Ancient and Modern Physics - Thomas E. Willson
"When we learned that lesson, and learned it well, it dawned upon
us that we were living in the pranic globe at the same kinetic
level or plane of that globe, the line where its solids and
liquids and gases mingled and passed from one state to another,
the kinetic belt in which our solar globe has been made, and that
we were living as truly on that globe as we were on this
prakritic globe. Our position on each globe was the same.
"And then the great truth came that we lived in the manasic
globe, at the same kinetic level; and that we lived our lives on
the four globes simultaneously. Our bodies are fourfold. Every
atom is fourfold, ready to respond in our minds to the vibrations
of the Manasic world, in our vitality to the pranic vibrations of
the pranic world, in our nerves to the etheric vibrations of the
etheric world, and in our prakriti to vibrations of the prakritic
world. Each one of our bodies lived on its own earth globe, for
there were four globes of this earth--in coadunition--in its
corresponding kind of globe.
"The four earth globes became one globe, as our four bodies were
one body; and the chain of four kinds of globes in matter became
one globe, as the manasic with the others on it.
"These four kinds of globes were the beginning and the end of
matter, as we distinguish and know matter. They were not the end
of vibration; or of planes of vibration; or of realms beyond
this material universe; but they were the limits of all that is
common to each and every atom of this lower plane of vibration.
"It is upon this solid and perfect foundation of physics, that
accounts for and explains every kind of phenomena, we have
constructed our metaphysics. All that belongs to these four
lower planes we consider and treat as physics. All that relates
to the planes beyond we consider metaphysics. Can you teach a
child equation of payments before he knows the first four rules?
You would not attempt such a task. The first four rules are the
physics of arithmetic; all beyond is the metaphysics of
arithmetic. It flows out of them. Can you comprehend our system
of metaphysics until you have clearly and completely mastered our
physics? Would you not get into a fog at the very start?
"There can be no system of metaphysics without a solid foundation
of physics. The idea is unthinkable. The one grows out of the
other. It is its life; its fruit, its flower.
"You have no western system of physics. Your physics are without
form and void; patchwork, constantly changing. There is no
substantial foundation for any system of metaphysics. What you
say or do in physics is fragmentary or chaotic.
"It is perfectly true, so far as you have gone through the first
invisible world of ether, you are much more masters of detail
than we are.
"We have not cared particularly for the minor details by which
explosives are made, or metals obtained from oxides. We have
preferred to push on into realms beyond as fast as we could,
seeking first the Kingdom of Heaven and its Righteousness,
knowing that when it was found all these things would be added
unto us."
Chapter Seven
The Four Globes
That we live in the earth, not on the earth, is one of the most
important of the facts of eastern physics in the study of its
metaphysics. The mathematical and physical proof that the
physical earth is 50,000 miles in diameter should not be
passed over lightly in our haste to get on, for the perfect
understanding of all this fact implies makes easy the
comprehension of how we live etherically in the solar etheric
globe, of how we live pranically in the stellar pranic globe, and
how we live manasically in the manasic globe.
As we live within the narrow "skin" of phenomena, not more than
100 miles thick, of this prakritic globe, with the whole earth
within the corresponding skin of phenomena of the solar etheric
globe, within the kinetic belt in which it was made, the ether
which surrounds each prakritic molecule is not merely any and
every kind of ether, but that particular kind of kinetic ether,
which, by changing its rate of vibration through an octave,
creates phenomena. The ether of all prakritic matter belongs to
the kinetic or creative belt of the solar etheric globe. It is
not static ether. The ether in our prakriti is in touch with all
the prakritic kinetic ether of the solar globe, subject to all
solar laws of change; and all our prak-solar laws of change;
and all our prakritic matter, a mere detail of it, is a part of
the solar phenomena. "Our father, the sun," or "Dyaus pitar"
("heavenly father"--Latin, Jupiter) meant more once than it does
now. Then the solar globe was the first heaven, and to live
under its laws, puttings off the coat of skin, was an object
which men believed to be worth striving for. They recognized, as
we do not, that our prakritic laws were not all they had to obey;
that the higher law of the solar globe on which they lived, of
which the lower prakritic laws were merely an outcome and detail,
was worthy of the closest study. And they recognized that these
higher laws of the etheric globe were metaphysical as well as
physical; that our moral law flows out of the moral law of the
solar etheric world, as our physics flow from and out of solar
physics. Religion is correct in its assumption of this higher
law of morals; incorrect only in its grasp and explanation.
