F'trBRUARY 1924

Ans\\'cr- t<l zr (luestionabout the clif lbrerlce ltet$'eerl

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In the u'orld tltere is onlv nratter arnd energy. Energy is also akind of ' tnatter. You htrve hearcl abotrt God the Word? Oneforce beconres three:

In every phenomenon, the thircl fbrce crln either arise on thespot or come from rvithotrt:

It can come from the same level or frorn another level. orfrom a third:

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I t i t c 'or l les frotn a higher level, the result is a thing in i tself .. : , , ' I lo l r - Ghost is then the neutra l iz ing force.

I shal l t ty to explain i t in this way. Here are levels. Here is. r ' :o l t r te rest . A l though i t has v ibrat ions, they car l l t r ing i t out: rlr so far. If the triad is formed with absolute rest f ronr rl' \\ ( ' l ' level as passive force, then this absoltrte rest enters iptr;

: , , ' c 'olnposit ion of i t , pul ls i t down toward earth, etc.

[]el 'e is another explanation, fronl a clifferent angle. Everv-' i , i r rg f 'eeds and is f-ed. Even a stone fbecls. Each center can be, 'r I l r) ' i ts own matters or extraneous mAtters. I t has i ts o\\rr l

. nr l 1in the sense that a stone has a soul), and an extrapeops

. ,ul-a soul in the proper sense. The third force cornes fi 'orn a,, ' { l ter level. Being f 'ed lry extraneoLls matter, the center pro-lrtc'es atrother, a difTerent matter. Take, for example, the lungs,1r( l the stomach. Both Are composed of rnatter that is approxi-: :r .r telv the same, yet they transform dif ferent matters.

\ ceuter call manufacture fine matters. On a certain level,: ' ,, r(l of' a definite density is needed. The manufbctured procl-r t ' t nrust be of that part icular density.

Here is the sLlI]. A certain rnatter passes through it { i 'onr. , l r t ) \ 'e, without changing. Here is earth. Between the sl ln ancl' l r t ' ear th there are levels .

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There Are two possibilities here. Either this matter Passesthrough' or, if there are special receivers, it is arrested. T'hese

apparatuses, designed to arrest it, manufacture fine matter. It

can be of several orders.

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No, this absorption is not accidental. Remember the iuner

octaves.

This si is closer to the neighboring octave, it sti l l has echoes

of it. The next note no longer has anything. So this si can man-

ufacture finer matter more easily. Of course, if i t works alone,

this finer matter is only thrown away. But if three work, it can

become crystall ized.

The third force exists in the whole organism-for instance, it

exists in you taken as a whole. It can be measured. But it does

not exist in a separate center.

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' \o f itt ' . \\/e have frequently touched upon the processes 9f'' t t t ' i t ion of ' the human organism. Now, wi th the help of inc l i -. t t iot t .s t tnd data already given, we mean to examine in gretrter-: , ' t rr i l the chemical side, the essence, so to speak, of cl ienrical

: ' r ' ( )c 'e 'sses taking place in the organism.It has l leen said already that in every place, at every point

't the uttiverse, all the influences reachingit combine in accor-i.trrc'e rvith a certain, definite law. We have been clecltrcing

' ltt 'sc laws of mathematical correspondence of different str6-'1. l l lces which act as l inks, ?S i t were, in one or several chains.l j) t lcquiring different properties depending on its place, prat-'( ' l ' u'hich \^/as originally one became divided into a series of't ' l)t lrate, quite definite, degrees, connected by a coptinuoust.ttt{e of continually changittg matter. Since all the properties'l trtiltter at any particular place are quite definite, they cal be

,- .rlcrtlated, as well as all the influences brought into that place,,r ith other matters.

The same cAn be said about the energy which fashions the:rl ittter and pours in and out of it, as well as of the energy con-:rrirted in it. The laws governing combination of matter and en-,'r'g)' of different degrees of, so to speak, kinship are the samerrr all rungs of the ladder. As in large cycles, so in small ph"-

rrol] lena, all interactior, all combinations, shocks, changes, ltewlortttations, crystall izations, all relationships of matter and en-t'r'$1r which we never get separately without their clepeldence)rle upon another, are subject to these laws. Therefore, ll,hen

u'8 speak of matter we necessarily speak also of the energyr'ontained in it, of its dynamic quality.

If we touch upon processes which take place near the earth.rttd in the earth, we shall f ind the same laws. M any varied in-fltrences reach the earth. Please note that whenever I use thetvord "influence"

I mean matter-substance-charged, as it\\.e're, with the corresponding energy, which in certain definitet'oltdit ions begins to interact with other substances it rneets.

If we il lustrate it thus, the diagram will represent schemati-t'allv the surface of the earth. The arrows represent different

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influences which reach the earth, penetrate into it or- pass lry.We have already mentioned the fbct that influences which areof the nature of the sun reach the earth. But here influences ofall the planets of the solar systern intermingle and continuallychange. Other influences of higher levels also reach here. Alltheir varied cornbinations determine the organic and inorganiclife on earth, the only difl.erence between thern being that, inthe case of organic lifb, comltinations of ene rgy Are of a specialvariety. When certain allttrminous compounds are obtained inthe laboratory, their chernical content does not differ fi omsimilar colllpounds in organic li{'e. But they do not possess thatellerg.v \vhich is present in the comltinatiorl we call l if 'e; conse-quentlv all erperitnetrts ancl attempts deliberately to producelif'e have met rvith lx) success.

