But the lay mind infected by the materialism of the day wonders how all
these manipulations are possible, seeing that no instruments are spoken
of. The instruments are in the body and brain of man. In the view of
the Lodge “the human brain is an exhaustless generator of force”, and
a complete knowledge of the inner chemical and dynamic laws of Nature,
together with a trained mind, give the possessor the power to operate
the laws to which I have referred. This will be man’s possession in
the future, and would be his to-day were it not for blind dogmatism,
selfishness, and materialistic unbelief. Not even the Christian lives
up to his Master’s very true statement that if one had faith he could
remove a mountain. A knowledge of the law when added to faith gives
power over matter, mind, space, and time.
Using the same powers, the trained Adept can produce before the eye,
objective to the touch, material which was not visible before, and
in any desired shape. This would be called creation by the vulgar,
but it is simply evolution in your very presence. Matter is held
suspended in the air about us. Every particle of matter, visible or
still unprecipitated, has been through all possible forms, and what
the Adept does is to select any desired form, existing, as they all
do, in the Astral Light and then by effort of the Will and Imagination
to clothe the form with the matter by precipitation. The object so
made will fade away unless certain other processes are resorted to
which need not be here described, but if these processes are used the
object will remain permanently. And if it is desired to make visible a
message on paper or other surface, the same laws and powers are used.
The distinct—photographically and sharply definite—image of every line
of every letter or picture is formed in the mind, and then out of the
air is drawn the pigment to fall within the limits laid down by the
brain, “the exhaustless generator of force and form”. All these things
the writer has seen done in the way described, and not by any hired or
irresponsible medium, and he knows whereof he speaks.
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