Text: "The sympathetic conditions that we call mind are no more immaterial in their character than light or electricity. The substance of the brain is molecular, while the substance of the mind that permeates the brain is interetheric and is the element by which the brain is impregnated, exciting it into action and controlling physical motion. In order to trace the successive triple impulses, taking the introductory one of sympathetic negative outreach, towards the cerebral neutrals, which awaken the latent element to action, we find that mind may be considered a specific order of interatomic motion sympathetically influenced by the celestial flow and that it becomes when thus excited by this medium a part and parcel of the celestial itself. The brain is not a laboratory. It is as static as the head of the positive negative attractor, until influenced by certain orders of vibration, when it reveals the true character of the outreach so induced. The brain is the high resonating receptacle where the sympathetic celestial acts, and where molecular and atomic motion exhibits itself, as according to the intensification brought to bear upon it by the celestial mind flow. The question arises, Why is this condition of the (luminous) ether always under a state of luminosity of an especial order? Its characteristics are such, from its infinite tenuity and the sympathetic activity with which it is impregnated, that it possesses an order of vibratory, oscillatory velocity, which causes it to evolve its own luminosity. This celestial, latent power, that induces luminosity in this medium, is the same that registers in all aggregated forms of matter, visible and invisible. It is held in the corpuscular embrace until liberated by a compound vibratory negative medium. What does this activity represent, by which luminosity is induced in the high etheric realm, if not to indicate that even this order of ether is bounded by a greater region still beyond? The activity of the corpuscles represents its outflow from the luminiferous track towards the molecular centers of neutrality, revealing the connecting link between mind and matter. These conditions of luminosity have no thermal forces associated with them, although, paradoxically, all thermal conditions emanate from that source. The tenuity of this element accounts for it. It is when the streams come in conflict with crude matter that heat is evolved from its latent state and a different order of light from the etheric luminous is originated, the sun being the intermediate transmitter. All planets and systems are sympathetic intermediates, the whole of one system, connected in sympathy for each other, the brain of Deity." [Keely, Snell Manuscript]

See Also: FORCE, MIND FORCE, THOUGHT

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