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In addressing our students at this time and bringing before them the

first and elementary principles of Cosmogony, our students must feel,

as we do, the overwhelming impression of the deepness, the profundi-

ty, of the subject. Probably there is no other subject, no other

study, embodying so many scientific principles, fraught with so many

scientific proofs and yet so difficult to master completely, as is

this subject. Yet it is fundamental; it is elementary; it is basic.

Even the subject of God's laws, yea, even the study of God, is not as

difficult to present as the very world we live in, and, truly, we

cannot study God of God's works without a thorough comprehension of

the Universe.

But before we can properly take up this subject— or any other impor-

tant scientific subject— we must understand how the knowledge we seek may be conveyed to us. We must analyze and properly value the vari-

ous methods of arriving at facts and of substituting theories when

facts are not available or known. Theories have their place in the

construction of comprehensible teachings on any subject, but statements made as part of a theoretical explanation should be clearly

labeled as THEORETICAL and not permitted to pass as facts. This is

the great error in our presentday system of education, and the more

profound, because arcane, the subject, the more likely are we to

have theories given to us in the garb of facts. When facts are NOT

known and the true facts cannot be easily found or proven, theories

are easily substituted without fear of contradiction, and for years,

even centuries, the theories may remain in the teachings as facts

and.never appear in their true light because the light of truth has

not been cast upon them.

If all this is true of any subject, it is most certainly true of our

system of Cosmogony as taught during the past hundred years or more

and being taught even now in the most advanced universities and

college classes of the world.

Copernicus was the man, his was the mind, that tried to give us a

system whereby we might understand the universe as it is— that is,

that part of it which he considered as being of interest to us.Ce

tain facts were known to him and to others. The phases of the moon

were seen constantly and were.in accordance with some law regulating

the changes so accurately that future changes could be easily pre-

dicted although the law causing the changes was not known. Sunrise

and sunset were other observable facts not understood. Man wished

to know what caused these phenomena, and in his desire for an ex-

planation various theories were conceived, and some adopted. But

Copernicus evolved & complete theoretical explanation of all the

phenomena, an explanation which was so satisfying, accounting for

nearly every mysterious Cosmic and earthly occurrence, that mankind seized upon it, taught it to his children, and now his great great

greatgrandchildren are still studying the same explanation and accepting it as LAW and FACT.

You may ask: "Have not more advanced scientists, equipped with tele



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scopes and modern devices, added to, modified or altered the explan

ation of Copernicus? Bo we not teach our children now what scienc

has discovered since the time of Copernicus? We may answer yes, to

the second question, and even yes, with some modification or quali-

fication, to the first question. But— and here lies the danger in

all the presentday schools of science— each and every investigatio

and test on the part of science and scientists, since the day of Co pernicus, has been primarily for the purpose of PROVING the theory

of Copernicus to be true, and all facts and suggestions seeming to

contradict the theory of Copernicus have been either rejected or

held in doubt.

Therefore practically all of the ideas and theories of Copernious

are embodied in our presentday teachings regarding the universe an

the earth, except that they have been enlarged, exaggerated and

otherwise added to. The great struggle in this subject today, on

the part of those engaged in such research work, is to make the

great mass of newly discovered facts fit into the theory first out-lined. That this is true and not an opinion, you will discover be-

fore this subject is halfway completed in this course of lectures.The mass of evidence found and revealed by science and scientists,

which they have rejected or ignored because it does not prove, coincide with, cr substantiate the old wornout Copernican theory, will

be used by us, with much other matter not knownto them, as proof cf

che truth regarding the universe and the earth on which we live.

Bear in mind that Copernicus did not intend to give the world a

hoax. It was not his intention to deceive, but to help us under-

stand our universe by giving us an explanation which would satisfy our desire to work out the unknown problems. Theories, false and

true alike, often help to solve a problem only to show us later

that the false theory served a mute and ignorant purpose, false

though it was. Copernicus warned the readers of his theory by stat

ing in his manuscript that he was submitting only a working hypothe

sis, and that if proofs— actual, tangible proofs— were demanded of

the correctness of his theories, or if in the future science demanded

iacts to substantiate his system or explanation, there were no

proofs, no facts ! It is this system, questioned and doubted even

oy its originator, given with qualifica.tion and apology by its spon

sor, that we are still using, and, what is more pitiful, the childr e n o f our schools, the adults of our Colleges, are not told, when

taking up this study of the Copernican theory: "Beware, for thisis only theory and the man who first outlined it died centuries ago

and apologized for it then and we have not learned the truth to

give you." No, the students are taught the subject as LAV/ and TRUT

All this explanation is made to you so that you may be prepared for

tne truth^that is to be told to you in these lectures: some day,a.' ter taking half of this course, you will not rest without putting

fome pretty hard questions to some of your learned friends who haveooen made believers of the Copernican ideas, and they may put some

questions to you regarding Copernicus, so it is well for you to kno



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all that has Leen said in the above words, and, further, to look in

any large encyclopaedia or in the new Eleventh Edition of the En-

cyclopaedia Britannica (at home or in any Public Library) under theheading of COPERNICUS and read of his life and his ideas. This wil

prepare you to a.rgue many points, but, most important, it will help

you to understand how we came to have the Cosmogony now taught and

why we point to it as a complete failure.

Now let us seo what is the essential difference between a THEORY an

the FACTS regarding any phenomenon. This will be interesting, we

feel sure. Let us suppose that we, assembled in our College Hall,have ma.de a gceat scientific discovery. Someone has brought into

this hall a little thing which we call a MATCH.

But suppose that we did not know it as a MATCH, did not have any

name for it, did not know what it was, and we looked at the little

piece of wood with its strange, colored, hard end, and began to speculate. It was evidently made for some purpose. We weighed it

and found it weighed seven grains . We rolled it between our hands

and nothing seemed to happen. We did many things with it until onof our "scientific11 members (supposing now we axe a group of learnescientists making famous "discoveries" for school children and adul

minds to ponder over and marvel at)— one of these "scientists"

accidentally rubbed the end of the match against a piece of marble

on the laboratory table. My, oh my! There was fire at once and a

flame I Fire I Fire ! Can you nct hear that word being repeated by

each one in the assembly? Then someone, who is very learned and very careful in his wide assertions and opinions, says: "Let us

find another miraculous or strange thing like that I" And then the man who brought the match says, "I have some more. Here are seven.

And then, we try another and rub it very carefully— "scientifically1

— on the same piece of marble, and 1o, again there is a flame and

Lire. In silence and AWE we do the same thing with a third and in-

stantly we have the same result. Then we hastily get out our "dis-covery" note books and write down that "the results are uniform".That is our first scientific notation. Then another scientist sug-

gests that we rub the next match on wood. Doubt is expressed as to

the result and we fear to throw away one of the little things in a

possible failure. But we try it, and lo 1 we have fire and flame

again. Then up speaks one of the "scientists',' who says: "I am dis

appointed, gentlemen; I would rather have had it fail that time be-

cause I had an idea well established in my mind that I had discoverthe SOJRCE and ORIGIN of all the fire in the Universe, and I was pr

paring my mind to write a learned book on how fire is produced through the coming into very close proximity of a certain unknown

hardness to the known hardness of marble, white in color, lying fla

in the day light with the sun shining upon it at an angle to be de-termined. by the sun's rays after careful measurement with instrumen

of precision. But now I find that common wood, over here out of thsunlight, and not white in color, also assists in producing fire,

and I am at a loss; in fact, I am dumbfounded— I cannot advance my

theory and explanation of fire if this last experiment becomes know

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to the public. May we not carefully conceal this last test of the

little thing? it was not truly scientifically done any \va.y. And

there were three demonstrations of the contact with the marble and only one with the wood, so the preponderance of scientific evidence

favors the idea I wish to advance that fire is caused SOLELY by

bringing that unknown mineral element against the smooth surface of

the marble, in the rays of the sunshine, etc, etc, etc."

But some of the other "scientists" object. They, too, have an idea

in mind. They wish to have fame and glory as discovery announcers

and they insist that the next little piece of wood— the fifth piece

— be struck or rubbed against a piece of VERY ROUGH, unpolished

stone, Lo i again there is fire and flame, and the man with the marbl

idea stands aghast. Science in its wild hunt for truth is defamin

him and his ideas. He will leave our institution and seek a more

conservative on e. Then someone suggests that the piece of wood be rubbed against a piece of metal. Ah, let us try common iron, rustand unclean, and over in the darkest room, far away from the sun

light. Lo I again a fire and flame, but the light of the fire seeme

brighter, it even illuminated the beclouded countenances of the

group. The seeming brighter light of the flame (because of the

darkness of the room) was mistaken and another notation was placed in the "discovery" note books; "darkness as well as sunlight assist

in making fire." And now the last little piece of wood is to be

tried, for the eighth piece must be saved for the great museum of

scientific discoveries, and never used. It was suggested that we

rub this one on cloth; that would be a wonderful test, for cloth is softer than any of the other substances used. And, lo ! again the

fire came as the match was rubbed on the sleeve of the coat of the

directing professor. Now what was to be said? Ah, we must at once

retire individually to our studies, our sanctums, and devote at

least a month to deep thought. We must find the LAW; yes, the Law,

the great Law that underlies the almost supernatural phenomenon we

have witnessed— FIRE PRODUCED.

Fire produced where there was no fire. Not by flint and steel, not

by the methods known then, but by some unknown method. But we can

not announce our discovery to the world without being prepared witha very learned explanation of the law. Yes, yes, let us have a law

(They might just as well say "any law").

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Continuation of Lesson Number One.

LESSON NUMBER ONEA

Months later we read in the most advanced scientific papers the

following startling announcement:

The Phvsiogenesis of Spontaneous Fire.

Professors SulphurHead and BirdsEye, Dean and Chief Instructor, re-

spectively, of the Theoretical University of Fabricated Science, an-

nounce at last the startling discovery which has occupied the daily

attention of the entire class in neocheinistry and pseudo physics at

Luna Park during the last session of the Convention of Profiteering

TextBook Writers. It appears from the learned explanations offered

very guardedly by those who can be induced to speak regarding this

revolutionary, or revolutionizing, discovery, that one of their number has been at work for eightynine years on the problem of spontan-

eous generation of combustible minerals hypothetically approximated in their proximity to conditions energizing the latent causticity,

the acrimony and ebullition and effervescence of which is made to

splutter and. forthwith manifest a most excitable condition of ambi-tion after its lethargy in the close confines of a mineral combina-

tion which adheres to the faraway end of a slender piece of wood of

the species rahrahwahkobis.

The necessary manifestation is caused by what may be termed agita-tion; however, it more closely resembles persuasion in its applica-

tion; for the hybrid end of the piece of wood was firmly, though

quite scientifically, stimulated or awakened, as it were, to use lan-guage which the unlearned lay mind may quite comprehend, by rubbing

it on a foreign substance unassociated with it in any perceptible

chemical manner. As mediums for such stimulation the following arti-

cles were used; Lohogystro, known commonly as marble, rahrahwaftome

or another specie of wood, hardwater, known as glass, pigmetalis,

known as common iron, and cementutus, known as stone, and lastly,

fashionstuffus, known as cloth.

The unanimous finding of the learned scientists who participated in

the experiments and processes is that all the fire in the world is

caused by "friction". This includes the sunlight, all heat and

flames and all light, including the light of the mysterious firefly,

whose secret process science is now about to steal and use in other

ways than amusing children at night. The name "friction" is given to

the gentle process of rubbing the aforesaid unknown mineral element

on the various specified elements. The word is derived from the

name of Professor Frick, who was the first scientist to discover

what agitation really is by announcing to the world, as he did some-time ago, that there was no man in the moon and that lovers must

look to Venus for their stargazing invocations.

It is intended by the University to demonstrate that all fire must

be generated through the use of this device plus the assistance of

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friction. "Without such friction this strange mineral will not pro

duce fire and we have tested every other method of causing the mine

al to explode into fame without result," said Professor Shortsigh

ed, in an interview last night. "Friction on just the few elements

we mention is the only method of producing a flame or fire at the

end of the piece of wood. This is the great LAW we sought for and

now that we have found it our latest text books on fire and heat wi

contain this law and it will mean a great commerical boost for the

sale of pieces of marble, pieces of dark wood, pieces of iron with

rust, pieces of rough stone, and certain kinds of coat sleeves in der that every housewife and every factory and institution may have

fire from these things plus the mineral and the agitation called friction."

Here, friends and students, we have an excellent example of how theories are made, manufactured and sold— sold in text books as LAW

for you and me and others to study. Someday someone will hold one

chose mysterious matches near a hot stove and the little mineral eof the match will explode and produce flame without any friction,

without marble or wood or stone or iron or clothwithout contact

with any thing and then, ah J then the professors will invent a new

theory and publish the "very latest text book on the production of

fire" or, if that is not PROFITABLE, they will keep in darkness th

fact that their theory is wrong and vie shall have to go on without

knowing the truth.

But we have made the point clear. Theories are invented to explai

what is not known. Theories cover a multitude of sinful omissions

in the study of facts. A theory is usually the most plausible ex-

planation of a condition or manifestation which requires some sort

of explanation. A good theory saves much time in hunting for truth

Now we will apply all this to our study of the theories and laws

and principles of COSMOGONY. We will be able to see the theories

now that we know them by their method of manufacture.

Now let us be very serious for a few minutes and look with true re

erence upon the subject to which we are to give our entire thoughtsfor a while.

During the various lectures on this subject we will use a process

impressing our minds and memories with the thoughts which should r main uppermost. This process will have as its basis the psycholo

ical phenomenon known as "visualizing". Therefore, whenever in th

lecture you are told to "visualize" what has been described or is

ing described, you are to stop reading for a few minutes at that

point in the lecture, close your eyes and mentally picture the scenidea or conception given to you in the words. This will permit th

picture, and with it the thought, to pass into your deeper conscioness for future use.



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Now if it were possible for us to lift ourselves into space, far

away from and above the surface of this earth, and view this earth

as though we were midway between the earth and the moon— what do

you suppose we should see? As once we think of the ideas given to u

by our school books and by the pictures therein. Let us review wha

we have been told: The picture we would see would be that of around body, a huge ball, floating in space, covered by land and water, it would appear to be revolving and at the same time slowly

moving through the space all around us. Off in the distance we wou

oee a greater ball of fire which we call the sun, and in different

places in the space we would also see smaller spheres, or balls,

while back of us is the white sphere we call the moon. But in ever

direction we would see in the space hundreds of smaller spheres, or bodies, with more or less brightness, and these we are told are

other planets and stars, etc. And as we look around us and peer in

the distance we notice that as far as we can see there is space andnothing but the little dots or points of illumination representing

distant planets or stars. There seems to be no end to the space, nend to the universe, no end to the planets in it, and THE LITTLE

EARTH ON WHICH WE LIVE AND WHICH WE LOOK AT, FLOATING IN SPACE, is

only one of the many planets and it is not even the largest of the

many. Now close your eyes and visualize that picture for a moment.

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Such is the picture we have been told to keep of our universe and t

relation of our earth to the other elements of the universe. Think

ing, then, of ourselves, of each of us individually, as a simgle hu

man^being on one of the many planets in that great endless space, w begin to wonder if, after all, the individual destiny of a human li

ca.n be of any considerable concern to the scheme of the universe an

TO GOD WHO RULES IT ALL. Pondering over this thought of the indivi

ual relation of man to the whole universe causes us to slowly feel

and realize that man is an insignificant element, a mere grain of sand, a hardly necessary element or part so far as one individual

is concerned. And this idea belittles our place in the world and

makes us feel that we cannot truly have any specific attunernent, any

deep or ponderous connection with God and the universe and that,

therefore, Gods and nature's concern in and for us is very, very smaJf at all.

This is, essentially, the greatest error, the greatest Bin, the

greatest obstacle against our advancement, our comprehension of Godand our relation to God and to other humans on this earth. It is

this mistaken idea that must be removed from our intellect bef

Proceed a proper understanding of even the first elemenof Cosmology and Cosmogony.

