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aether
/ˈi.θɚ/
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What does aether mean?
noun
- Alternative spelling of ether.
proper noun
- One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of light, brother-husband of Hemera and grandson of Chaos.
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That which has the wave-motion is either aether or 'gross matter', but in either case is what the philosopher would call matter.
The breath of man is within him, but the air or aether of heaven is the element which surrounds him and all things.
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Like Rontgen rays, it is probable that gamma-rays are wave-pulses in the luminiferous aether, though the possibility of explaining them as flights of non-electrified particles is before the minds of some physicists.
Let any one, with Polemo, take the world; or with the Stoics, the aether, or the sun; or with Anaximenes, the air, to be God; and what a divinity, religion, and worship must we needs have!
And, finally, the mystery of the seven vials and the seven stars of Saint John are written therein; for the Tablets are the hieroglyphic keys which unlock the realities of truth involved within the unrealities of external life, and open up, to the aspiring soul, inconceivable vistas of knowledge yet possible of realization, within the Divine womb of the uncreated Aether.