Resume and Conclusion
In the foregoing chapters I have endeavored to explain the great primeval
force of life—Electricity. The task is an almost impossible one, for,
while I know that my premises and deductions are correct, it is more than
difficult by words and phrases and sentences to convey to the reader my
deep conviction of the correctness of the theory introduced in these
pages.
Some of the greatest scientists in the world are experimenting with this
vital force, and almost daily the newspapers contain accounts of the
phenomenal results that are attending their efforts.
Recently in Copenhagen a certain journalist had his portrait
“photographed by electricity.” Copies were distributed throughout the
city he was about to visit with instructions that he be arrested on
sight. This was effected immediately upon his arrival there.
An important recent discovery is an electric lamp which can dissipate
fog. It produces a dear, greenish, penetrating light like moonlight. It
gives a great illuminating power without heat something like the X-ray.
Recently, aerograms were received in Honolulu and San Francisco from
Japan, proving that the ethereal electrons are sure conductors
throughout the cosmos. Entering, as this untiring energy does, into
our every day life, it is not difficult for us to see that—Life is—and
that Electricity is the only substance, out of whose revelations we are
growing into greater understanding of the forces and workings of nature.
These forces—variations and modifications of the one force—Electrical
energy—have ever BEEN; but it has taken millions of ages and the
evolution and development of man’s intelligence to even grasp the A, B,
C of this almighty power. The future has in store discoveries of such
magnitude and of such vast importance to the human race in this field of
electrical phenomena that we may well exclaim, as did the psalmist, “such
knowledge is too wonderful for me, it is high, I cannot attain unto it.”
All natural law is but some form of electrical energy by which is
evolved all the various manifestations of this wonder-working substance.
Atmospheres, ether, air, fire, water, earth, stars, planets, suns,
worlds, man, are but combinations and vibrations of the integral
particles or electrons of this one substance. Mountain and star-mist,
consciousness, intelligence, savage, Sage, Sufi, all objective and
subjective (organic and inorganic) entities, are but the infinite
manifestations of this universal substance.
The X-ray is but an intense display produced by the vibration of
trillions of these electrons. All that is called mind and all that is
called matter, is but an expression of this one universal substance. In
its eternal restless energy it creates, preserves, destroys, innumerable
forms of mind and matter. This is eternal life. This is eternal
intelligence. And “Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night
showeth knowledge.”
A recent author on “Individualism and the vibratory energy” says, “Spirit
and matter are one and the same vibratory force; and mind and matter are
one and not distinct substances.”
Since commencing to write these lines the author has found a number of
writers whose works have been of great help to him, and served to confirm
him in his theory.
The attunement of the brain cells to varying rates of vibration in the
universe, brings all things to you on the principle of the wireless
telegraph. “All things are yours,” was the announcement of the Master of
the Christian system. This is scientifically true. The universe is at
your disposal and you can get it. Not through sorrow, and toil and labor,
but in the same way that trees and flowers get it—inspirationally.
Telepathy, which is attracting wide-spread notice at the present time,
is as scientific as telegraphy. Some of the greater scientists are
investigating its claims through “spiritual mediums,” though there
are few who accept the latter’s claims, as in such a field it would
be impossible to prevent impostors from preying upon the ignorant and
credulous. There are honest mediums. In fact, every human entity is
a “medium,” receiving and transmitting, receiving and transmitting
continually.
There are some so acutely attuned by environment and habit of thought,
to the universe of thought, that they receive communications beyond
their fellows. These are poets, artists, musicians, inventors, etc. The
thoughts of Plato, Socrates, Krishma, Jesus, ARE today. You may know all
they knew if you can attune yourself to such a rate of vibration as to
establish the proper connection. This is a plain, every-day, scientific,
matter-of-fact explanation of all modern “spiritualistic communications.”
There should be no more mystery or superstition, or spiritual clap-trap
about it than there is about wireless telegraphy.
There are persons who can readily attune themselves to the vibrations
of another and “read the thoughts”—unconscious as well as conscious—of
individuals composing an entire audience. With many this is easily
accomplished through personal contact. Some years ago the writer of these
pages was well acquainted with Washington Irving Bishop, the great
“mind reader,” who since died, or was murdered by doctors in New York,
who dissected his brain while he was in a cataleptic condition, they
supposing him dead. One of his performances was to have some stranger
take a bank-note, read the number on it and place it in a safe. During
this time Bishop was at some distance away heavily blindfolded. When all
was ready, he would take this man’s hand and after a short interval give
the number on the bank-note, which was invariably found to be correct.
I questioned him very closely on this performance, which I witnessed
frequently. He said as soon as he placed his fingers on the wrist of the
man who placed the note, the number would come to him without difficulty.
He claimed that it was telepathy or clairvoyance. As a matter of fact, it
was simply attunement to the mind of the man who knew the number, and, as
in the action of the wireless telegraph, the two brains being similarly
attuned, the message was sent and received. There are many today to whom
this would be a mere kindergarten performance. You perhaps did not know
that every time you shake hands you run the risk of giving away your
inmost secrets. I am prepared to tell you that this is true. “There is
nothing hidden but it shall be revealed, and there is nothing secret but
it shall be made known.”
We receive impressions of impending disaster which we regard as
“supernatural.” Once for all let me say there is nothing supernatural.
A knowledge of this fact ought to cure you of your superstitions and
destroy your fears. Light, sound, color, travel faster than letters or
telegrams. The impending disaster vibrations often reach us long before
the actual occurrence itself. Even as we see the flash of lightening, or
the flash of the powder, before we hear the thunder or the report of the
cannon.
All these things are but movements of the electrons of the universe,
carrying out the natural law of their being, which is electrical impulse.
Prof. Dolbear says, “Molecules which are a combination of atoms, are
known to have their constant state of vibrations and from this and the
fact of their perfect transparency, they can no more be seen than the
air. They are so minute, so restless, like atoms of hydrogen, that no one
can hope to see them or learn their characteristic properties.”
Observation and study of the phenomena of electrical energy reveal to us
the nature of that substance, which we are, and with which we have to
do. The fundamental, inevitable, never-varying law of polarity—pushing
and pulling—or positive and negative action. In creation, throughout
all experience, this is seen. Land and sea, day and night, right and
left, up and down, sweet and sour, east and west, north and south, good
and bad, right and wrong, man and woman, attraction and repulsion—the
so-called “pairs of opposites”,—Sex everywhere. Is it difficult to see
by analogy and deduction that polarity is universal. That all phenomena
are electrical phenomena. That birth, and growth, disease and disaster,
decline and death are all electrical phenomena, and that there is but one
synthetic substance—ELECTRICITY.
[1]The germ, the embryo, the child,
The foolish boy, the man,
Are onward steps from nothingness
In God’s progressive plan.
Forever onward is the march—
From beastly hoof to hand—
From savage to the seer and sage—
From Saurian types to man;
From man to angel—limitless
As are the starry spheres,
Progression hath not halt nor bound
In God’s eternal years!
From darkest cloud the lightning flash—
From nothing—life Divine,
From gloom to glory is the law
The unvarying design.
A world of good invites our eyes
And charms the willing mind—
But he who only misery finds
Blasphemes the life Divine.
The mountain side—the billowy sea
Of waving prairie flowers,
The gardens, glades, and spicy groves
Around this world of ours
Proclaim the endless festival
Of beauty,—and the truth—
The deathless power of Love Divine
Eternal in its youth.
[1] Arena.