{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_57668/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_57668","id":"gutenberg_57668","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57668","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Health & Medicine","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Science - Physics","Death","Immortality","Life"],"text":"Produced by MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading\nTeam at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from\nimages generously made available by The Internet Archive)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: The above is a reproduction of a photograph of an electric\nspark, showing the Negative and Positive. The white represents the\nnegative, the lines show the positive, the view on the top showing the\nstrongest positive effect.]\n\n\n\n\n                               The Secret\n                             of Life, Death\n                             and Immortality\n\n                      A Startling Proposition, With\n                       a Chapter Devoted to Mental\n                      Therapeutics and Instructions\n                            for Self Healing\n\n                                  _By_\n                             HENRY FLEETWOOD\n\n                               _Author of_\n                            \u201cMUSIC AS A CURE\u201d\n\n                      Published by Henry Fleetwood\n                               Los Angeles\n                                  1909\n\n                             Copyrighted by\n                             HENRY FLEETWOOD\n                              Dec. 3, 1908\n\n\n\n\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\n\n\n                                CHAPTER I\n\n                                  Life\n\n    Cosmic Evolution; Life Germs\u2014how produced; \u201cThe Word\u201d\u2014evolution\n    of; Universal Vibration\u2014the only Immortality; Continuous\n    Evolution\u2014the condition of creation.\n\n                               CHAPTER II\n\n                          Electricity and Life\n\n    Proof that Electricity is Life; recent discoveries in the\n    wireless telegraph and telephone, telepathy, etc.,\u2014how they\n    affect the human race; other possibilities of Electricity.\n\n                               CHAPTER III\n\n                             Love and Music\n\n    Their relation to Life; their effect on creation; the power of\n    love; the power of music; all emotion subject to these powers.\n\n                               CHAPTER IV\n\n                               Immortality\n\n    There cannot be conscious immortality; what is immortality?;\n    why we hope for consciousness in a future life; how the\n    ancients regarded a future life.\n\n                                CHAPTER V\n\n                                 The Sun\n\n    Its relation to life; what is radiant energy?; why the ancients\n    worshipped the sun; the Parsees the present sun worshippers.\n\n                               CHAPTER VI\n\n                                  Fear\n\n    The great curse of the Universe\u2014the only devil\u2014its insidious\n    claims\u2014its effect on life.\n\n                               CHAPTER VII\n\n                                  Death\n\n    Its relation to Life; the only Immortal; its loving purpose;\n    its relation to evolution.\n\n                              CHAPTER VIII\n\n                                 Healing\n\n    Mental Therapeutics, or healing suggestions; Christian Science;\n    Faith healing, etc.\n\n                               CHAPTER IX\n\n                         Resume and Conclusion.\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE\n\n\nThe writer of these pages a few years ago invented, patented and\nsuccessfully demonstrated in the city of Los Angeles, California, a\nmechanical device by which he transformed musical vibrations into\n\u201celectrical\u201d waves. These when conveyed to the human organism were\nfound to be harmonizing, vitalizing, and curative, in many nervous and\nfunctional disorders. Further study and research along these lines\nconvinced him that all vibration, or motion, or activity is electrical.\nThat all phenomena are electrical phenomena. In fact, that there is but\none substance in the universe, and that is\u2014Electricity.\n\nWithout any attempt to enter the realm of metaphysics, the writer desires\nto state that he uses the term Life in its absolute or universal sense,\nand not in the conditioned or limited sense in which it is ordinarily\nand loosely used. He distinguishes between Life\u2014with its eternal,\ninherent unceasing impulse and energy\u2014and the resultant of that impulse\nand energy; whether that resultant be a molecule of hydrogen or what\nis called consciousness, intelligence, manifesting through an organism\ncalled man.\n\nThis Life is not mind, nor its product matter. It is Substance\u2014and\nthat substance the writer calls electricity. It is eternal. It is the\ntotality of what is, or Be-ing. It has a dual impulse or tendency, viz.\n(the positive and negative)\u2014attraction and repulsion of its infinite\nintegral constituent particles or ELECTRONS. This attraction and\nrepulsion, this breaking and closing of the circuit, this vibration\nor motion\u2014always in a straight line or a circle\u2014this infinite eternal\npolarity, being continuous creation or evolution, and destruction or\ndevolution.\n\nIt has not been possible in the limited space devoted to this book to\nattempt a discussion and proof of the statements made herein. While the\nstatements made are scientific and rational the writer could not do more\nthan point out through them the direction in which the truth is to be\nsought and found.\n\nThe reader will find many thoughts suggested along the line of the\nwireless telegraph and telephone, musical vibrations, thought vibrations,\ntelepathy, clairvoyance, \u201cSpiritualistic phenomena,\u201d death, post-mortem\nconsciousness or \u201cConscious immortality,\u201d etc.\n\nWe are living in an age of scientific investigation and inquiry. The\nhuman mind is awakening to the necessity of doing its own thinking\ninstead of being bound by the many dogmas of religious systems.\n\nLaden with ability to annihilate superstition, and forever destroy that\ncurse of humanity\u2014Fear\u2014in all who will carefully and with an open mind\nread them, these pages are set adrift.\n\n                                                    HENRY FLEETWOOD,\n                                                 Los Angeles, California.\n\nSeptember, 1908.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I\n\nLife\n\nCosmic Evolution. Life Germs\u2014How Produced. \u201cThe Word\u201d\u2014Evolution of.\nThought Vibration the Only Immortality. \u201cLife\u201d and \u201cDeath\u201d Evolved from\nthe Same Cosmic Substance.\n\n\n    \u201cBut words are things, and a small drop of ink falling like dew\n    upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps\n    millions, think.\u201d\u2014Byron.\n\nElectricity is the one, eternal, unchangeable, indestructible, universal\nsubstance.\n\nThe universe is made up of innumerable \u201ccorpuscles,\u201d from whose manifold\ncombinations, ruled by unalterable affinities, has been evolved our solar\nsystem.\n\nOur earth after the cooling process, became through the light and radiant\nenergy of the sun, the theater of the evolution of the various forms of\nlife. The eternal, inherent, restless energy that had formed and launched\ninto existence this solar system continued its work to evolve conscious\nlife on this earth. Monad, atom, protoplasm, molecule and cell all being\nproduced by this electric energy we call life.\n\nThis universal substance is constituted of electrons\u2014infinitesimally\nsmaller than atomic dust\u2014each electron having the potentiality of the\nwhole, with its positive and negative impulse.\n\nIt is well known that each molecule is a separate and distinct organism,\nformed by this same electric impulse. The active force in evolution being\nthe electric energy\u2014attraction and repulsion\u2014its movements can be easily\nfollowed by noting the similarity of its formation, namely, circular\nor spherical. The tendency of this electric energy is always to form a\ncomplete circuit\u2014and must do so in order to evolve and carry on its work\nof evolution; all creation being the result of the breaking and closing\nof the circuit. The various forms of life evolved, are subject to this\nsame restless impulse\u2014positive and negative\u2014which continues the work of\ncreation or evolution.\n\nAs what is called \u201clife\u201d is the result of the closing of the circuit,\nso what is called \u201cdeath\u201d is the result of the breaking of the circuit.\nThus we see that life and death are one and the same process. Simply the\nreadjustment, rearrangement of these infinite electrons by the opening\nand closing of the electric circuit. The same eternal, inherent, restless\nenergy forever at play\u2014creating life, and creating death\u2014both equally\nbeautiful. This is the continuous evolution of Darwin and others. There\nis no rest. There is only eternal continuous vibration. Prof. Loeb says,\n\u201cThe force that makes life possible is primarily the electric charge.\u201d\nDr. Samuel Wallian says, \u201cLife originates in vibration and consists of an\nincessant repetition of vibrations.