Theos-Talk Archives (May 2004 Message tt00045)

Tuesday, May 04, 2004

RE ATTRACTION and REPULSION -- MAGNETISM


Dear T:e



ATTRACTION and REPULSION -- or MAGNETISM Probably, as all
things in Nature are inter-related.

There are two kinds of "magnetism"  

1.	ferro-magnetism, and 

2.	"animal" magnetism.  

The latter is not well known.

I have suspected that to be so, but am not rigid about it, as
there are also other attractions such as "feelings," and
"emotions." -- we also hear in relationships about "mutual
attractions." --- attraction and repulsion are universal facts.


Next question: Why is it so?

What sets such forces into action and creates the initial
attraction or repulsion?

Does our feeling and our thought have something to do with that?


How are we to investigate that?

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Lets look at this:

"There are fluids of various kinds. Electricity is called a
fluid, and so was heat quite recently, but it was on the
supposition that heat was some imponderable substance. This was
during the supreme and autocratic reign of matter. When the
latter was dethroned, and MOTION was proclaimed the sole
sovereign ruler of the Universe, heat became "a mode of motion."
We need not despair: it may become something else to-morrow. 

Like the Universe itself, Science is ever becoming, and can never
say, "I am that I am." 

On the other hand, Occult Science has its changeless traditions
from prehistoric times. It may err in particulars; it can never
become guilty of a mistake in questions of Universal laws, simply
because that Science, justly referred to by philosophy as the
"divine," was born on higher planes, and was brought on Earth by
beings who were wiser than man will be, even in the seventh Race
of his Seventh Round. 

And that Science maintains that Forces are not what modern
learning would have them; e.g., Magnetism is not a "mode of
motion"; and, in this particular case, at least, exact "modern
Science" is sure to come to grief some day. Nothing, at the first
blush, can appear more ridiculous, more outrageously absurd than
to say, for instance: "the Hindu initiated Yogi knows really ten
times more than the greatest European physicist of the ultimate
nature and constitution of light-both solar and lunar." 

Yet why is the Sushumna ray believed to be that ray which
furnishes the moon with its borrowed light? Why is it "the ray
cherished by the initiated Yogi?" Why is the moon held as the
deity of the mind, by those Yogis? We say, because light, or
rather all its occult properties, every combination and
correlation of it with other forces, mental, psychic, and
spiritual, were perfectly known to the old adepts. 

Therefore, although, in its knowledge of the ultimate
constitution of matter, or in the so-called ultimate analysis as
opposed to the proximate in chemistry, occult science may be less
well-informed as to the behaviour of compound elements in various
cases of physical correlations: still, it is immeasurably higher
in its knowledge of the ultimate occult states of matter, and of
the true nature of matter, than all the physicists and chemists
of our modern day put together.
 
Now, if we state the truth openly and in full sincerity, namely,
that the ancient Initiates had a far wider knowledge of
physics-as a Science of Nature-than our Academies of Science, all
taken together, possess, the statement will be characterized as
an impertinence and an absurdity; for physical sciences are
considered to have been carried in our age to the apex of
perfection. Hence, the twitting query-"Can the Occultists meet
successfully the two points, namely (a) the production of heat by
friction-excitation of molecular motions; and (b) the conversion
of heat into mechanical force, if they hold to the old "exploded"
theory of heat being a substance or a fluid?"
 
To answer the question, it must first be observed that the Occult
Sciences do not regard either electricity or any of the forces
supposed to be generated by it, as matter, in any of the states
known to physical Science; to put it more clearly, none of these
"forces," so-called, are either solids, gases, or fluids. If it
did not look pedantic, an Occultist would even object to
electricity being called a fluid-as it is an effect and not a
cause. But its noumenon, he would say, is a conscious cause. The
same in the cases of "Force" and the "Atom." Let us see what an
eminent Academician, Butlerof, the chemist, had to say about
these two abstractions. " S D I 516-7

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Best wishes,

Dallas
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Te
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 7:43 PM
To: Dallas TenBroeck
Subject: Re: ATTRACTION and REPULSION -- MAGNETISM

Dallas,

Hair, magnetics(?) - could that be relative to
iron/magns. a/o differences in blood and chlorophyll. 

Te