In the first place, let us consider or name the conception of the

^^ ^erse as ^ was just pictured to you, as the COPERNICAN CONCEP-TION, for reasons which will be apparent very soon. Whenever, in

future lectures, we refer to the Copernican Conception, you will kno



that me mean the picture of the universe with its limitless space a

millions of planets just referred to. Now this conception of endlecreation, endless space, continous nothingness, beginning nowhere,

ending nowhwere, formless, conforming to nothing, following no rule

as to form (for endless space cannot have form or be according to

any scheme or plan)— all this, mind you, is the ONLY SIMILAR CONDI-TION TO BE FOUND IN THE WHOLE OF GOB'S SCHEME OF THINGS, and is the

ONLY EXCEPTION to Nature's plans and methods in the whole world of creation.

Perhaps you have heard of the terms MACROCOSM and MICROCOSM? Per-haps you have heard of the phrase: As above b o below? Perhaps you

have heard of the term: The Infra World? Each of these terms and

phrases will mean much to you very shortly, but if you try to fit

them with the picture of the Copernican Conception you will fail utterly to see any sense in them. And so, preparatory to our next

lecture and during the time that elapses, if you can find it con-

venient to look up these terms and words in the dictionary or any

encyclopaedia, it will repay you. Incidentally we will introduce

here our first symbol to be used in our study of creation: the sym

col of the triangle— a triangle with three equal sides, with its

point upward, so to speak. This is one of the most ancient of sym-

bols and it has always represented creation and it will help us to

understand one of the fundamental laws of God and all nature: thatlaw is:

"The progression of creation moves in a cycle of evolution

and devolution, the apex of evolution being the beginning of devolution and the last point of devolution being the

first point of evolution again. And midway between the

point of the beginning and the apex of evolution, and mid-

way between the point of the beginning of devolution and

the last point of devolution there are lines which separate

the great world of manifestation from the lesser world of

manifestation. The Infra World is the lesser world of mani

f estation. 11

Speculate upon this. See what you can find in this regard in any

book and keep these thoughts in your mind every hour until our next

lecture. This ends the first lecture of this Term.


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In our last lecture a law was given to you which most naturally form-

ed itself into a symbol having a triangle as its basis. That we may

have this symbol clearly established in our minds, and at the same

time definitely pictured in our lessons, we shall draw it and retainthe symbol in our notes. Undoubtedly it is best to evolve this symboand show how it comes to be so significant.

First we will make the triangle in this manner, referring to illus-

tration No.l:

We see that if the one side of the triangle, approaching the apex,

is the side representing evolution, and if the other side represents

devolution, we must divide the triangle in two parts. This we do by

drawing a straight line from the apex down to the base, as shown in

Illustration No. 2. The apex of the triangle— the very tip of it—

is the point where the evolution ends and devolution begins. On the

base line of the triangle, where the straight line touches it (as in-

dicated by the letter A in Illustration No. 2 ), we have the point

where devolution ends and evolution begins. Thus we have two points

of ending and beginning— at A and B in illustration No. 2.

Now our law, given in the last lecture, and which we will call CRE-

ATIVE LAW NO. ONE, says that midway between the beginning of evolution

and the ending of evolution there is a line which divides the lesser

world of creation from the greater world of evolution. So we will

put a point on our triangle on the evolution side half way between A

and B. This gives another point which we will call _C (in Illustra-tion No. 3). And the law also says that midway between the beginn-

ing of devolution and the end of devolution there is a line which di-

vides the greater world of devolution from the lesser world of devo-lution. So we make another point on the DEVOLUTION side of the tri-

angle, half way between B and A> and rnaxk this point with the letter

D. (in illustration No. 3.) Now if we connect the points _C and D

with a line we have the symbol show in illustration No. 4.




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THE GREAT SYMBOL OF CREATIVE LAWS.

In the symbol shown in Illustration Ho. 5 we have the great creativelaws well symbolised. Here we see that the upper half of the triang

represents the UPPER WORLD of manifestation— and the lower half represents the LOWER WORLD, or, in other words, the Infra World. We a

see that one side cf the triangle represents the progress of EVOLU-

TION and the other side the progress of DEVOLUTION.

Before we go any further let us analyze these terms and be sure thatwe have clear definitions of them.

EVOLUTION is the process, operating according to definite laws,

whereby the constructive forces of nature work harmoniously to

build up, improve and. refine all of nature's manifestations,

evolving and developing them in specie and function to the

highest manifestation or naiure possible.

DEVOLUTION is the opposite process, also operating according to definite laws, whereby the seemingly destructive process of forces

of nature work harmoniously to tear down, break into lesser and

smaller or primitive elements, all of nature's manifestations

which have already had full and complete perfect expression, andthus supply trie primitive elements for evolution to begin vfith

again and aga>.n.

THE INFRA WORLD or LESSER WOP.LD is that domain or world of nature's

manifestations where alul that is and has existence or expressionin it is of microscopic?,! or minute form, too small to be seen



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by the naked eye, too elementary to have complete or independen

existence, or too primitive to have specie and function. It ctains all the el'ements produced by devolution in its process of breaking up, and all of evolution's elements in the first stage

of being built up and revitalized.

The UPPER WORLD contains all of nature's highest manifestations on

the earth plane. It contains the elements of evolution which

are still being developed to reach to perfection in specie or

function, and also all of the elements in process of evolution

which are in perfect manifestation and have reached the last

point of evolution (the apex of the triangle). It also contain

all the elements of devolution which have ended their evolutionand are now being disintegrated and separated preparatory to be

coming the very lowest and most primitive elements in the

lower world.

DISINTEGRATION is a process whereby matter of a complex form or na-

ture becomes separated into the elements composing it. In this

way minerals break down into molecules, atoms and electrons.

The trunks of trees, for instance, pass through what is common-

ly called "rotting" and become simple elements "of the dust of

the ground". All plant life, all mineral life, and all animal

life finally disintegrate and form thousands of primitive ele-

ments which find their way into the earth and there, after a

certain period of complete rest and separation from the form in

which they manifested before, are slowly reunited by nature's

forces and begin evolution again in a new form.

Eefore we can have any proper and comprehensive understanding of

nature*s manifestations in the UPPER WORLD we must know what is fund

amental in the Infra World. We are safe in saying that the greatest

mistake made in studying the phenomena of the upper world— which in-cludes the study of Sciences generally, such as Co s m o g o n y , Cosmology

Man, and all that is on or above the earth— is in studying these

things first and from them trying to glimpse some conception of the

Infra world or of both worlds united.

A great scientist once said that he could spend a lifetime in the

study of the Infra World as he found it on the point of a needle. He

meant by this that enough of the Infra World's manifestations could be placed on the point of a needle so that, under a powerful micro-

scope, it would afford a lifetime of study. That is true, if the intention of such study would be to discover some of nature's secrets

as revealed on the point of a needle— for even a lifetime would not

reveal nature's secrets by such mere examination of the manifesta-tions.

A drop of water which we can plainly see by the naked eye has evolve

to the size and manifestation of something which is properly one of

the manifestations belonging to the UPPER WORLD. But by placing



that drop of water under a powerful microscope many things unseen by

the naked eye are revealed and we find we have opened another world

of manifestation— the IMTRA WORLD, the world contained within the drop of water. 7»'e could see, if our microscope was powerful enough,

the manifestation of the cells, the elements composing the water, and

in those cells we could see the elements composing even them; and in

these also could be seen other elements from the lower world— the

smallest cells in existence— the primitive, first form, of nature's

manifestations. A drop of blood belongs to the upper world— it is an

evolved thing reaching a high state of perfection when it is in nor-

mal condition and healthy but under the microscope that drop of blood reveals another world inside of it, the chemical world of the earl-

iest manifestation, and we could see cells of many forms and tints of

color and eachof these cells would contain other cells or elements

— those which enter into the composition of blood— minerals of many

kinds, magnetic points of vitality.

To make the matter picturesque, we may compare the upper and lower

worlds in this manner. At that moment and minute of time that the

baby chick breaks through the shell of the egg and steps out into the

outer world, it, as a manifestation of nature, passes the line on the

TRIANGLE at the place marked C in illustration No. 5, and passes from

the Infra or Lower world into the upper world. When the seed con-

taining the germ of life is vitalized in the egg, that egg and all

its elements are in the Infra World, the Lower World, somewhere along

the path of evolution from the point A on the triangle toward C. Up

to the point G the egg is evolving in the Infra World but after it

crosses that point in the process of evolution it enters the Upper

world and continues to evolve in the Upper World until it reaches per-fection at.the point B.

It is not our purpose to touch upon the creation of life or to study

cell life and the various steps of evolution at just this time in our

work and thought on the principles of Cosmogony. But what you should

have in mind, as have we who have carefully examined all the laws and principles, is that the statement, previously referred to, "as above

£o below" is so true in principle that we must take it into consider-

ation. if you look again at the triangle diagram on the preceding

page you will see that there is a very great similarity in the two

halves of the triangle representing the Lower and Upper Worlds, just

as identical in action as the two halves representing Evolution and Devolution. ‘

The great lesson learned from a study of both of these two worlds is

that the same fundamental laws and principles applying in one apply

in the other. Can you imagine, for instance, that the great laws

which cause Evolution to carry on its great work in the Lower World

would^ ce different or reversed in the Upper world? Or to put the

question in another form, can you imagine that any of the great con-

structive principles involved in the process of building up and per

pr nation of the world have any exceptions and operate

differently in regard to the perfection of some parts of the universe?

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What, then, are the great fundamental laws of creation which opera

so universally, so generally, and so wonderfully that man's mind m

he almost infinite in its thinking to fully appreciate them? This is what we must begin with at once. We must have those laws defi-

nitely stated and clearly comprehended and at once the greatest my

teries of the Universe begin to reveal themselves in their true na

ture and finally the MYSTERIES DISAPPEAR.

So our next lecture will begin with a new presentation of these law

We shall take them, one by one, and note the consistency of them.

Here in the vicinity of our College Halls and Campus we have cypr

trees. This is the only place in America where cypress trees are

be found. (The cypress trees referred to were on the College grou

in California.) Ferhaps they can be found in no other place than

here and in the Orient. But as soon as those who are familiar wit

tree life, vegetable life and botany hear of the cypress trees her

in this Valley of Amorc, they say: "There is a particular kind of

soil there; otherwise cypress trees would not grow there. There mu

be a certain atmospheric condition exactly like that in the Orient,

else the cypress trees could not live there". And examination shothat there is this peculiar soil and this wonderful climate necessa

for cypress trees. So exact is the law of nature, so precise her

rules and regulations, that though America has many, many trees an

has many degrees and natures of climate in her various sections, on

ly where a certain soil combined with a certain climate exists cathe Cypress trees live. The cypress trees could not exist at the

North Pole, with its coldness, or in the southern section of Florid

with its warm climate.

All of which, leading to speculation and meditation, makes us real-

ize that when someone offers us an explanation or a theory or a picture or a statement regarding our Universe, or regarding nature's

manifestations, which includes many reversals of nature's fundamen-tal laws and belies the universal precision of God's plans of crea-

tion, we should reject the offer and cast it aside as ■unworthy, faland misleading.

For additional reading during the time between this and the next leture, our students should read the various definitions in some good

dictionary or encyclopaedia of the words: Devolution, Evolution,

Disintegration, and any of the other terms used in this lecture.

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In our last lecture reference was made to the fact that all of na-ture's laws, all of God's laws operate without ever manifesting an

exception to the fundamental principles upon which those laws are

based.

In the course of study that we are now pursuing it is necessary that

we make specific reference to the fundamental laws of the PRINCIPLE

OF CREATION.

Nowhere do we notice the great COSMIC MIND, the Divine Mind, manifes-ting itself so plainly as in the process of elementary creation.

We may marvel at the wonderful intelligence revealed in the process

whereby atoms are united to form molecules of matter and in uniting

always adhere to some peculiar form of symbol. We may marvel at the

intelligence displayed in the action of one element upon or toward another in the processes of chemistry. Our course of study in Ar-

cane Chemistry and Physics may cause the mind of man to sense the

great Divinity of God's ways and laws an principle after principle is

explained and demonstrated by the student. But nothing is so marve-lous, so wonderful and truly mystifying as the fundamental principles

which we shall study in these lessons and which reveal themselves

in the most minute forms of creation.

The very first principle ^hat we note in the fundamental law of cre

a.tion is that

THE CREATIVE POWER OR ENERGY IS DUAL. .

By this is meant that the power or energy that not only assists in

the creation, or building up of creation, but animates all creation,

is dual in nature. It has two dualities, or two conditions, each

r.ccessary to the other, each having an action or_ the other.

The old phi}osonhers. the ancient scientists, looked for the power

or energy that animated all creation without realizing that it was a

dual power, and even today modern science attempts to discover the

source of ail life by seeking some energy which is single in nature.

Therefore, the scientists of today, like the men of old, find but the

tae element, the one part, the one half of the dual energy, and with that separated part they try to make such experiments as will dupli-

cate the creative action of the true dual energy.

The reason for this is that this wonderful dual energy used by na

all creation is half earth energy and the ether half rs COS- MIC ENERGY. We might say, just at this time for the sake of clearness,

earth energy is a NEGATIVE ENERGY and the Cosmic a POSITIVE

ri'i2RGY. The two combined make a complete unit of creative energy;

separated, neither one Till create or even manifest.

cw the earth plane, or material, earthly world, in which we live and



in which we find so much power, is overcharged with the NEGATIVE

energy. It is easily discovered, utilized and even measured "by accu-rate instruments of precision, and for this reason those who are not

familiar with the true nature of creative energy find nothing but

this negative energy of the earth and with it try to duplicate na-

ture's activities. They do not knew of the existence of a separate

COSMIC ENERGY and therefore do not apply it or even attempt to unite

it with the earth's negative energy— therefore their attempts to

stimulate nature's creation fail utterly.

It is not our purpose tc study this great creative force at just this

time, for there are many lectures pertaining to this later on in the

course, when such knowledge will he more fitting. But we are to

study at this time some ci the manifestations of that power and the

first principle of such manifestation is the next great principle of creation. It is this:

THE GREAT CREATIVE ENERGY DIVIDES ITSELF TC COMPOSE FORMS IN ALL

ELEMENTS OF CREATION.

One may read or hear the above law without realizing its wonderful

significance, but finally it will make the proper impression, and we

will come to see how important this revelation is.

To make it more plain at this time, let us take the next great prin-ciple. It is this:

THE FORM INTO WHICH THE CREATIVE ENERGY MOULDS OR SHAPES ITSELF IS

ALSO DUAL IN NATURE. IT IS CELLULAR IN SHAPE, WITH A NEGATIVE BODY

A'T' A POSITIVE CONDITION WITHIN.

Now let us review these two principles together. The creative en-

ergy is dual in nature: Positive and Negative. In the process of

creation these two Qualities or :onditions of the creative energy

separate so that they may unite in the form into which creation will

manifest itself.

Even a casual examination of the workings of an electric bell, an

floctric light, 01 any c J her electric manifestation. irTi..l show us

oh at it is necessary for a no si tire and negatjLve. cone it ion or quality

v.o come together to give us any manifesta.tion of the power of elec-tricity. For this reason TV?0 wires are connected with each bell,

each, light, and each pie'“e of mechanism operated by c? cctric current;

ior an electric current *s also dual in nature. having two qualities

or conditions, and these two must come together to make a. manifesta-

tion. Neither one of them alone, like neith"r one c the wires,

will make a manifestation.

By studying the Infra World and examining closely into the process

"V nature as revoaTied in the smallest elements of creation at the

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in our last lecture) we find that the very first element or form of

living matter is a cell— the minute cell that must be examined under

the microscope to be seen. This little cell we may call protoplasor just a cell of LIVING MATTER, but the point we wish to note is

that it is in the shape of a perfectly formed sphere, like a perfect

ly round drop of water. This is the form of all cell life, though

under the microscope, because of pressure, some cells may flatten

out and appear not to be perfectly round.

Now a chemical and analytical study of these cells reveals nature’s

laws as truly as would a study of the universe or any other manifes-

tation of a great size, and, according to the law that "as above so

below", we may very profitably study the Infra World and note how

nature begins her creations.

