UC-NRLF $B Efl 217 m r^ IvIBRARV OF THK University of California. Received (yZ£^. ^ jSq/ . Accession Noi^i / ( Q Class No. ^5f i: S' on it do the same. This is the way the sun supplies its heat and light. The sun's atmosphere is very dense ; for the tension within it is in a great strain and vi- bration from the bodies pulling on it. This at- mosphere is, perhaps, thousands of miles thick. This is all luminous atmosphere, the bodies pull- ing on the sun pulls all the heat and light out from the center, for the pull is outward around the circumference. This brings all the heat and light on the outer part -of its atmosphere, mak- ing it brilliant. Each of the bodies pulling on it is doing work to maintain itself, and at the same time is maintaining the sun, gener- ating its heat and light. There is no heat or action radiated or imparted only betw^een the bodies in action. These bodies are assisting each other. There is nothing consumed or -wasted. It is all vibratory action through their atmos- phere on the tension of space. The pull vibrates the tension, producing heat, and the heat raises FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 81 the cold, and the vibrations are continued. This action continually disturbs the lines of tension, imparting motion and life to these bodies. This space between these bodies is as solid as if they were united, and the action between them is instantaneous. The tension absorbs no time in transmitting its action or circulation, except through their atmospheres. This is the only point of resistance, and the heat is generated at this point, not radiated from the sun into space. This pull between the bodies pulls all the heat from their centers to the circumference. This is what makes the great light and heat in the sun's atmosphere, and causes the heat of our earth to be pulled out from it, to do work by expanding the cold tension, giving it motion, circulation, heat, light and life. 82 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. HOW A SEA-GULL FLIES. LET us follow a sea-gull in its flight, or mode of flying and floatingin the air. The gull occu- pies a portion of space, and the tension is in that space — that is its life force. This gull is made of a nervous matter, bones, sinews, and feathers. The feathers protect it from the cold and water, com- pletely inclosing its body, insulating it from the outer air, thus protecting it from the cold, air, and water. Tliis gull must procure food to keep up heat, in order to be able to fly. The food gen- erates heat in its body. This heat displaces the cold, and allows the blood to circulate. This is a circulation of heat and cold. The blood re- sists this circulation, and is put in motion, and expands and vibrates the nerves, and the nerves resist, generating heat and vibrating the tension, and the tension reacts on the whole structure of the bod}^, putting it all in vibration. The ten- sion around the gull is constant!}^ pressing into it, trying to find its equilibrium, or point of rest, through the body of the gull , but the bod}^ of the gull — that is, all its nerves and tension — is in vibration, thus breaking the lines of tension or force of the outside. This is the great force FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 83 that it acts on. All its little nerves are acting on a force of more than ten thousand tons to the square inch. All the feathers of the gull are con- nected to its body, and all feeling and sensation are conducted through them. The feathers vi- brate on the air and tension. The body absorbs these vibrations, keeping up its heat and ac- tion. Every feather of the gull is constantly vibrating from the action of the air. All these vibrations are transmitted to the nerves of the gull, generating heat and vibrating the tension, keeping up the circulation and life action in its body. The gull is like a magnet. The feathers are like the coils, generating the heat or current, to keep up the circulation ; for the feathers vibrate and disturb it, producing heat, and this expands the cold, producing a pressure in its body. As long as this can be maintained with a free circu- lation through its body, so long can life and mo- tion continue. The gull's feathers are smooth and soft, offering very little resistance to the air, when flying or floating in it. The air is as dense under as over the gull. It floats in this air vi- brating its wings, so fine that we cannot see them. These vibrations are acting on the air un- der and over its body, thus cleaving its way through it. The air passing under its wings raises it, and it throws its body forward, pressing 84 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. against the wind, its wings extended and curved, bracing its body against the wind. This action excites its nerves, and they vibrate the tension of the body, generating heat, and the heat generates power or force, and the gull keeps its flight. The gull is floating in an air pressure of say fifteen pounds to the square inch. This is a uniform pressure. The gull has this to act on or float in. The gull extends its wings, and braces them on this pressure. The air is in motion, and passes under its wings. The gull elevates its wings a little, and the air passes under them, forcing it upward, without any exertion of the gull ; it, bracing and curving its wings, can move and float in any direction on the air. Thus, we find that the gull can generate heat and power when in motion. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 85 A LOOK INTO THE WATER— A FISH, AND ITS ACTIONS AND LIFE. THE fish is a product of the male and female, a spawn, a starchy, nervous mass. This spawn occupies a portion of space in the water. The tension of space is in the water and spawn. These little eggs exclude the water, they being like fine glass beads, inclosing the tension within them. Each individual egg offers a resistance to the lines of tension, vibrating it, producing heat. The heat circulates through it, displacing the cold. This allows the eggs to grow and expand, filling more space, acting on more tension or force. These eggs develop into little fish under this influence or condition. As they increase in size they become more active, feeding on other small fish and insects in the water, generating heat to keep out the cold and keep up the circulation. This fish has grown from the spawn, gradually pressing itself into space, forcing its way into the water, and maturing and growing under these conditions. It is now a mass of nerves, fibre, bone, and blood, all off'ering a resistance to the lines of tension, thus generating heat to keep up 86 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. life. The circulation of the fluids in the fish act on and disturb the lines of tension, disturbing the inner from the outer, generating heat and vibra- ing its whole body. This vibrating body is act- ing against the constant pressure of the water and the tension of space. The fish is acting on this force within its body. Its circulation is the same as the magnet. The fluids resist, producing heat and life. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 87 WHAT IS LIGHTNING, AND HOW PRO- DUCED. IF the sun holds the earth in space, that space is under strain or tension, the lines of pull ex- tending from the sun to the earth. These lines are the same as the lines or pull between two magnets, the tension of space being constant and unvarying. It is hard to break these lines. They sustain more than ten thousand tons per square inch of surface of the earth. Now, the natural condition of space being cold, there can be no heat, except produced by the sun. Now, heat ex- pands, and cold contracts ; therefore, heat repels, and cold attracts. These are the active elements in space, constantly battling for place or rest, but cannot find it. Now, the sun being a magnet, and the earth a magnet, they are constantly pull- ing on each other. This is the tension of space. Tlie air offers a resistance to these lines of pull, and becomes heated, expands, vibrates, and vi- brates the tension, and the tension vibrates the air, and motion is produced. Now, the air being put in motion, is constantly crossing the lines of tension and vibrating it, and heat is generated. The heated air rises and presses up against the 88 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. cold strata of air, and there is a pressure between the two bodies. The cold presses down, and the warm presses up. This makes the air very dense, and offers a greater resistance to the tension lines, and more heat is produced between them. This may be sufficient to form a steam, and there is an explosion, thunder and lightning. The ex- plosion breaks the equilibrium of the lines of tension, and the expansion, or explosion, of air produces a vacuum, and the air rushes into the vacuum, and produces the rumbling thunders. There are many ways of producing thunder and lightning. Again, a large body of hot air may be moving from the south, and a cold body mov- ing from the north. The two masses meet each other, like two ships under full headway. They crash into each other. There must be friction and heat, generated by the concussion. Now, this heat is at the point of contact — that is, in the center of the two bodies. This pressure pro- duces steam, or heated air, sufficient to explode, and the same phenomenon is produced. This is the way Nature finds her equilibrium. The hot and cold air coming together produce a pressure. The cold air becomes heated and ex- pands, and vibrates the tension, and the tension vibrates the air, and the heat and cold try to be- come equalized. Their molecules rush into each other. This action strains the tension. The FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 89 earth pulling from the sun, and the two bodies of air crossing these lines, break the equilibrium of the tension, and the heated air forms a steam, and explodes. This breaks the lines of tension, and lightning is produced. The two bodies of air meeting may be at different elevations, but moving in opposite directions; -one crushes up and the other down. These bodies may be many miles in diameter, and moving at perhaps a mile a minute, and by the time they come to rest they have compressed the air to, say, one thousand pounds to the cubic foot. This heats the air and causes the explosion, producing thunder and lightning. The explosion breaks the lines of tension, and lightning is produced. Every mole- cule of air incloses the lines of tension, and the pressure heats them. 90 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. THE HUMAN EYE, ITS USE AND ACTION. NOW, knowing the tension in space, eveiy- thing living on the earth is moving, float- ing, and existing under that influence ; that is its life. That tension is the force tliat it acts on. It is the great force of Nature. Now, the human body being filled with this tension, the nerves act on it the same as a wire acts as a con- ductor of electricity. Every little nerve has its work to perform. Now, these nerves could not act, or do any work on themselves. They must have something to work on. This is the resist- ing force. It is the equalizer and distributor of all nerve action. The nerves are incased in this tension, under its influence, and must obey it. How could a human body be built up of a mass of inert matter, having nothing to give it life or action but water and air? Both are inert and dormant in themselves. It is the tension that gives these actions ; they are its subjects, and must obey its laws. Can we realize, or under- stand, or comprehend the great pressure that we are living in, and that pressure is our life, and the life of everything on the earth — more than ten thousand tons per square inch. Yet we live FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 91 in an air pressure of fifteen pounds to the square inch, and do not comprehend it. The eye is a ball of nerves, and little mirrors or lenses. They are floating in the tension, and these little nerves are vibrating on that tension, and communicate with the brain. When we look at some person, and our eyes meet, there is a circuit formed. Our eyes are the same as the poles of a magnet. The space between us is filled with the tension, and our eyes are acting and vibrating on it, forming the circuit. The sensation felt sometimes by a look or stare is very trying on the nerves. If there was noth- ing between us as a conductor, how could we feel any sensation? Air alone could not conduct; for it is always in motion in open space. The tension never varies. It is constant and reliable. A thought is capable of acting on it; for a thought is an action of the nerves of the brain on the tension within it. Now, this action of the brain has acted on the tension, and disturbed its equilibrium, the same as if we drop a pebble in a lake — the ripples, or waves, must move over the whole surface of the lake to find its equilibrium at the shore. When we read, the space between us and the object is filled with tension, and the eyes are acting and vibrating on it. Each little nerve is doing its work, the same as the Atlantic cable. The cable may have many wires within 92 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. it, and each wire carries its message to the other shore. Now, the eyes are the conductors of all sensation to the brain, by millions of little nerves, rolled up in a ball. These nerves are very deli- cate and sensitive, finer than a spider's web. How could these delicate fibres act on them- selves ? They must have something more sensi- tive, more elastic, something more durable, some- thing that cannot wear out, and something that will not produce friction. These are the ele- ments of the tension to things that are in har- mony with it. When we think, all the nerves of the body are concentrated in the brain. These nerves are acting on the tension within it, and this action continued brings all the nerves of the brain into action or thought. How could the brain think without some force to act on ? FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 93 WHAT IS POLARITY— THE CAUSE AND EFFECT ? THE earth pulling from the sun produces heat in the air space of the earth. The cold ten- sion that holds the earth to the sun is the con- ducting medium of all vibratory action and heat. Anything in these lines offers a resistance to them, and become polarized. The earth is one pole, and the sun the other. The lines pass down through the earth. If we put a piece of iron or steel in these lines, standing it up- right on the earth, and let the sun's rays pass throagh it, it will become polarized. The sun's rays are the tension lines. The metal of- fers a resistance to these lines, and they become heated. This causes the tension to circulate through the metal. The sun pulls the heat up, and the earth supplies the cold to fill the vacuum. This is the circuit lines of the tension acting through the metal. As fast as the heat is pulled up through the metal, the cold is drawn in at the end on the earth. If there were no heat pro- duced in the metal, there could be no circulation or action ; and if there were no tension in the njetal, there could be no circulation. The metal 94 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. cannot act on itself, nor can the tension. They are both inert and dead ; but, when in union and vibrated, tliey resist each other and produce heat. The metal holds the tension at rest. It is the reservoir of universal force on tap, ready to be acted on ; and when w^e can vibrate them rap- idly enough, we can have light and power. Now, if we change the poles of the metal, put- ting the end that was toward the sun to the earth, it would repel the earth, because it is in the sun's pole. The sun has pulled the heat through it, and the sun cannot act on the earth's pole. Now, the earth cannot act on the sun's pole ; for they are in opposition and not in circuit. Now, if we bend the metal in the form of a horseshoe, we will have a magnet polarized. The sun's lines have pulled through it, producing the cir- cuit. If we place a piece of iron aoross the poles, this forms a circuit of the magnet, and if we make and break this circuit, we are acting on the tension or pull of the earth and sun through the magnet. The benuing of the metal into a horse- shoe shape brings the earth's poles and the sun's poles together, so that they can be utilized or acted on. Now, the earth's pole is the inlet for the cold tension of space, and the sun's pole is the outlet for the heat generated in the magnet. This is the circuit through the magnet of heat and cold. '7BIVBIISITT] FROM DARKlTiinTJ TCTlSlGHT. 95 The magnet is cold in nature, inert and dead. When we act on it, we produce heat. This heat must have an outlet. The cold tension of space pulls this heat up as fast as generated. This is the great tension pull of space. The magnet is the medium for the circulation of heat and cold applied to it. The tension is the conducting medium for transmitting or ab- sorbing the heat. The action on the magnet vi- brates it, and makes heat in it, and the vibra- tions act on the tension, and cause the circula- tion or flow, and the circuit is produced. The tension on the outside presses around the magnet and into the poles. The tension inside, being in vibration, gives away to the pressure of the ten- sion outside, and the circulation takes place through the poles of the magnet. Now;, the magnet must be able to transmit the vibrations, or heat, as fast as produced ; for every vibration is a quantit}'' of heat. The atoms of the magnet resist the vibrations, and become heated. This heat must be absorbed as fast as generated, in order to keep up a free circulation. The heat expands the atoms of the magnet and clogs the circulation. If the magnet is kept cold, its atoms are then shrunk and in harmony with the tension, and leaves a free action. The mag- net, and its actions, are only an interchange of heat and cold. The cold is the great weight, or 96 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. pressure, that the heat has to overcome or dis- place. When we produce heat, we expand the cold tension, and put it in vibration, and these vibrations are instantly transmitted to the cold space between the earth and sun, this being the receptacle for all heat generated between the two bodies. The air resists the passage of this heat through the tension, and it becomes heated and expands, and is put in motion and vibrated, and vibrates the tension, and this interchange of ac- tion keeps up the heat in the air. To illustrate the action of the magnet, we will take a piece of bar iron, any suitable size for a magnet,. and drill several holes through its cen- ter, making it tubular. We then bend it into the magnet form, and wind it as a resistance coil. Now, if we can lay it flat in the bottom of a bar- rel, carrying the conductors to the top of the bar- rel, and then fill the barrel with water, and ap- ply the current to the magnet until it becomes heated, the result will be the water will circu- late through it. The cold will enter at one pole., and the hot discharge at the other, thus forming a circuit. The current heats the magnet, and the magnet heats the water. This vibrates the water and gives it motion. The cold water constantly presses all around the magnet, trying to find an entrance or an opening. The water in the mag- net becomes heated and expands, and is forced FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 97 out through one pole, and the cold presses in at the other pole. The cold displaces the heat, and the heat dis- places the cold, and so the circulation is con- tinued. The cold water absorbs the heat; it pulls it up through the lines of tension. The water, resisting, becomes heated. We must have heat and cold to produce motion. The cold ab- sorbs the heat, and the heat displaces the cold. They are seeking an equilibrium or a point of rest. The pressure of cold water around the magnet is the same as the cold around a com- mon magnet. Once there is heat enough pro- duced to form a circulation, the cold presses into the pole and out of the other one. Once the ten- sion in the magnet is vibrated, it gives way to the tension around it, and the circuit is con- tinued. yS FROM DAKKNESS TO UGHT. HOW CAN AVE BREAK THE TENSION LINES OF SPACE AND KEEP THEM OPEN? WHEN we can do this, then we have tapped the fountain of life and force. This holds the earth in space. Now, the earth being sus- pended from the sun, the space between them must be in great strain. If this space was filled with a solid rod of steel, it could not sustain the great pull or weight. What bar of steel could sustain ten thousand tons to the square inch? Yet the tension, or pull, does it, and we do not comprehend it. The tension being elastic, like a rubber band, can shrink, and expand, and stretch, but cannot be broken, yet may be acted upon and vibrated. The most delicate vibra- tion acts on it, producing waves like the waves of the ocean, only they travel faster, there being no resistance offered to them. When we can pro- duce vibrations rapidly enough to pass through a conductor so that the waves of the vibration will roll over each other and prevent the tension rest- ing — that is, keep the space around the con- ductor in motion or vibration — this would dis- turb the lines sufficiently to break their equilib- FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 99 rium and thus produce luminosity — light, the same as daylight or sunlight. These vibrations must be very fine and rapid to act on the ten- sion — say, fifty million magnetic vibrations per second. These vibrations must be produced in- stantaneously, and must be continuous, no vari- ation or cessation. It must be constant. There is no rotary motion at the present day that can accomplish this. We must look for some other motion to do it; yet Nature is doing this continu- ally, without fuel, steam or engines. Why can not man do the same, he being an instrument of Nature, and Nature working through him ? But men do not live in harmony with Nature's laws. If they did, they would understand them better. Man's laws and Nature's laws do not harmonize. There are no secrets in Nature's laws; everything is open for investigation. If we are ignorant of these laws, it is not Nature's fault. 100 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. WHAT IS THE TENSION OR PULL? LET us suspend a rubber ball by a rubber band. Say the ball weighs ten pounds. This will represent the earth suspended from the sun. The band would be about the one-hun- dredth of a square inch in diameter. Raise the ball, and attach the band to the ceiling. It will stretch the band to its utmost, almost breaking it. The band is now in the tension, pull or strain. If we touch it, or force the air across its lines, it will vibrate, and the vibrations will cause the ball to rise and fall a little. The longer the band the more sensitive it is. Now, if this band was ninety-three millions of miles long, how easy it would be to vibrate its lines; how sensi- tive it would be! It would be impossible to keep it still. When we touch this band, we act on a force of ten pounds. But suppose this bund sustained one hundred tons, as it does in space; then it would be acting on a great force or pull. If we apply a piece of ice to the center of the band, it will shrink a little. This will cause the ball to rise a little. Remove the ice, and the ball will foil again. This motion produces heat in the FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 101 band, and it acts on the air, vibrating it. The air, offering a resistance to the shrinking and ex- panding, becomes heated. The ball, rising and falling, produces heat in the band, and the heat rises and vibrates the air, and the air vibrates the band. This produces a kind of pulsation, or breathing motion. Now, imagine all space between the earth and sun filled with these lines or bands — invisible lines. This is the great tension of space. The space between the earth and sun is filled with cold. The air around the earth resists or insulates it, and pro- tects it, by retaining the heat imparted to it by the sun's pull. The earth pulling from the sun, the air offers a resistance to this pull, and it becomes heated and expands, and expands the lines of pull. This allows the earth to drop or fall a little, and the cold space pulls up the heat generated by the fall ; and, in pulling the heat, it pulls the earth. The heat in rising vibrates the lines of pull or tension. These vibrations heat the air, and the air heats the tension, and the earth falls again. This is a shrinking and expanding motion. The cold shrinks, and the heat expands. As soon as the cold has pulled up the heat, the heated space is filled with cold. This pulling and falling, shrinking and expanding, keep the air heated, and put it in motion, and vibrate the tension, 102 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. and the tension vibrates the air, and this keeps up action, motion, heat and life. This motion is imparted to every thing on the earth ; for its lines pass through them, and they resist, and heat is generated, producing the circulation or breathing motion. This is the circuit of the sun and earth, their life action, and circulation of heat and cold, all vibratory action on the cold tension of space. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 103 A PLANT'S GROWTH. WHAT is the cause'of a"plant's growth? Wa- ter, earth, heat, air, and tension. We plant a seed in the earth. It contains water, vegetable matter, and tension. The moisture of the earth expands the seed. The sun acts on the tension and vibrates it, and the seed offers a slight re- sistance, and heat is generated in it. Now, the lines of tension from the sun, passing into the earth, pass through the seed, and keep it in con- stant strain and vibration. These vibrations are pulling on the tension. The earth pulls from the sun. The earth pulls the roots into it, and the sun pulls the bud or leaves towards it. The pull being equal, the plant grows toward the sun and the roots grow into the earth. Now, the the branches and leaves grow up on the tension lines. These are the guiding lines toward the sun. The roots follow the tension into the earth, to seek for food. Now, the earth feeds the roots, and the sun and air feed the branches and leaves, by evapora- tion. One assists the other, and harmony pre- vails. The different gases are deposited in the fibres or tissues, as they are pulled upward, build- 104 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. ing up its trunk and branches, and passing out into the leaves, there to be evaporated. The tension lines pass from the sun into the earth^ These linos pass througli everything, regardless of material. Anything offering a resistance to these lines produces heat or vibration in it. The finest leaf offers a resistance ; therefore, heat and vibrations are produced in it. This is the life action. These delicate vibrations act on the fibre of the leaf, passing through the branches and down into the trunk, into the earth and roots. This is a continuous pulsation and circulation, keeping up the flow of sap. All the sap in the plant or tree is in vibration. It becomes heated, expands, and forms a pressure internally and externally, and gradually expands the branches and leaves, keeping up the growth or life action. All the little cells and fibres of the plant contain sap, or water. This is in a vapor form. It presses outward, and expands the branches and leaves. This vibrates the tension, and the ten- sion vibrates the sap. This keeps the whole plant or tree in vibratory strain. The same action is down through the roots. The sap is pulled up by the vibratory strain, or tension. The heat generated by the resistance of the nerves or fibres of the plant keeps up the flow of sap, and life goes on smoothly, and har- mony prevails. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 105 The lines of tension are through the tree to the pressure of more than ten thousand tons to the square inch. Its circulation is vibrating on this force. The inside of the tree is all in vibra- tion, and the tension outside is constantly pressing around the tree, trying to disturb the lines on the inside, causing an external pressure. This keeps the trees in great strain, or under pressure forcing the sap upwards, expanding its branches and leaves. Thus we find a pressure inside and outside, and the sun pulling on the branches, and the earth pulling the roots, extending them in all directions, to seek light and food, to main- tain life. The trunk and branches of the trees are held in form by the pressure inside and outside. The inside is heated and in vibration, expanding the sap and fibre, producing a pressure. This would burst the tree, if it had nothing to resist this pressure ; but the tension and air is resisting this internal pressure, keeping the trunk and branches in form, making them tough and solid. The leaves grow^ out on the branches on the lines of tension. These are the guiding lines tow^ard the sun. The different-colored leaves are caused by the different ranges of vibrations. These colored leaves are like a shadow in. this tension. The leaves offer a resistance to the lines of tension. This resistance produces a certain quantity of 106 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. vibrations, and this produces the various colors. The leaves hold the tension in them. They can- not get out of this tension ; for it is solid every- where, and the leaves are an impression in it, and it reflects the colors through them. These leaves have a circulation through them like our body. They have thousands of little veins dis- tributed all through them. This circulation is heat and cold. The heat vibrates the tension in the leaf, and the fibre resists these vibrations, and heat is generated. This expands the sap, and causes circulation, and the tension and air around the leaves are pressing against the heat. They are seeking an equilibrium, or a point of rest ; but the heat will not let them rest. This is what keeps up the heat and circulation, and the battle goes on, and life is continued. