Helmholtz calculated that the cooling of our Earth from a temperature of 2,000° to 200° Cent. must have occupied a period of no less than 350,000,000 years. Western Science (including Geology) seems generally to allow our Globe an age of about 500,000,000 years altogether. Sir William Thomson, however, limits the appearance of the earliest vegetable life to 100,000,000 years ago—a statement respectfully contradicted by the Archaic Records. Speculations, furthermore, vary daily in the domains of Science. Meanwhile, some Geologists are very much opposed to such limitation. Volger calculates: That the time requisite for the deposit of the strata known to us must at least have amounted to 648 millions of years. Both time and space are infinite and eternal. The earth, as a material existence, is indeed infinite; the changes only which it has undergone can be determined by finite periods of time.... We must therefore assume that the starry heaven is not merely in space, which no astronomer doubts, but also in time, without beginning or end; that it never was created, and is imperishable.(358) Czolbe repeats exactly what the Occultists say. But the Âryan Occultists, we may be told, knew nothing of these later speculations. As Coleman says: They were even ignorant of the globular form of our earth. To this the _Vishnu Purâna_ contains a reply, which has forced certain Orientalists to open their eyes very wide. The sun is stationed, for all time, in the middle of the day, and over against mid‐night, in all the Dvîpas [Continents], Maitreya. But the rising and the setting _of the sun_ being perpetually opposite _to each other_,—and, in the same way, all the cardinal points, and so the cross‐points, Maitreya, people speak of the rising of the sun where they see it; and where the sun disappears, there, _to them_, is his setting. Of the sun, which is always _in one and the same place_, there is neither setting nor rising; for what is called rising and setting are _only_ the seeing and the not seeing the sun.(359) To this Fitzedward Hall remarks: The heliocentricism taught in this passage is remarkable. It is contradicted, however, a little further on.(360) Contradicted _purposely_, because it was a secret temple‐teaching. Martin Haug remarked the same teaching in another passage. It is useless to calumniate the Âryans any longer.