*EsotericPhilosopher* Study of Cosmology, Psychology & Science

J.W. Keely and the Vril

The name vril may be a fiction; the Force itself is a fact

doubted as little in India as the existence itself of their

Rishis, since it is mentioned in all the secret works. SD3

556.

It is obvious to most thinkers that science, having begun the study of

radioactivity, is on the verge of discovering what is the nature of the power

within the atom itself; it is very probable that before long we shall harness the

energy of atomic matter for every conceivable purpose, for heating, for

lighting, and for what I might call the motivation of everything that is carried

on in the world.

That force, as some of us know, was nearly discovered in the United States fifty

years ago by a man called Keely, but he was not allowed to give it out to the

world because of the danger thereby involved. Men are as yet far too selfish to

be trusted with the distribution of atomic energy.

That discovery will probably parallel the development of group consciousness.

Only when man becomes radioactive and can work and think in group terms,

will it be safe or wise for him to utilize the power latent in the atom.

Everything in nature is beautifully coordinated, and nothing can be discovered

or utilized before the right time. Only as man becomes unselfish will this

tremendous power be permitted to pass into his hands. Nevertheless, we can, I

believe, look to science to make tremendous strides in the comprehension of

atomic energy. CA 131.

Each physical apparatus has a perfect analogy in the Subtle World. Moreover,

it can easily be perceived how simple it is to augment the power of an

apparatus by invoking Agni. Thus it is possible to reperform a great number of

experiments that turned out unsuccessfully.

The experiments of Keely and even the apparatus of Edison remained

imperfect for the Subtle World, because the energy of Agni was not applied; in

one case because of a surrounding suspiciousness, in the other because of

personal unbelief. It has been said that even a candle is not lit without faith.

FW1 251.

Keely, as H. P. B. hinted, (S. D., I, 172, 607-611) had gone far along this path,

and knew even more than he gave out, and others have approached, or are

approaching, the same objective. The next step ahead for science lies in this

direction, and should concern the potential force of the atom itself, and its

harnessing for the use of man. This will let loose upon earth a stupendous

amount of energy.

Nevertheless, it is only when the third factor is comprehended, and science

admits the agency of mental fire as embodied in certain groups of devas, that

the force of energy that is triple, and yet one in the three worlds, will become

available for the helping of man. This lies as yet far ahead, and will only

become possible towards the end of this round; and these potent forces will not

be fully utilized, nor fully known till the middle of the next round. At that time,

much energy will become available through the removal of all that obstructs.

TCF 492.

The fourth plane, the buddhic, by the aid of manas, will gradually be realized.

TCF 408.

The answer to a question which has frequently arisen in the minds of students,

when meeting with statements such as this, may be outlined here.

"We can understand," they say, "the necessity for concealing from the herd

such secrets as the Vril, or the rock-destroying force, discovered by J. W.

Keely, of Philadelphia. SD1 intro 36.

The vril of the "Coming Race" was the common property of races now

extinct... so the vril or Akas -- as we call it -- is looked upon as an

impossibility, a myth. And, without a thorough knowledge of Akas, its

combinations and properties, how can Science hope to account for such

phenomena? We doubt not but the men of your science are open to conviction;

yet facts must be first demonstrated to them, they must first have become their

own property, have proved amenable to their own modes of investigation,

before you find them ready to admit them as facts. KH Letter 1. [ "The

Heavenly White Virgin" (Akas)] (sky or ether) Isis. [Air]ML.

But then, may there not be people who have found more perfect and rapid

means of transmission, from being somewhat better acquainted with the occult

powers of air (akas) and having plus a more cultivated judgment of sounds?

KH Letter 8.

The chief agency by which Nature's wheel is moved in a phenomenal direction

is sound. Sound is the first aspect of the manifested pentagon since it is a

property of ether called Akas and as I already said Vedic recitation is the

highest Yagnam containing in itself all minor Yagnams and tending to preserve

the manifested pentagon in the proper order. In the opinion of our old

philosophers sound or speech is next to thought the highest karmic agent used

by man.

Of the various karmic agencies wielded by man in the way of molding himself

and surroundings, sound or speech is the most important, for, to speak is to

work in ether which of course rules the lower quaternary of elements, air, fire,

water and earth. Human sound or language contains therefore all the elements

required to move the different classes of Devas and those elements are of

course the vowels and the consonants. The details of the philosophy of sound

in its relation to the devas who preside over the subtle world, belong to the

domain of true Mantra Sastra which of course is in the hands of the knowers."

- Some Thoughts on the Gita, p. 72. TCF 193.

The antediluvian children -- who perhaps played with it, using it as the boys in

Bulwer-Lytton's Coming Race, use the tremendous "vril" -- called it the "Water

of Phtha"; their descendants named it the Anima Mundi, the soul of the

universe; and still later the mediaeval hermetists termed it "sidereal light," or

the "Milk of the Celestial Virgin," the "Magnes," and many other names. But

our modern learned men will neither accept nor recognize it under such

appellations; for it pertains to magic, and magic is, in their conception, a

disgraceful superstition. IU 64.

JC: "the living fire, "the "Spirit of Light" or "the energy ofAgni" as Master M

describes it for us. The "Vril."

And in this appellation of "living fire" we may also discover the meaning of the

puzzling sentence in the Zend-Avesta saying that there is "a fire that gives

knowledge of the future. Science and amiable speech," i.e., develops an

extraordinary eloquence in the sybil, the sensitive, and even some orators. SD1

339.

