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{{Style P-No indent|Porphyry, speaking of the ''Monad ''and the ''Duad'', says that the former only was considered substantial and real, “ ''that most simple Being'', ''the cause of all unity and the measure of all things.''”}} | {{Style P-No indent|Porphyry, speaking of the ''Monad ''and the ''Duad'', says that the former only was considered substantial and real, “ ''that most simple Being'', ''the cause of all unity and the measure of all things.''”}} | ||
But the Duad, although the origin of Evil, or Matter — thence ''unreal ''in philosophy — is still Substance during Manvantara, and is often called the ''third ''monad, in Occultism, and the connecting line as between two Points, . . . or Numbers which proceeded from that, “ which was before all Numbers,” as expressed by Rabbi Barahiel. And from this Duad proceeded all the ''Scintillas ''of the three upper and the four lower worlds or planes — which are in constant interaction and correspondence. This is a teaching which the Kabala has in common with Eastern Occultism. For in the occult philosophy there are the “ {{Style S-Small capitals|One}} Cause ” and the “ ''Primal ''Cause,” which latter thus becomes, paradoxically, the second, as clearly expressed by the author of the “ ''Qabbalah'', ''from the philosophical writings of Ibn Gabirol'',” — “ in the treatment of the Primal cause, two things must be considered, the Primal Cause ''per se'', and the relation and connection of the Primal Cause with the visible and unseen universe.’ Thus he shows the early Hebrews following in the steps of the Oriental philosophy — Chaldean, Persian, Hindu, Arabic, etc. Their Primal Cause was designated at first “ by the triadic Shaddaï, the (triune) Almighty, subsequently by the Tetragrammaton, YHVH, symbol of the Past, Present, and Future,” and, let us add, of the eternal Is, or the I Am. Moreover, in the Kabala the name YHVH (or Jehovah) expresses a He and a She, male and female, two in one, or Hokhmah and Binah, and his, or rather their ''Shekinah ''or synthesizing spirit (grace), which makes again of the Duad a Triad. This is demonstrated in the Jewish Liturgy for Pentecost, and the prayer, “ In the name of Unity, of the Holy and Blessed Hû (He), and His Shekinah, the Hidden and Concealed Hû, blessed be YHVH (the Quaternary) for ever.” “ Hû is said to be masculine and YAH feminine, together they make the {{Style S-Hebrew|יהוה אחד}} ''i.e.'', one YHVH. One, but of a male-female nature. The Shekinah is always considered in the Qabbalah as feminine ” (p. 175). And so it is considered in the ''exoteric ''Purânas, for Shekinah is no more than ''Sakti'' — the female double or lining of any god, in such case. And so it was with the early Christians whose Holy Spirit was feminine, as Sophia was with the Gnostics. But in the transcendental Chaldean Kabala or “ Book of Numbers,” “ Shekinah ” is sexless, and the purest abstraction, a State, like Nirvana, not subject or object or anything except an absolute {{Style S-Small capitals|Presence}}. | But the Duad, although the origin of Evil, or Matter — thence ''unreal ''in philosophy — is still Substance during Manvantara, and is often called the ''third ''monad, in Occultism, and the connecting line as between two Points, . . . or Numbers which proceeded from {{Style S-Small capitals|that}}, “ which was before all Numbers,” as expressed by Rabbi Barahiel. And from this Duad proceeded all the ''Scintillas'' of the three upper and the four lower worlds or planes — which are in constant interaction and correspondence. This is a teaching which the Kabala has in common with Eastern Occultism. For in the occult philosophy there are the “ {{Style S-Small capitals|One}} Cause ” and the “ ''Primal ''Cause,” which latter thus becomes, paradoxically, the second, as clearly expressed by the author of the “ ''Qabbalah'', ''from the philosophical writings of Ibn Gabirol'',” — “ in the treatment of the Primal cause, two things must be considered, the Primal Cause ''per se'', and the relation and connection of the Primal Cause with the visible and unseen universe.’ Thus he shows the early Hebrews following in the steps of the Oriental philosophy — Chaldean, Persian, Hindu, Arabic, etc. Their Primal Cause was designated at first “ by the triadic Shaddaï, the (triune) Almighty, subsequently by the Tetragrammaton, YHVH, symbol of the Past, Present, and Future,” and, let us add, of the eternal Is, or the I Am. Moreover, in the Kabala the name YHVH (or Jehovah) expresses a He and a She, male and female, two in one, or Hokhmah and Binah, and his, or rather their ''Shekinah ''or synthesizing spirit (grace), which makes again of the Duad a Triad. This is demonstrated in the Jewish Liturgy for Pentecost, and the prayer, “ In the name of Unity, of the Holy and Blessed Hû (He), and His Shekinah, the Hidden and Concealed Hû, blessed be YHVH (the Quaternary) for ever.” “ Hû is said to be masculine and YAH feminine, together they make the {{Style S-Hebrew|יהוה אחד}} ''i.e.'', one YHVH. One, but of a male-female nature. The Shekinah is always considered in the Qabbalah as feminine ” (p. 175). And so it is considered in the ''exoteric ''Purânas, for Shekinah is no more than ''Sakti'' — the female double or lining of any god, in such case. And so it was with the early Christians whose Holy Spirit was feminine, as Sophia was with the Gnostics. But in the transcendental Chaldean Kabala or “ Book of Numbers,” “ Shekinah ” is sexless, and the purest abstraction, a State, like Nirvana, not subject or object or anything except an absolute {{Style S-Small capitals|Presence}}. | ||
Thus it is only in the anthromorphised systems (such as the Kabala has now greatly become) that Shekinah-Sakti is feminine. As such she becomes the ''Duad ''of Pythagoras, the two straight lines of the symbol that can never meet, which therefore form no geometrical figure and are | Thus it is only in the anthromorphised systems (such as the Kabala has now greatly become) that Shekinah-Sakti is feminine. As such she becomes the ''Duad ''of Pythagoras, the two straight lines of the symbol that can never meet, which therefore form no geometrical figure and are | ||
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These states — once the spirit of Esoteric philosophy is grasped — become absolutely necessary from simple logical and analogical considerations. Physical Science having now ascertained, through its department of Chemistry, the invariable law of this evolution of atoms — from their “ ''protylean ”'' state down to that of a physical and then a chemical particle (or molecule) — cannot well reject the same as a general law. And once it is forced by its enemies — Metaphysics and Psychology * — out of its alleged impregnable strongholds, it will find it more difficult than it now appears to refuse room ''in the Spaces ''of {{Style S-Small capitals|Space}} to Planetary Spirits (gods), Elementals, and even the ''Elementary ''Spooks or Ghosts, and others. Already Figuier and Paul D’Assier, two Positivists and Materialists, have succumbed before this logical necessity. Other and still greater Scientists will follow in that “ intellectual {{Style S-Small capitals|Fall}}.” They will be driven out of their position not by spiritual, theosophical, or any other physical or even mental phenomena, but simply by the enormous ''gaps ''and ''chasms ''that open daily and will still be opening before them, as one discovery follows the other, until they are finally knocked off their feet by the ninth wave of simple common sense. | These states — once the spirit of Esoteric philosophy is grasped — become absolutely necessary from simple logical and analogical considerations. Physical Science having now ascertained, through its department of Chemistry, the invariable law of this evolution of atoms — from their “ ''protylean ”'' state down to that of a physical and then a chemical particle (or molecule) — cannot well reject the same as a general law. And once it is forced by its enemies — Metaphysics and Psychology * — out of its alleged impregnable strongholds, it will find it more difficult than it now appears to refuse room ''in the Spaces ''of {{Style S-Small capitals|Space}} to Planetary Spirits (gods), Elementals, and even the ''Elementary ''Spooks or Ghosts, and others. Already Figuier and Paul D’Assier, two Positivists and Materialists, have succumbed before this logical necessity. Other and still greater Scientists will follow in that “ intellectual {{Style S-Small capitals|Fall}}.” They will be driven out of their position not by spiritual, theosophical, or any other physical or even mental phenomena, but simply by the enormous ''gaps ''and ''chasms ''that open daily and will still be opening before them, as one discovery follows the other, until they are finally knocked off their feet by the ninth wave of simple common sense. | ||
Here is an example : Prof. W. Crookes’ latest discovery of what he has named ''protyle. ''In the “ Notes on the Bhagavat Gita,” by one of the best metaphysicians and Vedantic scholars in India, † the lecturer, referring cautiously to “ things occult ” in that great Indian esoteric work, makes a remark as suggestive as it is strictly correct. “ . . . Into the details of the evolution of the solar system itself,” he says, “ ''it is not necessary for me to enter. ''You may gather some idea ''as to the way ''in which the various elements start into existence from these three ''principles into which ''{{Style S-Small capitals|Mulaprakriti}} ''is differentiated ''(the Pythagorean triangle), by | Here is an example : Prof. W. Crookes’ latest discovery of what he has named ''protyle. ''In the “ Notes on the Bhagavat Gita,” by one of the best metaphysicians and Vedantic scholars in India, † the lecturer, referring cautiously to “ things occult ” in that great Indian esoteric work, makes a remark as suggestive as it is strictly correct. “ . . . Into the details of the evolution of the solar system itself,” he says, “ ''it is not necessary for me to enter. ''You may gather some idea ''as to the way ''in which the various elements start into existence from these {{Style S-Small capitals|three}} ''principles into which ''{{Style S-Small capitals|Mulaprakriti}} ''is differentiated ''(the Pythagorean triangle), by | ||