Science is correct in holding only in its assumption that it is
physical science; incorrect only in its assumption that it is
physical science of this plane and globe only. There is no
quarrel between science and religion when the full knowledge of
one stands beside the full knowledge of the other. They are
twin-sisters.
This solar-etheric globe in which we are interested revolves
around Alcyone within that kinetic belt or skin of prana which is
subject to phenomena or vibration through one octave--else it
would never have been formed. All prana in the solar-etheric
globe is of this particular kind of kinetic prana, which creates
life of all kinds--which is subject to vibration through one
octave. The solar globe is a detail of kinetic prana only, one
of its phenomena. Necessarily, all our prana is of this kinetic
kind, and our earth a minor detail of it in the Alcyone globe.
All the changes and combinations possible in kinetic prana on the
pranic globe are possible here, in our kinetic prana, as all the
phenomena of the etheric world are possible here in our kinetic
ether.
As our earth is a globe of ether and a globe of prana as well as
a globe of prakriti; we are actually living on a small "cabbage"
of that pranic globe, and subject to all its laws.
In the vast manasic globe that includes this whole material
universe there is the same kinetic belt or skin of "phenomena" or
vibration similar to that kinetic belt in which we live on the
earth, and the manasa which permeates the Alcyonic globe, the
solar globe, and the earth is that kinetic manasa which is
involving and evolving. This involving and evolving kinetic
manasa of the Alcyonic globe is that which surrounds every atom
of ether of the solar globe and every atom of prakriti of this
earth globe. In the great manasic globe this earth of ours is a
minute village of Helios (sun) county, in the state of Alcyone.
We are actually and literally living in this manasic globe
precisely as we live in this earth, and as in the village we are
subject to all the laws of the manasic world, we can study them
here in this village as well as we could elsewhere. We can study
them as easily as we study our prakritic village laws, or our
etheric county laws, for all the forms of manasa subject to them
anywhere are here with us. We are not limited to a study of the
prakritic laws of the village fathers, nor yet to the etheric
laws of the supervisors of Helios county, as scientists say, nor
even to the state laws of Alcyone; only the manasic laws of the
Universe limit our material studies in that direction. As some
men on this earth never leave their native village and never know
or care for any matters outside of it, so in this little earth
village, in the kinetic belt of the manasic globe, there are men
who do not care to know anything which relate to matters outside
its boundaries. As some men may pass the boundaries of their
village, but not of their county, caring only for the matters
concerning it, so the western scientists of this earth village on
the manasic globe do not pass the boundaries of Helios county,
caring only for etheric matters. The philosophers and wise men
of the East are broader minded and from time immemorial have
taken greater interest in the pranic affairs of Alcyone and the
manasic condition of the universe in which Alcyone is a state
than in the rustic murmur of their village or the gossip of their
county.
There is nothing lacking in our manasic earth-village, nothing
that is in more abundant measure in our county, state, and
nation. We are of the best.
We of this village may imagine, if we like, that there is nothing
beyond the village limits, and nothing in it but that which
relates to the village. We have the right to be silly, if we
wish to be. And it is no sign of wisdom to say that there is a
county beyond, but that the county boundaries end all, and only
village and county politics may be studied. The European who
believed--no Asiatic or African or American could have believed
--that the earth rested on an elephant and the elephant on
a turtle was wise, in comparison. Nor is it any sign of
intelligence to say that we may learn something of the village
and county while we live, but that to learn anything about the
state and nation we must wait until we are dead. There are too
many in the village who are familiar with both state and nation,
and who have studied their laws, for this to be anything but
idiotic.
