The unprincipled journalist before alluded to, after failing in an

attempt to obtain admission to Mr. Keely's workshop, wrote a series

of articles for the press, recounting Keely's researching experiments

in 1889 and 1890, as then shown to Professor Joseph Leidy, Dr. James

Willcox, and others. This journalist, who professed to give woodcuts

of Keely's researching instruments, was entirely ignorant of the fact

that the experiments which he described had never once been repeated,

during the last eighteen months; Keely having taken up researches

on another line, as soon as he had gained sufficient control of the

force he was handling to cause the solid bronze weight weighing six

and three quarters lbs., to rise in the jar, rest midway, or remain

stationary at will. The "Generator," described by this journalist in

the Philadelphia Press of November 1st, 1891, never had any existence

beyond the journalist's brain and the woodcut. It was represented as

a square structure, "big and thick walled enough to hold a donkey

engine," whereas the true disintegrator (or improved generator) is

round, and about the size of the wheel of a baby's perambulator. This

form of generator Mr. Keely has been using for about three years;

suspending it from a staple in the ceiling, or against the wall,

when using it in the dissociation of the so-called elements of

water. Consequently, it was impossible for the force to be "conducted

from a reservoir eight or ten squares distance," as suggested by

this inventing journalist, who says that he "spent sleepless nights"

in devising the way in which the generator was operated by Keely:

asserting that "this extraordinary force was loaded like electricity

through a wire and discharged like steam through a pipe."

In a romance called "The Prince and the Pauper" these lines occur:

"For, look you, an it were not true, it would be a lie. It surely

would be. Think on't. For all things that be not true, be lies,--thou

canst make nought else out of it." Never were truer words written,

and equally true is it that, as another author has written, "If

the boy who cannot speak the truth, lives to be a man, and becomes

a journalist, he will invent lie after lie as long as he can get a

Journal to print them and to pay him for them." There are very few men,

who take up journalism in the spirit of a St. Beuve. Quite as few are

there who are competent to write, in any way, of Keely's discoveries

and all that they involve. Even among men of science, only one man

has been found who is able to comprehend Keely's theories, and to

handle them in a way to make them intelligible to others. S. Laing, in

"Modern Thought," says, "Science traces everything back to primeval

atoms and germs, and there it leaves us. How came these atoms and

energies there, from which this wonderful universe of worlds has

been evolved by inevitable laws? What are they in their essence,

and what do they mean? The only answer is, "It is unknowable. It is

behind the veil. Spirit may be matter, matter may be spirit." Keely's

researches have been of a nature which, grappling with these mysteries,

has brought them to the light. He tells us that spirit is the soul

of matter, and that no matter exists without a soul.

More of Keely's Theories.

The sympathetic conditions that we call mind are no more immaterial in

their character than light or electricity. The substance of the brain

is molecular, while the substance of the mind that permeates the brain

is inter-etheric, and is the element by which the brain is impregnated;

exciting it into action and controlling all the conditions of physical

motion, as long as the sympathetic equatative is in harmony, as between

the first, second, and third orders of transmission; molecular, atomic

and etheric. By this soul-substance is the physical controlled. In

order to trace the successive triple impulses, taking the introductory

one of sympathetic negative outreach, towards the cerebral neutrals,

which awakens the latent element to action, we find that mind may be

considered a specific order of inter-atomic motion sympathetically

influenced by the celestial flow, and that it becomes when thus excited

by this medium a part and parcel of the celestial itself. Only under

these conditions of sympathetic assimilation can it assert its power

over the physical organisms; the finite associated with the infinite.

The brain is not a laboratory. It is as static as the head of the

positive negative attractor, [21] until influenced by certain orders

of vibration, when it reveals the true character of the outreach

so induced. The brain is the high resonating receptacle where the

sympathetic celestial acts, and where molecular and atomic motion

exhibits itself, as according to the intensification brought to bear

upon it by the celestial mind flow.

The cerebral forces, in their control of the physical organism,

reveal to us the infinite power of the finer or spiritual fluid,

though not immaterial, over the crude molecular. The luminous, etheric,

protoplastic element, which is the highest tenuous condition of the

ether, fills the regions of infinite space, and in its radiating

outreach gives birth to the prime neutral centres that carry the

planetary worlds through their ranges of motion.

If the minds of all the most learned sages, of all time, were

concentrated, into one mind, that one would be too feeble, in its

mental outreach, to comprehend the conditions associated with the

fourth order of sympathetic condensation. The controversies of the

past in regard to the condensation of invisible matter prove this. The

chemistry of the infinite and the chemistry of the finite are as wide

apart, in their sympathetic ranges, as is the velocity of light from

the movement of the hour-hand of a clock. Even the analysis of the

visible conditions taxes our highest powers of concentration.

The question naturally arises, Why is this condition of ether always

under a state of luminosity of an especial order? Its characteristics

are such, from its infinite tenuity and the sympathetic activity

with which it is impregnated, that it possesses an order of

vibratory, oscillatory velocity, which causes it to evolve its own

luminosity. This celestial, latent power, that induces luminosity

in this medium, is the same that registers in all aggregated forms

of matter, visible and invisible. It is held in corpuscular embrace

until liberated by a compound vibratory negative medium.

What does this activity represent, by which luminosity is induced in

the high etheric realm? Does not the force following permeation by

the Divine Will show that even this order of ether, this luminiferous

region, is bounded by a greater region still beyond?--that it is but

the shore which borders the realm, from which the radiating forces of

the Infinite emanate: the luminiferous being the intermediate which

transfers the will force of the Almighty towards the neutral centres

of all created things, animate and inanimate, visible and invisible;

even down into the very depths of all molecular masses. The activity

of the corpuscles, in all aggregations, represents the outflow of

this celestial force, from the luminiferous track, towards all these

molecular centres of neutrality, and reveals to us the connecting link

between mind and matter. How plainly are we thus taught that God is

everywhere, and at the same time in every place. It gives us a new

sense of the omniscience and omnipresence of the Creator. In these

researches I am brought so near to the celestial conditions that my

pen is ready to fall from my hand while writing on this subject; so

more and more sensibly do I feel my abject ignorance of its depths....

These conditions of luminosity have no thermal forces associated

with them; although, paradoxically, all thermal conditions emanate

from that source. The tenuity of this element accounts for it. It is

only when these sympathetic streams come in conflict with the cruder

elementary conditions, either the molecular or atomic, that heat is

evolved from its latent state, and a different order of light from

the etheric luminous is originated, which has all the high conditions

of thermal force associated with it: the sun being the intermediate

transmitter. Thus is shown the wonderful velocity of these sympathetic

streams emanating from celestial space.

The sympathetic forces transmitted by our solar planet, to which

our earth is so susceptible, are continuously received from the

luminiferous realm; the sympathetic volume of which, as expended, is

constantly equated by the exhaustless will-force of the Creator. Had

the solar energy been subservient to what physicists ascribe it,

the sun would have been a dead planet thousands of centuries ago,

as also all planets depending upon it as an intermediate.

In fact, all planetary masses are sympathetic-transferring-mediums,

or intermediates, of this prime, luminous, dominant element. In the

vibratory subdivision of matter, as progressive evolution has been

analyzed, it is evident that these transfers of sympathetic force

extend beyond the limits of our orbital range, from system to system,

throughout the realms of space: these progressive systems becoming

themselves, after a certain range of sympathetic motion, sympathetic

intermediates, as included in the whole of one system, exemplified

so beautifully in the cerebral convolutions, with their connective

sympathy for each other; transferring as a whole on the focalizing

centre, from which it radiates to all parts of the physical organism,

controlling in all its intricate variety the sympathetic action,

of our movements.

"What is there that we really know?" asks Buckle. "We talk of the

law of gravitation, and yet we know not what gravitation is; we

talk of the conservation of force and distribution of forces, and we

know not what forces are." "The vibratory principles now discovered

in physics," says Hemstreet, "are so fine and attenuated that they

become an analogy to mental or cerebral vibrations." Let us see what

Keely's system of vibratory physics says of gravity, cohesion, etc.

What is Gravity?--Gravity is an eternal existing condition in etheric

space, from which all visible forms are condensed. Consequently,

it is inherent in all forms of matter, visible and invisible. It is

not subject to time nor space. It is an established connective link

between all forms of matter from their birth, or aggregation. Time is

annihilated by it, as it has already traversed space when the neutral

centres of the molecules were established.

Gravity, then, is nothing more than an attractive, sympathetic

stream, flowing towards the neutral centre of the earth, emanating

from molecular centres of neutrality; concordant with the earth's

centre of neutrality, and seeking its medium of affinity with a power

corresponding to the character of the molecular mass.

What is Cohesion?--Cohesion is sympathetic negative attraction. It

is the negative, vibratory assimilation, or aggregation, of the

molecules, acting according to the density or compactness of the

molecular groupings on their structures. The differing character

of molecular densities, or molecular range of motion, represents

differing powers of attraction. The lower the range of motions on

the molecular vibrations of these structures, the greater is the

attractive force that holds them together; and vice versâ.

What is Heat? Heat may be classed as a vibro-atomic element, not

exceeding 14,000 vibrations per second at its greatest intensity,

latent in all conditions of matter both visible and invisible. The

velocity of the sympathetic flows which emanate from our solar

world, the sun, coming into contact with our atmospheric medium,

liberates this element in all the different degrees of intensity that

give warmth to our earth. Light is another resultant; the different

intensities of which are produced according to the different angles

of this sympathetic projectment.

The light that emanates from a glow-worm is the resultant of the

action of the sympathetic medium of the insect itself on a centre

of phosphorescent matter, which is included in its structure. The

resultant of the two conditions are quite different, but they are

governed by the same laws of sympathetic percussion.

Radiation is the term used to express the reaching out of the thermal

element, after its liberation from its corpuscular imprisonment, to be

re-absorbed or returned again to its sympathetic environment; teaching

us a lesson in the equation of disturbance of sympathetic equilibrium.

Force.

