- 1.2) One
Phase of Keely's
Discovery in its Relations to the Cure of Disease.
I
know medicine is called a science. It is nothing like a science. It is
a great humbug! Doctors are mere empirics when they are not charlatans.
We are as ignorant as men can be. Who knows anything in the world about
medicine? Gentlemen, you have done me the honour to come here to attend
my lectures, and I must tell you now, frankly, in the beginning, that I
know nothing about medicine, nor do I know anyone who does know
anything about it. Nature does a great deal, imagination does a great
deal, doctors do devilish little when they do not do harm. Sick people
always feel they are neglected, unless they are well drugged, les
imbeciles! - Professor Magendie (before the students of his class in
"The Allophatic College of Paris").
In
the year 1871, the writer was sent to Paris to Schwalbach, by Dr.
Beylard, and recommended to the care of Dr. Adolph Genth. She said to
the physician, "I wish for your opinion and your advice, if you can
give it to me without giving me any medicine." He replied, "With all my
heart, madam; and I wish to God there were more women like you, but we
should soon lose most of our patients if we did not dose them."
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This
is a terrible excuse for the use of those agencies which Dr. John Good
says have sent more human beings to their graves than war, pestilence
and famine combined. Keely holds the opinion that Nature works under
the one law of Compensation and Equilibrium-the law of Harmony; and
that when disease indicates the disturbance of this law Nature at one
seeks to banish the disease by restoring equilibrium, He seeks to
render assistance on the same plan; replacing grossly material agencies
by the finer forces of nature; as has been so successfully done by Dr.
Pancoast and Dr. Babbitt in America.
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"Nature,"
says Dr. Pancoast, author of The True Science of Light, "works by
antagonism in all her operations: when one of her force overdoes its
work, disease, or at least a local disorder, is the immediate
consequence; now, if we attack this force, and overcome it, the
opposite force has a clear field and may re-assert its rights-thus
equilibrium is restored, and Equilibrium is health. The Sympathetic
System, instead of attacking the stronger force, sends recruits to the
weaker one, and enables it to recover its powers; or, if the disorder
be the result of excessive of Nerves or Ganglia, a negative remedy may
be employed to reduce the tension. Thus, too, equilibrium is restored."
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Dr.
Hartmann writes:-
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Mr.
Keely is perfectly right in saying that 'all disease is a disturbance
of the equilibrium between positive and negative forces.' In my
opinion, no doctor ever cured any disease. All he can possibly do is to
establish conditions under which the patient (or nature) may cure
himself.
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If
you enter the field of therapeutics and medicine, we find a decided
fermentation of new ideas; not among the fossil specimens of
antediluvian quackery, but among those who are called "irregulars,"
because they have the courage to depart from the tracks trodden out by
their predecessor. The more intelligent classes of physicians have long
ago realized the fact that drugs and medicines are perfectly useless,
excepting in cases where diseases can be traced to some mechanical
obstruction, in some organ that may be reached by mechanical action. In
all other cases our best physicians have become agnostics, leaving
nature to have her own way, observing the expectative method, which, in
fact, is no method of cure at all, but merely consists in doing no harm
to the patient. Recently, however, light, electricity, and magnetism
have been employed; so that even in the medical guild the finer forces
of nature are taking the place of grossly material, and therefore
injurious substances. The time is probably near when these fines forces
will be employed universally. Everybody knows that a note struck upon
an instrument will produce sound in a correspondingly attuned
instrument in its vicinity. If connected with a tuning fork, it will
produce a corresponding sound in the latter; and if connected with a
thousand such tuning forks, it will make all the thousand sound, and
produce a noise far greater than the original sound, without the latter
becoming any weaker for it. Here, then, is an augmentation or
multiplication of power. If we had any means to transform sound again
into mechanical motion, we would have a thousand-fold multiplication of
mechanical motion. It would be presumptuous to say that it will not be
as easy for the scientists of the future to transform sound into
mechanical motion, as it is for the scientist of the present to
transform heat into electricity. Perhaps Mr. Keely has already solved
the problem. There is a fair prospect that in the very near future, we
shall have, in his ethereal force, a power far surpassing that of steam
or electricity. Nor does the idea seem to be Utopian if we remember
that modern science heretofore only knew the law of the conservation of
energy; while to the scientist of the future the law of the
augmentation of energy will be unveiled. . . . . As the age which has
passed away has been the age of steam, the coming era will be the age
of induction. There will be universal rising up of lower vibrations
into higher ones, in the realm of motion. Mr. Keely will, perhaps,
transform sound into mechanical motion by applying the law of
augmentation and multiplication of force." . . .
