Key Takeaways
1. The Universe is a Light Illusion of God's Thinking.
Nor do we even consider the entire material electric universe to be the illusion which it is; there being no reality to it whatsoever.
Cosmic cinema. The material electric universe, with all its seeming substance and motion, is but a cosmic cinema, an illusion projected by the Creator's thinking. It is a light and sound-wave motion picture play of cause and effect, thrown upon the black screen of imaged space and time. This grand illusion, though appearing real to our senses, has no true existence or reality.
Mind's expression. God, the One Mind, knows His One Idea of Creation as a Whole. His thinking then divides this One Whole Idea into seeming parts, creating the illusion of motion and substance. Matter, motion, time, change, dimension, and substance are not real; they are merely the dynamic expression of God's timeless and still knowing Mind.
One Light exists. Ultimately, there is but One Light of knowing Mind, which is the Self of God, the Universal Self. This self-creating universe is the Mind-imagined body of God, a record of His thinking. We can know God, but we can only see His body, which is His Creation, built in His image, yet not Him.
2. God is Stillness; Creation is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange.
Rhythmic balanced interchange between all pairs of opposite expressions in Natural phenomena, and in human relations, is the consummate art of God’s universe of Light.
The Law of Balance. The fundamental law of Creation is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange, the inviolate principle ensuring the universe's continuity. God's omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence are centered in the consciousness of every man, yet few comprehend the simple underlying principle of Balance in all things. This law governs all transactions, from cosmic phenomena to human relations.
Stillness and motion. God, the Creator, is the Positive Principle of balanced stillness, the foundation of the spiritual universe. From this stillness springs the Negative Principle of unbalanced motion, which is the physical universe of electric octave waves. Motion merely seems, but stillness always is; the illusion of motion arises from stillness and returns to it, for there is naught but rest in the universe.
Equal giving. The entire principle of Creation lies in equal giving and regiving between all pairs of opposite expressions. The One Light is divided into two equal and opposite extensions, and all interchange between them must be equal. This rhythmic balanced interchange ensures that every action is balanced by an equal and opposite reaction, maintaining the universe's perfect equilibrium.
3. Senses Deceive: True Knowledge Comes from Within.
Man’s sense-seeing with his eyes binds him to the illusion of My dual thinking, for 1 but build illusion with My dual thinking for his sense-seeing.
Illusion of senses. Man's senses—seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling—are but one sense: feeling. They are electrical awareness of wave motion by other waves, limited to perceiving only a fraction of reality. These senses constantly deceive, presenting a universe of motion, change, and substance that is, in truth, an illusion.
Information vs. Knowledge. What man calls his objective mind is merely the seat of electric sensations, storing memory records in the brain. This "information" from observed effects is not knowledge. True knowledge is cosmic, belonging to the still Light of the positive principle, and cannot be acquired from without but must be "recollected" from within the consciousness of Self.
Rise above sensing. Man is still new, relying on sensation for actions and evidence. To gain true knowledge, he must rise above his sensing and decentrate to the One Light of his conscious awareness. Only by knowing the WHY of effect and its deceptions can man draw right conclusions and understand the universe for what it is, rather than what it seems to be.
4. The Sex Principle Governs All Creation as Opposed Forces.
Sex is the division of a balanced equilibrium condition into two equally unbalanced conditions which negate each other periodically for the purpose of repeating the two unbalanced conditions.
Dual desire force. Sex is the creative principle, the dual desire force in Mind for expressing its One Idea. It is not a thing, but a condition of a thing, dividing the one unconditioned Light into two seemingly conditioned lights. This division creates unbalanced conditions that violently desire to return to the oneness of balance from which they sprang.
Opposite conditioning. All creating things are paired as unbalanced, equal, and opposite sex mates. These are the father-mother lights, conditioning each other with sex unbalance.
- Male condition: Compression, high potential, gravitates inward.
- Female condition: Expansion, low potential, radiates outward.
