*EsotericPhilosopher* Study of Cosmology, Psychology & Science

J.W. Keely and the Vril

The name vril may be a fiction; the Force itself is a fact
doubted as little in India as the existence itself of their
Rishis, since it is mentioned in all the secret works. SD3
556.

It is obvious to most thinkers that science, having begun the study of

radioactivity, is on the verge of discovering what is the nature of the power
within the atom itself; it is very probable that before long we shall harness the
energy of atomic matter for every conceivable purpose, for heating, for
lighting, and for what I might call the motivation of everything that is carried
on in the world.
That force, as some of us know, was nearly discovered in the United States fifty
years ago by a man called Keely, but he was not allowed to give it out to the
world because of the danger thereby involved. Men are as yet far too selfish to
be trusted with the distribution of atomic energy.
That discovery will probably parallel the development of group consciousness.
Only when man becomes radioactive and can work and think in group terms,
will it be safe or wise for him to utilize the power latent in the atom.
Everything in nature is beautifully coordinated, and nothing can be discovered
or utilized before the right time. Only as man becomes unselfish will this
tremendous power be permitted to pass into his hands. Nevertheless, we can, I
believe, look to science to make tremendous strides in the comprehension of
atomic energy. CA 131.
Each physical apparatus has a perfect analogy in the Subtle World. Moreover,
it can easily be perceived how simple it is to augment the power of an
apparatus by invoking Agni. Thus it is possible to reperform a great number of
experiments that turned out unsuccessfully.
The experiments of Keely and even the apparatus of Edison remained
imperfect for the Subtle World, because the energy of Agni was not applied; in
one case because of a surrounding suspiciousness, in the other because of
personal unbelief. It has been said that even a candle is not lit without faith.
FW1 251.
Keely, as H. P. B. hinted, (S. D., I, 172, 607-611) had gone far along this path,
and knew even more than he gave out, and others have approached, or are
approaching, the same objective. The next step ahead for science lies in this
direction, and should concern the potential force of the atom itself, and its
harnessing for the use of man. This will let loose upon earth a stupendous
amount of energy.
Nevertheless, it is only when the third factor is comprehended, and science
admits the agency of mental fire as embodied in certain groups of devas, that
the force of energy that is triple, and yet one in the three worlds, will become
available for the helping of man. This lies as yet far ahead, and will only
become possible towards the end of this round; and these potent forces will not
be fully utilized, nor fully known till the middle of the next round. At that time,
much energy will become available through the removal of all that obstructs.
TCF 492.

The fourth plane, the buddhic, by the aid of manas, will gradually be realized.
TCF 408.
The answer to a question which has frequently arisen in the minds of students,
when meeting with statements such as this, may be outlined here.
"We can understand," they say, "the necessity for concealing from the herd
such secrets as the Vril, or the rock-destroying force, discovered by J. W.
Keely, of Philadelphia. SD1 intro 36.
The vril of the "Coming Race" was the common property of races now
extinct... so the vril or Akas -- as we call it -- is looked upon as an
impossibility, a myth. And, without a thorough knowledge of Akas, its
combinations and properties, how can Science hope to account for such
phenomena? We doubt not but the men of your science are open to conviction;
yet facts must be first demonstrated to them, they must first have become their
own property, have proved amenable to their own modes of investigation,
before you find them ready to admit them as facts. KH Letter 1. [ "The
Heavenly White Virgin" (Akas)] (sky or ether) Isis. [Air]ML.
But then, may there not be people who have found more perfect and rapid
means of transmission, from being somewhat better acquainted with the occult
powers of air (akas) and having plus a more cultivated judgment of sounds?
KH Letter 8.

