PART VI

PRESENT STATUS OF OUR PLANETARY SYSTEM

(Living matter originates in the Hydrogen spiral)

The spiral symbolizes living matter because it signifies respiration.

The early animal life upon our planet assumes, as its external protecting body, the spiral shell, proving that when the straight line of carbon coils into a spiral, it is to protect the primitive nucleus which makes it a living, protoplasmic cell. The shell life in the waters is an imitation of this pre-suggested form. External to this form are Nitrogen and Oxygen; therefore, this primitive cell is but a microscopic planet, with the solid and fluid elements united in a dual body, and surrounded by an atmosphere of vibratory and gaseous elements. This is why respiration is set up.

Our planetary system is no exception to this rule. We shall demonstrate that it describes a great spiral, each planet definitely manifesting a period in the evolution and life of the system.

Planets, like all other propagated things, are subject to gestation, birth, childhood, adolescent youth, old age, death and disintegration. Each of these periods is plainly punctuated in the great planetary spiral by a planet developed to that degree.

We declare that each planet is a living individual organ in the system, performing the functions in the whole, as revealed by its position, and by its degree of development.

We must fully appreciate the close relationship which exists between our planetary system and the products of this,

our own planet, and this especially has reference to physical, organic man, the "image and likeness" of the perfected system. This revelation belongs to this particular position and none other.

The system is based upon limited elements, under chemical control, and simple, natural laws of action and reaction. The active beginning is atomic and vibratory, and the reactive is molecular and gaseous. The fruit of these is physical and organic manifestation on our planet.

Our planetary system in its progressive, spiral development, especially reveals the law of action and reaction, due to spiral motion and centripetal force. A compensating balance between centrifugal and centripetal force begets respiration.

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Mercury is a potential body wholly depending upon the parent body for its development. It can neither receive from, nor reflect to, other bodies active influences, because of its dormant condition. It may be likened to the unhatched egg. Although fertilized it requires external heat to give it power to break through its shell and become a living, breathing body. It has neither atmosphere nor axial motion, but it turns in an orbit about the central sun. It cannot support organic life in this potential state.

Venus has broken her shell and may receive and assimilate energy from the parent body, as the mother suckles her young. The resultant products must be of the most primitive kind, and of local character, because the planet does not turn upon its axis to give it diversified influences and suggested forms. It is logical to believe that, any vegetable or animal life produced upon Venus would be of the most rudimentary type, which could not live upon our planet because of the radical difference in the two atmospheres. Therefore, the remnants of preaxial life are found upon the earth as having lived while this planet was in the same position and state which Venus now occupies. The forms are abnormal and conform to environment and elemental requirements.

The remains of strange animals, found in the most illogical places, suggest types which would fit such conditions upon our own planet, while undergoing the planetary changes in which Venus now resides.

Venus is not in a condition to reflect energy to our planet to influence our living beings, but it is a function of our planet to reflect to Venus suggestions for future development of both vegetation and animal life. This will bear fruit upon Venus as she acquires the power to assimilate and reproduce it. This is planetary reaction or reflection, requiring a local moon or satellite, such as our planet has, to perfect it. When Venus casts off her moon and assumes full axial motion she will occupy our present status. It requires long ages of time for a planet to recover its balance following such a rupture. Due to the intervening neutral gases, such as Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton and Xenon, which act as cushions, the consequent shock to the system is minimized. The progression brings about a slow evolution.

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Two important conditions follow the casting off from the side of the planet a moon. Not until the planet and moon both have recovered a state of balance, with the moon executing an orbit about the planet, is a perfected atmosphere estab

The planet distinctly becomes a dual, mechanical body consisting of land and water, the water being saturated with Chloride of Sodium to prevent freezing and congealing, which would prevent its stabilizing motion, the tides.

We believe that, in the first stage, the planet and the moon. having the same orbital momentum about the sun, the spiral motion turned them as one body in the beginning of axial motion, and that, as the atmosphere gradually developed about the planet it freed itself from the burden and the moon assumed an independent orbit about the planet, giving axial motion, only to the planet, the moon becoming the servant to the earth.

With true axial motion, and a perfected, vitalized atmosphere, the earth is capable of receiving, blending, digesting and assimilating influences and forces which are sent to its atmosphere by planetary reflections for the development of perfect vegetation and animal life as we recognize them. This

period symbolizes the perfection of the

greater physical molecule, uniting the four elements in one creative body. Our planet is the only one in the system thus combining the four primordial elements in a state of creative differentiation.

This is the only position in the system capable of assembling living bodies which combine the primary continuities of formative matter in individual, independent bodies, vibratory, gaseous, solid and fluid. These manifest in the planet as atmosphere (consisting of nitrogen and oxygen), land, and water. In the vegetation they manifest as root, trunk, limbs and leaves. In animals they manifest as flesh, muscle, bone and marrow.

The earth has the greatest density of all the bodies in our system, therefore, the character of its living productions should reflect this nature. The revelation is in the physical differentiation of the four primordial principles.

Each of the elements of which our planet consists manifests its own type of living bodies, visible in air, water and earth, as the gaseous, fluid and solid, and we attempt to demonstrate a similar adjustment of planetary life to an invisible, vibratory state, but physical individuality ceases with the death and disintegration of bodies.

This is the point where all of the planetary influences are focused to produce a picture, or living symbolism of the planetary process. Each planet, as it is pressed forward, reflects back to this point of focus a suggestion of the impress which it is required to make upon this image of evolution. This is all according to a universal, chemical formula. It is not a mystery. Neither is it inconsistent with what astronomy and chem

istry teach; but it is not in accord with the teachings of Christianity, hence, it antagonizes it, because it reveals the Christian ideas as stupid nonsense.

It is not strange to deduce that, each planet is experiencing its own peculiar conditions corresponding to its position in the system. It is impossible for all the planets or any two of them, to have the same chemical conditions at one and the same period, any more than a body may be both solid and fluid at one and the same time, and this is exactly the reason why they differ. They pass through a period of development which carries them through the relative consistencies of matter, and in their present states they all differ from each other. Nevertheless, they maintain a continuity of chemical communication and exchange which is reflected in their products, which must of necessity conform to their atmospheres and available elements.

If a living, reproductive body is by nature solid, it will reproduce solid bodies; if a body is gaseous, the bodies evolved out of it will be gaseous, and the same with fluid, and we say, also, with the vibratory, consequently none of the other planets can produce a life similar to that upon our solid planet, upon their surfaces. Their elements are not the same and their processes are dissimilar. This is true to natural evolution. External influences may evolute bodies into new states or conditions after birth.

We may conclude that the planet of physical perfection is our own earth, and that Mars marks the reactive or reflective position where the physical disintegration begins, this being manifested by the decline in density and the increase in the expansion of the major planets, as they recede from the center.

It is an evolution of the individual body from its birth through a definite process of development which causes physical changes.

Division and subdivision are but grosser phases of disintegration. Mars safely may be given credit as the planet of moisture, as differentiated from our dual planet, which