is nothing but optical construction or 

 figuration. (Vid. Oken's 'Essay liber das Licht;' Jena. 

 Fromann. 1808.) 



c. HEAT, DENSITY. (Third form of 'the World. Shape.} 



198. Light is not simply a motion in itself, a mere 

 continuous excitation of polarity in the aether, but it is 

 also the aether itself set in motion thereby. All polar actions 

 resolve themselves finally into motion of the polarized 

 masses. The end of electricity, galvanism, magnetism, 

 is motion. It will be, however, shown that all these polar 

 functions are only repetitions of the primary polarity; 

 this must therefore produce what the former did, 

 namely, aetherial motion. 



199. Every point of the aether becomes polar, every > 

 one attracts and repels the other ; whereby motion arises 

 in the innermost parts of the aether itself. Not a portion 

 of the aether is moved on, but motion originates in 

 the mass of aether itself. The aether-atoms quit each 

 other. 



200. The aether is, however, that which is filling space, 

 is space itself, the Expansissimum of the world, the Form- / 

 less and therefore that which adopts all forms. The ' 



