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The foregoing has described the manner in which Nature projects motion from space and space reflects it back again. The one point which we accentuate in this whole process is the highly explosive nature of the radio-active metals. We do this for the purpose of demonstrating that this high and quick explosive power is needed in Nature's death process to assist in the decay and death of the slow dying rocky formations which first constitute the bodies of new planets, which Nature has set out from her sun crucibles to freeze. Millions of years - or perhaps billions - are consumed in the process of decaying enough of the earth's surface to create the conditions necessary for organic life. Such conditions cannot be possible nearer to the sun than seventy to eighty million miles, and ceases to be possible when a planet reaches as far out as Mars.

Water, oxygen, humus and the necessary carbohydrates of life are created by the exploding metallic bullets of the dying elements as they assist dense elements to die, but if they also project their death into less dense bodies, such as animal tissues, those lesser solids and the gases of their atmosphere, will again be assisted in their desire to expand, which is inherent in all matter.

In conclusion, therefore, we say to you that every ounce of free radio-active metal which is removed from its purposeful position of bombarding the unfertile, dry, hot rocks of Nature to yield pairs of bodies for making organic life possible on this planet, will not only clear the entire planet of all organic life but will keep it thus cleared until the many uranium piles above ground, are entirely dissolved by their own radiations. The num-

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ber of thousands of years necessary for that is not predictable, but it is calculated by authorities that plutonium rays have a duration of over twenty thousand years. That is a long time. The dawn of Consciousness was but 10,000 years ago. How far back will man be, therefore, when he again appears on earth - if he ever will?

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