The chief agency by which Nature's wheel is moved in a phenomenal direction

is sound. Sound is the first aspect of the manifested pentagon since it is a
property of ether called Akas and as I already said Vedic recitation is the
highest Yagnam containing in itself all minor Yagnams and tending to preserve
the manifested pentagon in the proper order. In the opinion of our old
philosophers sound or speech is next to thought the highest karmic agent used
by man.
Of the various karmic agencies wielded by man in the way of molding himself
and surroundings, sound or speech is the most important, for, to speak is to
work in ether which of course rules the lower quaternary of elements, air, fire,
water and earth. Human sound or language contains therefore all the elements
required to move the different classes of Devas and those elements are of
course the vowels and the consonants. The details of the philosophy of sound
in its relation to the devas who preside over the subtle world, belong to the
domain of true Mantra Sastra which of course is in the hands of the knowers."
- Some Thoughts on the Gita, p. 72. TCF 193.
The antediluvian children -- who perhaps played with it, using it as the boys in
Bulwer-Lytton's Coming Race, use the tremendous "vril" -- called it the "Water
of Phtha"; their descendants named it the Anima Mundi, the soul of the
universe; and still later the mediaeval hermetists termed it "sidereal light," or
the "Milk of the Celestial Virgin," the "Magnes," and many other names. But
our modern learned men will neither accept nor recognize it under such
appellations; for it pertains to magic, and magic is, in their conception, a
disgraceful superstition. IU 64.
JC: "the living fire, "the "Spirit of Light" or "the energy ofAgni" as Master M
describes it for us. The "Vril."
And in this appellation of "living fire" we may also discover the meaning of the
puzzling sentence in the Zend-Avesta saying that there is "a fire that gives
knowledge of the future. Science and amiable speech," i.e., develops an
extraordinary eloquence in the sybil, the sensitive, and even some orators. SD1
339.
Vril from Virile:
Sir E. Bulwer-Lytton, in his Coming Race, describes it as the VRIL, used by the
subterranean populations, and allowed his readers to take it for a fiction.
"These people," he says, "consider that in the vril they had arrived at the unity
in natural energic agencies"; and proceeds to show that Faraday intimated
them "under the more cautious term of correlation," thus:
"I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to a conviction, in common, I
believe, with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms
under which the forces of matter are made manifest, HAVE ONE COMMON
ORIGIN; or, in other words, are so directly related and naturally dependent,
that they are convertible, as it were, into one another, and possess equivalents
of power in their action." Absurd and unscientific as may appear our
comparison of a fictitious vril invented by the great novelist, and the primal
force of the equally great experimentalist, with the kabalistic astral light, it is
nevertheless the true definition of this force. Isis1 126.
Its future constructive use lies in the hands of science and should be controlled
by the men of goodwill to be found in all nations. This energy must be
safeguarded from monied interests; it must be turned definitely into the usages
of peace and employed to implement a new and happier world. PH 67.
Until mankind, however, has moved forward in its understanding of right
human relations, an international group of men of goodwill -trusted and
chosen by the people - should safeguard these potencies. PH 82.
Atomic energy belongs to humanity as a whole. The responsibility for its
control must lie in the hands of the men of goodwill. They must control its
destiny and make it available along constructive lines for the use of men
everywhere. No one nation should own the formula or secret for the release of
energy. Ibid.
Who, in the nineteenth century, believes in the art, described in such treatises
as those of Targes, of evoking and directing thunderbolts?
Occult Weapons -
( Yet the same is described in the Br hmanical literature, and Targes copied
his “thunderbolts” from the Astra, [ This is a kind of magical bow and arrow
calculated to destroy in one moment whole armies; it is mentioned in the
Ramayana, the Puranas and elsewhere.] those terrible engines of destruction
known to the Mahabharatan Aryans. A whole arsenal of dynamite bombs
would pale before this art -if it ever becomes understood by the Westerns. It is
from an old fragment that was translated to him, that the late Lord Bulwer
Lytton got his idea of Vril. It is a lucky thing, indeed, that, in the face of the
virtues and philanthropy that grace our age of iniquitous wars, of anarchists
and dynamiters, the secrets contained in the books discovered in Numa’s tomb
should have been burnt.

But the science of Circe and Medea is not lost. One can discover it in the
apparent gibberish of the Tantrika Sutras, the Kuku-ma of the Bhutani and the
Sikhim Dugpas and “Red-caps” of Tibet, and even in the sorcery of the Nilgiri
Mula Kurumbas. Very luckily few outside the high practioners of the Left Path
and of the Adepts of the Right - in whose hands the weird secrets of the real
meaning are safe - understand the “black” evocations. Otherwise the Western
as much as the Eastern Dugpas might make short work of their enemies. The
name of the latter is legion, for the direct descendants of the antediluvian
sorcerers hate all those who are not with them, arguing that, therefore, they
are against them. SD3 107.
It is the vril of Bulwer Lytton's "Coming Race," and of the coming races of our
mankind. The name vril may be a fiction; the Force itself is a fact doubted as
little in India as the existence itself of their Rishis, since it is mentioned in all
the secret works.
It is this vibratory Force, which, when aimed at an army from an Agni Rath
fixed on a flying vessel, a balloon, according to the instructions found in
Ashtar Vidya, reduced to ashes 100,000 men and elephants, as easily as it
would a dead rat. It is allegorised in the Vishnu Purana, in the Ramayana and
other works, in the fable about the sage Kapila whose glance made a mountain
of ashes of King Sagara's 60,000 sons, and which is explained in the esoteric
works, and referred to as the Kapilaksha -- "Kapila's Eye."
And is it this Satanic Force that our generations were to be allowed to add to
their stock of Anarchist's baby-toys, known as melenite, dynamite clock-works,
explosive oranges, "flower baskets," and such other innocent names? Is it this
destructive agency, which, once in the hands of some modern Attila, e.g., a
blood-thirsty anarchist, would reduce Europe in a few days to its primitive
chaotic state with no man left alive to tell the tale -- is this force to become the
common property of all men alike?
What Mr. Keely has already done is grand and wonderful in the extreme; there
is enough work before him in the demonstration of his new system to "humble
the pride of those scientists who are materialistic, by revealing those mysteries
which lie behind the world of matter," without revealing it nolens volens to all.
For surely Psychists and Spiritualists -- of whom there are a good number in
the European armies -- would be the first to experience personally the fruits of
such mysteries revealed. Thousands of them would find themselves (and
perhaps with the populations of whole countries to keep them company) in blue
Ether very soon, were such a Force to be even entirely discovered, let alone
made publicly known. The discovery in its completeness is by several thousand
-- or shall we say hundred thousand? -- years too premature. It will be at its
appointed place and time only when the great roaring flood of starvation,
misery, and underpaid labour ebbs back again -- as it will when happily at last
the just demands of the many are attended to; when the proletariat exists but in
name, and the pitiful cry for bread, that rings throughout the world unheeded,
has died away. This may be hastened by the spread of learning, and by new
openings for work and emigration, with better prospects than exist now, and
on some new continent that may appear. Then only will "Keely's Motor and
Force," as originally contemplated by himself and friends, be in demand,
because it will be more needed by the poor than by the wealthy.

