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1It will help us in our conception, if we call to mind the fact that matter, to produce in us the sensations we refer to matter, must possess at least three dimensions, viz.; length, breadth and thickness, and each of these dimensions requires at least two equal forces for its expression; also, that all these six equal forces must be concentrated upon a single impenetrable atomic point, and, lastly, this impenetrable atomic point must also consist of two equal forces. Therefore, to produce a single grain of solid matter, a solitary minute crystal, it requires the complete polarization of eight rays of cosmic energy. Our first duty, then, is to discover our impenetrable atom. When two equal forces coming from opposite directions meet each other, both become polarized, a state of inertia is produced, and an atom, a veritable material atom, is the physical result of this change of energy. From the infinite network of rays produced by the first vibrations of light, it is easy to conceive of the instantaneous evolution of an un¬ limited number of material atoms from the equally unlimited number Original fronn 18 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT of opposing rays of force. Now, we have our necessary atom, which, after all, is nothing but an unknowable something.
2This polarized something, however, gives us the first dimension of material forms. It is a point in space, and if we now take two more equal forces at this polarizing point, we have another atom, which, although it gives us nothing in the form of a solid, yet will supply us with the second dimension, viz., a straight line or a point extended by 4 Fig. 1 Fig. 2
3an additional point. Let us now take our impenetrable atomic point, consisting of a single atom, and suppose that four equal forces are concentrated upon it, one from the right and its opponent from the left, one from above and its opponent from below (see fig. 1), and the re¬ sult is, we possess an ideal form, but still no solid; we have both length and breadth, but no thickness, hence it is only a higher form of the second dimension. But, instead of four, let us now suppose that we have six equal forces concentrated upon our impenetrable atomic point. In addition to those which come from above, below, right and left, we have two more which come from the rear and the front, (see fig. 2) Force 1 comes from the right, its opponent 2 from the left; 3 comes from above, its opponent 4 comes from below; 5 comes from the rear, its opponent 6 comes from the front. Now, what is the result? We have length, breadth and thickness; we have six equal sides; and our unknowable atomic something has become transformed into an ulti¬ mate molecule, whose crystallized substance is a cube. It has all of the elements of a solid form, though it can be measured only by the imagi¬ nation, since microscopes are not yet powerful enough to reveal the first original forms of crystallization. Man’s physical senses are too dull to perceive such things but it may be this atomic age will produce some electrical or atomical instrument sensitive enough to detect an original atom of matter. But such wonderful transformations as take
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.
1It will help us in our conception, if we call to mind the fact that matter, to produce in us the sensations we refer to matter, must possess at least three dimensions, viz.; length, breadth and thickness, and each of these dimensions requires at least two equal forces for its expression; also, that all these six equal forces must be concentrated upon a single impenetrable atomic point, and, lastly, this impenetrable atomic point must also consist of two equal forces. Therefore, to produce a single grain of solid matter, a solitary minute crystal, it requires the complete polarization of eight rays of cosmic energy. Our first duty, then, is to discover our impenetrable atom. When two equal forces coming from opposite directions meet each other, both become polarized, a state of inertia is produced, and an atom, a veritable material atom, is the physical result of this change of energy. From the infinite network of rays produced by the first vibrations of light, it is easy to conceive of the instantaneous evolution of an un¬ limited number of material atoms from the equally unlimited number Original fronn 18 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT of opposing rays of force. Now, we have our necessary atom, which, after all, is nothing but an unknowable something.
2This polarized something, however, gives us the first dimension of material forms. It is a point in space, and if we now take two more equal forces at this polarizing point, we have another atom, which, although it gives us nothing in the form of a solid, yet will supply us with the second dimension, viz., a straight line or a point extended by 4 Fig. 1 Fig. 2
3an additional point. Let us now take our impenetrable atomic point, consisting of a single atom, and suppose that four equal forces are concentrated upon it, one from the right and its opponent from the left, one from above and its opponent from below (see fig. 1), and the re¬ sult is, we possess an ideal form, but still no solid; we have both length and breadth, but no thickness, hence it is only a higher form of the second dimension. But, instead of four, let us now suppose that we have six equal forces concentrated upon our impenetrable atomic point. In addition to those which come from above, below, right and left, we have two more which come from the rear and the front, (see fig. 2) Force 1 comes from the right, its opponent 2 from the left; 3 comes from above, its opponent 4 comes from below; 5 comes from the rear, its opponent 6 comes from the front. Now, what is the result? We have length, breadth and thickness; we have six equal sides; and our unknowable atomic something has become transformed into an ulti¬ mate molecule, whose crystallized substance is a cube. It has all of the elements of a solid form, though it can be measured only by the imagi¬ nation, since microscopes are not yet powerful enough to reveal the first original forms of crystallization. Man’s physical senses are too dull to perceive such things but it may be this atomic age will produce some electrical or atomical instrument sensitive enough to detect an original atom of matter. But such wonderful transformations as take
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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