(pp.55-56)
Yet Darwin assumed that there was a planner. He has been conveniently dropped out by later scientists. All sorts of
clever ideas are put forward to try to show how the multitude of dividing and living cells in the baby know where
and how to develop. No idea carries conviction, however many letters there may be after the author’s name.
You cannot expect the cells of Bolboceras arminger to develop into legs, wings, eyes, internal organs and so on
without a plan to work to. Without a plan how can it change from an egg into a grub, from a grub to a chrysalis and
from a chrysalis to a perfect flying insect? How can you produce an insect’s complicated wing by any chance
development? It cannot start from a flapping leg gradually growing membrane. Besides, it comes from a different
place. There can be no Darwinian evolution of an insect’s wing.
All through the evolutionary story, as told in the study of geology, it is evident to anyone with a mind unclouded by
dogma that some entity was experimenting along many lines and with varied success. The experimenter was not
infallible anymore than the designer of aeroplanes is infallible.
Many experimental animals were evolved which vanished from one cause or another. Each was evolved by
improving on the one before, but it did not evolve itself. Someone made use of known laws and known material,
each cell being a living and reproducing unit, to improve the design. But some main designs could not be developed
far enough. The plan was then abandoned and a new one tried out.
The evidence for the existence of a planner or planners is clear for all to see. But there is not the slightest evidence
to suggest whose mind, or minds, does the planning. There may well be very many planners in an ascending order
up to the one who planned the whole universe. Who that is is quite beyond our comprehension and the problem is no
concern of this study. But if we admit that there is a plan and a planner, surely our study does throw some light on
this plan. The careful arrangement of the rates on our circular card can hardly be a matter of chance. Take just the
four cardinal points on it again.
Why should Sun, Light, Red, Fire and East, each with a rate of 10-inches, come opposite to Moon, Sound, Green,
Water and West at 30-inches? They might have been scattered anywhere around our forty-divisional disc. Why does
Heat not come under 10-inches with Fire? The answer is that it is associated with Life at 20-inches and nothing
could live without it.
But to those, who like myself do some painting in water colour, the question which at once comes to the fore is why
is Green opposite Red? For years I have mixed blue and yellow to make green. Blue and yellow are primary colours
so we were taught, green is not.
But green and not blue is the colour of chlorophyll, without which most of the vegetable world could not live. It is of
primary importance. It is also far more easy for man’s eyes to see. If a vessel’s starboard light were blue and not
green there would be many more collisions at sea. Once more we have to go back to the beginning to look at things
afresh. To the planner green is the important colour, blue is not.
Then take the cardinal points themselves, the North, South, East and West. They are not the points of the Earth’s
magnetic field, but those of the Earth itself. Magnetic North moves about in an area of Arctic Canada. Its bearing
from Southern England changes about 15 seconds a year and it is far from the North Pole.
The North Pole itself has been relatively steady for much of man’s history; although this was not always so and what
would happen if the Polar Ice caps melted is anybody’s guess. But compared with the magnetic pole it is fixed and
immutable. There it is in a waste of frozen waters where there is no sun for half a year.
We find North at 40-inches along with Cold, Death and Black, the beginning and end of our scale, 0 as well as 40.
For it is the beginning of the next whorl of the spiral. The Sun rises as a Red Ball of Fire in the East, all three on the
same rate of 10-inches. It sets in the West at 30-inches and at its setting there is the phenomenon of the Green ray, or
Flash, which, although few of us have seen it, is a natural phenomenon.
With the setting of the Sun the Moon takes over. All this is so elementary and obvious that one would have thought
that a human living on Earth might have devised it. In fact a mind comparable to a human mind must have done so.
But is not our Earth mind simply a projection of our higher mind and is not this itself presumably a projection from
one still higher? It looks like an indication that all mind works in a similar manner. The planner made his plan in
much the same way as we might have set about it ourselves.
The ancient Biblical story of God saying: ‘Let us make man in Our Own Image’ has some sense in it after all. But
God of this story said this to other planners. He was not doing it in isolation. On that particular level, which was
thought to have planned man, there was still no ultimate Almighty. Just as Paulinus’ teaching appealed to the
common sense of Edwin’s intelligent councillors, 45 so we, surrounded by so much scientific fact that it tends to
become a bore, can begin to catch a gleam of truth from our unorthodox study.
We have built up our ideas very slowly from a long series of apparently trivial experiments, which are open to
anyone who can work the pendulum, and most people can do so, to test for themselves. Several people have already
written to me in confirmation. They get the same rates as we do. But, although we trust our observations, we are
little qualified to reason from them and there may be numerous errors in our conclusions. Each person must draw his
own conclusions if not from his own observations, at least from a confidence in ours.
The issues are of vital importance to everybody. They are those of whether our minds and personalities are
temporary and perish with the brain, or if they survive death and the disappearance of the brain. The former belief
leads to every kind of greed and selfishness. There can be no hope for a stable, happy world as long as this creed of
materialism holds sway.
All we have learnt from our experiments tends to refute the materialistic belief. It tends to show very clearly that a
part of our mind is not bounded by the earthly three-dimensional bonds of time and space. It also knows far more
than does our Earthly one. Yet the two portions of mind are linked, although prevented from close co-operation by
something comparable to the refracting layer between air and water.
Everything we know in our Earth life appears to continue on the next, but there are certainly additions. The
biconical fields of force with which every fragment of matter seems to be surrounded, are evidently perceptible to
our other mind. It can single them out with no difficulty and pass back the knowledge to us by the simple pendulum
contrivance. The miracle of this world is the commonplace of the next.
To understand why this should be so, it is necessary to see if we can appreciate a little of what the pendulum has
been telling us about our mind (or is it our spirit?) beyond the 40-inch rate. It has told us that this mind, as I shall
continue to call it for convenience, can sense things hidden from us by a veil of matter whether they are beneath a
layer of soil or behind a stone wall. It can also jump across thousands of years of our time and do this both forwards
and backwards.
It has a further qualification which is quite beyond our earthly conceptions, for it can apparently appreciate objects
in two places at once. Now the faster anything moves the closer it becomes to being in two places at the same time.
If it moved at an infinite speed it would be in all places at once and appear to be at rest.
We can surely infer therefore that, to our mind beyond our earth life, things move very much faster than they do
here. Everything, including ourselves, vibrates much faster on the next plane than it does on Earth. Green is still
green and red red, but it is probably more intensely green or more vividly red.
Owing to this greatly increased rate of vibration, things which are solid and impenetrable to us are no longer so on
the higher plane. Someone on this higher plane would be able to pass through the solid obstructions of Earth with as
great ease as television vibrations pass through walls of houses or steel decks. This is more than half-way to
understanding the mysteries we have been trying to investigate.
Solids on the next plane are vibrating so fast that we cannot sense them at all, but they are solid enough to the
individual on the next level. Just as everything is now known to be in constant movement here, so it is on the higher
plane. The only difference is the speed at which things move. There is nothing unnatural about the next level. Things
simply move too fast for us on Earth to sense them.
I think the "Russian roulette" is in choosing a good doctor these days.
