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The tree of worlds; or, A greater and higher creation, and life

Jesse T. Hall · 1904 · Scanned text · Free in the US

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Jesse T. Hall
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English
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1904
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20,706 words · about 1 h 27 min
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29 reader sections
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Contents (29)
  1. Contents about 2 min
  2. Chapter I about 3 min
  3. Chapter II. Creation Of The First Germ about 4 min
  4. Chapter III. The First Seed Of Life about 2 min
  5. Chapter IV about 2 min
  6. Chapter V. Creation Of The Root, Or Earthy Part, Of This Tree Of Worlds about 2 min
  7. Chapter VI. The Creation Of The Hills And Valleys about 8 min
  8. Chapter VII. Creation Of Vegetable Life about 4 min
  9. Chapter VIII. Creation Of Human Life about 7 min
  10. Chapter IX. The Aim Of Life about 2 min
  11. Chapter X. Human Life about 3 min
  12. Chapter XI. What Of Civilization ? about 3 min
  13. Chapter XII. What Of Our Social Life? about 5 min
  14. Chapter XIII. Life In The Next World about 8 min
  15. Chapter XIV. A True Civilized Life about 3 min
  16. Chapter XV. Of The Religious And Social World about 2 min
  17. Chapter XVI. What Of Nations? about 3 min
  18. Chapter XVII. Mystery Of Nature about 1 min
  19. Chapter XVIII. The Greater And Higher Life about 2 min
  20. Chapter XIX. Education Of This Greater And Higher Life about 4 min
  21. Chapter XX. Matrimony Of The Greater And Higher Life about 2 min
  22. Chapter XXI. The Political World Of This Greater And Higher Life about 3 min
  23. Chapter XXII. The Commercial World Of This Greater And Higher Life about 2 min
  24. Chapter XXIII. Financial World Of This Greater And Higher Life about 2 min
  25. Chapter XXIV. Teachings Of A Greater And Higher Life about 2 min
  26. Chapter XXV. Pleasures Of The Greater And Higher Life about 2 min
  27. Chapter XXVI. Happiness Of This Greater And Higher Life about 2 min
  28. Chapter XXVII. The Sorrows Of This Greater And Higher Life about 2 min
  29. Chapter XXVIII. Purity Of The Greater And Higher Life about 2 min

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Contents

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Note 5

I. The Beginning 7

Chapter I

In the beginning of creation there could have been seen in yonder distance, had there been eyes to see it, a black speck — a speck of darkness as dark as the darkest of night, as motionless as the motionless dead, and as empty as the emptiness of space ; in fact, there was nothing but an empty space of darkness.

How long this empty space of darkness had existed, or how long it has been since it could have been seen had there been eyes to see it, we will not say, but in the beginning of creation which began in this empty space of darkness there was created first of a power within themselves, two elements — two elements in which one could not exist without the other; yet there would have to be one before there could be the other; two elements the image of which is seen in all that is created, in both the earth and the heavens; two elements, the god and the godhead, the creators and rulers of the earth, and the heavens, and all therein.

What were these two elements? They were life and motion; life the female, and motion the male; life the god, and motion the godhead. Life there could not be without motion; motion there could not be without life. Yet there would have to be life before there could be motion, two elements which are opposite in function, but equal in force, yet they are inseparable, not because they are as one, or analogous to one, but because one could not exist without the

The Beginning 9

other. But let us stop and ask, what is life, and what is motion, that we may have a better knowledge of the creators and of all that is created.

Life is an element, the living symbol of all that exists in nature, the female, the soil from whence sprang all creation. Motion is an element, the living symbol of life, the male, the force of all that is created. They are two elements that can never die, for there is no power or force that can destroy them; being both the life and the force, the creators and rulers of all that is created, there can be no power greater than theirs. They are the only two elements that can exist in a single state; that is, they are the only two elements that can exist of a power within themselves, for they are the life and the force, the soil of life and the force of production, the creators and rulers of all that can be created. There may be imaginary gods and imaginary forces, but there can be no god or no force without being created by these two creators and rulers, the god and the godhead, the parents in which exist the image of every element, with every intellect, function and power known to that of created life, and from which is created every element with every intellect, function and power known to that of organic life. Created of a power within themselves as the female and the male, the soil and the force of all creation, so was every element and every organ known to that of organic life created as the female and the male, the soil and the force of life, in which the creation of the female would have to precede that of the male, as the male is only the force without the life, and could not be created without the female, the soil of life.

