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stituents, and thus publich' forced it on scientific notice. Says
Plutarch
An idea is a Being incorporeal, which has no subsistence by itself, but gives
figure and form unto shapeless matter, and becomes the cause of the manifestation.*
The revohition produced in old Chemistry by Avogadro was the first
page in the volume of "New Chemistry." Mr. Crookes has now
turned the second page, and is boldly pointing to what may be the last.
For Protyle once accepted and recognized—as invisible Ether was,
both being logical and scientific necessities—Chemistry will have virtually
ceased to live: it will reappear in its reincarnation as "New
Alchemy," or " Meta-cheraistry." The discoverer of radiant matter
will have vindicated in time the Archaic Aryan works on Occultism,
and even the Vedas and Picrdnas. For what are the manifested
"Mother," the "Father-Son-Husband" (Aditi and Daksha, a form of
Brahma, as Creators), and the "Son"—the three "First-born"—but
simply Hydrogen, Oxygen, and that which in its terrestrial manifestation
is called Nitrogen. Even the exoteric descriptions of the
"First-born" Triad give all
the characteristics of these three "gases."
Priestley, the "discoverer" of Oxygen, or of that which was known in
the Jiighest antiquity!
Yet all the ancient, mediaeval, and modern Poets and Philosophers
have been anticipated even in the exoteric Hindu books as to the
Elemental Vortices inaugurated by the Universal Mind—Descartes'
"Plenum" of Matter differentiated into particles; Leibnitz's "ethereal
fluid " ; and Kant's " primitive fluid " dissolved into its elements
Kepler's solar vortex and systemic vortices; in short, through Anaxagoras,
down to Galileo,
Torricelli, and Swedenborg, and after them to
the latest speculations by European Mystics—all this is found in the
Hindu Hymns, or Mantras, to the "Gods, Monads and Atoms," in
their Fulness, for they are inseparable. In Esoteric Teachings, the
most transcendental conceptions of the Universe and its mysteries,
as also the most seemingly materialistic speculations, are found reconciled,
because these Sciences embrace the whole scope of evolution
from Spirit to Matter. As declared by an American Theosophist:
The Monads [of Leibnitz] may from one point of view be called force, from
another matter. To Occult Science, force and matter are only two sides of the same
substance, t
Let the reader remember these
"Monads" of Leibnitz, every one of
• De Placit. Philos. + The Path, I. 10, p. 297.