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 107 ACTION BETWEEN THE EARTH AND SUN HOW could there be any action between the earth and the sun if there was no conductor? All space being cold, how could heat pass through it — ninety-three million miles of intense cold — before it reached the earth ? Heat could not pass through the cold and produce heat in open space. It is at least a million of degrees below zero, between the earth and the sun. This cold shrinks and pulls the heat into it, for cold ab- sorbs heat. Now this cold space would be con- tinually absorbing, or pulling, the heat from the earth and sun. This action would keep up the tension between the two bodies. The earth pull- ing from the sun would produce heat at either pole. The air space of the earth offers a resist- ance to the lines of pull or tension, and becomes heated, and expands, and vibrates. This action allows the tension to expand, or stretch. This produces heat, which is absorbed by the cold space. All this action is doing good work. There is nothing wasted. The air vibrates the tension as the heat rises, and all the space to the sun is acted on and vibrated. The more the cold shrinks and pulls the greater the heat and work 108 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. done. The greater the cold, the greater the pull. These actions are continuous. If there were no space for heat there could be no action or motion. Now, heat being a pro- duct, it acts on the tension of the air space, and sets the air in vibration, and it vibrates the ten- sion, and transmits these vibrations back to the sun: The heat being absorbed in the cold space, the heat does vibrator}^ w^ork to the point of ab- sorption, or till it is lost in cold space. The sun and earth pulling from each other produce the heat in the atmosphere. It expands, and the earth drops or falls a little from the sun. This acts on the tension or lines of pull, and the cold space pulls the earth back again. This action is like the piston in an engine cylinder. It is like our breathing. It is the breathing of the earth and sun ; for the same effect is pro- duced in the sun's atmosphere. When the earth falls, it pulls on the air space of the sun and ex- pands it, and produces heat and friction. The sun having so many bodies pulling on it, extends its atmosphere, and makes it very dense. All the heat in the sun's atmosphere produced by the earth's pulling does vibrating work, through the tension to the earth, and is then absorbed or pulled into the cold space. This cold space is a receptacle for all heat generated by the two bodies. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 109 The cold space is the great pulling force. It will not let the two bodies separate ; for they are heat-producing, and it is heat-absorbing. As fast as the heat is generated, it pulls it ; and in pulling it pulls the two bodies together, and holds them at proper distance. This distance is de- pending on the amount of heat they generate and the amount of heat the cold space can ab- sorb, or take up. It has been many times asked what becomes of all the heat given out by the sun and earth. They do not radiate heat. It is absorbed between the bodies pulling from each other. There is no action only on the lines of pull, and that is within the lines of the atmos- pheres. All other space is inert and dead. The interchange of heat and cold are the active princi- ples of all life and action. The sun and earth breathing produce heat, and all animal life does the same. The breath- ing is a vibratory action on the tension of the nervous system. The nerves are vibrated, and vibrate the tension, and the nerves resist, and they produce heat, and the heat displaces the cold, and the cold absorbs the heat, and this keeps the circulation, or pulsation, in action. Thus we find all action or motion is the result of shrinking and expanding. This is the secret of electricity — magnetism. It is the molecular mo- tion. The heated molecules repel the cold mole- 110 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. cules, and the cold molecules attract and absorb the heat, and this expands the cold molecules and this produces motion, action, and life. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. Ill EFFECT OF THE AIR ON THE EARTH. NOW, if there was no air around the earth, there could be no heat, light, or life. The air molecules are continually in motion, and pro- duce heat and hold it. This heat has to fight the cold. The cold devours the heat, it being more powerful; for all space is filled with it. This cold must be a great pressure. If we freeze a block of ice, and reduce the temperature around it, say a thousand degrees below zero, the ice would dis- appear in vapor. It would be crushed as if a hundred-ton trip-hammer had fallen on it. That is the great pull or tension pressing around the earth. It would crush it like the ice, only for the air shielding it. The air is elastic and retains the heat ; so it is a ball of heat rolling in a space of cold. The cold lines pass down through the earth, the air being the insulator. This pres- sure holds it together, like a ball suspended in water ; the pressure is all around it. How could the earth revolve in space without something to hold it together ? This cold pressure, or tension, offers no resistance to the motion of the earth — it not being a substance — only a shrinkage or pull. This pressure presses everything to the 112 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. earth. This is what we call gravity or attraction. If we take a piece of metal and throw it upward, the pressure resists it, and it is pressed back to the earth, the point of rest. Was it the earth that attracted the metal, or the pressure against it ? If the air was all heated, it would not press against the earth ; it would ascend. But as the heated air ascends, the heat is absorbed by the cold space, and then pressed back to the earth. This is the heating and cooling process of pro- ducing air motion. The heated air in ascend- ing carries the moisture from the earth, and it is condensed against the cold air and pressed back to the earth, to be repeated. The space we are living and moving in, if there was no air in it, would be very cold — say, one thousand degrees below zero. This great cold would shrink and shrivel all animal and vegetable life. Imagine ourselves in this cold for a few moments without air. The flesh would shrink, and become dry, and flat, like a sheet of paper. The blood would crumble into powder. The sinews would harden like glass, and the bones would crumble into dust, and all the moisture of the body would look like fine snow. All the nerves would be dried up like threads. This is the great enemy that we have to fight every day we live. It is the great tension that fills all space, and our bodies are floating in it. Now, FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 113 the air can circulate and move through this ten- sion and become heated, and expand, and vi- brate. This acts on the nerves, and sets them in motion, and they on the fluids of the body, and this produces heat. The heat acts on the ten- sion and vibrates it, and the tension on the nerves, and the nerves on the heart, and the heart on the blood, and the blood on the lungs, and vice versa. This is all — vibratory action of heat and cold shrinks and expands. The heat is in motion, rushing around through the circula- tion, trying to displace the cold, and the cold is pulling the heat out through every pore of the body. Now, the heat has to be active to keep the cold out, for if it got in, it would be death. Heat is life and cold is death, so it is a battle for life and death. We inhale cold air, it meets the blood in the cells of the lungs, and causes them to shrink and expand. This action is like a bel- lows ; it is vibratory, and keeps up circulation. This heat is trying to keep out the cold. These two actions act on the tension and keep it in vi- bration, and the vibrations act on the nerves, and keep up heat and life. While all this bat- tling is going on in our bodies, the air around us is in motion. This is heating the space around us, protecting us from the cold. The molecules of air rub and grind against each other, and their friction produces heat and 114 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. motion. The heated molecules are attracted by the cold and shrink. This action is constantly going on around and in our bodies. The air molecules become heated and expand, and are set in motion. The cold catches these molecules and sli rinks them ; this causes each one to vibrate, and it vibrates the tension. This puts them in motion, and motion is life. If we observe, a very cold night, skating on a pond, or lake, if we strike the ice with a stick, the sound will travel to the extremity of the pond or lake. It is then in tension, being shrunk and pressed from the- cold pressing through and around it. Again, if we notice, an ice boat can travel faster than the wind. The ice offers no resist- ance to motion. The boat gains momentum, and goes before the wind; but if the ice is thawing, it offers a great resistance, and will produce no sound. Again, of a cold, clear night, a steam whistle can be heard for ten or more miles. The air is- in tension ; the moisture is squeezed or pressed out, and it is dry. Sound travels like the ice boat. The cold, dry air offers no resistance to the momentum of the vibration. They slide- through the air on the tension, like the ice boat ; but if the atmosphere is heavy and moist, sound cannot penetrate it far. The moisture or fog in- sulates and separates sound. Every molecule of moisture offers a resistance to its motion. FROM DAllKNESS TO LIGHT. 115 WHAT IS HUNGER AND THIRST, AP- PETITE ? THE body is a mass of nerves, sinews, bones, and moisture. All the nerves are in action, and fighting the cold. Every little nerve has to continually fight against this cold to keep it out of the body. This fighting and struggling wears out the nerves, and they become weakened or hungry. All the nerves depend on the stomach for food. They are continually drawing sup- plies from it, and if it becomes exhausted, the nerves cr\^ out for more, and the stomach must supply them. This is the sensation of hunger. It shrinks the stomach and all the nervous sys- tem. This allows the cold to press in. Then comes the great battle for life. The nerves want food to fight the cold. The blood begins to get cold. The circulation grows slower ; the nerves and stomach are under great strain. They exert all their force to keep up action. They are using the fat of the body, the stomach being exhausted. The cold is gradually gaining on the heat. It is being reduced by the nerves feeding on the body. The blood becomes thin. They all cry out for food through the stomach. The brain becomes 116 FROM DAKKNESS TO LIGHT. dazed, for its nerves are weakened, as it receives no food. The nerves of the body exhaust it all. The moisture becomes reduced, for the heat is being extracted, and it carries the moisture with it. The nerves and circulation seek the stomach for water to quench their thirst. The nerves be- come feverish ; the blood becomes hot, and the brain almost burns. This is the last struggle. The nerves are devouring or consuming them- selves. They try to force out the cold, but it is constant. It makes no struggle. It is slow, but sure. It lets the heat do all the fighting until it becomes exhausted ; then it takes possession, and quiet prevails. The body is a product of heat. It has encroached on the cold, for it is occupying its space; for all space is cold, and anything occupying any portion of that space must fight for it. Now, everything living must be prepared to re- sist the cold. It must, therefore, be able to make heat. It must be of a nervous nature, able to vibrate through its own structure. These vibra- tions act on the tension in themselves, and re- act on the nerves, and the nerves resist, and heat is produced. Now, the cold presses against the surface of the body, and the heat inside the body expands, and the cold shrinks, and this produces motion or circulation. The cold pulls the heat out of the body, and cold passes into the FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 117 body, and expands, and becomes heated. This interchange of heat and cold keeps the nerves in vibration, and keeps up the heat and life as long as the two are mutual. They produce harmony in the body. The cold is constantly absorbing the boat, and it must be replaced as fast as ex- hausted. Food feeds the stomach, and it feeds the blood and nerves. They vibrate the tension within it, and it vibrates all the nervous system, and this keeps up action, circulation, and life. The heart is the bell to sound the alarm to all the arteries and veins to open their gates for the circulation of the blood. The beating of the heart is vibratory. It vibrates all the nervous system, acting on the tension in the body. Every beat of the heart produces heat by vibrating the nerves, and the nerves vibrate the tension. The body is a circuit inclosed from the outer air and tension. The skin incloses the circulation and protects it. Inclosing the circulation of the fluids of the body, these fluids are governed by the action of heat and cold. As soon as the air is taken into the lungs it becomes heated, and expands, and heats the fluids, and they are put in motion. The breathing acts on the tension, and the tension on the nerves and fluids, and this keeps up the heat in the body. Now, all space being filled with tension or cold, the body must be able to act on it. The body is 118 FllOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. a product of heat. Tliis heat must fight the cold ; so life is a battle between heat and cold. This body must have some way of generating heat to resist the cold. The body occupies the space belonging to the cold. This cold is con- stantly fighting the heat of the body. As fast as heat is generated, it is extracted by the cold, and this keeps up a flow, or circulation, of heat in- dependent of the fluids of the body. The cold presses into the body, and becomes heated and expands, and forces the cold out by heating it. All the nerves are vibrated, and they vibrate the tension, and the tension the whole nervous sys- tem. The nerves are the resistance coils of the body. They resist the vibrations and retain the heat. AH the action in the body is vibratory. The circulation of the fluids is a circulation of heat and cold. The body takes in cold and gives out heat." If the body could not generate heat as fast as extracted, death w^ould ensue ; and if the heat generated by the body could not be car- ried off as fast as produced, it would consume it. One is necessary to the other to produce action or life. The cold is inert and dead; no motion, no action, dead and rigid as a block of ice. Now, anything that can vibrate this cold tension will make heat — for it acts on a great force, or pressure. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 119 A LOOK INTO A SUNBEAM. IF we allow the sun's rays to pass through a small opening in the window, what can we see ? All kinds of dust, particles of everything in the room, floating in the air. All in motion, not two have the same movement, all going in different directions. What is the cause of this? The air is not in motion. There is no circula- tion in the room. Every particle floating in the sunbeam is of a different size and form. Every particle offers some resistance to the sun's rays or lines. They contain some matter, and this matter holds some of the tension in it, and this is vibrated, and the vibrations produce heat, and the heat produces motion. Now, every particle, being of a different size and form, has a different motion. The sun- beam produces heat, and sets the air in motion. The heated molecules ascend, and the cold mole- cules rise and absorb the heated molecules. The heated molecules repel them. Then comes the battle between the two. The heat repels and the cold attracts ; the heat expanding, and the cold contracting, acts on the tension, and it vibrates the air, and the air expands and vibrates the 120 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. tension. The cold air circulates through the hot, and this produces shrinking and expansion. This acts on the tension and the air, and motion and heat is produced. A molecule of heat and a molecule of cold air coming in contact, the cold being a vacuum of Iieat, it will pull or shrink the heat into it. The heat repels the cold when they meet. Heat ex- pands the cold and the cold shrinks it. This causes a collision or commotion, or a kind of ex- plosion, when they meet. The cold molecule expands when it has absorbed the heated mole- cule. This mingling and interchange of heat and cold, shrinking and expanding, colliding and exploding, repelling and attracting of the molecules, or atoms, produces motion, action, and life. This action is throughout everything on the earth, from the smallest molecule to the largest animal, and from the smallest plant to the largest tree. That is the commotion that keeps up their circulation and life. All life must have circula- tion — for we see every particle in the sunbeam in motion; the air is in circulation through the sun- beam. It rolls around, as if in a cylinder. It projects all particles toward the lower end of the beam. Now, this sunbeam gives life to all the particles within its rays. These rays are like the tension lines that penetrate everything on the FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 121 earth. These lines are through everything, and at rest until vibrated, and then they are put in iijotion, and heat is generated by this motion — for the air resists all motion, and it is heated. If we could look into a piece of iron under the sun's rays, we would see a circulation through it like the sunbeam. The tension in the iron would be vi- brated, and the tension on the outside would press into the iron and keep up the circulation of heat and cold. 122 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. A FIRE-FLY — WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF ITS LIGHT? WE observe a fire-fly giving light at inter- vals as it flies through the air. This light is produced without heat. The fly is made of a very fine nervous structure. The nerves are so fine that they act on, and are in harmony with, the tension in and around them. In breathinof they concentrate their whole nervous system on the tension, vibrating it. This nervous force is exploded against the air, and light is produced. This action is the same as we breathe. We in- hale cold air, and exhale warm. The fly at the time of the discharge is in a great nervous con- dition. All the nerves are concentrated and strained, and vibrating on the tension. These vibrations are so fine and rapid that they catch the tension and produce light, the same as sun- light. That is, the fly has so many nerves in its body, and they are so fine, that they can generate heat enough to make light. The light is generated by the fine nerves in its body. It concentrates all its energy into its nerves, and then explodes, or opens a valve, and discharges against the air. Now, the fly occu- FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 123 pies a portion of space. Its body incloses a por- tion of that space, and it is acting on the tension in that space. That tension is more than teil thousand tons to the square inch. The fly vi- brates its nerves against that force. That force is in the fly and around it — the pressure is equal ever3^where; but the vibrating of the nerves of the fly separate it from the outside pressure. This action causes the outer pressure to press into the fly, and causes the discharge, or flash of light. The vibrating of the fly's nerves makes and breaks the lines of tension. The glow-worm is like the fire-fly. It is a mass of fine nerves that are constantly vibrating on tlie tension. These vibrations are so fine and rapid that they act on the tension and vibrate it, and it vibrates on the nerves, and this produces the glow-light. These lines of tension pass through the worm, and the vibrating nerves dis- turb these lines, continually agitating them. The worm is like a coil of fine wire wound spirally. It has millions of fine nerves. These nerves are of a spiral form, the circuit running around the worm. When it moves, it acts on the tension and disturbs its lines, and produces the glow, or light, or luminosity. The worm occupies a portion of space, and the tension is in that space. The worm offers a resistance to these lines, and there is heat produced in it, and its X24 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT; nervous structure is vibrated, and these vibra- tions are imparted to it. The tension around the worm is constantly pressing into it. This action disturbing the lines in the worm from the lines on the outside of the worm, and the glow, or light, is produced ; there is no com- bustion or liberation of heat in this worm. It is simply an excitation of its nervous system through the tension in its body. The tension in the worm is in vibration, and is heated, and the tension around the worm is cold, and constantly pressing around it, trying to crush out its heat. This action keeps up the heat and light, and the vibrations are continued, and life goes on. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 125 THE LEYDEN JAR, AND ITS ACTION. THE jar, or bottle, incloses a portion of space, and the tension is in that space. The tin foil insulates this tension from the glass, and the tin foil on the outside insulates the outer ten- sion, thus separating the jar completely, or in- sulating the glass from the tension and air. The glass, being a non-conductor, divides the lines of tension. This prevents the inner tension con- necting with the outer. The tin foil is non- vibratory — that is, will not sound, or conduct sound. It divides the vibration ; therefore, it is a good insulator. Now, the inside of the jar being separated from the outside, they cannot communicate with each other. Now, let us charge the jar. The current is applied and it is charged. It contained air and tension before charging, and what does it contain after charging? The tension and air in the jar has been vibrated and strained. The air molecules have been heated and expanded. This makes a pressure in the jar, and the current has compressed or condensed the tension — that is, the jar was full of the same force that we charged it with, and the charge put the tension in the 126 FROM Darkness to light. jar under strain, or pressure. The tension is ,the medium through which light is produced. The tension being under strain, this charges the molecules of air, and they are compressed. Now, let us discharge the jar. The jar is un- der pressure, and explodes, or presses out. The molecules of air were under pressure. As soon as liberated, they expand. Each molecule of air inclosed some of the tension, and when they ex- panded, in being relieved of the pressure, they disturbed the lines of tension and produced light. The pressure stored in the jar in dis- charging forms a partial vacuum, and the air flows back into it, and causes excitations, until it finds its equilibrium, or point of rest. The air molecules, being liberated, rush or press towards the opening. They all, moving instantaneously, vibrated the tension, and the tension vibrate(J the air, for one acts on the other, they all being under strain at the instant of discharge, and the outer air and tension insulated, or separated, from the inner. The whole discharge was break- ing the tension lines of the inside of the jar at the instant of discharge. The space in the jar is the tension, and it has been vibrated, and the vibrations break these lines. This throws all the molecules of air out of equilibrium, and they are in vibration, and they vibrate on the tension. The jar, being in- FROM DARKXESS TO LIGHT. 127 sulated, confines this action to the inside, the outside constant!}^ pressing in. The glass and tinfoil insulates these lines ; but the pressure is constant. Now, the jar being insulated inside and out- side, the space inside is all in motion and under pressure from the charge applied to it. When it is discharged, the pressure on the outside presses in, and oscillations occur, and light is produced. Each molecule of air is inclosed in the tension under strain, and the jar is discharged. The air molecules break the lines of tension and produce the light. niSri7BRSIT7i 128 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. ELECTRICITY AND THE HUMAN BODY, OR ANIMAL LIFE. THE body is a mass of nerves floating in the tension of space. It is like a sponge float- ing in water. All these little nerves are con- ductors. They are like millions of fine wires coiled up to build a form or body. All the fluids of the body are of a nervous matter, and are floating in the tension. The nerves are the re- sistance coils. They retain the heat of the vi- brations of the tensions within them. When we look in the mirror we see our bodies reflected. Now, this reflection is like our bodies, only it has no substance, no matter, no nerves, and no life. As we move, it moves. It moves through the space without resistance, like a shadow. Now, this is the true reflection. It is as if the matter of the body had stepped out and left its impres- sion in the tension. This tension ignores matter. It reflects matter, and all matter is incased in it and reflected through it. Now, if we should apply a current of elec- tricity to the body so as to act on the tension and make it incandescent — that is, to have the tension luminous — the form of the bodv would FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 129 be visible only. The matter would be invisible. There would be no shadow lines, for there is no space that it does not occupy. Think of a body luminous without heat. Can it be done ? It is not impossible. Twelve hundred to fifteen hun- dred volts kill a body, but do not make it luminous. How can we increase this force and not kill the body ? This force as applied is too slow. All the nerves resist this slow current. It must be rapid, to catch the tension of the body and not the nerves. When we can produce vi- brations rapidly enough and fine enough to act on and vibrate the tension, then we can illuminate, not only the body, but all matter and bodies. These vibrations must be rapid and contin- uous. No rotary motion can accomplish this. It must be done as Nature does it. Now, if we should illuminate a rock, and make it incandescent, the material of the rock would be invisible ; and if we should keep increasing the vibrations, the rock would crumble into dust. The tension in the rock would be vibrated so rapidly that it would be separated from the ten- sion outside. This would divide all the atoms of the rock into invisible particles, and they would dissolve and fall in dust to the ground ; and if we should gather up all this dust and combine it with water, and put it under a great pressure, it would become a rock again. This pressure forces 130 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. all air and gases out of it, combining its atoms. This binds the tension in the rock, and the pres- sure applied to the rock has compressed it into a smaller space than it occupied before the pres- sure. This causes the tension to press all around the rock, keeping it in its present form. The tension in the rock and the tension outside the rock are united — that is, the pull is uniform through the rock, and it is pressed together, holding or keeping its form. The rock cannot get out of this pressure. Once formed, the pres- sure is equal everywhere. FEOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 131 WHAT IS ATTRACTION AND COHESION? ALL space is filled with cold tension, pressing around the earth, pressing everything to it. This tension holds the earth in its present form. The earth is the receptacle for all condensed matter. All the heat and moisture arising from the earth are pulled up into the cold space of air, and condensed and pressed back by the cold tension after the heat has been extracted. Now, the cold tension of space pulls all the heat up from the earth, and presses the cold down to fill its place. This cold space pulls all heat gener- ated by the earth. This pull holds the earth to the sun. This pull is not attraction or cohesion. It is the pull for life. The cold tries to pull the heat from the earth, and the earth fights, and re- sists, and struggles, to keep up her heat as fast as the cold absorbs it. This is the struggle for life between heat and cold. Heat is life, and cold is death. The cold presses everything to the earth, and the heat is pulled up from the earth. This allows the cold to press close to the earth. As the heat is pulled up from the earth, the cold is pressed to the earth ; this is the circulation of the earth, and its life, action, and motion. 