Nature and its wonders (translated) E-Book

Georges Lakhovsky

• Herausgeber: anna ruggieri
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

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Nature! What domain of spirit as well as of matter does this prestigious word not contain? Nature, but all that our senses allow us to conceive of it can only give us a pale reflection of its omnipotent power.
In my book, The Secret of Life, I have already tried to lift a corner of the veil by examining some special problems posed by biology, especially those of the instincts of animals, the life of our cells, and the struggle of the organism against microbes.
In my other work, The Universion, I attempted to give an explanation of the structure of the world, I showed the function of all the forces and fluids, the raison d'être of all the corpuscles, electrons, protons, ions, atoms and molecules that "convey" the universal power in this supreme medium scattered in the infinity of space and time, which I called the Universion. I showed that thought could be likened to a vibration and that this vibration allowed us to reach the very concept of God.
In the volumes Matter and The Great Problem, I attempted to anatomise another mystery of nature, that of matter, showing how it arose from radiation in the same way that it gives rise to radiation.
I have attempted to show that matter is not, in truth, the product of a creation, but that of a reproduction to which I have given the name of materialisation.
Thanks to this new basic principle, it is possible to conceive that our ephemeral bodily life, if it disappears at one point in space, nevertheless continues to exist on other stars, on which we reproduce ourselves eternally.
In this new volume, I shall again attempt to wrest from nature some of its secrets, the mystery of which we have not yet succeeded in penetrating: electricity, T. S. F., the thought-vessel. S. F., thought-vibration, autosuggestion, animal and human magnetism, homeopathy and dowsing.
All these sciences, which are at present in progress, and whose exciting evolution we are demonstrating, hold in store for mankind unsuspected surprises, the consequences of which will upset our whole conception of the universe.
Certainly, alas! The more we try to get closer to the goal by penetrating more deeply into the secrets of Nature, the more we feel our powerlessness to discover its absolute meaning.
The scientist who devotes his entire life to scientific research is nothing more than a bee returning a molecule of honey to the hive.
But the light and intense faith that Nature gives us encourage us and console us for the mediocrity of the results we obtain.
Let us, therefore, always strive for a higher truth, as far as our brain can help us. It is the sole raison d'être of our miserable earthly life.
 

Leseprobe

INDEX

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE - THEORY AND PRINCIPLES

CHAPTER I - Resonance

CHAPTER II - The University

CHAPTER III - Cellular oscillation

CHAPTER IV - Thought-vibration

CHAPTER V - Materialisation

PART TWO - ELECTRICITY AND RADIOBIOLOGY

CHAPTER I - Electricity

CHAPTER II - Radiobiology

PART THREE - AUTOSUGGESTION

CHAPTER I - Autosuggestion

CHAPTER II - Healers

CHAPTER III - Homeopathy

PART FOUR - DOWSING

CHAPTER I - Dowsing

GIORGIO LAKHOVSKY

Nature and its wonders

T. S. F. - AUTOSUGGESTION - HOMEOPATHY

ANIMAL MAGNETISM - DOWSING

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INTRODUCTION

Nature! What domain of spirit as well as of matter does this prestigious word not contain? Nature, but all that our senses allow us to conceive of it can only give us a pale reflection of its omnipotent power.

In my book, The Secret of Life, I have already tried to lift a corner of the veil by examining some of the special problems posed by biology, especially those of the instincts of animals, the life of our cells, and the struggle of the organism against microbes.

In my other work, The Universion, I attempted to give an explanation of the structure of the world, I showed the function of all the forces and fluids, the raison d'être of all the corpuscles, electrons, protons, ions, atoms and molecules that "convey" the universal power in this supreme medium scattered in the infinity of space and time, which I called the Universion. I showed that thought could be likened to a vibration and that this vibration enabled us to reach the very concept of God.

In the volumes Matter and The Great Problem, I attempted to anatomise another mystery of nature, that of matter, showing how it arose from radiation, in the same way that it gives rise to radiation.

I have attempted to show that matter is not, in truth, the product of a creation, but that of a reproduction to which I have given the name of materialisation.

Thanks to this new basic principle, we can conceive that our ephemeral bodily life, if it disappears at one point in space, nevertheless continues to exist on other stars, on which we reproduce ourselves eternally.