\u201d It can with equal truth be said that\nTHE FORCE THAT MAKES DEATH POSSIBLE IS PRIMARILY THE ELECTRIC CHARGE; AND\nDEATH ORIGINATES IN VIBRATION, AND CONSISTS OF AN INCESSANT REPETITION OF\nVIBRATIONS\u2014or opening and closing of an electric circuit. These are the\nonly Two IMMORTALS\u2014Life and Death.\n\nPrimitive man having his habitation mainly in the primeval forest, the\nshadows cast by the sun became objects of terror to him. The caves\nwith their mysteries begot gnomes and hobgoblins. Thus was born that\ngreat curse of humanity\u2014Fear. Feeling the need of protection from these\nbogies of his imagination, he peopled his world with fairies, etc.,\nthat would help him to overcome the evil of these fancied cave and\nforest shadow-folk. Here we have the origin of good and evil, rewards\nand punishments, out of which has been evolved the various systems of\nreligion. Observing the various phenomena of this universal force, he\ncalled it God; made images to express his ideas and worshipped them.\n\nMan\u2019s evolution in the universe of thought has been slow, handicapped as\nhe has been by superstition, traditional folk-lore and lack of individual\nsearch for truth. But now for the past fifty years there has prevailed\na set of thought vibrations\u2014a so-called \u201cNew Thought\u201d wave\u2014that has\nimpelled to a desire for the truth that shall make one free.\n\nThere is no mystery in nature. She works under the immutable laws of her\neternal being\u2014Electricity. When primitive man evolved on this earth he\nwas at first without speech, his only language being guttural sounds and\ngestures, some of which are distinctly discernible in many of the present\nraces of mankind. From these guttural sounds speech was evolved and the\n\u201cword\u201d was born. \u201cIn the beginning was the word and the word was with God\nand the word was God.\u201d\n\nThe brain cells of man\u2014the ego\u2014the beginning or birth of\nunderstanding\u2014sent forth vibrations called \u201cthought\u201d into the universe;\nand man has been adding to their volume during countless ages. As he\nprogressed he learned to write by signs or hieroglyphics, thus recording\nhis thoughts. By still further evolution he constructed an alphabet and\nfinally a printing press, so that now thoughts can be easily recorded and\npreserved.\n\nSir Humphrey Davy immediately upon recovering from apparent death, caused\nby one of his scientific experiments, exclaimed, \u201cI am convinced that\nthought is all there is in the universe.\u201d\n\nAs all man\u2019s thoughts,\u2014the vibrations of his brain cells\u2014are contained in\nthe universe, there must be reservoirs of thought governed by the law of\nnatural selection.\n\nThis accounts for what we call genius. For example, a child is born\nshowing early a genius for music, which enables it to grow in the art\nuntil it becomes famous. What is the explanation? Simply that during the\nperiod of gestation the mother was environed by musical vibrations, so\nattuning the brain cells of the child that communication was established\nwith some great reservoir of musical thought in the universe, and a\ngenius was evolved. This is the so-called \u201cReincarnation.\u201d A perfectly\nnatural law of vibration.\n\nCreation, we repeat, is but continuous evolution, bringing forth by\nnatural selection,\u2014\u201ceverything after its kind\u201d\u2014progressing onward year by\nyear, developing more improved species and greater inventions. Evolution\nis but continuous creation. They are one, even as life and death are one.\n\nLucretius wrote fifty years B. C., \u201cChange is the law of things and is\nbrought about by opposing forces.\u201d Lucretius did not know that these\nopposing forces were but the attraction and repulsion, or positive\nand negative action of the one universal substance,\u2014Electricity. The\ninherent eternal impulse (polarity, or sex) of the electrons composing\nthe universal substance from which all things are evolved. Many of the\ngreat scientific writers, such as Kant, Darwin, Wallace, Hume, etc.,\nhad not seen this great light which the discovery and investigation of\ncertain electrical phenomena has revealed and so could not account for\nthis primal force in the universe, which they knew existed but could not\ndefine.\n\nElectricity is Life, and cosmic evolution is but the law of vibration of\nits eternal, universal being.\n\nAll formations of worlds, planets, suns, stars, asteroids, etc., were\nrotated into form and position and continue their movements by this same\nuniversal law of vibration\u2014the inherent, eternal impulse and energy of\nthe one only substance\u2014Electricity. Millions of ages have been evolved\nin the cosmos. All are subject to what is called decay or death, but, as\nLucretius says, \u201cWhat is will perish, but only to appear in another form.\u201d\n\nAll formations of nature in the universe are circular or spherical, thus\nproving their electric source or origin, and are but the completion of an\nelectric circuit. Every stone, grain of sand and drop of water is rotated\nand rounded by this same electric vibratory impulse. What is true of our\nsolar system, we may by deduction conclude is true of other systems,\nwhich may have gone through evolution and devolution many times in the\ncountless aeons of the so called \u201cpast.\u201d Combustion, radiant energy, what\nare these but modes of motion? A living, breathing, thinking organism\ncalled man, or an expiring puppy on the sidewalk, are but different modes\nof vibration of this one universal substance. From worlds to atoms, from\natoms to monads, from monads to motion,\u2014and we find the universe held\nin a solution of omnipotent, electric energy, just as salt is held in\nsolution in the ocean. Well may we repeat the modern paraphrase\u2014\n\n    Praise law from whom all blessings flow,\n      Praise protoplasm here below,\n    Praise matter, evolution tossed,\n      Praise force, the only Holy Ghost.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II\n\nElectricity and Life\n\nProof That Electricity Is Life. Recent Discoveries in the Wireless\nTelegraph and Telephone. Their Effect on the Thought of the Race. Other\nPossibilities of Electricity.\n\n\n    Our little lives are kept in equipose,\n    By opposite attractions and desires.\u2014Longfellow.\n\nRecent discoveries in what is called electrical science, demonstrating\nthe wide range of application of electric vibrations and suggesting\nalmost unlimited possibilities as to its future adaptation to the\npurposes of mankind, indicate that man has at last harnessed the primary\nforce or energy of the universe to become his willing servant. With the\ndiscovery of the wireless telegraph, and wireless telephone\u2014by means of\nwhich conversation has been carried on at a distance of four hundred\nmiles\u2014the scientific nature and possibilities of telepathy is understood.\nThe principle is the same. In the wireless telephone by means of two\ninstruments attuned to the same rate of vibration two persons widely\nseparated are enabled to hear each other\u2019s words. In telepathy two\npersons whose brain cells are attuned to the same rate of vibration are\nenabled to sense each others thoughts, at any distance.\n\nThis is the explanation of impressions of impending disaster and death.\nThe so-called psychic forces are perfectly natural and there is nothing\nsupernatural in the universe.\n\nA knowledge of the laws of electrical vibration is the key that will\nunlock all the secrets of the universe to man.\n\nAll motion,\u2014electrical vibration\u2014is the real Book of Life, opened ever to\nthe true student of science. Burbank by the study of this book of nature\nhas discovered the law of various polarities or affinities (natural\nselection) of vegetables, fruits and flowers and has caused them to\nproduce new varieties, improving the species.\n\nWhat is called intelligent purpose is said to be manifested by man in\nthis ability to direct and assist what is called nature to bring about\ndifferent and \u201cbetter\u201d (?) conditions. Left to herself nature produces\nchaotic conditions; weeds, brambles, briars and trees crowding themselves\ninto various fantastic shapes. Lack of intelligent PURPOSE is shown in\nall this and only the \u201cintelligent purpose\u201d displayed by man produces\norder out of chaos. Where then is the intelligent purpose of the\nuniverse? Certain vibrations in the universe cause floods, tornadoes,\ncyclones, earthquakes, etc. These are simply results of natural laws\nof electric energy which in sport, as it were, like a child with his\nblocks, builds and pulls down, builds and pulls down, \u201ccreates and\ndestroys\u201d ad infinitum. Attraction and repulsion, positive and negative\nelectric action\u2014vibration\u2014generates, sustains and destroys all the\nmanifold forms, organic and inorganic, of what is called life and death.\nThere is no death. Death is but a name given to one of the many forms\nmanifested by life. A knowledge of the dual nature of electrical impulse\nis the true and only \u201csecret\u201d of life and death.\n\nIn the organic form or entity called man there has been evolved an organ\ncalled the brain; an arrangement of cells whose vibratory action enables\nthem to receive and give off vibrations called thought\u2014intelligence.\nThe universe transmits these vibrations through the entity attuned to\nreceive them. Or, to speak poetically, we say, the universe \u201cvoices its\nintelligence through man.\u201d And man voices his intelligence through the\nuniverse. Man thus becomes a Lord\u2014a God\u2014and has dominion.