Vril from Virile:

Sir E. Bulwer-Lytton, in his Coming Race, describes it as the VRIL, used by the

subterranean populations, and allowed his readers to take it for a fiction.

"These people," he says, "consider that in the vril they had arrived at the unity

in natural energic agencies"; and proceeds to show that Faraday intimated

them "under the more cautious term of correlation," thus:

"I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to a conviction, in common, I

believe, with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms

under which the forces of matter are made manifest, HAVE ONE COMMON

ORIGIN; or, in other words, are so directly related and naturally dependent,

that they are convertible, as it were, into one another, and possess equivalents

of power in their action." Absurd and unscientific as may appear our

comparison of a fictitious vril invented by the great novelist, and the primal

force of the equally great experimentalist, with the kabalistic astral light, it is

nevertheless the true definition of this force. Isis1 126.

Its future constructive use lies in the hands of science and should be controlled

by the men of goodwill to be found in all nations. This energy must be

safeguarded from monied interests; it must be turned definitely into the usages

of peace and employed to implement a new and happier world. PH 67.

Until mankind, however, has moved forward in its understanding of right

human relations, an international group of men of goodwill -trusted and

chosen by the people - should safeguard these potencies. PH 82.

Atomic energy belongs to humanity as a whole. The responsibility for its

control must lie in the hands of the men of goodwill. They must control its

destiny and make it available along constructive lines for the use of men

everywhere. No one nation should own the formula or secret for the release of

energy. Ibid.

Who, in the nineteenth century, believes in the art, described in such treatises

as those of Targes, of evoking and directing thunderbolts?

Occult Weapons -

( Yet the same is described in the Br hmanical literature, and Targes copied

his “thunderbolts” from the Astra, [ This is a kind of magical bow and arrow

calculated to destroy in one moment whole armies; it is mentioned in the

Ramayana, the Puranas and elsewhere.] those terrible engines of destruction

known to the Mahabharatan Aryans. A whole arsenal of dynamite bombs

would pale before this art -if it ever becomes understood by the Westerns. It is

from an old fragment that was translated to him, that the late Lord Bulwer

Lytton got his idea of Vril. It is a lucky thing, indeed, that, in the face of the

virtues and philanthropy that grace our age of iniquitous wars, of anarchists

and dynamiters, the secrets contained in the books discovered in Numa’s tomb

should have been burnt.

But the science of Circe and Medea is not lost. One can discover it in the

apparent gibberish of the Tantrika Sutras, the Kuku-ma of the Bhutani and the

Sikhim Dugpas and “Red-caps” of Tibet, and even in the sorcery of the Nilgiri

Mula Kurumbas. Very luckily few outside the high practioners of the Left Path

and of the Adepts of the Right - in whose hands the weird secrets of the real

meaning are safe - understand the “black” evocations. Otherwise the Western

as much as the Eastern Dugpas might make short work of their enemies. The

name of the latter is legion, for the direct descendants of the antediluvian

sorcerers hate all those who are not with them, arguing that, therefore, they

are against them. SD3 107.

It is the vril of Bulwer Lytton's "Coming Race," and of the coming races of our

mankind. The name vril may be a fiction; the Force itself is a fact doubted as

little in India as the existence itself of their Rishis, since it is mentioned in all

the secret works.

It is this vibratory Force, which, when aimed at an army from an Agni Rath

fixed on a flying vessel, a balloon, according to the instructions found in

Ashtar Vidya, reduced to ashes 100,000 men and elephants, as easily as it

would a dead rat. It is allegorised in the Vishnu Purana, in the Ramayana and

other works, in the fable about the sage Kapila whose glance made a mountain

of ashes of King Sagara's 60,000 sons, and which is explained in the esoteric

works, and referred to as the Kapilaksha -- "Kapila's Eye."

And is it this Satanic Force that our generations were to be allowed to add to

their stock of Anarchist's baby-toys, known as melenite, dynamite clock-works,

explosive oranges, "flower baskets," and such other innocent names? Is it this

destructive agency, which, once in the hands of some modern Attila, e.g., a

blood-thirsty anarchist, would reduce Europe in a few days to its primitive

chaotic state with no man left alive to tell the tale -- is this force to become the

common property of all men alike?

What Mr. Keely has already done is grand and wonderful in the extreme; there

is enough work before him in the demonstration of his new system to "humble

the pride of those scientists who are materialistic, by revealing those mysteries

which lie behind the world of matter," without revealing it nolens volens to all.

For surely Psychists and Spiritualists -- of whom there are a good number in

the European armies -- would be the first to experience personally the fruits of

such mysteries revealed. Thousands of them would find themselves (and

perhaps with the populations of whole countries to keep them company) in blue

Ether very soon, were such a Force to be even entirely discovered, let alone

made publicly known. The discovery in its completeness is by several thousand

-- or shall we say hundred thousand? -- years too premature. It will be at its

appointed place and time only when the great roaring flood of starvation,

misery, and underpaid labour ebbs back again -- as it will when happily at last

the just demands of the many are attended to; when the proletariat exists but in

name, and the pitiful cry for bread, that rings throughout the world unheeded,

has died away. This may be hastened by the spread of learning, and by new

openings for work and emigration, with better prospects than exist now, and

on some new continent that may appear. Then only will "Keely's Motor and

Force," as originally contemplated by himself and friends, be in demand,

because it will be more needed by the poor than by the wealthy.