"By what means is force exerted, and what definitely is force? Given

that force can be exerted by an act of will, do we understand the

mechanism by which this is done? And if there is a gap in our knowledge

between the conscious idea of a motion and the liberation of muscular

energy needed to accomplish it, how do we know that a body may not

be moved without ordinary material contact by an act of will?" These

questions were asked by Professor Lodge in his paper on "Time;" and

as Keely contends that all metallic substances after having been

subjected to a certain order of vibration may be so moved, let us

see how he would answer these questions. When Faraday endeavoured

to elaborate some of his "unscientific notions in regard to force

and matter," men of science then said that Faraday's writings were

not translatable into scientific language. The same has been said of

Keely's writings. Pierson says, "The very fact that there is about the

product of another's genius what you and I cannot understand is a proof

of genius, i.e., of a superior order of faculties." Keely, who claims

to have discovered the existence of hidden energy in all aggregations

of matter, imprisoned there by the infinite velocity of molecular

rotation, asserts that "physicists in their mental rambles in the

realm of analytical chemistry, analytical as understood by them, have

failed to discover the key-note which is associated with the flow of

the mental element;" that "they have antagonized or subverted all the

conditions," in this unexplored territory of negative research, which

he has demonstrated as existing in reference to latent energy locked in

corpuscular space. These antagonisms might have been sooner removed had

those physicists who witnessed some of Keely's experiments, while he

was still working blindfold as it were, in past years, not belonged

to that class of scientists "who only see what they want to see,

and who array facts and figures adroitly on the side of preconceived

opinion." Since the last meeting of the British Association, Keely,

in writing of some of the addresses delivered, says: "It delights me

to find that physicists are verging rapidly toward a region which,

when they reach, will enable them to declare to the scientific world

what they now deny; viz., that immense volumes of energy exist in all

conditions of corpuscular spaces. My demonstrations of this truth have

been ignored by them and now they must find it out for themselves. I do

not doubt that they will reach it in their own way. I accept Professor

Stoney's idea that an apsidal motion might be caused by an interaction

between high and low tenuous matter; but such conditions, even of

the highest accelerated motion, are too far down below the etheric

realm to influence it sympathetically, even in the most remote way. I

mean by this that no corpuscular action, nor interaction can disturb

or change the character of etheric vibrations. The conception of the

molecule disturbing the ether, by electrical discharges from its parts,

is not correct; as the highest conditions associated with electricity

come under the fourth descending order of sympathetic condensation,

and consequently its corpuscular realm is too remote to take any

part towards etheric disturbance. Hypothesis is one thing and actual

experimental demonstration is another; one being as remote from the

other as the electrical discharges from the recesses of the molecule

are from the tenuous condition of the universal ether. The conjecture

as regards the motion being a series of harmonic elliptic ones,

accompanied by a slow apsidal one, I believe to be correct.... The

combination of these motions would necessarily produce two circular

motions of different amplitudes whose differing periods might

correspond to two lines of the spectrum, as conjectured, and lead

the experimenter, perhaps, into a position corresponding to an

ocular illusion. Every line of the spectrum, I think, consists not

of two close lines, but of compound triple lines: though not until

an instrument has been constructed, which is as perfect in its parts

as is the sympathetic field that environs matter, can any truthful

conclusion be arrived at from demonstration."

It must be remembered that Keely claims to have demonstrated

the subdivision of matter in seven distinct orders: molecular,

intermolecular, atomic, inter-atomic, etheric, inter-etheric, reaching

the compound inter-etheric in the seventh order. In commenting further

upon the experimental researches of men of science to show whether

ether in contact with moving matter is affected by the motion of

such matter, Keely writes: "The motion of any matter of less tenuity

than the ether cannot affect it any more than atmospheric air could

be held under pressure in a perforated chamber. The tenuous flow of

a magnet cannot be waived aside by a plate of heavy glass, and yet

the magnetic flow is only of an inter-atomic character and far more

crude than the introductory etheric. The etheric element would remain

perfectly static under the travel of the most furious cyclone; it would

pass through the molecular interstices of any moving projectile with

the same facility that atmospheric air would pass though a coarse

sieve. Ether could not be affected by the motion of less tenuous

matter, but if the matter were of the same tenuous condition it would

sympathetically associate itself with it; consequently there would

be no motion any more than motion accompanies gravity.

In the same way that the mind flow induces motion on the physical

organism, sympathetic flows on molecular masses induce motion on

the molecular. The motion of the molecules in all vegetable and

mineral forms in nature are the results of the sympathetic force of

the celestial mind flow, or the etheric luminous, over terrestrial

matter. This celestial flow is the controlling medium of the universe,

and one of its closest associates is gravity.... The molecule is

a world in itself, carrying with it all the ruling sympathetic

conditions which govern the greatest of the planetary masses. It

oscillates within its etheric rotating envelope with an inconceivable

velocity, without percussing its nearest attendant, and is always

held within its sphere of action by the fixed gravital power of its

neutral centre, in the same sympathetic order that exists between

the planetary worlds. The dissociation of aggregated molecules by

intermolecular vibration does not disturb even to an atomic degree

these fixed neutral points. Each molecule contributes its quota to

the latent electrical force, which shows up by explosion after its

gathering in the storm clouds, and then it returns to the molecular

embrace it originally occupied. You may call this return, absorption;

but it gets there first during corpuscular aggregation, and comes from

there, or shows itself, during sympathetic disturbance of equilibrium.

There are three kinds of electricity, the harmonic and enharmonic,

which, with their leader, the dominant, form the first triple. Their

sympathetic associations evolve the energy of matter. The dominant

is electricity luminous, or propulsive positive. The harmonic, or

the magnetic, which is the attractive, with its wonderful sympathetic

outreach, is the negative current of the triune stream. The enharmonic,

or high neutral, acts as the assimilative towards the reinstatement

of sympathetic disturbance. In electric lighting, the velocity of

the dynamos accumulates only the harmonic current--by atomic and

inter-atomic conflict--transferring one two hundred thousandth of the

light that the dominant current would give, if it were possible to

construct a device whereby it could be concentrated and dispersed. But

this supreme portion can never be handled by any finite mode. Each

of these currents has its triple flow, representing the true lines

of the sympathetic forces that are constantly assimilating with

the polar terrestrial envelope. The rotation of the earth is one

of the exciters that disturbs the equilibrium of these sensitive

streams. The alternate light and darkness induced by this motion

helps to keep up the activity of these streams, and the consequent

assimilation and dissimilation. The light zone being ever followed

by the dark zone, holds the sympathetic polar wave constant in its

fluctuations. This fact may be looked upon as the foundation of the

fable that the world rests upon a tortoise. The rotation of the earth

is controlled and continued by the action of the positive and negative

sympathetic celestial streams. Its pure and steady motion, so free

from intermitting impulses, is governed to the most minute mathematical

nicety by the mobility of the aqueous portion of its structure, i.e.,

its oceans and ocean's anastomosis. There is said to be a grain of

truth in the wildest fable, and herein we have the elephant that the

tortoise stands on. The fixed gravital centres of neutrality, the

sympathetic concordants to the celestial outreach, that exist in the

inter-atomic position, are the connective sympathetic links whereby

the terrestrial is held in independent suspension. We cannot say that

this corresponds to what the elephant stands upon, but we can say,

"This is the power whereby the elephant is sympathetically suspended."

The Atom.

Question asked in Clerk Maxwell's memoirs: "Under what form, right,

or light, can an atom be imagined?" Keely replies, It eludes the grasp

of the imagination, for it is the introductory step to a conception

of the eternity of the duration of matter. The magnitude of the

molecule, as compared to the inter-atom, is about on the same ratio

as a billiard ball to a grain of sand; the billiard ball being the

domain wherein the triple inter-molecules rotate, the inter-molecules

again being the field wherein the atomic triplets sympathetically

act, and again progressively, in the inter-atomic field, the first

order of the etheric triplets begins to show its sympathetic inreach

for the centres of neutral focalization. It is impossible for the

imagination to grasp such a position. Inter-atomic subdivision

comes under the order of the fifth dimensional space in etheric

condensation. Atoms and corpuscules can be represented by degrees

of progressive tenuity, as according to progressive subdivision,

but to imagine the ultimate position of the atomic alone would be

like trying to take a measurement of immeasurable space. We often

speak of the borders of the infinite. No matter what the outreach

may be, nor how minute the corpuscular subdivision, we still remain

on the borders, looking over the far beyond, as one on the shore of

a boundless ocean who seeks to cross it with his gaze. Therefore,

philosophically speaking, as the atom belongs to the infinite and the

imagination to the finite, it can never be comprehended in any form

or light, nor by any right; for in the range of the imagination it

is as a bridge of mist which can never be crossed by any condition

that is associated with a visible molecular mass, that is, by mind

as associated with crude matter.

Sympathetic Outreach

is not induction. They are quite foreign to each other in

principle. Sympathetic outreach is the seeking for concordance

to establish an equation on the sympathetic disturbance of

equilibrium. When a magnet is brought into contact with a keeper,

there is no induction of magnetism from the magnet into the keeper. The

static force of the magnet remains unchanged, and the action between

the two may be compared to a sympathetic outreach of a very limited

range of motion. The sympathetic outreach of the moon towards the

earth, has a power strong enough to extend nearly a quarter of a

million of miles to lift the oceans out of their beds. This is not

the power of induction....

The sympathetic envelope of our earth owes its volume and its activity

entirely to celestial radiating forces. Reception and dispersion are

kept up by atomic and inter-atomic conflict, as between the dominant

and enharmonic.

Silver represents the 3rd, gold the 6th, and platina the 9th, in

their links of association, one to the other, in the molecular range

of their motions, when submitted to vibratory impulses.

If an introductory impulse, representing the sympathetic chord

of transmission, say B flat, or any other chord, be given to

a sectional transmitting wire, the molecular triple, that is

carried sympathetically along the path of such transmitter by the

differentiation induced, excites high sympathy with the polar

terrestrial stream. The polar terrestrial, being triune in its

character, requires a triune sympathizer to meet its differential

requirements: silver the harmonic, gold the enharmonic, and platina the

dominant. When this triple metallic condition is properly sensitized,

by any chord on the dominant, combined molecular, differentiated

action is induced; showing a condition approaching magnetism in

its development of related sympathy, without having the conditions

that are truly magnetic, as this term (magnetic) is understood by

all physicists.

Magnetism is not polar negative attraction, any more than polar

negative attraction is magnetism; for polar negative attraction shows

positive sympathetic outreach, of a high order; which is a condition

entirely foreign to magnetism.

Sympathetic negative attraction is not the resultant of electrical

sympathization, but it includes the full triune flow; the dominant

being the leader and associate of the celestial. The sympathetic

outreach, of negative attraction, is the power that holds the planetary

masses in their orbital ranges of oscillatory action. Magnetism has

no outreach, but it pervades all terrestrial masses--all planetary

masses. It is highly electrical in its character, in fact magnetism is

born of electricity; whereas negative attraction is not, but it has a

sympathetic outreach for magnetism. Magnetism is static. Sympathetic

negative attraction reaches from planet to planet; but electricity

does not, nor does magnetism. Sympathetic negative attraction is born

of the celestial, and impregnates every mass that floats in space:

seeking out all magnetic or electric conditions; and all these masses

are subservient to celestial outreach. All the magnets in the world

could not induce rotation, no matter how differentiated, but polar

negative attraction induces rotation.

Hydrogen.

The horizon of matter, which has been thought to rest over attenuated

hydrogen, may extend to infinite reaches beyond, including stuffs

or substances which have never been revealed to the senses. Beings

fashioned of this attenuated substance might walk by our side unseen,

nor cast a shadow in the noon-day sun.--Hudson Tuttle.

This supposition of itself admits that hydrogen is a compound. If

it were indivisible it would assimilate with the high luminous,

from which all substances are formed or aggregated. If hydrogen were

a simple it could not be confined. No molecular structure known to

man can hold the inter-luminous; not even the low order of it that

is chemically liberated. The word "attenuated" admits that hydrogen

is a compound. I contend that hydrogen is composed of three elements,

with a metallic base, and comes under the order of the second atomic,

both in vibration and sympathetic outreach.

Hydrogen exists only where planetary conditions exist: there it

is always present, but never in uninterfered space. There is much

celestial material that has never been revealed to the senses. My

researches lead me to think that hydrogen carries heat in a latent

condition, but I do not believe it will ever be possible to originate

a device that will vibrate hydrogen with a velocity to induce heat.

