{"collection":"ritual-magic","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_44016/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_44016","id":"gutenberg_44016","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44016","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Health & Medicine","Category: Nutrition","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Occultism"],"text":"THE WHITE SPARK\n\n[Illustration]\n\nA New Book, giving out a New\nPhilosophy and the Mysteries\nof the Universe\n\n\nThe Handbook of the Millennium and the New\nDispensation\n\n\n\n\nSYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS\n\n\nThis book is called The White Spark as the white spark or vacuum cell\nin Nature IS THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD--it is a ubiquitous principle of\nthe universe and is the cause and parent of electricity, combustion,\nradium, snow-flakes, flowers, trees, leaves, crystallization, wireless\ntelegraphy, animal forms and EVEN LIFE ITSELF.\n\nThis book is the key to every department of human endeavor, as it\nenunciates the basic principle and THE PRIME MOVER of the universe.\n\nIt tells the road to health, the cause and cure of disease, the truth\nabout the germ humbug and drug treatments, serums and antitoxins.\n\nIt shows why luminosity is produced on the flesh of various organisms,\nwhy a slice of pollock when first iced, then heated to 100 degrees and\nthen thrust into a temperature of 50 degrees becomes luminous.\n\nIt shows the farmer that he can become a magician of agriculture--tells\nthat the nitrogen of the air is only a dust of quartz rocks, like\nthe invisible moisture of the air is \"a dust of water\"--that the\nnodules on the roots of the clover and legumes do not abstract\nnitrogen from the air, for if they did nature would have placed these\nbacteriological growths on the vine and not the root, the scientists\nhave the cart before the horse in this case and the nodular cells form\nthe proteids from sand or silica, this book tells how it is done.\n\nIt tells what a trance is and how the soul can leave the body\ntemporarily.\n\nHow JESUS CHRIST is carrying out the biblical prophesy by TELEPATHY.\n\nGives the truths about the ideal society, alcohol, drunkenness, causes\nof crime, longevity and law.\n\nIt shows why milk from the cow at 100 degrees of temperature if\nsuddenly cooled to 50 degrees by the small stream process will keep\nlong and remain free from bacteria--how radioactivity kills the germs\nof fermentation and prevents ptomaine poisoning and why out door\nlivers or moderately working farmers are the centennarians.\n\nGives the statistics to prove the evils of alcohol and fast living.\n\nShows that all force even gravity is a radioactive emanation from the\nwhite sparks and that universal gravitation is a vagary, that the\nplanets move on orbits which are RIBBONS OF FORCE like the gulf stream.\n\nThe author is the man who converted the great scientists to the idea\nthat matter was simply \"A HOLE IN THE ETHER\" and that the ether was\nthe real and only element in the universe.\n\nThis proves the truth of the biblical statement, that God made the\nworld out of nothing, and that matter is simply spirit in motion.\n\nThis book shows how all the conditions of crime react upon us, that\nphysiology and rectitude are interdependent and although you do not go\nto hell, yet hell will come to you if you transgress the laws of God\nand Nature.\n\nIt shows the power of mind over the body and that the religion of\nJesus is not a fluke to satisfy a whim but is a great commercial like\nbusiness. There is no vicarious atonement in Nature, She does not\nbandy and has no favorites, you get what you pay for, She keeps no\nbooks but has an automatic adjustment which regulates accounts as you\ngo along and marks your soul for the future as well.\n\nThis book advocates churches and pastors or teachers who are God's\nNoblemen and it advocates THEOCRATIC DEMOCRACY for if you love God\nand your neighbor you are the CORRECT LAW.\n\nBut you can never overrule the law that your temper, rage, cruelty\nand vindictiveness will be uncontrollable as long as you use tobacco,\nalcohol and meats, and WAR WILL NOT BE ANNIHILATED UNTIL YOU REFORM\nYOUR DIET AND HABITS. \"Abstinence begets spirituality--dissipation\ncrime\", and yourself, your wife, children, associates, animals and\nhumanity suffer--you have misapprehensions, moroseness and misery.\n\nWar is the result of selfishness, greed, graft, ignorance and\nanimalism and it advocates education of the individual to the end that\nhe shall combine and amalgamate his power with his fellow citizen,\nwhen he can control WAR and government.\n\nThis book shows that diffusion of light and the freezing of water into\nice is from one white spark radiating \"high frequency\" straight cold\nrays against its warm neighboring molecule and causing it to become a\nwhite spark itself, it gives \"contagion,\" it shows that the ether or\nspirit gives \"contagious transmission of ideas.\"\n\nIt explains MONISM as being correct and that there is but one God.\n\nIt explains that all of the material of a combustive nature Naturally\nis censored by going to the intestines, and here it is emulsified and\ncoated with an incombustive coat of albumen, if an oil and if starch\nis turned into sugar which in turn is changed to an oily substance in\nthe liver later and this is subsequently emulsified for eligibility\nto the blood, but alcohol, essential oils and the organic bases sneak\ninto the blood surreptitiously, therefore \"medicine\" is not food,\nthere may be times when a stimulant is a pathological aid and the\ngerms often make a stimulant in the body to help over a bad condition,\nas when the system contains useless material which is a load on the\norgans or when minerals or \"humors\" embalm the system, but only a\nlimited amount is a medicine, any more is a poison, these cases are\nanomalies and under proper conditions are transgressions of Nature.\n\nThis book shows that we can live upon a few cents per day and be\nstronger and better in every way--it shows why many who gave up eating\nmeat failed and how they can discard the evil and cease to make\ngraveyards of their stomachs--the author has experimented with dogs\nand cats and found that by feeding milk and well cooked oat-meal from\nthe weaning period till maturity they throve and were happier gentler\nand more active and vivacious.\n\nMeat causes man to be peevish, ill tempered and criminal, like\ntobacco, alcohol and drugs.\n\nThe differentation of animal bodies can be met by the cooking of the\ncereals, the short intestines and other conditions of carnivorous\nanimals are not inhibitions to the discarding of meat as a food.\n\nMan and animals require pure soft water, hard and polluted water\nis a cause of much unsuspected poisoning and the hidden cause of\n\"epidemics\" and diseases--all water should be analyzed before being\naccepted as satisfactory.\n\nMineralized waters are not desirable and the waters from some wells\nand springs are fit for plants but will disorder the liver and\nconstipate the bowels--many farms are in the grip of misfortune and\nlosses from having bad water for the use of the home and the animals.\n\nAll of the unused elements which are thrown into the large intestine\nas waste should be discharged regularly and in cases of constipation\na mild laxative like Cascara Sagrada or Senna should be taken to help\nNature.\n\nThe great category of medicines of the doctors is a farce and there\nis no mysterious \"selective affinity\" for certain drugs, but all\nelements have either one of two actions--a stimulating process or a\nrefrigerating or embalming process, some remedies go to the liver and\ncounteract the embalming action and aid the flow of bile and some may\nbe of a resinous nature and saponify in the alkalies of the intestines\nand aid their action.\n\nIt will be seen that the book simplifies medicine to TWO PRINCIPLES,\none counteracting the other like heat and cold but these actions are\nunnatural and undesirable; it is only by avoiding discrepancies and\nameliorations that we follow Nature.\n\nThe book explains that the differentations and forms in the universe\nare the results of two forces, the curved force and the straight\nforce, just the same as every word in English language is made up\nof letters having only two kinds of lines, the straight and the\ncurved lines. The book tells just what occurs in the life cells and\nprotoplasm; this is a remarkable discovery and to show how much so, we\nquote from Le Bon the great Scientist, he says: \"THE SCHOLAR CAPABLE\nOF SOLVING BY HIS INTELLIGENCE THE PROBLEMS SOLVED EVERY MOMENT BY\nTHE CELLS OF THE LOWEST CREATURE WOULD BE SO MUCH HIGHER THAN OTHER\nMEN THAT HE MIGHT BE CONSIDERED BY THEM AS A GOD.\" (From EVOLUTION OF\nFORCES, p. 363).\n\nHaeckel declared that a cell did not go to the bottom of the secret\nof life and that we must allow that the naked protoplasm itself held\nthe secret of life, this book proves that protoplasm is composed of\nmolecules with centers of sulphur and phosphorus which conformed into\nWHITE SPARKS by the alternations of heat and cold, the SPARKS contain\nspirit and each spark has a quiet center or consciousness and a\npotential of radiation of force.\n\nThis book is terse and compact, is printed on good paper and bound\nwith red cloth with gold letters.\n\n[Illustration: READ IT!]\n\n[Illustration: THEN TELL YOUR NEIGHBORS ABOUT IT]\n\n\n\n\nTHE\nWHITE SPARK\n\nBy\n\nORVILLE LIVINGSTON LEACH\n\n[Illustration]\n\nPrinted by the\nOXFORD PRESS\nProvidence, R. I.\n\n\n\n\nThe White Spark\n\n\n\n\nPart First.\n\n\nThis work is an exposition of a NEW PHILOSOPHY, and although it has\nbeen taught to a number of highly educated men,--in a technical way,\nwe have had many suggestions made to us to publish a work which the\n\"work-a-day\" people can understand,--some have said: \"It is too far\nabove me,\" and \"why don't you explain it so everybody may understand\nit.\"\n\nIn this section we have especially planned to overcome all such\nincongruities.\n\nFirst of all we want to say that nature is a strict economist of time,\nmaterial and energy--her acts and laws are the simplest possible.\n\nWhen you see any philosophy that is complicated, it is wrong, but\nif it teaches simplicity it is right--the orthodox creeds have\nmaintained that the universe contained two distinct and eternal\nelements--MATERIAL AND SPIRIT--but this is complication--can be\nreduced,--WE ARE MONISTS AND \"PANTHEISTS\" and we are right,--there is\nONLY ONE ELEMENT IN THE UNIVERSE, AND THAT IS THE PRISTINE SPIRIT.\n\nThis is all that is needed to form the universe, and we will show\nthat matter is simply an enclosure of SPACE or nothing, having an\noutline of spirit which is in such swift motion that it holds the\noutline--water can be sent through the air so swiftly that it will\nturn aside a steel bar.\n\nTo better illustrate the fact we will take a blackboard and paint it\nall over with whitewash, then we take a wet sponge and wipe out round\nfigures--these will show as black spaces outlined by the white--these\nblack spaces represent SPACE or nothing, while the white represent\nSPIRIT--the black spots then represent MATTER. They are really\nnothing, only a form outlined and held by motion of spirit or \"ETHER.\"\n\nThe statement in catechisms that \"GOD MADE THE WORLD OUT OF NOTHING\"\nis then correct, although the statement has been called impossible by\nmany scientists.\n\nOur philosophy was the first to enunciate the true nature of matter,\natoms, molecules and electrons. Previous to this atoms were considered\nas solid indivisible particles. Later the scientists said matter\nwas condensed spirit or ether. I imagined so myself once, but upon\nreflection I said, \"THE ETHER CAN PASS THROUGH EVERYTHING, SO WHAT\nCOULD HOLD IT OR COMPRESS IT?\" And spirit or ether could not compress\nether, as ether is all alike.