infinite time. And a sun ten thousand times larger than our own sun, itself 1,310,000 times larger than the earth, is an infinitesimal, smaller in comparison with an infinite quantity of matter than a microscopic particle of helium from radium, in comparison with the entire earth, for any finite quantity is an infinitesimal in comparison with an infinite, so sayeth the mighty calculus.

Can it not be seen, then, how the study of the Songs of the Stars enlarges man's conception of God; gives him greater visions of the "many mansions" that await him; and thus enables him to "sing to the Lord our King and Maker" as never before?

CHAPTER XXIV

THE SINGING OF THE COSMIC SPHERES

By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN,

Director of the Lowe Observatory. Dedicated to my great and good friend, GEORGE WHARTON JAMES.

Into space interminable,

And wrought, thinking:

Let Aura appear, and space was filled. IV.

Mind sublime, Mind Divine,

Thinking over chaos,

The sea of Aura,

Thought: Let electrons form.
The mass became electric

And wheeled into atoms,

And these to molecules,

These to blazing suns and worlds

In numbers next

Sing praises unto God.

A thousand million suns
Sing in harmonic strains:
Glory to God in the Highest,
With wondrous words saying:
Our beginning was with God,
Creative Mind Divine,
Mind Sublime, Supreme.
V.

The Palace of the Universe
On conscious plan is builded.
Within this, our Father's house,
There are many mansions.
Holy temples rise,

With domes and towers

Of matchless beauty,
All adorned with suns,
Pouring light to space
In floods effulgent.

Palace singeth unto palace,

And house to house,

And all sing anthems

Unto God, the Master Mind.

Cities beautiful appear,

Holy places, and streets

All paved with diamond suns,—

The stellar floor.

VI.

Cubic altars stand,

Central within Holy Chambers,
In temples magnificent;
And these sing to God
Songs Divine, Supernal,
To Creative Mind Eternal.
Spiral nebulae shine

Forth from space darkness,
Revolve in seething turbulence,
Kneading, mixing, churning
Cosmic matter into

Forming suns and worlds.
VII.

The majestic Goddess

Of the deep of night

Displays her robes, all
Adorned with glowing suns,
Even down to the very
Hem of her garments.

She singeth unto the Creator
Sweet songs of Cosmic peace,
And unfolds her robes

Of glory-all congeries of suns.
Bring forth the starry diadem
Spangled with glittering suns;
Place it upon her majestic brow,
And crown her, crown her
Queen of all there is.

The woman all clothed with suns,
Woman Divine, Mother Sublime,
Whose regal chamber

Is the Holy of Holies

Of the Universe Sidereal.

She ruleth with gentle force

Of Love Divine

Mighty suns and rolling spheres,
And inspires them all

To go sing praises
Unto God

Throughout ages, eons eternal.
From observatory dome
Behold she walketh over

The waves of Southern Sea,
And seemeth to drag
Careless garments of stars
In wat'ry wastes

By the Earth's rotation.

VIII.

Creative Mental Energy
Brought suns and worlds
To reality of being.
Myriads piled on myriads,
All solar globes,

Emerged from wastes cosmic,

Solitary, silent, dark,

And lighted space

With glow electric.

And Creative Word

Spake, saying: All is good.

IX.

Eternal gates were lifted up,

Or just stood ajar,

Admitting light supernal

Into chaotic gloom.

And the darkness comprehended not

Till Law appeared.

God said: Let law reign.

And all became harmonic.

Then foundation deep and wide,

The encircling band of suns,—
The Galaxy, the Milky Way,
Binding the billion suns