In Search of the Miraculous

1. The ordinary food we eat

2. The air we breathe

3. Our impressions

"It is not difficult to agree that air is a kind of food for the organism But in what way impressions can be food may appear at first difficult to understand We must

however remember that, with every external im pression, whether it takes the form of

sound, or vision, or smell, we receive from outside a certain amount of energy, a

certain number of vibrations, this energy which enters the organism from outside is

food Moreover, as has been said before, energy cannot be transmitted without matter

If an external impression brings external energy with it into the organism it means that

external matter also enters which feeds the organism in the full meaning of the term

"For its normal existence the organism must receive all three kinds of food, that is, physical food, air, and impressions The organism cannot exist on one or even on two

kinds of food, all three are required But the relation of these foods to one another and

their significance for the organism is not the same The organism can exist for a

comparatively long time without a supply of fresh physical food Cases of starvation

are known lasting for over sixty days, when the organism lost none of its vitality and

recovered very quickly as soon as it began to take food Of course starvation of this

kind cannot be considered as complete, since in all cases of such artificial starvation

people have taken water Nevertheless, even without water a man can live without

food for several days Without air he can exist only for a few minutes, not more than

two or three, as a rule a man dies after being four minutes without air Without

impressions a man cannot live a single moment If the flow of impressions were to be

stopped in some way or if the organism were deprived of its capacity for receiving

impressions, it would immediately die. The flow of impressions coming to us from

outside is like a driving belt communicating motion to us. The principal motor for us

is nature, the surrounding world. Nature transmits to us through our impressions the

energy by which we live and move and have our being If the inflow of this energy is

arrested, our machine will immediately stop working Thus, of the three kinds of food

the most important for us is impressions, although it stands to reason that a man

cannot exist for long on impressions alone Impressions and air enable a man to exist a

little longer Impressions, air, and physical food enable the organism to live to the end

of its normal term of life and to produce the substances necessary

not only for the maintenance of life, but also for the creation and growth of higher

bodies.

"The process of transforming the substances which enter the organism into finer

ones is governed by the law of octaves.

"Let us take the human organism in the form of a three-story factory. The upper

floor of this factory consists of a man's head; the middle floor, of the chest; and the

lower, of the stomach, back, and the lower part of the body.

"Physical food is H768, or la, sol, fa of the third cosmic octave of radiations. This

'hydrogen' enters the lower story of the organism as 'oxygen' do 768.

" 'Oxygen' 768 meets with 'carbon' 192 which is present in the organism. From the

union of O768 and C192 is obtained N384. N384 is the next note re.

'Re 384 which becomes 'oxygen' in the next triad meets with 'carbon' 96 in the

organism and together with it produces a new 'nitrogen' 192 which is the note mi 192.

"As it is known from the law of octaves mi cannot pass independently into fa in an

ascending octave; an 'additional shock' is necessary. If an 'additional shock' is not

received the substance mi 192 cannot by itself pass into the full note fa.

"At the given place in the organism "where mi 192 ought, apparently, to come to a stop there enters the 'second food'—air, in the form of do 192, that is, mi, re, do of the second cosmic octave of radiations. The note do possesses all the necessary

semitones, that is, all the energy necessary for the transition to the next note, and it

gives as it were a part of its energy to the note mi which has the same density as itself.

The energy of do gives mi 192 force enough, while uniting with 'carbon' 48 already in

the organism, to pass into 'nitrogen' 96. 'Nitrogen' 96 will be the note fa.

"Fa 96 by uniting with 'carbon' 24 present in the organism passes into 'nitrogen'

48—the note sol.

"The note sol 48 by uniting with 'carbon' 12 present in the organism passes into

'nitrogen' 24—la 24.

"La 24 unites with 'carbon' 6 present in the organism and is transformed into

'nitrogen' 12, or si 12. Si 12 is the highest substance produced in the organism from

physical food with the help of the 'additional shock' obtained from the air.

"Do 192 (air) entering the middle story of the factory in the character of 'oxygen'

and giving part of its energy to mi 192 unites in its turn at a certain place with 'carbon'

48 present in the organism and passes into re 96.