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the aether, but not of the solar system nor the Finite. 

 No Finite is absolutely spherical. As the real universe 

 can only exist in a bicentral condition, so is there in this 

 respect also no universal central body. It is there, but 

 under the form of bicentrality, as sun and planet. God 

 only is monocentral. The world is the bicentral God, 

 God the monocentral world, which is the same with 

 monas and dyas. The primary polarity, the dyas, the 

 radiality, the light establishes itself in nature as bicen- 

 trality, which is the cosmogenic expression for self- 

 manifestation or self-consciousness. Self-consciousness 

 is a living ellipse. 



233. The bicentrality determines the distance of the 

 planets from the sun. If the sun as the active pole be 

 strong or energetic, the planets will occupy a remote situ- 

 ation ; if it be feeble or weak, one that is near. The 

 strength of the polar energy depends, however, upon the 

 quantity of the mass. Were the mass of the sun less, all 

 the planets would range nearer to it ; were it greater, 

 they would be all driven further off, as electricity repels 

 the pith-balls of elder-wood ; more than this the planets 

 are not towards the sun, but even less, The energy of 

 the solar polarization depends not merely upon its mag- 

 nitude, but also upon the velocity of rotation, which har- 

 monizes with the former ; the latter, however, depends 

 upon the original velocity of rotation of the aether. The 

 velocity of the rotation of aether being assumed as definite, 

 that of the sun must be definite also, and with this 

 everything accords. 



234. The circumvolution of the planets around the 

 sun is a polar process of attraction and repulsion, by 

 virtue of the primary law in the solar system, by virtue 

 of the light. The planet then can only be repelled in the 

 neighbourhood of the sun from the sun, when it has the 

 same solar pole in itself, when it has become positive ; 

 and can only attract it at a distance from the sun, when 

 it has received the opposite pole to the sun, or has become 

 negative. 



235. This is only conceivable in that the planet, while 



