Due to this fact, we repeat our fomulas and symbolisms frequently, to keep the readers' mind constantly fixed upon them. It is our urgent desire to make very plain our conception of a universal mentation which directs, guides, and controls visible creation. This necessarily implies a thinking, reasoning personality, back of and superior to the visible, differentiated beings. We assume that, the super-mind is potential in its primary state, which we call the universal pabulum, which is substance but not matter. Dormant within this universal womb are all of the primordial and eternal forces which are the manifesting agents. There are four principles which control the transition of potential energy into the active state. In the manifestation of these principles the true matter is created out of the universal substance, to differentiate, individualize and reveal these principles. Individuality naturally implies a substantial or material body. There is but one name which identifies the original, or initiative force; that is vital energy in the potential state, which becomes life in the embodied state. We can find no plausible reason for applying the name God to nature. God is a coined word, with a dual significance, to be applied only to human purposes. Between potential energy, sleeping in the universal substance, and life, active in matter, are to be manifested all of the phenomena which can give us knowledge concerning the nature, aspects and purposes of the creative processes. There are four formative principles or attitudes which control the creative processes and these become our unerring guides. We can follow them from the beginning to the end of each system; they do not deceive or mislead and they are always found in their positions to reveal their functions. Two of these principles are active and two are passive, the latter being the deposited residue or ash of the active forces. It is by this fact that we conclusively prove that the original substance is chemically converted into the true matter, and that even the released active principles are embodied entities, which we have previously named as living larva: Cold, warm, dry and moist. These are the attitudes assumed by vital energy, in its transition from the potential state to the active, creative state. It is one energy revealed in the several phases which are essential to create matter, or material bodies, through which to reveal other combinations of creative forces. Cold is the negative state of energy. Warm is the active state of energy. Dry is the ash of chemical combustion, hence it is matter, the product of the reduction of the substance which held intact the original larva. act. Moisture is equally a form of ash resulting from the same What may we recognize here? Our well demonstrated primary elements as the bodies of these principles : Nitrogen, Oxygen, Cold. Warm. Carbon, Hydrogen, This is the act which creates the first true atom of matter, and this true atom is a living, nucleated cell-life surrounded by primitive matter, carbon. This is the first true spark of living matter having expansion and contraction in the same body, with spiral motion and mechanical respiration. The creation of this primitive atom is but the active or unfolding half of the process of creating the basic forms of matter. Reaction is equal to action, and the creation of physical, organic bodies is a reactive process, the waves concealed in the spiral atom actually being pushed out in reverse attitudes. Vegetation definitely manifesting the reactive process; the root symbolizing the spiral, the supporting trunk the carbon body, the expanding limbs the positive nature of oxygen, and the conserving leaves the negative nitrogen, with all their heads pointing towards the root, symbolizing the nursing and nourishing of the young by the parent. Intermediate, between the atomic state and the physical, is the molecular process which prepares and differentiates the essential, basic elements for physical bodies. The atomic is the vibratory because impulse is from unit to unit, each atom being composed of a certain number of electron units. Nitrogen is composed of fourteen negative or cold electrons; Oxygen is composed of sixteen positive or warm electrons; carbon is composed of twelve dry electrons, and hydrogen is a union of all of these combined to from one living, nucleated atom, the nucleus or living germ, passing the vibratory on into the gaseous or molecular state. Where the atomic or vibratory is composed of electrons the gaseous or molecular is composed of differentiated atoms. The first molecule is evolved from the hydrogen spiral, forming a union of four secondary elements which are compounds of atoms. These new elements become the basic materials for, first, world building, and, second, for the physical bodies of vegetation and animals. This now becomes a simple chemical theorem, the combination of atoms to form molecules, and the union of molecules to form chemical compounds. It will be found that the original rule of four continues as our guide. Oxygen 16, unites with Carbon 12, the resultant product being silicon 28. Hydrogen 1, is released. Nitrogen 14, unites with oxygen 16, and hydrogen 1, and the resultant product is Phosphorus 31, the cold, chemical light. In this process, two hydrogen atoms are evolved, which unite with oxygen and water, H2O, is formed. Nitrogen 14, and water 18, unite and sulphur 32, is formed. These are the basic elements out of which evolute physical and organic bodies. In the process of world building we find these elements, and these forces, revealing themselves, and extending their suggestive influences to greater aggregations: as examples: Oxygen is always found as the aggressive, expansive and distributive element. It is in the atmosphere we find this decomposing element most active. Sulphur is found in a free state, therefore, open to the attack of oxygen. When sulphur is heated in contact with air it forms sulphur dioxide SO2 64, equal in atomic weight to a molecule of sulphur, 64. Hydrogen sulphide, or sulphuretted hydrogen, H-S. H-O-H is water; H-S-H is hydrogen sulphide. Hydrogen sulphide is heavier than air and under a pressure of 17 atmospheres it forms a colorless, mobile fluid which crystallizes at 85° (122° F.) Now, here is the evidence of our statement that water is one of the original constituents of sulphur. If burned in a small supply of oxygen, free sulphur is deposited and water is formed. If burned in a sufficient supply of oxygen, the products are water vapor and sulphur dioxide. Thus, in the creation of worlds, these prime elements plainly manifest their functions, even though passing from one consistency to another. All matter must follow the rule of four, Vibratory, Gaseous, Solid and Fluid, in progressive action, and the reverse in reaction. In other chapters we demonstrate our conception of the ultimate purposes of the creative scheme. PART V INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION (In physical evolution, death is as essential as life.) In a crude and unorthodox way we shall take up some of the chemical processes which reveal the Gnostic secrets of the integration and disintegration of material bodies. Science, by long and patient research, has provided symbols and established atomic values, for a known list of elements recognized in chemistry as the basic substances for the creation and development of material bodies. It is in the combining of these elements into new bodies that we find creative phenomena. Elements are propagated by growth and reproduction. Addition signifies growth, and has reference to the units of which bodies are composed. Multiplication signifies reproduction, having reference to the whole body, its purpose being to extend the system to produce more fruits and perpetuate the species. Both are governed by the rule of four. The hydrogen spiral is the beginning of both. The four atoms of which the spiral is composed, are blended into a common pabulum, bound together by the law which prohibits regurgitation and enforces progressive evolution. A remarkable valence system rules the combining of elements. Helium, atomic weight 4, is the new pabulum, and the first molecule of matter. ELEMENTAL VALENCE PERIODICITY We only demonstrate the first two series from Helium to Chlorin in our succeeding diagrams: |