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576 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
Spectroscope has helped us to see that the elements, with which the
modern Chemist is familiar, must in all probability be present in the
Sun's outward "robes" not in the Sun itself; and, taking these "robes,"
the solar cosmic veil, for the Sun itself, the Physicists have declared
its luminosity to be due to combustion and flame, and mistaking the
vital principle of that luminary for a purely material thing, have called
it "chromosphere."* We have only hypotheses and theories so far,
not law—by any means.
* See Five Years of Tkeosophy, pp. 245-262—Arts. "Do the Adepts deny the Nebular Theorj'" and
"Is the Sun merely a Cooling Mass"—for the true Occult teaching.