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units, and similarly the energy required to liberate it is always in units. The full consideration of such facts suggests that when a body radiates energy it is actually shooting out in all directions a shower of invisible particles, small bundles of energy. “Matter,” says Mills, “which originally appeared to mankind as continuous and infinitely divisible, has been shown to be atomic, and electricity also has been shown to be granular in structure. Why then should we not expect that energy also should prove to be transmissible in finite amounts?” Mr. Peirce in his latest paper goes even further, for he says, referring to the electron, “The flow through these vortices is not constant, but intermittent, varying from a maximum to a minimum in a cycle of constant period. From the source, or electron, then, the particles stream out in pulses in all directions, with a velocity of 3 X 1010cms per sec. The pulse maxima are separated by a distance which I would put at about 35 x 10 cms. (more probably a small sub-multiple) and a time of about 1019 secs, which we may regard as the tanmattra and tattva of the physical plane.” If we try to obtain some general conception of the Aether of space and its relation to E, (the ultimate physical atom), the best description that I can find, and one which best expresses the Theosophic conception, is that given by the French physicist, Nordmann, who says: “Every material body bears along with it, as a sort of atmosphere, the ether, which is bound up with it. There is, in addition, a stationary ether in the interstellar space, an ether insensible to the motion of the material bodies which move in it, and which we may, to distinguish it from the ether bound up with the bodies, call the Super-ether.” Now, Mr. Hodson says that the electron provides an outlet from the astral to the physical plane. The force seems to come from a high cosmic plane through the astral atomic, and then by a rotatory motion forms E1 My idea at present is that the pressure of the divine will to manifest is everywhere in the “super-ether”, but can only show itself when it comes in contact with the astral atmosphere round our earth where it is continually producing electrons,.which come spirally down the lines of force, or arise within an atom like that of Uranium. This force itself, since it manifests as a stream of astral particles, is therefore granular in structure, and in a sense passes through the vortex, which it builds on its way, and out again. As it is granular or atomic in structure, it flows out in quanta, units which are much smaller than the