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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 10773 ***
+
+ANCIENT AND MODERN PHYSICS
+
+by Thomas E. Willson
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+Preface
+I.     Physical Basis of Metaphysics
+II.    The Two Kinds of Perception
+III.   Matter and Ether
+IV.    What a Teacher Should Teach
+V.     The Four Manifested Planes
+VI.    One Place on Earth
+VII.   The Four Globes
+VIII.  The Battle Ground
+IX.    The Dual Man
+X.     The Septenary World
+XI.    Stumbling blocks in Eastern Physics
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+
+The Editor of the Theosophical Forum in April, 1901, noted the
+death of Mr. Thomas E. Willson in the previous month in an
+article which we reproduce for the reason that we believe many
+readers who have been following the chapters of "Ancient and
+Modern Physics" during the last year will like to know something
+of the author.  In these paragraphs is said all that need be said
+of one of our most devoted and understanding Theosophists.
+
+In March, 1901, The Theosophical Forum lost one of its most
+willing and unfailing contributors.  Mr. T.E. Willson died
+suddenly, and the news of his death reached me when I actually
+was in the act of preparing the concluding chapter of his
+"Ancient and Modern Physics" for the April number.
+
+Like the swan, who sings his one song, when feeling that death is
+near, Mr. Willson gave his brother co-workers in the Theosophical
+field all that was best, ripest and most suggestive in his
+thought in the series of articles the last of which is to come
+out in the same number with this.
+
+The last time I had a long talk with T.E. Willson, he said"
+
+"For twenty years and more I was without a hearing, yet my
+interest and my faith in what I had to say never flagged, the
+eagerness of my love for my subject never diminished."
+
+This needs no comment.  The quiet and sustained resistance to
+indifference and lack of appreciation, is truly the steady
+ballast which has prevented our Theosophical ship from aimless
+and fatal wanderings, though of inclement weather and adverse
+winds we had plenty.
+
+For many long years Mr. Willson was the librarian of the New York
+"World."  In the afternoons he was too busy to see outsiders,
+but, beginning with five o'clock in the afternoon until he went
+home somewhere in the neighbourhood of midnight, he always was
+glad to see his friends.  He had a tiny little room of his own,
+very near the top of the tremendous building, his one window
+looking far above the roofs of the tallest houses in the
+district.  There he sat at his desk, generally in his shirt
+sleeves, if the weather was at all warm, always busy with some
+matter already printed, or going to be, a quiet, yet impressive
+and dignified figure.
+
+The elevated isolation, both figuratively and literally speaking,
+in which T.E. Willson lived and worked, in the midst of the most
+crowded thoroughfares of New York, always made me think of
+Professor Teufelsdrockh on the attic floor of "the highest
+house in the Wahngasse."  The two had more than one point of
+resemblance.  They shared the loftiness of their point of view,
+their sympathetic understanding of other folks, their loneliness,
+and, above all, their patient, even humorous resignation to the
+fact of this loneliness.
+
+Yet in his appearance Mr. Willson was not like the great
+Weissnichtwo philosopher.  In fact, in the cast of his features
+and in his ways, Mr. Willson never looked to me like a white man.
+In British India I have known Brahmans of the better type exactly
+with the same sallow complexion, same quick and observant brown
+eye, same portly figure and same wide-awakeness and agility of
+manner.
+
+Last summer I heard, on good authority, that Mr. Willson had
+thought himself into a most suggestive way of dealing with the
+problems of matter and spirit, a way which, besides being
+suggestive, bore a great resemblance to some theories of the same
+nature, current in ancient India.  Consequently Mr. Willson was
+offered, for the first time in his life, a chance of expressing
+his views on matter and spirit in as many articles and in as
+extensive a shape as he chose.  The way he received this tardy
+recognition of the fact that he had something to say was highly
+instructive.  He did not put on airs of unrecognized greatness,
+though, I own, the occasion was propitious;  he did not say, "I
+told you so;"  he simply and frankly was glad, in, the most
+childlike way.
+
+And now that I have used the word, it occurs to me that
+"childlike" is an adjective the best applied to this man, in
+spite of his portliness, and his three score and more winters.
+
+Many a pleasant hour I have spent in the small bookroom of the
+great "World" building.  With Mr. Willson talk never flagged.  We
+discussed the past and the future of our planetary chain, we
+built plans for the true and wholesome relation of sexes, we
+tried to find out--and needless to say never did--the exact
+limit where matter stopped being matter and became spirit;  we
+also read the latest comic poems and also, from time to time, we
+took a header into the stormy sea of American literature in order
+to find out what various wise heads had to say, consciously or
+unconsciously, in favour of our beloved Theosophical views.  And
+all this, being interrupted every three minutes or so by some
+weary apparition from some workroom in the "World" with some such
+question:  "Mr. Willson, how am I to find out the present
+whereabouts of this or that Russian man-of-war?  Mr. Willson,
+what is the melting point of iron?  Mr. Willson, when was `H.M.S.
+Pinafore' produced for the first time?" etc., etc.  And every
+time, Mr. Willson got up in the leisurely manner peculiar to him,
+reached for some book from the shelves that lined the room, gave
+the desired information, and as leisurely returned to the "pranic
+atom," or to "come and talk man talk, Willy," or to whatever our
+subject chanced to be at the time.
+
+Mr. Willson's gratitude to the Theosophical Forum for its
+recognition was disproportionately great.  As he wrote to the
+Editor:  "give me any kind of work, writing for you, reviewing,
+manuscript or proof reading, I shall do anything, I shall
+undertake any job, even to taking editorial scoldings in all good
+nature, only give me work."  His devotion to Theosophical thought
+and work in all their ramifications was just as great, as was his
+freedom from vanity, his perfectly natural and unaffected
+modesty.
+
+At the news of his death many a heart was sincerely sad, but none
+so sad as the heart of the editor of the Theosophical Forum.  For
+a friend and co-worker like T.E. Willson, ever ready to give
+material help and moral encouragement, is not easily replaced.
+
+For a soul so pure of any kind of selfishness the transition from
+the turmoil of life to the bright dreams of death must have been
+both easy and enviable.
+--------------
+
+
+
+
+Chapter One
+
+The Physical Basis if Metaphysics
+
+
+The Hindu system of physics, on which the metaphysical thought of
+the East is based, does not in its beginnings differ widely from
+the latest physics of the West;  but it goes so much farther that
+our physics is soon lost sight of and forgotten.  The Hindu
+conception of the material universe, taken from the Upanishads
+and some open teaching, will serve for an illustration.  They
+divide physical matter into four kinds--prakriti, ether, prana,
+and manasa--which they call "planes."  These differ only in the
+rate of vibration, each plane vibrating through one great octave,
+with gulfs of "lost" octaves between.  The highest rate of
+vibration of prakriti is measured by the thousand, the lowest of
+the ether by trillions, and the lowest of prana by--never mind;
+they have, and we have not, the nomenclature.
+
+The earth, they teach, is a globe of prakriti, floating in an
+ocean of ether, which, as it has the sun for its center of
+gravity, must necessarily be a globe.  This etheric sun-globe has
+a diameter of over 300,000,000,000 miles.  All the planets
+revolve around the sun far within its atmosphere.  The etheric
+sun-globe revolves on its axis once in about 21,000 years, and
+this revolution causes the precession of the equinoxes.  This
+etheric sun-globe is revolving around Alcyone with other etheric
+globes having suns for their centers and solar systems of
+prakritic globes within them in a great year of 5,640,000,000 of
+our common years.  Its orbit has a diameter of
+93,000,000,000,000,000 miles.
+
+Beyond the etheric globes, and between them, is a third form of
+matter called prana, as much rarer and finer than the ether as
+the ether is rarer and finer than prakriti.  As this prana has
+Alcyone for a center of gravity, it is necessarily a globe;  and
+there are many of these pranic globes floating in a vast ocean of
+manasa--a form of matter as much finer than prana as prana is
+finer than ether, or ether than prakriti.  With this manasa
+(which is a globe) the material, or physical, universe ends;  but
+there are spiritual globes beyond.  The material universe is
+created from manasa, downward, but it does not respond to or
+chord with the vibration of the globes above, except in a special
+instance and in a special way, which does not touch this inquiry.
+
+The physical universe of the ancient (and modern) Hindu physicist
+was made up of these four kinds or planes of matter, distributed
+in space as "globes within globes."
+
+Professor Lodge in 1884 put forth the theory that prakriti
+(physical matter) as we call it, was in its atoms but "whirls" of
+ether.  Since then speculative science has generally accepted the
+idea that the physical atom is made up of many cubic feet of
+ether in chemical union, as many quarts of oxygen and hydrogen
+unite chemically to make a drop of water.  This is an old story
+to the Hindu sage.  He tells his pupils that the great globe of
+manasa once filled all space, and there was nothing else.
+Precisely as on this earth we have our elementary substances that
+change from liquids into solids and gases, so on this manasic
+globe there were elementary substances that took the form of
+liquids, solids and gases.  Its manasic matter was differentiated
+and vibrated through one octave, as the prakritic matter does on
+the earth.  Its substances combined as that does.
+
+One combination produced prana.  The prana collected, and formed
+globes.  On these pranic globes the process was repeated, with
+ether as the result, and the etheric globes formed.  Then the
+process was repeated on the etheric globes, as the modern
+scientists have discovered, and prakriti and prakritic globes
+came into being.
+
+The true diameter of the earth, the ancient Hindu books say, is
+about 50,000 miles.  That is to say, the true surface of the
+earth is the line of twenty-four-hour axial rotation;  the line
+where gravity and apergy exactly balance;  where a moon would
+have to be placed to revolve once in 86,400 seconds.  Within that
+is prakriti;  without is ether.  It is also the line of no
+friction, which does exist between matter of different planes.
+There is friction between prakriti, between ether, between prana;
+but not between ether and prana, or ether and prakriti.  Friction
+is a phenomenon confined to the matter of each plane separately.
+We live at the bottom of this gaseous ocean--on its floor
+--21,000 miles from the surface and only 4,000 miles from the
+center.  Here, in a narrow "skin" limited to a few miles above
+and below us, is the realm of phenomena, where solid turns into
+liquid and liquid into gas, or vice versa.  The lesson impressed
+upon the pupil's mind by Hindu physics is that he lives far
+within the earth, not on it.
+
+There is a comparatively narrow "skin" of and for phenomena
+within the etheric sun-globe, say the Eastern teachers, where the
+etheric solids, liquids, and gases meet and mingle and
+interchange.  Within this "skin" are all the planets--the
+"gaseous" atmosphere of the etheric globe stretching millions of
+miles beyond the outermost planetary orbit.  The earth is in this
+skin or belt of etheric phenomena, and its ether is in touch with
+the ether "in manifestation" on the etheric globe.  The sun and
+other etheric globes are within the corresponding "skin" of
+phenomena of the pranic globes.  The prana, manifesting as solid,
+liquid, and gas, or in combination and in forms, is in perfect
+touch with that of the etheric globe, and through that with the
+prana of the earth.  That our prana is in touch with that on the
+pranic globe in all its manifestations means much in metaphysics.
+The same is true of the manasic globe, and of our manasa.
+
+The great lesson the Eastern physics burns into the pupil is that
+we are living not only within the prakritic earth, but within
+each of the other globes as well in identically the same way and
+subject to the same laws.  Our lives are not passed on one globe,
+but in four globes.  It is as if one said he lived in Buffalo,
+Erie county, New York, United States;  that he was a citizen of
+each and subject to the laws of each.
+
+This question of the four globes, of the four planes of matter,
+of the four skins, and of the four conditions or states of all
+matter and necessarily of all persons, from the purely material
+standpoint, is not only the foundation of Oriental physics, but
+the very essence of Oriental metaphysics--its starting-point and
+corner-stone.  To one who carries with him, consciously or
+unconsciously, the concrete knowledge of the physics, the
+abstract teaching of the metaphysics presents no difficulty;  it
+is as clear as crystal.  But without the physical teaching the
+metaphysical is not translatable.
+
+Our Western physics teaches that physical matter is divided into
+two kinds prakriti (commonly called "physical matter") and ether;
+that the differences of each of the elementary prakritic
+substances (iron, copper, sulphur, oxygen) are in their
+molecules, the fundamental atom being the same;  that each of
+these elementary substances vibrates only through one octave,
+though on different keys;  that it changes from solid to liquid
+and gas as the rate of vibration is increased and from gas to
+liquid and solid as its vibration is decreased within its octave;
+that the ether obeys identical laws;  that it has elementary
+substances vibrating through one octave only, and that these are
+solids, liquids, or gases on the etheric plane as prakriti is on
+this;  that these etheric substances change and combine in every
+way that prakriti does;  and that while all our prakritic
+substances vibrate within (say) fifty simply octaves, the lowest
+vibration of etheric matter begins over one thousand octaves
+beyond our highest, making a gulf to leap.  The Eastern physics
+presents this with a wealth of detail that dazes the Western
+student, and then adds:  "But beyond the etheric plane (or
+octave) of vibration for matter there is a third plane (or
+octave) of vibration called prana and beyond that a fourth called
+manasa.  What is true of one plane is true of the other three.
+One law governs the four.  As above so below.  There is no real
+gulf;  there is perfect continuity."
+
+The Western scientist teaches as the foundation of modern physics
+that "each and every atom of prakritic matter is the center of an
+etheric molecule of many atoms;"  that "no two prakritic atoms
+touch," although their etheric envelopes or atmospheres do touch;
+and that "all physical phenomena are caused by the chording
+vibration of the prakritic atom and its envelope of ether," each
+"sounding the same note hundreds of octaves apart."  The "solid
+earth" with its atmosphere represents the atom with its ether.
+As all the oxygen and hydrogen do not combine to make the drop of
+water, some remaining in mechanical union to give it an
+atmosphere, and about one-fourth of its bulk being gas, so the
+atom formed of the ether does not use all the ether in its
+chemical union, retaining some in mechanical union for its
+envelope or atmosphere.
+
+The Hindu physics goes much farther along this road.  It says
+that, when the pranic globes were formed, each atom of prana had
+its manasic envelope--was the center of a manasic molecule.
+When the etheric globes formed, each atom of ether was the center
+of a pranic molecule, each atom of which was surrounded with
+manasa.  When the prakriti was formed from the ether, each and
+every atom of prakriti had the triple etheric-pranic-manasic
+envelope.  "Each and every prakritic atom is the center of an
+etheric molecule," says our Western science;  but that of the
+East adds this:  "And each atom of that etheric molecule is the
+center of a pranic molecule, and each atom of prana in that
+pranic molecule is the center of a manasic molecule."  The four
+great globes of matter in the material universe are represented
+and reproduced in each and every atom of prakriti, which is in
+touch with each one of the four globes and a part of it.  The
+same is true of any aggregation of prakriti--of the earth itself
+and of all things in it, including man.  As there are four
+atoms in each one, so there are four earths, four globes,
+consubstantial, one for each of the four elements, and in touch
+with it.  One is formed of prakritic atoms--the globe we know;
+another, of the ether forming their envelopes;  another, of the
+prana envelopes of ether, and a fourth of the manasa around the
+pranic atom.  They are not "skins";  they are consubstantial.
+And what is true of atoms or globes is true of animals.  Each has
+four "material" bodies, with each body on the corresponding globe
+--whether of the earth or of the Universe.  This is the physical
+basis of the famous "chain of seven globes" that is such a
+stumbling-block in Hindu metaphysics.  The spirit passes through
+four to get in and three to get out--seven in all.  The Hindu
+understands without explanation.  He understands his physics.
+
+The Hindu physics teaches, with ours, that "the ether is the
+source of all energy," but, it adds, "as prana is the source of
+all life, and manasa of all mind."
+
+"When the prakritic atom is vibrating in chord with its etheric
+envelope," say our textbooks, "we have physical phenomena
+--light, heat, electricity."  "Yes," says the Hindu teacher;  "but
+when the atom and its ether and its prana are vibrating in chord,
+we have life and vital phenomena added to the energy.  When the
+atom and its ether, prana, and manasa are vibrating in chord, we
+have mind and mental phenomena added to the life and energy."
+Each atom has energy, life, and mind in posse.  In the living
+leaf the prakriti, ether, and prana are sounding the threefold
+silver chord of life.  In the animal, the manasa is sounding the
+same note with them, making the fourfold golden chord of mind.
+  Even in the plant there may be a faint manasic overtone, for
+the potentiality of life and mind is in everything.  This unity
+of the physical universe with the physical atom, and with all
+things created--earth, animal, or crystal--is the physical
+backbone of Oriental metaphysics.  Prakriti, ether, prana, and
+manasa are in our vernacular the Earth, Air, Fire, and Water of
+the old philosophers--the "Four Elements."
+
+The Oriental physics has been guarded most jealously.  For many
+thousands of years it has been the real occult and esoteric
+teaching, while the Oriental metaphysics has been open and
+exoteric.  It could not be understood without the key, and the
+key was in the physics known only to "the tried and approved
+disciple."  A little has leaked out--enough to whet the appetite
+of the true student and make him ask for more.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Two
+
+The Two Kinds of Perception
+
+
+To the savage, matter appears in two forms--solid and liquid.
+As he advances a step he learns it has three forms--solid,
+liquid and gas.  He cannot see the gas, but he knows it is there.
+
+A little further on he learns that matter as he knows it is only
+a minute portion of the great universe of matter--the few chords
+that can be struck on the five strings of his senses, and limited
+to one octave or key.
+
+Whether the particular matter he investigates has a solid, a
+liquid, or a gaseous form depends upon its rate of vibration.  If
+it is a liquid, by raising its rate of vibration one third it
+becomes a gas;  by reducing it one third it becomes a solid.
+
+Each kind of matter has vibration only through one octave.  It is
+known to us only by its vibration in that octave.  Each kind of
+matter has a different octave--is set on a higher or lower key,
+so to speak, but all octaves of vibration are between the highest
+of hydrogen gas and the lowest of carbon.
+
+In mechanical compounds, such as air or brass, the rate of
+vibration of the compound is the least common multiple of the two
+or more rates.  In chemical compounds, such as water or alcohol,
+the rate is that of the highest, the others uniting in harmonic
+fractions.
+
+All matter as we know it through our senses--prakriti, as it is
+called in the Secret Doctrine to distinguish it from non-sensual
+matter--is the vibration of an universal Something, we do not
+know what, through these different octaves.  The elementary
+substances (so-called) are one and the same thing--this
+Something--in different keys and chords of vibration;  keys that
+run into one another, producing all sorts of beautiful harmonies.
+
+Taking any one of these elements, or any of their compounds, all
+we know of it is limited strictly to its changes during vibration
+through one octave.  What happens when the vibration goes above
+or below the octave has not yet been treated hypothetically.
+
+While some elements are vibrating on higher and some on lower
+keys, we can consider them all as vibrating within one great
+octave, that octave of the universal Something which produces
+sensual matter, or prakriti.
+
+But matter is not confined, we know, to this great octave,
+although our sensual knowledge of it is strictly confined to it.
+How do we know it?
+
+Knowledge comes to us in two ways, and there are two kinds of
+knowledge.
+
+1. That which comes through our senses, by observation and
+experience.  This includes reasoning from relation.
+
+2. That which comes through intuition--or, as some writers
+inaccurately say, "through the formal laws of thought."
+
+All the observation and experience of the rising and the setting
+of the sun for a thousand centuries could only have confirmed the
+first natural belief that it revolved daily around the earth;
+nor by joining this experience with other experiences could any
+deduction have come from our reason that would have opposed it.
+Not our reason but our intuition said that the sun stood still
+and the earth revolved daily.  The oldest books in existence tell
+us that this axial revolution of the earth was not only known in
+the very dawn of time but that it has been known to every race
+(except our own of European savages) from before the time thought
+was first transmitted by writing.
+
+Ask the ablest living geographer or physicist to prove to you
+that the earth revolves daily and he will reply that it would be
+the job of his life.  It can be done at great expense and great
+labor, but that is because we know the answer and can invent a
+way of showing it, not because there are any observations from
+which a deduction would naturally follow.
+
+Nearly if not all our great discoveries have come to us through
+intuition and not from observation and experience.  When we know
+the lines on which to work, when intuition has given us the KEY,
+then the observation and experience men prize so highly, and the
+reason they worship so devoutly, will fill in the details.  The
+knowledge that flows from observation and the reasoning from the
+facts it records, is never more than relatively true, it is
+always limited by the facts, and any addition to the facts
+requires the whole thing to be restated.  We never know all the
+facts;  seldom even the more important;  and reason grasps only
+details.
+
+Lamarck's theory of evolution, known to all Asiatic races from
+time immemorial, was the intuitional and absolute knowledge that
+comes to all men when they reach a certain stage of development.
+Reason could never have furnished it from the facts, as Cuvier
+proved in the great debate in the French Academy in 1842, when he
+knocked Lamarck out, for the time being, because "it did not
+conform to the facts, and did not follow from any relation of the
+facts."
+
+Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest in the struggle
+for existence, as an explanation of the origin of species, was
+from observation and experience.  It was based on observed facts.
+But Darwin was an evolutionist--a disciple of Lamarck.  He held
+the Key.  He used the Key.  The value of Darwin's work does not
+lie in his discovering that some bugs have been derived from
+other bugs and that the intermediate bugs have died off.  Its
+overwhelming value to mankind was in showing that work on the
+theory of evolution was correct work and that the theory was
+true.  When the intuition of man points out the way the reason of
+man can follow the path and macadam the road.  It usually does
+and claims all the credit for itself as the original discoverer.
+
+This knowledge through intuition is absolute and exact.  It is
+not relatively true.  It is absolutely and invariably true.  No
+additional facts will ever modify it, or require a restatement.
+
+When Sir William Hamilton based his Logic on the dictum that "All
+knowledge is relative, and only relatively true," the proposition
+was self-evidently false.  It was in itself a statement of
+absolute knowledge about a certain thing.  It was in itself
+knowledge that was not relative.  All knowledge could not be
+relative if this knowledge was not.  This knowledge could not
+be either absolute or relative without upsetting his whole
+proposition, for, if relative, then it was not always true;
+and if absolute, then it was never true.
+
+Sir William did not know the distinction between the two kinds of
+knowledge, and what he meant to say was that "All knowledge
+obtained by observation and experience is relative, and only
+relatively true."
+
+His knowledge of this relativity was not obtained by observation
+or from reason.  It could not possibly have been obtained in that
+way.  It came from intuition, and it was absolute and exact.  A
+man may have absolute and exact knowledge and yet not be able to
+put it into words that exactly express it to another.  Hamilton
+had this knowledge.  But it was not clearly formulated even in
+his own mind.  He had two separate and distinct meanings for the
+word "knowledge," without being conscious of it.
+
+We have yet to coin a proper word to express what comes to us
+through intuition.  The old English word "wisdom" originally did.
+The old verb "wis" was meant what a man knew without being told
+it, as "ken" meant knowledge by experience.  Try and prove by
+reason that a straight line is the shortest distance between two
+points, or that a part can never be greater than the whole, and
+your reason has an impossible task.  "You must take them for
+axioms," it says.  You must take them because you wis them, not
+because you know (ken) them.
+
+Intuitional knowledge must not be confounded with the relative
+knowledge that flows through the reason:  that "If the sum of two
+numbers is one and their difference is five," the numbers are
+minus two and plus three.
+
+The point cannot be too strongly enforced that there is a
+distinction between the sources of what we know, and that while
+all we know through our sensations is only relatively true, that
+which we know from intuition is invariably and absolutely true.
+This is seen through a glass darkly, in theology, where intuition
+is called inspiration and not differentiated from reason.
+
+The false notion that we can only learn by observation and
+experience, that the concept can never transcend the observation,
+that we can only know what we can prove to our senses, has
+wrought incalculable injury to progress in philosophy.
+
+Because our sensual knowledge of matter begins and ends with
+vibration in one octave it does not follow that this ends our
+knowledge of it.  We may have intuitional knowledge, and this
+intuitional knowledge is as susceptible to reason as if we had
+obtained it by observation.
+
+The knowledge that comes through intuition tells us of matter
+vibrating in another great octave just beyond our own, which
+Science has chosen to name the etheric octave, or plane.  The
+instant our intuition reveals the cause of phenomena our reason
+drops in and tells us it is the chording vibration of the matter
+of the two planes--the physical and etheric--that produces all
+physical phenomena.  It goes further and explains its variations.
+
+This knowledge of another octave or plane of matter comes from
+the logical relations of matter and its physical phenomena;  but
+there was nothing in the observation or experience of mankind
+that would have led us to infer from reason an etheric plane of
+matter.  It was "revealed" truth.  But the flash of revelation
+having once made the path apparent, the light of reason carries
+us through all the winding ways.  Our knowledge of the ether is
+not guess-work or fancy, any more than our geometry is, because
+it is based on axioms our reason cannot prove.  In both cases the
+basic axioms are obtained from intuition;  the structural work
+from reason.  Our knowledge of the ether may be as absolute and
+exact as our knowledge of prakriti, working on physical as we
+work on geometrical axioms.
+
+The recognition of the two sources of knowledge, the work of the
+spirit within us and of the mind within us, is absolutely
+necessary to correctly comprehend the true significance of the
+results of modern science and to accept the ancient.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Three
+
+Matter and Ether
+
+
+It is not worthwhile translating Homer into English unless the
+readers of the translation understand English.
+
+It is not worthwhile attempting to translate the occult Eastern
+physics into the language of our Western and modern physics,
+unless those who are to read the translation understand generally
+and broadly what our own modern physics teach.  It is not
+necessary that they should know all branches of our modern
+physics in all their minute ramifications;  but it is necessary
+that they should understand clearly the fundamental principles
+upon which our scientific and technical knowledge of today rests.
+
+These fundamental principles have been discovered and applied in
+the past fifty years--in the memory of the living.  They have
+revolutionized science in all its departments.  Our textbooks on
+Chemistry, Light, Heat, Electricity and Sound have had to be
+entirely re-written;  and in many other departments, notably in
+medicine and psychology, they have yet to be re-written.  Our
+textbooks are in a transition state, each new one going a step
+farther, to make the change gradual from the old forms of belief
+to the new, so that even Tyndall's textbook on "Sound" is now so
+antedated, or antiquated, that it might have been written in
+darkest Africa before the pyramids were built, instead of twenty
+years ago.
+
+All this change has flowed from the discovery of Faraday that
+there are two states or conditions of matter.  In one it is
+revealed by one of our five senses, visible, tangible, smellable,
+tastable, or ponderable matter.  This is matter as we know it.
+It may be a lump of metal or a flask of gas.
+
+The second condition or state of matter is not revealed by either
+of our five senses, but by the sixth sense, or intuition of man.
+This is the ether--supposed to be "matter in a very rarefied
+form, which permeates all space."  So rare and fine is this
+matter that it interpenetrates carbon or steel as water
+interpenetrates a sponge, or ink a blotting pad.  In fact, each
+atom of "physical" matter--by which is meant matter in the first
+condition--floats in an atmosphere of ether as the solid earth
+floats in its atmosphere of air.
