Uhc first Cause AND XTbe first %aw m m m OR THE THREE LAWS IN ONE THE FIRST CAUSE AND THE FIRST LAW OR THE THREE LAWS IN ONE Demonstrating How God Created Everything by Vibration also The Law Governing Evolution and the Law that makes Reincarnation Necessary BY ALBERT F. SCHNELL w Copyright, 1911 Albert F. Schnell ©GI.A3{)3335 t ^ CONTENTS Page Nature and her Laws S The First Cause and the First Laws in Evolution 7 The First Law 12 The Causes of the Law 15 Evolution 18 Reincarnation IQ Reincarnation of Galileo 22 Galileo's Physical Build Compared with this In- carnation 27 Color of Hair Compared 2/ Galileo's Inability to Sleep 28 Galileo's Death and Its Effect in This Incarnation 29 Length of Time We Stay on the Other Side 30 Galileo's Torture 32 The Points That Do Not Compare 33 Reincarnation Through Ancestors 35 Flow We Carry Out Our Past Incarnation 36 The Dual and Trinity. 38 Bible Teaches Evolution and Reincarnation 40 Bible's Contradiction of the Christian Idea of Hell 49 Bible does not Teach the Immortality of the Soul . . 52 The Beginning of All 54 Jesus Did Not Claim to Give Us All the Truth. . 58 Live and Think According to Nature 60 Nature and Her Laws My theory, which I wish to write upon, is based on Nature and Law, claiming that it does not alone base its theory on nature, but also demonstrating by law why it is necessary, although no doubt many cannot see it because of its simplicity, and it is a bold state- ment, or as some will call it, a radical statement, to say that God has created something from nothing; yet all great spiritual teachers have taught it, and man cannot see it because of his inability to go to nature. Like- wise is it with religion and many theories, they cannot go to nature and discover her truths. If man was to try to prove by nature his religion, his philosophy, and all he knew, then he would discover how little he did know. I have studied religion all my life, and when I say studied them, I mean to say that I got down to doing what they did ; consequently I got an experience, not knowing it alone by theory. The religion of to-day simply says it is so and so, but when you come to har- monize it by nature or the laws in nature it cannot be done; therefore my cry is go to nature. The Bible states, ''God is in all and through all,'' con- sequently there is not one thing in nature that God is 6 The First Cause and not in, therefore you can only see Divinity through nature, and no man can or ever will know truth unless it is through nature. I do not wish to be quoted as say- ing that nature is God, but I do wish to say that there is not a form of life or substance but what God is in it ; therefore any man that has ever given truth to the world got it by going direct to nature, for God is in all nature. The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 7 The First Cause and the First Laws in Evolution If God has created everything, there must be a first cause, and if there is a first cause there must be a first law. Science asks what is the first cause, because there is not one thing in nature but what has a beginning and an ending. If I was to ask: Do you believe that this globe will have an end? no doubt you would say yes ; then it would follow necessarily that it must have a beginning, and why is it that every one believes that the planet has a beginning and ending. There are no records of such being the case. It is simply because we know that everything has a beginning and an end- ing, but when it comes to man and what man — his ma- terial body — is composed of, there we stop ; there is where we draw the line. You cannot show me one thing. You will often see it quoted ''not one thing'' — in all nature, that you during your natural life have been able to discover^ or that history has ever recorded, but what has a beginning and an ending. If that is the case so must it be with all life whether it be man, ani- mal or material substance, it would not be going to 8 The First Cause and nature if every thing in nature that we can analyze, dissect or discern has a beginning and an ending and not man ? then man would necessarily be contrary to all nature ; and yet as we know that man is but a part of nature then it necessarily follows that the same law that governs nature must govern man. That is the reason that the cry has always been — what is the first cause? Because everything has a beginning, conse- quently the Bible must be correct when it states ''God created everything.'' Gen. I :i, 2: *Tn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 v. And the earth was with- out form, and void." Isa. 45 \y\ 'T form the light, and created darkness." St. John 1 :3 : "All things were made by him ; and without him was not anything made that was made." Col. I :i6: 'Tor by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisi- ble." Heb. 1 1 :3 : "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of the things which do appear." These quotations from the Bible tell us that God created or made everything, and all great spiritual The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 9 teachers in other countries have taught the same. Buddha taught it; Lau Tsze, a Chinese philosopher, and spiritual teacher, born 604 B. C, whose statement translated into our language is: ''Heaven and earth and all things come from existence, but existence comes from non-existence." They have all different terms, but it meant one thing — that everything outside of the Divine came from nothing. I claim that vibration is the beginning and cause of all substance by whatever name or nature; the earth and everything on the earth or in the heavens has come from vibration. Scientists can analyze or dissect, and they simply run up against vibration ; they can take an atom or molecule and divide it and subdivide, and they face only one thing — vibration — and cannot go any farther. Consequently to-day they cry — everything is vibration — and are producing instruments to produce vibration, claiming vibration is life, and yet are not bold enough to say that vibration is the beginning of all. And why — because they cannot see the law that governs it. We create new life or substance every day. Electricity is new life created by the dynamo, which by its motion produces a vibration which causes new life (heat). It did not exist before the dynamo was put into operation. By its friction it creates heat and light and that heat is then newly created material lo The First Cause and substance, and there is not one thing in the uniWrse but what is heat. Wood is heat, iron is heat and ice is heat or there could not be a difference of temperature, for iron is colder than wood and ice is colder than iron; they are all different rates of vibration, that is the reason it is so essential that the young in all life, whether it be human, animal or vegetation, requires heat ; as heat is the beginning of all and the life giver. The heat of the day, or, as it is called, sunlight, is the first cause — the beginning of all. I am rather in want of a term here for the reason that we have to allude to the light and heat of the day as sunlight ; heat does not come from the sun, but is produced by vibra- tion. In winter time we are over three millions of miles closer to the sun than in summer. A few years ago a body of scientific men sent up balloons with self- registering thermometers on them. Two miles up it was at freezing point ; six miles up it was 60 to 80 degrees below zero, and every mile they went beyond that the cold diminished as they went nearer to the sun. If light came from the sun, it being a ball of fire, it would light up all space around it ; but we know the space around the sun is all darkness and only between us and the sun is heat and light, and it can also be demonstrated outside of temperature that heat and light do not come from the sun. When the sun, at The Three Laws That Govern All Nature, ii noon^ is overhead in spring and autumn, the light (sun) shines equally to the north pole as it does to the south pole; the sun is then south of the equator, for the sun to shine equally to the north pole as to the south pole the sun should be half way between the poles, which it is not. According to nature all light and heat comes in straight streaks, and the sun is always south of the center of the heat on the earth. In my book on astronomy, it demonstrates how the force that is called gravitation, which binds the earth to the sun by its vibration which is between us and the sun produces light and heat, and that heat is then transmitted to material substance and becomes part of the earthy which is then the first and the beginning of creation. 