CHAPTER I
What Is Atomic Energy?
I In Answering this question let it be ever remembered that God is love, and that this universe is founded upon love. Every action and its reaction in Nature must be in balance with each other in order to carry out the purposeful intent of the Creator.
Love expressed by action, means balanced fulfillment of its own law of equal giving and regiving. That is the principle upon which this purposeful universe is founded. That which purposefully fulfills the law is GOOD. It will endure and be eternally repeated with more of that which man calls GOOD. Every action of man, likewise, which is founded upon love is a fulfillment of the law, and is GOOD—and will be eternally repeated.
Our action in answering this momentous question is founded upon love for the good of man. If it is purposeful it will bring GOOD into the world for endless repetition, which is Nature's way of working. If it is not balanced and orderly in Nature's way of normal growth of her Idea, then that moment of its departure from the GOOD will bring about its own dissolution. That is also Nature's way of dissolving that which is unrhythmic and purposeless in the fulfilling of her One Law.
What is atomic energy? What is this great power which is now to be used for the betterment of life? That is the question which the whole world wants to know. It wants to know because there is great fear in the heart of man that it should not be used, but he does not know why. The only way he can know WHY radioactivity should not be used is to know WHAT radioactivity IS—and what it will DO.
We will briefly state what it is and what it can do in one short paragraph. We will then expand this one paragraph into this
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whole book, for the purpose of giving you full comprehension of its meaning. When you read that one paragraph, which now follows, bear in mind the fact that the supreme effort of humanity is to learn how to live long lives in full strength, and repeat them down through endless centuries.

Radiation is the normal death principle. Every thing in Nature dies normally by slowly radiating its heat. Radioactivity is the explosively quick death principle. Radioactivity is man's discovery of how the human race can die quickly, and not be able to propagate its kind for many long centuries.

There is your complete answer in a few words. MULTIPLIED DEATH is the new boon which this age of man believes he is giving to the furtherance of life. Naturally you do not understand it, but instinct and intuition in you are strong enough to make you fear it. The reason you do not understand it is because you are not yet aware of what makes things live and what makes them die.
The entire answer to this supreme question lies in knowing exactly WHAT MAKES BODIES LIVE and WHAT MAKES BODIES DIE. This cannot be briefly told. In telling it we must tell you how God constructs and dissolves matter electrically. If answered briefly you would not comprehend it. The greatest minds among men have been trying to discover this life principle for centuries. When we do fully answer it for you and all mankind, you will also fully comprehend your universe and all of its mysteries. The telling must be a step by step process, however, and must keep in mind the purpose of this book, which is to dynamically explain in convincing language, and undebatable postulates, that the price man will pay for the use of atomic energy is his own inevitable extinction. Nature has a tremendously balanced rhythmic normalcy in her orderly processes of creation. It is all of it good for man and animal alike when they observe that normalcy. When they defy it, or violate it through ignorance of it, Nature does not punish them for that violation. Ignorance punishes them. The discovery

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of atomic energy as a means of obtaining greater heat than an orderly and normal way suitable to environment, is as much a breach of Nature's orderly processes as it would be if man violated the law of gravity by discovering that he could get to the bottom of the canyon in a much quicker way than the normal way. No man would do that because he knows better. Atomic energy for industry is as great a violation of Nature's way as a defiance of gravity would be. And it is as sure death for the violator of one as of the other.
We know that man is not intentionally defying God's law. There is but one other reason why he is doing it, which is that he does not know what he is doing. The law works just as irrevocably, and inevitably, however, against him who defies it, as it does for the one who does not know. Man admittedly does not know what he is doing. For long ages he has sought for the life principle in germ or ultimate unit of matter. He has never found it there and never will. Likewise, he has sought for the principle of death. This he has now found, but does not know it.
Do you know WHY you live and HOW you keep alive? Do you know WHY you die and HOW you die? Do you know "where you go when you die, or what happens to your identity after death?" No, you do not yet know these things. Mankind has not yet unfolded far enough spiritually, to know of his eternal Identity, or to know that he cannot die. The complete argument of this story is based upon the fact that mankind does not know what either life or death is, nor that the plan that he is now making is assisting Nature in her death process by helping you to die instead of to live. That plan is contrary to Nature's law of love. We shall tell you all you have wondered about regarding life, death and immortality, so that you will comprehend the magnitude of the crime of man against man, which man has now decided to perpetrate. Man does not yet know his universe, nor how it became, nor how it disappears into space and reappears. There is a universal process in Creation and a motivating force for the energy which creates it. That same process applies as equally to the creation of "life," and its disappearance in "death," in your body as it does

