La Iniciación · Año V, Nº 45 · January 1946

1But for those who have realised what such symbols contain, and proved that nothing of superior grandeur has been granted to humanity, no small source of satisfactions will they see in what a Bishop, really Wise, has recently said about the Eastern religious symbols and the attitude of ignorant critics toward such Symbology. [Sic: the sentence is defective as printed.]

2(To be continued) ________ o _________ Cosmic Influences and Reactions of Living Beings.

3Influence of Light — Phototherapy (Continuation). By Pitágoras S∴I∴ Light is a modality of the astral light — of that undifferentiated energy which vivifies and fecundates the universes, and from which derive, by differentiation, all the other forms of energy.

4Without occupying ourselves with those other modalities of the astral light [Sic: the Spanish prints 1a, with a numeral] — modalities distinguished among themselves by their wavelength — we shall say that "luminous waves", in general, have a wavelength comprised between 100 microns and 90 micromicrons.

5We distinguish in them: a) Ultra-red rays, found beyond the visible limits of the solar spectrum, whose wavelength oscillates between 100 microns and 800 micromicrons.

6b) White light properly so called, capable of impressing the retina, whose wavelength oscillates between 800 and 400 micromicrons.

7c) Ultraviolet rays, invisible to our eyes, whose wavelength oscillates between 400 and 90 micromicrons.

8Further on we shall occupy ourselves with the influence of those invisible rays, the ultra-red and the ultraviolet.

9Here we shall confine ourselves solely to the study of the biological influence of white light properly so called.

10The sources of white light are multiple: wood, oil, petroleum, gas in combustion, bodies raised to high temperatures, electricity, fluorescent and phosphorescent bodies, etc.; but we can say that all those sources are indirect, because the light emanating from them is only a luminous modification of the energy they had previously received from the sun.

11The sole source of energy — and, consequently, of its luminous modality — is, then, the sun.

12As regards the nature of light, we know that many theories have been formulated: the emission theory; the undulation theory; the electro-magnetic theory; the theory of Kharitonow, in which the electron would drag with it, like a kind of satellite, the radon; the mathematical theory of the prince de Broglie; the theory of quanta, or photons, carried on an electromagnetic wave.

13This is neither the case nor the moment to discuss those theories; the only thing we need know is that the nature of light is exactly identical with that of the astral light (as the nature of the other energetic modalities is identical with that of the astral light from which they derive), and that its sensible manifestations are in close relation with — or, better said, are the consequence of — its wavelength.

14We note, in passing, that as numbers are transformed into others by adding or subtracting units, so also energies are transformed into others by adding or subtracting units.

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