In a cell of protoplasm we have a minature world. All that exists

in nature is represented in the small cell of protoplasm. A mystic

who was a great scientist once said: "In the cells of life I can

find all nature, all the Universe, the Divine Mind, the force thatrules the world, and, even God." This is so true J

So let us examine the cell from just a casual point of view. In our

courses in chemistry and botany, cell life is more completely treat-

ed, but here we shall seek fox just casual facts.

Therefore the following facts are taken from various standard books

on the subject of Cells. These facts are acknowledged by every

scientific authority and are NOT our theories or statements,

1st. All plants and animals consist of cells and their derivatives.

2nd. In resolving any structure into its smallest division, or com-

ponent elements, it is found that the smallest possible subdivision

compatible with life is the cell.

3rd. The Cell is, therefore, considered as the histological elementof structure.

4th. All cells have certain special functions, some of which are (a

to nourish themselves and grow; (b) to move and have motion; (c) to

produce other cells.

Lo w these facts may not seem important except as they relate to a minute study of cell life, but the point to be noticed is that the

facts reveal a universal law, one of the fundamental laws of life

and CREATION. There is the point. In dealing with cell life we are

dealing with CREATION, and if the cells reveal a fundamental law of creation, we have no right to assume, as Histology, Geology and As-

tronomy assume, that these laws of creation REFER ONLY TO Animal

and Plant life.

A fundamental law of creation must be fundamental to all creation.

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The principles involved in the creation of the smallest form of liv-

ing matter E7JST ALSO OPERATE in the creation of the largest forms of

living matter.

And we can eleminate the term "LIVINO HATTER" for, as we shall pce,

all matter is LIVING HATTER. The term has always meant a kind of

matter that was passing through its constructive period and had^ some

form of consciousness. Dead Matter meant matter that was decaying or

disintegrating. By refering to the diagram in lecture No.Two we

see that the process of disintegration, or of DEVOLUTION, is only a

phase of the same law that causes EVOLUTION, and that as matter com-

pletes the entire circle from creation, through evolution, then _ through devolution hack to creation again, matter is ALUAYS ALIVE^

At no time is matter dead. It is the life activity, the action of

life in matter, that causes it to disintegrate and seemingly decay,

just as life causes it to come together again and evolve into nevrer

forms of matter.

So the fundamental law of creation of matter is easily observed in

cell life and we find the cell formation the fundamental form of

creation.

On the other hand, we find similar evidence, indisputable, in even

a casual examination of the law underlying the creation of elementary

matter.

The very first principles set forth in all text books on matter and

its composition are those which are proven by demonstration and which

are not the result of theories. They are as follows:

Ist. Hatter is composed of divisible elements.

2nd. The elements of matter can be divided again into units compos-ing the elements,

3rd. Those units are atoms, and the atoms are composed of electrons.

4th. Electrons and atoms, the two primary forms of elements entering

into the composition of matter, are cells in form.

oth. In the process of electrons uniting to form an atom, and of

various atoms forming together to make a molecule, the law of

the triangle, square and circle manifests itself.

Now the important points here are that electrons and atoms, the

smallest and primary units of matter, are cells in form and shape.

Each is cell shape, like the cells in living matter, and each adds

itssli to other similar cells, just like the cells of matter, until

gross matter is itself made of cells, like the flesh and tissue of

the human body is composed of cells of living matter.

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There is another point, however, which brings us to a subject which



we will have to deal with more completely in our next lecture, but,

briefly, it is this:

Both the cells of living matter (as found in flesh and in plant life)and the cells of gross matter, such as atoms, have similar natures,

similar structures, and similar functions. Both have an outer wall,

both have a centre point or place of energy, both have certain rates

of vibration, and BOTH ARE ENDOWED WITH A CERTAIN COSKIC ENERGY KNOWN AS L I F E .

Furthermore, both kinds of cells send forth their vibrations, both

revolve in motion, both contain within them a small universe of

energy and power, and both have their great energy radiating from

the centre out toward the wall of the cell.

Reviewing the above statements we find that cell life offers a won-

derful study of creative laws, and these laws reveal certain fundamental principles of creation which are universal, absolute, posi-

tive, never changing.

Ill the foregoing facts are known as facts because we can observe

these things under the microscope. They are facts belonging to the

INFRA WORLD. Facts which hundreds have observed and are observing

every day in laboratories, in schools and colleges, and which no one

need hesitate to accept. So with these facts we will begin our

studies in the next lecture.

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'ow we approach the very fundamentals of our newer understanding of

Cosmology 'and no doubt our students will be surprised at the statements made and demand much proof and enter into much argument.

We will not deal with theories, however, but with facts and wewil

analyze facts, turn them around and look at them from every side, and in every possible way permit them to reveal to us their true mean-

ing in preference to a favored meaning we may wish to take from them.

So let us begin with the first statement of fact and then examine it.

FIRST COSMIC LAW OF CREATION:

, "All that exists in the Universe, and that has life and the pow

/ to maintain life, is in the form of a cell."

SECOND COSMIC LAW OF CREATION:

"The Universe itself is a cell, the counterpart of the smallest

X cell, and the smallest cell is a counterpart of the universe."

Now our students will hardly challenge the statement of facts con-

tained in the first law, and if any do so challenge we will take up

that issue very shortly. But most of our students will challenge

the facts contained in the statement of the second law, not so much

because of the astounding nature of the facts, or because they con-

tradict what has been taught about the universe heretofore, but be-

cause it seems so logical, true, and reasonable that further facts

and proof are wanted.

So we will spend our time just now in a review of the facts con-

tained in the second law.

i. THE UNIVERSE A CELL !

That means, then, one of you will say, that the earth we live on is

the only planet in the universe, or, in other words, that there is

no other planet; that the universe consists of only one planet.

This is absolutely true and correct, as you will soon discover from

even casual inquiry and investigation.»

It also means that instead of there being one great central Sun,

around which our sun and other suns travel, and that around each Sun

many, many planets are also travelling, there is only ONE sun and

cu only one planet. Si t means that there is NO ENDLESS SPACE, as we

have been taught,^ no endless Cosmic realm filled with stars and

planets and moons and suns and comets and clusters of something or

other, as modern astronomy tries to tell us in order to explain

a iy the things they cannot explain.

5 It means that the Universe is one great ball, if you wish to think

it that way, one great cell like the small cell of protoplasm,

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and that within this cell exists ALL THERE IS OF THIS GREAT UNIVER

As one closes one's eyes and contemplates such a universe, the fir

great impression that comes is that of SIMPLICITY and HARMONY. An

then as 'one considers further one realizes how all the laws of God

and nature would and could the better manifest and cooperate in su

a universe, and how utterly absurd and inconsistent was the old scheme that has been fobteied upon us for so long.

It is fitting, therefore, to anticipate some questions that will

arise in your mind and thereby prevent undue concern regarding poi

which wiUbe cornered in detail later, and to prepare you for the nexsteps in our study, that we outline here a few of the facts which

most naturally result from the one fundamental fact that the univeis a cell. '

1st. We, as inhabitants of the universe, inhabit the inside of th

cell and live on the inside, and not the outside.

| 2nd. The sun, the moon and all the socalled planets and stars ar

within the universe; in other words, on the INSIDE of the ce

3rd. All cosmic space is inside the universe, within the definite

confines of the universe, and we know of no space or anythin

^ else which MAY or MAY NOT be on the outside of the cell, if

/ is an outside. In other words, we do not SPECULATE regardin

what we cannot investigate.

4th. All space, all time, and all distance must be measured and csidered as within the limits of this one huge cell. We know

the circumference of this planet we live in and we know its

diameter. These measurements constitute the greatest measur

of space possible in this universe.

5th. All forces, all energies, all powers, are within this cell a

cannot be out of it. This means conservation, greater force

harmony, consistency.

6th. God and the Cosmic Mind, the alldirecting intelligence, is

also within the Universe, filling it, pervading it, guiding

" manifesting everywhere within it, and nothing within the uverse can escape contact with God and the Cosmic Mind.

7th. Therefore all life, all consciousness, is part of the great

life force and consciousness which is within the great cell;

and this means that all life and all consciousness is attune

in touch with and in sympathy with all other life, mind and

nature existing in the Universe.

Here we have a mass of facts that are not only startling, but which

explain so many things and make clear so much that has been hard t

understand, that we see we must begin our studies of life and the

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universe all over again. To the chemist, with the problems of na-

tu re ’s manifesting forces, and to the idealist who seeks to find thelaw of harmony of minds and nature— to these alike will these facts

appeal as offering the first solution of the combined mysteries of

the universe.

But we muet now take each one of the facts, and any others we may

discover, and analyze them carefully.

Let us take the first important fact: The earth is a cell.

This means that the universe consists of a hollow sphere. It means

that the earth we live on or in is all there is to the universe, andthat it is a huge cell consisting of a sphere with a thick crust or

shell. Inside of this ball, on the inside of the shell of the ball,are the continents, the oceans, the mountains, the lakes and the

plains— and we, as human beings, with all other animal life, live

INSIDE of this ball, on this shell.

So far this does not upset a single claim of the old schools regard-

ing our relation to the earth and the shape of the earth, except

that we live on the inside and that the earth is a hollow sphere.

The old school told us that the earth is ROUND. So say we. They

have said that the earth is nearly a perfect sphere. So say we.

They say we live on the surface of its crust. So say we. But we sa

that we live on the inside surface instead of on the outside surface

Let us examine the evidence that the other schools give us regarding

their claim that the earth is round and that we live on the outside

of it.

They say the earth is round because we have been able to travel

around it in one continuous direction and return to where we started

from. This you will find in nearly all school geographies to be th

principal evidence given to support the statement that the earth is

round. But we can grant this, too. Itis good evidence. But it

applies equally as well if we are living on the INSIDE of the sphere

It is just as possible to travel in ope continuous direction on the

INSIDE of a ball as "it is on the outside of its shell.

There is just one other point made by the old school: It is that we

live on the OUTSIDE of this sphere, and the proof offered for this

statement is this: When we watch a ship sail out into the ocean we

notice that as it reaches what is called the horizon it appears to

sink below the horizon as though it were going down hill; that the

horizon itself is due to the curvature of the earth, and the sky and

water seem to meet only because we are living on the outside of the

earth.

Such is the evidence that is given us to prove that we live on the

outside of the earth. It is as reliable evidence as taking you stu



dents out into a level stretch of country and saying:

"Now we will prove that all rail road tracks eventually meet at a

point and are not the same distance apart continuously. 11 And then

you are told to look at a long stretch of rail road track and note

that in the distance the tracks appear to come to a point and meet.

If you did not know better, such evidence might be accepted. But

one of you might say: your evidence consists of an occular illusion

and at best your evidence is only a testimony of sight and we have

learned that sight cannot always be depended upon.

Now if we ask the other schools for better evidence that the earth

is round and that we live on the OUTSIDE of the earth, we find a

great mass of facts given to us which do not prove anything one way

or another. The eclipse of the sun by the moon, the eclipse of the

moon by the earth, and various othercelestial phenomena are pointedout to us as proof that we live on the outside of the earth. All

these explanations were invented years and years ago when astronomy

and cosmology were first outlined in theory; and the same eclipse

can be explained today by our facts that we live on the INSIDE of

the earth, and with much more reason and understanding.

Then we have those who will arise and say: How can the sun be mil-

lions of miles away if it is enclosed within this earth which is not

even one million miles in diameter? At first this seems to be a

difficult question to answer until we ask the scientists how they

know that the sun is so many miles away. They answer by saying that

the distance is measured by a mathematical process, the formula for

which begins with the assumption that we live on the OUTSIDE of the

earth. If the assumption is changed to the one that we live on the

INSIDE of the earth, and the same exact formula used, properly re-

versed, we will find that the sun’s distance agrees with the assump-

tion that we live on the INSIDE of the earth. Such figures, then,

that can be changed according to what assumption you begin with, are

worthless as evidence. So the sun’s distance cannot be brought intothe argument at this time.

But if you ask: "Have you any evidence for your statments that is

better than the other schools give for their claims?" we can say:

"Yes, we have evidence that the other schools ignore because it does

not fit in with what they claim and yet to us it is the most impor-

tant evidence that one could ask for."

Next week we will take up the study of our new Arcane Cosmology,

based upon numerous facts that will be Interestingly presented.

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And so we begin our new Cosmology, the Arcane Cosmology, with these

new facts:

FIRST: This planet which we have been calling the earth is the onl

planet in the Universe. It is, in fact, THE universe.

SECOND: It is a hollow sphere with a curious crust, or shell, many

miles in thickness.

THIRD: On the inside of this crust are mountains and plains and

lakes and rivers and continents and oceans, just as we have been

taught existed on the outside of the shell or crust.

FOURTH: We and all animal life live on the inside of this sphere a

travel around on the inside just as waare supposed to live and traveon the outside.

FIFTH: In the very centre of this sphere— in the centre of its

great hollow space— is a point or place that the nucleus of all

power radiates from, and this centre point gives us what we now kno

as the SUN.

SIXTH: The Moon and the socalled planets are within this great

space, as also are the "heavens", the clouds and all that exists

above the surface of the earth.

SEVENTH: The great sphere, or cell, or the shell of this sphere, r

volves on an axis just as we have been told the earth revolves, mak

ing a complete revolution every 24 hours.

EIGHTH: One half of the surface inside of this shell is in darknes

called Night, and the other half in light, called Bay; and the re-

volving of the shell causes day to change into night and night into

day.

NINTH: The socalled poles and magnetic points are points of po-

larity on the surface of the shell; and the warm belts and cold pol

of the earth's surface exist on account of magnetic conditions whic

we will study later on.

TENTH: From the centre, where the power and force of the universe

radiates through the Su n’s rays, comes all the energy that is used

nature for creation. This energy manifests in all chemicals and al

animal life because of its rates of vibrations. The socalled forc

of gravitation is NOT a pull toward the earth, but instead a centri

fugal force resulting from the revolution of the shell or cell, cau

ing everything inside of the shell to be pushed from the centre of

the shell toward its inner surface. Therefore gravitation, as we sit manifested, is NOT a pull, but a PUSH. This means, then, that

all such laws and principles as are based upon gravitation being a

pull are false, and the laws of speoific gravity and weight are fal

and therefore the chemical standard of nature's manifestations cann

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be properly judged by such a thing as specific gravity. Neither ca

the nature of any of God's manifestations be judged unless all the

old theories be revolutionized.

ELEVENTH: The emanations from the centre of this cell, or universe

are in the form of a great VITAL FORCE travelling toward the shell

in many forms of undulations and rates of vibrations, and according

to the rates of vibrations do we have all forms of matter and life

on this earth. The space between the centre point and the shell is

filled with these vibrations and this space is the great COSMIC

SPACE and it is charged with COSMIC MIND or the consciousness of Go

TWELFTH: The emanatations from the centre are of a POSITIVE NATURE

and the shell has become charged with a negative polarity, therefor

the universe, or great cell, IN which we live is a huge magnetic

ball or sphere and all that exists is a result of this magnetism.

With these TWELVE FACTS, which really contain many more facts, we

can see at once how much like the smallest cells of protoplasm the

universe really is. We can see now what the ancients meant when th

said: "As above so below." We can see now why it was well to unde

stand something of what cells are and how they look under the microscope, and why we warned that there are no exceptions to nature’s

laws; for all nature is in the form of a ceil, cells within cells,

the universe being the biggest cell, the little cell of protoplasm,

that being the life of an animal, being but a minature of the big

cell, the universe.

In our future lectures we must take up each one of these facts and

elaborate upon them, even to the minute analysis of the nature of

the energy that radiates from the centre and creates all living

things as well as all gross matter.

But in this First Term of our studies we shall continue with the mo

or less abstract principles and facts because they will help us to

better understand each step as we progress.

