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Thus, while in one department of physics the atomo-molecular constitution of the ether is accepted in order to account for one set of special phenomena, in another department such a constitution is found quite subversive of a number of well-ascertained facts, Hirn’s charges being thus justified (''vide supra''). Chemistry deemed it impossible to concede enormous elasticity to the ''ether ''without depriving it of other properties, upon the assumption of which the construction of ''its ''modern theories depended. This ended in a final transformation of ether. The exigencies of the atomo-mechanical theory have led distinguished mathematicians and physicists to attempt to substitute for the traditional atoms of matter, peculiar forms of ''vortical motion ''in a “ universal homogeneous, incompressible, and ''continuous ''material medium,” or Æther. (''See Stallo.'') | Thus, while in one department of physics the atomo-molecular constitution of the ether is accepted in order to account for one set of special phenomena, in another department such a constitution is found quite subversive of a number of well-ascertained facts, Hirn’s charges being thus justified (''vide supra''). Chemistry deemed it impossible to concede enormous elasticity to the ''ether ''without depriving it of other properties, upon the assumption of which the construction of ''its ''modern theories depended. This ended in a final transformation of ether. The exigencies of the atomo-mechanical theory have led distinguished mathematicians and physicists to attempt to substitute for the traditional atoms of matter, peculiar forms of ''vortical motion ''in a “ universal homogeneous, incompressible, and ''continuous ''material medium,” or Æther. (''See Stallo.'') | ||
The present writer, claiming no great scientific education, but only a tolerable acquaintance with modern theories, and a better one with Occult Sciences, picks up weapons against the detractors of the esoteric teaching in the very arsenal of modern Science. The glaring contradictions, the mutually-destructive hypotheses of world-renowned Scientists, their mutual accusations, denunciations and disputes, show plainly that, whether accepted or not, the Occult theories have as much right to a hearing as any of the so-called learned and academical hypotheses. Thus whether the followers of the Royal Society choose to accept ether as a ''continuous ''or a ''discontinuous ''fluid matters little, and is indifferent to the present purpose. It simply points to one certainty : Official Science ''knows nothing to this day of the constitution of ether. ''Let Science call it matter, if it likes ; only neither as ''akâsa ''nor as the one sacred Æther of the Greeks, is it to be found in any of the states of matter known to modern physics. It is matter on quite another plane of perception and being, and it can neither be analyzed by scientific apparatus, appreciated, nor even conceived by “ scientific imagination,” unless the possessors thereof study the Occult Sciences. That which follows proves this statement. | The present writer, claiming no great scientific education, but only a tolerable acquaintance with modern theories, and a better one with Occult Sciences, picks up weapons against the detractors of the esoteric teaching in the very arsenal of modern Science. The glaring contradictions, the mutually-destructive hypotheses of world-renowned Scientists, their mutual accusations, denunciations and disputes, show plainly that, whether accepted or not, the Occult theories have as much right to a hearing as any of the so-called learned and academical hypotheses. Thus whether the followers of the Royal Society choose to accept ether as a ''continuous ''or a ''discontinuous ''fluid matters little, and is indifferent to the present purpose. It simply points to one certainty : Official Science ''knows nothing to this day of the constitution of ether. ''Let Science call it matter, if it likes ; only neither as ''akâsa ''nor as the one sacred Æther of the Greeks, is it to be found in any of the states of matter known to modern physics. It is {{Style S-Small capitals|matter}} on quite another plane of perception and being, and it can neither be analyzed by scientific apparatus, appreciated, nor even conceived by “ scientific imagination,” unless the possessors thereof study the Occult Sciences. That which follows proves this statement. | ||
It is clearly demonstrated by Stallo as regards the crucial problems of modern physics (as was done by De Quatrefages and several others in those of anthropology, biology, etc., etc.) that, in their efforts to support their individual hypotheses and systems, the majority of the eminent and learned materialists very often utter the greatest fallacies. Let us take the following case. Most of them reject ''actio in distans ''(one of the fundamental principles in the question of Æther or Akâsa in Occultism), while, as Stallo justly observes, there is no physical action, | It is clearly demonstrated by Stallo as regards the crucial problems of modern physics (as was done by De Quatrefages and several others in those of anthropology, biology, etc., etc.) that, in their efforts to support their individual hypotheses and systems, the majority of the eminent and learned materialists very often utter the greatest fallacies. Let us take the following case. Most of them reject ''actio in distans ''(one of the fundamental principles in the question of Æther or Akâsa in Occultism), while, as Stallo justly observes, there is no physical action, | ||
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Veræ causæ ''for physical science are ''mayavic ''or illusionary causes to the Occultist, and ''vice versâ.'' | <nowiki>*</nowiki> ''Veræ causæ'' for physical science are ''mayavic'' or illusionary causes to the Occultist, and ''vice versâ.'' | ||
† Very much “ differentiated,” on the contrary, since the day it left its ''laya ''condition. | † Very much “ differentiated,” on the contrary, since the day it left its ''laya'' condition. | ||
‡ For the Occultists who say that the author of nature ''is nature itself'', something indistinct and inseparable from the Deity, it follows that those who are conversant with the ''occult laws ''of nature, and know how to change and provoke new conditions in ether, may — ''not ''modify the laws, but work and do the same ''in accordance with ''those ''immutable ''laws. | ‡ For the Occultists who say that the author of nature ''is nature itself'', something indistinct and inseparable from the Deity, it follows that those who are conversant with the ''occult laws'' of nature, and know how to change and provoke new conditions in ether, may — ''not'' modify the laws, but work and do the same ''in accordance with'' those ''immutable'' laws. | ||
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