+
+"No two physical atoms touch," said Faraday.  "Each physical atom
+is the centre of an etheric molecule, and as far apart from every
+other atom as the stars in heaven from one another."  This is
+true of every form of physical matter, whether it is a lump of
+metal, a cup of liquid, or a flask of gas;  whether it is a
+bronze statue or a living man;  a leaf, a cloud, or the earth
+itself.  Each and every physical atom is the centre of an etheric
+molecule made up of many atoms of the ether.
+
+This duality of matter was a wonderful discovery, revolutionizing
+every department of science.  It placed man in actual touch with
+the whole visible universe.  The ether in a man's eye (and in his
+whole body) reaches in one unbroken line--like a telegraph wire
+--from him to the sun, or the outermost planet.  He is not
+separate and apart from "space," but a part of it.  Each physical
+atom of his physical body is the centre of an etheric molecule,
+and he has two bodies, as St. Paul said, a visible physical and
+an invisible etheric body;  the latter in actual touch with the
+whole universe.
+
+Faraday went one step further.  He demonstrated that all
+physical phenomena come from the chording vibration of the
+physical atom with the surrounding etheric atoms, and that the
+latter exercise the impelling force on the former.  Step into the
+sunshine.  The line of ether from the sun is vibrating faster
+than the ether in the body, but the higher impels the lower, the
+greater controls the lesser, and soon both ethers are in unison.
+The physical atoms must coincide in vibration with their etheric
+envelopes, and the "note" is "heat."  Step into the shade, where
+the ocean of ether is vibrating more slowly, and the ether of the
+body reduces its vibration.  "The ether is the origin of all
+force and of all phenomena."
+
+This etheric matter follows identical laws with prakritic matter,
+or, accurately, the laws of our matter flow from the etheric
+matter from which it is made.  The ether has two hundred or more
+elementary substances, each atom of our eighty or ninety
+"elements" being the chemical union of great masses of two or
+more of the etheric elements or their combinations.  These
+etheric elementary substances combine and unite;  our elementary
+substances simply following in their combinations the law which
+they inherit from their parents.  They take form and shape.  They
+vibrate through one octave, and take solid liquid or gaseous form
+in ether, as their types here in our world take it in prakriti,
+as their vibrations are increased or diminished.  In short, the
+ether is the prototype of our physical or prakritic world, out of
+which it is made and a product of which it is.
+
+As this ether is "physical" matter, the same as prakriti, one
+harmonic law covering both, and as this ether fills all space,
+Modern Science divides physical matter into two kinds, which, for
+convenience in differentiation, are here called prakritic and
+etheric.
+
+Matter is something--science does not know or care to know what
+--in vibration.  A very low octave of vibration produces
+prakriti;  a very high octave of vibration produces ether.  The
+vibration of prakriti ends in thousands;  that of ether begins in
+billions.  Between them there is a gulf of vibrations that has
+not yet been bridged.  For that reason science divides matter
+into two "planes," or octaves, of vibration--the matter of this
+visible and tangible plane being called prakriti and that of the
+invisible and intangible plane being called etheric.  Across this
+gulf the two planes respond to each other, note for note, the
+note in trillions chording when the note in thousands is struck.
+Note for note, chord for chord, they answer one another, and the
+minutest and the most complex phenomena are alike the result of
+this harmonic vibration, that of the ether supplying Force and
+that of the prakriti a Medium in which it can manifest.
+
+This knowledge of ether is not guesswork or fancy, and, while it
+is as impossible of proof as the axioms of geometry, it is worthy
+the same credence and honor.  We are working on physical axioms
+exactly as we work on geometrical axioms.
+
+Modern science represents each and every prakritic atom as a
+globe like the earth, floating in space and surrounded by an
+atmosphere of ether.  "The subdivision of prakritic matter until
+we reach etheric atoms chemically united to make the physical
+unit" is the correct definition of an atom.  The prakritic
+physical atom has length, breadth and thickness.  And it has an
+atmosphere of ether which not only interpenetrates the atom as
+oxygen and hydrogen interpenetrate the drop of water, but
+furnishes it with an envelope as the oxygen and hydrogen furnish
+the drop of water with one.
+
+Each physical atom is the centre of an etheric molecule composed
+of many etheric atoms vibrating at a greater or lesser speed and
+interpenetrating the atom.  Each may be considered a miniature
+earth, with its aerial envelope, the air, penetrating all parts
+of it.
+
+The etheric plane of matter not only unites with this prakritic
+plane through the atom but it interpenetrates all combinations of
+it;  beside the atom as well as through the atom.  The grain of
+sand composed of many prakritic atoms is also composed of many
+times that number of etheric atoms.  The grain of sand is etheric
+matter as well as prakritic matter.  It exists on the etheric
+plane exactly the same as it exists on the prakritic, and it has
+etheric form as well as prakritic form.
+
+As each atom of this physical world of ours--whether of land, or
+water, or air;  whether of solid, liquid or gas--is the centre
+of an etheric molecule, we have two worlds, not one:  a physical
+world and an etheric one;  a visible world and an invisible
+world;  a tangible world and an intangible world;  a world of
+effect and a world of cause.
+
+And each animal, including man, is made in the same way.  He has
+a prakritic body and an etheric body;  a visible body and an
+invisible body;  an earthly body and one "not made with hands,"
+in common touch with the whole universe.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Four
+
+What a Teacher Should Teach
+
+
+Let us suppose that a certain wise teacher of physics places a
+row of Bunsen burners under a long steel bar having a Daniell's
+pyrometer at one end, and addresses his class (substantially) as
+follows:
+
+"At our last lecture we found that the matter of the universe
+permeated all space, but in two conditions, which we agreed to
+call physical and etheric, or tangible and intangible.  It is all
+the same matter, subject to the same laws, but differing in the
+rate of vibration, the physical matter vibrating through one
+great octave or plane, and the etheric vibrating through another
+great octave or plane one degree higher--the chording vibration
+of the matter of the two planes in one note producing what we
+call energy or force, and with it phenomena.
+
+"This is a bar of steel 36 inches long.  It is composed of
+physical atoms but no two physical atoms touch.  Each physical
+atom is as far apart from every other atom as the stars in heaven
+from one another--in proportion to their size.  The atoms and
+the spaces between them are so small to our sight that they seem
+to touch.  If we had a microscope of sufficient power to reveal
+the atom, you would see that no two atoms touch, and that the
+spaces between them are, as Faraday says, very great in
+proportion to their size.  I showed you last term that what
+appeared to be a solid stream of water, when magnified and thrown
+upon a screen, was merely a succession of independent drops that
+did not touch.  I can not yet give you proof of the bar of iron
+being composed of independent atoms, but that is the fault of our
+instruments, and you must take my word for it until the proof is
+simplified and made easy of application.
+
+"Each one of these physical atoms is a miniature world.  It is
+the center of an ocean of ether, composed of many atoms;  and
+while no two physical atoms touch, their etheric atmospheres do
+touch, and any change in the vibration of the etheric atmosphere
+of one will be imparted to that of the next.  As the vibration of
+the physical atom must be in harmony with that of its etheric
+atmosphere, any change coming to one will be imparted to the
+next, and the next, through the ether surrounding them.
+
+"You can see that the index at the end of the bar has moved,
+showing that it is now longer.  That means the etheric atoms are
+now vibrating faster, taking more space, and have necessarily
+forced each physical atom farther apart.  The bar is not only
+longer, but softer, and as the vibrations increase in rapidity
+the time will come when it will bend by its own weight, and even
+when it will become a liquid and a gas.
+
+"If you put your hand anywhere near the bar you will feel a
+sensation called heat, and say it has become hot.  The reason for
+that is that you are in actual and literal touch with the bar or
+iron through the ether.  It is not alone each atom of the bar of
+iron that is surrounded by the ether, but each atom of the air,
+and each atom of your body.  Their etheric atmospheres are all
+touching, and the increase in the vibration of the ether
+surrounding the atoms of iron is imparted to those of the air
+surrounding it, and these in turn raise the rate of vibration in
+the etheric atoms surrounding the physical atoms of your hand.
+This rate of vibration in your nerves causes a sensation, or
+mental impression, you call "heat."  Consciousness of it comes
+through your sense of touch;  but after all it is merely a "rate
+of vibration" which your brain recognizes and names.
+
+"The bar has now reached a temperature of about 700 degrees, and
+has become a dull red.  Why do you say the color has changed, and
+why do you say red?
+
+"Because the rate of vibration of the etheric atoms in the bar is
+now about 412 trillions per second, and this rate of vibration
+having been imparted to the ether of the air, has in turn been
+imparted to the ether of your eye, and this rate of vibration in
+the ether of the nerves of your eye your brain recognizes and
+calls 'red.'
+
+"The heat still continues and increases.  You now have both heat
+and light.  So you see that the ether is not vibrating in a
+single note, but in two chording notes, producing light and heat.
+There are two kinds of ether around the iron atom.  There is
+sound also, but the note is too high for one's ears.  It is a
+chord of three notes.
+
+"Professor Silliman, of Yale, discovered over twenty years ago,
+that the ether could be differentiated into the luminiferous, or
+light ether, and the sonoriferous, or sound ether.
+
+"Other great scientists since then have found a third ether--the
+heat ether.
+
+"Their discoveries show that the atmospheric etheric envelope of
+each etheric atom is made up of etheric atoms of different
+vibratory powers.  As the atmosphere of the earth is made up of
+atoms of oxygen and nitrogen and argon, so that of an atom is
+made up of three kinds of ethers, corresponding to three of our
+senses.  That it consists of five ethers, corresponding to our
+five senses, as the ancient Hindus assert--who can say?
+
+"I mention this subject of the differentiation of the ether
+merely that you may not suppose that the ether is a simple
+substance.  For the present we will treat it as a simple
+substance, but next year we will take it up as a compound one.
+
+"This steel bar before you is not one bar, but two bars.  There
+is a visible bar and an invisible bar, the visible bar being made
+of physical atoms, and the invisible bar of etheric atoms.  The
+etheric bar is invisible, but it is made of matter, the same as
+the visible bar, and it is just as real, just as truly a bar as
+the one we see.
+
+"More than this.  The etheric, invisible bar is the source and
+cause of all phenomena connected with the bar.  It is the real
+bar, and the one we see is merely the shadow in physical matter
+of a real bar.  In shape, strength, color, in short, in
+everything, it depends on the invisible one.  The invisible
+dominates, governs, disposes.  The visible is merely its
+attendant shadow, changing as the invisible, etheric bar changes,
+and recording for our senses these invisible changes.
+
+"The invisible change always comes first;  the invisible
+phenomena invariably precede the visible.
+
+"In all this physical world--in all this universe--there is
+nothing, not even a grain of sand or an atom of hydrogen, that is
+not as this bar of iron is--the shadow cast on a visible world
+by the unknown and mysterious work of an invisible world.
+
+"Land or water, mountain or lake, man or beast, bird or reptile,
+cold or heat, light or darkness, all are the reflection in
+physical matter of the true and real thing in the invisible and
+intangible world about us.  "If we have a visible body we have an
+invisible one also," said Saint Paul.  Modern science has proven
+he was right, and that it is the invisible body which is the real
+body.
+
+"If this earth and all that it is composed of--land or ocean or
+air;  man or beast;  pyramid or pavement--could be resolved into
+the physical atoms composing everything in it or on it created by
+God or man, each atom of this dust would be identical physically.
+There would not be one kind of atom for iron and another for
+oxygen.
+
+"The differentiation between what are called elementary
+substances is first made apparent in the molecule or first
+combination of the atoms.  It is not in the atom itself, unless
+it be in the size, as may not be improbable.  The atoms combine
+in different numbers to make differently shaped molecules, and it
+is from this difference in the shape of the molecule that we get
+the difference between gold and silver, copper and tin, or oxygen
+and hydrogen.
+
+"In all chemical compounds, such as water and alcohol, the
+molecules at the base of the two or more substances break up into
+their original atoms and form a new molecule composed of all the
+atoms in the two or more things combined.  To make this chemical
+combination we must change the rate of vibration of one or the
+other or both until they strike a common chord.  As we saw last
+term, oxygen and hydrogen have different specific heats, and no
+two other elements have the same specific heat, while heat raises
+the rate of vibration.  Any given amount of heat raises the
+vibration of one more than another.  Apply heat, and the rate of
+one will rise faster than that of the other until they reach a
+common chord.  Then they fall apart and recombine.
+
+"If we pass a current of electricity through this sealed jar
+containing oxygen and hydrogen in mechanical union, the spark
+that leaps across the points furnishes the heat, and a drop of
+water appears and falls to the bottom.  A large portion of the
+gases has disappeared.  It has been converted into water.  What
+is left of the gases will expand and fill the bottle.
+
+"The drop of water but for local causes, but for a certain
+attraction of the earth, would float in the centre of the jar at
+the centre of gravity, as the earth does in space.  But the
+centre of gravity of the two bodies is far within the earth, and
+the drop gets as close to it as it can.  The earth's 'pull' takes
+it to the bottom.  If the jar were far enough away in space the
+drop would float, as the earth floats, at a point where all pulls
+balance, and the drop of water would have enough pull of its own,
+enough gravity within itself to hold all the gas left in the jar
+to itself as an atmosphere.  It would be a centre of energy, a
+minature world.
+
+"The drop of water is not a homogenous mass.  About one third of
+the bulk of the drop of water is made up of independent oxygen
+and hydrogen atoms interspersed through it, as any liquid is
+through this piece of blotting paper.  And it has, and keeps, by
+its own attraction, an atmosphere of the gas.  Each molecule of
+water has a thin layer, or skin, of the gas;  even as it comes
+from this faucet.
+
+"Let us return again to the physical dust, the atom.  Why should
+it form by fives for iron, by nines for hydrogen?  Where did the
+atom come from?  What is it?  We know that like the drop of
+water, it is a miniature world with an atmosphere of ether;  and
+the natural inference is that it is made from ether as the drop
+of water was made from gas.  Many things confirm this inference,
+and it may be accepted as 'a working hypothesis' that it is made
+from ether as the drop of water is made from gas, by the chemical
+union of a large amount of ether of different kinds, the etheric
+molecules of which consist of 2 and 3 or 5 and 4 etheric atoms,
+and that the tendency to combine in this or that number in
+physical matter is an inherited tendency brought with it from the
+etheric world of matter on which, or in which, each element of
+this world is two or more.  There is no kind of matter in this
+physical world, that has not its prototype in the etheric, and
+the laws of its action and reaction here are laws which it
+inherits and brings with it.  They are not laws made here.  They
+are laws of the other world--even as the matter itself is matter
+of the other world.
+
+"In 1882, Professor Lodge, in a lecture before the Royal
+Institution on 'The Luminiferous Ether' defined it as:
+
+"'One continuous substance, filling all space, which can vibrate
+as light, which can be sheared into positive and negative
+electricity, which in whirls constitutes matter, and which
+transmits by continuity and not impact every action and reaction
+of which matter is capable.'
+
+"This reads today like baby-talk but at that time (eighteen years
+ago), it was considered by many timid conservative scientists as
+'a daring movement.'  It is noteworthy in that it was the first
+public scientific announcement that the physical matter is a
+manifestation or form of the ether.  And it was made before
+general acceptance of the division of the ether into soniferous,
+luminiferous and tangiferous.
+
+"'Which in whirls constitutes matter.'  Professor Lodge believed
+that 'some etheric molecules revolved so rapidly on their axis
+that they could not be penetrated.'  Watch the soap-bubbles that
+I am blowing.  Each and every one is revolving as the earth
+revolves, from west to east.  What I wish to call your attention
+to is the fact that can be proven, both mathematically and
+theoretically, that at a certain rate of speed in the revolution
+they could not be penetrated by any rifle-ball.  At a higher rate
+of speed they would be harder than globes of solid chilled steel,
+harder even than carbon.  Professor Lodge believed that the
+etheric molecule revolved so rapidly that, thin as it was in its
+shell, it gave us the dust out of which worlds were made.  There
+is one fatal error in this idea, although it is held even now by
+many.  It is based entirely on gravity, and gravity is alone
+considered in its problems.  There are two great forces in the
+universe, not one, as many scientific people fail to remember
+--Gravity and Apergy, or the centrifugal and centripetal forces.
+The pull in is and must be always balanced by the pull out.
+There is in the universe as much repulsion as attraction, and the
+former is a force quite as important as the latter.  The bubble's
+speed kept increasing until apergy, the tendency to fly off,
+overcame gravity, and it ruptured.
+
+"Professor Lodge failed to take into account this apergic force,
+this tendency to fly off, when he gave such high revolutionary
+speed to the etheric molecules, a speed in which apergy would
+necessarily exceed gravity.  The failure to take apergy into
+consideration has been the undoing of many physicists.
+
+"Today we know that the ether is matter, the same as our own,
+only finer and rarer and in much more rapid vibration.  We know
+that this ether has its solids, liquids and gases formed from
+molecules of its atoms, even as our own are formed.  We know that
+its atoms combine as ours do, and while we have but eighty
+elementary combinations, it must have more than double the
+number.  We know that every form and shape and combination of
+these elements from this plane flows from inherited tendencies
+having their root in the etheric world.
+
+"The two worlds are one world--as much at one with ours as the
+world of gas about us is at one with our liquids and solids.  It
+is 'continuity, not impact.'  They not only touch everywhere and
+in everything, but they are one and the same in action and
+reaction."
+
+Thus spake a certain wise teacher of physics.  To his wise
+utterances, we can only add that such as we are today "we see
+through a glass, darkly."  Yet there will come a day when the
+physical bandages will be removed from our eyes, and we shall see
+face to face the beauty and grandeur and glory of this invisible
+world, and that in truth it 'transmits by continuity and not
+impact every action and reaction of which matter is capable,'
+forming one continuous chain of cause and effect, without a link
+missing.  There are no gulfs to cross;  no bridges to be made.
+It is here;  not there.  It is at one with us.  And we are at one
+with it.  One and the same law controls and guides the etheric
+atom and the physical atom made from its molecules, whether the
+latter are made in "whirls," as at first supposed, or by orderly
+combination as now believed.
+
+In fact, this visible world of ours is the perfect product of the
+other invisible one, having in it its root and foundation, the
+very sap of its life.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Five
+
+The Four Manifested Planes
+
+The oriental idea of the universe does not differ fundamentally
+in its general conception, from that of modern science, but it
+goes farther and explains more.  The physics of the secret
+doctrine are based upon a material universe of four planes of
+vibration and a spiritual universe of three planes of vibration
+beyond matter.  This Something in vibration may be given the
+English name, Consciousness--without entering upon its nature.
+
+Spirit is consciousness in vibration and undifferentiated.
+
+Matter is consciousness in vibration and differentiated.
+
+As we divide the seven octaves of a piano into Treble and Bass
+for clearness of thought and writing, so the Hidden Knowledge
+divides the seven octaves of vibration, or planes, into Spirit
+and Matter.  In their ultimate analysis they are one and the same
+thing, as ice and water are the same thing;  but for study they
+must be differentiated.
+
+The material and physical universe consists of four planes of
+matter, or four great octaves of vibration, each differentiated
+from the other as in our physics prakriti is differentiated from
+ether.  The material universe, the ancient physics teach, was
+originally pure thought, Manasa, the product of the spiritual
+planes above.  This manasic world was differentiated, a real
+world.  That is to say it was given elementary substances by the
+union of its atoms in different sized molecules.  Some of its
+elements combined and formed Prana.  The prana gathered and
+formed other worlds, pranic worlds.  Then in the pranic world
+etheric worlds were formed;  and finally in the etheric worlds,
+prakritic globes like the earth were formed.  The earth is the
+centre of a prakritic globe, revolving in ether around the sun.
+The sun is the centre of a solar globe of ether, revolving in
+prana around Alcyone.  Alcyone is the centre of a stellar globe
+of prana revolving in manasa around the central and hidden sun of
+the great manasic globe.  These four conditions of matter
+prakriti, ether, prana, and manasa are the earth, water, fire,
+air of the Ancient Metaphysics, the four elements of matter, and
+are present in every atom of prakriti.  When the atom of prana
+was formed, it had an envelope of manasa.  When the atom of ether
+was formed it had an envelope of pranic-manasic atoms.  When the
+prakritic atom was formed it had an envelope of etheric-pranic-
+manasic atoms, each of its encircling etheric atoms being the
+centre of a pranic molecule, and each pranic atom of that
+molecule being the centre of a manasic molecule.
+
+Each atom of prakriti was the material universe in miniature.  It
+held the potentialities of mind, life, and phenomena.  In every
+aggregation of atoms, there were the four planes, each in touch
+through the Cosmic Mind, its manasa, with other atoms in the
+universe, with every other globe of whatever kind.  "As above, so
+below," was the secret Key-word.  The unity of all the material
+universe in its prakriti, ether, prana and manasa, was the corner
+stone of this knowledge.  The three planes above prakriti were
+called Astral, and in common speech there was the ordinary
+division into two planes, visible and invisible, or "Spirit," as
+the invisible was called, and "Matter," as the visible was
+called.  Only in the hidden secret doctrine of physics, and in
+the open metaphysics which were a "stumbling block" and
+"foolishness" to those who had not the "inner light" of the
+physics, were the three divisions of the "astral" made known, and
+the true distinction between the spirit of the three higher
+planes and the matter of the four lower was kept out of the
+metaphysics, or only vaguely alluded to.
+
+There is no "oriental science" because the oriental does not
+attach the same value to merely physical knowledge that we do.
+But that must not be understood to imply that there is no
+oriental physics.  In all the matters that interest us now, as
+far as principles are concerned, the oriental knew all that we
+know.  He knew it thousands of years ago, when our ancestors were
+sleeping with the cave bears.
+
+"That is all the good it did him," the scientist says.  No.  That
+is not true.  It is perfectly true that the oriental, the
+Babylonian who carved on the Black Stone now in the British
+Museum the five moons of Jupiter, exposing himself to the
+derision of our astronomers prior to their own discovery of the
+fifth moon in 1898, did not care particularly whether there were
+four moons or five, and had no sale for any telescopes he might
+make, for no one else cared particularly.  But it was not true
+that he did not care for any and all knowledge that would improve
+his spiritual condition by giving him correct ideas of the
+universe and of his own part in it.  To him life was more than
+meat and the body more than raiment.  He was more afraid of sin
+than of ignorance.  We are more afraid of ignorance than of sin.
+He preferred to better men's moral condition;  we prefer to
+better their physical condition.
+
+If one of the Sages of the East could be called up and put on the
+stand to be questioned, he would say, substantially:
+
+"You are right in regard to your ether, and to prakriti being
+ether that has been dropped a great octave in vibration.  Your
+physical atom is surrounded by a molecule of ether, this molecule
+containing many atoms of ether.  The chording vibration does
+produce all physical phenomena.
+
+"But where did the ether atom come from?  How can you explain how
+and whence life comes, or what it is?  This explains physical,
+but how do you explain vital phenomena?
+
+"You are wrong in assuming that all the matter of the universe
+apart from the earth or planets is ether and only ether.  The
+etheric world in which you are interested ends with your solar
+system.  It ends with each solar system, to the people of that
+system.  Between each solar system and another there is another
+form of matter that is not ether.
+
+"This etheric solar world of ours is very large, many billions of
+miles in diameter;  but it is not the whole universe.  You know
+that the sun and all its planets are revolving around the star
+Alcyone.  Your astronomers told you that years ago, and they have
+recently given you the rate of speed as 4,838 miles per hour.
+
+"Did you not see and know that if they had this revolution around
+a central sun it must be within a solar globe?
+
+"Did you think that the sun and its planets, and other suns and
+their planets, were tearing their way through the ether like so
+many fish on a dipsy-hook from a Marblehead fishing smack running
+before the wind?
+
+"Did it never occur to you that the ether of this solar system
+must be revolving around this central sun?  The whole solar
+system, ether and planets, are revolving around Alcyone, and the
+reason why their minor revolution around the sun is not affected
+by it is because the solar system is a vast globe of ether,
+having a thinner and rarer medium to revolve in, the same as our
+earth has.  It is the motion of a fly in a moving car.
+
+"Now fix your attention on this globe of ether, this solar globe.
+You must do it to get the concept before you.  You have known of
+it all your life without once really apprehending it, for you
+have never learned to think, or to utilize the knowledge that was
+given you.  The idea is as new and as strange as if you had never
+known it.
+
+"What lies beyond the surface of the solar globe?  Something
+must;  something as much rarer and thinner than the ether as the
+ether is rarer and thinner than prakriti.  Can you not guess?
+
+"It is Prana, the life force of the universe.  As prakriti is
+made from ether, so ether is made from prana.  It is made in the
+same way.  Each atom of the ether is the centre of a molecule of
+prana, surrounded by an atmosphere of pranic atoms, exactly as
+your prakritic atom is surrounded by an atmosphere of etheric
+atoms.  You say that each atom of prakriti is the centre of a
+molecule of ether.  So it is.  But each atom of that etheric
+molecule is the centre of a pranic molecule.  Each atom of your
+physical matter is triple, not double.
+
+"You say that all physical phenomena come from the chording
+vibration of the etheric and prakritic atoms of the two planes of
+matter.  Yes.  But do you not see that all vital phenomena come
+from the chording vibration of the pranic, etheric, and prakritic
+atom of the three planes of matter which are in each atom?
+
+"In the living leaf the three planes are sounding in chord in each
+atom of it.  In the dead leaf, drying up and falling to pieces,
+only the lower two are sounding in chord.  The silver chord has
+been broken.
+
+"Each atom of prakriti you say has the potentiality of some kind
+of phenomenon.  We add 'and of life also.'  The potentialities of
+life are in every atom of prakriti.  Even the atom of iron may
+live in the blood.  It cannot become a part of any living
+organism until its prana is sounding the chord of life in unison
+with the ether and prakriti--the threefold silver chord.
+
+"What is the centre of this prana?  It is Alcyone.  There are
+other solar globes beside ours circling around Alcyone, and we
+have been considering only our own solar globe of ether.  Alcyone
+is the centre of the prana in which they revolve as the sun is
+the centre of our ether in which the planets revolve.  As this
+prana has a centre around which we revolve with other solar
+systems, then it must have a center of gravity.
+
+"Then this prana is a globe.
+
+"The prana does not then fill this material universe.  There must
+be yet another form of matter rarer and finer than prana, from
+which prana is made, as ether is made from prana and prakriti
+from ether.  Have we any other class of phenomena to explain,
+except vital and physical?  Yes, there is a very important class,
+mental.  And here we have the explanation, if we exercise our
+reason.
+
+"These pranic globes are floating in an ocean of manasa, matter
+in its rarest form.
+
+"Each atom of prana is formed from manasa, exactly as ether was
+formed from prana, and each pranic atom in the universe is the
+centre of a manasic molecule, having an atmosphere of manasic
+atoms.