And so to those of us who in the past have read or heard of the COS

MIC MIND and COSMIC SPACE, there opens up before us a new vista and

a new philosophy. We can see and realize now how such a Cosmic Spa

can be charged with intelligence or a perfect condition of attune

ment, because that space is NOT AN ENDLESS and LIMITLESS space, as

we have been told heretofore, but a limited space, an enclosed spac

We know that the space within a room or even a. large hall can be so

charged with subtle vibrations of one kind or another that persons

entering the room feel those vibrations and sense them in a manner

that is unmistakable. It has always been difficult for the student

of occult philosophy to understand how the great Cosmic Space, begi

nign nowhere and ending nowhere, limitless and endless, could be

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So in our next lecture we will study this philosophical aspect of ou

Cosmogony and learn that the great LOGOS is the LIGHT of GOD in the

centre of our Universe and that the DIVINE Mind is the intelligence

that radiates into space with the great LIGHT and fills the Cosmic

with that Mind, thereby making the great COSMIC MIND. We shall see

how the universe was created from this LOGOS and, as we go along

step by step, not only will the great material laws and principles

of this universe reveal themselves to us in a manner more easily un-

derstood than the old schools have ever been able to present them,

but we shall also discover the TRUE God and realize the great DIVIN-

ITY that pervades the Universe and is, in truth, in every cell of

our bodi.es, in every breath we take, and in every part of our mind and thinking.

In lecture No. 2 of this course there is a statement regarding the

Cypress trees to be found in California. One of our students had

written to us correcting a statement made therein by casting the

light of truth on an unknown fact and we are very pleased to add

this . fact to what is said in Lecture No. 2. He writes us: "In

parts of Louisana there WERE large areas covered with Cypress. MuchCypress also grew in parts of East Texas and more or less in Ange-

lina County, Texas. These mammoth trees have nearly all disappearedduring the past ten to twenty years." Our student who writes thus

is a Consulting Civil Engineer and his profession has brought him

into contact with these sections where the Cypress once grew.

5ur students will find it very interesting to hunt up some modern

school geographies or text books on the simple FUNDAMENTAL principle

of geography and astronomy and read what is said about the shape of

the earth and how we are supposed to know that we live on the out-

side of it. Our students are also advised NOT to talk about this

phase of our studies to strangers, for it will arouse antagonism of-

ten and you have not yet sufficient proof to argue or prove your

point, and our teachings should be kept from those who have not had

all necessary preparation for them.

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We must now complete our brief outline of the Universe as it really

is, and completely lay aside all our previous beliefs and false

knowledge about it.

We must discern in our picture of the Universe the great principles

and laws which prevail throughout the world and come to a simple

comprehension of the order, system and simpleness of the Divine Plan

Let us look at this Divine Plan as we would look at some map, some

more material scheme of things. We must bear in mind that to look

at it all in its minute details would mean a life time of analyti-

cal study. We can only take glimpses here and there at those de-

tails which are of the utmost importance to us, our existence and our welfare here on earth.

First we have the great sphere, the universe, as a huge ball. It isnot solid, but formed of a thick wall, like a great rubber ball,

and undoubtedly as flexible as a rubber ball. What there may be

outside of this ball, if there is anything at all, is impossible to

conceive. We cannot today conceive of endless space, space going on

and on indefinitely. Yet that is what astronomy asks u 6 to conceive

in its presentday teachings about the heavens.

It is much easier to believe and conceive of there being no out-

side, no anything, outside of the sphere than to believe that space,

filled with stars and planets, is indefinite, and that the universe

consists of endless planets, endless stars, endless suns and endless

things. And, what is more important, it is NOT NECESSARY for us to

try to conceive or fathom the mystery of what is OUTSIDE of the great sphere in order to have a perfect understanding of the un i-

verse as we know it.

In presentday astronomy you cannot hope to have even a meagre un -

derstanding of the universe as they teach it, unless you study and

become familiar with the great UNKNOWN SPACE that reaches in all

directions without end. Therefore very great student of astronomy

reaches a point where he can go no further except through specula-

tion and guess work. Unless he is willing to take for granted the

guessedat theories and facts about the endless space, he is soon

through with his study of the universe. The expert professor of

astronomy must be able to talk as glibly about the planets SUPPOSED

to exist in the endless space as he is able to talk about Jupiter or Mars, which he can see, or thinks he sees, when he looks

through the telescope. If an astronomer was to admit that all he

knew of astronomy pertained to just our earth, our sun and the

planets and stars he could see through the telescope, he would be

considered as only onethird educated in astronomy.

i But in our study of the universe we do not have to go beyond that

which is right at hand. Whether there is space, atmosphere, clouds,

indefinite, endless space outside of the sphere or not does not in-’ terest us, for we KNQW_that there are no planets, no stars, no

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things in existence outside of this great sphere, so why give time

and thought to unprofitable speculation. The fact probaoly is tha

there is no space, no atmosphere, nothing outside of the sphere, buthis is so hard to comprehend and so useless we do not try to und

stand it.

So we shall direct our attention and study exclusively to the uni-

verse, the Great Sphere, and what is within it. So far as the walor CRUST of this sphere is concerned we can easily accept all that

science has to say on the subject of geology and the strata of theearth. Science has explored the layers of soil, stone, minerals,

oils, water and vegetation that comprise the earth. The only diffence between their statements and OUR statements is this: they be

lieve that they can keep on going deeper into the earth until theyreach toward the centre of the earth, and that there is a great he

in the centre. They believe they are on the OUTSIDE of a solid bawhereas we believe we are on the INSIDE of a hollow sphere. Sincthis sphere is not solid the crust can only be a few miles in thic

ness. The exact number of miles is not important to us, just now,

but is probably not over fifty miles in thickness. That would mea

that the crust is, comparatively, as thick as the skin on an avera

orange. What is true of the crust is that as it comes nearer to t

outside it is in molten heat, like lava, and probably if we could

see the outside from distance— the way we look at the moon— we wou

see that it is a mass of fire, or firemetal, burning and scintilating, like the sun when seen through glasses. The fire and lava

which comes to the inner surface through volcanos is probably from

near the the outer surface of the crust.

But, as has just been said, no far as the crust concerns us on thinside, we can take as fact all that science has discovered regard

the layers of stone, earth, oils and minerals and vegetation, as

published in various textbooks.

Only one point need concern us right now— a point to be taken up lter on. The earth's crust is composed of matter that has a negati

electrical nature. In fact, the whole crust of the earth is a negtive electrical mass and that is why we find radioactive, magneti

minerals in the earth. Even the water upon the surface of the ea

is negative in electrical nature. How and why this is we will stushortly.

Now in the centre of this GREAT SPHERE, in what we call the atmos-

phere, or heavens, there is a central point. This point is where

thing and condition we call the SUN exists. We must warn you at once not to think of the sun as a great ball of fire. That is wh

we have been taught; that is what we have always believed. But we

are to learn that the sun is not a great ball of fire at all. We told th§,t it is a huge ball, much bigger than the earth itself, anof course if this is true the sun could not be INSIDE our earth.

In order to thoroughly understand the structure of this sphere, we



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will take some actual figures and dimensions.

First, the circumference of the earth is about 24,900 miles. This f, means that the measurement inside of the sphere, on the surface, is

about 24,900 miles. This also means, therefore, that the whole uni

■ verse, the CREAT SPHERE of the universe, is not quite 25,000 miles

around the inside.

Second, the distance across this sphere, the diameter of the inside

of the universe, is about 7,915 miles. In other words, from one

\ side of the sphere to the other side is less than 8,000 miles. That

■ would mean that from the surface of the earth to the CENTRE of the

SFHERE, where the sunpoint is, would be about 3,957 miles. This

3. means that we on this earth cannot be farther away from the sun

v point at any time than about 3,957 miles. Yet astronomy tells us

) that the sun is millions of miles away from the earth— almost

93,000,000 miles.

Science tells us that experts have measured the distance of the sun

from the earth and that therefore their figures cannot be wrong.

But we must take into consideration how that distance was measured.

Naturally it was not measured in a way that we can easily demonstrat

to anyone on a mome nt Ts notice. It was measured by a long process

of mathematical configuration, but there is nothing wrong with the

mathematical processes involved. All such processes must begin with

a premise, a fundamental statement or condition, and the rest is

built on that foundation. If the foundation is wrong, if the funda

mental statement is an error, there will be an error in the result. Science proceeds with the assumption that we are on the OUTSIDE of

the earth, and that the sun is also on the outside of the earth.

Then these mathematical experts draw a circle on paper and call that

the earth. Then they draw a straight line on one part of the circle

and calling that a tangent, they pro ceed to draw a triangle upon

that straight line, which will represent the lines pointing toward

the sun. Using the same process, if the straight line, the very

first step in the formula, was drawn on the INSIDE of the circle in-

stead of on the outside, the whole result of the figuring would be

different. Therefore, if they start with a straight line inside

the circle and use the same figures from fact as they now use, they

will find that the distance to the sun will be less than 4,000 miles,

instead of over 93,000,000 miles. It is all a matter of beginning

the figuring with the right premise, the right fundamental fact.

But we will have more of this later on.

We will go back again to the centre point of the universe, the centr

of the GREAT SPHERE. The whole of the sphere is filled with a vibra

ting energy. Even if we accept the common, though partically in-correct, theory of the sun, we must realize that if the great sun wa

in the centre of a closed, sealed sphere, that sphere would be fille

with great energy or vibrating force. Let us suppose for the moment

that the sun is not a great ball, but nevertheless is something that

exists in the centre, and that all around it, filling the whole



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sphere, is this wonderful vibrating energy that we know comes from

the sun. We can easily understand that the whole sphere, then,

would be charged with a mighty power or energy of some kind.

At this point we begin to realize the practical importance of the in-

troduction of the Rosicrucian Cosmology. We begin to see that there

are as many facts substantiating our statements as those substantia-ting the early theory of Copernicus that has become so popular to

Lay. We will continue next week with this same lecture, explaining

Lbout this energy that fills all space inside the sphere, that we

lave been speaking about. In the meantime it will be well for you

30 look up in the Public Library or in some good Encyclopedia the

subjects of Cosmology and Astronomy— not deeply but just enough to

get an idea of the popular conception of the subjects today— so you

will have a fair understanding of the two statements; the one we are

introducing to you and the one that is so generally understood.

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Nov this great energy that fills all the space inside of the sphere

would have to have seme central point where its vibrations, its power

would be focalized, centralized, condensed. It wouldnot make a ball

if would not make a material thing of any kind, but it would create

in the centre a very definite point or condition of power which

would be intense— stronger than the power would be anywhere else in

~he spnere.

In all demonstrations of magnetic power we find that where magnetic

or electrical energy is confined in a closed space there is sure to

be sooner or later a central point where the power is strongest. Be-

cause the universe is a sphere it is natural that the central point

of power would soon become an exact point— that is because it would

be eop.;idistant from all parts of the surface of the earth of the

universe.

Now that is precisely what the sun really is. It is NOT a ball, not

a thing, but a condition. You must bear in mind that we do not SEE

the son when we think we do. Science is beginning to realize now

that when ws look at planets and stars we may not be seeing what we

third' we see, because of the refraction of light. But when vie look

toward the sun and see in the sky a ball, we are seeing a projection

of the sun upon the strata of air in the sky, and not the sun itself

at all. ’.Then we see the sun setting in the ocean we think it is the

ball of the sun we see, yet science found long ago that the sun is

s.t such times far below the possible sight of man’s eyes and that he

sees only o projection of the sun. To make this clear, we will use

a diagram and illustrate it.

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In this diagram we have the large outer sphere rerjreseating the

earth's surface, and within that a. smaller sphere representing the

dense atmosphere, a sphere of magnetic vibrations and energy. The

outer edge of the atmospheric sphere is called the atmospheric planeIt is like the canopy of the heavens above us when we look toward

the sky, and we cannot see through it. Onto this plane the sun is

projected into a disk, and we see the disk of the sun on that edge

of the atmospheric plane, just as we see the picture of the sun pro-

jected into a moving picture screen. From the centre of the sphere

radiate the energy and light waives which spread out and make that

\ projection of the sundisk. Because the sun is projected so closely

v to the earth's surface it makes the sundisk look very large.

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V x The sundisk remains more or less stationery, but the earth's sur-

face, the GREAT SPHERE, continually revolves and of course this

causes the sundisk to appear at all parts of the earth's surface

. e v e r y twentyfour hours, because the outer GREAT SPHERE revolves completely in twentyfour hours.

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'.Ve will have more about the sun and the sphere's movement in another

lecture. The only point we wish to make clear just now is that the

great sun, which science says is larger than the earth on or in

which we live, really can be inside the sphere.

Of course Diagram Ho. S leaves much unexplained and arouses many

questions. Ii03t of these will be answered very shortly. It is im

\ v /possible to put into one simple diagram all the points of the Cos

•*'mogony and we cannot take up all the points at once.

> \ "S.\ Our next consideration is regarding the great atmospheric sphere in

\side the GREAT SPHERE. You will note that the inner sphere, that• i which is composed of atmosphere (and other elements which we will

' 4 study later on) is a separate sphere, not coming very close to the

X earth's surface.

• V/ Science tells us it has found that even ten miles above the surface

■ 7 of the earth the atmosphere is so changed it cannot support life.

This is a fact, because science has made the tests and proven it

so, but when science attempts to explain V7HY this is so it goes in-

to strange theories and cannot demonstrate the theories. Science,

in its latest findings, also says that it believes that atmosphere

or AIR exists one hundred miles above the surface of the earth, or perhaps five hundred miles, but that is only a puess for, of course,

no one has been into the air that far above the surface of the

earth.

There would be no need for guessing if science really knew what com- poses AIR and what there is in the air that causes and maintains

life. Or, if science knew the source and origin of the vital force

that is in the air, it would not need to guess how far above the

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There is where we ha^/e an advantage. We need not go into the air a

hundred miles or even ten miles to know what exists there, for it

is so evident from many other experiments that the law is made too

plain. J e do not have to go to the bottom of the ocean— twenty or

a hundred miles down— to know whether there is water there just as

there is near the surface, for our reasoning from facts we now have

tells us what the water is like at the bottom of the ocean.

But between the earth’s surface and the inner sphere of atmosphere

there is a space filled with the air and winds which we live upon.

The winds are caused by the movement of the air, and the air is set

into motion because the outer sphere is moving so fast. Think of

it 1 The outer sphere completely revolves in twentyfour hours.That means that any point of the surface, like the city of San Fran-

cisco, for instance, moves around the whole circle of the sphere, a

distance of over 24 ,000 miles, in twentyfour hours. That is over 1,000 miles an hour I Would not such a fast movement of the earth's

surface create winds? It not only creates the great winds on the

surface of the earth, but it causes many other things which we will

study later. But the point is, that in the space between the sur-face of the earth and the inside atmospheric sphere there are cur-

rents of wind circulating caused by the earth's movement, snd of

course these currents of air would be stronger nearer the surface

of the earth and become weaker the higher from the surface we test-

ed them. See if you cannot think of many things you have read or

heard that s.re easily explained to you now, by just knowing this.

Between this lecture end the next think over these facts and' see

ho w many problems they solve for you.

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To speculate upon a thing and imagine what may he in regard to any

condition not easily examined often leads to very false conclusions.

When the first attempts to fly in the air were made by men, specula-

tion was rife among all men as to what one would find when high in

the air and how the earth would appear to the eyes so far above its

surface. The speculations then remind us of the presentday specula-

tion as to what we should find if we succeeded in sending a person

on a projectile to the planet Mars.

It is easy to recall what men of science said when the first ques-

tions were asked about flying into space. It was said that when

man rose high into space and looked down on the eaxth he would see

the great earthly ball floating in space beneath him and that he

would be able to look far into space above the earth in all direc-tions. Another statement made by scientists was that if the flyer

went one mile or a mile and a half into the air above the surface

of the earth he might be able to stand still for a while and see

the earth move from under him. Another statement was that if the

flyer would fly in the opposite direction from which the earth was

turning under him he would be able to go around the earth in a few

hours.

But now that flying and high flying is an accomplished nhing, what

do we learn from it. For years we speculated upon what the flyer

would SEE and FEEL while high above the surface of the eaxth; now

we can get into a machine and see for ourselves. What do we see?

What do we feel?

Nothing at all as science said we would J Speculation is one thing,

fact and experience axe diffexent things.

Fixst of all, it is recorded in the official reports of the Avia-

tion Department of our Government, and in every record book of

every man or woman who has gone a mile or two into the air, that

as soon as one looks down toward the earth the sight is not what

science said it would be. Instead of looking down onto a huge

ball floating in space, one looks down into a huge ball or bowl.

