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before the planets. It does not create the world by 

 impulses and strokes, but only by vivification. 



237. Were the planet dead, it could not be attracted 

 or repelled by the sun ; it would have from the very 

 beginning always maintained a similar pole in itself, and 

 it could therefore only move in a circular manner around 

 the sun. The circular motion or course around the sun 

 is not generally conditioned by the polarity of the planets, 

 but depends upon the primary rotation. Proportionably 

 to the mutual interchange of polar operation between the 

 sun and planet, the latter would only approach the sun 

 in the line of the apsides, and thus remove from it ; but 

 by the primary rotation it is conducted around it. The 

 elliptical path is consequently the result of rotation and 

 of the polar or linear interchange of operation between 

 the two heavenly bodies. 



238. The moon would keep a wholly circular path 

 around the sun, if it were not disturbed by the earth, 

 were it not through the difference of the earth's poles to 

 passively retain also different polarities ; for the moon is 

 in itself dead. 



239. The moon is not attracted more forcibly by the 

 earth than the sun ; and therefore it remains not by the 

 earth. The sun exercises more polar action, more photal 

 action upon it than the earth, and yet it falls not into the 

 sun, for the very same reason that the earth itself does 

 not fall in. The moon is forsooth to be regarded as 

 itself a planet with a definite charge of electricity, which 

 is always equably maintained by light ; as such it rotates 

 circularly about the sun. But it rotates in the same path 

 wherein the earth rotates ; therefore the latter operates 

 upon it and draws it in its strange serpentine line around 

 the sun. $$. ^^ . 



240. The more Hying a planet is, by so much the 

 more excentric is its path, because it enters into great 

 opposition with the light. 



241. If polarization by light be the cause of the 

 attraction and repulsion of the planets from the sun, so is 



