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EOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
or other material object, we should remember that these
objects are not really as solid as we usually think. Science
recognizes the fact that no two atoms in any substance
touch one another, but each atom swings and vibrates at a
varying rate of speed in the sea of ether which permeates
all matter. It is well known also that all substances may
be reduced to gas. Iron, stone, water, or whatever other
substance we name is capable of being thus reduced. Eealiz-
ing this, it is only a step further to the idea that as these
substances are reduced to a gaseous state and as readily
resolved back into their original state, so a flower may
be resolved into ether, passed between the atoms in a wall
and then resolved back into its existence as a flower.
That is in fact what happens.
But the inquirer may say, "Ye?, but if you take a silver
dollar, melt it in a crucible, or retoit and change it into a
gas, it will not take the shape
of a silver dollar when it is
resolved back into the metallic state but will become simply
a lump of metal." That is true where the operation is
performed by an ordinary man, who is incapable of separating
the dense mateiial from its etheric counterpart dur-
entities who
ing the process of melting, but the spiritual
perform the feats spoken of are capable of thus detaching
the ether part of the flower from the dense material. And
it is that etheric part wi.-ich retains its shape and forms
the matrix or mold which gives form to the material of
the flower when liberated in the room after having been
passed through the wall.