Theosophy - Keely and Science - Parts 1 and 3 - plus Kelly Motor Bubble - as published in Theosophical Siftings - Volume 3
KEELY AND SCIENCE
Compiled by John W. Keely & Clara Jessup
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" The only hope for science is more science" — DRUMMOND.
" Matter
is infinitely divisible" — SCHOPENHAUER.
" We seem to be approaching a theory as to the construction
of ether. Hertz has produced vibrations, vibrating more than
one hundred million times per second. He made use of the
principle of resonance. You all understand how, by a succession
of well-timed small impulses, a large vibration may be set
up" — PROF. FITZGERALD.
Dr. Schimmel, in his lecture on "The Unity of Nature's
Forces", says: — "The Greek philosophers,
Leucippus, Anaxagoras, Democritus, and Aristotle, base their
philosophies on the existence of an ether and atoms. According
to Spiller's system, both ether and atoms are material. The
atoms are indivisible. Chemistry, being based on the correctness
of this statement, forces us to accept it". — We
are "forced to accept it", only until it is proved
by demonstration to be false. (See note at end)
The discoverer of the connecting link between mind and matter,
the Newton of the mécanique celeste of the mind, foretold
both by Kepler and Macvicar, has now reached a stage in his
researches at which he is able to demonstrate the truth of
the hypotheses which he is formulating into a system; and
consequently the stage where he can demonstrate whether theories,
that have prevailed concerning the cause of physical phenomena,
are sound or without basis in fact. Until this stage was
reached, it would have been as useless to make Mr. Keely's
theories known, as it would be to publish a treatise to prove
that two and two make five. Scientific men reject all theories
in physics in which there is not an equal proportion of science
and mathematics, excluding all questions of pure metaphysics.
They were right; for, until the world had undergone a state
of preparation for another revelation of truth, the man who
demonstrated all that Keely is now prepared to demonstrate
would have been burned alive as a wizard. To use the words
of Babcock, one of Keely's staunchest adherents, in 1880: — "This discoverer [Page
2] has entered a new
world, and although an unexplored wilderness of untold wealth
lies beyond, he is treading firmly its border, which daily
widens as with ever-increasing interest he pursues his explorations.
He has passed the dreary realm where scientists are groping.
His researches are made in the open field of elemental force,
where gravity, inertia, cohesion, momentum are disturbed
in their haunts and diverted to use; where, from unity of
origin, emanates infinite energy in diversified forms". and,
to this statement I would add — where he is able to look
from nature up to nature's God, understanding and explaining,
as no man before ever understood and explained, how simple
is “the mysterious way in which God works His wonders
to perform".
Mr. Babcock continues: — "Human comprehension is
inadequate to grasp the possibilities of this discovery for
power, for increased prosperity, and for peace. It includes
all that relates mechanically to travel, manufacture, mining,
engineering, and warfare". Up to within two years, Mr.
Keely, the discoverer of unknown laws of nature, having their
sole seat, origin, and function in the human mind, has been
left partially to the mercy of men who were interested only
in mechanical "possibilities". In the autumn of
1888, he was led into a line of research which made the mechanical
question one of secondary interest; and yet the present results
are such as to prove that on this line alone can he ever
hope to attain mechanical success. The course then adopted
has also been the means of placing his discoveries before
the world, endorsed in such a manner as to command attention
to his views and theories. It has been said that if extreme
vicissitudes of belief on the part of men of science are
evidences of uncertainty, it may be affirmed that of all
kinds of knowledge none is more uncertain than science. The
only hope for science is more science, says Drummond. Keely
now bestows the only hope for science — "more science". He
accounts for the non-recognition by scientists of his claims,
in these words: "The system of arranging introductory
etheric impulses by compound chords set by differential harmonies,
is one that the world of science has never recognised, simply
because the struggles of physicists, combating with the solution
of the conditions governing the fourth order of matter, have
been in a direction thoroughly antagonistic, and opposite
to a right one. It is true that luminosity has been induced
by chemical antagonism, and, in my mind, this ought to have
been a stepping-stone towards a more perfect condition than
was accepted by them; but independent of what might be necessary
to its analysis, the bare truth remains that the conditions
were isolated — robbed of their most vita essentials — by
not having the medium of etheric vibration associated with
them".