Chapter Eight
The Battle Ground
Each and every one of our eighty-odd elementary substances owe
their condition--whether solid, liquid, or gas--to their rate
of vibration. We have reduced all gases to a liquid and nearly
all to a solid form. Conversely, we have raised all solids to a
liquid and nearly all to a gaseous condition. This has been done
by reducing or raising the vibration of each within one octave
--each one of the eighty odd having a special octave, a tone or
half-tone different from any other. Normally, the solids,
vibrating in the lower notes, gather together under Attraction;
while the gases, vibrating in the higher notes, diffuse under
Repulsion. Between them, created by the interchange of these two
forces, is our "skin" of phenomena, or kinetics.
Broadly, the attraction of the universe comes from its vibration
at certain centres in the three higher notes; the repulsion
comes from its vibration everywhere else in the three higher
notes. The central note, D of the scale, represents the battle
ground between the field of kinetics. This in simple
illustration is water turning into gas.
This is the great battle ground, the only one worth considering
in a general view. There are minor "critical stages" which the
chemist studies, but for us, in this broad sketch of the
universe, the important battle-ground is that between solid and
liquid on one side representing gravity, and gas on the other,
representing apergy.
All the solids and liquids of this earth of ours gather at the
centre, in a core, each of the elements (or their combinations)
in this core vibrating in their three lower notes, producing the
attraction, which is "in proportion to the mass" and which
decreases from the surface of the core "as the square of the
substance."
Around this central core gather all the elements vibrating in the
three higher notes of their octave as gases, producing repulsion
which increases by 1.6 for each doubled time. It is worth while
making this clear. It has never before appeared in print.
Let the amount of apergy, or repulsion, or centrifugal force at
the surface of the earth be represented by x. This is the result
of motion at the rate of 1,000 miles per hour. Make this motion
2,000 miles per hour, and the apergy is increased 1.6. Four
thousand miles above the surface of this earth the rotation
is at the rate of 2,000. It is the globe of 48,000 miles in
circumference revolving in 24 hours, and the speed is doubled.
This apergy has increased by 1.6. As the apergy increases at
this rate every time the speed is doubled, at a distance
of 21,000 miles the speed is 7,000 miles per hour and the
centrifugal force has been increased nearly four times what it
was at the surface of the ocean. The attraction has been
decreased to about one-thirtieth. At the surface it is equal to
120 x. At 4,000 miles to one-quarter, or 30 x; at 16,000 miles
to one-sixteenth, or 7 x; and at 21,000 miles to 4 x.
If "equatorial gravity is about 120 times that of the equatorial
apergy," at the ocean level, then at the distance of 21,000 miles
from it, in a revolving globe, the two forces would be equal;
the "pull" of each being 4 x, and an anchor will weigh no more
than a feather, for weight is the excess of gravity or apergy.
If the pyramids had been built of the heaviest known material on
the gases 21,000 miles above us, and so that they should revolve
in the same time, 7,000 miles per hour, they would remain there.
All the attraction of the solid core of the earth that could be
exerted on them at that distance would not be enough to pull them
an inch nearer to it through our gaseous envelope. Their gaseous
foundation there would be as firm as igneous rock here.
The force of repulsion created by the three higher notes of an
octave means just as much at the attraction created by the three
lower notes, whether it is in a chemical retort, within this
earth, or within this universe. The two forces balance, and are
exactly equal. They fight only within kinetic zones.
Given the vast manasic globe of differentiated matter, its atoms
uniting in different numbers to form molecules as the bases of
elementary substances, manasic substances, of course. The thrill
of vibration is sweeping through it from the spiritual plane
above, and the elements (and their combinations) which answer in
the lower notes gather and form a core, the Invisible Central
Sun, with its attraction. The elements answering in the higher
notes gather around it with their repulsion. So the two opposing
forces were born, with a vast kinetic skin for a battle-ground
between them.
The attraction of the invisible central sun manifests itself to
us in prakriti as Light. The repulsion of its covering, or the
higher static vibration of manasa, manifests itself to us as
Darkness. The first creative act in or on matter was the
creation of Light and its separation from the Darkness. The next
creative act was the establishment of a kinetic skin or zone
between them, a firmament in which the two forces of Light and
Darkness could strive for mastery. "And God called the firmament
Heaven." The third creative act was the gathering of the solids
and liquids together, and the beginning of the kinetic work in
the creation of forms and shapes, by the cross play of the two
forces in their combinations of solid with gases.