+
+"So we are not exact in giving the prakritic atom three planes or
+octaves of vibration.  It has four.  You merely surround it with
+etheric atoms, and this is correct so far as it goes.  You only
+wish to explain physical problems.  But there are other problems
+to be explained, problems of life and mind, and the same
+knowledge you have explains them as well as the others, if you
+simply avail yourself of it.  That you do not consider the atom
+as four-fold instead of two-fold is your own fault.  I have not
+told you anything you did not already know.  I have only asked
+you to apply your present knowledge of physics to these problems
+of life and mind, and apply your reasoning powers.
+
+"The chording vibration in an atom of matter of
+
+"The two planes produces Force, or phenomena
+
+"The three planes produces Life--the silver chord
+
+"The four planes produces Mind--the golden chord.
+
+"You say there is no gulf between the prakritic and etheric
+worlds;  that it is one continuous world;  and all its phenomena
+are by continuity and not impact.  That is true, but it is not
+the whole truth.
+
+"There is no gulf to cross between the prakritic and etheric
+worlds;  none to cross between that and the manasic.  The four
+worlds are one great world, continuous, interchangeable.  Through
+the four as well as through the two, there is continuity and not
+impact.  Whether it is an atom or a world, the four are there.
+Nothing, no combination of atoms, no matter of any kind, however
+small or large, can exist in this prakritic world unless it has
+the four elements, which from time immemorial our philosophers
+have called Earth, Water, Fire, Air, meaning the four globes or
+forms of matter in the universe.  We do not have to leave the
+earth to live in the etheric globe.  It is here.  Nor do we have
+to go millions of miles to reach the pranic globe.  It is here.
+The problems of light and heat are no easier than the problems of
+birth and death.  The pranic globe is within us;  within
+everything.  So is the manasic.
+
+"It is here on these higher planes that the chances for worthy
+study are greatest.  At least we think so, though you may not.
+We live on the manasic--pranic--etheric globe on precisely the
+same terms that we live on this of prakriti, and the problems of
+the three are equally open to us.
+
+"If there are any who care to follow up the line of thought I
+have opened, who care for the questions that interest us of the
+East, I will talk as long as they care to listen, provided they
+will not ask for knowledge that will give them power over others,
+which cannot fail to be used for evil."
+
+This is but a glimpse of Hindu physics, yet it has helped us in
+the metaphysics.  We now understand the chain of globes--in
+part.  The earth is fourfold.  As each atom of the earth is
+fourfold, so their aggregations give us prakritic earth, an
+etheric earth, a pranic earth, and a manasic earth--in
+coadunition and not like the skin of an onion.  They are separate
+and distinct globes, each on its own plane.  It is four down and
+three up for the Angel entering matter, whether from the outmost
+boundary of manasic matter, or the surface of the earth, or the
+cover of a baseball.  The "chain of globes" in the Secret
+Doctrine represents the unity of the material universe.
+
+The three-fold nature of the astral model is revealed, and the
+unity of all prakritic things.  But more than that, to many
+minds, will be the explanation it gives of why there are but four
+planes of vibration in matter;  that the highest form of
+development in prakriti shows only four elements, prakriti or
+body, sensation or force, life, and mind, and that these last
+three, present in all things in esse, become present in posse
+when they work together harmonically.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Six
+
+Our Place on Earth
+
+
+The next time our wise man from the east was asked to "say a few
+words and make his own topic," he spoke, perhaps, as follows:
+
+"How large do you think the earth is?  You answer promptly, 7,912
+miles in diameter.  You are as far out of the way as you were in
+supposing that our sun could be a centre of gravity of a lot of
+planets revolving around it and around Alcyone without being a
+globe of ether.  Now that it has been mentioned, you see very
+clearly for yourself that it must be a solar globe of ether.  It
+follows from one of your physical axioms.  When I tell you why
+the earth is and must be about fifty thousand miles in diameter,
+you will see that it must be so, and that you knew it all the
+time, but never stopped to formulate your knowledge.  You have
+had the knowledge for three centuries without applying it.
+
+"It was in 1609 that your greatest astronomer, John Kepler,
+announced as one of three harmonic laws by which the universe was
+governed, that the squares of the times of the planets were
+proportional to the cubes of their distances from the sun;  and
+that this law was true in physics and everywhere.  No one of your
+scientists has had the wisdom to study out what it meant, and for
+three centuries, for 291 years, you have repeated his words like
+so many parrots, instead of using the key he gave you to unlock
+the mysteries of the universe.  A corollary of his law is that
+the planets move in their orbits because they are impelled
+thereto between the two forces, and move in a mean curve between
+them;  but it was not until 1896 that you discovered that the
+mean between two forces is always a curve and never a straight
+line.  You have not a text book in a school today that does not
+repeat this fundamental and absurd error--which you have known
+for three centuries to be an error--that the motion resulting
+from a mean between forces is "in a straight line."  The curves
+resulting here are not to be measured easily, and are so large
+that small segments appear straight lines;  and it was not until
+Carpenter demonstrated it mathematically that any one could
+believe it true.
+
+"There are two great forces in this universe.  Your grandfathers
+called them Centripetal and Centrifugal forces;  your fathers
+called them Gravity and Apergy, names which still cling to them;
+and you call them Attraction and Repulsion.
+
+"It was Kepler, not Newton, who discovered that Attraction or
+Gravity was in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.
+
+"You know the meaning of this mystic phrase, 'as the squares of
+the distance.'  You understand that it means the attraction at
+two feet is only one-fourth the attraction at one foot;  at four
+feet only one-sixteenth;  at eight feet, only one sixty-fourth.
+
+"But who knows or cares for Kepler's great law of Repulsion, or
+Apergy?  That was that the 'square of the times are as the cubes
+of the distance.'  It has lain fallow for centuries.  No one of
+your western physicists has ever studied it, or tried to explain
+it.  It remains just where Kepler left it, as the mere law of
+orbital revolution of the planets only.
+
+"It is the key to the proper understanding of the universe.
+
+"'The squares of the times are as the cubes of the distance'
+means that all motion is the result of two forces acting upon
+prakriti, and that where the two forces are balanced, or equal,
+the result in motion is a circle or ellipse, the square of the
+Repulsion being equal to the cube of the Attraction to make them
+equal and produce a circle.  In other cases they produce
+hyperbola and parabola.
+
+"This is a little dry--nearly all fundamental knowledge is--but
+the reward of patience is great.
+
+"The orbital speed of the earth is about 60,000 miles per hour.
+The attraction of the sun exactly equals the repulsion created by
+the motion;  more accurately, the speed created by the repulsion.
+The result of the two forces working together at exact balance is
+a circle.  An ellipse is a circle bent a little, and the ellipse
+in which the earth actually moves comes from varying attraction
+and repulsion.  Kepler's second law covers that.
+
+"If the orbital speed of the earth were a mile less per hour, or
+even a foot less, then the earth would wind up around the sun as
+a dog gets wound up with his chain around a tree.  If this speed
+were a mile more per hour, then the earth would wind out, each
+year getting farther and farther away, until finally it would be
+lost.  When the speed is exactly proportional to the pull--that
+is, when it is as 1.6 is to 2,--the result is a circular orbit,
+the eccentricity of which is caused by certain fluctuations in
+the attraction and repulsion.
+
+"Suppose a planet were to be placed so that it would have a time
+of two years.  Its distance from the sun would be 1.6 that of the
+earth.  Why?  Because to get the time doubled we would have to
+take the square root of 4;  and to get the distance the cube root
+of the same number, 4.  If you wish to be very exact the cube
+root is 1.5889, but 1.6 is near enough for all ordinary work.
+
+"If you wanted to find out the distance of a planet revolving in
+six months you would divide the earth's distance by 1.6.
+
+"In proportion you get any time or distance you may desire with
+absolute accuracy.  The distance of any planet from the sun gives
+its time, or its time gives its distance--when that of any of
+the others is known.  This law applies throughout the universe;
+in everything and everywhere.  It is not a law of orbital
+revolution alone, but a law of all motion.
+
+"Our moon has a time of 29 days and a speed of about 50,000 miles
+per day.  If the speed were greater it would leave us, if less it
+would wind up, falling to the earth in the form of a spiral.
+
+"At what distance would it have to be to have a time of fourteen
+days? Divide 240,000 miles by 1.6.  A seven-day moon, would be
+1.6 that distance.  And the exact distance for a one-day moon,
+for a moon that would always be in the same place in the heavens,
+moving as the earth revolved on its axis, would be about 24,998
+miles.
+
+"This gives us the line of 24-hour axial rotation, the true
+surface of the earth, and the sheer-line of prakritic matter.
+Beyond that line is the ether;  within that line is prakriti.
+
+"It is the line of no weight, where gravity and apergy exactly
+balance.  Inside that line gravity exceeds apergy and everything
+revolving in less time, or that time, must fall to the centre.
+It is the true surface of any 24-hour globe of this size and
+weight.  A moon to revolve around the earth in less than one day
+must move faster than the earth to develop enough apergy to
+overcome the attraction.  That phenomenon we see in the moons of
+Mars, which are within its atmosphere;  within the planet itself.
+
+"We of the East learned this true size of the earth over six
+thousand years ago, from observing the moons of Jupiter.  The
+times of the first three are doubled.  We asked ourselves what
+this meant and found that their distance was increased by the
+cube root of 4 when their times were increased by the square root
+of 4;  that time was to distance as 1.6 was to 2.  Then we
+applied the key, and found it unlocked many mysteries.
+
+"The first lesson this taught us was that we did not live on the
+earth, but within the earth, at the line of liquid and gaseous
+changes, where the three forms of matter meet and mingle and
+interchange with each other.  We lived at the bottom of a gaseous
+ocean 21,000 miles above us, and 4,000 miles from the centre of
+the globe.  It gave us an entirely new conception of the earth,
+and of our place in it.
+
+"We saw that we lived in a narrow belt, or skin, of the earth,
+not more than 100 miles thick, perhaps not more than ten miles.
+Within this belt the prakritic elementary substances varied their
+condition, combined, and made forms by increasing or decreasing
+vibration.  It was the creative and destructive zone, the
+evolutionary "mother"--the liquid level of the prakriti--the
+seat of all physical phenomena.  Fifty miles above, the masses of
+nitrogen and oxygen and argon were too cold to change their rate
+of vibration.  Fifty miles below the surface of the earth all
+things were too hot for changes in vibration.  In this kinetic
+belt, between two static masses our bodies had been made, and
+also, in all probability, all combinations of the elementary
+substances.  It was four thousand miles to the centre of the
+static prakritic mass beneath us;  twenty-one thousand miles to
+the surface of the static prakritic mass above us, and the small
+kinetic belt between was only one hundred miles thick.  But we
+had one consolation, the prakriti we had was all kinetic, and the
+best in the whole mass.
+
+"The second lesson it taught us was that as the earth had been
+made in the etheric globe, in a corresponding skin or plane of
+kinetic etheric energy, with our ether the best of the solar
+output, that we ourselves were subject through our ether to the
+phenomena of that kinetic solar plane in precisely the same way
+we now are to the phenomena of the kinetic prakritic plane.  Once
+rid of the fallacious notion that we were creatures of the
+surface of the earth, once clearly conscious that we were
+creatures of the interior, of the bottom of this gaseous ocean,
+then we could understand not only how the earth could be created
+in this etheric globe, but how we could be creatures of the solar
+globe living on it.
+
+"When we learned that lesson, and learned it well, it dawned upon
+us that we were living in the pranic globe at the same kinetic
+level or plane of that globe, the line where its solids and
+liquids and gases mingled and passed from one state to another,
+the kinetic belt in which our solar globe has been made, and that
+we were living as truly on that globe as we were on this
+prakritic globe.  Our position on each globe was the same.
+
+"And then the great truth came that we lived in the manasic
+globe, at the same kinetic level;  and that we lived our lives on
+the four globes simultaneously.  Our bodies are fourfold.  Every
+atom is fourfold, ready to respond in our minds to the vibrations
+of the Manasic world, in our vitality to the pranic vibrations of
+the pranic world, in our nerves to the etheric vibrations of the
+etheric world, and in our prakriti to vibrations of the prakritic
+world.  Each one of our bodies lived on its own earth globe, for
+there were four globes of this earth--in coadunition--in its
+corresponding kind of globe.
+
+"The four earth globes became one globe, as our four bodies were
+one body;  and the chain of four kinds of globes in matter became
+one globe, as the manasic with the others on it.
+
+"These four kinds of globes were the beginning and the end of
+matter, as we distinguish and know matter.  They were not the end
+of vibration;  or of planes of vibration;  or of realms beyond
+this material universe;  but they were the limits of all that is
+common to each and every atom of this lower plane of vibration.
+
+"It is upon this solid and perfect foundation of physics, that
+accounts for and explains every kind of phenomena, we have
+constructed our metaphysics.  All that belongs to these four
+lower planes we consider and treat as physics.  All that relates
+to the planes beyond we consider metaphysics.  Can you teach a
+child equation of payments before he knows the first four rules?
+You would not attempt such a task.  The first four rules are the
+physics of arithmetic;  all beyond is the metaphysics of
+arithmetic.  It flows out of them.  Can you comprehend our system
+of metaphysics until you have clearly and completely mastered our
+physics?  Would you not get into a fog at the very start?
+
+"There can be no system of metaphysics without a solid foundation
+of physics.  The idea is unthinkable.  The one grows out of the
+other.  It is its life;  its fruit, its flower.
+
+"You have no western system of physics.  Your physics are without
+form and void;  patchwork, constantly changing.  There is no
+substantial foundation for any system of metaphysics.  What you
+say or do in physics is fragmentary or chaotic.
+
+"It is perfectly true, so far as you have gone through the first
+invisible world of ether, you are much more masters of detail
+than we are.
+
+"We have not cared particularly for the minor details by which
+explosives are made, or metals obtained from oxides.  We have
+preferred to push on into realms beyond as fast as we could,
+seeking first the Kingdom of Heaven and its Righteousness,
+knowing that when it was found all these things would be added
+unto us."
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Seven
+
+The Four Globes
+
+
+That we live in the earth, not on the earth, is one of the most
+important of the facts of eastern physics in the study of its
+metaphysics.  The mathematical and physical proof that the
+physical earth is 50,000 miles in diameter should not be
+passed over lightly in our haste to get on, for the perfect
+understanding of all this fact implies makes easy the
+comprehension of how we live etherically in the solar etheric
+globe, of how we live pranically in the stellar pranic globe, and
+how we live manasically in the manasic globe.
+
+As we live within the narrow "skin" of phenomena, not more than
+100 miles thick, of this prakritic globe, with the whole earth
+within the corresponding skin of phenomena of the solar etheric
+globe, within the kinetic belt in which it was made, the ether
+which surrounds each prakritic molecule is not merely any and
+every kind of ether, but that particular kind of kinetic ether,
+which, by changing its rate of vibration through an octave,
+creates phenomena.  The ether of all prakritic matter belongs to
+the kinetic or creative belt of the solar etheric globe.  It is
+not static ether.  The ether in our prakriti is in touch with all
+the prakritic kinetic ether of the solar globe, subject to all
+solar laws of change;  and all our prak-solar laws of change;
+and all our prakritic matter, a mere detail of it, is a part of
+the solar phenomena.  "Our father, the sun," or "Dyaus pitar"
+("heavenly father"--Latin, Jupiter) meant more once than it does
+now.  Then the solar globe was the first heaven, and to live
+under its laws, puttings off the coat of skin, was an object
+which men believed to be worth striving for.  They recognized, as
+we do not, that our prakritic laws were not all they had to obey;
+that the higher law of the solar globe on which they lived, of
+which the lower prakritic laws were merely an outcome and detail,
+was worthy of the closest study.  And they recognized that these
+higher laws of the etheric globe were metaphysical as well as
+physical;  that our moral law flows out of the moral law of the
+solar etheric world, as our physics flow from and out of solar
+physics.  Religion is correct in its assumption of this higher
+law of morals;  incorrect only in its grasp and explanation.
+Science is correct in holding only in its assumption that it is
+physical science;  incorrect only in its assumption that it is
+physical science of this plane and globe only.  There is no
+quarrel between science and religion when the full knowledge of
+one stands beside the full knowledge of the other.  They are
+twin-sisters.
+
+This solar-etheric globe in which we are interested revolves
+around Alcyone within that kinetic belt or skin of prana which is
+subject to phenomena or vibration through one octave--else it
+would never have been formed.  All prana in the solar-etheric
+globe is of this particular kind of kinetic prana, which creates
+life of all kinds--which is subject to vibration through one
+octave.  The solar globe is a detail of kinetic prana only, one
+of its phenomena.  Necessarily, all our prana is of this kinetic
+kind, and our earth a minor detail of it in the Alcyone globe.
+All the changes and combinations possible in kinetic prana on the
+pranic globe are possible here, in our kinetic prana, as all the
+phenomena of the etheric world are possible here in our kinetic
+ether.
+
+As our earth is a globe of ether and a globe of prana as well as
+a globe of prakriti;  we are actually living on a small "cabbage"
+of that pranic globe, and subject to all its laws.
+
+In the vast manasic globe that includes this whole material
+universe there is the same kinetic belt or skin of "phenomena" or
+vibration similar to that kinetic belt in which we live on the
+earth, and the manasa which permeates the Alcyonic globe, the
+solar globe, and the earth is that kinetic manasa which is
+involving and evolving.  This involving and evolving kinetic
+manasa of the Alcyonic globe is that which surrounds every atom
+of ether of the solar globe and every atom of prakriti of this
+earth globe.  In the great manasic globe this earth of ours is a
+minute village of Helios (sun) county, in the state of Alcyone.
+We are actually and literally living in this manasic globe
+precisely as we live in this earth, and as in the village we are
+subject to all the laws of the manasic world, we can study them
+here in this village as well as we could elsewhere.  We can study
+them as easily as we study our prakritic village laws, or our
+etheric county laws, for all the forms of manasa subject to them
+anywhere are here with us.  We are not limited to a study of the
+prakritic laws of the village fathers, nor yet to the etheric
+laws of the supervisors of Helios county, as scientists say, nor
+even to the state laws of Alcyone;  only the manasic laws of the
+Universe limit our material studies in that direction.  As some
+men on this earth never leave their native village and never know
+or care for any matters outside of it, so in this little earth
+village, in the kinetic belt of the manasic globe, there are men
+who do not care to know anything which relate to matters outside
+its boundaries.  As some men may pass the boundaries of their
+village, but not of their county, caring only for the matters
+concerning it, so the western scientists of this earth village on
+the manasic globe do not pass the boundaries of Helios county,
+caring only for etheric matters.  The philosophers and wise men
+of the East are broader minded and from time immemorial have
+taken greater interest in the pranic affairs of Alcyone and the
+manasic condition of the universe in which Alcyone is a state
+than in the rustic murmur of their village or the gossip of their
+county.
+
+There is nothing lacking in our manasic earth-village, nothing
+that is in more abundant measure in our county, state, and
+nation.  We are of the best.
+
+We of this village may imagine, if we like, that there is nothing
+beyond the village limits, and nothing in it but that which
+relates to the village.  We have the right to be silly, if we
+wish to be.  And it is no sign of wisdom to say that there is a
+county beyond, but that the county boundaries end all, and only
+village and county politics may be studied.  The European who
+believed--no Asiatic or African or American could have believed
+--that the earth rested on an elephant and the elephant on
+a turtle was wise, in comparison.  Nor is it any sign of
+intelligence to say that we may learn something of the village
+and county while we live, but that to learn anything about the
+state and nation we must wait until we are dead.  There are too
+many in the village who are familiar with both state and nation,
+and who have studied their laws, for this to be anything but
+idiotic.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Eight
+
+The Battle Ground
+
+
+Each and every one of our eighty-odd elementary substances owe
+their condition--whether solid, liquid, or gas--to their rate
+of vibration.  We have reduced all gases to a liquid and nearly
+all to a solid form.  Conversely, we have raised all solids to a
+liquid and nearly all to a gaseous condition.  This has been done
+by reducing or raising the vibration of each within one octave
+--each one of the eighty odd having a special octave, a tone or
+half-tone different from any other.  Normally, the solids,
+vibrating in the lower notes, gather together under Attraction;
+while the gases, vibrating in the higher notes, diffuse under
+Repulsion.  Between them, created by the interchange of these two
+forces, is our "skin" of phenomena, or kinetics.
+
+Broadly, the attraction of the universe comes from its vibration
+at certain centres in the three higher notes;  the repulsion
+comes from its vibration everywhere else in the three higher
+notes.  The central note, D of the scale, represents the battle
+ground between the field of kinetics.  This in simple
+illustration is water turning into gas.
+
+This is the great battle ground, the only one worth considering
+in a general view.  There are minor "critical stages" which the
+chemist studies, but for us, in this broad sketch of the
+universe, the important battle-ground is that between solid and
+liquid on one side representing gravity, and gas on the other,
+representing apergy.
+
+All the solids and liquids of this earth of ours gather at the
+centre, in a core, each of the elements (or their combinations)
+in this core vibrating in their three lower notes, producing the
+attraction, which is "in proportion to the mass" and which
+decreases from the surface of the core "as the square of the
+substance."
+
+Around this central core gather all the elements vibrating in the
+three higher notes of their octave as gases, producing repulsion
+which increases by 1.6 for each doubled time.  It is worth while
+making this clear.  It has never before appeared in print.
+
+Let the amount of apergy, or repulsion, or centrifugal force at
+the surface of the earth be represented by x.  This is the result
+of motion at the rate of 1,000 miles per hour.  Make this motion
+2,000 miles per hour, and the apergy is increased 1.6.  Four
+thousand miles above the surface of this earth the rotation
+is at the rate of 2,000.  It is the globe of 48,000 miles in
+circumference revolving in 24 hours, and the speed is doubled.
+This apergy has increased by 1.6.  As the apergy increases at
+this rate every time the speed is doubled, at a distance
+of 21,000 miles the speed is 7,000 miles per hour and the
+centrifugal force has been increased nearly four times what it
+was at the surface of the ocean.  The attraction has been
+decreased to about one-thirtieth.  At the surface it is equal to
+120 x.  At 4,000 miles to one-quarter, or 30 x;  at 16,000 miles
+to one-sixteenth, or 7 x;  and at 21,000 miles to 4 x.
+
+If "equatorial gravity is about 120 times that of the equatorial
+apergy," at the ocean level, then at the distance of 21,000 miles
+from it, in a revolving globe, the two forces would be equal;
+the "pull" of each being 4 x, and an anchor will weigh no more
+than a feather, for weight is the excess of gravity or apergy.
+
+If the pyramids had been built of the heaviest known material on
+the gases 21,000 miles above us, and so that they should revolve
+in the same time, 7,000 miles per hour, they would remain there.
+All the attraction of the solid core of the earth that could be
+exerted on them at that distance would not be enough to pull them
+an inch nearer to it through our gaseous envelope.  Their gaseous
+foundation there would be as firm as igneous rock here.
+
+The force of repulsion created by the three higher notes of an
+octave means just as much at the attraction created by the three
+lower notes, whether it is in a chemical retort, within this
+earth, or within this universe.  The two forces balance, and are
+exactly equal.  They fight only within kinetic zones.
+
+Given the vast manasic globe of differentiated matter, its atoms
+uniting in different numbers to form molecules as the bases of
+elementary substances, manasic substances, of course.  The thrill
+of vibration is sweeping through it from the spiritual plane
+above, and the elements (and their combinations) which answer in
+the lower notes gather and form a core, the Invisible Central
+Sun, with its attraction.  The elements answering in the higher
+notes gather around it with their repulsion.  So the two opposing
+forces were born, with a vast kinetic skin for a battle-ground
+between them.
+
+The attraction of the invisible central sun manifests itself to
+us in prakriti as Light.  The repulsion of its covering, or the
+higher static vibration of manasa, manifests itself to us as
+Darkness.  The first creative act in or on matter was the
+creation of Light and its separation from the Darkness.  The next
+creative act was the establishment of a kinetic skin or zone
+between them, a firmament in which the two forces of Light and
+Darkness could strive for mastery.  "And God called the firmament
+Heaven."  The third creative act was the gathering of the solids
+and liquids together, and the beginning of the kinetic work in
+the creation of forms and shapes, by the cross play of the two
+forces in their combinations of solid with gases.
+
+All this had to happen before the manasa combined and dropped in
+vibration to prana--and before the pranic globes were formed and
+the Light could be manifested to us through them.  It may be well
+to read the first chapter of Genesis over and ask forgiveness for
+our ignorance, from the writer who records this creation of the
+pranic globes as the fourth act of creation, and the creation of
+the etheric sun and prakritic moon to follow that.  That record
+is mutilated, fragmentary;  but the writer of it knew the facts.
+If we had the full story, instead of a sentence here and there,
+taken from an older story not to tell of creation but to hide
+another tale for the priest, the writer of Genesis would laugh
+last.
+
+But let us return to the kinetic skin of energy between Light and
+the Darkness--the firmament which God calls Heaven--the battle
+ground for gravity and apergy, or attraction and repulsion, or
+good and evil, or the powers of light and darkness.  This skin is
+like that of an onion, thickest at the equator and thinnest at
+the poles--not only on this earth but in the solar, alcyonic,
+and manasic globes.  The equatorial belt, where phenomena are
+richest in the manasic globes, we call the Milky Way;  in the
+solar globe we call it the plane of the ecliptic;  and on the
+earth, the tropics.  Modern science has not yet found it in
+Alcyonic globe--because it has never thought of looking for it.
+
+This division of the Light from the Darkness was all that was
+required for evolution on the manasic globe within the kinetic
+belt.  This evolution was not confined to the making of a few
+alcyonic or pranic globes.  It was (and is) a great and wonderful
+evolution beyond words and almost beyond imagination.  It is the
+Heaven which mankind has longed to see and know.  The writer of
+Genesis mixed it with the creation of this earth, using earthly
+metaphors.  Before finding fault, we should better his language.
+We have not the words in physics to do it, and must wait for our
+metaphysics.  But of one thing we may be sure, that the pranic-
+alcyonic globes here and there at the "sea level" of the manasic
+globe--in what God calls Heaven--amount to no more on that
+globe, or in Heaven, than so many balls of thistle-down blown
+across a meadow do on this earth of ours.  Everything that can be
+created in thought must be there.  It is in thought only, but in
+thought it is differentiated as sharply as anything in prakriti.
+The manasic world, the Heaven of the Bible, is as real as our own
+world can possibly be;  in fact, more real, for when ours is
+resolved back into its final elements, it will be but "the dust
+of the ground" of the manasic world.
