What koilon is, what its origin, whether it is itself changed by the Divine Breath which is poured into it--does "Dark Space" thus become "Bright Space" at the beginning of a manifestation?--these are questions to which we cannot at present even indicate answers. Perchance an intelligent study of the great Scriptures of the world may yield replies. * * * * * NOTES [1] See footnote in next Chapter. [2] The drawings of the elements were done by two Theosophical artists, Herr Hecker and Mrs. Kirby, whom we sincerely thank; the diagrams, showing the details of the construction of each "element," we owe to the most painstaking labour of Mr. Jinarâjadâsa, without whose aid it would have been impossible for us to have presented clearly and definitely the complicated arrangements by which the chemical elements are built up. We have also to thank him for a number of most useful notes, implying much careful research, which are incorporated in the present series, and without which we could not have written these papers. [3] The atomic sub-plane. [4] The astral plane. [5] Known to Theosophists as Fohat, the force of which all the physical plane forces--electricities--are differentiations. [6] When Fohat "digs holes in space." [7] The first life-wave, the work of the third Logos. [8] A mâyâ, truly. [9] By a certain action of the will, known to students, it is possible to make such a space by pressing back and walling off the matter of space. [10] Again the astral world. [11] Each spirilla is animated by the life-force of a plane, and four are at present normally active, one for each round. Their activity in an individual may be prematurely forced by yoga practice. [12] "The ten numbers of the sun. These are called Dis--in reality space--the forces spread in space, three of which are contained in the Sun's Atman, or seventh principle, and seven are the rays shot out by the Sun." The atom is a sun in miniature in its own universe of the inconceivably minute. Each of the seven whorls is connected with one of the Planetary Logoi, so that each Planetary Logos has a direct influence playing on the very matter of which all things are constructed. It may be supposed that the three, conveying electricity, a differentiation of Fohat, are related to the Solar Logoi. [13] The action of electricity opens up ground of large extent, and cannot be dealt with here. Does it act on the atoms themselves, or on molecules, or sometimes on one and sometimes on the other? In soft iron, for instance, are the internal arrangements of the chemical atom forcibly distorted, and do they elastically return to their original relations when released? and in steel is the distortion permanent? In all the diagrams the heart-shaped body, exaggerated to show the depression caused by the inflow and the point caused by the outflow, is a single atom.