\n\nIf we accept electricity as the only substance and vibration as the vital\nforce and origin of all existence, it is impossible to imagine what may\nyet be revealed to us respecting the structure of the universe.\n\nIf electricity is all there is, then thought must be electrical. The\nvibrations being received by the brain cells, are conveyed throughout\nthe body. Light vibrations strike upon the eye and enter the brain and\nwe see by the brain. Sound waves enter the brain by the ear and we hear\nby the brain. Various vibrations received by the brain are transmitted\nthrough the nerves to the various organs of the body. They respond to\nthese vibrations and harmony, health or disease, results.\n\nIf the brain is attuned to receive healthful vibrations, the body will\nsurely respond and harmony or health obtain. This is the secret of mental\nhealing in all its forms that is being practiced in these states today,\nwhether it be Mental Science, Christian Science, New Thought, Divine\nHealing, Suggestive Therapeutics, or whatever; and reduces every one of\nthese various systems of healing to a simple natural law of vibration.\nThese healthful vibrations are as free to all as the air they breathe and\ncannot be cornered by any set of so-called \u201chealers\u201d in the world. The\nresult of so-called evil or malefic vibrations we see every day in our\nhospitals, asylums, jails, police courts, etc. The reading of certain\nbooks and daily newspapers attunes the brain to receive a certain kind\nof vibration and the results usually lead to the reform school and State\nprison. What are called evil thought vibrations are as abounding in the\nuniverse as good thought vibrations, and if the brain is attuned to\nreceive them, the resulting inharmonious conditions are sure to obtain.\n\nColors are the result of electric vibration. Sir William Crookes and\nGessler demonstrated this by their invention of vacuum tubes. By\nattaching one of these tubes to one of the poles of a static electric\nmachine, or high frequency coil, with a low potency, a yellow light is\nproduced. The potency being increased red appears. By still further\nincreasing the potency to about twelve million vibrations per second,\npurple or violet rays are generated. Then comes the Roentgen or X-ray\u2014a\nbrilliant, greenish, light, which renders opaque bodies transparent. Thus\nscience in electrical discovery is rapidly revealing to us the secrets of\nthe universe.\n\nAll vibrations are co-related. For instance, a man has a burst of violent\npassion\u2014a high rate of brain cell vibration\u2014and we say he \u201csees red.\u201d\nThis is true and he is almost sure to commit murder and will if the rate\nof vibration be kept up in his brain cells. And unless you can \u201cswitch\nthe current\u201d\u2014lower the vibration\u2014he will be plunged into a sea of color\nor intense vibration which his brain is unable to assimilate and we\nhave what we term insanity. The writer firmly believes that Musical\nVibrations which are transformed into electrical waves and transmitted\nto the patient, will ultimately be found to be the \u201cswitch\u201d that shall\nchange the potency of these vibrations in the insane, and restore many a\nhopeless entity to normal brain conditions.\n\nAs another illustration of the power of thought vibrations take those\nthat went forth when Garrison, Phillips, Sumner and others voiced the\nabolition of slavery in this country, which culminated in the greatest\nwar of modern times and developed a manhood and self-sacrifice seldom if\never given to the world. This is Immortality. These events belong to no\none country, but to the world and are the heritage of humanity, and but\none step in the evolution of the race toward the goal of perfect liberty,\nwhich is the knowledge of truth and love, and the real brotherhood of\nman.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III\n\nLove and Music\n\nTheir Relation to Life. Their Influence in the Work of Evolution. The\nPower of Love. The Power of Music. All Emotions Produced by and Subject\nto These Two Forces.\n\n\nLove and music had their birth and growth simultaneously, and have\ncontinued their journey side by side.\n\nPrimeval man through passion or the procreative tendency, surrounded\nhimself with offspring. Through the appeal made by the helplessness\nof his children paternal love was evolved. From this was evolved love\nof family, tribe, clan, and country. In all this music moved side by\nside with love. The mother before language was born crooned her lullaby\nto her baby, and the father imitating the birds pursed his lips and\nmade similar sounds. Later he used hollow reeds and fashioned pipes or\nflutes. Thus music was born, becoming a universal language, and has been\ninvolved throughout all the ages. Music and love are inseparable, and\ntheir influence upon mankind is unfathomable. We read a love story, or\nhear a love song, and each brings a thrill of emotion or vibration that\nstimulates, and brings to the body that harmony, the perfection of which\nis fullness of life\u2014health. The birds sing their love songs to their\nmates and these vibrations fill the woods with music. The humming bird\nwith continuous accompanying melody gathers the honey from the flowers\nto feed its young. All music is life and life is love. The youth is\ntransformed into a man, the maiden into a woman, by love. And this is a\nnew birth or regeneration. Emerson says, \u201cThe passion remakes the world\nfor the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. Nature grows\nconscious. Every bird on the bough of the tree sings now to his heart and\nsoul. The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers\nhave grown intelligent.\u201d All nature breathes love, which is expressed\nin self-abnegation, dying that other species may live. Prof. Darwin at\na meeting of a Scientific Society in Dublin made this statement, \u201cAll\nvegetation sees, hears, breathes and feels.\u201d Witness the action of the\nsensitive and carnivorous plants.\n\nWe have said all organic and inorganic existence is subject to and lives\nby the same vibratory energy of the one substance\u2014Electricity. Its\nvibrations produce \u201cthe exquisite tint of the rose, the velvet of the\nlily and the ethereal daintiness of the orchid. Each is but some trifling\nvariation in the timbre, the tempo or the pitch of vibration that\nproduces it.\u201d\n\nThe breathing of zephyrs through the trees echoes the universal language\nof music in which all nature voices its thought. The purling of the\nbrooks, are but other notes by which nature sings her song of love. \u201cAll\none\u2019s life is music if one touches the notes rightly and in tune.\u201d\n\nMusical vibrations are full of healing power. Their effect upon mind and\nbody soothing and vitalizing beyond description, and producing every\nemotion of which we are capable. It is the key that will unlock for us\nthe deep secrets of the universe. Its universal language enables the\ncomposer to reveal his thoughts to an audience, by notes, tones, rhythms,\ncadences, which are but different rates of vibration. As he describes\na storm, the wind wails through the trees, the branches sway, the rain\npatters on the leaves. Then the rush of the storm, the pealing thunder,\nthe flash of lightnings, the rush and downpour of angry waters. Then\ncomes the lull, the dying away, the burst of sunlight, the birds singing\ntheir songs of joy. We see and hear it all. It is a painting. It is a\nsymphony. It is vibration. Carlisle says, \u201cAll deep things are songs; see\ndeep enough and you see music. The heart of nature breathes everywhere\nmusic if you can only reach it.\u201d\n\nThis love force or vibration, great in volume, is like a great white\nlight whose radiant energy absorbs and burns up all its opponents, such\nas hatred, dislike, malice, uncharitableness, etc., just as the sun in\nthe solar system absorbs all cosmic matter (vibrations) that comes within\nits radius. This cosmic matter furnishing the combustion necessary to\ncontinue the radiant energy, which for us means continued existence.\n\nThe maiden in her fresh and glorious beauty, with rosebud tinted cheeks,\nthe aureole of the sun crowning her hair, her form swaying with graceful\nmien, bursts like an apparition on the youth, and the refulgence of her\nbeauty dazzles him like the sunlight and blinds him to all else. While\nthese intense love vibrations continue he has no eyes, no ears for aught\nsave her. He exalts her in poem and in song. He \u201cprotests\u201d like Romeo and\nshe like Juliet \u201cdoubts\u201d and \u201cdoubts,\u201d these very doubts calling forth\nmore prolerlations. The vibrations called love produce a condition, an\nemotion, akin to hysteria. Indeed the brain once attuned to its vibration\nbecomes obsessed and all sorts of vagaries are evolved amounting to\nmadness or insanity.\n\nThe brain being attuned by some dominant thought immediately assumes\ntelepathic conditions. It becomes as we say enrapport with this or that\nclass of thought deposited in the reservoirs of the universe.\n\nMusic is the language of love. Listening to some forgotten note or song,\nwhat is called memory is established, and thoughts are awakened we\ndeemed were long dead. They speak to us in no uncertain or unfamiliar\ntones, and many a lover\u2019s quarrel of long standing has been healed by\nthis sacrament of music.