VRIL/PART 5
LESSON V
THE TRANSFORMATION OF VRIL
WE have seen that Vril, in its second phase, is
inherent in all forms of atomic matter, and consequently in all forms of matter
resulting from combinations of material atoms. As all matter is composed of
material atoms, it follows then that Vril is to be found in all matter.
But there is a vast difference in the forms and the conditions in and under
which it so appears. Just as matter is the same whether appearing in the form
and condition of the diamond or hardest steel, or in the form and condition of
bread and butter, so in the same way it may be said that Vril is the same in
principle whether it appears in the granite rock or in the air. But it is
likewise true that just as steel and diamond cannot be used by man as a source
of physical nourishment in the same way that bread and butter can be so used,
so Vril in the granite rock is not available to man in the same way as is Vril
in the air, the water, and in protoplasmic food material.
While all things in nature are, at the last, one
in substance and principle, nevertheless the laboratory of nature forms many
combinations and imposes many conditions upon these things, thereby fitting
some things to one purpose and other things to other purposes. Here is where
science steps in and insists upon the practical side of things as opposed to
the "pure principles" of metaphysics. As an authority once said: "Those
who like to study the puzzles as to what mind and matter really are, must go to
metaphysics. Should we ever find that salt, arsenic, and all things else, are
the same substance with a different molecular arrangement, we should still not
use them inter-changeably." And so to the man who may object that
"Vril is Vril," we should remark that, while "matter is
matter," he would do well to select protoplasmic forms of matter for food,
rather than diamonds or steel -the same principle applying to Vril in its
application to human requirements.
Nature has so wisely arranged matters that the
supply of Vril, in its second phase, is found in its most usable form for man
-in the precise combinations which meet the requirements of its transmutation
into the third-phase condition, in which alone man may use it -in those very
forms of substances which man employs in his physical economy for other
purposes. Vril, in the precise combination required for transmutation for man's
requirements, is found (I) in the protoplasmic substances which man naturally
partakes of as food and nourishment; (2) in a lesser degree, in the water which
man drinks. in order to preserve his fluid-balance and to eliminate from his
system the waste matter: and (3) in a high degree in the atmospheric air which
man breathes into his lungs for the purpose of obtaining oxygen to serve in
maintaining bodily heat, and to burn up the waste-matter of the system, both in
the cell itself and in the lungs. Thus, we see, man may know nothing whatever
regarding the principle and uses of Vril, and yet will be compelled by nature
to partake of those very substances to which it inheres.
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