Meanwhile the force discovered by him will work through wires, and this, if he
succeeds, will be quite sufficient in the present generation to make of him the
greatest discoverer of this age.
What Mr. Keely says of Sound and Colour is also correct from the Occult
stand-point. Hear him talk as though he were the nursling of the "Gods-
revealers," and had gazed all his life into the depths of Father-Mother AEther.
In comparing the tenuity of the atmosphere with that of the etheric flows,
obtained by him from his invention for breaking up the molecules of air by
vibration, Keely says that:--
. . . "It is as platina to hydrogen gas. Molecular separation of air brings us to
the first sub-division only; inter-molecular, to the second; atomic, to the third;
inter-atomic, to the fourth; etheric, to the fifth; and inter-etheric, to the sixth
sub-division, or positive association with luminiferous ether. In my
introductory argument I have contended that this is the vibratory envelope of
all atoms. In my definition of atom I do not confine myself to the sixth sub-
division where this luminiferous ether is developed in its crude form as far as
my researches prove. I think this idea will be pronounced by the physicists of
the present day, a wild freak of the imagination. Possibly, in time, a light may
fall upon this theory that will bring its simplicity forward for scientific
research. At present I can only compare it to some planet in a dark space,
where the light of the sun of science has not yet reached it. . ."

"I assume that sound, like odour, is a real substance of unknown and
wonderful tenuity, emanating from a body where it has been induced by
percussion and throwing out absolute corpuscles of matter, inter-atomic
particles, with velocity of 1,120 feet per second; in vacuo 20,000. The
substance which is thus disseminated is a part and parcel of the mass agitated,
and, if kept under this agitation continuously, would, in the course of a certain
cycle of time, become thoroughly absorbed by the atmosphere; or, more truly,
would pass through the atmosphere to an elevated point of tenuity
corresponding to the condition of sub-division that governs its liberation from
its parent body." . . .
THE SECRETS OF SOUND AND ODOUR.
"The sounds from vibratory forks, set so as to produce etheric chords, while
disseminating their tones (compound), permeate most thoroughly all
substances that come under the range of their atomic bombardment. The
clapping of a bell in vacuo liberates these atoms with the same velocity and
volume as one in the open air; and were the agitation of the bell kept up
continuously for a few millions of centuries it would thoroughly return to its
primitive element; and, if the chamber were hermetically sealed, and strong
enough, the vacuous volume surrounding the bell would be brought to a
pressure of many thousands of pounds to the square inch, by the tenuous
substance evolved. In my estimation, sound truly defined is the disturbance of
atomic equilibrium, rupturing actual atomic corpuscles; and the substance
thus liberated must certainly be a certain order of etheric flow. Under these
conditions, is it unreasonable to suppose that, if this flow were kept up, and the
body thus robbed of its element, it would in time disappear entirely? All bodies
are formed primitively from this highly tenuous ether, animal, vegetable, and
mineral, and they are only returned to their high gaseous condition when
brought under a state of differential equilibrium.". . .
"As regards odour, we can only get some definite idea of its extreme and
wondrous tenuity by taking into consideration that a large area of atmosphere
can be impregnated for a long series of years from a single grain of musk;
which, if weighed after that long interval, will be found to be not appreciably
diminished. The great paradox attending the flow of odorous particles is that
they can be held under confinement in a glass vessel! Here is a substance of
much higher tenuity than the glass that holds it, and yet it cannot escape. It is
as a sieve with its meshes large enough to pass marbles, and yet holding fine
sand which cannot pass through; in fact, a molecular vessel holding an atomic
substance. This is a problem that would confound those who stop to recognize
it. But infinitely tenuous as odour is, it holds a very crude relation to the
substance of sub-division that governs a magnetic flow (a flow of sympathy, if
you please to call it so).
This sub-division comes next to sound, but is above sound. The action of the
flow of a magnet coincides somewhat to the receiving and distributing portion
of the human brain, giving off at all times a depreciating ratio of the amount
received. It is a grand illustration of the control of mind over matter, which
gradually depreciates the physical till dissolution takes place. The magnet on
the same ratio gradually loses its power and becomes inert. If the relations
that exist between mind and matter could be equated and so held, we would
live on in our physical state eternally, as there would be no physical
depreciation. But this physical depreciation leads, at its terminus, to the source
of a much higher development -- viz., the liberation of the pure ether from the
crude molecular; which, in my estimation, is to be much desired." -- (From
Mrs. Bloomfield-Moore's paper, "The New Philosophy.")
It may be remarked that, save a few small divergencies, no Adept nor
Alchemist could have explained the above any better, in the light of modern
Science, however much the latter may protest against the novel views. This is,
in all its fundamental principles, if not details, Occultism pure and simple, yet
withal, modern natural philosophy as well.
This "New Force," or whatever Science may call it, the effects of which are
undeniable -- admitted by more than one naturalist and physicist who has
visited Mr. Keely's laboratory and witnessed personally its tremendous effects
-- what is it? Is it a "mode of motion," also, "in Vacuo," since there is no
matter to generate it except Sound -- another "mode of motion," no doubt, a
sensation caused like colour by vibrations? Fully as we believe in these
vibrations as the proximate -- the immediate -- cause of such sensations, we as
absolutely reject the one-sided scientific theory that there is no factor to be
considered as external to us, other than etheric or atmospheric vibrations.
There is a transcendental set of causes put in motion -- so to speak -- in the
occurrence of these phenomena, which, not being in relation to our narrow
range of cognition, can only be traced to their source and their nature, and
understood by the Spiritual faculties of the Adept. They are, as Asclepios puts
it to the King, "incorporeal corporealities" -- such as "appear in the mirror,"
and "abstract forms" that we see, hear, and smell, in our dreams, and visions.
What have the "modes of motion," light, and ether to do with these? Yet we
see, hear, and smell, and touch them, ergo they are as much realities to us in
our dreams, as any other thing on this plane of Maya. SD3 566.
JC: Note that HPB speaks above of "Blue Ether" when describing the Vril
force, or energy of Agni as corresponding to the release of atomic energy of
the Buddhic plane.
Is the coloring of the fourth cosmic ether (the buddhic plane), blue, or is it
violet to correspond with our fourth physical ether? TCF 354.
There has never been a period in our planetary history in which opportunity
has loomed so large or when so much spiritual light and force could be
contacted and utilized by humanity.
The first indication of this massed and available energy produced coordination
of the New Group of World Servers upon the physical plane.
The second indication produced a pronounced cleavage between the forces of
evil and the Forces of Light; this cleavage resulted in the world war (1914-
1945) and initiated the seething emotional and psychic turmoil in which
humanity today finds itself.
The third indication was the release of atomic energy and the discovery of how
to transmute energy into matter and matter into energy. The spiritual energies
have, therefore, impersonally and with a "vivid directive of pure intent,"
penetrated from the highest point of spiritual purpose to the lowest aspect of
matter, the atom; they have thus proved the truth of the statement that matter is