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{{Style P-No indent|radiant matter will have vindicated in time the Archaic Aryan works on Occultism and even the Vedas and Purânas. For what are the manifested “ Mother,” the “ Father-Son-Husband ” (Aditi and Daksha, a form of Brahmâ, as Creators) and the “ Son,” — the three “ First-born ” — ''but simply Hydrogen'', ''Oxygen'', and that which in its terrestrial manifestation is called ''nitrogen. ''Even the exoteric descriptions of the “ First Born ” triad give all the characteristics of these three ''gases. ''Priestley, the “ discoverer ” of Oxygen, or that which was known in the highest antiquity !}} | {{Style P-No indent|radiant matter will have vindicated in time the Archaic Aryan works on Occultism and even the Vedas and Purânas. For what are the manifested “ Mother,” the “ Father-Son-Husband ” (Aditi and Daksha, a form of Brahmâ, as Creators) and the “ Son,” — the three “ First-born ” — ''but simply Hydrogen'', ''Oxygen'', and that which in its terrestrial manifestation is called ''nitrogen. ''Even the exoteric descriptions of the “ First Born ” triad give all the characteristics of these three ''gases. ''Priestley, the “ discoverer ” of Oxygen, or that which was known in the highest antiquity !}} | ||
Yet all the ancient, mediæval, and modern poets and philosophers have been anticipated even in the exoteric Hindu books. Descartes’ ''plenum ''of matter differentiated into particles ; Leibnitz’s ''Ethereal Fluid ''and Kant’s “ primitive fluid ” dissolved into its elements ; Kepler’s Solar Vortex and Systemic Vortices ; in short, from the Elemental Vortices inaugurated by the universal mind — through Anaxagoras, down to Galileo, Torricelli, and Swedenborg, and after them to the latest speculations by European mystics — all this is found in the Hindu hymns and Mantras to the “ Gods, Monads, and Atoms,” in their fulness, for they are inseparable. In esoteric teachings, the most transcendental conceptions of the universe and its mysteries, as the most (seemingly) materialistic speculations are found reconciled, because those sciences embrace the whole scope of evolution from Spirit to matter. As declared by an American Theosophist, “ The Monads (of Leibnitz) may from one point of view be called ''force'', from another ''matter. ''To occult Science, ''force ''and ''matter ''are ''only two sides of the same ''substance.” (“ Path,” No. 10, p. 297.) | Yet all the ancient, mediæval, and modern poets and philosophers have been anticipated even in the exoteric Hindu books. Descartes’ ''plenum ''of matter differentiated into particles ; Leibnitz’s ''Ethereal Fluid ''and Kant’s “ primitive fluid ” dissolved into its elements ; Kepler’s Solar Vortex and Systemic Vortices ; in short, from the Elemental Vortices inaugurated by the universal mind — through Anaxagoras, down to Galileo, Torricelli, and Swedenborg, and after them to the latest speculations by European mystics — all this is found in the Hindu hymns and Mantras to the “ Gods, Monads, and Atoms,” in their fulness, for they are inseparable. In esoteric teachings, the most transcendental conceptions of the universe and its mysteries, as the most (seemingly) materialistic speculations are found reconciled, because those sciences embrace the whole scope of evolution from Spirit to matter. As declared by an American Theosophist, “ The Monads (of Leibnitz) may from one point of view be called ''force'', from another ''matter. ''To occult Science, ''force ''and ''matter ''are ''only two sides of the same'' {{Style S-Small capitals|substance}}.” (“ Path,” No. 10, p. 297.) | ||
Let the reader remember these “ Monads ” of Leibnitz, every one of which is a living mirror of the universe, every monad reflecting every other, and compare this view and definition with certain Sanskrit stanzas (''Slokas'') translated by Sir William Jones, in which it is said that the creative source of the Divine Mind, . . . “ Hidden in a veil of thick darkness, formed ''mirrors of the atoms ''of the world, and ''cast reflection from its own face on every atom''. . . . .” | Let the reader remember these “ Monads ” of Leibnitz, every one of which is a living mirror of the universe, every monad reflecting every other, and compare this view and definition with certain Sanskrit stanzas (''Slokas'') translated by Sir William Jones, in which it is said that the creative source of the Divine Mind, . . . “ Hidden in a veil of thick darkness, formed ''mirrors of the atoms ''of the world, and ''cast reflection from its own face on every atom''. . . . .” | ||
