- Sympathetic
Vibratory Physics - It's
a Musical Universe!
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- LECTURE SIX
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- COLORS OF
THOUGHT VIBRATION
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- IN lecture one we saw that in some of the temples of India
there are colored figures and symbols. These played an important
part in the occult history of that nation, and depict the forces
of man and of nature; but the world has no record left concerning
these teachings, and it is only students of mysticism who can read
in those colors occult truths. In those Indian temples man is
depicted as radiating from himself various colors; but what does
that mean to the average mind?
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- Among the ancient Europeans little was known concerning color.
Coming down to more modern history, we find that among the Greeks
there were no teachings regarding colors. Greek development ran
more particularly to sculpture, arts, architecture and to the use
of pigments, rather than to what we call science, and hence they
had no knowledge of the nature of vibrations. Passing on to the
Romans, we find that they, too, lacked in a large measure any
knowledge concerning the nature of color. Seneca seems to be about
the only Roman who wrote anything along this line, and he only
went so far as to show that the primary colors of the rainbow were
the same as the refraction of sunlight through broken glass, but
he was not able to explain the cause of the identity of the
phenomena. Then passing on to the Middle Ages, we find that those
who had commenced to investigate this subject of color from a
scientific standpoint, i. e., from the standpoint of light,
accepted the theory that all light is the result of certain colors
emitted from objects. But about 1665 Robert Hook, for the first
time certainly in historic ages, formulated a theory of wave
motions which Christian Huygens, in 1690, accepted and elaborated
and made the basis of the vibratory or wave theory of light and
color. But the great Newton threw his weight of opinion with the
old emission theory; consequently the wave theory became heterodox
and unpopular, and it was not heard of again for almost a century.
Then once more the scientists began to talk about the wave theory
of light and of color, and we find the old emission theory
disappearing and the wave theory meeting with the acceptance of
the scientific world. This is the predominating theory of our
scientists at present; but it seems not to have occurred to many
of them that there is an element of truth in both theories and
that by blending parts of the cardinal ideas of both, an
hypothesis might be formulated which would cover all facts and
phenomena.
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- We find a diversity of opinion concerning color among those
who study from the standpoint of pigments and those who study from
the standpoint of light, as well as some difference of opinion on
this subject in each of these several schools. The modern
scientist bases his hypothesis upon the wave theory, using for his
basis the solar radiation, or the visible so-called white light.
And yet he tells you that in point of fact there is no white
light, meaning the sum total of all the solar radiation. He tells
you that the great emission of light or electrical vibration,
whichever it may be, that comes from the sun as a greenish-blue
color, is refracted by our atmosphere and manifests itself to our
eyes as prismatic colors. But he also says that as the sunlight
comes into the world's atmosphere, large proportions of the blue
and green rays are withheld by the atmosphere, which has a
selective absorption for those colors.
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- Starting with what must admittedly be largely a hypothetical
premise, modern science advances a theory concerning colors based
entirely upon such of the solar radiations as reach this earth and
are not absorbed by atmospherical conditions, for it does not seem
to have occurred to the modern scientist that there is a vibratory
force in the earth itself which modifies the solar radiation.
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- The Occultist has great respect for the indefatigable energy
of the modern scientist, and appreciates the painstaking care with
which he collects his facts; but he recognizes that the physicist
is only working on the plane of effects and hence causes are but
guesses with him. These guesses change from decade to decade as
new facts are discovered by further research, and hence the
Occultist does not feel bound to follow the orthodox theories of
any particular decade relative to any branch of knowledge; because
he has his own sciences, which have existed for ages, and have
been verified by all who have studied along these lines. For this
reason we shall not enter too far into the discussion of how near
right the modern scientist may be. But the Occultist says this: he
does not accept wholly the views of the modern scientist as to
primary colors based upon visible solar light.
