F'trBRUARY1924

Ans\\'cr-t<l zr(luestion
about the cliflbrerlceltet$'eerl
a n i n r a t ea n c l i n a n i n t : r t e

In the u'orld tltere is onlv nratter arnd energy. Energy is also a

kind of' tnatter. You htrve hearcl abotrt God the Word? One
force beconres three:

In every phenomenon, the thircl fbrce crln either arise on the

spot or come from rvithotrt:

It can come from the same level or frorn another level. or

from a third:

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It it c'orllesfrotn a higher level, the result is a thing in itself.
. :,,' Ilolr- Ghost is then the neutralizing force.
I shall tty to explain it in this way. Here are levels. Here is
.r':oltrte rest. Although it has vibrations, they carl ltring it out
: rlr so far. If the triad is formed with absolute rest f ronr rl
'\\ ('l' level as passive force, then this absoltrte rest enters iptr;
:,,' c'olnposition of it, pulls it down toward earth, etc.

[]el'e is another explanation, fronl a clifferent angle. Everv-

'i,irrg f'eedsand is f-ed.
Even a stone fbecls.Each center can be
,'rI lr)' its own matters or extraneous mAtters. It has its o\\rrl
. nrl 1in the sense that a stone has a soul), and an extrapeops
. ,ul-a soul in the proper sense. The third force cornes fi'orn a
,,'{lter level. Being f'ed lry extraneoLls matter, the center pro-
lrtc'esatrother, a difTerent matter. Take, for example, the lungs
,1r(lthe stomach. Both Are composed of rnatter that is approxi-
::r.rtelv the same, yet they transform different matters.
\ ceuter call manufacture fine matters. On a certain level,
:' ,,r(l of' a definite density is needed. The manufbctured procl-
rt't nrust be of that particular density.
Here is the sLlI]. A certain rnatter passes through it {i'onr
.,lrt)\'e,without changing. Here is earth. Between the slln ancl
'lrt' earth there are levels.
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There Are two possibilities here. Either this matter Passes

through' or, if there are special receivers,it is arrested.T'hese
apparatuses,designed to arrest it, manufacture fine matter. It
can be of severalorders.

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No, this absorption is not accidental. Remember the iuner
octaves.
This si is closer to the neighboring octave, it still has echoes
of it. The next note no longer has anything. So this si can man-
ufacture finer matter more easily. Of course, if it works alone,
this finer matter is only thrown away. But if three work, it can
become crystallized.
The third force exists in the whole organism-for instance, it
exists in you taken as a whole. It can be measured. But it does
not exist in a separate center.
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' \o fitt'. \\/e have frequently touched upon the
processes 9f'
'ttt'ition of'the human organism. Now, with
the help of incli-
.ttiott.sttnd data already given, we mean to examine in gretrter-
:,'trril the chemical side, the essence,so to speak, of clienrical
: 'r'()c'e'ssestaking place in the organism.
It has lleen said already that in every place, at every point
't the uttiverse, all the influences reachingit
combine in accor-
i.trrc'ervith a certain, definite law. We have been clecltrcing
' ltt'sc laws
of mathematical correspondence of different str6-
'1.lllces which act as links, ?S it were, in one or
several chains.
lj) tlcquiring different properties depending on its place, prat-
'('l' u'hich \^/as
originally one became divided into a series of
't'l)tlrate, quite definite, degrees, connected by a
coptinuous
t.ttt{e of continually changittg matter. Since all the properties
'l trtiltter at any particular place are quite definite, they
cal be
,-.rlcrtlated, as well as all the influences brought into that
place
,,rith other matters.
The same cAn be said about the energy which fashions the
:rlittter and pours in and out of it, as well as of the energy con-
:rrirted in it. The laws governing combination of matter and en-
,'r'g)' of different degrees of, so to speak, kinship are the same
rrr all rungs of the ladder. As in large cycles, so in small
ph"-
rrol]lena, all interactior, all combinations, shocks, changes, ltew
lortttations, crystallizations, all relationships of matter and en-
t'r'$1rwhich we never get separately without their clepeldence
)rle upon another, are subject to these laws. Therefore, ll,hen
u'8 speak of matter we necessarily speak also of the energy
r'ontained in it, of its dynamic quality.
If we touch upon processes which take place near the earth
.rttd in the earth, we shall find the same laws. M any varied in-
fltrences reach the earth. Please note that whenever I use the
"influence"
tvord I mean matter-substance-charged, as it
\\.e're,with the corresponding energy, which in certain definite
t'oltditions begins to interact with other substances it rneets.
If we illustrate it thus, the diagram will represent schemati-
t'allv the surface of the earth. The arrows represent different
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influenceswhich reach the earth, penetrate into it or-pass lry.

