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1.2) One
Phase of Keely's Discovery in its Relations to the Cure of Disease.
I know medicine is called a
science. It is nothing like a science. It is a great humbug! Doctors
are mere empirics when they are not charlatans. We are as ignorant as
men can be. Who knows anything in the world about medicine? Gentlemen,
you have done me the honour to come here to attend my lectures, and I
must tell you now, frankly, in the beginning, that I know nothing about
medicine, nor do I know anyone who does know anything about it. Nature
does a great deal, imagination does a great deal, doctors do devilish
little when they do not do harm. Sick people always feel they are
neglected, unless they are well drugged, les imbeciles! - Professor
Magendie (before the students of his class in "The Allophatic College
of Paris").
In
the year 1871, the writer was sent to Paris to Schwalbach, by Dr.
Beylard, and recommended to the care of Dr. Adolph Genth. She said to
the physician, "I wish for your opinion and your advice, if you can
give it to me without giving me any medicine." He replied, "With all my
heart, madam; and I wish to God there were more women like you, but we
should soon lose most of our patients if we did not dose them."
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This is a terrible excuse for the use of those agencies
which Dr. John Good says have sent more human beings to their graves
than war, pestilence and famine combined. Keely holds the opinion that
Nature works under the one law of Compensation and Equilibrium-the law
of Harmony; and that when disease indicates the disturbance of this law
Nature at one seeks to banish the disease by restoring equilibrium, He
seeks to render assistance on the same plan; replacing grossly material
agencies by the finer forces of nature; as has been so successfully
done by Dr. Pancoast and Dr. Babbitt in America.
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"Nature," says Dr. Pancoast, author of The True Science of
Light, "works by antagonism in all her operations: when one of her
force overdoes its work, disease, or at least a local disorder, is the
immediate consequence; now, if we attack this force, and overcome it,
the opposite force has a clear field and may re-assert its rights-thus
equilibrium is restored, and Equilibrium is health. The Sympathetic
System, instead of attacking the stronger force, sends recruits to the
weaker one, and enables it to recover its powers; or, if the disorder
be the result of excessive of Nerves or Ganglia, a negative remedy may
be employed to reduce the tension. Thus, too, equilibrium is restored."
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Dr. Hartmann writes:-
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Mr. Keely is perfectly right in saying that 'all disease
is a disturbance of the equilibrium between positive and negative
forces.' In my opinion, no doctor ever cured any disease. All he can
possibly do is to establish conditions under which the patient (or
nature) may cure himself.
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If you enter the field of therapeutics and medicine, we
find a decided fermentation of new ideas; not among the fossil
specimens of antediluvian quackery, but among those who are called
"irregulars," because they have the courage to depart from the tracks
trodden out by their predecessor. The more intelligent classes of
physicians have long ago realized the fact that drugs and medicines are
perfectly useless, excepting in cases where diseases can be traced to
some mechanical obstruction, in some organ that may be reached by
mechanical action. In all other cases our best physicians have become
agnostics, leaving nature to have her own way, observing the
expectative method, which, in fact, is no method of cure at all, but
merely consists in doing no harm to the patient. Recently, however,
light, electricity, and magnetism have been employed; so that even in
the medical guild the finer forces of nature are taking the place of
grossly material, and therefore injurious substances. The time is
probably near when these fines forces will be employed universally.
Everybody knows that a note struck upon an instrument will produce
sound in a correspondingly attuned instrument in its vicinity. If
connected with a tuning fork, it will produce a corresponding sound in
the latter; and if connected with a thousand such tuning forks, it will
make all the thousand sound, and produce a noise far greater than the
original sound, without the latter becoming any weaker for it. Here,
then, is an augmentation or multiplication of power. If we had any
means to transform sound again into mechanical motion, we would have a
thousand-fold multiplication of mechanical motion. It would be
presumptuous to say that it will not be as easy for the scientists of
the future to transform sound into mechanical motion, as it is for the
scientist of the present to transform heat into electricity. Perhaps
Mr. Keely has already solved the problem. There is a fair prospect that
in the very near future, we shall have, in his ethereal force, a power
far surpassing that of steam or electricity. Nor does the idea seem to
be Utopian if we remember that modern science heretofore only knew the
law of the conservation of energy; while to the scientist of the future
the law of the augmentation of energy will be unveiled. . . . . As the
age which has passed away has been the age of steam, the coming era
will be the age of induction. There will be universal rising up of
lower vibrations into higher ones, in the realm of motion. Mr. Keely
will, perhaps, transform sound into mechanical motion by applying the
law of augmentation and multiplication of force." . . .
