Article selections by Clara J. Bloomfield-Moore | Notes by H.P.B.
. . . Ether in its high tenuous condition is above the atomic, both in sub-division and in elastic range; and is the third in order below the luminiferous track in this sub-division. The inter-etheric is the second sub-division, and the compound inter-etheric is the luminiferous track proper. As long as there is anything to sub-divide this anything sub-divided represents matter; and sub-division can go on through infinity: never ending, and yet no ultimatum reached. The luminiferous track is the door that opens on the seventh sub-division, still leaving an infinite field beyond.1 Yet, with all this, we are only verging on the threshold of research. . . .
. . . Returning to Dr. Schimmel’s lecture, we find this statement: “Atoms are different in shape, as crystallization shows!” Mr. Keely calls this an absurd theory, and says: “All corpuscules, no matter how great the sub-division may be, remain an unalterable sphere in shape.2 Their rotating envelopes are composed of tenuous matter, representing the high etheric in its order, having an affinity for the luminiferous condition. When dispersed by sympathetic vibration, they seek the luminous one, with the velocity of gravity, which is its tenuous coincident.” . . .
Mr. Keely . . . says: “I consider the sun as a vast neutral centre to a system of worlds, and that its regeneration depends entirely upon the reactive sympathetic vibratory streams which, emanating from its own body, are received in the system of worlds it controls, and are sympathetically returned to it, to be projected again, until the vibratory force, that has controlled it through the ages, is expended.”
Mr. Keely regards the sun as a dead body, an inert mass,3 that has fallen into its negative condition through, or from, the loss of its triple sympathetic vibratory impulses, much on the order of the steel bar that has been vitalized by percussion, which Mr. Keely shows in his experiments to be active and sounding until the vibrations end in a vanishing point, thus leaving the molecular mass dead, or inert, until the proper impulse to renew its activity is given. . . .
1. This is precisely what the Occult Sciences teach, and what more than one renowned Mystic and Kabalist has asserted in his time. In fact, as we have already remarked before now—Mr. Keely’s discoveries corroborate wonderfully the teachings of Occult Astronomy and other Sciences.—Ed. [H.P.B.]
2. Such is the occult teaching—also.—Ed. [H.P.B.]
3. Between Mr. Keely calling the Sun “a dead body,” and the Occult Doctrine maintaining that what we call the Sun is a reflection of untold electric brightness, the “veil which covers and conceals the living Sun behind,” there is but a difference in the mode of expression; the fundamental idea is the same. The shadow on the wall produced by a living man or object is the inanimate, or dead, effect of an animate and living cause which intercepts the rays of light. The Sun we see is “an inert mass” of adumbrations, the unreal phantom of the real Sun, which, but for this veil, would consume our earth, and probably all the planets with its fierce radiancy. If it has been calculated of that solar “phantom” we see, that the heat emitted by it in a single second would be enough “to melt a shell of ice covering the entire surface of the earth to a depth of 1 mile 1,457 yards,” what would be the intensity of sunlight if the invisible Sun were suddenly unveiled? And this is what will happen, the Occult Doctrine teaches, when the hour of Pralaya strikes—after which the Sun himself will be disrupted.—Ed. [H.P.B.]