Though his discovery was disputed it has since been verified and the theory strongly supported. These organs are the beneficent media through which the Spirit operates.
From time immemorial the human hand has been regarded as the life-point of a mysterious magical power, but not until Pacini’s discovery do we know its seat. These corpuscles are its seat. Are they perhaps agglomerations of such monads as I have described and thus the media by means of which the highest spiritual powers perform their work?
We find the Elementals under all forms of existence, as mere natural forces, totally, to our perceptions, destitute of any self-conscious life; we find them also attaining a form very near the human. There is no valid reason against supposing them to be the stuff out of which we form thoughts, much less against considering them to be the life-giving elements in the Pacinian corpuscles.
Let us maintain the theory that there is no such thing as a dead or inanimate force in the universe. Every atom, itself a form of power, is alive with force. Every atom in space reflects the Universal Self, who is:
The Soul of Things.
I shall now come to the end of my paper by a few words which contain the practical purpose of my lecture.
(1) The monads, just described, whether they reflect the auras, that surround us consciously or unconsciously, whether they are used as mind-stuff or be located in the Pacinian corpuscles of the hand, are physical media of intercourse between the Elementaries and the adepts.
Why not! If Eastern adepts and Western mediums are in possession of power to atomize “the body,” to make it become the smallest of the smallest, to enter into a diamond, for instance, if they have power to magnify “the body” to any dimensions; to change the polarity of the body, to make it become the lightest of the lightest as in the well known phenomena of levitation, why should the Elementaries, existing, as they do, under much more favorable circumstances, not be able to enter into matter, to enter into atoms which “contain a Sun” and there, for the time being direct its vital principle and its universal orbs, to such purposes as they choose, to make it serve the adept’s or magician’s will, who seeks aid or enlightenment?
(2) I contend that they do! And I argue for the necessity of producing such surroundings of auras of monads as will facilitate and raise the standard of what is commonly called “Mediumship.”
(3) I argue for a cultivation of the image-making power of the soul, that we may be able to direct and utilize consciously the intercourse with the Elementaries.