Meanwhile the force discovered by him will work through wires, and this, if he

succeeds, will be quite sufficient in the present generation to make of him the

greatest discoverer of this age.

What Mr. Keely says of Sound and Colour is also correct from the Occult

stand-point. Hear him talk as though he were the nursling of the "Gods-

revealers," and had gazed all his life into the depths of Father-Mother AEther.

In comparing the tenuity of the atmosphere with that of the etheric flows,

obtained by him from his invention for breaking up the molecules of air by

vibration, Keely says that:--

. . . "It is as platina to hydrogen gas. Molecular separation of air brings us to

the first sub-division only; inter-molecular, to the second; atomic, to the third;

inter-atomic, to the fourth; etheric, to the fifth; and inter-etheric, to the sixth

sub-division, or positive association with luminiferous ether. In my

introductory argument I have contended that this is the vibratory envelope of

all atoms. In my definition of atom I do not confine myself to the sixth sub-

division where this luminiferous ether is developed in its crude form as far as

my researches prove. I think this idea will be pronounced by the physicists of

the present day, a wild freak of the imagination. Possibly, in time, a light may

fall upon this theory that will bring its simplicity forward for scientific

research. At present I can only compare it to some planet in a dark space,

where the light of the sun of science has not yet reached it. . ."

"I assume that sound, like odour, is a real substance of unknown and

wonderful tenuity, emanating from a body where it has been induced by

percussion and throwing out absolute corpuscles of matter, inter-atomic

particles, with velocity of 1,120 feet per second; in vacuo 20,000. The

substance which is thus disseminated is a part and parcel of the mass agitated,

and, if kept under this agitation continuously, would, in the course of a certain

cycle of time, become thoroughly absorbed by the atmosphere; or, more truly,

would pass through the atmosphere to an elevated point of tenuity

corresponding to the condition of sub-division that governs its liberation from

its parent body." . . .

THE SECRETS OF SOUND AND ODOUR.

"The sounds from vibratory forks, set so as to produce etheric chords, while

disseminating their tones (compound), permeate most thoroughly all

substances that come under the range of their atomic bombardment. The

clapping of a bell in vacuo liberates these atoms with the same velocity and

volume as one in the open air; and were the agitation of the bell kept up

continuously for a few millions of centuries it would thoroughly return to its

primitive element; and, if the chamber were hermetically sealed, and strong

enough, the vacuous volume surrounding the bell would be brought to a

pressure of many thousands of pounds to the square inch, by the tenuous

substance evolved. In my estimation, sound truly defined is the disturbance of

atomic equilibrium, rupturing actual atomic corpuscles; and the substance

thus liberated must certainly be a certain order of etheric flow. Under these

conditions, is it unreasonable to suppose that, if this flow were kept up, and the

body thus robbed of its element, it would in time disappear entirely? All bodies

are formed primitively from this highly tenuous ether, animal, vegetable, and

mineral, and they are only returned to their high gaseous condition when

brought under a state of differential equilibrium.". . .

"As regards odour, we can only get some definite idea of its extreme and

wondrous tenuity by taking into consideration that a large area of atmosphere

can be impregnated for a long series of years from a single grain of musk;

which, if weighed after that long interval, will be found to be not appreciably

diminished. The great paradox attending the flow of odorous particles is that

they can be held under confinement in a glass vessel! Here is a substance of

much higher tenuity than the glass that holds it, and yet it cannot escape. It is

as a sieve with its meshes large enough to pass marbles, and yet holding fine

sand which cannot pass through; in fact, a molecular vessel holding an atomic

substance. This is a problem that would confound those who stop to recognize

it. But infinitely tenuous as odour is, it holds a very crude relation to the

substance of sub-division that governs a magnetic flow (a flow of sympathy, if

you please to call it so).

This sub-division comes next to sound, but is above sound. The action of the

flow of a magnet coincides somewhat to the receiving and distributing portion

of the human brain, giving off at all times a depreciating ratio of the amount

received. It is a grand illustration of the control of mind over matter, which

gradually depreciates the physical till dissolution takes place. The magnet on

the same ratio gradually loses its power and becomes inert. If the relations

that exist between mind and matter could be equated and so held, we would

live on in our physical state eternally, as there would be no physical

depreciation. But this physical depreciation leads, at its terminus, to the source

of a much higher development -- viz., the liberation of the pure ether from the

crude molecular; which, in my estimation, is to be much desired." -- (From

Mrs. Bloomfield-Moore's paper, "The New Philosophy.")

It may be remarked that, save a few small divergencies, no Adept nor

Alchemist could have explained the above any better, in the light of modern

Science, however much the latter may protest against the novel views. This is,

in all its fundamental principles, if not details, Occultism pure and simple, yet

withal, modern natural philosophy as well.

This "New Force," or whatever Science may call it, the effects of which are

undeniable -- admitted by more than one naturalist and physicist who has

visited Mr. Keely's laboratory and witnessed personally its tremendous effects

-- what is it? Is it a "mode of motion," also, "in Vacuo," since there is no

matter to generate it except Sound -- another "mode of motion," no doubt, a

sensation caused like colour by vibrations? Fully as we believe in these

vibrations as the proximate -- the immediate -- cause of such sensations, we as

absolutely reject the one-sided scientific theory that there is no factor to be

considered as external to us, other than etheric or atmospheric vibrations.

