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 INFLEXION. 



333. The light tends from the sun to the earth, not 

 merely because the polarization in accordance with its 

 nature streams forth from the centre to the periphery, 

 because the light is radiality ; but because the earth is the 

 basic pole of the sun. It is thus polarity, and not simply 

 the straight line, which light obeys. Light tends to the 

 centre of the earth, because between this and the sun 

 the tension oscillates. The line of tension is only be- 

 tween the two centres. 



334. In whatever direction light may fall upon the 

 earth, it must strive towards the middle point. Those 

 bodies that have in themselves the earthy nature, attract 

 the light, not by virtue of an hidden quality, but out of 

 the antagonism with the sun ; now it may proceed either 

 from greater density or from true basic import. ^ 



335. Rays of light, which pass close to the earth, as 

 rays of tension between the sun and another star, 

 become, from the polarity of the earth being stronger 

 than that of the star, diverted from their straight direc- 

 tion and drawn towards the middle point. This diver- 

 sion of light from its direct course is called Inflexion. 



336. It is chiefly basic bodies that inflect the light 

 towards themselves. No such body has an infinite shadow. 

 In other respects, all bodies inflect because they are much 

 denser than light. 



TRANSLTCENCY AND REFRACTION. 



337. Light, as an ^Etherial, permeates matter, and 

 must on that very account pass toward the middle point 

 of the earth, because it is virtually none other than the 

 tension of both middle points, the earth and the sun. 

 Originally therefore the light must have gone fchroi 

 the earth. 



338. This permeation is not, however, mechanical but 

 dynamic, and is indeed necessarily a propagation of the 

 tension of aether through the matter. 



339. Matter is susceptible of the same polarization of 