spirit at its lowest point and spirit is matter at its highest, and that the
apparent duality is but an essential unity. A concentration of spiritual forces in
and through the New Group of World Servers, the production of a world
conflict with its disrupting and at the same time its unifying result, and the
release of certain impressive energies in matter itself for the benefit of all
created things on Earth - these are the immediate results of the pressure of the
over-shadowing spiritual resources. DINA2 163.
JC: "vivid directive of pure intent," DK. "Vril. the unity in natural energic
agencies" EBL. "Living Fire" of HPB and "Agni Fire" of MM. "extra-
planetary energy." DK.
The intelligence of humanity now is of such a nature that certain earlier
initiations no longer exist, and mankind has shown itself to possess the
potentialities which will enable its individual units to tread not only the one or
two cosmic Paths hitherto open to them, but all of them, if given the right
training. This the premature discovery of the release of atomic energy has well
demonstrated to the Hierarchy. RI 412.
The Release of Atomic EnergyAugust 9, 1945:
I would like at this time to touch upon the greatest spiritual event which has
taken place since the fourth kingdom of nature, the human kingdom, appeared.
I refer to the release of atomic energy, as related in the newspapers this week,
August 6, 1945, in connection with the bombing of Japan. Some years ago I
told you that the new era would be ushered in by the scientists of the world and
that the inauguration of the kingdom of God on Earth would be heralded by
means of successful scientific investigation. By this first step in the releasing of
the energy of the atom this has been accomplished, and my prophecy has been
justified during this momentous year of our Lord 1945. Let me make one or
two statements anent this discovery, leaving you to make your own application
and deductions. Little as to the true nature of this happening is as yet known,
and still less is understood. Certain ideas and suggested thoughts may be of
real value here and enable you to see this stupendous event in better
perspective.
1. It was the imminence of this "release" of energy which was one of the major
subjective factors in the precipitation of this last phase of the war. This world
war started in 1914, but its last and most important phase began in 1939. Up
till then it was a world war. After that date, and because the forces of evil took
advantage of the state of war and belligerency existing on the planet, the real
war began, involving the entire three worlds of human evolution and a
consequent activity of the Hierarchy. Man's attention is normally focused on
the externalities of living. Nevertheless, all great discoveries, such as those
made in connection with astronomy or in relation to the laws of nature or
involving such a revelation as that of radioactivity or the epoch-making event
announced this week concerning the first steps taken in the harnessing of
cosmic energy, are ever the result of inner pressure emanating from Forces
and Lives found in high Places.
Such inner pressures themselves function under the laws of the Spirit and not
just under what you call natural laws; they are the result of the impelling work
of certain great Lives, working in connection with the third aspect of divinity,
that of active intelligence, and are concerned with the substance or matter
aspect of manifestation. Such activities are motivated from Shamballa. This
activity is set in motion by these Lives, working on Their high plane, and it
gradually causes a reaction in the various departments of the Hierarchy,
particularly those working under third, fifth and seventh ray Masters.
Eventually, disciples upon the physical levels of activity become aware of the
inner ferment, and this happens either consciously or unconsciously. They
become "impressed," and the scientific work is then started and carried
through into the stages of experimentation and final success.
One point should here be remembered, and that is that this phase applies to
both the great White Lodge and the Black Lodge - the one dedicated to the
beneficent task of purifying and aiding all lives in the three worlds of material
evolution and to the release of the soul in form, and the other to the
retardation of the evolutionary process and to the continuous crystallizing of
the material forms which hide and veil the anima mundi. Both groups have
been profoundly interested and implicated in this matter of the release of
energy from the atom and the liberation of its inner aspect, but their motives
and objectives were widely different. EXT 493.
The imminence of this release - inevitable and under direction - produced an
enormous tension in hierarchical circles because (to express the idea
colloquially) a race was on between the Dark Forces and the Forces of Light
to acquire possession of the techniques necessary to bring about this liberation
of needed energy. Had the Dark Forces triumphed, and had the Axis Powers
obtained possession of the needed scientific formulas, it would have led to a
major planetary disaster. The released energy would have been used first of all
to bring about the complete destruction of all opposing the forces of evil, and
then it would have been prostituted to the preservation of an increasingly
materialistic and non-idealistic civilization. Germany could not be trusted with
this power, for all her motives were compelling wrong.You might here fall
back on the trite religious platitude that the innate good in humanity and
mankind's inherent divinity would eventually have triumphed, because naught
can finally overcome the universal trend to good.
You are prone to forget that if the evil forces possess potencies which can
destroy form in the three worlds on such a wide scale that the souls of
advanced aspirants and disciples, and those of initiates seeking incarnation,
cannot come into outer expression during a particular world crisis, then you
have direfully affected the time-schedule of the evolutionary process; you will
have greatly delayed (perhaps for millennia of years) the manifestation of the
kingdom of God. The time had come for that manifestation, and hence the
powerful activity of the dark forces. This attempt to hinder the planned
progress constituted a definite menace and indicated a supreme danger and
problem.
The evil forces were closer to success than any of you have ever dreamed.
They were so close to success in 1942 that there were four months when the
members of the spiritual Hierarchy had made every possible arrangement to
withdraw from human contact for an indefinite and unforeseen period of time;
the plans for a closer contact with the evolutionary process in the three worlds
and the effort to blend and fuse the two divine centers, the Hierarchy and
Humanity, into one working, collaborating whole seemed doomed to
destruction. Their fusion would have meant the appearance of the Kingdom of
God on earth; the obstacles to this fusion, owing to the active tension of the
dark forces, seemed at that time insuperable; we believed that man would go
down to defeat, owing to his selfishness and his misuse of the principle of free
will. We made all preparations to withdraw, and yet at the same time we
struggled to get humanity to choose rightly and to see the issues clearly.
The necessity to withdraw was averted. I may not say in what manner, beyond
telling you that the Lords of Liberation took certain unexpected steps. This
They were led to do owing to the invocative powers of humanity, used
consciously by all those upon the side of the will-to-good and unconsciously by
all men of goodwill. Owing to these steps, the efforts of those fighting in the
realm of science for the establishing of true knowledge and right human
relations were aided. The trend of the power to know and to discover (a
definite form of energy) was deflected away from the demanding evocative
minds of those seeking to destroy the world of men, leading to a form of mental
paralysis. Those seeking to emphasize the right values and to save humanity
were simultaneously stimulated to the point of success. In these very few
words I have disposed of a stupendous world event, and in this brief paragraph
I have summed up the working out of a specialized divine activity. EXT 494.

