Meade Layne offers perspective on the question of Etheria in this article, originally printed in the Borderland Sciences Research Associates’ “Round Robin”, Volume 5, No. 5, in August 1949.

Dion Fortune says somewhere, in effect, that the phenomena or any particular happening, on any plane, can never be fully explained in terms of that plane alone. Always, back of the facts and theories of science and the superficialities of ‘common sense‘, lie forces, laws, and types of energy unknown to us - and the omniverse itself, since everything in existence is related to everything else. So, all ‘explanations’ - of the flying discs or anything else - must always be partial, proximate, and conditioned by a vast ignorance and only a little knowledge. But for all that, men must continue to try to think, to understand, and to expand consciousness. The alternative is stagnation, and a rudderless drifting on the tides of cosmic life.

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A few thoughts on the nature of the heavenly bodies and the spaces that surround all of us, as offered by the founder of Borderland Sciences, oft-neglected godfather of ufology and one of the last great mystic-scientists— Meade Layne:

Etheria is here – if we know what here means! Along-side, inside, outside of our world. Because our world, that is, the so-called dense matter of the objects in our world, is a rarefication. It is spaced out like a vast net – a net with enormous meshes. Imagine, if you will, a net of wire with meshes a mile wide. Would not wind and water flow through that net as if it did not exist? A little friction, very, very little!

On the strands of those meshes we live. That is the so-called dense matter of our world. We look out across the mesh and do not see anything in it, or hear or feel anything in it, and so call it empty space. Meaningless words in the abysses of folly! We see, hear, feel the other strands of the mesh, and call our world solid , firm and material! Call it a real and substantial thing! But the “spaces” of the mesh are a thousand and ten thousand times greater than the substance of the strands. What is in these spaces of the mesh of our “matter”? Space? Space is not nothing. Space is stuff, is matter. What kind of matter? The matter which makes the ethers. More dense – not less, but more dense by far than the rarefactions of our world. The matter of the Etheric world! Inside the molecules, inside the atoms, other atoms – still other atoms inside of those, or ten thousand Chinese eggs each inside of another. If you think that this is imagination, or that there is no room for these interpenetrating universes – ask the physicist and the mathematician. They will tell you there is nothing in the omniverse but room; and room, again, is space, is stuff, is basic world-stuff, mindstuff, life-stuff; and there is no emptiness anywhere – And that is why Etheria is here!

Excerpted from “The Ether Ship Mystery (and Its Solution)”, the original ufo mimeograph, still in print nearly seventy years later, available through our Borderlands online catalog.