The word imponderable as applied to a molecule is incorrect. All gases

as well as atmospheric air are molecular in their structures. If

atmospheric air is subdivided, by atomic vibration, it merely

dissociates the hydrogen from the oxygen; neither of which, though

disunited, passes from the inter-molecular state; and not until

hydrogen is sympathetically subdivided in its inter-molecular structure

by inter-atomic vibrations can it assimilate with the introductory

etheric element. There is a wonderful variation of gravital sympathy

between the gaseous elements of compounds, all of which comes under

the head of molecular....

Under date of October 1st, 1891, Mr. Keely writes: I see no possibility

of failure, as I have demonstrated that my theories are correct in

every particular, as far as I have gone; and if I am not handicapped in

any way during the next eight months, and my depolarizer is perfect,

I will then be prepared to demonstrate the truth of all that I assert

in reference to disintegration, cerebral diagnosis, aerial suspension

and dissociation, and to prove the celestial gravital link of sympathy

as existing between the polar terrestrial and equation of mental

disturbance of equilibrium. It is a broad assertion for one man, and

'an ignorant man' at that, to make; but the proof will then be so

overwhelming in its truthful simplicity that the most simple-minded

can understand it. Then I will be prepared to give to science and to

commerce a system that will elevate both to a position far above that

which they now occupy.

Again, November 4th, Mr. Keely says: The proper system for the

treatment of cerebral differentiation is not yet known to the

physician of to-day. The dissimilarities of opinion existing,

with regard to any case, are confounding. When the true system

is recognized, the vast number of physical experimentalists, now

torturing humanity, will die a natural death. Until this climax is

reached, physical suffering must go on multiplying at the same ratio

that experimentalists increase. Molecular differentiation is the fiend

that wrecks the physical world, using the seat of the cerebral forces

as its intermediate transmitter. It is the devastating dragon of the

universe, and will continue to devastate until a St. George arises

to destroy it. The system of equating molecular differentiation is

the St. George that will conquer.

When my system is completed for commerce, it will be ready for science

and art. I have become an extensive night worker, giving not less

than eighteen hours a day, in times of intensification. I have timed

my race for life and I am bound to make it....

New York Truth, 15th May, 1890, in commenting upon Keely's claims to

have "annihilated gravity and turned the mysterious polar current

to a mill-race," continues: "I sincerely hope that Mr. Keely may

prove, AS FROM LATE DEVELOPMENTS HE IS LIKE TO DO, that the hidden

spirit of the Cosmos, which men call Deity, First Cause, Nature,

and other sonorous but indefinite names, has manifested itself to

him; that the music of the spheres is a truth, not an imagination,

and that vibration, which is sight, hearing, taste and smell, is in

serious verity, all else. The fable of Orpheus and Arion may have

a foundation in actual physics, the harmonies that move our souls

to grief or joy as music, may be the same as those that govern and

impel the stars in their courses, cause molecules to crystallize

into symmetry, and from symmetry into life. Who shall say? If the

accounts of Keely's late achievements be true, and they are honestly

vouched for by men of worth and note, then the secret is laid bare,

the core of being is opened out. In this age of dawning reason the

candle cannot always be hidden under a bushel; some enterprising hand

will lift the obstruction and let the light shine before men."

Two years have nearly passed away since this was written, during

which time Mr. Keely has been engaged in perfecting his system for

aerial navigation. He has, one by one, overcome all obstacles, and

so far gained control, of the mysterious polar current, that he has

been able to exhibit on the thirds, or molecular graduation of the

propeller of his air-ship, 120 revolutions in a minute; and on the

sixths, or atomic graduation, 360 revolutions in a minute. He still

has the etheric field to conquer; but those who know how many years he

has been making his mistakes stepping-stones in his upward progress,

surmounting obstacle after obstacle which would have dismayed a less

courageous soul, feel little doubt that he will "make the race," which

he has timed for life, and reach the goal a conqueror, notwithstanding

he is still so often "handicapped."

All those who had the privilege of witnessing Keely's researching

experiments, in the spring of 1890, when he first succeeded in raising

the metal weight, and who were sufficiently acquainted with the

laws of physics to understand the conditions under which the weight

was raised, pronounced the force by which it was affected to be an

unknown force. Had the weight been but a nail or a feather, lifted

under such conditions, physicists know that, after he has gained as

perfect control of it as we now have of steam, air-ships weighing

thousands of tons can be raised to any height in our atmosphere,

and the seemingly untraversable highways of the air opened to commerce.

This force is not, like steam or electricity, fraught with danger

in certain states to those who use it; for, after the molecular

mass of the vessel has been fitted to the conditions required,

its control becomes of such a nature that seemingly a star might as

soon go astray, and be lost to the universe, as for the aerial ship

to meet with an accident, unless its speed was pushed to that point

where gravity resumes its control. In fact, Keely asserts that there

is no known force so safe to use as the polar terrestrial force,

for when the celestial and terrestrial conditions are once set up,

they remain for ever; perpetual molecular action the result.

In using the word celestial, Keely refers to the air, in the same

sense that terrestrial refers to the earth.

Wide through the waste of ether, sun and star

All linked by harmony, which is the chain

That binds to earth the orbs that wheel afar

Through the blue fields of Nature's wide domain.

Percival.

From the New York Home Journal.

THE SONG OF THE CARBONS. [22]

A weird, sweet melody, faint and far,

A humming murmur, a rhythmic ring,

Floats down from the tower where the lenses are:--

Can you hear the song which the carbons sing?

Millions of æons have rolled away

In the grand chorale which the stars rehearse,

Since the note, so sweet in our song to-day,

Was struck in the chord of the universe.

The vast vibration went floating on

Through the diapason of space and time,

Till the impulse swelled to a deeper tone,

And mellowed and thrilled with a finer rhyme.

Backward and forward the atoms go

In the surging tide of that soundless sea,

Whose billows from nowhere to nowhere flow,

As they break on the sands of eternity.

Yet, through all the coasts of the endless All,

In the ages to come, as in ages gone,

We feel but the throb of that mystic thrall

Which binds responsive the whole in one.

We feel but the pulse of that viewless hand

Which ever has been and still shall be,

In the stellar orb and the grain of sand,

Through nature's endless paternity.

The smile which plays in the maiden's glance,

Or stirs in the beat of an insect's wing,

Is of kin with the north light's spectral dance,

Or the dazzling zone of the planet's ring.

From our lonely tower aloft in air,

With the breezes around us, tranquil and free,

When the storm rack pales in the lightning's glare,

Or the starlight sleeps in the sleeping sea,

We send our greeting through breathless space,

To our distant cousins, the nebulæ,

And catch in the comet's misty trace,

But a drifting leaf from the tribal tree.

The song we hum is but one faint sound

In the hymn which echoes from pole to pole,

Which fills the domes of creation's round,

And catches its key from the over-soul.

And when it ceases all life shall fail,

Time's metronome shall arrested stand;

All voice be voiceless, the stars turn pale,

And the great conductor shall drop his wand.

CHAPTER XVIII.

A PIONEER IN AN UNKNOWN REALM.

Thus, either present elements are the true elements, or

there is a probability of eventually obtaining some more

high and general power of Nature, even than electricity;

and which, at the same time, might reveal to us an entirely

new grade of the elements of matter, now hidden from our view

and almost from our suspicion.--The Nature of the Chemical

Elements. Faraday, 1836.

A mysterious force exists in the vibrations of the ether,

called sound, which science and invention have so far

failed to utilize; but which, no doubt in the near future,

will come under man's control, for driving the wheels of

industry.--Thought as Force. E. S. Huntington.

Force and forces--

No end of forces! Have they mind like men?

Browning.

The Spectator, commenting on the jubilee of the Chemical Society,

last year, said it was notable for two remarkable speeches; one by

Lord Salisbury, and the other by Sir Lyon Playfair. Lord Salisbury

reminded his hearers that about one hundred years ago, a very

celebrated tribunal had informed Lavoisier that the French Republic

had no need of chemists; "but," said his Lordship, "Lavoisier,

though a man of very advanced opinions, was behind this age." Lord

Salisbury proceeded to exalt chemistry as an instrument of the higher

educational discipline. Astronomy, he said, was hardly more than a

science of things that probably are; for, at such distance in space,

it was impossible to verify your inferences. Geology he regarded as a

science of things as they probably were; verification being impossible

after such a lapse of time. But chemistry he treated as a science

of things as they actually are at the present time. The Spectator

remarks:--Surely that is questionable. All hypothesis is more or less a

matter of probability. No one has ever verified the existence of atoms.

Sir Lyon Playfair, following Lord Salisbury, said, Boyle has been

called the father of chemistry and the brother of the Earl of Cork;

ironically hinting, perhaps, that Lord Salisbury was reflecting as

much immediate glory on chemistry, by his interest in it, as did the

relationship of the first considerable chemist to the Irish earl. Sir

Lyon, acknowledging the revolutionizing progress of chemistry,

remarked that within the last fifty years it had seen great changes;

then, oxygen was regarded as the universal lover of other elements;

and nitrogen was looked upon as a quiet, confirmed bachelor; but

oxygen had turned out to be a comparatively respectable bigamist, that

only marries two wives at a time; and nitrogen had turned out to be a

polygamist; generally requiring three conjugates, and sometimes five,

at a time. The false teachings of physicists in the past were admitted,

including Sir Lyon's own errors; his old conceptions concerning

carbonic acid and carbonic oxide all having broken down, under the

crushing feet of progress. After all, says the Spectator, it seems

that the French revolutionists should have welcomed chemistry, instead

of snubbing it, for it has been the most revolutionary of sciences.

At the present time, notwithstanding the experiences of the past,

Science stands as calmly on the pedestal, to which she has exalted

herself, as if not even an earthquake could rock its foundations. In

her own opinion, she holds the key to nature's domains. Some few there

are who are ready to admit that it is possible Nature still holds the

key herself; and who are not unwilling to encounter another revolution,

if they can extend their knowledge of Nature's laws; even though it

may leave only ruins, where now all is supposed to be so solid as to

defy earthquakes and other revolutionizing forces.

In reviewing the history of the onward march of chemistry in the

past, we find that Robert Boyle, who lived from 1627 to 1691, was

the first chemist who grasped the idea of the distinctions between

an elementary and a compound body. He has been called the first

scientific chemist, and he certainly did much to advance chemical

science, particularly in the borderland of chemistry and physics,

but he did this more by his overthrow of false theories, than in any

other way. It was left for Scheele (born 1742), an obscure Swedish

chemist whose discoveries extended over the whole range of chemical

science, and his French contemporary, Lavoisier (born 1743), to

bring about a complete revolution in chemistry. Thus, step by step,

and period by period, experimental science has prepared the way to

reach that elevation which humanity is destined eventually to attain,

when all errors have been discarded and truth reigns triumphant. The

question has been asked, in view of the past history of discovery,

what may not the science of the future accomplish in the unseen

pathways of the air? That still unconquered field lies before us,

and we know that it is only a question of time when man will hold

dominion there with as firm sway as he now holds it on land and sea.

