The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality: A startling proposition, with a chapter devoted to mental therapeutics and instructions for self healingFleetwood, Henry
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The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality: A startling proposition, with a chapter devoted to mental therapeutics and instructions for self healing
Fleetwood, Henry
Death; Immortality; Life
All organic forms contains these impulses. For illustration, take a
human entity. The positive we call man, the negative woman. Through
the embrace of certain electrons thrown off from the organism of each
(physiologically termed the spermatozoa of the male and the fecundating
fluid of the female), there is established the basis of a future organism
for manifesting consciousness and conscious or intelligent activity. A
journey is begun. Life and death are one and move side by side. Their
eternal impulse ever active. If what is called harmony or health prevails
a vigorous entity is evolved and continued. When the negative tendency
or inharmony prevails in this continued struggle for supremacy, beyond a
certain limit, the organism becomes de-harmonized, dis-eased, disabled,
unconscious, disintegrated. Such is this restless energy we call life.
The circuit completed, life and death (the positive and negative
impulse), move together side by side, but the tendency to break the
circuit—as well as to close the circuit—always obtains. When this occurs
there is a re-adjustment of conditions, out of which new forms of life
appear.
There can be no antagonism in a unit. There is only a restless energy and
impulse to effect changes; to continue the work of creation or evolution.
I want my readers to recognize death as a friend, and not as so many
regard him, an enemy. He has been and is our constant companion—he is
ourself, and is entitled to fuller and kinder recognition. We scandalize
death and caricature and abuse him, not realizing that we are abusing
ourselves. When the tired organism craves only rest, how readily we
should welcome his loving embrace. We cannot love life without loving
death, as they are one and inseparable, being the unit—which is all
there is. What is true of this ceaseless energy or electrical impulse
as manifested in organic forms, is also true in inorganic forms. It
generates all vegetables, and fruits and flowers, giving them beauty
and fragrance and flavor. And we note the same spherical growth in all,
demonstrating the electrical nature of all creation. Each cell is rotated
into form by this dual impulse. We see the same spherical formation in
our forests.
The same “dissolution” or change takes place in in-organic as in organic
life. As the “speck” or decayed spot appears on the apple we know the
circuit has been broken and the negative tendency becoming the stronger.
Everywhere, everything is the circle, and everywhere the tendency to
break that circle or circuit. In the celestial bodies called worlds, it
is the same as in the flower. Astronomers agree that there is an ultimate
limit to the so-called “life” of all planetary bodies. This is true.
They have been evolved and devolved for aeons and aeons of time. And the
eternal electrical impulse and energy will continue its sport of creation
and of destruction throughout the ages yet to be.
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