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SECTION V.
The Masks of Science.
PHYSICS OR METAPHYSICS
If there is anything like progress on earth, Science will some dayhave
to give up, 7iolens vole^is, such monstrous ideas as her physical,
self-guiding laws, void of Soul and Spirit, and will then have to turn
to the Occult Teachings. It has already done so, however altered may
be the title-pages and revised editions of the Scientific Catechism. It
is now over half a century since, in comparing modern with ancient
thought, it was found that, however different our Philosophy may
appear from that of our ancestors, it is, nevertheless, composed only of
additions and subtractions taken from the old Philosophy and transmitted
drop by drop through the filter of antecedents.
This fact was well known to Faraday, and to other eminent men of
Science. Atoms, Ether, Evolution itself—all come to Modern Science
from ancient notions, all
nations.
are based on the conceptions of the archaic
"Conceptions" for the profane, under the shape of allegories;
plain truths taught during the Initiations to the Elect, which truths
have been partially divulged through Greek writers and have descended
to us. This does not mean that Occultism has ever had the same
views on Matter, Atoms and Ether as may be found in
the exotericism
of the classical Greek writers. Yet, if we may believe Mr. Tyndall,
even Faraday was an Aristotelean, and was more an Agnostic than a
Materialist. In his Faraday, as a Discoverer* the author shows the
great Physicist using "old reflections of Aristotle" which are "concisely
found in some of his works." Faraday, Boscovitch, and all
others, however, who see, in the Atoms and molecules, "centres of
force," and in the corresponding element, Force, an Entity by itself, are
far nearer the truth, perchance, than those, who, denouncing them,
denounce at the same time the "old corpuscular Pythagorean theory"
* p. 123.