known to your astronomers as Vesta, is encompassed by an
atmosphere and is inhabited by diminutive people and a
correspondingly diminutive fauna and flora. The diameter of
Vesta is about 500 miles, although your astronomers give its
size, erroneously, as much smaller.

While the subject of these discourses is mainly Spiritual you are
getting many scientific facts, and although not a volume of them
you are getting a proper understanding of the Cosmos.

The universe with all its suns and planets is analogous to a
perfect watch. Each sun and planet moves over a prescribed orbit
in a given time mathematically proportional to the movements of
all the other celestial bodies, just as the geared wheels of the
watch conform to their prescribed movements. The celestial
bodies are seemingly actuated by invisible gears and are held
rigidly in their proper places by a mighty force whose power is
incalculable. This is evidenced by the fact that all celestial
bodies conform to that inexorable law, Divine Harmony.

That all planets describe equal areas in the same time in their
ceaseless journeyings, and that the square of the time of their
periods is as the cube of their distance from their common
centers, is an exemplification of the reign of God's harmonious
laws.

You must remember that Empirical knowledge is but a perverted
view of Truth. All the fleeting things of life are but dross:
their apparent reality an illusion. Material life is but a
projection from the Cause world into the Effect world. Man is