\n\nTo show our part in teaching the world the truth we will go into a\nlittle history.\n\nAs the readers of this work have probably never read THE LATCH KEY, I\nwill reprint two paragraphs verbatim, numbers 6 and 17.\n\nParagraph 6 will require some explanation. Count Rumford claimed that\nheat was nothing but a motion, and in some cases this is so, a motion\nof the atoms in a body, but a line of spirit from the sun will cause\natoms on the earth to move, and thus is the real cause of heat, and\nso radiation of force or spirit from burning wood will create heat.\nPerhaps we have in this paragraph used the nature of spirit rather\nvaguely in saying heat is the \"prime mover,\" but heat in one way is\nspirit, or analogous to spirit.\n\n\n6.\n\nMatter Is Only Space or Nothing, With a Wall of Spirit.\n\nFire was held in sublime awe by the Egyptians and the sun was\nworshipped as the source of Divine Power. The wonderful Pyramids are\nsupposed to have been erected for the glorification of these subtile\nforces in Nature.\n\nModern thought reverts to ancient ideas.\n\nFire is simply spirit in motion.\n\nHeat is a circular or circumscribed motion or =direction= in\nwhich spirit is moving--it is the \"Prime Mover\" of organization, the\ncreator of matter and the parent of the universe!\n\nA centrifugal act occurring from the intellectual fiat of\nspirit--leaving a center, a whirling away of spirit to a certain\ncircumference or distance from a center leaving space in the\ncenter--this is materialization, a creating of matter, the formation\nof an atom, from nothing!\n\n\n17.\n\nThe Point of a Pin Illustrates the Annihilation of Matter.\n\nA point continued to an absolute end must end in spirit! Matter is cut\ndown to something beyond our senses; the absolute end of a point may\ncontain an atom, but matter ends here--here where one single whirl of\nspirit surrounds the smallest amount of space possible. Beyond there\nis no whirl or motion of spirit, consequently no matter, yet there is\nnow unparticled spirit.\n\nIf electricity had been studied correctly no scientist would ever have\nimagined that matter was condensed ether. In Maxwell's Elementary\nTreatise on Electricity on page 49 he says: \"WE KNOW ABSOLUTELY\nNOTHING WITH RESPECT TO THE DISTANCE THROUGH WHICH ANY PARTICULAR\nPORTION OF ELECTRICITY IS DISPLACED FROM ITS ORIGINAL POSITION.\" * * *\n\"THE ACTUAL VELOCITY OF ELECTRICITY IN A TELEGRAPH WIRE MAY BE VERY\nSMALL, LESS, SAY, THAN THE HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH IN AN HOUR, THOUGH\nTHE SIGNALS WHICH IT TRANSMITS MAY BE PROPAGATED WITH GREAT VELOCITY.\"\n\nIt is the very fact that the ether is not compressible that allows a\nwireless signal to be given a thousand miles away instantly. It is\njust the same as if you had a long stick and punched a bell 20 feet\naway.\n\nI sent my work, \"The Latch Key,\" to Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir William\nCrookes in 1904. Its philosophy was buried for three years before the\nideas were presented to the British Association for the Advancement of\nScience.\n\nSir William Crookes wrote to me in 1904 stating that he had received\nmy pamphlet, but he was just leaving home for a vacation of two weeks\nand when he returned he would give it his attention.\n\nIn Sir Oliver's great work, called \"Life and Matter,\" he wrote: \"But\nit appears now that an atom may break up into electric charges, and\nthese again may some day be found capable of resolving themselves into\npristine ether. In that case the ether alone persists. It is the most\nfundamental entity.\"\n\nIn another book called \"Modern Views of Electricity\" he said: \"Ether\nis somehow affected by the immediate neighborhood of gross matter, and\nit appears to be =concentrated= inside it to an extent depending\non the =density= of the matter.\"\n\nSo it is seen that Sir Oliver at this time believed that matter was\ncompressed or condensed ether.\n\nIn my pamphlets I explained that the ether could not be compressed,\nas it was capable of passing through all substance, and that matter\nwas not =more= of the ether, but instead was =less=, and\nthat atoms were simply spots of pure space or \"nothing,\" and that the\nether or its moving lines or sheets simply whirled around on empty\nspace while what was called a vacuum was really the habitat of real\nmaterial, or the ether.\n\nIn 1907 Sir Oliver accepted this new version of the nature of matter,\nand it was the cause of much excitement in the British Association,\nso much so that the report reached America and Prof. Serviss wrote an\narticle about it in the Boston Sunday American in October, 1907, in\nwhich he says: \"The answer as recently given by Sir Oliver Lodge is\namazing beyond belief. The solidest thing in existence, he avers, is\nthe very thing which for generations has been universally regarded\nas the lightest, the most imperceptible, the most utterly tenuous\nand evanescent beyond all definition or computation--the ether!\" And\nin the same article he says: \"Matter, Prof. Osborne Reynolds has\nasserted, instead of being, as we innocently believe on the evidence\nof our senses, the only real and solid thing in nature is, in fact,\nthe absence or deficiency of mass.\"\n\nThe following is an article by Sir Oliver Lodge in regard to spirits:\n\n     \"Though for many years, ever since the eighties, I have\n     tried all sorts of other methods of explaining these things,\n     they have gradually been eliminated one after the other,\n     and now no explanations remain except the simple one that\n     the people who communicate are really the individuals they\n     claim to be. Not always, of course. One has to prove them\n     in every case. But still the conclusion is that survival of\n     existence can be scientifically proved by actual psychical\n     investigation.\n\n     \"That all leads to a perception of the unity running\n     through all states of existence. That is why I say that\n     man is not alone; that is why I say that I know he is\n     surrounded by other intelligences. If you once step over the\n     boundary beyond man, there is no limit to higher and higher\n     intelligences up to the Infinite Intelligence himself. There\n     is no stopping; you go on and must go on until you come to\n     God.\n\n     \"It is no strange land to which I am leading you. The Cosmos\n     is one. We here on this planet are limited in certain ways\n     and are blind to much that is going on; but I tell you we\n     are surrounded by beings working with us, cooperating,\n     helping such as people in visions have had some perception\n     of. And that which religion tells us, that saints and angels\n     are with us, that the Master Himself is helping us, is, I\n     believe, literally true.\"\n\nIn presenting this work to the public we claim no right to inject any\nfallacies into the mind of the reader, and as far as we can discover\nthere is no cause for any misapprehension in regard to our statements.\nTHERE IS ONLY ONE TRUTH to any question, and all we base our claims\nupon is our ability to present facts pertaining to our enunciations.\n\nFallacies are very short lived among persons who use their brains, and\nthe only credit which any philosophy earns is from the good precepts\nwhich it inculcates, the value which it proves to the world and the\nTRUTH WHICH IT HOLDS.\n\nIt is usually the case that a careless person resents any philosophy\nwhich conflicts with their habits, no matter how many facts you\npresent to them or how much history you cite to them in proof of your\nstatements.\n\nThe use of tobacco and liquor deadens the users' alertness to\nsafeguarding their own welfare, and in many cases with poisons and\nalso diet the only thing we can do is to try to have you learn the\ntruth, and if the end of the rope has been reached and you are at the\nebb of life and hope, you will have more willingness to conform to the\nlaws of life. If you don't need our philosophy as a \"missionary,\" some\ntime, you may want it as a doctor. Learn it, anyway.\n\nThe greatest field for fruitful efforts is with the children. If we\ncan prevent their using improper articles of food and drink and teach\nthem the nature of their effects, then we may find better soil for\nthe seeds of rectitude. Of course a little dissipation may not always\ncause great trouble.\n\nThere is but ONE GOD and we may tell about SAVIOURS, \"SONS OF\nGOD\" and the TRINITY, but there is only one SAVIOUR and that is A\nTEACHER--either a SPIRIT or a HUMAN BEING--and the only salvation is\nin the following of Natural Laws which are GOD'S BIBLE. There are\nNatural laws which are OCCULT LAWS, and these sometimes contravene\nwhat we may call \"LAWS OF MATTER.\"\n\nA TEACHER OF THE TRUTHS OF NATURAL SCIENCE IS GOD'S NOBLEMAN, and\nKNOWLEDGE IS OUR ONLY SALVATION.\n\nThe use of stimulants is just the same as if you should use a 104 volt\nelectric lamp on a current with 250 volts. It would be burnt out;\nand so your nerves which are the wires of the body are wasted away\nby stimulants. They are all alike practically. Alcohol and essential\noils act as a kindler to the natural combustives in the tissues and\nthe alkaloids or organic bases, as nicotine, morphine, etc., act like\nradium.\n\nQuinine is an alkaloid also, and I will here reprint a selection from\nthe original LATCH KEY which explains the manner in which the organic\nbases become dangerous. They all contain nitrogen, which may account\nfor their affinity for the nerve substance.\n\n\n32.\n\nLight and Heat From Radium Are From the Absorption of Ether.\n\nThe emission of light from a substance spontaneously, as in the case\nof \"Radium,\" is not a new phenomenon. Nearly forty years ago Prof.\nStokes enunciated the fact.\n\nHe filled a glass tube with a solution of sulphate of quinine and\nthen moved it through the spectrum, entering at the red ray. When it\nhad passed through all the colors and entered the region of the ultra\nviolet, or where the invisible magnetic rays were, the tube lighted up.\n\nA solution of horse chestnut acted in the same way, so also did glass\nstained with oxide of uranium.\n\nParagraph 45 was sort of a mysterious alchemical article explaining a\nsecret of life. Life comes from the formation of WHITE SPARKS or vacuo\nin matter, and therefore bioplasmic elements MUST BE LIQUID, SOLUBLE\nOR MOBILE. They must be capable of conforming into ROUND GLOBULES.\nThen the second feature must come in--heat and cold to expand the\nmolecule and cool the outside and allow the inside to later contract\nand form a vacuum in the center, the home of SPIRIT.\n\n\"Decay\" generates life as it makes solid substances soluble. Of\ncourse, excessive decay creates a gas and then this evaporates.\n\n\n45.\n\nSecrets of Silicon.\n\nMoses was a great alchemist, skilled in all the arts and sciences of\nthe Egyptians. The works or writings of Moses are called Books of the\nOld Testament and not works on alchemy, but tradition tells us that\nhis sister Miriam wrote an extensive work on alchemy--(the Catholic\nBible has the name Miriam translated as Mary).\n\nIn Genesis Chap. 3, verse 19, we read, \"Till thou return unto the\nground, for out of it thou was taken; for dust thou art and unto dust\nshalt thou return.\"\n\nSome scientists scoff at the idea of Moses and some scoff at the idea\nof \"Spontaneous Generation,\" but we can prove that both are true.\n\nLife can be produced from MINERAL ELEMENTS ALONE.\n\nSilicon has always been a source of dispute among chemists in regard\nto its classification. Some consider it a regular metal, but it is\nusually called a \"hyalogen\" or glass former like Boron.\n\nSilicon is never found in its pure metallic state in nature, but is in\ncombination with oxygen, as is then called by various names as Silica,\nSilex, Silicic Acid and SAND, which is the most abundant of mineral\nsubstances.\n\nThe most important and useful elements as air, water and sand God\ngives FREE TO ALL, they are found everywhere.