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Lesson XI: Matter and Force.439
Lesson XI: Matter and Force.
Our last lesson closed in the midst of an inquiry into the manifestation
known as Matter. As we stated there, Science has assumed that Matter
is composed of atoms, and that these atoms may be divided and re-divided
until, finally, there will appear an atom incapable of further division—an
Ultimate Atom, in fact—something in the nature of Absolute Matter.
Various theories have been advanced by scientists to account for the atom—
you must remember that this Ultimate Atom is a purely theoretical and
hypothetical thing—no one has ever found it, and it could not be seen even
with the strongest microscope, even if it were found. Recent discoveries,
notably that of the “X Rays,” and “Radium,” have disturbed these theories,
and scientists just now are very much at sea regarding this question of “the
atom.” They generally had accepted the idea that the atom of hydrogen
was the “Ultimate Atom,” or at least so near to it that the difference was
infinitesimal, when these recent discoveries upset their theories, and the
experiments showing the so-called “radiant energy” and “radioactivity”
caused them to agree that that which had been considered the final thing
in atoms was capable of still further analysis. Science at the present time is
on the verge of admitting the Yogi teachings that the finer forms of Matter