, Sulphur
, and Mercury
, which may be translated as Matter, Energy and Intelligence. They are in fact not three essentially different things, but only three modes of activity of one and the same thing; for everything is substantial, each contains a latent or active force, in each is the potentiality of consciousness, if it has not already become manifested therein. Everything exists, therefore, by reason of these “three substances,” and if we for the sake of forming some idea of their nature look at the world as a manifestation of electricity (which must necessarily be substantial, as there could be no force without substance), we may compare them as follows:
to electric resistance.
to the tension of electromotive force.