In order to subdivide the atoms in the atomic triplet, after
release from the molecule, the molecular ether, thus liberated,
is absolutely necessary in order to effect the rupture of
the atoms, and so on, progressively, each order [Page 3] of ether,
molecular, inter-molecular, atomic, inter-atomic, etheric,
inter-etheric, the ether so liberated in each successive
division is essential to the next sub-division.
The keynote of Mr. Keely's researches is that the movements
of elastic elements are rhythmical, and before he had reached
his present stage in producing vibrations, on the principle
of resonance, he has had problems to solve which needed the
full measure of inspiration or apperception that he has received.
Hertz has produced vibrations about one metre long, vibrating
more than one hundred million times a second. Keely has produced,
using an atmospheric medium alone, 519,655,633 vibrations
per second; but, interposing pure hydrogen gas between soap
films and using it as a medium of acceleration, he asserts
that on the enharmonic third a rate of vibration may be induced
which could not be set down in figures, and could only be
represented in sound colours. He has invented instruments
which demonstrate in many variations the colours of sound,
registering the number of necessary vibrations to produce
each variation. The transmissive sympathetic chord of B flat,
third octave, when passing into inaudibility, would induce
billions of billions of vibrations, represented by sound
colour on a screen illuminated from a solar ray. But this
experiment is one of infinite difficulty, from the almost
utter impossibility of holding the hydrogen between the two
films long enough to conduct the experiment. Keely made over
1,200 trials before succeeding once in inducing the intense
blue field necessary, covering a space in time of six weeks,
four hours at a time daily, and should he ever succeed in
his present efforts to produce a film that will stand, he
anticipates being able to register the range of motion in
all metallic mediums. On this subject Keely writes: — "The
highest range of vibration I ever induced was in the one
experiment that I made in liberating ozone by molecular percussion,
which induced luminosity, and registered a percussive molecular
force of 110,000 lbs. per square inch, as registered on a
lever constructed for the purpose. The vibrations induced
by this experiment reached over 700,000,000 per second, unshipping
the apparatus, thus making it insecure for a repetition of
the experiments. The decarbonized steel compressors of said
apparatus moved as if composed of putty. Volume of sphere,
15 cubic inches; weight of surrounding metal, 3I6 Ibs".
Recently some questions, propounded to Mr. Keely by a scientist,
elicited answers, which the man of science admitted were
clear and definite, but no physicist could accept Keely's
assertion that incalculable amounts of latent force exist
in the molecular spaces, for the simple reason that science
asserts that molecular aggregation is attended with dissipation
of energy instead of its absorption. The questions asked
were: —
1) In disintegrating
water, how many foot-pounds of energy have you [Page 4] to expend in order to
produce or induce the vibratory energy in your acoustical apparatus?
"Answer. — No foot-pounds at all. The force necessary
to excite disintegration when the instrument is sensitized
(both in sensitization and developments) would not be sufficient
to wind up a watch.
2) What is the amount of energy that you get out
of that initial amount of water (say 12 drops) when decomposed
into ether ?
"Answer. — From 12 drops of water a force can be
developed that will fill a chamber of seven pint volume no
less than six times with a pressure of ten tons to the square
inch.
3) In other words, if you put so many pounds of
energy into vibratory motion, how many foot-pounds do you
get out of this?
"Answer. — All molecular masses of metal represent
in their interstitial molecular spaces incalculable amounts
of latent force, which, if awakened and brought into intense
vibratory action by the medium of sympathetic liberation,
would result in thousands of billions more power in foot-pounds
than that necessary to awaken it. The resultant development
of any and all forces is only accomplished by conditions
that awaken the latent energy they have carried with them
during molecular aggregation. If the latent force that exists
in a pound of water could be sympathetically evolved or liberated
up to the seventh sub-division or compound-inter-etheric,
and could be stored free of rotation, it would be in my estimation
sufficient to run the power of the world for a century". .........
This statement gives another of Keely's discoveries to the
world, viz., that molecular dissociation does not create
energy, as men have asserted Keely has claimed, but supplies
it in unlimited quantities, as the product of the latent
energy accumulated in molecular aggregation. This is to the
physicist as if Keely had asserted that two and two make
a billion, but as a man of science, who is held to be "the
scientific equal of any man in the world", has come
forward to make known that, in his opinion, "Keely has
fairly demonstrated the discovery of a force previously unknown
to science", the discoverer at last feels at liberty
to make public the nature of his discoveries. Until Dr. Joseph
Leidy had taken this stand, Mr. Keely could not, without
jeopardizing his interests, and the interests of the Keely
Motor Company, make known in what particulars his system
conflicts with the systems upheld by the age in which we
live.
