result of changes of relation in differentiated atoms caused by
their motion. Without this motion the four material globes would
dissolve into the atomic dust of the manasic world, with all that
is within them. The whole material universe is all illusion; a
mere temporary relation of its atoms through motion, without
Reality or permanence.

What then is real? What is not illusion? That which is beyond
the physical, that which is its cause and root; broadly, the
metaphysical, which is not the result of differentiated atoms
through relation. What was real in the top is real here. What
was illusion in the top is illusion here.

The meta-physical or spiritual (the terms are interchangeable)
does not have to pass beyond the manasic globe to get on the
solid ground of reality. The spiritual world is here in every
physical atom and in every aggregation of them; in every planet,
sun, and star; for they are seven, each and every one, not four.
Behind the illusion of one atom or many, whether here or on
Alcyone, there is reality and permanency in the undifferentiated
cause, the spiritual archetype, the three higher beads on the
string which are the proper study of metaphysics.




Chapter Eleven

Stumbling Blocks in Eastern Physics