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 verse with "omnipresent death," and in the sum and substance of all their reasonings about nature are therefore in perfect harmony and accord.

Light, considered solely on the natural plane, may be defined as that energy or activity in nature which, acting upon the organs of sight, renders objects visible. Apart from the mind, light is the activity of the ether, the universal medium of light, caused by the sun, or other matter, being in such a state as to actuate the ether. It is obvious that the term must be used in this sense generally. Yet in relation to sight, light is something vastly more. Light in its mental aspect, or as a form of sensation, is due to the influx of mental light into the organs of vision when they are suitably affected by the activity of ether. This is considered more fully under the next topic.

Sight is the perception of forms by means of light. Objects are seen by means of reflected