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Keely, writing on brain disturbance, says, In considering
the mental forces as associated with the physical, I find, by my past
researches, that the convolutions which exist in the cerebral field are
entirely governed by the sympathetic conditions that surround them.
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The question arises, what are these aggregations and what
do they represent, as being linked with physical impulses? They are
simply vibrometric resonators, thoroughly subservient to sympathetic
acoustic impulses given to them by their atomic sympathetic surrounding
media, all the sympathetic impulses that so entirely govern the
physical in their many and perfect impulses (we are now discussing
purity of conditions) are not emanations properly inherent in their own
composition. They are only media-the acoustic media-for transferring
from their vibratory surroundings the conditions necessary to the pure
connective link for vitalizing and bringing into action the varied
impulses of the physical.
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All abnormal discordant aggregations in these resonating
convolutions produce differentiation to concordant transmission; and,
according as these differentiations exist in volume so the transmission
are discordantly transferred, producing antagonism to pure physical
action.
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Thus, in Motor Ataxy a differentiation of the minor thirds
of the posterior parietal lobule produces the same condition between
the retractors and extensors of the leg and foot; and thus the control
of the proper movements is lost through this differentiation. The same
truth can be universally applied to any of the cerebral convolutions
that are in a state of differential harmony to the mass of immediate
cerebral surroundings. Taking the cerebral condition of the whole mass
as one, it is subservient to one general head centre, although as many
neutrals are represented as there are convolutions.
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The introductory minors are controlled by the molecular;
the next progressive third by the atomic; and the high third by the
Etheric. All these progressive links have their positive, negative, and
neutral position. When we take into consideration the structural
condition of the human brain, we ought not to be bewildered by the
infinite variety of its sympathetic impulses; inasmuch as it unerringly
proves the true philosophy that the mass chords of such structures are
governed by vibratory etheric flows-the
very material which composes them. There is no structure whatever,
animal, vegetable, mineral, that is not built up from the universal
cosmic ether. Certain orders of
attractive vibration produce
certain orders or structure; thus, the infinite variety of effects-more
especially in the cerebral organs. The bar of iron or the mass of
steel, have, in each, all the qualifications necessary, under certain
vibratory impulses, to evolve all the conditions that govern that
animal organism-the brain; and it is as possible to differentiate the
molecular conditions of a mass of metal of any shape so as to produce
what you may express as a crazy piece of iron or a crazy piece of
steel; or vice versa, an intelligent condition in the same.
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I find in my researches, as to the condition of molecules
under vibration, that
discordance cannot exist in the molecule proper; and that it is the
highest and most perfect structural condition that exists; providing
that all the progressive orders are the same. Discordance in any mass
is the result of differentiated groups, induced by antagonistic chords,
and the flight or motions of such, when intensified by sound, are very
tortuous and zig-zag; but when free of this differentiation are in
straight lines. Tortuous lines denote discord, or pain; straight lines
denote harmony, or pleasure. Any differentiated mass can be brought to
a condition of harmony, or equation, by proper chord media, and an
equated sympathy produced.
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There is good reason for believing that insanity is simply
a condition of differentiation in the mass chords of the cerebral
convolutions, which creates an antagonistic molecular bombardment
towards the neutral or attractive centres of such convolutions; which,
in turn, produce a morbid irritation in the cortical sensory centres in
the substance of ideation; accompanied, as general thing, by sensory
hallucinations, ushered in by subjective sensations; such as flashes of
light and colour, or confused sounds and disagreeable odours, etc., etc.
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There is no condition of the human brain that ought not to
be sympathetically coincident to that order of atomic flow to which its
position, in the cerebral field, is fitted. Any differentiation in that
special organ, or, more plainly, any discordant grouping tends to
produce a discordant bombardment-an antagonistic conflict; which means
the same disturbance transferred to the physical, producing
inharmonious disaster to that portion of the physical field which is
controlled by that especial convolution. This unstable aggregation may
be compared to a knot on a violin string. As long as this knot remains
it is impossible to elicit, from its sympathetic surroundings, the
condition which transfers pure concordance to its resonating body.