After the warning, given in the history of Huxley's "Bathybius",
we may feel quite sure that if Keely had failed to demonstrate
the genuineness of his claims by actual experiment, no scientist
would have risked the worldwide reputation of a lifetime
by endorsement of the discovery of an unknown force as Professor
Leidy has done, while Keely himself was under such a cloud
that, to advocate his integrity and uphold the importance
of his [Page 5] discovery, has hitherto been enough to awaken
doubts as to the sanity of his upholders. Among many others
who have written of it from the standpoint of Keely's accountability
for the mistakes of the managers of the Keely Motor Company — men
who made no pretence of caring for anything but dividends — was
one who asserted, in the New York Tribune, that it was a "remarkable
delusion, full of tricks too numerous to mention, the exposure
of which ought to be made to bring the Keely craze to an
end". In the same journal an editorial states that "Mr.
Keely appears to have no mechanical ingenuity, his strong
point being his ability as a collector. He has one of the
largest and best arranged collections of other people's money
to be found in the United States. Having, a number of years
ago, during a fit of temporary insanity, constructed a machine
which, if any power on earth could start it, would explode
and pierce the startled dome of heaven with flying fragments
of cog-wheels and cranks, he now sits down calmly, and allows
this same mechanical night-mare to make his living for him.
This is genius; this is John W. Keely; he toils not, neither
does he spin, but he has got an hysterical collection of
crooked pipes and lob-sided wheels tied up in his back room
that extract the reluctant dollar from the pocket of avarice
without fail".
This is a specimen of the nature of the ridicule which was
encountered by Keely's "upholders", as well as
by himself. Until Professor Leidy and Dr. Willcox came to
the front, in March, 1890, Mr. Keely had no influential supporters,
and not one scientist could be found who was ready to encounter
the wasps represented in Lavater's allegorical vignette;
where a hand holding a lighted torch is being stung by one
of a swarm.
Underneath are these lines: —
"And although it singes the wings of the gnats,
Destroys their heads and all their little brains,
Light is still light;
And although I am stung by the angriest wasp,
I will not yield."
Such is the position of all defenders of the truth in all
ages; but the torch being held aloft, in such hands as have
now seized it, the opportunity is given to see what Keely
proclaims as truth.
We know that science denies the divisibility of atoms, but
Keely affirms and demonstrates that all corpuscules of matter
may be divided and subdivided by a certain order of vibration.
During all these years in which he has given exhibitions
of the operations of his generators, liberators, and disintegrators,
in turn, each being an improvement, successively, on the
preceding one, no one has attempted to give to the public
any theory, or even so much as a sensible conjecture, of
the origin of the force.
When Mr. Keely was asked, in 1884, if it were not possible
that he had [Page 6] dissociated hydrogen gas, and that his
unknown force came from that dissociation, he replied that
he thought it might be; but he made no assertion that he
had. This conjecture was repeated to an English scientist,
who replied that he was willing to make a bet of £10,000
that hydrogen is a simple element. The same scientist says
now that he should answer such a question with more caution,
and says that he had never known hydrogen to be dissociated.
Mr. Keely gives this
THEORY AND FORMULA OF AQUEOUS DISINTEGRATION
The peculiar conditions as associated with the gaseous elements
of which water is composed, as regards the differential volume
and gravity of its gases, make it a ready and fit subject
of vibratory research. In submitting water to the influence
of vibratory transmission, even on simple thirds, the high
action induced on the hydrogen as contrasted with the one
on the oxygen (under the same vibratory stream), causes the
antagonism between these elements that induces dissociation.
The differential antagonistic range of motion, so favouring
the antagonistic thirds as to become thoroughly repellant.
The gaseous element thus induced and registered, shows thousands
of times much greater force as regards tenuity and volume
than that induced by the chemical disintegration of heat,
on the same medium. In all molecular dissociation or disintegration
on both simple or compound elements, whether gaseous or solid,
a stream of vibratory antagonistic thirds, sixths, or ninths,
on their chord mass will compel progressive subdivisions.