\n\nSand is at one time a crystallized substance and at another time it\nmay be A COLLOID substance and thus become the same nature as an\n\"organized substance,\" as albumen.\n\nSand is insoluble in pure water, but it is dissolved by alkaline\nsolutions. Natural waters which contain alkaline carbonates always\nhave some sand in solution.\n\nSand from its two fold nature seems to be the bond between death and\nlife or the solution to the theory of \"from dust to life.\"\n\nSand when in solution is a colloid.\n\nIf 8 or 10 parts of carbonate of soda or potash are mixed with 12 or\n15 parts of sand and 1 part of charcoal on being heated they melt and\nform a mass resembling ordinary glass, but it entirely dissolves in\n=hot water=.\n\nIf now chlorohydric acid be added to the solution it neutralizes the\nalkali and the silica or sand separates as A TRANSPARENT JELLY. A\ncolloid! It is \"hydrate of silica,\" but it is now fixed like albumen\nor an organized substance and is insoluble in water or acid.\n\nIf it is kept moist it remains a colloid, but by drying it and\nseparating it from its partner, water, the colloid making alchemical\nmysterious WATER, the sand turns to dust again--a gritty powder!\n\nAt common temperatures carbonic acid is stronger than silica, and\nupon many of the combinations of silica the air acts as a destructive\nagent, its carbonic acid slowly uniting with bases or alkali and\nliberating the silica, and at the moment of its liberation the sand is\nsoluble in water.\n\nSand, it will be seen, acts both as an acid and combines with an\nalkali and as a base and combines with acids.\n\nSand in solution enters the roots of plants and from its transforming\nnature or transmutation, it performs great wonders in nature, it\nperforms miracles in the animal body and in water itself.\n\nIt is the ideal agent for the generation of =vacuo spaces= or\nlife cells, from its being in one state when warm and in another when\ncold, from its being capable of forming soft cell walls and then\nconcreting around a quantity of ether or spirit upon cooling. It\nproves itself the \"Philosopher's Stone.\"\n\nHot and cold and silicon! What a wonderful combination! It explains\nthe mysteries of the universe, radio-activity and life.\n\nIt may be well to here state that there is no chemical difference\nbetween a dead man's brain and nerves and a live man's brain and\nnerves. This in itself shows that the cause of life and intelligence\nis simply from some conformation of matter which allows the presence\nof Spirit. This is the invisible process of the formation of WHITE\nSPARKS or the making of a hollow center to molecules.\n\nLIFE is not a principle per se of organic matter, but organic\nmatter is arranged into round molecules with cell center of silicon\nphosphorus, sulphur or iron.\n\nThe hard and fast nature of the elements is an imagination and it is\nonly a short step of nature from quartz or silicon to carbon and I may\nalso say to nitrogen the gas of the atmosphere.\n\nTHE FARMER CAN BECOME A MAGICIAN by intellect. We once proved that by\nthe use of lime or an alkali vegetables can be made to grow IN SAND. A\ntomato plant was planted in a mixture of sand and plasterer's mortar\n(a mixture of quick lime and sand) and a bushel of tomatoes were\ngathered from this one plant. The lime makes the sand soluble and acts\nthe same as manure which produces carbonic acid which at the moment of\nits formation acts as a solvent of sand and this gives growth. Water\nis the great element of life and growth--with the heating effect of\nthe sun and the alternations of temperature or cooling after heating\nwe augment the life and growth.\n\nI will reprint some more of the articles which were in THE LATCH KEY,\nas they seemed to strike the readers more impressibly than anything\nwhich I ever wrote, and in fact THE LATCH KEY seemed to have hypnotic\ninfluence. First of all IT WAS ANONYMOUS and no author's name appeared\nand further it was given away.\n\nOne lady in later years found out the author and wrote to me for a\nfew copies, saying she could not help crying when she read paragraph\n37. Perhaps the paragraph took on the \"poetical\" and thus reached her\nsentiments.\n\n\n37.\n\nThe Secret of Life!\n\nThe little chapel peacefully resting under the overhanging trees, with\nthe solemn graveyard beside it, tells the story of life's longings and\nmiseries. Yet within the little chapel, however humble, can be learned\nthe secret of life's joy and success and the eternal happiness of the\nsoul!\n\nLife's sentiments are fragrant, space only is fraught with pain!\n\nSpirit fledges space, unlocks the caverns of misery and sheds the\nlight in the gloom.\n\nMan grovels in the dark mid the skulls of despair till he lists to the\nwhisper of spirit. The lisping pines, the rustling oaks, the sunshine\nin the meadow and the moonlight on the hill speak in accents calm and\nclear. Our motto:\n\n     \"SPIRITUS EXCELLO.\"\n\nWater is the great agent of life or conformation as it is mobile.\n\nMolecules which are round when whirled or heated take to orbits, but\nthe metallic substances having molecules of a disc shape whirl on\ntheir axes. I herewith give articles 26 and 42 of the LATCH KEY:\n\n\n42.\n\nWhy Ashes or Water Do Not Burn.\n\nFire is the action of atoms or molecules in separating farther apart.\nTo be sure, ashes have atoms, but for atoms to whirl apart their\nmotion must be so that they can separate. If the heat causes them to\nwhirl on their axis only, the substance may get red hot, but will not\nburn.\n\nAnd some substances do not burn because the heat and motion applied\nwhirls the molecules or groups of atoms apart and wastes its motion in\nthat way. Water acts this way (steam).\n\nCrystallization is the result of the formation of vaco cells or white\nsparks, and I reprint paragraph 26 to explain this fact:\n\n\n26.\n\nAnnealing and Malleability of Metals.\n\nCrystallization has been considered in paragraph 21, but when matter\nis cooled very slowly through long periods of time, vacuo spaces are\nnot formed.\n\nOrdinary cast iron is crystallized, but when it is heated in a furnace\nand gradually cooled through several days or weeks, it becomes\n\"malleable iron.\"\n\nThe iron which is used as an electro-magnet for a telegraphic machine\nwill not work unless the iron is annealed very soft by being heated\nand allowed to cool in the ashes as the fire gradually dies out.\n\nCrystallization is the most wonderful dovetailing process conceivable.\nWhen a liquid is cooled the molecules become radio active and radiate\nlines of force. These lines are nearly straight, unlike heat lines,\nand therefore they are cold lines. They drive matter in planes and\nstraight lines or surfaces instead of into globules or liquids which\nmove. The discs of ice cannot move or roll about like the globules of\nwater, and ice is hard like quartz or a form of flint or silica.\n\nAll objects are formed by the action of TWO forces, either a curling\nforce or a straight force. Plants form leaves in the air, and where\nthere is more obstruction and curving influence they form roots. ALL\nCELLS ARE ALIKE in their first state, but are changed in the process\nof growth or from influences.\n\nA slip from a geranium when stuck into the earth will form roots. It\nseems to me that each cell in an egg contains a counterpart of the\nwhole body of a chicken--that is, it contains electrons or occult\nmatter which, once having passed through all parts of a fowl's body,\nin the blood photographs these parts.\n\nWe can account for the various parts of the egg yolk turning its\ncells into different forms by the location which the particular cell\noccupies--as cells in various parts,--at the center,--or at the\nsurface,--would be subject to curling forces or straight forces. At\nthe center forces would be obstructed and curled, and at the surface\njust the opposite, and a hundred variations, according to the location\nand surroundings.\n\nHow many times I have wished that a social condition could be\ninstituted by which EVERY LIVING BEING in the world or the\nuniverse could be happy and free from fear, worriment, hunger, and\nexposure--where peace, plenty and pleasure existed for all--where all\ncould have a horse, automobile, golf link or any correct thing which\ntheir ideas called for to make them enjoy themselves.\n\nFOUR HOURS' labor per day is enough for any one and there is enough\nin the world to give every one happiness and plenty if THE SOCIAL\nCONDITION was arranged correctly.\n\nWhile there are many unfeeling capitalists, yet the poor are not\nalways right. They don't know how to act for their own welfare. They\nmay know what they want, but don't know how to get it. An ignorant\npoor man will often sell his vote or he is too ignorant to learn that\nhe should obey correct laws.\n\nThe London Spectator recently gave a biography of former Secretary of\nState JOHN HAY and I give an excerpt from the same:\n\n     \"It was natural that Hay should despise the arts of the\n     demagogue. He speaks with scorn of what he calls 'gutter\n     Ciceros,' and of the practice adopted during a sharp\n     electoral campaign of 'hiring dirty orators by the dozen to\n     blather on street corners.' He very rightly held that it\n     was the special duty of statesmen in democratic countries\n     to have the courage of their opinions. He himself wrote a\n     novel, entitled 'The Bread Winners,' which was widely read,\n     and which was really an elaborate defence of capital against\n     the attacks of labor; and in 1905 he wrote to President\n     Roosevelt: 'It is a comfort to see the most popular man\n     in America telling the truth to our masters, the people.\n     It requires no courage to attack wealth and power, but to\n     remind the masses that they too are subject to the law is\n     something few public men dare to do.'\n\n     \"America at her best can produce men of a very high type.\n     Such a man was John Hay.\"\n\n\n\n\nPart Second\n\nSpirits and the Spirit Land.\n\n\n1. Reveries in the Country.\n\nIt was a day in January. The desultory snow-flakes were skudding\nhere and there and a white mantle was becoming visible on the fence\ntops and pine trees, and as I gazed dreamily from the window of my\nstudy I heard the church bell in the belfry of the village church\npeal out its glad tidings of love; and as its decadence faded away,\na thought peaceful and quiet captured my soul,--it seemed as if the\nreverberating voice of the holy bell had told me a story--a secret of\nhappiness and peace.\n\n\n2. Redemption of the World.\n\nAnd as I settled back in my broad wicker arm chair before the blazing\nhearth fire I said to my inner soul: \"How beautiful is this moment!\nCan I perpetuate the sentiments which give me joy on this Sabbath\nday, can I delve into the laws of comfort and rest and emerge with a\nTROPHY TO REDEEM THE WORLD?\"\n\n\n3. Spirit and Matter.\n\nThe scintillating sparks in the fireplace rose up on the wings of a\ngolden glow, paused for a moment and then I saw a flash of pure white\nlight gleam like the star of Bethlehem. I had seen the wild, red coals\nchanged to peaceful, redeemed souls of light.\n\n\n4. A Truism of Nature an Eternal Principle.\n\nThe church bell, emblematic of religion, and the \"white spark,\" a\nubiquitous principle of the universe; visions of the superstructure of\nthe millennium, rose up before me--religion and science hand in hand,\nscience the fact and religion the herald or harbinger.\n\n\n5. Matter Only the Wake of Spirit.\n\nI had seen that from out the depths of the base matter come forth a\nsubstance pure and glorious. Transmutation then had proved that there\nis no vile, low or corrupt matter in the universe, and the idea is a\nrelic of the ignorance inculcated in the dim vistas of the past. All\nmatter is simply a figure sculptured by the pencil of spirit, vortices\nwhich use space as a playground, speed which holds the lines stiff and\nrefractory against ultra intrusion.