On this subject, in his
book "The Rosicrucian Mysteries
", Max Heindel wrote the following:
« In addition to the
solids, liquids and gases which compose the Chemical Region of the Physical World there is also a finer grade of matter called
Ether, which permeates the atomic structure of the earth and its atmosphere substantially
as science teaches.
Scientists have never seen, nor have they
weighed, measured or analyzed this substance, but they infer that it must exist
in order to account for transmission of light and various other phenomena.
If it were possible for us to live in a
room from which the air had been exhausted we might speak at the top of our
voices, we might ring the largest bell or we might even discharge a cannon
close to our ear and we should hear no sound, for air is the medium which
transmits sound vibrations to the tympanum of our ear, and that would be
lacking. But if an electric light were lighted, we should at once perceive its
rays; it would illumine the room despite the lack of air.
Hence there must be a substance, capable of
being set into vibration, between the electric light and our eyes. That medium
scientists call ether, but it is so subtile that no instrument has been devised
whereby it may be measured or analyzed and therefore the scientists are without
much information concerning it, though forced to postulate its existence.
We do not seek to belittle the achievements
of modern scientists, we have the greatest admiration for them and we entertain
high expectations of what ambitions they may yet realize, but we perceive a
limitation in the fact, that all discoveries of the past have been made by the
invention of wonderful instruments applied in a most ingenious manner to solve
seemingly insoluble and baffling problems.
The strength of science lies vested in its
instruments, for the scientist may say to anyone: Go, procure a number of
glasses ground in a certain manner, insert them in a tube, direct that tube
toward a certain point in the sky where now nothing appears to your naked eye.
You will then see a beautiful star called Uranus.
If his directions are followed, anyone is quickly
and without preparation, able to demonstrate for himself the truth of the
scientist's assertion. But while the instruments of science are its tower of
strength they also mark the end of its field of investigation, for it is
impossible to contact the spirit world with physical instruments, so the
research of occultists begins where the physical scientist finds his limit and
are carried on by spiritual means. »
(Chapter 3)
OBSERVATIONS
In the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, scientists theorized the hypothesis that there was an invisible
substance in space (which they called "ether") that allowed light to
propagate. However, the negative result of the Michelson-Morley experiment in
1887 suggested that the ether did not exist, and the theory of relativity
published in 1905 by Albert Einstein ended up causing the scientific community
to discard the theory of the ether.
And this shows how little Max Heindel did
research because by the time he published his book (1911), what he wrote was
already out of date. But also in his ignorance, Max Heindel believed that
Leadbeater's "clairvoyant" investigations of the ether were genuine,
when in fact they turned out to be completely false as I show you in this other
article (see link).
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