Physics and chemistry walk hand in hand. Scientists cannot cut the tie

that joins them together in experimental science. Physics treats of

the changes of matter without regard to its internal constitution. The

laws of gravitation and cohesion belong to physical science. They

concern matter without reference to its composition. Chemistry makes

us acquainted with the constituents of the different forms of matter,

their proportions and the changes which they are capable of bringing

about in each other. But notwithstanding the lessons of the past, both

chemistry and physics are blind to what the future has in store for

them. Scientists have erected barriers to progress, building them so

as to appear of solid masonry on the ground of false hypotheses; but,

when the hour is ripe, these will be swept away as if by a cyclone,

leaving not one stone on another. It was Boyle who overthrew the

so-called Aristotelian doctrine, and Paracelsus's teachings of the

three constitutents of matter, disputed first by Van Helmont. Boyle

taught that chemical combination consists of an approximation of the

smallest particles of matter, and that a decomposition takes place when

a third body is present, capable of exerting on the particles of the

one element a greater attraction than is exercised by the particles

of the element with which it is combined. In this conjecture there is

just a hint of the grand potentialities in the unknown realm which is

now being explored by Keely, the discoverer of the order of vibration

that releases the latent force held in the interstitial spaces of the

constituents of water; one order of vibration, being more in sympathy

with one of the elements of water than with the other, possesses a

greater attraction for that element and thereby raptures its atoms,

showing up new elements. Not all men of science are willing to admit

the atomic theory; although it explains satisfactorily all the known

laws of chemical combination. Dalton, accepting the teachings of

the ancients as to the atomic constitution of matter, was the first

to propound a truly chemical atomic theory; a quantitative theory,

declaring that the atoms of the different elements are not of the same

weight, and that the relative atomic weights of the elements are the

proportions, by weight, in which the elements combine. All previous

theories, or suggestions, had been simply qualitative. Berzelius,

the renowned Swedish chemist, advancing Dalton's atomic theory, laid

the foundation stones of chemical science, as it now exists. Since

his day, by the new methods of spectrum analysis, elements unknown

before have been discovered; and researchers in this field are

now boldly questioning whether all the supposed elements are really

undecomposable substances, and are conjecturing that they are not. On

this subject Sir Henry Roscoe says:--

"So far as our chemical knowledge enables us to judge, we may assume,

with a considerable degree of probability, that by the application

of more powerful means than are known at present, chemists will

succeed in obtaining still more simple bodies from the so-called

elements. Indeed, if we examine the history of our science, we find

frequent examples occurring of bodies, that only a short time ago were

considered to be elementary, which have been shown to be compounds,

upon more careful examination."

What the chemist's retort has failed to accomplish has been effected

by the discoverer of latent force existing in all forms of matter,

where it is held locked in the interstitial spaces, until released

by a certain order of vibration. As yet, the order of vibration which

releases this force, has not been discovered in any forms of matter,

excepting in the constituents of gunpowder, dynamite, and water. The

Chinese are supposed to have invented, centuries before the birth of

Christ, the explosive compound gunpowder, which requires that order of

vibration known as heat to bring about a rupture of the molecules of

the nitre, sulphur, and charcoal, of which it is composed. Dynamite

requires another order of vibration--concussion--to release the

latent force held in the molecular embrace of its constituents. The

order of vibration discovered by Keely, which causes the rupture

of the molecular and atomic capsules of the constituents of water,

must remain--though in one point only--a secret with the discoverer,

until he has completed his system for science, and some one patentable

invention. Let physicists be incredulous or cautious, it matters not

to him. He has proved to his own satisfaction the actual existence of

atoms and their divisibility--and, to the satisfaction of thousands

capable of forming an opinion, the existence of an unknown force. Men

of science have not been in any haste to aid him, either with money

or with sympathy, in his researches; and he will take his own time

to bestow upon them the fruit of those researches.

Those who have not clear ideas as to the nature of elementary

bodies--molecules and atoms--may like to know that elements are

defined as simple substances, out of which no other two or more

essentially differing substances have been obtained. Compounds are

bodies out of which two or more essentially differing substances have

been obtained. A molecule is the smallest part of a compound or element

that is capable of existence in a free state. Atoms are set down, by

those who believe in the atomic theory, as the indivisible constituents

of molecules. Thus, an element is a substance made up of atoms of the

same kind; a compound is a substance made up of atoms of unlike kind.

Over seventy elements are now known, out of which, or compounds of

these with each other, our globe is composed, and also the meteoric

stones which have fallen on our earth. The science of chemistry aims at

the experimental examination of the elements and their compounds, and

the investigation of the laws which regulate their combination one with

another. For example, in the year 1805, Gay-Lussac and Von Humboldt

found that one volume of oxygen combines with exactly two volumes of

hydrogen to form water, and that these exact proportions hold good

at whatever temperature the gases are brought into contact. Oxygen

and hydrogen are now classified as elementary bodies.

The existence of atoms, if proved, as claimed by the pioneer of whom

we write, confirms Priestly's idea that all discoveries are made

by chance; for it certainly was by a mere chance, as we view things

with our limited knowledge, that Keely stumbled over the dissociation

of the supposed simple elements of water by vibratory force; [23]

thus making good Roscoe's assumption that, by the application of more

powerful means than were known to him, still more simple bodies would

be shown up. Had Keely subdivided these corpuscles of matter, after a

method known to physicists, he would have been hailed as a discoverer,

when it was announced by Arthur Goddard, in the British Mercantile

Gazette, in 1887, that Keely declared electricity to be a certain

form of atomic vibration of what is called the luminiferous ether.

Had Keely been better understood, science might have been marching

with giant strides across this unknown realm during the many years

in which men of learning have refused to witness the operation of the

dissociation of water, because one of their number decided, in 1876,

that Keely was using compressed air. Fixing bounds to human knowledge,

she still refuses to listen to the suggestion that what she has

declared as truth may be as grossly erroneous as were her teachings

in the days when the rotation of the earth was denied; this denial

being based upon the assertions of all the great authorities of more

than one thousand years, that the earth could not move because it was

flat and stationary. Herodotus ridiculed those who did not believe

this. For two thousand years after the daily rotation of the earth

was first suggested, the idea was disputed and derided. The history

of the past, says General Drayson, who claims to have discovered

a third movement of the earth, teaches us that erroneous theories

were accepted as grand truths by all the scientific authorities of

the whole world during more than five thousand years. [24] Although

the daily rotation of the earth and its annual revolution around

the sun had been received as facts by the few advanced minds, some

five hundred years before Christ, yet the obstructions caused by

ignorance and prejudice prevented these truths from being generally

accepted until about three hundred years ago, when Copernicus first,

and afterwards Galileo, revived the theory of the earth's two principal

movements. Human nature is the same as in the days when Seneca said

that men would rather cling to an error than admit they were in the

wrong; so it is not strange that General Drayson, as the discoverer

of a third movement, has not received the attention that he deserves,

although his mathematical demonstrations seem to be beyond dispute.

With Keely's claim, that latent force exists in all forms of matter,

it is different; for it is susceptible of proof by experiment. In the

days when the sphericity of the earth was denied, for the asserted

reason that the waters of the oceans and seas on its surface would

be thrown off in its revolutions were it so, because water could

not stay on a round ball, the statement could not be disputed; the

theory of the laws of gravitation being then unknown. Copernicus

and Galileo had nothing but theories to offer; consequently it took

long years to overcome the bigotry and the baneful influence of

the great authorities of the time. It is otherwise with Keely, who,

for fifteen years and more, has been demonstrating this discovery to

thousands of men; some of whom, but not all, were competent to form

an opinion as to whether he was "humbugging with compressed air,"

or with a concealed dynamo, or, still more absurd, with tricks in

suction, as I asserted by a learned professor.

Now that some of our men of science have consented to form their

opinions from observation, without interfering with the lines of

progressive experimental research which the discoverer is pursuing,

there seems to be no doubt as to the result; nor of the protection

of the discovery by science. Truth is mighty, and must in the end

prevail over mere authority.

It has been said that we need nothing more than the history of

astronomy to teach us how obstinately the strongholds of error are

clung to by incompetent reasoners; but when a stronghold is demolished,

there is nothing left to cling to. Sir John Lubbock says:--The great

lesson which science teaches is how little we yet know, and how much

we have still to learn. To which it might be added, and how much we

have to unlearn!

All mysteries are said to be either truths concealing deeper truths,

or errors concealing deeper errors; and thus, as the mysteries

unfold, truth or error will show itself in a gradually clearer light,

enabling us to distinguish between the two. It is now left for men

of science to decide as to the nature of the mysteries which Keely

is slowly unfolding, and whether his demonstrations substantiate his

theories. They have been invited to follow him in his experimental

research, step by step; to bestow upon him sympathy and encouragement,

so long withheld, until he reaches that stage where he will no longer

need their protection. Then, if science is satisfied that he has gained

a treasure for her, in his years of dead-work, she must step aside

and wait patiently until he has fulfilled his obligations to those

who organized themselves into a company to aid him, long before she

came forward to interest herself in his behalf. Those men of science

who have refused to countenance this great work, even by witnessing

experiments made to prove the discovery of an unknown force, are

men who attempt no explanation of the miracles of nature by which

we are surrounded, assuming that no explanation can be given; but,

as Bacon has said, he is a bad mariner, who concludes, when all is

sea around him, that there is no land beyond.

If the multitude of so-called laws of nature could be resolved into

one grand universal law, would it not be considered a great step

in the progress of scientific knowledge? This is what our pioneer

claims for his discoveries, one law working throughout nature, in all

things; for, as Macvicar says, the productive and conservative agency

in creation, as it exists and acts, does not consist of two things,

"idea" and "power"; but of a unity embracing both, for which there is

no special name. The relation between the Creator and the Creation,

the First Cause and what he has effected, is altogether inscrutable;

but intelligence acting analytically, as it cannot be kept from doing,

insists on these two elements in the problem, viz. idea and power.

"The law of the universe is a distinct dualism while the creative

energies are at work; and of a compound union when at rest."

The hypothesis that motion can only be effected mechanically,

by pressure or traction or contact of some kind, is an utterly

helpless one to explain even familiar movements. Gravitation itself,

the grandest and most prevailing phenomenon of the material universe,

has set all genius at defiance when attempting to conceive a mechanism

which might account for it. The law of sympathetic association, or

sympathetic assimilation, between two or more atoms, or masses of

atoms, explains this grand phenomenon; but Roscoe, in theorizing on

the atomic theory, says that from purely chemical considerations it

appears unlikely the existence of atoms will ever be proved. It never

could have been proved by mechanical physics nor by chemistry. The law

which locks the atoms together would have remained an unknown law,

had not Keely opened the door leading into one of nature's domains

which was never entered before, unless by the fabled Orpheus, who,

mythology tells us, was killed because he revealed to man what the

gods wished to conceal. Certainly, whether Orpheus ever existed or

not, the principle which Pythagoras promulgated as the teaching of

Orpheus is disclosed in one of Keely's discoveries.

In the great fresco of the school of Athens, by Raphael, Pythagoras

is represented as explaining to his pupils his theory that the same

principle underlies the harmonies of music and the motion of heavenly

bodies. One of these pupils holds in his hand a tablet, shaped like a

zither, on which are inscribed the Greek words, Diapason, Diapente,

Diatessaron. Of the diapason, or concord of all, Spenser writes,

in The Faerie Queen:--

Nine was the circle set in heaven's place,

All which compacted made a goodly diapase.

