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ETHER IN SCIENCE EXPLAINED BY MAX HEINDEL




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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