Tertium Organum

thought
and 
energy
are different in their 
essence and cannot be 
one and the same thing
because they are different 
aspects of the same thing. If we were to open the skull of a living man and 
see all the vibrations in the cells of the grey matter of the brain and all the 
quiverings of the white matter, it would still be only motion, i.e. 
manifestations of energy, and thought would remain somewhere beyond the 
field of investigation, receding from it at every approach, like a shadow. 
When he begins to realize this, a 

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'positivist' feels the ground crumbling under his feet, feels that by this method 
he will 
never
come nearer to 
thought
And he sees clearly the necessity of a 
new method 
The mere thought of this 
makes him suddenly notice all around 
him things he had not noticed before His eyes become open to things which 
formerly he refused to see Walls, which he had built round himself begin to 
crumble one after the other and, beyond the crumbling walls, infinite vistas of 
hitherto undreamt-of possible
 knowledge
begin to unfold before his eyes 
And then he completely alters his view of everything surrounding him He 
realizes that the 
visible
is produced by the 
invisible,
and that, without 
understanding the invisible, it is impossible to understand the visible His 
'positivism' begins to totter, and if he is a man of 
daring thought,
then one 
fine day he will see that precisely that which he considered real and true is 
unreal and false, whereas what he regarded as false is real and true 
He sees, first of all, that 
manifested 
physical phenomena often disappear
from view, like a stream gone underground But they do not vanish 
completely, they continue to live in a latent form in some minds, in someone's 
memory, in some people's words or in books, just as the future harvest is 
latent in the seed And then they again burst out into the open, pass from the 
latent to the manifest, producing noise, uproar, motion 
We witness these transitions of the invisible into the visible in a man's 
personal life, in the life of peoples, in the history of mankind These chains of 
events go on continuously, interwoven among themselves, interpenetrating 
one another, disappearing at times from our view, and reappearing once again 
I find an admirable description of this idea in the chapter on 'Karma' in 
Light on the Path
by Mabel Collins 
Consider with 
me 
that the individual existence is a rope which stretches from the 
infinite to the infinite, and has no end and no commencement, neither is it capable of 
being broken The rope is formed of innumerable fine threads, which, lying closely 
together, form its thickness
And remember that the threads are living - like electric 
wires, more, are like quivering nerves 
But eventually the long strands, the living threads which in their unbroken 
continuity form the individual, pass out of the shadow into the shine 
This illustration presents but a small portion - a single side of the truth it is less 
than a fragment Yet, dwell on it, by its aid you may be led to perceive more What it 
is necessary first to understand is not that the future is arbitrarily formed by any 
separate acts of the present, but that the whole of the future is an unbroken continuity 
with the present, as the present is with 

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the past. On one plane, from one point of view, the illustration of the rope is correct.* 
The quoted passage shows us that the idea of Karma, evolved in remote antiquity by 
Hindu philosophy, is the idea of the unbroken sequence of phenomena. Each 
phenomenon, however small, is a link in the endless and unbroken chain, stretching 
from the