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electricity finally strikes out into the process of combus- 

 tion, so does that of solution into the chemical. 



436. Solution is in essence like electricity. Solution 

 is an electrical tension between oxygen and carbon; 

 electricity is a process of solution between oxygen and 

 nitrogen, a process of tension without separation of prin- 

 ciples. Air and water are in a state of constant tension 

 towards each other ; and hence therefore result the con- 

 stant evaporation and the clouds. 



437. What lightning is in the air, namely formation 

 of water, that is chemistry in water. The salt jn the sea 

 is what the clouds are in the air. Two electrical clouds 

 are what two salts are in the water. Rain is the imi- * 

 tation of the creation of water. Precipitation of salt is j 

 the imitation of the creation of earth. 



4 . Fun ctions of the Earth . 



CRYSTALLIZATION. 



438. The earth-element is the highest result of com- 

 bustion in creation, the highest fixation of sether. The 

 earth is the aether represented as centre in the Material, 

 or it is the identification of all polar binary division in the 

 Terrestrial, independently of oxydation ; therefore its parts 

 are motionless, be they dust or compact masses. The 

 earth is the corporeal gravity, the substance as a perfectly 

 simple position without emergence out of itself, the 0, 

 the terrestrial monas. The earth is consequently the 

 heaviest and densest element, and is that which must 

 include the middle point of our own and every planet. 



439. In the middle of the planet there is only earth, 

 and nothing else; the middle is not hollow, does not 

 contain any central fire as has been imagined, nor air, 

 and the science of Geogeny will show that no metal also I 

 could be contained in the interior of the earth. 



440. In the air both material principles are only asso- 

 ciated with each other, in water they are mixed, but in 

 the earth identified, blended together. 



