The Human Soul
Its Movements, Its Lights, and the Iconography of the Fluidic Invisible
Dr. H. Baraduc
Chapter IV
Lights of the vital soul. Seven luminous movements unveiled by iconography.
If the biometer has already shown us that the soul was movement, we shall see in this chapter that the soul is equally light. Invisible to the human eye under ordinary conditions, this light possesses photo-chemical action powerful enough to be objectivified on a sensitive plate.
The human soul, luminous vibration and intelligentified movement, therefore enters the domain of physics, by giving us its own figuration, the figuration of its form. It also adds, by itself, the experimental proof [40] of its existence, similarly to that already furnished by philosophy, logic and psychology.
The spirit is only manifested by the soul, because the soul is the luminous form, the covering of the spirit. Not only has the spirit the knowledge of what surrounds it by the exterior means of the senses, but it also has the notion of its essence. The spirit knows itself, compares itself, feels itself one and eternal, as Leibniz expresses it: "We know, we feel we are eternal." It is why he rectified the aphorism: that nothing comes to the spirit itself: "Nihil est in intellectu, quod non prius fuerit in sensu, nisi ipse intellectus." Intelligence perceives nothing apart from the senses, if it is not the spirit itself.
First Light
Od, polarised thread of life, being individualised in luminous peas. Monopolarised OD being unified with a shower of living light.
One may compare the Od to a web having a ellipsoidal direction; its arrival on the human body takes place according to the needs, in columns of cohesive force and by rounded segmentation in forms of drops, luminous peas, animistic fragments of the attractive cosmic force.
Plate IV. presents in a very clear manner these peas and drops, which represent the vital cosmic force instinctively dividing itself to constitute particular vitalities. The individual soul is a part of the universal soul; its separation from the whole makes of it a special individualised form, a particular centre, which is in communication with the universal cosmic life in such a manner that the vibrations or re-actions [42] of the Cosmos or those of our cellular vitality affect each other as if the cutaneous surface were only a fictitious limit between the universal force of life and the individual force of life.
Thus is explained the presentiment of atmospheric perturbations by the instinctive soul, before the consecutive phenomenon, rain, snow or storm is produced.
The exteriorisation of sensibility, of which M. de Rochas has made a classical chapter of vital physiology, finds in the graphy of this sensitive soul, which the skin does not limit, its logical demonstration. The single fact of making a prick felt from a distance, when the skin remains insensible, shows, not only the outward movement of the invisible sensitive soul, but dismisses all possibility of being interpreted by suggestion, since the graphy of the sensitive soul is taken at the point in space, where the prick has been received.
This plate shows two bright spots: one under the nostril, the other under the right eye; these are the hypnogenous points.
Second Light
Somod, a complete animistic fluidic body, a soul formed by the architectural reunion of the web of life, of the lines of force, of peas, of odic showers, of life-animules.
This human light is a fluidic, malleable lymph of life, which the spirit will modulate; it is the living substance, the sign of the forms, which reveal the spirit. This shower of life and of light depends on the odic or somod-human body. It lends itself to the needs of the creative spirit and assumes the forms desired by our spiritual soul.
This fluidic bond, by its ribbons and columns of force between the different fluido-material systems and organs, is similar to that cellular net, which serves as frame, as support and as grouping to the cellules of the whole body. This fluidic web is the vital bond between the small life-souls imbibed with and nourished upon odic clouds; it is a fluidic lymph, which maintains the existence of these milliards of [44] life-animules, souls of our organic cellules, as serum nourishes the leucocytes born of the cellular tissue. It would seem that the skeleton of man was the very materialisation of the reticulate tissue of the fluido-odic body of the somod.
The somod is that fluidic spectre, which is the intermediate agent of cosmic life and life personified in one existence; it is the living luminous double of the material body, which it possesses and maintains. The somod is itself subordinate to the soul, whether this has or has not reached the spiritualised phase.
The somod is that universal soul of life in us, which respires that is to say, aspires, draws the cosmic forces of the universal Od, as it repels, expires the emanations of its Ob and accompanies the projections of the will (Psychob) or those of the spirit (Psychecstasis). The somod is therefore the instrument of the spirit, but especially the vital force which assures the double movement of material assimilation and of disassimilation.
Electro-Vital Particles
The more we advance, the more the vital cosmic force abandons its general character to be divided and individualised. We thus arrive at a luminous manifestation, which is incorporated, is individualised and gives us a type of the well-defined living unity, the electro-vital fluidic globule, small creation of man.
