r 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."

Chapter Seven

The Four Globes

That we live in the earth, not on the earth, is one of the most
important of the facts of eastern physics in the study of its
metaphysics. The mathematical and physical proof that the
physical earth is 50,000 miles in diameter should not be
passed over lightly in our haste to get on, for the perfect
understanding of all this fact implies makes easy the
comprehension of how we live etherically in the solar etheric
globe, of how we live pranically in the stellar pranic globe, and
how we live manasically in the manasic globe.

As we live within the narrow "skin" of phenomena, not more than
100 miles thick, of this prakritic globe, with the whole earth
within the corresponding skin of phenomena of the solar etheric
globe, within the kinetic belt in which it was made, the ether
which surrounds each prakritic molecule is not merely any and
every kind of ether, but that particular kind of kinetic ether,
which, by changing its rate of vibration through an octave,
creates phenomena. The ether of all prakritic matter belo