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- The accepted prism, you know, consists of the colors red,
orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet; and these are
considered to be the primary colors. The Occultist says the color
you call yellow in point of fact is not yellow, but is the higher
rays of the orange, and that the human eye does not record the
true primary yellow, because it is beyond the vision of the
ordinary eye, even when assisted by mechanical devices. The
physicist tells you that your eye cannot detect the ultra violet
rays, and that on the other end of the spectrum it cannot follow
the lowest vibrations of the red. The Occultist accepts that
statement, but adds that you do not detect all the rays or shades
of any one of the colors contained even in your spectrum. Again,
he differs from the modern physicist in regard to the question of
indigo and violet. The Occultist says that indigo and violet are
not primary colors, but are only some of the higher and lower rays
of the blue, which, in registering themselves upon the human
vision, appear as separate colors. Nor does the Occultist agree
with those who make a study of pigments -artists and chemists -
who consider blue, yellow and red as the primary colors, and that
all the other colors are but modifications or blendings of these
primary ones. The Occultist says that here also the yellow pigment
is not the yellow of the basic vibration, but is merely a
modification of the vibration of the orange, and, moreover, that
in limiting the primary colors to blue, yellow and red, you leave
out entirely the orange and green which are both primary colors.
So much, therefore, to show you the lines of divergence between
Occultism and the present scientific conception relative to
color.
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- By primary colors, from the standpoint of Occultism, is meant
those basic vibrations that appear at the beginning of time, and
manifest throughout all planes of nature. Before discussing these,
it may be well to enlarge upon some of the points of agreement
between modern science and Occultism, which we touched upon in
lecture three. First, you will remember that whatever is
manifested must have form and color; nothing could manifest if
there were a lack of these two qualities, because manifestation
means a rate of vibration which parcels or separates a portion of
atoms from the mass of matter. Therefore, vibration is the parent
of form and color, and manifestation means that there must always
exist these two qualities. Take, for example, the flowers; why do
they have their various forms? Why do they have their peculiar
pigments? Is it not the rate of vibration which determines the
size, color and form of the flowers? You remember that when you
went to school you were taught that form is the result of
vibration, and the fact was illustrated by placing a quantity of
fine feathery seed upon a drum head, and then prolonging the notes
of a violin over it. The seed gathered into various forms,
according to the vibration or sound which was given, and this
illustration proved the truth of the teaching. Then you remember
the illustration given of the hot poker which changed its color
according to its change in vibration. These illustrations were
given to show that the so-called inanimate things vibrate, and
that their vibrations can be changed according to the will or
desire of man. And now we will go a step further, and learn
something about the vibrations which determine the form and color
of man himself.
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- Man, being an individualized manifestation of nature, must
naturally have his form and color. When I speak of man, I refer to
both the physical and mental man. Place the human body in an easy
position, with feet together, and with arms at the sides; then
draw a line around it, touching each extreme outer point of the
body, and you will find that the line forms an ovoid. You remember
when we discussed the subjective and the objective minds we found
that the two interblended and ensouled the physical man. These two
united minds not only fill the interstices of the physical body,
and hold together all the physical molecules, and keep them in
place, but also extend beyond and around the body to the distance
of several inches. If you should draw a line around this inner or
mental man you would find that it, too, is oval, or egg-shaped,
which seems to be the best form for the highest and largest
expression of individualized consciousness - as witness man,
world, or sun.