\n\nThe universe voices this immortal power. The morning stars sing together,\nthe brooks ripple their course, the skylark sings his glad carol as\nhe rises in the air to greet the morning sun, and all light and color\nvibrate their praises in the glorious landscapes they are ever painting\non the land. The sea with its ceaseless vibration sings a lullaby to the\ntired brain, or in its stormy moods incites man to deeds of daring. All\nnature is music and all music is the language of the universe, and \u201cthe\nworld is full of beauty if the heart is full of love.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV\n\nImmortality\n\nIs There Conscious Immortality? What is Immortality? Why We Hope for\nConsciousness in a Future Life. How the Ancients Regarded a Future Life.\n\n\n    Virtue alone builds pyramids. Her monuments shall last when\n    Egypt\u2019s fall.\u2014Young.\n\nIn order that there should be what is spoken of as conscious\nimmortality\u2014or post-mortem consciousness\u2014there must be an entity or\norganism to manifest it. Consciousness is the resultant of the vibratory\nmovements of certain groupings of electrons called brain cells, acted on\nby certain other outside vibrations. This resultant called consciousness\nis the \u201cunconscious cerebration\u201d of the scientists. There can no more\nbe consciousness without brain cells than there can be the music of a\nviolin without the violin. There must be the entity or personality with\nthe brain to receive, preserve, and transmit the vibrations that are\ncontained in the reservoir of thought in the universe.\n\nAll thoughts, words and deeds are preserved and exist as rates of\nvibration in the universe, and are open to those attuned to receive\nthem. We spoke in a former chapter of the illustration of the wireless\ntelegraph and telephone. The coherer, receiver and transmitter being\nattuned, communication is established. This is another illustration of\nintelligent PURPOSE in the universe, and man is the mouthpiece of it.\n\nWhen it is seen that every thought or word belongs to its distinctive\nwave and must find a brain attuned to the same rate of vibration to\nreceive and to voice it, the irrationality of endowing an intangible,\nsubstanceless, non-existing, so-called \u201cspirit\u201d with consciousness must\nbe apparent to anyone.\n\nThis is immortality, which correlates every thought and word of man,\nholding them in universal phonographic records, as it were, forming a\nvast reservoir from which continuously flows by electrical energy all\nso-called intelligent and other vibrations, we receiving those to which\nwe are attuned. This is a thought that might well engage our most serious\nattention, involving as it does a responsibility of no little magnitude.\nWe may well pause to inquire of ourselves what are we depositing in\nthose archives of thought for redistribution to ourselves, and to our\nposterity, to say nothing of mankind in general.\n\nCertain forms of vibration, such as hatred, malice, envy, jealousy\nand especially fear, are productive of disease, poverty, old age and\ndeath\u2014all those inharmonious vibrations which comprise the sum of\nall the troubles and sorrows of mankind. The most productive of these\ninharmonious conditions known as sickness, poverty, old age and death, is\nFEAR. Veneration and worship of all kinds is a form of fear and opens the\nbody to every ill.\n\nMan through religious teaching and self-made creeds has evolved the idea\nof rewards and punishments for the \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cbad\u201d deeds of this life,\nand as there must be a conscious entity to punish and reward and a place\nin which to administer the same, a so-called \u201cfuture life\u201d becomes a\nnecessity.\n\nWhat rational ground for all this? None whatever. The cessation of\nconsciousness in what is called death, is an inevitable step in the\ninauguration and evolution of existence. As we have stated heretofore\nlife and death are one and the same. The same unit of electric energy\nwith two impulses\u2014life and death. Continuous vibration. Every movement\nbeing the evolution of some new form demonstrating life\u2019s continuity and\nelectrical nature.\n\nThales said (600 B. C.), \u201cAll around is change. Everything always\nbecoming something else. All in motion like streams.\u201d He recognized the\nlaw of evolution or continuous vibration. Theophrastes (371 B. C.) says,\n\u201cThere is one eternal, indestructible substance out of which everything\narises and into which everything again returns.\u201d\n\nThat \u201ceternal, indestructible substance\u201d is now known to be electricity,\nand the inherent, unceasing energy of its infinite particles or\nelectrons\u2014now known to be electrical, polar, sexual\u2014the explanation\nof all phenomena embraced under the terms\u2014life and death. Life and\nImmortality are synonymous. The present is eternity. The now is all there\nis. All conscious or unconscious thought vibration is immortal, and is\nrecorded in the cylindrical records of the universe, and those having the\nattunement to those records are in possession of the so-called secrets\nof the universe; which are nothing more than the workings of nature\u2019s\ninevitable laws revealed and unfolded to us through an understanding of\nthis great universal substance\u2014Electricity. The one only substance in the\nuniverse.\n\nThis substance, this sea of electrons, of which we are, and in which\nwe live and move and have our being, is in constant motion even as the\ngreat body of water on our globe. \u201cThe waters of the globe are all one\nsea and truly seen their tide is one.\u201d So in this electrical ocean there\nis ebb and flow, ebb and flow, of etheric and atmospheric conditions.\nThe movement of these tides and waves is always cyclical, proving their\nelectrical nature. This is seen in the globule of water, in the globe\ntides, in the tornadoes, cyclone, etc. All so-called \u201cdestructive\nconditions\u201d are due to the breaking of the circuit and the violent\ndetermined effort to close it again, and are in themselves constructive\nprocesses. When the circuit is broken the destructive force is let loose\nand continues its havoc until this violently vibrating mass of electrons\nhas re-formed into other conditions in the great electrical ocean.\n\nThe suns, worlds, planets, stars are but varied manifestations of this\nvibratory electrical force which through millions of ages has evolved and\nrotated them into existence, its limitless energy forever continuing the\nwork of creation or evolution.\n\nThese worlds, suns, planets being prepared to generate and maintain the\nvarious forms of life, which by analogy must be the same on other planets\nas on ours.\n\nBeginning with the simplest type of organism, the work of evolution\nand progress is carried on until the present race of mankind with its\nintelligence and will is produced. And there are much higher types in the\nuniverse than what is called human. All this is produced by the action of\nthe vibratory electrical force which constitutes life\u2014which IS LIFE. You\nmay call it God if it pleases you.\n\nConsciousness, intelligence, is but the resultant of varying rates of\nvibration of different tempos. The action of the vibratory force is\nseen in the plants and flowers where the pruning and concentration of\nvibration into one stalk improves the fruit or flower. In the American\nBeauty rose many branches and buds are sacrificed to bring one flower to\nthe fullest perfection.\n\nFor ages this same pruning process has been applied to the organism known\nas man, in order to evolve the intelligence that has produced our men of\ngenius and power, to control in turn the very forces that called them\ninto existence. By self-control man has been enabled to direct these\nvibrations, holding in check his varied passions which otherwise would\ninjure him and hasten his dissolution.\n\nThe vibrations known as the ether or sound can produce every emotion we\nare capable of displaying. We in turn control these same vibrations and\nproduce music. Ruskin says, \u201cAll one\u2019s life is music if one touches the\nnote rightly and in tune.\u201d \u201cLight, heat, force, motion, sound, sight,\ntaste, color, thought, emotion all these are but different rates of\nvibration.\u201d\n\nColor vibrations denote the passions. Yellow the lymphatic, red the\npositive and aggressive, blue the nervous temperament. Purple or violet\nare intense vibrations which usually are self-destructive, overthrowing\nthe reason and producing insanity. These color-vibrations are in turn\nsusceptible to inhibition and control by musical vibrations of a much\nlower tempo than those of color; musical vibrations attaining to only\nthirty-two thousand (32,000) per second at their highest tempo, while\nthe color vibrations known as violet reach twelve million (12,000,000)\nto the second. Is it the SONOROSITY of musical tones that equalizes the\nvibrations of color and music?\n\nThe vibrations of the tones of a violin have been known to heal the\nmost obstinate wounds, and even surgical operations have been performed\nunder the influence of musical vibrations. So potent is this force that\nthe musical step of the military march has to be broken when crossing a\nbridge lest it collapse. The walls of Jericho are said to have collapsed\nunder the vibrations produced by blowing upon rams\u2019 horns in the hands\nof the Israelites. Windows have been broken by the vibratory tones of an\norgan.