That these two creators and rulers were created in infancy in this dark, empty space of darkness of a power within themselves, there is no doubt, for in all creation there is seen the image

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of these creators; and as all creations are created in darkness, so were these two creations; and as all creations grew from infancy to maturity, or to that of a greater power, so did these two creators. Life growing from infant life to the great life of all that is created; motion growing from infant motion to the great power of all that is created. Created in infancy of a power within itself, these two creators grew by that same power to the great creators and rulers of the earth and the heavens and all therein.

Chapter II. Creation Of The First Germ

How long it took these two creators to grow to the age of puberty, or to that age of maturity wherein they were capable of creating other elements, we will not say, for time was not reckoned then.

But .when they had grown of a power within themselves to the age of puberty, or that age wherein they were capable of creating other elements, there was created or born of them two other elements — two elements in which there are the same phenomena of life as in that of the creators, in which one could not exist without the other, and in which the creation of the female would have to precede that of the male. They were the elements of growth, so called cold and heat, which are the elements of contraction and expansion, or the elements of elasticity, in which no created life, except the creators, could grow without the influence of these two elements of the growth of life. They are the female and the male elements of the growth of life, in which one could not exist without the other, as the element of heat, which is the male element, or the element of force, would destroy every element of organic life if it were not for the restraining element of cold, which is the female element of the elements of the growth of life. Created in infancy, as all creations are, these two elements of the growth of life grew as their creators had grown, and with their creators formed the first germ of life, with the darkness of this dark, empty space as the shell, a germ so small that, had it been of visible matter, it could not have been seen with the human eye. Created

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in darkness, as all creations are, this first germ of life, which consisted of the creators, the god and the godhead, with the two elements of the growth of life, cold and heat, grew as their creators had grown, from infancy to that of maturity, they began to propagate and multiply through sympathetic coition, until the whole space of this dark, empty shell of darkness became a space of so-called gaseous element, of different functions of life, each element consisting of the female and the male, in which one could not exist without the other. Yet, in their creation, the creation of the female would have to precede that of the male, for the male is only the force without the soil, for the propagation of life, so that in all creations as in that of the creators, it was the female that was created first, and not the male. In the creation of these so-called gaseous elements of different functions of life, which formed the substance of this first seed of life, the two first elements to be created or born of this first germ of life were two elements which are the combinators of all other elements. No elements could exist in combination as organic life without being held together by these two combinating elements, so-called oxygen and nitrogen, the female and male elements of the combinators of organic life — oxygen the female, and nitrogen the male; oxygen the sustaining element of life, and nitrogen the sustaining element of force. While these two elements can exist in a single state artificially, they cannot perform their functions as combinators of organic life one without the other, nor could one exist without the other, for without oxygen, the sustaining element of life, there could be no life, for nitrogen, the male element, is only

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the force without the soil, for the propagation and sustaining of organic life. That these two elements are the combinating elements of organic life there is proof in all creation, as you may take organic life of any kind and deprive it of these two elements, oxygen and nitrogen, and see how quickly there will be dissolution so-called death. Yet take that dissoluted matter and add it to the earth, and it will enrich the earth, which shows that these two elements, oxygen and nitrogen, were the combinators, and that the two creators, life and motion, had not been destroyed through this process of dissolution, for they being the creators and rulers of all that is created, there was no power or force of dissolution that could destroy them, and that when these two combinating elements, oxygen and nitrogen, the two first elements born of this first germ of life, had grown from infancy to that of maturity, they began to propagate and multiply through sympathetic coition, as did other elements, the creation of which followed that of the combinators, until the whole space of this dark, empty space became a space of so-called gaseous elements of different functions of life, which grew from infancy to that of maturit}^, until every element known to that of organic life had been created, each element having been created in the two sexes, the female and the male, the whole being held together in this shell of darkness by the combinators, oxygen and nitrogen, with the first germ of life from whence they had been created as the center, thus forming the first seed of life, from which grew this great organic tree of worlds, so-called the earth and heavens, which is nothing more nor less than a great organic tree of worlds, with each world as an organ of the function of

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life, analogous to that of every tree of vegetable life, for in the creation and growth of this first germ and first seed of life, there is seen every law and every phenomenal function of life, as in the creation and growth of every germ and every seed of life, from the smallest to that of the greatest of vegetable human and animal life.

