"The one substance vibrates in different dynamic degrees, and sound, heat, light, electricity, are the effections of the one substance by specific degrees of the One Energy, and there is no difference between anything such as electricity and, say iron, save in rate of effection." (Edgar Cayce Readings 195-70)
"In consideration of natural laws, the philosophers of Poseid had
come to the conclusive hypothesis and working theory that the
material universe was not a complex entity but in its primality
extremely simple. The glorious truth, "Incal malixetho," was clear to
them, that is, that "God is immanent in Nature." To this they
appended, "Axte Incal, axtuce mun," "To know God is to know all
worlds whatever." After centuries of experimentations, recording of
phenomena, deductions, analyzing and synthesizing, these students had
arrived at the final proposition that the universe - not here
dwelling on their wondrous astronomical knowledge - was, with all its
varied phenomena, created and continuously kept in operation by two
primal force-principles. Briefly stated, these basic facts were that
matter and dynamic energy (which were Incal made externally manifest)
could readily account for all things else. This conception held that
only One Substance existed and but One Energy, the one being Incal
externalized and the other His Life in action in His Body (As, in its
outgoing impulse the Created draws from the Creator, it looks back to
its origin and notes its progression-marks, that is, its multiplied
realizations of its increasing separation from its Source. The
greater this separateness, the greater the field (Matter) wherein
these points appear, because the dividing element in the Created has
noted more points, or in other words, more things, more material
objects as being between it and its source. Only when we look back at
these things we have sensed, these thought-forms of God, do we
perceive matter, for when we look forward to reunion with Him, matter
disappears, giving place to Spirit.). This One Substance assumed many
forms under the action of variant degrees of dynamic force. Because
it was the basic principle of all natural and all psychic, but not of
spiritual, phenomena, allow here a postulate with which not a few of
my friends will find themselves at least partially familiar, perhaps
wholly so. Commencing with dynamic energy as first sensibly manifest
in the example furnished by simple vibration, the Poseid position may
be outlined as follows: A very low rate of vibration may be felt; an
increase of rate heard. For example, first we feel the pulsing of
harp-string(s), and then if the rate of vibration be increased we
hear its sound. But substances of other sorts, able to endure greater
vibratory impulses, manifest under more intense action, following
sound first heat, then light. Now again, light varies in color. The
first color produced is red, and thence, by a constantly augmenting
vibratile energy, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, each
spectrum-band being due to an exact and definite increase in the
number of the vibrations. Succeeding the violet, further augmentation
gives pure white, more gives a gray, then more extinguishes light,
replacing it with electricity, and so through an ever-increasing
voltage until the realm of vital or psychic force is attained. This
may truly be regarded as going inward from those manifestations of
nature, of Incal or God, or the Creator, which are external; as going
toward the internal from externality. A very brief study will show
thee that the laws of physical world continue inward to their
spiritual source; that they are, truly, but prolongations the one of
the other. But, ere entering into the realm of vibration, whose
doorkeeper is sound, we find that the One Substance vibrates in
variant, but definite, dynamic degree, and that thence arise each and
all of the diverse forms of matter; in short, the difference between
any given substances, as gold and silver, iron and lead, sugar and
sand, is not one of matter, but of dynamic degree solely. In this
dynamic affection the degree is no loose limitation, for if the
vibratile rate be a shade variant, lower or higher, than in any
special material which may be under notice, the variation will be
different in appearance and in its chemical nature; thus to proper
substantial entities definite if enormous vibrations per second may
be imparted, and the resulting substance (for light is substantial)
is, say, red light, (red light is stated to occur at
395,000,000,000,000 vibrations of that "ether" which by Phylos is
termed the form of matter below where matter ceases and mind begins.
And the highest visible light vibration is placed at
790,000,000,000,000. So says science. But Phylos says: "Vastly higher
than the high purple range where light ceases ordinarily to be
visible, the One Substance again vibrates visibly. As a synchronous
harp-string that responds to key of low C, for example, struck on
another harp, will also respond to every C in the whole register, be
it low, or middle, or high, so the One Substance responds at
831,000,000,000,000; at, again, the next octave of vibration, and
again at the next, where it becomes visible as the fatal Unfed Light,
called in Atla the "Maxin," and again, by the Tchin as the "Vis
Mortuus.") but if one-eighth greater it will be orange, and if more
or less, then the resultant must inevitably be a reddish orange, or a
yellowish, respectively. It thus appears that certain definite
degrees exist as plainly as mileposts, and that these major degrees
are absolute. In other words, the One Substance is not as readily
kept between these greater definitions as upon them, a fact which
explains the tendency of composites, or intermediate affections, to
decompose into the definite or simple elements; chemical compounds
are not as stable as chemical primaries. The modern "wave theory,"
that sound, heat, light and correlatives are but forms of force, is
only half correct; they are this, but they are more also. They are,
in brief, affections of the One Substance by specific degrees of the
One Energy, and except that the rate of this affection is vastly
greater in the case of electricity than in that of lead or gold,
there is no difference between these widely diverse appearing things.
This is the energy by the Rosicrucians named "Fire," that which gives
entrance to that mysterious realm of nature penetrated only by the
adept thaumaturgist, magician. Call these students at whose will all
nature bends obedient, by whatever name best pleases thee, only
bearing ever in mind that the real Magian never speaks of self or
works, and is not known by his fellows to be what he is, save an
accident hath revealed the secret. To this membership belonged He at
whose command the winds and the waves were stayed on tempestuous
Galilee. But he spoke not of Himself. Of that sublime brotherhood I
will relate much ere long. No better proof is needed that all the
variant manifestations are but variants of the odic force, the
Rosicrucian "Fire," than this: offer resistance to an electric
current, thereby reducing or diverting it against an opposing force,
and thou hast light; oppose this (arc) light a combustible
obstruction, and flame results. So mightest thou go on to the
discovery soon to be made in the world of science, that light, all
light, of the sun, or from any source, can be made to yield sound;
upon this discovery hinge some of the most astounding inventions that
thine age hath even dreamed of in its visions. But the primal
discovery in this wonderful link, first of the sequence, will be the
greatest of all, and so heralded. And this will be warranted, for the
fact that it will be but a reincarnate unfoldment will not diminish
its importance to mankind, nor the credit of its rediscoverer." from
(Phylos, Dweller on Two Planets)
