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    We move on from vibration of particles to the atom.

    Knowing the atom is important because, the kind of miracles known as materialization and dematerialization are done by yogis and occultists using atoms.

    There are two forms of the atom: physical and spiritual. While we know that the physical atom as the ultimate building block of this physical world, many of us are not aware of the spiritual atom that creates matter in the higher spiritual worlds.

    Is there matter on the higher planes of nature? How is it created? Who creates them? Let us explore...

    What if we can see the air we inhale and exhale during breathing?

    We can then see the air molecules rushing in a stream out of our nostrils (much like the puffs of smoke breathed out by smokers). These molecules would collide, change direction, aggregate into shapes that vibrate and rotate, travel away from us, before they finally shed their shapes and merge with their source.

    When we inhale, we would suck in some of the shapes created when we breathed out. These shapes will dissolve inside us.

    It would be fun, watching the air we breathe in and out. It would then be a matter of using our mind to train the breathing and get the shapes we want!

    This means that we are able to aggregate molecules and create shapes. Just by breathing. These shapes are, of course, not stable.

    More stable are the smoke rings that an experienced smoker emits when he puffs out smoke. We have seen these rings rise in the air, wobble, move away, and finally get lost.

    The smoker uses his mind (and perhaps will power) to control and create a shape out of the white smoke he breathes out. He can make the shapes persist for a longer time, but has no control over their dissolution.

    So we know that using our mind, we can create shapes, aggregating matter, and make them persist, albeit for short times.

    A child creates soap bubbles, colorful, dazzling, and more stable than the smoke rings. It is a world of fun and delight for the child -- observing, pursuing and breaking up the soap bubbles.

    These are some examples of creating shapes by thought, using our physical sense organs to aggregate physical matter. We may or may not be able to see the shapes we create, but that does not in any way diminish our ability to create shapes by thought.

    These examples illustrate the link between a thought and its materialization. What is not possible for ordinary human beings is the contemplated dematerialization of the shapes created using thoughts. Destruction of physical shapes created by thought is done using physical means.

    Evidences of the great Truths are strewn all around us. In things and events that pass by our everyday life. If only we care to look around and think over...

    The Atom, the Anu and the ParamAnu

    Even today, Science says that the atom is the fundamental building block of physical matter.

    Science, of course, talks about sub-atomic particles. But the term sub-atomic indicates that Science considers these particles to be part of an atom, with no independent roles in building matter.

    In 1808, John Dalton, an English schoolmaster, postulated a theory known as Dalton's Atomic Theory. According to this theory:

    - An atom is the fundamental, indivisible and uncreatable particle of all matter.

    - Compound substances are formed by the aggregation of atoms.

    - Atoms are solid, uniform in properties, and homogeneous.

    This theory had to be abandoned by the end of the 19th century, when the electron was discovered.

    The discovery of electrons disproved the concept that the atom was indivisible. The electron comes out of the atom, so it must be a sub-atomic particle. Later discoveries led to two more sub-atomic particles: the proton, and the neutron.

    The atomic model established by these discoveries has a nucleus, comprising protons and neutrons which have identical masses, and electrons, which are of negligible mass, moving in orbits around the nucleus. The protons and electrons have identical, opposite charges. The neutrons have no charge.

    Electrons in orbit around a nucleus. As above, so below. The Hermetic axiom. An endless, fractal-like repetition of creation, up to the tiniest atom.

    Like the kolam designs on the floor that the Hindu women draw with flour -- digital, elaborate, repetitive, and identical on all sides. The Hermetic axiom inheres in the Hindu psyche...

    Further experiments led to the discovery of quarks inside the protons and neutrons. The nucleus of the current atomic model has three quarks inside a proton, and three inside a neutron.

    Hindu Scriptures --and Theosophy-- talk about Anu and the ParamAnu as the building blocks of matter in all the seven planes of nature. This Anu is not the same as the scientific atom.

    To break the suspense...

    The Anu is a sub-atomic particle inside a quark! Each quark has three numbers of Anu.

    This amazing discovery was made by the theosophists Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, who set out to verify the knowledge revealed in Hindu Scriptures, using the yogic techniques of Patanjali, and the anima siddhi they acquired thereby.

    Annie Besant and Leadbeater discovered that the proton and neutron, considered indivisible by the then existing theories of Science, housed three particles each. They called them triads or triplets. Science later named them quarks, when their existence was scientifically verified, after 70 years.

    Annie Besant and Leadbeater further discovered that the triads were not indivisible, but contained three numbers of Anu each. They also postulated that the Anu was the final, indivisible form of physical matter.

    They examined most of the elements for the structure of their atoms and published their findings in a book. This book, titled Occult Chemistry, was published by the Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Chennai, and Wheaton, IL, USA, in 1908. The Occult Chemistry work engaged these two people for nearly 40 years.

    Science took 70 years to confirm the existence of quarks, after they were theosophically discovered in 1908. Science is yet to find out the Anu.