Four factors lie behind the momentous happening of the release of this form of
atomic energy, through the medium of what is erroneously and unscientifically
called the "splitting of the atom." There are other factors, but you may find the
following four of real interest:
There was a clearly directed inflow of extra-planetary energy released by the
Lords of Liberation, to Whom invocation had been successfully made; through
the impact of this energy upon the atomic substance being dealt with by the
investigating scientists, changes were brought about which enabled them to
achieve success. The experiments being carried forward were therefore both
subjective and objective. A concerted effort was made by a number of
disciples who were working in fifth and seventh ray ashrams, and this enabled
them to impress lesser disciples in the scientific field and helped them to
surmount the well-nigh insuperable difficulties with which they were
confronted.
There was also a weakening of the tension which had hitherto successfully held
the forces of evil together, and a growing inability of the evil group at the head
of the Axis Powers to surmount the incidental war fatigue. This brought about,
first of all, a steady deterioration of their minds, and then of their brains and
nervous systems. None of the men involved in the direction of the Axis effort in
Europe is today normal psychologically; they are all suffering from some form
of physical deterioration, and this has been a real factor in their defeat, though
one that may be difficult for you to realize. It is not so in the case of the
Japanese, whose psychological makeup is totally different, as are their nervous
systems, which are of fourth root-race quality. They will be and are being
defeated by physical war measures and by the destruction physically of their
war potential and the death of the form aspect. This destruction... and the
consequent release of their imprisoned souls, is a necessary happening; it is
the justification of the use of the atomic bomb upon the Japanese population.
The first use of this released energy has been destructive, but I would remind
you that it has been the destruction of forms and not the destruction of spiritual
values and the death of the human spirit - as was the goal of the Axis effort.
Forget not that all success (both good and bad) is dependent upon the
sustaining of the point of tension. This point of tension involves the dynamic
focusing of all mental, emotional and physical energies at a central point of
planned activity. This, by the way, is the objective of all true meditation work.
It is in this act of tension that the German people failed. This cost them the
war; their tension broke because the group of evil forces who were impressing
the negative German people were unable to attain the point of tension which
the Hierarchy could reach when it was reinforced through the action of the
Lords of Liberation.
Another factor was the constant, invocative demand and the prayers
(articulate and inarticulate) of humanity itself. Men, impelled largely by fear
and the innate mobilizing of the human spirit against slavery, reached such a
pitch of demanding energy that a channel was created which greatly facilitated
the work of the Hierarchy, under the direct influence of the Lords of
Liberation. EXT 495.
Nevertheless, we can, I believe, look to science to make tremendous strides in
the comprehension of atomic energy. Then paralleling the evolution of the
human being again, we can look for man to dominate the air. There is a great
vibratory sphere, or plane, in the solar system, called in some occult books the
intuitional plane; it is called in the Eastern literature the Buddhic plane, and
its symbol is the air. Just as man is beginning to find his way through the
development of the intuition on to that plane now, so science is beginning to
discover how to dominate the air, and as the intuition in man develops and
grows, so will his control of the air be developed and grow. CA 132.
He will, therefore concentrate his attention on this higher form of life
transference and Through knowledge of the devas,
Through external pressure and vibration,

