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SECTION XIII.
Forces—Modes of Motion or Intelligences
This is, then, the last word of Physical Science up to the present
year, 1888. Mechanical laws will never be able to prove the homogeneity
of Primeval Matter, except inferentially and as a desperate
necessity, when there will remain no other issue—as in the case of
Ether. Modern Science is secure only in its own domain and region
within the physical boundaries of our Solar System, beyond which
everything, every particle of Matter, is different from the Matter it
knows, and where Matter exists in states of which Science can form
no idea. This Matter, which is truly homogeneous, is beyond human
perception, if perception is tied down merely to the five senses. We
feel its effects through those Intelligences which are the results of
its primeval differentiation, whom we name Dhyan Chohans, called in
the Hermetic works the "Seven Governors"; those to whom Pymander,
the "Thought Divine," refers as the "Building Powers," and whom
Asklepios calls the "Supernal Gods." This Matter—the real Primordial
Substance, the Noumenon of all the "matter" we know of—some
of our Astronomers even have been led to believe in, for they despair
of the possibility of ever accounting for
rotation, gravitation, and the
origin of any mechanical physical laws, unless these Intelligences
be admitted by Science. In the above-quoted work upon Astronomy
by Wolf,* the author endorses fully the theory of Kant, and the latter
theory, if not in its general aspect, at any rate in some of its features,
reminds one strongly of certain Ksoteric Teachings. Here we have
the world's system "reborn from its ashes," through a nebula—the
emanation from the bodies, dead and dissolved in Space, resultant of
the i7icandescerice
matter of the Planets.
of the Solar Centre—reanimated by the combustible
In this theory, generated and developed in the
* Hypothhes Cosmogoniques.