162 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. Now, if we throw something upwards, it is pressed back again to the earth, it being the point of rest. The cold pressure around the earth resists all heat. The heat resists the pres- sure of cold through the lines of tension, and transmits it into the cold space ; so it is a con- tinual interchange of heat and cold, shrinking and expanding, to keep up motion and life. Any matter that we may throw from the earth has been condensed by the cold tension of space. This cold holds this matter in its solid form, and gives it weight in proportion to its solidit}^ or fineness of its atoms or molecules. All matter on the earth is a condensation of the cold ; it holds it at rest. Now, let us apply heat to this condensed matter. This heat raises the cold pressure from around it, and allows it to vapor- ize. This vapor is heat, and this heat is pulled up to the cold space and condensed, and pressed back to the earth, the point of rest. Now, this heat is not weight. It has lifted the weight from the condensed matter, and it became a vapor, or gas. This gas will condense against the cold-air space, and be pressed back to the earth after all the heat has been extracted from it. Now, this condensed gas will become weight again — for the heat has been extracted from it, and the cold took its place, compressing it into a smaller space. Holding it in this form, it cannot get out FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 133 of this pressure until the heat liberates it again and gives it motion. Is this attraction, gravity, or cohesion, or pressure? 134 FKOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. COHESION OF MATTER. THE cold tension of space presses all around and through the earth, and everything on it. Let us take a common piece of iron, and file it into dust. The particles of this dust have no attraction, or cohesion, or affinity for each other ; they are individual atoms. The same pressure is around each atom. They being separate, the tension is in and around each atom, thus separ- ating them completely. We place these filings in a crucible, and melt, or combine, these atoms in a furnace. Let us see what takes place in the furnace. We apply heat. This heat has to dis- place the cold sufficiently to allow the atoms of iron to become fluid — that is all ; the cold must be expelled. This leaves the heat space a vacuum of cold — that is, the heat has made a hole in space, for the furnace occupies space. Now, this must be a great heat to be able to dis- place this great weight of cold. One is equal to the other. The heat removes or raises the pres- sure of the cold from the atoms of iron, and al- lows them to flow or unite, thus giving them free motion in a fluid form. This fluid has ex- panded, filling more space than when cold. As FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 135 long as this heat is maintained, the metal will remain fluid. Let us watch the cooling process. The cold is constantly pressing into the heat, trying to displace it and drive it out. The cold gradu- ally presses all around the fluid, it being now one mass, all united by the heat.- The cold gains on the heat, and is pressing it into a smaller space, compressing its molecules, or atoms, to- gether. This is the pressure of the tension of space. As fast as the heat is removed, the cold presses in and around the metal, and makes it solid. The heat now all removed, the cold has conquered and taken possession of the iron, and there is no more action. Is this attraction, cohesion, or pressure? The cold squeezes the metal into its own embrace — that is, it presses everything that resists it into as small a space as possible. The heat produced in the furnace must be equal to the cold displaced. The heat raised the pressure of cold from the metal, and it became a fluid. One pressure expels the other. This is simply an action of heat and cold. The cold is solid everywhere around the earth. The air offers a resistance to the circuit of the heat and cold through the tension. The air retains a por- tion of this heat, and is put in motion and pulled up and condensed in the cold-air space 136 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. after all the heat has been extracted from it. For ever\^ degree of heat we produce, we have to raise a degree of cold. The cold is the dead pressure, a weight that nothing but heat can raise. This dead weight or pressure is in and around everything on the earth, and in to the center of the earth. Its lines are solidly con- nected around and through the earth, and the heat in the earth raises that amount of cold and allows it to become a fluid, or molten. The metal, when in a fluid condition, is in life, and, when cold, is in death. FROM. DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 137 WHAT IS COMBUSTION, OR LIGHT- CANDLE LIGHT OR OIL LIGHT? LET us see what is in a common tallow candle. The grease is a product of heat. The candle occupies a portion of space. The wick is a cot- ton fibre, a product of heat. The candle is cold and dead. The cold tension presses around and through the candle. Now, we will light the candle. The heat must displace the cold space of the flame. The wick is a fibrous texture. The tension and air is assimilated all through it. The heat applied to it expands the air and sets it in vibration, and vibrates the tension. The cold air resists the heat, and the heat resists the cold, and so the battle begins. The cold tries to freeze out the heat, and the heat expands and presses against the cold. This puts the flame space in commotion or strain. It is in a vibra- tory condition. The tension is so hot that it shines, or gives light, the same as a piece of glass taken out of a furnace. The glass would be in- candescent, like the tension of the space the flame occupies. The heat vibrates the grease of the candle, and separates its molecules, vapor- izing them, and they combine with the air and 138 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. circulate. This keeps up sufficient heat to expel the cold, and allows the tension to shine. The more heat produced, the more cold displaced, and the more surface of the tension is offered to the action of the combatants. The intense heat and the intense cold of the flame are continu- ally changing places. The heat is pulled up, and the cold rushes in at the lower part of the flame, to be heated and pulled up again. The air outside the flame is cold — say, seventy-five degrees Fahr., and it rushes into the center of the flame, where ..the temperature is about one thousand degrees. This causes the air mole- cules to explode ; and so it is a continuous ex- ploding of the molecules of air. This explod- ing continually disturbs the lines of tension and produces light. The heat puts the cold in motion and produces the circulation, and the circulation makes and breaks the lines of tension. The air is the medium for combining the particles of grease and expanding them, and for producing the circulation of the air, causing the interchange of heat and cold, shrinking and expanding of the air molecules. The tension is the medium of luminosity, or light. When a sufficient quan- tity of vibrations are produced to disturb its lines, it gives light — that is, it becomes luminous and shines. Other oil lights are produced in a similar way. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 139 The air is heated and vibrated, and combines with the oil, and it expands and produces heat, and the heat displaces the cold, and the com- bining of the air and oil expand and explode. Each molecule of air absorbs a molecule of oil, and they ascend and explode at the point of greatest resistance. This is a constant bombard- ing of the molecules against the lines of tension. This action continually disturbs and agitates these lines, throwing them out of equilibrium. This prevents the tension from connecting its lines. The cold constantly presses around the heat, trying to crush it out, and the heat keeps up the struggle, trying to force out the cold. This is a battle for life between the two giants, and their struggle produces light and heat. 140 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF AN ELECTRIC CURRENT, AND WHY DOES IT KILL A BODY? THE body is built up of a nervous matter, bones, blood, and flesh. This body is in- cased in the tension — that is, it has grown up in it, and is a part of it. This body offers a re- sistance to the lines of tension, and it becomes heated. The tension in the body is vibrated by this heat, and the nerves and fluids resist these vibrations, and retain the heat, and this puts the fluids in motion, or circulation. This causes the tension to be continually agitated and vibrated, putting the whole nervous system in motion or action. The tension on the outside of the body constantly presses all around it, trying to find an entrance, the skin of the body being the divid- ing line, the inside of the body being in vibra- tion against the constant pressure outside. The inside is disturbed, or separated, from the out- side. This causes a greater pressure on the out- side than if there were no action or circulation inside. This is the action that keeps up the cir- culation. This circulation is constantly dis- turbing the lines of tension in the body, disturb- FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 141 ing them from the lines outside the body. This action makes heat in the body, and the heat ex- pands the fluids, and they are put in motion or circulation, and this action keeps up life. Now, if we apply a weak electric current to this body, it will heat it — for it will offer a re- sistance to it. The nerves and fluids are the resisting medium. The tension of the body is too fine for this current to act on. The vibrations are too coarse and slow to catch the lines of ten- sion. Let us apply a current sufficient to kill this body — say, fifteen hundred volts. This current does not act on the tension of the body ; it acts on the matter of the body. This matter offers a resistance to the circuit, and all the fluids and structure of the body become heated. The vibra- tions of the current are like a hammer pound- ing on this body. Every vibration crushes a portion of the structure of this body. So this current is a continuous pounding on the struc- ture of the body, producing heat in it. This heat is sufficient to destroy the nervous structure of the body, producing death. Now, the nerves of the body being crushed by this current, they cannot act on the tension within it. They can- not vibrate it. The blood cannot circulate ; the body begins to get cold. The tension outside gradually presses in. The heat is being ab- 142 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. sorbed by the cold ; the nerves cease to act, and the circulation is at rest. The tension in the body, and the tension outside the body, have united through the body, and it is rigid and at rest. As soon as the vibrations in the body cease, the space it occupies cannot resist the pres- sure of the tension on the outside, and it presses in, displacing all the heat, and the body is at rest ; the cold having taken possession of the heat, there can be no more action or life. The body is in equilibrium, and we apply the cur- rent to the body. This destroys its equilibrium, making it rigid. It arrests all action and circu- lation. This current that we apply, over sup- plies this body with its life force. This body was full and could hold no more, but the current acted like a compresser, stuffing this body, arrest- ing all action, circulation, and life. This may occur without injuring any of the tissues of this body. Now, let us apply a current that w^ll act on the tension of the body and not on the nerves. This must be very rapid and fine — say, fifty million magnetic vibrations per second. Now, the body is occupying a space where the tension, or pressure, is more than ten thousand tons to the square inch. We must produce vibrations that will harmonize with this tension — that is, they must travel on their own lines. This will FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 143 not effect the nerves ; it will act on the tension of the body, and it will become incandescent, or luminous. The matter of the body would be in- visible, the tension being luminous. These vibrations may be regulated so as to produce various effects or results. If we increase these vibrations sufficiently in this body, it would dis- appear in vapor. The increased vibrations would separate every atom, or molecule, of matter of the body. They would float off in the air, like dust in the water. This tension holds all matter together. When we can break its lines, then we can liberate all matter. All matter is incased in this tension, and it holds it at rest. When we vibrate it we give it life — for vibrations make heat, and heat displaces the cold, and life is continued. When we can produce vibrations rapidly enough to act on the tension, then we can have the conducting wire luminous, or incandescent, without heat. These vibrations will be so fine and rapid that they will roll in waves over each other. The conductor being rigid, these vibra- tions will range from one million to hundreds of millions per second. These vibrations will be as continual as the motion of the earth. They will act directly on the tension lines, making and breaking them at every vibration. They will be in harmony with Nature and Nature's laws. 144 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. They will keep the space around the conductor open — that is, the tension around the conductor will be so disturbed that it cannot find its equi- librium, or point of rest. This is keeping space open. This is the way to tap the ^reat universal force of Nature. This is the pull of the earth from the sun, more than ten thousand tons to the square inch. This is our magnetism, electricity, attraction, gravity, and cohesion, all combined in one, ready for man's use. Now, when we tap one square inch of this force, we will have more than ten thousand tons at our command. Think of the possibilities with this great force. Will there be anything impossible to us? We will have light, heat, and power for a mere trifle of ex- pense. Every man can be his own boss ; he can have his heat, light, and power, doing his own work, and selling his own product. It will not cost him much for food. It will put him on an equality with his fellow-man. Is man prepared for this great change, soon to take place? Can he grasp it, or comprehend its vastness ? FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 145 THE TELEPHONE— ITS USE, THE telephone is a reproduction of sound by vibrations on the di'aphragm or receiver. The diaphragm resists the vibrations, holding or concentrating them. The wire conductor makes a hole in space, and the vibrations are a dis- placement through the conductor of these vibra- tions. When we speak into the telephone, this space is filled with the tension of space, the dia- phragm reflects these words the same as a mir- ror reflects our face, but the words are reflected at the end of the conductor — that is, the words are a reproduction of the sound vibrations spoken into the diaphragm. It is the mirror for reflect- ing words, and the conductor is the tube for the displacement of these vibrations, or sound words. The air around the diaphragm resists the words, or sound, and is vibrated, and it vibrates the tension, and the tension displaces these vibra- tions, or sound, at the end of the conductor. Every vibration produced in the diaphragm displaces a vibration of the same quantity at the end of the conductor. These vibrations do not travel; it is a displacement of the quantity ap- plied. This wire tube is incased in the tension, 146 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. and is filled with it, pressing all around it, more than ten thousand tons to the square inch. This pressure is uniform everywhere. Now, think of this great pressure around this wire. How could we move it by applying the same force to it? There is no room for this force that fills all space; it is already full, and can hold no more. The wire is the hole, or tube, through space for dis- placing these words, sounds, or vibrations. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 147 A TUNING-FORK, AND ITS NATURE. IT is made of fine steel, in order to be very sen- sitive to sound and vibrations. This tuning- fork occupies a portion of space. The tension is in, and around, and through its atoms, making it rigid and elastic, capable of bending without breaking. In Nature it was atoms, then heated and melted, combining its atoms. The heat ex- pelled the cold, and it became liquid. The heat then removed, and the cold compressed or forced it into a solid, and combined its atoms. The cold tension is the force that pressed around it in cooling, shrinking it into a smaller space than when in a liquid form, thus making it sensitive and in harmony with the tension of space. The fork is then hammered, and tempered, and finished, and gives out sound by vibrating on the air. The air resists these vibrations, and vibrates the tension in the fork, and the fork resists these vibrations, and transmits them to the air and tension around it, and they transmit it into space. The tuning-fork is inclosed in the tension, being part and parcel of it, and it can vibrate only through the tension and air. The tension 148 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. is the medium for conducting, or producing, the sound. The air resists, and is vibrated and put in motion, and carries the sound waves or vibrations. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 149 THE COPPER WIRE AS A CONDUCTOR, OR MAGNETIC CIRCUIT OF ELECTRICITY. THE wire makes a hole through space, and the quantity applied displaces the same quan- -tity at the other pole, or end of the wire, or con- ductor. For every vibration produced by the battery, it displaces a vibration of the same quantity at the other end of the circuit. The tension of space is in, around, and through the wire, to the pressure of ten thousand tons to the square inch. The wire is the dividing line of this great force, and is filled with it. The vibrations act on the pressure in the wire, and displace the quantity applied. The tension is the cold pressure of space, and the wire is filled with it, and the vibrations that we apply are a product of heat. This quantity of heat displaces the same quan- tity of cold through the conductor. When the tension in the conductor is vibrated, it is put in motion, and the pressure outside the conductor presses into it, and produces the cir- cuit. When the current is passing through the conductor, the inside of the conductor is all in 150 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. vibration, and the pressure outside is more or less disturbed. If the current is of a high pres- sure the vibrations of the current in the wire are imparted to the tension around the wire, causing induction, or induced eddies, or vortices, or waste of energy or force. The air is the re- sisting medium of all the phenomena above. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 151 THE BRAIN. THE brain is protected by the skull, Nature being wise in all her works. This brain is a delicate ganglion mass of nerves, coiled in re- ceptacles, and protected from contact with the air. This brain is like a central telegraph sta- tion. These wires are distributed all through the city, conducting or carrying messages. Every wire is in communication with some house, and our thoughts are carried on these wires, and our wishes or desires granted. The person at the head of this station is in communication with all these people in these houses, and supplies their wants through these wires. Now, the brain is the central station for communicating with the body. The nerves are the conductors, or wires, for carrying the messages through all parts of this body ; and if any of these nerves are out of order, it informs the brain, and the brain, through the muscles of the body, tries to repair these nerves. Every nerve throughout the body is connected with the brain, through the spinal column. The nerves are insulated, or separated, from each other by a liquid, or lubrication. A needle applied to any part of the body could not 152 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. find a place without a nerve. Now, the brain has to guard and watch over all these nerves, and keep them in harmony. How could all these delicate nerves act or do any work on them- selves? They being a soft mass of matter, they must be incased, or floating in some great force, finer and more sensitive than themselves. Every square inch of this body is acting on a force of more than ten thousand tons. This is the tension or pull between the sun and earth. This is the great force that the brain acts on. When the brain thinks, it vibrates some of its nerves, and they vibrate the tension within them. This vibrating nerve has acted on and disturbed a force of more than ten thousand tons to the square inch. Now, the brain is continually act- ing on this force. All the millions of little nerves of each organ of the brain are floating in this force. This tension keeps the brain in equi- librium, it being an equalizer of force; it is not compressible or movable. Vibrations are the only actions that can act on this tension. The vibrations cross its lines and disturb it. These vibrations must be very fine to act on it. Tiie brain thinking, is working. The nerves are ex- ercised and produce heat, and the heat vibrates the tension, and stimulates the brain. A thought is an action, or work done by the brain on the nerves through the tension throughout space. FROM DAKg?gLJ.3 ligTClGHT. lod All these little nerves have different quantities of vibrations, ranging from hundreds to hun- dreds of millions per second. These ranges of vibrations do not interfere with each other, they travel on their own lines in perfect harmon}^ Now, if two brains were in perfect harmony with each other, they could communicate with each other through their brains. Their thoughts would be in harmony with the tension connect- ing them. They would be like two magnets in perfect circuit. They would be two minds in one. This tension is very sensitive, when a thought can act on it and disturb it. Why should Nature make a body and brain all of nervous matter, if it did not have some sensitive force to act on ? Nature never makes a mistake in her work. Man makes many, for he does not live in harmony with Nature, and he must not blame Nature for his mistakes. We find all animals and insects of a nervous struc- ture. Their nerves are the resistance coils. They act on the tension within them, and vibrate it, and they produce heat and cause the circula- tion. This circulation is like the magnet, with the additional fluid or blood. Everything that has life must have a circulation. That is what gives them life. Heat and cold are the two active principles of force, life, and motion, and they are the medium for producing the circulation. The 154 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. cold enters the body and becomes heated, ex- pands, and is pulled out by the cold. The body is continually making heat, and the heat is con- tinually displacing the cold. As soon as the cold enters the body, it is heated and drawn off by the air. The heat and cold are continually changing places, trying to find their equilibrium, or point of rest, through the body, and the body is continually resisting their efforts, and that keeps up the circulation and life action. The in- terchange of heat and cold through the body is like the making and breaking of the poles of a magnet. They are disturbing the lines of force. The fluids in circulation through the body retain the heat, making it uniform in the body. The cold outside the body is constantly pressing all around it, trying to find an entrance, and as fast as the heat is generated in the body the cold ab- sorbs it. FKOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 155 THE PRESENT DYNAMO— ITS NATURE. THE MAGNET — SOFT IRON, ITS NATURE. IT occupies a certain form in space. It may be solid or made of pieces. Winding the magnet incloses its limbs, as if in a tube or cylinder, the coils being wound close together in cases. The iron, under stress, strain, or tension, if wound cold, and heat be applied to the magnet, it would expand and almost burst the coils. Now, knowing of the tension in space, the magnet being in that tension, holds it at rest, or under normal stress, the same as air pressure. We move through the air and do not feel it, yet it permeates everything on the earth. Now, the tension being uniform through space inside of the magnet and outside, the molecules, or atoms, of the magnet are pressed together to such an extent as to almost exclude the tension within it. This causes a great pressure around every atom of the magnet or iron. This strain is normal at rest, but when vibrated the lines of strain be- come separated and disturbed. The lines inside of the magnet are in vibration, and the outer lines are pressing against the surface of the mag- 156 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. net, trying to find their equilibrium through it. Therefore, the inside of the magnet being in a vibratory condition, the outside tension presses into the magnet ; that is, in at one pole and out at the other, thus forming a circuit, or equilib- rium, or point of rest, the armature, or coil, being wound around the limbs of the magnet. The tension or current is applied to the coils, or arma- ture, of the magnet. This vibrates the tension in the wire, and the wire vibrates the tension in the magnet, and the lines of tension are dis- turbed. This action continued makes and breaks its equilibrium, and the pressure on the outside presses into one pole and out the other, thus forming a circuit, or equilibrium. The pressure outside being constant, pressing against the surface of the magnet, the tension inside the magnet being in vibration, gives way to the ten- sion of the outside, and produces the flow, or circuits. Once the coil around the magnet be- comes charged or vibratory, it imparts it to the magnet, and sets it in vibration, and these vibra- tions are the magnetic pull or tension. When the magnet vibrates, it disturbs the lines of the tension from the outside, thus causing the flow, or circuit. THE DYNAMO ARMATURE, R-otating between the poles of the magnet, makes and breaks the tensions, or magnetic lines. The FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 157 copper wire for winding the armature is placed so as to make and break the lines of tension. In rotating, the ends of the wires pass into the com- mutator bars, connecting them with the brushes, or conductors, for distribution. Now, let us see what the dynamo is. At rest, it is inert. It is simply a mass of metal — no life, no action, no motion, and no vibrations, simply occupying a portion of space. All the space this machine occupies is filled with the pull or tension of space. The lines pass down through its mass, regardless of material. These lines are like sun lines. Let these sun lines pass through an opening into a dark room ; then ex- amine the fineness of these lines. Put a piece of glass tlirough them, and try to break them, and you will have an idea of the lines of tension. This tension passes through everything, as the sun passes through the glass. The armature occupies a portion of space, and the tension is in that space at rest. The wire in- closes the tension within it, thus confining it; and, when rotated, these lines are disturbed, or forced out into the commutator's bars, they being the continuation of these lines. The brushes, or conductors, form a broken circuit through the commutators. Now, this circuit of brushes, in close relation to the commutator bars, disturbs and breaks the lines of tension in the space. The 158 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. armature rotation between the poles of the mag- net disturbs and agitates the circuit between them. Now, all this space that the armature and commutators occupy are in rotation, disturb- ing the tension inside and outside. All the space is thrown out of equilibrium by the mass in motion. The tension in the wire of the arma- ture is disturbed, and heat is generated, and cir- culation produced. This circulation passes out into the commutators, and the commutators, ro- tating between the conductors or circuit, disturb these lines, and electricity is the result of the disturbances or vibrations — for all this motion is vibratory. The molecules of air inclose the ten- sion within them, and when they are disturbed, they vibrate the tension inside and outside. This causes great commotion in this space ; for the molecules of air are seeking an equilibrium, or point of rest, but the armature rotating will not let them rest. The conductors in circuit are disturbed by the commutators rotating between them. This is where space is thrown out of equilibrium, and this action is imparted to all the space the wire of the circuit occupies. The disturbances by the armature and com- mutator rotating between the poles of the mag- net, are equalized through the conductors, or brushes. This disturbance is seeking an equi- librium, or point of rest, but this it cannot find FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 159 — for the rotating mass breaks the equilibrium of this space, producing, or causing, a partial vacuum on one side and a pressure on the other ; and they try to become equalized, and this keeps up the battle, and the struggle goes on. The wire in circuit is a hole in space, and these pres- sures seek an equilibrium through this hole, or tube; and if we break this circuit, we destroy the effect. But if we connect this circuit to some iron, or magnet, it will find an equilibrium in it. That is, the space that the armature's commu- tators occupy is disturbed and thrown out of equilibrium, and it tries to find and equalize this disturbance through the conductors. This is similar to placing two barrels on a level, and connecting them with iron pipes, filling one bar- rel with water. This will become equalized in the other ; and if we still connect another bar- rel in the same way, the water will flow through the pipes, and the three barrels will contain about the same quantity. They have found their equilibrium, or point of rest; and if we continue supplying the first barrel with water, it will flow into the other two until they are filled. The water travels, or moves, through the pipes ; but electricity does not travel. Every- thing is filled with it; and when it is disturbed, or vibrated, in circuit, it finds its equilibrium at the point of disturbance. This point is where 160 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. the circuit is broken or open. "We will fill two barrels with water, connecting them with an iron pipe. In the center of the pipe we have a union. The pipes are connected to the bottoms of the barrels. We procure a cor- rugated hollow cylinder, with bearings and pul- leys, ready to connect to the engine. We discon- nect the pipe in the center, and fit them into the face of the cylinder. Now, these pipes will fit close against the corrugations, and as the cylin- der moves, the recessed corrugations will allow the water to flow out, and the raised corruga- tions will close, or shut ofi", the water, acting as a valve. Now, this cylinder in the center of the circuit cuts it off, breaking it. We will start the engine, and put the cylinder in motion, and watch the result. The two barrels supply the pressure, through the pipes, to the face of the cylinder, and the cylinder resists their pressure ; and as the cylinder revolves, it disturbs the circulation, or flow, of the water, continually making and breaking the flow through the pipes. The water in the barrels and pipes, as the cylinder rotates, is in motion, or momentum, and this momentum is suddenly arrested. The barrels feel the shock, and the cylinder feels the shock, and these shocks are continuous. All the weight of water in the barrels is acting against the cylinder, and the FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 161 cylinder is disturbing the circuit of the water. The water is seeking an equilibrium, or a point of rest, but the cylinder will not allow the water to rest. Now, if these barrels were separated for sev- eral miles, the pipes would contain a great weight of water, and if this weight was arrested of its momentum ten thousand times in a minute, it would represent a great force, or power. The water being arrested of its momentum suddenly, would be solid and as rigid as steel, and would pound against the cylinder and barrels with great force ; but if these pipes contained ten thousand tons to the square inch, how could they be kept open or closed ? What cylinder could resist the pressure ? Let these barrels represent the earth and sun, and the pipe one square inch of space from the sun to the earth ; this would have to sustain about ten thousand tons. Now, could our pipes hold this pressure, and could our cylinder resist, or make and break, this circuit? And if it could, we would be acting on and disturbing more than ten thousand tons to the square inch ; and if we disturbed this weight ten thousand times a minute, the earth, and sun, and pipe, would feel the shock at the same instant, for this pipe would be as rigid as steel, and anything that would disturb the equilibrium of the pipe, would dis- 162 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. turb the equilibrium of the sun and earth, for the pipe would be in connection with the two bodies. This is equal to the tension of space. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 163 POWER OF MIND OVER MIND, OR AN ACTIVE OR STRONG BRAIN OVER A WEAK BRAIN. THE active brain is vibrating on the tension. Its nerves are tough and muscular from ex- ercise by thought and study. These nerves are vibrating on the tension more than ten thousand tons to the square inch, and as these nerves are weaker or stronger, so will they be able to act on, or utilize, this force. The weak brain's nerves are soft and delicate, for the want of exercise, and are subject to impressions ; it not having confi- dence in itself, and not being able to utilize this force as the stronger brain does. Now, these two brains are acting on the same force, disturbing it ; but the strong brain acts on and disturbs this force more, and oftener, than the weak brain. Now, the weak brain cannot compete with the strong brain. It is too power- ful for it, and it must submit, or give way, to the stronger force. Now, the active brain has sub- dued the weaker, and has control over it, and can command it at will of mind to obey this will, and the weaker brain cannot resist this will, or command, for it has no will of its own. The 164 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. strong brain having conquered the weaker, the weaker becomes a slave to the stronger. This is like trying to make a weak man do as much work as a stronger one. The man that is in the habit of working at muscular work will not get tired, for his muscular system is used to it ; and if a weak, delicate man, who is not used to hard work, is put alongside of this strong man, he will soon subdue him. Muscles subdue muscles, and mind subdues mind. The strong man has subdued the weak one, like the strong brain con- quering the weaker one. Now, this strong brain has control over the weak one, and can influence and control its thoughts, for the two brains are in circuit through the tension, and their thoughts can be imparted to each other. The stronger having the weaker under its influence, it can know what it is thinking of, and can compel it to think as it does. This is mental work, or ex- ercise of the nerves of the brain. The more the brain is used, the stronger and larger the nerves become. This is the same as the muscles of the body. If we do not use or exercise our muscles, they will become soft and flabby, and the more we use them the stronger and tougher they be- come, and the less difiicult it is to do the work in their lines, once they have become used to this work. But once the strong brain gets the weaker under its control, the latter cannot resist FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 165 its influence. These two brains are acting on the same force. They are united in it, and can- not get out of it, and the strong brain wills the weak one to do or think something. The weak cannot resist this will, for the weaker has no will only as the stronger wills or commands it. These two brains and bodies have grown up on this tension, or force. They are all a nervous matter in this tension, and the larger and more active these nerves are the more they can act on and disturb this force. This disturbance is seeking an equilibrium, or point of rest, but the strong brain will not let it rest, and it seeks rest in the weaker brain, for it cannot resist this force that is forced into it, and it ^ives way to the greater force. This forms the circuit and equi- librium, for the weaker offers no resistance to the stronger. This will explain all the phenomena of mind- reading, hypnotism, theosophy, and all phe- nomena in regard to mind over mind, and mind over matter. The nerves of the brain are what we call matter. This matter is acting on mind. This mind means all the universe — illimitable space with all the planetary system throughout that space. Mind is that vast, endless space, and when the brain thinks it disturbs all that space, for all that space is solid and beyond our com- prehension, and all matter is a condensation in 166 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. this solid tension, for we cannot find any matter that this solid tension cannot crush or vaporize, when sufficient heat or cold is applied to it. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 167 WHAT IS MESMERISM AND ITS CAUSE? —A WEAK AND A STRONG BRAIN. THE strong brain wills the weaker one to do something. It must obey this will, or com- mand, for it has no will of its own. Now, the strong brain wills the weaker to close its eyes and answer all the questions that the stronger brain may choose to ask. The organs in the weak brain have no power or control over them- selves. They are obeying the will of the strong brain, and they cannot resist this will. The organs in the strong brain are under great strain, for all their nerves are in the tension and vibrating rapidly, exerting great force. This force is equalized in the weak brain, subduing it. This forms a circuit, or circulation, between the two brains, and the force exerted in the strong brain finds its equilibrium in the weaker brain. This relieves the strong brain of its over- work, or exertion, and the weak brain is a receptacle for this over-work, and this is the over-work that is propelling the weak brain, and it must obey this force. Now, the body is moving in a pressure of ten thousand tons to the square inch, but there is no 168 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. resistance to the motion of the body through this force. The body is like a shadow moving through the tension. The heat inside the body is about ninety -six degrees above zero, and the temperature around the body is about sixty. These two conditions are pressing against each other. Tliey are trying to become equalized. They are seeking a point of rest, but the heat in the body will not let the cold around it rest. TMs is what keeps up the circulation of heat and cold through the body. This keeps the tension in the body in vibration, and the matter resists these vibrations, and heat is generated. This heat expands all the fluids, keeping up the cir- culation of the blood. The circulation of the blood is like the circulation of the magnet. It is an interchange of heat and cold through the tension. This body is standing in a force of ten thousand tons to the square inch. This is a uniform pressure through this body, but the in- side of the body is all in vibration, disturbing the equilibrium of this space, and the pressure on the outside is constantly pressing against this vibrating body, keeping up the life of this body. This will apply to everything that has life or form, for everything that has form must have heat, and heat gives life to everything. As long as the body can maintain this heat, it can con- tinue life, for this heat keeps the tension in FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 169 vibration, disturbing the space within this body, imparting life to it ; but when the vibrations cease, death ensues. The body ceases to breathe, and the cold tension around the body takes pos- session of it, and it is rigid and at rest. The cold has found its equilibrium and point of rest in the body, and there is no more action, circula- tion, or life. Now, this body came from seeds, and these seeds combined, and a body grew from them. These seeds gradually expanded, occupying more space, maturing and developing into a body. This was Nature's way of building up a body. Every- thing must grow up in the tension. Nothing can get into this tension only by growing up in it. This growth does not add anything to the earth mass. It is only a condensed matter of the gases that are now on the earth. These gases cannot be added to or diminished. They are in- destructible, and circulate through the earth and air, and all bodies grow from these gases by con- densation. This is the earth's circulation. Now, these gases feed all animal and vegetable life. They grow up and decay, forming a gas. This gas mixes with the air, and all other gases, and is condensed into rain, and falls on the earth to build up more bodies. This is Nature's simple circulation. This body, in the process of growth and maturity, filled no space in this tension. It 170 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. was only a condensation of gases. All these gases are divided into atoms. So the body is built up of atoms. Now, these atoms are inde- structible and everlasting, and this body grew up in this tension, imprisoned in it, and it cannot get out of it as long as it has form or action ; but as soon as the body ceases action the change be- gins. The body now offers a resistance to the circulation of the tension, and heat is generated in its mass, for the body is now one mass of inert matter. All this matter is the atoms. These atoms cannot liberate themselves in this cold condition, but the matter begins to ferment. This is heat, and this heat liberates all the atoms, forming a gas. Now, the body, or atoms, has got out of the tension through the gas, but the form remains where the body was. They are now separated from the tension. Now, the body grew up from atoms, or gas. These atoms consolidated and formed the body. All these atoms have life and circulation, and are condensed into the body, and the body can separate these atoms, or get out of the ten- sion, only by going back into the condition it came from into atoms. The tension in the body can be made larger or smaller only by heat or cold; but as the gases are liberated by the heat generated by the fermentation, they mix with the air, and are carried up into the cold-air FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 171 space and condensed into the rain to fertilize the soil of the earth. The gases that have evapor- ated from this body have not disturbed or de stroyed the tension that the body occupied. The gases left the tension intact. It cannot be moved only by the body that occupies and that has the use of it as long as it can act on or utilize it. Now, all these atoms that formed this body were in the tension, part and parcel of it, but having a form. These atoms were of different families, that is, different gases; and these gases com- bined to build a body. These atoms were not made, they have always existed, and they con- dense into other bodies, but not in a mass. They are separated by the air, and circulate through it, and are deposited on the earth and produce vegetation, and the animal feeds on this vegeta- tion, maintaining life and motion. Now, thia vegetation is the atoms, or gases condensed into them, and the animal feeding on this vegetation, or gases, condenses them into the animal, and the bodies grow up and mature on them. Now, the body is composed of atoms and the tension. The atoms are heat, and the tension is the one and only force filling all space and matter. So the matter of the body is heat, and the tension is cold. These two giants are continually fighting for the place, and this fighting is what gives life to all bodies. This is a mutual fight to produce 172 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. life. It is not as man may fight. It is Nature's fight to maintain life. We find the body is heat. This heat has to resist, or fight, the cold ten- sion of space. This action, continued, maintains life in all matter, for all matter has heat and life in it. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 173 WHAT TAKES PLACE IN A BODY AFTER DEATH? THIS body is what we call matter. This mat- ter is condensed gases, or atoms. These atoms, or gases, can separate and dissolve out of this body, or the space it occupied. The tension is in this body at rest. This is the space the body occupied. This body gradually dissolves into gas, going back into what it came from. This dissolution does not disturb the tension of this body, for it grew up in it, and can get out of it only by evaporation, or separation of the gases, or atoms. Now, the matter of this body does not rot or decay, going into nothing. This decay is a puri- fication by fermentation, liberating all the gases, giving them freedom to go off and condense into some other body or matter. All these gases mix with the air, and become purified and condensed into rain, and fall on the earth, to build up more matter and bodies. These gases cannot be de- stroyed, or burned up. They are indestructible, like all other matter or gases. Now, these gases consolidated, and a body grew from them. This body had life and mo- 174 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. tion, for these gases formed a body, and this body was the tension, part and parcel of it, giv- ing it life and motion, but the gases condensed into this body, giving it form. This form held the tension within it, and the form resisted the circulation of this tension, and life is produced in it. Now, we cannot understand how this body was made, for we find that all the matter or material that this body is composed of has existed, and there is nothing made, or nothing destroyed. This is Nature's simple circulation. All the resources for building up bodies, or mat- ter, are here existing, and everything must grow up from this by condensation. This condensa- tion is a slow work of Nature, and is accom- plished by depositing atom by atom, to build up the body, or matter, in process of growth. Nature is never in a hurry. She can afford to take her time, for she does her work well and never makes a mistake. Can Man say as much ? Now, we find that a body cannot be made, or formed, only by condensation of the gases of the earth, and these gases are indestructible and everlasting, as the tension that fills all space and matter ; and we find that nothing can be made, generated, or produced, for ever^^thing is finished, and cannot be destroyed. We simply act on or utilize the conditions. We did not make, gen- erate, or produce. Nature left none of her work FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 175 unfinished, and she did this work well, with wis- dom, intelligence, and reason. Man is the only being that criticises this work of Nature. '^^ Of TH3 ^>^ :UiriVBR3ITr 176 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT, THE SUN'S HEAT. WE say that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west; but we know it does not rise or set. Its light is permanent; but the earth, revolv- ing in space, is continually offering a different por- tion of its surface to the sun. This surface is in direct line with the sun, and is the part acted on through the lines of tension. These lines must be vertical to cause light and heat, for we see in summer the sun directly over our heads. This is the time we are directly in these lines, and offer a resistance to them, and we feel the great heat, and say it comes from the sun. The earth is pulling from the sun, and we are in that pull, offering a resistance to it, and heat is the result, and all the air around us offers a resistance to that pull and is heated, and it heats the tension and sets it in vibration. Now, this tension is all around us, and is a pressure of more than ten thousand tons to the square inch, and this is all disturbed and thrown out of equilibrium by this heat, and this space is trying to find its equilib- rium ; but the vibrating tension caused by the heat will not let this disturbed space rest, and we are in this disturbed space, offering a resistance FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 177 to it, and its free action and circulation, and we feel the heat, but this heat is from the disturbed space around us, not from the sun ; and we see the heat ascending from the earth, not descend- ing from the sun. Now, if the heat came from the sun, it would press down against the earth with great force, and the heat of the earth could not ascend. It would be forced back against the earth, and would consume it, for heat expands and presses everything from it. This is what we call repulsion. This would repel the earth, forcing it away from the sun. Now, two heated bodies could not pull each other together and maintain their heat. There could be no circu- lation through these bodies of heat and cold. They would soon become exhausted, and lose their heat, form, and life, and disappear in space. Nature does her work well and intelligently, with reason and wisdom, and never makes a mistake. It matters not how we may interpret her work — it does not alter it. Now, every atom has intel- ligence, wisdom, and reason beyond man's con- ception, and how could the sun and earth, built up of these intelligent atoms, do an unintelli- gent or unreasonable thing, or break a universal and intelligent law that gives them life ? Now, we find all bodies, from the atom to the earth, maintaining their own heat within their own bodies, for all these bodies are moving and float- 178 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. ing in this universal mind and tension, supply- ing all these bodies with all the necessaries to maintain their life and motion. This mind that these bodies are moving in is all the universe, illimitable space, with all the planetary s^^^stem throughout that endless space. This is all wisdom, reason, and intelligence com- t)ined in mind and force, or force in mind ; and how could this wise law that rules all this vast universe, keeping everything in harmony and imparting life to it, make a law to destroy itself or any of its families? It is not reason- able to assume this, and all Nature's laws and phenomena are reasonable, and comprehensible, and easily understood, and no secrets or myste- ries in them ? The secrets and mysteries are in man, not in the matter composing man, not in the law that gives him life and motion. These mysteries of man are for his own selfish purpose of gain, or control of the weak and ignorant, making slaves of them. Now, if the heat came from the sun^ it would cover the whole earth. It would be forced all around it, and there would be no cold places in it, and there would be no cold places on the earth, for this heat would press into every recess in the earth, from the north to the south pole, for this heat coming from the sun would be constant, and as the earth would revolve towards FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 179 the east, the western portion of the earth and air would be masses of intense heat, for this heat forced against the earth would seek an equilib- rium all over the earth, for the air would form this equilibrium. Our nights would be nights of intense heat, for the heat forced from the sun on to the earth would press around and upon the night side of the earth, keeping the earth in perpetual heat. This would be a very 'uncom- fortable condition for the inhabitants, or the matter composing the earth. This would not be a wise law; but it is not Nature's law — it is man's. Let us look at ^Nature's way of causing heat. The earth pulls from the sun, the matter resists this pull, and heat is the result. This heat is only in the lines of pull, and only in the air so acted on. This heat is pulled from the earth, for the earth resists the circulation of the tension, and heat and light are the result, and there is nothing consumed to cause this heat and light. As this heat is pulled up it expands the air and vibrates the tension, and the tension vibrates the air. One resists the other, and heat, light, and circulation is the result. This circula- tion is what causes the heat and light; but this is not made, generated, or produced. It is simply disturbed by the circulation of the air, causing heat and light, and as this heat ascends it car- ries the moisture and gases from the earth up 180 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. into the clouds, and condenses them into rain, to fall back on the earth again. This is the earth's circulation, and the life of everything on it. Now, if the heat came from the sun, the heat of the earth could not ascend against an intense heat. One would repel the other, and there could be no circulation or life on the earth ; but now the heat caused on the earth ascends, and the cold air comes down to fill its place, thus form- ing a circulation and interchange of heat and cold, vibrating the tension and causing heat and light. This is all harmonious and reciprocal, consuming, destroying, or wasting nothing. Now, it is reasonable to assume that the same action is taking place in the sun, with its vast atmosphere, making it brilliant with light and heat, consuming, or wasting, nothing. This heat in the sun is caused the same as our earth, and is not radiated or wasted into space. All bodies, or matter, hold the tension within them, and when this tension is vibrated it causes heat in this matter, for this matter is a continu- ation of the whole universe, and is connected with it, and part of it, and nothing can have form without heat, for all matter is condensed heat. The cold condensed this heat into its present form, holding it in this condition until it is liberated again, and if we vibrate this con- densed matter rapidly enough it will cause heat FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 181 again, for the vibrations disturb the equilibrium of the tension that holds this matter in its solid form, and the matter resists these vibrations, and he^it is the result; and if we continue these vi- brations this matter will become vapor or gas, for this matter was occupying the space belong- ing to the cold tension of space. The vibrations separated all the atoms of the matter, for they could not hold together in this vibrating ten- sion. The pressure in the disturbed space is more than ten thousand tons to the square inch, and all these atoms are condensed into this pres- sure, and they were quiet and at rest, and the pressure was uniform all around and through these atoms, holding them together ; but the vibrations disturbed this pressure, throwing it out of equilibrium. This caused the pressure on the outside of this matter to press in against the vibrating space, crushing and vaporizing this matter. The matter was the resisting medium. It resisted the vibrating tension, and was sep- arated into atoms, or gas. This gas was the original form of this matter. This pressure does not consume or destroy any of these atoms. They are simply set free to condense into some other bodies, or matter. And we find that all heat, light, and its phe- nomena, are the result of the tension of space in combination with matter. When this tension 182 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. that incases this matter is disturbed, heat is the result. The matter resists these vibrations, caus- ing heat, and when these vibrations are continu- ous enough light is the result; but the conditions for causing heat and light are ever^^where. We do not make these conditions, they are the vital- ity and life of the whole universe, and ever}^- thing is filled with them, and acting on, and utilizing them. This is the life of the earth and all the planetary systems, for they are all con- densed gases into this solid tension, and their matter resists the circulation of this tension, causing heat. This heat gives them form and life, and is equalized through their systems in circuit, and everything in these circuits offers a resistance to its free actions, causing heat in these resisting things, and any matter coming within the earth's circulation, or circuit, resists it, and is pressed against or into it, the earth being the point of rest ; but the circulation is constant, and does not rest, but the matter rests, for it cannot go any further; as the earth resists it. This is w^hy everything falls on the earth ; but it does not fall — it is forced on to the earth by its re- sistance. Now, the earth resists the circulation of the sun's system in circuit, and is forced to revolve, or rotate, around the sun, and the sun's system is like the earth. It resists in proportion to its FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 183 density or mass, and moves in accordance to this density, or mass. This is its mode of motion, or equilibrium. It is seeking a point of rest. The heat caused within it by its resistance will not allow it to rest, and it continues in motion. The earth pulls from the sun, trying to get loose, but the sun holds on to the earth, and swings it around in its circuit, causing heat and light by its re- sistance to this pull. This is the sun's circula- tion through the earth, causing its heat, light, and life. We say this tension is solid, because it cannot be divided. It divides all matter, and no matter can divide it, for we find that all matter can be divided into atoms or gas. This is the tension that divides this matter into this gas, for this matter was gas condensed into this tension, holding it in this form at rest. Nothing can exist in a solid form but the universal tension — mind and force combined in one. We can call this either mind or force, and if we could pro- duce a piece of steel six feet square, and if this steel could be brought into this universe from some other universe, this steel would be encroach- ing on the space belonging to this universe, and there would be no room for it, and it would have to resist more than ten thousand tons to the square inch of its surface. This pressure would press all around this steel, crushing it into heat. This would be vapor, or gas. The tension would con- 184 FKOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. centrate its lines through every atom, dividing them. These atoms are the only form that can exist in this universe, for this form gives them freedom and motion, and allows them to con- dense into this solid tension, without filling any of its space. The tension rests on itself, and cannot rest on matter, for no matter can op- pose it. Now, this tension is mind, and the brain is floating in this mind, acting and vibrating on it ; but this brain is only condensed gases, filling no space, and ofi'ering very little resistance to the circulation of this tension, for this tension circu- lates through everything when disturbed or vi- brated. This causes heat, and the heat causes the tension to circulate, and this keeps up the action and life in the brain. Now, this tension is uniform in this brain, and all the little nerves are of different sizes and density, and are acting on and vibrating this mind in accordance with their density and size, structure and