Here we have a clue to the Thirds, Sixths and Ninths of Keely's

theories, in the operation of his polar negative attractor. The

conception of the Pythagoreans of music, as the principle of the

creation's order, and the mainstay and supporter of the material world,

is strictly in accordance with the marvellous truths which are now

being unfolded to science. Rightly divined Browning when he wrote of

... music's mystery, which mind fails

To fathom; its solution no mere clue;

and Cardinal Newman also, when he discoursed of musical sounds,

"under which great wonders unknown to us seem to have been typified,"

as "the living law of divine government." Since the days of Leucippus,

poets and philosophers have often touched upon the mysteries hidden in

sound, which are now being revealed in the experimental researches of

Keely. These truths make no impression on those who are not gifted

with any comprehension of nature's harmonious workings, and are

regarded as flights of fancy and of rhetoric. Among the utterances of

inspiration--and all truth is inspired--one of the most remarkable,

when taken in connection with these discoveries, is found in these

eloquent words of the Dean of Boston University in his "Review of

Herbert Spencer," printed in 1876:--

"Think of the universal warring of tremendous forces which is for

ever going on, and remember that out of this strife is born, not

chaos void and formless, but a creation of law and harmony. Bear

in mind, too, that this creation is filled with the most marvellous

mechanisms, with the most exquisite contrivances, and with forms of

the rarest beauty. Remember, also, that the existence of these forms

for even a minute depends upon the nicest balance of destructive

forces. Abysses of chaos yawn on every side, and yet creation holds

on its way. Nature's keys need but to be jarred to turn the tune into

unutterable discord, and yet the harmony is preserved. Bring hither

your glasses--and see that, from atomic recess to the farthest depth,

there is naught but 'toil co-operant to an end.' All these atoms move

to music; all march in tune. Listen until you catch the strain, and

then say whether it is credible that a blind force should originate

and maintain all this."

Sir John Herschel said:--There is some principle in the science of

music that has yet to be discovered.

It is this principle which has been discovered by Keely. Let his

theories be disputed as they have been, and as they still may be,

the time has come in which his supporters claim that he is able to

demonstrate what he teaches; is able to show how superficial are

the foundations of the strongholds to which physicists are clinging;

and able to prove purity of conditions in physical science which not

even the philosophers and poets of the past have so much as dreamed

of in their hours of inspiration.

... ways are made,

Burdens are lifted, or are laid,

By some great law unseen and still,

Unfathomed purpose to fulfil.

Our materialistic physicists, our Comtist and agnostic philosophers,

have done their best to destroy our faith.

Of him who will not believe in Soul because his scalpel cannot detect

it, Browning wrote:

To know of, think about--

Is all man's sum of faculty effects,

When exercised on earth's least atom.

What was, what is, what may such atoms be?--

Unthinkable, unknowable to man.

Yet, since to think and know fire through and through

Exceeds man, is the warmth of fire unknown?

Its uses--are they so unthinkable?

Pass from such obvious power to powers unseen,

Undreamed of save in their sure consequence:

Take that we spoke of late, which draws to ground

The staff my hand lets fall; it draws at least--

Thus much man thinks and knows, if nothing more.

These lines were written in reference to Keely's discovery of the

infinite subdivision of the atom; for not until a much later period was

Browning influenced by a New York journalist to look upon Keely as "a

modern Cagliostro." Keely's discovery was the key-note of "Ferishtah's

Fancies," written by Browning before he met this journalist.

Professor Koenig writes:--I have long given up the idea of

understanding the Universe; with a little insight into its microcosm,

I would feel quite satisfied; as every day it becomes more puzzling.

But there are no boundaries set to knowledge in the life of the Soul,

and these discoveries reach out so far towards the Infinite, that

we are led by them to realize how much there is left for science to

explore in the supposed unfathomable depths of the etheric domain,

whence proceeds the influence that connects us with that infinite

and eternal energy from which all things proceed.

The attitude of willingness to receive truths, of whatever

nature, now manifested by men of science in regard to Keely's

experimental research, is shared by all who are not "wise in their

own conceit." They stand ready to welcome, while waiting for proof,

the discovery of Darwin's grand-niece, Mrs. F. J. Hughes, as now

demonstrated by Keely, viz., that the laws which develop and control

harmonies, develop and control the universe; and they will rejoice

to be convinced (as Keely teaches) that all corpuscular aggregation

absorbs energy, holding it latent in its embrace until liberated by a

certain order of vibration; that nature does not aggregate one form

of matter under one law, and another form of matter under another

law. When this has been demonstrated, to their entire satisfaction,

they will acknowledge that Faraday's speculations on the nature

of force and matter pointed the way to Keely's discoveries. Some

broad-minded men have been pursuing lines of research which give

evidence of their desire to solve the problem for themselves as

to the mode of rupturing the atom, which science declares to be

indivisible. Before any great scientific principle receives distinct

enunciation, says Tyndall, it has dwelt more or less clearly in many

minds. The intellectual plateau is already high, and our discoverers

are those who, like peaks above the plateau, rise over the general

level of thought at the time. If, as Browning has said,

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do,

surely this discoverer merits the sympathy and the admiration of

all men, whether he succeeds commercially or not, for his persistent

efforts to make his discoveries of use to the world. Keely has always

said that scientists would never be able to understand his discoveries

until he had reached some practical or commercial result. Only now he

sees an interest awakened among men of science, which is as gratifying

to him as it is unexpected. For the first time in his life, he is

working with the appreciation of men competent to comprehend what

he has done in the past, and what remains to be done in the future,

without one aspiration on their part for monetary results.

Foremost among these men was the late Joseph Leidy, Professor of

Biology in the University of Pennsylvania; but physicists were not

satisfied to take the opinion of this great man, because he was a

biologist. What better preparation than the study of the science of

life could a man have to qualify him for discriminating between laws

of nature as conjectured by physicists, and Nature's operations as

demonstrated by Keely?

To such men, possessing entire scientific and intellectual liberty of

thought, with that love of justice and truth which keeps its possessor

from self-conceit, arrogance and intolerance, the world owes all

that we now possess of scientific advance, since the days when men

believed the thunder and lightning to be the artillery of the gods.

Lucifer, September, 1892.

CHAPTER XIX.

LATENT FORCE IN INTERSTITIAL SPACES--ELECTRO-MAGNETIC

RADIATION--MOLECULAR DISSOCIATION.

(By John Ernst Worrell Keely.)

The atom is infinitely divisible.--Arthur Schopenhauer.

For thou well knowest that the imbecility of our understanding,

in not comprehending the more abstruse and retired causes of

things, is not to be ascribed to any defect in their nature,

but in our own hoodwinkt intellect.--P. 6, A Ternary of

Paradoxes.--Van Helmont.

The advance of science, which for a time overshadowed

philosophy, has brought men face to face once more with

ultimate questions, and has revealed the impotence of science

to deal with its own conditions and pre-suppositions. The needs

of science itself call for a critical doctrine of knowledge

as the basis of an ultimate theory of things. Philosophy

must criticize not only the categories of science but also

the metaphysical systems of the past.--Prof. Seth.

Latent Force.

Science, even in its highest progressive conditions, cannot assert

anything definite. The many mistakes that men of science have

made in the past prove the fallacy of asserting. By doing so they

bastardize true philosophy and, as it were, place the wisdom of God

at variance; as in the assertion that latent power does not exist

in corpuscular aggregations of matter, in all its different forms,

visible or invisible.

Take, for example, gunpowder, which is composed of three different

mediums of aggregated matter, saltpetre, charcoal, and sulphur,

each representing different orders of molecular density which,

when associated under proper conditions, gives what is called an

explosive compound. In fact it is a mass which is made susceptible

at any moment by its exciter fire, which is an order of vibration,

to evolve a most wonderful energy in volume many thousands of times

greater than the volume it represents in its molecular mass. If it be

not latent force that is thus liberated by its exciter, a mere spark,

what is it? Are not the gases that are evolved in such great volume and

power held latent in the molecular embrace of its aggregated matter,

before being excited into action? If this force is not compressed

there, nor placed there by absorption, how did it get there? And by

what power was it held in its quiescent state? I contend that it was

placed there at the birth of the molecule by the law of sympathetic

etheric focalization towards the negative centres of neutrality with a

velocity as inconceivable in its character as would be the subdivision

of matter to an ultimate end. Again, what is the energy that is held

in the molecular embrace of that small portion of dynamite which by

slight concussion, another order of vibration, evolves volumes of

terrific force, riving the solid rock and hurling massive projectiles

for miles? If it is not latent power that is excited into action, what

is it? Finally, what is held in the interstitial corpuscular embrace

of water, which by its proper exciter another form of vibration,

is liberated showing almost immeasurable volume and power? Is not

this energy latent, quiet, until brought forth by its sympathetic

negative exciter? Could the force thus evolved from these different

substances be confined again, or pressed back and absorbed into the

interstitial spaces occupied before liberation, where the sympathetic

negative power of the Infinite One originally placed it? [25]

If latent force is not accumulated and held in corpuscular aggregations

how is it that progressive orders of disintegration of water induce

progressive conditions of increased volume and of higher power? I

hold that in the evolved gases of all explosive compounds, dynamite

or any other, there exists deeper down in the corpuscular embrace of

the gaseous element, induced by the first explosion, a still greater

degree of latent energy that could be awakened by the proper condition

of vibration; and still further on ad infinitum. [26]

Is it possible to imagine that mere molecular dissociation could show

up such immense volumes of energy, unassociated with the medium of

latent force?

The question arises, How is this sympathetic power held in the

interstitial corpuscular condition?

Answer.--By the incalculable velocity of the molecular and atomic

etheric capsules, [27] which velocity represents billions of

revolutions per second in their rotations. We shall imagine a sphere

of twelve inches in diameter, representing a magnified molecule

surrounded by an atmospheric envelope of one sixteenth of an inch

in depth; the envelope rotating at a velocity of the same increased

ratio of the molecule's magnification. At the very lowest estimate

it would give a velocity of six hundred thousand miles per second,

or twenty-four thousand times the circumference of the earth in

that time. Is it possible to compute what the velocity would be,

on the same ratio, up to the earth's diameter?[#2] It is only under

such illustrations that we can be brought even to faintly imagine the

wonderful sympathetic activity that exists in the molecular realm. An

atmospheric film, rotating on a twelve inch sphere at the same ratio as

the molecular one, would be impenetrable to a steel-pointed projectile

at its greatest velocity; and would hermetically enclose a resisting

pressure of many thousands of pounds per square inch. The latent force

evolved in the disintegration of water proves this fact; for under

etheric evolution, in progressive orders of vibration, these pressures

are evolved, and show their energy on a lever especially constructed

for the purpose, strong enough for measuring a force over three times

that of gunpowder. We shall continue this subject a little farther,

and this little farther will reach out into infinity. The speculations

of the physicists of the present age, in regard to latent energy,

would neutralize the sympathetic conditions that are associated with

the governing force of the cerebral and the muscular organism. The

evolution of a volition, the infinite exciter, arouses the latent

energy of the physical organism to do its work; differential orders

of brain-force acting against each other under dual conditions. If

there were no latent energy to arouse sympathetically, there would

be no action in the physical frame; as all force is will-force.

All the evolutions of latent power in its varied multiplicity of action

induced by its proper exciters, prove the connecting link between

the celestial and the terrestrial, the finite and the infinite. (See

Appendix I.)

There would be no life, and therefore no action in aggregated matter,

had the latent negative force been left out of it.

If a bar of steel or iron is brought into contact with a magnet, the

latent force that the steel or iron is impregnated with is aroused,

and shows its interstitial latent action by still holding another

bar. But this experiment does not give the most remote idea of the

immensity of the force that would show itself on more progressive

exciters. Enough alternate active energy could be evolved, by the

proper sympathetic exciter, in one cubic inch of steel to do the work

of a horse, by its sympathetic association with the polar force in

alternate polarization and depolarization.

