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FEBRUARY,

1906

Universal Vibration

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RIMITIVE man, and even man in the later and middle ages, saw in the phenomena of nature many diverse forces, each emanating from a deity. The sun was a fiery chariot drawn by fiery steeds driven by the sun god, Phoebus. Earth was borne upon the back of a man called Atlas. The sea was presided over by the god called Neptune whose sceptre was a trident. Jupiter ruled the upper air and Pluto the lower regions. There were numerous Sylvan gods for the woods and nymphs for the streams. There was a god for the flowers, the showers, the clouds, the moon, the night, the day, the seasons, the thunder, the north wind, the south wind, the west wind, the east wind, a god of sleep and dreams-everything, every movement, every occurrence in nature was controlled by a separate and independent deity.

So, what we now call the Universe was believed to be a Diverse. No harmony was possible, no stability was to be relied upon. No law was known. All depended upon the individual whims of the gods.

After the age of myths passed away with the Greek and Roman Empires and the old Anglo-Saxon dynasties with the deities of their worship, there was a general narrowing down on gods. There had always been, as far back as history extends, one nation of people who believed in but one god. Their civil and re

their attempt to strike a perfect balance between what they called the Centrifugal and Centripetal forces.

Then the atom in what has been called matter was conceived of, found to be a necessity, although it could not be separated, seen, tasted, felt or destroyed. The atom, then, is a mental or spiritual substance, absolutely indestructible.

Experiments in electricity began to develop some more unifying wonders. Impressions were carried by vibrations in a wire set up by what was called the electric current. Then they learned how to start the vibrations by vocal sounds uttered upon a tympanum. Later, vibrations were obtained through space independent of wire or air, so that intelligible messages can be sent and received between persons thousands of miles apart.

Without attempting to follow out all the steps, I will come to the final conclusion toward which you clearly see all these investigations and discoveries were tending, the unification of all essence and power. It is now taught in our schools that there is but one substance or essence in being and that the different manifestations in matter, light, heat, electricity etc., are different modes and degrees of vibrations among the atoms of the one universal substance. One mode and degree manifests stone, another wood, another light, another electricity, another thought, and so on.

We have perceived that what is called matter is the grossest form of this vibratory manifestation. Then follow in order of fineness, air, heat, electricity, light, ether, mind or spirit.

It would appear from this that mind or spirit is the essence itself, and that it is omnipresent. This is, then, God essence and the source of all power as manifested in all the forces observed in nature.

All vibration is life. In other words, all vibration

is the action of the mystery which we call life. We know it is, but do not know whence nor what it is. It is never still, never stagnant, never absent from any point in space. All activity is resultant from life. All hope, aspiration, love, energy, all brain action, is a movement of life.

Under this new discovery of the unification of essence, it becomes unavoidably conclusive that there is but one law.

What do we mean by law? We do not mean statutory enactments, nor the edicts of an autocrat. It is Principle of Being that is inherent in essence, the the substance uncreated. As Being is, Law is. It is the eternal Principle upon which all being is founded. It had no giver nor maker. It is from everlasting to everlasting, one with Being.

This one Law prevails everywhere and there is no antagonistic law or force anywhere. It acts in electricity to sustain and move the worlds and systems of worlds. It is seen in all life manifestations, as growth, change, movement of all kinds. If there were an adverse law or power, there could be no Universe. Kepler said:

"If one small atom were to stray, all nature would hasten to decay." An adverse power would surely

cause one atom to stray.

It follows that human thought and action which are in accord with the law or principle of Being render us not only safe, but powerful. Thus we enlist in our behalf the one power against which there is no opposing force. We become the mouthpiece for the utterance of its decrees and the strong arm for the execution of its will.

But if we are out of accord, out of harmony with the law we become weak and discordant and unhappy. We disturb in our own psychic sphere the vibrations of

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