form. All these nerves are doing their own work, and assisting each other. Now, if the force that this brain is acting on was vari- able, or irregular, in its actions or pressure, how could the brain act, or think, on unreliable force or mind, and how could the brain think, or act, on nothing? Where there would be nothing, there would be no resistance, action, motion, or FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 185 life. We cannot think of or on nothing. It is not a thing. It must be something, for there is something everywhere, and that something is the tension, force, or mind, filling all space and matter in a uniform pressure, and in equilib- rium, for it equalizes all actions and pressures, causing harmony throughout the universe. The storms, cyclones, thunder and lightning, and all air disturbances, are caused by this ten- sion, for all this disturbance causes heat, and the heat vibrates this tension, and the air resists, causing heat. This heat is seeking an equilib- rium, or a point of rest, but the heat will not let the air rest, and it keeps in motion. These dis- turbances are not fighting or quarreling in them- selves ; they are trying to equalize the different conditions of heat caused by these disturbances, and trying to keep harmony between these ele- ments in motion. The air is the great equalizing medium in motion, moving through the tension, causing heat, and carrying this heat with it, distributing it where it is most needed. This motion of the air is causing light, heat, circulation, and motion, thus performing many kinds of w^ork to keep up the life of the earlh. All actions in the phe- nomena of Nature are reciprocal and harmo- nious, and are necessary to its w^elfare. Nature is w^orking and taking care of the earth 186 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. as a whole, carinoj nothing for individuals or things, for these things are a growth from the mass of the earth, and are living and subsisting on its products, for these things produce nothing. The earth and the air are the producers. The materials for producing everything are here. AVe simply utilize these materials. Now, we see the heat ascend from the earth, and if all the surface of the earth was heated to a vapor, or gas, it would all ascend and fall asunder, and disappear in vapor. This heat around the earth would raise the cold pressure that holds it in form. This cold pressure, once lifted from the surface of the earth, the heat in- side would have nothing to press against it and confine it, thus giving it freedom to expand. This expansion would have no resistance to hold it in form, and it would all go off in vapor, gas, and heat. It would have found its equilibrium and point of rest in its atoms, and the earth would have no form or existence, for all its mat- ter would be dissolved into atoms, or gas. This would cause all the air space to extend and ex- pand thousand of miles out into space, and as this heat would subside, the cold tension of space would gradually concentrate its lines around this mass and press it into matter and form again. This would be a slow process of Nature, but Nature never hurries. She has plenty of time FHOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 187 to do her work well. Now, all the metallic gases that this heat around the earth would cause would seek their own families, being of the same densities and ranges of vibrations. They would concentrate themselves together to form a solid again ; and as these atoms of these gases would condense together, they would unite and em- brace each other, and cling together, for they would be of the same range of vibrations, and united by the tension of space, and in all this change from a solid to a gas, and from a gas to a solid, there would be nothing lost or consumed. It would all comeback to build up another earth by condensation of these gases. Now, the mat- ter composing the earth is gases compressed into the tension, to make what we call a solid, but this solid is divisible, and fills no space in this tension, and divides or separates none of its lines, and when this solid tension with this con- centrated gas matter is vibrated rapidly enough, heat is caused. This heat is the gas resisting the vibrations in this tension. This separates these gases, for they cannot hold together, and if these gases were not in this space there would be no resistance, and there could be no heat. Now, all gases and matter are condensed heat, and this heat resists the cold, and the cold resists the heat. This is the battle for life and place to maintain life. 183 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. WHAT IS ENERGY?— COAL, WATER, STEAM, TENSION. THE coal occupies a portion of space, and the tension is in that space at rest. This coal is condensed or concentrated gas into this solid tension. We will place this coal in a furnace, in combination with a steam boiler. This boiler contains water, and this coal, water, boiler, and furnace are in equilibrium and at rest, and we apply a flame to this coal and ignite it. Now, this flame was caused by the friction or vibra- tions in the match. This disturbed the tension in this match, causing heat, and the heat vi- brated the tension, and the match resisted these vibrations, causing heat and light. This threw this space that the match occupied out of equi- librium, and it became equalized in contact with the coal, and as the heat increases the vibrations increase, and the matter composing the coal re- sists, and heat and light are the result of this dis- turbance in this coal, for the tension in this coal is the light and heat from the resistance of this gas composing this coal. The vibrations are so rapid that the tension becomes luminous, and shines, and all the atoms of gas hold the tension FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 189 within them. The air circulates through this gas and flame, dividing and mixing with them. This causes a rapid expansion and circulation, disturbing all this space in this furnace, and this disturbance seeks its equilibrium in the boiler, and the water resists the vibrations imparted from the coal, causing heat, and the vibrations increase, and the water is vaporized. The fur- nace and boiler are in circuit, and the disturb- ance is equalized between them. The matter of the coal resisted the vibrations of the tension, causing heat, and they have found their equilib- rium in their union ; and all this space that this furnace and boiler occupy is thrown out of equilibrium, for the tension in this space is all in vibration, and cannot rest, and this disturbed space finds its equilibrium in the cylinder of the engine in the form of steam. The piston and head resist each other, the steam expands, and the head resists and will not move ; but the piston is less resistant, and gives away to the heat, expansion, or disturbed tension, or energy. Now, every molecule of water or steam holds its tension within it, and this is under strain from the heat and expansion. This wants to become equalized, but the cylinder confines and holds this exertion, expansion, or energy, and will not allow it to become equalized until it overcomes the resistance, and causes motion ; then it finds 190 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. its equilibrium and point of rest in condensation into its original form of water. The coal, boiler, water, and engine were in circuit, and found their equilibrium in themselves through the tension that unites and holds them in form and place. Now, all the space that this coal, water, boiler, and cylinder occupied was the tension of space, and this matter composing this mass was only condensed gases in this solid tension, and when they were disturbed they found their equilib- rium in each other in circuit or contact. This was only the matter resisting the tension in this disturbed space. It matters not how this ten- sion may be disturbed, heat will be the result, and this heat is expansion or energy. It has overcome the inertia of the cold tension of space, disturbing its rest and giving motion or move- ment to matter. Now, the energ}^ or force exerted by the steam was the tension thrown out of equilibrium by the heat ; and as this heat is continued, the energy is exerted, and is equalized in the work done. The water resisted the action and vibrations of the tension, and was crushed into heat or vapor. This is expansion, causing motion, overcoming the resistance or inertia. The atoms of the coal expanded, from the pressure of the vibrating tension. These expanding atoms were trying to FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 191 fill more space in this tension, and it resisted them, and force was exerted, and the atoms or matter were crushed into heat or gas, and this was absorbed or equalized in the water of the boiler, causing the same effect in it. These pres- sures seek their equilibrium, and find it in the cylinder of the engine, in the form of steam. This steam is the crushed and vaporized water. All the space in this cylinder is the tension ; and it is all in intense vibration from the heat, and these vibrations divide and separate the water into vapor or gas. The steam, or water, wants to rest, but the vibrations crush this steam into heat, and will not let it rest, and the energy or force is continued and exerted between the two opposing actions, heat and cold. Now, we find that energy or force is the dis- turbed cold tension of space. The force is the inert cold tension resisting the heat. This re- sistance between heat and cold crushes the op- posing matter into gas, expanding it, filling more space, exerting energy or force, and everything that has form, has matter and heat in it; for all matter is condensed heat into this solid tension, and when this tension in this matter is vibrated, the matter resists, and heat is the result. This heat expands this matter, trying to fill more space ; but all space is full, and there is no more room for any more matter, and this expanding 192 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. matter is pressing against more than ten thou- sand tons to the square inch of this space. This is what crushes this matter into heat or vapor. This vapor is heat, and seeks an equilibrium or a point of rest, and ascends into the clouds, and condenses into rain or snow, and finds its equi- librium. The heat vaporized the matter, and the cold condensed it. The heat raises the mat- ter into the clouds, and the cold presses this con- densed heat back again to the earth, the point of rest. This is the earth's circulation, or circuit of heat and cold. The heat ascends, and the cold descends, thus forming a circulation and equi- librium. The heat raised or lifted the weight of cold, by liberating its gases, forcing them up into the cold space, and they become weight again. They now resist the circulation of the earth, and are pressed on to it, the earth being the point of rest, but the earth's circulation still continues through all matter. -FEOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 193 WHAT IS THE STORAGE BATTERY, AND WHAT DO WE STORE? THE battery occupies a portion of space, and the tension is in that space, in equilibrium and at rest. The d^^namo occupies a portion of space, and the tension is in that space, at rest. There is no energy in either dynamo or battery. They are quiet and at rest. The battery is con- nected to the dynamo, and we start the engine and dynamo. The energy of the engine is im- parted to the dynamo, and is put in motion. The armature is rotating in space between mag- nets. This rotating mass disturbs the equilib- rium in this space, and this disturbed space seeks its equilibrium in the battery, through the wires or conductors from the commutator into the brushes. The battery is in the circuit, and the armature and commutators, rotating between the brushes, disturb this circuit, and this disturb- ance w-ants to become equalized, and the con- ductors are the tubes for equalizing this disturb- ance. This is similar to a balance. Nature's force seeks a balance through all mat- ter and bodies. The armature is rotating and disturbing this space of ten thousand tons to the 194 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. square inch, and the faster it revolves the more it disturbs and acts on this force, the more force it exerts, and this exerted force is equalized in the battery. We say this is stored. This is the energy of the coal imparted to the water into steam and through the dynamo into the battery. This is all the energy of the heat, or expansion, stored in the battery. This can cause more ex- pansion, or heat, when liberated. The more surface this battery contains, the more energy it can store, or hold. This energy has not been forced or pressed into this battery. It has been equalized through the dynamos. Nature's force seeks an equilibrium through all matter. Now, the heat of the coal imparted to the water caused steam. The steam propelled the engine and dynamo. This was all equalized in the battery, for they were all in circuit, and seeking an equilibrium, or a point of rest ; but the heat would not let all this mass in motion rest. If we place one, two, three, four, or five steam boilers in series, or circuit, connecting them all with pipes, the pressure will be equal in all the boilers, no matter what their size may be. This is the equalization of the pressure, or conditions, in the boilers. They seek an equilibrium, or a point of rest, and they all rest against each other, and the one that has the largest surface will con- tain the most steam, or stored energy. This is FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 195 similar to the storage battery. Every square inch of surface in the batiery retains an equal proportion of the disturbed space in the dynamo. For every inch of disturbance in the dynamo, an inch is disturbed to the same extent in the storage battery. This disturbance is heat, and is imparted to the plates in the battery as energy, or the equalization of the force exerted by the dynamo ; for the battery is in the circuit, and offers a resistance to the free circulation, and heat is the result of this resistance, and any mat- ter, or material, that we may place in this circuit will resist, and heat will be the result. This heat is not made, generated, or produced ; the conditions for causing heat are everywhere. When we disturb the equilibrium of any matter or body, we cause heat; for then we disturb the tension of space. The universal force fills all space and matter, and anything that can disturb this will cause heat in this disturbed place ; and if this disturbed place had a circuit around the world, it would be all disturbed to the same ex- tent. And if this circuit encircled the great universe, it w^ould be disturbed; for what dis- turbs one disturbs all when they are in circuit, and so they are all in circuit, solidly connected, no space between all this vast universe. They find their equilibrium in each other. The energy exerted in the sun is equalized through its system 196 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. of worlds, or planets. They are all in circuit, and equilibrium, but not at rest ; and we find the energy exerted by the dynamo equalized in the storage battery, and so it is throughout the universe. This is Nature's great regulator of force, pressure, and mind, keeping everything balanced. What an intelligent and simple law, and how difficult of interpretation ! Now, the sun is a great reservoir of energy, causing its own heat and light, and the bodies pulling on it are assisting it and maintaining themselves. This is equalized from the sun into its family of worlds, and from its family back into the sun. This is the sun's circulation and circuit of its system. This system is disturbing the space they occupy. This disturbed space seeks its equilibrium in its circuit, and all the sun's system is in circuit, and the matter of this system resists this circuit, or circulation, and heat is the result. This "heat is equally distributed through the circuit of worlds, maintaining their life and motion. This is similar to the steam boilers. The boilers are receptacles for the steam, or heat. They resist the steam, holding the heat within them, and this heat is equalized through this system of boilers, the same as the heat is equalized through the whole planetary system. The shell of these boilers is like the cold tension of space, preventing the heat from 6t FROM DARKNEr escaping, and resisting the pressure, confining the steam within them. The worlds are revolv- ing in the cold tension of space. This cold presses in against the matter, holding it in form, preventing the heat from escaping; and the heat presses out against the cold, forming an equilib- rium and balance. This holds this matter in form, and it cannot get out of this pressure ; and this matter resists the circulation of the tension, and heat is the result, and this heat is equalized through the systems, giving them life and motion. This motion is reciprocal and harmonious. These systems. have intelligence and reason, for they are moving in an intelligent force, governed by an intelligent and wise, universal mind. How could any of these worlds be lost, or destroyed, or how could they consume each other, or come in contact, all moving in their own circuit in perfect harmony? This is more than man can say for himself. If the human race w^as as har- monious and as reasonable as these worlds, or systems, there would be no discontentment, quar- reling, and fighting between them. These worlds, or systems, are not jealous if one has more sur- face and heat than another. They do not try to take this surplus away from this larger world. They are all satisfied and contented with what the}^ have got, for they are obeying a wise law, and are satisfied with what this law allows them; 193 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. for they know this law is the supreme and uni- versal law, governing and ruling the universe. Now, these planets, worlds, and systems are roll- ing and moving through an intensely cold space, and they are condensed gases in this solid cold space. These gases are heat, for they resist this cold space by occupying its place, or space. This cold tries to press, or force out, this gas or matter, and the gases concentrate their mass to- gether, to form a solid, so that they can resist the pressure of the cold. Then the cold presses against the heat, and the heat presses against the cold, and they brace themselves togetjier, like two giants, exerting all their force, and the mat- ter resists this exerted force, and heat is the re- sult of this battle between heat and cold. This action expands the tension in the gases, or mat- ter, causing heat. This heat vibrates the ten- sion, and the matter resists, and heat is the re- sult. This is a continuous action through all the planetary systems, keeping up life and motion in them. Now, everything in space must have heat, in order to have form. The cold is the only thing in the universe without form, but this cold gives form to everything. This cold tension fills all space, without form or limit, and nothing can get into this cold but heat, and this heat must have form to force its FFvOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 199 way into this cold tension. This heat must be able to expand and press against this cold. This is what gives form to this heat, or matter, for this cold crushes against this heat, condensing it into matter and form, and the more this matter is crushed, the more heat is caused. This is why all atoms and planets are spherical. This is the only form that can resist the pressure of the cold tension. The pressure is equal all around these spheres, holding them in this form. They are all molded, or impressed, into this cold tension, and cannot get out of it, or change their form ; but can consolidate into masses, and unite, and form what we call a solid. These masses must be of the same families, in order to harmonize and combine to build up this solid. These atoms composing this solid have not been made, gener- ated, or produced. They are one of the con- stituent parts of this universe, and are inde- structible and everlasting, and are a continua- tion of one, and all, and part of the whole. Now, an atom is an individual world, having all the properties for building all matter and all worlds, and these little atoms are the only things that can resist the great pressure of the cold ten- sion of space. They are moulded into this, the same as we mould a piece of iron or metal into the sand or clay. The sand or clay is like the cold tension ; it holds the fluid metal, imparting 200 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. form to it. The metal cannot get out of the mould until it gets its form. Now, it was the cold sand that imparted form and shape to this metal, and without this mould we could not give the desired form to this metal. We see the sand around the moulded metal, but we cannot see the cold tension of space that holds this metal in its solid form, giving and holding everything in its present form. This is the great universal moulder of all bodies and forms, and man is moulded in this mould, and he moulds forms to please him- self ; but all these forms are held in form by the one universal mould. And how can these forms be changed without a new mould ? Man may make moulds and forms, but cannot impart life or motion to them. All living forms have been moulded, and have their form and mould, and these cannot be changed into some other forms and mould. The form once moulded into this universal mould is a fixture in it, and it is part and parcel of it, and is a continuation of the whole universe, without beginning or end. How could any new form get into this universe that is not in it? Where w^ould it come from? All forms may be changed by cultivation and intermixing ; but these are not new forms. They are a mixture of the forms that have been moulded in Nature's mould. Now, there has to be a mould and a form to produce a form. The FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 201 female is the mould, and the male is the form. The male is an impression of its form, impressed into the female, and is moulded in this mould, it bein^ part and parcel of these two forms in Nature's mould, and they impart this, their form, to build up another form through Nature's mould. This is a continuation of the mould and form through Nature's mould. Now, everything must be moulded in this way ; for there must be a mould if there is a form, and all forms are moulded into the cold tension of space. This gives form to all matter and bodies. All the worlds and planets are moulded and im- pressed into this great universal mould, and they cannot get out of it ; for they are part and par- cel of it, and are incased in it, and move through it. Now, all the gases have their forms and moulds, and these gases can condense and mix together, causing an admixture of forms. This is when these gases are free to act for themselves. This admixture of gases may cause many varie- ties and variations in their combination or con- densations; but the gases composing these varie- ties are not made, generated, or produced. They are one of the constituent parts of this universe, and cannot be destroyed. Now, everything grows from the gases condensed into this tension of space. And how could this thing be consumed 202 FKOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. or destroyed ? This thing is indestructible ; but the gases composing this thing can be liberated and set free, and condensed into some other thing. This is Nature's continuous circulation and interchange of place, keeping up the life of these gases. Now, if these gases remained inert, without motion or circulation, there could be no more life in these gases ; and everything is built up from these gases, depending on them for life and motion. Nature's law is wisdom and reason. Now, all bodies grow up from these gases by condensation, or concentration, and combina- tion. These condensed gases deposit on the sur- face of the earth, and are absorbed into it by its circulation of heat and cold. The different gases are retained in the soil where this particular gas is needed, this place being a vacuum of this gas. This equalizes the gases, and if this place is charged, or has an equal portion, there will be no more deposited until all the surrounding soil is supplied uniformly ; for these gases have their own families and ranges of vibrations, and travel on their own lines, and deposit themselves where they are needed. But sometimes there are large masses of decaying vegetable matter concen- trated, and these masses, in the process of decay, deposit, or condense, large quantities of a par- ticular gas. This will cause a particular growth where it is deposited. This will be peculiar to FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 203 this gas, and the more this is mixed with other gases the more difficult it will be to identify it. The growths of these gases are the lowest form of vegetable life, forming the fungi and mosses. This is the beginning of the fern into the tree and all the vegetable kingdom. The more these gases of a kind associate, the more they become individualized in their products. These products are the gases in a concentrated form, and this form is moulded into the universal mould, and becomes a species of a distinct form, and this new species can cause species of its kind by re- production. This is Nature's universal circula- tion of concentrating and liberating her gases. Now, it is reasonable to assume that animal life began the same as the vegetable life, for there is but one law. 204 rnoM darkness to light. WHAT IS THE AURORA BOREALIS, AND ITS CAUSE? LET us take our minds into the North Pole, and see what the condition is in the air, land, and water. We find it is very cold, say- twenty degrees below zero, and getting colder as we go further north. The air is intensely dry and piercing, the cold penetrating our bodies like needles, and we find everything is frozen rigidly. The ice, air, and land appear to be solidly connected by this cold place ; and as the air moves, from some disturbance, it gives out great sound, for we can hear our voices for miles apart. The air is dry and in tension, and ofiers little resistance to sound. Now, all the land, water, and ice are solidly connected by this cold tension that fills all space, and there is no heat here to insulate, or separate, tliis union. This is in great strain, from this cold, shrinking action ; and we find the ice and snow reflect their light upwards in waves, and these waves of light are disturbed by the moving air, increasing the luminosity, or light. This air is dry and gritty, and grinds together in motion ; for there is no moisture to lubricate it. This grinding of the FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 205 air vibrates the tension, and causes the light, and this light reflects on to the ice and snow, and is reflected into space. Every molecule of air is incased in the tension, and, when put in motion, the molecules rub and grind against each other, and vibrate and disturb this tension, causing luminosity, and these molecules reflect their light on to each other, and the tension conducts this light into space, and the different currents of air, moving in different directions, agitate and in- crease this light, giving it the appearance of flashes, similar to flashes of lightning. But this is cold light, caused by cold radiation into cold tension. There is no heat caused in this radia- tion of light, for there is no expansion of mat- ter. It is a shrinkage. This shrinkage light is without heat. There is no action here to cause heat. It is a vacuum of heat, but can cause light. Now, sometimes the temperature will vary, and the ice will be, say zero, and the cold will suddenly change to perhaps thirty degrees below zero. Now, the air is thirty degrees be- low the temperature of the ice. This makes the ice heated in comparison to the air. They want to become equalized. This causes a great agitation in the ice and air. This is imparted to the ten- sion of space. The air, resisting, causes friction and luminosity. This causes a circulation through the ice and tension ; the air, resisting. 206 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. becomes luminous, and flashes this up into the tension, and is flashed back into the ice, thus forming a circulation, or equilibrium. This will continue until the ice and air are of the same temperature ; then they find their equilibrium and point of rest. This action can take place wherever this condition may be. This is Na- ture's light without heat. There is a pressure in the ice of heat, and around it of cold. They want to become equalized ; they resist each other, and this struggle vibrates the tension, causing luminosity. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 207 WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF CYCLONES? AMASS of heated air is close to the earth, and a mass of cold air is pressing down on this heated air. The heated air presses up, and the cold air presses down. They press against each other. They are seeking an equilibrium, or point of rest. The heated air presses up, trying to break through the cold air, and the cold air is trying to do the same thing with the heated air ; but these bodies are too dense. They cannot break each other's lines. These masses of air are moving, say with a velocity of fifty miles an hour. This mass in motion would not do much injury to the vicinity it would pass over as long as it remained in this condition. But suddenly the heated air breaks through the cold, and presses up and out into the cold space beyond the air. Now, there is no resistance to this heated air ; it is pulled up into this cold space ; for it is a vacuum, and this vacuum pulls the heat up into this space, and the air resists, and is pulled with the heat. This heat has found an outlet in this cold space. It has formed a circulation for the heated air close to the earth — has made a cylindrical opening through these masses of air, 208 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. and the heated air is pulled out through this C3dinder into this cold space; and as this heated air is pulled up into this vacuum, the cold air is pressing down against the heated. This forces the heated air out through this cylinder with great force. The mouth, or opening, of this cylinder may be several miles in diameter, and the rush of air through this opening may be one hundred miles an hour; for the temperature of the air at the earth would be about seventy de- grees above zero, and beyond the air about two hundred degrees below zero. These conditions would be seeking an equilibrium through this opening. The cold space w^ould be a great pull- ing force. It would pull all the heat from the earth through this opening. This cylinder would be almost solid, for the air in passing upwards would have a screw motion. This would make the walls of the air around this cylinder rigid. The pressure of air passing through this cylinder would be constantly enlarging it until the heat and cold would find their equilibrium. If we have a cylinder, say two hundred feet long and about twelve inches in diameter, and at one end we raise the temperature to about one hundred degrees above zero, and at the other end we reduce the temperature to fifty degrees below zero, we wall find the heated air will be pulled through the cylinder into the cold space witli great force. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 209 This will form a circulation of heat and cold ; but the cold air cannot come to the heated air. It would be repelled, for the heated air expands, and the cold contracts ; therefore, heat repels and cold attracts. The different temperatures are constantly trying to become equalized. This causes the air motion and circulation, inter- change of place, seeking an equilibrium, or point of rest. The cold is the point of rest. It is inert and dead. The heat disturbs this inertia by vibrat- ing it. These vibrations are resisted by this cold tension, and it is thrown out of equilibrium, and all the tension of space is pressing into this disturbed space, trying to fill it and get its equi- librium ; but the heat keeps up the disturbance, and the fight goes on. This is like trying to make a hole in the ocean ten thousand feet deep by disturbing this space. All the ocean would be ready to fill this disturbed space. And if we had a hose that would reach down ten thousand feet into the ocean, and pumped heated air down through this hose, this heat would have to dis- place this ten thousand feet of water that the hose would occupy ; and as the heated air would escape into the water, it would be compressed almost into a liquid from the weight of water around it. All the ocean would be pressing into this space disturbed by the heated air. The 210 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. air would be occupying the water's space, and it w^ould have to fight for it. One would resist the other until they became equalized, or till the air was forced out, for the air could not force the water out. It is the solid, and crushes out the air displacing it. Now, the water is the dead weight, or inertia. It is quiet and at rest. The heated air disturbs this quietness by encroaching on it, and the water resists the air, and the air resists the water, and there is a battle between the two opposing actions. The air has to do all the fighting, for the water is constantly pressing against the air, and these pressures exert the forces between them, for they resist each other, and this resist- ance is the force. The cold resists the heat, and the heat resists the cold. One is equal to the other, and the fight goes on ; and if there was any matter between the heated air and water that would offer a resistance to them, it would be crushed into vapor. This vapor would be heat, and this heat would be forced up to the surface of the water, and there condensed ; for it could not find its equilibrium until it reached the surface and mixed with the air. This re- lieves it of the pressure, and it is free to condense and find its equilibrium, or point of rest, on the surface of the water. The heated air in passing up through the cylinder would carry the moist- FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 211 ure with it. This moisture, or heat, would be condensed into rain and pressed back to the earth again. This would be a tornado ; for as soon as the heat reached the cold space, it would be condensed into water, and come back to the earth in torrents. These torrents of rain would break the solidity of the heated air in passing through it, coming to the earth. This would break the cylinder and equalize the pressure, and form a partial equilibrium between the heat and cold. Nature's pressures are continually seeking an equilibrium, or a point of rest, but the heat will not let them rest, for it gives life to everything by giving it motion. This motion is by vibrating the air and tension. The air is put in motion by these vibrations, but the tension is only disturbed, and it disturbs the air, and the air resists, and this action produces heat and life. 212 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. A LOOK INTO A MIRROR, OR LOOKING- GLASS. WHAT do we see in this glass ? It reflects our body, devoid of matter. There is no matter in this reflection, or shadow. As we move, it moves, but we cannot touch it, for it is not a substance. Now, this glass will reflect any substance, or matter, true to Nature; there is no deceit in this reflection. We look in the glass, but we do not see the glass. We look through it or into it. The glass is in the tension, part and parcel of it, holding it at rest. The glass and tension are united ; but the glass divides and holds the tension, making the glass solid, and the glass is the dividing line of the tension. Now, this glass is the tension in a rigid condition. It is as near solid as any- thing we can produce. The tension is every- thing, and everything is the tension; but the glass is transparent, like the tension, and is in harmony with it. This glass fills no space. It only occupies a portion of space. This glass holds the tension at rest, preventing vibrations, or waves, passing through it. The glass and ten- sion is in equilibrium and at rest. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT, 213 Now, this glass is like as if we cut its space out of the tension, and the silvering is near the color of the glass, and polished. This prevents us from looking through the glass. It cuts and di- vides these lines abruptly, preventing the light from connecting through the glass, and we look into the glass, but we do not see it. We are look- ing into the space the glass occupies. We are looking into the tension of space in the glass, and we are in that tension as solid as the glass, and are reflected through it. The tension re- flects all matter, and all matter is incased in it and reflected through it. Now, our eyes cannot see this tension, nor our body feel it, yet it is our life force. But if we could see it, we could see nothing else ; but what we see is only a shadow in the tension, like our shadow in the glass. Now, anything with a polished surface will act like a glass ; for this polished surface is not the matter, it is the ten- sion, but the matter holds it at rest, so that we can act on it, or utilize it. Now, the matter is only a piece cut out of the tension of space, and when we polish it, we see the tension, not the matter. The tension reflects this matter through it. Water is in the tension, and reflects matter, like the glass. It holds the tension at rest. We must have something to hold the tension at rest, so that we can act on it. 214 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. or see through it. All matter and tension are continuous; there is no beginning or no end. The universe is one solid mass of tension. The matter that we see is only condensed gas in this solid tension, and when we break or cut a piece off this matter, we cut it out of the solid uni- verse. This cutting, or breaking, does not dis- turb the equilibrium of this matter; the pres- sure is always uniform. Nothing can disturb this condition but heat or vibrations. This matter can be made larger or smaller only by heat or cold. These are Nature's two actions, producing all the various phenomena of force. Now, the universe is one continuous mass, and all the planetary systems are condensed in this continuous mass. These planets are a continu- ation of the universe. Everything, from an atom to the earth, is a continuation of one and all. Let us see what takes place in the manufacture of the glass. All the sand, gravel, flint, and material that go into the furnace to form this glass, is in the tension at rest, and is a con- densed gas, or atoms, held in their forms by this tension, and all this mass fills no space, whether divided or solid. Now, the furnace occupies a portion of space, and the tension is in that space, at rest, and we take all this mass of material and FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 215 put it into the furnace. This does not displace any of the space of the furnace. The tempera- ture is about seventy degrees above zero, and we apply heat to melt this mass. Every degree of heat we apply displaces, or raises, a degree of cold, and as the heat increases the cold decreases. The weight is being lifted from the mass in the furnace, and it begins to unite. The heat has lifted the cold pressure from this mass, and it be- came a liquid. Its atoms are all united by the heat. They are in motion and in life. They are free to move. Now, this heat has lifted about three thousand degrees of cold, and all the atoms are liberated, and are free to move without re- sistance. Now, all this mass is united by the tension in the furnace. The atoms have all com- bined to form a solid. This heat has lifted a great weight of cold. One is equal to the other. All this molten mass is in the tension, part and parcel of it. All this mass is only a condensed gas in this furnace and tension. They are one, and indivisible. We now draw off this molten mass into mould to form sheets of glass. This glass is cooling, and as it cools the tension of space is pressing all around it, compressing it into a solid. There is now three thousand de- grees of cold holding it in this solid form. The tensions in the glass and around it are united. They are one. The heat and cold liave 216 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. made this glass solid in the tension, and it is in equilibrium and at rest, and it cannot get out of this solid form until three thousand degrees of heat are applied to it. This is a great pressure around the glass. Now, the glass is the tensions in a solid form. They are transparent and in harmony. Now, the pressure of the tension in the furnace was about ten thousand tons to the square inch. The heat lifted a portion of that pressure, and allowed the mass to become a liquid. Nothing but heat could lift this pres- sure. The heat expanded the cold tension around the mass in the furnace, and it became a liquid. Let us see how this matter is melted into glass. All the material in the furnace is in the tension at rest, and we apply heat to this matter. This heat vibrates the tension and air in the furnace. This causes a circulation, or draught. This vibrates the tension around this matter, disturbing its equilibrium. This disturbance is in between all the particles in the furnace. This is disturbing the pressure that holds this matter in its solid form. The matter now has nothing to hold it together, and it dissolves. The ten- sion in the matter resists the vibrations of the tension around it. This heats the matter, and the vibrations increase with the heat, and all this matter dissolves and forms a liquid. The FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 217 tension in the furnace is now expanded, and this expanded all the atoms. They now fill more space than when cold. This is the only period that matter can fill any space. The pressure of the heat around the cold tension liquefied the matter. The heat and cold pressed together and crushed the matter. The matter was the resist- ing medium. It resisted the expansion ; it was occupying the space between the heat and cold, and this liberated all its atoms, giving them free motion in a fluid form. This heat had to raise three thousand degrees of cold. The cold held this matter in its solid form, and the heat raised the weight of cold, and it became a fluid. All matter is in the tension, and when heat is ap- plied to this matter, it expands it. This expan- sion is trying to fill more space, but all space is full, and there is no room for any more matter, and this expanding matter has to press against all the universe. There is ten thousand tons to the square inch of surface pressing against this expanding matter. This is what crushes all mat- ter, generating heat in it. This crushed matter is now a gas, offering no resistance. It fills no space, and is free to move out of the way of the pressure against it ; and this gas is heat, and is pulled up to the cold air space and condensed, and pressed back to the earth, the point of rest. Now, the action of the heat and cold crushed 218 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. the matter into gas, and forced this gas up into the clouds. This was the force exerted by these two actions. It was the work done. They raised that weight a certain height. The tension we find is everything, and every- thing is the tension. The matter that we see is condensed gases. These gases are heat, for they resist the cold. Now, all matter is heat, and all space is the cold tension ; and all matter is con- densed into this tension, and anything that can vibrate, or make heat, will disturb the equilib- rium of this matter and tension. This will gen- erate heat in this matter, for it will resist these vibrations. Now, the tension is the one univer- sal force. It is Electricity and Magnetism ; it is heat and cold; it is our daylight and all other lights ; it is the life of everything on the earth ; it is mind and thought ; it is gravity and attrac- tion ; it is cohesion, adhesion, and affinity ; it is combustion ; it is the Leyden Jar ; it is the fire- fly ; it is the glow-worm ; it is the galvanic bat- tery ; it is the telegraph ; it is the telephone ; it is the medium of all sound; it is what holds all the planetary systems in place, imparting life and motion to them. This simplifies all the phenomena of Nature's action of heat and cold. The air around the earth is all in motion and circulation, disturbing all this space. It is like FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 219 the water in the ocean. As we go down into the water we find it all full of life, like our air. All the fishes and animalculse are moving through it, without resistance, for without the water they could not swim. These fishes are all happy and active ; they do not feel the pressure of the water. We find all these fishes breathing like animals on the land, but the fishes breathe water. They must obey the law that gives them life. This breathing disturbs the lines of tension gen- erating heat, and this produces the circulation in them. This is the circulation of the sun and earth, and is imparted to all fishes in all waters, for these waters fill no space in this tension. The waters are a condensed gas, or vapor. As we go further down we find the pressure greater, but it does not disturb or injure the fish. As we go down from ten thousand to fifty thou- sand feet, we find the waters swarming with all kinds of fish, swimming in all directions, ap- parently without any exertion. The pressure of the water does not interfere with their motion, yet there is several tons to the square inch around them. The temperature down here is about uniform, about fifty degrees above zero, and all the life down here appears to be in a happy and healthy condition. They are all moving around in their own family circles. These families do not quarrel with each other. 220 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. We find different currents of water at different depths. These currents run in opposite direc- tions, and have different temperatures, like the air. Now, tliese different currents of water dis- turb the lines of tension and generate heat in this water. The water holds the tension almost solid, and when two currents are moving in opposite direc- tions, this disturbs the lines of tension, and heat is generated in the water. This expands the water, giving it more motion, and generating more heat. This is a continuous action. This keeps the water always in motion and agitation, keeping up the circulation in the water, like the circulation in the air. Now, these fishes move through the water like we move through the air, without apparent resistance. We will now pass through the water of the ocean up to the north pole ; and, as we approach it, we find it getting colder — degree by degree it increases until we come near the pole. We are twenty thousand feet below the surface of the water, and it is about the freezing point ; but we can move through the water without resistance, and as we move towards the surface, we find the water is rigid. We cannot penetrate it, for it appears to be solid. It is a frozen mass for thou- sands of feet over our heads, and we wonder how this ice was formed ; but we can move through FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 221 the water under this great mountain of ice as though there was nothing above us. This moun- tain of ice appears to be transparent, for we can see through it, and out into space, but we cannot move through it, for it is rigid and at rest ; but the water down here is all in motion, and every- thing is moving through it. The temperature in the ice is from ten to sixty degrees colder than in the water. Now, the ice is condensed vapor, and the water under the ice is the same, but they are separated by the different conditions of heat. The water is flexible, and the ice is rigid and at rest. The ice is like the cold tension of space outside the air space of the earth, and the water under the ice is like the air space around the earth. The air is in motion, like the water, and the cold tension beyond the air is solid and rigid, like the ice. The lines of tension in the ice are held rigidly, but the water disturbs these lines, generating heat in it. Whatever has motion must have heat, for it is the motion that gives it heat. This motion dis- turbs the lines of tension in the water, gener- ating heat in it. This prevents the water from freezing, and allows the fishes to move through it. Now, the cold tension of space is rigid and at rest, and the earth, with its air space, is rolling through this cold, rigid tension, disturbing its 222 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. equilibrium, breaking its rigidity and gener- ating heat. This makes the air and tension flexible, allowing everything to move through it without resistance; but if the air around the earth was rigid, and had no motion or heat, then it would be like the ice, and nothing could move through it, and there could be no life or motion ; but the heated air breaks the rigidity, and gives motion and life to everything on the earth. We find the universe in one, all united by the tension of space; and all the planetary system is a condensation in this tension, and all these planets are composed of atoms, and all these atoms have life and motion. These atoms are condensed, are consolidated, together, and they form and build up a world, or planet. All these atoms are seeking a point of rest, and they rest against their own kind, or family. These atoms have heat within them. This is their life and motion, and the atoms are a continuation of the universe. There is no space between these atoms ; there may be distance, and these atoms fill no space in the tension, for nothing can expel, or displace, this tension but heat, when this heat is great enough. Now, everything is connected and united, but can move individually. This movement is a continuation of the whole universe. Nothing can break or separate this continuity ; everything FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 223 is moving in it, and is of it, and cannot get out of it. Now, there is nothing coming into this universe, or going out of it. It is full, and can hold no more ; and everything that grows must grow up in this tension by condensation of the gases that are here. This growth brings no new matter with it. It is a continuation of the whole universe, a universal circulation. Now, all the planetary systems are united. There is no space between them. There may be a distance, but this distance takes no time for transmission, or com- munication. If we had a conductor that would encircle the universe, the time occupied in this communication would be the resistance in the matter, or the wire ; but it would take no time in the tension, for it is one and indivisible. Now, when we look at anything, we are look- ing at a part of the solid, or continuous uni- verse. This thing is only condensed gases in this solid tension. It is only like a shadow in the glass. This thing can be vaporized, and would disappear in gas. This separation of the atoms of this thin^ would not disturb the space, or tension, that this thing occupied. These gases might be collected and condensed into a similar thing by heat. All this action, or change, would disturb the continuity, or equilibrium, of the universe, only during the period of change, and that would be the time of heating. This 224 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. heat would be trying to make a hole in this solid universe. The heated space would be all in vi- bration. It would be pressing against the whole universe, for this space would be expanded from the heat ; but the heat is now removed, and the heat space is filled with the solid universe. It has found its equilibrium and point of rest in itself. Now, if we could see the tension, we could see nothing else, for we would see through all mat- ter, the same as we would see through a piece of glass, and as we would look at the earth, it would be like looking into space, and if we looked at a solid piece of steel ten feet square, it would be as transparent as the glass; but the mind can see through all matter. Everj^thing is transparent to it when it once understands it. Nothing can insulate or separate mind ; it is the universal tension and force permeating all matter and space, and mind looks through this like the glass. There is a limit to the eye's seeing, but there is no limit to the mind seeing, and there is no darkness, or recess, that the mind cannot pierce and see through. Now, all matter being a continuation of the universe, this matter is the tension, and every- thing is of that tension, and nothing can insu- late or divide it. We wonder why there cannot be some substance that will insulate magnetism. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 225 Now, magnetism is the tension circulating through the magnet, and the magnet is filled with it, and nothing can separate or divide it, for -all substance is condensed into this tension, and nothing ever can be produced that can divide it, for everything is continuous in this tension. The clouds are a partial insulation of heat and light. They contain moisture, or water, in a vapor form. All this vapor is in motion. It offers a resistance to the lines of tension, absorb- ing the heat and light, preventing them from passing down on the earth. These clouds par- tially separate the circulation of the earth's at- mosphere, preventing the continuity of it. This is what causes the shadows. These clouds are from one to three miles above the earth, and the ■earth's circulation is about two hundred miles ; and all the air space above the clouds is lumi- nous, for all this space is in vibration from the 'Circulation of the air, and as we look down on these clouds, we see them brilliantly illumin- ated, reflecting their light and heat upwards, thus cutting it off from the earth. These clouds are in layers of different density, rolling over each other, absorbing the heat and light into them, for these clouds are cold, perhaps in the form of fine snow. This snow can absorb large quantities of heat. This heat and light is cut off by these clouds, leaving the earth in partial 226 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. darkness, and cool. The clouds have absorbed the vibrations disturbing their continuity. Now, all space being filled with the universal tension, anything that we may make, or manu- facture, contains this tension within it, and is part and parcel of it, and nothing can separate or divide it. This manufactured article cannot insulate magnetism, or the tension, for they are one and indivisible ; but anything that will not vibrate, or produce sound, deadens, or partially breaks, the continuity of the vibrations. This has a tendency towards insulating, but cannot prevent the tension from circulating through it. This is why we cannot find an insulator for magnetism.. Rubber, and all so-called insula- tors, are condensed gases in the solid tension, and this tension can circulate through them as read- ily as air can circulate through a wire screen with meshes an inch square. Nothing can con- fine, separate, or insulate the tension when heat,, or vibrations, are applied to it. It is the great equalizing force, filling all space and all matter. Now, electricity is not a thing, or is not gener- ated. What we call electricity is only the ten- sion disturbed by vibrations of heat. The vibra- tions cause the heat, for the cold tension of space resists the vibrations, and heat is the result of the battle. This is a disturbance of a perma- nent condition, but we do not generate, produce^ FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 227 or make anything. We simply disturb the equi- librium of the space we are acting on, and this disturbed space seeks to find its equilibrium in some other space, and heat is not generated or produced. The conditions to cause this heat are here ; and when these conditions are disturbed, heat is the result of the disturbance. The tension is the inertia filling all space ; and when this is dis- turbed, heat is the result. All metals are atoms condensed into a solid. The different kinds of metals have diff*erent ranges of vibrations. They are of different fami- lies. These families travel on their own lines; when liberated, they are of different densities and different temperature — for it takes different degrees of heat to liquefy, or liberate, these metals. They seek their equilibrium, or point of rest, in their own families ; they do not care to associate, or mix, with strangers. This they do only when man interferes with them, and confines them together, and applies heat to them. Then they are not free to act; they must submit to the greater force around them. This is man's will, not the will of the atoms of the metals. Now, all these atoms have their different modes of motion, aiid can rest only in their own embrace, or family — for every atom is seeking its point of rest. But it cannot rest against an 228 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. atom of another family — for they will not assim- ilate, or harmonize, owing to the difference in their vibrating structure. When two atoms of the same family meet, they embrace each other with the greatest love and emotion, and this emo- tion is imparted to each other through the ten- sion that unites them. This tension now circu- lates through these two atoms, making them one ; they have found their point of rest in their own embrace, and are united by the tension of space. Now, these atoms can continue to combine and consolidate and form a mass. This mass will offer a resistance to the circulation of the ten- sion through them. This will generate heat in them, and the tension will press against this mass, gradually compressing them into a smaller space. This action is constant, and will form these atoms into a solid — for their great love for each other causes them to press as close together as their density will admit. Now, all matter is atoms; and the atoms have their own families, and one family does not interfere with another. Each family is desirous to stay by themselves, if they are not molested or disturbed. This is Nature's simple way of keeping harmony in her vast families of atoms. One law, and one force, and all the universe, with its vast planetary sys- tems, and their families of atoms, all obeying this one simple law, without any contention or FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 229 quarreling, all happy and contented, moving through space, traveling on their own lines or circuit, visiting each other on their journey through space. The visit is mutual, without contact. They communicate through the ten- sion, not through their matter. Now, it is rea- sonable to assume that these atoms and planets have intelligence — for it is intelligence that gives them form and motion ; and everything that has form has intelligence; it could not exist without intelligence — for the whole universe is one mass of wisdom beyond man's conception. Now, man must not think he is the only intelligent being — for man's intelligence is artificial. It is not natural; it is acquired. But all the