\n\n\n6. Science of the White Spark.\n\nNow I see two visions--two houses in the precinct of nature--the first\na structure of spirit for the abode of space or nothing; second, a\nstructure of space for the abode of spirit, the all, the great, the\npowerful, and the conscious; the first, a minute affair, an atom; the\nsecond, a collocation of atoms forming a shell or larger structure\nfor the abode of spirit, and this is formed by a heated or mobile,\nmolecule conforming substance, suddenly cooled by oxygen or a cold\ntemperature, when a shell is formed and indurated, and a hollow center\nmade.\n\n\n7. Symbol of the White Spark.\n\nI introduce a new symbol \u00b0 the emblem which will represent the white\nspark, the circle or hollow globe, for this is what the white spark\nis, and this spark prevails throughout the universe. It is a hollow\nmolecule, holding an air-tight reservoir, excluding everything but\nspirit or the ether.\n\n\n8. The Spark is a Receptacle of Mind and a Potential of Force.\n\nThe white spark is alive. It has a shell formed of rotating atoms\nwhich roll in the spirit or magnetic lines of force. The lines\nconverge to a common center. Here they must halt for an instant. Force\ncannot be lost, so it is transmuted into consciousness. This mind can\nnow radiate lines of force from the center out again.\n\n\n9. Mathematics of the Spark.\n\nIf you take a silver dime and lay it on the table you will find that\nit always takes just six dimes to form a ring around it. This leaves\nsix spaces between the dimes, and it is the same with atoms, and a\nmolecule seen from the side if radio-active, and if we could see the\nlines of force, would show six streams of force, and the snow-flake\nalways has six points.\n\n\n10. Crumbling Sparks and Permanent Sparks.\n\nThe sparks of combustion explode from the inner force, but the\n\"sparks\" of a magnet and radium do not, and the sparks formed in\nprotoplasm or in the nerves and brain last longer than the sparks of\ncombustion, and the sparks in the spiritual bodies of departed souls\nare like radium.\n\n\n11. Location of the Spirit Land.\n\nIn paragraph 6 I refer to two visions of houses in the precinct of\nnature. Now I refer to a third, the greatest, most beautiful and\nwonderful abode in the universe. This house has no interior of simple\nspace or nothing, and again it has no outer wall of matter. It is the\npristine spirit and it is in the interstellar spaces outside of the\nplanets.\n\n\n12. Conditions in the Spirit Land.\n\nIn this land there is no gravity or obstruction. What is built and\nplaced there is free from destruction and decay. Living spirits can\nmove by a thought and build by their desires; spirits can outstrip the\nearth in its flight in its orbit, can come to earth and leave at any\ntime or part of its orbit. This is a home of joy.\n\n\n13. Attributes of Spirit.\n\nThe soul is kept in our body by the magnetism of our blood. When a\nperson goes into a trance there is an embargo on the blood and the\nsoul can leave the spark cells of the nerve substance of the brain\nand occupy a spiritual body or electrical vapor in the atmosphere\nor ether. During sleep or failing powers of the mind, the soul is\ndrowned out by matter, the permanent spiritual center of the spark\nis overflowed with matter and consciousness is temporarily turned\nto motion. Spirit always, in any amount, has the attributes of\nintelligence and power; the ether transmits intelligences.\n\n\n14. Superiority of Spirit.\n\nWhen our soul leaves our body it enters its own, it becomes clear and\nbright as in childhood; there is no fear, pain or dimness of thought\nand mind. We meet our friends, we remember and visit our earthly\nfriends in the human body, we strive for their uplift and happiness,\nwe live in happiness and peace, yet our earthly career affects our\ndegree of spiritual advancement, and the truths which you can learn\nat the little country chapel and the emulation of the \"SERMON ON THE\nMOUNT\" will prove to be your \"WAND OF HOPE.\"\n\n\n15. The Pope Says the Advent of the Saviour Is Near.\n\nIn a decree of Pope Benedict sent out from Rome on January 19, 1915,\nhe says: \"Those days which Christ predicted seem in fact to have come,\n'You shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. For nation shall rise\nagainst nation and kingdom against kingdom'.\" Christ can return to\nearth in spirit. There is no need for Him to come otherwise. He can\ntalk to a person adapted to receive telepathic instructions and give\nthe world His message.\n\nSome readers may be averse to the claims that Jesus Christ is\nanything but an imaginary person from the inventions of the priests\nof the early ages, and others may claim that contemporary with the\ndates applied to the fictitious legend there was a great teacher and\nthe teachings recorded were from this teacher. But what difference\ndoes a name make? The only issue of any value is what is taught. No\ngreat teacher cares a whit about what the people think about his\npersonality if they accept his works. The name Jesus has been applied\nto the teacher of the good things in the New Testament for so long a\ntime now that we can well afford to grant the application, whatever\nmight have been his acceded name.\n\nAll the ether in interstellar space is intelligent, and if we connect\nour mind with it we gain power and intuition by a \"sixth sense,\" but\nto do this we must not throw the blanket of too much blood about the\nbrain. \"Prophets\" have to diet and fast.\n\n\n\n\nPart Third\n\nHow to Generate the White Spark or \"Vaco-Cells\" in Our Body.\n\n\nAll the life and thought on this earth and in any material and on any\nother earth or body in the universe comes from a peculiar transaction\nby which all matter is cleared away and a space left wherein there is\nnothing but the invisible ether or spirit.\n\nThe origination of all tangible matter was from the degradation of\nspirit and the transmutation of thought into motion, and it is by the\nmotion of spirit that matter is formed from spirit.\n\nTherefore to regain the conditions of thought and to regulate the\nadjustment of material or matter conditions must be instituted which\nsimulate the original state, and evade the decadence from contiguosity\nof matter and generate SPIRIT in vaco-cells with life and power.\n\nThis great principle is the keynote of all that we hope for in\nexistence. It is the most vital science and yet it has remained\ntotally hidden from the ken of mankind.\n\nThis NEW SCIENCE opens up a field in the new order which holds the\ngreatest hopes for utopian success ever given to man.\n\nIt is not gold, power, notoriety or glamor that make for this great\nprocess of joy and health. It is not the costly foods and luxuries\nwhich bring us within reach of this coveted condition.\n\nWhen we learn the facts we find that the great part of mankind are\nvery much misinformed and that human knowledge is upside down. We\nfind that peace and happiness like air and water are not under a ban,\nbut that God is on the side of the unostentatious and simple living\npeople, and that what has been considered by some as poverty is really\ngreatness in disguise.\n\nNature never places any premium on truth and like all good things\nshould be free of access.\n\nAmong the things which we give, you will find new methods of\ncombatting disease, a means of economic freedom and of rising above\nmisfortune.\n\nWe will show that most diseases are caused by the food and drink which\nis used. The theories of the \"howling germ doctors\" are all insane\nemanations from an ignorant mind. We will prove that there are two\ndistinct types of disease with an admixture of these two types.\n\nThe first type is malarial and is caused by a mal-assimilation of\nsugar and grease, fat or oil in the system. The second type is\n\"small-pox\" and is caused by the non-assimilation of the nitrogenized\nelement of meat, or gelatinous elements.\n\nWhen you know the cause you can avoid the disease. GERMS or MICROBES\nare not the cause of disease, but are beneficent provisions of nature\nto reduce meat proteids, etc., which are blocking the system, to a\nstate in which they can be eliminated from the blood, and therefore we\nalways find the poisonous URIC ACID in all cases of small-pox, etc.\nEven an excess of vegetable proteid is injurious.\n\nIn malarial diseases we always find an excess of carbonic acid or\nother acidulous products of decaying or germ inhabited sugars or\nglycerines (from grease, etc.).\n\nA diet of skim-milk and white bread will cure malaria, and a diet of\nSKIM-MILK and oat-meal will cure kidney disease.\n\nDuring health the blood is always ALKALINE, while the tissues or\nnerves and ganglia or brain are always acidulous. NOW THIS IS WHAT I\nWANT TO IMPRESS UPON THE MIND, for it relates to my discovery of the\nWHITE SPARK PRINCIPLE. An acid acts like heat, while an alkali acts\nlike cold. The molecules in an acid are rotating in orbits, while the\nmolecules of an alkali rotate on an axis, so we can see how when the\nblood becomes acidulous as in disease WHITE SPARK CELLS OF LIFE CANNOT\nBE FORMED.\n\nSUGAR has proven itself a bane to humanity. It is a modern product and\nwas not used by the ancients. Honey had a limited field as a luxury,\nand here I will say the high cost of luxuries has been a protective\nprinciple for poor people.\n\nSugar has no limit of solution. Water will absorb it until an immobile\nsyrup is formed, and glycerine, a product of grease, acts similar to\nsugar in the system.\n\nSyrup has a great affinity for LIME, and children who eat candy and\nsweet foods have bad teeth, as the lime required for the teeth is\nabsorbed from the blood by the sugar. Any chemist knows the great\naffinity of syrup for lime, and this is why he makes the syrup of lime\nwhich is used in prescriptions where lime is required.\n\nSugar acts as an acid, chemically, forming Saccarites with the bases\nor alkalis. Sugar destroys the natural alkaline state of the blood.\n\nThere has been a great scare around Boston about a \"NEW DISEASE.\"\nThe doctors have various ideas about its nature and treatment. It\nis generally called ACIDOSIS and is supposed to be the result of\neating too much sugar; but some doctors say it is AN EPIDEMIC and is\nnot caused by sugar. In the disease the blood has been found to be\nacidulous.\n\nSugar will fill the system with an embalming element, and thus the\ntissues are saturated with an element which acts on the system like\nashes thrown on a fire. They extinguish it, and as sugar prevents\noxidation in the system, the VACO-CELLS or \"WHITE SPARKS\" cannot form.\n\nThere are times when electrical machines will produce only a few weak\nsparks and at other times powerful sparks are produced, and it has\nbeen proved that this state of non-electrical atmosphere is the cause\nof EPIDEMICS when the system is loaded with either sugar or gelatinous\nproducts of a meat diet.\n\nFasting is often necessary in disease, for disease is usually a\ncongestion of the blood and a distention of the blood vessels, and\nwhen we lessen the quantity of blood or the excessive pressure from\nthe effects of stimulants, etc., we allow the blood vessels to get a\ngrip on the blood and force it along. A dog or horse will never eat\nwhen he is sick.\n\nAn invalid for a time may do best on a little toasted white bread\nand skim-milk, as oat-meal, etc., may contain too much gluten, which\nis not needed in the system at this time. There is a difference in\nproteids. Gluten is more like gelatine and is used where toughness is\nrequired as in the skin, tendons and muscle. The vital proteids are\nrequired in the nerves and brain.\n\nIt is not well to eat eggs for breakfast in all kinds of sickness, but\na soft boiled egg for dinner may be good for some.