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1、【英文文学】The Secret of Life, Death and ImmortalityPREFACEThe writer of these pages a few years ago invented, patented and successfully demonstrated in the city of Los Angeles, California, a mechanical device by which he transformed musical vibrations into “electrical” waves. These when conveyed to the
2、human organism were found to be harmonizing, vitalizing, and curative, in many nervous and functional disorders. Further study and research along these lines convinced him that all vibration, or motion, or activity is electrical. That all phenomena are electrical phenomena. In fact, that there is bu
3、t one substance in the universe, and that isElectricity.Without any attempt to enter the realm of metaphysics, the writer desires to state that he uses the term Life in its absolute or universal sense, and not in the conditioned or limited sense in which it is ordinarily and loosely used. He disting
4、uishes between Lifewith its eternal, inherent unceasing impulse and energyand the resultant of that impulse and energy; whether that resultant be a molecule of hydrogen or what is called consciousness, intelligence, manifesting through an organism called man.This Life is not mind, nor its product ma
5、tter. It is Substanceand that substance the8 writer calls electricity. It is eternal. It is the totality of what is, or Be-ing. It has a dual impulse or tendency, viz. (the positive and negative)attraction and repulsion of its infinite integral constituent particles or ELECTRONS. This attraction and
6、 repulsion, this breaking and closing of the circuit, this vibration or motionalways in a straight line or a circlethis infinite eternal polarity, being continuous creation or evolution, and destruction or devolution.It has not been possible in the limited space devoted to this book to attempt a dis
7、cussion and proof of the statements made herein. While the statements made are scientific and rational the writer could not do more than point out through them the direction in which the truth is to be sought and found.The reader will find many thoughts suggested along the line of the wireless teleg
8、raph and telephone, musical vibrations, thought vibrations, telepathy, clairvoyance, “Spiritualistic phenomena,” death, post-mortem consciousness or “Conscious immortality,” etc.We are living in an age of scientific investigation and inquiry. The human mind is awakening to the necessity of doing its
9、 own thinking instead of being bound by the many dogmas of religious systems.Laden with ability to annihilate superstition, and forever destroy that curse of humanityFearin9 all who will carefully and with an open mind read them, these pages are set adrift.HENRY FLEETWOOD,Los Angeles, California.Sep
10、tember, 1908.CHAPTER I LifeCosmic Evolution. Life GermsHow Produced. “The Word”Evolution of. Thought Vibration the Only Immortality. “Life” and “Death” Evolved from the Same Cosmic Substance.“But words are things, and a small drop of ink falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes tho
11、usands, perhaps millions, think.”Byron.Electricity is the one, eternal, unchangeable, indestructible, universal substance.The universe is made up of innumerable “corpuscles,” from whose manifold combinations, ruled by unalterable affinities, has been evolved our solar system.Our earth after the cool
12、ing process, became through the light and radiant energy of the sun, the theater of the evolution of the various forms of life. The eternal, inherent, restless energy that had formed and launched into existence this solar system continued its work to evolve conscious life on this earth. Monad, atom,
13、 protoplasm, molecule and cell all being produced by this electric energy we call life.This universal substance is constituted of electronsinfinitesimally smaller than atomic11 dusteach electron having the potentiality of the whole, with its positive and negative impulse.It is well known that each m
14、olecule is a separate and distinct organism, formed by this same electric impulse. The active force in evolution being the electric energyattraction and repulsionits movements can be easily followed by noting the similarity of its formation, namely, circular or spherical. The tendency of this electr
15、ic energy is always to form a complete circuitand must do so in order to evolve and carry on its work of evolution; all creation being the result of the breaking and closing of the circuit. The various forms of life evolved, are subject to this same restless impulsepositive and negativewhich continu
16、es the work of creation or evolution.As what is called “life” is the result of the closing of the circuit, so what is called “death” is the result of the breaking of the circuit. Thus we see that life and death are one and the same process. Simply the readjustment, rearrangement of these infinite electrons by the opening and closing of the electric circuit. The same eternal, inherent, restless en