Each sexed condition gives unbalance to the other, separating them to increase their opposition, then gives of itself to the other to void the unbalance.
Reproduction through voidance. Reproduction of dynamic sexed pairs does not come through their union, but from the voidance of their sex condition. Unbalanced opposites must first find voidance of unbalance and opposition, becoming their own opposites to acquire new unbalance for repetition. All twos must become voided in the One to again become two, ensuring continuous cycles of creation.
5. Gravity and Radiation are Two-Way Electric Expressions of Desire.
Gravitation pulls spirally inward from within to wind light waves into solids to center space. Radiation thrusts spirally outward to unwind dense solids into space to surround solids.
Electric desires. Electricity is the strain or tension set up by Mind's two opposing desires: for creative expression (concentrative thinking) and for rest from action (decentrative thinking). These desires manifest as two-way electric forces:
- Gravitation (father-light): Compresses light waves spirally inward, multiplying potential into dense solids, generating heat.
- Radiation (mother-light): Expands light waves spirally outward, dividing potential into tenuous vacuity, radiating heat into cold.
Each is an equal and opposite reaction of the other, passing through each other in endless cycles.
Universal heartbeat. This two-way radial universe of seeming motion is the product of these opposed electric conditioners. They interchange in sequential pulsations, passing from points of gravity to wave field boundaries and back again. This constitutes the universal heartbeat, manifesting eternal life and power in God's stillness through eternal repetitions of simulated life and power.
No attraction or repulsion. One of the great illusions is that matter attracts and repels matter. In truth, unbalanced conditions in matter seek balanced ones. Opposite poles get as far away from each other as they can, voiding their opposition by balancing in their fulcrum. Matter neither attracts nor repels; it is the desire of unbalanced conditions to find balance that causes motion.
6. All Motion Occurs in Cycles of Unfolding and Refolding.
All things come and go from My divided thinking.
Cyclic existence. All energy is expressed in wave cycles, a two-way electric journey from a compression point of rest to an expansion point of rest. This is the universal heartbeat, manifesting eternal life and power.
- Unfolding: The mother-light gives patterned bodies to idea, expanding it into the heavens.
- Refolding: The father-light refolds all unfolding idea back toward its seed, making it visible as matter.
This continuous process ensures that all creating things appear, disappear, and reappear in sequential cycles.
Life-death illusion. The life-death cycle of man is one wave in an electric current. Death is not an end but a return to rest in the Light for rebirth, a longer sleep for body replacement. Just as waves disappear into the ocean's calm only to reappear, so too do bodies emerge from a formless state into a formed one, in repeated cycles of appearance, disappearance, and reappearance.
Expanding universe. The universe breathes inward and outward, just as all things in nature do. The universal expansion, evidenced by nebulae rushing away, is the "outbreathing" or "death" half of its cycle. This will be balanced by a "compression" or "life" half, where nebulae will rush toward each other. For every drop of water discharged by "radiant energy," "gravitation energy" charges it with falling waters, maintaining perfect balance.
7. Weight is a Measure of Unbalance, Not a Fixed Property.
Weight is a measure of unbalance.
Matter out of place. Weight is not a fixed property of matter but a measure of unbalance, indicating the intensity of desire of any mass to find its proper potential position. A mass is weightless when it is in its balanced field, at its place of birth. When removed from this center, it becomes unbalanced and acquires weight.
Electric potential. Weight and electric potential are one and the same, expressing the force exerted by the two electric opposites of charge and discharge.
- A body floating in its balanced field has no measurable weight.
- A dead battery has no measurable electric potential.
The potential of all orbits of matter in space is equal to the potential of the mass floating in it.
Curved gravity. The earth, for example, is weightless in its equatorial plane, being in perfect balance with the universe. Weight only arises when matter is extended from a plane of equal pressure. The curvature of gravity, caused by light lenses, makes objects fall radially toward the earth's center, increasing their potential as they descend due to the multiplication of pressures.
