by George W. Warder

“My definition of electricity is invisible light.” ~ Nikola Tesla

In pondering over that mysterious entity known as electricity, I have evolved a new theory of the world’s creation. It will take time, research, and more perfect demonstration to place it among the exact sciences.

Yet it seems reasonable and natural, and simplifies all scientific investigation. It removes much of the supernatural element to which men in all ages have bowed in wonderment and awe. They have delighted to imagine the universe as spoken into existence from nothing by the word of Omnipotent Deity. The more marvelous and unreasonable this “presto! now you don’t see it, now you see it” creation, the more their credulity and admiration are excited.

They look upon Deity as a self-conscious prestidigitator, a proud occult magician working wonders for the special praise of admiring creation. They are prone to believe he created the universe instantaneously as he created light, not knowing that light was electricity, the only substance or entity in nature that is instantaneous. That it is the work of this same electric force under the propelling will of the creative spirit that through countless ages has evolved the universe.

They forget that God is all-sufficient and independent, is the perfection of reason and works by means, by laws. Man thus discarding his God-given reason is satisfied to exclaim–

“God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.”

But the Creator being wiser than his superstitious creature man, endowed him with reasoning power to search, discover, and comprehend the economy of God and nature. To find out by what means God brought order out of chaos, harmony and beauty out of discord and darkness; from nothingness created suns and worlds and hurled them through infinite space.

I believe that in the present century man has imbibed the thought of Deity; has discovered the same plastic force and agency by which the Creator wrought the wondrous miracle of complex and infinite creation. And that force and agency is the invisible powers of electricity. I believe that this mystic force in nature is the right hand of creative power in shaping and controlling the physical universe.

If man by his inventive genius can utilize that mysterious potential entity known as electricity, and run it along a wire no larger than a child’s finger five or ten miles from where it is generated and make it exert a hundred or two hundred horse-power in propelling machinery, and carrying the burdens of commerce; what cannot Omnipotence accomplish through his great electric generators, the suns, and the electric substance stored in all nature? By means of this wonderful potential substance subject to his will as the law of nature, he creates and preserves the existence and integrity of the universe. What but this mystic force could cause the earth to shoot through space at the rate of a million miles a day, and revolve on its axis at the rate of a thousand miles an hour? What but electric magnetic attraction holds it together and prevents it from flying to pieces, or the movable things on its surface from flying off into space? There is no other force in nature but electricity that could work these stupendous miracles, and God works through the forces in nature.

The sun is the great electric magnet whose attraction fixes and maintains the orbits, seasons, and life of the solar worlds and planets. The earth is only a lesser magnet that holds and fastens all things upon its surface. This force Newton called the attraction of gravitation and cohesion, but I affirm it is the unseen force of electricity.

Since this wonderful electric substance which produces light, heat, and force interchangeable, has been discovered and applied by man to a thousand marvelous uses, it should cause us to reason up to its utility in the creation and government of the universe.

When we see this marvelous force in the electric storms and cyclones, uprooting the forests; shaking massive buildings into atoms until they are like motes in the sunbeams; and hear the reverberating thunders of its artillery shaking the heavens and the earth; and lashing the ocean into mountainous billows; swaying her tides, and exploding volcanoes and earthquakes, we stand in awe of its wonderful power. We say, here is the cosmic force, and protean power in nature.

When we see it giving motion to atoms and worlds, touch and feeling to insensate matter, rounding pebbles and planets, feeding suns, and lighting and heating the universe; we are forced to exclaim, surely this is the plastic force by which God created the heavens and the earth, and all things therein.

Not that this force is God, it is but the instrument of his power. Back of it and controlling and propelling it is the eternal spirit, the creative ego, the everlasting I am. It is the law God has impressed upon matter.

I am therefore impelled to formulate and adopt the following electric theory of the creation and evolution of the universe:

First; Electricity is the medium and agency of creative power in the evolution and government of the universe.

That when God said “Let there be light, and there was light,” that light was the lightning flashes and currents of electricity, which came forth to illumine chaotic darkness, and began gathering the invisible atoms, and etheric nebula of space into suns, and worlds. It was the word “light” which unbound and let forth the protean power, and cosmic forces, of light, heat, and electricity, under which all physical energy manifests itself, and which is the creative energy of the universe.

Second; Electricity is the medium and connecting link between spirit and substance, soul and body, mind and matter, dust and Deity, God and the universe.

Third; What we call the attraction of gravitation and cohesion are the unseen forces of electric magnetic attraction.

Fourth; What are known as the centrifugal and centripetal forces in nature, and all the movements of atoms and worlds, are produced and controlled by this universal electric magnetic substance.

Fifth; All light, heat, and force in nature is electricity in some of its forms, and constitutes the great chemist, wonder-worker and world-builder of the universe.

Sixth; The Omnipotent Creator holds the revolving earth, the planets, and all stellar systems of infinite space in the grasp of his boundless power and intelligence, by means of this subtle, invisible, potential agency.

As man controls his body by the electric currents that communicate his thoughts thereto, so God controls the universe by the electric currents in nature. The vast universe hangs upon nothing in empty space but the invisible arms of electricity; but they are the invisible arms of Deity.

