offered perchance, it would not be amiss to ascertain the nature and character of those other so-called “temporary” stars, whose periodicity, though never actually proven, is yet allowed to pass unquestioned.  What are these stars which, appearing suddenly in matchless magnificence and splendour, disappear as mysteriously as unexpectedly, without leaving a single trace behind?  Whence do they appear?  Whither are they engulfed?  In the great cosmic deep—­we say.  The bright “brick” is caught by the hand of the mason—­directed by that Universal Architect which destroys but to rebuild.  It has found its place in the cosmic structure and will perform its mission to its last Manvantaric hour.

Another point most emphatically denied by the “Adepts” is, that there exist in the whole range of visible heavens any spaces void of starry worlds.  There are stars, worlds and systems within as without the systems made visible to man, and even within our own atmosphere, for all the physicist knows.  The “Adept” affirms in this connection that orthodox, or so-called official science, uses very often the word “infinitude” without attaching to it any adequate importance; rather as a flower of speech than a term implying an awful, a most mysterious Reality.  When an astronomer is found in his Reports “gauging infinitude,” even the most intuitional of his class is but too often apt to forget that he is gauging only the superficies of a small area and its visible depths, and to speak of these as though they were merely the cubic contents of some known quantity.  This is the direct result of the present conception of a three-dimensional space.  The turn of a four-dimensional world is near, but the puzzle of science will ever continue until their concepts reach the natural dimensions of visible and invisible space—­in its septenary completeness.  “The Infinite and the Absolute are only the names for two counter-imbecilities of the human (uninitiated) mind;” and to regard them as the transmuted “properties of the nature of things—­of two subjective negatives converted into objective affirmatives,” as Sir W. Hamilton puts it, is to know nothing of the infinite operations of human liberated spirit, or of its attributes, the first of which is its ability to pass beyond the region of our terrestrial experience of matter and space.  As an absolute vacuum is an impossibility below, so is it a like impossibility above.  But our molecules, the infinitesimals of the vacuum “below,” are replaced by the giant-atom of the Infinitude “above.”  When demonstrated, the four-dimensional conception of space may lead to the invention of new instruments to explore the extremely dense matter that surrounds us as a ball of pitch might surround—­say, a fly, but which, in our extreme ignorance of all its properties save those we find it exercising on our earth, we yet call the clear, the serene, and the transparent atmosphere.  This is no psychology, but simply occult physics, which can never confound “substance” with “centres of Force,” to use the terminology of a Western science which is ignorant of Maya.  In less than a century, besides telescopes, microscopes, micrographs and telephones, the Royal Society will have to offer a premium for such an etheroscope.