CHAPTER IX
Resume and Conclusion
In the foregoing chapters I have endeavored to explain the great primeval force of life—Electricity. The task is an almost impossible one, for, while I know that my premises and deductions are correct, it is more than difficult by words and phrases and sentences to convey to the reader my deep conviction of the correctness of the theory introduced in these pages.
Some of the greatest scientists in the world are experimenting with this vital force, and almost daily the newspapers contain accounts of the phenomenal results that are attending their efforts.
Recently in Copenhagen a certain journalist had his portrait “photographed by electricity.” Copies were distributed throughout the city he was about to visit with instructions that he be arrested on sight. This was effected immediately upon his arrival there.
An important recent discovery is an electric lamp which can dissipate fog. It produces a dear, greenish, penetrating light like moonlight. It gives a great illuminating power without heat something like the X-ray.
Recently, aerograms were received in Honolulu and San Francisco from Japan, proving that the ethereal electrons are sure conductors throughout the cosmos. Entering, as this untiring energy does, into our every day life, it is not difficult for us to see that—Life is—and that Electricity is the only substance, out of whose revelations we are growing into greater understanding of the forces and workings of nature. These forces—variations and modifications of the one force—Electrical energy—have ever BEEN; but it has taken millions of ages and the evolution and development of man’s intelligence to even grasp the A, B, C of this almighty power. The future has in store discoveries of such magnitude and of such vast importance to the human race in this field of electrical phenomena that we may well exclaim, as did the psalmist, “such knowledge is too wonderful for me, it is high, I cannot attain unto it.”
All natural law is but some form of electrical energy by which is evolved all the various manifestations of this wonder-working substance. Atmospheres, ether, air, fire, water, earth, stars, planets, suns, worlds, man, are but combinations and vibrations of the integral particles or electrons of this one substance. Mountain and star-mist, consciousness, intelligence, savage, Sage, Sufi, all objective and subjective (organic and inorganic) entities, are but the infinite manifestations of this universal substance.
The X-ray is but an intense display produced by the vibration of trillions of these electrons. All that is called mind and all that is called matter, is but an expression of this one universal substance. In its eternal restless energy it creates, preserves, destroys, innumerable forms of mind and matter. This is eternal life. This is eternal intelligence. And “Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night showeth knowledge.”
A recent author on “Individualism and the vibratory energy” says, “Spirit and matter are one and the same vibratory force; and mind and matter are one and not distinct substances.”