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.