All this had to happen before the manasa combined and dropped in
vibration to prana--and before the pranic globes were formed and
the Light could be manifested to us through them. It may be well
to read the first chapter of Genesis over and ask forgiveness for
our ignorance, from the writer who records this creation of the
pranic globes as the fourth act of creation, and the creation of
the etheric sun and prakritic moon to follow that. That record
is mutilated, fragmentary; but the writer of it knew the facts.
If we had the full story, instead of a sentence here and there,
taken from an older story not to tell of creation but to hide
another tale for the priest, the writer of Genesis would laugh
last.
But let us return to the kinetic skin of energy between Light and
the Darkness--the firmament which God calls Heaven--the battle
ground for gravity and apergy, or attraction and repulsion, or
good and evil, or the powers of light and darkness. This skin is
like that of an onion, thickest at the equator and thinnest at
the poles--not only on this earth but in the solar, alcyonic,
and manasic globes. The equatorial belt, where phenomena are
richest in the manasic globes, we call the Milky Way; in the
solar globe we call it the plane of the ecliptic; and on the
earth, the tropics. Modern science has not yet found it in
Alcyonic globe--because it has never thought of looking for it.
This division of the Light from the Darkness was all that was
required for evolution on the manasic globe within the kinetic
belt. This evolution was not confined to the making of a few
alcyonic or pranic globes. It was (and is) a great and wonderful
evolution beyond words and almost beyond imagination. It is the
Heaven which mankind has longed to see and know. The writer of
Genesis mixed it with the creation of this earth, using earthly
metaphors. Before finding fault, we should better his language.
We have not the words in physics to do it, and must wait for our
metaphysics. But of one thing we may be sure, that the pranic-
alcyonic globes here and there at the "sea level" of the manasic
globe--in what God calls Heaven--amount to no more on that
globe, or in Heaven, than so many balls of thistle-down blown
across a meadow do on this earth of ours. Everything that can be
created in thought must be there. It is in thought only, but in
thought it is differentiated as sharply as anything in prakriti.
The manasic world, the Heaven of the Bible, is as real as our own
world can possibly be; in fact, more real, for when ours is
resolved back into its final elements, it will be but "the dust
of the ground" of the manasic world.
The pranic globes created in this manasic skin by Sound, or the
Logos, or vibration, evolved in identically the same way--with a
central static core and an outer static envelope, of low and high
vibration in prana, creating attraction and repulsion, or gravity
and apergy. The kinetic skin between, in which these forces play
in the pranic world, makes a real, not an imaginary pranic world,
though but a faint reflection of the manasic. When our father,
the Central Invisible Sun, transfers his attraction to these
alcyonic suns, the Light has something in which to manifest
itself, and we "see" this manifesting core and call it Alcyone,
and its manifestation Light; but light in its last material
analysis is but the static mind or thought vibrating in the three
lower notes of the octave.
Chapter Nine
The Dual Man
Within the alcyonic globes of differentiated pranic-manasic atoms
the vibration divided them also into solid-liquid cores and
gaseous envelopes, and a kinetic skin of phenomena. And then a
new world--a world of Life, came into material existence. All
the atoms of thought or manasa, surrounding each and every pranic
atom, and making its molecule of energy, so to speak, were that
particular kind of kinetic manasa ready to change its rate of
vibration within an octave, and the forms prana assumes from the
action of thought within the kinetic belt were living and
thinking. Each pranic globe, which was a small state of product
of the manasic, consisted of two globes in coadunition--two in
one. Each pranic atom was the centre of a manasic molecule and
represented the universe. All things were two in one, created by
harmonic vibration between them, and existence by the greater
strength of the lower notes, or attraction. It was at once less
and more wonderful than the manasic world--a specialized form of
it.