\n\nThe varying forms of so-called matter are but varying rates of vibration,\nready to be acted upon and dissolved by other rates. The same force\nthat tears down builds up. Death is only another rate of vibration set\nup by this Eternal Life. Post-mortem consciousness is unscientific and\nridiculous. Organic life gives off electrons, that unite and form a new\norganism, and the resulting embryo is of like organism, perpetuating\nits kind from generation to generation. As this is continuous and never\nceasing, it must be what is meant by Immortality.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER V\n\nThe Sun\n\nIts Relation to Planetary Life. What is Radiant Energy? Why the Ancients\nWorshipped the Sun. The Parsees the Present Sun Worshippers.\n\n\nIt is supposed to be a figure of speech, a mere bit of symbolism to call\nthe sun masculine and the earth feminine. To call the earth a woman. To\nstate that woman was made from man, etc. But when it is understood that\nsex is nothing but polarity, that male and female, masculine and feminine\nand positive and negative are synonymous terms, we begin to understand\nthe truly scientific nature of these expressions. They are purely\nelectrical terms. This sex or polarity is universal. The Macrocosm and\nthe Microcosm are the same. The Universe is not a Di-verse. Individuality\nis not di-viduality. Every organism in the universe is thoroughly\nbi-polar or bi-sexual, manifesting the eternal nature of its ultimate\ncomponent electrons.\n\nThe writer once saw hundreds of children under a common impulse come\nswarming, dancing, from every quarter of a great city to a common meeting\nplace. As they rushed together en masse their individual movements\ncontinued until out of the marching and counter-marching, the shifting,\nchanging, rearranging, re-adjusting there was evolved before his eyes\nthe flag of this nation with its glorious stripes and stars composed of\nhuman boys and girls.\n\nWe have stated that ether, air, fire, water, earth, are but masses of\ninfinitesimally small particles\u2014called electrons\u2014of the one primeval,\nuniversal substance, living their life of attraction and repulsion,\nembrace and separation, forever whirling in their eternal \u201cMaypole\ndance.\u201d Rushing together in a mad embrace, then darting away to seek\nsome other partner. Weaving in and out, in and out, around about, back\nand forth, to and fro. This dance is called Creation\u2014Evolution. It is an\neternal Brocken\u2014an eternal Nachtspiel.\n\nThe sun is but one great mass of these whirling, vibrating, dancing\nelectrons. As varying numbers of these rush off and regroup themselves,\nother planets are \u201cborn\u201d or evolved. All depend upon the larger or parent\nmass from which they parted. Our earth is but one of these children of\nthe sun. The earth is a woman, a beautiful woman, forever young, forever\nfair. The sun is her father.\n\nThe sun is the primary source of the variety of forms of life on this\nearth. While the electrical energy, or positive and negative impulse of\nthe electrons of atomic matter, constitute the eternal force or energy\ncalled Life, only by the radiant energy of the sun in our system,\ncould we have the planets\u2014of which our earth is one\u2014and the varied\nforms of activity evolved and maintained thereon. Our earth could no\nmore produce these higher forms of activity called mineral, vegetable,\nanimal, man,\u2014all biological activities\u2014without the sun, than the female\ncould produce offspring without the male. The sun is positive, the earth\nnegative. The sun\u2019s vibrations reach our earth in about eight minutes\nand acting upon its atmosphere, it finds a resistance or polarity out of\nwhich is evolved light, heat and moisture.\n\nEvery molecule of our body is rotated into form and continues its\nactivities by the radiant energy of the sun.\n\nHere again we see there can be no death. Every atom in the universe is\nliving, pulsating, vibrating electric energy.\n\nThe sun is like a great dynamo, rotating every planetary body into form\nand position, and through its continued radio-activity carrying on the\nfurther processes of creation called the evolution of sentient life. It\nis often asked, \u201cAre other worlds inhabited by sentient beings?\u201d There\ncan be no reason for supposing otherwise. Given atmospheres, and the\nradiant energy of the sun or suns, must by analogy evolve like results on\nother planets.\n\nWe do not wonder the ancients worshipped the sun. They regarded it as\nthe source or author of their being\u2014their Creator. The theologian calls\nhis creator God. But the Hebrew word for God is Elohim\u2014creative forces.\nJohn says, \u201cThe word was God.\u201d The psalmist says, \u201cDay unto day uttereth\nspeech.\u201d What is speech but vibration? The sun is the source of all\nvibration in the solar system. It has created this earth and all its\ninhabitants. All forms of life on this planet, all activities, are but\nthe radiant energy of the sun.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VI\n\nFear\n\nThe Great Curse of Humanity. The Only Devil. Its Insidious Claims. Its\nEffect on Life.\n\n\n    \u201cThe thing that I feared hath come upon me.\u201d\u2014Job.\n\nThrough fear the human race has been converted into cowards and slaves.\n\nIn a former chapter we have suggested the origin or birth of this demon\nwith its subsequent evolution of the ideas of good and evil, rewards\nand punishments, religions, right and wrong, etc.\u2014Side by side with\nthe above was the evolution of the conscience, which in turn became\nthe greatest producer of fear known to the human race. The conscience,\nthat Shakespeare says \u201cdoth make cowards of us all.\u201d A modern teacher\nsays \u201cConscience is the jaw of morality. It has spread far outside\nthe Christian or any other religion and become an essential factor of\nmodern civilization. Conscience is the most depressing element in human\nexistence. Its entire business is to reduce spirit. Every inch of its\nenergy is laid out against health. It taxes vitality. It claws with\nshame. It bites with disgrace. It murders with morbidness, both body and\nmind. It manufactures right and wrong. It discharges poison or stimulant\ninto the blood and nerves. \u2026 It has scared the race into trembling lest\nit leave them. It has made cowards of us all.\u201d\n\nIn man\u2019s effort to escape the thralldom of these twin curses,\u2014fear and\nconscience\u2014which so often drives humanity to self-destruction or loss\nof reason, and feeling his helplessness against these demons, he sought\na means of propitiating them, and so constructed a system of religious\nbelief. Believing that his Gods must be placated for his fancied\ntransgressions, a form of worship was evolved, with ceremonies involving\nsacrifice of blood, gifts of money, and treasure for building magnificent\ntemples, churches, abbeys and monasteries. Lavishing billions of dollars\nupon their architecture and art. All these were efforts to overcome fear,\nand appease a conscience, which was evolved through the influence of the\nshadow-world and the folk-lore of primitive man upon the progenitors of\nthe race.\n\nWe have only to vibrate the unused cells of the brain to bring forth\nprimitive savagery. Take the action of a mob\u2014let a vibratory wave of\npassion be set up in the unused cells of the brain and the entity knows\nno law but primitive force. Fear is for the time forgotten in the lust\nfor blood. This is the explanation of the so-called bravery of the\nsoldier in time of battle. Although fear dominates him before the\nclash of arms is reached, yet the moment he meets his antagonist the\nprimitive lust for blood overcomes his fear and he becomes once more a\nprimeval savage and fights to the death. The rationale of this is, that\nenvironment and mode of thought has put in vibration and attuned certain\ncells of the brain, by which he establishes communication with some\nreservoir of primitive savage vibration in the universe, and all the wild\nimpulses of primeval instinct rush into and dominate him.\n\nThe forgotten \u201cvices\u201d of our ancestors, apparently repeated from\ngeneration to generation, mean no more than this, as we have suggested\nheretofore; environment and its engendered mode of thought simply fitting\nthe brain as a receiver for the reception of specific vibrations. We\ntreat as criminals those who should be really treated for disease. We are\nresponsible for the slum conditions in our cities and country which set\nup the brain attunement that calls forth these vibrations of ancestral\nvices. This is HOW the slums breed vice and crime. And it is in this\ndirection we should put forth our efforts to reform the criminal. Are\nwe not responsible for our criminals? We most assuredly are. We are\nresponsible for these slum conditions and environments which create and\nbring into play these specific brain cells and cell vibrations. We say\n\u201cNatural born criminals.\u201d Not always. They are made so by environment.\nIf the money spent in the effort to reform the vicious and criminal was\napplied to cleansing the slums and changing man\u2019s environment, it would\ngreatly reduce the necessity for jails, reform schools and asylums. We\nshould enact laws to enable us to begin with the child in the public\nschools\u2014compulsory if necessary. Not only educating, but seeing that they\nwere properly clothed and housed and fed, and removed from their vicious\nsurroundings, parents or guardians. In fact, we are the real criminals\nwho permit such a thing as a crime producing slum or a \u201cpoor quarter.