All this had to happen before the manasa combined and dropped in vibration to prana—­and before the pranic globes were formed and the Light could be manifested to us through them.  It may be well to read the first chapter of Genesis over and ask forgiveness for our ignorance, from the writer who records this creation of the pranic globes as the fourth act of creation, and the creation of the etheric sun and prakritic moon to follow that.  That record is mutilated, fragmentary; but the writer of it knew the facts.  If we had the full story, instead of a sentence here and there, taken from an older story not to tell of creation but to hide another tale for the priest, the writer of Genesis would laugh last.

But let us return to the kinetic skin of energy between Light and the Darkness—­the firmament which God calls Heaven—­the battle ground for gravity and apergy, or attraction and repulsion, or good and evil, or the powers of light and darkness.  This skin is like that of an onion, thickest at the equator and thinnest at the poles—­not only on this earth but in the solar, alcyonic, and manasic globes.  The equatorial belt, where phenomena are richest in the manasic globes, we call the Milky Way; in the solar globe we call it the plane of the ecliptic; and on the earth, the tropics.  Modern science has not yet found it in Alcyonic globe—­because it has never thought of looking for it.

This division of the Light from the Darkness was all that was required for evolution on the manasic globe within the kinetic belt.  This evolution was not confined to the making of a few alcyonic or pranic globes.  It was (and is) a great and wonderful evolution beyond words and almost beyond imagination.  It is the Heaven which mankind has longed to see and know.  The writer of Genesis mixed it with the creation of this earth, using earthly metaphors.  Before finding fault, we should better his language.  We have not the words in physics to do it, and must wait for our metaphysics.  But of one thing we may be sure, that the pranic-alcyonic globes here and there at the “sea level” of the manasic globe—­in what God calls Heaven—­amount to no more on that globe, or in Heaven, than so many balls of thistle-down blown across a meadow do on this earth of ours.  Everything that can be created in thought must be there.  It is in thought only, but in thought it is differentiated as sharply as anything in prakriti.  The manasic world, the Heaven of the Bible, is as real as our own world can possibly be; in fact, more real, for when ours is resolved back into its final elements, it will be but “the dust of the ground” of the manasic world.