\n\nThe excessive use of meat is a cause of cancer, and it is the gelatine\nwhich is to blame. There are two factors, however, which should be\nconsidered. We may eat gelatine, sugar or grease, and if we work\nhard in the open air we overcome the disease in a measure. It has\nbeen proved that carnivorous fishes have cancers if the fishes are\ncrowded in a pool, but removal to running water cures them, as running\nwater contains more air and oxygen which gives more nerve power and\neliminates the useless material.\n\nIt is the same with malaria. Work in the pure air burns off the\nhydro-carbons better and the blood becomes more mobile.\n\nWhen we use oat-meal, mush, etc., with skim-milk we don't get much\nsolid food, for we fool ourselves by taking lots of water which we\nwould not use otherwise. In winter stabled horses are seen to excrete\ndark heavy urine, as they are fed on grain or proteids and drink\nlittle water. Vegetables contain much water and are useful.\n\nThe air in closed rooms is dead, but out-door air is in motion. Decay\nand filth fills the air with gasses and oxygen is displaced, which\nmeans death to \"the white spark\" of the nerves, the generators of\npower.\n\nIf you have money and leisure you can dissipate more with less\ninconvenience than as if you had no money or time.\n\nIt has been proved that the use of alcohol, tobacco, etc., wastes the\ntissues and nourishment the same as hard work and overworks the liver,\nkidneys and lungs; but work is the poor man's bulwark, and thus it is\nthat the abstemious person is always a better, wiser, more reasonable\nand industrious employe than the other.\n\nThe \"sport\" has a debauch and then a \"loaf\" or else he soon goes to\nthe sanitarium. Stimulants always lessen your powers after each dose\nor after the first effects are worn out.\n\nWe can show you how to overcome poverty without a labor union\npropaganda, or a lodge benefit, for you can live on a few cents per\nday and become better off thereby, if you follow the right method.\nMany have tried to live on boiled potatoes, beans, skim-milk and\nvegetables, but have failed; but the trouble was this: the system had\nbeen adapted to the stimulation of creatinin, the stimulant of meat,\nand when this was withdrawn there was a slack action to the stomach\nand general system. But I have proved that if you use some onions or\ncelery or some mild condiment like pepper or the like you can avoid\nmeat without trouble.\n\nMany reformers have failed because they drop stimulants, yet still eat\nsoups and meats or cakes and rich dishes. YOU MUST DROP THESE THINGS\nWHEN YOU DROP ALCOHOL AND DRUGS, for meat gelatines, grease and sugar\nmake a heavy refractory blood and nature calls for an increased nerve\naction, but this stimulation is a first stage of inflammation with\nits weakening reaction. Starch is transformed into grape sugar in the\nintestines, yet nature regulates this better than when sugar is taken\ndirectly into the stomach, as this goes directly to the liver.\n\nThe simple living person gets up earlier, works easier and gets more\nenjoyment from the sunshine, the open fireplace and all the beauties\nof nature.\n\nA fine cigar may stimulate the brain, but like Emerson you may decline\nwhen you should be in your prime, and perhaps, like him, lose your\nmemory. Emerson in his last years attended the funeral of his old\nfriend, Longfellow the poet, but could not remember this man's name at\nhis last rites.\n\nI believe it is utterly impossible for any person to live a real safe\nmoral life, according to the Christian code, and subsist upon the\nordinary food and drink of the times. For instance, the use of coffee\nwill often create immoral feelings which a saint could not overcome.\nTobacco creates sensations in a like manner. Anything which creates\nundue nerve action causes a congestion of the inner organs. I might as\nwell tell you to place a torch in a powder magazine and then prevent\nan explosion as to tell you to become a true Christian and live upon\nhighly exciting foods or drugs.\n\nThere was never a true saint which did not practice self-restraint in\nregard to foods, drinks and habits.\n\nYou will see that I am an advocate of the simple life, yet I want\nto say that I am not trying to drive anyone against their will,\nand I also want to say that I do not say you will go to immediate\ndestruction, always, by diverging from my creed. Some persons from\nthe nature of their ordinarily proper habits withstand much that is\ntaboed by science, yet this does not change the facts that correct\nphysiological habits are the only ones to be condoned.\n\nThe use of some fruit sauce may not always prove serious, of course,\nand the farmer who eats baked apples and milk may plod along in his\nown way and retain good health, yet an invalid who can barely keep\nalive had better be fed on easily assimilated concentrated life\nbuilding food. As explained elsewhere, a person who does not use\nalcohol or tobacco, etc., can use some fruit sauces, etc., and as the\npoisons have not weakened the nerves which govern the liver and vital\norgans, the liver can take care of the acids and sugars. Stimulants\ncreate wastes in excess and overpower the kidneys and liver, and when\nthey are discarded there is loss of required nerve power.\n\nWhen a nation has any serious business on hand or when Arctic\nexplorers want to get to their goal they abolish the use of ALCOHOL.\n\nRussia has been under prohibition for the short time of the war, and\nthe decrease of crime has already proved what a monster DRINK has\nbeen. In 33 precincts of Moscow for the first half year of 1914 there\nwas an average of 986 criminal cases a month, while for the first\ntemperance month there were only 406. Crime was reduced 54.7 per cent.\n\nWithin two weeks after the closing of the wine shops of Russia she\nfelt as if RESURECTED, and it was proved that perfect temperance was\npossible and that alcohol was not a necessity.\n\nThis is only the working out of a Natural Law and is the enactment of\none branch of codes, and it holds true of drugs and all of the many\nbranches of physiological requisites.\n\nIndividual freedom many times is a menace to a person's welfare. This\nis proved by the \"freedom\" with which persons can get drunk.\n\nIf the monarch was a wise and conscientious ruler, an absolute\nmonarchy would be a blessing. God is an absolute monarch and his law\nis absolute. Nature has no favorites and we must obey the law or pay\nthe penalty.\n\nSociety is to blame for crime. If municipalities would enact\nordinances preventing the dispensing of injurious foods and drinks,\nand otherwise control the PREVENTION of a person's dissipation, it\nwould necessarily vanish.\n\nBut we see the evils of giving legislatures power to enact coercive\nmedical laws when ignorance controls the legislators.\n\nThe forcing of citizens to submit to the inoculation of virus or serum\nin themselves or their animals is equal to the monstrosities of the\nmedieval ages. The recent epidemic of hoof and mouth disease, the Germ\nDoctors themselves admit, was caused by a hog cholera serum which\nwas tested by the government bacteriologists and pronounced clean\nand was sold by a Chicago firm. The hoof and mouth disease has never\nbeen proved to be a generator of specific \"germs,\" as no microscope\nhas ever detected any such germ, and the poison will pass through a\nporcelain filter. So how can the virus be \"tested?\"\n\nThere is an epidemic of \"Grip\" about now, and a health doctor, Dr.\nChapin of Providence, R. I., says: \"Persons with mild attacks\ncontinue at their work and thus rapidly spread the disease. It is for\nthis reason that isolation and official control have never been able\nto check an outbreak. The epidemics run out themselves after a few\nweeks.\"\n\nWell, then, we are safe! Let them run out instead of poisoning\nthousands of healthy persons with Typhoid and other serums.\n\nEvery German soldier, it is claimed, is given the three inoculations\nof Typhoid Serum before going to the front, but recent medical reports\nsay the Typhoid fever has been malignant in the men in the trenches.\n\nThere has recently been a great amount of study about the ductless\nglands of the animal body. It has been variously claimed this thing\nand the other for their uses, but I am going to tell what nature\nmade them for, THEY ARE FOR THE REDUCTION OR \"DECAY\" OF PROTEIDS\nWHICH MAKES THEM VERY SOLUBLE AND READY FOR THE FEEDING OF THE NERVES\nAND CELLS. The elements which go into them never come out, but are\nreabsorbed. With one exception, the male sacs eject the nerve food\nfor the propagation of the species, but it is a cause of disease and\nweakness.\n\nIt is proved that the ductless glands (or sacs) take in proteids which\nbecome formed into granules and gradually decay or are broken down\nenough to be reabsorbed.\n\nThe loss of the fluids of these glands is the loss of an alkaline\nnerve food, and many diseases would be avoided if chastity had been\npreserved. They prevent the acidity of the blood, which is the cause\nof many diseases.\n\nThe bacteriologists must learn that they cannot fool nature. If your\nsystem holds substances which nature must remove by germs it is of no\nuse to kill the germs, because this does not remove the cause. If we\nkill all the specific germs of one disease, then nature will give some\nother germs in place of them.\n\nThere has been a great cry that consumption has decreased. Perhaps\nit has, but nature still gives just as much action with her required\neliminating process as ever. Here is what Dr. Hutchinson writes in the\nBoston American, January 10, 1916:\n\n     \"Although, in the main, the march of modern medicine has\n     been a series of triumphs, at certain points its progress\n     has been checked, if not actually defeated.\n\n     \"While we have been steadily beating back typhoid,\n     tuberculosis and diphtheria, most of the diseases which have\n     baffled us have been either maladies of later life, like\n     cancer and arterial sclerosis, or conditions depending upon\n     long continued action of a variety of imperfectly known\n     causes, like heart disease, Bright's disease and insanity.\n\n     \"But there is also one disease among the pure infections\n     whose germ has been identified, whose active cause known for\n     nearly thirty years past, which still defies us, and that is\n     pneumonia.\n\n     \"In fact, for some ten or fifteen years past, we have been\n     faced with the singular and disquieting paradox, that of the\n     two greatest and most fatal diseases of the lungs, while\n     tuberculosis has been steadily declining, pneumonia has been\n     rapidly increasing in deadliness.\n\n     \"Twenty years ago tuberculosis caused about one-seventh\n     of all the deaths in the United States; pneumonia, about\n     one-fifteenth. To-day tuberculosis has fallen to about\n     one-twelfth of the deaths, while pneumonia has risen to\n     one-tenth.\n\n     \"One reason why pneumonia so baffled medical skill was that,\n     although the germ, or rather germs--for there are at least\n     four varieties of them, each producing a different type of\n     the disease--were well known, the infection seldom naturally\n     spreads to other human beings, and it was for a long time\n     rather difficult to transmit it experimentally to animals.\n\n     \"Further than that, the pneumococcus which produced the\n     most serious types of the disease was, if not identical\n     with, quite hard to distinguish from two or three types of\n     streptococci which were found in abundance in the human\n     mouth, about the roots of the teeth and in the tonsils, even\n     in conditions of perfect health.\n\n     \"So that we were driven to the discouraged conclusion that\n     some 'state of the system,' or lowered resisting power or\n     other unknown factor, was necessary in order to allow the\n     pneumonia coccus to get a foothold in the lungs and produce\n     the disease; and there the case hung for a number of years.