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- Into each center of consciousness flows the magnetic force
called the life principle, and by reason of that inflow into all
forms there is a constant pushing out of old atoms and a
replacement of them with new elements. And this is true whether
the form be on the subjective or objective side of nature. This
passing in and out of the atomic life force, makes a fluidic
sphere around each man and around everything. In electricity we
call this fluidic sphere the electric field; in the sun we call it
the photosphere; around a magnet we call it the magnetic field or
field of attraction. Baron Karl von Reichenbach, through
sensitives, re-discovered in modern times this magnetic field
around men and animals, and even around minerals. This magnetic
field he called "od," or "odic" force. His discovery is confirmed
now by clairvoyants, by seers, and in France by sensitives under
hypnotic influence. Persons from each of these classes of
investigators have seen around each person, tree and mineral this
field of light or color. This is one reason for that law of
physics which says that no two masses can approach each other
without being mutually affected, because, being brought into
juxtaposition, there is an attraction and repulsion due to the
flow of the life forces, and the exchange of atoms which is
constantly taking place between them. There is essentially nothing
in inert matter to attract; but the inflowing of the life force
and the throwing off of old particles make a change of atoms
between masses that are near each other, and they attract or repel
according to their similarity or dissimilarity of vibration.
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- It is the existence of the magnetic field of an animal or a
man which enables a dog to follow the scent of either. As a
physical animal body passes over the ground it throws off from
itself particles or atoms with each effort or emotion. A certain
quantity of these particles is left imprinted upon the earth; and
since every individualized consciousness, possesses its own
distinct odor or perfume - due to its condition of development or
rate of vibration - it is not at all difficult for the dog to keep
the scent of the creature he is following. The atoms left upon the
earth are impregnated with the odor of that person or thing which
the dog is able to distinguish from any other.
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- When we come to the higher centers of consciousness, as in
man, we not only have the life force as an element which builds,
but we also have a thought force which is constantly manifesting,
and by its vibratory flow is modifying, the life force. Each
person radiates from himself not only the physical atoms which he
has used, and which have lost his vibration, but also the finer
forms of matter which go out with his thought force; and therefore
there is a continuous stream flowing out from each individual to
other centers, and these streams leave their impress upon
everything the person thinks about or touches. A sensitive coming
in contact with a part of the outflow from a man, can read his
character as well as a scientist, by taking up a piece of coal,
can tell you its chemical constituency, or its probable age and
formation; and this faculty is now called psychometry.
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- In ancient times, the sphere surrounding man was called the
aureola when it encircled his whole body; when it only radiated
from his head and shoulders it was called the nimbus. Later, this
magnetic field in either aspect was called the aura by Western
Occultists, while in the East it was called the sacred Auric Egg.
The ancient masters of art always represented their saints with a
nimbus about their heads and were accustomed to paint their most
divine characters as surrounded by an aureola. In the pictures of
Christ there is a radiation from the entire body, while in those
of his disciples there is usually but the nimbus to be seen. And
these old painters were right in their conceptions; they were
sensitives and either had the intuitive knowledge of an occult
fact, or they were clairvoyants and saw that according to the
development of the ego was the extent of its emanations. The
Occultist says that in the ordinary man this radiation extends
from two to six inches from the body; but as man develops in
thought, power and capacity to draw into himself cosmic forces,
his radiations expand until they may extend from six inches to
several feet outward.
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- This aura is one of the chief causes for the unaccountable
likes and dislikes that we have for persons whom we meet; for, if
one is at all sensitive, one can feel very distinctly the auras
one comes in contact with. If we meet with a person whose
vibrations are very much higher than our own, we will be likely to
either almost worship that person or dislike him for being so far
in advance of us. We will be greatly disturbed by the higher
vibrations proceeding from him, which will very likely call forth
all the good in us, or bring all the sediment in our nature to the
surface. Knowing this, and being sensitive to these sudden likes
and dislikes for persons, you may save yourself much discomfort by
keeping a good distance between yourselves and those who disturb
you. A distance of three or four feet will be sufficient to
prevent you from feeling so plainly the vibratory force of
another.
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- This aura will also account for the great depletion that many
persons feel when they come in contact with other persons; for it
is very true that there are human sponges who, unconsciously
perhaps, maintain their own lives by drawing all the magnetic
force or life they can get from others. This is what the Occultist
calls vampirization. You may have observed that invalids are most
anxious to have young, strong people about them. They will often
take the hand of a healthy person and hold it for hours, if they
are permitted to. It is pleasant for the invalid, but quite trying
sometimes for the visitor, because with the blending of the auras
the magnetic force flows from the stronger to the weaker. Old
people are very fond of children, and often insist upon sleeping
with them. This is very dangerous for the child, because of the
demagnetization which must always follow so doing.