There is a transcendental set of causes put in motion -- so to speak -- in the

occurrence of these phenomena, which, not being in relation to our narrow

range of cognition, can only be traced to their source and their nature, and

understood by the Spiritual faculties of the Adept. They are, as Asclepios puts

it to the King, "incorporeal corporealities" -- such as "appear in the mirror,"

and "abstract forms" that we see, hear, and smell, in our dreams, and visions.

What have the "modes of motion," light, and ether to do with these? Yet we

see, hear, and smell, and touch them, ergo they are as much realities to us in

our dreams, as any other thing on this plane of Maya. SD3 566.

JC: Note that HPB speaks above of "Blue Ether" when describing the Vril

force, or energy of Agni as corresponding to the release of atomic energy of

the Buddhic plane.

Is the coloring of the fourth cosmic ether (the buddhic plane), blue, or is it

violet to correspond with our fourth physical ether? TCF 354.

There has never been a period in our planetary history in which opportunity

has loomed so large or when so much spiritual light and force could be

contacted and utilized by humanity.

The first indication of this massed and available energy produced coordination

of the New Group of World Servers upon the physical plane.

The second indication produced a pronounced cleavage between the forces of

evil and the Forces of Light; this cleavage resulted in the world war (1914-

1945) and initiated the seething emotional and psychic turmoil in which

humanity today finds itself.

The third indication was the release of atomic energy and the discovery of how

to transmute energy into matter and matter into energy. The spiritual energies

have, therefore, impersonally and with a "vivid directive of pure intent,"

penetrated from the highest point of spiritual purpose to the lowest aspect of

matter, the atom; they have thus proved the truth of the statement that matter is

spirit at its lowest point and spirit is matter at its highest, and that the

apparent duality is but an essential unity. A concentration of spiritual forces in

and through the New Group of World Servers, the production of a world

conflict with its disrupting and at the same time its unifying result, and the

release of certain impressive energies in matter itself for the benefit of all

created things on Earth - these are the immediate results of the pressure of the

over-shadowing spiritual resources. DINA2 163.

JC: "vivid directive of pure intent," DK. "Vril. the unity in natural energic

agencies" EBL. "Living Fire" of HPB and "Agni Fire" of MM. "extra-

planetary energy." DK.

The intelligence of humanity now is of such a nature that certain earlier

initiations no longer exist, and mankind has shown itself to possess the

potentialities which will enable its individual units to tread not only the one or

two cosmic Paths hitherto open to them, but all of them, if given the right

training. This the premature discovery of the release of atomic energy has well

demonstrated to the Hierarchy. RI 412.

The Release of Atomic EnergyAugust 9, 1945:

I would like at this time to touch upon the greatest spiritual event which has

taken place since the fourth kingdom of nature, the human kingdom, appeared.

I refer to the release of atomic energy, as related in the newspapers this week,

August 6, 1945, in connection with the bombing of Japan. Some years ago I

told you that the new era would be ushered in by the scientists of the world and

that the inauguration of the kingdom of God on Earth would be heralded by

means of successful scientific investigation. By this first step in the releasing of

the energy of the atom this has been accomplished, and my prophecy has been

justified during this momentous year of our Lord 1945. Let me make one or

two statements anent this discovery, leaving you to make your own application

and deductions. Little as to the true nature of this happening is as yet known,

and still less is understood. Certain ideas and suggested thoughts may be of

real value here and enable you to see this stupendous event in better

perspective.

1. It was the imminence of this "release" of energy which was one of the major

subjective factors in the precipitation of this last phase of the war. This world

war started in 1914, but its last and most important phase began in 1939. Up

till then it was a world war. After that date, and because the forces of evil took

advantage of the state of war and belligerency existing on the planet, the real

war began, involving the entire three worlds of human evolution and a

consequent activity of the Hierarchy. Man's attention is normally focused on

the externalities of living. Nevertheless, all great discoveries, such as those

made in connection with astronomy or in relation to the laws of nature or

involving such a revelation as that of radioactivity or the epoch-making event

announced this week concerning the first steps taken in the harnessing of

cosmic energy, are ever the result of inner pressure emanating from Forces

and Lives found in high Places.

Such inner pressures themselves function under the laws of the Spirit and not

just under what you call natural laws; they are the result of the impelling work

of certain great Lives, working in connection with the third aspect of divinity,

that of active intelligence, and are concerned with the substance or matter

aspect of manifestation. Such activities are motivated from Shamballa. This

activity is set in motion by these Lives, working on Their high plane, and it

gradually causes a reaction in the various departments of the Hierarchy,

particularly those working under third, fifth and seventh ray Masters.

Eventually, disciples upon the physical levels of activity become aware of the

inner ferment, and this happens either consciously or unconsciously. They

become "impressed," and the scientific work is then started and carried

through into the stages of experimentation and final success.

One point should here be remembered, and that is that this phase applies to

both the great White Lodge and the Black Lodge - the one dedicated to the

beneficent task of purifying and aiding all lives in the three worlds of material

evolution and to the release of the soul in form, and the other to the

retardation of the evolutionary process and to the continuous crystallizing of

the material forms which hide and veil the anima mundi. Both groups have

been profoundly interested and implicated in this matter of the release of

energy from the atom and the liberation of its inner aspect, but their motives

and objectives were widely different. EXT 493.

