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LIOHT ON THĚ PATH 33 vithin those encasements which the microcope reveals, lies a mystery which no rachinery can probe. ,
The whole world is animated and lit, cown to its most material shapes, by a orld within it. This inner world is called stral by some people, and it is as good
word as any other," though it merely picans skrry; but the stars, as Locke
ointed out, are luminous bodies which live light of themselves. This quality s characteristic of the light which lies
ithin matfer; for those who see it need lo lamp to see it by. The word “stan" horeover, is derived from the Anglo-Saxon
stir-an," to steer, to stir, to move, and ndeniably it is the inner life which is haster of the outer, just as a man's brain uides the movements of his lips. So that though Astral is no very excellent word
itself, I am conteñit to use it for my Iresent purpose.
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