12 The First Cause and The First Law I maintain that the first law is Positive and Nega- tiveness, and it is in three different aspects that they are three in one^ dual and triune, that these laws are but the reflection of Hfe itself the same as Father, Son and Holy Ghost, three in one^ or man with his three bodies: the Mental, the Magnetic or astral, and the Physical, the three in one. These laws did not exist before life came into existence, therefore law is but the reflection of life itself, and being the reflection, the laws work the same as the trinity, three in one. There is not a thing in nature but what works Positive and Negative. The beginning was so created and as we go farther along in evolution we obey the same law. For instance, our offspring is our creation. Divinity cre- ating through the Positive and the Negative Male and Female, the male being the Positive, the female the Negative, and because it was the law in the beginning, God creating something directly opposite to himself, that man being farther along in evolution, it simply re- peats the law of the beginning only in a greater degree. Second: Law is that the part always works the same as the whole, because you create through the dual The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 13 the Positive and Negative you the part works within yourself the same as the whole the dual, your right side being the positive, the left side the negative, and science claims that your foot, your hand, and every atom in your body works Positive and Negative sim- ply because you have been so created through the two, and you have been so created because Divinity in the creation made something directly opposite to himself, which caused the law of Positive and Negative or the two opposite. Even the planets are created the same as you and I, the sun being the positive and the planets the negative, therefore the earth or part of it works within itself positive and negative. You can take the mineral out of the earth, charge it with electricity, and it will immediately take a positive and negative pole. Take the loadstone, hang it on a string, take a metal bar, find its pole, where one end it will attract; place the bar at the opposite end it will repel it. The load- stone having a positive and negative pole, showing that the rock mineral and everything the earth is com- posed of works positive and negative, the part working the same as the whole of the planet. The third law is again positive and negative in a diflFerent aspect. There is not one thing in all nature that does not come to its zenith and then retrograde. Man goes from babyhood to his maturity and then in 14 The First Cause and his old age retrogrades back to his childish nature again. In his baby state he is in the negative state, and when he has grown up to his full vigor and man- hood, then he is in his positive state, and there is not one thing but what obeys that law ; the tree will come up to the time where it will bear the most fruit — its positive state — and then will decline back to its former negative state. Vegetation obeys that law of advanc- ing from a negative state to its maturity and then de- clining back every year. Even nations and our pleas- ures obey that law ; we had at one time the roller skating craze, and that has gone down and out; then came the bicycle craze and that has declined to its negative state, and now we have the automobile craze in its positive time where it is sweeping everything; yet it will have its time and will go dov/n and out, and I presume it will then be the flying machines. Although it may seem rather radical to say that, there will no doubt be something which will supersede the flying ma- chine. Nations obey the same law, come to their zenith, their positive state^ and then decline. Asia was at one time in her zenith of power ; Turkey, Greece, Rome and Spain have all declined ; we might say that Germany, England and the United States are at their zenith of power, and one of the most remarkable things there is to show that everything must obey that law, come The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 15 to its zenith, its Positive state, and then retrograde to its negative state, is Rome. With all her states- manship, she worked on the superstitions of her fol- lowers, persecuting and crucifying any one that dared cross her path, and yet she had to obey that law of having her time, and then losing her ruling power and influence, and she will continue to do so in spite of all her effort; the laws of nature will prevail. I have shovv^n the three laws working in nature, the first being positive and negative, the second the part working the same as the whole, and the third everything coming to its zenith and then retrograde, Positiveness and Negativeness in three different aspects, or the three laws in one. The Causes of the Law Now what has made these laws possible or neces- sary ? God creating by vibration something from noth- ing which is a direct opposite to himself, and that is what positive and negative means, but two opposite, Divinity always existing, unchangeable, silent, inactive, perfect intelligence. Man^ the opposite, temporary, changeable, noisy, active, imperfect intelligence, be- cause Divinity has always existed, never changing, created by vibration the direct opposite to himself, i6 The First Cause and something that is changeable, having a beginning and an ending, or, as Buddha put it, everything transitory, nothing permanent. The very fact that man and na- ture are constantly changing shows its instability, non-permanence that in itself is sufficient proof of the Bible statement of God creating everything. That in its last analyses, he obeys the same condition of the way he has been made, the law, the part working the same as the whole, demonstrating that we obey the same condition in the way we were made, only in a greater degree, being farther advanced along in evolu- tion. If vibration could be taken entirely out of us we would cease to be, but vibration will continue within you until you will have fulfilled your mission. You will progress along in evolution, repeating the first laws over and over, the law of positive and negative, or the two opposite, until the opposite becomes more like him, consequently as we progress along in evolu- tion the difference in the two opposite become less in degree and more in oneness, for everything works in opposites because it was so in the beginning. For instance, there is intelligence ; the opposite is ignor- ance; but only difference in degree but not of kind, ignorance being the same as intelligence only less so; there is good and the opposite is evil ; only difference in degree but not of kind ; there is health, the opposite is The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 17 disease, both of the flesh, only difference of degree, but not of kind; there is pleasure, the opposite sor- row, and because there is daylight there must be dark- ness, and because there is heat there must be cold, and because there is white there must be black, and every material thing has its polar opposite which is also the same, positive and negative ; everything having its opposite, because it was so in the beginning. God creating something directly opposite to himself from nothing, he being permanent. I maintain that because there is white and black that the first Adam must have been a black man, as black is the beginning or negative state, and if we have developed to a perfect white man, which I think we have nearly if not entirely, demonstrates that our globe is now in half of its ex- istence, it has come to its zenith of time and in the future it will retrograde back to its former state, be- cause the same law that governs man governs the planet, for man is but the natural growth of the planet up; therefore, if man has developed to a perfect white race, then the earth will decline back to its former state, the beginning. The yellow, the brown, the red races and all other races are but the different colored races developed in between the black, the first Adam, up to the present white race. Consequently, many things can be deducted from these laws which I will i8 The First Cause and not go into, but the law of the beginning of God cre- ating something directly opposite to himself becomes less so as we go through evolution, that the difference of degree between him and his Maker become less and less. When man has developed perfect as his God and become one with his Maker, that being the law, the difference of degree will also vanish between man the positive and woman the negative; they will also become one, the difference of degree will vanish be- tween him and his opposite ; then man and woman will be sexless and perfectly one, otherwise they could not be perfectly one with their God. Evolution .There is not one thing in all nature but what pro- claims evolution; there is not anything but what you can cultivate to a higher state. The animal, by proper cultivation, can develop to a higher state, showing its nature is to evolve (evolution). The vegetation by proper cultivation can be brought up to a better fruit ; your flesh is but the earth, from ground to vegetation, to animal, and you eat the animal or vegetation and it became flesh ; consequently the nature of the earth is to evolve (evolution) to flesh; therefore, everything speaks and sees evolution. From planets to vegetation. The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 19 to animal, then man; if earth can evolve to flesh can we put the limit on it and say how far, can a man in his narrowness put a limit to it and say just how far it can evolve? If it can develop to flesh, so can it go higher especially when everything is in a state of evo- lution, that there is something just a little higher, then it demonstrates that it can also evolve that high, and that which is the next to flesh is magnetism, and that is what it evolves to, is magnetism, then to mind. The statement that has often been made that everything is mind is very near correct, for everything is evolving to mind. Reincarnation Now, then^ to the law that makes reincarnation a ne- cessity. That everything in nature comes to its zenith and then retrogrades back toward its former state necessarily forces the mind^ the intellect of man, to do likewise; but it does not do it on this side of life. You can take the body and it will decline back to its former state. Let a man who has taken care of himself live to old age, his old body becomes so weak that he cannot travel around more than a child, and finally, in its last act, it returns to dust from whence it came. But how about the mind that does not go back to its child state, where it cannot discern anything? That 20 The First Cause and mind does not go back to where the child could not divide or sub-divide^ and if it does not do it on the other side of life where does it take place? Everything in nature proclaims that law of coming to its zenith and then retrograding. I have shown that our pleas- ures, nation and everything obeys that law, but at death man dies with his mind only in its matured state, only in its zenith, and it must obey the law, and there- fore I maintain by law, I do demonstrate that reincar- nation is necessary, that it must go back to its baby state on the other side of life; that reincarnation is one of the laws that makes evolution possible, for without reincarnation I cannot see how evolution can be possible. If everything in nature evolves, even to the ground itself, then we must be developing to some goal, and if it not perfection, what is it? And how can evolution be possible if that mind does not come back trom the other side to its baby state and then reincarnate as a new-born child, only a little farther advanced than its former round, its former life? That all nature works in rounds, only, so to speak, in spiral form; that each round by our experience is a little higher than the former round and will continue so until we become perfect, or in oneness with our God, as the old book states, ''my word will not come back to me void;'' that all material substance of whatever The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 21 name or nature goes in rounds, that the last round is a little farther in advance of the former round, that it keeps advancing until it gets to man's estate, that everything coming to its zenith and then going back again^ only a little higher, is the only law that can make evolution possible, and that same law for rein- carnation, the mind coming to its zenith and then com- ing back, as a new-born child, must hold good, that we as a race have developed up from the dark ages, that we must be developing to some goal or perfection and consequent reincarnation, is the only solution to make that advancement possible, and the law of everything coming to its zenith and then retrograde, must subject the mind also; and even at that, if I could not see in man's own life the law working that will draw the mind back again I could then feel that I might be mis- taken. I maintain that when you leave this earth on account of living too worldly a life you are attracted and drawn back to the earth ; that this force of gravita- tion or magnetism around our globe, which I explain in my book on astronomy, that draws everything to the ground, will draw you back until you have lived an unworldly life. The same force that draws the apple to the ground will draw you to the earth until you have lived to the spirit instead to earthly things, that the same force. Gravitation, will bind you until you have 22 The First Cause and lost your consciousness and your mind becomes be- numbed or concrete^ until it draws everything within itself and becomes but a seed to be planted again in flesh and go forth gradually unfolding and manifesting its former life and experiences and continually pro- gressing until you go to your Maker. Many ask, ''why do we not know our former experiences ?'' Because you have lost your consciousness, that thing which leaves you temporarily during sleeping hour — consciousness. Consequently, when the consciousness is gone you are no more cognizant of your former life; consciousness has been eliminated, therefore memory has vanished; but you have carried out your former self to the letter of the law, and I will demonstrate how our life tallies with our former life. I maintain that I am the rein- carnation of Galileo Galilei (known as Galileo), whose faults, habits, disposition and physical build has been recorded in history. Reincarnation of Galileo First, I will demonstrate by law that I am the rein- carnation of Galileo, or otherwise I would feel that I had quit my program of demonstrating by law at a critical time, and when I have stated by law that I am the reincarnation of Galileo, it then has practically been proven. Galileo was born on either February The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 2^ 15th or 1 8th, 1564. According to history these two days of the month are mixed, but both dates come within the zodiacal sign Aquarius. In this Hfe I was born August 12th, 1862, at 12 o'clock midnight, in the zodiacal sign Leo. I understand that astrologers can tell by giving the dates whether you were such a party in your former life or not, so I give my full birth. The point of law that I wish to bring up is that in this life I was born in a zodiacal sign directly opposite of my former birth, just six months apart lacking three days. This same law that was in the beginning and is opera- tive in all nature and through all life, the law of posi- tive and negative, the two opposites, which God created in the beginning, the law by which you and I were created by the dual, the two opposites, the law that made evolution possible, the law that made the physical and the mental develop from its weak, its baby or nega- tive state, to its zenith, the positive state, the same law that is manifested through all nature of two opposites, simply being repeat over and over, whether it be the earth, the rock, the mineral, the tree, animal or man. The law that everything working in opposites, only different in degree but not of kind, is also opera- tive in this and my former life. Born six months apart in a direct opposite sign of the zodiac, of my previous life, causing a difference of degree but not of kind. 24 The First Cause and In my former life it was in the negative state, where it turned all the psychic ability for the material side of life, discovering, inventing, etc. The Italian Govern- ment gave Galileo a yearly pension for his ability for advancing the material wants of the nation. In this life I am in the positive state in a spiritual sign and a psychic or a spiritual disposition. All my life has been researching in religion, even up to this very day; in- vestigating religion and seeking spiritual truths has been my hobby. I claim that in my former life work- ing for the material wants was my negative state and seeking spiritual truth in this life is the positive state, as spiritual enlightenment is in advance of material gain. But whatever may be the belief of the reader, there is one thing certain, by coming back in the oppo- site sign of the zodiac, six months opposite to my pre- vious birth, I obeyed the same law that is working and manifested in all nature — the law of positive and negative, the two opposites, the law God created in the beginning by vibration. Galileo's works demonstrate that he must have been a psychic, and being a psychic again in this life proves that the law of two opposites — positive and negative — works in astrology as well as all other things, coming back in an opposite sign that I was in my former life, hold good according to the zodiac. If I was to say to The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 25 an astrologist that there is a positive and negative psychic he would immediately say, what do you mean? as they allude to a positive psychic as being a highly developed psychic, and the negative psychic as less so. When an astrologist writes out a chart he does so with a circle, and when the Planet Neptune is in the same house or in conjunction with the moon that person is a psychic. The law of Positive and Negative holds good in astrology as well as all other things. That when the same planet Neptune is directly opposite to the moon they are also a psychic, the Nega- tive psychic. If a person would marry a person in a sign directly opposite to his, astrologists claim that there would be great harmony between the two, as according to the law the two opposites belong together ; therefore, if the zodiac obeys that law and I coming back in the sign directly opposite to my former sign, proves according to the zodiac that I am the incarna- tion of Galileo, where in coming back in an opposite sign planetary conditions would then set in that it would make me of a similar disposition, only spiritually advancing me, giving me the opportunity to advance in evolution ; if I would come back in the exact horo- scope that I was in my former life, then we would have to admit that there is no change, consequently no progress. 26 The First Cause and In my former life I was an astronomer, and to Gali- leo is the credit given of discovering the sun spots, ring around Saturn, the moons on the other planets. He also gave a practical demonstration that the sun was the center of our solar system for which he was prosecuted by the Catholic Church and kept in exile. He invented the telescope, pendulum of the clock, the thermometer, and many other works. I have written a book on astronomy and demonstrated the force of gravitation, which no man has yet attempted, and laid down a system on astronomy and the laws govern- ing our solar system that will go down in history — same as my works in my former life, for I feel in- clined to say that my system on astronomy cannot be disputed, for it is based on the laws in nature, and I have no use for any religion, philosophy or theory if it is not based on nature. It was Galileo's disposition and cry — go to nature^ and it is my disposition in this life, as truth or the Divine can be only seen through nature. I wish also to state that I have never read a book on astronomy in my life; that my book on astronomy was given to me by inspiration, and I could be easily inspired on astronomy on account of my experience as an astronomer in my former life. Previous to that I never saw a book written by an astronomer, only The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 2y having a knowledge of it as the public in general do from reading papers and school days, and my school days have been very few. Galileo's Physical Build Compared With This Incarnation There is no diflference in physical build in this life than in the former life ; that is one thing that I claim, that the physical build is the most set condition about us. You can be changed in your mental thoughts and opinions very easily, but physical, not. In my pre- vious life I was stout and robust, broad shoulders, neck rather inclined to be short, broad forehead and a full face the same as in this life. To see my picture of my former life and this one you could not deny the close resemblance of the two. I let my beard grow to its full length in this life, and it was the same bushy beard that it was in my previous life. If reincarnation is a fact, there must be a similarity of the two lives, both physically as well as mentally, or otherwise there is nothing in it. Color of Hair Compared Galileo's hair, according to history, was of reddish hue. In this life my father's hair was coal black and 28 The First Cause and my mother's was so dark brown that you could call it black ; and I was born with red hair ; yet my parents having black hair my hair never became so^ it took on a sandy color and now light brown, a color you might say in between my former life and my parentage. My mother often said that she did not know who I took after if it were not for her mother, because of the difference in color of my hair and complexion. Galileo's Inability to Sleep Galileo's constant cry was his inability to sleep. In this incarnation it has the same result in this life, es- pecially in my younger days, it being absolutely im- possible for me to take a nap or go to sleep during the day. Even when a child my parents could not get me to sleep during the day, and being a watchmaker I gave it up because not being able to sleep for what I then termed the want of exercise, I would lay in my bed every night and just roll around all night, unable to sleep. By cultivating fewer hours of sleep I have been able to break up the sleepless condition that I was subject to in my past life. But I still continue sleeping less, as I claim that will be one of the benefits that will result in having a conscious mind on the other side of life ; too much sleep benumbs the mind. The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 29 Galileo an Easy Man Galileo was a very easy man to deal with on money matters. He went security and loaned money, you might say, for the asking of it, and the convent his daughters were in had a steady flow from his pocket; so has it been my disposition in this life, and it always seemed to me that others could see it in my make-up, as I could not get acquainted with anyone but what the first thing they would do was to borrow money from me, which invariably meant an enemy afterwards, as they would have no use for me after getting the loan. But constant taking advantage of me, together with the hardships in this life, have developed in me the condition that I can about say no. Galileo's Death and Its Effect in This Incarnation Galileo died of palpitation of the heart. In this in- carnation as a boy I was bothered with my heart, often having pain in the heart, and when a boy I would have to sit down and get what I called "getting my breath'' on account of the pain in my heart and sides. As time went on I outgrew that condition, but nevertheless I 30 The First Cause and have always had a poor blood circulation and will without a doubt die again in this life with heart trou- bles. Being in the zodiacal sign Leo, those people generally die of heart trouble, as that is their main physical weakness. I maintain that the chief cause of children being subject to sickness and different mala- dies is that they take on them or carry along with them the complaint or disease that they died with in their previous life. That is the reason that we as small children have more complaints than in our older days, carrying over with us the weakness of our for- mer life. Length of Time We Stay on the Other Side Galileo died January 8th, 1564. In this incarnation I was born August 12th, 1862, consequently the time from my previous death to my birth in this life would be 298 years seven months and four days. In my judgment I wish to say that my stay of a little over 298 years on the other side was not as long as it would have been if Galileo had not had the mental troubles that he was subjected to in the latter years of his life, after falling into the hands of the Jesuits. For Galileo, while in exile, was in a deplorable mental condition, the Jesuits having fixed him to their own The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 31 taste. It has been the cause in this Hfe of having a deplorable psychic mental condition. I believe that a good normal and moral mind would stay on the other side more than 300 years. Mentally, in my previous life I was a complete wreck, after falling into the hands of the Catholic Church for the truth that I had given out to the world. It is the development of the mind that will prolong your stay on the other side. We should never allow our minds to be subject to others or with mediumship going into a trance, hypnotism or any mental lechers. These things are a curse to humanity, and no one could make me believe but what the Jesuit in my past life had me under a hypnotic spell. Your mind is your soul^ and let no one subject your mind. Shun them as you would fire. The author is talking from a hard and long experience; an experience that has made his heart ache and his soul crouch for suf- fering; shun hypnotism and trance, and allow no one to subjugate your mind to theirs. There are even societies to-day that have occult centres to subjugate you to their society, going under the name of religion. Well has it been said in the old book: "O what has been done in my name.'' 32 The First Cause and Galileo's Torture It was never known definitely whether GaHIeo had ever been put through any torture or not, because while kept in exile he was always reluctant, and dare not say anything or receive any visitors^ so that he was unable to express himself. But records show that Galileo believed at the time that he would be put through torture, and beside when he left Rome he was ruptured, which was not the case before the Jesuits took him in charge. They had at that time a torture they would put the heretic through which was called the cord, which would generally rupture their victim. Galileo being ruptured afterwards, and his deplorable condition physically completely ruined, mentally subdued, which resembled fear, showed that he was tortured and subjected no doubt to other mental suppression. In regards to how my present life will prove that to be the case is that I am a perfect coward of body affliction in this life ; that I cannot stand any physical suffering in this life, and being so cowardly of body ailments is on account of the suflfering and torture I had to undergo under the hand of the Jesuit in my former life. The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 33 The Points That Do Not Compare There are only a few points that do not compare with my past Hfe, and a good reason can be given why they do not. The first is that I had a thick head of hair in my former Hfe, and in this Hfe it is very thin, which was the case aU through my young days. I maintain the cause of this was that I died in my past Hfe of heart trouble which gave me a poor blood circu- lation, and the mental troubles', subject to attacks of hypochondria, and on account of continually cutting our hair short, it does not create a demand for nour- ishment, and when old we become bald; but that ap- plies to men who have a poor blood circulation ; hav- ing a poor blood circulation it does not get up to the top of the head. Men and women of other nationalities who let their hair grow long very rarely become bald, because they have all their life made a demand for the blood to nourish the hair. The next point that does not tally with my past life is not having as good a memory as in my former life, consequently not as intellectual as I was in my past life. Galileo was noted like all intellectual men for his great memory, but in the latter part of his life, after the Jesuit got hold of him, the records have it that he 34 The First Cause and lost his power of memory altogether. Having lost his good memory and in a deplorable mental condition, subject to hypochondria during his exile, has made me of an inferior memory in this life, consequently inferior intellect, although while I haven't the book learning I am just as deep a thinker in this life as I was in my previous life ; in fact, on spiritual knowledge and getting into the depth of the unseen side of life, I am far superior than I was in my past life. The su- perior knowledge or book learning which I had in my previous life I have not in this life, but the power to think deep has never been lost. But as far as evolu- tion is concerned the experience that I had to undergo in my previous life has forced me along in evolution, so that I am, comparatively speaking, farther advanced than in my previous life. Our experiences are never lost — we always profit by them, although we may not think so. Experience will make you strong and dur- able ; it will force you on to the goal for which we are all climbing. Yet when we come to know our past life we can see how little we are in advance, that we have to reincarnate and reincarnate again and again before we reach the goal. The records show that I was quick-tempered in my past life, but it states I was very easy to pacify; and it has been the same way in this life, showing that our The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 35 strong traits or habits do not alter much where in- herited and environment does have an effect ; yet hab- its, faults and desires you have to work out and over- come. Reincarnation Through Ancestors It is generally held that you come through the an- cestors from one life to your next life. Galileo was an Italian; there were three left of his descendants, Vin- cenzio, Alberto and Cosimo. Vincenzio is supposed to have died in Italy^ but Alberto and Cosimo went to Munich, Germany. Alberto died in Germany and Cosimo went as a missionary to Munich, and there married a German woman. I am of German parent- age, and knowing my father's and mother's traits of character, I maintain that my ancestry to Galileo's life was not from my father's side, but from my mother's side and then through her mother, because my mother would often say that if it was not for her mother she would not know who I took after, because I was not as dark-complexioned as my parents ; my hair took after my former life, and from what I have come to know I believe that the descendant was through my mother and then her mother, consequently the only missing link between Galileo and this life would be 36 The First Cause and from my grandmother to Cosimo, the only surviving descendant from Galileo, v^ho settled down and mar- ried in Munich, Germany. Therefore, there would be only two or three families in between, and I hope some day to ferret out the family connection between Cosimo and my grandmother on my mother's side, which was all in Germany. It is claimed by believers in reincar- nation that you come back through the same family ties, and in my case as far as can be traced, it sustains it. How We Carry Out Our Past Incarnation If reincarnation is a fact there must be a similarity of the two lives or it is not a truth, otherwise reincar- nation would not be a fact. I know from my own experience that my habits, faults and desires are the same as in my former life^ and where it does not tally conditions have been brought in which it can be easily seen alter the case. We have had from time to time people claiming to be the reincarnation of another one and at the same time there would be nothing about their life to indicate that they were the former one; in that I wish to say that my life thoroughly tallies with my former life, and I believe my works will prove it. Where in my former life I had but a few The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 37 followers, their cry then was my disposition not to accept authority and my peculiar way of reasoning, I am the same way again in this life, although Galileo had a peculiar method of reasoning, yet his works lived after him and so will my theory on the solar system go down in history as the right solution of the solar system. There has never been a scientific man yet that even attempted to demonstrate the force of gravitation which I fully explain and base it entirely on man himself. I show the law governing the solar system and demonstrate the origin of the Planets, Moon and Comets, and my system goes down into the detail in explaining the different parts of the solar system and leaves nothing unexplained and strictly demonstrates everything by nature. It was my dispo- sition in my former life to go to nature, and it is the same in this life. Galileo's cry was ''go to nature,'' and it is nature alone that will and can solve all truth ; it will reveal all secrets, seen or unseen, whether in this life or lives to come. In my former life the records of my habits, faults, and disposition, and my complete life, have been written down, consequently I can more fully prove to myself and other that I was Galileo in my past life. 38 The First Cause and The Dual and Trinity One of the objects of this book is to show the laws that govern all nature, and there is not one thing in nature but what is subject to or governed by these laws. The law of Dual and Trinity. In the beginning God creating something from nothing the direct opposite to himself. It was the cause of the first law, Positive and Negative, or the two opposite, the dual, and be- cause of that the material substance had to work or go through evolution in opposites — Positive and Nega- tive or male and female — consequently all life in the universe had to be so created through the Positive (male), the Negative (female), whether it it be Plan- ets, Vegetation, Animal or Man. And what has cre- ated the trinity, that which was made being direct opposite to God which made it dual, then the material substance being but the reflection of that dual it took on the form of dual, then the Divine descended into matter and it then was three or triune, the trinity. First the Divine, second the Positive, the male, third the Negative, the female — the three in one. The Divine in the dual causes the trinity, and continues so through all evolution until the difference of degree be- tween all three becomes less and less, that is to say, The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 39 that when you become one with your Maker, when in the end you have become one with your God, then the difference between you and your opposite will also be one, then the difference of degree will be eliminated, the male and female then will be one. Then the cry of suffragettes will be a thing of the past ; sexless, pure and undefiled will you stand before your God, then will the law of Dual and Trinity be eliminated, then will trials, sorrow and troubles in life vanish, then will hell and reincarnation cease to be, and not until then. Then will your vibration vibrate no more, then the unchangeable, non-vibrating everlasting in man be left — The Divine. Thus everything in nature works first dual, then trinity. As we develop to perfection it will always be Divine first, Man second. Woman third, or male and female in the lower animal life. Therefore the consequence of the trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Man with his three bodies, the mind, the magnetic (astral), and Physical. Then Man in be- tween nature and God, everything working dual and trinity. It does seem strange when we look at everything how it can be possible that man does not see that every- thing comes from vibration ; there is not one thing that we have had an experience with or that history can record but what has a beginning and an ending, and 40 The First Cause and everything is constantly undergoing a change, every- thing proclaiming its non-permanence. The Bible claims that God created everything and all great spiritual teachers taught it, and our great scientific minds of to-day cannot tell you the essence of one sin- gle thing in nature ; they cannot fathom or get to the bottom of anything; they divide and sub-divide and cannot get to the minuteness of any material substance of the earth. They simply run up against vibration and there they stop, and yet practically no one believes with the Bible that God created everything. Bible Teaches Evolution and Reincarnation Even the Bible shows that civilization comes to its zenith then retrogrades, showing that the race has come up from the dark ages to our present time, then retrograding back to the dark ages again, demonstrat- ing