When within this kinetic belt of the prana the etheric solar
globes formed here and there, they were three fold, each atom of
the new plane of matter having its surrounding envelope of prana-
manasa--a specialization of the pranic world in which (what we
call) force had been added to life and mind. The static ether,
vibrating in each of its elements through one octave, divided
into central core (our sun, and other suns) and outer covering,
with a skin or belt of kinetic energy, "as above" which developed
an etheric world. All things on this etheric world were caused
by the harmonic vibration between the etheric atoms and their
surrounding envelopes, except that while all things in this
etheric world must have life, not all need have mind. The chord
of three was not necessary to create; the chord of two was
enough, and the manasic atoms might cease to vibrate in chord
with the prana and ether without affecting the creation. Only in
the etheric world (and below it) could there be living mindless
ones. To the etheric globes the stellar pranic cores transferred
their light, which manifested itself in the solid static ether as
Attraction and in the gaseous static ether as Repulsion, within
the kinetic skin of each etheric world more specialized and less
varied than the pranic.
Our sun is not of prakriti, but of static ether, composed of the
separate and individual elementary substances of the ether, and
their compounds vibrating in the lower notes of their octaves.
It is our father, not our elder brother. Its envelope of static
ether in which the planet revolves is composed of the elementary
substances and combinations vibrating in the higher notes of
their octave. The light transferred to this etheric globe from
its mother, Alcyone, manifests itself in the lower vibration of
the sun as Attraction; in the higher vibrations of its envelope
as Repulsion, and within the kinetic skin wherein these forces
play, the prakritic globes, planets, were born.
Take our earth. Each atom is fourfold--whether of the static
core or of the static gaseous envelope. Creation on it is
limited to the kinetic skin, wherein the attraction of the lower
and repulsion of the higher notes in each octave of vibration
have full play. All things on it must have come from the
chording vibrations of the atoms of the prakritic elementary
substances and their envelope of ether. They may or may not have
life or mind the ether atom may have lost its chord with its
pranic envelope, or the pranic envelope may have lost its chord
with the manasic; but the combination must have force or energy
within it. It may have lost Mind and Life in acquiring it, or
after acquiring it; but it had to have life before it could
become prakriti.
All things in the prakritic world flow from the Life of the
etheric and the Mind of the pranic worlds. Everything in the
etheric world has life, and our unconscious personification or
"vivification" of etheric life transferred into fauna or flora,
or into force of any kind, has a natural explanation. The
thrill of vibration in one octave through the differentiated
consciousness of the universe by which the light was separated
from the darkness, the lower from the higher, was all that was
required to create each star and sun, and world, and all that in
them is. And it was all good.
Each thing on every lower world was but the translation into form
of the type of the next world (or plane) above. As each element
on this prakritic type, so each combination of those elements
into crystal or tree or animal is but the translation. The
normal earth from the crystal to (the animal) man was pure, and
clean, and holy. Sin had not entered.
How did it come?
On the vast manasic world there was "a special creation"--that
of the Angel Man. The three planes of Spirit above were
undifferentiated consciousness, but they were in different
octaves of vibration, and these working on the three highest
forms of differentiated consciousness (manasic matter) brought
them to chording Vibration so that when they combined and reached
their highest point in evolution they "created" the Angel (or
manasic) man. He was the product in kinetic manasa of the three
spiritual planes above him, precisely as the animal man was the
product in kinetic prakriti of the three material planes above
him. The latter was the "shadow" of the other.
The Angel-man had a material (manasic) body, but his energy life,
and mind were spiritual. The animal man had a prakritic body,
with energy, life and mind that were material.
So far all was good.
The animal man has four bodies--one of prakriti, one of ether,
one of prana, and one of manasa. It may be true, and probably
is, that his manasic body is not sounding in chord with his
prakritic body, but only with those atoms of it which are in his
brain and nerves; but that is immaterial--for future
consideration.
The Angel man had but one body, of manasa, in which the spirit
dwelt; but that body was identical in substance with the body
that made the mind of the animal man. His manasic body joined
the manasic body of the animal man, joined with it by entering
into the animal man's mind, as easily as water from one glass is
added to water in another glass, and the animal "man became a
living soul," endowed with speech, while the Angel-man was given
"a skin coat."