\u201d\nThe state can easily afford to do this in order to do away with the\nso-called vicious element or criminal class.\n\nThe present progress of invention in labor-saving devices call for a\ngreater intelligence than the handling of the pick and the shovel, and\nthis is being evolved; and this great living vibratory energy or force\nwhich created man and evolved his intellect and his will, man has in\nturn harnessed for his use, reducing the necessity for excessive manual\nlabor; and he will have more time for the arts and sciences. The \u201cman\nwith the hoe,\u201d will become the man with the electric plow and cultivator,\nand instead of hard, laborious work, these wonderful electric inventions\nwill eventually reduce all labor to mild recreation and enjoyment. This\nwonderful electric force has now become a servant and is willing and\neager to give its restless energy to man. It is the power that Tennyson\nsays is \u201ccloser to you than breathing, nearer than hands and feet.\u201d It\nis your universal father ready to give whatsoever you ask; but man must\nstudy to know this power, and learn its natural movements in order to\ncome into the full benefit of his rightful heritage of this primal force\nby which he was evolved into conscious existence.\n\nThe blight of fear has retarded the human race from coming into its\nheritage of knowledge concerning this primal substance and force of the\nuniverse\u2014Electricity. Every effort of science to explain phenomena has\nbeen frowned upon and opposed by theology, which is the child of fear and\nconscience. Man has been kept in swaddling clothes which have prevented\nhis growth to maturity. But thanks to the change of nurses during the\nrecent centuries his clothes have been changed so frequently that he\nhas had an opportunity to grow lusty, and all the efforts of nurses to\nkeep him in leading-strings today are unavailing. He is outgrowing fear\nand superstition that has so long strangled science. And science is\ndestroying fear by its revelations of the workings of natural law, which\nin the field of electrical discovery is making its most rapid strides.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VII\n\nDeath\n\nIts Relation to Life. Its Immortality. Its loving purpose. Its Relation\nto Evolution.\n\n\n    \u201cTo die, to sleep,\u2014To sleep! perchance to dream! ay there\u2019s the\n    rub.\u201d\u2014Shakespeare.\n\nIn preceding chapters I have so frequently made the statement that life\nand death are one and the same, that it seems almost superfluous to\nsay another word on the subject. But I am willing, even at the risk of\nseeming pedantic, to re-state the argument, which is not only simple and\neasy of comprehension, but at the same time both scientific and rational.\n\nWithout desiring to enter upon the realm of metaphysics in this book, it\nwill be sufficient to say that we use the term Life in its fullest sense,\nand not in the restricted one of consciousness. Consciousness itself\nbeing but one expression of life.\n\nTwo Irishmen walking along a road came upon a turtle. It had been\ndecapitated and its head lay some distance away from its body. \u201cBegorra,\u201d\nsays Pat, \u201che\u2019s dead sure enough. His head\u2019s cut off.\u201d Mike picked up\na stick and punched the turtle\u2019s feet, who immediately withdrew them\ninside his shell. \u201cNo,\u201d says he, \u201che\u2019s aloive. See him move.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re\na fool Mike,\u201d says Pat. \u201cHe\u2019s dead I tell you. Don\u2019t you see his\nhead\u2019s cut off.\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s aloive,\u201d said Mike, \u201cyou can see him move.\u201d The\nargument became heated, Mike insisting that a dead turtle couldn\u2019t move,\nand Pat being equally insistent that no turtle with his head cut off\ncould be alive. The matter was about to be referred to the Irishman\u2019s\ncourt of last resort, when a Dutchman, passing along, an armistice was\nestablished, and the matter referred to him for decision. The Dutchman\nexamined the turtle and discovered it had been killed in a supposedly\nmost effective manner by having its head cut off. Mike\u2019s test with the\nstick, however, revealed the ability on the part of the turtle for pretty\nlively activity. He then arose and delivered himself, \u201cGentlemen, dot\nturtle iss dead all right,\u2014but it don\u2019t know it.\u201d\n\nEvery area of being,\u2014of the universe, is eternally alive. It doesn\u2019t\nalways KNOW it.\n\nWe repeat, there is one\u2014can be but one\u2014Be-ing. This being is not mind,\nnor its product matter. Ether is only a refined form of matter. Mind is\nadjudged to be a still more refined form of that same matter. But being\nis Substance. You may call it Spirit (or meaning) or you may call it God.\nPaul called it Faith, and said \u201cby it and of it the worlds were made.\u201d\n\nWe call it Electricity. Every infinitesimal electron of this substance,\nas we have stated, is by-polar or sexual. Attracting and repelling,\nembracing and separating. This eternal, inherent or natural law of their\nbeing is Life,\u2014energy, activity. The resultant of these activities:\u2014the\nworlds and all that in them is.\n\nSuppose a great mass of type moved by an inherent, automatic, continuous\nimpulse. Its integral component letters forever arranging themselves\ninto words, phrases, sentences, etc. For illustration: The letters\nE-V-I-L create the word Evil. Rearrange the same letters and your\nword Evil disappears and the word L-I-V-E, Live, appears, or is born,\ncreated, evolved, whatever. The energy, the auto-activity would be one\nand the same. The disintegration and disappearance of one word, and the\nre-adjustment of letters and appearance or creation of another word being\nequally the resultant of the same letters, with their same inherent\nenergy and impulse. You might call one part of the process Creation and\nanother part Destruction, but the process is one and continuous. Your\ndivision is merely hypothetical, or assumed. What is destroyed? The\nletters remain, and their inherent energy or impulse remains\u2014all there\nwas at any time.\n\nThe integral, component particles\u2014electrons\u2014of the one only eternal\nsubstance, are the letters comprising the universe. Their inherent,\nautomatic, eternal energy, activity\u2014Life\u2014forever spelling out words\nand sentences, etc., that go to make up the Book of Life. They arrange\nthemselves as earthquake or pestilence, famine, murder, birth, disease,\nold age, death, sunshine, flowers, music, painting, sculpture, art,\nlaughter, tears, whatever. What are these terms but names for the varied\nactivities of life? Life is all there is. What is called death is equally\nlife. Life and death are the two impulses of this one universal force.\n\nIn certain of its phenomena, now classified as electrical, this dual\nimpulse is noted and its action is called \u201cclosing the circuit\u201d and\n\u201cbreaking the circuit.\u201d This same dual impulse or tendency to embrace\nand separate\u2014embrace and separate\u2014obtains throughout the entire cosmos,\nproving the universality of electrical action. Ether, fire, air, water,\nearth, sound, sensation, light, form, color, smell, food, thought are all\nknown to be modes of motion\u2014rates of vibration. Motion of what? Rate of\nvibration of what?\u2014Of the infinite, integral, component electrons of the\none universal substance.\n\nAll movement, or action, or impulse, is in a straight line, and in a\ncircle. The movement in a straight line is the repulsion, the departure,\nthe separation. Motion in a circle is the attraction, the return, the\nembrace. This is polarity. This is sex. This is Eternal Life. This\nis Eternal Death. The Two Immortals\u2014or the One (bi-polar, bi-sexual)\nImmortal.\n\nWe repeat, all the substance there is is Electricity. All the force there\nis, therefore, is electrical. There being but one substance\u2014synthetic\nbeing\u2014all force must be electrical. This electrical force is a unit, but\nhas two impulses, positive and negative, attraction and repulsion.\n\nAll organic forms contains these impulses. For illustration, take a\nhuman entity. The positive we call man, the negative woman. Through\nthe embrace of certain electrons thrown off from the organism of each\n(physiologically termed the spermatozoa of the male and the fecundating\nfluid of the female), there is established the basis of a future organism\nfor manifesting consciousness and conscious or intelligent activity. A\njourney is begun. Life and death are one and move side by side. Their\neternal impulse ever active. If what is called harmony or health prevails\na vigorous entity is evolved and continued. When the negative tendency\nor inharmony prevails in this continued struggle for supremacy, beyond a\ncertain limit, the organism becomes de-harmonized, dis-eased, disabled,\nunconscious, disintegrated. Such is this restless energy we call life.\nThe circuit completed, life and death (the positive and negative\nimpulse), move together side by side, but the tendency to break the\ncircuit\u2014as well as to close the circuit\u2014always obtains. When this occurs\nthere is a re-adjustment of conditions, out of which new forms of life\nappear.\n\nThere can be no antagonism in a unit. There is only a restless energy and\nimpulse to effect changes; to continue the work of creation or evolution.