\n\n\nThe Open Air Cure.\n\n     \"Considerable improvement in all but the most virulent type\n     of cases was produced by the introduction of the open air\n     treatment, with abundant feeding similar to that relied upon\n     in tuberculosis. But we could not honestly say that we knew\n     of any drug or remedy which appeared to have a directly\n     curative effect upon the disease.\"\n\nCan't you see that the product is 22 in either case? And don't you see\nthat the \"germ doctors\" have not fooled nature?\n\nThere is a great epidemic of \"grip\" and pneumonia sweeping the\ncountry--one of the worst ever known. In Providence, R. I., the\ndisease has been the cause of more deaths in a given time than was\never known. Here is what the Evening Bulletin says in the issue of\nJanuary 10, 1916:\n\n     \"Fifteen persons in Providence died of pneumonia or grip\n     during the second half of last week, making 35 lives claimed\n     here by the epidemic in the first eight days of January.\n\n     \"This is the largest number of deaths from these diseases\n     which the city has ever had in a similar period. Physicians\n     report that there is no indication of a let-up in the\n     epidemic as yet, and that a continuance of the unusually\n     high death rate may be expected.\n\n     \"There were nine deaths from pneumonia last Thursday, Friday\n     and Saturday, and six fatalities from grip. The deaths for\n     the first eight days of the month are as follows: Pneumonia\n     24, grip 10, acute bronchitis 1.\"\n\nAt the Rhode Island State Institutions there are nearly 300 cases of\nthe disease--100 at the State Prison alone--but at the State Reform\nSchool for girls there is not one case, as this school gives better\nhygienic care to the inmates. But the great reason is the girls are\nnot dissipated and nature does not have to produce the germs in their\nsystems.\n\nReformers are often bombarded with statistics by brewery owners,\ndistillers and those whose ideas are regulated by personal benefits.\nThe favorite weapon is the story of the man who lived to be old and\nalways drank or smoked. Here is a reprint of such a story:\n\n     HALE AND HEARTY AT 102.\n\n     New Jerseyman Chews Tobacco as Preventive of Disease.\n\n     Newton, N. J., Dec. 22.--Charles Ashford Shafer, Sushex\n     County's oldest resident, celebrated his one hundred and\n     second birthday at the home of his son, George Shafer,\n     to-day. Mr. Shafer is still active, hale and hearty, and\n     walks several miles a day. He was born a few miles from here\n     and has spent all his life in this section. For many years\n     he conducted a distillery. The centenarian declares that\n     chewing tobacco is a means of preventing disease, and he has\n     been chewing it since a boy. Mr. Shafer reads without the\n     aid of glasses.\n\nBut wait a minute--here is a better one:\n\n     TEETOTALER DEAD AT 115.\n\n     West Virginian Never Tasted Liquor or Tobacco in His Life.\n\n     Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 29.--Henderson Cremeans, known to be\n     the oldest man in West Virginia and probably the oldest in\n     the United States, died to-day at the home of his grandson,\n     Clark Cremeans, near Point Pleasant, Mason County, aged 115\n     years. He never tasted liquor or tobacco in his life.\n\nAnd when we study statistics of the insurance business we may rest\nassured that they are correct, for an insurance company gets a premium\non every policy and regulates its action upon the correct statistics.\nHere is another reprint:\n\n     SAYS PROHIBITION IN RUSSIA WILL SAVE 500,000 MEN\n\n     Insurance Expert Claims That If Czar Carries Out Present\n     Intention, Loss of Half Million in War Will Be Made Up in\n     Decade.\n\n     New York, Dec. 11.--Results of an investigation in which\n     an entirely new set of statistics had been gathered were\n     put before the Association of Life Insurance Presidents at\n     their annual meeting at the Hotel Astor yesterday and threw\n     a new light on the influence of alcoholism, overeating,\n     undereating, and other factors in shortening lives.\n\n     The investigation, which has just been completed, concerned\n     the causes of premature deaths in the last 25 years among\n     the 2,000,000 policy holders of 43 leading insurance\n     companies. The object of the investigation was to determine\n     which types of persons could be insured safely at regular\n     rates, which ones should pay extra premiums, and which ones\n     should be refused. The results were given by Arthur Hunter,\n     chairman of the bureau that made the investigation.\n\n     \"If the Government of Russia carries out its present\n     intention to abolish permanently all forms of alcoholic\n     beverages, the saving in human life will be enormous,\" said\n     Mr. Hunter. \"The loss of 500,000 men as the result of the\n     present warfare could be made good in less than ten years\n     through complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages by all\n     the inhabitants of Russia.\n\n     \"Among saloon proprietors, whether they attended the bar\n     or not, there was an extra mortality of 70 per cent., and\n     the causes of death indicated that a free use of alcoholic\n     beverages had caused many of the deaths. The hotel\n     proprietors who attended the bar, either occasionally or\n     regularly, had as high a mortality as the saloon keepers.\n\n     \"Among the men who admitted that they had taken alcohol\n     occasionally to excess in the past, but whose habits were\n     considered satisfactory when they were insured, there were\n     289 deaths, while there would have been only 190 deaths had\n     this group been made up of insured lives in general. The\n     extra mortality was, therefore, over 50 per cent.\"\n\nCardinal Gibbons says: \"Reform must come from within,\" and he opposes\nprohibition; but there is no question but what prohibition is the\nright thing as has been proved, for in some persons the only thing\n\"within\" is alcohol and ignorance.\n\nSOCIETY is about our only hope. Lord Bacon wrote the first half of\na book on this subject of an ideal society or community, and he\ndescribed as a first requisite his \"SOLOMON'S HOUSE,\" a college or\nschool where NATURAL SCIENCE was taught.\n\nThomas More portrayed the same ideas in his \"UTOPIA,\" a beautiful\nisland where ideal laws and conditions prevailed. Campanella also had\nan idea in his \"CITY OF THE SUN.\"\n\nWhere temptation is removed better conditions exist, for human nature\nalways wavers and no one is permanently wise. The lad in the country\nis healthier than the one in the city. Why? Because there are less\ntemptations in the country.\n\nWhat is it that perfects animals but forcing proper rules upon them?\n\nI have experimented with fowl and found that you can perfect them by\nproper treatment. I raised 56 pullets one spring, and that winter I\nhad eggs galore. The fowl were healthy and happy. I fed them only two\nmeals a day on cracked corn and wheat or the regular \"scratch feed\"\nof the market in the morning, and at night gave them scalded meal,\nseasoned with some salt, pepper and onions; sometimes cooked potato\nparings, etc., were used. I supplied the fowl with fresh ground bone\nwhich held some fat, of course. I always had gravel and ground oyster\nshells before them, also plenty of fresh water. They had their run and\nfound grass both in summer and winter, and had a dry, roomy house.\n\nMeat is not only unnecessary to animal life, but is injurious. My\nhens laid more eggs than any others about and were bright, active and\nhealthy, yet they had no meat during all the winter. The bone was not\nnecessary, for I had at times fed poultry a little fat or oil instead\nof the ground bone, and they did just as well.\n\nThe mind has a great effect on the digestion, and it is necessary in\nselecting our food and drink to have it agreeable. Of course, this\ndoes not mean that because something tastes good we should use it, for\npoisons often taste pleasant. We mean that from a variety of salutary\nfood we should select what we like, and again any combination,\nadjustment or preparation which enhances the food is very useful. For\ninstance:\n\nPotatoes mashed, mixed with eggs, flour, pepper and salt and other\narticles which are not injurious, and then fried in a little butter\nare very agreeable, and many such manipulations of foods are wise.\n\nBut spices, coffee, tea and such condiments contain tannin and poisons\nand should be eschewed.\n\nIf a person should suddenly change his diet from a liberal one to\nmush and skim-milk it might give him indigestion and disgust, for the\norgans try to adapt themselves to certain kinds of food; and if the\npersons cannot take a vacation while reforming their diet, it might\nbe better to wait until they can. After a fit of sickness one can\nstart with the right kind of food and drink and improve by it.\n\nPeople who are raised on simple food relish it and keep happy and\nhealthy. Here is a reprint which proves this to be true:\n\n     \"According to census reports, persons who live 100 years\n     or more are very scarce. The United States, with a\n     population of more than 90,000,000, is given credit for\n     only 46. Germany's population is 60,000,000 and its quota\n     of centenarians is 70. Great Britain, with a population of\n     46,000,000, has 94. France, with 40,000,000, claims 164.\n     Bulgaria, with 4,000,000 inhabitants, boasts of 3,300, and\n     Roumania, with 6,000,000 people, has 3,320 centenarians. The\n     last named little countries eat little meat and use a great\n     deal of milk and dark bread.\"\n\nThe persons who used tobacco, etc., and lived to be old might have\nlived much longer if they had been abstemious. William Smellie in\nhis \"Philosophy of Natural History\" records cases where persons have\nlived to be over 150 years old, and some of the oldest people, for\ninstance, Capt. Diamond, was a simple living man and lived to be 113\n(when I last heard from him). He never even used sugar and was an old\nbachelor, showing that simple life allows continence.\n\nIt has been proved that meat allows an alkaloid condition in the\nintestines which generates poison producing germs, while vegetable\nfood, like oat-meal, etc., produces an acid condition which, it is\nclaimed, \"prevents the generation of microbes and poisons which\nproduce premature old age.\" The large intestine when retaining the\nelements from the bowels too long becomes a \"filth reservoir.\"\n\nProf. Metchnikoff says that animals having a greater length to the\nlarge intestines do not live as long as those with shorter large\nintestines, which cannot breed the poisonous bacteria so well, yet he\nis puzzled by the long life proportionately of the squirrel, which\nhas a long intestine, and he says he has found few of the \"dreaded\nbacteria\" in the intestine of the squirrel. (This is because the\nsquirrel has not the noisome elements here which harbor germs.)\n\nThe recent discoveries that VEGETABLE food inhibits the generation\nof the microbes or renders them unnecessary is an object lesson which\ntells us to live upon the foods as I recommend, for the squirrel lives\nupon vegetable food or nuts, which are seeds with Vaco-Cell forming\nmolecules.\n\nWe need not discard the use of a few condiments of a mild nature\nfrom our food, and a little salt, pepper or onion, etc., may not be\nprohibited.\n\nIt has been found that a good regime is made up of a breakfast of\nskim-milk and well cooked oat-meal; a dinner of boiled potatoes, eggs\nor fish and boiled rice and skim-milk, and a supper of skim-milk, rice\nand perhaps boiled beans. If you are not a hard worker you should not\nuse too many beans or any excess of proteid foods, and a few boiled\nonions, etc., may be added to the dinner if desired. A little butter\nmay be used with food if skim-milk is used, but the use of an excess\nof rich milk loads the blood with too much grease.