+
+The pranic globes created in this manasic skin by Sound, or the
+Logos, or vibration, evolved in identically the same way--with a
+central static core and an outer static envelope, of low and high
+vibration in prana, creating attraction and repulsion, or gravity
+and apergy.  The kinetic skin between, in which these forces play
+in the pranic world, makes a real, not an imaginary pranic world,
+though but a faint reflection of the manasic.  When our father,
+the Central Invisible Sun, transfers his attraction to these
+alcyonic suns, the Light has something in which to manifest
+itself, and we "see" this manifesting core and call it Alcyone,
+and its manifestation Light;  but light in its last material
+analysis is but the static mind or thought vibrating in the three
+lower notes of the octave.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Nine
+
+The Dual Man
+
+
+Within the alcyonic globes of differentiated pranic-manasic atoms
+the vibration divided them also into solid-liquid cores and
+gaseous envelopes, and a kinetic skin of phenomena.  And then a
+new world--a world of Life, came into material existence.  All
+the atoms of thought or manasa, surrounding each and every pranic
+atom, and making its molecule of energy, so to speak, were that
+particular kind of kinetic manasa ready to change its rate of
+vibration within an octave, and the forms prana assumes from the
+action of thought within the kinetic belt were living and
+thinking.  Each pranic globe, which was a small state of product
+of the manasic, consisted of two globes in coadunition--two in
+one.  Each pranic atom was the centre of a manasic molecule and
+represented the universe.  All things were two in one, created by
+harmonic vibration between them, and existence by the greater
+strength of the lower notes, or attraction.  It was at once less
+and more wonderful than the manasic world--a specialized form of
+it.
+
+When within this kinetic belt of the prana the etheric solar
+globes formed here and there, they were three fold, each atom of
+the new plane of matter having its surrounding envelope of prana-
+manasa--a specialization of the pranic world in which (what we
+call) force had been added to life and mind.  The static ether,
+vibrating in each of its elements through one octave, divided
+into central core (our sun, and other suns) and outer covering,
+with a skin or belt of kinetic energy, "as above" which developed
+an etheric world.  All things on this etheric world were caused
+by the harmonic vibration between the etheric atoms and their
+surrounding envelopes, except that while all things in this
+etheric world must have life, not all need have mind.  The chord
+of three was not necessary to create;  the chord of two was
+enough, and the manasic atoms might cease to vibrate in chord
+with the prana and ether without affecting the creation.  Only in
+the etheric world (and below it) could there be living mindless
+ones.  To the etheric globes the stellar pranic cores transferred
+their light, which manifested itself in the solid static ether as
+Attraction and in the gaseous static ether as Repulsion, within
+the kinetic skin of each etheric world more specialized and less
+varied than the pranic.
+
+Our sun is not of prakriti, but of static ether, composed of the
+separate and individual elementary substances of the ether, and
+their compounds vibrating in the lower notes of their octaves.
+It is our father, not our elder brother.  Its envelope of static
+ether in which the planet revolves is composed of the elementary
+substances and combinations vibrating in the higher notes of
+their octave.  The light transferred to this etheric globe from
+its mother, Alcyone, manifests itself in the lower vibration of
+the sun as Attraction;  in the higher vibrations of its envelope
+as Repulsion, and within the kinetic skin wherein these forces
+play, the prakritic globes, planets, were born.
+
+Take our earth.  Each atom is fourfold--whether of the static
+core or of the static gaseous envelope.  Creation on it is
+limited to the kinetic skin, wherein the attraction of the lower
+and repulsion of the higher notes in each octave of vibration
+have full play.  All things on it must have come from the
+chording vibrations of the atoms of the prakritic elementary
+substances and their envelope of ether.  They may or may not have
+life or mind the ether atom may have lost its chord with its
+pranic envelope, or the pranic envelope may have lost its chord
+with the manasic;  but the combination must have force or energy
+within it.  It may have lost Mind and Life in acquiring it, or
+after acquiring it;  but it had to have life before it could
+become prakriti.
+
+All things in the prakritic world flow from the Life of the
+etheric and the Mind of the pranic worlds.  Everything in the
+etheric world has life, and our unconscious personification or
+"vivification" of etheric life transferred into fauna or flora,
+or into force of any kind, has a natural explanation.  The
+thrill of vibration in one octave through the differentiated
+consciousness of the universe by which the light was separated
+from the darkness, the lower from the higher, was all that was
+required to create each star and sun, and world, and all that in
+them is.  And it was all good.
+
+Each thing on every lower world was but the translation into form
+of the type of the next world (or plane) above.  As each element
+on this prakritic type, so each combination of those elements
+into crystal or tree or animal is but the translation.  The
+normal earth from the crystal to (the animal) man was pure, and
+clean, and holy.  Sin had not entered.
+
+How did it come?
+
+On the vast manasic world there was "a special creation"--that
+of the Angel Man.  The three planes of Spirit above were
+undifferentiated consciousness, but they were in different
+octaves of vibration, and these working on the three highest
+forms of differentiated consciousness (manasic matter) brought
+them to chording Vibration so that when they combined and reached
+their highest point in evolution they "created" the Angel (or
+manasic) man.  He was the product in kinetic manasa of the three
+spiritual planes above him, precisely as the animal man was the
+product in kinetic prakriti of the three material planes above
+him.  The latter was the "shadow" of the other.
+
+The Angel-man had a material (manasic) body, but his energy life,
+and mind were spiritual.  The animal man had a prakritic body,
+with energy, life and mind that were material.
+
+So far all was good.
+
+The animal man has four bodies--one of prakriti, one of ether,
+one of prana, and one of manasa.  It may be true, and probably
+is, that his manasic body is not sounding in chord with his
+prakritic body, but only with those atoms of it which are in his
+brain and nerves;  but that is immaterial--for future
+consideration.
+
+The Angel man had but one body, of manasa, in which the spirit
+dwelt;  but that body was identical in substance with the body
+that made the mind of the animal man.  His manasic body joined
+the manasic body of the animal man, joined with it by entering
+into the animal man's mind, as easily as water from one glass is
+added to water in another glass, and the animal "man became a
+living soul," endowed with speech, while the Angel-man was given
+"a skin coat."
+
+The prakritic body of the animal man was the result in prakriti
+of an etheric-pranic-manasic, or "astral" body, formed in
+accordance with the Universal Law.  For what he was by nature, he
+could not be blamed.  He stood naked and not ashamed before the
+Radiance.  He did not make his astral body;  he was the mere
+translation of it into prakriti, as all other created things
+were, and that invisible astral self (figuratively) stood at his
+right hand, moulding and shaping him.
+
+But when the Angel-man entered his mind, all this was changed.
+He "knew Good from Evil."  To his mind of manasa had been added
+the Spirit--the Atma-Buddhi's Consciousness of the three
+Spiritual planes.  He has become "as one of us," said the Angel-
+men of the firmament, of Heaven.  He now held the seven planes
+and was a creator.  Each thought and desire that, when an animal
+only, fell harmless, now created on the pranic and etheric world.
+Soon beside him, at his left hand (figuratively) there grew up a
+second etheric or astral body, that of his desires;  and his
+prakritic body was no longer the product of the astral body on
+his right hand.  It was the joint product of the left-hand Kamic
+astral body he had created, and the right hand normal astral
+body.  He was no longer in harmony with the Radiance.  He could
+no longer face it.  He had created discord--Sin.
+
+The pretty legend of the two "Angels," one on the right hand and
+one on the left, has its physical basis in this truth, but, of
+course, as a matter of actual fact, the normal and abnormal
+astral bodies are in mechanical union.  It is the Kamic self-made
+astral body that remains from one incarnation to another,
+producing in joint action with a new normal astral body, a new
+physical body for the Inner-Self, or Angel taking the pilgrimage
+through the lower world.
+
+All the Angel-men did not enter the animal men on the pranic
+etheric-prakritic globes;  only a few.  It was a pilgrimage
+through matter in which those who make it are meeting many
+adventures, but the legends are many, and have no place in the
+physics, although the legends are all founded on the facts of the
+physics.
+
+Of the number of monads, willing to undertake the pilgrimage,
+only a few of those within the kinetic belt of the manasic globe
+have reached the pranic.  Only a few of those within the pranic
+kinetic belts reached the etheric.  And of all who have reached
+this earth, only a few may win their way back before the great
+day Be-With-Us.
+
+The problem of man, and his relations to the universe, are an
+entirely different line of study from that of the Spiritual
+Monad, the over-soul of every prakritic atom.  Each prakritic
+atom has what may be called a soul, its three-fold astral cause;
+and an over-soul, or the three-fold spiritual archetype, or
+causeless cause.
+
+Every combination of these atoms, whether a knife, a leaf, an
+animal, an earth, a sun, or a star, has this soul and oversoul.
+
+Once the idea of what is meant by these terms becomes clear, the
+difficulty in understanding them vanishes.  The study of man is
+physical in its lower branches;  metaphysical only in its highest
+and last analysis.  The study of the Monad is metaphysical from
+start to finish.  The two studies are apt to be confused, because
+metaphysically they are often joined for study, the teacher
+taking it for granted that the pupil fully understands the simple
+and easy physics of the problem of humanity.
+
+This, in crude and bold outline, is the story of creation to the
+fall of man according to the ancient physics, translated into the
+words and phrases of modern physics.  The latter, in the latest
+discoveries of modern science, seem to have stolen a shive
+from the ancient loaf in the expectation that it would not be
+detected.  Each and every step forward that modern science has
+made in the past twenty years, each and every discovery of every
+kind in the physical field, has been but the affirmative of some
+ancient doctrine taught in the temples of the East before "Cain
+took unto himself a wife."
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Ten
+
+The Septenary World
+
+
+In the physical universe we have the four informing physical
+globes, so that as a whole or in its parts, it is "a string of
+seven globes," reaching from the highest spirit to the lowest
+matter.  The awakened Universal Consciousness in vibration
+--undifferentiated in the three globes above, differentiated in
+the four globes below--in its last analysis is all one.  But there
+is a gulf between matter and spirit, radically dividing them, and
+in the physical universe we are concerned only with physics and
+physical laws, until we reach its outmost boundaries and come in
+touch with the spiritual planes beyond.
+
+This is the view of the universe at first glance, as in the
+smaller universe of this earth we at first see only its solid and
+liquid globes.  And even after the discovery of the gas, we do
+not apprehend its important work in and behind the others until
+it has been pointed out to us.  Nor do we at first apprehend the
+work of the spiritual in the material, and the object of
+metaphysics is to show, through the physics, the connection
+between them that the spirit works through matter;  that where we
+can see but four there are seven beads on each material string;
+and that the last bead of each string is itself a chain of beads,
+the "chain of seven" applying only to the seventh manifestation,
+or prakriti, while the "strings" apply to the way in which they
+come.
+
+On each unraveled string leading from our central sun down to a
+planet there are seven beads corresponding to the seven globes in
+the chain of each planet, each to each, yet not the same.  There
+is a distinction, and it is no wonder there should have been
+confusion at first and a mixing of "strings" with "chains."  The
+physics as they progress will clear this confusion away.
+
+In the manasic globe, which is the first differentiation of that
+which forms the spiritual globes above, the resulting mind or
+manasa is mainly the differentiated Divine Mind of the highest.
+It has a "chain" of two globes only, itself and the Divine Mind
+globe, although its "string" of globes is four.
+
+It is the perfected differentiation of the Buddhi in manasa
+that causes the formation of the pranic globes, which have
+chains of four and strings of five, and the full and perfect
+differentiation of the Atma in manasa-prana that causes the
+formation of the etheric globes, which have chains of six and
+strings of six.  Consciousness, Buddhi and Atma are practically
+the same as the manasa, prana, and ether, each to each, only the
+latter are differentiated and the former are not.
+
+Each of the three astral globes is the reflection in matter of
+the three spiritual globes beyond, each to each, and all to all.
+
+The difference between matter and spirit is a difference in
+Motion only.  Both are vibrating, so that both are in mechanical
+motion, from force without, like the waves of the ocean, but only
+the matter has what we may properly call motion of its own, or
+that produced from within--from the atom and each organism of it
+up to the ALL, as the vibration is from the ALL down to the atom.
+It is this centre of force in an atom, this motion outside of
+vibration, or rather beside it, which we call "differentiation."
+Brinton's "daring psychological speculation" that "mind was
+coextensive with motion" (from organization) was but a repetition
+of one of the most ancient axioms.
+
+Take our solar etheric globe.  It has two other globes of matter,
+consubstantial;  a globe of prana and a globe of manasa.  They
+are not beyond it, or beside it, but one with it, atom for atom.
+But what are they in reality?  Globes of Atma, Buddhi, and
+Consciousness in which the atoms, having organized, are in
+motion, are they not?
+
+Let this motion in this material universe cease, and matter would
+melt away and resolve into spirit.  From spirit it came, to
+spirit it belongs, and to spirit it returns.
+
+Behind each and every astral globe, whether the globe be but an
+astral atom, or an astral planet, or an astral world;  beyond its
+physics there is a meta-physical globe, its cause, and that
+is the real globe, of which the astral is but a temporary
+phenomenon.  Take a spiritual globe and differentiate it.  The
+Motion resulting produces a material astral globe.  Stop the
+motion;  bring it to a state of rest.  The astral shadow
+disappears.  It was merely spiritual phenomena.
+
+Each and every astral atom is a model in miniature of the
+material and spiritual universe.  Each and every prakritic atom
+is the joint result of spirit and matter united and working
+together--of physics and metaphysics;  and in its last analysis
+pure spirit;  pure metaphysics.
+
+Behind each and every prakritic atom of our earth there are six
+other atoms (or globes), three material shadows and three
+spiritual realities, so that it is a string of seven--the whole
+universe in miniature--material and spiritual.  And all things
+combined and formed on a prakritic base are a chain of seven
+--whether a peach or a planet.
+
+The "chain" belongs to the prakritic plane.  The lines of descent
+from the Light through the star and sun to planet are "strings."
+The "chains" are beads of the same size strung on a thread.  The
+strings are beads of different sizes strung on a thread.  The
+beads of the chain are in coadunition--in the same space, as gas
+in water and the water in a sponge.
+
+In metaphysics this earth can only be regarded as a chain of
+seven globes, its three astral globes in coadunition having their
+three spiritual doubles.  Of course no one of the higher globes
+can be seen by the prakritic eye, but that is not to say the
+astral world cannot be seen by the astral eye in sleep, or by the
+person who qualifies himself for the astral world, through the
+development of his astral body.  "No upper globes of any chain in
+the solar system can be seen," says H.P. Blavatsky in the Secret
+Doctrine (vol. I, p. 187), yet she means by astronomers, not by
+sages.  And she does not mean the upper globes in the stellar
+system of Alcyone and its companions.
+
+In pure physics the earth can only be regarded as a chain of four
+globes consubstantial and in coadunition--four in and three out.
+This makes seven, and the metaphysician when talking physics uses
+the metaphysical terms interchangeably and speaks of "the chain
+of seven globes" meaning in one sentence the four material globes
+making this earth;  in another meaning the line of descent or
+string of beads of different sizes reaching down from the Divine
+Consciousness;  and in still another the seven beads or globes of
+the same size in coadunition to form this earth chain.  To the
+student who is thoroughly grounded in the eastern physics this
+interweaving of the physical and metaphysical presents no
+difficulties;  but to the western mind just beginning the study
+it is a tangle.
+
+We can now see what is meant by illusion, or Maya, and understand
+why such stress is laid upon it by every teacher.
+
+Take the physical side first.  The motion of a top gives it bands
+of color to our eyes that it does not have at rest.  They are
+temporary and not permanent, a result of motion merely;  illusion
+and not reality.
+
+The motion of the material atoms of the four planes, in harmony
+with their vibration, a motion the spiritual world does not have,
+produces all material phenomena.  This is of course within the
+kinetic belts, for above or below them there is no change, and
+its phenomena are the mere change in relation of one atom to
+another caused by motion.  The changes are not real.  They
+disappear when the motion stops.  They have no existence in
+matter above or below the belt.
+
+All phenomena of every kind are as much an illusion as the
+supposed bands of colour around the top.  The illusion is the
+result of changes of relation in differentiated atoms caused by
+their motion.  Without this motion the four material globes would
+dissolve into the atomic dust of the manasic world, with all that
+is within them.  The whole material universe is all illusion;  a
+mere temporary relation of its atoms through motion, without
+Reality or permanence.
+
+What then is real?  What is not illusion?  That which is beyond
+the physical, that which is its cause and root;  broadly, the
+metaphysical, which is not the result of differentiated atoms
+through relation.  What was real in the top is real here.  What
+was illusion in the top is illusion here.
+
+The meta-physical or spiritual (the terms are interchangeable)
+does not have to pass beyond the manasic globe to get on the
+solid ground of reality.  The spiritual world is here in every
+physical atom and in every aggregation of them;  in every planet,
+sun, and star;  for they are seven, each and every one, not four.
+Behind the illusion of one atom or many, whether here or on
+Alcyone, there is reality and permanency in the undifferentiated
+cause, the spiritual archetype, the three higher beads on the
+string which are the proper study of metaphysics.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Eleven
+
+Stumbling Blocks in Eastern Physics
+
+
+The Western student of the ancient Eastern physics soon meets
+serious stumbling-blocks;  and one at the very threshold has in
+the last half century turned many back.  In beginning his study
+of the solar system, the pupil is told:
+
+The first three planets--Mercury, Venus, and the moon--are dead
+and disintegrating.  Evolution on them has ceased.  The proof of
+this is found in the fact, that they have no axial rotation,
+Mercury and Venus always presenting the same surface to their
+father, the sun, and the moon the same surface to its daughter,
+the earth.
+
+This is a concrete statement of physical fact at which the
+Western student protests.  If in the whole range of Western
+astronomical science there is any one fact that he has accepted
+as absolutely proved, it is that Mercury revolves once in 24h.,
+5m., 30.5s., and Venus once in 23h., 21m., 22s.  He would as soon
+credit a statement that the earth has no axial rotation as that
+Mercury or Venus has none;  and if he continues his study of
+Eastern physics it is with no confidence in its accuracy, and as
+a matter of curiosity.
+
+The statement that Mercury, Venus, and the moon "are dead
+and disintegrating," the former two "always presenting the
+same surface" to the sun, is the basis for an elaborate
+superstructure, both in the physics and the metaphysics of the
+East.  It is used in physics to explain how the "evolutionary
+wave" came to an end at the perfection of the mineral on Mercury
+with the loss of its axial rotation;  how the "wave" then passed
+on to Venus with the seed of the vegetable kingdom, where the
+vegetable evolution ended with the loss of axial rotation;
+how from Venus it leaped to the moon, mother of animals and
+controller of animal life, with the seed of animal life in the
+vegetable;  and how finally it came to the earth, when the moon
+ceased to revolve, bringing in the animal the seed of man.  Here
+man will be evolved and perfected.  Man has not yet been "born"
+on this earth, they say.  He is still in a prenatal or embryonic
+condition within the animal.
+
+The lunar Pitris, the men-seed, have a physical reason for being,
+if this evolutionary theory be true;  none if it is not.  Axial
+rotation is necessary in evolution, the ancient physics teaches,
+which must cease with it.  The reasons for this are too lengthy
+to give here.  Briefly, the rotation makes the electrical flow
+and a thermopilic dynamo of each planet.
+
+The ancient astronomical teaching is absolutely true.  There will
+not be a work on astronomy published in Europe or the United
+States this year, or hereafter, that will not state that "Mercury
+and Venus revolve on their axes in the same time that they
+revolve around the sun," which is another way of saying that
+"they have no axial rotation, always presenting the same face to
+the sun," and an inaccurate way of presenting the truth.  The
+screw that holds the tire at the outer end of the spoke does not
+revolve "once on its axis" each time the wheel revolves.  Run a
+cane through an orange and swing it around; the orange has not
+revolved "once on its axis."  Nor does the stone in a sling
+revolve "once on its axis" for each revolution around the hand.
+The motion of Mercury is identically that of the impaled orange
+or the stone in the sling.  It has no axis and no axial rotation.
+The modern astronomers, detected in pretenses to knowledge they
+never possessed, let themselves down easy.
+
+This "discovery," of no axial rotation by the interior planets,
+made by Schiaparelli and confirmed by Flammarion in 1894, has
+since been fully verified by our Western astronomers.  All the
+new astronomies accept it.  But the admission of astronomical
+"error," to speak politely, comes too late for the student it
+turned back from his study of Eastern physics.  He cannot regain
+his lost faith and lost ground.
+
+Thirty years ago Proctor made it clear to Western students that
+the orbit of the moon was a cycloidal curve (a drawn-out spring)
+around the sun, the earth's orbit being coincident with its axis;
+and that the moon was, astronomically and correctly, a satellite
+of the sun, not a satellite of the earth.  This has been the
+Eastern view and teaching from time immemorial.
+
+The Eastern distinction between father Sun and mother Moon, and
+the classification of the latter as a planet, did not disturb the
+Western student.  He understood that.  It was the "absolute
+accuracy" of modern astronomers in regard to the length of the
+day on Mercury or Venus, which the astronomers declared had
+been corrected down to the fraction of a second, that made it
+impossible for him to accept the Eastern physics when the latter
+squarely contradicted his own.
+
+This was but the first of many similar stumbling-blocks in the
+path of the student of Eastern physics.
+
+     "Few were the followers, straggling far,
+     That reached the lake of Vennachar;"
+
+and when they did, this was what they had to face:
+
+"The planets absorb and use nearly all the solar energy--all
+except the very small amount the minor specks of cosmic dust may
+receive.  There is not the least particle of the sun's light, or
+heat, or any one of the seven conditions of the solar energy,
+wasted.  Except for the planets, it is not manifested;  it is
+not.  There is no light, no heat, no form of solar energy, except
+on the planets as it is transferred from the laya center of each
+in the sun to them.  The etheric globe is cold and dark, except
+along the lines to them--the "Paths of Fohat" [solar energy].
+Six laya centers are manifested in the sun;  one is laid aside,
+though the wheels [planets] around the One Eye be seven. [This
+alludes to the moon, whose laya center in the sun is now also
+that of the earth;  but it is considered as a planet].  What each
+receives, that it also gives back.  There is nothing lost."
+
+"That settles it," says one student;  and the others agree.  Of
+the hundred who started,
+
+     "The foremost horseman rode alone,"
+
+before the next step was won.
+
+In the light of the tardy but perfect justification of the first
+stumbling-block, this statement may be worth following out, "to
+see what it means," and how "absurd" it can be.  An etheric
+globe;  cold as absolute zero, dark as Erebus, with here and
+there small pencils of light and heat from the sun to the planets
+--just rays, and nothing more--is a very different one from the
+fiery furnace at absolute zero of the modern physicist.
+
+On a line drawn from the center of the earth to the center of the
+moon there is a point where the "weights" of the two bodies are
+said in our physics exactly to balance, and it lies, says our
+physics, "2,900 miles from the center of the earth, and 1,100
+miles from the surface."  This is the earth's "laya center" of
+the Eastern physics.  It is of great importance in problems of
+life;  but it may be passed over for the present.
+
+Between the earth and the sun--precisely speaking, between this
+laya center and the sun--there is a "point of balance," which
+falls within the photosphere of the sun.  This point in the sun
+is the earth's solar laya, the occult or hidden earth of the
+metaphysics.
+
+A diagram will make this clearer.  Draw a line from the laya
+center in the sun to that in the earth.  Draw a narrow ellipse,
+with this line as its major axis, and shade it.  At each end of
+the axis strike the beginning of an ellipse that will be tangent.
+If positive energy is along the shaded ellipse, negative energy
+is in each field beyond--earth and sun.  This is a very crude
+illustration of a fundamental statement elaborated to the most
+minute detail in explanation of all astronomical phenomena;  but
+for the moment it will do.
+
+The point is that along this axial line connecting the
+laya centers play all the seven solar forces--light, heat,
+electricity, etc.--that affect the earth, and on every side of
+this line is the "electric field" of these forces.  To this line
+any escaping solar energy is drawn, as the electricity of the air
+is drawn to a live wire or magnet.  But there is little or none
+to escape.  From the laya point in the sun to the laya point in
+the earth, the solar energy is transferred as sound is carried
+along a beam of light (photophone), or electricity from one point
+to another without a wire.
+
+To the advanced student of electricity the ancient teaching is
+easily apprehended;  to others it is difficult to make clear.
+These laya centers, it says, are "the transforming points of
+energy."  From the earth laya to the solar laya centre, the
+energy, we may say, is positive;  beyond both the solar and the
+earth laya centre, in the fields touching at them, it is negative
+--or vice versa.  The line connecting the layas is the "Path of
+Fohat"--the personification of solar energy.
+
+This is a very crude and brief way of putting many pages of
+teaching, but the important point is that this line between the
+layas is one of solar energy, with a dynamic "field" of solar
+energy, elliptical in shape, connecting with the reverse fields
+at the laya points.  These "dead points" are the limits of each
+electric field, which "create", we say in electrical work,
+opposing fields beyond them.
+
+Each one of these planets has its laya centre inside the sun's
+photosphere.  Each planet has a line of solar energy with its
+"field" of solar energy--not only a wireless telegraph, but a
+wireless lighting, heating, and life-giving system.  These six
+solar laya points are the six "hidden planets," the earth and
+moon being one, of the ancient metaphysics.  The moon is the one
+"laid aside."  In their reception of energy from the sun, it is
+as if the planet were at the solar laya point, or connected with
+it by a special pipe-line.  The position of these six planetary
+laya points in the sun is indicated by the position of the
+planets in the heavens, and they may often influence or modify
+one another.  If Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn is anywhere near
+conjunction with the earth, not only will a part of their
+"fields" be joined, but their laya points in the sun will be
+modified.
+
+The physical basis of the old astrology was the physical
+interferences of these fields of solar energy;  and what it
+depended on mainly in its work was the position of the six hidden
+planets, or laya centers, which was shown by the position of the
+planet with reference to the earth.  That the planets themselves
+affected any one or anything on this earth, no real astrologer
+ever believed;  that their position in the heavens indicated
+certain changes and modifications of the flow of solar energy to
+the earth, they knew from their knowledge of physics.  "The
+twelve houses are in the sun," says Hermes, "six in the north and
+six in the south."  Connect them with the zodiac, and the
+position of the planets shows the interferences of the solar
+currents.
+
+The one objection to this ancient theory is that it does not
+present enough difficulties.  The present value to science of the
+many theories in relation to the sun is the impossibility of
+reconciling any two of them, and the fact that no two theorists
+can unite to pummel a third.  This ancient theory does not call
+for any great amount of heat, light, or energy in any condition
+to keep the Cosmos in order--not even enough for two persons to
+quarrel over.  It merely turns the sun into a large dynamo
+connected with smaller dynamos, and these with one another with
+return currents by which "there is nothing lost."  In its
+details, it accounts for all facts--neatly, simply, and without
+exclamation points.  It is so simple and homespun, so lacking in
+the gaudiness that makes (for example) our light and heat less
+than the billionth part wasted on space always at absolute zero,
+that we may have to wait many centuries to have it "verified" and
+"confirmed" by our Western Science.  That it will be "verified"
+in time, even as the first stumbling-block has been removed at
+the end of the nineteenth century, its students may at least
+hope.
+
+The lesson, if there is one, is that the Western student of
+Eastern physics does not ride an auto along asphalted roads.
+He must own himself and not be owned by another man, or even
+by "Modern Science."