Chapter III. The First Seed Of Life

When this first seed of life which consisted of the first organic germ of life as the center, surrounded by the so-called gaseous elements of the different functions of life, had become complete, then began the law of segmentation — a law in which matter is divided into organic matter, organic matter into organic bodies, and organic bodies into organic worlds, it being through this law that every seed of life, either vegetable, human or animal, was divided into organic life. After the law of segmentation had completed the outlines and function of each world, as an organ of life, then began the law of waste and accumulation, and the passing of organic

life from a lower to that of a higher state 21 of purity through the law of evolution, which is a law of sympathy; a law in which the higher creations have a sympathetic power over that of the lower, it being through this law that each creation is in a higher and more perfect state than that of the former.

When the law of segmentation had completed the outline of each world, from the substance of this first seed of life, they began to grow through the law of waste and accumulation, until they burst forth from this shell of darkness, as the first visible growth, which has grown from an invisible infant tree of worlds to the great organic tree of worlds, so-called the earth and heavens, with its many branches. For this tree of worlds has many roots and branches, analogous to that of every tree of vegetable life, each branch being marked by a star, or, in other words, each star marks a branch of this tree of worlds, the farthest branch from the root or

First Seed of Life 23

earth marking the highest branch of this tree of worlds.

That this first seed of life was created in this shell of darkness from this first germ of life, there is proof in the fact that all creations are created in darkness from a germ of life, and grow until they burst forth from that shell of darkness as an organic growth, which grows from invisible to that of visible life, and from infancy to that of maturity.

Chapter IV

THE CREATION OF EACH WORLD, AS AN ORGAN OF THIS TREE OF WORLDS.

Now that we have traced the creation of the creators, the god and godhead with the creation and growth of the first germ and the first seed of life, from which grew this organic tree of worlds, so-called the earth and heavens, we will begin and trace up, step by step, the creation and growth of each world as an organ of this tree of worlds, that we may better understand the greatness of the creators, the god and the godhead, at the same time have a better knowledge of the greatness, yet the simplicity, of the great, broad and true laws of creation which govern not only the life and growth of this tree of worlds, but the life and growth of all that is created.

In the creation of the so-called gaseous elements of the different functions of life, which formed the substance of the first seed of life, they were created as moist and dry gaseous elements, which grew through the law of waste and accumulation, after the law of segmentation had divided them into worlds, from moist and dry elements to that of the liquid and solid elements of this tree of worlds, the moist growing to that of the root, or so-called earth, while the dry grew to the body or so-called heavenly part, the whole being the growth from this first seed of life, which has grow r n from an invisible tree of worlds to the great organic tree of worlds, so-called the earth and heavens, in which we live.

After the substance of this first seed of life had been transformed into the worlds through the law of segmentation, and had grown through the law of waste and accumulation until they burst forth from this shell of darkness as the

Creation of Each World 27

infant growth of this tree of worlds, there was seen circulating through each world as an organ of this tree of worlds two elements of a different hue, one dark and the other light. They were the life fluids which had been created through the law of waste and accumulation, from the waste which had been thrown off through the law of segmentation, and which had grown from invisible to that of visible life fluids of highly illuminated powers, which circulate through each world as an organ of this tree of worlds, with the moon and the sun as the circulating mediums, analogous to what is seen in all organic life, for in all organic life there is found two life fluids which circulate from a center of life and a center of force, analogous to the life fluids of this- tree of worlds. As this tree of worlds began to grow after being born of this first seed of life, it became visible through these two life fluids, which are two highly illuminating gaseous elements of a different hue, one dark and the other light, which circulate through this whole tree of worlds, with the moon as the center of life and the sun as the center of force; it being through the circulation of these two illuminating life fluids through this tree of worlds that marks the day from the night, or darkness from that of light.

Chapter V. Creation Of The Root, Or Earthy Part, Of This Tree Of Worlds

In following up the growth of this tree of worlds, after each world had become visible through these life fluids, we come to that stage wherein the root, so-called earth, had grown, through the law of waste and accumulation, from that of moist, gaseous elements to that of liquid elements, so-called water, from whence was created the solid elements, or root of this tree of worlds, through the law of crystallization, which is a law of production, a law in which liquid elements are transformed into that of solid elements through the elements of cold and heat or the elements of the growth of life.

