1885.] Seen and the Unseen. 699 
things. “ Cause and Effect were involved in one Universal 
Motion.” 
Matter, Heat, and Light was the primeval condition of 
all substance. Its ultimate purification would produce the 
peculiar essence of animal life and intelligence. From the 
lowest this was a sphere of progression, “ a constant develop- 
ment of inherent principles and laws, the lower containing 
the higher, and the perfe( 5 ted comprehending all below it. 
The perpetual vortex was the Spiritual, the perfect and 
spontaneeus substance of the Great Positive Mind.” 
Matter could not “ exist without a principle of inherent 
and Eternal production.” “ It was impossible for this . . . 
Positive Power to exist without Matter as its accompaniment 
and vehicle : that this Matter might assume forms the adtion 
of the Great Positive Power was necessary to impel it to 
higher states of progression. Matter thus afted upon was 
developed until it became an external Equilibrium or 
Negative ” of the power acting on it. “ Thus Positive and 
Negative” were established, and “ Matter was thus obliged 
to obey every impulse or force given it by the internal prin- 
ciples emanating from the Great Positive Mind.” 
“ The Great First Cause, or Vortex of pure Intelligence, 
was a First or Cause Internal .* Matter,! with its proper- 
ties, &c., may be termed a Second or Effect ; and the external 
or countervailing force, developed by the adtion of the in- 
ternal, was a Third or Ultimate. In the beginning God 
created — or the Great Positive Mind caused” — all “ exist- 
ences and forms.” 
The lecturer then shows how an incalculable number of 
Centres or Suns were produced by the condensation of heat 
and light : from these proceeded planets revolving around 
their controlling centres, “ and so an endless circle of suns 
and formations were produced corresponding to other circles, 
each circle bearing an eternal system, and an index or 
* In the Vedic poems of Chaos or the Beginning: “ Nothing that is was 
then ; even what is not did not exist then. What was it that hid or covered 
the existing ? What was the refuge of what ? Was water the deep abyss, 
the chaos which swallowed up everything ? There was no death, nothing 
immortal. There was no space, no life, and lastly no time. No solar torch 
by which the Morning might be told from the Evening. That one breathed 
breathless by itself; other than it, nothing has since been. That one 
breathed and lived ; it enjoyed more than mere existence ; yet its life was not 
dependent upon itself, as our life depends upon the air which we breathe. It 
breathed, breathless. Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled in gloom 
profound as ocean.”— [Hist. San. Lit., Max Muller.) Talboys Wheeler says, 
in the “ Vedas,” as a prevailing idea, “ There is the expression of one Supreme 
Being in all and above all.” 
f Mr. Fishbough, in a note, says that in speaking of the original condition 
of things the lecturer used Matter and Fire as synonymous. 
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