atmosphere of etheric
atoms. You say that each atom of prakriti is the centre of a
molecule of ether. So it is. But each atom of that etheric
molecule is the centre of a pranic molecule. Each atom of your
physical matter is triple, not double.

"You say that all physical phenomena come from the chording
vibration of the etheric and prakritic atoms of the two planes of
matter. Yes. But do you not see that all vital phenomena come
from the chording vibration of the pranic, etheric, and prakritic
atom of the three planes of matter which are in each atom?

"In the living leaf the three planes are sounding in chord in each
atom of it. In the dead leaf, drying up and falling to pieces,
only the lower two are sounding in chord. The silver chord has
been broken.

"Each atom of prakriti you say has the potentiality of some kind
of phenomenon. We add 'and of life also.' The potentialities of
life are in every atom of prakriti. Even the atom of iron may
live in the blood. It cannot become a part of any living
organism until its prana is sounding the chord of life in unison
with the ether and prakriti--the threefold silver chord.

"What is the centre of this prana? It is Alcyone. There are
other solar globes beside ours circling around Alcyone, and we
have been considering only our own solar globe of ether. Alcyone
is the centre of the prana in which they revolve as the sun is
the centre of our ether in which the planets revolve. As this
prana has a centre around which we revolve with other solar
systems, then it must have a center of gravity.

"Then this prana is a globe.

"The prana does not then fill this material universe. There must
be yet another form of matter rarer and finer than prana, from
which prana is made, as ether is made from prana and prakriti
from ether. Have we any other class of phenomena to explain,
except vital and physical? Yes, there is a very important class,
mental. And here we have the explanation, if we exercise our
reason.

"These pranic globes are floating in an ocean of manasa, matter
in its rarest form.

"Each atom of prana is formed from manasa, exactly as ether was
formed from prana, and each pranic atom in the universe is the
centre of a manasic molecule, having an atmosphere of manasic
atoms.

"So we are not exact in giving the prakritic atom three planes or
octaves of vibration. It has four. You merely surround it with
etheric atoms, and this is correct so f