Nature.” High-grade explosives were known to us, but our employment of them was of much wider range than thine. If thou couldst cause these substances gradually to yield up their vast imprisoned force without fear of an explosion, thinkest thou that thy machinery would long be propelled by clumsy, because ponderous, steam or electric engines?

If a great steamship could dispense with its coal-bins and boilers, and instead have dynamite in absolutely safe compound form yielding, from what a man could carry in a hand-bag, force sufficient to drive the ship from England to America, or to send a train six thousand miles,—how long wouldst thou see steam machinery?

Yet this was a power, and a least valued one at that, which we—possibly you, certainly I—knew in the Atlantean life. It will be again with thee, because our Race is coming again from devachan to earth.

But not alone this resource of power was ours—indeed it was to our forces of the Night-Side as an alcohol-vapor motor is to thy steam engines. The Night-Side forces—what are they? At this place I will answer only by a counter question, namely—the force of Nature, of gravitation, of the sun, of light, whence is it? If thou wilt answer me, ‘It is of God,’ so then will I answer thee that, likewise, Man is the heir of the Father, and whatsoever is His, is also the Son’s. If Incal (the Deity of Atlantis) is impelled by God, the Son shall find how his Father doeth this thing, and shall presently do likewise again, even as Man did once in Poseid. But greater things than these which we did might we do: ye are now, ye were then; ye are Poseid returned, and on a higher plane!