The changing world, and lectures to theosophical students.: Fifteen lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July, 1909Besant, Annie
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The changing world, and lectures to theosophical students.: Fifteen lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July, 1909
Besant, Annie
Theosophy; Theosophy -- Study and teaching
Look at them easily, not straining your vision, but with the will to
see—every organ of sense is evolved by the will of the Spirit behind
it—the will to see more plainly, and gradually you will find that those
dancing sparks of light can be stopped by your will to look at them,
until they will, as it were, hang in the air like minute sparks without
the rapid motion. You have begun then to develop etheric sight, and going
on steadily along similar lines you would find that before very long
the atom of the chemist would become visible to you. Of course, this is
possible to any clairvoyant who possesses real clairvoyance, and not
only a dim response to vibrations outside that are not understood. Two
years ago, under favourable conditions, two of us who had developed some
of these higher kinds of sight set to work on the atoms of the chemist.
We examined some fifty-five or fifty-six of them, drew the forms, and
since then have examined all the rest that are known to science. Those
forms fall into classes; they can be drawn so that anyone who is now
able to see them can test his own vision if he pleases by that which we
have put on record; and you will find in that work, which we published
under the name of _Occult Chemistry_, pictures of the chemical elements,
observations as to their breakings up into finer and finer forms of
ether, and possibly to the trained chemist suggestions of experiments
by which he may guide his own investigations, and by utilising what we
have seen as scientific hypotheses to him, although facts to us, may
be able to follow these subtle and elusive particles of matter further
than he has been able to follow them by any instrument that he is able
to manufacture. For when a thing is once done, it is possible then to
verify it over and over again; when once the pictures have been made, it
is easy for others to see them and verify their details; and along that
line opens up a whole vast series of new observations by man developing
within himself instruments of observation keener than those he possesses
by his apparatus and his machinery. Along that line physical research
may go. As these senses become commoner and commoner, investigations may
be carried on by scientists into the subtler worlds on whose thresholds
they now are standing, until we shall be able to have a chemistry founded
on direct observation which shall carry us right up to the ultimate atom
of the physical plane, and make practicable those so-called dreams of
the Alchemist, which are only practicable by bringing together atoms
of a finer kind than the gaseous, and so leading to aggregations that
make the elements along the lines that the chemist desires, he doing in
his laboratory what nature has done outside. And so along that line to
chemistry, to electricity, new powers of observation will extend the
bounds of science.
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