“When we learned that lesson, and learned it well, it dawned upon us that we were living in the pranic globe at the same kinetic level or plane of that globe, the line where its solids and liquids and gases mingled and passed from one state to another, the kinetic belt in which our solar globe has been made, and that we were living as truly on that globe as we were on this prakritic globe.  Our position on each globe was the same.

“And then the great truth came that we lived in the manasic globe, at the same kinetic level; and that we lived our lives on the four globes simultaneously.  Our bodies are fourfold.  Every atom is fourfold, ready to respond in our minds to the vibrations of the Manasic world, in our vitality to the pranic vibrations of the pranic world, in our nerves to the etheric vibrations of the etheric world, and in our prakriti to vibrations of the prakritic world.  Each one of our bodies lived on its own earth globe, for there were four globes of this earth—­in coadunition—­in its corresponding kind of globe.

“The four earth globes became one globe, as our four bodies were one body; and the chain of four kinds of globes in matter became one globe, as the manasic with the others on it.

“These four kinds of globes were the beginning and the end of matter, as we distinguish and know matter.  They were not the end of vibration; or of planes of vibration; or of realms beyond this material universe; but they were the limits of all that is common to each and every atom of this lower plane of vibration.

“It is upon this solid and perfect foundation of physics, that accounts for and explains every kind of phenomena, we have constructed our metaphysics.  All that belongs to these four lower planes we consider and treat as physics.  All that relates to the planes beyond we consider metaphysics.  Can you teach a child equation of payments before he knows the first four rules?  You would not attempt such a task.  The first four rules are the physics of arithmetic; all beyond is the metaphysics of arithmetic.  It flows out of them.  Can you comprehend our system of metaphysics until you have clearly and completely mastered our physics?  Would you not get into a fog at the very start?

“There can be no system of metaphysics without a solid foundation of physics.  The idea is unthinkable.  The one grows out of the other.  It is its life; its fruit, its flower.

“You have no western system of physics.  Your physics are without form and void; patchwork, constantly changing.  There is no substantial foundation for any system of metaphysics.  What you say or do in physics is fragmentary or chaotic.

“It is perfectly true, so far as you have gone through the first invisible world of ether, you are much more masters of detail than we are.

“We have not cared particularly for the minor details by which explosives are made, or metals obtained from oxides.  We have preferred to push on into realms beyond as fast as we could, seeking first the Kingdom of Heaven and its Righteousness, knowing that when it was found all these things would be added unto us.”