ar energy, except
on the planets as it is transferred from the laya center of each
in the sun to them. The etheric globe is cold and dark, except
along the lines to them--the "Paths of Fohat" [solar energy].
Six laya centers are manifested in the sun; one is laid aside,
though the wheels [planets] around the One Eye be seven. [This
alludes to the moon, whose laya center in the sun is now also
that of the earth; but it is considered as a planet]. What each
receives, that it also gives back. There is nothing lost."

"That settles it," says one student; and the others agree. Of
the hundred who started,

"The foremost horseman rode alone,"

before the next step was won.

In the light of the tardy but perfect justification of the first
stumbling-block, this statement may be worth following out, "to
see what it means," and how "absurd" it can be. An etheric
globe; cold as absolute zero, dark as Erebus, with here and
there small pencils of light and heat from the sun to the planets
--just rays, and nothing more--is a very different one from the
fiery furnace at absolute zero of the modern physicist.

On a line drawn from the center of the earth to the center of the
moon there is a point where the "weights" of the two bodies are
said in our physics exactly to balance, and it lies, says our
physics, "2,900 miles from the center of the earth, and 1,100
miles from the surface." This is the earth's "laya center" of
the Eastern physics. It is of great importance in problems of
life; but it may be passed over for the present.

Between the earth and the sun--precisely speaking, between this
laya center and the sun--there is a "point of balance," which
falls within the photosphere of the sun. This point in the sun
is the earth's solar laya, the occult or hidden earth of the
metaphysics.

A diagram will make this clearer. Draw a line from the laya
center in the sun to that in the earth. Draw a narrow ellipse,
with this line as its major axis, and shade it. At each end of
the axis strike the beginning of an ellipse that will be tangent.
If positive energy is along the shaded ellipse, negative energy
is in each field beyond--earth and sun. This is a very crude
illustration of a fundamental statement elaborated to the most
minute detail in explanation of all astronomical phenomena; but
for the moment it will do.

The point is that along this axial line connecting the
laya centers play all the seven solar