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at the occurrence of either equinox, it is now in order to say unequivocally, expressly, and evincingly.

The vehicular motion of the Sun and that of the Earth's orbit which undergoes no change either in form or size from year to year arc consentaneous, while that of the Earth itself is alike variant from that of the Sun and that of the immaterial vehicle of both. This predicament, and nothing else, suffices to account for the newly-discovered dual attribute of planetary motion announced above, namely, the precession of the vernal and recession of the autumnal equinoxes, to which the alleged quasi-variance of the Sun's excentricity to the Earth's orbit is exclusively and legitimately ascribable, whereof both the description and rationale are compassed by the following succinct statement.

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The Earth's vehicular motion during Summer and Autumn exceeds that of its orbit as much as the Sun's apparent motion round ¡he Earth is exceeded by the Earth's orbital motion; whereas, durng Winter and Spring, the earth's vehicular motion is exceeded by that of its orbit as much as the Sun's apparent motion exceeds the Earth's orbital motion, which is 2,435,652 miles in either case as it occurs semi-annually. Thus the Earth's orbital motion renders its vehicular motion not only variant but conversely dual, the result of which is two-fold, namely: The orbital arc of Summer is supplemented and that of Autumn is abridged by the greater vehicular motion of the Earth than of its orbit during those consecutive seasons of the year; and conversely the orbital arc of Winter is abridged and that of Spring is supplemented by the greater vehicular motion of the Earth's orbit than of the Earth itself during these consecutive seasons of the year. This is the proper paraphrase of what is curtly styled the precession of the vernal and recession of the autumnal equinoxes; and either this or that differs but verbally from the alleged quasi-variance of the Sun's excentricity to the Earth's orbit.

The last two explicative propositions import the significance of the arithmetical similitudes displayed in the foregoing parenthetic paragraph. The increase of the Earth's vehicular motion during its orbi tal motion from its least to its greatest distance from the axis of the world's rotation, and the decrease thereof during the Earth's equivalent counter-motion, is 3,070,272 miles; and 3,070,272 X 3.1416 = 9,645,566. By subtracting this product from the difference between the equinoctial divisions of the Earth's orbit, we obtain ar index to the origin and import of the precession of the vernal and recession of the autumnal equinox. Thus :

293,281,998-281,200,780=12,081,218 ; and 12,081,218-9,645,566= 2,435,652; and 2,435,652-3.1416775,289.

And more directly thus:

293,281,998-281,200,780-12,081,218; and 12,081,218 3.1416= 3,845,566; and 3,845,566 3,070,272775,289 ;

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and 775,2892 = 387,645.

The former of the last two quotients represents the sum, and the latter the respective parity, of the twain semi-annual perquisites of the Sun's excentricity in relation to the Earth's orbit, namely: The perpetual variation of the Earth's vehicular motion, incidental to its its orbital motion, whereby it is rendered alternately greater and less than that of its orbit as well as of the Sun, 387,645 miles less during Winter and Spring, but 387,645 miles greater during Summer and Autumn.

This condensed answer to the previous question is elucidated to visual perception by means of Diagram III, page 109, of my published work on "The Pericosmic Theory" (the eighth chapter of which is largely amended by this essay), to which the reader is referred for the import of the literal symbols employed in the subjoined specific explication of what, in the reader's mind at this juncture, may have become a foregone conclusion.

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[Diagram designed to elucidate the differential vehicular motion of the Earth and Sun, that of the Sun being equable, while that of the Earth is rendered variant by the Earth's orbital Motion.]

During Winter, while the Earth is moving from 2 to s, its vehicular motion is not only less than that of its orbit, the mean of which is represented by the line y a, but progressively less, and during Summer, while the Earth is moving from y to p, its vehicular motion is not only greater than that of y p, but progressively greater; whereas, during Spring, while the Earth is moving from s to y, its vehicular motion is not only less, but progressively less, and during Autumn, while moving from p to z, regressively greater, than that of the Sun

or the mean of its orbit. These discriminations are not finical; they are relevant to or solutions of the pending problem. When the Earth is at z, its vehicular motion tallies with that of the Sun; but midway between z and s, its vehicular motion differs inversely from that of s and that of the Sun. If the Earth were stationed at the point F its vehicular motion would be as much greater than that of s as less than that of the Sun. But since it is transitional from z to s, its vehicular motion is in aggregate just what it would be if stationed at F.

Therefore, when the vernal equivox occurs the Earth is not at the point of its orbit denoted by the letter s, but as far below that point as is determined by the Earth's greater vehicular motion than is predicable of s; not for this reason exclusively, but also more specifically because the Earth's major vehicular motion in relation to its orbit as a whole is antithetic to its orbital motion, the orbital arc of which is thereby diminished and the Earth's journey consequently is shortened; and the estimated amount of its shortening, since it is homologous with the difference which obtains between the Sun's apparent motion round the Earth and the Earth's real motion round the Sun, is 1,217,826 miles, as the sum of the two opposite arcs of the Earth's orbit, but 387,645 miles as measured on the orbit's so-called major axis, which it is important to bear in mind, tallies with the universal and unvarying trend of Matter's vehicular motion.