In the disintegration of water the instrument is set on thirds,
sixths, and ninths, to get the best effects. These triple
conditions are focalized on the neutral centre of said instrument
so as to induce perfect harmony or concordance to the chord-note
of the mass-chord of the instrument's full combination;
after which the diatonic and the enharmonic scale located
at the top of the instrument, or ring, is thoroughly harmonized
with the scale of ninths which is placed at the base of the
vibratory transmitter with the telephone head. The next step
is to disturb the harmony on the concentrative thirds, between
the transmittor and disintegrator. This is done by rotating
the syren so as to induce a sympathetic communication along
the nodal transmittor, or wire, that associates the two instruments.
When the note of the syren becomes concordant to the neutra
centre of the disintegrator, the highest order of sympathetic
communication is established. It is now necessary to operate
the transferable vibratory negatizer, or negative accelerator,
which is seated in the centre of the diatonic and enharmonic
ring, at the top of disintegrator, and complete disintegration
will follow (from the antagonisms induced on the concordants
by said adjunct), in triple progression, thus: — First,
thirds: Molecular dissociation resolving the water into
a gaseous compound of hydrogen and oxygen. Second, sixths: [Page 7] resolving the
hydrogen and oxygen into a new element by second order of dissociation, producing what I call, low
atomic ether. Third, ninths: The low atomic ether resolved
into a new element, which I denominate high or second atomic
harmonic. All these transmissions being simultaneous on the
disturbance of sympathetic equilibrium by said negative accelerator.
Example: — Taking the chord mass of the disintegrator
B flat, or any chord mass that may be represented by the
combined association of all the mechanical parts of its structure
(no two structures being alike in their chord masses), taking
B flat, the resonators of said structure are set at B flat,
first octave, B flat, third octave, and B flat, ninth octave,
by drawing out the caps of resonators until the harmony of
thirds, sixths, and ninths are reached; which a simple movement
of the fingers on the diatonic scale, at the head, will determine
by the tremulous action which is highly sensible, to the
touch, on said caps. The caps are then rigidly fixed in their
different positions by set screws. The localization to the
neutral centre is then established by dampening the steel
rods, on the scale at the back, representing the thirds,
sixths, and ninths, drawing a piece of small gum tube over
them, which establishes harmony to the chord mass of the
instrument. Concordance is thus effected between the disintegrator
and the ninths of the scale at base of transmitters with
telephonic head.
This scale has a permanent sympathetic one, set on the ninth
of any mass chord that may be represented, on any and all
the multiple variations of mechanical combinations. In fact,
permanently set for universal accommodation.
The next step is to establish pure harmony between the transmittor
and the disintegrator, which is done by spinning the syren
disk, then waiting until the sympathetic note is reached,
as the syren chord, decreasing in velocity, descend the scale.
At this juncture, the negative accelerator must be immediately
and rapidly rotated, inducing high disturbance of equilibrium
between the transmittor and the disintegrator by triple negative
evolution, with the result that a force of from five to ten,
fifteen, twenty, and thirty thousand pounds to the square
inch is evolved by the focalization of this triple negative
stream on the disintegrating cell, or chamber, whether there
be one, two, three, five, or ten drops of water enclosed
within it.
GRADUATION OF MACHINES
Mr. Keely gives a few introductory words concerning the
necessary graduating of his instruments, for effecting conditions
necessary to, ensure perfect sympathetic transmission, which
will serve to show how great are the difficulties that have
been attendant upon getting his machines into a condition
to control and equate the differentiation in molecular masses,
requiring greater [Page 8] skill than in researching the
force of a sunbeam. He writes: — The differentiation
in molecular metallic masses, or grouping, is brought about
in their manipulations in manufacturing them for commercial
uses; in the forging of a piece of metal, in the drawing
of a length of wire, and in the casting of a molten mass
to any requisite form.
The nearest approach to molecular uniformity in metallic
masses is in the wire drawn for commercial uses, gold and
platina being the nearest to freedom from differentiation.
But even these wires, when tested by a certain condition
of the first order of intensified molecular vibration, for
a transferring medium between centres of neutrality, I find
to be entirely inadequate for the transfer of concordant
unition, as between one and the other, on account of nodal
interferences. We can appreciate the difficulty of converting
such a medium to a uniform molecular link, by knowing that
it can be accomplished only by removing all nodal interference,
by inducing between the nodal waves a condition in which
they become subservient to the inter-sympathetic vibratory
molecular link of such structure or wire.
Therefore, it is necessary to submit the wire to a system
of graduation in order to find what the combined chords of
these nodal interferences represent when focalized to one
general centre. Then the differentiation between these nodal
waves and the inter-molecular link must be equated, by what
I call a process of vibratory induction, so as to induce
pure concordance between one and the other. To elaborate
on this system of graduation, for effecting conditions necessary
to ensure perfect and unadulterated transmission, would make
up a book that would take days to read and months to study.