uni- verse, with all the planetary systems, is one mass of natural intelligence, from the atom to the earth. They obey the law of Nature, which is their life; but man ignores the law of Nature. He makes his own laws; and when he breaks Nature's laws, he suffers through his body for his disobedience. This suffering is in the matter of the body. Now, man is an intelligent being. He is built up of atoms, and each one of these atoms has life, motion, intelligence, and reason. All these atoms perform their own work, and are in harmony and consolidated into this body, mak- ing it one; but these atoms in this body can 230 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. be separated by heat or cold, when it is great enough. Now, all animals are built up of atoms of the same tind as man, and these atoms have intelli- gence and reason — for they obey the same law that gives them life and motion. These atoms composing man and animal are of the same families, brothers and sisters, male and female, in perfect harmony and accord, all assisting each other, with brotherly love and affection, to main- tain the life of these bodies of man and animal. These bodies are a continuation and a part of the whole universe. They are part and parcel of all the planetary system, and are in communication with all this great universe. They are of it, united to it, and part of it, and nothing can de- stroy the atoms composing these bodies — for they always have existed and always will exist; and the space that these bodies occupy is the univer- sal tension, and nothing can move this or destroy it. And when the atoms composing any of these bodies leave them, through heat or cold, this space that these atoms have left remains in this place, or space, and nothing can move this but the body that occupied it — for this body grew up in it, and acted on it, and retained it ; and no other body, or matter, could occupy, or utilize, this space — for it could not get into it only by growth. No two atoms, or bodies, can occupy FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 231 the same place, or space — for all atoms and bodies hold this space, or tension, within them, and everything occupies its own space, and can get out of this space only by heat or cold, when it is great enough, and this must be by the atoms separating into gas. Each one of these atoms occupies its own space, and nothing can get into this space — for it belongs to this atom by growth. Everything must grow up in this space by con- densation of the gases of atoms that are of the earth and air. Now, each one of these atoms occupies its own individual space, and nothing can destroy this atom, or the space it occupies ; and when these atoms condense together, being of the same fam- ily and of the same range of vibrations, all these atoms consolidate and form a mass. The}^ are in harmony, and the tension circulates through them as if they were one. This causes a pres- sure around these atoms, and heat is generated in their mass. This causes the mass to vibrate, and the cold tension is constantly pressing around them, compressing them into a smaller space, forming them into what we call a solid. This solid is composed of individual atoms, sur- rounded by the tension of space. This is what holds them in this solid form. And when we can vibrate this space composing the atoms rap- idly enough to destroy the equilibrium of tliis lUHIVBIlSITTl 232 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. space, then we can liberate these atoms; but these vibrations will cause heat in each one of these atoms, making them incandescent. These atoms resist the vibrations of the tension that holds them in this solid form. This resistance is what causes the heat, and liberates all the atoms, or gas. FKOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 233 A LOOK INTO WHAT TAKES PLACE IN A COMMON KETTLE WHEN BOIL- ING WATER. THIS kettle occupies a portion of space, and the tension is in that space at rest. We fill this kettle with water. This does not displace the tension, or space, in this kettle. The water was gas, and condensed into water. This water fills no space in this kettle. The tension fills all space ; but the water is condensed into it. Now, we apply heat to this kettle and water. The heat vibrates the tension in the kettle, pro- ducing a circulation, and the water resists the vibrations and circulation, and heat is generated in the water. The water prevents the tension from circulating freely, absorbing the heat, hold- ing it. This heat is the vibrations against the water, the water resisting and retaining the vi- brations and heat in it. Now, all the water and space in the kettle are in vibration, from the heat applied to it. All the space in this kettle is thrown out of equilibrium from these vibrations. This vaporizes the water, and it goes off in steam. The tension in the ket- tle divides all the atoms, or molecules, of the 234 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. water, separating it, and the heat applied in- creases the vibrations, preventing the water from holding together. The water is seeking an equilibrium, or point of rest, but the heat will not let the water rest ; and as the heat increases, the vibrations in- crease, and the water is vaporized, goii^ig off in heat or steam. Now, the tension in the kettle of water cut and divided this water into steam. The particles of water could not hold together, and they were crushed into vapor, or steam, and this steam goes up into the clouds and condenses into rain. This is Nature's simple circulation. The space in this kettle was the tension of space, and when it was disturbed by the vibra- tions, produced heat. This heat was trying to make a hole in this space ; but all the tension was pressing against this vibrating space in this kettle; and as the heat increased it pressed against the cold, and the cold resisted the heat, and the heat resisted the cold, and the water was vaporized, or crushed, into heat, or steam. The water resisted the action, or pressure, of the heat and cold, and was crushed into vapor. This water expanded, and tried to fill more space; but all space is full, and can hold no more, and the cold tension pressed against this expanding water, and crushed it into vapor — for it could not fill any more space and hold its form as FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 235 water. It must take the form of gas, filling no space. Now, all this gas, or steam, is divided into atoms, or molecules, and is floating in the tension, but it cannot divide it. The tension can divide everything, but nothing can divide the tension. It is indivisible, and everything is con- densed into it ; and when vibrated, it separates everything, giving it freedom in a gaseous form, where it came from. This is Nature's way of separating and equalizing her presssure and force. Now, this steam was not generated or produced. It was condensed water, or vapor, held in the tension, and when this tension was vibrated, it vaporized the water — for the water resisted these vibrations, and heat was the re- sult. The heat was not generated or produced ; it was a disturbance of the tension in the kettle. This tension is a permanent condition, and any- thing that can vibrate it will cause heat — for these vibrations are resisted b}^ the w^ater and tension, and heat is the result of the fight. We have not been able to find a secret or mys- tery in all the phenomena that we have enumer- ated — for heat and cold produce all these phe- nomena, and these actions, we are well acquainted with, for we see them in every action of life and motion around us. We see it in the coal and wood fire, cooking our food and heating our bodies, lighting our houses and streets, propel- 23G FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. ling our ships and railroads, running all our ma- chinery for all purposes. We find them making rain, and ice, and snow, wind, hail, and cyclone storms, thunder and lightning, sunshine and calm ; producing fruits and vegetable life, and all beautiful flowers, with their various colors and hues. These are no secrets or mysteries. We find them in the magnet, giving it circula- tion ; producing electricity encircling the earth, imparting our thoughts to it. This is no mys- tery or secret. We are using these forces, and utilizing them, and handling them, and if we are ignorant of their nature, it is not Nature's fault. We are familiar with the telephone, but not its nature. We are well acquainted with life, for we see it all around us ; but we say this is the greatest mystery of all ; yet we see every- thing around us has life. It is a very common thing, but its nature we do not understand. This is our fault, not Nature's ; but we feel the effect of heat or cold when it is too great for our bodies. There is a certain condition of heat that we like. This is Nature's guide; but when we are surrounded by cold, the body shivers. This generates heat in it by vibrating the tension, and the matter resists, and heat is the result. Everything in Nature is simple, and open for investigation, for all who want to understand her FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 237 law and force. Everything is a mystery to those that do not want to investigate or seek the truth of Nature. This is the truth, that cannot be confounded, confuted, or contaminated. It is the universal force, and truth, and life of every- thing in the universe, and the fundamental principle and foundation of all truth, everlast- ing, one, and indivisible ; and when man under- stands this truth, and lives in it, and up to it, then*he will raise himself above the animal that he is, and his mind will be unchained, and set free, to soar into space, illimitable space, with all the planetary systems throughout that space; and man has all this as mind and thought, all at his command, and he can communicate through all this vastness. This whole universe is all mind, and man is part and parcel in and of that mind, and everything is solidly incased in that solid mind. How could man ever get out of the animal without knowing what mind and thought is, and life, and motion, and the law of Nature, with its force? Man's mind had no conductor, or lines, to travel on. It had no basis, or founda- tion ; it was wandering without a guide, or a connecting link, to travel on ; but when he once understands wdiat he is, and what relation he bears to the universe, then his mind will be ele- vated beyond the matter of his body, and he will be lifted from ignorance into the most exalted 238 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. position, or place, that man could occupy. It Avill be from darkness to light everlasting. How simple every phenomenon and action in Nature is, when we once understand it, and its cause. Everything existing has mind — for all space is mind, and all matter is incased in that solid mind. This matter may be divided, but the mind is indivisible, and indestructible. How could anything be destroyed ? What could de- stroy this thing ? A thing cannot destroy itself. Man may kill himself, but he cannot destroy his body. If he consumes his body, he does not de- stroy it ; he simply liberates the gases composing his body, allowing these gases to go free and as- similate with the gases composing the' air. These gases cannot be destroyed. Nature never made anything that could be destroyed. Everything can change from a solid to a gas, and from a gas to a solid. This is done by heat and cold. This is Nature's process of changing places through her circulation. If we could throw the matter off the earth into space, it would not be de- stroyed. It could not get out of the universe — for there is no beginning or end to it, and it would always remain the same matter. There is nothing coming or going out of all this universe. The &ame quantity remains eternally, for all the universe is filled more solidly than steel, and nothing can break this solidity, for everything is FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 23(> incased in it, and is part and parcel of it, and united to it, and this is all mind and matter; but the mind can crush and circulate through this matter — for this matter is only gases con- densed into mind. Mind is the solid universe, and how could anything exist without mind ?' And if this thing has mind, it must have reason,, and if it has reason, it cannot be destroyed, for reason is the universal tension. 240 FKOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. MIND AND ITS RELATION TO THE BODY. THE body is a receptacle for the mind, and all space is mind, and this mind must have matter to hold it, to act on it. The body holds this mind, arid acts on it, and utilizes it, it being the life of the body. This body is only a shadow floating in the mind. All the nervous structure of the body is vibrating in this mind, giving life to this body. This action is harmonious and re- ciprocal, and the more the nerves act on the mind, the more mind they utilize. All the blood in circulation through the body is disturbing and acting on this mind ; but the bram is the seat of thought and reason. Its nerves, being fine and sensitive, are able to act more and oftener than the nerves of the body. The nerves of the body are very coarse in comparison to the nerves of the brain; but the brain is the center of all the nerves of the body, and is the center of all the universe. It is a central station, com municating with all the universe, and the more the brain acts on and communicates with the universe, the more it understands and sees through it. Now, the body cannot act witliout FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 241 i;he brain. They are united and indivisible. They work in harmony. One is necessary to the other, each has its o\ ii work to perform. The body is guided by the brain, and can act only through the will of the brain acting on the mind. The mind is the universal force, and mind fills all space and matter. The brain has all this to act on and utilize. Now, if the brain does not act on this mind, it does not utilize it, and cannot understand it; and so the brain has no mind when it does not utilize or act on mind. Now, all matter acts on mind, but all matter has not brains, or nerves. These are of the animal family, having self motion. This motion is through the brain acting on mind, and the mind acts through the nerves and muscles of the body, and motion, or movement, is the result of mind acting through nerves and muscles, or muscles acting on mind. These actions must be harmonious to cause motion. The brain acting on mind, guides and directs the motion and action of the body, but all the body is acting on mind. This is the life and force that the body is using, and this force never varies; it is the matter of the body that varies — for the more the body acts on and disturbs this mind and force, the more mind and force the body exerts. Now, if the body and brain does not act on, or utilize, this mind and force, it can- 242 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. not exert mind, or force, and this body would be ex- isting without exercising mind, thought, or force. It would be merely occupying a portion of spaca without utilizing the conditions in that space. Now, the body has the use of mind and force,, if it wants to use or act on this force. Every- thing has the use of this mind and force, and they can utilize it according to their structure, or capacity, to act on it. Now, man's intelligence and thought are through his brain acting on his mind, and the more he exercises and uses this mind, the more mind, or intelligence, he ac- quires. Thought and thinking are what exercises mind, for the nerves of the brain are acting and vibrating this mind. They are getting ac- quainted with each other, and are acquiring a friendship, and love and harmony, and are assist- ing each other to perform their work of investi- gation, and acquiring intelligence, experience, and knowledge. This is the work of the nerves of the brain on mind, and the more nerves the brain has the more mind and thought it exer- cises. A small brain acts on a small surface, or quantity, of mind, and cannot exert as mucli mind as a larger brain. If this brain is of a fine^ texture, or highly sensitive, its organs are well developed, and well exercised, by thought and study, and all the organs of the brain assist each other. If these organs are exercised and used FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 243 harmoniously, this strengthens the brain and prepares it for a great mental work ; but if the brain is concentrated on one subject, or thing, then it becomes weakened in all organs but the one that the mind is concentrated on. This one consolidates and controls all the weaker ones, and the brain becomes of one idea, or one-sided, and loses its balance — for it cannot understand, or reason, on other subjects outside the one it is interested in ; and the stronger rules aud con- trols the weaker organs, making them slaves to it ; and the brain is now concentrated on one thought, or one object, and is controlled, and in- fluenced, b}^ this thought, and is carried away by it, and lost in it, and all the other organs of the brain are weakened and reduced in vitality for the want of use, or exercise. This is why so many brains exercise so little mind and reason, for these brains are not balanced, or in harmony. The organs do not assist each other, by con- sulting, consoling, and reasoning with each other — for all the organs of the brain are like a large family, in perfect accord and harmony, consult- ing and reasoning, advising and assisting each other to perform their various works, or studies. These studies with the organs of the brain, by the body's assistance, bring the brain and the body into harmony, and they learn to know each other, and they gain confidence, strength, expe- rience, and wisdom by harmonizing. 244 FROM D.!iRKXESS TO LIGHT. ADHESION AND AFFINITY. ADHESION and affinity are names or actions that Nature ignores. Nature's law is simple, not complicated. She has no room for these names. The cold tension of space occupies all space, and there is no room for anything else. This ten- sion reaches into an atom as it does into a moun- tain, and its pressure is felt everywhere. When these atoms come together, they are seeking a point of rest, and the}^ rest against each other, and they are united by the tension of space. This is what presses them together ; they are un- der the same strain, and in the same range of vibrations. They are in harmony, and they are seeking each other — for the}^ are of the same family, they are brothers and sisters, male and female, all iu motion, and no quarreling or growling. They are in perfect accord, and in harmony, moving on their own lines. These are the lines of tension. These lines are the guiding lines for all matter and all action. All ranges of vibrations have their own lines, and these vibrations do not interfere with each other; they never make a mistake. They mind their own business, as long as they are not interfered FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 245 with. It is only when man handles, or annoys, them that they make trouble. All the different kinds of atoms have their ranges of vibrations — for all atoms offer some resistance to the lines of tension, and heat is generated in them. This is what gives them motion, and this motion is peculiar to themselves, or to this family, and when man handles, or incloses, these atoms in a receptacle, then they find their relatives and join them. They are seeking a union, and want to be united, to resist and defend themselves. Are these atoms intelligent, or is man the only intel- ligent being, or is he more than an atom ? These atoms have life and motion; what more has man? The same force gives motion to man and atom. They are obeying the same law. They cannot resist this law, for it is their life. Now, these atoms are guided by the structure of the matter within them. This matter resists the circula- tion of the tension, and heat is generated in them, and circulation is produced. This circulation is an interchange of heat and cold. This vibrates the tension, and the tension vibrates the atoms, and the atoms resist, and heat is the result. The same action gives man life — for Nature knows, and has, but one law, and everything must obey that law. Now, the earth is a large atom, or a concentration of atoms. It is a resting-place for all atoms that may approach it ; and all these 246 FKOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. atoms are separate and individual atoms, but are consolidated into one mass to form a planet world. Now, the earth and sun, and its systems, are one family. They are in perfect harmony, and in the same ranges of vibration. They are as- sisting each other to generate heat, to maintain life. How could this family of worlds maintain themselves, if they were quarreling, or fighting, and burning each other up, in order to dissipate that lieat into space for no use? Can Nature be so unwise as to waste all her energy for no pur- pose? Nature wastes, or consumes, nothing. Man being a wasteful and destructive being, he loves to w^aste and destroy all the resources of Nature for his own selfish purpose, not caring how Nature may suffer by his destructiveness. Man looks at Nature through himself, not as Nature looks at him. Nature is liberal ; it has no favorites, it has but one law. Man makes many laws, and he breaks them to suit himself; but Nature ignores these laws. Nature is su- preme. We see all the atoms have their mode of motion, and these atoms cannot go astray, or be destroyed, or burned up. They are indestruct- ible. Like all other matter, they are traveling on their own lines, and in their own circuit, and it is reasonable to assume that all the planetary systems are moving like these atoms, in perfect harmony, traveling through si)ace, visiting and FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 247 saluting each other as they pass — for they are all brothers and sisters, male and female, all of one family, having an intense love for each other. They are encircling the universe, and communi- cating with eacli other — for they are all united by the tension of space. Now, everytliing that has form must have heat within it — for that it has form is a proof of its heat. This heat is its life. Let us take a block of ice and put it into an iron tank, sus- pending it in the center of this tank. This block of ice is, say at a temperature of twenty- degrees above zero, and we reduce this tempera- ture in this tank to twenty degrees below zero. This makes a pressure around the ice. This cold pressure around the ice is trjdng to crush out the heat in the ice, and the heat in the ice presses out against the cold. The temperature of the ice is forty degrees higher than around it. These two pressures are pressing against each other. They are exerting force. They are try- ing to become equalized. They are seeking a point of rest ; but the heat in the ice will not let the cold rest, and as we increase the cold, the ice resists it, for it takes some time before these dif- ferent temperatures can become equalized ; and we still continue to reduce the heat around the ice until we reach about two hundred degrees below zero. This is the critical point. There is 248 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. a great battle between the two. This ice is the- heat. It has to fight the cold. The cold is con- stantly reducing the heat in the ice, and as long as the ice can keep out this cold, it can maintain its form and circulation. This is its motion, or life. It is not inert, or dead, as long as there are- two conditions of heat in the tank. Now, this ice was heat, and the cold crushed that heat into vapor. The ice occupied the space belonging to the cold. As long as the ice could keep out, or resist, this cold, it could maintain its form ; but as soon as the cold crushed out all the heat of the ice, it became vapor, and this vapor was^ crushed matter, or heat. The action of the heat and cold vaporized the water. They were seek- ing an equilibrium, or a point of rest, but the- heat would not let the cold rest until it was con- quered; then the cold took possession of the heat, and there was no more action or resistance, and the cold found its equilibrium and point of rest, and is inert and dead. This cold is equal to any heat produced. The heat is a product and inconstant. The cold is constant and nat- ural. These two actions produce motion, life, and all the phenomena in Nature. The ice was water, and the water was condensed gases. These gases were atoms, and these atoms had form and heat within themselves. This heat was their lif& and motion. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 24& These atoms were consolidated into water. They were of their own families, and in har- mony, and floating in the tension of space, but these atoms filled no space. They were only a gas, filling no space. The tension fills all space, and there is no more room for any more matter. The water was the atoms condensed into the ten- sion, and the cold compressed them together^ forming what we call a solid. The heat in the water, or atoms, resisted the cold, and the cold resisted the heat, and the atoms were pressed together, forming the block of ice. If the ice could not resist the cold pres- sure, there could be no motion, or ice. As tho cold increases, the ice resists it, and this is what gives form to the ice, and all other matter. As long as the ice can resist this cold, it can main- tain its form. This resistance is the heat in the ice, for all the ice is heat when the cold is greater around it. Now, these atoms were the matter, or heat, but the cold was too strong for the heat, it crushed it into gas, or vapor, where it came from, and all these atoms are free again. They could not retain their form against the cold ten- sion around them. The ice w^as occupying the space belonging to the 'cold, and this space could not hold two matters. Either one must be sub- dued or displaced. Heat and cold cannot oc- cupy the same place, or space. ^50 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. An atom of heat and an atom of cold coming in contact, the heat expanding and pressing against the cold, it repels it, and the cold shrinks and absorbs the heat into it. There is a battle between the two atoms. They are in contact — they are seeking a point of rest ; but they can- not rest against each other, for they are enemies. They are not in harmony. The cold tries to de- vour the heat, and the heat repels and presses .against the cold. This causes the cold to ex- pand and the heat to shrink. They are trying to become equalized. These actions are vibra- ting the tensions in and around these atoms. This generates heat within them, and this keeps them in motion, for they cannot rest, as the atoms are continually changing places and con- ditions of heat. This is what disturbs the lines of tension, preventing them from concentrating, or becoming rigid, or at rest. This is what gen- erates heat and light in our atmosphere. We find that all atoms have heat, and can gen- erate heat in motion. These atoms appear to be heat, for they resist the cold and are put in mo- tion, and circulate through the air. This circu- lation extends, perhaps, two hundred miles be- yond the earth. These atoms, in ascending, are resisted by the cold, and pressed back to the earth in the form of rain. This rain was gas, or atoms, condensed into rain. This rain is con- FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 251 densed heat, and was pressed to the earth, the point of rest. This is the earth's circulation and life, and the life of everything on it. 252 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. WHAT IS A EESISTANCE COIL? AEESISTANCE COIL is a piece of iron and some copper wire. We wind this iron with the wire as a resistance ; this causes the iron to become heated and expand, preventing a free circulation of the tension through the iron. This iron fills no space in this solid tension. It is a gas condensed into this tension. Now, this iron is a continuation and part of the whole universe, indivisible, and it offers a resistance to the free circulation of this universe ; and the wire is a part and parcel of this universe, offering a re- sistance to the free circulation of this tension, causing heat; and the more wire we wind around this iron, the more resistance it will offer, and the more heat will be caused in it. The cur- rent vibrates the tension in the wire, and the copper resists and is heated. This heat is im- parted to the iron, and sets its tension in vibra- tion, and the iron resists, causing heat. Now, this iron is in the circuit, offering a re- sistance to its free action and circulation, and heat is the result. All this space that this iron and wire occupy is thrown out of equilibrium, and is in intense vibrations, and wants to rest ; FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 253 but the current applied will not let this dis- turbed place rest, and the heat and vibrations are continued, and the battle goes on. Now, everything in the universe, from an atom to a planet, or world, is like a resistance coil. They offer some resistance to the circulation of this tension through their system, causing heat, light, motion, and life. 254 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. NATURE OF THE GALVANIC BATTERY. KNOWING the conditions of space, we take a two-cell battery. It is ready to be. operated. The metal occupies a portion of space ; whatever is in space is in the metal. The acid acts on the molecules of the metal and sets it in vibration. These vibrations are imparted to the tension in the metal. Now, the metal being in vibration, the tension outside and around the metal is con- stantly pressing into the metal. This puts the vibrating tension in motion, and produces elec- tricity, or galvanism, or circulation. This is the same as the magnet. There must be an inlet and an outlet for the two poles. The pressure passing in one pole must find its equilibrium through the other. It matters not how long the circuit may be, the time of displacement is the same. The acid acts on the metal, heating it. The heat vibrates the molecules of the metal, and they vibrate the tension in the metal, and the tension around the metal presses into it, pro- ducing the circulation, or flow, through the poles, or circuit, of the conductors. The zinc, or lead, is filled with the tension of space. The acid acts on its atoms, dissolving them, producing heat in FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 255 the metal. The natural condition of the metal is cold, and the heat has to raise, or displace, tho cold to produce the circuit, or circulation. 