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Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle - The Nature of Space





V. The Nature of SpaceCertain wide
generalizations anent the etheric body should be recalled at this point. The existence of
an etheric body in relation to all tangible and exoteric forms is accepted today by many
scientific schools; nevertheless the original teaching has been amended in order to bring
it into line with the usual theories of energy and its forms of expression. Recognition is
given today, by thinkers, to the factual nature of energy (and I am using that word
"factual" most advisedly); energy is now regarded as all that IS; manifestation
is the manifestation of a sea of energies, some of which are built into forms, others
constitute the medium in which those forms live and move and have their being, and still
others are in process of animating both the forms and their environing substantial media.
It must also be remembered that forms exist within forms; this is the basis of the
symbolism which is to be found in the intricate carved ivory balls of the Chinese
craftsmen where ball within ball is to be discovered, all elaborately carved and all free
and yet confined. You - as you sit in your room - are a form within a form; that room is
itself a form within a house, and that house (another form) is probably one of many
similar houses, placed the one on top of another or else side by side, and together
composing a still larger form. Yet all these diverse forms are composed of tangible
substance which - when coordinated and brought together by some recognized design or idea
in the mind of some thinker - creates a material form. This tangible substance is composed
of living energies, vibrating in relation to each other, yet owning their own quality and
their own [178] qualified life. I dealt with much of this in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire and
you would find it profitable to reread what I there said. I will not repeat it here as I
am seeking a different approach.
It might be
profitable to point out that the entire universe is etheric and vital in nature and of an
extension beyond the grasp of the greatest mind of the age, mounting into more than
astronomical figures - if that statement even conveys sense to your minds. This extent
cannot be computed, even in terms of light years; this cosmic etheric area is the field of
untold energies and the basis of all astrological computations; it is the playground of
all historical cycles - cosmic, systemic and planetary and is related to the
constellations, to the worlds of suns, to the most distant stars and to the numerous
recognized universes, as well as to our own solar system, to the many planets, and to that
planet upon which and in which we move and live and have our being, as well as to the
smallest form of life known to science and perhaps covered by the meaningless term
"an atom." All are found existing in Space - Space is etheric in nature and - so
we are told in the occult science - Space is an Entity. The glory of man lies in the fact
that he is aware of space and can imagine this space as the field of divine living
activity, full of active intelligent forms, each placed in the etheric body of this
unknown Entity, each related to each other through the potency which not only holds them
in being but which preserves their position in relation to each other; yet each of these
differentiated forms possesses its own differentiated life, its own unique quality or
integral coloring, and its own specific and peculiar form of consciousness.
This etheric body - vast and unknown as it is, as to its extent - is nevertheless
limited in nature and static (relatively speaking) in capacity; it preserves a set form, a
form [179] of which we know absolutely nothing, but which is the etheric form of the
Unknown Entity. To this form the esoteric science gives the name of SPACE; it is the fixed
area in which every form, from a universe to an atom, finds its location.





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