\nI want my readers to recognize death as a friend, and not as so many\nregard him, an enemy. He has been and is our constant companion\u2014he is\nourself, and is entitled to fuller and kinder recognition. We scandalize\ndeath and caricature and abuse him, not realizing that we are abusing\nourselves. When the tired organism craves only rest, how readily we\nshould welcome his loving embrace. We cannot love life without loving\ndeath, as they are one and inseparable, being the unit\u2014which is all\nthere is. What is true of this ceaseless energy or electrical impulse\nas manifested in organic forms, is also true in inorganic forms. It\ngenerates all vegetables, and fruits and flowers, giving them beauty\nand fragrance and flavor. And we note the same spherical growth in all,\ndemonstrating the electrical nature of all creation. Each cell is rotated\ninto form by this dual impulse. We see the same spherical formation in\nour forests.\n\nThe same \u201cdissolution\u201d or change takes place in in-organic as in organic\nlife. As the \u201cspeck\u201d or decayed spot appears on the apple we know the\ncircuit has been broken and the negative tendency becoming the stronger.\nEverywhere, everything is the circle, and everywhere the tendency to\nbreak that circle or circuit. In the celestial bodies called worlds, it\nis the same as in the flower. Astronomers agree that there is an ultimate\nlimit to the so-called \u201clife\u201d of all planetary bodies. This is true.\nThey have been evolved and devolved for aeons and aeons of time. And the\neternal electrical impulse and energy will continue its sport of creation\nand of destruction throughout the ages yet to be.\n\nLife is. Without beginning\u2014without duration\u2014without ending. Such is the\nmeaning of the word Eternity.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VIII\n\nHealing\n\nMental Therapeutics or Healing Suggestions. Christian Science. Mental\nScience. Faith Healing, Etc.\n\n\nAs stated in a former chapter, every system of so-called mental healing\nbeing practiced in these States or elsewhere today, whether it calls\nitself Christian Science, Mental Science, Divine Healing, New Thought,\nSuggestive Therapeutics, or whatever, is but an effort\u2014with more or less\nunderstanding\u2014to utilize the law of electric vibration.\n\nMrs. Eddy says in \u201cScience and Health,\u201d page 292, \u201cElectricity is not\na vital fluid, but the least material form of illusive consciousness.\u201d\n\u201cElectricity is the sharp surplus of materiality which counterfeits the\ntrue essence of spiritual truth.\u201d (So simple, isn\u2019t it?) \u201cThe vapid fury\nof mortal mind expressed in earthquakes, wind, waves, lightning, fire and\nbestial ferocity shows the so-called mind to be self-destructive.\u201d\n\nThere is one synthetical substance, or truth, in the universe. You may\nname it to suit yourself. It will smell just as sweet and act just the\nsame under whatever name you may give it. It has a habit of remaining\njust what it is yesterday, today and forever. We call it Electricity.\nIt is the one mind, the one substance, the all and in all. From it\nis evolved matter in all its various forms. The unit of all force is\nelectrical; the two impulses of which account for the variety of forms\nin which it manifests itself. It creates, preserves, destroys, and the\nvarious manifestations, such as earthquake, floods, fire, lightening are\nbut results of these two impulses, and simply show the absence of any\nintelligent PURPOSE whatever; and forces us to see that there can be no\nsuch thing as a Supreme Being\u2014or supreme intelligence in the universe.\nThat this great omnipresent energy which evolved the meaningless phrases\nand sentences of Mrs. Eddy\u2019s \u201cChristian Science\u201d was acting neither less\nnor more \u201cintelligently\u201d than when it produced a Beethoven sonata or a\nDante\u2019s Inferno.\n\nMan seems to have been able to a certain extent to control this force\nand harness it to his use, and has materially lessened its destructive\ntendency by devices such as the lightening-rod and various insulating\nmethods. This is an evidence of intelligent purpose evolved by the\nvibratory forces of this intelligent substance.\n\nMan has subjected this force to his usage upon his own organism and the\nresults are astounding. Every day some new application is being made. In\nthe field of Electro-Therapeutics there are so many new developments,\nso many wondrous actions on various diseases that the medical profession\nhas to constantly revise its text books, in order to keep step with\nthis stately energy that is marching on to disclose to those attuned to\nreceive them the great secrets of nature.\n\nWe have the phonograph, which deposits the vibrations of the human\nvoice\u2014or any other vibration, upon the wax cylinder, which can be\npreserved almost indefinitely and reproduced at will. From whence came\nthe vibratory impulse or suggestion that invented the phonograph? The\nwithin is as the without. The above is as the below. The macrocosm is\nas the microcosm. Is there not in the laboratory of the universe some\ncyclical or cylindrical formation (as all electric force\u2014which is all the\nforce there is\u2014is spherical) that receives, and preserves, and reproduces\nthe impressions of all thoughts, words and deeds, the brain specifically\nattuned receiving its specific vibration, or thought? Does it require any\ngreat effort to grasp the thought that the electrical (mental, thought)\nforces or vibrations of the universe can be utilized by us, to act on the\ncells of the brain and convey to the body or its various organs through\nthe nerves, our commands to cast out all inharmonious vibration, and\nto refuse to entertain any but harmonious or healthful suggestions.\n\u201cWhatsoever a man thinketh, he is.\u201d We repeat, these so-called healthful\nvibrations are as free to all as the air they breathe and cannot be\ncorralled by any set of healers. This is not said to discredit any system\nof healing, for all are with more or less understanding using the same\nprinciple, and with accordingly varying degrees of success. But it is\nsaid to destroy and nullify any claim of exclusive ability.\n\nTo attune yourself to receive these health-giving or harmony-producing\nvibrations be alone. Assume any comfortable position. Let the body relax\nand the mind become passive. All speech is electrical in its vibratory\naction. Use these words:\n\nBE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.\n\nYou may be afraid at first to say these words. This is all the more\nreason why you should say them. There is nothing so de-harmonizing and\nde-vitalizing as fear. Read the chapter in this book on \u201cFear\u201d again, and\ncast it out of you forever.\n\nListen\u2014no person ever died saying, \u201cBe Still and Know That I Am God.\u201d\n\nThe repetition of these words will gradually attune the brain to receive\nthe most health-giving, vitalizing vibrations in the universe. These,\nacting on the cells of the brain are conveyed throughout the entire body\nby the nerves. The lungs, the liver, the stomach\u2014all\u2014will gradually\nreceive these vitalizing, curative thought vibrations, and respond to\nthem.\n\nSometimes these inharmonious conditions seem persistent and hard to\novercome, and patience and perseverance in repetition may be necessary.\nBut persevere and you cannot fail to win out. It is as certain as that\nfriction will produce fire, and that heat will dissolve ice. Don\u2019t whine.\nDon\u2019t beg. Don\u2019t pray. Command, as is your right and privilege, as a unit\nof this mighty electric force which is life and health. It\u2019s up to you.\nAll the life and health of the universe is yours if you will. Permanent,\nabiding, continuous attunement to the infinite ocean of force, is to\ncontinue the integrity of the organism you call your\u2014Self.\n\n\nRadium\n\nNote.\u2014The discovery of radium opened up a field of experiment and\ninvestigation that has greatly confirmed in the scientific mind the\nbelief that all action is electrical and that in this direction will be\nfound the solution of all biological problems.\n\nIt is now thought by scientists that radium is the source of life, if\nnot the so-called AURA of life itself. If this were true, it would\nonly mean that radium is the fundamental, basic, primeval substance of\nthe universe, which we have termed Electricity. \u2026 It is known to be\nelectrical in its action, giving off light, heat and radiant energy.\nIt seems to be self-existent, or self-renewing, suffering no apparent\ndiminution of its force or energy.\n\nOne thing is certain, Electricity is Life, and in the eternally inherent,\nautomatic impulse of its individual electrons will be found the solution\nof all phenomena. In radium or radioactivity science may be getting down\nto \u201cbed-rock.\u201d At any rate, it is hot on the trail that will lead to the\ndiscovery of the truth we are announcing, viz.: that there is but one\nsubstance\u2014Electricity, whose eternal, infinite expression is Life.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IX\n\nResume and Conclusion\n\n\nIn the foregoing chapters I have endeavored to explain the great primeval\nforce of life\u2014Electricity. The task is an almost impossible one, for,\nwhile I know that my premises and deductions are correct, it is more than\ndifficult by words and phrases and sentences to convey to the reader my\ndeep conviction of the correctness of the theory introduced in these\npages.