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Keely,
writing on brain disturbance, says, In considering the mental forces as
associated with the physical, I find, by my past researches, that the
convolutions which exist in the cerebral field are entirely governed by
the sympathetic conditions that surround them.
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The
question arises, what are these aggregations and what do they
represent, as being linked with physical impulses? They are simply
vibrometric resonators, thoroughly subservient to sympathetic acoustic
impulses given to them by their atomic sympathetic surrounding media,
all the sympathetic impulses that so entirely govern the physical in
their many and perfect impulses (we are now discussing purity of
conditions) are not emanations properly inherent in their own
composition. They are only media-the acoustic media-for transferring
from their vibratory surroundings the conditions necessary to the pure
connective link for vitalizing and bringing into action the varied
impulses of the physical.
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All
abnormal discordant aggregations in these resonating convolutions
produce differentiation to concordant transmission; and, according as
these differentiations exist in volume so the transmission are
discordantly transferred, producing antagonism to pure physical action.
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Thus,
in Motor Ataxy a differentiation of the minor thirds of the posterior
parietal lobule produces the same condition between the retractors and
extensors of the leg and foot; and thus the control of the proper
movements is lost through this differentiation. The same truth can be
universally applied to any of the cerebral convolutions that are in a
state of differential harmony to the mass of immediate cerebral
surroundings. Taking the cerebral condition of the whole mass as one,
it is subservient to one general head centre, although as many neutrals
are represented as there are convolutions.
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The
introductory minors are controlled by the molecular; the next
progressive third by the atomic; and the high third by the Etheric. All
these progressive links have their positive, negative, and neutral
position. When we take into consideration the structural condition of
the human brain, we ought not to be bewildered by the infinite variety
of its sympathetic impulses; inasmuch as it unerringly proves the true
philosophy that the mass chords of such structures are governed by
vibratory etheric
flows-the very material
which composes them. There is no structure whatever, animal, vegetable,
mineral, that is not built up from the universal cosmic ether. Certain orders of
attractive vibration
produce certain orders or structure; thus, the infinite variety of
effects-more especially in the cerebral organs. The bar of iron or the
mass of steel, have, in each, all the qualifications necessary, under
certain vibratory impulses, to evolve all the conditions that govern
that animal organism-the brain; and it is as possible to differentiate
the molecular conditions of a mass of metal of any shape so as to
produce what you may express as a crazy piece of iron or a crazy piece
of steel; or vice versa, an intelligent condition in the same.
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I
find in my researches, as to the condition of molecules under vibration,
that discordance cannot exist in the molecule proper; and that it is
the highest and most perfect structural condition that exists;
providing that all the progressive orders are the same. Discordance in
any mass is the result of differentiated groups, induced by
antagonistic chords, and the flight or motions of such, when
intensified by sound, are very tortuous and zig-zag; but when free of
this differentiation are in straight lines. Tortuous lines denote
discord, or pain; straight lines denote harmony, or pleasure. Any
differentiated mass can be brought to a condition of harmony, or
equation, by proper chord media, and an equated sympathy produced.
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There
is good reason for believing that insanity is simply a condition of
differentiation in the mass chords of the cerebral convolutions, which
creates an antagonistic molecular bombardment towards the neutral or
attractive centres of such convolutions; which, in turn, produce a
morbid irritation in the cortical sensory centres in the substance of
ideation; accompanied, as general thing, by sensory hallucinations,
ushered in by subjective sensations; such as flashes of light and
colour, or confused sounds and disagreeable odours, etc., etc.
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There
is no condition of the human brain that ought not to be sympathetically
coincident to that order of atomic flow to which its position, in the
cerebral field, is fitted. Any differentiation in that special organ,
or, more plainly, any discordant grouping tends to produce a discordant
bombardment-an antagonistic conflict; which means the same disturbance
transferred to the physical, producing inharmonious disaster to that
portion of the physical field which is controlled by that especial
convolution. This unstable aggregation may be compared to a knot on a
violin string. As long as this knot remains it is impossible to elicit,
from its sympathetic surroundings, the condition which transfers pure
concordance to its resonating body. Discordant conditions, i. e.,
differentiation of mass, produce negatization to coincident action.
