The Finding of the Third Eye by Vera Stanley Alder

Author:Vera Stanley Alder
Language: eng
Format: epub

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SECRETS OF SOUND

‘In the beginning was the Word.’

Thus is the importance of sound emphasized to us, although so simply and directly that it is easy to miss its significance.

The universe was created by speech – the Creator did not act. He spoke. He said: ‘Let there be light’, and there was light.

Let us not pass over these words with a shrug, as if they were charming fairy-tales designed to enthral the naïve people of old. The deepest scientific knowledge of all times was always thus veiled by symbolism and by myth, and rich is the reward of every effort at interpretation. Certain of the ancient peoples made a profound study of chemistry. The fact that they chose to give to their chemicals the names of gods and goddesses and to describe their reactions under the guise of myths and ‘legends’ does not in the least detract from their actual knowledge. On the contrary it may show how much deeper and further they penetrated into the realms of ultimate Causes than men of science do today.

We are told by those teachers of antiquity that the formation of this universe out of chaos was brought about by the Breath and Word of the Creator – by Sound! Certain sounds produced differing sets of vibrations in the ether. Some of these were of such low frequency that they formed particles of what we call ‘matter’ or physical substance. There could not be Light, as we know it, without minute specks of matter in the ether to reflect it.

We learn that later these particles of matter collided, coalesced, the force of their mutual attraction (or gravity) causing them to commence spinning. The endless arrangements thus formed produced this Solar System and all that is therein. We can gain an idea of the infinite number of these arrangements by considering the vast scale of vibrations with which we dealt in Chapter 2.

The little section of oscillations on this scale, to which the ear can react, and which we know as Sound, are of comparatively low frequency. They occur below the heat vibrations. A vibration of sixteen per second gives the lowest note heard by the human ear, and the scale of sound runs up to nearly 40,000 vibrations per second. This speed is the highest which we can register as sound.

Higher up on the scale, vibrating at about seventy million million million times per second, begins the vibrations which we know as heat, and to which the heat-centres in our skin react. Above these come the Light and Colour vibrations and above those are the X-ray and the subtle vibrations of the mind.

Below the Sound vibrations come those of chemical substances which make up the physical world.

It is said that the whole scale of vibrations is divided up into Octaves of Seven. Each octave is a replica of the others, only functioning at a doubled or trebled speed of vibration. Thus, merely as a simile, supposing the first note of the octave C to vibrate

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