Proof That Electricity Is Life. Recent Discoveries in the Wireless Telegraph and Telephone. Their Effect on the Thought of the Race. Other Possibilities of Electricity.
Our little lives are kept in equipose,
By opposite attractions and desires.—Longfellow.
Recent discoveries in what is called electrical science, demonstrating the wide range of application of electric vibrations and suggesting almost unlimited possibilities as to its future adaptation to the purposes of mankind, indicate that man has at last harnessed the primary force or energy of the universe to become his willing servant. With the discovery of the wireless telegraph, and wireless telephone—by means of which conversation has been carried on at a distance of four hundred miles—the scientific nature and possibilities of telepathy is understood. The principle is the same. In the wireless telephone by means of two instruments attuned to the same rate of vibration two persons widely separated are enabled to hear each other’s words. In telepathy two persons whose brain cells are attuned to the same rate of vibration are enabled to[18] sense each others thoughts, at any distance.
This is the explanation of impressions of impending disaster and death. The so-called psychic forces are perfectly natural and there is nothing supernatural in the universe.
A knowledge of the laws of electrical vibration is the key that will unlock all the secrets of the universe to man.
All motion,—electrical vibration—is the real Book of Life, opened ever to the true student of science. Burbank by the study of this book of nature has discovered the law of various polarities or affinities (natural selection) of vegetables, fruits and flowers and has caused them to produce new varieties, improving the species.
What is called intelligent purpose is said to be manifested by man in this ability to direct and assist what is called nature to bring about different and “better” (?) conditions. Left to herself nature produces chaotic conditions; weeds, brambles, briars and trees crowding themselves into various fantastic shapes. Lack of intelligent PURPOSE is shown in all this and only the “intelligent purpose” displayed by man produces order out of chaos. Where then is the intelligent purpose of the universe? Certain vibrations in the universe cause floods, tornadoes, cyclones, earthquakes, etc. These are simply results of natural laws of electric energy which in sport, as it were,[19] like a child with his blocks, builds and pulls down, builds and pulls down, “creates and destroys” ad infinitum. Attraction and repulsion, positive and negative electric action—vibration—generates, sustains and destroys all the manifold forms, organic and inorganic, of what is called life and death. There is no death. Death is but a name given to one of the many forms manifested by life. A knowledge of the dual nature of electrical impulse is the true and only “secret” of life and death.
In the organic form or entity called man there has been evolved an organ called the brain; an arrangement of cells whose vibratory action enables them to receive and give off vibrations called thought—intelligence. The universe transmits these vibrations through the entity attuned to receive them. Or, to speak poetically, we say, the universe “voices its intelligence through man.” And man voices his intelligence through the universe. Man thus becomes a Lord—a God—and has dominion.
If we accept electricity as the only substance and vibration as the vital force and origin of all existence, it is impossible to imagine what may yet be revealed to us respecting the structure of the universe.
If electricity is all there is, then thought must be electrical. The vibrations being received by the brain cells, are conveyed throughout[20] the body. Light vibrations strike upon the eye and enter the brain and we see by the brain. Sound waves enter the brain by the ear and we hear by the brain. Various vibrations received by the brain are transmitted through the nerves to the various organs of the body. They respond to these vibrations and harmony, health or disease, results.
If the brain is attuned to receive healthful vibrations, the body will surely respond and harmony or health obtain. This is the secret of mental healing in all its forms that is being practiced in these states today, whether it be Mental Science, Christian Science, New Thought, Divine Healing, Suggestive Therapeutics, or whatever; and reduces every one of these various systems of healing to a simple natural law of vibration. These healthful vibrations are as free to all as the air they breathe and cannot be cornered by any set of so-called “healers” in the world. The result of so-called evil or malefic vibrations we see every day in our hospitals, asylums, jails, police courts, etc. The reading of certain books and daily newspapers attunes the brain to receive a certain kind of vibration and the results usually lead to the reform school and State prison. What are called evil thought vibrations are as abounding in the universe as good thought vibrations, and if the brain is attuned[21] to receive them, the resulting inharmonious conditions are sure to obtain.
Colors are the result of electric vibration. Sir William Crookes and Gessler demonstrated this by their invention of vacuum tubes. By attaching one of these tubes to one of the poles of a static electric machine, or high frequency coil, with a low potency, a yellow light is produced. The potency being increased red appears. By still further increasing the potency to about twelve million vibrations per second, purple or violet rays are generated. Then comes the Roentgen or X-ray—a brilliant, greenish, light, which renders opaque bodies transparent. Thus science in electrical discovery is rapidly revealing to us the secrets of the universe.
All vibrations are co-related. For instance, a man has a burst of violent passion—a high rate of brain cell vibration—and we say he “sees red.” This is true and he is almost sure to commit murder and will if the rate of vibration be kept up in his brain cells. And unless you can “switch the current”—lower the vibration—he will be plunged into a sea of color or intense vibration which his brain is unable to assimilate and we have what we term insanity. The writer firmly believes that Musical Vibrations which are transformed into electrical waves and transmitted to the patient, will ultimately be found to be the “switch” that[22] shall change the potency of these vibrations in the insane, and restore many a hopeless entity to normal brain conditions.
As another illustration of the power of thought vibrations take those that went forth when Garrison, Phillips, Sumner and others voiced the abolition of slavery in this country, which culminated in the greatest war of modern times and developed a manhood and self-sacrifice seldom if ever given to the world. This is Immortality. These events belong to no one country, but to the world and are the heritage of humanity, and but one step in the evolution of the race toward the goal of perfect liberty, which is the knowledge of truth and love, and the real brotherhood of man.