Influellces which surround the earth and penetrate it lty theinteraction of {brces according to the law of three can be rep-resented schematically by the fbllowing diagrams:

4 = 1

s ' l2 1

\, 4 = 1

4 = 1r 4:)- E( r +

+=t\.-,2

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' l- l teir action produces round the earth and in it new combi-

"rtiorls of rnatter, constructed accorditrg to law and supplied. rt lr corresporlding energy. By their interaction, by means ofr l i ich they cAn enter into various combinations-now actively,

)\\. passiv ely, in relation to different substances-new classes, r r (l varieties of matter Are produced. These combinations giverlr( ' to subsequent l inks of that part icular chain, and so or1. By

,l l these processes there Are formed on earth all the varied,rtrbinations of rnatter-metals, minerals, elements of' our

Irt 'nristry, organic and inorganic compounds, solid, l iqtrid andj.rse'olls states of matter, as well as all the fonns and vu.rieties,t organic lif'e from microorganisms to lnan.

\l l this infinite variety of already existing forms, combina,' i r)r lS and states of matter react di f ferent ly to the l lasic inf l t r-, 'rrces which reach the earth from the difl 'erent l inks of the,snric scale, the path of which l ies through the earth. Sonte

l rnnS receive matters which reach them independently, others

i,, so through certain transrnitt ing combinations. The first. t ' r 'nr to exist in the closed circle of the law of octaves, sir lce' l rct 'contaiu a cornplete octave in thernselves a.nd are iur ex-

:)r '( 'ssion of it. The;r lead a self-sufficient existence, i{ 'u'e crl l}, ' \press it thus, receiving these rnatters rnerely as the necessrlrv' rt)(l t l .nd nourishment and thus maintaining the larvftrl lr. conr-

i r le ted process of 'metabol isrn and inner l i fe . Thev possess

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within them a crystal of free matter, which is independent initself and bears within itself all the eternal laws of matter.They crys tallize as a dn, as a whole. Other forms Are incom-plete, imperfect, and influences can be transmitted to themand through them, but not as to those stable compounds andcenters of interaction which character ize the processes of innerlife of forms completed by a crystallized essence. This refersequally to all states of matter and energy, to all the so-calledkingdoms of nature.

From this point of view, each plant, for instance, is a certaindefinite concentration of a particular kind of matter with a cer-tain energy. But, depending on conditions and influences, thiscombination assllmes in one place a character which it doesnot assume in another place. Differences in classes and varie-ties of plants are due to this circumstance. A plant which pos-sesses all the fullness of independent lifb contains in itself acomplete octave and is a completed do, one. Therefore, in theestaltlishecl process of its li{'e, it can be expressed by that sym-bol of the octave of which we have spoken. It interacts with

the influences reaching it, rvhich rnaintain its lifb and feed it,in the same way as the process of breathing maintains humanlifb. Through the triangl" of the symbol it is connected withthese influences. Each note of its crystall ized essence is in itsturtr a complete closed octave, that is, the srlme svmltol, sultor-dinate to the f i rst . On the circle ofthe busic svrnbol, the points

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: rlir-ision of notes will be smaller circles. Examples of plrurtst this kind are those from which we get tobacco, hemp, bella-1,rrnlrt, coffee, cocoa, besides certain other plants and fiurgi. ils

r irrstance, fly-ogaric. (Hn takes as on exomple opiutn, unrl', pl uin,s hoto each octaue contains other octuue,s.) Plants

'. lrich do not possess a crystallized principle produce tl fullt tirve only in tinctures, in fluid combinations of strbstances,rrtirined in them and assimilated by them with substances

,. li ich, ?S it were, pass through them and for rvhich ther- act;rcrelv as transrnitt ing stations. So, in the process of their l i f 'e,

'l,t ' s1'mbol of the octave refers only to a fluid corr-rbination of': r.rtters which is not stable like an unchanging crystal, and the:roteS of their scale produce a closed circle only in combination.i ith other substances not contained in them. In other words,'lrese plants sound do only in combination with others which

lrossess a supplementary do of a complete octave of the tone.Like every living thing, a living plant possesses a special

kirrcl of energy which, &s has been said, is absent in the same

rlirnt when it is no longer alive. Lif.e is the soundittg of the oc-:.rr.e, it is the symbol of the totality of incomitrg cementing in-

f ir rences (representing the same triangle) which, taken to-

1t'ther, ?s well as each separately, act as shock, as the Holy(,host, in maintaining the l i fe of plants. Or it is connected,:hrough a series of intermediate stages and links, with the c)c-

irr\.€ of the cosmos where it plays the part of a cell in a corn-

irler organism. Plants are ducts through which there flow in-:lrrences which connect them with forms above and below

l lie.m. When life is extinct-for instance, if a plant is cut down-t he energy inherent in it is dispersed" The triangle comes out,f' the svmbol of the octave of life.