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- There are several ways by which you may save yourselves from
being demagnetized by others. The first is to spend much of your
time alone. Another is by declaring positiveness for yourself and
by keeping your mind on your own magnetism, and thus retain it
within your own body. Again, you may save yourself considerably by
letting your feet touch each other lightly, and by clasping your
hands together when you are sitting near other persons; this is a
means of closing your circuit and preventing your magnetism from
flowing out. In the last-mentioned practice it is not alone the
physical act of closing your circuit, but the mental attitude you
take at that time which protects you from vampirization.
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- The size and color of the human aura changes according to the
intensity and quality of the thought. We have seen that all
vibration is either the direct or indirect result of thought; and
this is true from the first Divine impulse down to every thought
of man. It can be demonstrated in a number of ways. Telepathy,
which I believe scientists now accept as a fact, is the
transmission of thought or vibratory force from the mind of one
person to that of another without the use of material signs, using
as the medium of communication the ether or Universal
Consciousness. If there is a vibration or emanation that goes
forth from you every time you think, and it passes to the point it
is sent, then it is reasonable to suppose that according to the
intensity of the thought is the emanation projected. If you sit
quietly daydreaming, or thinking in an indefinite, incoherent
manner, the emanation does not proceed far from you; but if your
thought is definite and intense, then its vibration must proceed
according to its own intensity. By intense thinking I do not mean
that you should clench your fist, nor corrugate your brow while
doing it; but I mean that your thought must be clearly held in
mind and distinctly sent forth.
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- I understand that Dr. Baraduct, a French physician, has
invented a disk so delicately sensitized that it registers the
vibrations of a human being brought in contact with it. If an
angry man puts forth his hand toward the dial, the needle on it
immediately registers the intensity of his vibrations. If the
opposite hand of the same man is extended, the dial immediately
shows the difference in vibrations between the positive and
negative sides of his body. When a clear, distinct thinker tests
the machine, there is a greater number registered upon the dial
than when a negative person tests it, and thus we are fortunate in
having a recently invented mechanical instrument which proves the
claims of Occultism concerning the vibratory emanations from the
human body.
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- The intensity of the thought determines the size of the aura,
and the quality of the thought determines its color. For example,
you may have an intense vibration of a low color, which would
cause your emanation to project for three or more feet from you,
or you might have an intense thought of a higher nature which
would reach the same distance. Its size would depend upon its
intensity, but its color would be determined by its quality or
rate of vibration, or its moral and intelligent degree of
excellence.
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- According to the Occult system in reference to mind or man,
the spectrum, as applied to this particular planet, would include
what is generally known as the absence of color at one end and the
synthesis of color at the other, or black and white.
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- But because neither of these has a practical bearing upon this
course of lectures - nor will it have in your lives at this point
in your evolution - I shall omit them from this course. Both
colors indicate abnormal conditions of mind, and we do not desire
to waste our time studying the abnormal. The Occultist says that
red, orange, green, blue and yellow are the normal primary colors,
and can be seen and known upon each inner plane of being according
to the development of the investigator. The ordinarily developed
person cannot see the pure yellow ray with his physical eyes any
more than the ordinary American can see the many delicate colors
in an Indian shawl that the specialized vision of an expert can
distinguish.
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- The inner man, usually called the soul or ego, the real man,
always has a color as distinctly his own as has the outside man.
