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sound through the medium of the air and if other vibrations are to be heard as for example the vibrations of a string, or the electric pulses transmitted through a telephone wire they must be converted or transformed into ;
—
—
appropriate pulsation of the atmosphere. in fact,
If,
we
could go in our physical body beyond our
50,000-mile Earth Globe, either the Sun, Planets, or
we should not be able to see Stars we should be plunged in ;
complete darkness, for our physical eyes would be deprived of their necessary vibrational stimulating
medium
;
just as
our ears would be useless to us in a vacuum, through being deprived of the atmospheric vibrations. "
Now
what does physical Science tell us of these Forces ? Sound, it says, is a sensation produced by the impact of atmospheric molecules on the tympanum, which by setting up delicate tremors in the auditory apparatus, thus communicate their vibrations to Light is the sensation caused by the impact of inconthe brain. ceivably minute vibrations of ether on the retina of the eye. " So, too, say we. But these are simply the effects produced in our atmosphere and its immediate surroundings all, in fact, which '
'
—
within the range of our terrestrial consciousness."
falls
vol.
i.
We to
{S.D.y
p. 605.)
need another sense
make
—more
visible the reality
We
Planes of Substance.
than one sense, in fact
and substantiality of the inner have already given in Chapter
VII. some quotations indicating the natural evolution of these
super-physical
Meanwhile, find
it is
a means
senses
in
the
coming Humanity.
not impossible that physical science of
"
transforming
vibrations, in such a
way
down
"
may
higher etheric
and
as to produce telescopes
spectroscopes of enormous penetrating power, which shall
give us more accurate information as to the real constitution of
bodies
both within and outside of our
own
particular System.
on
It should be clearly realised that all the vibrations
the higher Planes are here, at every point of space
;
it
all is
only a few which, by sympathetic vibration with the vibra-