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the atoms must withdraw from each other. Heat depends 

 only on the destruction of poles, not upon extension. The 

 heavenly bodies are ruined in the same way that they 

 have originated, namely, through the primary act in its 

 retrogression. 



258. It is only the fjole^ no other concealed property, 

 which maintains the being of the mass. The mass is not 

 a terrestrial mass subsisting simply by its own rest. 

 Nothing material is the cause of the form of matter, but 

 the Spiritual. Matter has therefore no quality, no con- 

 sistence of itself, but is nothing, is aether. Mass cannot 

 supplant mass, nor mechanism destroy anything material. 

 The destruction must proceed from within. 



259. The fixation of poles in the substance is the 

 impenetrability of matter. It is only the spirit in 

 matter which renders this impenetrable, not the mass 

 itself. 



260. The aether is penetrable, and therefore also pene- 

 trating. Heat is penetrating ; light, as aether in a state 

 of tension, is only partially penetrating. 



261. All the diversity of matter depends upon the 

 fixation of poles in the substance. For there is no diver- 

 sity in the universe without poles, without binary division. 

 The substance always remains the same, it is only the 

 poles that change. The substance is the Indestructible, 

 the Persistent, the aether, the nothing. 



262. The fixation is the perquisite, but the necessary 

 one, of the substance. The diversity of things resides 

 only in the perquisite. In the substance all are alike. 

 There is only one substance, only one essence. 



ELEMENTAL BODIES. (How many kinds of Jtther-condensatio ns 



may exist ?) 



263. The aether has three forms, and can therefore 

 condense itself after a ternary manner, or in other words, 

 there can be only three kinds of fixations of poles. 



264. The condensations of the several forms of aether 

 must be simple matters or Elemental bodies, as they are 

 called. 



