The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-06-13
PRESENTS SOME PROOFS
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CNpSSb bhc lheoSOphiSdi laws VI oh"i
ogies to hold good. But this is moth
ing, for all the old chemical theories
have been capsized and a new atomic
theory is gradually developing along
the very lines of the Secret Doctrine"
that is to say, the unity of all things
and the law of septenary divisions
And, while Tesla's and Keeley's works
show electricity resolving itself into
simple mode of atomic motion,
Crookes' chemistry admits that the
primary constituents of all matter, of
all atoms, are identical in their nature
and issue from one single basis, called
"protyle," their difference of form
and appearance, in molecules and COM
pound bodies, being only the result
Of a difference in distribution or po-
sition. Thus, the ultimate chemical
atom is no longer held, as formerly,
to be q "tiny particle of some par
tlcular Interchangeable substance" but
simply soul, viz: an electrical cen
tire of force and motion, in other
words, the "whirlwind" of the Secret
Doctrine. But H. p. b. told us that,
lin occultism, atoms are called vibra-
tons, also sound" and one of the
wonders of Theosophy during the
past year, has been the expose in
"Lucifer" November 1850 by A Be-
SAINT, of the formation by complex vi
brations, of the atoms of three well
known gases, oxygen, hydrogen and
nitrogen out of one identical vibrat-
ing point, or central vortex or whirl-
wind, of Akasa or Ether, which may
be considered as the soul of every
atom; and thus the outside forms of
the complicated chemical molecules are
only the vestment, the material body
of those atomic souls, just as our bod
les are the vestment of our souls!
Furthermore, let us hear a lecturer
of the English Royal institute, Prof
Notwithstanding; speaking of certain
phases of the life-history of the met
ais, which the old chemistry used to
call inorganic" that is to say life
less, he says that: metals and al
Toys really present close analogies to
living organisms" to such an extent
that future generations will speak of
the evolution (the growth) of metals,
as we now do that of animals" and
will turn to the sun as place where
such an evolution can best be studied
This is true Theosophical occultism,
which recognizes life in the mineral,
and describes it's evolution; and on
this occultism the S. d. was based,
though the learned professor might be
unwilling to admit the identity of his
ideas with it.
The discoveries of Astronomy also
agree with the S. d., the latest being
the recent observation of the planet
Mars, reported three months ago to
the French Society, by some promis-
ing American astronomers, Percival
Lowell, Pickering, Douglas, whereby
much better knowledge of the planet
has been obtained, confirming the
teachings of the S. d., that Mars is
much older than the Earth, and must
have been inhabited by highly in
civilized humanity. O. Our scientists
now say that Mars has no seas, but
that it is covered by fields, whose
powerful vegetation, formerly taken
to be seas, is sustained by the waters
derived from the melting of the polar
SHOWS and distributed by vast sys-
tenn of geometrically disposed canals,
1873 of which have been photographed
together with As immense round ar
tificial lakes. Some of these canals
are known to duplicate themselves
during the summers of the planet
showing that provision had been made
to collect the excess of melted SHOWS
How near science is coming to the
mysterious, but sacred and unre.
vealable connection that occultism af-
firms between Mars and the Earth!
Another prediction of ii. p. b.
which is in very patent way of, al
least, some realization, is the follow.
ing: dead facts and events, she
said, deliberately drowned in the sea
of modern scepticism, will ascend
once more and reappear on the sur
face Is. d. 1. 67O" In other words
old beliefs rejected by former science
will be revived. While chemistry il
fast going back to Alchemy, look a
Astrology! Forty or fifty years age
nobody dared acknowledge a belle
in that exploded science, relic o
superstition and barbarism," for feal
of the most calling ridicule; but since
the Secret Doctrine" has shown tina
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