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“ Perhaps this hypothesis can be simplified if we imagine yttrium to be represented by a five-shilling piece. By chemical fractionation I have divided it into five separate shillings, and find that these shillings are not counterparts, but like the carbon atoms in the benzol ring, have the impress of their position, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, stamped on them. . . . If I throw my shillings into the melting-pot or dissolve them chemically, the mint stamp disappears and they all turn out to be silver.” . . . | “ Perhaps this hypothesis can be simplified if we imagine yttrium to be represented by a five-shilling piece. By chemical fractionation I have divided it into five separate shillings, and find that these shillings are not counterparts, but like the carbon atoms in the benzol ring, have the impress of their position, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, stamped on them. . . . If I throw my shillings into the melting-pot or dissolve them chemically, the mint stamp disappears and they all turn out to be silver.” . . . | ||
This will be the case with all the atoms and molecules when they have separated from their compound forms and bodies — when ''pralaya ''sets in. Reverse the case, and imagine the dawn of a new manvantara. The pure “ silver ” of the absorbed material will once more separate into {{Style S-Small capitals|substance}}, which will generate “ Divine Essences ” whose “ principles ” * are the primary elements, the sub-elements, the physical energies and subjective and objective matter ; or, as these are epitomised — {{Style S-Small capitals|gods | This will be the case with all the atoms and molecules when they have separated from their compound forms and bodies — when ''pralaya ''sets in. Reverse the case, and imagine the dawn of a new manvantara. The pure “ silver ” of the absorbed material will once more separate into {{Style S-Small capitals|substance}}, which will generate “ Divine Essences ” whose “ principles ” * are the primary elements, the sub-elements, the physical energies and subjective and objective matter ; or, as these are epitomised — {{Style S-Small capitals|gods, monads}}, and {{Style S-Small capitals|atoms}}. If leaving for one moment the metaphysical or transcendental side of the question, — dropping out of the present consideration the supersensuous and intelligent beings and entities believed in by the Kabalists and Christians — we turn to the atomical theory of evolution, the occult teachings are still found corroborated by exact Science and its confessions, as far, at least, as regards the supposed “ simple ” elements, now suddenly | ||
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> “ The Lord is a consuming ''fire.” ''. . . “ In him was ''life'', and the life was the light of men.” | <nowiki>*</nowiki> “ The Lord is a consuming ''fire.” ''. . . “ In him was ''life'', and the life was the light of men.” | ||
† Which if separated alchemically would yield the Spirit of Life, and its Elixir. | † Which if separated {{Style S-Small capitals|alchemically}} would yield the Spirit of Life, and its Elixir. | ||
‡ Foremost of all, the postulate that there is no such thing in Nature as ''inorganic ''substances or bodies. Stones, minerals, rocks, and even chemical “ atoms ” are simply organic units in profound lethargy. Their coma has an end and their inertia becomes activity. | ‡ Foremost of all, the postulate that there is no such thing in Nature as ''inorganic ''substances or bodies. Stones, minerals, rocks, and even chemical “ atoms ” are simply organic units in profound lethargy. Their coma has an end and their inertia becomes activity. | ||
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{{Style P-No indent|reconciled, the essence and Spirit of esoteric philosophy would be made to appear. From the shock of the two — as opposed to the Cartesian system — emerge the truths of the Archaic doctrine. Both opposed the metaphysics of Descartes. His idea of the contrast of two substances — Extension and Thought — radically differing from each other and mutually irreducible, was too arbitrary and too unphilosophical for them. Thus Leibnitz made of the two Cartesian substances two attributes of one universal unity, in which he saw God. Spinoza recognised but one universal indivisible substance and absolute {{Style S-Small capitals|all}}, like Parabrahmam. Leibnitz, on the contrary perceived the existence of a plurality of substances. There was but one for Spinoza ; for Leibnitz an infinitude of Beings, ''from'', and ''in'', the One. Hence, though both admitted but ''one real Entity'', while Spinoza made it impersonal and indivisible, Leibnitz divided his ''personal ''Deity into a number of divine and semi-divine Beings. Spinoza was a ''subjective'', Leibnitz an ''objective ''Pantheist, yet both were great philosophers in their intuitive perceptions.