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The Law of Vibration
Students of history find a continuous chain of reference to the mysterious
influence of one human mind over that of others. In the earliest records,
traditions and legends may be found reference to the general belief that it
was possible for an individual to exert some weird uncanny power over the
minds of other persons, which would influence the latter for good or evil.
And more than this, the student will find an accompanying belief that
certain individuals are possessed of some mental power which bends even
"things" and circumstances to its might.
Way back in the dim past of man’s history on this planet, this belief existed,
and it has steadily persisted in spite of the strenuous opposition of material
science, even unto the present day. The years have not affected the belief,
and in these dawning days of the Twentieth Century it has taken on a new
strength and vitality, for its adherents have boldly stepped to the front, and
confronting the doubting materialistic thinkers, have claimed the name of
"Science" for this truth and have insisted that it be taken, once and for all,
from the category of superstition, credulity and ignorant phantasm.
Were it not pitiable, it would be amusing to glance at the presumptuous,
complacent, smug, self-satisfied position of the materialistic school of
thinkers, who would brush aside as a foolish delusion that which man of the
wisest men of a past ages have accepted and taught as the truth. The
modern "know-it-alls" would sneer contemptuously at facts that are known
to be of actual occurrence in the daily lives of thousands of intelligent
people, and which the experience of humankind has demonstrated for many
centuries, in all lands and all races.
The trouble lies in the dogmatic assumption of the materialistic school that
what is known as "mind" is merely some peculiar action of the material
brain, some writers even holding that the brain secretes thought, just as
the liver secretes bile. They refuse to see that the operation of Mind is a
manifestation of energy known as electricity, magnetism, light, heat,
gravitation, cohesion, etc. Because mental energy does not register the
vibrations of these lower forms of energy, they conclude that the higher
mental energy does not exist. Having formulated a theory to suit their
materialistic conceptions, they try to ignore all facts not consistent with
their theory. If they find a fact that will not squeeze into their narrow theory
well, "so much the worse for the fact," as a writer has said and they
promptly ignore or dispute it.
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