I'm a little uncertain of the properties of Aether actually, from what I've learned it is the substance that makes up the heavens, and outer levels of space, and that it has special properties (Magical maybe?). Like you can fuse Aether with other objects to have Aether Trees, Fires, Etc.
(Vortex as in pushing it away or cutting it up?)
Romans 8:31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.