The imminence of this release - inevitable and under direction - produced an

enormous tension in hierarchical circles because (to express the idea

colloquially) a race was on between the Dark Forces and the Forces of Light

to acquire possession of the techniques necessary to bring about this liberation

of needed energy. Had the Dark Forces triumphed, and had the Axis Powers

obtained possession of the needed scientific formulas, it would have led to a

major planetary disaster. The released energy would have been used first of all

to bring about the complete destruction of all opposing the forces of evil, and

then it would have been prostituted to the preservation of an increasingly

materialistic and non-idealistic civilization. Germany could not be trusted with

this power, for all her motives were compelling wrong.You might here fall

back on the trite religious platitude that the innate good in humanity and

mankind's inherent divinity would eventually have triumphed, because naught

can finally overcome the universal trend to good.

You are prone to forget that if the evil forces possess potencies which can

destroy form in the three worlds on such a wide scale that the souls of

advanced aspirants and disciples, and those of initiates seeking incarnation,

cannot come into outer expression during a particular world crisis, then you

have direfully affected the time-schedule of the evolutionary process; you will

have greatly delayed (perhaps for millennia of years) the manifestation of the

kingdom of God. The time had come for that manifestation, and hence the

powerful activity of the dark forces. This attempt to hinder the planned

progress constituted a definite menace and indicated a supreme danger and

problem.

The evil forces were closer to success than any of you have ever dreamed.

They were so close to success in 1942 that there were four months when the

members of the spiritual Hierarchy had made every possible arrangement to

withdraw from human contact for an indefinite and unforeseen period of time;

the plans for a closer contact with the evolutionary process in the three worlds

and the effort to blend and fuse the two divine centers, the Hierarchy and

Humanity, into one working, collaborating whole seemed doomed to

destruction. Their fusion would have meant the appearance of the Kingdom of

God on earth; the obstacles to this fusion, owing to the active tension of the

dark forces, seemed at that time insuperable; we believed that man would go

down to defeat, owing to his selfishness and his misuse of the principle of free

will. We made all preparations to withdraw, and yet at the same time we

struggled to get humanity to choose rightly and to see the issues clearly.

The necessity to withdraw was averted. I may not say in what manner, beyond

telling you that the Lords of Liberation took certain unexpected steps. This

They were led to do owing to the invocative powers of humanity, used

consciously by all those upon the side of the will-to-good and unconsciously by

all men of goodwill. Owing to these steps, the efforts of those fighting in the

realm of science for the establishing of true knowledge and right human

relations were aided. The trend of the power to know and to discover (a

definite form of energy) was deflected away from the demanding evocative

minds of those seeking to destroy the world of men, leading to a form of mental

paralysis. Those seeking to emphasize the right values and to save humanity

were simultaneously stimulated to the point of success. In these very few

words I have disposed of a stupendous world event, and in this brief paragraph

I have summed up the working out of a specialized divine activity. EXT 494.

Four factors lie behind the momentous happening of the release of this form of

atomic energy, through the medium of what is erroneously and unscientifically

called the "splitting of the atom." There are other factors, but you may find the

following four of real interest:

There was a clearly directed inflow of extra-planetary energy released by the

Lords of Liberation, to Whom invocation had been successfully made; through

the impact of this energy upon the atomic substance being dealt with by the

investigating scientists, changes were brought about which enabled them to

achieve success. The experiments being carried forward were therefore both

subjective and objective. A concerted effort was made by a number of

disciples who were working in fifth and seventh ray ashrams, and this enabled

them to impress lesser disciples in the scientific field and helped them to

surmount the well-nigh insuperable difficulties with which they were

confronted.

There was also a weakening of the tension which had hitherto successfully held

the forces of evil together, and a growing inability of the evil group at the head

of the Axis Powers to surmount the incidental war fatigue. This brought about,

first of all, a steady deterioration of their minds, and then of their brains and

nervous systems. None of the men involved in the direction of the Axis effort in

Europe is today normal psychologically; they are all suffering from some form

of physical deterioration, and this has been a real factor in their defeat, though

one that may be difficult for you to realize. It is not so in the case of the

Japanese, whose psychological makeup is totally different, as are their nervous

systems, which are of fourth root-race quality. They will be and are being

defeated by physical war measures and by the destruction physically of their

war potential and the death of the form aspect. This destruction... and the

consequent release of their imprisoned souls, is a necessary happening; it is

the justification of the use of the atomic bomb upon the Japanese population.

The first use of this released energy has been destructive, but I would remind

you that it has been the destruction of forms and not the destruction of spiritual

values and the death of the human spirit - as was the goal of the Axis effort.

Forget not that all success (both good and bad) is dependent upon the

sustaining of the point of tension. This point of tension involves the dynamic

focusing of all mental, emotional and physical energies at a central point of

planned activity. This, by the way, is the objective of all true meditation work.

It is in this act of tension that the German people failed. This cost them the

war; their tension broke because the group of evil forces who were impressing

the negative German people were unable to attain the point of tension which

the Hierarchy could reach when it was reinforced through the action of the

Lords of Liberation.

Another factor was the constant, invocative demand and the prayers

(articulate and inarticulate) of humanity itself. Men, impelled largely by fear

and the innate mobilizing of the human spirit against slavery, reached such a

pitch of demanding energy that a channel was created which greatly facilitated

the work of the Hierarchy, under the direct influence of the Lords of

Liberation. EXT 495.