\n\nSome of the greatest scientists in the world are experimenting with this\nvital force, and almost daily the newspapers contain accounts of the\nphenomenal results that are attending their efforts.\n\nRecently in Copenhagen a certain journalist had his portrait\n\u201cphotographed by electricity.\u201d Copies were distributed throughout the\ncity he was about to visit with instructions that he be arrested on\nsight. This was effected immediately upon his arrival there.\n\nAn important recent discovery is an electric lamp which can dissipate\nfog. It produces a dear, greenish, penetrating light like moonlight. It\ngives a great illuminating power without heat something like the X-ray.\n\nRecently, aerograms were received in Honolulu and San Francisco from\nJapan, proving that the ethereal electrons are sure conductors\nthroughout the cosmos. Entering, as this untiring energy does, into\nour every day life, it is not difficult for us to see that\u2014Life is\u2014and\nthat Electricity is the only substance, out of whose revelations we are\ngrowing into greater understanding of the forces and workings of nature.\nThese forces\u2014variations and modifications of the one force\u2014Electrical\nenergy\u2014have ever BEEN; but it has taken millions of ages and the\nevolution and development of man\u2019s intelligence to even grasp the A, B,\nC of this almighty power. The future has in store discoveries of such\nmagnitude and of such vast importance to the human race in this field of\nelectrical phenomena that we may well exclaim, as did the psalmist, \u201csuch\nknowledge is too wonderful for me, it is high, I cannot attain unto it.\u201d\n\nAll natural law is but some form of electrical energy by which is\nevolved all the various manifestations of this wonder-working substance.\nAtmospheres, ether, air, fire, water, earth, stars, planets, suns,\nworlds, man, are but combinations and vibrations of the integral\nparticles or electrons of this one substance. Mountain and star-mist,\nconsciousness, intelligence, savage, Sage, Sufi, all objective and\nsubjective (organic and inorganic) entities, are but the infinite\nmanifestations of this universal substance.\n\nThe X-ray is but an intense display produced by the vibration of\ntrillions of these electrons. All that is called mind and all that is\ncalled matter, is but an expression of this one universal substance. In\nits eternal restless energy it creates, preserves, destroys, innumerable\nforms of mind and matter. This is eternal life. This is eternal\nintelligence. And \u201cDay unto day uttereth speech and night unto night\nshoweth knowledge.\u201d\n\nA recent author on \u201cIndividualism and the vibratory energy\u201d says, \u201cSpirit\nand matter are one and the same vibratory force; and mind and matter are\none and not distinct substances.\u201d\n\nSince commencing to write these lines the author has found a number of\nwriters whose works have been of great help to him, and served to confirm\nhim in his theory.\n\nThe attunement of the brain cells to varying rates of vibration in the\nuniverse, brings all things to you on the principle of the wireless\ntelegraph. \u201cAll things are yours,\u201d was the announcement of the Master of\nthe Christian system. This is scientifically true. The universe is at\nyour disposal and you can get it. Not through sorrow, and toil and labor,\nbut in the same way that trees and flowers get it\u2014inspirationally.\n\nTelepathy, which is attracting wide-spread notice at the present time,\nis as scientific as telegraphy. Some of the greater scientists are\ninvestigating its claims through \u201cspiritual mediums,\u201d though there\nare few who accept the latter\u2019s claims, as in such a field it would\nbe impossible to prevent impostors from preying upon the ignorant and\ncredulous. There are honest mediums. In fact, every human entity is\na \u201cmedium,\u201d receiving and transmitting, receiving and transmitting\ncontinually.\n\nThere are some so acutely attuned by environment and habit of thought,\nto the universe of thought, that they receive communications beyond\ntheir fellows. These are poets, artists, musicians, inventors, etc. The\nthoughts of Plato, Socrates, Krishma, Jesus, ARE today. You may know all\nthey knew if you can attune yourself to such a rate of vibration as to\nestablish the proper connection. This is a plain, every-day, scientific,\nmatter-of-fact explanation of all modern \u201cspiritualistic communications.\u201d\nThere should be no more mystery or superstition, or spiritual clap-trap\nabout it than there is about wireless telegraphy.\n\nThere are persons who can readily attune themselves to the vibrations\nof another and \u201cread the thoughts\u201d\u2014unconscious as well as conscious\u2014of\nindividuals composing an entire audience. With many this is easily\naccomplished through personal contact. Some years ago the writer of these\npages was well acquainted with Washington Irving Bishop, the great\n\u201cmind reader,\u201d who since died, or was murdered by doctors in New York,\nwho dissected his brain while he was in a cataleptic condition, they\nsupposing him dead. One of his performances was to have some stranger\ntake a bank-note, read the number on it and place it in a safe. During\nthis time Bishop was at some distance away heavily blindfolded. When all\nwas ready, he would take this man\u2019s hand and after a short interval give\nthe number on the bank-note, which was invariably found to be correct.\nI questioned him very closely on this performance, which I witnessed\nfrequently. He said as soon as he placed his fingers on the wrist of the\nman who placed the note, the number would come to him without difficulty.\nHe claimed that it was telepathy or clairvoyance. As a matter of fact, it\nwas simply attunement to the mind of the man who knew the number, and, as\nin the action of the wireless telegraph, the two brains being similarly\nattuned, the message was sent and received. There are many today to whom\nthis would be a mere kindergarten performance. You perhaps did not know\nthat every time you shake hands you run the risk of giving away your\ninmost secrets. I am prepared to tell you that this is true. \u201cThere is\nnothing hidden but it shall be revealed, and there is nothing secret but\nit shall be made known.\u201d\n\nWe receive impressions of impending disaster which we regard as\n\u201csupernatural.\u201d Once for all let me say there is nothing supernatural.\nA knowledge of this fact ought to cure you of your superstitions and\ndestroy your fears. Light, sound, color, travel faster than letters or\ntelegrams. The impending disaster vibrations often reach us long before\nthe actual occurrence itself. Even as we see the flash of lightening, or\nthe flash of the powder, before we hear the thunder or the report of the\ncannon.\n\nAll these things are but movements of the electrons of the universe,\ncarrying out the natural law of their being, which is electrical impulse.\n\nProf. Dolbear says, \u201cMolecules which are a combination of atoms, are\nknown to have their constant state of vibrations and from this and the\nfact of their perfect transparency, they can no more be seen than the\nair. They are so minute, so restless, like atoms of hydrogen, that no one\ncan hope to see them or learn their characteristic properties.\u201d\n\nObservation and study of the phenomena of electrical energy reveal to us\nthe nature of that substance, which we are, and with which we have to\ndo. The fundamental, inevitable, never-varying law of polarity\u2014pushing\nand pulling\u2014or positive and negative action. In creation, throughout\nall experience, this is seen. Land and sea, day and night, right and\nleft, up and down, sweet and sour, east and west, north and south, good\nand bad, right and wrong, man and woman, attraction and repulsion\u2014the\nso-called \u201cpairs of opposites\u201d,\u2014Sex everywhere. Is it difficult to see\nby analogy and deduction that polarity is universal. That all phenomena\nare electrical phenomena. That birth, and growth, disease and disaster,\ndecline and death are all electrical phenomena, and that there is but one\nsynthetic substance\u2014ELECTRICITY.\n\n  [1]The germ, the embryo, the child,\n       The foolish boy, the man,\n     Are onward steps from nothingness\n       In God\u2019s progressive plan.\n\n     Forever onward is the march\u2014\n       From beastly hoof to hand\u2014\n     From savage to the seer and sage\u2014\n       From Saurian types to man;\n     From man to angel\u2014limitless\n       As are the starry spheres,\n     Progression hath not halt nor bound\n       In God\u2019s eternal years!\n\n     From darkest cloud the lightning flash\u2014\n       From nothing\u2014life Divine,\n     From gloom to glory is the law\n       The unvarying design.\n     A world of good invites our eyes\n       And charms the willing mind\u2014\n     But he who only misery finds\n       Blasphemes the life Divine.\n\n     The mountain side\u2014the billowy sea\n       Of waving prairie flowers,\n     The gardens, glades, and spicy groves\n       Around this world of ours\n     Proclaim the endless festival\n       Of beauty,\u2014and the truth\u2014\n     The deathless power of Love Divine\n       Eternal in its youth.\n\n[1] Arena.","title":"The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality: A startling proposition, with a chapter devoted to mental therapeutics and instructions for self healing","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":11579}