IDENTICAL CHANGES 



ferrence of force from one wave to another without 

 transferrence of material. Let it be called by any 

 name whatever, it is yet an occult force, and that 

 is the reason why three-fourths of the literature 

 of occultism is vibration. In acquired momentum 

 there is held to have been created an occult pro- 

 pensity to move, in a straight line preferably, but 

 else in any other line (demonstration, the pendu- 

 lum), and any direct and constant relation with 

 displacement in universal space is utterly ignored. 

 And the doctrine of universal evolution, so gener- 

 ally accepted by scientists, is in its very essence 

 occult and must lead to occultism. For the first 

 ion or particle of chaotic matter, self created, or by 

 itself ever existing as a particle of void or chaotic 

 matter, evolution gives to this particle an occult 

 longing for organization. The association of parti- 

 cles is held to be neither an accident nor the result 

 of an influence outside of chaotic matter, but the 

 result of an inherent longing for perfection, 

 strengthened by every environment of further or- 

 ganization, until longing and striving awoke in the 

 conscious I. Then logically this conscious I is 

 greater than all material, and all environments. 

 In its own sovereign right it has dominion over 

 force and matter. It is not by mere chance that 

 every fantastic creed should so eagerly seize upon 

 the philosophy of evolution. For, in the progress 

 of evolution, the physical, mechanical necessity is 

 not the moving factor, but an incidental result, and 

 back of every cataclysm in stellar space, back of 

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