These electro-vital particles, animistic libellules, have an intimate interior life, in equilibrium from the centre to the periphery, from the periphery to the centre.
The study of these electro-vital particles offers a particular interest, if one considers that these small instinctive existences are rudiments of the first vitality, the atoms of magic, the spirits of the elements, the microbes of the constellations, in the words of Marius Decrespe.
With the magnifying glass, their peripheric shell is seen occupied by a vital pea [46] of second light, which sometimes seems to present a small form.
Contrary to the opinion of certain opponents, who pretend that these electro-vital particles are purely electric, Docteur Baraduc affirms that the globular form is indeed the form of the dynamic electro-vital cellule of this small rudimentary soul of the first plane. If the doctor could assert that this cellule was nothing else but the incorporated vital force, it was because he had the direct proof of its nature and of its formation by photography and not by electrography, that is to say in the absence of any electricity. And these particles, no longer electro-vital but vital, photographed no longer in the dark, but in semi-daylight, with an apparatus, without any electric instrument, are the most tangible proof of the extra-electric nature which they present.
They are the luminous cosmic peas of the force of individualised Universal Life like the fragments of our human vital soul (ob) being exteriorised extra cutem (beyond [47] the skin); which on contact with an electro-static tension assume a fluido-electric covering, incorporate themselves and constitute the electro-vital particles composed of the universal od or of the human ob enveloped in electricity.
Third Light
Soul germ horn of the web of cosmic life, intelligentified in man.
Once for all let it be said the expression human soul must be taken in its true physical sense, not in the religious or philosophic acceptation. Its point of departure must be brought back to the phenomenon which human science can record and which everybody may agree to define as a luminous and invisible form of the spirit; the intelligence soul germ is movement and light.
Here is then an object defined in its physical conditions of movement, of glimmer, of life, that is to say, by the light which is in every soul and in every man, more or less developed; only one must distinguish between the soul intelligence germ and the spiritual soul.
The particular soul is a particle of the original universal soul; it is instinctive, and [49] departing, it remains in intimate relation, by its instinctive side, with universal life, which is called integral life.
Every soul before its incarnation is a wheel, then a circle, the hidden spirit of which is the centre, the intellectual germ of its future evolution, hence the name soul intelligence germ, which must be given it at its human birth.
It has been calculated that in order to support ourselves, we absorb during our life, what a goods train could carry.
And who will estimate the amount of vital force breathed in and out during the same period of time!
After material and fluidic death, the dissipated cloud of life, the soul germ alone persists, continuing its own existence, guardian of its personality, of its conscience, capable of progressing morally or ready for a new descent into corporeal life.
Fourth Light
Spiritual soul. — The four rayed pearl, transpierced by the divine radiation.
The sphere expresses the soul germ. The four rayed circle with a central point expresses the spiritualised soul.
Dr. H. B.
The fluido-vital forms of what might be called the embryongeny of the invisible, in the act of procreation of souls and of future beings, are identical with material forms, with the incorporations of the visible and anatomical embryo.
The germinative vesicule is represented by the soul, which presents the same dimensions, those of a little pea similar to the luminous peas and to the electro-vital particles. And just as the male spermato-zoon penetrates the female ovule to be broken there and to fertilize it, by amalgamating its active substance with the [51] passive substance of the germinative point, so the subtile ray of the spirit fertilizes the soul germ by its entrance into the animistic particle of the universal soul, specially divided in luminous peas.
The particular soul, spiritualised by the subtile ray of the Father, condenses its fluidic body, its Somod, by drawing from the general Cosmos, from the universal soul, the cloud of its hypersensitive substance. This instinctive and cohesive force tends to coagulate into a frozen fluid, which the spirit will modulate in form. This almost gelatinous form at a precise moment progressively transforms itself into flesh by the attraction of alimentary products during the foetal life, until birth places on the visible plane a human soul, already born to the fluidic life, before being born to the terrestrial plane by the moan and the pain.
At the carnal death, this soul intelligence germ remains surrounded by a more or less condensed atmosphere and polarised by astral light which it has made its own [52] during life by its fluidic respiration and which, after death, constitutes its moral atmosphere.
After its elevation, deprived of this vital atmosphere, it is constituted by a simple circle, the spirit or central intelligence of which has been developed enough to occupy the whole area of the circle, and the animistic circumference of which is reduced more and more in proportion as the spirit ascends.
