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251. Two planets also can never come into mutual 

 collision, not even those that have been recently dis- 

 covered, although their paths intersect each other. 



252. The planets are returning comets, which, how- 

 ever, before they have come to the second sun, have 

 produced within themselves the opposite pole to the sun. 

 What happens to the comets through the influence of the 

 second sun, the planets effect of themselves^ 



B._ STOCHIOGENY. 

 CONDENSATION. 



253. Through its separation into polar masses the 

 aether becomes condensed, heavier, and more material. 



254. This condensation is the result of \h& fixation of 

 a definite pole on a definite mass of aether. The essence 

 of the aether consists in its having no fixed pole, but that 

 all the poles oscillate to and fro with the greatest facility 

 from one particle of aether to the other. This is what 

 is meant by indifference, by equivalency of poles; no 

 part of the aether differs from another, because none 

 retains permanently a definite pole, but each of them all 

 the poles. The formation of the heavenly bodies is none 

 other than an union of poles to a definite mass of aether. 



255. A mass of aether with a fixed pole is a dense 

 matter; such a mass of aether I call terrestrial matter, but 

 the aether itself the cosmic. Sun and planet must be ter- 

 restrial matters, for the essence of both consists in the 

 difference of their poles. 



256. The cause of the fixation of poles resides in 

 light. 



257. The heavenly bodies go to ruin by removal 

 of the fixation of the pole abiding on the mass, substra- 

 tum or substance, not by mechanical demolition. The 

 destruction of the heavenly bodies is a retrogression 

 of their mass into aether by means of fire. Heat does 

 not drive the bodies, after the manner of a wedge, from 

 each other, but only suppresses their polarity, and then 