"The earth looks bowlshaped I" is the statement of every avia-

tor who has gone one, two or three miles into the air.

Secondly, those who have tried to figure out why this is say

that as they look off into space sideways, not down toward the

earth, it seems as though the horizon is on a level with their

eyes, No matter whether one mile, two miles, three miles or

four miles above the earth’s surface, instead of being able to

look off into space, the horizon is still on a level with their

eyes, just as when standing on the shore and looking off to where

sky and water meet.

Now such statements as these should cause scientists considerable

concern. It should make them look into the subject of the earth's

form very closely. It should make them reason like this: "If from my belief that the eaxth was a ball cn which we lived I figured

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that the earth should look like a ball and now it looks like a bowl

instead, I must have been wrong in my first belief that the earth

was a ball. I must therefore begin again with a new idea of the

shape of the earth. 11 But they do not reason that way. Instead thesimply say: The bowl appearance is a mystery to us, perhaps accoun

able by refraction or something we do not understand, so we will

pass it by !" And there you have thescientific attitude and we re

main in ignorance of facts we should know.

Now let us examine the things which these aviators see. If our con-

ception of the universe is right and we actually live on the insideof the earth, then when a balloon rises into the air and the person

in the basket of the balloon looks out into space, he should be looing toward the surface of the earth in all directions . In other

words, his view would be like that illustrated below in the diagram(illustration No. 7.).

We know that the human eye is limited in the distance it can see be

cause it cannot see through the various planes or strata of air

which surround the inner surface of the earth. When we look out

over the hills and valleys at any time we notice that the more dis-

tant the hills the more tinted with a light grayblue they willappear. This is because of the condition of the atmosphere. We ha

noticed, too, that we can see more clearly in the distance after a

rain because then the air is clarified. But air is not completely

or entirely transparent, so we cannot see through it for many miles

Therefore, when a person is in a balloon and looks out in all di-

rections he can see only a few miles into space. But even that

short space is sufficient for aviators to see that the earth beneatthem curves upward on all sides and is bowl shaped.

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In this illustration the balloon is high enough from the surface of

the earth to be enveloped in the dense part of the atmosphere. The

man in the basket beneath the balloon can look out to the sides and

down toward the earth. The dotted lines to the right and left of

the basket indicate how he will see the surface of the earth on a

level with his eyes and the earth, still curved bowl shape, beneath

him. In this bowl he will see mountain peaks rising up toward him

and if he rises far enough into the dense atmosphere he will not be

able to see the earth beneath him or the earth on either side of

him and he will appear to be alone in space, with no earth or planetin. sight.

Another one of the beliefs given to us through the speculations of

science was that man could not live if he ventured more than one or possibly two miles in the air. It was said that the blood pressure

within his body would be greater than the pressure of the air out-side of his body and therefore his heart would explode and blood

would issue from various parts of the head and body. He would not

be able to breathe properly and he could not, therefore, live if he

went very high into the atmosphere above the surface of the earth.

During the recent great world war among many of the achievements

which men accomplished, in spite of the dictates of science, was thaof high altitude flying. Higher and higher went the daxing men,

each finding that they had not reached that limit which science saidthey were sure to find within two miles from the earth's surface.

The greatest altitude attained, perhaps, was that reached by Major

R. I. Schroeder. He flew to a height of exactly 36,030 feet. He

says that he made this flight to SEVEN MILES ABOVE THE EARTH'S SUR-FACE to obtain some scientific facts and those which he gives out,

in ordinary, nontechnical language, makes the scientists turn in

every direction to explain why he did not explode into pieces in the

air, and why he returned to earth alive and is living today pre-

paring for a flight of eight miles above the earth's surface. In

Schroeder's own words he says:

"When I landed I found frost over my eyeballs and the fluid of the

eyes was congealed. My heart was swollen somewhat while in the air.

When I raised my heavy goggles while in the air a blinding shock

rocked my head and my sight was gon e. "

One scientist, commenting on what Schroeder had done and his ex-

periences while in the air, gave out the following statement to news papers.

"Major Schroeder should have bled at every pore and from his mouth,

es.rs and nose. I cannot understand why his heart did not explode

and every cell of his body puff up and burst. When he was at his

maximum height he was threequarters through the earth's air belt."

In other words, Major Schroeder upset some of the pet ideas of

science and rather than change any of their ideas they simply say,



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"We cannot understand how he did what he did do."

Tie are not interested in aviation, but when one is studying what

exists above the surface of the earth the very best way to know the

facts is to get into space and learn firsthand. In another lecture

we will take a peep into the surface of the earth itself and see if

what science has to say about the earth’s crust is also true.

But the greatest fact that Schroeder received was that when he was

seven miles above the surface of the earth he found that above him was absolute darkness— no light at all, even though the sun 'was

shining on the earth. Not until he came nearer to the earth was

there light above him as well as below him. While seven miles above

the earth there was around him just enough light for him to see

things in his machine but overhead there was nothing but blank dark-

ness, to use his own words, and in that darkness there were no stars, no moon, no clouds, nothing at all. This is something impor-

tant. It should make everyone think deeply. Schroeder's simple

statement should have sent the scientific world thinking as deeply

as did Newton's simple experiment with the dropping apple. But

there will be no revolutionary thinking on the part of science this

time, for science is too greatly entangled in the web and meshes

of its own theories and flase ideas.

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A few very important questions have been asked by our students and

it is well to answer these at once. The first question was this:

If the Sun is not a ball of fire, or a sphere, but a projection of

light in disk form, please explain UPON WHAT does the sun project

the disk? A steropticen lantern has its white sheet for the projec-tions and the moving picture machine has the white screen upon which

projections are ma.de. What does the sun use?

This question leads us at once to a consideration of how all light,

especially sunlight, makes itself visible to us. Before taking up

that interesting subject, however, it is well to continue for a mom-

ent our study of the earth again, particularly its spherical revolu-tion.

The ea.rth, as a sphere, revolves. It turns completely around in" twentyfour hours just as our books

onastronomy tell us.

Wecan

accept the idea that the earth

revolves as though it Yrere on

an axis, like the largoglobes w e have seen in th

classrooms ox schools.

Such rapid movement of

the sphere must be kept

in mind. It means tha

at the equator the

earth’s surface travel

24,902 miles (approx-

imately) in twentyfou

hours. This also meanthat every point on th

earth's surface near

the equator travels at

a rate of over 1,000

v — RTl'b' /' miles an hour. Contem

AI^~.IN— iiiOTI0Ii./Oj/ / plate that rate of movement ' V Have you ever Y/atched a fast

moving train? Have you noticed

the suction caused by a rate of

only fifty miles an hour? Imagine,

then, the disturbance of the air v/ith

in the earth near its surface when theearth moves at a rate of over 1,000 miles an hour.

The above illustration s h o w s the band or bolt of air being excited

or pulled around with the earth's movement. It extends for a number

oi miles above the earth's surface but in the centre of the earth or

sphere there is no excited air. Then another condition is created

by this air in motion. Such air is filled with earth dust. Small

particles of the earth’s dirt and material composition are kept in

the air and in motion by the movement of the air. It is this DUST

that enables us to see sunlight.

At that point where the undisturbed a.ir in the centre of the sphere



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(marked A on the diagram opposite)

ends and the disturbed air is '

in motion by the earth's movement, there is a plane, or sur

face, like the projection

screen, and upon this plane or

surface the sun is projected — the dust of the earth in

the air really forming a

screen for the light. B is

the sun's disk projected on

this screen of dust from the central point marked C.

Perhaps it will be well to

refer to the old school or college experiment with a

beam of light. It was shown

that if a beam of light was

permitted to enter a d^rk box

through a small hole the beam

wou ld be made visible by the small

particles of dust in the black paint-

ed box. But if, after that, the box was

well dusted (all the dust drawn out with a vacuum suction tube) and

then closed up, by looking through a small piece of glass like a

wwndow no beam of light could be seen in the box BECAUSE ALL THE

DUST HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM THE AIR.

As children we noticed that when the carpets were swept at home and

a beam of sunlight passed through the room the rising dust from the

carpets made the beam of light very visible and we could plainly se

the particles of dust playing in the light. As the dust settled the beam of light lost its distinctiveness. But we must not think

that only large particles of dust, such as the sweeping of carpets

causes to float in the air, are the kinds of particles of dust which

fill all air. The carpet dust, like the dust that blows in the

streets at times, is a heavy dust, composed of larger particles than

those always existing in the air near the earth. The air we con-

stantly breathe is filled with a fine dust, the particles of which

we cannot sec like we can the larger particles from the carpet or dirty street. All of us have noticed how, after a heavy rain at

night, the air is clearer and we can see farther.in the distance

because the rain has clarified the air of much of its dust, which

soon rises again when the ground has become dry.

It was just said that the air we breathe is filled with particles odust. Nature shows us how she recognizes this fact, for after many

cycles of evolving animal life to a more perfect state of living on

the earth's surface in such air, nature has provided eyelashes and

eyebrows to catch the dust that falls and comes near the eyes; she has lined the passages of the ears with fine hairs so that dust is

collected on them and not permitted to enter the chambers loading to



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the ear drum, and the wax that comes from the ear collects the dust

and removes it; the nose is lined with fine hairs, also,.to filrcr

the air we "breathe, and the nasal passages are kept moist or made

moist at times to gather the dust from the hairs and wash it down

from the passages* (Man was intended to breathe air through his

nose, not through his mouth, else the mouth and throat would be

lined with fine hairs also; but man has not learned hew to breathe

correctly).

Thus, without dust there would be no light visible to us. The next

question naturally asked is: What is light composed of? Light is

composed of vibrations. These vibrations are no different in nature

than sound vibrations, or cold or heat vibrations, and the light vi

brations would be invisible to us if it were not for the fact that

when they strike against some object they are translated into SIGHT

vibrations, just as when sound vibrations strike against an ear

drum they arc translated into SOUND vibrations. There is an old

question asked of psychologists for deep thinking; it is this: "Ifa tree fell in a forest and fell crashing against other trees and

rocks, and there was no person present to hoar the crash, would the

be any sound at all?" The answer is no. The falling tree and its

crashing against other things would disturb certain vibrations in

the ether or air, but there can be no sound unless there is an car

drum or some similar means of receiving and translating those vibra-tions, The phonograph recording device receives vibrations and re-

cords them, but there is no sound until m an’s (or an animal’s) oar

receives them and translates them into SOUND CONSCIOUSNESS, through

nerve centers in the brain.

Light vibrations and SIGHT vibrations arc not the same thing. The

particles of dust in the air break up the light vibrations and caus

a different condition of vibrations to reach the eye and these then

reach the nerves of the retina of the oyc, then the brain, and arc

there COMPREHENDED as SIGHT CONSCIOUSNESS or CONSCIOUSNESS OF LIGHT

With a central point in the precise centre of the sphere which has

a positive polarity of power, its radiations would bo attracted to-

ward the earth's surface at the point where the earth had its nega-

tive polarity strongest. Remember what has been said about every

sphere having a point or place which is polarized negatively, and another which is polarized positively so far as magnetic conditions

are concerned.

The negative polarity of the earth’s surface would attract the posi-

tive vibrations of the central point of the earth or universe, which

point is polarized positively. This would cause the vibrations fromthe centre point to widen out as they approached the surface of the

earth. Therefore, although the vibrations when leaving the centre

are coming from a small point, as they approach the earth's surface

they widen into a very wide stream— just like a beam of.light from

a spotlight widens as it loaves the small opening of the arc light

and becomes broad when it reaches the point of contact.

Next week wc will take into consideration another condition.

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Now we will take into consideration this other condition. The

great moving pictures we see, many feet wide, sometimes^forty feet

wide, come from a small lens or opening in the lens, which is only one inch, or less, wide. The nearer the moving picture screen is to

the projecting lens, the smaller will he the picture. The nearer

the wall is to the lens of the round spotlight, the smaller will he

the spot of light cast on the wall. This is well illustrated hy

the following diagram.

A

V /

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B _ ____ *

1 I

— . — — r s

3

r v3

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D I A G R A M No. 8.

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B

B

The spotlight at A sends forth its lines of light marked B and B. A

various distances are placed screens marked 1, 3, 3. l e see that

the circular spot of light cast on each one would, he larger as the

distances of the screens increased, because of the continued diver-gence or spreading of the lines of B and B.

In this diagram the lines of light, or the emanations from the spot

A, are straight lines. But we must also keep in mind that there AR

NO STRAIGHT LINES OF ANY KIND IN THE UNIVERSE. All lines are curved

So called horizontal lines, even in architecture (as any architect

will tell you) are curved. Only recently has science noticed this

in regard to Light and we have the recent Einstein/theory explain-

ing science’s discovery about the"curved lines pf^light from the

sun and stars, etc." You will find, before we/are through with our

Cosmogony, that all lines must he'curved to, ■Conform to the harmony

rules of the Universe, and therefore th e^ in st ei n "discovery" was

nothing new to us at all. This lower diagram shows how the lines olight from the spot light really^ctirve, except that the curve is greatly exaggerated for this^ cliagram.

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Here we have another diagram illustrating how the sun

casts its projection.

B

A

B

D I A G R A M ' No. 9

In Diagram No. 9 we see the radiations or emana '

tions from the centre point A and the emanations

have curved lines, B and By reaching the earth1s crust at C and C. But the atmospheric dust at the ,line E and E intercepts the emanations of the lines B arid B and

there the sun appears as a disk. It is as though the dusty atmos-

phere was a screen upon which the light waves from A are project-

ed, like in diagram No. 8.

In Diagram No. 10 on the next page we have another point illustrat-

ed. .

Here we see the same lines of the emanations from A going toward

the earth's crust. They are marked B and B as in the diagram ahove

And we see the sun's disk projected on the atmospheric plane at S. But here the sun disk sends forth its OWN RAYS and they curve out

wider because of the large disk. These sun rays are marked L and L

on the diagram, for they represent the LIGHT WAVES from the sun

di sk.

We will notice that because the emanations of the sun's disk curve

outward to a wide angle, the sun’s rays of light cover nearly half

the earth’s inner surface. This is shown on Diagram No. 11 on the

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Hefe we see that the large circle, E, is the earth’s crust. The

point A is the positive centre of the universe. The smaller circle,

marked D, is the atmospheric plane. The disk S is the sun’s projec-tion on the atmospheric plane which we see when we look into the

heavens and think we see a hall of fire.

Coming from this SUN DISK are the curved rays of light, marked L*

These rays are SUNLIGHT and we see that they spread out to cover almost onehalf of the earth’s surface. This gives us the DAY and the

opposite side of the sphere is in darkness— NIGHT.

When the rays of the sun disk end and are weak in light, we have sun

rise and sunset and dawn and eventide. In both cases the rays appeato us as slightly red, orange and then brilliant red. This will be

explained later on.

Because the earth revolves around the centre point, the sun’s rays

constantly illuminate a different section of the sphere and there-

fore we have what appears as sunrise and senset and we also have the

gradual change from day to night and night to day. We have not yet

studied the movement of the earth’s revolution, and that will be

taken up in the next lecture in detail. Nor have we come to the

study of the earth’s socalled "Poles11 and magnetic poles. This wil

be explained in the next lecture. By carefully going over this

lecture, however, the greatest mysteries of astronomy are more easil

revealed than by the astronomy and Cosmogony wc have been studying.

Then there arc the socalled planets and the moon and the stars and

other things in the centre of the universe to be explained, but these, too, will be explained soon.

Of course not much proof has been given to the student as yet and we

must have proof for the new laws and principles given in this study.

But wo have the proof, more wonderful, interesting and understandabl

proof than astronomy has to offer. And some of the proof consists odemonstrations that each student can make. Again we refer to the

fact that our principles are always demonstrable. But perhaps tho

best proof of all is the logical appeal to our reason that THIS Cos-

mogony makes compared to what we have had in days gone by. And inne

appreciation and conviction are always more dependable than any form

of objective proof.