Nevertheless, we can, I believe, look to science to make tremendous strides in

the comprehension of atomic energy. Then paralleling the evolution of the

human being again, we can look for man to dominate the air. There is a great

vibratory sphere, or plane, in the solar system, called in some occult books the

intuitional plane; it is called in the Eastern literature the Buddhic plane, and

its symbol is the air. Just as man is beginning to find his way through the

development of the intuition on to that plane now, so science is beginning to

discover how to dominate the air, and as the intuition in man develops and

grows, so will his control of the air be developed and grow. CA 132.

He will, therefore concentrate his attention on this higher form of life

transference and Through knowledge of the devas,

Through external pressure and vibration,

Through internal stimulation,

Through color applied in stimulation and vitalization,

Through mantric sounds he will find the secret of atomic energy, latent in the

mineral kingdom, and will bend that inconceivable power and force to the

solution of the problems of existence. Only when atomic energy is better

understood and the nature of the fourth ether somewhat comprehended, shall

we see that control of the air which lies inevitably ahead. EXT 496.

The solar system has its location on the fourth ether. TCF 121.

The seven sacred Planets are composed of matter of the fourth ether and the

planetary Logoi (the seven Heavenly Men) whose bodies the planets are,

function normally on the fourth plane of the system, the buddhic plane. EA

645.

Fourth ether - Super-gaseous

Buddhic

(Intuitional plane)

Air.

Fourth cosmic ether. TCF 83.

In this fourth chain and fourth round, the fourth ether is beginning to be

studied, and -viewed as a separating web - it permits occasional exit to those

of suitable vibration. TCF 101.

A further chain of ideas may be followed up in the remembrance that the fourth

ether is even now being studied and developed by the average scientist, and is

already somewhat harnessed to the service of

man. TCF 115.

An interesting analogy may here be noted between the fourth cosmic ether, and

the fourth ether on the physical plane of the solar system. Both are in process

of becoming exoteric - one from the standpoint of man in the three worlds, and

the other from the standpoint of a Heavenly Man. TCF 320

The four energies of the lower self - atomic energy, vital energy, feeling energy

and mental energy - plus the two energies of the soul, make the six energies

used by man in his life experience; but the energy of the atom is usually not

counted as a human energy, as it is uniform in its usage in all forms of life in

all kingdoms, and therefore man is regarded as a sum total of five energies,

and not of six energies. EP2 69.

All physical phenomena as we understand the term have an electrical origin,

and an initial vibration on the first subplane of the physical plane.

That Light, physical plane light, has a close connection with, and uses, as a

medium, the second ether.

That sound functions through the third ether.

That color in a peculiar sense is allied to the fourth ether.

We must note here that in the development of the senses, hearing preceded

sight, as sound precedes color. An interesting analogy may here be noted

between the fourth cosmic ether, and the fourth ether on the physical plane of

the solar system. Both are in process of becoming exoteric - one from the

standpoint of man in the three worlds, and the other from the standpoint of a

Heavenly Man. The fourth ether is even now being investigated by scientists,

and much that they predicate concerning ether, the atom, radium, and the

ultimate "protyle" has to do with this fourth ether. It will eventually be brought

under scientific formula, and some of its properties, knowledge concerning its

range of influence, and its utilization will become known unto men.

Paralleling this, the buddhic plane, the plane of the Christ principle, is

gradually becoming known to those advanced beings who are individually able

to cognize their place in the body of a Logos of a planetary scheme. The

influence of the buddhic plane, and the electrical force that is its peculiar

characteristic, are beginning to be felt, and its energy is also beginning to

have a definite effect on the egoic bodies of men; the fourth ether of the

physical systemic plane is likewise assuming its rightful place in the minds of

men, and the electrical force of that subplane is already being adapted and

utilized by man in the assistance of the mechanical arts, for methods of

transportation, for widespread illumination, and in healing. These four

adaptations of electricity:

For mechanical uses,

For transportation,

For illumination,

In healing,

are but the working out on the physical plane of paralleling utilization of

buddhic electrical force. It might here be asked why color primarily is spoken

of as the buddhic manifestation of electricity. We are employing the word

"color" here in its original and basic sense as "that which veils." Color veils

the sevenfold differentiation of logoic manifestation and, from the angle of

vision of man in the three worlds, can be seen only in its full significance on

the buddhic plane. All fire and electrical display will be seen to embody the

seven colors. Again another correspondence between the fourth cosmic ether

and the fourth physical ether lies in the fact that they are both primarily

concerned with the work of the great builders, bearing in mind that they build

the real body of the Logos in etheric matter; the dense physical vehicle is not

so much the result of their work as it is the result of the meeting of the seven

streams of force or electricity, which causes that apparent congestion in matter

that we call the dense physical planes (the three lower subplanes). This

apparent congestion is, after all, but the exceeding electronic activity or

energy of the mass of negative atoms awaiting the stimulation that will result

from the presence of a certain number of positive atoms. This needs to be

borne in mind. The work of evolution is based on two methods and

demonstrates as: Involution, wherein the negative electrons of matter

preponderate. The percentage of these feminine electrons is one of the secrets

of initiation and is so vast during the involutionary stage that the rarity of the

positive atoms is very noticeable; they are so rare as only to serve to keep the

mass coherent. TCF 322.

Much concerning them may be deduced from the already apprehended facts

which relate to the four solar physical ethers.