In this new volume, I shall again attempt to wrest from nature some of its secrets, the mystery of which we have not yet managed to penetrate: electricity, T. S. F., thought-vibration, autosuggestion, animal and human magnetism, homeopathy and dowsing. S. F., thought-vibration, autosuggestion, animal and human magnetism, homeopathy and dowsing.

All these sciences, which are currently on the move and whose exciting evolution we are demonstrating, hold unexpected surprises in store for mankind, the consequences of which will upset our entire conception of the universe.

Of course, alas! The more we try to get closer to the goal by penetrating the secrets of Nature more deeply, the more we feel our powerlessness to discover its absolute meaning.

The scientist, who devotes his entire life to scientific research, is nothing more than a bee returning a honey molecule to the hive.

But the light and intense faith that Nature gives us encourage us and console us from the mediocrity of the results we achieve.

Let us, therefore, always strive for a higher truth, as far as our brain can help us. And the sole raison d'être of our miserable earthly life.

G. L.

PART ONE - THEORY AND PRINCIPLES

CHAPTER I - Resonance

I shall now try to explain resonance, which, in its most general interpretation, is, in my opinion, the cause of the whole universe. You may think that I am trying to tire you with mathematical formulas and algebraic demonstrations. That is not my intention. On the contrary, you will see from what follows that resonance can be explained by means of a set of facts comprehensible to a child to whom his own mechanical toys have already given a concept, albeit elementary, of the world and of motion.

In my previous works, I have already explained resonance. But I think it is necessary to return to it here, since it is the keystone of most of the demonstrations I will make in the course of this work.

You certainly know the episode of the man who, wishing to buy a piano, went to a reputed manufacturer. After he had been shown into a room containing a whole series of pianos of various models, and the seller having been kept waiting, he began to strike one of the notes, the A for instance, in order to try the sound of one of them.

What wonder was he to hear that note echoed by all the other pianos! The customer then believed that the room was particularly loud and therefore reproduced echoes in all directions. Except that the salesman, as soon as he arrived, noticed the customer's amazement and hastened to explain that this was nothing extraordinary, just the effect of a well-known physical phenomenon: resonance.

The A strings of the other pianos vibrated under the influence of the first piano string, with the exception of all the other strings.

Here is another phenomenon that you too can easily reproduce. Hang on the wall two pendulums whose balances are geometrically the same, that is to say, of the same form and the same length; set one of these in motion and you will see the other, even if it is several metres away from the first, oscillate, after a few moments, with the same frequency as the first. This means that one has entered into resonance with the other.

Here is yet another experiment that you can easily reproduce at home by yourself. Slowly pour some water into a glass, while with the other hand you strike a tuning fork held above the glass. When the water reaches a certain height, you will suddenly hear the sound of the tuning fork considerably reinforced. In this case, the empty space of the glass, which is above the level of the water, acquires the same vibratory frequency as the tuning fork and, consequently, resonates with it; hence the reinforcement of the sound produced.

Resonance, which often has minimal causes, can nevertheless produce considerable and even catastrophic effects. So you may know the story of the suspension bridge over the Loire that collapsed one day as a result of resonance, and of which I have spoken in my book "The Earth and Us". A regiment, the weight of which was much less than the normal load that bridge could bear, had to cross the river. At the moment of starting to cross this construction, a masterpiece of our Bridge and Roads engineers, the Colonel gave the order for the troops to cross the bridge at a cadenced pace. Under the rhythmic action of the impact of each soldier's feet, the scaffolding of the bridge began to vibrate and, as the regiment advanced, the amplitude of the oscillation even managed to amuse the soldiers who would do nothing to stop it. They did not even suspect that they were heading for ruin! In fact, the troop had not yet reached the middle of the bridge when it collapsed and the unfortunate soldiers fell into the river so that a large number of them were killed.

So what had happened? According to the calculations, the bridge had been constructed in such a way that it could bear ten times the weight of the entire regiment, which on the other hand was a very well distributed load.

Unfortunately, the engineers did not take resonance into account in their calculations.

The rhythmically beaten footsteps of the soldiers had produced such a resonance with the period of oscillation of the bridge that the load that the scaffolding could support had increased tenfold.