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The
question now arises, What condition is it necessary to bring about in
order to bring back normality, or to produce stable equilibrium in the
sympathetic centres?
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The
normal brain is like a harp of many strings strung to perfect harmony.
The transmitting conditions being perfect, are ready, at any impulse,
to induce pure sympathetic assimilation. The different strings
represent the different ventricles and convolutions. The
differentiations of any one from its true setting is fatal, to a
certain degree, to the harmony of the whole combination.
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If
the sympathetic condition of any physical organism carries a positive
flow of 80 per cent on its whole combination, and a negative one of 20
per cent., it is the medium of perfect assimilation to one of the same
ratio, if it is distributed under the same conditions to the mass of
the other. If two masses of metal, of any shape whatever, are brought
under perfect assimilation, to one another, their unition, when brought
into contact, will be instant. If we live in a sympathetic field we
become sympathetic, and a tendency from the abnormal to the normal
presents itself by an evolution of a purely sympathetic flow towards
its attractive centres. It is only under these conditions that
differentiation can be broken up, and a pure equation established. The
only condition under which equation can never be established is when a
differential disaster has taken place, of 66 2/3 against the 100 pure,
taking the full volume as one. If the 66 2/3 or even 100 exists in one
organ alone, and the surrounding ones are normal, then a condition can
be easily brought about to establish the concordant harmony or equation
to that organ. It is as rare to find a negative condition of 66 2/3
against the volume of the whole cerebral mass, as it is to find a
coincident between differentiation; or, more plainly, between two
individuals under a state of negative influence. Under this new system
it is as possible to induce negations alike as it is to induces
positive alike.
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Pure
sympathetic concordants are as antagonistic to negative discordants as
the negative is to the positive; but the vast volume the sympathetic
holds over the non-sympathetic, in ethereal
space, makes is at once the ruling medium and re-adjuster of all
opposing conditions if properly brought to bear upon them.
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Until
Keely's "Theoretical Expose" is given to science, there are few who
will fathom the full meaning of these views.
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His
discoveries embrace, the manner or way of obtaining the keynote, or
"chord of mass," of mineral vegetable, and animal substances;
therefore, the construction of instruments, or machines, by which this
law can be utilized in mechanics, in arts, and in restoration of
equilibrium in disease, is only a question of the full understanding of
the operation of this law.
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Keely
estimates that, after the introductory impulse is given on the harmonic
thirds, molecular vibration
is increased from 20,000 per second to 1,000,000,000.
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On
the enharmonic sixths, that the vibration
of the intermolecule is increased to 300,000,000.
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On
the diatonic ninths, that atomic vibration
reaches 900,000,000; on the dominant etheric
sixths, 8,100,000,000; and on the inter-etheric
ninths, 24,300,000,000; all of which can be demonstrated by sound
colours.
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In
such fields of research, Mr. Keely finds little leisure. Those who
accuse him of "dilly-dallying," of idleness, of "always going to do and
never doing," of "visionary plans," etc., etc., know nothing of the
infinite patience, the persistent energy which for a quarter of a
century has upheld him in his struggle to attain this end. Still less,
if possible, is he understood by those who think he is seeking
self-aggrandizement, fame, fortune, or glory.
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The
time is approaching when all who have sought to defame this discoverer
and inventor, all who have stabbed him with unmerited accusations, all
who have denounced him as "a bogus inventor," "a fraud," "an impostor,"
"a charlatan," "a modern Cagliostro," will be forced to acknowledge
that he has done a giant's work for true science, even though he should
not live to attain commercial success. But history will not forget
that, in the nineteenth century, the story of Prometheus has been
repeated, and that the greatest mind of the age, seeking to scale the
heavens to bring down the light of truth for mankind, met with
Prometheus's reward.
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Note.
- Dr. Hartmann, in a report, or condensed statement, in reference to
Keely's discovery, writes as follows: "He will never invent a machine
by which the equilibrium of the living forces a disordered brain can be
restored."