The graduating of a perfectly constructed instrument to
a condition to transmit sympathetically, is no standard whatever
for any other one that may be built, nor ever will be, because
no concordant conditions of compound molecular aggregation
can ever exist in visible groupings. If it were even possible
to make their parts perfectly accurate one to the other,
in regard to atmospheric displacement and weight, their resonating
qualities would have a high rate of sympathetic variation
in their molecular groupings alone. If one thousand million
of coins, each one representing a certain standard value,
and all struck from the same die, were sympathetically graduated
under a vibratory subdivision of 150,000, the most amazing
variation would present itself, as between each individual
coin throughout the number, in regard to their molecular
grouping and resonance.
KEELY.
It will be realized in the future what immense difficulties
have been encountered by Mr. Keely in perfecting his system
of graduation, and in constructing devices for the guidance
of artificers and mechanicians, whereby those who are not
as abnormally endowed as he is for his work, can bring a
proper vibratory action into play to induce positive sympathetic
transmission, [Page 9] as well as the stupidity of the men
who still seek to confine his researches to perfecting the
so-called Keely motor, before his system is sufficiently
developed to enable others to follow it up, should his physical
strength give out. His system of graduating research, when
completed, will enable men to take up the work, not from
the standard of an already completed structure that is true
in its operation, though a perfect duplicate as to size and
gravity be made; for each successively constructed machine
requires a knowledge of its own conditions of sensity, as
regards its mass chords. Keely writes: —
That tuning forks can be so constructed as to show coincident
or concordant association with each other, is but a very
weak illustration of the fact which governs pure acoustic
assimilation. The best only approach a condition of about
a fortieth, as regards pure, attractive, and propulsive receptiveness.
By differentiating them to concordant thirds, they induce
a condition of molecular bombardment between themselves,
by alternate changes of long and short waves of sympathy.
Bells rung in vacuo liberate the same number of corpuscules,
and at the same velocity as those surrounded by a normal
atmosphere, and hence the same acoustic force attending them,
but are inaudible from the fact that, in vacuo, the molecular
volume is reduced. Every gaseous molecule is a resonator
of itself, and is sensitive to any and all sounds induced,
whether accordant or discordant.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
The positive vibrations are the radiating or propulsive;
the negative vibrations are the ones that are attracted towards
the neutral centre. The action of the magnetic flow is dual
in its evolutions, both attractive and propulsive. The sound
vibrations of themselves have no power whatever to induce
dissociation, even in its lowest form. Certain differential,
dual, triple and quadruple chords give introductory impulses
which excite an action on molecular masses, liquid and gaseous,
that increase their range of molecular motion and put them
in that receptive state for sympathetic vibratory interchange
which favours molecular disintegration; then, as I have shown,
the diatonic enharmonic is brought into play, which further
increases the molecular range of motion beyond fifty per
cent of their diameters, when molecular separation takes
place, giving the tenuous substance that is necessary to
induce progressive subdivision. This molecular gaseous substance,
during its evolution, assumes a condition of high rotation
in the sphere or tube in which it has been generated, and
becomes itself the medium, with the proper excitors, for
further progressive dissociation. The excitors include an
illuminated revolving prism, condensor, and coloured lenses,
with a capped glass tube strong enough to carry a pressure
of at least one [Page 10] thousand pounds per square inch.
To one of these caps a sectional wire of platinum and silver
is attached; the other cap is attached to the tube, so screwed
to the chamber as to allow it to lead to the neutral centre
of said chamber.
KEELY.
MINERAL DISINTEGRATION
I have been repeatedly urged to repeat my disintegrations
of quartz rock; but it has been utterly out of my power to
do so. The mechanical device with which I conducted those
experiments was destroyed at the time of the proceedings
against me. Its graduation occupied over four years, after
which it was operated successfully. It had been originally
constructed as an instrument for overcoming gravity; a perfect,
graduated scale of that device was accurately registered,
a copy of which I kept; I have since built three successive
disintegrators set up from that scale, but they did not operate.
This peculiar feature remained a paradox to me until I had
solved the conditions governing the chords of multiple masses;
when this problem ceased to be paradoxical in its character.