As this tree of worlds grew through the law of waste and accumulations, as all creations grow, the waste which had been thrown off by this growth was absorbed by the liquid portion which is now the root of this tree of worlds; and being elements of waste, they accumulated in different parts or sections of this liquid space, so-called water, thus forming masses of dissoluted matter in a semi-liquid state, from whence was created, through the law of crystallization, superinduced by the elements of the growth of life, cold and heat, the root or solid portion of this tree of worlds, so-called the earth — a creation and growth which took years of time, and in which every element was created in infancy and grew to that of maturity, when they began to propagate and multiply through sympathetic coition, analogous to that of the higher creations, for there is no doubt according to the laws of creation but what the earthy elements, even to the sands of the ocean and the rocks of the hills, as well as that of every mineral and

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every gaseous element found on the earth or root of this tree of worlds, propagate and multiply through sympathetic coition and grow from infancy to that of maturity, passing away at different stages of life, analogous to that of the higher creation, in this there is proof f i the fact that by depositing miner^few any kind in differenKaectioBS^oT the earth, where the climate is adapted to their propagation and growth, they in time will begin to propagate and multiply, analogous to that of vegetable life. This is why there is being found different minerals and different gaseous elements in different sections of the earth, where years ago they were unknown; for there is no creation, it makes no difference of what life, that can exist or be created, without being created through sympathetic coition, even to that of human life, the highest creation, where sympathy prompts the act of coitive pleasure.

Chapter VI. The Creation Of The Hills And Valleys

When these masses of waste which had accumulated in different sections of this liquid space had grown from moist to that of earthy deposit, through the law of crystallization, they were subject to the disturbing movements of the liquid elements, or water, which was caused by the phenomenal force of the elements of electricity, which are the vibratory elements of the motion of life and are the offspring of the elements of the growth of life, cold and heat. After the law of segmentation had divided the elements which constituted the substance of this first seed of life into worlds, the first elements that were created or born of the two elements of the growth of life, cold and heat, were the two elements of electricity, the positive and the negative, which are the female and the male elements of the vibratory motions of life, in which one could not exist without the other; yet in their creation the positive, or female element, would have to precede that of the negative, the male element. That these two elements are the offspring of the elements of the growth of life, cold and heat, there is proof in the fact that cold and heat are elements of contraction and expansion, and that the different bodies or elements that are the greatest abductors of cold and heat are the greatest abductors of electric elements, making both elements analogous in their function of the growth of life.

While the earthy deposit which had been created from these deposits of waste was growing to that of solid earth through the law of crystallization, so was every world as an organ of this tree of worlds, each element and each world as an organ growing in proportion to their function of life, so that the liquid elements, or elements of water, grew to that stage wherein their activity through the phenomenal forces of the vibratory elements of life, caused waves in the liquid world, causing these earthy deposits which were in a semi-liquid state to form the hills, mountains and valleys, which have grown in size and shape as this tree of worlds grew, until they are the great hills, mountains and valleys of the present age.

What is said of the earth's surface can be said of the root of this tree of worlds, for this tree of worlds has many roots and branches of great depths, there is no doubt, as there is not one creation that can be pointed out that does not have roots and branches or their analogy. Even the sands of the ocean have what is analogous to roots and branches.

While the hills, mountains and valleys which had been created by the waves of the liquid world were growing to maturity so were the different species of rocks and minerals of the earth, which had been created through the law of crystallization, or law of transformation from waste of different earthy elements which had accumulated through the growth of the earth or root of this tree of worlds, under different phenomena of the elements of the growth of life. In this there is proof from the fact that on one side of the hill or mountain can be found one or two species of rocks or minerals, while on the other side may be found different species, which shows that in their creation they are created from different constituents of waste, which had accumulated from the growth of different earthy elements under different phenomena of the elements of the growth of life, cold and heat. And that for the hills, mountains and valleys to be created through the upheaval of the earth by so-called volcanoes could not be possible, for no one or two elements could destroy all other elements. If such were the case, there could be no organic life. The upheaval of the so-called volcanoes began thousands of years after the earth or root of this tree of worlds had been created, there is no doubt, and it is only proof that all earthy elements propagate and multiply through sympathetic coition and that there are new earthly elements being created every season which live and grow according to the laws of waste and accumulation, analogous to that of vegetable, human and animal life, so that the upheavals or volcanoes are caused through the propagating and multiplying of the different gaseous elements which accumulate in certain sections adapted to their propagation, and, being elements of expansion, the pressure becomes so great that explosions take place, thus igniting the carbonating elements, causing volcanoes or eruptions of the earth's surface in certain sections adapted to the propagation of these gaseous and carbonating elements.

As the root or earthy part of this tree of worlds in which we live grew from a mere speck of moist gaseous elements, after bursting forth from the shell of darkness, so did the trunk and branches, so-called the heavenly part, grow from a mere speck of dry gaseous elements to the great tree and branches, so-called the heavens, which has been divided through the law of segmentation into worlds as organs of this tree of worlds, analogous to that of all organic life, so that in the creation of the trunk and branches of this tree of worlds, as well as in that of the root, there is the analogy of every element with every organ and every function of life as in that of vegetable life, which is an offspring or growth of this tree of worlds, and as animal life is an offspring of vegetable life there is an analogy in all creation, which cannot be disputed, for in all creations the law of inheritance is a law of creations which cannot be denied. In the creation of the worlds as organs of this tree of worlds there are the moon and the sun, which are the brains and the hearts of this tree of worlds. They are the centers of life and the centers of force, analogous to that of vegetable, human and animal life. No organic life can exist without the analogy of these two centers of life and force.

In the different so-called planets there is found the analogy of the organs of respiration, assimilation and elimination with every phenomenon of- the function of life, as in that of vegetable, human and animal life. In the stars there is found the analogy of the bloom or foliage of vegetable life, which marks every branch of this tree of worlds. In fact there is not one phenomenal function of life in the anatomy and physiology of vegetable, human and animal life that is not found in the anatomy and physiology of this tree of worlds. In the creation of vegetable, human and animal life there is a phenomenon in their anatomy and physiology which has never been recognized, yet such is the case. To point out these phenomena we will take the anatomy and physiology of human and animal life, they being an offspring or creation from vegetable life. The phenomenon being in a more pronounced state of development, so that in pointing out this phenomenon it can be more readily seen or understood. In the creation of vegetable, human and animal life, as well as in that of all organic life, there were created two, or what is analogous to two, the female and the male, of every organ and every element known to that of organic life. In human and animal life there are two brains, the female and the male, with two or what is analogous to two of both sexes of every membrane and every organ or substance that constitutes these two brains. There are two eyes, the female and the male. There are two, or what is analogous to two, of every organ that constitutes the organs of the throat.

There are two lungs, two hearts in one, two stomachs, two livers, two kidneys and two suprarenal capsules. In the female there are two ovaries, the female and the male ; in the male two testicles, the female and the male, it being through this phenomenon that the two sexes are created. There is what is analogous to two spines, giving off two sets of nerves, with their many branches, analogous to the tree of vegetable life. There are two circulations, with two life fluids, analogous to the female and the male. In fact, there is not one organ, gland or membrane known to that of human and animal life that does not exist in the two sexes, and there is not one organ or gland that gives off a secreting fluid but what the constituents of that fluid exist in the analogy of the two sexes. What is said of human and animal life, its analogy is found in that of vegetable life. In the anatomy and physiology of this tree of worlds there is found the same phenomenon of life as found in vegetable, human and animal life. There are two, or what is analogous to two, moons and two suns, which admit of a double circulation, or the circulation of two life fluids. They are the brains and the hearts of this tree of worlds, the center of life and the center of force, without the analogy of which no organic life could exist. There are two, or what is analogous to two, the female and the male, of each of the planets, which constitute the organs of respiration, assimilation and elimination. There are two life fluids which circulate through this whole tree of worlds, analogous to that of vegetable, human and animal life. They are the female and male elements of life, which in their double circulation through this tree of worlds mark the day from the night, or darkness from the light.

Even the stars abide in the two sexes, the female and the male, all of which are nourished from the earth, or root of this tree of worlds; just as the body and branches of the vegetable tree are nourished through its roots, so that in the creation and growth of this tree of worlds there is found a tree of worlds which was created or born of the creators through a germ and seed of life analogous to that of all organic life, for there can be no organic life without being created or born through the analogy of a germ and seed of life. A tree of worlds which is stationary and grew upright, round in shape, with roots and branches, and with a center or spine, so-called axis, with worlds as organs of the function of life, the whole being covered with two crusts or barks analogous to that of vegetable, human and animal life, which are, as we said before, simply offsprings or growths from this tree of worlds. That this tree of worlds is stationary and grew upright there is proof in the fact that in the anatomy and physiology of this tree of worlds there is found the analogy of every phenomenon of life, as found in that of vegetable, human and animal life; and as all vegetable, human and animal life was born of this parent tree of worlds, one direct and the other indirect, the phenomenon of their creation and life could not be different, so that the idea that this world is oval in shape and revolves upon its axis with the sun and the moon revolving around the earth could not be possible. The idea having originated through man's

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