THE FORMATION OF A SOLAR SYSTEM The beginning of the universe (if ever it had a beginning) is beyond our ken.

At the earliest point of history that we can reach, the two great opposites of spirit and matter, of life and form, are already in full activity.

We find that the ordinary conception of matter needs a revision, for what are commonly called force and matter are in reality only two varieties of Spirit at different stages in evolution and the real matter or basis of everything lies in the background unperceived.

A French scientist has recently said: "There is no matter; there are nothing but holes in the aether." This also agrees with the celebrated theory of Professor Osborne Reynolds.

Occult investigation shows this to be the correct view, and in that way explains what Oriental sacred books mean when they say that matter is an illusion.
The ultimate root-matter as seen at our level is what scientists call the aether of space.