Through internal stimulation,

Through color applied in stimulation and vitalization,

Through mantric sounds he will find the secret of atomic energy, latent in the
mineral kingdom, and will bend that inconceivable power and force to the
solution of the problems of existence. Only when atomic energy is better
understood and the nature of the fourth ether somewhat comprehended, shall
we see that control of the air which lies inevitably ahead. EXT 496.
The solar system has its location on the fourth ether. TCF 121.
The seven sacred Planets are composed of matter of the fourth ether and the
planetary Logoi (the seven Heavenly Men) whose bodies the planets are,
function normally on the fourth plane of the system, the buddhic plane. EA
645.
Fourth ether - Super-gaseous
Buddhic
(Intuitional plane)
Air.
Fourth cosmic ether. TCF 83.
In this fourth chain and fourth round, the fourth ether is beginning to be
studied, and -viewed as a separating web - it permits occasional exit to those
of suitable vibration. TCF 101.

A further chain of ideas may be followed up in the remembrance that the fourth
ether is even now being studied and developed by the average scientist, and is
already somewhat harnessed to the service of
man. TCF 115.
An interesting analogy may here be noted between the fourth cosmic ether, and
the fourth ether on the physical plane of the solar system. Both are in process
of becoming exoteric - one from the standpoint of man in the three worlds, and
the other from the standpoint of a Heavenly Man. TCF 320
The four energies of the lower self - atomic energy, vital energy, feeling energy
and mental energy - plus the two energies of the soul, make the six energies
used by man in his life experience; but the energy of the atom is usually not
counted as a human energy, as it is uniform in its usage in all forms of life in
all kingdoms, and therefore man is regarded as a sum total of five energies,
and not of six energies. EP2 69.

All physical phenomena as we understand the term have an electrical origin,

and an initial vibration on the first subplane of the physical plane.
That Light, physical plane light, has a close connection with, and uses, as a
medium, the second ether.
That sound functions through the third ether.
That color in a peculiar sense is allied to the fourth ether.
We must note here that in the development of the senses, hearing preceded
sight, as sound precedes color. An interesting analogy may here be noted
between the fourth cosmic ether, and the fourth ether on the physical plane of
the solar system. Both are in process of becoming exoteric - one from the
standpoint of man in the three worlds, and the other from the standpoint of a
Heavenly Man. The fourth ether is even now being investigated by scientists,
and much that they predicate concerning ether, the atom, radium, and the
ultimate "protyle" has to do with this fourth ether. It will eventually be brought
under scientific formula, and some of its properties, knowledge concerning its
range of influence, and its utilization will become known unto men.
Paralleling this, the buddhic plane, the plane of the Christ principle, is
gradually becoming known to those advanced beings who are individually able
to cognize their place in the body of a Logos of a planetary scheme. The
influence of the buddhic plane, and the electrical force that is its peculiar
characteristic, are beginning to be felt, and its energy is also beginning to
have a definite effect on the egoic bodies of men; the fourth ether of the
physical systemic plane is likewise assuming its rightful place in the minds of
men, and the electrical force of that subplane is already being adapted and
utilized by man in the assistance of the mechanical arts, for methods of
transportation, for widespread illumination, and in healing. These four
adaptations of electricity:
For mechanical uses,
For transportation,
For illumination,
In healing,
are but the working out on the physical plane of paralleling utilization of
buddhic electrical force. It might here be asked why color primarily is spoken
of as the buddhic manifestation of electricity. We are employing the word
"color" here in its original and basic sense as "that which veils." Color veils
the sevenfold differentiation of logoic manifestation and, from the angle of
vision of man in the three worlds, can be seen only in its full significance on
the buddhic plane. All fire and electrical display will be seen to embody the
seven colors. Again another correspondence between the fourth cosmic ether
and the fourth physical ether lies in the fact that they are both primarily
concerned with the work of the great builders, bearing in mind that they build
the real body of the Logos in etheric matter; the dense physical vehicle is not
so much the result of their work as it is the result of the meeting of the seven
streams of force or electricity, which causes that apparent congestion in matter
that we call the dense physical planes (the three lower subplanes). This
apparent congestion is, after all, but the exceeding electronic activity or
energy of the mass of negative atoms awaiting the stimulation that will result
from the presence of a certain number of positive atoms. This needs to be
borne in mind. The work of evolution is based on two methods and
demonstrates as: Involution, wherein the negative electrons of matter
preponderate. The percentage of these feminine electrons is one of the secrets
of initiation and is so vast during the involutionary stage that the rarity of the
positive atoms is very noticeable; they are so rare as only to serve to keep the
mass coherent. TCF 322.

Much concerning them may be deduced from the already apprehended facts
which relate to the four solar physical ethers.
For instance, the fourth ether (which is even now being what we might call
"discovered"), is at this stage characterized by certain things. I might
enumerate a few of these facts with exceeding brevity, as follows:
It is the ether which the violet ray uses as a medium. The fourth ether is that
whereof the majority of the etheric bodies of men are made.