+
+
+
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+ANCIENT AND MODERN PHYSICS
+
+by Thomas E. Willson
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+Preface
+I.     Physical Basis of Metaphysics
+II.    The Two Kinds of Perception
+III.   Matter and Ether
+IV.    What a Teacher Should Teach
+V.     The Four Manifested Planes
+VI.    One Place on Earth
+VII.   The Four Globes
+VIII.  The Battle Ground
+IX.    The Dual Man
+X.     The Septenary World
+XI.    Stumbling blocks in Eastern Physics
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+
+The Editor of the Theosophical Forum in April, 1901, noted the
+death of Mr. Thomas E. Willson in the previous month in an
+article which we reproduce for the reason that we believe many
+readers who have been following the chapters of "Ancient and
+Modern Physics" during the last year will like to know something
+of the author.  In these paragraphs is said all that need be said
+of one of our most devoted and understanding Theosophists.
+
+In March, 1901, The Theosophical Forum lost one of its most
+willing and unfailing contributors.  Mr. T.E. Willson died
+suddenly, and the news of his death reached me when I actually
+was in the act of preparing the concluding chapter of his
+"Ancient and Modern Physics" for the April number.
+
+Like the swan, who sings his one song, when feeling that death is
+near, Mr. Willson gave his brother co-workers in the Theosophical
+field all that was best, ripest and most suggestive in his
+thought in the series of articles the last of which is to come
+out in the same number with this.
+
+The last time I had a long talk with T.E. Willson, he said"
+
+"For twenty years and more I was without a hearing, yet my
+interest and my faith in what I had to say never flagged, the
+eagerness of my love for my subject never diminished."
+
+This needs no comment.  The quiet and sustained resistance to
+indifference and lack of appreciation, is truly the steady
+ballast which has prevented our Theosophical ship from aimless
+and fatal wanderings, though of inclement weather and adverse
+winds we had plenty.
+
+For many long years Mr. Willson was the librarian of the New York
+"World."  In the afternoons he was too busy to see outsiders,
+but, beginning with five o'clock in the afternoon until he went
+home somewhere in the neighbourhood of midnight, he always was
+glad to see his friends.  He had a tiny little room of his own,
+very near the top of the tremendous building, his one window
+looking far above the roofs of the tallest houses in the
+district.  There he sat at his desk, generally in his shirt
+sleeves, if the weather was at all warm, always busy with some
+matter already printed, or going to be, a quiet, yet impressive
+and dignified figure.
+
+The elevated isolation, both figuratively and literally speaking,
+in which T.E. Willson lived and worked, in the midst of the most
+crowded thoroughfares of New York, always made me think of
+Professor Teufelsdrockh on the attic floor of "the highest
+house in the Wahngasse."  The two had more than one point of
+resemblance.  They shared the loftiness of their point of view,
+their sympathetic understanding of other folks, their loneliness,
+and, above all, their patient, even humorous resignation to the
+fact of this loneliness.
+
+Yet in his appearance Mr. Willson was not like the great
+Weissnichtwo philosopher.  In fact, in the cast of his features
+and in his ways, Mr. Willson never looked to me like a white man.
+In British India I have known Brahmans of the better type exactly
+with the same sallow complexion, same quick and observant brown
+eye, same portly figure and same wide-awakeness and agility of
+manner.
+
+Last summer I heard, on good authority, that Mr. Willson had
+thought himself into a most suggestive way of dealing with the
+problems of matter and spirit, a way which, besides being
+suggestive, bore a great resemblance to some theories of the same
+nature, current in ancient India.  Consequently Mr. Willson was
+offered, for the first time in his life, a chance of expressing
+his views on matter and spirit in as many articles and in as
+extensive a shape as he chose.  The way he received this tardy
+recognition of the fact that he had something to say was highly
+instructive.  He did not put on airs of unrecognized greatness,
+though, I own, the occasion was propitious;  he did not say, "I
+told you so;"  he simply and frankly was glad, in, the most
+childlike way.
+
+And now that I have used the word, it occurs to me that
+"childlike" is an adjective the best applied to this man, in
+spite of his portliness, and his three score and more winters.
+
+Many a pleasant hour I have spent in the small bookroom of the
+great "World" building.  With Mr. Willson talk never flagged.  We
+discussed the past and the future of our planetary chain, we
+built plans for the true and wholesome relation of sexes, we
+tried to find out--and needless to say never did--the exact
+limit where matter stopped being matter and became spirit;  we
+also read the latest comic poems and also, from time to time, we
+took a header into the stormy sea of American literature in order
+to find out what various wise heads had to say, consciously or
+unconsciously, in favour of our beloved Theosophical views.  And
+all this, being interrupted every three minutes or so by some
+weary apparition from some workroom in the "World" with some such
+question:  "Mr. Willson, how am I to find out the present
+whereabouts of this or that Russian man-of-war?  Mr. Willson,
+what is the melting point of iron?  Mr. Willson, when was `H.M.S.
+Pinafore' produced for the first time?" etc., etc.  And every
+time, Mr. Willson got up in the leisurely manner peculiar to him,
+reached for some book from the shelves that lined the room, gave
+the desired information, and as leisurely returned to the "pranic
+atom," or to "come and talk man talk, Willy," or to whatever our
+subject chanced to be at the time.
+
+Mr. Willson's gratitude to the Theosophical Forum for its
+recognition was disproportionately great.  As he wrote to the
+Editor:  "give me any kind of work, writing for you, reviewing,
+manuscript or proof reading, I shall do anything, I shall
+undertake any job, even to taking editorial scoldings in all good
+nature, only give me work."  His devotion to Theosophical thought
+and work in all their ramifications was just as great, as was his
+freedom from vanity, his perfectly natural and unaffected
+modesty.
+
+At the news of his death many a heart was sincerely sad, but none
+so sad as the heart of the editor of the Theosophical Forum.  For
+a friend and co-worker like T.E. Willson, ever ready to give
+material help and moral encouragement, is not easily replaced.
+
+For a soul so pure of any kind of selfishness the transition from
+the turmoil of life to the bright dreams of death must have been
+both easy and enviable.
+--------------
+
+
+
+
+Chapter One
+
+The Physical Basis if Metaphysics
+
+
+The Hindu system of physics, on which the metaphysical thought of
+the East is based, does not in its beginnings differ widely from
+the latest physics of the West;  but it goes so much farther that
+our physics is soon lost sight of and forgotten.  The Hindu
+conception of the material universe, taken from the Upanishads
+and some open teaching, will serve for an illustration.  They
+divide physical matter into four kinds--prakriti, ether, prana,
+and manasa--which they call "planes."  These differ only in the
+rate of vibration, each plane vibrating through one great octave,
+with gulfs of "lost" octaves between.  The highest rate of
+vibration of prakriti is measured by the thousand, the lowest of
+the ether by trillions, and the lowest of prana by--never mind;
+they have, and we have not, the nomenclature.
+
+The earth, they teach, is a globe of prakriti, floating in an
+ocean of ether, which, as it has the sun for its center of
+gravity, must necessarily be a globe.  This etheric sun-globe has
+a diameter of over 300,000,000,000 miles.  All the planets
+revolve around the sun far within its atmosphere.  The etheric
+sun-globe revolves on its axis once in about 21,000 years, and
+this revolution causes the precession of the equinoxes.  This
+etheric sun-globe is revolving around Alcyone with other etheric
+globes having suns for their centers and solar systems of
+prakritic globes within them in a great year of 5,640,000,000 of
+our common years.  Its orbit has a diameter of
+93,000,000,000,000,000 miles.
+
+Beyond the etheric globes, and between them, is a third form of
+matter called prana, as much rarer and finer than the ether as
+the ether is rarer and finer than prakriti.  As this prana has
+Alcyone for a center of gravity, it is necessarily a globe;  and
+there are many of these pranic globes floating in a vast ocean of
+manasa--a form of matter as much finer than prana as prana is
+finer than ether, or ether than prakriti.  With this manasa
+(which is a globe) the material, or physical, universe ends;  but
+there are spiritual globes beyond.  The material universe is
+created from manasa, downward, but it does not respond to or
+chord with the vibration of the globes above, except in a special
+instance and in a special way, which does not touch this inquiry.
+
+The physical universe of the ancient (and modern) Hindu physicist
+was made up of these four kinds or planes of matter, distributed
+in space as "globes within globes."
+
+Professor Lodge in 1884 put forth the theory that prakriti
+(physical matter) as we call it, was in its atoms but "whirls" of
+ether.  Since then speculative science has generally accepted the
+idea that the physical atom is made up of many cubic feet of
+ether in chemical union, as many quarts of oxygen and hydrogen
+unite chemically to make a drop of water.  This is an old story
+to the Hindu sage.  He tells his pupils that the great globe of
+manasa once filled all space, and there was nothing else.
+Precisely as on this earth we have our elementary substances that
+change from liquids into solids and gases, so on this manasic
+globe there were elementary substances that took the form of
+liquids, solids and gases.  Its manasic matter was differentiated
+and vibrated through one octave, as the prakritic matter does on
+the earth.  Its substances combined as that does.
+
+One combination produced prana.  The prana collected, and formed
+globes.  On these pranic globes the process was repeated, with
+ether as the result, and the etheric globes formed.  Then the
+process was repeated on the etheric globes, as the modern
+scientists have discovered, and prakriti and prakritic globes
+came into being.
+
+The true diameter of the earth, the ancient Hindu books say, is
+about 50,000 miles.  That is to say, the true surface of the
+earth is the line of twenty-four-hour axial rotation;  the line
+where gravity and apergy exactly balance;  where a moon would
+have to be placed to revolve once in 86,400 seconds.  Within that
+is prakriti;  without is ether.  It is also the line of no
+friction, which does exist between matter of different planes.
+There is friction between prakriti, between ether, between prana;
+but not between ether and prana, or ether and prakriti.  Friction
+is a phenomenon confined to the matter of each plane separately.
+We live at the bottom of this gaseous ocean--on its floor
+--21,000 miles from the surface and only 4,000 miles from the
+center.  Here, in a narrow "skin" limited to a few miles above
+and below us, is the realm of phenomena, where solid turns into
+liquid and liquid into gas, or vice versa.  The lesson impressed
+upon the pupil's mind by Hindu physics is that he lives far
+within the earth, not on it.
+
+There is a comparatively narrow "skin" of and for phenomena
+within the etheric sun-globe, say the Eastern teachers, where the
+etheric solids, liquids, and gases meet and mingle and
+interchange.  Within this "skin" are all the planets--the
+"gaseous" atmosphere of the etheric globe stretching millions of
+miles beyond the outermost planetary orbit.  The earth is in this
+skin or belt of etheric phenomena, and its ether is in touch with
+the ether "in manifestation" on the etheric globe.  The sun and
+other etheric globes are within the corresponding "skin" of
+phenomena of the pranic globes.  The prana, manifesting as solid,
+liquid, and gas, or in combination and in forms, is in perfect
+touch with that of the etheric globe, and through that with the
+prana of the earth.  That our prana is in touch with that on the
+pranic globe in all its manifestations means much in metaphysics.
+The same is true of the manasic globe, and of our manasa.
+
+The great lesson the Eastern physics burns into the pupil is that
+we are living not only within the prakritic earth, but within
+each of the other globes as well in identically the same way and
+subject to the same laws.  Our lives are not passed on one globe,
+but in four globes.  It is as if one said he lived in Buffalo,
+Erie county, New York, United States;  that he was a citizen of
+each and subject to the laws of each.
+
+This question of the four globes, of the four planes of matter,
+of the four skins, and of the four conditions or states of all
+matter and necessarily of all persons, from the purely material
+standpoint, is not only the foundation of Oriental physics, but
+the very essence of Oriental metaphysics--its starting-point and
+corner-stone.  To one who carries with him, consciously or
+unconsciously, the concrete knowledge of the physics, the
+abstract teaching of the metaphysics presents no difficulty;  it
+is as clear as crystal.  But without the physical teaching the
+metaphysical is not translatable.
+
+Our Western physics teaches that physical matter is divided into
+two kinds prakriti (commonly called "physical matter") and ether;
+that the differences of each of the elementary prakritic
+substances (iron, copper, sulphur, oxygen) are in their
+molecules, the fundamental atom being the same;  that each of
+these elementary substances vibrates only through one octave,
+though on different keys;  that it changes from solid to liquid
+and gas as the rate of vibration is increased and from gas to
+liquid and solid as its vibration is decreased within its octave;
+that the ether obeys identical laws;  that it has elementary
+substances vibrating through one octave only, and that these are
+solids, liquids, or gases on the etheric plane as prakriti is on
+this;  that these etheric substances change and combine in every
+way that prakriti does;  and that while all our prakritic
+substances vibrate within (say) fifty simply octaves, the lowest
+vibration of etheric matter begins over one thousand octaves
+beyond our highest, making a gulf to leap.  The Eastern physics
+presents this with a wealth of detail that dazes the Western
+student, and then adds:  "But beyond the etheric plane (or
+octave) of vibration for matter there is a third plane (or
+octave) of vibration called prana and beyond that a fourth called
+manasa.  What is true of one plane is true of the other three.
+One law governs the four.  As above so below.  There is no real
+gulf;  there is perfect continuity."
+
+The Western scientist teaches as the foundation of modern physics
+that "each and every atom of prakritic matter is the center of an
+etheric molecule of many atoms;"  that "no two prakritic atoms
+touch," although their etheric envelopes or atmospheres do touch;
+and that "all physical phenomena are caused by the chording
+vibration of the prakritic atom and its envelope of ether," each
+"sounding the same note hundreds of octaves apart."  The "solid
+earth" with its atmosphere represents the atom with its ether.
+As all the oxygen and hydrogen do not combine to make the drop of
+water, some remaining in mechanical union to give it an
+atmosphere, and about one-fourth of its bulk being gas, so the
+atom formed of the ether does not use all the ether in its
+chemical union, retaining some in mechanical union for its
+envelope or atmosphere.
+
+The Hindu physics goes much farther along this road.  It says
+that, when the pranic globes were formed, each atom of prana had
+its manasic envelope--was the center of a manasic molecule.
+When the etheric globes formed, each atom of ether was the center
+of a pranic molecule, each atom of which was surrounded with
+manasa.  When the prakriti was formed from the ether, each and
+every atom of prakriti had the triple etheric-pranic-manasic
+envelope.  "Each and every prakritic atom is the center of an
+etheric molecule," says our Western science;  but that of the
+East adds this:  "And each atom of that etheric molecule is the
+center of a pranic molecule, and each atom of prana in that
+pranic molecule is the center of a manasic molecule."  The four
+great globes of matter in the material universe are represented
+and reproduced in each and every atom of prakriti, which is in
+touch with each one of the four globes and a part of it.  The
+same is true of any aggregation of prakriti--of the earth itself
+and of all things in it, including man.  As there are four
+atoms in each one, so there are four earths, four globes,
+consubstantial, one for each of the four elements, and in touch
+with it.  One is formed of prakritic atoms--the globe we know;
+another, of the ether forming their envelopes;  another, of the
+prana envelopes of ether, and a fourth of the manasa around the
+pranic atom.  They are not "skins";  they are consubstantial.
+And what is true of atoms or globes is true of animals.  Each has
+four "material" bodies, with each body on the corresponding globe
+--whether of the earth or of the Universe.  This is the physical
+basis of the famous "chain of seven globes" that is such a
+stumbling-block in Hindu metaphysics.  The spirit passes through
+four to get in and three to get out--seven in all.  The Hindu
+understands without explanation.  He understands his physics.
+
+The Hindu physics teaches, with ours, that "the ether is the
+source of all energy," but, it adds, "as prana is the source of
+all life, and manasa of all mind."
+
+"When the prakritic atom is vibrating in chord with its etheric
+envelope," say our textbooks, "we have physical phenomena
+--light, heat, electricity."  "Yes," says the Hindu teacher;  "but
+when the atom and its ether and its prana are vibrating in chord,
+we have life and vital phenomena added to the energy.  When the
+atom and its ether, prana, and manasa are vibrating in chord, we
+have mind and mental phenomena added to the life and energy."
+Each atom has energy, life, and mind in posse.  In the living
+leaf the prakriti, ether, and prana are sounding the threefold
+silver chord of life.  In the animal, the manasa is sounding the
+same note with them, making the fourfold golden chord of mind.
+  Even in the plant there may be a faint manasic overtone, for
+the potentiality of life and mind is in everything.  This unity
+of the physical universe with the physical atom, and with all
+things created--earth, animal, or crystal--is the physical
+backbone of Oriental metaphysics.  Prakriti, ether, prana, and
+manasa are in our vernacular the Earth, Air, Fire, and Water of
+the old philosophers--the "Four Elements."
+
+The Oriental physics has been guarded most jealously.  For many
+thousands of years it has been the real occult and esoteric
+teaching, while the Oriental metaphysics has been open and
+exoteric.  It could not be understood without the key, and the
+key was in the physics known only to "the tried and approved
+disciple."  A little has leaked out--enough to whet the appetite
+of the true student and make him ask for more.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Two
+
+The Two Kinds of Perception
+
+
+To the savage, matter appears in two forms--solid and liquid.
+As he advances a step he learns it has three forms--solid,
+liquid and gas.  He cannot see the gas, but he knows it is there.
+
+A little further on he learns that matter as he knows it is only
+a minute portion of the great universe of matter--the few chords
+that can be struck on the five strings of his senses, and limited
+to one octave or key.
+
+Whether the particular matter he investigates has a solid, a
+liquid, or a gaseous form depends upon its rate of vibration.  If
+it is a liquid, by raising its rate of vibration one third it
+becomes a gas;  by reducing it one third it becomes a solid.
+
+Each kind of matter has vibration only through one octave.  It is
+known to us only by its vibration in that octave.  Each kind of
+matter has a different octave--is set on a higher or lower key,
+so to speak, but all octaves of vibration are between the highest
+of hydrogen gas and the lowest of carbon.
+
+In mechanical compounds, such as air or brass, the rate of
+vibration of the compound is the least common multiple of the two
+or more rates.  In chemical compounds, such as water or alcohol,
+the rate is that of the highest, the others uniting in harmonic
+fractions.
+
+All matter as we know it through our senses--prakriti, as it is
+called in the Secret Doctrine to distinguish it from non-sensual
+matter--is the vibration of an universal Something, we do not
+know what, through these different octaves.  The elementary
+substances (so-called) are one and the same thing--this
+Something--in different keys and chords of vibration;  keys that
+run into one another, producing all sorts of beautiful harmonies.
+
+Taking any one of these elements, or any of their compounds, all
+we know of it is limited strictly to its changes during vibration
+through one octave.  What happens when the vibration goes above
+or below the octave has not yet been treated hypothetically.
+
+While some elements are vibrating on higher and some on lower
+keys, we can consider them all as vibrating within one great
+octave, that octave of the universal Something which produces
+sensual matter, or prakriti.
+
+But matter is not confined, we know, to this great octave,
+although our sensual knowledge of it is strictly confined to it.
+How do we know it?
+
+Knowledge comes to us in two ways, and there are two kinds of
+knowledge.
+
+1. That which comes through our senses, by observation and
+experience.  This includes reasoning from relation.
+
+2. That which comes through intuition--or, as some writers
+inaccurately say, "through the formal laws of thought."
+
+All the observation and experience of the rising and the setting
+of the sun for a thousand centuries could only have confirmed the
+first natural belief that it revolved daily around the earth;
+nor by joining this experience with other experiences could any
+deduction have come from our reason that would have opposed it.
+Not our reason but our intuition said that the sun stood still
+and the earth revolved daily.  The oldest books in existence tell
+us that this axial revolution of the earth was not only known in
+the very dawn of time but that it has been known to every race
+(except our own of European savages) from before the time thought
+was first transmitted by writing.
+
+Ask the ablest living geographer or physicist to prove to you
+that the earth revolves daily and he will reply that it would be
+the job of his life.  It can be done at great expense and great
+labor, but that is because we know the answer and can invent a
+way of showing it, not because there are any observations from
+which a deduction would naturally follow.
+
+Nearly if not all our great discoveries have come to us through
+intuition and not from observation and experience.  When we know
+the lines on which to work, when intuition has given us the KEY,
+then the observation and experience men prize so highly, and the
+reason they worship so devoutly, will fill in the details.  The
+knowledge that flows from observation and the reasoning from the
+facts it records, is never more than relatively true, it is
+always limited by the facts, and any addition to the facts
+requires the whole thing to be restated.  We never know all the
+facts;  seldom even the more important;  and reason grasps only
+details.
+
+Lamarck's theory of evolution, known to all Asiatic races from
+time immemorial, was the intuitional and absolute knowledge that
+comes to all men when they reach a certain stage of development.
+Reason could never have furnished it from the facts, as Cuvier
+proved in the great debate in the French Academy in 1842, when he
+knocked Lamarck out, for the time being, because "it did not
+conform to the facts, and did not follow from any relation of the
+facts."
+
+Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest in the struggle
+for existence, as an explanation of the origin of species, was
+from observation and experience.  It was based on observed facts.
+But Darwin was an evolutionist--a disciple of Lamarck.  He held
+the Key.  He used the Key.  The value of Darwin's work does not
+lie in his discovering that some bugs have been derived from
+other bugs and that the intermediate bugs have died off.  Its
+overwhelming value to mankind was in showing that work on the
+theory of evolution was correct work and that the theory was
+true.  When the intuition of man points out the way the reason of
+man can follow the path and macadam the road.  It usually does
+and claims all the credit for itself as the original discoverer.
+
+This knowledge through intuition is absolute and exact.  It is
+not relatively true.  It is absolutely and invariably true.  No
+additional facts will ever modify it, or require a restatement.
+
+When Sir William Hamilton based his Logic on the dictum that "All
+knowledge is relative, and only relatively true," the proposition
+was self-evidently false.  It was in itself a statement of
+absolute knowledge about a certain thing.  It was in itself
+knowledge that was not relative.  All knowledge could not be
+relative if this knowledge was not.  This knowledge could not
+be either absolute or relative without upsetting his whole
+proposition, for, if relative, then it was not always true;
+and if absolute, then it was never true.
+
+Sir William did not know the distinction between the two kinds of
+knowledge, and what he meant to say was that "All knowledge
+obtained by observation and experience is relative, and only
+relatively true."
+
+His knowledge of this relativity was not obtained by observation
+or from reason.  It could not possibly have been obtained in that
+way.  It came from intuition, and it was absolute and exact.  A
+man may have absolute and exact knowledge and yet not be able to
+put it into words that exactly express it to another.  Hamilton
+had this knowledge.  But it was not clearly formulated even in
+his own mind.  He had two separate and distinct meanings for the
+word "knowledge," without being conscious of it.
+
+We have yet to coin a proper word to express what comes to us
+through intuition.  The old English word "wisdom" originally did.
+The old verb "wis" was meant what a man knew without being told
+it, as "ken" meant knowledge by experience.  Try and prove by
+reason that a straight line is the shortest distance between two
+points, or that a part can never be greater than the whole, and
+your reason has an impossible task.  "You must take them for
+axioms," it says.  You must take them because you wis them, not
+because you know (ken) them.
+
+Intuitional knowledge must not be confounded with the relative
+knowledge that flows through the reason:  that "If the sum of two
+numbers is one and their difference is five," the numbers are
+minus two and plus three.
+
+The point cannot be too strongly enforced that there is a
+distinction between the sources of what we know, and that while
+all we know through our sensations is only relatively true, that
+which we know from intuition is invariably and absolutely true.
+This is seen through a glass darkly, in theology, where intuition
+is called inspiration and not differentiated from reason.
+
+The false notion that we can only learn by observation and
+experience, that the concept can never transcend the observation,
+that we can only know what we can prove to our senses, has
+wrought incalculable injury to progress in philosophy.
+
+Because our sensual knowledge of matter begins and ends with
+vibration in one octave it does not follow that this ends our
+knowledge of it.  We may have intuitional knowledge, and this
+intuitional knowledge is as susceptible to reason as if we had
+obtained it by observation.
+
+The knowledge that comes through intuition tells us of matter
+vibrating in another great octave just beyond our own, which
+Science has chosen to name the etheric octave, or plane.  The
+instant our intuition reveals the cause of phenomena our reason
+drops in and tells us it is the chording vibration of the matter
+of the two planes--the physical and etheric--that produces all
+physical phenomena.  It goes further and explains its variations.
+
+This knowledge of another octave or plane of matter comes from
+the logical relations of matter and its physical phenomena;  but
+there was nothing in the observation or experience of mankind
+that would have led us to infer from reason an etheric plane of
+matter.  It was "revealed" truth.  But the flash of revelation
+having once made the path apparent, the light of reason carries
+us through all the winding ways.  Our knowledge of the ether is
+not guess-work or fancy, any more than our geometry is, because
+it is based on axioms our reason cannot prove.  In both cases the
+basic axioms are obtained from intuition;  the structural work
+from reason.  Our knowledge of the ether may be as absolute and
+exact as our knowledge of prakriti, working on physical as we
+work on geometrical axioms.
+
+The recognition of the two sources of knowledge, the work of the
+spirit within us and of the mind within us, is absolutely
+necessary to correctly comprehend the true significance of the
+results of modern science and to accept the ancient.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Three
+
+Matter and Ether
+
+
+It is not worthwhile translating Homer into English unless the
+readers of the translation understand English.
+
+It is not worthwhile attempting to translate the occult Eastern
+physics into the language of our Western and modern physics,
+unless those who are to read the translation understand generally
+and broadly what our own modern physics teach.  It is not
+necessary that they should know all branches of our modern
+physics in all their minute ramifications;  but it is necessary
+that they should understand clearly the fundamental principles
+upon which our scientific and technical knowledge of today rests.
+
+These fundamental principles have been discovered and applied in
+the past fifty years--in the memory of the living.  They have
+revolutionized science in all its departments.  Our textbooks on
+Chemistry, Light, Heat, Electricity and Sound have had to be
+entirely re-written;  and in many other departments, notably in
+medicine and psychology, they have yet to be re-written.  Our
+textbooks are in a transition state, each new one going a step
+farther, to make the change gradual from the old forms of belief
+to the new, so that even Tyndall's textbook on "Sound" is now so
+antedated, or antiquated, that it might have been written in
+darkest Africa before the pyramids were built, instead of twenty
+years ago.
+
+All this change has flowed from the discovery of Faraday that
+there are two states or conditions of matter.  In one it is
+revealed by one of our five senses, visible, tangible, smellable,
+tastable, or ponderable matter.  This is matter as we know it.
+It may be a lump of metal or a flask of gas.
+
+The second condition or state of matter is not revealed by either
+of our five senses, but by the sixth sense, or intuition of man.
+This is the ether--supposed to be "matter in a very rarefied
+form, which permeates all space."  So rare and fine is this
+matter that it interpenetrates carbon or steel as water
+interpenetrates a sponge, or ink a blotting pad.  In fact, each
+atom of "physical" matter--by which is meant matter in the first
+condition--floats in an atmosphere of ether as the solid earth
+floats in its atmosphere of air.
