44 OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH & HEALING
The light and reflecting ethers are avenues of
consciousness and memory. They are somewhat
attenuated in the average individual and have not yet
taken definite form; they interpenetrate the atom as air
interpenetrates a sponge, and they form a slight auric
atmosphere outside each atom.
It has been determined by physical science that the
atoms in our dense body are constantly changing so
that all the material which composes our present
vehicle at this moment will have disappeared in a few
years, but it is common knowledge that scars and other
blemishes perpetuate themselves from childhood to old
age. The reason for this is that the prismatic ether
atoms which compose our vital body remain
unchanged from the cradle to the grave. They are
always in the same relative position—that is to say, the
prismatic ether atoms which vibrate the physical atoms
in the toes or in the fingers do not get to the hands,
legs, or any other part of the body, but remain in
exactly the same place where they were placed in the
beginning. A lesion of the physical atoms involves a
similar impression on the prismatic ether atoms. The
new physical matter molded over them continues to
take on shape and texture similar to those which
originally obtained.
The foregoing remarks apply only to the prismatic
atoms which correspond to solids and liquids in the
Physical World because they assume a certain definite
shape which they preserve. But in addition each human
being at this stage of evolution has a certain amount of
light and reflecting ether, which are the vehicles of
sense perception and memory, intermingled in his vital
body. We may say that the light ether corresponds to