on p. 63, Viktor viewed certain pairs such as heat and cold, pressure and suction, expansion and impansion, electricism and magnetism, centrifugence and centripetence, gravitation and levitation, as being similar provenances of energy, but separated by octaves. Therefore cold, suction, impansion, centrifugence, magnetism (actually bio- magnetism) and levitation are all related magnitudes. Endowed with specific vibra- tional energies and powers, these antitheses are the agencies or self-organising, intermedi- ate, vibratory matrices of immaterial energies by which the gap between Will-to-create and creation, spirit and matter, and idea and manifestation is bridged. In The Secret Doctrine these forces are comprised in the concept of 'Fohat'.
Fohat is the 'bridge' by which the 'Ideas' existing in the 'Divine Thought' are impressed on Cosmic substance as the 'laws of Nature'. Fohat is thus the dynamic energy of cosmic ideation; or regarded from the other side, it is the intelligent medium, the guiding power of all manifestation. Fohat is the mysterious link between mind and matter, the animating principle electrifying [or bio- magnetising - c.C] every atom into life.6
In the attempt to describe these subtle energetic essences with terminology more familiar to readers than Sanskrit, it became n e c es s ar y to co in v ar io u s n ew t er ms under the collective term of 'ethericities', the word 'ethericities' itself referring to those supra-normal, near non-dimensional, energetic, bio-electic, bio-magnetic, catalytic, high-frequency, vibratory, super-potent enti- ties of quasi-material, quasi-etheric nature belonging to the 4th and 5th dimensions of being. These ethericities are further categorised as 'fructigens', 'qualigens'', 'dyna- gens'.
These respectively represent those subtle energies whose function is the enhancement of fructification (fructigens), the generation of quality (qualigens) and the amplification of immaterial energy (dynagens). According to their function or location these may be female
or male in nature. There are thus female fructi- gens and male dynagens, for example. The female attributes, however, are principally related to the magnitudes in the right hand column in fig. 4.6. In their aggregate these are the primary prime movers of creation and in the human mind enthusiastic or inspired thought gives rise to the formation of the immaterial dynagens that ceaselessly provide the motivating energy for external activity, thus totally confuting the Energy Conserva- tion Law which requires that the amount of available energy be finite. To obtain some insight into what may be the relative magni- tudes of the various levels of energy or vibra- tory energetic matrices here involved, it may be enlightening to refer to comments in The Secret Doctrine7 concerning the 'Keely Motor', a free-energy device constructed by John Worrell Keely, which operated through the creation of a 'neutral centre', or in Viktor Schauberger's terms, a 'biological vacuum'.
We are told that Mr.Keely defines electricity 'as a certain form of atomic vibration'. In this he is quite right, but this is electricity on the terrestrial plane, and through terrestrial correlations. He estimates:-
The vibrational level of the so-called etherici- ties would probably lie somewhere between the inter-atomic and inter-aetheric in the above table. Moreover they may well func- tion at frequencies that can be beneficially or detrimentally affected by human thought. It is a known fact, for instance, that the level of white blood corpuscle production can be sig- nificantly influenced by the positive or nega- tive attitude towards life of the human host. The extent to which the collective human psyche may influence these ethericities and their proper function may well be far greater than we imagine.
Imprisoned - as we have been led to believe - within our physical reality by the speed of
light (299,793,000 metres per second or m/s), and since we are also here concerned with cer- tain dimensionalities, it might be more useful were we to attempt to express what may be even vaster differences between the various planes of the higher realities by using squared, cubed, quadrupled, etc. multiples of the speed of light c expressed in metres per second. At the same time we might also begin to get some notion of the primary, creative and formative supremacy of such high, yet extraordinarily subtle energies, for the higher the frequency of a given vibration, the shorter its wavelength and the greater its intrinsic energy and power. In this regard I have deliberately avoided using scientific notation as many readers will find it confusing.
Recalling the brief discussion of the effect of sound in chapter 2, let us for the moment equate c1 above with simple vibration as the agency of physical manifestation. Energy on
the other hand, through which the physical manifestation is animated, is determined using c2. In striving to obtain a more graphic concept of the possible structure of the various ener- getic and spiritual levels of reality, we could therefore say that: Vibration (= c1) cannot take place without energy (= c2), but energy cannot manifest itself without form (= c3). Having cer-
tain 3-dimensional connotations, here c3 brings to mind the morphogenetic fields of Rupert Sheldrake8 which, as vibratory matrices pos- sessed of certain properties and potential, are the immaterial energetic agencies that engen- der the emergence of a new species.