+
+"No two physical atoms touch," said Faraday.  "Each physical atom
+is the centre of an etheric molecule, and as far apart from every
+other atom as the stars in heaven from one another."  This is
+true of every form of physical matter, whether it is a lump of
+metal, a cup of liquid, or a flask of gas;  whether it is a
+bronze statue or a living man;  a leaf, a cloud, or the earth
+itself.  Each and every physical atom is the centre of an etheric
+molecule made up of many atoms of the ether.
+
+This duality of matter was a wonderful discovery, revolutionizing
+every department of science.  It placed man in actual touch with
+the whole visible universe.  The ether in a man's eye (and in his
+whole body) reaches in one unbroken line--like a telegraph wire
+--from him to the sun, or the outermost planet.  He is not
+separate and apart from "space," but a part of it.  Each physical
+atom of his physical body is the centre of an etheric molecule,
+and he has two bodies, as St. Paul said, a visible physical and
+an invisible etheric body;  the latter in actual touch with the
+whole universe.
+
+Faraday went one step further.  He demonstrated that all
+physical phenomena come from the chording vibration of the
+physical atom with the surrounding etheric atoms, and that the
+latter exercise the impelling force on the former.  Step into the
+sunshine.  The line of ether from the sun is vibrating faster
+than the ether in the body, but the higher impels the lower, the
+greater controls the lesser, and soon both ethers are in unison.
+The physical atoms must coincide in vibration with their etheric
+envelopes, and the "note" is "heat."  Step into the shade, where
+the ocean of ether is vibrating more slowly, and the ether of the
+body reduces its vibration.  "The ether is the origin of all
+force and of all phenomena."
+
+This etheric matter follows identical laws with prakritic matter,
+or, accurately, the laws of our matter flow from the etheric
+matter from which it is made.  The ether has two hundred or more
+elementary substances, each atom of our eighty or ninety
+"elements" being the chemical union of great masses of two or
+more of the etheric elements or their combinations.  These
+etheric elementary substances combine and unite;  our elementary
+substances simply following in their combinations the law which
+they inherit from their parents.  They take form and shape.  They
+vibrate through one octave, and take solid liquid or gaseous form
+in ether, as their types here in our world take it in prakriti,
+as their vibrations are increased or diminished.  In short, the
+ether is the prototype of our physical or prakritic world, out of
+which it is made and a product of which it is.
+
+As this ether is "physical" matter, the same as prakriti, one
+harmonic law covering both, and as this ether fills all space,
+Modern Science divides physical matter into two kinds, which, for
+convenience in differentiation, are here called prakritic and
+etheric.
+
+Matter is something--science does not know or care to know what
+--in vibration.  A very low octave of vibration produces
+prakriti;  a very high octave of vibration produces ether.  The
+vibration of prakriti ends in thousands;  that of ether begins in
+billions.  Between them there is a gulf of vibrations that has
+not yet been bridged.  For that reason science divides matter
+into two "planes," or octaves, of vibration--the matter of this
+visible and tangible plane being called prakriti and that of the
+invisible and intangible plane being called etheric.  Across this
+gulf the two planes respond to each other, note for note, the
+note in trillions chording when the note in thousands is struck.
+Note for note, chord for chord, they answer one another, and the
+minutest and the most complex phenomena are alike the result of
+this harmonic vibration, that of the ether supplying Force and
+that of the prakriti a Medium in which it can manifest.
+
+This knowledge of ether is not guesswork or fancy, and, while it
+is as impossible of proof as the axioms of geometry, it is worthy
+the same credence and honor.  We are working on physical axioms
+exactly as we work on geometrical axioms.
+
+Modern science represents each and every prakritic atom as a
+globe like the earth, floating in space and surrounded by an
+atmosphere of ether.  "The subdivision of prakritic matter until
+we reach etheric atoms chemically united to make the physical
+unit" is the correct definition of an atom.  The prakritic
+physical atom has length, breadth and thickness.  And it has an
+atmosphere of ether which not only interpenetrates the atom as
+oxygen and hydrogen interpenetrate the drop of water, but
+furnishes it with an envelope as the oxygen and hydrogen furnish
+the drop of water with one.
+
+Each physical atom is the centre of an etheric molecule composed
+of many etheric atoms vibrating at a greater or lesser speed and
+interpenetrating the atom.  Each may be considered a miniature
+earth, with its aerial envelope, the air, penetrating all parts
+of it.
+
+The etheric plane of matter not only unites with this prakritic
+plane through the atom but it interpenetrates all combinations of
+it;  beside the atom as well as through the atom.  The grain of
+sand composed of many prakritic atoms is also composed of many
+times that number of etheric atoms.  The grain of sand is etheric
+matter as well as prakritic matter.  It exists on the etheric
+plane exactly the same as it exists on the prakritic, and it has
+etheric form as well as prakritic form.
+
+As each atom of this physical world of ours--whether of land, or
+water, or air;  whether of solid, liquid or gas--is the centre
+of an etheric molecule, we have two worlds, not one:  a physical
+world and an etheric one;  a visible world and an invisible
+world;  a tangible world and an intangible world;  a world of
+effect and a world of cause.
+
+And each animal, including man, is made in the same way.  He has
+a prakritic body and an etheric body;  a visible body and an
+invisible body;  an earthly body and one "not made with hands,"
+in common touch with the whole universe.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Four
+
+What a Teacher Should Teach
+
+
+Let us suppose that a certain wise teacher of physics places a
+row of Bunsen burners under a long steel bar having a Daniell's
+pyrometer at one end, and addresses his class (substantially) as
+follows:
+
+"At our last lecture we found that the matter of the universe
+permeated all space, but in two conditions, which we agreed to
+call physical and etheric, or tangible and intangible.  It is all
+the same matter, subject to the same laws, but differing in the
+rate of vibration, the physical matter vibrating through one
+great octave or plane, and the etheric vibrating through another
+great octave or plane one degree higher--the chording vibration
+of the matter of the two planes in one note producing what we
+call energy or force, and with it phenomena.
+
+"This is a bar of steel 36 inches long.  It is composed of
+physical atoms but no two physical atoms touch.  Each physical
+atom is as far apart from every other atom as the stars in heaven
+from one another--in proportion to their size.  The atoms and
+the spaces between them are so small to our sight that they seem
+to touch.  If we had a microscope of sufficient power to reveal
+the atom, you would see that no two atoms touch, and that the
+spaces between them are, as Faraday says, very great in
+proportion to their size.  I showed you last term that what
+appeared to be a solid stream of water, when magnified and thrown
+upon a screen, was merely a succession of independent drops that
+did not touch.  I can not yet give you proof of the bar of iron
+being composed of independent atoms, but that is the fault of our
+instruments, and you must take my word for it until the proof is
+simplified and made easy of application.
+
+"Each one of these physical atoms is a miniature world.  It is
+the center of an ocean of ether, composed of many atoms;  and
+while no two physical atoms touch, their etheric atmospheres do
+touch, and any change in the vibration of the etheric atmosphere
+of one will be imparted to that of the next.  As the vibration of
+the physical atom must be in harmony with that of its etheric
+atmosphere, any change coming to one will be imparted to the
+next, and the next, through the ether surrounding them.
+
+"You can see that the index at the end of the bar has moved,
+showing that it is now longer.  That means the etheric atoms are
+now vibrating faster, taking more space, and have necessarily
+forced each physical atom farther apart.  The bar is not only
+longer, but softer, and as the vibrations increase in rapidity
+the time will come when it will bend by its own weight, and even
+when it will become a liquid and a gas.
+
+"If you put your hand anywhere near the bar you will feel a
+sensation called heat, and say it has become hot.  The reason for
+that is that you are in actual and literal touch with the bar or
+iron through the ether.  It is not alone each atom of the bar of
+iron that is surrounded by the ether, but each atom of the air,
+and each atom of your body.  Their etheric atmospheres are all
+touching, and the increase in the vibration of the ether
+surrounding the atoms of iron is imparted to those of the air
+surrounding it, and these in turn raise the rate of vibration in
+the etheric atoms surrounding the physical atoms of your hand.
+This rate of vibration in your nerves causes a sensation, or
+mental impression, you call "heat."  Consciousness of it comes
+through your sense of touch;  but after all it is merely a "rate
+of vibration" which your brain recognizes and names.
+
+"The bar has now reached a temperature of about 700 degrees, and
+has become a dull red.  Why do you say the color has changed, and
+why do you say red?
+
+"Because the rate of vibration of the etheric atoms in the bar is
+now about 412 trillions per second, and this rate of vibration
+having been imparted to the ether of the air, has in turn been
+imparted to the ether of your eye, and this rate of vibration in
+the ether of the nerves of your eye your brain recognizes and
+calls 'red.'
+
+"The heat still continues and increases.  You now have both heat
+and light.  So you see that the ether is not vibrating in a
+single note, but in two chording notes, producing light and heat.
+There are two kinds of ether around the iron atom.  There is
+sound also, but the note is too high for one's ears.  It is a
+chord of three notes.
+
+"Professor Silliman, of Yale, discovered over twenty years ago,
+that the ether could be differentiated into the luminiferous, or
+light ether, and the sonoriferous, or sound ether.
+
+"Other great scientists since then have found a third ether--the
+heat ether.
+
+"Their discoveries show that the atmospheric etheric envelope of
+each etheric atom is made up of etheric atoms of different
+vibratory powers.  As the atmosphere of the earth is made up of
+atoms of oxygen and nitrogen and argon, so that of an atom is
+made up of three kinds of ethers, corresponding to three of our
+senses.  That it consists of five ethers, corresponding to our
+five senses, as the ancient Hindus assert--who can say?
+
+"I mention this subject of the differentiation of the ether
+merely that you may not suppose that the ether is a simple
+substance.  For the present we will treat it as a simple
+substance, but next year we will take it up as a compound one.
+
+"This steel bar before you is not one bar, but two bars.  There
+is a visible bar and an invisible bar, the visible bar being made
+of physical atoms, and the invisible bar of etheric atoms.  The
+etheric bar is invisible, but it is made of matter, the same as
+the visible bar, and it is just as real, just as truly a bar as
+the one we see.
+
+"More than this.  The etheric, invisible bar is the source and
+cause of all phenomena connected with the bar.  It is the real
+bar, and the one we see is merely the shadow in physical matter
+of a real bar.  In shape, strength, color, in short, in
+everything, it depends on the invisible one.  The invisible
+dominates, governs, disposes.  The visible is merely its
+attendant shadow, changing as the invisible, etheric bar changes,
+and recording for our senses these invisible changes.
+
+"The invisible change always comes first;  the invisible
+phenomena invariably precede the visible.
+
+"In all this physical world--in all this universe--there is
+nothing, not even a grain of sand or an atom of hydrogen, that is
+not as this bar of iron is--the shadow cast on a visible world
+by the unknown and mysterious work of an invisible world.
+
+"Land or water, mountain or lake, man or beast, bird or reptile,
+cold or heat, light or darkness, all are the reflection in
+physical matter of the true and real thing in the invisible and
+intangible world about us.  "If we have a visible body we have an
+invisible one also," said Saint Paul.  Modern science has proven
+he was right, and that it is the invisible body which is the real
+body.
+
+"If this earth and all that it is composed of--land or ocean or
+air;  man or beast;  pyramid or pavement--could be resolved into
+the physical atoms composing everything in it or on it created by
+God or man, each atom of this dust would be identical physically.
+There would not be one kind of atom for iron and another for
+oxygen.
+
+"The differentiation between what are called elementary
+substances is first made apparent in the molecule or first
+combination of the atoms.  It is not in the atom itself, unless
+it be in the size, as may not be improbable.  The atoms combine
+in different numbers to make differently shaped molecules, and it
+is from this difference in the shape of the molecule that we get
+the difference between gold and silver, copper and tin, or oxygen
+and hydrogen.
+
+"In all chemical compounds, such as water and alcohol, the
+molecules at the base of the two or more substances break up into
+their original atoms and form a new molecule composed of all the
+atoms in the two or more things combined.  To make this chemical
+combination we must change the rate of vibration of one or the
+other or both until they strike a common chord.  As we saw last
+term, oxygen and hydrogen have different specific heats, and no
+two other elements have the same specific heat, while heat raises
+the rate of vibration.  Any given amount of heat raises the
+vibration of one more than another.  Apply heat, and the rate of
+one will rise faster than that of the other until they reach a
+common chord.  Then they fall apart and recombine.
+
+"If we pass a current of electricity through this sealed jar
+containing oxygen and hydrogen in mechanical union, the spark
+that leaps across the points furnishes the heat, and a drop of
+water appears and falls to the bottom.  A large portion of the
+gases has disappeared.  It has been converted into water.  What
+is left of the gases will expand and fill the bottle.
+
+"The drop of water but for local causes, but for a certain
+attraction of the earth, would float in the centre of the jar at
+the centre of gravity, as the earth does in space.  But the
+centre of gravity of the two bodies is far within the earth, and
+the drop gets as close to it as it can.  The earth's 'pull' takes
+it to the bottom.  If the jar were far enough away in space the
+drop would float, as the earth floats, at a point where all pulls
+balance, and the drop of water would have enough pull of its own,
+enough gravity within itself to hold all the gas left in the jar
+to itself as an atmosphere.  It would be a centre of energy, a
+minature world.
+
+"The drop of water is not a homogenous mass.  About one third of
+the bulk of the drop of water is made up of independent oxygen
+and hydrogen atoms interspersed through it, as any liquid is
+through this piece of blotting paper.  And it has, and keeps, by
+its own attraction, an atmosphere of the gas.  Each molecule of
+water has a thin layer, or skin, of the gas;  even as it comes
+from this faucet.
+
+"Let us return again to the physical dust, the atom.  Why should
+it form by fives for iron, by nines for hydrogen?  Where did the
+atom come from?  What is it?  We know that like the drop of
+water, it is a miniature world with an atmosphere of ether;  and
+the natural inference is that it is made from ether as the drop
+of water was made from gas.  Many things confirm this inference,
+and it may be accepted as 'a working hypothesis' that it is made
+from ether as the drop of water is made from gas, by the chemical
+union of a large amount of ether of different kinds, the etheric
+molecules of which consist of 2 and 3 or 5 and 4 etheric atoms,
+and that the tendency to combine in this or that number in
+physical matter is an inherited tendency brought with it from the
+etheric world of matter on which, or in which, each element of
+this world is two or more.  There is no kind of matter in this
+physical world, that has not its prototype in the etheric, and
+the laws of its action and reaction here are laws which it
+inherits and brings with it.  They are not laws made here.  They
+are laws of the other world--even as the matter itself is matter
+of the other world.
+
+"In 1882, Professor Lodge, in a lecture before the Royal
+Institution on 'The Luminiferous Ether' defined it as:
+
+"'One continuous substance, filling all space, which can vibrate
+as light, which can be sheared into positive and negative
+electricity, which in whirls constitutes matter, and which
+transmits by continuity and not impact every action and reaction
+of which matter is capable.'
+
+"This reads today like baby-talk but at that time (eighteen years
+ago), it was considered by many timid conservative scientists as
+'a daring movement.'  It is noteworthy in that it was the first
+public scientific announcement that the physical matter is a
+manifestation or form of the ether.  And it was made before
+general acceptance of the division of the ether into soniferous,
+luminiferous and tangiferous.
+
+"'Which in whirls constitutes matter.'  Professor Lodge believed
+that 'some etheric molecules revolved so rapidly on their axis
+that they could not be penetrated.'  Watch the soap-bubbles that
+I am blowing.  Each and every one is revolving as the earth
+revolves, from west to east.  What I wish to call your attention
+to is the fact that can be proven, both mathematically and
+theoretically, that at a certain rate of speed in the revolution
+they could not be penetrated by any rifle-ball.  At a higher rate
+of speed they would be harder than globes of solid chilled steel,
+harder even than carbon.  Professor Lodge believed that the
+etheric molecule revolved so rapidly that, thin as it was in its
+shell, it gave us the dust out of which worlds were made.  There
+is one fatal error in this idea, although it is held even now by
+many.  It is based entirely on gravity, and gravity is alone
+considered in its problems.  There are two great forces in the
+universe, not one, as many scientific people fail to remember
+--Gravity and Apergy, or the centrifugal and centripetal forces.
+The pull in is and must be always balanced by the pull out.
+There is in the universe as much repulsion as attraction, and the
+former is a force quite as important as the latter.  The bubble's
+speed kept increasing until apergy, the tendency to fly off,
+overcame gravity, and it ruptured.
+
+"Professor Lodge failed to take into account this apergic force,
+this tendency to fly off, when he gave such high revolutionary
+speed to the etheric molecules, a speed in which apergy would
+necessarily exceed gravity.  The failure to take apergy into
+consideration has been the undoing of many physicists.
+
+"Today we know that the ether is matter, the same as our own,
+only finer and rarer and in much more rapid vibration.  We know
+that this ether has its solids, liquids and gases formed from
+molecules of its atoms, even as our own are formed.  We know that
+its atoms combine as ours do, and while we have but eighty
+elementary combinations, it must have more than double the
+number.  We know that every form and shape and combination of
+these elements from this plane flows from inherited tendencies
+having their root in the etheric world.
+
+"The two worlds are one world--as much at one with ours as the
+world of gas about us is at one with our liquids and solids.  It
+is 'continuity, not impact.'  They not only touch everywhere and
+in everything, but they are one and the same in action and
+reaction."
+
+Thus spake a certain wise teacher of physics.  To his wise
+utterances, we can only add that such as we are today "we see
+through a glass, darkly."  Yet there will come a day when the
+physical bandages will be removed from our eyes, and we shall see
+face to face the beauty and grandeur and glory of this invisible
+world, and that in truth it 'transmits by continuity and not
+impact every action and reaction of which matter is capable,'
+forming one continuous chain of cause and effect, without a link
+missing.  There are no gulfs to cross;  no bridges to be made.
+It is here;  not there.  It is at one with us.  And we are at one
+with it.  One and the same law controls and guides the etheric
+atom and the physical atom made from its molecules, whether the
+latter are made in "whirls," as at first supposed, or by orderly
+combination as now believed.
+
+In fact, this visible world of ours is the perfect product of the
+other invisible one, having in it its root and foundation, the
+very sap of its life.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Five
+
+The Four Manifested Planes
+
+The oriental idea of the universe does not differ fundamentally
+in its general conception, from that of modern science, but it
+goes farther and explains more.  The physics of the secret
+doctrine are based upon a material universe of four planes of
+vibration and a spiritual universe of three planes of vibration
+beyond matter.  This Something in vibration may be given the
+English name, Consciousness--without entering upon its nature.
+
+Spirit is consciousness in vibration and undifferentiated.
+
+Matter is consciousness in vibration and differentiated.
+
+As we divide the seven octaves of a piano into Treble and Bass
+for clearness of thought and writing, so the Hidden Knowledge
+divides the seven octaves of vibration, or planes, into Spirit
+and Matter.  In their ultimate analysis they are one and the same
+thing, as ice and water are the same thing;  but for study they
+must be differentiated.
+
+The material and physical universe consists of four planes of
+matter, or four great octaves of vibration, each differentiated
+from the other as in our physics prakriti is differentiated from
+ether.  The material universe, the ancient physics teach, was
+originally pure thought, Manasa, the product of the spiritual
+planes above.  This manasic world was differentiated, a real
+world.  That is to say it was given elementary substances by the
+union of its atoms in different sized molecules.  Some of its
+elements combined and formed Prana.  The prana gathered and
+formed other worlds, pranic worlds.  Then in the pranic world
+etheric worlds were formed;  and finally in the etheric worlds,
+prakritic globes like the earth were formed.  The earth is the
+centre of a prakritic globe, revolving in ether around the sun.
+The sun is the centre of a solar globe of ether, revolving in
+prana around Alcyone.  Alcyone is the centre of a stellar globe
+of prana revolving in manasa around the central and hidden sun of
+the great manasic globe.  These four conditions of matter
+prakriti, ether, prana, and manasa are the earth, water, fire,
+air of the Ancient Metaphysics, the four elements of matter, and
+are present in every atom of prakriti.  When the atom of prana
+was formed, it had an envelope of manasa.  When the atom of ether
+was formed it had an envelope of pranic-manasic atoms.  When the
+prakritic atom was formed it had an envelope of etheric-pranic-
+manasic atoms, each of its encircling etheric atoms being the
+centre of a pranic molecule, and each pranic atom of that
+molecule being the centre of a manasic molecule.
+
+Each atom of prakriti was the material universe in miniature.  It
+held the potentialities of mind, life, and phenomena.  In every
+aggregation of atoms, there were the four planes, each in touch
+through the Cosmic Mind, its manasa, with other atoms in the
+universe, with every other globe of whatever kind.  "As above, so
+below," was the secret Key-word.  The unity of all the material
+universe in its prakriti, ether, prana and manasa, was the corner
+stone of this knowledge.  The three planes above prakriti were
+called Astral, and in common speech there was the ordinary
+division into two planes, visible and invisible, or "Spirit," as
+the invisible was called, and "Matter," as the visible was
+called.  Only in the hidden secret doctrine of physics, and in
+the open metaphysics which were a "stumbling block" and
+"foolishness" to those who had not the "inner light" of the
+physics, were the three divisions of the "astral" made known, and
+the true distinction between the spirit of the three higher
+planes and the matter of the four lower was kept out of the
+metaphysics, or only vaguely alluded to.
+
+There is no "oriental science" because the oriental does not
+attach the same value to merely physical knowledge that we do.
+But that must not be understood to imply that there is no
+oriental physics.  In all the matters that interest us now, as
+far as principles are concerned, the oriental knew all that we
+know.  He knew it thousands of years ago, when our ancestors were
+sleeping with the cave bears.
+
+"That is all the good it did him," the scientist says.  No.  That
+is not true.  It is perfectly true that the oriental, the
+Babylonian who carved on the Black Stone now in the British
+Museum the five moons of Jupiter, exposing himself to the
+derision of our astronomers prior to their own discovery of the
+fifth moon in 1898, did not care particularly whether there were
+four moons or five, and had no sale for any telescopes he might
+make, for no one else cared particularly.  But it was not true
+that he did not care for any and all knowledge that would improve
+his spiritual condition by giving him correct ideas of the
+universe and of his own part in it.  To him life was more than
+meat and the body more than raiment.  He was more afraid of sin
+than of ignorance.  We are more afraid of ignorance than of sin.
+He preferred to better men's moral condition;  we prefer to
+better their physical condition.
+
+If one of the Sages of the East could be called up and put on the
+stand to be questioned, he would say, substantially:
+
+"You are right in regard to your ether, and to prakriti being
+ether that has been dropped a great octave in vibration.  Your
+physical atom is surrounded by a molecule of ether, this molecule
+containing many atoms of ether.  The chording vibration does
+produce all physical phenomena.
+
+"But where did the ether atom come from?  How can you explain how
+and whence life comes, or what it is?  This explains physical,
+but how do you explain vital phenomena?
+
+"You are wrong in assuming that all the matter of the universe
+apart from the earth or planets is ether and only ether.  The
+etheric world in which you are interested ends with your solar
+system.  It ends with each solar system, to the people of that
+system.  Between each solar system and another there is another
+form of matter that is not ether.
+
+"This etheric solar world of ours is very large, many billions of
+miles in diameter;  but it is not the whole universe.  You know
+that the sun and all its planets are revolving around the star
+Alcyone.  Your astronomers told you that years ago, and they have
+recently given you the rate of speed as 4,838 miles per hour.
+
+"Did you not see and know that if they had this revolution around
+a central sun it must be within a solar globe?
+
+"Did you think that the sun and its planets, and other suns and
+their planets, were tearing their way through the ether like so
+many fish on a dipsy-hook from a Marblehead fishing smack running
+before the wind?
+
+"Did it never occur to you that the ether of this solar system
+must be revolving around this central sun?  The whole solar
+system, ether and planets, are revolving around Alcyone, and the
+reason why their minor revolution around the sun is not affected
+by it is because the solar system is a vast globe of ether,
+having a thinner and rarer medium to revolve in, the same as our
+earth has.  It is the motion of a fly in a moving car.
+
+"Now fix your attention on this globe of ether, this solar globe.
+You must do it to get the concept before you.  You have known of
+it all your life without once really apprehending it, for you
+have never learned to think, or to utilize the knowledge that was
+given you.  The idea is as new and as strange as if you had never
+known it.
+
+"What lies beyond the surface of the solar globe?  Something
+must;  something as much rarer and thinner than the ether as the
+ether is rarer and thinner than prakriti.  Can you not guess?
+
+"It is Prana, the life force of the universe.  As prakriti is
+made from ether, so ether is made from prana.  It is made in the
+same way.  Each atom of the ether is the centre of a molecule of
+prana, surrounded by an atmosphere of pranic atoms, exactly as
+your prakritic atom is surrounded by an atmosphere of etheric
+atoms.  You say that each atom of prakriti is the centre of a
+molecule of ether.  So it is.  But each atom of that etheric
+molecule is the centre of a pranic molecule.  Each atom of your
+physical matter is triple, not double.
+
+"You say that all physical phenomena come from the chording
+vibration of the etheric and prakritic atoms of the two planes of
+matter.  Yes.  But do you not see that all vital phenomena come
+from the chording vibration of the pranic, etheric, and prakritic
+atom of the three planes of matter which are in each atom?
+
+"In the living leaf the three planes are sounding in chord in each
+atom of it.  In the dead leaf, drying up and falling to pieces,
+only the lower two are sounding in chord.  The silver chord has
+been broken.
+
+"Each atom of prakriti you say has the potentiality of some kind
+of phenomenon.  We add 'and of life also.'  The potentialities of
+life are in every atom of prakriti.  Even the atom of iron may
+live in the blood.  It cannot become a part of any living
+organism until its prana is sounding the chord of life in unison
+with the ether and prakriti--the threefold silver chord.
+
+"What is the centre of this prana?  It is Alcyone.  There are
+other solar globes beside ours circling around Alcyone, and we
+have been considering only our own solar globe of ether.  Alcyone
+is the centre of the prana in which they revolve as the sun is
+the centre of our ether in which the planets revolve.  As this
+prana has a centre around which we revolve with other solar
+systems, then it must have a center of gravity.
+
+"Then this prana is a globe.
+
+"The prana does not then fill this material universe.  There must
+be yet another form of matter rarer and finer than prana, from
+which prana is made, as ether is made from prana and prakriti
+from ether.  Have we any other class of phenomena to explain,
+except vital and physical?  Yes, there is a very important class,
+mental.  And here we have the explanation, if we exercise our
+reason.
+
+"These pranic globes are floating in an ocean of manasa, matter
+in its rarest form.
+
+"Each atom of prana is formed from manasa, exactly as ether was
+formed from prana, and each pranic atom in the universe is the
+centre of a manasic molecule, having an atmosphere of manasic
+atoms.