}} | {{Style P-No indent|reconciled, the essence and Spirit of esoteric philosophy would be made to appear. From the shock of the two — as opposed to the Cartesian system — emerge the truths of the Archaic doctrine. Both opposed the metaphysics of Descartes. His idea of the contrast of two substances — Extension and Thought — radically differing from each other and mutually irreducible, was too arbitrary and too unphilosophical for them. Thus Leibnitz made of the two Cartesian substances two attributes of one universal unity, in which he saw God. Spinoza recognised but one universal indivisible substance and absolute {{Style S-Small capitals|all}}, like Parabrahmam. Leibnitz, on the contrary perceived the existence of a plurality of substances. There was but {{Style S-Small capitals|one}} for Spinoza ; for Leibnitz an infinitude of Beings, ''from'', and ''in'', the One. Hence, though both admitted but ''one real Entity'', while Spinoza made it impersonal and indivisible, Leibnitz divided his ''personal ''Deity into a number of divine and semi-divine Beings. Spinoza was a ''subjective'', Leibnitz an ''objective ''Pantheist, yet both were great philosophers in their intuitive perceptions.}} | ||
Now, if these two teachings were blended together and each corrected by the other, — and foremost of all the One Reality weeded of its personality — there would remain as sum total a true spirit of esoteric philosophy in them ; the impersonal, attributeless, absolute divine essence which is ''no ''“ Being,” but the root of all being. Draw a deep line in your thought between that ever-incognizable essence, and the, as invisible, yet comprehensible Presence (''Mulaprakriti''), or Schekinah, from ''beyond and through which ''vibrates the Sound of the ''Verbum'', and from which evolve the numberless hierarchies of intelligent ''Egos'', of conscious as of semi-conscious, ''perceptive ''and ''apperceptive ''Beings, whose essence is spiritual Force, whose Substance is the Elements and whose Bodies (when needed) are the ''atoms'' — and our doctrine is there. For, says Leibnitz, “ the primitive Element of every material body being Force, which has none of the characteristics of (''objective'') matter — it can be conceived but can never be the object of any imaginative representation.” That which was for him the primordial and ultimate element in every body and object was thus not the material atoms, or molecules, necessarily more or less extended, as those of Epicurus and Gassendi, but, as Mertz shows, immaterial and metaphysical atoms, ‘ mathematical points ’ ; or ''real souls'', — as explained by Henri Lachelier (''Professeur agrégé de Philosophie''), his French biographer. “ That which exists outside of us in an absolute manner, are Souls whose essence is force,” (''Monadologie'', ''Introd.''). | Now, if these two teachings were blended together and each corrected by the other, — and foremost of all the One Reality weeded of its personality — there would remain as sum total a true spirit of esoteric philosophy in them ; the impersonal, attributeless, absolute divine essence which is ''no ''“ Being,” but the root of all being. Draw a deep line in your thought between that ever-incognizable essence, and the, as invisible, yet comprehensible Presence (''Mulaprakriti''), or Schekinah, from ''beyond and through which ''vibrates the Sound of the ''Verbum'', and from which evolve the numberless hierarchies of intelligent ''Egos'', of conscious as of semi-conscious, ''perceptive ''and ''apperceptive ''Beings, whose essence is spiritual Force, whose Substance is the Elements and whose Bodies (when needed) are the ''atoms'' — and our doctrine is there. For, says Leibnitz, “ the primitive Element of every material body being Force, which has none of the characteristics of (''objective'') matter — it can be conceived but can never be the object of any imaginative representation.” That which was for him the primordial and ultimate element in every body and object was thus not the material atoms, or molecules, necessarily more or less extended, as those of Epicurus and Gassendi, but, as Mertz shows, immaterial and metaphysical atoms, ‘ mathematical points ’ ; or ''real souls'', — as explained by Henri Lachelier (''Professeur agrégé de Philosophie''), his French biographer. “ That which exists outside of us in an absolute manner, are Souls whose essence is force,” (''Monadologie'', ''Introd.''). | ||