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As
such a statement would lead the reader of the report to fancy that
Keely expected to invent such an instrument, it is better to correct
the error that Dr. Hartmann has fallen into. Keely has never dreamed of
inventing such an instrument. He hopes, however, to perfect one that he
is now at work upon, which will enable the operator to localize the
seat of disturbance in the brain in mental disorders. If he succeeds,
this will greatly simplify the work of "re-adjusting opposing
conditions"; and will also enable the physician to decide whether the
"differential disaster" has taken place which prevents the possibility
of establishing the equation that is necessary to a cure.
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According
to Keely's theories it is that form of energy known as magnetism-not
electricity-which is to be the curative agent of the future, thus
reviving a mode of treatment handed down from the time of the earliest
records, and mad known to the Royal Society of London more than fifty
years since by Professor Keil, of Jena, who demonstrated the
susceptibility of the nervous system to the influence of the natural
magnet, and its efficacy in the cure of certain infirmities.
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As
Cheston Morris, M.D., has well said in his paper on "Vital Molecular
Vibrations," "We are entering upon a new field in biology, pathology,
and of course, therapeutics, whose limits are at present far beyond our
ken."
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"The
adaptability of drugs," says Dr. Henry Wood, "to heal disease is
becoming a matter of doubt, even among many who have not yet studied
deeper causation. Materia Medica lacks the exact elements of a science.
The just-preponderance, for good or ill, of any drug upon the human
system is an unsolved problem, and will so remain. . . . After
centuries of professional research, in order to perfect "the art of
healing," diseases have steadily grown more subtle and more numerous. .
. . Only when internal, divine forces come to be relied upon, rather
than outside reinforcement, will deterioration cease. Said Plato, 'You
ought not to attempt to cure the body without the soul.' " [Keely and
His Discoveries, Chapter VII, Cure of Disease]
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To
Keely the brain is merely a mechanism to channel Mind Force. many of
his machines were designed and built to emulate this process:
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"I
call this indefinable, latent element," he writes, "the soul of the
sympathetic elements in which it manifests, itself; and which until now
has been locked up in their interstitial embrace. It is the leader of
all triple streams, associated with the polar negative envelope of our
planet and the one most sympathetically concordant to celestial
radiation. In our individual organisms, the latent soul-forces,
existing in the cerebral domain, are sympathetically subservient to the
celestial radiating force whereby they are stimulated into action in
controlling the movements of our bodies. Take away this latent element
from the brain and the physical organism becomes and inert, dead mass;
on the same order as a mechanical device without an energy to operate
it.
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"The
polar negative machine is a mechanical brain, with all the adjuncts
associated with it to sympathetically receive and distribute the polar
negative force. Its sympathetic transmitter (corresponding to our sun
in our planetary system, transmitting all energy from the central sun
of the universe) is the medium whereby sympathetic concordance is
established between it and polar sympathy. The requisites for
polarizing and depolarizing keep up the action of the machine as long
as it is associated with the transmitter. The force which operates the
mechanical is the same as that which operates the physical brain;
purely mental, emanating from celestial outreach. There is nothing in
the range of philosophy which so satisfies the intellect as the
comprehension of this wondrous system of sympathetic association,
planned by the Creator of the celestial and terrestrial universe, for
the government of all forms of matter.
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"Nature
cannot rebel against herself. The flowers of spring cannot resist the
sympathetic force which calls them into bloom, any more than the latent
force in intermolecular spaces can rebel and remain in neutral depths
when sympathetic vibration
calls it forth.
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"What
is the soul but life in latent suspension? The motion exhibited in
matter shows that its soul is ever present; and yet there are men of
great learning, as taught in the schools, who, after spending their
lives in researching all forms of matter, deny that all living things
depend on one everlasting Creator and Ruler, in whom they live and move
and have their being through all time, as much as when He first
breathed into them the breath of celestial radiation; and to whom they
are as closely allied, still, by the workings of the great cosmical law
of sympathetic association, as when the evolutionary work of creation
commenced.
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"The
ancients were far better schooled in spiritual philosophy than are we
of the present age. Their mythological records, in their symbolical
meaning, prove this fact. They recognized this latent element as the
very breath of the Almighty; the sympathetic outflow of the trinity of
force, the triple spiritual essence of God Himself. Their conceptions
of Deity were greater and truer than our own. From them we learn that
when God said 'Let there be light,' He liberated the latent celestial
element that illuminates the world: that when He breathed into man the
breath of life, He impregnated him with that latent
soul&endash;element that made him a living and moving being."
Clara
Bloomfield-Moore, The
Veil Withdrawn