+
+"So we are not exact in giving the prakritic atom three planes or
+octaves of vibration.  It has four.  You merely surround it with
+etheric atoms, and this is correct so far as it goes.  You only
+wish to explain physical problems.  But there are other problems
+to be explained, problems of life and mind, and the same
+knowledge you have explains them as well as the others, if you
+simply avail yourself of it.  That you do not consider the atom
+as four-fold instead of two-fold is your own fault.  I have not
+told you anything you did not already know.  I have only asked
+you to apply your present knowledge of physics to these problems
+of life and mind, and apply your reasoning powers.
+
+"The chording vibration in an atom of matter of
+
+"The two planes produces Force, or phenomena
+
+"The three planes produces Life--the silver chord
+
+"The four planes produces Mind--the golden chord.
+
+"You say there is no gulf between the prakritic and etheric
+worlds;  that it is one continuous world;  and all its phenomena
+are by continuity and not impact.  That is true, but it is not
+the whole truth.
+
+"There is no gulf to cross between the prakritic and etheric
+worlds;  none to cross between that and the manasic.  The four
+worlds are one great world, continuous, interchangeable.  Through
+the four as well as through the two, there is continuity and not
+impact.  Whether it is an atom or a world, the four are there.
+Nothing, no combination of atoms, no matter of any kind, however
+small or large, can exist in this prakritic world unless it has
+the four elements, which from time immemorial our philosophers
+have called Earth, Water, Fire, Air, meaning the four globes or
+forms of matter in the universe.  We do not have to leave the
+earth to live in the etheric globe.  It is here.  Nor do we have
+to go millions of miles to reach the pranic globe.  It is here.
+The problems of light and heat are no easier than the problems of
+birth and death.  The pranic globe is within us;  within
+everything.  So is the manasic.
+
+"It is here on these higher planes that the chances for worthy
+study are greatest.  At least we think so, though you may not.
+We live on the manasic--pranic--etheric globe on precisely the
+same terms that we live on this of prakriti, and the problems of
+the three are equally open to us.
+
+"If there are any who care to follow up the line of thought I
+have opened, who care for the questions that interest us of the
+East, I will talk as long as they care to listen, provided they
+will not ask for knowledge that will give them power over others,
+which cannot fail to be used for evil."
+
+This is but a glimpse of Hindu physics, yet it has helped us in
+the metaphysics.  We now understand the chain of globes--in
+part.  The earth is fourfold.  As each atom of the earth is
+fourfold, so their aggregations give us prakritic earth, an
+etheric earth, a pranic earth, and a manasic earth--in
+coadunition and not like the skin of an onion.  They are separate
+and distinct globes, each on its own plane.  It is four down and
+three up for the Angel entering matter, whether from the outmost
+boundary of manasic matter, or the surface of the earth, or the
+cover of a baseball.  The "chain of globes" in the Secret
+Doctrine represents the unity of the material universe.
+
+The three-fold nature of the astral model is revealed, and the
+unity of all prakritic things.  But more than that, to many
+minds, will be the explanation it gives of why there are but four
+planes of vibration in matter;  that the highest form of
+development in prakriti shows only four elements, prakriti or
+body, sensation or force, life, and mind, and that these last
+three, present in all things in esse, become present in posse
+when they work together harmonically.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Six
+
+Our Place on Earth
+
+
+The next time our wise man from the east was asked to "say a few
+words and make his own topic," he spoke, perhaps, as follows:
+
+"How large do you think the earth is?  You answer promptly, 7,912
+miles in diameter.  You are as far out of the way as you were in
+supposing that our sun could be a centre of gravity of a lot of
+planets revolving around it and around Alcyone without being a
+globe of ether.  Now that it has been mentioned, you see very
+clearly for yourself that it must be a solar globe of ether.  It
+follows from one of your physical axioms.  When I tell you why
+the earth is and must be about fifty thousand miles in diameter,
+you will see that it must be so, and that you knew it all the
+time, but never stopped to formulate your knowledge.  You have
+had the knowledge for three centuries without applying it.
+
+"It was in 1609 that your greatest astronomer, John Kepler,
+announced as one of three harmonic laws by which the universe was
+governed, that the squares of the times of the planets were
+proportional to the cubes of their distances from the sun;  and
+that this law was true in physics and everywhere.  No one of your
+scientists has had the wisdom to study out what it meant, and for
+three centuries, for 291 years, you have repeated his words like
+so many parrots, instead of using the key he gave you to unlock
+the mysteries of the universe.  A corollary of his law is that
+the planets move in their orbits because they are impelled
+thereto between the two forces, and move in a mean curve between
+them;  but it was not until 1896 that you discovered that the
+mean between two forces is always a curve and never a straight
+line.  You have not a text book in a school today that does not
+repeat this fundamental and absurd error--which you have known
+for three centuries to be an error--that the motion resulting
+from a mean between forces is "in a straight line."  The curves
+resulting here are not to be measured easily, and are so large
+that small segments appear straight lines;  and it was not until
+Carpenter demonstrated it mathematically that any one could
+believe it true.
+
+"There are two great forces in this universe.  Your grandfathers
+called them Centripetal and Centrifugal forces;  your fathers
+called them Gravity and Apergy, names which still cling to them;
+and you call them Attraction and Repulsion.
+
+"It was Kepler, not Newton, who discovered that Attraction or
+Gravity was in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.
+
+"You know the meaning of this mystic phrase, 'as the squares of
+the distance.'  You understand that it means the attraction at
+two feet is only one-fourth the attraction at one foot;  at four
+feet only one-sixteenth;  at eight feet, only one sixty-fourth.
+
+"But who knows or cares for Kepler's great law of Repulsion, or
+Apergy?  That was that the 'square of the times are as the cubes
+of the distance.'  It has lain fallow for centuries.  No one of
+your western physicists has ever studied it, or tried to explain
+it.  It remains just where Kepler left it, as the mere law of
+orbital revolution of the planets only.
+
+"It is the key to the proper understanding of the universe.
+
+"'The squares of the times are as the cubes of the distance'
+means that all motion is the result of two forces acting upon
+prakriti, and that where the two forces are balanced, or equal,
+the result in motion is a circle or ellipse, the square of the
+Repulsion being equal to the cube of the Attraction to make them
+equal and produce a circle.  In other cases they produce
+hyperbola and parabola.
+
+"This is a little dry--nearly all fundamental knowledge is--but
+the reward of patience is great.
+
+"The orbital speed of the earth is about 60,000 miles per hour.
+The attraction of the sun exactly equals the repulsion created by
+the motion;  more accurately, the speed created by the repulsion.
+The result of the two forces working together at exact balance is
+a circle.  An ellipse is a circle bent a little, and the ellipse
+in which the earth actually moves comes from varying attraction
+and repulsion.  Kepler's second law covers that.
+
+"If the orbital speed of the earth were a mile less per hour, or
+even a foot less, then the earth would wind up around the sun as
+a dog gets wound up with his chain around a tree.  If this speed
+were a mile more per hour, then the earth would wind out, each
+year getting farther and farther away, until finally it would be
+lost.  When the speed is exactly proportional to the pull--that
+is, when it is as 1.6 is to 2,--the result is a circular orbit,
+the eccentricity of which is caused by certain fluctuations in
+the attraction and repulsion.
+
+"Suppose a planet were to be placed so that it would have a time
+of two years.  Its distance from the sun would be 1.6 that of the
+earth.  Why?  Because to get the time doubled we would have to
+take the square root of 4;  and to get the distance the cube root
+of the same number, 4.  If you wish to be very exact the cube
+root is 1.5889, but 1.6 is near enough for all ordinary work.
+
+"If you wanted to find out the distance of a planet revolving in
+six months you would divide the earth's distance by 1.6.
+
+"In proportion you get any time or distance you may desire with
+absolute accuracy.  The distance of any planet from the sun gives
+its time, or its time gives its distance--when that of any of
+the others is known.  This law applies throughout the universe;
+in everything and everywhere.  It is not a law of orbital
+revolution alone, but a law of all motion.
+
+"Our moon has a time of 29 days and a speed of about 50,000 miles
+per day.  If the speed were greater it would leave us, if less it
+would wind up, falling to the earth in the form of a spiral.
+
+"At what distance would it have to be to have a time of fourteen
+days? Divide 240,000 miles by 1.6.  A seven-day moon, would be
+1.6 that distance.  And the exact distance for a one-day moon,
+for a moon that would always be in the same place in the heavens,
+moving as the earth revolved on its axis, would be about 24,998
+miles.
+
+"This gives us the line of 24-hour axial rotation, the true
+surface of the earth, and the sheer-line of prakritic matter.
+Beyond that line is the ether;  within that line is prakriti.
+
+"It is the line of no weight, where gravity and apergy exactly
+balance.  Inside that line gravity exceeds apergy and everything
+revolving in less time, or that time, must fall to the centre.
+It is the true surface of any 24-hour globe of this size and
+weight.  A moon to revolve around the earth in less than one day
+must move faster than the earth to develop enough apergy to
+overcome the attraction.  That phenomenon we see in the moons of
+Mars, which are within its atmosphere;  within the planet itself.
+
+"We of the East learned this true size of the earth over six
+thousand years ago, from observing the moons of Jupiter.  The
+times of the first three are doubled.  We asked ourselves what
+this meant and found that their distance was increased by the
+cube root of 4 when their times were increased by the square root
+of 4;  that time was to distance as 1.6 was to 2.  Then we
+applied the key, and found it unlocked many mysteries.
+
+"The first lesson this taught us was that we did not live on the
+earth, but within the earth, at the line of liquid and gaseous
+changes, where the three forms of matter meet and mingle and
+interchange with each other.  We lived at the bottom of a gaseous
+ocean 21,000 miles above us, and 4,000 miles from the centre of
+the globe.  It gave us an entirely new conception of the earth,
+and of our place in it.
+
+"We saw that we lived in a narrow belt, or skin, of the earth,
+not more than 100 miles thick, perhaps not more than ten miles.
+Within this belt the prakritic elementary substances varied their
+condition, combined, and made forms by increasing or decreasing
+vibration.  It was the creative and destructive zone, the
+evolutionary "mother"--the liquid level of the prakriti--the
+seat of all physical phenomena.  Fifty miles above, the masses of
+nitrogen and oxygen and argon were too cold to change their rate
+of vibration.  Fifty miles below the surface of the earth all
+things were too hot for changes in vibration.  In this kinetic
+belt, between two static masses our bodies had been made, and
+also, in all probability, all combinations of the elementary
+substances.  It was four thousand miles to the centre of the
+static prakritic mass beneath us;  twenty-one thousand miles to
+the surface of the static prakritic mass above us, and the small
+kinetic belt between was only one hundred miles thick.  But we
+had one consolation, the prakriti we had was all kinetic, and the
+best in the whole mass.
+
+"The second lesson it taught us was that as the earth had been
+made in the etheric globe, in a corresponding skin or plane of
+kinetic etheric energy, with our ether the best of the solar
+output, that we ourselves were subject through our ether to the
+phenomena of that kinetic solar plane in precisely the same way
+we now are to the phenomena of the kinetic prakritic plane.  Once
+rid of the fallacious notion that we were creatures of the
+surface of the earth, once clearly conscious that we were
+creatures of the interior, of the bottom of this gaseous ocean,
+then we could understand not only how the earth could be created
+in this etheric globe, but how we could be creatures of the solar
+globe living on it.
+
+"When we learned that lesson, and learned it well, it dawned upon
+us that we were living in the pranic globe at the same kinetic
+level or plane of that globe, the line where its solids and
+liquids and gases mingled and passed from one state to another,
+the kinetic belt in which our solar globe has been made, and that
+we were living as truly on that globe as we were on this
+prakritic globe.  Our position on each globe was the same.
+
+"And then the great truth came that we lived in the manasic
+globe, at the same kinetic level;  and that we lived our lives on
+the four globes simultaneously.  Our bodies are fourfold.  Every
+atom is fourfold, ready to respond in our minds to the vibrations
+of the Manasic world, in our vitality to the pranic vibrations of
+the pranic world, in our nerves to the etheric vibrations of the
+etheric world, and in our prakriti to vibrations of the prakritic
+world.  Each one of our bodies lived on its own earth globe, for
+there were four globes of this earth--in coadunition--in its
+corresponding kind of globe.
+
+"The four earth globes became one globe, as our four bodies were
+one body;  and the chain of four kinds of globes in matter became
+one globe, as the manasic with the others on it.
+
+"These four kinds of globes were the beginning and the end of
+matter, as we distinguish and know matter.  They were not the end
+of vibration;  or of planes of vibration;  or of realms beyond
+this material universe;  but they were the limits of all that is
+common to each and every atom of this lower plane of vibration.
+
+"It is upon this solid and perfect foundation of physics, that
+accounts for and explains every kind of phenomena, we have
+constructed our metaphysics.  All that belongs to these four
+lower planes we consider and treat as physics.  All that relates
+to the planes beyond we consider metaphysics.  Can you teach a
+child equation of payments before he knows the first four rules?
+You would not attempt such a task.  The first four rules are the
+physics of arithmetic;  all beyond is the metaphysics of
+arithmetic.  It flows out of them.  Can you comprehend our system
+of metaphysics until you have clearly and completely mastered our
+physics?  Would you not get into a fog at the very start?
+
+"There can be no system of metaphysics without a solid foundation
+of physics.  The idea is unthinkable.  The one grows out of the
+other.  It is its life;  its fruit, its flower.
+
+"You have no western system of physics.  Your physics are without
+form and void;  patchwork, constantly changing.  There is no
+substantial foundation for any system of metaphysics.  What you
+say or do in physics is fragmentary or chaotic.
+
+"It is perfectly true, so far as you have gone through the first
+invisible world of ether, you are much more masters of detail
+than we are.
+
+"We have not cared particularly for the minor details by which
+explosives are made, or metals obtained from oxides.  We have
+preferred to push on into realms beyond as fast as we could,
+seeking first the Kingdom of Heaven and its Righteousness,
+knowing that when it was found all these things would be added
+unto us."
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Seven
+
+The Four Globes
+
+
+That we live in the earth, not on the earth, is one of the most
+important of the facts of eastern physics in the study of its
+metaphysics.  The mathematical and physical proof that the
+physical earth is 50,000 miles in diameter should not be
+passed over lightly in our haste to get on, for the perfect
+understanding of all this fact implies makes easy the
+comprehension of how we live etherically in the solar etheric
+globe, of how we live pranically in the stellar pranic globe, and
+how we live manasically in the manasic globe.
+
+As we live within the narrow "skin" of phenomena, not more than
+100 miles thick, of this prakritic globe, with the whole earth
+within the corresponding skin of phenomena of the solar etheric
+globe, within the kinetic belt in which it was made, the ether
+which surrounds each prakritic molecule is not merely any and
+every kind of ether, but that particular kind of kinetic ether,
+which, by changing its rate of vibration through an octave,
+creates phenomena.  The ether of all prakritic matter belongs to
+the kinetic or creative belt of the solar etheric globe.  It is
+not static ether.  The ether in our prakriti is in touch with all
+the prakritic kinetic ether of the solar globe, subject to all
+solar laws of change;  and all our prak-solar laws of change;
+and all our prakritic matter, a mere detail of it, is a part of
+the solar phenomena.  "Our father, the sun," or "Dyaus pitar"
+("heavenly father"--Latin, Jupiter) meant more once than it does
+now.  Then the solar globe was the first heaven, and to live
+under its laws, puttings off the coat of skin, was an object
+which men believed to be worth striving for.  They recognized, as
+we do not, that our prakritic laws were not all they had to obey;
+that the higher law of the solar globe on which they lived, of
+which the lower prakritic laws were merely an outcome and detail,
+was worthy of the closest study.  And they recognized that these
+higher laws of the etheric globe were metaphysical as well as
+physical;  that our moral law flows out of the moral law of the
+solar etheric world, as our physics flow from and out of solar
+physics.  Religion is correct in its assumption of this higher
+law of morals;  incorrect only in its grasp and explanation.
+Science is correct in holding only in its assumption that it is
+physical science;  incorrect only in its assumption that it is
+physical science of this plane and globe only.  There is no
+quarrel between science and religion when the full knowledge of
+one stands beside the full knowledge of the other.  They are
+twin-sisters.
+
+This solar-etheric globe in which we are interested revolves
+around Alcyone within that kinetic belt or skin of prana which is
+subject to phenomena or vibration through one octave--else it
+would never have been formed.  All prana in the solar-etheric
+globe is of this particular kind of kinetic prana, which creates
+life of all kinds--which is subject to vibration through one
+octave.  The solar globe is a detail of kinetic prana only, one
+of its phenomena.  Necessarily, all our prana is of this kinetic
+kind, and our earth a minor detail of it in the Alcyone globe.
+All the changes and combinations possible in kinetic prana on the
+pranic globe are possible here, in our kinetic prana, as all the
+phenomena of the etheric world are possible here in our kinetic
+ether.
+
+As our earth is a globe of ether and a globe of prana as well as
+a globe of prakriti;  we are actually living on a small "cabbage"
+of that pranic globe, and subject to all its laws.
+
+In the vast manasic globe that includes this whole material
+universe there is the same kinetic belt or skin of "phenomena" or
+vibration similar to that kinetic belt in which we live on the
+earth, and the manasa which permeates the Alcyonic globe, the
+solar globe, and the earth is that kinetic manasa which is
+involving and evolving.  This involving and evolving kinetic
+manasa of the Alcyonic globe is that which surrounds every atom
+of ether of the solar globe and every atom of prakriti of this
+earth globe.  In the great manasic globe this earth of ours is a
+minute village of Helios (sun) county, in the state of Alcyone.
+We are actually and literally living in this manasic globe
+precisely as we live in this earth, and as in the village we are
+subject to all the laws of the manasic world, we can study them
+here in this village as well as we could elsewhere.  We can study
+them as easily as we study our prakritic village laws, or our
+etheric county laws, for all the forms of manasa subject to them
+anywhere are here with us.  We are not limited to a study of the
+prakritic laws of the village fathers, nor yet to the etheric
+laws of the supervisors of Helios county, as scientists say, nor
+even to the state laws of Alcyone;  only the manasic laws of the
+Universe limit our material studies in that direction.  As some
+men on this earth never leave their native village and never know
+or care for any matters outside of it, so in this little earth
+village, in the kinetic belt of the manasic globe, there are men
+who do not care to know anything which relate to matters outside
+its boundaries.  As some men may pass the boundaries of their
+village, but not of their county, caring only for the matters
+concerning it, so the western scientists of this earth village on
+the manasic globe do not pass the boundaries of Helios county,
+caring only for etheric matters.  The philosophers and wise men
+of the East are broader minded and from time immemorial have
+taken greater interest in the pranic affairs of Alcyone and the
+manasic condition of the universe in which Alcyone is a state
+than in the rustic murmur of their village or the gossip of their
+county.
+
+There is nothing lacking in our manasic earth-village, nothing
+that is in more abundant measure in our county, state, and
+nation.  We are of the best.
+
+We of this village may imagine, if we like, that there is nothing
+beyond the village limits, and nothing in it but that which
+relates to the village.  We have the right to be silly, if we
+wish to be.  And it is no sign of wisdom to say that there is a
+county beyond, but that the county boundaries end all, and only
+village and county politics may be studied.  The European who
+believed--no Asiatic or African or American could have believed
+--that the earth rested on an elephant and the elephant on
+a turtle was wise, in comparison.  Nor is it any sign of
+intelligence to say that we may learn something of the village
+and county while we live, but that to learn anything about the
+state and nation we must wait until we are dead.  There are too
+many in the village who are familiar with both state and nation,
+and who have studied their laws, for this to be anything but
+idiotic.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Eight
+
+The Battle Ground
+
+
+Each and every one of our eighty-odd elementary substances owe
+their condition--whether solid, liquid, or gas--to their rate
+of vibration.  We have reduced all gases to a liquid and nearly
+all to a solid form.  Conversely, we have raised all solids to a
+liquid and nearly all to a gaseous condition.  This has been done
+by reducing or raising the vibration of each within one octave
+--each one of the eighty odd having a special octave, a tone or
+half-tone different from any other.  Normally, the solids,
+vibrating in the lower notes, gather together under Attraction;
+while the gases, vibrating in the higher notes, diffuse under
+Repulsion.  Between them, created by the interchange of these two
+forces, is our "skin" of phenomena, or kinetics.
+
+Broadly, the attraction of the universe comes from its vibration
+at certain centres in the three higher notes;  the repulsion
+comes from its vibration everywhere else in the three higher
+notes.  The central note, D of the scale, represents the battle
+ground between the field of kinetics.  This in simple
+illustration is water turning into gas.
+
+This is the great battle ground, the only one worth considering
+in a general view.  There are minor "critical stages" which the
+chemist studies, but for us, in this broad sketch of the
+universe, the important battle-ground is that between solid and
+liquid on one side representing gravity, and gas on the other,
+representing apergy.
+
+All the solids and liquids of this earth of ours gather at the
+centre, in a core, each of the elements (or their combinations)
+in this core vibrating in their three lower notes, producing the
+attraction, which is "in proportion to the mass" and which
+decreases from the surface of the core "as the square of the
+substance."
+
+Around this central core gather all the elements vibrating in the
+three higher notes of their octave as gases, producing repulsion
+which increases by 1.6 for each doubled time.  It is worth while
+making this clear.  It has never before appeared in print.
+
+Let the amount of apergy, or repulsion, or centrifugal force at
+the surface of the earth be represented by x.  This is the result
+of motion at the rate of 1,000 miles per hour.  Make this motion
+2,000 miles per hour, and the apergy is increased 1.6.  Four
+thousand miles above the surface of this earth the rotation
+is at the rate of 2,000.  It is the globe of 48,000 miles in
+circumference revolving in 24 hours, and the speed is doubled.
+This apergy has increased by 1.6.  As the apergy increases at
+this rate every time the speed is doubled, at a distance
+of 21,000 miles the speed is 7,000 miles per hour and the
+centrifugal force has been increased nearly four times what it
+was at the surface of the ocean.  The attraction has been
+decreased to about one-thirtieth.  At the surface it is equal to
+120 x.  At 4,000 miles to one-quarter, or 30 x;  at 16,000 miles
+to one-sixteenth, or 7 x;  and at 21,000 miles to 4 x.
+
+If "equatorial gravity is about 120 times that of the equatorial
+apergy," at the ocean level, then at the distance of 21,000 miles
+from it, in a revolving globe, the two forces would be equal;
+the "pull" of each being 4 x, and an anchor will weigh no more
+than a feather, for weight is the excess of gravity or apergy.
+
+If the pyramids had been built of the heaviest known material on
+the gases 21,000 miles above us, and so that they should revolve
+in the same time, 7,000 miles per hour, they would remain there.
+All the attraction of the solid core of the earth that could be
+exerted on them at that distance would not be enough to pull them
+an inch nearer to it through our gaseous envelope.  Their gaseous
+foundation there would be as firm as igneous rock here.
+
+The force of repulsion created by the three higher notes of an
+octave means just as much at the attraction created by the three
+lower notes, whether it is in a chemical retort, within this
+earth, or within this universe.  The two forces balance, and are
+exactly equal.  They fight only within kinetic zones.
+
+Given the vast manasic globe of differentiated matter, its atoms
+uniting in different numbers to form molecules as the bases of
+elementary substances, manasic substances, of course.  The thrill
+of vibration is sweeping through it from the spiritual plane
+above, and the elements (and their combinations) which answer in
+the lower notes gather and form a core, the Invisible Central
+Sun, with its attraction.  The elements answering in the higher
+notes gather around it with their repulsion.  So the two opposing
+forces were born, with a vast kinetic skin for a battle-ground
+between them.
+
+The attraction of the invisible central sun manifests itself to
+us in prakriti as Light.  The repulsion of its covering, or the
+higher static vibration of manasa, manifests itself to us as
+Darkness.  The first creative act in or on matter was the
+creation of Light and its separation from the Darkness.  The next
+creative act was the establishment of a kinetic skin or zone
+between them, a firmament in which the two forces of Light and
+Darkness could strive for mastery.  "And God called the firmament
+Heaven."  The third creative act was the gathering of the solids
+and liquids together, and the beginning of the kinetic work in
+the creation of forms and shapes, by the cross play of the two
+forces in their combinations of solid with gases.
+
+All this had to happen before the manasa combined and dropped in
+vibration to prana--and before the pranic globes were formed and
+the Light could be manifested to us through them.  It may be well
+to read the first chapter of Genesis over and ask forgiveness for
+our ignorance, from the writer who records this creation of the
+pranic globes as the fourth act of creation, and the creation of
+the etheric sun and prakritic moon to follow that.  That record
+is mutilated, fragmentary;  but the writer of it knew the facts.
+If we had the full story, instead of a sentence here and there,
+taken from an older story not to tell of creation but to hide
+another tale for the priest, the writer of Genesis would laugh
+last.
+
+But let us return to the kinetic skin of energy between Light and
+the Darkness--the firmament which God calls Heaven--the battle
+ground for gravity and apergy, or attraction and repulsion, or
+good and evil, or the powers of light and darkness.  This skin is
+like that of an onion, thickest at the equator and thinnest at
+the poles--not only on this earth but in the solar, alcyonic,
+and manasic globes.  The equatorial belt, where phenomena are
+richest in the manasic globes, we call the Milky Way;  in the
+solar globe we call it the plane of the ecliptic;  and on the
+earth, the tropics.  Modern science has not yet found it in
+Alcyonic globe--because it has never thought of looking for it.
+
+This division of the Light from the Darkness was all that was
+required for evolution on the manasic globe within the kinetic
+belt.  This evolution was not confined to the making of a few
+alcyonic or pranic globes.  It was (and is) a great and wonderful
+evolution beyond words and almost beyond imagination.  It is the
+Heaven which mankind has longed to see and know.  The writer of
+Genesis mixed it with the creation of this earth, using earthly
+metaphors.  Before finding fault, we should better his language.
+We have not the words in physics to do it, and must wait for our
+metaphysics.  But of one thing we may be sure, that the pranic-
+alcyonic globes here and there at the "sea level" of the manasic
+globe--in what God calls Heaven--amount to no more on that
+globe, or in Heaven, than so many balls of thistle-down blown
+across a meadow do on this earth of ours.  Everything that can be
+created in thought must be there.  It is in thought only, but in
+thought it is differentiated as sharply as anything in prakriti.
+The manasic world, the Heaven of the Bible, is as real as our own
+world can possibly be;  in fact, more real, for when ours is
+resolved back into its final elements, it will be but "the dust
+of the ground" of the manasic world.