We have already mentioned the fbct that influenceswhich are
of the nature of the sun reach the earth. But here influencesof
all the planets of the solar systernintermingle and continually
change. Other influences of higher levels also reach here. All
their varied cornbinationsdetermine the organic and inorganic
life on earth, the only difl.erencebetween thern being that, in
the caseof organic lifb, comltinationsof energy Are of a special
variety. When certain allttrminouscompounds are obtained in
the laboratory, their chernical content does not differ fi om
similar colllpounds in organic li{'e.But they do not possessthat
ellerg.v\vhich is present in the comltinatiorl we call lif'e; conse-
quentlv all erperitnetrtsancl attempts deliberately to produce
lif'e have met rvith lx) success.
Influellceswhich surround the earth and penetrate it lty the
interaction of {brces according to the law of three can be rep-
resented schematicallyby the fbllowing diagrams:

4=1

4=1
r 4:)- E
(r+ s ' l
2 1
+=t\.-,2
\, 4=1
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'l-lteir
action produces round the earth and in it new combi-
"rtiorls of rnatter, constructed accorditrg to law and supplied
. rtlr corresporlding energy. By their interaction, by means of
r liich they cAn enter into various combinations-now actively,
)\\. passiv ely, in relation to different substances-new classes
, rr(l varieties of matter Are produced. These combinations give
rlr(' to subsequent links of that particular chain, and so or1.By
,ll these processes there Are formed on earth all the varied
,rtrbinations of rnatter-metals, minerals, elements of' our
Irt'nristry, organic and inorganic compounds, solid, liqtrid and
j.rse'olls states of matter, as well as all the fonns and vu.rieties
,t organic lif'e from microorganisms to lnan.
\ll this infinite variety of already existing forms, combina,
'ir)rlS and states of matter react differently
to the llasic infltr-
,'rrces which reach the earth from the difl'erent links of the
,snric scale, the path of which lies through the earth. Sonte
l rnnS receive matters which reach them independently, others
i,, so through certain transrnitting combinations. The first
.t'r'nr to exist in the closed circle of the law of octaves, sirlce
'lrct'contaiu a cornplete octave in thernselves a.nd are iur ex-
:)r'('ssionof it. The;r lead a self-sufficient existence, i{'u'e crll}
,'\press it thus, receiving these rnatters rnerely as the necessrlrv
' rt)(l tl.nd nourishment and thus maintaining the larvftrllr. conr-

irleted process of'metabolisrn and inner life. Thev possess

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within them a crystal of free matter, which is independent in

itself and bears within itself all the eternal laws of matter.
They crystallize as a dn, as a whole. Other forms Are incom-
plete, imperfect, and influences can be transmitted to them
and through them, but not as to those stable compounds and
centers of interaction which characterize the processesof inner
life of forms completed by a crystallized essence.This refers
equally to all statesof matter and energy, to all the so-called
kingdoms of nature.
From this point of view, each plant, for instance,is a certain
definite concentrationof a particular kind of matter with a cer-
tain energy. But, depending on conditions and influences,this
combination assllmesin one place a character which it does
not assumein another place. Differencesin classesand varie-
ties of plants are due to this circumstance.A plant which pos-
sessesall the fullness of independent lifb contains in itself a
complete octave and is a completed do, one. Therefore, in the
estaltlisheclprocessof its li{'e,it can be expressedby that sym-
bol of the octave of which we have spoken. It interacts with

the influences reaching it, rvhich rnaintain its lifb and feed it,
in the same way as the process of breathing maintains human
lifb. Through the triangl" of the symbol it is connected with
these influences. Each note of its crystallized essence is in its
turtr a complete closed octave, that is, the srlme svmltol, sultor-
dinate to the first. On the circle ofthe busic svrnbol, the points
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: rlir-isionof notes will be smaller circles. Examples of plrurts

t this kind are those from which we get tobacco,hemp, bella-
1,rrnlrt, coffee,cocoa,besidescertain other plants and fiurgi. ils
r irrstance,fly-ogaric. (Hn takes as on exomple opiutn, unrl
',pl uin,s hoto each octaue contains other octuue,s.)Plants
'.lrich do not possessa crystallized principle produce tl full
t tirve only in tinctures, in fluid combinations of strbstances
,rrtirinedin them and assimilatedby them with substances
,.liich, ?S it were, pass through them and for rvhich ther- act
;rcrelvas transrnittingstations.So, in the processof their lif'e,
'l,t' s1'mbolof the octave refers only to a fluid corr-rbination of'
: r.rtterswhich is not stable like an unchanging crystal, and the
:roteSof their scaleproduce a closedcircle only in combination
.i ith other substancesnot contained in them. In other words,
'lrese plants sound do only in combination with others which

lrossessa supplementarydo of a complete octave of the tone.

Like every living thing, a living plant possessesa special
kirrclof energy which, &s has been said, is absent in the same
rlirnt when it is no longer alive. Lif.e is the soundittgof the oc-
:.rr.e,it is the symbol of the totality of incomitrg cementing in-
firrences (representing the same triangle) which, taken to-
1t'ther, ?s well as each separately, act as shock, as the Holy
(,host, in maintaining the life of plants. Or it is connected,
:hrough a seriesof intermediate stagesand links, with the c)c-
irr\.€of the cosmoswhere it plays the part of a cell in a corn-
irler organism. Plants are ducts through which there flow in-
:lrrenceswhich connect them with forms above and below
l lie.m.When life is extinct-for instance,if a plant is cut down-
t he energy inherent in it is dispersed"The triangle comes out
,f' the svmbol of the octave of life.