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modern science, as we now understand more fully that life lies 

 not in matter as previously conceived, but rather in the in- 

 visible electrical forces of space and ether. That the Trinity 

 of God is represented by three ions or electrons, one of which 

 is unattainable, as it should by my hypothesis be invisible, 

 immeasurable and unlimited, and that these electrons are each 

 sub-divisible into seven ethereal forms of energy also invisible, 

 immeasurable and unlimited. 



I heard Professor Soddy remark words to the effect that it 

 is probable that an atom of matter can be divided into positive 

 electricity plus X electricity, but that, so far, science had not 

 been able to ascertain if any third ion existed or what its 

 qualities were ; therefore until this discovery is made he would 

 continue to express existence in terms of positive or negative 

 electricity and matter; although matter is probably only a 

 combination of some unknown quantity and quality of elec- 

 tricity plus positive electricity, we may never be able to sepa- 

 rately distinguish. I take it therefore that God is most pro- 

 bably the twenty-one waves that make up ether, just as the 

 seven colour waves make light. That is to say, God is the 

 whole twenty-one waves of ether, equal in quantity, power and 

 action. Therefore God is ether at rest. Finite creation is a 

 disarrangement of the proportional combination of one or some 

 number of these waves, under some new combinations of waves 

 of electricity in a state of motion as opposed to a state of 

 equality and rest. God alone can be equal, perfectly 

 contented and at perfect rest. Hence God alone can be perfectly 

 happy. For happiness is not a positive possession ; it is simply 

 the total absence of any destructive force or influence. 



Therefore perfect and unbroken Joy, Content and Hap- 

 piness must belong to Infinity alone if my hypothesis is 

 correct, viz., that all finite creation is some form of the twenty- 

 one attributes of infinity, whose peace, rest and stability have 

 in some manner become disturbed. I can only find one age 

 of equality in Nature, the first stage of gas previous to the 

 removal or disturbance of the invisible soul of divine and 

 perfect wisdom, and it therefore follows that to create finite 

 equality would demand the existence of two in the place of one 

 infinite being, an infinite humanity and an infinite deity, which 

 is unreasonable This may be the reason why those who 

 clamour for equality are deficient in reason, logic or wisdom, 