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to the whole universe. Do you know what that process is? Do you know what your universe is, and God's relation to IT—and to YOU? Do you not think you could live more powerfully and wisely if you did know these things? We feel certain that when statesmen and leaders in industry know these things they will know they cannot use the death principle to aid life.
Every forthcoming page of this book will deal with the principle of life and death of the body of man, and of God's body—the universe of motion. It will, likewise, deal with the immortality of man and of his Mind-control over his orderly and normal life and death processes. It will also clearly explain that long asked question: "Where do I go when I die?"
During this explanation of the two ways of life and death, which will be clearly set forth herein, you cannot fail to see that man's illegitimate use of DEATH to benefit life will but multiply death upon this planet until not one grass blade will be left upon it. These statements present a dread picture. They seem unbelievable and impossible. It is our responsibility to prove to you that they are not only possible, but inevitable. The only way we can possibly do that is to now make those things known about life, death and immortality, which have never yet been known.
I I The real fallacy of nuclear fission for industry is that these so-called deadly poisonous gases from the radioactive elements in reactors, and in the waste products, which are encased in concrete and buried in the sea to protect human life from their admitted danger, are not poisons in their own environment underground, where they are serving a necessary purpose of helping to make it possible for organic life to live upon this planet. Man makes them poisonous by removing them from their purposeful environment to place them in an abnormal environment unsuited to their normal environment. Animal and vegetable life are dependent upon the upper few feet of the earth's crust to live. The soil must have humus, nitrogen, carbonic gas, oxygen and water. These so-called deadly radioactive poisons are preparing the soil for oxygen dependent

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life to live by causing countless billions of microscopic explosions in the rock formations underground to release water and other necessities for human life and vegetation. That is all GOOD. In their proper place in Nature they are fulfilling their necessary useful purposes. They are vitally necessary where they are. They are of benefit to man when underground or distributed in rocks. It is only when we dig them out from under the ground and condense tons of harmless rock to ounces of deadly free metal, such as uranium piles, that we make the earth uninhabitable for man.
Think also of the hundreds of millions of years Nature has to work to decay solid rock and metal planets sufficiently to create enough decayed surface, and an atmosphere, for organic life to become possible. Mercury has no atmosphere, nor even a grass blade. Its rock surface is so hot that lead would melt there. Venus is also hot rock but a soil has begun there, and water is probably there now, but only as steam vapor, for the temperature on Venus is higher than boiling point. Our earth has had a soil and atmosphere sufficient for simple forms of life, ever since it reached its seventy or eighty million mile mark from the sun. The radioactive metals made that possible. They belong underground just as dead animal bodies belong underground. Radioactive metals are dead and dying bodies. That is what is not yet known of them. There are twenty-two of them which are killer metals if we take them away from their rock environment underground in Nature and make them a part of man's environment above ground.
There are many metals which will not hurt you, such as iron, copper, gold, silver and many others. This we will clarify in the next chapter in relation to Fig. 5. You can live among thousands of living men without being poisoned, but you cannot live upon the breath of living men without dying from their poison. You cannot in fact, live upon your own outbreathings. You would soon die from your own poison. Digging dead and dying metals from underground where their outbreathing is giving fertile soil for organic life, is like digging dead animals from where they are being transformed into living vegetable and animal life. Every

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farmer must put death under his ground in order to reap life above it. The Curies procured a few grams of radium from many tons of earth.
Those few grams of dead metals would spread their quick death to every cell of your body if you put them in your pocket, but they would not harm you in the slightest if you slept upon the ground above them. The radioactive metals are giving out their quick death to the rocks in which they are embedded for the purpose of expanding the rocks into the soil and water which mothers life. It should not be dug up from the ground to expand human beings into quick death. If you would have a good example of their purpose in life, which is beneficial to humanity, witness the great bare rock mountains of the west which are only a few million years old. Compare them with soil covered, tree covered, very much older eastern mountains, such as the Blue Ridge, White Mountains and Catskills where the soil is deep above them and waterfalls and brooks are abundant.
Water and soil are decayed and dying rock. They are, literally, dead rocks. Out of death in Nature life springs, and when life above ground is dead it gives new life to the death of earth. These are the things which mankind must know. It knows too little about life and death, and how each one interchanges with the other to make death live and make life die. This is so fundamental a part of the process of Nature that you would be very much more interested in her whole processes if you would but give more thought to this one. Take note, for example, that the moment a peach in the dish on your table becomes over ripe you will see fruit flies hovering over it. They were born from it, and other less complex life forms were born from it before that, just as millions of microbes and other primitive life forms are born in your living body, and more complex ones will be born from your dead body. You do not realize that all of your body is not wholly alive all the time. Part of you is always dead or dying, up to your maturity. After that all of them are slowly dying. The millions of microbes which await more full life in you are harmless to you while you can charge your body sufficiently to insulate your life from their death. About two pounds of your body dies