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Mow we shall take up the matter of the Sun's movement in the heavens,

I an quite sure, in fact we must all ho sure, ttat the movement of

the Sun within the sphere is not difficult to explain. At first we

had the important question to contend with: "If the Sun is in thecentre of the sphere, why is not the whole of the sphere lighted with daylight ail the tine?" But since we find that the Sun pro-jects its disk in one place only, tov/o.rd one direction only, it is

apparent that only onehalf, in fact slightly less than half, would

he lighted. In other words, only half of the sphere could 03 illum-

inated as cxolained in Diagram Mo. 10 in the last lecture.

It was stated in the last lecture that the sphere rotated on its

axis, just as wo have always been taught was the rotation' of the

earth on its axis. So now wo will s t u d y t h e diagram below and under-

stand from that just how the Sun seems to move through the heavens.

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In this Diagram the letters have the followingmeanings: The Long

line A to A is the Axis on which the sphere rotates. B is the Equa

tor encircling tnd sphere. C is the path of the Sun’s apparent mov

ment in the heavens. E is the line of the atmospheric plane upon

which the sun projects its disk. S is the sun disk.

As the sphere revolves or rotates on its axis the sun disk remains

stationery. The sphere revolves from West to East, or in the direc

tion of from your left hand toward your right hand as you look atdiagram No. 11 on the first page of this lecture. That movement of

the sphere causes the sun disk to SEEM to move from East to West,

or in the opposite direction. Now the question arises: "What make

the oath of the sun's journey at a different angle than the lines othe Tquntor?" In other words, with the sphere traveling on its axi

turning round and round, the path of the sun's disk should coincidewith the path of the Equator, instead of slightly crossing it.

Therefore we must consult another diagram, No. 13, on the next page.

These diagrams will help us to visualize, and therefore memorise,

the laws and facts we are studying.

On this Eiagram, No. 13, the letters N.M.P. represent the NORTH MAG

NETIC POLE, and the letters S.M.P. represent the SOUTH MAGNETIC POL

A is the Axis, S the Sun disk.

In Diagram No. 1.3 we have illustrated the location of the two MAG-

NETIC POLES, as science calls them; one at the North and one at theSouth. It will he noted that the Magnetic Poles are not identical

with the poles of the axis of the earth. The axis of the earth or

sphere is not a true perpendicular line, whereas a. line drawn from

one iiAGNETIC POLS to the' other would he a true perpendicular line

crossing the path of the Sun's Disk at right angles, hut not cross-

ing the Equator at right angles.

We find from a study of this Diagram that the path of the Sun’s Dis

lies midway he tween these two Magnetic Poles and 'at right angles toa line drawn from the Magnetic Folcs.

The question to have answered now is this: "What are the MAGNETIC

POLES?" You will rememher that in earlier lectures it was stated

that a magnetic sphere, such as this universe is, has a central poi

of magnetic polarity which is POSITIVE in polarity. This central point is the point from which the sun's rays emanate to project int

disk.^ But e v n y magnetic sphere has a negative polarity also, fo

w m l 3 tiic centre of the sphere is POSITIVE in magnetism, the out:..r

shell or eurfg.ee, or the inside lining of a hollow sphere, is NEGA-TIVE in polarity.

Therefore the inside crust of the sphere of the universe is charged

with the negative magnetism. This negative magnetism would naturally radiate toward the centre POSITIVE magnetism, for like is

ed by unlike and both would go forward to meet each other. There-fore, from the two opposite sides which are farthest away from the



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SUN'S PROJECTIONS the earth's crust would send forward its negative

vibrations. Around the equator belt of the sphere the Sun's disk i

closer to the earth's surface and this would tend to neutralise the

earth's negative magnetism, for when negative and positive magnetis meet and blend they neutralize into a force and warmth that is

neither negative nor positive but both combined. This combined for

near the centre of the earth's sphere is what keeps the Sun's rays

projected into that one circle marked C on Diagram No. 11. N • M . P •

A

' N '

A y

S.Li.P.


In other words, the Negative emanations from the surface of the

earth are strongest in Negative quality at those places farthest

away from the Sun's Disk (not the Sun's centre point, for that is



equidistant from all parts of the surface of the sphere) . So from these two points of the surface of the earth _;o forward the nega-

tive vibrations and the two points are called the North end South

Magnetic Foies. As the vibrations of negative magnetism go toward

each other in the centre of the sphere they are neutralised by two factors, well known in physics; (a) they repulse each other because

they are like each other end therefore become weaker in their

strength because of their mutual repulsion in the centre of the

sphere: (b) they are absorbed and neutralized by the POSITIVE vibra

tions from the centre polarity. These two factors create in the

centre of the sphere p. BELT or GAP around which the SUN'S DISK

travels and ma ni festo, for the sun's projections from the centre

point, being positive, use the negative emanations from the two

sides of the earth to make the Disk of the sun alive with heat and

force and L I F E .

Vi s will not stop here to discuss the effect of the two magnetic

poles upon the mariner's compass, nor to discuss the fact that the

effect of that magnetism varies at certain parts of the equator. A

little reasoning would explain to our students, as it will not ex-

plain to the students of any other Cosmogony or astronomy, tnat

whenever the sun is closer to a point at the equator than at other

times, the positive vibrations of the Sun, being dominant, would

effect the negative pull upon the mariner's compass and make the de

flections in that magnetic needle which so greatly puzzle those who

have worked at the problem for many, many years.

In our next lecture we will take up the consideration of the moon.

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Now we come to the consideration of the MOON. Perhaps our most

difficult problem here will he to use terms and phrases that have a

common understanding for us all, and another problem will be for us

to blot out from our minds the term PLANET. We must no longer look upon the Moon as a planet because of the very definite meaning

attached to that word. Science has made a careful study of the

physical nature of the Moon and tells us that there is no idication

that there ever was life on the Moon and adds that there is no indi-

cation that .there is the proper atmospheric conditions surrounding

it to maintain animal or plant life on its su face. In other words,

all that science can tell us of the Moon is what is seen through

the telescope and what it deduces or speculates in regard to the

Moon's monthly phases, eclipses, etc.

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"What is the Moon?" is a question as old as human life and observa-tion. Being so close to the earth's surface, so picturesque in it

phases, so attractive at night, so mysterious in its periodicity o

motion, the Moon interests even the child mind and has always been

a subject of speculation and research. But, aside from a closer o more enlarged view of the Moon through more powerful telescopes, i

is safe to say that science knows no more about the Moon today thanit did many hundreds of years ago.

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This much, however, our Cosmogony tells us. This much we can

scientifically and truthfully state. The Moon is a POLARITY body,



a material body floating in space, close to the surface of the

earth, and charged with the opposite magnetic polarity of the Sun'Disk. All tests show that the Moon has a strong negative polarity

Its substance is a material created from the electrons and material

emanations which form the crust of the surface of the earth. We

have not yet taken up the study of how the earth's crust came to b

formed, or its chemical nature, and therefore it is difficult to

explain at this point how the Moon came to be formed. But it is

lifeless and never had any life on it for it is not a planet, was

not created to be a planet, and has no other purpose than to fo-

calize the earth's NEGATIVE radiations in space.

The Moon is very close to the earth's surface.

It is not thousands of miles away nor hundreds of miles away. Its mean distance is from 124 to 144 miles from the surface of the eart

It travels in a fixed orbit which is illustrated on the above dia-

gram by the various positions of the Moon moving on a dotted line

marked M.

By referring to Diagram No. 13 we will see that the Moon is locate

in that section of the sphere which is opposite to the Sun's Disk.

Diagram No. 14 shows the path which the Moon takes in its movement

This path is nearly circular, but in making the drawing upon a

spherical plane it is necessary to draw it partially as an oval.

The light which the moon receives IS NOT DIRECT from the Sun's Dis but is reflected from the surface of the earth illuminated by the

Sun Disk. In other words, the daylight half of the sphere reflec

its light into the heavens and causes the light blue sky which we

see at night, and also illuminates the Moon (and other heavenly

bodies, as we shall see later on). Diagram No. 14 shows some of

the positions the Moon occupies during its monthly journey in the

heavens and also how its one side is illuminated.

Now, according to our position on the surface of the sphere, we

•look at the moon at various angles and sometimes we see half of it

illuminated surface and half of its dark surface; at other times

we are able to see the whole of its illuminated surface, and at

other times only the dark side of it. This accounts for our observations on the Moon's phases.

The path of the Sun, as illustrated in Diagrams No. 11 and 12, is

horizontal, ane the orbit of the Moon is almost parallel with the

axis of the sphere; therefore there are times, when the Moon and

Sun are in certain relationship to each other, that cause us to se

the Moon and Sun at the same time in the daytime. This relationsh

of the Sun and Moon, plus our position on the surface of the sphe

causes us to see at certain times an eclipse of the Sun and Moon.

All this is dry and perhpas uninteresting matter to the average

student of this course, and it is not our purpose to go into the

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geometry of the Sphere, nor to go into the minute details of the

Moon’s movement, its rotation on its own axis, and similar sub-

jects; all these can be easily worked out, from what we have al-

ready said, by those students who delight in astronomy and have the

time to take our few fundamental principles and enlarge upon them.

This course is preparatory to the greater laws and principles under

lying the formation and function of the universe and man’s relation

to it, and we must keep steadily on in our study of the most fun-damental and important elements so that proper progress will be

made.

But it should be added here that the Sun’s projection toward one

half of the sphere creates a positive polarity in the atmosphere

there and the earth’s magnetism, which surrounds the inner side of

the surface of the sphere, causes the Moon to remain a,t the oppositeside of the sphere from where the Sun projects. The earth’s revolu-

tion does not move the Moon away from its orbit on the opposite sidof the sphere, but simply brings the various countries, from hour to

hour, around to the nightside of the heavens where the moon is.

In our next lecture we will take up the subject of tides and gravi-tation.

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At this point in our studies it is nebessary to examine carefully

such proofs as we have regarding the facts already submitted in our lessons. Perhaps we will do well to look at the proofs which

are given to us by the Copernican school of cosmology and see how

well our proofs compare with them. In fact, if our cosmology is

correct, we will have to explain away the proofs that are given to.

us by the other cosmology. ’That are the proofs which are submitted

to support that cosmology? What manifestations or facts are present-

ed to prove that we live on the OUTSIDE of the earth and that our

earth revolves around a great sun along with other planets? We will

enumerate them:

1. We know that the earth is round, because we can sail around it and return to the same point.

2. We know that the earth is not flat or square because we

have found no edge or end to its surface.

3. We know that we live on the OUTSIDE of this round earth

because of what we see when a vessel sails out to sea and disappears

hull first from our sight.

4. We know what the curvature of the earth is for we have

found what the curcumference of this round earth is.

5. Since we can see the Sun in the sky, and we live on the

outside of the earth, the Sun must be distant from the earth. We

obtain the distance in miles by a mathematical formula which uses a

premise as its first law not a fact.

6. We have further oocular proof of the roundness of the earth

in the shadow cast upon the moon and in the eclipse.

Now the foregoing statements are, in simple form, the essential proof

of the Copernican theory of cosmology. Many other points are often

given, such as the revolution of the earth every twentyfour hours,

bringing day and night in successive turns, but this does not prove

that we live on the INSIDE or OUTSIDE of the earth. So we will now

examine these points as stated abosre and compare the strength cf their

arguments with what other proof we can easily find in nature's own

laws and principles. _

The first thing to be noted is that, excepting No.3, not one of the

statements given above prove that we live on the OUTSIDE. In other

words, the statements would equally prove that we live on the INSIDE.

Of course, they do prove that the earth is ROUND, but that is not

the issue. The point is, do they prove that we live on the OUTSIDE

or the INSIDE? It is just as easy to sail or travel around the In-

side of a sphere as on the outside more easy in fact, as we shall

see. The circumference of the earth, the curvature and the diameter,

are facts which remain unchanged by our cosmology and they have no

bearing upon the point whether we live on the OUTSIDE or INSIDE of



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the earth. Even the fact that the Moon is illuminated on one side,

or appears to he eclipsed at times, has no direct bearing upon the

subject of our present discussion.

So we have nothing left to seriously consider at present but the one

proof that when a ship sails out to see. it disappears by losing its

hull to our sight first. This sight of the disappearing hull is

pointed cut to us to prove that the ship is sailing downward and therefore must be on the outside of a curved surface, etc.,etc.

The very first thing to note about this piece of evidence is that it

consists solely of an OPTICAL demonstration. If we examine the

evidence we find that the hull of the ship begins to disappear from

our sight only at a certain point in the distance at that point

where the horizon is seen or in other words where the sky and earth

are SEEN to meet. Now, upon the same evidence, and with the same reasoning, why can we not say that at the same point where the hull <

of the ship starts to disappear, the sky does ACTUALLY touch the

water? Wa can have the very same OCCULAE and OPTICAL evidence to

prove both statements, yet we accept the one about the hull of the

fh ip and reject the other about the sky and water. Why? Because

our knowledge of optics has shown us that what we see is an OPTICAL

ILLUSION and that the wafer and sky do not meet anywhere on the

earth's surface.

A child in the lower grades of school might easily and logically

ask this question: "If the one sight we see at the horizon is an

optical illusion and explained by the principles of optics, might

not the other be also? Can optics explain why the hull of the ship

disappear s first?"

Bear in mind, it is not our intention to simply cast doubt upon the

proofs that our schools have given about the Copernican cosmology,

cat also to give other proofs about our correct cosmology which the

other schools cannot remove. But it is proper to understand the

other school's proofs and "remove them., if possible, before we* take

up new ones.

So let us see what the principles of optics will reveal to us re-

garding some fundamental laws of nature. It is surprising that we

have not had these things explained to us before. Is it because science does not know these things about optics? Certainly not. But

it is mere satisfactory and agreeable to keep them unexplained, for

the child mind might ask too many questions questions like the

one above, for instance.

However, let us examine a few of the principles concerned in the

funcoioning ox the eye. "Seeing is believing" we are told, but be

^ore..,I;e Relieve what v:e SEE we should know ECU we see and then real-ize wnAT it is xre see when we look at a thing.

We need not study the eye minutely to discover that, just as with



the camera, there are certain definite LIMITATIONS as to wnat can be

cast upon a screen of vision, and certain effects produced because of limitations.

One of tho first effects we note is that when we view a thing close

at hand it appears larger than a thing in the distance. In fact, the

only way we judge distance is by the effect of smallness and INUISn

TINCTUSSS. This fact is taken advantage of by painters who paint

the objects of distance smaller than those close at hand, and when

they wish to convey the impression of great distance in a picture

they not only make the objects smaller, but less distinct, or hazy.

If we take a number of picture frames, empty, having no pictures in

them, and stand them on a table sc that they are about twelve inches

apart and then look through the first one toward the end one, it will

seem that the frames form a series of smaller squares. The first

frame will be larger than the rest, and so on. If we take a ro w of

electric lights hanging in a store, for instance, we will observe

that the distant one is very much smaller than the one at our side.

Our eyes make allowance for this and we know that the lamp is NOT

actually smaller, but, so far as the picture in the eye is concerned,

the distant lamp IS SMALLER in the eyepicture. Ue can prove this

by holding an ordinary magnifying glass up before a sheet of paper

and permitting the glass to act like a lens in a camera, casting a

picture of the electric lamps on the paper. The picture will be

upside down, but wo will soon note that the lamps range in various

sizes in the picture according to their distance from the magnifying glass. If the row of lamps continued far enough into the distance,

the last ones would be invisible, or merely pinpoints of light.

As we stand and look down or up a long street, we will note that the

buildings, telegraph poles and trees all become smaller in the dis-

tance. If the street was long enough and straight enough there

would be a point in the distance w h er e the poles and trees and hous-es and stones of the street would become too small and too INDIS-

TINCT to be seen clearly.

That point where vision in the distance fades out, becomes too hazy

to be seen, etc., is called the VA2TISHINQ..POINT. If there was no

such vanishing point we would be able to see Without limit, and we

would have no perspective in sight at all.