As I have said, there are no two compound aggregated forms
of visible matter that are, or ever can be, so duplicated
as to show pure sympathetic concordance one to the other.
Hence the necessity of my system of graduation, and of a
compound device that will enable anyone to correct the variations
that exist in compound molecular structures, or, in other
words, to graduate such, so as to bring them to a successful
operation.
KEELY.
DISTURBANCE OF MAGNETIC NEEDLE
If Keely's theories are correct, science will in time classify
all the important modifications of the one force in nature
as sympathetic streams, each stream composed of triple flows.
Mr. Keely maintains that the static condition which the magnetic
needle assumes, when undisturbed by any extraneous force
outside of its own sympathetic one, proves conclusively that
the power of the dominant third, of the triple combination
of the magnetic terrestrial envelope, is the controlling
one of this sympathetic triplet, and the one towards which
all the others co-ordinate. All the dominant conditions of
Nature represent the focal centres towards which the surrounding
ones of like become sympathetically subservient. The rapid
rotation of the magnetic needle of a compass which Mr. Keely
shows in his experiments, rests entirely on the alternating
of the dominant alone, which is effected by a triple condition
of vibration that is antagonistic to its harmonious flow
as associated with its other attendants. A rapid change of
polarity is induced, and rapid rotation necessarily follows.
Quoting from Keely's writings, — The human ear cannot
detect the triple chord of any vibration, or sounding note,
but every sound that is induced of any range, high or low,
is governed by the same laws (as regards triple action [Page
11] of such) that govern every sympathetic flow in Nature.
Were it not for these triple vibratory conditions, change
of polarity could never be effected, and consequently there
could be no rotation. Thus the compounding of the triple
triple, to produce the effect, would give a vibration in
multiplication reaching the ninth, in order to induce subservience,
the enumeration of which it would be folly to undertake,
as the result would be a string of figures nearly a mile
in length to denote it.
When the proper impulse is given to induce the rotation
with pure alternating corpuscular action, the conditions
of action become perpetual in their character, lasting long
enough from that one impulse to wear out any machine (denoting
such action), and, on the sympathetic stream, eternally perpetual.
The action of the neutral or focalizing centres represents
molecular focalization and redistribution, not having any
magnetism associated with them; but when the radiating arms
of their centres are submitted to the triple compound vibratory
force, representing their mass thirds, they become magnetic
and consequently cease their rotation. Their rotation is
induced by submitting them to three different orders of vibration,
simultaneously giving the majority to the harmonic third.
Theory of the Induction of Sympathetic Chords to excite
rotation by vibrophonic trajection to and from centres of
neutrality as induced and shown to Professor Leidy, Dr. Wilcock,
and others, on revolving globe.
All hollow spheres, of certain diameters, represent, as
per diameters and their volume of molecular mass, pure, unadulterated,
sympathetic resonation towards the enharmonic and diatonic
thirds of any, and in fact all, concordant sounds. In tubes
it is adversely different, requiring a definite number of
them so graduated as to represent a confliction by thirds,
sixths, and ninths, as towards the harmonic scale. When the
conditions are established, the acoustic result of this combination,
when focalised, represents concordant harmony, as between
the chord mass of the instrument to be operated, and chord
mass of the tubes of resonation. Therefore, the shortest
way towards establishing pure concordance between any number
of resonating mediums, is by the position that Nature herself
assumes in her multitudinous arrangements of the varied forms
and volumes of matter — the spherical. The great difficulty
to overcome, in order to get a revolution of the said sphere,
exists in equating the interior adjuncts of same. In other
words the differentiation induced must be so equated as to
harmonise and make their conditions purely concordant to
the molecular mass of the sphere. Example: Suppose the chord
of the sphere mass represents B flat, or any other chord,
and the internal adjuncts by displacement of atmospheric
volume differentiates the volume one-twentieth; this displacement
in the shell's atmospheric volume would represent [Page 12] an antagonistic twentieth
against the shell's mass concordance, to equate which it would be necessary to so graduate the
shell's internal adjuncts as to get at the same chord; — an
octave or any number of octaves that comes nearest to the
concordance of shell's atmospheric volume. No intermediates
between the octaves would ever reach sympathetic union.
We will now take up the mechanical routine as associated
with adjuncts of interference, and follow the system for
chording the mechanical aggregation in its different parts,
in order to induce the transmittive sympathy necessary to
perfect evolution, and to produce revolution of the sphere
or shell.