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every day, and the millions of dead bodies which are in that two pounds would kill your live body if you took them back into your metabolism again. Have you ever thought of that? Great cities must have great sanitation departments to guard against just that.
Have you ever thought that your every inbreath charges you with power to live, and every outbreath is death? That means that you are perpetually living and dying thirty or forty times a minute. More amazing still—if you will but give deep thought to it—is the fact that whatever lives in you is not a poison to you, but whatever of your own body which does not live will poison you. You breathe in living oxygen which comes to you from the earth and its foliage. It dies in you and you breathe out a deadly poison known as carbon dioxide. That carbon dioxide is not poison to the ground, however. It is food to the ground. The earth breathes in that food and breathes it out as oxygen, which is poison to it but life to you. Have you ever thought of that? Have you ever thought that the water you drink, the air you breathe, and the food you eat, comes from the dead and decaying body of this planet, and that every living body which dies and is returned to the earth, recharges the earth with renewed life? You probably have never given this a thought. We ask you to do so now, in order that you will more fully understand this next step in your understanding of life, death and immortality, in addition to beginning to know your universe.
This is your next step. We have pictured your simultaneously livingdying body. You must now know that all bodies in all the universe are the same in all respects, whether they are electrons, cells, rocks, metals, trees, men, planets or suns. All of them live and die in the same manner. All breathe in the charging breath of life and breathe out the discharging breath of death. All of them compress heat and polarize when they breathe in, and expand, cool and depolarize when they breathe out.
Why is this? It is because all bodies are made of—and by—electric waves, and every characteristic of the electric current is a life and death alternation. The entirety of Creation lives and dies in sequences. With this thought in mind consider the body of this earth in the same way that you would consider your own

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FIG. 3. JUPITER and MARS.

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FIG. 4. SATURN.
body. Parts of the earth's body are dead, and other parts are dying, just as parts of your body are dead and others are dying. Just as the slight decay of an over ripe peach will not hurt you, while a fully decayed one might kill you, so, likewise, the "over ripe" chemical elements of the earth, which are not too far from carbon will not hurt you, while the farther they are beyond carbon the more deadly they become, and the more impossible it is to guard yourself from their quick death. See Fig. 5. This is the lesson of life and death which you must first know. Step by step you will know its whole process. You will then be ready to know "where you go after you die," and fully comprehend it.
Now think of the life and death of a planet as you would think of the life and death of your own body. You fully know that your own body grows to maturity—say at forty—when it is more virile than at any other age. That means that every cell in your body is more virile than that same cell could be at sixty, or eighty. At forty your body cells are true spheres and small, fast turning rings. At sixty the cells have become very much flattened at their poles as our earth is doing, and their surfaces are beginning to wrinkle with many rings, like Jupiter, just as an old face wrinkles with many lines. At eighty rings are actually thrown off at equa-

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tors, like the rings of Saturn. These rings are dead cells of Saturn's still living body. An old man of ninety is still living but all of his cells are dying faster than he can replace them. This is an important fact for you to understand. Your car battery will help you comprehend the whole principle of the long slow years of dying. When it is charging while you are running it, that shows that its power to generate life is greater than its power to degenerate by discharge. The old age of anything, whether man, electron or planet, means that the galvanometer needle of its life current is showing more discharge than charge, even though it is charging some.
We herein print pictures of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn to illustrate three such stages of slow dying. They are all of them generating life from the pressures of the sun, but they are dying faster than they can live. See Figs. 3 and 4.
The earth is a dying cell thrown off from the sun. It cannot maintain its spherical form. It is flattening at the poles and cannot keep in balance with its system by remaining on the plane of the sun's equator. It is in the very early stages of preparing to throw off more rings such as its first one which has wound up to become a moon. The growth of deserts around its equator is the first early stage of that period. Mars has grown very much older. It still has water but oxygen dependent life is nearing its end upon it. Deserts take up a large area of it and it is more oblate than the earth.
For a good example of old age witness the wrinkled, expanded, oblate body of Jupiter. It has thrown off many rings, and is preparing to throw off more. Nature always throws off its rings in series of four. Near the surface of Jupiter you will see one series which have wound up into moons. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are the last series thrown off by our sun. Jupiter has expanded to probably three or four times its original size, and is whirling itself to its centrifugal death with ever increasing acceleration. In the still more oblate Saturn you see three of its next series of rings before they have wound up around a newly established gravitative center. This study of the way planets and suns die will clearly illustrate to you how your body dies.

