Comets and the Fire of Fire

Much is a comet, like a shooting star that contains its beginning and end in itself. When the matter begins to gather in the lower region, independently the comet appears by itself. But when the exhalation is constituted by one of the fixed stars or the planets, owing to their motion, one of them becomes a comet. The fringe is not close to the stars themselves, just as halos appear to follow the sun into the moon as they move, and encircle them. It stands in the relation of a halo to the stars, except that the color of the halo is due to reflection,. In the case of comets, the color is something that appears actually on