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{{Style P-No indent|Solar limits. * Therefore, they cannot be taken as a standard for comparison with the same in other worlds. † Enshrined in their virgin, pristine state within the bosom of the Eternal Mother, every atom born beyond the threshold of her realm is doomed to incessant differentiation. “ The Mother sleeps, yet is ever breathing.” And every breath sends out into the plane of manifestation her Protean products, which, carried on by the wave of the efflux, are scattered by Fohat, and driven toward and beyond this or another planetary atmosphere. Once caught by the latter, the atom is lost ; its pristine purity is gone for ever, unless Fate dissociates it by leading it to “ a current of efflux ” (an occult term meaning quite a different process from that which the ordinary term implies) ; when it may be carried once more to the borderland where it had perished, and taking its flight, not into Space ''above ''but into Space ''within'', it will be brought under a state of differential equilibrium and happily re-absorbed. Were a truly learned Occultist-alchemist to write the “ Life and Adventures of an Atom ” he would secure thereby the eternal scorn of the modern chemist, perchance also his subsequent}}