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so completely unfolded in works upon Physics and As- 

 tronomy, that they may here be passed over in silence. 



b. LIGHT. 



321. The aether and the terrestrial matter are cor- 

 relative, like Higher and Lower, unity and multiplicity, 

 and therefore stand in the same antagonism with each 

 other, as the air with the two inferior elements. The aether 

 is constantly seeking to convert the matter into itself, to 

 render it indifferent by depolarization, this, however, to 

 condense it. Matter is only condensed aether. This 

 condensation proceeds, however, from the polarization of 

 light, and it is consequently the activity of light by which 

 the aether hardens into matter. 



322. The activity of the aether or the light dies or 

 becomes obscured in matter. The next obscuration of 

 light, or its immediate transition into matter is the polar 

 primary body, oxygen. Oxygen is the corporeal light. 

 It is the spirit of light to posit every thing with an in- 

 ternal polarity, to convert everything into oxygen, to 

 render everywhere free the oxygen pole ; for the process 

 of fixation can only happen through activity = light, and 

 fixation is a production of primary bodies. 



323. Light is the manifestation of positive tension, I 

 of the tension of oxygen. When this reaches its maxi- 

 mum, light issues forth. This is evident upon the 

 planet. Every generation of the Similar takes place 

 through the similar principles ; the cosmic generation of 

 light must be therefore imparted also by positive tension, 

 by that of oxygen. No reference has been here made to 

 the negative relation of oxygen in electrical tension ; it 

 does not come under the denomination. 



324. The sun is the body of oxygen, the waier^ in the 

 world- space ; the planet, however, is the basic body, the 

 earth in world-space. The aether is diffused between the 

 two as the air of heaven. The sun appears to have only 

 the density of water ; for it is four times less dense than 

 the earth, and is thus pretty nearly in the condition of 

 water. 