This is the power that I am now getting under control (using the

proper exciters as associated with the mechanical media) to do

commercial work. In other words, I am making a sympathetic harness

for the polar terrestrial force: first, by exciting the sympathetic

concordant force that exists in the corpuscular interstitial domain,

which is concordant to it; and secondly, after the concordance is

established, by negatizing the thirds, sixths, and ninths of this

concordance, thereby inducing high velocities with great power by

intermittent negation, as associated with the dominant thirds.

Again: Take away the sympathetic latent force that all matter is

impregnated with, the connective link between the finite and the

infinite would be dissociated, and gravity would be neutralized;

bringing all visible and invisible aggregations back into the great

etheric realm.

Here let me ask, What does the term cohesion mean? What is the

power that holds molecules together, but electro-magnetic negative

attraction? What is the state that is brought about by certain

conditions of sympathetic vibration, causing molecules to repel each

other, but electro-magnetic radiation?

It must not be understood that the character of the action of the

latent force liberated from liquids and gases is the same, in its

evolution, as that of the latent force existing in metals. The former

shows up an elastic energy, which emanates from the breaking up of

their rotating envelopes; increasing, at the same time, the range

of their corpuscular action: thus giving, under confinement, elastic

forces of an almost infinite character. By liberation from the tube

it is confined in, it seeks its medium of concordant tenuity with a

velocity greater than that of light.

In metals, the latent force, as excited by the same sympathizer,

extends its range of neutral sympathetic attraction without corpuscular

rupture, and reaches out as it were to link itself with its harmonic

sympathizer, as long as its exciter is kept in action. When its exciter

is dissociated, its outreach nestles back again into the corpuscular

embrace of the molecular mass that has been acted upon. [28]

This is the polar sympathetic harness, as between metallic mediums

and the polar dominant current,--the leader of the triune stream of

the terrestrial flow. (See Appendix II.)

The velocity of the sympathetic bombarding streams, towards the centres

of neutrality, in the corpuscular atoms, during sympathetic aggregation

of visible molecular masses (in registering the latent force in their

interstitial spaces), is thousands of times greater than that of the

most sensitive explosives. An atmospheric stream of that velocity

would atomize the plate of an ironclad, if brought to bear on it.

If the evolution of the power of a volition be set down as one, what

number would that represent in the power evolved by such volition on

the physical organism? To answer this we must first be able, mentally,

to get down to the neutral central depths of the corpuscular atoms,

where gravity ceases, to get its unit; and in the second place we

must be able to weigh it as against the force physically evolved.

How true, "the finer the force the greater the power!" and the

greater is the velocity, also; and the more mathematically infinite

the computation.

Yet all these conditions of evolution and concentration are

accomplished by the celestial mind force, as associated with

terrestrial brain matter.

The first seal is being broken, in the book of vibratory philosophy:

the first stepping-stone is placed toward reaching the solution of

that infinite problem,--the source of life.

Theory of Vibratory Lift for Air-Ships.

All molecular masses of terrestrial matter are composed of the

ultimate ether,--from which all things originally emanated. They

are sympathetically drawn towards the earth's centre, as according

to the density of their molecular aggregation, minus their force or

sympathetic outreach towards celestial association. In other words,

the celestial flow as controlling terrestrial physical organisms.

The sympathetic outflow from the celestial streams reaches the infinite

depths of all the diversified forms of matter. Thus it is seen that the

celestial flow which permeates, to its atomic depths, the terrestrial

convolutions of all matter, forms the exact sympathetic parallel to

the human brain-flow and the physical organism,--a perfect connective

link of controlling sympathy, or sympathetic control. Under certain

orders of sympathetic vibration, polar and anti-polar, the attractive

sympathies of either stream can be intensified, so as to give the

predominance to the celestial or to the terrestrial.

If the predominance be given to the celestial, to a certain degree,

on a mass of metal, it will ascend from the earth's surface, towards

the etheric field, with a velocity as according to the dominant

concentration that is brought to bear on the negative thirds of its

mass chords, by inducing high radiation from their neutral centres,

in combination with the power of the celestial attractive.

The power of the terrestrial propulsive and celestial attractive to

lift; and these conditions reversed, or the celestial propulsive and

the terrestrial attractive, to descend. Associating these conditions

with the one of corpuscular bombardment, it is evident to me with what

perfection an air-ship of any number of tons weight can, when my system

is completed, be controlled in all the varied movements necessary for

complete commercial use at any desired elevation, and at any desired

speed. It can float off into atmospheric space as gentle in motion

as thistle-down, or with a velocity out-rivalling a cyclone. [29]

Electro-Magnetic Radiation.

If the persistency of our vision could be reversed, so as to have the

power to follow the track of the molecule's oscillations under a high

condition of vibratory acceleration, associated with the assisting

power of the finest instruments known at present in scientific

research, it would not help us to determine the period of time

wherein the sympathetic actions in nature are propagated. Therefore,

we cannot, with any degree of certainty, establish a foundation whereon

observation, so associated, is reliable. (Theoretically explained in

'Soul of Matter.')

As far as my researches have gone, I find that there is but

one condition approaching reliability; and that is in computing

the intermittent periodic disturbances along a nodal vibratory

transmitter--the nodes of gold, silver and platina--a fixed number

placed at such different distances, along its line, as to take up

and equalize (by a certain order of vibratory transmissions) the

chord masses of the nodal interferences between the triple metals

of which the nodes are composed, and also the acoustic introductory

impulse of whatever chord is set. This will determine the rate of

their accelerated molecular oscillation, so induced beyond their

normal standard, and give us some definite figures in the computing

of vibrations, thousands of billions of times more than those of light.

Light is induced by electro-magnetic percussion emanating from the

ether, and in its action represents the plane of magnetism. In fact it

is the plane of magnetism when under polarization. [30] Some scientific

theories of the past have taught us that electricity and magnetism are

one and the same thing. Sympathetic vibratory philosophy teaches that

they are two distinct forces of one of the triune sympathetic family.

I will try to make comprehensible the computation of the number

(even to infinity) of the corpuscular oscillations, induced on

the introductory ninths, over their normal standard. The molecules

of all visible masses, when not influenced by surrounding acoustic

vibratory impulses, move at a rate of 20,000 oscillations per second,

one third of their diameters. We have before us one of these masses;

either a silver dollar, a pound weight, a horse-shoe, or any other

metallic medium, which I associate to one of my nodal transmitters,

the other end of which is attached to the clustered thirds (or third

octave) of my focalizing neutral concentrator. Another transmitter,

of gold, silver and platina sections, is attached to the sixth cluster

of same disk, the other end of which is connected to resonating sphere

on my compound instrument: all of which must be brought to a state

of complete rest. Then, a slight tap, with a vulcanite rubber hammer

on the chladna resonating disk, will accelerate the 20,000 molecular

oscillations to 180,000 per second,--an increase of nine times the

normal number. The nine nodes each touching the extreme end, next

the mass operated upon, in this arrangement; silver, gold, platina,

make up the nine. When I associate the seventh, I start with gold

and end with platina; always on the triplets. Silver represents the

lowest introductory third, gold the next, and platina the highest. If

we start with a gold node, the multiplication on oscillation will

be nine times nine, or 81 times the 20,000; which is 1,620,000 per

second. Each node represents one wave length of a certain number

of vibrations when shifted along the transmitter, over the section

representing its opposite metal. The shifting of the gold one over

the silver extreme section will hold the corpuscular range of the

mass velocity at 1,620,000 per second: the introductory chord being

set at B, third octave. It requires an accelerated oscillation on

the molecules of a soft steel mass, at that chord, of a transmissive

multiplication of the full nine, in order to induce a rotary action on

the neutral centre indicator of focalizing disk; which by computation,

means, per second, 156,057,552,198,220,000 corpuscular intermittent

oscillations to move the disk 110 revolutions per second. This only

represents the multiplication on the first nodal dissociator of

the ninth. The second transition, on same, would mean this number

multiplied by itself, and the residue of each multiplication

by itself 81 times progressively. This throws us infinitely far

beyond computation, leaving us only on the second of the full ninth,

towards reaching the sympathetic corpuscular velocity attending the

high luminiferous. I have induced rotation up to 123 revolutions per

second on a neutral indicator that required billions of vibrations

per second to accomplish; but even this vibration represents only a

minute fraction of the conditions governing the sympathetic vitality

which exists in the far luminous centres.

The interposition of hydrogen gas between soap-film, of the

differential diameters of thirds, illuminated by a solar ray in

whose focus a quiescent prism is set posteriorly--the prism to be

adjusted at the proper distance and angle, to throw the seven colours

through the film enclosing the hydrogen in a way that will give the

bow an arch of three feet--will register deep down, inaudible tones

or sounds, and indicate their different conditions by the dissolving

and re-dissolving of certain of the colours of such arch. To conduct

such experiments properly necessitates, first, a location as nearly

isolated from all extraneous audible sounds as is possible to get;

and second, a pedestal of the lowest vibrating material, the base of

it set deep in the earth, to arrange the instruments upon; and third,

a room of the highest resonating qualities to enclose them. Under

such conditions the inaudible sounds emanating from the operator,

would have to be neutralized by a negative device to get at the proper

conditions while under his manipulation. Thus the hidden inaudible

world of sounds could be shown up, as the microscope shows up to the

eye the hidden invisible forms of nature.

The condition of the mechanical requirements necessary to conduct

successfully the line of research that I am now pursuing, will never

be properly appreciated until the beauty of this system is shown up

under perfect control for commercial use.

I have spoken elsewhere of the almost infinite difficulties of getting

into position, to hold hydrogen gas in suspension between soap-film

a proper period of time, to conduct these experiments. The setting of

the other parts of the apparatus is quite easy in comparison. All wave

propagations, electro-magnetic or otherwise, by being thus reflected

can be measured in regard to the time of their propagation; all of

which are introductorily subservient to the luminiferous ether. The

theory put forward by "men of science," in regard to electro-magnetic

forces shows that they are misled by the imperfection of their

instruments. They are trying to measure the infinite by the finite;

necessitating terms of avoidance, to the instantaneous propagation of

nature's sympathetic evolutions, of the same nature as the one advanced

in the assertion that force does not exist in the interstitial embrace

of all matter.

Maxwell's theory is correct that the plane of polarized light is the

plane of the magnetic force. The sympathetic vibrations associated

with polarized light constitute the pure coincident of the plane

of magnetism. Therefore, they both tend to the same path, for both

are inter-atomic, assimilating sympathetically, in a given time,

to continue the race together; although one precedes the other at

the time of experimental evolution. The time is approaching when

electro-magnetic waves with an outreach of two feet will be produced,

having an energy equal to that now shown up on the magnet when it is

about to kiss its keeper; and showing a radiating force too stupendous

for actual measurement.

I have already shown, to a certain point, the power of this radiation,

by breaking a rope that had a resisting strain of over two tons,

which was attached to the periphery of a steel disk, twelve inches in

diameter, moving at the slow rate of one revolution in two minutes; its

molecular structure vitalized with 42,800 vibrations per second. There

was no retardation while breaking the rope, and no acceleration when

it was broken. This experiment has been repeated scores of times,

before scores of visitors who came to my laboratory for the purpose

of seeing it.