Example.— Suppose that we had just received from the
machine shop a spun shell of twelve inches internal diameter,
1-32 of an inch thick, which represents an atmospheric volume
of 904'77 cubic inches. On determination by research
we find the shell to be on its resonating volume B flat,
and the molecular volume of the metal that the sphere is
composed of B natural. This or any other antagonistic chord,
as between the chord mass of the shell and its atmospheric
volume, would not interfere, but would come under subservience.
We now pass a steel shaft through its centre, ½ inch
in diameter, which represents its axial rest. This shaft
submits the atmospheric volume of the shell to a certain
displacement or reduction, to correct which we first register
the chord note of its mass, and find it to be antagonistic
to the chord mass of the shell, a certain portion of an octave.
This must be corrected. The molecular volume of the shaft
must be reduced in volume, either by filing or turning, so
as to represent the first B flat chord that is reached by
such reduction. When this is done the first line of interference
is neutralized, and the condition of sympathy is as pure
between the parts as it was when the globe was minus its
axis. There is now introduced on its axis a ring which has
seven tubes or graduating resonators, the ring being two-thirds
the diameter of the globe, the resonators three inches long
and ¾ inch diameter, each one to be set on the chord
of B flat, which is done by sliding the small diaphragm in
the tube to a point that will indicate B flat. This setting
then controls the metallic displacement of the metallic combination,
as also of the arms necessary to hold the ring and resonators
on shaft or axis. Thus the second equation is established,
both on resonation and displacement. We are now ready to
introduce the diatonic scale ring of three octaves which
is set at two-thirds of the scale antagonistic to the chord
mass of the globe itself, which is done by graduating every
third pin of its scale to B flat thirds, which represent
antagonistic thirds to the shell's molecular mass. This antagonism
must be thoroughly sensitive to the chord-mass of one of
the hemispheres of which the globe is composed. The axis
of the scale-ring must rotate loosely on the globe's shaft
without revolving with the globe itself, which it is prevented
from doing so by being weighted on one side cf the ring by
a small hollow brass ball, holding about two ounces of lead.
The remaining [Page 13] work on the device is finished by
painting the interior of the globe, one hemisphere black
and one white, and attaching a rubber bulb, such as is used
to spray perfume, to the hollow end of the shaft. This bulb
equates vibratory undulations, thus preventing an equation
of molecular bombardment on its dark side when sympathetically
influenced. It is now in condition to denote the sympathetic
concordance between living physical organisms, or the receptive
transmittive concordance necessary to induce rotation.
KEELY.
PHILOSOPHY OF TRANSMISSION AND ROTATION OF MUSICAL SPHERE
The only two vibratory conditions that can be so associated
as to excite high sympathetic affinity, as between two physical
organisms, are: —
Etheric chord of B flat, 3rd octave, and on
Etheric sympathetic chords transmission
Eb on the scale 3rd, 6ths and 9ths; octaves harmonic;
having the 3rd dominant; the 6th enharmonic, and the 9th
diatonic.
The chord mass representing the musical sphere, being the
sympathetic etheric chord of B flat third octave, indicated
by the focalization of its interior mechanical combination,
as against the neutral sevenths of its atmospheric volume,
makes the shell highly sensitive to the reception of pure
sympathetic accordance, whether it be physical, mechanical,
or a combination of both. Taking the chord mass of the different
mechanical parts of the sphere and its adjuncts, as previously
explained, when associated and focalized to represent pure
concordance, as between its atmospheric volume and sphere
mass, which means the pure unit of concordance, we have the
highest position that can be established in relation to its
sympathetic susceptiveness to negative antagonism. The beauty
of the perfection of the laws that govern the action of Nature's
sympathetic flows is here demonstrated in all the purity
of its workings, actually requiring antagonistic chords to
move and accelerate. The dark side of the shell, which represents
fifty per cent, of its full area of pure concordant harmony,
is the receptive area for the influence of the negative transmittive
chords of the thirds, sixths and ninths to bombard upon;
which bombardment disturbs the equilibrium of said sphere,
and induces rotation. The rotation can be accelerated or
retarded, according as the antagonistic chords of the acoustic
forces are transmitted in greater or lesser volume. The action,
as induced by the mouth organ, transmitted at a distance
from the sphere without any connection of wire, demonstrates
the purity of the principle of sympathetic transmission,
as negatized or disturbed by discordants, which, focalizing
on the resonating sevenths of resonators, or tubes attached
to ring, the sympathetic flow is by this means transmitted
to the [Page 14] focalizing centre, or centre of neutrality,
to be re-distributed at each revolution of sphere, keeping
intact the sympathetic volume during sensitization, thus
preventing the equation or stoppage of its rotation.
