Cosmic Evolution. Life Germs—How Produced. “The Word”—Evolution of. Thought Vibration the Only Immortality. “Life” and “Death” Evolved from the Same Cosmic Substance.

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”—Byron.

Electricity is the one, eternal, unchangeable, indestructible, universal substance.

The universe is made up of innumerable “corpuscles,” from whose manifold combinations, ruled by unalterable affinities, has been evolved our solar system.

Our earth after the cooling process, became through the light and radiant energy of the sun, the theater of the evolution of the various forms of life. The eternal, inherent, restless energy that had formed and launched into existence this solar system continued its work to evolve conscious life on this earth. Monad, atom, protoplasm, molecule and cell all being produced by this electric energy we call life.

This universal substance is constituted of electrons—infinitesimally smaller than atomic[11] dust—each electron having the potentiality of the whole, with its positive and negative impulse.

It is well known that each molecule is a separate and distinct organism, formed by this same electric impulse. The active force in evolution being the electric energy—attraction and repulsion—its movements can be easily followed by noting the similarity of its formation, namely, circular or spherical. The tendency of this electric energy is always to form a complete circuit—and must do so in order to evolve and carry on its work of evolution; all creation being the result of the breaking and closing of the circuit. The various forms of life evolved, are subject to this same restless impulse—positive and negative—which continues the work of creation or evolution.

As what is called “life” is the result of the closing of the circuit, so what is called “death” is the result of the breaking of the circuit. Thus we see that life and death are one and the same process. Simply the readjustment, rearrangement of these infinite electrons by the opening and closing of the electric circuit. The same eternal, inherent, restless energy forever at play—creating life, and creating death—both equally beautiful. This is the continuous evolution of Darwin and others. There is no rest. There is only eternal continuous vibration. Prof. Loeb says, “The force[12] that makes life possible is primarily the electric charge.” Dr. Samuel Wallian says, “Life originates in vibration and consists of an incessant repetition of vibrations.” It can with equal truth be said that THE FORCE THAT MAKES DEATH POSSIBLE IS PRIMARILY THE ELECTRIC CHARGE; AND DEATH ORIGINATES IN VIBRATION, AND CONSISTS OF AN INCESSANT REPETITION OF VIBRATIONS—or opening and closing of an electric circuit. These are the only Two IMMORTALS—Life and Death.

Primitive man having his habitation mainly in the primeval forest, the shadows cast by the sun became objects of terror to him. The caves with their mysteries begot gnomes and hobgoblins. Thus was born that great curse of humanity—Fear. Feeling the need of protection from these bogies of his imagination, he peopled his world with fairies, etc., that would help him to overcome the evil of these fancied cave and forest shadow-folk. Here we have the origin of good and evil, rewards and punishments, out of which has been evolved the various systems of religion. Observing the various phenomena of this universal force, he called it God; made images to express his ideas and worshipped them.

Man’s evolution in the universe of thought[13] has been slow, handicapped as he has been by superstition, traditional folk-lore and lack of individual search for truth. But now for the past fifty years there has prevailed a set of thought vibrations—a so-called “New Thought” wave—that has impelled to a desire for the truth that shall make one free.

There is no mystery in nature. She works under the immutable laws of her eternal being—Electricity. When primitive man evolved on this earth he was at first without speech, his only language being guttural sounds and gestures, some of which are distinctly discernible in many of the present races of mankind. From these guttural sounds speech was evolved and the “word” was born. “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.”

The brain cells of man—the ego—the beginning or birth of understanding—sent forth vibrations called “thought” into the universe; and man has been adding to their volume during countless ages. As he progressed he learned to write by signs or hieroglyphics, thus recording his thoughts. By still further evolution he constructed an alphabet and finally a printing press, so that now thoughts can be easily recorded and preserved.

Sir Humphrey Davy immediately upon recovering from apparent death, caused by one of his scientific experiments, exclaimed, “I am[14] convinced that thought is all there is in the universe.”

As all man’s thoughts,—the vibrations of his brain cells—are contained in the universe, there must be reservoirs of thought governed by the law of natural selection.

This accounts for what we call genius. For example, a child is born showing early a genius for music, which enables it to grow in the art until it becomes famous. What is the explanation? Simply that during the period of gestation the mother was environed by musical vibrations, so attuning the brain cells of the child that communication was established with some great reservoir of musical thought in the universe, and a genius was evolved. This is the so-called “Reincarnation.” A perfectly natural law of vibration.

Creation, we repeat, is but continuous evolution, bringing forth by natural selection,—“everything after its kind”—progressing onward year by year, developing more improved species and greater inventions. Evolution is but continuous creation. They are one, even as life and death are one.

Lucretius wrote fifty years B. C., “Change is the law of things and is brought about by opposing forces.” Lucretius did not know that these opposing forces were but the attraction and repulsion, or positive and negative action of the one universal substance,—Electricity.[15] The inherent eternal impulse (polarity, or sex) of the electrons composing the universal substance from which all things are evolved. Many of the great scientific writers, such as Kant, Darwin, Wallace, Hume, etc., had not seen this great light which the discovery and investigation of certain electrical phenomena has revealed and so could not account for this primal force in the universe, which they knew existed but could not define.

Electricity is Life, and cosmic evolution is but the law of vibration of its eternal, universal being.

All formations of worlds, planets, suns, stars, asteroids, etc., were rotated into form and position and continue their movements by this same universal law of vibration—the inherent, eternal impulse and energy of the one only substance—Electricity. Millions of ages have been evolved in the cosmos. All are subject to what is called decay or death, but, as Lucretius says, “What is will perish, but only to appear in another form.”

All formations of nature in the universe are circular or spherical, thus proving their electric source or origin, and are but the completion of an electric circuit. Every stone, grain of sand and drop of water is rotated and rounded by this same electric vibratory impulse. What is true of our solar system, we may by deduction conclude is true of other[16] systems, which may have gone through evolution and devolution many times in the countless aeons of the so called “past.” Combustion, radiant energy, what are these but modes of motion? A living, breathing, thinking organism called man, or an expiring puppy on the sidewalk, are but different modes of vibration of this one universal substance. From worlds to atoms, from atoms to monads, from monads to motion,—and we find the universe held in a solution of omnipotent, electric energy, just as salt is held in solution in the ocean. Well may we repeat the modern paraphrase—
Praise law from whom all blessings flow,
Praise protoplasm here below,
Praise matter, evolution tossed,
Praise force, the only Holy Ghost.