For instance, the fourth ether (which is even now being what we might call

"discovered"), is at this stage characterized by certain things. I might

enumerate a few of these facts with exceeding brevity, as follows:

It is the ether which the violet ray uses as a medium. The fourth ether is that

whereof the majority of the etheric bodies of men are made.

The fourth ether is largely the principal sphere of influence of the "devas of the

shadows," or those violet devas which are closely concerned with the physical

evolution of man.

It is the etheric sphere within which, at a little later date, the human and the

deva evolutions will touch. From this fourth etheric sphere the dense physical

bodies are created.

It is the sphere of physical individualization. Only when the animal to be

individualized was fully conscious on that subplane of the physical plane was it

possible to coordinate the corresponding spheres on the astral and mental

planes and by means of this triple coordination to effect the necessary steps

which enabled the quaternary to succeed in its effort to approximate the

Triad.

This fourth ether in this fourth round and on this fourth chain has to be

completely mastered and controlled by the Human Hierarchy, the fourth

creative. Every unit of the human family has to attain this mastery before the

end of this round.

It is the sphere wherein the initiations of the threshold are undergone, and the

fivefold initiations of the physical plane are entered upon.

Much more might be further added to this list, but I have sought only to point

out those which can be easily realized as having a correspondence on the

buddhic plane, the fourth cosmic ether. It should be borne in mind that our

physical plane in its subplanes has its analogy likewise to the entire cosmic

physical plane. TCF 327.

The fourth ether is coming into recognition, and along with it will come the

knowledge of the lives which it embodies. Hence the success of spiritualistic

endeavor, for the larger number of the average discarnate entities at this stage

who are willing to make contact with the physical plane are clothed in matter

of this ether. The devas of this ether will also come to be known before the end

of this round, and alliance will be made between the fourth Creative Hierarchy

of men, and the devas of the fourth ether.

The fourth plane, the buddhic, by the aid of manas, will gradually be realized.

This will be done as manas is transmuted into wisdom. By a few in this round

the fifth principle will be superseded by the principle of buddhi. Right on from

now till the middle of the next round there will be an overlapping of the four

and the five - manas and the buddhic principle -thus making the nine, or

perfected man, the initiate. It might also be remarked that more and more will

the control of the fourth Kumara be evidenced and felt. On this I cannot

enlarge, being only permitted to make the statement. The consciousness of the

mass of the human family will gradually pass on to the fourth subplane of the

mental plane, and be more and more controlled by purely concrete mind.

Unless this is paralleled by a steady influx of egos on to the buddhic plane in

conscious activity, and thus out of the control of manas pure and simple, a very

serious condition will have to be handled by the Hierarchy. TCF 408.

First, physical plane scientists will be able to speak with authority anent the

fourth ether, even though they may not recognize it as the lowest of the four

etheric grades of substance: its sphere of influence and its utilization will be

comprehended, and "force" as a factor in matter, or the electrical

manifestation of energy within definite limits, will be as well understood as is

hydrogen at this time. Indications of this can already be seen in the discovery

of radium, and the study of radioactive substances and of electronic

demonstration. This knowledge will revolutionize the life of man; it will put

into his hands that which occultists call "power of the fourth order" (on the

physical plane). It will enable him to utilize electrical energy for the regulation

of his everyday life in a way as yet incomprehensible; it will produce new

methods of illuminating, and of heating the world at a small cost and with

practically no initial outlay. The fact of the existence of the etheric body will

be established, and the healing of the dense physical body, via the etheric

body, by force utilization and solar radiation, will take the place of the present

methods. Healing will then fall practically into two departments:

Vitalization, by means of: Electricity. Solar and planetary radiation.

Definite curative processes, through the occult knowledge of: The force

centers. The work of the devas of the fourth ether.

Transportation on sea and land will be largely superseded by the utilization of

air routes and the transit of large bodies through the air, by means of the

instantaneous use of the force or energy inherent in the ether itself, will take

the place of the present methods. TCF 429.

We have another suggestive analogy in the fact that the devas of the fourth

ether will be soon swinging into recognized utility and that in the sixth subrace

the deva evolution will be exceedingly prominent. The fourth plane is the plane

of at-one-ment for certain deva and human units, and certain groups (the

fourth Creative Hierarchy and the sixth Deva Hierarchy) have a pronounced

karma to work out together. One can now see the supreme importance of the

human Hierarchy, the fourth in this sequence of planes and ideas. TCF 431.

We come now to our second point, that initiation veils a secret and that the

revelation of that secret is imminent. Just what this secret is, I may not reveal,

but it is concerned with a peculiar type of energy which can be induced at a

moment of supreme tension. The only possible hint I can give you in

connection with this mysterious matter is that it is closely related to the

"Blinding Light" which Saul of Tarsus saw on the road to Damascus and the

"blinding light" which accompanied the discharge of energy from the atomic

bomb. DINA2 327.

Death is to man exactly what the release of the atom appears to be; this the

great scientific discovery of the release of atomic energy has demonstrated.

The nucleus of the atom is split in two. (This wording is scientifically

incorrect.) This event in the life experience of the atom releases a great light

and a great potency; upon the astral plane, the phenomenon of death has a

somewhat similar effect and has a close parallel in the phenomena brought

about by the release of atomic energy...

The wholesale destruction of forms which has been going on during the past

few years of war has produced phenomenal changes upon the astral plane and

has shattered an immense amount of the existing world glamor, and this is

very, very good. These happenings should result in less opposition to the

inflow of the new type of energy. EH 503.

