If the brain is attuned to receive healthful vibrations, the body will surely respond and harmony or health obtain. This is the secret of mental healing in all its forms that is being practiced in these states today, whether it be Mental Science, Christian Science, New Thought, Divine Healing, Suggestive Therapeutics, or whatever; and reduces every one of these various systems of healing to a simple natural law of vibration. These healthful vibrations are as free to all as the air they breathe and cannot be cornered by any set of so-called “healers” in the world. The result of so-called evil or malefic vibrations we see every day in our hospitals, asylums, jails, police courts, etc. The reading of certain books and daily newspapers attunes the brain to receive a certain kind of vibration and the results usually lead to the reform school and State prison. What are called evil thought vibrations are as abounding in the universe as good thought vibrations, and if the brain is attuned to receive them, the resulting inharmonious conditions are sure to obtain.
Colors are the result of electric vibration. Sir William Crookes and Gessler demonstrated this by their invention of vacuum tubes. By attaching one of these tubes to one of the poles of a static electric machine, or high frequency coil, with a low potency, a yellow light is produced. The potency being increased red appears. By still further increasing the potency to about twelve million vibrations per second, purple or violet rays are generated. Then comes the Roentgen or X-ray—a brilliant, greenish, light, which renders opaque bodies transparent. Thus science in electrical discovery is rapidly revealing to us the secrets of the universe.
All vibrations are co-related. For instance, a man has a burst of violent passion—a high rate of brain cell vibration—and we say he “sees red.” This is true and he is almost sure to commit murder and will if the rate of vibration be kept up in his brain cells. And unless you can “switch the current”—lower the vibration—he will be plunged into a sea of color or intense vibration which his brain is unable to assimilate and we have what we term insanity. The writer firmly believes that Musical Vibrations which are transformed into electrical waves and transmitted to the patient, will ultimately be found to be the “switch” that shall change the potency of these vibrations in the insane, and restore many a hopeless entity to normal brain conditions.
As another illustration of the power of thought vibrations take those that went forth when Garrison, Phillips, Sumner and others voiced the abolition of slavery in this country, which culminated in the greatest war of modern times and developed a manhood and self-sacrifice seldom if ever given to the world. This is Immortality. These events belong to no one country, but to the world and are the heritage of humanity, and but one step in the evolution of the race toward the goal of perfect liberty, which is the knowledge of truth and love, and the real brotherhood of man.
CHAPTER III
Love and Music
Their Relation to Life. Their Influence in the Work of Evolution. The Power of Love. The Power of Music. All Emotions Produced by and Subject to These Two Forces.
Love and music had their birth and growth simultaneously, and have continued their journey side by side.
Primeval man through passion or the procreative tendency, surrounded himself with offspring. Through the appeal made by the helplessness of his children paternal love was evolved. From this was evolved love of family, tribe, clan, and country. In all this music moved side by side with love. The mother before language was born crooned her lullaby to her baby, and the father imitating the birds pursed his lips and made similar sounds. Later he used hollow reeds and fashioned pipes or flutes. Thus music was born, becoming a universal language, and has been involved throughout all the ages. Music and love are inseparable, and their influence upon mankind is unfathomable. We read a love story, or hear a love song, and each brings a thrill of emotion or vibration that stimulates, and brings to the body that harmony, the perfection of which is fullness of life—health. The birds sing their love songs to their mates and these vibrations fill the woods with music. The humming bird with continuous accompanying melody gathers the honey from the flowers to feed its young. All music is life and life is love. The youth is transformed into a man, the maiden into a woman, by love. And this is a new birth or regeneration. Emerson says, “The passion remakes the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. Nature grows conscious. Every bird on the bough of the tree sings now to his heart and soul. The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent.” All nature breathes love, which is expressed in self-abnegation, dying that other species may live. Prof. Darwin at a meeting of a Scientific Society in Dublin made this statement, “All vegetation sees, hears, breathes and feels.” Witness the action of the sensitive and carnivorous plants.