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From "Dashed Against the Rock" by W. J. Colville, 1894
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(heavily influenced if not written by John W. Keely)
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Placed in the public domain on August 30, 1989 by Vangard Sciences, PO
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BOX 1031, Mesquite, TX, 75150:(214) 324-8741 (Jerry ) or
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(214) 484-3189 (Ron)
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Amplitude of Force
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The amplitude of vibrations is directly increased or diminished by
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increasing or diminishing the size or number of creative aggregates.
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The human EGO, subject to the forces of love or hate, kindness or
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cruelty, forgiveness or revenge, is according to circumstances ruled or
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dominated by these force in proportion to their intensity.
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The intensity of a force is precisely proportionate to the number of
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units vibrating at that particular pitch. For instance, let fear
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assail one an, and according to its intensity will be the effect; but
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let a crowd of en experience fear, see the result in the augmentation
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of fear, though its source be relatively insignificant. A curtain in a
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theatre, for example, takes fire; one or two persons, cowardly at
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heart, become afraid through the dominance of the purely animal
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instinct of bodily preservation; there is actually no real danger, but
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these two or three persons are sufficient to arouse the unreasoning
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dread which lies latent in every breast, with perhaps a very few
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remarkable exceptions. The fire burns nobody; but blind fear, which is
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extremely contagious among people mutually sympathetic, by reason of
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the rapidity with which etheric waves transmit all feeling, occasions a
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terrible panic, during which many severe accidents and many instances
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of fierce cruelty occur, all because of this sympathetic transfer of
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feeling starting from one or two augmented or intensified fear-centres,
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each person being a centre emanating the feeling of fear. Were there
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no counteracting centres of influence in an audience, radiating
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contrary feelings, the result of a panic would be the total bodily
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extinction of a very large percentage of the assembled multitude.
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Thus the human race is immersed in forces whose intensity is vast in
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proportion to the number of EGOS adding each its quota to the already
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intense vibration, tending either to love or hate, kindness or cruelty,
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timidity or bravery. Those who intensify the force of cruelty in the
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place where they reside, may be strengthening a murderer's hand to
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strike the deadly blow in a distant land. This result is brought about
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through the agency of etheric waves, which transmit forces with
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undiminished intensity even to uncalculated distances. This phenomenon
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may be termed transympathetic.
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They who feel that force called love, which on higher planes is
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known as sympathy, thrill with waves of force which are already strong,
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augmenting them or increasing their intensity. They who indulge such
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sentiments and encourage such forces may stop the falling hand on evil
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sped.
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In order to protect ourselves effectually from becoming the
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dispensers or propagators of deadly force, we must consciously and
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deliberately relate ourselves by resolute determination, to awaken
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within us such centres only as are concordantly sympathetic with all
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force radiating in the interest of universal goodwill, thereby aiding
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the establishment of universal brotherhood.
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Page 1
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All ye who feel a longing for a better life or nobler existence draw
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to yourselves streams of force which they alone feel who have attuned
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their bodies to the higher harmonies. For a moment you feel as they
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who dwell perpetually in communion with higher harmonies, living
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immersed in that higher force; they are the true hierophants, and you,
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O neophytes, struggling to attain the goal which they have reached, do
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not despair though at present you find yourselves unable to maintain
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this high altitude for long together. Though you fall many times, be
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not discouraged, for as yet your organisms and all their centres of
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resonation are not yet concordant to the focalized vibrations of the
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higher harmonies; being still related to the mass, you are drawn again
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and again into the whirlpool of the vibrations which affect the mass,
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for these you cannot yet resist. But know that you can change all this
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rapidly or slowly as your purpose is steadily intense or vacillating.
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With the cessation of your lower desires comes the cessation of the
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action upon you of the lower forces; the resonating centres which
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formerly distributed this force, no longer active, become latent and
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are absorbed back to an embryonic condition.
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Every man contains, developed or embryonic, all conditions of the
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Infinite; therefore no height is too great to reach. Impossibility is
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a meaningless word to the an who apprehends the fathomless contents of
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his own nature. Thou comest here, O man, with the instrument thou hast
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graduated in thy many past existences; how few of thy chord-settings,
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if thou are art numbered with the any, respond to the higher harmonies!
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Universal unity or fraternity has been absorbed to almost embryonic
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conditions by the prevalence of material self-regard. Charity has been
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rendered almost latent, that beautiful chord-setting found even in the
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lowest forms of creation-LOVE, the dominant chord of the cycles. Love
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has an amplitude of action in the brute which may well make the selfish
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man ashamed, but until the crust of selfishness is broken through, the
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beauty of love is obscured, and though it exists all about him, the
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poor blind egotist has no eye to discern it. The centres of love,
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brotherhood, charity, voice their music loud and clear, yet the masses
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will not listen. I do not mean the immortal EGO when I say man will
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not listen; I refer to the personality which is the resultant of all
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the ages of action in this, now rapidly closing, cycle.
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You who exist do-day, to-morrow would exist no longer in your
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present personalities did you but dare to yield to these higher
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harmonies. I say YIELD because it is a yielding process for this
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personality. In a moment your outer life would end, and you, the
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warrior, would enter peace.
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The immortal EGO is an entity of which man can become throroughly
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conscious while here on earth, but to arrive at this consciousness
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necessitates the entire abandonment of all the petty considerations
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involved in the transient and subordinate EGO, which is the only self
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of which the un-enlightened man is conscious. Let him who desires to
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reach this inner consciousness enter his inner sanctuary, wherever that
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sanctuary may be; it matters not whether it be his own chamber, the
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open field, the mountain top, the seashore, the stately cathedral, or
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the humble village chapel. Let him realize fully the transient
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character of his own personality and contrast therewith his eager
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longing to know the immortal. Let him concentrate his whole
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consciousness upon his personality, fully arousing all his personal
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conditions as a distinct
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individual; then with all the aspiration of which this personality is
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capable, let him beseech of the immortal EGO-which is eternal and does
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not incarnate, but overshadows all incarnations, waiting until one is
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formed capable of illumination, to whom it may reveal itself-to
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consider him worthy of illumination, and according to his preparedness
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to receive illumination will it then be granted. He who asks this,
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knows not what he asks; for were the prayer answered, life henceforth
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for such an one would be a weary round, as Hamlet says: "to-morrow and
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to-morrow and to-morrow brings in this weary round of life"; for,
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having seen the glory of this immortal EGO, all else seems so base, so
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commonplace and mean, so inglorious, that oftentimes the personality
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has utterly collapsed when thrown back from the radiant vision of this
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glorious immortal entity possessed by all alike, though scarcely
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dreamed of by any save the very few who, discontented with the
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ignorance and emptiness of terrene existence, aspire to know the great
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reality of the supernal. As the incarnations of every entity, passing
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through certain orders of experience through numerous lives, inevitably
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culminate in this moment of conscious realization of the immortal
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entity; the Buddha says: "All shall reach the sunlit snows."
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You who through your daily life move on unthinking, not caring,
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inactive, inactive, you shall hear when your supplications reach this
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high entity, "Lo! thou didst not even try, knowing that even thy
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failures were acceptable to me."
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We wish to publicly thank Dan A. Davidson for allowing us access to a
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photocopy of Colville's "Dashed Against the Rock".
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