A computation of the conditions, already shown up in part, proves

conclusively that the power of an electro-magnetic wave at an outreach

of ten inches would be, if properly developed, equal to a lifting

force of 36,000 pounds on a disk but three inches in diameter. Ten

of such on the periphery of a vibratory disk, 36 inches in diameter,

would represent 360,000 pounds actual lift at one revolution per

minute. Perfect depolarization at one hundred times per minute would

represent 360,000,000 pounds, lifted twelve times per minute, or 1000

horse power in the same time. An excess of 100 extra revolutions,

under the same conditions, would mean 2000 horse power per minute.

By this new system, to perfect which I am now devoting all my time

and my energies, dynamos will become a thing of the past, eventually;

and electric lighting will be conducted by a polar negative disk,

independent of extraneous power to run it, other than that of

sympathetic polar attraction, as simple in its construction, almost,

as an ordinary type-writing machine.

Answers made in Letters from Mr. Keely, to Questions asked of Him.

Light incident to any body that absorbs or reflects it does not

press upon it. The radiometer of Professor Crookes's invention is not

operated by the pressure of light, but by corpuscular bombardment on

the reflecting side of its vanes.

You have called my attention to the receding movement in the metal

silver, which it assumes when the flow of an alternating current

from an electro-magnet, in front, is thrown upon it. This does not

prove that light presses upon it to induce that movement. It moves

by inter-atomic bombardment of some 800 millions of corpuscular

percussions a second; or, more truly, by inter-sympathetic

vibrations. If a homogeneous disk of gold, silver and platina,

in proper proportions, were made the medium of interference, the

resultant action would be startling in showing up the movement of

molecular antagonistic thirds. The movement would be very erratic and

gyroscopic. If the same disk were used or an intermediate transmitter

to a negative focalizer, or in other words a polar radiator only

one of which is in existence, by a nodal wire of gold, silver and

platina, the effect on the disk at the negative terminus would be

to set into action the latent force held in its molecular embrace,

and would cause it to sympathetically adhere to the focalizer, with

a power that would make it practically inseparable.

Professor Fitzgerald's lecture on electro-magnetic radiation shows

that scientific men are beginning to realize, and that fairly,

the truths appertaining to the new philosophy. The professor admits

that electricity and magnetism are of differential character, and

he is right. The progressive subdivision, induced on molecules by

different orders of sympathetic vibration, and the resultant conditions

evolved on the inter-molecule and inter-atom, by introductory etheric

dispersion, prove that the magnetic flow of itself is a triple one,

as is also the electric. Again, the professor says that electricity

and magnetism would be essentially interchangeable if such a thing

existed as magnetic conduction, adding: 'It is in this difference

that we must look for the difference between electricity and

magnetism.' Thus you see how plain it is that progressive scientists

are approaching true science. The rotation of the magnetic needle,

as produced in my researching experiments, proves conclusively that

the interchange spoken of, in Professor Fitzgerald's lecture, is a

differentiated vibratory one, in which the dominant and enharmonic

forces exchange compliments with each other, in a differential way;

thus inducing rotation, in other words polarization and depolarization.

The transmission of sympathetic atomic vibration, through a triple

nodal transmitter, induces an inter-atomic percussion, that results

in triple atomic subdivision, not oscillating across the diameter

of the atom, but accelerating to an infinite degree the atomic film

that surrounds it and at the same time extending the vibratory range

of the atom far enough to set free the gaseous atomic element.

Molecular Dissociation.

If our sight could reach into the remote depths of the interstitial

spaces which exist between the molecular ranges, and observe their

wonderful action, in their oscillating motion, to and from each other,

as guided by the Infinite in their sphere of vibrating action--could we

comprehend the astonishing velocity of their gaseous capsules, combined

as it is with the accompanying acoustic force, we would be, as it were,

paralyzed with amazement. But we would then only be bordering on the

still more remote depths of the interstitial atomic realm, stretching

far down towards the neutral depths of the inter-atomic; and again,

still farther to the borders of its etheric neutral radiating centre.

If our earth were to be submitted to the force governing the rotative

action of the molecule, in its gaseous envelope, and its oscillatory

range of motion were in the same ratio to the differential magnitude of

each, the force of the vibration induced by its atmospheric surrounding

would, in a short time, disintegrate its full volume, precipitating

it into a ring of impalpable inter-molecular dust, many thousands

of miles in diameter. If brought face to face with such conditions

we could better understand the mighty and sympathetic force which

exists in the far remote domain of the molecular and atomic embrace.

The question arises, how and by what means are we able to measure

the velocity of these capsules and the differential range of

their vibratory action? Also, how can we prove beyond dispute the

facts relating to their sympathetic government? By progressive

disintegration; this is the only way; and it is accomplished by the

proper exciters of vibratory focalization; the introductory acoustic

impulses which negatize their molecular, inter-molecular, atomic and

inter-atomic media of neutral attractions, towards their focalized

centres of sympathetic aggregation.

I hold that the sympathetic neutral flow which exists in this remote

region is the latent power that, under the disintegration of water,

is liberated; showing immense volume and infinite pressure. The

same condition of latent power exists in metallic masses and,

paradoxical as it may seem, exerts its force, under the proper

exciter, only in a negative attractive way, while in water in a

positive one. In minerals under liberation this latent power seeks

its medium of tenuous equilibrium, leaving behind an impalpable dust,

that represents molecular dissociation.

In order to get at the conditions which govern and give introductory

impulses to that peculiar force which acts on the sympathetic medium

that associates matter with matter, inducing magnetic antagonisms,

it will be necessary to explain the triune conditions that govern

sympathetic streams; as also the triune conditions of corpuscular

association.

All forces in nature are mind forces: magnetic, electric,

galvanic, acoustic, solar, are all governed by the triune streams of

celestial infinity; as also the molecular, inter-molecular, atomic,

and inter-atomic. The remote depths of all their acoustic centres

become subservient to the third, sixth, and ninth position of the

diatonic, harmonic and enharmonic chords; which, when resonantly

induced, concentrate concordant harmony, by reducing their range of

corpuscular motion, drawing them as if towards each other's neutral

centre of attractive infinity.

The sympathetic acoustic exciters, or impulses, are: 1st. the

third diatonic; 2nd. the harmonic sixths neutralizing affinity;

3rd. the enharmonic ninths--positive acceleration, which induces

infinite trajective velocity from neutral centres; in other words,

neutral radiation.

Every molecule in nature represents, without variation, the same

chord. Variations that show up in the mass chord of different

visible aggregations, are accounted for by the non-uniformity of

their molecular groupings. If all were molecularly homogeneous,

the chord masses of all structures would be perfectly alike in their

resonant impulses.

When the triple introductory impulse is transmitted towards the

mass to be sensitized, it subserves the molecular concordant thirds

and antagonizes the discordant sixths extending the range of their

oscillating paths; and thus induces the highest order of repellent

antagonism towards the centre of neutral equilibrium.

We will now follow out, in their progressive orders, the conditions

necessary to give to these acoustic introductory impulses the power, as

transmitted through the proper media, to induce molecular dissociation.

First: If I wish to disturb and bring into action the latent force

held in the embrace of any molecular mass, I first find out what the

harmonic chord or note of its mass represents; and as no two masses are

alike, it would seem to necessitate an infinite number of variations

to operate on different masses; but such is not the case. All masses

can be subserved to one general condition by the compound mechanical

devices which I use for that purpose. We will suppose that the mass to

be experimented upon, when chorded, represents B flat. Then, first,

the negative radiating focalizing bar on the disk is liberated from

its dampening rod, and associated with the magnetic defocalizing

one. There are seven ranges of bars in all.

(See symbol representing sympathetic transmissive chord of B flat,

third octave on third diatonic.)

The seven assemblings are in this order:

Electro Harmonic

Dominant Magnetic Diatonic Enharmonic.

Negative

3rd. 6ths. 7ths.

I. II. III. IIII. IIIII. IIIIII. IIIIIII.

Twenty-eight in number.

The second step is to liberate, according to symbolic meaning, second

harmonic bar on sixths, or neutralizing one, and third, enharmonic

ninths, which is the one counting from negative sevenths. Now all is

in readiness for the transmissive nodal wire, one end of which must be

attached to the magnetic dispersing ring, over the negative-sevenths

cluster, and the other end to the high polar negative attractor. Then,

one end of a transmitting wire, of very fine proportions of gold,

silver and platina, is connected to the resonating sphere, and the

other end to the mass to be experimented upon. I then give to the

syren a rotatory impulse of a velocity to indicate the concordant

of the mass attached. If the introductory settings are all right,

the neutral centre indicator will rotate with high velocity: and

a single tap on the chladna wave-plate is all that is necessary to

induce pure evolution.

Either attraction or dispersion can be induced on any mass by setting

the instrument to the proper triple introductory positions, towards

the mass chords it represents, either positive or negative.

This system of evolution might be expressed as disintegration induced

by the intensified oscillations of inter-atomic-electro-magnetic waves.

How plainly this principle of harmonic sympathetic evolution indicates

the structural condition of the atom as one of wonderfully complex

form; as also is the progressive step toward it in the molecular and

inter-molecular field.

During the effect induced by disintegration of molecular mineral

masses, there is no molecular collision when forced asunder from their

radiating centres of neutrality. Their atomic and inter-atomic centres

seek their media of tenuous affinity in the far borders of the etheric

field, leaving all metallic masses, that are associated with them,

behind in their virgin form.

Keynote of electric-magnetic sympathy, transmissive combinations,

3rds, on the subdivision of first octave B flat, diatonic. 6ths,

on same subdivision of 3rds, octave harmonic; and 9ths, on the same

subdivision of 6ths, octave enharmonic.

I find that there is no medium in the range of vibratory philosophic

research, that is as unerringly exact, towards the centre of

sympathetic attraction, as the negative attractive influence of a

certain triple association of the metallic masses of gold, silver

and platina. In fact they are as accurate indicators of the earth's

terrestrial sympathetic envelope, and its triple focalized action

towards the earth's neutral centre, as the magnet is an indicator

of the diversion of the attractive flow of the dominant current of

the electric stream. Although much has been written on the subject,

the conditions attending the continuous flow of the magnet remains

a problem that has never been solved by any other theory. Yet the

solution is very simple when harmonic vibratory influence is brought

to bear upon it.

The harmonic attractive chord, thirds, induces a nodal interference

on that third of the triune combination of the terrestrial envelope,

that is immediately associated with this medium of interference, and

moves towards the negative pole of the magnet, then flows through

it to re-associate with the full triune combination, through the

positive, thus:--

Dominant

Harmonic

Enharmonic

The triune stream; one current of which is diverted from the

Dominant, flowing in at the Negative end of the magnet; and

out to join the triune terrestrial stream at the Positive end.

The continuous flow of the magnet is merely a diversion of that

portion of the terrestrial envelope that electricians have never

controlled. This third current, of this triune stream, has never been

subdivided and only slightly diverted towards the negative pole of

the magnet, flowing unbrokenly back to associate sympathetically

with the full triune combination of the earth's negative neutral

force. [31] Thus the problem is solved of the continuous and

never-ending force of the magnet, in carrying its load without any

diminution of its energy. There is no influence, as yet known, that

can break up its line of sympathetic flow as associated with the

triune combination. Polarization and de-polarization, in its action,

is nodal negative interference, intermittently excited, inducing

differential disturbance of polar sympathetic equilibrium.