Each individual has his particular color according to his quality
of thought, character and development. During his first
incarnation on the earth the normal color of the subjective mind
was yellow or blue, and the natural color of the objective mind
was green; therefore, when these two first came together, and
united as one mind, and incarnated in a human body, the combined
colors became a greenish blue or greenish yellow. This very
quickly changed to lower rates of vibration, because sensation
immediately commenced to manifest in the place of reason, in the
newly incarnated man. The green predominated over the yellow or
blue because the latter were the product of the subjective side of
life, and the green was the product of the objective side which
was stronger upon its own plane of development. But even these
combination color vibrations were lost through the excitation of
the emotional nature, which came quickly into the ascendency in
man's nature. This was due to the great desire for the physical
enjoyments of life, for in those days man was in his absolutely
normal, animal condition. He had a new body, had not put into
action causes which reacted upon it, and his power of thinking was
limited, and therefore not likely to have much influence on his
body during those first incarnations. So there was nothing for man
at that time but the mere physical enjoyment of existence.
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- Before we take up the study of the emotional nature and its
colors, it may be well to examine that force which built man's
physical form, and which builds all physical forms - the force we
call "life." This force manifests as orange vibration. If life is
a force, if it is something, then it must have a rate of vibration
of its own to distinguish it from everything else in the universe.
We speak of the Gulf Stream. It is a current of water which
vibrates at a higher rate than the body of water through which it
flows, and we call this current of water the Gulf Stream to
distinguish it from the rest of the ocean. So in this great sea of
consciousness there are certain definite and distinct currents of
force which play very important parts in man's evolution, and that
which we call "life" is one of them. I cannot prove this statement
to you because of the limitation of your vision, but you can prove
it for yourself - as you can prove every other statement I shall
make in these lectures - if you develop to that point where your
inner senses permit you to function upon that plane of existence
where forces are visible as forces, as causes, and not as effects
or phenomena.
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- On this physical plane you see life as form; on the subjective
or mental side you see life manifesting as a separate and distinct
thing which is building the form you see with your physical eyes.
Seeing life on the subjective side, it is an orange color, or a
force which vibrates as orange, sweeping into everything and
giving vitality to all forms. All physical bodies have this vital
force manifesting in them according to the capacity of each to
express it. You do not see the orange force permeating the invalid
to the same extent that it does an athlete, because the invalid
cannot express it so well. And now that you understand something
about the force which fashions and preserves the physical body,
let us turn to man himself and study the other forces expressed in
him.
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- The lowest force in psychic man is that which we designate as
his distinct animal propensities, and these are red in their
manifestation or vibration. You remember we found the four
cardinal emotions upon which all the other human emotions were
based, and the first three of these were red; therefore, when the
animal nature is in the ascendency in man, when it dominates the
intellectual side of his nature, the red vibrations become the
dominating ones and permeate the entire man and his aura. If you
strike a tuning fork upon the table, the sound produced is the
vibration which emanates from that tuning fork. If you put a
weight upon the fork the sound ceases, because the low rate of
vibration which you bring in contact with the tuning fork causes
its vibrations to be lowered, and finally to cease; thus the
vibrations of the weight overcome those of the tuning fork. It is
the same with thought; when the animal nature becomes intense it
gives its lowering vibrations to every part of the man, and
consequently the intellectual nature ceases its activity for the
time being, and takes the color of the dominating emotion. When
the emotional nature is in the ascendency, man's color is red, and
according to the intensity of his emotions is the color
intensified; but if he struggles to control his emotions there
will be a change of colors in his aura.
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- In the course of time man's lower intellectual nature began to
be more prominent, and when his emotions were not over-stimulated
it began to be something of a factor in his life; and as time went
on what was originally the red in the psychic man, and the orange
of his body, became tinged with the green of his objective
mentality, and then he had the three colors blended, which gave
him a brown vibration. This color, unfortunately, indicates the
condition of the mass of men at the present day, because they have
not developed beyond that point. The intellectual side of man is
very weak as yet; even the objective mind is not well
individualized, and as for the subjective mind, it is not active
in one person in a thousand.
