Some of the greatest scientists in the world are experimenting with this vital force, and almost daily the newspapers contain accounts of the phenomenal results that are attending their efforts.
Recently in Copenhagen a certain journalist had his portrait “photographed by electricity.” Copies were distributed throughout the city he was about to visit with instructions that he be arrested on sight. This was effected immediately upon his arrival there.
An important recent discovery is an electric lamp which can dissipate fog. It produces a dear, greenish, penetrating5 light like moonlight. It gives a great illuminating6 power without heat something like the X-ray.
Recently, aerograms were received in Honolulu and San Francisco from Japan, proving[58] that the ethereal electrons are sure conductors throughout the cosmos7. Entering, as this untiring energy does, into our every day life, it is not difficult for us to see that—Life is—and that Electricity is the only substance, out of whose revelations we are growing into greater understanding of the forces and workings of nature. These forces—variations and modifications8 of the one force—Electrical energy—have ever BEEN; but it has taken millions of ages and the evolution and development of man’s intelligence to even grasp the A, B, C of this almighty9 power. The future has in store discoveries of such magnitude and of such vast importance to the human race in this field of electrical phenomena4 that we may well exclaim, as did the psalmist, “such knowledge is too wonderful for me, it is high, I cannot attain10 unto it.”
All natural law is but some form of electrical energy by which is evolved all the various manifestations11 of this wonder-working substance. Atmospheres, ether, air, fire, water, earth, stars, planets, suns, worlds, man, are but combinations and vibrations13 of the integral particles or electrons of this one substance. Mountain and star-mist, consciousness, intelligence, savage14, Sage15, Sufi, all objective and subjective16 (organic and inorganic) entities17, are but the infinite manifestations of this universal substance.
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The X-ray is but an intense display produced by the vibration12 of trillions of these electrons. All that is called mind and all that is called matter, is but an expression of this one universal substance. In its eternal restless energy it creates, preserves, destroys, innumerable forms of mind and matter. This is eternal life. This is eternal intelligence. And “Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night showeth knowledge.”
A recent author on “Individualism and the vibratory energy” says, “Spirit and matter are one and the same vibratory force; and mind and matter are one and not distinct substances.”
Since commencing to write these lines the author has found a number of writers whose works have been of great help to him, and served to confirm him in his theory.
The attunement of the brain cells to varying rates of vibration in the universe, brings all things to you on the principle of the wireless19 telegraph. “All things are yours,” was the announcement of the Master of the Christian20 system. This is scientifically true. The universe is at your disposal and you can get it. Not through sorrow, and toil21 and labor22, but in the same way that trees and flowers get it—inspirationally.
Telepathy, which is attracting wide-spread notice at the present time, is as scientific as[60] telegraphy. Some of the greater scientists are investigating its claims through “spiritual mediums,” though there are few who accept the latter’s claims, as in such a field it would be impossible to prevent impostors from preying23 upon the ignorant and credulous24. There are honest mediums. In fact, every human entity25 is a “medium,” receiving and transmitting, receiving and transmitting continually.
There are some so acutely attuned26 by environment and habit of thought, to the universe of thought, that they receive communications beyond their fellows. These are poets, artists, musicians, inventors, etc. The thoughts of Plato, Socrates, Krishma, Jesus, ARE today. You may know all they knew if you can attune18 yourself to such a rate of vibration as to establish the proper connection. This is a plain, every-day, scientific, matter-of-fact explanation of all modern “spiritualistic communications.” There should be no more mystery or superstition27, or spiritual clap-trap about it than there is about wireless telegraphy.
There are persons who can readily attune themselves to the vibrations of another and “read the thoughts”—unconscious as well as conscious—of individuals composing an entire audience. With many this is easily accomplished28 through personal contact. Some years ago the writer of these pages was well acquainted with Washington Irving Bishop29, the[61] great “mind reader,” who since died, or was murdered by doctors in New York, who dissected30 his brain while he was in a cataleptic condition, they supposing him dead. One of his performances was to have some stranger take a bank-note, read the number on it and place it in a safe. During this time Bishop was at some distance away heavily blindfolded31. When all was ready, he would take this man’s hand and after a short interval32 give the number on the bank-note, which was invariably found to be correct. I questioned him very closely on this performance, which I witnessed frequently. He said as soon as he placed his fingers on the wrist of the man who placed the note, the number would come to him without difficulty. He claimed that it was telepathy or clairvoyance33. As a matter of fact, it was simply attunement to the mind of the man who knew the number, and, as in the action of the wireless telegraph, the two brains being similarly attuned, the message was sent and received. There are many today to whom this would be a mere34 kindergarten performance. You perhaps did not know that every time you shake hands you run the risk of giving away your inmost secrets. I am prepared to tell you that this is true. “There is nothing hidden but it shall be revealed, and there is nothing secret but it shall be made known.”
We receive impressions of impending35 disaster[62] which we regard as “supernatural.” Once for all let me say there is nothing supernatural. A knowledge of this fact ought to cure you of your superstitions36 and destroy your fears. Light, sound, color, travel faster than letters or telegrams. The impending disaster vibrations often reach us long before the actual occurrence itself. Even as we see the flash of lightening, or the flash of the powder, before we hear the thunder or the report of the cannon37.
All these things are but movements of the electrons of the universe, carrying out the natural law of their being, which is electrical impulse.
Prof. Dolbear says, “Molecules which are a combination of atoms, are known to have their constant state of vibrations and from this and the fact of their perfect transparency, they can no more be seen than the air. They are so minute, so restless, like atoms of hydrogen, that no one can hope to see them or learn their characteristic properties.”
Observation and study of the phenomena of electrical energy reveal to us the nature of that substance, which we are, and with which we have to do. The fundamental, inevitable38, never-varying law of polarity—pushing and pulling—or positive and negative action. In creation, throughout all experience, this is seen. Land and sea, day and night, right and[63] left, up and down, sweet and sour, east and west, north and south, good and bad, right and wrong, man and woman, attraction and repulsion—the so-called “pairs of opposites”,—Sex everywhere. Is it difficult to see by analogy and deduction2 that polarity is universal. That all phenomena are electrical phenomena. That birth, and growth, disease and disaster, decline and death are all electrical phenomena, and that there is but one synthetic39 substance—ELECTRICITY.
[1]The germ, the embryo40, the child,
The foolish boy, the man,
Are onward41 steps from nothingness
In God’s progressive plan.
Forever onward is the march—
From beastly hoof42 to hand—
From savage to the seer and sage—
From Saurian types to man;
From man to angel—limitless
As are the starry43 spheres,
Progression hath not halt nor bound
In God’s eternal years!
From darkest cloud the lightning flash—
From nothing—life Divine,
From gloom to glory is the law
The unvarying design.
A world of good invites our eyes
And charms the willing mind—
But he who only misery44 finds
Blasphemes the life Divine.
The mountain side—the billowy sea
Of waving prairie flowers,
The gardens, glades45, and spicy46 groves47
Around this world of ours
Proclaim the endless festival
Of beauty,—and the truth—
The deathless power of Love Divine
Eternal in its youth.
The End
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