On the other hand, during Summer, while the Earth is moving from y top, its vehicular motion, being traditional, is as much less than that of the point p as it is greater than that of the Sun or of the center of the orbit; and if its position were midway between the Sun and the point, and subject to no other predicament, the autumnal equinox would occur at p. But it must occur at a point between pand, mainly in consequence of the longer duration of Summer than of Autumn, the Sun meanwhile advancing toward z; the Earth's major vehicular motion as compared with that of the Sun being but an offset to its longer journey during Summer, exceeding that of its major vehicular motion as much as this exceeds that of the Sun, namely, 1,217,826 miles; and by this amount the orbital arc of Summer is thereby elongated and that of Autumn curtailed in parity with what occurs at the vernal equinox.

Thus the greater of the only two considerable objections to the theorem which this essay is meant to expound is at length confuted. The elimination of these is more elaborate than the exposition of the theorem itself; yet the expository processes of their refutation are subservient, if not equivalent, to a direct verification of that which they vainly controvert, namely, the constancy of the Earth's orbital motion.

The Universal Text

Axioms and Advice.

"Conviction of Truth is Conversion to God.

All error must perish, but Truth will live for ever.
Aspire to the highest eminence of human excellence.
Curiosity is the inmate of a prison.

Enjoyment consists in the enjoyment of the heart.

In a storm one looks for principle to which to cling; In a calm one thinks the principle will cling to him. J Kindness begets kindness and loves wins the heart. Knowledge is acquired by adding little to little.

Knowledge is the beginning of wisdom.

Laws are ordained by Deity himself; investigate them thoroughly. Law is limit; the senses convey ideas to the mind;

Reason defined their extent; the Will executes their mandates. Let virtue be thy motto, thy shield, and thy defence.

Let thy chief corner-stone be TRUTH.

Life is but the means unto an end; pursue it rightly.

Live for noble ends, for immortality, and for God; then You live for some purpose, and your end will be glorious. Man and all inferior animate existences were created by laws. J Magnetism is the positive organic law of Nature.)

Electricity is the negative organic law of Nature. J
Obedience to law is one of the first duties of Man.
ORDER is a universal law of Nature.

Patience enables one to overcome great obstacles.
Patience will twine flowers into beautiful wreaths.
Perfect virtue is perfect happiness.

Right is an attribute inherent in the nature of the producing cause.
Search for Truth and apply her precepts to thy use.

That which appears impossible today may appear possible tomorrow.

The birds sing sweetest when their hearts are warm with love.

The calms of life are more dangerous than its storms.

The intellect should be developed and beautified with Truth.
The mind that dwells in Truth lives in Light.

The mind that dwells in error gropes in darkness.

There is a divinity in the human soul that moves Man onward) to noble deeds. It inspires with Hope, and bids him live.

Truth is the basis of all right reason.

Truth is the primary and ultimate of all existences.

Twine the virtue around thy heart like a floral wreath.

Virtue will strew life's pathway with flowers.

Wisdom is a knowledge of all things, human and divine.

Youth is the time to lay a foundation for old age.-George B. Simpson.

REINCARNATION.

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What are some of the main arguments brought

forward to show the reason for a belief in Reïncarnation?

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The truth of the doctrine of reïncarnation rests-before memory of past lives is recovered on numerous facts which are unintelligible without it. It is sometimes forgotten that in mathematics, our most exact science, a theorem is held to be proved if you can show that any other conclusion save the one stated is absurd; and this is the case as regards the theory of reïncarnation. We often come across a state of affairs of which it is the only explanation that is not absurd on the face of it. If any one desires to find out whether reïncarnation be, or be not, a fact in nature, we would advise him to follow Let him ask the explanation of —

some of the following lines:

1. The great physical and passional unity of all human races, coupled with the vast intellectual and moral difference.

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The physical and passional resemblances between members of a family, coupled with great difference of mental and moral capacity. 3. The similar facts in the history of twins.

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5. Genius, as in Shakespeare, with the power of perfectly representing types of human character the most diverse, although having a very limited personal experience.

6. Why the musical genius is born in a musical family, while the intellectual genius often springs from most common-place parentage.

7. The difference between two people of about equal mental ability, in assimulating different kinds of knowledge.

8. The intuitive faculty, recognizing a truth as true on its first presentation.

9. Differences of innate character, one child being born with vicious, another with virtuous tendencies; is this consistent with justice, unless each is reaping a harvest of his own sowing?

IO. Recurrent cycles in history, as the total disappearance of a system of thought, and its reëmergence some fifteen centuries later. II. The rise and fall of races and civilization.

These are only a few of the lines of thought, which, followed, lead us to a belief in reïncarnation as the only theory consistent with right sense and reason.-Exposition of Theosophy, by Annie Besant, pp. 10.11.

A TRADITION. A very old tradition relates that Jesus the son of Mary, said: "He who longs to be rich is like a man who drinks seawater the more he drinks the more thirsty he becomes, and never leaves off drinking until he perishes."

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