Fifth Light
Psychicone. — Spirit involving the form, the image, the sign.
« The complete adept is a centre of radiation, from whence comes powers, potentialities, which, from correlations to correlations, plunge even up to the cycles of time to come.
« Here is the key of the mystery of the property which the human brain has of projecting and making sensitive in the visible world, the forms which its powerful conception has engendered and has called forth from the elements of the invisible world. The adept creates nothing new, but he utilises, works the materials, which nature has amassed around him, and which during eternities, have clothed every possible form.
« He has only to choose what he needs and to give his thought objective existence. [54] In its invisible evolution, every human mind passes into the state of which physical order is the reverse and becomes an active entity by associating itself, by unifying itself with a particular element, with one of the semi-intellectual forces of the kingdom of life; this mind survives as an active intelligence, as a creature born of the spirit, during a period of longer or shorter duration and proportional to the intensity of cerebral action, which has generated it... »
Kast hoorni Sal Sing, Jewish mission, Saint-Yves d'Alveydre.
This extract, which I owe to the kindness of my friend, Dr. Maurice Adam, expresses scientifically and with great clearness, what I myself would have stated in a less precise manner. Objectivity, that is to say, the vision for the eye of liquid forms, is a fact, which I myself have several times been able to verify. These fluidic forms, called hallucinatory or real, are animistic creations which our spirit modulates or which we receive entirely modulated by a suggestion [55] of the here-below or by a pneumo-fluidic communion with the hereafter.
Life in us is a cloud of force and of light, which it is a question of knowing how to keep condensed and grouped around the radiation of the central spiritual soul.
Bipolarised, the human soul has its upper and lower part; the right corresponds to the bottom, the left corresponds to the top, for the form is double. It is therefore by its free-will, well aware of the white and the black, of the subtile and the coarse, of the force of life and of light, the force of death and of darkness, the being and the non-being; in such a way that conscious of its position, it can polarise itself in one direction or the other; and takes as well the form, the appearance of it, and thus the good or bad face, indicated by a relativity of light, may be explained.
It is before all a question of the training of the will and the sensitive soul. One is astonished at the endurance of the material body; one must not therefore be surprised at the results which the resolute [56] spirit may obtain by modulating the vital force of our body, the Somod, that is to say the Od, the cosmic force, enclosed in us.
To obtain the first two lights, the chemical affinity and the electro-caloric vitality must be diminished, the material body dematerialised, in such a way that the fluidic body has more room for expansion; the expiration must be done according to the Yogui manner, as seldom as possible, so as to condense in one's self the largest amount of cosmic fluid. (1)
It is then that with or without electricity, one may project on a plate in the dark an image, well visualised, modulated by the spirit. This latter must therefore mentally [57] conceive the image, with force and clearness, to which it is going to give a fluidic body and under the gentle pressure of the will, this image leaves by the hand and is graphed on the plate.
To help its exteriorisation, a weak tension, like the breeze or electric wind may be employed. If the electricity is too intense, the plate gathers the scattered fragments of the image and portions of the electro-neuric signature. One must therefore during the operation, scarcely see in the dark the electric flashes which come from the fingers.
Electricity is not necessary for people, whose visualisation and will are powerful. These people project in utter darkness, the images they create and often their own forms or those or the persons of whom they think.
The plate receives and keeps the produced image.
As to the luminous vibration in itself, it is vital-animistic force, the image of which is clearly different from the adjacent [58] electric, electroneuric forces, and which can be obtained independently of them.
Recapitulation; The spirit frames an image, modulates it with human vital force, veils itself with a form, which expresses it, and is exteriorised in this form, which is graphed on the plate.
Therefore three things are necessary, namely:
1. A special state of soul, a particular intimate interior vibration;
2. The spontaneous outlet, or aided by electricity, of this visualised form;
3. Its reception on a plate in order that the phenomenon of these images of the spirit (Psychicones), these projections of the state of the soul, may take place.
Everybody knows that the visible corporeal image produced by photography, is formed beyond the inflected foci of the lense, but it is reversed. On the other hand, for the invisible fluido-psychic image no lense or apparatus is necessary, the image crosses it, without being reversed, such as it was conceived in form.
The psychicone is therefore directly emitted, such as it has been conceived by the thought and transmitted by the hand, considered at all times as the most perfect organ after the brain. The hand is the agent of touch, of prehension, of contact, of signature, it is the extension of the brain.
This relationship between the brain, the hand and the plate to produce an image without a lense, astonishes physicists, who have always need of points of support to produce a mechanical movement. And nevertheless the biometric formulae daily prove the movements from a distance without contact. The movement of the human soul begets them without undergoing any deviation at the rounded face of the biometer, which it penetrates; in the same way the light of the living soul, modulated in a projected image, passes from the fingers without being reversed; it is the soul itself which acts with its glimmering.
Sixth Light
Ob, emanation, exhalation; psychob.
Life considered up to the present in its organic manifestations has only been viewed as a phenomenon of material assimilation and disassimilation of chemical substances.
Now, we have seen by the Biometer that the soul had a double movement of appeal to the hereafter, of contraction over itself and of expansion of rejection in the invisible. Further, Iconography has shown the phenomena of odic condensation and of penetration to feed the soul, the Somod. We are now going to study the luminous phenomena of animistic emanation, under the name of Ob, a movement of expiration of the soul, which the plate records, simple obic expiration, projection of the icones visualised and modulated by thought.
When the hand is put in front of a [61] plate, the sensitive side, the movement of the needle of the biometer is seen at the end of a certain time, and after the development of the plate the signature of the obic emanation.
The needle being repelled 5°, one notes phenomena of fluidic exterioration, similar to those I obtained on a plate of Major Darcet; but I remarked further, that though the needle was not set in motion, the plate nevertheless received an impression.
The soul, by its exhalation, projects fragments, scoriae still living and luminous, the reciprocal attraction of which is powerful enough, indistinctly to repeat the form, the appearance of the physical sensitive soul, which it constituted. The strength of vital association, of formative affinity of this soul, is so great, that these rejected particles tend to keep and reproduce the animistic form from which they emanate, as well as the state of soul itself.
The fluidic expiration of the material [62] soul, an emission similar to urination compared to liquids, to air exhaled by the lungs, is still a little of the lived life of the being to whom it belonged. The perspiration of the soul unconsciously accomplished, must therefore be compared to the pulmonary expiration, and instinctively reproducing the form of the being who has just cast it out.
We have seen the emanation graphed relatively to physical man, we shall soon see it in regard to intellectual man.
Seventh Light
Psychecstasis
« Physical man, moral man, intellectual man is really and truly contained in the least particle of this vital quintessence, which not only is attached to all the objects touched by an individual, but also to all those which have been in his sphere of action » (Delaage).
When the will is expressed in prayer, the spirit, the subtile psyche occupies the whole of the area of the small luminous projection, whilst the glimmering of the animistic circumference is reduced to a simple flange. In prayer, the spiritual movement in us predominates, and the form of the soul is attenuated in proportion as the spirit rises, at the point of leaving its fluidic body.
Man then, by his spiritual light, projects the pearls of his prayer towards the infinite God. The divine spirit of man [64] by his ecstatic projections, tends to rise in spiritual particles towards the centre of all spirituality: his light goes to the Light, and his spirit to the Spirit. The ecstatic orison joins the earth to the Heavens.
The present study attempts the demonstration of the fluidic existence of the soul, considered as eternal movement and light, by its photo-chemical action on silver salts. It is demonstrable, not only in its existence, in its substance, but still more in its relative value, revealed by the perfection of the form, the glimmering of the sign and the grandeur of the manifestation.
The human spirit to manifest itself assumes a form; this fluidic form is the soul, the luminous movement, the nature of which is more or less materialised, more or less spiritualised, according whether it descends towards matter, or whether it rises towards the universal Spirit. But it nonetheless presents, from the physical point of view, a series [64] of luminous manifestations, in relation to the series of animistic vitalities or of a more or less elevated state of soul.
It is therefore possible to attempt a classification; which amounts to saying that our spirit one, is veiled in a cloak of animistic light, which presents seven different luminous manifestations, corresponding to seven states of soul, to seven personalities in a single conscience, to seven egos in a single self.
Footnotes for Chapter IV.
- According to Colonel Olcott, from whom Dr. Baraduc obtained these details, the Yoguis isolate themselves, lying on a special herb, soma-conya, fall into deep meditation, give themselves up to prayer or to menthrams, divine names AUM, protective spirits, whose cadence then surrounds them with invisible and elementary forces, which obey them. They also draw the semi-conscious forces of nature, which permit them to produce astounding phenomena. The training consists in the Yogui respiration, that is to say, with long intervals between; at first every minute, afterwards still more seldom. Certain Yoguis are said to make an interval of a quarter of an hour between each breath.
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