But to better illustrate what actually happens in regard to the

vanishing point and the lines of sight, we will take one concrete,

common example the sight we see when we stand in the centre of a

long, straight rail road track. The track must be a long one, on a

perfectly level stretch of ground. If there are curves or hills, we

cannot see these points so well. But practically all of us have

seen a long stretch of railroad track, and so this common example is taken. . "

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If we look at the diagram numbered Figure 5, we will have the view

of the tracks explained. We will suppose that the eye of the spec-

tator is located at a place in the center between the two tracks show

by the large eyeball at the left of the diagram. We note that along

side of the tracks are telegraph poles numbered 1,2,3, and 4. Now

the dotted line marked x,x,x, is the center between the two tracks

and is the neutral view point of the eight of the eye; that is, it is



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the neutral or middle line of sight. The lines marked A,A are the

angles of sight of the eye. As we stand and look down the center of

the tracks we can see in the eye, on the curved retina marked R at the eyeball, the first two telegraph poles marked 0,0. But from

these poles our sight begins to narrow down or CONVERGE, following

the lines marked S,S. These converging lines pull all the vision

with them and meet in the point marked E. At this point E the

converging sight lines join the middle, neutral line. This produces

the effect that all the telegraph poles marked 2,3, and 4 follow the

lines S,S,S and therefore the tracks also. Hence, to our eye the

two rails of the track seem to meet at E, and the two telegraph

poles 4 and 4 are also close together and not far apart, as are the

first two numbered 1 and 1.

Now, if we turn th&se tracks on their sides that is, if we place the one rail above the other instead of along side of it, and make

what would be a fence without the supporting posts, we have what is

shown in diagram Figure 5. Let us suppose that we put a few small

posts with balls on top of them in the ground, so placed that the

balls come midway between the ground and the upper part of the fence

or upper rail. If the eyeball of the spectator is also in the center

between the ground and the upper rail, then the middle line of sight,

or neutral line, will be the line marked x,x,x. We see again that

the angle of sight spreads out to take in the first post marke 1.

And from that point on the lines of sight CONVERGE, as marked by the

lines S,S,S. They meet, these converging, lines, at the point marked

E, and we notice that, as the lines converge, the lower one rises

so that it seems as though the earth i ises slightly toward the

point E. Because of this each succeeding post after the first one

appears shorter in height. Thus we see that post No. 2 is shorter

than No. 1, and No. 3 is shorter than No. 2. Post No. 4 appears to

be nothing but a ball, and only the top surface of the ball is clear-

ly in sight.

Now this diagram, Figure 6, shows us that as we look into the dis-

tance at objects, the lower part of them is cut off by the lower con-

verging line of sight. The upper converging line does not cut off an

thing, because the upper line is not a material surface like the

ground or water.

Now if we apply these same principles to the ship at sea_, we will see

at once why the hull of the ship disappears from sight as it goes

away to sea. Figure 7 has the eye of the spectator looking toward

the distant ship. The line level with the eye is the neutral or

middle sight line and is marked X,X,X on the diagram.

The sight lines converge as before, and are marked S!,S,S. We will

call the real surface of the water the line marked W,W. But that sur

face constitutes one of the sight lines and rises gradually until it

appears to be like the bottom line of S,S,S. Now at point E, where

the S ,S,S line and the neutral line E meet, there the lower part of

the boat is cut off as is shown by the large picture of the ship



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marked C. But at E we see the ship as it appears to us with the

neutral line cutting off the lower part, the part which we cannot see. That makes it appear as though the lower part of the ship was

BELOW THE SURFACE of the water, whereas it is only below the middle

or neutral sight line.

All this may seem like theory, but it has been proven beyond all

question to be true. These laws and principles of optics have been

investigated by the Geodetic Survey Department of our Government an

they were given the most severe test by the Goedetic Survey Depart*

ment of the French Government, and their reports and findings we

will examine in our next lecture, where the most surprising facts

will be revealed facts which science refuses to answer and facts

which made the survey experts stop their work, for their discover-

ies were leading them into propositions and revelations which they

knew would revolutionize science, and that did not seem to be a saf

and proper thing to do.

Recently more facts have been discovered so now we will lose no timin completing our evidence and going on with the important facts of

our cosmology.

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Nov; we will consider some of the proofs of the facts given in the

preceding lectures and this lecture will end the first Term of the

Course and permit us to pass on to more practical and useful facts in

the Second Term.

Professor James, the eminent psychologist, once said that "It takes

but the presence of one UHITE crow to prove that ALL crows are not

black. !l And it is also true that it takes but a few FACTS (not theo-

ries) to prove a law or a set of laws. And we will submit here

several facts, each of them complexe, authentic, scientific and in-

disputable, which will prove TUG THINGS: First, that the popular

Copemican theory of the earth and our living on the outside of it

is wrong; second that our Arcane Cosmology, or something almost like

it, must be true.

Now let us look at the first fact. According to all our present dayideas of the earth, we live on the outside of it and gravitation is

the force which holds us and all material things fast to the outside

of it, despite the fact that the earth is revolving at a rate of over

a thousand miles an hour. To prove that gravitation is a fact the

old and familiar demonstration is given of the falling apple. Nov; it

is true that when a n apple or a ball is thrown into the air it comes

promptly back to earth. A child might ask who pushed it back to

the earth? and the scientist would answer why do you say pushed?

Can't you see it was nulled back, not pushed? And the child mind

might logically say that the fact of the apple returning say that

the fact of the apple returning to earth does not prove that it was

either pushed or pulled, while the scientist claims that it can

prove only one thing the thing he was told.However, we will settle

that point later the ONLY fact in the whole matter is tnat the

apple or ball does return to the earth. There is no question about

that. Now they also tell us that when a thing drops of returns to

earth it follows a straight line which, if continued, would reach

to the mathematical centre of the sphere on which we live. These

lines are what are called PLULIB lines. By these lines buildings are

erected, poles are erected a/nd many measurements taken. The idea is

that all lines of gravitation or attraction point to the centre of

the earth. Now if you will close your e’/es and visualize two enorm-

ous poles, say a mile high, erected in some park and made perfectly

plumb, you will see that, according to this idea, the tops of the

two poles would be farther apart than the bottoms in the ground. Of course this divergence of lines would not be noticable on short poles,

but in Copernican theory it would be true on poles 2,000 to 5,000

feet in length. Since these converging plumb lines tend to come to-

gether in the crust of earth UNDER our feet, the FACT would prove that

ws do live on the outside of the earth. It is a very important fact

if true, as Mark Twain once said about the report of his third mar-

riage important indeed if truel

Nov; it is not possible to errect two plumb poles of 4,000 to 5,000

feet, so no one tested the law of the plumb lines and the theory of

the divergence of lines stood unchallenged. But soon after the

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found that some of the laws of the Copernican Cosmology were not

true, the strange FACTS were communicated to the Geodic Survey Depa

ment of this country. Nothing officially was done for a time, hut of the official Surveyors of that Department was engaged in some wo

near Calumet, Michigan, in 1901 and he called upon the Chief Engine

of the Tamarack Mines there. In a discussion the engineer was re-

quested to make a test of two plumb lines in two of the deepest mine

Two mines were selected having a depth of over 4,250 feet, for the

plumb lines suspended in each mine were exactly 4,250 feet long. T

bobs at the ends of the lines weighed sixty pounds each and the r hu

in vessels of oil at the bottom of the mines so that the magnetism

the earth could not affect the bobs. The wires suspending the bobs

or in other words the plumb lines, were No.24 piano wires. After hav

ing been suspended for exactly 24 hours, so that all movement from

putting them in place had ceased, measurements were begun. The measurements completed, they naturally expected to find that the dista

between the two bobs the two ends of the lines was less than at

the top, but what they did find was that the two BOBS WERE (FARTHER

X P A R T . It was just the op ,osite and indicated that the centre o

attraction in such lines was ABOVE the surface of the earth, where

the two lines would meet, and NOT below the surface of the earth.

Puzzled and perplexed, the Chief Engineer sent for Professor McNair

of the Michigan College of Mines. He further tested the lines and

the measurements and found the above facts true. Then he offered t

suggestion that the metal of the bobs be changed to overcome any

possible magnetic attraction or repulsion, and when this was done tsame figures resulted, for if there was any attraction or repulsion

it would be slightly different with different metals. Then he suggted that air currents going down the mines probably affected the

trueness of the plumb lines. The shafts were closed at the top and

the figures of the distance between the two lines remained the same.

Professor McNair tried many ways to disprove the evident facts end

gave up the matter in absolute bewilderment. Concerning this test,

the news leaked out and the Milwaukee Sentinel published this state-

ment : "At another shaft the same phenomena were noticed, and with

very little change. Several explanations have been offered for the fact that the wires were supposed to hang parallel to each other, bu

were farther apart below the surface than they were at the surface,

and no one has suggested anything that seems to cover the question.

Professor McNair finally issued a statement that he had proven that magnetic attraction from the earth or the sides of the shaft. .DID

NOT cause the strange divergence but he has never said anything

else. Did he issue a scientific treatise about this VERY IMPORTANT

matter? Did he cause scientists to investigate? Did he call the

attention of all schools and authorities to the fact that what they

were teaching about GRAVITATION and PLUMB lines was false? No, he

did nothing like this. And so the matter would have remained in darness.

Professor Hallock of Columbia University took up the subject when he

heard of it through a Professor at the Michigan College, This ..New York Professor claimed that attraction upon the plumb lines and bobs



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would explain the whole matter, and in a very learned letter he tol

how easily the matter would he settled by substituting phosphorbron

wires for the piano wires and lead bobs for iron bobs. These changwere made and the results did not prove his contention, for the

law was the same the bobs were clLggeixc\ogytrhorat the place under t

earth than were the tops of the wires at the earth's surface. The

Professor at Columbia,upon learning this, had nothing more to say.

Did he call attention to this discovery? Did he make Columbia Unive

sity famous by issuing these startling facts from the University

where Professors vie with each other in sending forth other SOCALL

FACTS? Not at all. Then a second series of experiments were conduced at Calumet. Two shafts, elevator shafts, numbered 2 and 5 were

used, for they were 3,250 apart and the engineer planned to open upthe 29th level below surface so that the two shafts would be connec

by a horizontal tunnel. The shafts were also 4,250 deep, as were t

first shafts. After measuring the distance between the two plumb lines by a horizontal line in the tunnel, it was found that the two

plumbs or bobs were exactly 8.22 inches closer together than were

the lines at the top of theshaft, and this figure exactly represent

ivhat the divergence would be if the point of attraction was in the

center of a hollow sphere the size of our earth, Did science say

anything of this? And did the expert of the American Goedic Survey

Department, who was so interested, say anything? No, for he dared

speak officially and provately he must keep newlydiscovered facts

himself until his superiors speak and they have never spoken, tho

they went ahead and for two years made more experiments, getting in

deeper scientific water all the time, until the matter was sudden

dropped, just as the French Government dropped it, saying: "If we dgive these startling facts to the world it will not help them live

any better and the facts have no bearing upon practical problems of

life."

Later, when some men of the Geodic Survey Department measured the

surface of a long lake in Florida, other startling facts were learn

They argued:"Water is known to conform to the true curvature of the

earth's surface regardless of how the land may be. It'’always makes

a true level level with the true curve of the earth." This is tr

and when they measured the long lake's surface they found that the

water curved uphill in each direction instead of downhill and tha

settled all further experiments.

Many instances can be given of other demonstrations, and these will

referred to in various places where they have ■ bearing upon some

particular point of the Course, and so we will now consider some oth points of interest.

In the first two pages of this lecture we intimated that the force

called gravitation may be a PUSH instead of a pull. It must be evid

to anyone that if a thing thrown into the air and coming back to ear

again may be affected by EITHER push or pull, then its action in

coming to earth as a fact does not prove either push or pull. Some-

thing more than the mere action itself must be used to prove either

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Several years ago an assembly of scientists in Chicago were startled by one scientist, making a speech in which he declax ed that some of

his experiments in physics indicated that gravitation may be a PUSH instead of a PULL. He had no theory, no explanation, but simply

offered some unimportant facts, the scientists thought, which tended

to show that when things move toward the earth's surface they are

being PUSHED toward the earth and not PULLED. The newspapers made

many comments on this speech and that ended it. But it was a VERY

IMPORTANT matter. Did you ever stop to realize how many things in

this world depend upon gravitation not upon the theory, but upon

the FORCE, whether it is PULL or PUSH. Then stop and think of the

many things that have been tried in connection with gravitation by

those who BELIEVE it is a PULL. Nearly all such experiments have

failed, because the scientists have tried to overcome or neutralize

gravitation WHILE BELIEVING it was a PULL. Now suppose that they

knew it was a PUSH. Would that not change their methods of over-coming it or neutralizing it? For instance, all attempts at inventi

'or operating PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINES are based upon the THEORY

that gravitation PULLS downward, When the machine is tried the thin

does not work although the theory is fine. But it is based upon a

wrong principle. If the right theory is used, PUSH instead of PULL,

they would know how to change their plans and soon see whether such

a machine would work. Think of placing magnets UNDER things that

are NOT to be affected by gravitation and it fails. They never

try putting magnets OVER it to neutralise the effect of a push. We,

as human beings, as animals, as things upon the surface, stay here

because we are being PUSHED against the surface,not pulled.

What is the push? What is the force? It is centrifugal force,

exerted from the center of the sphere toward its surface because of

the rapid revolution of the earth. Ever swing a pail, of water arou

in the air on a string? What keeps the water in the pail? PUSH

exerted toward the inside of the pail, not a pull from the bottom of

the pail. Will magnetism affect that force? That is another point

for a future lecture. The important point to remember here is that

Gravitation is NOT what it seems, so in a few words we have found plumb lines, gravitation, earth's curvature, sight lines, push and

pull, and all these things to be different from what we have been

taught. We are turned toosyturvey in our thinking. We are ready

now for new thoughts, for FACTS and to learn the GREAT TRUTHS.

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Introduction:

This Alden manuscript is a continuation of the now famous Nodin Manu-

script, as introduced into the teachings of AMORC in the month of June

1916, to the first Fourth Grade class to study in the AMORC Temple at

#70 West 87th Street, New York City, the class being personally taugh

by the Imperator, H.Spencer Lewis, into whose hands the Nodin Manu-

script was placed in the month of May, 1916.

It will be recalled that the Nodin Manuscript has a foreword stating

that it was translated by Jean, or Jehan, de Mandeville, from the

original written by the unknown Nodin; also that the original bears

the official number "T.876 par Nodin". Either the original, or the

translation (it being not clear) was dated by a Secretary "Sun in

Capricorn 9 degrees, Lux R.C. 2703, in the city of Lyons, France."

The year Lux R.C. is equivalent to 1352 A.D..

The present manuscript, while continuing the subject, the discussion

and the laws of the Nodin Manuscript which does not complete its

argument or its presentation of the presentation of the principles

involved is dated "3029 R.C." The first date is equivalent to 1675,

so that it would appear that this Alden Manuscript has been prepared or edited by two persons at times 113 years apart. Furthermore, it

was revised and made modern in its terms and findings by additions,

annotations and corrections in the years 1906, after a series of ex-

periments and complete chemical tests of the principles involved.

Therefore, at the time the Nodin Manuscript was first introduced into our teachings in America the present Alden Manuscript was practically

complete in its present form and the only changes now made in it con-

sist of the addition of such findings on the part of recent scientific

investigators as throw considerable light upon the accuracy of the law

stated therein, and modern illustrations and examples, as well as drawings of newer devices or instruments for making the experiments

described.

Perhaps one other point in regard to the present manuscript should be

emphasized. Wherever it has been found necessary to use illustrations

of such biological or physiological factors or features of living

matter as make clear the principle being explained, such illustrations

have been accurately taken from such standard medical or scientific books as: Textbook of Histology, by Frederick R. Bailey (Fourth

Edition): Human Anatomy, by George A. P iersol; Textbook of Physiolog

by William H. Howell; and the American Illustrated Medical Dictionary

(Eight Edition).

Of course, many of the illustrations, schematic plans,etc., are origin

al and constitute the essential value of the new and astounding statements made in this manuscript.

By using the drawings and microscopic illustration (so carefully and

accurately prepared by the foregoing medical and scientific authorities

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that which they did not find, with all their power to observe and

facilities to examine, we cannot be accused of using biased illustrations nor can it be said that the facts revealed here have not been

plain and discernible to those WHO WOULD SEE.Profundis Thirteenth, Imperator.