Discordant conditions, i. e., differentiation of mass, produce
negatization to coincident action.
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The question now arises, What condition is it necessary to
bring about in order to bring back normality, or to produce stable
equilibrium in the sympathetic centres?
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The normal brain is like a harp of many strings strung to
perfect harmony. The transmitting conditions being perfect, are ready,
at any impulse, to induce pure sympathetic assimilation. The different
strings represent the different ventricles and convolutions. The
differentiations of any one from its true setting is fatal, to a
certain degree, to the harmony of the whole combination.
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If the sympathetic condition of any physical organism
carries a positive flow of 80 per cent on its whole combination, and a
negative one of 20 per cent., it is the medium of perfect assimilation
to one of the same ratio, if it is distributed under the same
conditions to the mass of the other. If two masses of metal, of any
shape whatever, are brought under perfect assimilation, to one another,
their unition, when brought into contact, will be instant. If we live
in a sympathetic field we become sympathetic, and a tendency from the
abnormal to the normal presents itself by an evolution of a purely
sympathetic flow towards its attractive centres. It is only under these
conditions that differentiation can be broken up, and a pure equation
established. The only condition under which equation can never be
established is when a differential disaster has taken place, of 66 2/3
against the 100 pure, taking the full volume as one. If the 66 2/3 or
even 100 exists in one organ alone, and the surrounding ones are
normal, then a condition can be easily brought about to establish the
concordant harmony or equation to that organ. It is as rare to find a
negative condition of 66 2/3 against the volume of the whole cerebral
mass, as it is to find a coincident between differentiation; or, more
plainly, between two individuals under a state of negative influence.
Under this new system it is as possible to induce negations alike as it
is to induces positive alike.
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Pure sympathetic concordants are as antagonistic to
negative discordants as the negative is to the positive; but the vast
volume the sympathetic holds over the non-sympathetic, in ethereal space, makes is at once the ruling
medium and re-adjuster of all opposing conditions if properly brought
to bear upon them.
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Until Keely's "Theoretical Expose" is given to science,
there are few who will fathom the full meaning of these views.
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His discoveries embrace, the manner or way of obtaining
the keynote, or "chord of mass," of mineral vegetable, and animal
substances; therefore, the construction of instruments, or machines, by
which this law can be utilized in mechanics, in arts, and in
restoration of equilibrium in disease, is only a question of the full
understanding of the operation of this law.
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Keely estimates that, after the introductory impulse is
given on the harmonic thirds, molecular vibration
is increased from 20,000 per second to 1,000,000,000.
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On the enharmonic sixths, that the vibration
of the intermolecule is increased to 300,000,000.
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On the diatonic ninths, that atomic vibration reaches 900,000,000; on the
dominant etheric sixths, 8,100,000,000;
and on the inter-etheric ninths,
24,300,000,000; all of which can be demonstrated by sound colours.
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In such fields of research, Mr. Keely finds little
leisure. Those who accuse him of "dilly-dallying," of idleness, of
"always going to do and never doing," of "visionary plans," etc., etc.,
know nothing of the infinite patience, the persistent energy which for
a quarter of a century has upheld him in his struggle to attain this
end. Still less, if possible, is he understood by those who think he is
seeking self-aggrandizement, fame, fortune, or glory.
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The time is approaching when all who have sought to defame
this discoverer and inventor, all who have stabbed him with unmerited
accusations, all who have denounced him as "a bogus inventor," "a
fraud," "an impostor," "a charlatan," "a modern Cagliostro," will be
forced to acknowledge that he has done a giant's work for true science,
even though he should not live to attain commercial success. But
history will not forget that, in the nineteenth century, the story of
Prometheus has been repeated, and that the greatest mind of the age,
seeking to scale the heavens to bring down the light of truth for
mankind, met with Prometheus's reward.
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Note. - Dr. Hartmann, in a report, or condensed statement,
in reference to Keely's discovery, writes as follows: "He will never
invent a machine by which the equilibrium of the living forces a
disordered brain can be restored."