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{{Page|633|the wheels of life.}} | {{Page|633|the wheels of life.}} | ||
{{Style P-No indent|for the time being an independent mind, omniscient and universal ; and by the same process of magnetic aggregation they create for themselves objective, visible bodies, out of the interstellar atoms. For atoms and Monads, associated or dissociated, simple or complex, are, from the moment of the first differentiation, but the ''principles'', corporeal, psychic and Spiritual, of the “ Gods,” — themselves the Radiations of primordial nature. Thus, to the eye of the Seer, the higher Planetary Powers appear under two aspects : the subjective — as ''influences'', and the objective — as mystic forms, which, under Karmic law, become a ''Presence'', Spirit and Matter being One, as repeatedly stated. Spirit is matter ''on the seventh plane ; ''matter is Spirit — on the lowest point of its cyclic activity ; and both — are {{Style S-Small capitals|Maya}}.}} | {{Style P-No indent|for the time being an independent mind, omniscient and universal ; and by the same process of magnetic aggregation they create for themselves objective, visible bodies, out of the interstellar atoms. For atoms and Monads, associated or dissociated, simple or complex, are, from the moment of the first differentiation, but the ''principles'', corporeal, psychic and Spiritual, of the “ Gods,” — themselves the Radiations of primordial nature. Thus, to the eye of the Seer, the higher Planetary Powers appear under two aspects : the subjective — as ''influences'', and the objective — as mystic {{Style S-Small capitals|forms}}, which, under Karmic law, become a ''Presence'', Spirit and Matter being One, as repeatedly stated. Spirit is matter ''on the seventh plane ; ''matter is Spirit — on the lowest point of its cyclic activity ; and both — are {{Style S-Small capitals|Maya}}.}} | ||
Atoms are called “ Vibrations ” in Occultism ; also “ Sound ” — collectively. This does not interfere with Mr. Tyndall’s scientific discovery. He traced, on the lower rung of the ladder of monadic being, the whole course of the ''atmospheric vibrations'' — and this constitutes the ''objective ''part of the process in nature. He has traced and recorded the rapidity of their motion and transmission ; the force of their impact ; their setting up vibrations in the tympanum and their transmission of these to the stolithes, etc., etc., till the vibration of the auditory nerve commences — and a new phenomenon now takes place : the ''subjective side ''of the process or ''the sensation of Sound. ''Does he perceive or see it ? No ; for his speciality is to discover the behaviour of matter. But why should not a psychic see it, a spiritual seer, whose inner Eye is opened, and who can see through the veil of matter ? The waves and undulations of Science are all produced by atoms propelling their molecules into activity ''from within. ''Atoms fill the immensity of Space, and by their continuous vibration ''are ''that motion which keeps the wheels of Life perpetually going. It is that inner work that produces the natural phenomena called the correlation of Forces. Only, at the origin of every such “ force,” there stands the ''conscious ''guiding noumenon thereof — Angel or God, Spirit or Demon — ruling powers, yet the same. | Atoms are called “ Vibrations ” in Occultism ; also “ Sound ” — collectively. This does not interfere with Mr. Tyndall’s scientific discovery. He traced, on the lower rung of the ladder of monadic being, the whole course of the ''atmospheric vibrations'' — and this constitutes the ''objective ''part of the process in nature. He has traced and recorded the rapidity of their motion and transmission ; the force of their impact ; their setting up vibrations in the tympanum and their transmission of these to the stolithes, etc., etc., till the vibration of the auditory nerve commences — and a new phenomenon now takes place : the ''subjective side ''of the process or ''the sensation of Sound. ''Does he perceive or see it ? No ; for his speciality is to discover the behaviour of matter. But why should not a psychic see it, a spiritual seer, whose inner Eye is opened, and who can see through the veil of matter ? The waves and undulations of Science are all produced by atoms propelling their molecules into activity ''from within. ''Atoms fill the immensity of Space, and by their continuous vibration ''are ''that motion which keeps the wheels of Life perpetually going. It is that inner work that produces the natural phenomena called the correlation of Forces. Only, at the origin of every such “ force,” there stands the ''conscious ''guiding noumenon thereof — Angel or God, Spirit or Demon — ruling powers, yet the same. | ||