Section One. The Argument.

The principal statements set forth in the Nodin Manuscript which

must be at once carried to their conclusion, if we are to have a mos

perfect and complete understanding of the workings of God and Naturein the creation and maintenance of life on the Earth Plane, are as

follows:

1. NODIN LAW, l and 1A: Nous, as a binary divinity, essential to

the perfect and complete manifestation of matter, must be present in

all matter as a Unit in order to compose and manifest matter.

2. Nous, as a binary divinity, has two qualities: (A) Finite, Def-

inite, Limited, therefore Negative; (B) Infinite, Indefinite, Unlimi

ed, therefore Positive.

3. 'All which exists is dual in nature and tribunal in manifestation

Each manifestation of nature manifests (A)' the negative element,

(B) the positive element, and these two natures manifesting together

give a third (C) the unit as we objectively comprehend it.

4. Nous manifests in all animate and inanimate matter.

5. The two qualities manifesting in all matter, negative and positiv

are two polarities of the same force, Nous.

6. Experiments in the domain of "Radar" (now known as magnetism)sho

that centers of force, or Polarities, are opposite in nature of

quality.

7. The polarization of Nous is always in the farm of a cell.

8. These cells adhere to the rule of a sphere. In the center of ea

cell we find the polarity, the center of the cell’s power.

9. Nous, in its positive quality, is from the positive polarity of

the Sun, which is a polarized cell,* and in its negative quality from

the Earth, which is another polarized cell.

10. Through breath, "air", the positive element enters all living

matter; and through material contact and material elements the neg-

ative quality enters all living matter.

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SECTION TWO. THE LAWS

From the foregoing statements we learn that the great vitalizing force in nature, or rather throughout nature, is Nous; and that th

force is a dual energy or power, having two qualities; a negative

a positive quality. Furthermore, this energy, with two such quali-

ties, can manifest itself only when the two qualities properly comb

or unify.

Not only do the phenomena of electricity supply us with many excell

examples of the working of such principles, and thereby illustrate

what is contended in the above paragraph, but electricity itself ma

be another form of manifestation of that very energy or power which

is called Nous in this manuscript.

We have also another physical phenomenon, allied to those of elec-

tricity, which we call magnetism, and which, one will notice, was

called "Radar" in the Nodin Manuscript. Magnetism supplies us with

many illustrations of the principles connected with the operation

manifestation of the condition called polarity; and since magnetism

aa a condition, can be instituted or created through the use of el

tricity or electrical energy, we may, so far as the present manuscr

is concerned, consider magnetism as a simple manifestation of elec-

tricity (if not a part of all electrical phenomena).

Therefore, for the sake of simplicity we will not admit in this man

sctipt that there is a clinical line drawn between the physical man

ifestations of magnetism and those of electricity, as there is betw physics and chemistry. We will assume, with absolutely no fear of

successful contradiction, tha.t all magnetic conditions are a result

electrical activity, or that magnetism results from the proximity o

some electrical manifestation.

Our very next consideration is to look into the nature of electrici

and determine either its remote cause and, if not that, its immedi

ate cause in all its manifestations. At the very first step of o

investigations we find that since all electrical phenomena manifest

to us through the medium of undulations or vibratory waves, and sin

electricity is active as an energy only in a vibratory manner, it

must be a vibratory energy akin to, or resulting from, the vibrator

energy that prevades all space. It must be a phase or manifestatioof Nous.

Our next step of investigation would lead us to make the discovery

that, likely, all the natural forces or energies in the universe ar

vibratory; and as our further investigations prove this to be so, w

make the next discovery that all the natural energies in the univerare electrica.l.

Now in^the foregoing statement there are two words which require ex

planation, since they are used as terms. The term "energies" sugges

that there is more than ore natural force in the universe. The fact

there is more than one. T he power which is called Gravitation by



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science is generally considered as an entity, a thing apart from any

other power, such as that which causes wj,nd, revolves the earth, or

affects the 'tides on this planet. Then there is the power or •

energy that affects the compass needle. While both gravitation and

the attraction that influences the compass needle may be magnetic,

in the understanding of the lay mind, still they are generally con-sidered as separate powers having only a remote cause or relation.

The term electrical is used to denote a form or kind of energy with

which we are all familiar. Furthermore, the word electricity is de-

rived from an old root which means eun or sunpower; and by tracing

its origin back to the Sanskrit, and then to the ZendAvesta languag

we see that the \7ise man who first outlined symbols and words to ex- press their thoughts were familiar with the nature of the forces in

the universe. However, even if the term electrical did not have so correct an origin, its use here would be necessary to make plain the

kind of energy referred to.

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The principal contention in the Nodin Manuscript is that, o f t h e

two qualities or natures of the dual energy called Nous, the positive

quality or positive element radiates from the Sun, and the negative

radiates from the Earth. Since this will be proven to be a fact and methods given whereby the fact may be revealed and demonstrated eas-

ily, it seems quite necessary at this time to make plain certain

LANS in regard to manifestations and activities of such a dual energy,

and to give some very comprehensible definitions of the terms Negative

and Positive. In fact, it may be well to discuss the definitions and

terms, that the Laws may be better understood.

NEGATIVE: Usually a negative condition is a minus condition. In

fact, the dictionaries tell us that a thing that is negative is that

which is marked by absence of what is appropriate or expected. Now while this is essentially correct it is not completely so, nor does

it do justice to things which have a Negative nature. One is apt to

feel, to actually believe, from the foregoing definition, that a neg-

ative thing is not only minus but of less importance than that which

is positive. Both negative and positive are terms of relativity.

The negative condition is always as necessary as the positive; in

fact, the positive is only positive because of the existence of the

negative. The negative, on the other hand, is essential because it supplies that which is absent or missing in the positive. The neg-

ative is, therefore, the open, absent, absorbing, needed, desired element f o r the positive t o use. It is like the vessel that holds the

water. Empty, the pitcher is a mere thing, so far as its relation to

a pitcher of water is concerned. Into the pitcher may be poured the water then we have the pitcher of water.

In the science of electricity, as it is taught and dealt with in

schools and even laboratories, the negative wire and the negative

element in any manifestation or attempted manifestation of electrical

phenomena are considered as minus, nothing, nil. It is minus something

into which the positive will pass and exist. To the electrical

science it is a mistake to speak of a negative current or a negative

energy. There is no such thing. To them,if there is any current at

all, it is a. positive current. But this, in our science, is an error,

And while we cannot say, correctly, that there is a negative current

or negative energy, we can say that there is a negative condition, a

negative element, as much a part of any energy or power as is the

positive element or rjositive condition.

POSITI VE: On the other hand we cannot say, either, that there is a positive current or a positive energy, as some authorities on electri-

city say. If v/e liken the water in the pitcher to the positive ele-

ment we have but half of the whole thing; the whole thing being the

pitcher of water. In speaking of a pitcher of water we mean the

pitcher as much as the water. Both are necessary to complete the

thing. However, in practically all cases the positive element or the

positive condition is aiways the most important in the process of

causing a manifestation, It is the positive which seeks out the

negative. It is the positive which enters the negative. It is the



positive which makes the first move toward its other and complement

ary element. It is the positive which is ever reaching out trying infuse, control and actuate the nonactive negative. The positive penetrates, while the negative simply absorbs. The negative become

inspired, enlivened, actuated, moved, by the positive.

POLARiTV: To understand precisely what is meant by the term polarit

as used throughout this manuscript, one must first discard any unde

standing of it derived from electrical science or study, and then

carefully note the principles involved in the laws of magnetism as

given here. In electrical science the term polarity is defined as:

"Indicating that (a thing) has two poles or parts at which certain

properties are the opposite to one another. "Like the definition for

negative. this is essentially true, but not wholly complete. A mag

net has two poles, the north and south poles, and therefore we might

properly say that a magnet or magnetised thing has certain polarityBut this is not clear enough nor satisfactory for the very definite

purposes necessary in this manuscript.

The word polarity is derived from the Latin oolaris and polus, mean-

ing pole; and the term polarity may be limited by some, as in elec-

trical science, to cam that a thing has a pole or poles of a magneti

quality or nature, In that science a polarised cell is a cell that

has both north and south poles, or, as we may sa.y, negative and pos-

itive qualities. It is correct, then, to say that things having a

negative and positive electrical quality a,re polarized, but the pol-

arity of such a thing: is a matter to be determined.

In fact, everything having an electrical or magnetic nature must

have a polarity that is either negative or positive. In using the

term in this way one sees at once what we mean by the word polarity

It is the predominating quality of a polarized thing.

Now since all things in the universe, either animate or inanimate,

are the result of vibratory action produced by the radiations of Nouand since all such things must contain the dual qualities of Nous,

they have both negative and positive qualities, or are polarized. Bu

nothing that exists has an equal amount or equal strength of negativ

and positive qualities. There is always either more of the negative

or of the positive. And it is this difference which determines the

POLARITY.

Therefore, everything has either a Negative Polarity or a Positive

Polarity, according to whether there is more of the negative or more

of the positive element in its nature.

With^these few terms understood, we will consider the few laws which

obtain in the field of electricity. These laws as given here are

similar to those recognized in the science of electricity, with slig modification:

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necessary in order to have an electrical manifestation of any kind.

2. At the point, place or immediate vicinity of the unitiigof the

tv;o conditions or elements will the manifestation occur.

3. In and around the point or place of manifestation there is a dis

turbance or stressed condition of the equilibrium of the medium in

which the manifestation occurs.

4. This disturbed condition or stressed condition may manifest it-self in the form of a magnetic condition.

5. The positive element is ever seeking the negative and trying to

get away from around it all that is also positive; the negative is

ever desiring, wanting, the positive and trying to hold back the

influx or contact of anything negative. For this reason "like repel

like and attracts unlike", by which we learn that the positive is •-

seeking its affinity the negative and repulsing the positive, while

the negative is also seeking its affinity the positive and repulsing

or pushing away the negative.

6 . This action of attraction and repulsion is constant throughout

all nature and results in the continuous process of all elements

adding to themselves dissimilar elements and building up, creating:

while the repulsion manifests in a process of disintegration which

enables creation to continue with released elements.

7. The electric?.! energy as a unit, or either one of its two elemen

can be transmitted from one thing to another either through contact

through close proximity to or location within the stressed or magnet

condition referred to in law #3.

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SECTION THREE PRINCIPLES OF MAGNETISM

The following principles and laws in regard to magnetism should he

well learned, or rather consciously digested, so that they appeal to

the reasoning as logically true, rational and so simple that they are

easily remembered. They are based upon the laws and principles of

magnetism as taught in the various schools of electrical science.

The word magnetism is derived from the name of the town of Magnesia,

in Asia Minor, where the ancients discovered a mineral having an un-usual condition which manifested itselfin an attractive force exert-

ed upon iron. The attractive power thus manifested they termed mag-

netism and the minerals they called magnets. The ore really consist-ed of a combination of seventytwo parts of iron (Vibratory Key 60)

and twentyeight parts of oxygen (Vibratory Key 16). ■

NATURAL MAGNETS . . .

The ore referred to above .abhstituted one of the natural magnets

to be found in the earth. This particular ore, ..and all of its kind,

have been named LODESTONES because it was found that when such miner-

als were suspended in free space from a..thread it invariably swung

around to such a position (unless affected by another magnetic or elec

trical body) that one of its magnetic ends pointed toward the magnetic

North of the Earth and the other end toward the magnetic South of the

Earth. For this reason such minerals were used by navigators to de-

termine the oourse of the vessel and to lead them on the open sea. As

"leading stones" they came to be known as lodestones. It was observ-

ed that when the mineral magnet was suspended in free space and swung

around north and south the same end of the stone always pointed north-

ward. This invariability of the peculiar action of the lodestone at

once suggested a relation'between "the one end of the ore and the North

Magnetic Pole. Experiments with the ore, as a magnet, revealed some

principles which later were proved to be laws of nature, or, as we

will call them here, laws of electricity.

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETS:

One of the first discoveries thus made wa,s that when the lodestoire

was rubbed against a hardened piece of steel the steel acquired the same magnetic properties peculiar to the lodestone without the latter

losing any of its properties. In other words, the piece of steel also

became a magnet, .and, if suspended in free space, also swung around sothat its ends pointed to the North and to the South. And even this

steel magnet, would impart dome of its .magnetic quality or nature to other pieces of stefel. •.

These "magnetized"pieces of steel were called Artificial Magnets in

contradistinction.to the natural magnets found in the earth. Other

metals or ores have been found to submit to this magnetizing quality

also. They are Nickel and Carbalt, which have the same Vibratory Key

as Iron, and Maganese, Cerium and Chromium, which are in the same

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octave of the Vibratory Key Board and closely related.

The next important discovery was that the two opposite ends of the

magnet, those ends most widely separated from each other, constituted

the magnetic poles of the magnet.

How the poles of a magnet are of opposite and opposing qualities,

or natures, and this very condition is what constitutes a magnetic

condition. I7e will continue to use our explained terminology and say

that one pole is negative and the other is positive. For this reason

the one pole has an attraction to or for the other. The positive pol

radiates a certain flow of electric waves which go forth seeking' a

series of negative gaps or undulations into which the positive vibra-

tions can find a proper place. On the other hand, the negative pole

is radiating, or rather creating or causing to exist in its environment a condition that might be termed an electirc or vibratory vacuum

This condition seeks or calls for the positive vibrations which will

attune with it and supply what is missing. This action between the

two poles of a magnet is attraction and constitutes what is termed Magnetic attraction.

On the other hand, if two negative poles are brought near each other

the condition they create or cause in their environment is exactly th

same from each pole and the natural tendency is, that when the negati

gaps or vacuum conditions emanate from the poles and find only a simi-

lar condition responding, or nearby, each repels the other, not desir

ing any more of that condition and pushing it away so that its own

negative condition will not be added to. Likewise, when two positive poles come near each other both send forward into the same environment

similar vibrations, each desiring no more of its own kind but seeking

that which it has not; and therefore the vibrations from the two

positive poles repel each other. This is also repelling. In this ac-

tion, then,between similar poles we have the opposite orinciole to

ATTRACTION, and it is called REPULSION.

These two principles of ATTRACTION and REPULSION, based upon the

action explained in Laws Number 1,2,3,4, and 5, as given on Page two

Lecture eleven, constitute one of the fundamental laws to be utilized

in the explanations of nature's processes of creation.

Explanation of Plate One.

A study of the diagram on Plate One will make plain these principles.

In^Diagram No.l we have the common type of "bar” magnet a steel bar

which has been magnetized and is an artificial magnet, therefore; one

end is positive and the other is negative. In the center of the bar,

where both the negative and positive qualities blend or neutralize,

there is a neutral section, marked A, where the bar manifests no mag-

netic quality at all. Both the positive and negative poles are

emanating their individual kinds of magnetic waves and these waves

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In Diagram No.2 we have the ends of two separate magnets turned so

that the negative ends or poles of each magnet are toward each other

Here we see the negative magnetic waves of the two poles radiating

into space, hut as they come near to the waves of the other they_are

repulsed. At points marked B and C we notice the effect of the re-

pulsion because the waves.become weaker or neutralized; and in the

very center of the space the two sets of waves repulse each other an

refuse to blend or mingle. The space between B and C, therefore, re

mains a neutral field.

In Diagram No.3 we have two magnets facing each other, but with oppo

ite poles the negative and the positive. Each sends forth its

magnetic waves toward the other, but here we find the negative draw-ing or reaching out as far as possible to absorb the waves of the

positive pole; and these positive waves likewise go forth with the

utmost force, with no repulsion to retard, and blend into the waves

the negative. T7e notice that bbth'the positive and negative waves

are stronger at the poles and become weaker as they get farther away

from the poles, but in the center of.the space between the poles, be

tween the letters D and E, we see how equally the waves of one pole

fit into the waves of the other pole. This center space, then, con-

stitutes a UNITY of the two and is termed the MAGNETIC FIELD. It isa field of attraction, and anything coming within that field would

Joe affected by the UNITY of magnetic wavesoexisting there.

To be Continued in Lecture Number

TWELVEA

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