The attractive power, evolved by a magnet in sustaining its load,

is no evidence that it is molecularly attractive: for, under the

influence of the dominant current of the electric stream, the range

of its molecular mass is not extended; but by the action induced in

atomic vibration, the latent, or undisturbed power, that is locked

up in its atomic embrace, is put into sympathetic action, and evolves

the force that is recognized as magnetic. When its exciter is removed,

it returns to atomic recesses to remain perfectly latent, until again

brought into action by its proper exciter.

When a steel unmagnetized bar is associated with a magnetized one, the

latent force in the unmagnetized one is sympathetically brought into

action, associating itself to the magnetic one, without depreciating

the power of it one iota. Dissociation and association between the

two bars can go on indefinitely with the same result.

The suspension and propelling of an atmospheric navigator of any

number of tons weight, can be successfully accomplished by thus

exciting the molecular mass of the metal it is constructed of; and

the vibratory neutral negative attraction evolved, will bring it into

perfect control, commercially, by keeping it in sympathy with the

earth's triune polar stream. There is enough of this latent power

locked up in the embrace of the iron ore, that is contained in our

planet, which, if liberated and applied to proper vibratory machinery,

would furnish force enough to run the commercial power of the world:

leaving millions of times more to draw upon, as the needs increase. The

velocity of the vibration governing the flow of the magnetic stream,

comes under the head of the first inter-atomic, and ranges from

300,000 to 780,000 vibrations per second; the first order above odour

permeating the molecules, of the glass plate of the compass (with the

same facility that atmospheric air would go through an ordinary sieve

through which it passes), to arouse sympathetically in the needle

the concordant condition that harmonizes with its own. The course of

this sympathetic flow is governed by the full harmonic chord; and,

consequently, moves in straight lines; thus transmitting its sympathy

free of molecular interferences.

The order of vibration associated with the transmission of odour

acts by sympathetic negative interference; and, consequently, moves

in circles, with a velocity of 220,000 per second, at least.

If in any way the circle of its rotatory diameter could be reduced

to that of its corpuscular structure, then a bottle containing an

odorous substance, though sealed as hermetically as an Edison-light

bulb, could no more confine its corpuscles than an open chimney the

smoke ascending from the fire burning at its base.

The sympathetic influence of the terrestrial envelope gets its

introductory impulse from the infinite depths of the earth's neutral

centre. This impulse radiates in undulating lines far enough into

etheric space to become sympathetically associated with the etheric

(or Infinite) under the same conditions that associate the mental with

the physical organism of man. We can define man's molecular condition

in its physical organism as the earth, and its connective link with the

convolutionary cerebral centres as the Infinite etheric domain. Thus,

we have, represented in the planetary masses moving in etheric space,

the same conditions of governing rule as exists between the mental

and physical forces.

With this medium it is plain to see how simply God works, as well as

mysteriously, His wonders to perform; the mental forces kept vitalized

from the great store-house of the etheric realm; and, in controlling

the physical, the deficit caused thereby renewed and kept balanced

by the power of its sympathetic concordant receptiveness.

Any visible molecular mass of metal can be so impregnated by triple

orders of sympathetic vibration as to give it the same sympathetic

transmissive qualities that exist in the mental forces, which make

such mass subservient to either the attractive or repulsive conditions

of terrestrial sympathy.

Gravity is nothing more than a concordant attractive sympathetic

stream flowing towards the neutral centre of the earth. This force

is inherent in all visible and invisible aggregated forms of matter,

from the very birth of a planet, around whose centre the molecules

cluster by the sympathetic affinity which is thus induced. If these

conditions had always maintained a neutral position in etheric space,

no planet would ever have been evolved. These conditions have been

fixed by the Infinite. These rotating neutral centres, set in celestial

space, have been endowed with the power of rotation to become their

own accumulators. It is through the action of these sympathetic forces

of the Infinite etheric realm that planets are born, and their volume

of matter augmented.

If we pick up an object, we feel a resisting power in it which

physicists call gravity; but they do not explain what gravity is. It

is simply a sympathetic flow, proceeding from the molecular centres

of neutrality; which flow is concordant with the earth's neutral

centre of same, seeking this medium of its affinity with a power

corresponding to the character of its molecular mass. There is no

actual weight in the molecules of the mass of which the earth is

composed. If the sympathetic negative polar stream that flows towards

the neutral centre of the earth were cut off from it, the earth's

molecular mass would become independent, and would float away into

space as would a soap-bubble filled with warm air.

The gravital flow comes, in this system, under the order of the

sympathetic concordant of the 9ths, and belongs to that third of the

triune combination called polar propulsive.

Magnetism is polar attraction.

Gravity is polar propulsion.

Both magnetism and gravity can be accelerated by the proper medium

of sympathetic vibratory influences.

A Conjecture.

If we take into proper consideration the sympathetic affinity that

exists between the centres of the cerebral convolutionary organism,

and the polar terrestrial forces, as linked to the celestial, or

Infinite, the harmonizing effects they have on the normal brain,

and the antagonistic negative bombardment of these streams on

the abnormal one, is it not possible, by the diversion of pure,

sympathetic streams, to antagonize abnormal conditions, by concordant

or magnetic polar sympathetic mechanical exciters, and thus to induce

pure normal equilibrium of its corpuscular mass?--which means perfect

mental restoration.

CHAPTER XX.

1892.

PROGRESSIVE SCIENCE--KEELY's PRESENT POSITION.

(A Review of the Situation.)

This amount of repetition to some will probably appear to be

tedious, but only by varied iteration can alien conceptions

be forced on reluctant minds.--Herbert Spencer.

The researches of Lodge in England and of Hertz in Germany give

us an almost infinite range of ethereal vibrations.... Here

is unfolded to us a new and astonishing world,--one which

it is hard to conceive should contain no possibilities of

transmitting and receiving intelligence.... Here also is

revealed to us the bewildering possibility of telegraphy

without wires, posts, cables, or any of our present costly

appliances.... As for myself, I hold the firm conviction that

unflagging research will be rewarded by an insight into natural

mysteries, such as now can rarely be conceived.--Professor

Wm. Crookes, M.R.A., F.R.S., &c.

Vibratory Philosophy teaches that "in the great workshop of

Nature there are no lines of demarcation to be drawn between

the most exalted speculation and common-place practice, and

that all knowledge must lead up to one great result; that of

an intelligent recognition of the Creator through His works."

"Facts are the body of science; speculation is its soul."

It has been said that there is nothing more sublime in the history

of mind than the lonely struggles which generate and precede

success. After the admission made by Professor Rücker, M.A., at the

last meeting of the British Association, that the ether may be "the

material of which all matter is composed," and that "we may, perhaps,

be able to use and control the ether as we now use and control steam,"

there would seem to be grounds for hoping that Keely's "lonely and

prolonged struggles" to utilize in mechanics the ether product which

he obtains from his method of dissociating the elements of water,

will be more universally recognized and appreciated than they have yet

been. Discovery may be unsought and instantaneous, but the inventions

for utilizing discoveries may be, and generally are, the work of years.

Keely first imprisoned the ether in 1872, when its existence was

denied; or, if admitted by a few, it was called "the hypothetical

ether." In 1888, Professor Henri Hertz discovered and announced,

in the Revue des Deux Mondes, that the ether is held in a state of

bondage in all electro-magnetic engines. Not until this fact had been

made known, were there any scientific men, with one notable exception,

who were willing to admit it was possible that Keely might also have

"stumbled over" the manner of effecting its imprisonment.

The nature of Keely's researches, and the length of time in which he

has been absorbed by the necessary dead-work, attendant upon research

before a discovery can be utilized, may be gathered from a letter

recently written by Mr. C. G. Till, of Brooklyn, New York:--

"In Keely's early struggles, somewhere about twenty years ago, I

became acquainted with him, and helped him then to the best of my

ability. Indeed I may say that I was god-father to his discovery;

for I was with him when the idea first entered his head that he

could combine steam and water to run an engine. At that time he made

a crude machine, which he actually ran for some time; and this was

the original model of the Pneumatic-Pulsating-Vacuo-Engine, in the

operation of which he discovered his present force. From that day to

this he has been in pursuit of some method as a medium to use what

he calls his etheric force with. That he has actually discovered a

new force there is not a shadow of doubt. In those days I have known

him to sell and pawn everything of value in his house to obtain means

to continue his investigations with the money thus acquired; and I am

sure that he will eventually give to the world the greatest boon that

has been received by it since the advent of Christianity," etc., etc.

It has been very generally thought that Keely is pursuing the ignis

fatuus of perpetual motion. No greater mistake could have been

made. The genuineness of his claims as a discoverer rests upon

a correct answer to the question, "Is hydrogen gas an element or

a compound?"

Science, as Herodotus said, is to know things truly: but science

tells us that hydrogen is a simple, that the atom is not divisible,

and that latent energy is not locked in the interstitial spaces of

all forms of matter from their birth or aggregation. Keely's system

of Vibratory Physics refutes these canons of science. How absurd

must seem the idea to many that the schools can be wrong, and that

Keely, who has been branded by some of these schools as an impostor,

should be right: but time will show whether Keely's discoveries have

"come to stay." The history of the past shows us that science has

never been infallible; that like Christianity she unfolds her truths

progressively. Keely teaches that an unknown potency is held in the

atom's tenacious grasp, until released by an introductory impulse

given by a certain order of vibration, depending upon the mass-chord

of the aggregation; which impulse so increases the oscillation of

the atoms as to rupture their etheric capsules. All great truths hold

germs potential of ever-increasing growth. It took half a century for

the "Principia" of Newton to overcome the contempt that was showered

upon it; and now progressive science is overshadowing Newton's vast

attainments. In his giant mind was born the hypothesis that the ether

is the cause of light and gravity. Keely has been teaching for years,

that ether is the medium of all force. For every effect science

requires an efficient cause. Hence, when Faraday found no definite

knowledge in exact sciences to satisfy him on certain points he was

led into speculative science, or the preliminary reaching after truths

which we feel must exist by reason of certain effects that come under

our observation, analogous to already known laws:--"reduced facts

lie behind us; speculative ones lie before us;" and without these

latter science could make no progress. Faraday was only speculating

when he said: "Thus either present elements are the true elements;

or else there is the probability before us of obtaining some more

high and general power of nature even than electricity; and which,

at the same time, might reveal to us an entirely new grade of elements

of matter, now hidden from our view and almost from our suspicion."

Faraday's keen perception and acute practical judgment, were never

better exemplified than in Keely's discovery of Negative Attraction;

the laws governing which he is still researching; theorizing that it

is the energy which controls the planetary masses in their advance

toward each other, and in their recession from each other,--the

energy which lifts the seas and the oceans out of their beds, and

replaces them once in twenty-four hours; in other words, explaining

the mystery of the action of gravity.

Had Faraday lived longer he might have anticipated Keely in one of

his discoveries; for he certainly was on the road to it, in the views

of force and matter which he held that were not in accordance with

the accepted views of his time; and which were then set aside as

"wild speculations," by the physicists who complained of his "want

of mathematical accuracy," of his "entertaining notions altogether

distinct from the views generally held by men of science," who

continued their experimental researches on their own lines.