8. The Cube-Sphere is the Fundamental Form of All Matter.
The cube and the sphere are the two opposites of form from which all forms of all things are born.
Father-mother forms. The cube and the sphere are the only forms ever created, being the father-mother of all forms. They manifest the cosmic principle of balance, representing two opposite phases of the same thing.
- Sphere: The cube compressed to incandescence, the clay of earths, light of suns, womb of form.
- Cube: The sphere extended to black coldness, the heavens, tomb of form.
All forms are born in the direction of coldness and voided in the direction of incandescence, an eternal interchange between father-light (spheres) and mother-light (cubes).
Crystal shapes. Every form in Nature is either becoming a cube or a sphere, or is a section of either one. Complex bodies are multiples of spheres of matter surrounded by multiples of cubes of space in multiples of wave fields. All crystal shapes, for instance, are sections of cubes, their forms determined by their positions within their wave field.
Wave field boundaries. The cubes of space act as wave fields, bounding all interchanging motion. Motion cannot pass through these planes of zero curvature but is reflected symmetrically, creating the illusion of light "traveling" at 186,400 miles per second. These fields insulate motion within them, ensuring that every action is repeated everywhere through countless mirror planes and lenses of light.
9. The Universe Operates on a Universal Octave and Voiding Principle.
Every action is voided as it occurs, is repeated as it is voided, and recorded as it is repeated.
Universal heartbeat. The universe's heartbeat spirals from zero of rest to its maximum and back to zero in four pairs of opposite actions and reactions, forming the universal spiral octave wave. This wave, expressed in eight tones (four pairs of opposites), governs all motion, from sound waves to electric currents and the elements of matter.
The Voiding Principle. This is a zero universe of seeming mechanical motion. Every action begins with zero, counts up to nine (the wave field number, representing the eight corners of the cube centered by the zero of gravity in the sphere), and ends/begins again at zero. Zero multiplied or divided, added or subtracted, extended or retracted, always results in zero, creating the illusion of reality that never truly is.
Inert gases as records. The inert gases (helium, neon, krypton, argon, xenon, niton, etc.) are cosmic elements that constitute the universe's recording system. They fill all space, insulating states of motion and storing every thought and action as seed-extensions for repetition. These gases represent minimum motion in the wave, acting as the seeds of the octaves of matter, ensuring that nothing disappears without its record for reappearance.
10. Man's Purpose: To Evolve from Sensation to Cosmic Knowing.
Man’s whole reason for being is to gradually pass through his millions of years of physical sensing into his ultimate goal of spiritual knowing.
Ascent of man. Man progresses in cycles, gradually exalting into higher beings through increasing awareness of the Light within. His journey is an ascent from the dark jungle of body-sensation to the mountain top of his awakening soul, where he finds his Self, which IS the Light. This transformation is continuous, leading to greater comprehension of universal law.
Cosmic consciousness. The ultimate goal for all mankind is cosmic consciousness, a complete severance of consciousness from sensation. This state, characterized by timeless, blinding flashes of omniscience, allows man to be totally aware of the Light of God centering him. While dangerous in its completeness, it can be gradually attained through intense conscious awareness and companionship with God.
Immortality and individuality. Man's body is but motion, an instrument for his use, composed of borrowed elements. His true Self, Soul, or Person, is immortal and never disappears. Individuality constantly changes to fit the evolving concept of the immortal Self. As man becomes fully aware of God in him, his individuality merges into the Universal Self, fulfilling his purpose on this planet and finding eternal life in the Light.
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Review Summary
The Secret of Light receives mostly positive reviews, with readers praising its profound exploration of reality, consciousness, and the nature of existence. Many find it transformative, blending metaphysics, physics, and spirituality. Reviewers appreciate Russell's vision of a universe governed by rhythmic balance and light as the fundamental essence. Some readers note the book's complexity and density, requiring patience to engage with its ideas. A few critics find it confusing or overly esoteric. Overall, the book is seen as thought-provoking and inspirational.
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