The fourth ether is largely the principal sphere of influence of the "devas of the
shadows," or those violet devas which are closely concerned with the physical
evolution of man.

It is the etheric sphere within which, at a little later date, the human and the
deva evolutions will touch. From this fourth etheric sphere the dense physical
bodies are created.
It is the sphere of physical individualization. Only when the animal to be
individualized was fully conscious on that subplane of the physical plane was it
possible to coordinate the corresponding spheres on the astral and mental
planes and by means of this triple coordination to effect the necessary steps
which enabled the quaternary to succeed in its effort to approximate the
Triad.
This fourth ether in this fourth round and on this fourth chain has to be
completely mastered and controlled by the Human Hierarchy, the fourth
creative. Every unit of the human family has to attain this mastery before the
end of this round.
It is the sphere wherein the initiations of the threshold are undergone, and the
fivefold initiations of the physical plane are entered upon.

Much more might be further added to this list, but I have sought only to point
out those which can be easily realized as having a correspondence on the
buddhic plane, the fourth cosmic ether. It should be borne in mind that our
physical plane in its subplanes has its analogy likewise to the entire cosmic
physical plane. TCF 327.
The fourth ether is coming into recognition, and along with it will come the
knowledge of the lives which it embodies. Hence the success of spiritualistic
endeavor, for the larger number of the average discarnate entities at this stage
who are willing to make contact with the physical plane are clothed in matter
of this ether. The devas of this ether will also come to be known before the end
of this round, and alliance will be made between the fourth Creative Hierarchy
of men, and the devas of the fourth ether.
The fourth plane, the buddhic, by the aid of manas, will gradually be realized.
This will be done as manas is transmuted into wisdom. By a few in this round
the fifth principle will be superseded by the principle of buddhi. Right on from
now till the middle of the next round there will be an overlapping of the four
and the five - manas and the buddhic principle -thus making the nine, or
perfected man, the initiate. It might also be remarked that more and more will
the control of the fourth Kumara be evidenced and felt. On this I cannot
enlarge, being only permitted to make the statement. The consciousness of the
mass of the human family will gradually pass on to the fourth subplane of the
mental plane, and be more and more controlled by purely concrete mind.
Unless this is paralleled by a steady influx of egos on to the buddhic plane in
conscious activity, and thus out of the control of manas pure and simple, a very
serious condition will have to be handled by the Hierarchy. TCF 408.
First, physical plane scientists will be able to speak with authority anent the
fourth ether, even though they may not recognize it as the lowest of the four
etheric grades of substance: its sphere of influence and its utilization will be
comprehended, and "force" as a factor in matter, or the electrical
manifestation of energy within definite limits, will be as well understood as is
hydrogen at this time. Indications of this can already be seen in the discovery
of radium, and the study of radioactive substances and of electronic
demonstration. This knowledge will revolutionize the life of man; it will put
into his hands that which occultists call "power of the fourth order" (on the
physical plane). It will enable him to utilize electrical energy for the regulation
of his everyday life in a way as yet incomprehensible; it will produce new
methods of illuminating, and of heating the world at a small cost and with
practically no initial outlay. The fact of the existence of the etheric body will
be established, and the healing of the dense physical body, via the etheric
body, by force utilization and solar radiation, will take the place of the present
methods. Healing will then fall practically into two departments:
Vitalization, by means of: Electricity. Solar and planetary radiation.

Definite curative processes, through the occult knowledge of: The force
centers. The work of the devas of the fourth ether.

Transportation on sea and land will be largely superseded by the utilization of

air routes and the transit of large bodies through the air, by means of the
instantaneous use of the force or energy inherent in the ether itself, will take
the place of the present methods. TCF 429.
We have another suggestive analogy in the fact that the devas of the fourth
ether will be soon swinging into recognized utility and that in the sixth subrace
the deva evolution will be exceedingly prominent. The fourth plane is the plane
of at-one-ment for certain deva and human units, and certain groups (the
fourth Creative Hierarchy and the sixth Deva Hierarchy) have a pronounced
karma to work out together. One can now see the supreme importance of the
human Hierarchy, the fourth in this sequence of planes and ideas. TCF 431.
We come now to our second point, that initiation veils a secret and that the
revelation of that secret is imminent. Just what this secret is, I may not reveal,
but it is concerned with a peculiar type of energy which can be induced at a
moment of supreme tension. The only possible hint I can give you in
connection with this mysterious matter is that it is closely related to the
"Blinding Light" which Saul of Tarsus saw on the road to Damascus and the
"blinding light" which accompanied the discharge of energy from the atomic
bomb. DINA2 327.
Death is to man exactly what the release of the atom appears to be; this the
great scientific discovery of the release of atomic energy has demonstrated.
The nucleus of the atom is split in two. (This wording is scientifically
incorrect.) This event in the life experience of the atom releases a great light
and a great potency; upon the astral plane, the phenomenon of death has a
somewhat similar effect and has a close parallel in the phenomena brought
about by the release of atomic energy...
The wholesale destruction of forms which has been going on during the past
few years of war has produced phenomenal changes upon the astral plane and
has shattered an immense amount of the existing world glamor, and this is
very, very good. These happenings should result in less opposition to the
inflow of the new type of energy. EH 503.
One point should here be remembered, and that is that this phase applies to
both the great White Lodge and the Black Lodge - the one dedicated to the
beneficent task of purifying and aiding all lives in the three worlds of material
evolution and to the release of the soul in form, and the other to the
retardation of the evolutionary process and to the continuous crystallizing of
the material forms which hide and veil the anima mundi.
Both groups have been profoundly interested and implicated in this matter of
the release of energy from the atom and the liberation of its inner aspect, but
their motives and objectives were widely different. EXT 493.
The imminence of this release - inevitable and under direction - produced an
enormous tension in hierarchical circles because (to express the idea
colloquially) a race was on between the Dark Forces and the Forces of Light
to acquire possession of the techniques necessary to bring about this liberation
of needed energy.