    The Anu is thus the Ultimate Physical Atom (UPA) of the physical world and is indivisible. Any attempt to divide it will result in the Anu vanishing completely from the physical world!

    The ParamAnu is the ultimate building particle of all the planes of nature and the universe. It is the ultimate spiritual atom. Surprisingly, it is just a bubble of emptiness floating on the primordial matter, the Mulaprakruti, known as Koilon in Theosophy and Occult Chemistry. The rough equivalent of this primordial matter is the ether of Science.

    The Anu (UPA), the ultimate unit of physical matter, consists of nearly 14 million bubbles (ParamAnu)! These bubbles are arranged inside the Anu in spirillae running up in coils.

    Unwinding these coils would look like "an enormous circle of tiniest imaginable dots lying like pearls upon an invisible string." (Essentials of Occult Chemistry and Modern Science, by H.J.Arnikar).

    As we noted above, the Anu is indivisible. If we divide it, the Anu will vanish from the Physical plane and break up into the fundamental particles of the Astral plane.

    Science is yet to find the Anu, but it currently has a theory: The Theory of Superstrings, which holds that quarks are tiny strings with a characteristic length of 10^-35 meters.

    We started this topic with creating shapes out of breath. Not without reason.

    It was the divine breath that created the bubbles in Koilon, the Mulaprakruti. This divine breath appeared as waves and drove these bubbles into shapes and formed the different units of matter for each of the seven planes of nature.

    There will be a time when the divine breath will suck in the shapes it has created. Pralaya. End of the world. End of the Universe. And then another cycle. A new Brahma. Creation would start again...

    We humans can make our breathing more and more divine, which would improve our physical and spiritual well-being. Hindu yogis say that if we carefully listen to our deep breathing, we can hear the sound soham, so on inhaling and ham on exhaling. This term soham means 'I am That'...

    How did the scientists and the occultists obtain so much information about the invisible atom? We shall discuss it in the next topic.

    We must beware of falling into the fatally common error of supposing that what we see is all there is to see. -- Charles Webster Leadbeater

    Note: I have coined the term spiritual atom to refer to the ultimate atoms of astral and higher planes. The term spiritual is used because matter in the higher planes is animated and shaped by thoughts, emotions and feelings. Theosophy refers to the atoms of higher planes as the ultimate atoms of the related plane.

    ~~~ ! ~~~

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    Namaste Saidevo,

    The physical atom (strictly, that smallest particle which can not itself be divided) has been further divided by modern physics into smaller and smaller units, so that now it is difficult to say that anything physical could ever truly be described as “atomic” (i.e. indivisible).

    The spiritual “atom” can only be Brahman (the Paramatman), and Advaita Vedanta does not accept that this indivisible Atman can be ever be divided. So that any idea of a multitude of “spiritual building-blocks” (analogous to material particles) cannot be accepted.

    String Theory, however, comes close to truth which has long been intuitively grasped by Tantra (the spiritual science of spinning and weaving those strings).

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    Re: Spiritual Inquiries: 2. The Physical and the Spiritual Atom (Part 1 of 2)

    Quote Originally Posted by sarabhanga
    The spiritual “atom” can only be Brahman (the Paramatman), and Advaita Vedanta does not accept that this indivisible Atman can be ever be divided. So that any idea of a multitude of “spiritual building-blocks” (analogous to material particles) cannot be accepted.
    Perhaps the spiritual atom he is referring to is the "AkASa tanmAtra"? There is a confusion in many religions where the astral world is considered to be the spiritual world. Astral world is just another perishable world according to vedanta.

    This subtle elements or even finer building blocks will ultimately be composed of "Brahman".
    Guard your Dharma, Burn the Myth, Promote the Truth, Crush the superstition.

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    Re: Spiritual Inquiries: 2. The Physical and the Spiritual Atom (Part 1 of 2)

    Namaste.

    The term 'spiritual atom' is not used in Theosophy. I used it to convey the meaning of an atom that exists beyond the physical world. The term spirit is used loosely here, in the sense we call a ghost a spirit, and it does not denote either atman or Brahman. The idea is to highlight the fact that the worlds of such ghosts and other higher entities are all made up of atoms of their own plane.

    Each of the seven worlds has its own ultimate or permanent atom that consists of bubbles from koilon. The number of bubbles in each permanent atom of the planes is given below. The names in brackets are the commonly used older names.

    1. Divine World (Adi) - 1
    2. Monodic World (Anupadaka) - 49
    3. Spiritual World (Atmic) - 2,401 (49^2)
    4. Intutional World (Buddhic, Causal) - 117,649 (49^3)
    5. Mental World (Intellectual) - 5,764,801 (49^4)
    6. Astral World (Emotional, Kamaloka) - 282,475,249 (49^5)
    7. Physical World (Earth) - 13,841,287,201 (49^6)

    I am aware that matter and spirit are altogether different entities. The term spiritual atom is a misnomer. Maybe I should avoid it in a serious compilation. I stand corrected.

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