“..._ Were psychic and spiritual teachings more fully understood, it would become next to impossible to even imagine such an incongruity. Unless less trouble is taken to reconcile the irreconcilable—that is to say, the metaphysical and spiritual sciences with physical or natural philosophy, __‘__natural__’__ being a synonym to them [men of Science] of that matter which falls under the perception of their corporeal senses—no progress can be really achieved. Our Globe, as taught from the first, is at the bottom of the arc of descent, where the matter of our perceptions exhibits itself in its grossest form.... Hence it only stands to reason that the Globes which overshadow our Earth, must be on different and superior planes. In short, as Globes, they are in_ COÄDUNITION _but not in_ CONSUBSTANTIALITY _with our Earth, and thus pertain to quite another state of consciousness. Our planet (like all those we see) is adapted to the peculiar state of its human stock, that state which enables us to see with our naked eye the sidereal bodies __ which are coëssential with our terrene plane and substance, just as their respective inhabitants, the Jovians, Martians and others, can perceive our little world; because our planes of consciousness, differing as they do in degree, but being the same in kind, are on the same layer of differentiated matter.... What I wrote was: __‘__The minor Pralaya concerns only our little Strings of Globes. (We called Chains __“__Strings__”__ in those days of lip‐confusion.)... To such a String our Earth belongs.__’__ This ought to have shown plainly that the other planets were also __‘__Strings,__’__ or_ CHAINS.... _If he [meaning the objector] would perceive even the dim silhouette of one of such __‘__planets__’__ on the higher planes, he has to first throw off even the thin clouds of the astral matter that stand between him and the next plane_.” It thus becomes patent why we could not perceive, even with the help of the best telescopes, that which is outside our world of matter. Those alone, whom we call Adepts, who know how to direct their mental vision and to transfer their consciousness—both physical and psychic—to other planes of being, are able to speak with authority on such subjects. And they tell us plainly: