LIGHT
By Walter Russell
Chapter
XII, The
Secret of Light
When
man sees the light of the sun he believes that he is actually seeing light
when the nerves of his eyes are but “feeling” the intense, rapid, short-
wave vibrations of the kind of wave motion which he senses as incandescence.
The intensely vibrant electric current mirrored into the senses of the eyes
fairly burns them. They cannot stand that high rate of vibration. The eyes
would be destroyed by such a vibration but light would not be the cause of
that destruction. Fast motion, simulating light, would be the cause. It would
be like sending a high voltage electric current over a wire, so fine that the
current would burn it out.
Man
likewise cannot see darkness. The nerves of his eyes, which sense motion, slow
down to a rate of vibration that he can no longer “feel.”
Man
is so accustomed to the idea that he actually sees light in various
intensities illuminating various substances to greater or lesser degree that
it is difficult for him to realize that his own senses are but acting as
mirrors to reflect various intensities of wave motion. But that is all that is
happening.
Every
electrically conditioned thing in Nature reflects the vibrations of every
other thing, to fulfill its desire to synchronize its vibrations with every
other thing. All matter is the motion of light. All motion is expressed in
waves. All light waves are mirrors that reflect each other’s condition unto
the farthermost star.
This
is an electrically conditioned wave universe. All wave conditions are forever
seeking oneness. For this reason all sensation responds to all other
sensation.
Is Light A Wave Or Corpuscle?
Much
controversy has arisen as to whether light is corpuscular, as Newton claimed
it to be, or waves. There is much evidence in favor of both theories. It is
both. Light is expressed by motion. All motion is wave motion. All waves are
expressed by fields of equal and opposite pressures of two-way motion. The
entire volume within wave fields is filled with the two opposite expressions
of motion—the positive expression that compresses light into solids, and the
negative expression that expands it into space surrounding solids.
All
space within wave fields is curved. Curvature ends at planes of zero curvature
that bound all wave fields. These boundary planes of omnipresent magnetic
Light act as mirrors to reflect all curvature into all other wave fields in
the universe, and as fulcrums from which motion in one wave field is
universally repeated.
All Matter Is Wave Motion
Together
these constitute what we call matter and space. It has been difficult to
conceive light as being purely corpuscular, for light is presumed to fill all
space. Space is not empty. It is full of wave motion. Corpuscles of matter are
one half of wave cycles of light. Space is the other half.
There
need be no mystery as to whether light is corpuscular or wave, for waves of
motion which simulate the light and darkness of space is all there is.
The
light and motion of solid matter, and of gaseous matter of space, differs only
in volume and condition. Water of earth is compressed into small volume while
water of the heavens is expanded thousands of time in volume. Each condition
is the opposite half of the cycle of water.
Water
vapor is water turned inside out. It again becomes water by turning outside
in. Expansion- contraction sequences result from this process.
All Matter Is Simulated Light
Water
of the heavens still is water, and it still is light waves. No change
whatsoever has taken place between the waters of earth and those of the
heavens except a change of its condition from positive to negative
preponderance. This change is due solely to a change of its direction in
respect to its center of gravity.
All
dense cold matter, such as iron, stone, wood, and all growing or decaying
things, are light. We do not think of them as light but all are waves of
motion, and all waves of motion are light.
Light
is all there is in the spiritual universe of knowing, and simulation
of that light in opposite extensions is all there is in the electric wave
universe of sensing. The simulation of light in matter is not light. There is
no light in matter.
Perhaps
the confusion which attends this idea would be lessened if we classify
everything concerning the spiritual universe, such as life, intelligence,
truth, power, knowledge and balance as being the One Light of Knowing, and
everything concerning matter and motion as being the two simulated lights of
thinking.
Thinking
expresses knowing in matter but matter does not think, nor does it know.
Thinking
also expresses life, truth, idea, power and balance by recording the ideas of
those qualities in the two lights of matter in motion, but matter does not
live, nor is it truth, balance or idea, even though it simulates those
spiritual qualities.
Man’s
confusion concerning this differentiation lies in his, long assumption of the
reality of matter. His assumption that his body is his Self, that his
knowledge is in his brain, and that he lives and dies because his body
integrates and disintegrates, has been so fundamental a part of his thinking
that it is difficult for him to reverse his thinking to the fact that matter
is but motion and has no reality beyond simulating reality.
The
light which we think we see is but motion. We do not see light. We feel
the wave vibrations set up by the motion that simulates light, but the
motion of electric waves that simulate light is not that which it simulates.
Confusion
Concerning Light Corpuscles
There
is much confusion concerning the many kinds of particles of matter such as
electrons, protons, photons, neutrons and others. These many particles are
supposedly different because of the belief that some are negatively charged,
some are positively charged and some are so equally charged that one
supposedly neutralizes the other.
There
is no such condition in nature as negative charge, nor are there negatively
charged particles. Charge and discharge are opposite conditions, as filling
and emptying, or compressing and expanding are opposite conditions.
Compressing
bodies are charging into higher potential conditions. Conversely, expanding
bodies are discharging into lower potential conditions. To describe an
electron as a negatively charged body is equivalent to saying that it is an
expanding-contracting body.
Contracting
and expanding bodies move in opposite directions. Contracting bodies move
radially inward toward mass centers, and expanding bodies move radially
outward toward space that surrounds masses. In this two-way universe, light
which is inwardly directed toward gravity charges mass and discharges space.
When directed toward space it charges space and discharges mass. All direction
of force in Nature is spiral.
The
charging condition is positive. It multiplies speed of motion into density of
substance. The principle of multiplication of motion because of decrease of
volume is the cause of the acceleration of gravity. The discharging condition
is negative. It divides speed of motion into tenuity of substance. The
principle of the division of motion because of expansion of volume is the
cause of the deceleration of radiation.
One
can better comprehend this principle by knowing that what we call substance is
purely motion. Motion simulates substance by its variation of pressures, its
speed and its gyroscopic relation to its wave axis.
Particles
are variously conditioned as to pressure but there are no different kinds of
particles. All are light waves wound up into particles that are doubly
charged. Their position at any one point in their wave causes them to have the
electric condition appropriate for that point.
Light
particles are forever moving in their octave waves. All are either heading
toward their cathode or their anode, which means toward vacuity or gravity.
They are all moving either inward or outward, spirally.
All Light Particles Are Alike
All
light particles are either expressing the mother- light principle or the
father-light principle. For example, if a particle is on the amplitude of the
wave, it would be a true sphere, and as a true sphere it would be neither
positive nor negative. It might then appropriately be called a neutron. A
particle which is spirally heading inward toward the apex of a vortex in the
process of becoming a sphere might appropriately be called a proton, because
of its expressing the father-light principle.
Again,
if it is moving spirally outward, it could appropriately be called an electron
because it would then be discharging in excess of its charge or expanding in
excess of its contraction.
Light
rays, for example, leaving the sun, are discharging the sun. They are also
discharging themselves because they are expanding into greater volume. They
are also lowering their own potential by multiplying their volume. They
reverse their charge when radially converging upon the earth. They are then
charging the earth and themselves by contracting into smaller volume and are
simultaneously multiplying their own potential by thus contracting.
Semi-cyclic Alteration
In
an electric current there is a constant interchange between anode and cathode
or positive and negative poles. A light particle expands as it leaves the
cathode in an outward radial direction and contracts as it radially approaches
the anode. This light particle has been the same light particle at all times
in all parts of its journey. Its variation of charge and discharge, its
direction of motion and the condition of wave pressure in which it finds
itself at all times are the sole reasons for its changing from one condition
to another. The light particles are all the same light particles, all being
different only in pressure condition.
This
is also true of the elements of matter. Whether they be iron, carbon, silicon,
bismuth or radium, all are composed of the same kind of light particles.
They
all seem to have different qualities and attributes, but those qualities and
attributes are likewise given to them purely by the positions they occupy in
their waves.
All Things Simulate Light
A
particle of light which belongs to an atomic system of sodium has in it all of
the entire range of the elements, besides all of every other creating thing in
the universe. It acts to carry out the purposefulness of the idea of sodium
simply because it is in the pressure condition of sodium, and is a part of the
unfolding pattern of the seed of inert gas of the octave from which it has
unfolded.
If
that same particle unfolded from the seed of the oak, it would be part of the
wood fiber of its trunk, or leaf, or of the chlorophyll which colored its
leaves, but it would be the same kind of particle while fulfilling the purpose
of cellulose as while fulfilling the purpose of sodium.
All
matter in this universe is but differently conditioned motion simulating
light, and all differences in condition are pressure differences.
Light Does Not Travel
The
speed with which light presumably travels is 186,400 miles per second. The
distance between stars is so great that the speed of light is computed as
light years, for the distance computed by lesser units of time would yield
figures so great that they would be meaningless.
Light
only seems to travel. It is but one more of the countless illusions caused by
wave motion. Waves of the ocean seem to traverse the ocean but they only
appear to do so, for waves are pistons in the universal engines, and pistons
operate up and down. Wave pistons of light, or of the ocean, operate radially
and spirally inward and outward, toward and away from gravity.
Waves
of light do not travel. They reproduce each other from wave field to wave
field of space. The planes of zero curvature, which bound all wave fields, act
as mirrors to reflect light from one field into another. This sets up an
appearance of light as traveling, which is pure illusion.
The
sunlight we feel upon our bodies is not actual light from the sun. What
actually is happening is that the sun is reproducing its own condition on the
earth by extending the reproductions out through cold space into ever
enlarging wave fields until those reproductions begin to converge again toward
our center of gravity into ever smaller wave fields. The heat we feel and the
light we see is dependent entirely upon the ability of the wave fields to
reproduce the light and heat, and that ability is conditioned upon the amount
of moisture in the atmosphere.
If
there were no moisture in the atmosphere, our bodies would carbonize from the
heat thus reproduced. One cannot consistently think of that heat as direct
rays of the sun, for that same sunlight was intensely cold during its
reproduced journey through the immensely expanded wave fields of space between
the sun and earth.
The
light and heat that appear to come from the star or sun have never left the
star or sun.
That
which man sees as light and feels as heat is the reproduced counterpart of the
light and heat that is its cause.
The
rate of vibration in a wave field depends upon its volume. Vibration in a wave
field means the pulse of interchange between its compressed core and the space
surrounding that core. A slow vibration in a large wave field would cool
one’s body, or even freeze it, while fast pulsing interchange in extremely
small wave fields could burn one’s body.
A
lens that multiplies light and heat toward a focal point which sets paper on
fire merely compresses larger wave fields into smaller ones. The rate of
vibration increases for the same reason that the planets nearest the sun move
much faster in their small orbits than those that are far away from the sun.
Kepler’s law covering the speeds of planets will apply to rates of vibration
in wave fields as appropriately as with the movements in the solar system.