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325. The sun must be water, even because it is a 

 body of oxygen. It must be denser than water, because 



is in the centre, is central water. 



326. It gives out light only, because it is water; for 

 as such it is in eternal motion. 



327. The solar water is moved by the planets, like 

 ebb and flow. At every point of the sun opposite to 

 which a planet stands, there is flow ; there the illumina- 

 tion is stronger, in other situations weaker. There 



^ jrciust be several seas of light upon the sun, as many as 

 there are planets placed opposite to it. There is no- 

 where a perfectly quiescent point in the sun ; therefore 

 it is nowhere wholly solid. 



328. The shining is an ebb and flow of the sun. 

 Query Do not the spots and flashes of the sun de- 

 pend upon this? The ebb and flow also of the sea 

 gives out light ; every motion in water shines. The sun 

 does not simply shine by external motion, but because 

 it is by this motion polarized unto the Innermost. It is 

 a true gelatinous animal, a body trembling through its 

 whole mass, and thereupon phosphorescent. 



329. The sun is not inhabited. It has no firm ground. 



330. The contest""oT~the primary principles of the ele- 

 mental bodies upon the planet appears as light. 



331. Light is now more closely characterized. It is 

 no longer merely the tension of sether generally, but 

 tension of material elemental bodies. Thereby the light 

 has been torn from heaven and given to the earth. Light 

 has a chemical relation, and admits therefore of com- 

 parison with terrestrial matters. 



332. Through light the negative, its opposite or the 

 basic, pole has been evoked in matter. The sun is self- 

 posited as oxygen against the planet as Azotic or phlo- 

 giston ; hydrogen and carbon. Light therefore deoxy- 

 dises the bodies ; it converts them into itself, into a polar 

 principle. Acids placed in the light become deoxydised ; 

 nitric acid, muriate of silver. Oxygen is developed in 

 light out of water. In like manner the constituent parts 

 of the air continue separated only through light. 