the law of evolution and involution, as involution is the opposite to evolution, everything in opposites. That we have reincarnated again and again through cycles of time, and when the millennium arrives and we do not free ourselves from the bondage of this earth, we will then go back to the dark ages again. Revelations : Chapter 20. First Verse: 'T saw an angel come down from The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 41 heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand/' Second Verse: ''And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent^ which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years." Third Verse : ''And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nation no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a Httle season.'' Fourth Verse: "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and Judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their forehead, or in their hands : and they lived and reigned with Christ a thou- sand years." Seventh Verse : "And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison." Eighth Verse : "And shall go out to deceive the nation which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog to gather them together to battle : the num- ber of whom is as the sand of the sea." These verses of this chapter proclaim reincarna- 42 The First Cause and tion and also that the race comes to its zenith and then retrogrades, consequently demonstrating the law in evolution. Rev. 20 :5V : ''But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousands years were finished." This is the first resurrection : ''but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished" — does this not imply that they have lived before and will live again after the thousand years have expired? Surely live again means that they have lived before and will live again on the earth, after the thousand years have expired. Reincarnation. Rev. 2 ch.^ 1 1 V : "He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death." Rev. 20th ch.^ 6th v. : "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection : on such the second death hath no power." These two verses imply that those that overcome during the millennium will not have to come back and go through the second resurrection, or go through a second death ; but those who come back — those that live again, after the millennium, will go back to the dark ages, reincarnate and reincarnate up and then go through a second resurrection, and the next resurrec- tion then will be after we have gone through another cycle of time, after we have retrograded back again to the dark ages and evolved up to the zenith of The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 43 another civilization; then there will be the second resurrection, and that method will continue as long as the globe is inhabited, giving all life an opportunity to free itself from the bondage of the earth. If you will read this chapter carefully, like many other chapters, you will see that the Christian ideas of being lost and burning up in hell have no foundation, only the preacher's misconception of the Bible. The old book teaches reincarnation all through it, of which I quoted only a few in my book, and there is no con- flict between reincarnation and hell if you have the right conception of hell; the Bible does not teach that hell is a place or a location in the hereafter, but the condition the soul is in whether it be here or here- after. I can take those passages in which you might think it teaches a place in the hereafter and I could show to you that it means the condition the soul is in and not a place or a location. Did you ever stop to think of hell over in heaven? When you get into the true meaning of hell there is no conflict between hell and reincarnation, which are both taught in the Bible, and if the Bible teaches both the preacher must be wrong or the Bible is wrong, and I rather think it is the preacher, because there is so much that preachers believe in that is contradicted in the Bible, that I feel like saying that they had better get down and believe their Bible. 44 The First Cause and Revelation, 20th chapter, demonstrates the millen- nium. The second and third verses show us that dur- ing this millennium of a thousand years the devil will be bound in the bottomless pit so that during this thou- sand years we won't have that old fellow, the devil, to bother us^ but after the millennium the same condition will be again. Seventh verse : ''And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.'' Eighth verse : ''And shall go out to deceive the na- tion which are in the four quarters of the earth, God and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea." These two verses demonstrate that after the millen- nium the people that have not freed themselves from reincarnation will go back again to the dark ages. When it states that the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished, and distinctly tells us that there is to be a second death, to be another resurrection after the thousand years (the millennium) then no one can be lost. The Bible teaches the same law that governs all nature that everything in its evo- lution comes to a zenith and then retrogrades, the mil- lennium being the zenith of our whole race, the very fact that the Bible in the seventh and eighth verses states that after the millennium or thousand years has The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 45 expired Satan shall be loosed out of his prison. Eighth verse : ''And shall go out to deceive the nation which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea." Showing that we will have after the millennium the same condition as be- fore the millennium, sorrow, trouble, turmoil and wars ; that at the height of our civilization, that at the zenith of our time of peace and harmony that the devil will be loosed again, to go out to deceive the people again, and have the same old condition as before. The Bible simply indicates by the same law of Positive and Negative that the race comes up to its zenith and then retrogrades back to its former state demonstrating the law of evolution and involution. I think that I have proven by nature and law and also by the Bible that everything comes from nothing to its zenith then re- turns to nothing, and evolution through reincarnation it keeps on advancing, round after round, each round being a little in advance of the previous one, until we become perfectly one with God, then no doubt the divine within us comes to a rest. Physical matter and everything that we are composed of then will vanish and cease to be, then the vibration will have been en- tirely eliminated. This book at least gives the law governing evolution and the working method of evolu- 46 The First Cause and tion, and the Bible proves it by showing that the race itself develops from the dark ages to a millennium, then retrogrades back to the dark ages again, and that has been going on, cycle after cycle; that there are many that have gone before us and that there are many to follow after this civilization, going through the same trials, temptations, sorrows and misery as we have, that after all when you come to analyze life it is but one sorrow, that indeed the Bible is correct when it states, ''although he was a son (Jesus) he became per- fect by suffering." Heb. 5th chapter, 8th and 9th verses. When we come to analyze life how foolish it is for us to make another life one dot harder than it is, that we in our present time simply means one man doing the other up and even the one on top has to constantly watch the next fellow below him, and if to-day you were to talk brotherly love to your acquaintance he would think that there is something wrong with you. St. Matthew 17th chapter, 12th verse: ''But I say unto you. That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them." Thirteenth verse: "Then the disciples imderstood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist." If you will read the eleventh chapter of St. Matthew, eleventh to fourteenth verses, and St. Matthew, seven- The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 47 teenth chapter, tenth to thirteenth verses, you will see that Jesus emphatically declared that John the Lus- trater was the reincarnation of Elijah. St. John, 3rd chapiter, 13th verse: "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven." St. John, 6th chapter, 62nd verse: "What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before." St. Mark, 6th chapter, 14th verse: "And King Herod heard of him: (for his name was spread abroad) and he said, that John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him." Fifteenth verse: "Others said that it is Elias; and others said that it is a prophet^ or as one of the one of the prophets." Sixteenth verse: "But when Herod heard (of Je- sus) he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead/' St. Matthew, 13th verse: "When Jesus came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples saying. Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" Fourteenth verse: "And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist : some Elias ; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets." 48 The First Cause and St. Luke, 9th chapter, i8th verse: "And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him : and he asked them saying, Whom say the people that I am?" Nineteenth verse: 'They answering said, John the Baptist ; but some say, Elias ; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again/' The above quotations and many other quotations in the Bible show that Jesus quite often asked his disci- ples and the people who he was in his previous life, but he never committed himself; but when his disci- ples thought he was the re-embodiment of Elias he plainly told them that John was the reincarnation of Elias, thereby showing that Jesus acknowledged rein- carnation, which was universally beUeved in at that time. It was no doubt the Divine intention to let the present idea of hell prevail, because we need it ; our race had to have a condition of fear behind us to ad- vance us spiritually and it has had its effect, but at this generation many of us have outgrown the fear of this terrible hell, taught by the Christians, and we are beginning to do our own thinking, and the second coming of Christ only means another teacher, as Jesus plainly told his disciples in the i6th chapter of St. John, I2th to 25th verses, and other parts of the Bible, that he did not tell the whole truth. He told the dis- The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 49 ciples that they could not bear the truth and that will hold good even to-day, especially will it hold good among the Christians. In the 25th verse he states that in his second coming he will not then talk in proverbs, but will show us plainly of the Father, and if he has not told the whole truth may it not be evolution and reincarnation? I have often said that the Christians will not receive the second coming of Christ no more than the Jews did when he came as a Jew. If in his second coming he should teach that which even his disciples could not bear, where will the Christian be? You could not get them out of the old rut they are in no matter what power would be brought to bear upon them, consequently I can readily see that it will be as the Bible states, that it will be only the one hundred and forty-four thousand that will receive him. Bible's Contradiction of the Christian Idea of Hell St. John, 1st chapter, ist verse: 'Tn the beginning was the Word^ and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.'' Fourteenth verse : ''And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we behold his glory, the 50 The First Cause and glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth/' Isaiah, 55th chapter, nth verse: ''So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth : it shall not re- turn unto me void." Here we have it plainly that God created the world by the Word, and it also states the Word was made flesh. The Bible nowhere mentions flesh but what it is alluding to man, and if God created the world by a word and it was also made flesh, then man is a part of that Word; and if he states that my Word will not return unto me void, where is the Christian idea of being burned up in hell forever and ever; there is a screw loose with theology somewhere when the Bible states ''my word will not return unto me void,'' and man is a Word as well as all nature. Here we have from the Bible two contradictions of the accepted idea of hell. Reincarnation means that the soul comes back or incarnates into a new-born child and continues through evolution to perfect itself, and we being a part of that Word which God created the world by, will not come back to Him void, meaning that the word that God sent out will go on until it has accomplished its mission. I do not care at this time to go into the different passages of the Bible showing the true mean- ing of hell, but I could thoroughly establish the point The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 51 by the Bible that hell is but the adversity and obstacles and suffering we go through in our life in our evolu- tion. The Bible plainly shows, as also did Buddha, that we become perfect through suffering, which necessarily means evolution, as we cannot become perfect in one life. Heb. 5th chapter, 8th verse: "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered/' Ninth verse : ''And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him -r Surely these two verses mean that Jesus bqcame per- fect by suffering. Heb. 2d chapter, loth verse: "For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the cap- tain of their salvation perfect through suffering."" I Peter Sth chapter, loth verse : "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you PERFECT, establish, strengthen, settle you." These verses demonstrate that by our suffering in our daily lives we become perfect, and it is the only hell the Bible teaches. 52 The First Cause and No doubt you and I have come up to this millennium and have gone back to the dark ages time and time again, and had to endure the sufferings and turmoils that we have records of in past ages, and that is hell enough for me. And those of us that do not free our- selves of reincarnation in the millennium that is about to be ushered in, will again go back to the dark ages. Bible Does Not Teach the Immortality of the Soul No one believes in the immortality of the body. Everybody knows that the body dies and decays, there- fore it cannot be immortal. But the Bible speaks about a soul. Preachers try hard to demonstrate the immor- tality of the soul, but the Bible does not state that the soul is immortal, as some people seem to suppose it does. There is no such a word in the whole Bible as ''immortal soul.'' Take a Concordance and you will not find such a word in the Bible as immortal soul, and it does seem that such an important part of man's life should not be left out of the old book. If there was such a thing as man's soul being immortal, we must at least acknowledge that the Saviour has left out the most important part of man's life, the soul im- mortality, and that is not very probable; but on the The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 53 contrary the Bible does say that ''God is able to de- stroy both soul and body/' and again ''the soul that sinneth it shall die/' and if it can die or be destroyed it cannot be immortal. Consequently the Bible proves that neither soul nor body are immortal, and the very fact that the Bible has left out the most important part of man's personality in itself proves that what man is made of is not immortal. The Bible leaving out such an important event verifies its own statement that God created everything from nothing, and if it has come from nothing it must return to nothing; there- fore it would be impossible for the soul to be immor- tal ; otherwise the Bible would contradict itself. The Bible does not contradict itself, but it is the incorrect ideas gotton out of the old book, and it is about time that when our learned theologian's conception does not coincide with the Bible or^ in other words, the Bible in another place contradicts his idea, he had better get down and see what is the matter with himself and not the old book. The old book is all right, and when man understands the old book we will have a different world than we have to-day. There is no evidence in the Bible of the soul being immortal; from nothing has he come and to nothing will he return^ for the vibration which has created him will some day cease to vibrate and he will be no more 54 The First Cause and and the only thing that will be left in him will be that which never changes — ''the Divine/' Any broad- minded man who will think for himself will have to acknowledge that the body and mind which is subject to a law of change constantly changes in itself, demon- strates its non-permanence, the law of evolution and involution, the law of building up and tearing down, will be operative with man in his last moments and annihilation will be its consequence. I would like to ask one question : Why is it that man has within him that which is the highest of all^ which never changes and all the rest being changeable, because Divinity is not subject to vibration it has not been created by vi- bration, but all the rest is subject to and has been created by vibration. Therefore man is not immortal and the Bible and nature's laws verify my contention not alone in stating that God created all, but also that it does not teach the immortality of the soul. If it did there would be a contradiction by the Bible, for the soul is but substance of a higher vibration and a more attenuated matter than his body and has its source from and by the same law that governs his body. The Beginning of All I maintain that the beginning of all is daylight or heat. The earth travels around the sun at a speed The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 55 which we have nothing on this earth to compare with, and the force (magnetism) that binds the earth to the sun vibrates against the ether in space as the earth travels around the sun (and there cannot be a cause without an effect) which produces the heat and Hght of the day. There is not a star, a nebula, a comet, moon or a planet in the whole starry heavens but what is in motion and all for no purpose. Astronomers as a rule