[ 33 ] when lightning falls upon a house, the portion of the building upon which it falls is often damaged, while, if the house is filled with lighining-conductors, no damage is done. These conductors, it may be added, are fixed deep down in the earth so that the lightning can pass through them down to the earth. When lightning falls, the earth fakes in the huge electric energy of the lightning quite easily. In order to explain this factor more fully, we shall now discuss the origin of the world; for without some idea of the origin of the earth is would be difficult io realise how earthqukes are caused by electric energy. li has been found that the earth is a planel like Mars, Saturn etc. and that, like other planels, it has evolved out of the sun. The sun is a huge accumulation of very powerful energy, a flaming, incandesceni substance of greał magnitude permealed by Brahma Teja, i.e. Divine energy. It is in fact an accumulation of electrons, which, being in perpetual motion within a certain limited sphere, gives the sun the characleristics it possesses, It is also conjectured that these electrons are the ultimele factors of electric energy and atomic force and are difficult lo measure even with the help of very dolicale scientific instruments. Before the world was brought inlo existence. 3