\n\nThe outside hull of grains, beans, peas, etc., contain cellulin,\nan indigestible woody fibre which acts as a mechanical laxative to\nthe bowels and aids health if you can use coarse food. Of course,\ninvalids could not always use such food, as their stomach can hardly\ndigest milk or eggs. Fruit and acids should not be used as foods by\ninvalids.\n\nThe germ of grain and seeds in general is a great nerve food or \"spark\ngenerator,\" but as it is highly organized it changes easily and so is\nnot used in fine flour.\n\nMy theory is that the whole universe is interdependent and that there\ncan be no separation of its component parts. We and all things are\njoined together the same as a knitted sock--joined by invisible lines\nof force; and as all matter is simply a peculiar aspect or motion of\nspirit or the ether, and as no part of the ether can be separated or\nabsolutely isolated, it is an axiom that the universe is ONE. Nothing\ncan be moved except there is a fulcrum. It may be infinitesimal or\nlike an isthmus though.\n\nThe great scientists are now admitting this to be a fact. Prof. Edgar\nLucien Larkin says: \"In the ultimate, what distinction can be drawn\nbetween organic and inorganic matter, since mind is matter or force?\nTherefore, is it not but matter or force under a different aspect or\nrelation to surrounding appearances, or, in other words, are not all\nthings a unit?\"\n\nThis scientist further says: \"The ultimate distinction between\ninorganic and organic matter is the inscrutable mystery.\" And here is\nwhere I am able to explain this GREAT MYSTERY.\n\nLIFE is spirit and I have discovered a process in Nature, which we\nexplain in other works more extensively, by which she forms invisible\n\"VACUUM CELLS\" in matter, which are conscious and with a potential\nof radio-activity, and this is the principle of all life and form in\norganic bodies and in the snow-flake, etc. The process is simple and\nis from alternations of heat and cold.\n\nIn the bioplasmic foods of nature the germ of seeds, for instance,\nwe find a peculiar arrangement of the molecules. They contain a cell\ncenter of SOLUBLE SULPHUR, SILICON OR PHOSPHORUS. This arrangement\nfacilitates the formation of the white spark, and the formation of\nthis wonderful food in plants depends upon the soil.\n\nAlkali, and carbonic acid gas, in the nascent state, makes SULPHUR,\nSILICON, Phosphorus and IRON soluble. I have evaporated five gallons\nof spring water and obtained the solid residue and found out the\nwonderful nature of the cell center elements. These minerals are\nhydrated and at a temperature of 100 degrees they are liquids, and\nat 50 degrees they are solids. This explains the reason why certain\nproteid foods are \"bioplasmic\" and how easily the white sparks are\ngenerated in the nerves and brain. The bodily or tissue temperature\nwhen life is active is 100 degrees and the oxygenized blood and\nevaporation from the lungs and skin reduces the temperature of the\nmolecules to 50 and the life vacuo are formed. Oxygenized blood cells\nare discs rotating on an axis like an alkali.\n\nI have in other publications explained that meat was a second-hand\nfood, in which many life molecules were exploded (gelatine), and that\nthe proteid portions of milk, eggs and vegetable foods contained\n\"CARTRIDGES OF LIFE AND POWER,\" that is, molecules having sulphur or\nphosphorus centers which under proper conditions formed VACO-CELLS,\nespecially the germ of all seeds which is absent in fine flour\nusually.\n\nI discovered the paradox of temperatures by accident. I had been in\ncorrespondence with Sir William Crookes, President of the British\nAssociation for the Advancement of Science in England, and in\nconnection with a scientific matter he had advised me to evaporate the\nwater of a certain Spring, and it was in following out his directions\nthat I found \"THE CENTER FORMING MOLECULAR ELEMENTS,\" which nature\nuses in forming foods.\n\nThere have been many changes in the ideas of scientists within a few\nyears. Several years ago I was taken to task for stating that the\nwave lengths of a line of force could be shortened or increased by\nthe nature of the substance which it passed through, but one of the\nGreat Professors--Garrett P. Serviss--has just stated: \"So the waves\nof radiant energy sent out from the sun are not heat, but have been\nset going by heat in the sun and CAN BE TRANSFORMED into heat again on\nencountering the earth.\"\n\nAnyone may perform two interesting experiments which prove the\nstatements which I make in regard to \"the white spark.\"\n\nWhen the soldering compound which is sold to fill up holes in\nmarbleized iron ware is melted and dropped into cold water, peculiar\nlittle bodies are formed--little rubber bags or cells filled with\npowdered sulphur at the center; the compound being composed of\nsulphur, rubber and quicksilver in this experiment follows the natural\nlaws, and the opposite features of heat conduction causes the sulphur\nto be encased with the more organic rubber.\n\nThe other experiment is dropping melted tinsmith's solder into water\nat a temperature of 75 degrees when hollow balls are formed, if care\nis taken in dropping the metal in a globule.\n\nThe great provisions of Nature are so sufficient and magnificent that\nit is proved that the worriments of mankind are imaginary, and it is a\nfact that they are the result of physical disorders brought about by\nimproper food, drink and habits.\n\nWhen I see the beautiful sunshine pouring life-giving rays upon\neveryone and every atom in the world, when I see the grandeur and\nstable travel of the bodies of the sidereal system, when I see the\nunperturbed growth of the trees, plants and grains, the gentle rain\nand the whispering winds, I can say surely the human acts of greed,\nmalice and crime are the results of a distorted mind.\n\nJudge Swann says FIFTY per cent. of those who are brought to trial\nin the criminal courts of New York City are addicted to the use of\nnarcotics.\n\nJudge Collins says that since the \"BOYLAN LAW\" allows the sale\nof medicines containing a certain percentage of narcotics, the\nHealth Department cannot pass laws restricting such sales without\ncontradicting the state statutes.\n\nCoffee, tea and other insidious poisons are agents of the \"DEVIL\"\nalso. Chocolate and roasted wheat, peanuts, etc., are poisonous.\nRoasting often creates empyrean oil.\n\nIt is the ascetics or those who live upon vegetable foods, milk and\neggs with some fish, or those who do not overeat and live the \"SIMPLE\nLIFE,\" who look upon the grandeur of Nature properly and ignore the\ncontingencies of life which others commit suicide over or ply the cry\nof incongruity in Nature.\n\nConsider the religious martyrs of the medieval ages and see how the\nlittle \"Jap\" with his ration of rice went to battle without fear and\nendured hardships and put the Russian Army beneath his feet.\n\nIt is the same with the abstemious prize fighter. He has more coolness\nand endurance than the beef steak eater and libertine, as proved by\nFreddy Welsh, the world's champion lightweight.\n\nThe Harvard Football Squad had a number of men stricken with\nappendicitis after training upon a meat diet, supposing that meat was\na requisite to hard work, a fallacy too often disproved.\n\nJess Willard, the world's champion pugilist, says he never smoked nor\ndrank liquor in his life, and at the end of the battle with Johnson he\nfelt as if he could fight \"a thousand rounds.\"\n\nWe all wish PEACE, HAPPINESS, HEALTH, STRENGTH and SUCCESS. The only\ndifferences between us are HOW TO OBTAIN THESE DESIRES, and yet a\nlittle candid observation will show us the truth.\n\nThe first transaction must be a determination and an agreement to\nbecome independent of all other codes and methods except those by\nwhich the above objects can be attained.\n\nThere are many habits which appeal to us as being a means of personal\nwell being, and yet they are insidious enemies.\n\nIt is the regime which has a reaction for our health and happiness\nwhich we should follow, and we must have sense enough to eschew the\nmethods which are sure to bring a subsequent disaster to us, even if\nthey may induce a temporary pleasure, for there can be but one correct\npath which leads to elysian joys.\n\nNature is wiser than we are and we must not set ourselves up as her\nsuperiors, for if we do we are sure to fall. We must not make use\nof her productions until she has finished them, and we must not\nuse things for food or drink which she has arranged for some other\npurpose. Sugar is an unfinished product of nature, and leaves, barks,\netc., containing poisons are not intended for our consumption, and we\nshould not breathe smoke into our lungs when it is intended that only\npure air should pass into them.\n\nWe should not entertain passion for passion's sake when it was\nintended only for reproduction. Secretions in ductless and sac filling\nglands are for reabsorption. If I take the finished products of nature\nand undo them again, I am as unwise as if I used them before nature\nfinished them. The breweries take the beautiful grains and degenerate\nthem and people use the liquid poisons and do not realize that they\nare insulting nature and ruining themselves. We take grains, etc., and\nroast or burn them into poisons and seduce ourselves with the mistaken\nidea that we are using harmless and innocent food or drink.\n\nWe steal the property of others, we extort from them, we are jealous\nof them with the delusion that we are the benefitted parties, but\nnothing is more untrue than this idea.\n\nAll of the mental, social and physical effects of greed, malice and\nimmorality are indelibly disastrous to us, and we have a mistaken idea\nof our needs and of the things which make happiness.\n\n\n\n\nWhat the European War Has Demonstrated.\n\n\nWe have previously stated that FOUR HOURS labor per day was enough for\nany one, and this would carry on the world's industry adequately and\nto prove this we give an excerpt from an article by the great English\nDivine--Rev. R. J. Campbell, his statistics prove that POVERTY IS\nUNNECESSARY and that wage earners can be paid enough to buy what they\nwish to make happiness--, pianos and other so-called luxuries, and\nautomobiles could of course be substituted for pianos if their desires\nshould require such.\n\nAt the present price of automobiles they are within reach of the man\nwho will give up drinking and using tobacco or other narcotics and I\nwant to say that I believe riding in one of the new type steel bodied\nautomobiles with a magneto ignition is a great health augmenter as\nthese cars when running become charged with electricity and I quite\noften get a shock from one of my automobiles if I happen to touch part\nof my hand to the body of the car while the other part has hold of\nthe side shift lever. This statical electricity has been proved by\nDr. W. J. Morton, of New York City, to be a wonderful therapeutical\nagency. When properly supplied to the body it causes the blood discs\nto take up more oxygen from the air and augments the power of the\nvital apparatus. (See his address published in the November, 1893,\nTransactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.)\n\nRiding in a carriage or car will aid the circulation of the body\nfluids without waste of our own energy, the motions massage the body,\nthe same as muscular action.\n\nWork is a benefit to us but how much do we need is a question,--a\nsick person can not work and a person's training and condition must\nregulate this,--too much work draws the vital force from the vital\norgans and mental work is absolutely injurious in sickness, the brain\ndraws on the vitality to the detriment of the vital organs of the\nbody, yet again the cultivated mind has a power to govern the base\nfaculties which debilitate the body.