One point should here be remembered, and that is that this phase applies to

both the great White Lodge and the Black Lodge - the one dedicated to the

beneficent task of purifying and aiding all lives in the three worlds of material

evolution and to the release of the soul in form, and the other to the

retardation of the evolutionary process and to the continuous crystallizing of

the material forms which hide and veil the anima mundi.

Both groups have been profoundly interested and implicated in this matter of

the release of energy from the atom and the liberation of its inner aspect, but

their motives and objectives were widely different. EXT 493.

The imminence of this release - inevitable and under direction - produced an

enormous tension in hierarchical circles because (to express the idea

colloquially) a race was on between the Dark Forces and the Forces of Light

to acquire possession of the techniques necessary to bring about this liberation

of needed energy.

Had the Dark Forces triumphed, and had the Axis Powers obtained possession

of the needed scientific formulas, it would have led to a major planetary

disaster. The released energy would have been used first of all to bring about

the complete destruction of all opposing the forces of evil, and then it would

have been prostituted to the preservation of an increasingly materialistic and

non-idealistic civilization.

Germany could not be trusted with this power, for all her motives were

compelling wrong.You might here fall back on the trite religious platitude that

the innate good in humanity and mankind's inherent divinity would eventually

have triumphed, because naught can finally overcome the universal trend to

good.

You are prone to forget that if the evil forces possess potencies which can

destroy form in the three worlds on such a wide scale that the souls of

advanced aspirants and disciples, and those of initiates seeking incarnation,

cannot come into outer expression during a particular world crisis, then you

have direfully affected the time-schedule of the evolutionary process; you will

have greatly delayed (perhaps for millennia of years) the manifestation of the

kingdom of God. The time had come for that manifestation, and hence the

powerful activity of the dark forces.

This attempt to hinder the planned progress constituted a definite menace and

indicated a supreme danger and problem. The evil forces were closer to

success than any of you have ever dreamed.

They were so close to success in 1942 that there were four months when the

members of the spiritual Hierarchy had made every possible arrangement to

withdraw from human contact for an indefinite and unforeseen period of time.

EXT 494.

By 1941 the Germans knew that isotopes of U-238 in capturing neutrons

became transformed into isotopes of plutonium, and Heisenberg was

measuring where most such transformations took place. This would not be of

much interest for reactor technology, but would be vital if building a bomb.

The paraffin wax would have a function as a bomb part in connection with a

technical problem associated with plutonium isotopes.

In June 1942 at Leipzig, Heisenberg placed within an aluminium sphere about

750 kilos of natural uranium, placed a concentric sphere of heavy water at its

centre, dropped the radioactive source down the chimney and sat back. Five

weeks later there was a disastrous fire and the experiment was terminated. But

- what was this experiment intended to prove?

The United States invested hundreds of millions of dollars into uranium

enrichment plants and plutonium breeder reactors. Germany, under heavy

aerial bombardment and on a tight budget, could never have competed. What

was needed was a nuclear device of small magnitude which could be mass-

produced at small cost.

When an aluminium sphere of natural uranium powder is left to breed in the

manner of Heisenberg's device, within about two years the plutonium bred by

U-238 capturing neutrons exceeds the figure of 7%. This is the magic figure

for a nuclear explosion of some sort.

If several hundred such spheres were left to breed for two years in mid-1942,

by late 1944 Germany would have had a small arsenal of little nuclear devices.

All that was needed would be some means of setting them off.

The target was London. If Britain could be forced out of the war, even in late

1944 there was still a slim chance of success for Germany. The obvious means

of delivering the weapons on London was the V-2 rocket. The little bombs

weighed less than a ton, and could fit easily into the space for the V-2

warhead. There was no need for tonnes of conventional explosive to explode

the device - the rocket hit the ground at 3,500 per second. This speed was fast

enough to assemble the plutonium-enriched uranium material into a critical

mass. In the split-second before the reaction collapsed, the resulting blast

would be in the region of 20 tonnes TNT with nuclear fallout. The paraffin wax

prevented the unstable plutonium isotope Pu 240 from reacting too smartly

and so ruin the nuclear reaction.

How long could London have withstood two or three such rockets fired on

London every day? Each crater region would be unapproachable for years,

maybe decades. The effect of the fallout need not be mentioned. No surprise

then, that Lt. Gen Putt, Deputy Head of United States Air Force Intelligence,

should state shortly after the war that if the invasion of Europe had been

delayed by six months, the course of the war would have been changed, for

Germany had "rocket surprises in store for the whole world in general and

England in particular".

The range of a V-2 was 200 miles. In June 1944, London was in range from

anywhere along the French and Belgian coasts. Six months after the invasion -

December 1944 - the German front line was far back from this 200 mile point.

The Germans had no intermediate rocket to hit London from Germany - the

critical failure of German science. Hence the need for the Ardennes Campaign

to recapture Antwerp which is 200 miles from London.

www.robsacc.nl/ottens/third_reich_mysteries-atombomb.

The trend of the power to know and to discover (a definite form of energy) was

deflected away from the demanding evocative minds of those seeking to

destroy the world of men, leading to a form of mental paralysis. Those seeking

to emphasize the right values and to save humanity were simultaneously

stimulated to the point of success. In these very few words I have disposed of

a stupendous world event, and in this brief paragraph I have summed up the

working out of a specialized divine activity. EXT 494.

JPC.

July 2005.

Jeremy Condick. jpcondick@ntlworld.com