+
+The pranic globes created in this manasic skin by Sound, or the
+Logos, or vibration, evolved in identically the same way--with a
+central static core and an outer static envelope, of low and high
+vibration in prana, creating attraction and repulsion, or gravity
+and apergy.  The kinetic skin between, in which these forces play
+in the pranic world, makes a real, not an imaginary pranic world,
+though but a faint reflection of the manasic.  When our father,
+the Central Invisible Sun, transfers his attraction to these
+alcyonic suns, the Light has something in which to manifest
+itself, and we "see" this manifesting core and call it Alcyone,
+and its manifestation Light;  but light in its last material
+analysis is but the static mind or thought vibrating in the three
+lower notes of the octave.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Nine
+
+The Dual Man
+
+
+Within the alcyonic globes of differentiated pranic-manasic atoms
+the vibration divided them also into solid-liquid cores and
+gaseous envelopes, and a kinetic skin of phenomena.  And then a
+new world--a world of Life, came into material existence.  All
+the atoms of thought or manasa, surrounding each and every pranic
+atom, and making its molecule of energy, so to speak, were that
+particular kind of kinetic manasa ready to change its rate of
+vibration within an octave, and the forms prana assumes from the
+action of thought within the kinetic belt were living and
+thinking.  Each pranic globe, which was a small state of product
+of the manasic, consisted of two globes in coadunition--two in
+one.  Each pranic atom was the centre of a manasic molecule and
+represented the universe.  All things were two in one, created by
+harmonic vibration between them, and existence by the greater
+strength of the lower notes, or attraction.  It was at once less
+and more wonderful than the manasic world--a specialized form of
+it.
+
+When within this kinetic belt of the prana the etheric solar
+globes formed here and there, they were three fold, each atom of
+the new plane of matter having its surrounding envelope of prana-
+manasa--a specialization of the pranic world in which (what we
+call) force had been added to life and mind.  The static ether,
+vibrating in each of its elements through one octave, divided
+into central core (our sun, and other suns) and outer covering,
+with a skin or belt of kinetic energy, "as above" which developed
+an etheric world.  All things on this etheric world were caused
+by the harmonic vibration between the etheric atoms and their
+surrounding envelopes, except that while all things in this
+etheric world must have life, not all need have mind.  The chord
+of three was not necessary to create;  the chord of two was
+enough, and the manasic atoms might cease to vibrate in chord
+with the prana and ether without affecting the creation.  Only in
+the etheric world (and below it) could there be living mindless
+ones.  To the etheric globes the stellar pranic cores transferred
+their light, which manifested itself in the solid static ether as
+Attraction and in the gaseous static ether as Repulsion, within
+the kinetic skin of each etheric world more specialized and less
+varied than the pranic.
+
+Our sun is not of prakriti, but of static ether, composed of the
+separate and individual elementary substances of the ether, and
+their compounds vibrating in the lower notes of their octaves.
+It is our father, not our elder brother.  Its envelope of static
+ether in which the planet revolves is composed of the elementary
+substances and combinations vibrating in the higher notes of
+their octave.  The light transferred to this etheric globe from
+its mother, Alcyone, manifests itself in the lower vibration of
+the sun as Attraction;  in the higher vibrations of its envelope
+as Repulsion, and within the kinetic skin wherein these forces
+play, the prakritic globes, planets, were born.
+
+Take our earth.  Each atom is fourfold--whether of the static
+core or of the static gaseous envelope.  Creation on it is
+limited to the kinetic skin, wherein the attraction of the lower
+and repulsion of the higher notes in each octave of vibration
+have full play.  All things on it must have come from the
+chording vibrations of the atoms of the prakritic elementary
+substances and their envelope of ether.  They may or may not have
+life or mind the ether atom may have lost its chord with its
+pranic envelope, or the pranic envelope may have lost its chord
+with the manasic;  but the combination must have force or energy
+within it.  It may have lost Mind and Life in acquiring it, or
+after acquiring it;  but it had to have life before it could
+become prakriti.
+
+All things in the prakritic world flow from the Life of the
+etheric and the Mind of the pranic worlds.  Everything in the
+etheric world has life, and our unconscious personification or
+"vivification" of etheric life transferred into fauna or flora,
+or into force of any kind, has a natural explanation.  The
+thrill of vibration in one octave through the differentiated
+consciousness of the universe by which the light was separated
+from the darkness, the lower from the higher, was all that was
+required to create each star and sun, and world, and all that in
+them is.  And it was all good.
+
+Each thing on every lower world was but the translation into form
+of the type of the next world (or plane) above.  As each element
+on this prakritic type, so each combination of those elements
+into crystal or tree or animal is but the translation.  The
+normal earth from the crystal to (the animal) man was pure, and
+clean, and holy.  Sin had not entered.
+
+How did it come?
+
+On the vast manasic world there was "a special creation"--that
+of the Angel Man.  The three planes of Spirit above were
+undifferentiated consciousness, but they were in different
+octaves of vibration, and these working on the three highest
+forms of differentiated consciousness (manasic matter) brought
+them to chording Vibration so that when they combined and reached
+their highest point in evolution they "created" the Angel (or
+manasic) man.  He was the product in kinetic manasa of the three
+spiritual planes above him, precisely as the animal man was the
+product in kinetic prakriti of the three material planes above
+him.  The latter was the "shadow" of the other.
+
+The Angel-man had a material (manasic) body, but his energy life,
+and mind were spiritual.  The animal man had a prakritic body,
+with energy, life and mind that were material.
+
+So far all was good.
+
+The animal man has four bodies--one of prakriti, one of ether,
+one of prana, and one of manasa.  It may be true, and probably
+is, that his manasic body is not sounding in chord with his
+prakritic body, but only with those atoms of it which are in his
+brain and nerves;  but that is immaterial--for future
+consideration.
+
+The Angel man had but one body, of manasa, in which the spirit
+dwelt;  but that body was identical in substance with the body
+that made the mind of the animal man.  His manasic body joined
+the manasic body of the animal man, joined with it by entering
+into the animal man's mind, as easily as water from one glass is
+added to water in another glass, and the animal "man became a
+living soul," endowed with speech, while the Angel-man was given
+"a skin coat."
+
+The prakritic body of the animal man was the result in prakriti
+of an etheric-pranic-manasic, or "astral" body, formed in
+accordance with the Universal Law.  For what he was by nature, he
+could not be blamed.  He stood naked and not ashamed before the
+Radiance.  He did not make his astral body;  he was the mere
+translation of it into prakriti, as all other created things
+were, and that invisible astral self (figuratively) stood at his
+right hand, moulding and shaping him.
+
+But when the Angel-man entered his mind, all this was changed.
+He "knew Good from Evil."  To his mind of manasa had been added
+the Spirit--the Atma-Buddhi's Consciousness of the three
+Spiritual planes.  He has become "as one of us," said the Angel-
+men of the firmament, of Heaven.  He now held the seven planes
+and was a creator.  Each thought and desire that, when an animal
+only, fell harmless, now created on the pranic and etheric world.
+Soon beside him, at his left hand (figuratively) there grew up a
+second etheric or astral body, that of his desires;  and his
+prakritic body was no longer the product of the astral body on
+his right hand.  It was the joint product of the left-hand Kamic
+astral body he had created, and the right hand normal astral
+body.  He was no longer in harmony with the Radiance.  He could
+no longer face it.  He had created discord--Sin.
+
+The pretty legend of the two "Angels," one on the right hand and
+one on the left, has its physical basis in this truth, but, of
+course, as a matter of actual fact, the normal and abnormal
+astral bodies are in mechanical union.  It is the Kamic self-made
+astral body that remains from one incarnation to another,
+producing in joint action with a new normal astral body, a new
+physical body for the Inner-Self, or Angel taking the pilgrimage
+through the lower world.
+
+All the Angel-men did not enter the animal men on the pranic
+etheric-prakritic globes;  only a few.  It was a pilgrimage
+through matter in which those who make it are meeting many
+adventures, but the legends are many, and have no place in the
+physics, although the legends are all founded on the facts of the
+physics.
+
+Of the number of monads, willing to undertake the pilgrimage,
+only a few of those within the kinetic belt of the manasic globe
+have reached the pranic.  Only a few of those within the pranic
+kinetic belts reached the etheric.  And of all who have reached
+this earth, only a few may win their way back before the great
+day Be-With-Us.
+
+The problem of man, and his relations to the universe, are an
+entirely different line of study from that of the Spiritual
+Monad, the over-soul of every prakritic atom.  Each prakritic
+atom has what may be called a soul, its three-fold astral cause;
+and an over-soul, or the three-fold spiritual archetype, or
+causeless cause.
+
+Every combination of these atoms, whether a knife, a leaf, an
+animal, an earth, a sun, or a star, has this soul and oversoul.
+
+Once the idea of what is meant by these terms becomes clear, the
+difficulty in understanding them vanishes.  The study of man is
+physical in its lower branches;  metaphysical only in its highest
+and last analysis.  The study of the Monad is metaphysical from
+start to finish.  The two studies are apt to be confused, because
+metaphysically they are often joined for study, the teacher
+taking it for granted that the pupil fully understands the simple
+and easy physics of the problem of humanity.
+
+This, in crude and bold outline, is the story of creation to the
+fall of man according to the ancient physics, translated into the
+words and phrases of modern physics.  The latter, in the latest
+discoveries of modern science, seem to have stolen a shive
+from the ancient loaf in the expectation that it would not be
+detected.  Each and every step forward that modern science has
+made in the past twenty years, each and every discovery of every
+kind in the physical field, has been but the affirmative of some
+ancient doctrine taught in the temples of the East before "Cain
+took unto himself a wife."
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Ten
+
+The Septenary World
+
+
+In the physical universe we have the four informing physical
+globes, so that as a whole or in its parts, it is "a string of
+seven globes," reaching from the highest spirit to the lowest
+matter.  The awakened Universal Consciousness in vibration
+--undifferentiated in the three globes above, differentiated in
+the four globes below--in its last analysis is all one.  But there
+is a gulf between matter and spirit, radically dividing them, and
+in the physical universe we are concerned only with physics and
+physical laws, until we reach its outmost boundaries and come in
+touch with the spiritual planes beyond.
+
+This is the view of the universe at first glance, as in the
+smaller universe of this earth we at first see only its solid and
+liquid globes.  And even after the discovery of the gas, we do
+not apprehend its important work in and behind the others until
+it has been pointed out to us.  Nor do we at first apprehend the
+work of the spiritual in the material, and the object of
+metaphysics is to show, through the physics, the connection
+between them that the spirit works through matter;  that where we
+can see but four there are seven beads on each material string;
+and that the last bead of each string is itself a chain of beads,
+the "chain of seven" applying only to the seventh manifestation,
+or prakriti, while the "strings" apply to the way in which they
+come.
+
+On each unraveled string leading from our central sun down to a
+planet there are seven beads corresponding to the seven globes in
+the chain of each planet, each to each, yet not the same.  There
+is a distinction, and it is no wonder there should have been
+confusion at first and a mixing of "strings" with "chains."  The
+physics as they progress will clear this confusion away.
+
+In the manasic globe, which is the first differentiation of that
+which forms the spiritual globes above, the resulting mind or
+manasa is mainly the differentiated Divine Mind of the highest.
+It has a "chain" of two globes only, itself and the Divine Mind
+globe, although its "string" of globes is four.
+
+It is the perfected differentiation of the Buddhi in manasa
+that causes the formation of the pranic globes, which have
+chains of four and strings of five, and the full and perfect
+differentiation of the Atma in manasa-prana that causes the
+formation of the etheric globes, which have chains of six and
+strings of six.  Consciousness, Buddhi and Atma are practically
+the same as the manasa, prana, and ether, each to each, only the
+latter are differentiated and the former are not.
+
+Each of the three astral globes is the reflection in matter of
+the three spiritual globes beyond, each to each, and all to all.
+
+The difference between matter and spirit is a difference in
+Motion only.  Both are vibrating, so that both are in mechanical
+motion, from force without, like the waves of the ocean, but only
+the matter has what we may properly call motion of its own, or
+that produced from within--from the atom and each organism of it
+up to the ALL, as the vibration is from the ALL down to the atom.
+It is this centre of force in an atom, this motion outside of
+vibration, or rather beside it, which we call "differentiation."
+Brinton's "daring psychological speculation" that "mind was
+coextensive with motion" (from organization) was but a repetition
+of one of the most ancient axioms.
+
+Take our solar etheric globe.  It has two other globes of matter,
+consubstantial;  a globe of prana and a globe of manasa.  They
+are not beyond it, or beside it, but one with it, atom for atom.
+But what are they in reality?  Globes of Atma, Buddhi, and
+Consciousness in which the atoms, having organized, are in
+motion, are they not?
+
+Let this motion in this material universe cease, and matter would
+melt away and resolve into spirit.  From spirit it came, to
+spirit it belongs, and to spirit it returns.
+
+Behind each and every astral globe, whether the globe be but an
+astral atom, or an astral planet, or an astral world;  beyond its
+physics there is a meta-physical globe, its cause, and that
+is the real globe, of which the astral is but a temporary
+phenomenon.  Take a spiritual globe and differentiate it.  The
+Motion resulting produces a material astral globe.  Stop the
+motion;  bring it to a state of rest.  The astral shadow
+disappears.  It was merely spiritual phenomena.
+
+Each and every astral atom is a model in miniature of the
+material and spiritual universe.  Each and every prakritic atom
+is the joint result of spirit and matter united and working
+together--of physics and metaphysics;  and in its last analysis
+pure spirit;  pure metaphysics.
+
+Behind each and every prakritic atom of our earth there are six
+other atoms (or globes), three material shadows and three
+spiritual realities, so that it is a string of seven--the whole
+universe in miniature--material and spiritual.  And all things
+combined and formed on a prakritic base are a chain of seven
+--whether a peach or a planet.
+
+The "chain" belongs to the prakritic plane.  The lines of descent
+from the Light through the star and sun to planet are "strings."
+The "chains" are beads of the same size strung on a thread.  The
+strings are beads of different sizes strung on a thread.  The
+beads of the chain are in coadunition--in the same space, as gas
+in water and the water in a sponge.
+
+In metaphysics this earth can only be regarded as a chain of
+seven globes, its three astral globes in coadunition having their
+three spiritual doubles.  Of course no one of the higher globes
+can be seen by the prakritic eye, but that is not to say the
+astral world cannot be seen by the astral eye in sleep, or by the
+person who qualifies himself for the astral world, through the
+development of his astral body.  "No upper globes of any chain in
+the solar system can be seen," says H.P. Blavatsky in the Secret
+Doctrine (vol. I, p. 187), yet she means by astronomers, not by
+sages.  And she does not mean the upper globes in the stellar
+system of Alcyone and its companions.
+
+In pure physics the earth can only be regarded as a chain of four
+globes consubstantial and in coadunition--four in and three out.
+This makes seven, and the metaphysician when talking physics uses
+the metaphysical terms interchangeably and speaks of "the chain
+of seven globes" meaning in one sentence the four material globes
+making this earth;  in another meaning the line of descent or
+string of beads of different sizes reaching down from the Divine
+Consciousness;  and in still another the seven beads or globes of
+the same size in coadunition to form this earth chain.  To the
+student who is thoroughly grounded in the eastern physics this
+interweaving of the physical and metaphysical presents no
+difficulties;  but to the western mind just beginning the study
+it is a tangle.
+
+We can now see what is meant by illusion, or Maya, and understand
+why such stress is laid upon it by every teacher.
+
+Take the physical side first.  The motion of a top gives it bands
+of color to our eyes that it does not have at rest.  They are
+temporary and not permanent, a result of motion merely;  illusion
+and not reality.
+
+The motion of the material atoms of the four planes, in harmony
+with their vibration, a motion the spiritual world does not have,
+produces all material phenomena.  This is of course within the
+kinetic belts, for above or below them there is no change, and
+its phenomena are the mere change in relation of one atom to
+another caused by motion.  The changes are not real.  They
+disappear when the motion stops.  They have no existence in
+matter above or below the belt.
+
+All phenomena of every kind are as much an illusion as the
+supposed bands of colour around the top.  The illusion is the
+result of changes of relation in differentiated atoms caused by
+their motion.  Without this motion the four material globes would
+dissolve into the atomic dust of the manasic world, with all that
+is within them.  The whole material universe is all illusion;  a
+mere temporary relation of its atoms through motion, without
+Reality or permanence.
+
+What then is real?  What is not illusion?  That which is beyond
+the physical, that which is its cause and root;  broadly, the
+metaphysical, which is not the result of differentiated atoms
+through relation.  What was real in the top is real here.  What
+was illusion in the top is illusion here.
+
+The meta-physical or spiritual (the terms are interchangeable)
+does not have to pass beyond the manasic globe to get on the
+solid ground of reality.  The spiritual world is here in every
+physical atom and in every aggregation of them;  in every planet,
+sun, and star;  for they are seven, each and every one, not four.
+Behind the illusion of one atom or many, whether here or on
+Alcyone, there is reality and permanency in the undifferentiated
+cause, the spiritual archetype, the three higher beads on the
+string which are the proper study of metaphysics.
+
+
+
+
+Chapter Eleven
+
+Stumbling Blocks in Eastern Physics
+
+
+The Western student of the ancient Eastern physics soon meets
+serious stumbling-blocks;  and one at the very threshold has in
+the last half century turned many back.  In beginning his study
+of the solar system, the pupil is told:
+
+The first three planets--Mercury, Venus, and the moon--are dead
+and disintegrating.  Evolution on them has ceased.  The proof of
+this is found in the fact, that they have no axial rotation,
+Mercury and Venus always presenting the same surface to their
+father, the sun, and the moon the same surface to its daughter,
+the earth.
+
+This is a concrete statement of physical fact at which the
+Western student protests.  If in the whole range of Western
+astronomical science there is any one fact that he has accepted
+as absolutely proved, it is that Mercury revolves once in 24h.,
+5m., 30.5s., and Venus once in 23h., 21m., 22s.  He would as soon
+credit a statement that the earth has no axial rotation as that
+Mercury or Venus has none;  and if he continues his study of
+Eastern physics it is with no confidence in its accuracy, and as
+a matter of curiosity.
+
+The statement that Mercury, Venus, and the moon "are dead
+and disintegrating," the former two "always presenting the
+same surface" to the sun, is the basis for an elaborate
+superstructure, both in the physics and the metaphysics of the
+East.  It is used in physics to explain how the "evolutionary
+wave" came to an end at the perfection of the mineral on Mercury
+with the loss of its axial rotation;  how the "wave" then passed
+on to Venus with the seed of the vegetable kingdom, where the
+vegetable evolution ended with the loss of axial rotation;
+how from Venus it leaped to the moon, mother of animals and
+controller of animal life, with the seed of animal life in the
+vegetable;  and how finally it came to the earth, when the moon
+ceased to revolve, bringing in the animal the seed of man.  Here
+man will be evolved and perfected.  Man has not yet been "born"
+on this earth, they say.  He is still in a prenatal or embryonic
+condition within the animal.
+
+The lunar Pitris, the men-seed, have a physical reason for being,
+if this evolutionary theory be true;  none if it is not.  Axial
+rotation is necessary in evolution, the ancient physics teaches,
+which must cease with it.  The reasons for this are too lengthy
+to give here.  Briefly, the rotation makes the electrical flow
+and a thermopilic dynamo of each planet.
+
+The ancient astronomical teaching is absolutely true.  There will
+not be a work on astronomy published in Europe or the United
+States this year, or hereafter, that will not state that "Mercury
+and Venus revolve on their axes in the same time that they
+revolve around the sun," which is another way of saying that
+"they have no axial rotation, always presenting the same face to
+the sun," and an inaccurate way of presenting the truth.  The
+screw that holds the tire at the outer end of the spoke does not
+revolve "once on its axis" each time the wheel revolves.  Run a
+cane through an orange and swing it around; the orange has not
+revolved "once on its axis."  Nor does the stone in a sling
+revolve "once on its axis" for each revolution around the hand.
+The motion of Mercury is identically that of the impaled orange
+or the stone in the sling.  It has no axis and no axial rotation.
+The modern astronomers, detected in pretenses to knowledge they
+never possessed, let themselves down easy.
+
+This "discovery," of no axial rotation by the interior planets,
+made by Schiaparelli and confirmed by Flammarion in 1894, has
+since been fully verified by our Western astronomers.  All the
+new astronomies accept it.  But the admission of astronomical
+"error," to speak politely, comes too late for the student it
+turned back from his study of Eastern physics.  He cannot regain
+his lost faith and lost ground.
+
+Thirty years ago Proctor made it clear to Western students that
+the orbit of the moon was a cycloidal curve (a drawn-out spring)
+around the sun, the earth's orbit being coincident with its axis;
+and that the moon was, astronomically and correctly, a satellite
+of the sun, not a satellite of the earth.  This has been the
+Eastern view and teaching from time immemorial.
+
+The Eastern distinction between father Sun and mother Moon, and
+the classification of the latter as a planet, did not disturb the
+Western student.  He understood that.  It was the "absolute
+accuracy" of modern astronomers in regard to the length of the
+day on Mercury or Venus, which the astronomers declared had
+been corrected down to the fraction of a second, that made it
+impossible for him to accept the Eastern physics when the latter
+squarely contradicted his own.
+
+This was but the first of many similar stumbling-blocks in the
+path of the student of Eastern physics.
+
+     "Few were the followers, straggling far,
+     That reached the lake of Vennachar;"
+
+and when they did, this was what they had to face:
+
+"The planets absorb and use nearly all the solar energy--all
+except the very small amount the minor specks of cosmic dust may
+receive.  There is not the least particle of the sun's light, or
+heat, or any one of the seven conditions of the solar energy,
+wasted.  Except for the planets, it is not manifested;  it is
+not.  There is no light, no heat, no form of solar energy, except
+on the planets as it is transferred from the laya center of each
+in the sun to them.  The etheric globe is cold and dark, except
+along the lines to them--the "Paths of Fohat" [solar energy].
+Six laya centers are manifested in the sun;  one is laid aside,
+though the wheels [planets] around the One Eye be seven. [This
+alludes to the moon, whose laya center in the sun is now also
+that of the earth;  but it is considered as a planet].  What each
+receives, that it also gives back.  There is nothing lost."
+
+"That settles it," says one student;  and the others agree.  Of
+the hundred who started,
+
+     "The foremost horseman rode alone,"
+
+before the next step was won.
+
+In the light of the tardy but perfect justification of the first
+stumbling-block, this statement may be worth following out, "to
+see what it means," and how "absurd" it can be.  An etheric
+globe;  cold as absolute zero, dark as Erebus, with here and
+there small pencils of light and heat from the sun to the planets
+--just rays, and nothing more--is a very different one from the
+fiery furnace at absolute zero of the modern physicist.
+
+On a line drawn from the center of the earth to the center of the
+moon there is a point where the "weights" of the two bodies are
+said in our physics exactly to balance, and it lies, says our
+physics, "2,900 miles from the center of the earth, and 1,100
+miles from the surface."  This is the earth's "laya center" of
+the Eastern physics.  It is of great importance in problems of
+life;  but it may be passed over for the present.
+
+Between the earth and the sun--precisely speaking, between this
+laya center and the sun--there is a "point of balance," which
+falls within the photosphere of the sun.  This point in the sun
+is the earth's solar laya, the occult or hidden earth of the
+metaphysics.
+
+A diagram will make this clearer.  Draw a line from the laya
+center in the sun to that in the earth.  Draw a narrow ellipse,
+with this line as its major axis, and shade it.  At each end of
+the axis strike the beginning of an ellipse that will be tangent.
+If positive energy is along the shaded ellipse, negative energy
+is in each field beyond--earth and sun.  This is a very crude
+illustration of a fundamental statement elaborated to the most
+minute detail in explanation of all astronomical phenomena;  but
+for the moment it will do.
+
+The point is that along this axial line connecting the
+laya centers play all the seven solar forces--light, heat,
+electricity, etc.--that affect the earth, and on every side of
+this line is the "electric field" of these forces.  To this line
+any escaping solar energy is drawn, as the electricity of the air
+is drawn to a live wire or magnet.  But there is little or none
+to escape.  From the laya point in the sun to the laya point in
+the earth, the solar energy is transferred as sound is carried
+along a beam of light (photophone), or electricity from one point
+to another without a wire.
+
+To the advanced student of electricity the ancient teaching is
+easily apprehended;  to others it is difficult to make clear.
+These laya centers, it says, are "the transforming points of
+energy."  From the earth laya to the solar laya centre, the
+energy, we may say, is positive;  beyond both the solar and the
+earth laya centre, in the fields touching at them, it is negative
+--or vice versa.  The line connecting the layas is the "Path of
+Fohat"--the personification of solar energy.
+
+This is a very crude and brief way of putting many pages of
+teaching, but the important point is that this line between the
+layas is one of solar energy, with a dynamic "field" of solar
+energy, elliptical in shape, connecting with the reverse fields
+at the laya points.  These "dead points" are the limits of each
+electric field, which "create", we say in electrical work,
+opposing fields beyond them.
+
+Each one of these planets has its laya centre inside the sun's
+photosphere.  Each planet has a line of solar energy with its
+"field" of solar energy--not only a wireless telegraph, but a
+wireless lighting, heating, and life-giving system.  These six
+solar laya points are the six "hidden planets," the earth and
+moon being one, of the ancient metaphysics.  The moon is the one
+"laid aside."  In their reception of energy from the sun, it is
+as if the planet were at the solar laya point, or connected with
+it by a special pipe-line.  The position of these six planetary
+laya points in the sun is indicated by the position of the
+planets in the heavens, and they may often influence or modify
+one another.  If Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn is anywhere near
+conjunction with the earth, not only will a part of their
+"fields" be joined, but their laya points in the sun will be
+modified.
+
+The physical basis of the old astrology was the physical
+interferences of these fields of solar energy;  and what it
+depended on mainly in its work was the position of the six hidden
+planets, or laya centers, which was shown by the position of the
+planet with reference to the earth.  That the planets themselves
+affected any one or anything on this earth, no real astrologer
+ever believed;  that their position in the heavens indicated
+certain changes and modifications of the flow of solar energy to
+the earth, they knew from their knowledge of physics.  "The
+twelve houses are in the sun," says Hermes, "six in the north and
+six in the south."  Connect them with the zodiac, and the
+position of the planets shows the interferences of the solar
+currents.
+
+The one objection to this ancient theory is that it does not
+present enough difficulties.  The present value to science of the
+many theories in relation to the sun is the impossibility of
+reconciling any two of them, and the fact that no two theorists
+can unite to pummel a third.  This ancient theory does not call
+for any great amount of heat, light, or energy in any condition
+to keep the Cosmos in order--not even enough for two persons to
+quarrel over.  It merely turns the sun into a large dynamo
+connected with smaller dynamos, and these with one another with
+return currents by which "there is nothing lost."  In its
+details, it accounts for all facts--neatly, simply, and without
+exclamation points.  It is so simple and homespun, so lacking in
+the gaudiness that makes (for example) our light and heat less
+than the billionth part wasted on space always at absolute zero,
+that we may have to wait many centuries to have it "verified" and
+"confirmed" by our Western Science.  That it will be "verified"
+in time, even as the first stumbling-block has been removed at
+the end of the nineteenth century, its students may at least
+hope.
+
+The lesson, if there is one, is that the Western student of
+Eastern physics does not ride an auto along asphalted roads.
+He must own himself and not be owned by another man, or even
+by "Modern Science."
+
+
+
+
+
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