As the configuration of the formative pat- terning (the design) of a given progenerative matrix becomes 'hardened', as it were, or per- fected through its frequent reiteration, each successive reproduction of the entity in ques- tion becomes increasingly easier, its character
and appearance at the same time becoming more and more well-defined. Such a form, however, cannot be created without a design (= c4) and the design cannot be conceived without the idea (= c5). As Plutarch states:
An idea is a being incorporeal, which has no sub- sistence by itself, but gives figure and form unto shapeless matter, and becomes the cause of the
manifestation. (De Placit. Philos).
The existence of the idea demands an intel- lect (= c6) and intellect requires a higher con- sciousness (= c7), all of which are enclosed one within the other like Russian dolls, c7, the Eternally Creative Intelligence, must neces- sarily lie at the very centre, the hub, in order to regulate and be aware of all it surveys, always ready to develop new systems to fill new needs or to gain new experiences.
As an architect I have long been associated with processes of design, the end-product culminating from recurrent movements between the dialectic opposites of analysis and synthesis. A building does not just hap- pen, but is the physical outcome of a great deal of mental activity in realms of unknown dimension. What eventually results is the synthesis of the interaction of various imma- terial energies and imagery, themselves vibrations of a kind. For example, a kitchen is not merely an assembly of various elements, although viewed purely theoretically if all the elements of sink, stove, refrigerator, etc are placed in one space, then the material parameters of a kitchen are fulfilled. If by accident they were disposed in a certain con- figuration, then the space as a kitchen might actually work. However, to ensure as far as possible that this space is both aesthetically pleasing as well as functional, then it must be designed.
76 Living Energies
Here we come up against the long-held materialistically founded conviction that every creature on this planet evolved solely through processes of natural selection: that whatever shape, colour or form it has, is merely the result of accidental interactions and the influ- ences and demands of the environment in which it has to exist. Although natural selec- tion may play a certain role in the physical evolvement of the genetic base, any intelligent direction or control of evolution and develop- ment is totally excluded. Some creatures, fish, birds and flowers for example, are particularly breathtaking in their beauty, in the various proportions of shape and colour they embody, and seem to refute this hypothesis entirely. Their physical appearance is very hard to explain in terms of purely mechanistic and environmental demands.
The intricate geometry and exquisite form of many flowers speak far more about inten- tion than random happenstance. The sheer magnificence of the peacock, for example, defies all rational explanation from a natural selective point of view. Its colour could not have evolved for purposes of concealment and self-protection, because the gleaming turquoise iridescence of its breast-feathers loudly declares its presence to all predators. Its tail too, with several superimposed layers of variously patterned feathers, capped with single quills upon which the famous 'eyes' flutter and sway, is difficult to construe as having evolved merely for the purposes of courtship. As far as the peahen's attraction to the male is concerned, it seems unlikely that one or two fewer layers of tail feathers would make much difference. So why all the layers?
What, apart from increasing the diversity and majesty of life, is the purpose of a peacock, if not purely for the sake of introducing exquis- ite beauty into this world for the delight of those entities whose immaterial sensitivities can appreciate it in all its aesthetic splen- dour? How else would evolving human beings be able to develop any aesthetic sense or learn what beauty and proportion is unless some examples were provided for the purpose?
Today new species are continually being dis- covered whose form, behaviour and other characteristics are totally suited - and with such perfection - to the surroundings in which they live. Each has its ecological niche, as it were, and fulfils a function contributing to the enrichment of the whole panoply of life and yet all this apparently happened by accident of Nature, a Nature, however, to whom we have ascribed certain laws. What formulated these sublime and mathematically elegant laws, if not some form of intelligence far beyond our own? For laws cannot evolve by accident or by themselves. What entity other than such as the ECI could have a high enough overview of affairs in order to perceive yet another space, yet another possibility, into which it could infuse new experiential life in the form of an ideally suited creative design?
Let us try, therefore, to think at least one octave higher and instead of developing extremely complex theories based on the morbid logic of random interactions, let us entertain the notion that things are perhaps much simpler than we perceive, for as Albert Einstein is reputed to have stated, "The sim-
pler a theory is, the more it is to the point".
Notes
1. The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky, Adyar Ed.1971, Vol.1, p.71.-1971), Theosophical Pub. Ho., Adyar, India;
2. Ibid, Vol.1, p.333.
3. From list of Viktor Schauberger quotations in the Schauberger archives.
4. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Univ. Press 1971.
5. Interplanetary Particles and Fields (diagram by Dan Todd), by James A. van Allen, © 1975 by Scientific American, Inc.
6. The Secret Doctrine above, Vol. 1, p.81. 7. Ibid, Vol.2, p.286.
8. The New Science of Life, by Rupert Sheldrake: Blond & Briggs, London, 1981.