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Knowing the Invisible Through the Tangible; the Language of Causation; Intellectual Light and Its Antithet; Analysis of the Solar Ray.
It might be argued that the assertion, "It is solely through the science of natural things that the invisible things can be known; and this knowledge can only obtain through a comprehension of the laws and science of correspondences," is in contradiction to many known facts which might be brought by spiritualists, theosophists, Swedenborgians, and others who profess to know of pneumic and psychic phenomena, not from natural laws and their correspondences, but from actual pneumic and psychic observation and experience. Facts of observation and experience are scarcely ever correctly interpreted. We do not deny the facts of either natural or spiritual observation and experience, when conditions favor their manifestation; but we do deny the possibility of a correct knowledge of facts and phenomena when their science is not understood.
No one can pass from natural existence to the spiritual state of supreme life through that natural, common, and corruptible dissolution called death, though the temporary hells and heavens may be entered from and through this state. The supreme existence must be reached by the new and living way without corruptible dissolution, and this attainment cannot be made except through the application of natural and scientific laws; hence, before there can be any progress made in a correct knowledge of the occult or hidden, there must be a scientific exposition of what the occult reveals through its own language; namely, what it has expressed into its most external and environing elucidation.
Nature is the language of causation; let us read and interpret this language. The sun itself must constitute the door to the solar temple. If we may comprehend its function as pertaining to the realm of the alchemico-organic cosmos, we may correspondentially know the function of the door to the anthropostic solar realm and field of the organo-vital being. The function of the sun can only be understood through a perfect knowledge of its relations to all other things of universal physiology. We must know both the anatomy and physiology of Nature in their entirety, before we can know them in their details. The man, whosoever he may be, or whatsoever he may profess as to scientific attainment, who does not know the source of the sun's energy, or the ultimate points and uses of its distribution, has no claim to astronomical knowledge. Nothing ever leaves the sun that does not return to it, modified and metamorphosed through the reagency of atmospheres, energies, and metallic and mineral depositions and changes, and through the physiological forces of animal and vegetable life, and through their alchemical disintegration. The radiations of solar energy are limited by the various environments of depositions and transmutation; and the great circumference of the limiting crust of the cosmic shell reflects, in convergent determination, the final cosmic energy to the solar nucleus.
In the study of the character of that solar energy denominated light, we are not to take for granted the dogmatic statement that light is a mere mode of motion because authoritatively promulgated, when at least an equal authority declares that light is substantial. Light is the result of a certain kind of motion imparted to the brain cells. The energy capable of such an impression is the product of material combustion, in which atoms are destroyed as atoms and mutated to energy. That mode of motion and substantial activity called light, as proceeding from the sun's combustion and radiating toward circumferences, is changed to scotoic (dark) energy at the points or terminals of photoic transmission. As the sun pours forth its photos, radiating it toward the circumferences of its limitations and circles of transmutation, it is convergently reflected toward the focal point of its convergence as the energy of scotos (dark energy), whence it radiates again as scotoic energy from a pole of darkness, which is in coordination with the pole of light.
It is a known fact in physics that in every process of combustion where light is generated, there is produced at the same time the intermediate and coordinate lines of darkness. These have been called the Fraunhofer lines in honor of their discoverer. According to the law of correspondence, whatsoever we find in the laws of physical science we may correspondingly find in the laws and activities of mental science.
The solar beam, as it emerges from the focus of the sun, is a homogeneous white light. It is the product of the metamorphosis of the combinations of color, observed in what is called darkness or scotoic energy.
The polar point of darkness is the influent pole of the various essences resultant from the disintegration and resolution of atomic states to their correspondent complexion of energy. Before these can be reduced to their antithetical coordination, the pure white light, they must enter into a reagency of combustive power through which the reduction is made, and the differentiations eliminated through an absolute revolution.
While there are no colors in the pure white photoine (light), this specific energy contains that which must correspond to the material protoplasm of the universal life; for every character and variety of form, whether differentiated in the multiplicity of atomic morphosis, or the constructive morphosis of molecular and physiological aggregations, has been projected into the homogeneity of the primary scotoine. From this homogeneity, through prismatic action, the creative force begins the generation of distinctive things. The origin of the pure white light is from the burning of the multiplicity of colors, aggregated in the focal point of the scotoic energy. This law comprehended in the sphere of alchemico-organic activity, it may be seen how, in the mental realm, the light of intellectual energy is the product of darkness; and hence the comprehension of the statement, "Out of the thick darkness where God was," —whence Moses derived the law; for Moses learned the law of God from the High Priest of Midian, Raguel or Jethro, the black priest of a black people constituting the veritable mountain of Sinai, through whom God appeared to Moses, and defined to him the Mosaic system of legislation.
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 14, No. 28 · 1 Jun 1900 · PDF pp. 3-4