\n\n\nPart of the English Divine's Article Which We Have Referred to:\n\n     \"One of the strangest paradoxes about this period of\n     destructiveness through which we are passing is that there\n     is very little dire poverty about. It has taught me a\n     lesson, a lesson which probably the workers as a class\n     are assimilating too, namely, that destitution and the\n     degradation which so generously accompanies it =could be\n     got rid of in a month= in time of peace if we were only\n     in earnest to do it.\n\n     \"It is caused simply by an unfair distribution of wealth. We\n     always knew that, but what we did not know was that it could\n     be so speedily remedied. We thought it would take a long time\n     even if the nation were willing to tackle the problem\n     seriously, which it has not yet shown any anxiety to do. We\n     were afraid of drastic experiments of a social nature, with\n     the consequent displacement of capital, the shock given to\n     that very delicate entity, the national credit, and so on.\n\n     \"Go more slowly, was the universal cry. Give us breathing\n     space. These drastic changes one after the other--all in\n     the direction of making the rich pay more into the pockets\n     of the poor--are very dangerous. You are impairing public\n     confidence; do wait awhile before you attempt anything\n     further. You are imposing a tax on industry which is certain\n     to hinder productiveness.\n\n     \"And we were wrong, the whole lot of us--Kaiser, German\n     Bureau, British Tories, hesitant Liberals, landowners,\n     bankers, manufacturers, shopkeepers, taxpayers generally,\n     and probably the proletariat, too. It is nothing short of\n     amazing. Here we are hurling our accumulated stores of\n     wealth into hell, the hell of war, and the workers as a\n     whole were never so well off.\n\n     \"We are able to pay, and we do pay, without complaining.\n     We are doing it without suffering very greatly, without\n     hearing the cry of hunger going up from our congested areas\n     as it has too often done in time of peace, and without the\n     slightest apprehension that we are drawing near to the end\n     of our strength.\n\n     \"We shall be able to go on doing it for years if need be. The\n     savings of the working classes have hardly yet been touched\n     for national purposes, and if report speaks true there\n     has been a not too creditable increase in the purchase of\n     cheap luxuries--and luxuries not commonly accounted cheap,\n     too, such as pianos--among a section of these, unskilled\n     laborers especially. They are not unpatriotic, but is it to\n     be wondered at that they should suddenly feel themselves\n     well-to-do and fail to realize that war is economic wastage\n     as well as wholesale murder?\n\n     \"'Three pounds a week, and no 'usband!' a lady engaged in\n     munition work is credited with saying--'Wy, it's 'eaven!'\n     There is humor in the sentiment, one must confess, though it\n     was not complimentary to the absent husband.\n\n     \"We have withdrawn not less than four million men from\n     productive occupations and set them to smash and kill\n     instead.\n\n     \"Think of it! And then remember that those men have to be\n     equipped and maintained somehow or other by the rest of us,\n     and that most of them are the very pick of the country's\n     early manhood. And we can afford to do it! We can do it, and\n     in the process make an end of destitution for the time being\n     and secure to wage-earners a higher standard of comfort\n     than they have ever enjoyed before.\n\n     \"Will the electors of Great Britain, rich and poor, try to\n     digest that fact and grasp its implications? The logic of it\n     is that we can if and when we choose get rid forever of the\n     crying disgrace of starvation and misery at one end of the\n     social scale and senseless ostentation at the other.\n\n     \"The thing is demonstrated now.\n\n     \"The army as it exists to-day is a fine all-around leveller.\n     A good many artificial prejudices and social distinctions\n     are being swept away by the power of actual daily\n     comradeship in the face of death. These four million citizen\n     soldiers have votes. How will they use them when they come\n     home?\n\n     \"Let the lesson be driven well home. We can do all that is\n     required if we want to do it. Behold the economic miracle of\n     to-day, and consider what is possible to-morrow. There need\n     never be another hungry mouth. No honest man ought to have\n     to dread the loss of a job or to lower his self-respect by\n     seeking the aid of the Poor law.\n\n     \"It is all nonsense to say that the problem of destitution\n     is unsolvable or that our resources will not bear the\n     institution of a standard living wage for everybody and not\n     for the aristocracy of labor only.\n\n     \"After the debacle of 1871 France was apparently ground\n     to powder, her manhood decimated, her trade ruined, her\n     treasury empty, and an enormous indemnity to pay to her\n     triumphant foe. She recovered so quickly and completely, to\n     the surprise of everybody, that in 1875 Bismarck, like the\n     bully he was, wanted to hit her again, and would have done\n     so but for Queen Victoria and the British Government.\"\n\nI have shown how to rise above poverty even when the capitalists grind\nthe worker down to a wage inadequate to his service, yet this is not a\njust condition, and when the war in Europe is over many workers will\nbe back to their countries, to work. There may be lack of employment\nthen, but let the FOUR HOURS per day schedule be put in operation and\nlet the pay be proper and all will be well.\n\nLet the capitalist adjust himself to the fact that the worker is HIS\nBROTHER and that THEOCRATIC DEMOCRACY is God's Law.\n\nThe air, the water and all necessities are one man's as much as\nanother's.\n\nThe Kaiser, King George or the President of France must drink the same\nwater which his lowly brother has once drank and breathe the same air\nwhich he has breathed.\n\nA King has water brought to him--it may be that this water,--the very\nidentical molecules, were once in the blood and body of a lowly tiller\nof the soil; he may have drank it, excreted it, it went to the river,\nto the ocean, then evaporated to the mountain top, and was again\nprecipitated to the earth and leached into the King's well.\n\nThe VOTERS HAVE THE POWER TO ADJUST THE LAW; if they belie themselves\nwho is to blame?\n\nLet them institute the INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM AND THE RECALL OF\nJUDGES first, then make the proper laws to raise man to the social\nposition where he belongs.\n\nIt is well known that much of the poverty and misery of the world has\nbeen caused by ALCOHOL, and the use of narcotics is also not far\nbehind in the cause of degradation and misery.\n\nThe prohibition laws which have been instituted in Russia prove these\nstatements to be correct and to show the wonderful prosperity which\nensues from temperance. I give a statement from Russian Minister of\nFinance Bark. He says:\n\n     \"On the other hand, there is nothing illusory or specious\n     about the Russians' prosperity. It rests upon the\n     incontrovertible fact of the Russian people's increased\n     earnings and savings.\n\n     \"When, a year ago, the savings banks showed a monthly\n     increase of 50,000,000 rubles, it was regarded as\n     phenomenal. But that was only the beginning. During the\n     month of January the savings banks alone showed an increase\n     in deposits of 120,000,000 rubles. This is accounted for\n     principally by the growing thrift and economy of the\n     peasants since the enforcement of prohibition, by their\n     greater earning power and the higher wages they command.\n     This marvellous prosperity makes Russia capable of raising\n     large numbers of successful internal loans, and it is by\n     this means chiefly that we hope to defray the expenses\n     of the war, which have now reached 1,000,000,000 rubles\n     monthly.\"\n\nBlessings often come to us masquerading as evil; this terrible war has\nits benefits. While death must come to everyone sometime, it may be\nthat we put too much stress on the fact that so many lives have been\nsent to the BETTER SHORE within such a short space of time, and it is\nbest to believe in the axiom THAT WHAT IS--IS RIGHT.\n\nThere probably will never be another war, and perhaps, it must be that\nthis one is the lever to throw THE \"DEVIL\" into OBLIVION.\n\nThe Germans have seen the revelations as well as the other\nbelligerents. Here is what a writer in Berlin says:\n\n     \"On Tuesday and Friday there is no meat to be had. On Monday\n     and Thursday the consumption of fats is forbidden. Some\n     alcoholic drinks are forbidden to be sold after 9 o'clock at\n     night. They are mostly liqueurs.\n\n     \"The enforced abstinence from meat on two days of the week\n     has been accepted everywhere with personal satisfaction.\n     You agree with the German when he tells you that he has\n     eaten too much meat all his life, and is glad the government\n     has made him reform. So on these days he eats fish, oysters\n     and vegetables, and declares he feels the better for it.\"\n\nThis item from Augustus Baech is illuminating and instructive. Grease\nis not a colloid; it does not absorb the gastric juice like a better\norganized element, and thus the stomach is irritated. There is a law\nof Nature by which the molecules affect matter; crystalline substances\nin solution are readily drawn into colloids. A system of symbols\nhelps understanding in the matter--let us represent an acid by a\nperpendicular line, an alkali by a horizontal line, a crystal by a\npyramid and a colloid by a globule; flat surfaces oppose round ones\nand a confusion of straight forces would produce a spiral force.\n\nThere is a great law of HUMAN BROTHERHOOD, yes, more than that--a law\nof the brotherhood of all animal life.\n\nThe hatred of the English, Germans and Russians in this flaming war of\npassion is wrong--let us remember St. Peter's vision of the basket\nlet down from heaven with all kinds of men in it.\n\nThe reform of diet and habits will relieve the tension of malice,\nhatred and jealousy, the lessened rage of sexual passion will curtail\nthe undue birth rate, the nations will not need to conquer more\nterritory and the social conditions will be adjusted.\n\nHow beautiful would it be to see all men living in peace, harmony,\nprosperity and happiness.\n\nLet us regain our reason and settle down to truth and common sense and\nhave peace and correct understanding between individuals and nations.\nIT CAN BE DONE, and THIS WILL BE THE MILLENNIUM.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber's Notes\n\nMinor punctuation typos have been silently corrected.\n\nPage 7: Possible typo: \"differentations\" for \"differentiations.\"\n  (Orig: the differentations and forms in the universe)\n\nPage 7: Changed \"Scientis\" to \"Scientist.\"\n  (Orig: Le Bon the great Scientis,)\n\nPage 8: Changed \"conciousness\" to \"consciousness.\"\n  (Orig: each spark has a quiet center or conciousness)\n\nPage 47: Changed \"miscrocope\" to \"microscope.\"\n  (Orig: as no miscrocope has ever detected)\n\nPage 65: Changed \"CARTIRDGES\" to \"CARTRIDGES.\"\n  (Orig: vegetable foods contained \"CARTIRDGES OF LIFE AND POWER,\")\n\nPage 74: Changed \"debiliate\" to \"debilitate.\"\n  (Orig: base faculties which debiliate the body.)\n\nPage 82: Changed \"axion\" to \"axiom.\"\n  (Orig: believe in the axion THAT WHAT IS--IS RIGHT.)","title":"The White Spark: A New Book, Giving Out a New Philosophy and the Mysteries of the Universe. The Handbook of the Millennium and the New Dispensation","tradition":"ritual-magic","translated_text":null,"word_count":16153}