Had the Dark Forces triumphed, and had the Axis Powers obtained possession
of the needed scientific formulas, it would have led to a major planetary
disaster. The released energy would have been used first of all to bring about
the complete destruction of all opposing the forces of evil, and then it would
have been prostituted to the preservation of an increasingly materialistic and
non-idealistic civilization.
Germany could not be trusted with this power, for all her motives were
compelling wrong.You might here fall back on the trite religious platitude that
the innate good in humanity and mankind's inherent divinity would eventually
have triumphed, because naught can finally overcome the universal trend to
good.

You are prone to forget that if the evil forces possess potencies which can
destroy form in the three worlds on such a wide scale that the souls of
advanced aspirants and disciples, and those of initiates seeking incarnation,
cannot come into outer expression during a particular world crisis, then you
have direfully affected the time-schedule of the evolutionary process; you will
have greatly delayed (perhaps for millennia of years) the manifestation of the
kingdom of God. The time had come for that manifestation, and hence the
powerful activity of the dark forces.
This attempt to hinder the planned progress constituted a definite menace and
indicated a supreme danger and problem. The evil forces were closer to
success than any of you have ever dreamed.
They were so close to success in 1942 that there were four months when the
members of the spiritual Hierarchy had made every possible arrangement to
withdraw from human contact for an indefinite and unforeseen period of time.
EXT 494.

By 1941 the Germans knew that isotopes of U-238 in capturing neutrons

became transformed into isotopes of plutonium, and Heisenberg was
measuring where most such transformations took place. This would not be of
much interest for reactor technology, but would be vital if building a bomb.
The paraffin wax would have a function as a bomb part in connection with a
technical problem associated with plutonium isotopes.

In June 1942 at Leipzig, Heisenberg placed within an aluminium sphere about

750 kilos of natural uranium, placed a concentric sphere of heavy water at its
centre, dropped the radioactive source down the chimney and sat back. Five
weeks later there was a disastrous fire and the experiment was terminated. But
- what was this experiment intended to prove?
The United States invested hundreds of millions of dollars into uranium
enrichment plants and plutonium breeder reactors. Germany, under heavy
aerial bombardment and on a tight budget, could never have competed. What
was needed was a nuclear device of small magnitude which could be mass-
produced at small cost.
When an aluminium sphere of natural uranium powder is left to breed in the
manner of Heisenberg's device, within about two years the plutonium bred by
U-238 capturing neutrons exceeds the figure of 7%. This is the magic figure
for a nuclear explosion of some sort.
If several hundred such spheres were left to breed for two years in mid-1942,
by late 1944 Germany would have had a small arsenal of little nuclear devices.
All that was needed would be some means of setting them off.
The target was London. If Britain could be forced out of the war, even in late
1944 there was still a slim chance of success for Germany. The obvious means
of delivering the weapons on London was the V-2 rocket. The little bombs
weighed less than a ton, and could fit easily into the space for the V-2
warhead. There was no need for tonnes of conventional explosive to explode
the device - the rocket hit the ground at 3,500 per second. This speed was fast
enough to assemble the plutonium-enriched uranium material into a critical
mass. In the split-second before the reaction collapsed, the resulting blast
would be in the region of 20 tonnes TNT with nuclear fallout. The paraffin wax
prevented the unstable plutonium isotope Pu 240 from reacting too smartly
and so ruin the nuclear reaction.
How long could London have withstood two or three such rockets fired on
London every day? Each crater region would be unapproachable for years,
maybe decades. The effect of the fallout need not be mentioned. No surprise
then, that Lt. Gen Putt, Deputy Head of United States Air Force Intelligence,
should state shortly after the war that if the invasion of Europe had been
delayed by six months, the course of the war would have been changed, for
Germany had "rocket surprises in store for the whole world in general and
England in particular".

The range of a V-2 was 200 miles. In June 1944, London was in range from
anywhere along the French and Belgian coasts. Six months after the invasion -
December 1944 - the German front line was far back from this 200 mile point.
The Germans had no intermediate rocket to hit London from Germany - the
critical failure of German science. Hence the need for the Ardennes Campaign
to recapture Antwerp which is 200 miles from London.
www.robsacc.nl/ottens/third_reich_mysteries-atombomb.
The trend of the power to know and to discover (a definite form of energy) was
deflected away from the demanding evocative minds of those seeking to
destroy the world of men, leading to a form of mental paralysis. Those seeking
to emphasize the right values and to save humanity were simultaneously
stimulated to the point of success. In these very few words I have disposed of
a stupendous world event, and in this brief paragraph I have summed up the
working out of a specialized divine activity. EXT 494.
JPC.
July 2005.
Jeremy Condick. jpcondick@ntlworld.com