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Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism440
shade or melt into Energy or Force, and that Matter is but a less refined, or a
grosser form of Energy or Force.
“The last thing in Matter,” as the newspapers and magazines somewhat
flippantly style it, is what have been called “electrons,” which are in the nature
of minute charges of electricity. It has been stated by an eminent scientist
that one may get a feeble idea of the relations between these electrons
and the atom by imagining a room 200 feet long, 80 feet wide, and 50 feet
high, and having scattered within this space 1,000 little electric charges, each
the size of an ordinary full-stop or “period” of newspaper type—this (.) is
the size. The space and room enjoyed by the “full-stop” in the aforesaid
room, corresponds to the space and room enjoyed by the “electrons” in an
atom. When it is considered that the atom itself, containing these electrons,
is invisible to the human sight, we may form an idea of the size of this thing
called an “electron” by modern science. These “electrons” are stated to be
violently energetic and to be in constant motion, revolving around each other
like planets in a minute universe. It must be remembered that this theory has
been evolved and accepted as a necessity by the scientists, although both
the atom and “electron” are invisible—they became necessary to account
for certain other things, and so were invented, and will serve their purpose
until something better offers itself. We mention the matter, not as accepting
it as final, but merely to point out how near modern science is to accepting
the Yogi theory of the identity of Matter with Energy or Force. Students
will notice, from time to time, that each new scientific discovery will point
further to this idea, and how, later on, Force and Energy will be recognized
as shading and melting into “Mind.” Some reader of this lesson, fifty years or
more from now, will smile when he reads this prediction (?) and sees how
nearly it has been fulfilled. We extend our hand across the half-century to
such future reader, who is very likely unborn at this moment. And even in
that day, there will be no understanding of “Mind,” unless it be considered
as a manifestation of the Absolute, instead of being itself absolute, for Spirit
is as much higher than Mind as we know it, as Mind is higher than Force or