From this simple fact you see what great effects resonance can have.

Finally, there is another phenomenon, this one electrical, also due to resonance.

You are all familiar with the T. S. F. [1], which is now common in almost every home, in the most sumptuous rooms as well as in the most modest dwellings. It may be said that 99 per cent of the owners of radio sets are completely ignorant of the phenomena which take place in their receiving apparatus; in the same way that many dowsers practise dowsing with remarkable skill and obtain the most extraordinary results without knowing how or why.

I will try to explain to all those who work with T. S. F. and who believe that the radio is a complicated and mysterious thing, the principle of its operation. And you will notice that, far from being a mystery, it is much simpler than a car or a sewing machine.

Around 1892, a German physicist, Hertz, was working in his laboratory to verify Maxwell's theory of the electromagnetic nature of light and the generalisations he had of it electrically in a half-wave, it being a known principle that an open circuit vibrates in a half-wave, as we shall see later. Therefore, in the perturbation caused by the firing of the small sparks that are produced in the telephone or door bell, there was the wavelength that we do not know and all its harmonics and among these one, whose wavelength was 20 centimetres, a wavelength that is proper to the rod placed on your table and that measures 10 centimetres, corresponding to half a wave, as we have already said. Here, in a few words, is the principle of the T. S. F.

Let's now move on to a very simple laboratory experiment, which we did about fifteen years ago, during the heroic age of radio. A coil was placed on a table with a hundred metres of insulated electric wire wound around it to form a certain number of turns, 300 for example.

In another room nearby, we placed a second coil with exactly the same length, i.e. 100 metres of wire and the same number of turns, precisely 300, as we have assumed. Well, when there was a spark in the vicinity of the first coil, we could hear it crackling in the telephone headset connected by a detector to the second coil, which had the same wavelength. This means that the first coil was in resonance with the second coil, hence the very loud noise that we heard inside the headset, even several hundred metres away.

But if only a few coils were removed from one of these coils, the wavelength would no longer be the same in each coil, so resonance would not take place and nothing would be heard.

You see how simple the T. S. F.

For example, to produce the radiation of electromagnetic energy, instead of sparks, lamps invented by the American Lee de Forest are now used. These lamps are also used in reception to amplify millions of times the effects of radiation coming from far away. In addition, variable capacitors have been applied to systems of plates which are indented into each other without touching, so that, by appropriate shifting, the wavelength can be increased or decreased to produce the station resonances you are looking for in your receiving equipment.

I will not attempt to describe to you all the refinements made by countless scholars to this simple principle: a whole volume would not suffice. On the other hand, like every invention, the T. S. F. is the result of the work of a great many researchers, not only of distinguished scientists and physicists, but sometimes of simple workers.

However, it can be said that the development of radioelectricity, which has now spread throughout the world, is due, in France, to the organising genius of General Ferrié who, in his military laboratories in the Eiffel Tower and the Invalides, initiated a whole host of scientists and engineers into this great work, before and especially during the war.

It may also be added that Lee de Forest's triode lamp, which was initially rather a theoretical invention, was practically realised in the military laboratory of Latour-Maubourg. As for the realisation of radiocommunications throughout the world, we owe it unquestionably to the genius of the great Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi.

In conclusion, if you want to hear a transmitting station operating on a wave length of 300 metres, corresponding to one million oscillations per second, you have to adjust your receiver so that it is able to oscillate electrically at this same frequency of one million vibrations per second: this is electromagnetic resonance.

To give a practical example, let us now consider, if you wish, a transmitting station: that of Rome, the antenna of which, due to the tuning of the electric circuits that are coupled to it, that is, of the coils that compose them, transmits on waves of 420 metres in length. At any point, even at a distance of several thousand kilometres, you will be able to receive the transmission of Rome by means of a receiver which you will tune to this 420 metre wave by means of its variable condenser and thus you will clearly hear the concerts given in this city.

Then turn the condenser button slightly to the right, for example. One of the groups of plates, by retracting more into the other, increases the capacity and, consequently, the wavelength; you will no longer hear Rome, but Langenberg, on a wave of 472 metres. Italian music will have given way to German music. For what reason? Because by moving the condenser blades closer or further away you change the wavelength and instead of 420 metres you have 472. In this case there is only resonance for waves of 472 metres and you hear the station operating on this wavelength, with the exception of hundreds of others that propagate simultaneously.

