oduce even greater results.
As Cosmos waxes greater from the result of these continual accretions,
its attraction for the stars will increase, until those coming from the
outer regions of its universe will move at such terrific speed in their
spiral orbits that before coming in contact they will be almost
invisible, having already absorbed all solid matter revolving about
themselves. These accessions of moving matter, continually received at
and near its equator, will cause Cosmos to spread out like Saturn's
rings till it becomes flat, though the balance of forces will be so
perfect that it is doubtful whether an animal or a man placed there
would feel much change.

"But these universes--or, more accurately, divisions of the
universe--already planes, though the vast surfaces are not so flat as
to preclude beautiful and gently rolling slopes, are spirit-lands, and
will be inhabited only by spirits. Then there are great phosphorescent
areas, and the colour of the surface changes with every hour of the
day, from the most brilliant crimson to the softest shade of blue,
radiant with many colours that your eyes cannot now see. There are
also myriads of scented streams, consisting of hundreds of different
and multi-coloured liquids, each with a perfume sweeter than the most
delicate flower, and pouring forth the most heavenly music as they go
on their way. But be not surprised at the magnitude of the change, for
is it not written in Revelation, 'I saw a new heaven and a new earth;
for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away'? Nor can we
be surprised at vastness, sublimity, and beauty such as never was
conceived of, for do we not find this in His word, 'Eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love Him'? In this blissful
state, those that feared God and obeyed their consciences will live on
forever; but their rest can never become stagnation, for evolution is
one of the most constant laws, and never ceases, and they must always
go onward and upward, unspeakably blessed by the consciences they made
their rule in life, till in purity and power they shall equal or exceed
the angels of their Lord in heaven.

"But you men of finite understanding will ask, as I myself should have
asked, How, by the law of hydrostatics, can liquids flow on a plane?
Remember that, though these divisions are astronomical or geometrical
planes, the