256 FKOM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. WHAT IS THE TELEGRAPH WIRE? THE telegraph wire is simply a hole in space, and the current a displacement of the ten- sion in the wire. The tension of space is in and around the wire. The lines pass through the wire, and the battery is applied, and the lines in the wire are disturbed from the outside tension, for every vibration the battery makes, there is a displacement of the same quantity at the other pole, or end of the wire in circuit. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 257 WHAT IS THE ELECTRIC LIGHT? THE dynamo acts on the tension in space, and the wire is the tube for displacing it. The arc light, or carbon, is near the tension of iron, and hard. If we follow the process of manu- facture of the carbons, we will find the main ob- ject is to get them hard and close-grained. The hardening and tempering puts them in tension, and makes them sonorous and good conductors. The carbon points are separated a little to break the circuit. Now, this space is the resisting point. The tension is the resisting force; the carbon points try to force a hole through it and are opposed. The carbons hold the tension in them, and the tension outside presses against them, and this pressure vaporizes the carbons, and the tensions become luminous. The inside of the carbon is in vibration, and these are re- sisted by the outside pressure of the tension. One pressure resists the other, and there is a bat- tle between the two opposing actions. Nature resists, and light is the result of the battle. When the current is in the carbons, they are in vibration, and the tension of space is pressing^ against them. This causes all the resistances to 258 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. be concentrated at the points of contact. This is where space is broken, or open. The carbons occupy a portion of space. The current vibrates the tension in the carbon ; this breaks the lines of the inside from the outside, throwing all resistance to the points, this appa- rently making a hole in space. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 259 STEAM WHISTLE. THE metal of the whistle is incased in the tension. It is part and parcel of it, and when it vibrates, it imparts them to the tension around it. The air resisting, is vibrated, and acts on the tension, carrying the sound wave, or vibration. The metal is solidly incased in this tension, and when vibrated by the escaping steam, these vibrations are imparted to the ten- sion around it; the air resisting and carrying the sound into space. 260 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. BELL SOUND. T^HE bell occupies a portion of space, and the 1 tension is in that space, in equilibrium and at rest ; and when struck with the hammer all this space that the bell occupies is thrown out of equilibrium. The tension in the bell is all in vibration, and the tension around the bell presses all around it, seeking an equilibrium, or a point of rest ; but the vibrating bell will not let the tension, or air, rest. These vibrations are car- ried into space by the tension and air. The tension is solid in the bell and around it, and the stroke sounds the tension in and outside the bell ; they are united. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 261 VITAL FORCE AND ITS NATURE. IN reviewing all the phenomena of vital force, and its effects and results, we find that the great pressure around all bodies is the cold tension of space. It permeates everything. It is our at- traction, for it presses all matter to the earth, the point of rest. It pulls the heat out of the metal, compressing it into a solid. It is the life of the magnet, causing its circulation and magnetic at- traction, and electricity; producing heat, and light, and power, encircling the earth, communi- cating with all its people, imparting our thoughts to them. It is the secret of the Leyden Jar, making its light. It is the light of the glow- worm, and its life, and of the fire-fl}'', its life and light. The galvanic battery, and its phenomena, are through its actions. The telephone is the me- dium through which it carries our voice and sounds. It is the producer of lightning, causing thunder, wind, rain, and storms. It is the cause of all sound, conducting the same. It is the cause of the phenomenon of candle and oil light, and all other lights are produced through it. We find it hidden in the coal, holding it to- 262 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. gether, ready to be acted on and liberated, pro- ducing heat. Cohesion is no more a secret. It exposes its action, showing that it is pressure that holds matter together. This is the pres- sure that holds the earth in form and place^ connecting it with the sun, imparting life to it, and producing its heat and light. It is in the sea, and all waters, imparting life and motion to the fish, and all other animalculse therein. We find it is the life of everything on earth, even man ; he, being a product of the earth, must obey the law that governs it. He is mat- ter, and has mind, or brain. This brain acts on this force — that is, his mind — matter acting on mind, or mind acting through matter. This is his brain power, or force. We find it in the re- sistance coil, holding it rigid and at rest, resist- ing the circuit, generating heat. It is the life of the dynamo and its power — the force that pro- jjels the motor, and its life. All the phenomena of the sunbeam is through this medium, pro- ducing the molecular motion of heat and cold,, shrinking and expanding. It is in the seed, in the plant, in the tree, being its circulation and life. We find the birds have it in their bodies, acting on it, giving them great powder of en- durance, it being their life force. It is in the rock, holding it together in all its forms. It is the medium that holds all metal in its rigid FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 26S form, pressing its atoms together. We find it always ready to be acted on. It is always har- nessed, ready for the driver, a willing and obedi- ent servant; no limit to its resources, and not displaceable or compressible — indestructible and everlasting, as gentle as a lamb, and as fierce a& a lion. All ranges of vibrations act on it, pro- ducing all the phenomena that w^e have seen and enumerated. We find it produces all the phe- nomena of all the various colors in Nature throughout animal and vegetable life, and the rainbow, with all its variety of hues, is from vibrations on it. All the beautiful flowers, and their various colors, are produced through it. All the great variety of our tropical birds, and their various colors, are blended by this tension. The different ranges of vibrations produce differ- ent varieties of colors. All the various sounds and music, and musical instruments, and their variations, are through its actions. All the diff'erent forms and expressions of the human face, and all bodies, are its work. All thought, mind, and remembrance are impres- sions on it, through the nerves of the brain. All feeling, and sensation, and seeing, tasting, smell- ing, eating, drinking, hunger, thirst, enjoyment, disappointment, ambition, anticipation, love, hate^ life, and death — these are all natural results of the tension of space through all matter and 264 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. bodies — for all matter and bodies are inert^ and dead, when cold. The heat gives them life by raising the cold that holds them rigid, and al- lows them to move, or gives them motion. What is this heat that moves the cold, and gives it life ? Anything that can vibrate on this cold tension will produce heat, for it disturbs its lines, and it resists, and heat is the result. There are only two actions in all the phenomena of force — heat and cold. One is equal to the other, and anything that disturbs the cold generates heat, for it takes heat to displace the cold. All heat is vibratory, expanding the molecules, or atoms, and they vibrate the tension by expand- ing it, filling more space. When the vibrations are rapid enough, they generate heat and light. These vibrations must be very fine to be able to reach the lines of tension. The air is the me- dium to act on this tension and vibrate it. The air molecules are floating in the tension, and when they are disturbed, they vibrate on it, and are expanded, and put in motion, which is circu- lation. This circulation disturbs the lines of tension, constantly crossing its lines, producing heat, light, and life. In observing the different phenomena we have not been able to find a force, or action, in Nature FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 205 that we could call electricity. What we call electricity is only a disturbance of the cold ten- sion of space, and this is done either by vibra- tions or heat. One is equal to the other. These actions are the only things that are fine enough to reach it. They disturb its equilibrium, and prevent it from resting, and it rests in the mag- net, for the metal of the magnet offers a resist- ance to this tension, and heat is generated in it, and a circulation produced. This circulation is the interchange of heat and cold through the tension. We cannot call this magnetism — for it is not the metal in the magnet that generates this force, or circulation, or pull, as the magnet does not pull, or attract, anything. It is simply a point of rest for particles of iron. These par- ticles of iron are filled with the tension, and offer a resistance to the circulation of this tension, and iire pressed into, or against, the magnet. Now, these particles of iron are resting against the sur- face of the magnet. They cannot move any fur- ther, for the magnet resists them, but the circu- lation still continues; and as we place the arma- ture across the poles, it offers a resistance to the circulation of the tension, and is pressed into the poles, filling them ; but the circulation still con- tinues through the armature. The pressure is on the outside of the magnet at this time. The armature and magnet have found their equilib- 266 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. rium and point of rest. They are united by the tension of space. Now, when we act on the magnet, we are act- ing on the tension of space that the magnet occupies, and when we disturb the circulation between the poles, we are disturbing the equilib- rium of the magnet; and if the magnet can sus- tain one hundred pounds, we are then acting on a pressure, or force, of one hundred pounds, and the more we disturb this space, the more force ^e produce. This is the only force that we have been able to discover in all the actions and phe- nomena of Nature. It is the universal and only force that we have been able to discover in all the actions and phenomena of Nature. It is the- universal and only force. We cannot find any action in Nature that we could call cohesion. It is the pressure of the cold tension of space that holds all matter in its solid form, and the heat liberates this matter. Now, this heat is not a force — for there could be no heat if there were no resistance. The cold tension is the resistance for all heat produced. We cannot find anything in Nature that we could name attraction. No bodies can attract each other. They are pressed together by the cold tension of space. Gravity is a name that does not harmonize with Nature's law. The cold tension of space FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 267 presses everything that is of the earth to the earth. Nothing can get away from the earth but heat, and when this heat has reached a cer- tain distance, the cold condenses it, and presses it back to the eartli, to the pomt of rest. Now, the earth resists all matter when this matter is pressed to it. The earth is like the magnet. We find that the iron resists the circu- lation and is pressed into the poles, they being the point of rest. Now, all matter resists the circulation between the sun and earth, and this matter is pressed to the earth, the point of rest. This matter can go no further. The earth re- sists it, but the circulation continues through the earth and back to the sun. The matter simply offers a resistance to this circulation, the same as the magnet. This tension can circulate through all matter. But all matter offers some resistance to its circulation, and this is what presses all matter together, for the tension presses every- thing into as small a space as possible, holding it in this form. Now, the earth is the resting-place for all matter within the earth's circulation. This is perhaps two hundred miles, radiating out in all directions, and any matter that may come within these lines will be pressed to the earth. How does the matter resist the circulation ? Let us stretch a fish net, or seine, in a river, or 268 FROM Darkness to light. ba}^, where the tide is running at full speed. Now, this net will offer a resistance to the motion of the water. It will resist the water, and the finer the meshes in the net, the more they resist the motion of the water. Now, the tide wants to carr}^ the net with it, and it takes a great force to prevent the tide from carrying it. They resist each other ; but if the net is free, it will move along with the water; and if the meshes are filled, or closed almost solid, then it receives the full weight, or pressure, of the moving tide, and it would be almost impossible to prevent it from moving with the water. Any matter that we may suspend in the water will offer a resistance to its motion. This resistance will be in propor- tion to its density. The moving water is seek- ing a point of rest, so it rests against anything that may oppose it, but the tide moves on. In concluding, or summing up all the phe- nomena that we have enumerated, we find these phenomena to be very simple and very few, only two actions and one force. The cold tension of space is the inertia, or dead weight, filling all space, and all matter is a condensation in this tension, by this tension — for this tension vapor- izes all matter. We cannot find any matter, or substance, that can dissolve, or vaporize, the tension. It is indestructible, immovable, non- FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 260 compressible, and non-displaceable, and non-di- visible. Now, this tension appears to be the matter, if there is any matter. It is the solid — for nothing can divide or separate it. It is the solid of the universe ; and what we call a solid, or matter, is only a gas condensed into this solid tension. Now, this solid tension fills all space, and there is no room for any more ; and when we produce heat, we expand, or press against this solid, cold tension. This heat is trying to displace, or force a hole, in this space, and all the universe is resisting this heat, or expansion. The hsat and cold press against each other, and they exert the force, and whichever is the strongest must be the victor. This struggle keeps up the force. If there were no cold, the heat would have nothing to resist it, and there could be no action, or force, exerted ; and if tliere were no heat, there could be no resistance, or motion, action, light, or life. The heat and cold pressing together crush the matter into vapor. They crush everything that resists them into an invisible gas. This gas is the crushed matter. It is pulled up to the cold space and condensed, and pressed back to the earth again, to make more matter. This is a continuous work of Na- ture of keeping up its circulation of heat and cold, shrinking and expanding. This gas is floatino: in the air in atoms. These atoms are 270 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. separated from each other by the air ; but if these atoms could come together iu the outer part of the atmosphere, and a sufficient number of them unite to form a mass, or cloud, this would offer a resistance to the lines of tension, and heat would be generated in this mass. The interior of this mass would be put in vibration, and the cold tension around them would press them into a solid. This solid would be pressed to the earth, and as it would pass through the air, it would be heated to incandescence — for the air would offer a resistance to its descent. This would be a very solid matter — for the pressure of air and tension would be pressing against its mass ; it would be encroaching on them. It would be occupying their space. This solid would contain all the different gases of all the metallic substances known to us. These gases w^ould now be a solid, or as near as we can get to a solid, for Nature has made this solid in her own way. This gas could be solidified in this way in perhaps one minute. The volcanoes are continually throwing off gas. This is matter of all kinds, and metals of various kinds, in a vapor form. This vapor is sometimes forced beyond the air space. This vapor is heat, and is pulled up to the cold space and condensed. If there is a sufficiency of this liim.^ FROM DARKNESS TO Ll heat in a body to be suddenly chilled, this ■chilling would condense, or press this heat to- gether — for this heat is matter, and this matter would be solidified, and then pressed back to the ^arth, the point of rest ; and as it would descend, the air and tension would resist its motion, and it would become incandescent, and as hard as flint. Now, this would be the volcanic vapor •condensed into a volcanic solid. This is a con- tinuous work of Nature, a simple circulation of heat and cold. The heat vaporized the matter in the volcano. This heat was pulled up to the •cold space and condensed, and pressed back to the earth, the point of rest. The heat did as much work as the cold ; one is equal to the other. Great masses of heat are ascending from our smelting works and furnaces. This heat is crushed matter, and may ascend be- yond the clouds in a mass, like smoke. We can see the smoke ascending, but we cannot see the heat, or heated gas. It is invisible. If the air is •calm and no movement to it, this heat can ascend beyond the clouds, and beyond the air, as long as the furnace supplies this heat to maintain the force. Now, this heat has formed an opening til rough this space like a c\^linder, and the cold space pulls this heat up into the vacuum — for this cold space is a vacuum of heat. This heat ds in the form of a cloud, or balloon-shaped. 272 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. Now^ there is no air around this heat to disturb its equilibrium ; it is floating up above the air in a mass, and the heat from the furnace is ex- panding this mass, and the cold tension of space is pressing all around this mass. There is a pressure inside of heat, and a pressure outside of cold. They are resisting each other. The cold is constant, and presses all around the heat, gradually compressing it into a smaller space^ and the heat concentrates all its force to resist the cold. As this mass becomes smaller, it gets heavier, for the cold is pressing the heat out of it. The supply of heat is suddenly cut off by a movement of air, or the stopping of the furnace. This gives the cold possession of the heat. The cold then soon condenses, or compresses, this heat into its own embrace, and makes it solid^ and presses it to the earth, the point of rest. This solid is the gas that arose from the furnace. It is the crushed matter, or heat condensed by the cold tension of space. What would this matter contain? All the elements of the fur- nace and air. These would be concentrated in this solid mass, and this mass would be harder than anything that we could produce — for it was forced from a very high temperature to a very low one. This sudden chilling, and cold pres- sure, solidifies the gases and makes them hard. If a nortion of these gases were from a glass fur- FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 273 nace, and the heat in the furnace was great enough to vaporize the glass, and this vapor could ascend in a mass, or cloud, and get beyond the air space, and be suddenly chilled by the cold, say this cold would be two thousand de- grees below zero, and the heat in the vapor four thousand degrees above zero, then the vapor could hold its form against the cold. The cold would press all around the heat, gradually press- ing it into a smaller space. There could be no air around this heat, nothing but the pure gases and the cold tension of space. They would be resisting each other, and the gases would become a solid ; the center of this gas would be the hot- test part, for the heat would be concentrated. It would become a liquid, for the gases would be pressed into a liquid, and as this mass would be cooled under the cold pressure, it would imprison the tension of space within its mass. Now, this mass is a solid, and has become weighty. The heat has been extracted from it, and the cold took its place, giving it weight. This weight is pressed back to the earth ; and as this solid would pass into the air, it would meet a resistance, and would become heated. The heat would expand it, and it would explode from the resistance of the air. And if we could find any of these pieces, we would find a dia- mond — for the chilled vapor, or glass, would be 274 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. as hard as a diamond, and the tension would be imprisoned within the glass. It would be under strain from the sudden chilling, and expanding, by the heat, generated by the resistance of the air. The same actions are taking place in the furnaces and volcanoes, and when there is a sufficient quantity of this heat in a mass, it gets beyond the air space, and is there cooled in a temperature of from one thousand to five thou- sand degrees below zero. This is a great pres- sure, and anything that can withstand it will be as hard as diamonds, or any matter that can be made. Now, these gases have been condensed under a cold pressure of about four thousand de- grees. This pressure holds them in their present form, at rest ; and if we raise or lift this pres- sure off them by applying heat, they will go off in a gas again. The heat raises the weight from them, and allows them to become fluid, or gas. fbom: darkness to light.: 273 ACTION OF THE DYNAMO. (See page 155.) NOW, we will put the dynamo in motion, slowly, to follow the action of changes. The copper wire around the armature is filled with the tension. This tension is disturbed from the outer tension, and produces vibrations in the tension of the wire. Once the tension in the wire vibrates, the tension outside presses into the wire, the same as a vacuum tube, and the action, begins. These vibrations pass through the mag- netic coil, and vibrate the tension in the magnet When the tension in the magnet is in vibration, the tension outside, being constant, presses into the magnet poles, and we have a magnetic pull. The greater the quantity of vibrations, or dis- turbance, the greater the magnetic pull. The armature rotating between the poles, disturbs the tension, or magnetic pull. The dynamo is now at full speed, and the action regular. The ten- sion in the magnet is in a great vibratory con- dition. The atoms are in stress, and the tension is in a circuit through the poles of the magnet ; that is, the tension has found its equilibrium through the magnet. The magnet, at this period, 276 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. is like an open tube, the metal offering little re- sistance to the action of the tension. The pres- sure on the outside pressing against the surface of the magnet, presses in at one pole and out through the other, forming a circuit. The arma- ture continually making and breaking this cir- cuit, or tension, produces electricity. The mag- net is a receptacle for the tension at rest, but when vibrated, it is thrown out of equilibrium. This causes the pressure of the tension to press against the surface of the magnet. The lines in- side being in motion, the pressure outside then presses in, and produces the flow, or circuit, or point of rest. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 277 WHAT IS DISEASE AND DECAY IN THE VEGETABLE FAMILY ? WE will illustrate a plant in a healthy and vigorous condition of growth. This plant must have all the natural elements and condi- tions in soil, air, sunshine and drainage. All these are necessary to keep this plant sweet. The soil must have good drainage to keep it sweet and pure, and a certain amount of heat to keep up a free circulation of sap. This is the vital part of a plant. As long as these conditions can be maintained, the plant can continue to grow and mature in a healthy condition, but as soon as this is denied this plant, disease sets in ; first in the soil. This is the food of the plant, supplying its circula- tion, which is its life. The soil not having the conditions around it to keep up an active circu- lation in it, becomes sour, or stagnant. This is imparted to the roots, and up into the sap, or circulation. The roots are incased in this soil, and the plant must absorb its ingredients, or contents, through its circulation. This sour- ness is imparted to the sap; then comes a strug- gle between the two conditions of sweetness and 278 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. sourness, life and death. One resists the other, and the fight goes on. Now, this plant cannot assist itself; it is compelled to stay in this un- favorable condition, and suffer decay by fer- mentation — for the sourness has conquered, and taken possession of this plant, and it begins to ferment. This fermentation is a liberation of the gases, or matter, composing the plant. This action causes heat, and increases the liberation of the gases, allowing them to go free and condense into some other matter. These gases do not rot, or decay, going off" into nothing. They are simply liberated by the action of the fermenta- tion. This is what is termed chemical action. It is the change from sweetness to sourness, or from alkali to acid. These changes are acting on the tension, keeping it in vibration, causing heat. The acid and alkali are battling for place, but cannot find it — for this keeps the tension in agi- tation, keeping up the commotion, and this al- lows the gases to dissolve or go free. The alkali is like the cold tension of space — it is sweet and pure, quiet and at rest. The acid disturbs this rest by trying to mix with it, and the alkali re- sists,' and does not want to associate with the acid, but the acid insists, and forces itself into the alkali, and there is a battle between them^. FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. 279 and this liberates the matter that opposes these combatants. AH this action is acting on, and disturbing the tension, and the tension dis- turbs the matter and chemicals. They are all seeking an equilibrium, or a point of rest, but this they cannot find until they become equal- ized; and as we apply more acid, it increases the heat and disturbance, and the gases seek their own families, and want to consolidate to resist this acid, but the acid forces itself between these gases, separating them. Now, the acid has conquered, and taken pos- session of the plant, and liberated all its gases, or matter, but there is nothing lost in this decay, or change, from a solid to gas, the same amount of matter remains eternally. This is the earth's circulation, or interchange of matter, keeping up its life, and as we apply alkali to this chemical compound of sweetness and sourness, it will be- come sweet again — for the alkali will conquer the acid, and subdue it, and allow the gases to asso- ciate with their own families through the ten- sion. These gases find their relatives, and con- solidate, combining and uniting to protect them- selves, for the alkali assists them. Now, to cause any action or change, there must be two opposing actions, heat and cold, sweetness and sourness, or alcali and acid. These resist each other, causing heat. The heat vibratea 280 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. the tension, liberating the gases, or matter, op- posing these actions. All these changes are simply an action disturbing the equilibrium of the tension, causing heat in this disturbed space. This is where the force is exerted, and the atoms, or gases, are acted on. This will apply to all chemical actions and compounds, and to all vegetable and animal life or matter. ^^'^ or THl^'^ HFIVBRSITT] UNR^EESITY OF CALIFOENIA LIBRAEY, BERKELEY THIS BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW Books not returned on time are subject to a fine of 50c per volume after the third day overdue, increasing to $1.00 per volume after the sixth day. Books not in demand may be renewed if application is made before expiration of loan period. JAN 29 )92J MAY IS 1924 m^^ 1925 Xtw !X>- 20ot-11,'20 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY