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1So far, we have simply followed out the ideas presented in chap¬ ter I. “The Involution of Spirit,” upon the descending arc of their mani¬ festation, in order to point out to the reader the realm wherein the final separation of the divine unity takes place, and assumes the dual forms of energy, termed “Spirit” and Matter.” Having reached this point of differentiation, (the polarizing point, as we term it) we must now turn our attention to the altered mode of motion, the changed polarity, so to say, of these two forces and examine the processes of their action, which are silently at work in Nature’s invisible laboratory, gradually externalizing themselves as solid forms cognizable by our physical senses. Then we must show how these forms are ultimated as crystals; primary, molecular crystals; which constitute the first physical foundation of material phenomena from which issue the infinite variety of concrete crystallized forms found here on earth.
2Note: The polarizing point, as we term it, seems to be an impenetrable mystery to most Occult students. The chief difficulty is in grasping the essential idea that change of energy is simply due to the necessary re-action of all action. The true conception is difficult to express in words, so we will try to illustrate it. If a ball is thrown up into the air spinning round its axis, directly the force which projected it becomes exhausted it will become stationary for one single instant, and then, obeying a different force, re-action sets in and it falls to the ground revolving in exactly the opposite direction. The stationary instant is the “polarizing point.” iized by y Google THE REALM OF MATTER 17 In order that the laws of crystallization may be clearly appre¬ hended, we must state at the commencement that crystallization means death. By death, we do not mean death in the ordinary acceptation of the term, but we mean the lowest possible minimum in the activities of force—the state we call inertia. This much being granted, we are assumed to be at the beginning of our subject, and also of physical creation.
3The first act in creation, according to the Hebrew cosmogony, was the creation of light, Genesis I, 3., “and God said, let there be light, and there was light.” As we have already seen, the boundless realm of universal ether containing unconditioned potentialities, requires but the faintest ripple or impluse of the divine mind to set it in vibration, and, instantly, there flashes forth light, heat, magnetism and molec¬ ular force; in short, our universe begins the grand march of cosmic evolution. The first logical effect of this vibration was light, a disrup¬ tive centrifugal force, and its correlatives radiating in straight lines, in all possible directions from a center, while from each line of force minor rays radiate at every possible angle to the axial ray. We have, thus, at the very outset of our conception, a complete and perfect net¬ work of rays, or lines of energy, moving at the rate of light, 185,000 miles per second through the formless, motionless, ethereal, medium of space.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1So far, we have simply followed out the ideas presented in chap¬ ter I. “The Involution of Spirit,” upon the descending arc of their mani¬ festation, in order to point out to the reader the realm wherein the final separation of the divine unity takes place, and assumes the dual forms of energy, termed “Spirit” and Matter.” Having reached this point of differentiation, (the polarizing point, as we term it) we must now turn our attention to the altered mode of motion, the changed polarity, so to say, of these two forces and examine the processes of their action, which are silently at work in Nature’s invisible laboratory, gradually externalizing themselves as solid forms cognizable by our physical senses. Then we must show how these forms are ultimated as crystals; primary, molecular crystals; which constitute the first physical foundation of material phenomena from which issue the infinite variety of concrete crystallized forms found here on earth.
2Note: The polarizing point, as we term it, seems to be an impenetrable mystery to most Occult students. The chief difficulty is in grasping the essential idea that change of energy is simply due to the necessary re-action of all action. The true conception is difficult to express in words, so we will try to illustrate it. If a ball is thrown up into the air spinning round its axis, directly the force which projected it becomes exhausted it will become stationary for one single instant, and then, obeying a different force, re-action sets in and it falls to the ground revolving in exactly the opposite direction. The stationary instant is the “polarizing point.” iized by y Google THE REALM OF MATTER 17 In order that the laws of crystallization may be clearly appre¬ hended, we must state at the commencement that crystallization means death. By death, we do not mean death in the ordinary acceptation of the term, but we mean the lowest possible minimum in the activities of force—the state we call inertia. This much being granted, we are assumed to be at the beginning of our subject, and also of physical creation.
3The first act in creation, according to the Hebrew cosmogony, was the creation of light, Genesis I, 3., “and God said, let there be light, and there was light.” As we have already seen, the boundless realm of universal ether containing unconditioned potentialities, requires but the faintest ripple or impluse of the divine mind to set it in vibration, and, instantly, there flashes forth light, heat, magnetism and molec¬ ular force; in short, our universe begins the grand march of cosmic evolution. The first logical effect of this vibration was light, a disrup¬ tive centrifugal force, and its correlatives radiating in straight lines, in all possible directions from a center, while from each line of force minor rays radiate at every possible angle to the axial ray. We have, thus, at the very outset of our conception, a complete and perfect net¬ work of rays, or lines of energy, moving at the rate of light, 185,000 miles per second through the formless, motionless, ethereal, medium of space.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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