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- After many centuries some men, for one reason or another,
began to control their emotions somewhat. This may have been
brought about by laws being enacted which said: If a person gives
sway to his emotions, and kills another, or becomes too
avaricious, and robs his fellow man, he shall be punished. Or it
may have been because social life required the suppression of the
emotions at times. As man began to control more and more his
emotional nature, the green vibrations became more prominent.
First in its deeper shades which indicate intense selfishness -
and subsequently in its lighter shades, indicating
individualization.
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- Green is the color of the objective mind of man when he first
begins to individualize as a permanent center of consciousness in
Deity. It is the color of the manifested, lower, intellectual
nature which is sometimes called the brain consciousness.
Self-consciousness in the growing man was necessarily an
evolutionary step; and when man, for his own purposes and his own
interests, began to use his intellect even on a low plane, he
began to control his emotional nature. This in itself helped to
strengthen his intellectual nature and made his emotions more or
less subservient to it. Green vibrations are desirable because no
soul can mount very high in its evolution unless it becomes
properly individualized. Then will come the time when our
subjective minds, or the diviner portion of our natures, will
fight for the ascendency as the lower intellectual is now fighting
the emotional nature. At that time the original color of the
subjective mind will begin to manifest itself and the blue
vibrations will commence to tinge the inner man. At first there
will be but occasional flashes of the blue in his aura; later, it
will become suffused with the blue vibration.
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- Raising the vibrations of the developing man is a slow
process. Where his higher intellect and intuition begin to
manifest, and where reason commences to overpower desire, there is
the battle ground for the objective and subjective minds. This is
where most of the progressive men and women are to-day; and if you
were clairvoyant, you could see the auras changing from green to
blue, with often a flash of red, and then back again to green, or
perhaps to purple, a combination of the blue and red. I know of no
better comparison than to liken the progressive inner man, in his
appearance, to an electric fountain. One moment you may see the
fountain all blue, at another green and blue mingling; then
perhaps it will change to purple, with now and again a flash of
red, or with red suffusing the whole. So man, according to his
thought, is always radiating these beautiful colors which are in
each human soul or mind.
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- In the course of time, when his spiritual nature becomes
awakened and his intuition becomes active, the yellow vibrations
begin to interblend with the blue. You will see the well-developed
man possessed of all the colors, properly regulated and
controlled. The lower vibrations, the red, will then appear as a
beautiful rose pink, and will be seen more particularly about that
portion of the body where the generative organs are located. The
orange vibration will suffuse the entire body. The green will be
the individualizing band outlining the body, and the blue and
yellow will blend and extend beyond the green, forming the outer
border of the aura.
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- There are two classes of these colors which may be designated
as positive and negative. There is the positive yellow and the
negative yellow, the positive green and the negative green. And
when you see man's aura composed of negative colors you may know
that the negative side of his nature is dominant. A man may be
negatively good, and be neither wise nor strong. He may seem to
control his objective mind and you may believe him to be a
well-developed man, when really his objective mind is but a poor
vehicle for his subjective mind. Or you may find persons with the
negative blue and yellow vibrations, those whose intuitional
natures are only partially awakened, but who have not the force
aspect; neither has the higher intelligence become active in them.
A person may be negatively good because he has not been tempted in
this life to be otherwise; his environment may have been such as
to guard him against temptation, and his nature being negative, he
had not the desire to overcome. Some time in some life he must be
tempted and learn to be positively good before lie becomes a
perfected ego.
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- There is a practical side to this lecture, as there has been
to all the other lectures of this course. According to your
knowledge of these forces or vibrations, and according to the
intensity of your thought, will you have the power to use the
Occult forces of nature, and become conscious upon other than the
material plane, and to put yourself in touch with certain cosmic
currents or forces. For illustration: A man with an emotional
nature goes to the theater. There is a cry of "Fire!" and a wave
of fear sweeps over the audience. Every mind in the house has
become attached to the red cosmic current of fear. Having tapped
this great current, waves of fear come into every center of
consciousness in that house, and the emotional man loses his
reason and rushes like a maddened brute to save himself,
regardless of everyone else. He tramples upon women and children,
and fights like a wild animal to liberate his body from the
struggling mass of human beings around him. There may or may not
be a fire, but this man has connected his objective mind, through
thought, with this current of fear, does not control the emotion
as it sweeps over him, and you see the result.