agree that the stars get their light by that means, and why not our earth, when we are traveling around at such a tremendous speed ? Does it not seem strange that our earth obeys the same law of the whole starry heavens, everything in motion^ everything traveling at a tremendous speedy and all for no purpose, a cause without an effect? We know that the closer we get to the sun the colder it gets^ and there is not one phenomenon claimed of the sun by our present astron- omers which can be proven by nature, and I mean what I say, that there is not one phenomenon in its con- nection with our earth which can be proven by our own laws. It is about time that our astronomers and preachers get down and do some of their own thinking and not simply accept it because it has been handed down from the past ages, the unenlightened or dark ages. If the sun was a ball of fire the space around the sun would necessarily be brilliant, but we know 56 The First Cause and that the space around the sun is all darkness except in between us and the sun. DayHght is simply electricity, and the only differ- ence between our electricity and that produced by the earth traveling around the sun is that we condense our electricity in a wire and the electricity produced by the earth vibration is in a scattered form, each atom of the magnetism being electrified, or otherwise we would not be able to endure it ; that electricity is then turned into material substance and that is the begin- ning of matter, and that continues in its evolution until it reaches the highest form of life. But I can hardly go into this in showing its evolution in this book, but the first organized life with an embodied soul is the earth or planets, and it is many souls in one and it is the first form that has a soul or, rather, souls, that by their combined number they have enough intel- ligence by which the Divine can work through it. Everything in the universe has a soul that has created a form by its own natural growth ; it is then when the Divine works through it (God in all and through all). The intelligence of the thing is the soul of it. I could by the Bible show that it states the intelligence is the soul of anything, and anything that has grown its own form has a soul, although the intelligence may be far inferior than ours, yet it is there. Take the tree. It The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 57 will reach its roots toward the brook or shallow places for moisture^ and that in itself is an intellectual act. It has enough intelligence for its own use and need, and that is all it requires in its stage of evolution. In the planet it is a Group soul and remains as a group soul when on the other side. There is some re- ligion that teaches that the animal has a group soul when on the other side, but that is impossible or, rather, it is not working from cause to effect, for our future life is but the reflect or the results of this one, and the animal being separate, being divided, their souls must also be separate. When on the other side there cannot be any group soul farther than the planets and the life in water, as after that their lives on this earth are distinctly separate, consequently it must be so on the other side. For the evolution of the planet soul through reincarnation is in the water ; it is yet a group soul, as water is a solid body although it is then taking on a condition of separateness. We know that water is one mass of living insect life, and it evolves from that state through reincarnation to fish life, up through the animal to man, and continues through evolution until it becomes perfect. 58 The First Cause and Jesus Did Not Claim to Give Us All the Truth I Cor., 3rd chapter, 2nd verse: '1 have fed you with milk, and not with meat ; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able." St. John, i6th chapter, 12th verse: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.'' Thirteenth verse : ''Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth,'' etc. In I Cor., 3rd chapter, 2nd verse, and St. John i6th chapter, 12th verse, we have statements showing that Jesus has not given us the whole truth where in this case he told his disciples that they could not even bear the truth, and in the thirteenth verse he told his dis- ciples, ''Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth," showing that the whole truth is yet to be given to the world which is again supported, after speaking about his second com- ing in the latter part of the chapter in the 25th verse : "These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs ; but the time cometh when I shall shew you plainly of the Father." In these statements we plainly see that Jesus did not give us the whole truth when he said that the The Three Laws That Govern All Nature, 59 time cometh, surely indicate it has not come yet, but will, as this chapter indicates, in his second coming: ''I shall no more speak in proverbs, but shew you plainly of the Father,'' consequently it will be given to us so that we will not have to be mistaken about it. The Bible being written in parables is because in evo- lution we have minds of all discrepant, and being writ- ten in parables has made it that we could get all the different religion that the different minds needed, and the old book's object was to draw up all men, not a favored few, and if you have a mind that can see the deeper truth in life you will find you can see the Bible gives you just as deep as you are capable of receiving. In that the old book to me is a wise old book ; it can suit all kinds of minds at all the different stages of evolution; that is the reason that Moses and the prophets came during their evolution to teach the peo- ple what they could comprehend at that time, and when people had advanced then came Jesus to teach the peo- ple what they could comprehend at that stage of evolu- tion, and if it has always come as a teacher in the dif- ferent stages of evolution will not the second coming of Christ mean another teacher? It has always come as a teacher, so will it come again as a teacher to teach what the disciples could not at their time bear, but what at this stage of evolution we can. And if it is 6o The First Cause and not Evolution that will be taught, what may it be? There is one thing sure, in these verses it shows that he has not told us the whole truth, and if there is to be a second coming of Christ, and it has always come as a teacher, so will it come in its second coming, a teacher of higher truths, and I think it is logical w^hen the Bible shows us in Rev. 20th chapter, that the race evolves up to its zenith (millennium) and then retro- grades the same as all nature, showing that the Bible does give the working method of evolution; that the disciples could not bear it in their time which I think the world is now ready for because evolution and rein- carnation is the only logical solution of life. Live and Think According to Nature Coming in contact with people in my travels and speaking about my theory, that everything comes from nothing, and when I say to them, go as far back in history as you wish and show me one thing that Man can or ever has been able to discern but what it has had a beginning and an ending, but yet they will say, how about material substance? There it shows their illogic and the inability to go to nature. If everything that man can analyze or discern has a beginning and The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 6i an ending, so has that which on account of time he has not been able to discern, especially when every- thing is in a stage of evolution, everything changeable, nothing permanent. If I could but educate man to go to nature in what he believes, I would have accom- plished one great blessing to humanity, because to-day there is so much belief especially in religious matters that it is simply ridiculous nonsense. Take a religious man who believes in some ridiculous stuff and see him speak about some other religion and ridicule cer- tain parts of the other's belief ; and why ? because that which he ridicules in the other religion does not coin- cide with nature, but what he believes in; he won't analyze it according to nature. He has been drilled in that way, then he becomes fanatical, consequently becomes irrational. If every man was to take to na- ture that which he believed in he would be surprised in seeing how little he did know ; and that holds good with all philosophy and theories. Man will not go to nature, and I have demonstrated not alone by nature but also show the law in every part, every atom, as I have gone along, showing that everything and all things that man can analyze obeys these laws, and yet many cannot see it, and why? because you have been so drilled in other directions that you neither live or think according to nature, but when you get living con- 62 The First Cause^ etc. trary to nature you suffer and suffer hard, but thinking you don't see the suffering it entails when you think contrary to nature, consequently man goes along in his suffering and don't know any better. Go to nature. Live and Think According to Nature DEC 11 «1t One copy del. to Cat. Div. DEC 11 !??^ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 022 169 746