If you now turn the condenser button to the left instead of to the right, you will decrease the wavelength and will suddenly be able to receive a transmission from Brussels and clearly hear the chords of a concert held at the Brussels Exhibition.

Of course, the tuning mechanism in modern T. S. F. stations is a bit more complicated than the examples above show, especially in superheterodyne, i.e. frequency-changing, equipment. But the principle remains the same.

T. S. F. equipment is not, on the other hand, as difficult to build as is generally believed. My second son, Sergio, being still five years old, at the age of sixteen, in the schoolroom, built himself, piece by piece, a double-grid valve radio, by means of which he received, with remarkable purity, not only French broadcasts, but also English ones, which, at that time, was considered a skill.

At the same time I received a visit from one of my friends, an old schoolboy of the Polytechnic, who had graduated some twenty years before, and who came to tell me thus: "My dear friend, I have just bought a T. S. F. apparatus, and, in view of my condition, I do not wish to pass for an ignoramus when speaking to me of this science.... Explain to me what it is. Of course, I explained the principle to him, and he himself was astonished at the simplicity of the thing. Then, in order to "complete his education", I introduced him to my son, who showed him the diagram of the apparatus he had then built.

Do not think yourselves handicapped, dear readers, if the principles of T. S. F. are not known to you. S. F. principles are not known to you.

You can see from the above that a former student of the Polytechnic, a mathematician who knew vector and tensor calculus, considered himself a layman in this new science.

But now you can see how simple are the principles of this T. S. F. that seemed so mysterious to most of you. S. F. which seemed so mysterious to most of you. Well, for dowsing, which seems to you no less mysterious, we will give you, a little further on, similar explanations which, by the grace of resonance, will make it easy for you to understand the mechanism.

[1] In Italian: radiofonia, radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraphy, radio equipment.

CHAPTER II - The University

In the previous chapter, we talked about resonance and the considerable effects it can produce, even at great distances, as is the case with radio transmissions, of which we have given you several examples.

It is now opportune to explain to you how these actions can take place at a distance, for if we take the trouble to reflect a little, we cannot conceive of such effects as, for example, the reception of radio waves of concerts, of televisions at a distance of several thousand kilometres, if there is not, between the transmitting station and the receiving station, an agent capable of transmitting these waves and, in some way, of serving as their vehicle.

I would like to introduce you to this 'agent', whom I have called the universion in my earlier works, in the present chapter.

It is evident that Newton's classical theories of gravitation and Einstein's more modern theories of relativity would remain completely inexplicable without the existence of a physical transmitting agent. Many other phenomena, such as the attraction of iron and of certain metals by means of a magnet, the attractions and repulsions of electrified bodies at a distance, the radioelectric transmissions to which we have just referred, the propagation in celestial spaces of the light of the sun and of the stars, and, finally, the appearance of new radiations in the sky, the apparition of new ultra-penetrating radiations which furrow the whole of space, presuppose the presence of an imponderable medium, endowed with a perfect elasticity, adapted to serve as a support for these actions and phenomena, and of a universal force, the effects of which are felt to infinity.

This imponderable medium, which physicists called the ether without defining it, has been called by me "universion", a word composed of two terms: "universe" and "ion", to indicate first that it fills the whole universe and then that it is also found in the intermolecular and intra-atomic spaces of the elementary corpuscles that constitute all matter, such as ions, electrons, protons, neutrons, positrons and other particles that modern physics will certainly not fail to discover.

Some ten years ago, I expressed this idea of the universe for the first time in a work of this name, and tried to show the very important function exercised in the universe by this primordial energy reservoir, which is at the same time an incorporeal quid, infinitely subtle and impalpable. Not only does it serve as a vehicle for all radiations and all waves, from the infinitely small to the infinitely great, but it constitutes a formidable reservoir of energy, from which all the forces and all the movements which have their seat in the universe originate.

Now this concept of the universion has developed after work on cosmic waves has brought to light, through experiments as numerous as they are indisputable, those considerable radiant energies that plough through interplanetary space, the effects of which are felt right down to the deepest lakes.