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- These cosmic currents which surround our earth correspond in
color and rate of vibration to each of the colors in the aura of
men and animals; and all living creatures use these currents,
either consciously or unconsciously. When man learns to vibrate
harmoniously with the color or cosmic current he desires to use,
then his development will be much more rapid than when he uses the
currents, as the animals do, unconsciously and without a knowledge
of what he is doing. It is according to the color of a man's
vibrations that he connects himself with these cosmic forces; and
some of the lower forces bring disaster to him when he uses them.
Take the current of fear for example. If a man is constantly
fearing something, or someone, he thus connects himself with the
current of fear, and it constantly plays upon him. He never can
gain success in anything he undertakes until he raises his
vibrations above this current, and in this way disconnects himself
from it. It is indeed of the most importance that man should learn
to control his thoughts and his vibrations.
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- There are also different planes of consciousness, and it is
according to the rate of man's vibration that he can function upon
them. As a man may be able to see no color but red, because his
optic nerves are at so low a rate of vibration that they cannot
record any color of a higher rate, so some men have a much broader
apprehension of the laws of life than other men, because their
vibrations are high enough to permit vibrations coming from other
and higher planes to impinge upon their consciousness. A genius is
a man whose consciousness has become expanded through his
evolution until he can contact more planes of cosmic consciousness
than other men. You remember the lines,
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- "A primrose by a river's brim
- A yellow primrose was to him,
- And it was nothing more."
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- One man sees in a primrose nothing more nor less than a
vegetable growth; another thinks what a pretty yellow flower;
still another sees in that same primrose the secrets of the
Universe; he sees in that flower the vibratory effect of the
Divine Idea - that God has geometrized, as the scholars of
Pythagoras were accustomed to say.
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- There are forty-nine states of consciousness, but the minds of
average men only function upon ten or twelve. There are a great
many doors to knowledge, which we may open if we will; but if we
continue to think in the lower states of consciousness, and never
rise above them in aspiration, these other doors will remain
forever shut to us. If we always live in the cellar of our house
we will never see God's sunlight streaming into our upper rooms.
The sun shines, but not for us because we will not go where it can
reach us.
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- All the world's great teachers have substantially taught the
same rules for conduct and morality. Ethics is not founded on
police regulations nor sentiments of moralists, but is established
on the immutable laws of nature. "Love your enemies" was one of
the precepts taught by Jesus, and it has puzzled many of his
followers to find the reason for the teaching. Many persons think,
if they do not say: What sense is there in loving one's enemies?
This precept has a purely scientific basis. Love is not an
indefinite sentiment, it is something real; it is the highest and
greatest dynamic force on this planet, and is one that manifests
on all planes. Since it is a force, it is something we can feel on
this plane of effects and see on the mental plane, if we are able
to function on that plane. When pure love is sent forth from the
subjective mind, it manifests as a constructive force, having its
own particular high yellow rate of vibration. Anger being an
emotion, and proceeding from the objective mind of man, vibrates
at a lower rate, which is red. A person who hates you - an enemy -
sends a red current of thought toward you; but if you send loving
thoughts in return, you are projecting a yellow rate of vibration
which is infinitely higher and more forceful than the red, and the
yellow vibration deflects the lower vibration so that it never
reaches you.
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- The higher rates of vibration will protect you from harm, and
if you live according to ethical principles, a high quality of
thought or vibration is attained. When we come to consider
Spiritual Forces, we shall see how, by the control of our
thoughts, we can use the cosmic forces.
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