Again, the sphere resting on its journals in the ring, as
graduated to the condition of its interior combinations,
represents a pure sympathetic concordant under perfect equation,
ready to receive the sympathetic, or to reject the non-sympathetic.
If a pure sympathetic chord is transmitted coincident to
its full combination, the sphere will remain quiescent; but
if a transmission of discordance is brought to bear upon
it, its sympathetic conditions become repellant to this discordance.
KEELY
"There is no such thing as blind or dead matter, as
there is no blind or unconscious law", the Buddhists
have taught for centuries. Keely demonstrates the truth in
this teaching; and Hertz in his conjectures that a knowledge
of the structure of ether should unveil the essence of matter
itself, and of its inherent properties, weight and inertia,
is treading the path that leads to this knowledge. Professor
Fitzgerald says: — "Ether must be the means by which
electric and magnetic forces exist, it should explain chemical
actions, and if possible gravity". The law of sympathetic
vibration explains chemical affinities as a sympathetic attractive,
but inherent, force; in short, as gravity. This opens up
too wide a territory even but to peer into, by the dawning
light of Keely's system of vibratory physics. The boundary
line is crossed, and the crowds of researchers in electro-magnetism
are full of ardour. Hertz constructed a circuit, whose period
of vibration for electric currents was such that he was able
to see sparks, due to the increased vibration, leaping across
a small air-space in this resonant circuit; his experiments
have proved and demonstrated the ethereal theory of electro-magnetism: — that electro-magnetic actions
are due to a medium pervading all known space; while Keely's experiments have
proved that all things are due to conditions of ether.
Prof. Fitzgerald closes one of his lectures on ether in
these words: — There are metaphysical grounds for reducing
matter to motion, and potential to kinetic energy. Let us
for a moment comtemplate what is betokened by this theory
that in electro-magnetic engines we are using as our mechanism
the ether, the medium that fills all known space. It was
a great step in human progress when man learnt to make material
machines, when he used the elasticity of his bow, and the
rigidity of his arrow to provide food and defeat his enemies.
It was a great advance when he learnt to use the chemical
action of fire; when he learnt to use water to float his
boats, and air to drive them; when, by artificial selection,
he provided himself with food and domestic animals. For two
hundred years he has made heat his slave to drive his machinery.
Fire, water, earth, and air have long been his slaves, but
it is only within [Page 15] the last few years that man has
won the battle lost by the giants of old, has snatched the
thunderbolt from Jove himself, and enslaved the all-pervading
ether.
CLARA JESSUP MOORE,
Schlangenbad, August 5th, 1890
NOTE. — In Professor Fitzgerald's lecture on "Electro-magnetic
Radiation", delivered in March before the Royal Institution
of Great Britain, he says of Professor Hertz's experiments
in inducing vibration in ether waves: — If we consider
the possible radiating power of an atom, by calculating it
upon the hypothesis that the atomic charge oscillates across
the diameter of the atom, we find that it. may be millions
of millions of times as great as Professor Wiedemann has
found to be the radiating power of a sodium atom in a Bunsen
burner; so that if there is reason to think that any greater
oscillation might disintegrate the atom, we are still a long
way from it."......
Does not this statement border on an admission that the
atom is divisible ? Keely stands alone in utilizing sound
vibrations to increase the range of molecular motion; not
(as scientists have been allowed to infer) to induce dissociation
of themselves alone. (See p. 9) The lecture closes with "a
possible theory of ether and matter": — "This
hypothesis explains the differences in nature as differences
of motion. If it be true, ether, matter, gold, air, wood,
brains, are but different motions. Where alone we can know
what motion in itself is, that is, in our brains, we know
nothing but thought. Can we resist the conclusion that all
motion is thought? Not that contradiction in terms, unconscious
thought, but living thought; that all Nature is the language
of One in whom we live, and move, and have our being."
The truth of this theory Keely demonstrates in his experiments.
The remainder of this Number is included, at the express
request of Mrs. Bloomfield-Moore, as a sequel to T.P.S, Vol.
I, No. 9. Mrs. Bloomfield-Moore is alone responsible for
the contents of this paper, the T.P.S. having no connection
whatever with financial articles of any kind.
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