of high-powered explosives to the
deepest parts of the ocean bed, and exploding them there, you can
produce chasms through which some water will be forced towards the
heated interior by the enormous pressure of its own weight. At a
comparatively slight depth it will be converted into steam and produce
an earthquake. This will so enlarge your chasm, that a great volume of
water will rush into the red-hot interior, which will cause a series of
such terrific eruptions that large islands will be upheaved. By the
reduction of the heat of that part of the interior there will also be a
shrinkage, which, in connection with the explosions, will cause the
earth's solid crust to be thrown up in folds till whole continents
appear. Some of the water displaced by the new land will also, as a
result of the cooling, be able permanently to penetrate farther,
thereby decreasing by that much the amount of water in the oceans, so
that the tide-level in your existing seaports will be but slightly
changed. By persevering in this work, you will become so skilled that
it will be possible to evoke land of whatever kind you wish, at any
place; and by having high table-land at the equator, sloping off into
low plains towards north and south, and maintaining volcanoes in
eruption at the poles to throw out heat and start warm ocean currents,
it will be possible, in connection with the change you are now making
in the axis, to render the conditions of life so easy that the earth
will support a far larger number of souls.

"With the powers at your disposal you can also alter and improve
existing continents, and thereby still further increase the number of
the children of men. Perhaps with mild climate, fertile soil, and
decreased struggle for existence, man will develop his spiritual side.

"Finally, you have apergy, one of the highest forces, for it puts you
almost on a plane with angels, and with it you have already visited
Jupiter and Saturn. It was impossible that man should remain chained
to the earth during the entire life of his race, like an inferior
animal or a mineral, lower even in freedom of body than birds.
Heretofore you have, as I have said, seen but one side in many workings
of Nature, as if you had discovered either negative or positive
electricity, but not both; for gravitation and apergy are as
inseparably combined in the rest of the universe as those two,
separated temporarily on earth that the discovery of the utilization