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As such a statement would lead the reader of the report to
fancy that Keely expected to invent such an instrument, it is better to
correct the error that Dr. Hartmann has fallen into. Keely has never
dreamed of inventing such an instrument. He hopes, however, to perfect
one that he is now at work upon, which will enable the operator to
localize the seat of disturbance in the brain in mental disorders. If
he succeeds, this will greatly simplify the work of "re-adjusting
opposing conditions"; and will also enable the physician to decide
whether the "differential disaster" has taken place which prevents the
possibility of establishing the equation that is necessary to a cure.
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According to Keely's theories it is that form of energy
known as magnetism-not electricity-which is to be the curative agent of
the future, thus reviving a mode of treatment handed down from the time
of the earliest records, and mad known to the Royal Society of London
more than fifty years since by Professor Keil, of Jena, who
demonstrated the susceptibility of the nervous system to the influence
of the natural magnet, and its efficacy in the cure of certain
infirmities.
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As Cheston Morris, M.D., has well said in his paper on
"Vital Molecular Vibrations," "We are entering upon a new field in
biology, pathology, and of course, therapeutics, whose limits are at
present far beyond our ken."
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"The adaptability of drugs," says Dr. Henry Wood, "to heal
disease is becoming a matter of doubt, even among many who have not yet
studied deeper causation. Materia Medica lacks the exact elements of a
science. The just-preponderance, for good or ill, of any drug upon the
human system is an unsolved problem, and will so remain. . . . After
centuries of professional research, in order to perfect "the art of
healing," diseases have steadily grown more subtle and more numerous. .
. . Only when internal, divine forces come to be relied upon, rather
than outside reinforcement, will deterioration cease. Said Plato, 'You
ought not to attempt to cure the body without the soul.' " [Keely and
His Discoveries, Chapter VII, Cure of Disease]
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To Keely the brain is merely a mechanism to channel Mind
Force. many of his machines were designed and built to emulate this
process:
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"I call this indefinable, latent element," he writes, "the
soul of the sympathetic elements in which it manifests, itself; and
which until now has been locked up in their interstitial embrace. It is
the leader of all triple streams, associated with the polar negative
envelope of our planet and the one most sympathetically concordant to
celestial radiation. In our individual organisms, the latent
soul-forces, existing in the cerebral domain, are sympathetically
subservient to the celestial radiating force whereby they are
stimulated into action in controlling the movements of our bodies. Take
away this latent element from the brain and the physical organism
becomes and inert, dead mass; on the same order as a mechanical device
without an energy to operate it.
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"The polar negative machine is a mechanical brain, with
all the adjuncts associated with it to sympathetically receive and
distribute the polar negative force. Its sympathetic transmitter
(corresponding to our sun in our planetary system, transmitting all
energy from the central sun of the universe) is the medium whereby
sympathetic concordance is established between it and polar sympathy.
The requisites for polarizing and depolarizing keep up the action of
the machine as long as it is associated with the transmitter. The force
which operates the mechanical is the same as that which operates the
physical brain; purely mental, emanating from celestial outreach. There
is nothing in the range of philosophy which so satisfies the intellect
as the comprehension of this wondrous system of sympathetic
association, planned by the Creator of the celestial and terrestrial
universe, for the government of all forms of matter.
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"Nature cannot rebel against herself. The flowers of
spring cannot resist the sympathetic force which calls them into bloom,
any more than the latent force in intermolecular spaces can rebel and
remain in neutral depths when sympathetic vibration
calls it forth.
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"What is the soul but life in latent suspension? The
motion exhibited in matter shows that its soul is ever present; and yet
there are men of great learning, as taught in the schools, who, after
spending their lives in researching all forms of matter, deny that all
living things depend on one everlasting Creator and Ruler, in whom they
live and move and have their being through all time, as much as when He
first breathed into them the breath of celestial radiation; and to whom
they are as closely allied, still, by the workings of the great
cosmical law of sympathetic association, as when the evolutionary work
of creation commenced.
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"The ancients were far better schooled in spiritual
philosophy than are we of the present age. Their mythological records,
in their symbolical meaning, prove this fact. They recognized this
latent element as the very breath of the Almighty; the sympathetic
outflow of the trinity of force, the triple spiritual essence of God
Himself. Their conceptions of Deity were greater and truer than our
own. From them we learn that when God said 'Let there be light,' He
liberated the latent celestial element that illuminates the world: that
when He breathed into man the breath of life, He impregnated him with
that latent soul&endash;element that made him a living and moving
being." Clara Bloomfield-Moore, The
Veil Withdrawn