Seventh; All matter is one matter, and matter [of itself] has no intelligence. There is but one substance, of which all material things are created, which has its foundation in the invisible elementary atoms of ether, and which by marvelous electric combinations and aggregations is changeable into infinite and varied forms and functions; electricity being the propelling force in its changes and evolutions. Matter has no intelligence, but through electric energy of attraction and repulsion, has electric affinity selection and repulsion.

Eighth; There is but one spirit, the Creator of all things; the Father of all spirits. “In whom we live, move and have our being.” All souls are atoms of the one spirit in varied forms and degrees of intelligence; and each is aspiring as it has opportunity to infinite knowledge and happiness, and in the ultimate ages will attain to both.

Ninth; There are but three indestructible original entities in the universe, of which all things are composed–spirit, matter, electricity. From these triune substances or entities God produces the wonders of boundless creation. Two are invisible, imponderable realities, but none the less real.

Tenth; Man is an epitome and likeness of the universe; in that he is a powerful magnet like the suns and worlds and all living organisms. He is the combination of all entities, and has a spiritual as well as a physical body. The spiritual body permeates every atom of the physical body, preserves its autonomy and gives it intelligent conscious life.

Man controls his body as God controls the universe by electric magnetic currents. These currents run along the nerves and tissues of man’s body like connecting electric wires communicating the spiritual command to matter, causing it to obey the behests of its spiritual master. Death is the departure of that spiritual master from its transient tenement–the separation of the spiritual body from the physical body. Death is the key that unlocks the door to another life. The physical body then goes back to its natural elements. The spiritual body goes like a flash of electricity to the sun or central suns,–which are the realms of departed spirits. The spiritual body at death knows its destiny as the needle knows the pole, as the earth knows its orbit, as untrammeled spirits comprehend space and futurity.

It needs no previous knowledge of its destiny. Its spiritual conception and infinite perception are all-sufficient.

There can be no punishment after death, except remorse for evil deeds, for only through memory can the pangs of suffering assail the soul. You cannot punish spirit as you do tangible matter. You cannot burn it in fire, drown it in water, puncture it with a spear, cut it with a sword, or nail it to the cross. It can soar untrammeled where matter never has been, and once created is forever indestructible.

Eleventh; The will of God is the law of nature, which is made manifest to the material world by electricity operating through, and permeating all matter.

God’s will is promulgated in nature as man’s will is made known to his physical body, by the electric currents that communicate his wish and purpose thereto, and which become through nature’s laws almost automatic in their rapidity and ease of operation.

Twelfth; Spirit which is supposed to be beyond the realm of positive science, is the eternal vital controlling force back of all matter, and all electric forces, and is the greatest factor in the science and philosophy of all things.

Spirit is known by its phenomena or effects almost as well as electricity and magnetism, and should have a place in science by the side of invisible imponderable matter, and the invisible potential forces of electricity. The spiritual is the foundation of the real–the life seed of all material organisms, as electricity is the invisible energy of their growth and development. No temple was ever built, no picture painted, no poem written, no world created, no blazing sun sent forth until there was a spiritual creation of the same in the mind of man or Deity. Every structure, organism or form in the material world is the product of a spiritual intelligent conception and construction emanating from the soul of God.

Science should accept all truth physical and spiritual. It should not run to extremes, and declare that because matter is tangible and its phenomena observable there is nothing beyond or behind it; or that because spirit moves and controls matter that therefore matter is a delusion of the mind. To do one is to deny the proof of the senses, to do the other is to ignore our conscious perception and intelligent existence.

Matter is the substance from which the creative spirit evolves suns and worlds, and systems of worlds, and all their varied products and inhabitants. Electricity in its varied manifestations and offices of magnetic attraction, and repulsion; etheric currents; vibratory movements; drawing and propelling, working and evolving, ceaseless and untiring; interchangeable into light, heat and force through all the aeons of eternity; is the tool or machinery of Infinite Spirit, and Omnipotent Intelligence to evolve and maintain the universe. Electricity is the perpetual life motion of all material existence. It prevents stagnation and decay, and renews all changing forms and substances. By its positive and negative energy acting and reacting it produces and controls all the movements of visible and tangible things.

By this wonderful force the God of nature creates, preserves and directs all the visible forces and substances of nature.

By this word of the spirit, by this tongue of the soul, by this right hand of power, the worlds are held as in the hollow of God’s hand. The atmosphere which surrounds this earth is a cushion of electricity forty miles deep, and like the encompassing arms of Deity holds it in its perfect balance and allotted orbit in conjunction with the electro-magnetic attraction of the sun, while the electric law of evolution is the finger touch of Deity that makes the world go round.

By this wonderful potential substance or entity we call electricity, the Creator dispelled darkness, evolved light, gathered atoms from invisible ether, crowded them into nebula, heated them into gases, compressed them into solids, rounded them into spheres;

“And hurled them forth as winged stars of light
To glitter in the realms of conquered night.”

Excerpt from Invisible Light Or The Electric Theory of Creation

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