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The above thoughts have been given you for the express purpose of building up in you a full comprehension that man is now attempting to build an environment of death upon the surface of this planet, which has for so many aeons been trying to build up an environment for life. He is creating an abnormal environment within which animal and vegetable life cannot possibly live. We desire to show you why radioactive fission, in large quantities, and oxygen cannot co-exist. These elements are fully alive while in their own environment. By taking them out from that environment they become corpses of themselves. To spread these huge ten ton reactor corpses throughout the world, and the countless billions of microscopic ones, so that they are in every breath we breathe, every bit of food we eat and in the water we drink, will eventually be like forcing you to again breathe in a gradually increasing percentage of your own dead breath.
I I I From now on we must talk very much about FLAME, in respect to radioactivity and death. Flame is the ultimate of Creation. It is both maximum life and maximum death. Its radiation will beget life but its body will consume it. The maturity of all Creation itself is expressed in flaming suns. Suns are incandescent carbon. Carbon is frozen flame. Flame is one point of pressure beyond the maximum compression which a body will stand. Flame is the effect of the explosion which releases the compression at that ultimate point. Compression heats. Flame is maximum heat. Life cannot live without heat. It is created by heat and must have it. Radiation gives you that heat. It is good for you. It warms you to a normalcy of temperature. It expands your body cells in perfect attunement with their compression sequences. It synchronizes with the rhythms of your breathings and your pulse beat. Radioactivity gives you more heat than you can stand. It sends millions of alpha ray bullets into your body which accumulate there all of your life and raise your temperature, readjusting your entire metabolism until your body cells explode from their accumulated heat and expand beyond their normalcy. The slightest change in your heat abnormalcy gives you a fever. A fever

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means too much heat. It means expanded body cells and red blood corpuscles. Even too much heat from the sun will do that. You cannot expose yourself to its life giving rays too long else they become death giving rays. This idea you must also give much thought to, for your environment demands a proper amount of heat, which will become impossible when your present normal environment is made abnormal by countless billions of alpha and niton rays, which will bombard you constantly and show their effects in leukemia, bone cancer, deformed children and many other effects until you die by slow expansion. A "lethal dose" of radium gases will quicken that expansion.
All things die from heat expansion. That is the only way any body can die, whether it is your body, or the sun's body. All things in Nature die normally by slow expansion. Radioactivity is multiplied expansion, which is caused by multiplied compression. It helps man die from explosively quick expansion. Flame is caused by maximum compression. Flame is the ultimate consumer of all bodies. If you will but bear this fact in mind as we proceed you will more readily comprehend WHY and HOW this planet will soon become a barren waste if radioactivity is widely used. You will also comprehend WHY and HOW man can explode this planet into millions of fragments, or make it become a partially exploding body, which we call a nova in the heavens.
Do not for a moment think that planets and suns cannot explode. They are continually exploding. There are thousands of novas in the heavens and space is filled with countless millions of fragments of exploded planets, which we call asteroids and meteorites. These are irregular shaped lumps. Nature does not create her forms in lumps. She creates only rings and spheres which she crystallizes into geometric forms, but they must first be rings and spheres. The one amazing thing about all matter, which is not known today, is that all matter wants to explode, it wants to die. To live, is an effort. To die is effortless. Matter is not held together from within by the attraction of gravity, as generally supposed, it is compressed together by a force exerted from the outside toward its center. Life is hard to maintain, for that reason, and for the

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same reason it is easy to die because it wants to die. You must understand this fact if you wish to comprehend how radioactivity kills. It is against all modern scientific belief, because the general belief is that a material nucleus holds the atom together. Nature does not work that way. Atoms do not have nuclei. Nature creates her atoms the same way that you would compress air into a tire. It is hard work. You pump it in from the outside toward its middle. Then you put a cap on it to imprison it. If it is not sealed and imprisoned it would escape without effort by you. It does not need help to expand. It only needs help to be compressed.
Matter is an abnormality. The normality of this universe is a condition of rest—an equilibrium. Matter is not an equilibrium. It is a created condition which divides a resistant equilibrium. That division results in tremendous tensions. Tensions are not normal to the universal equilibrium. Tensions have within them a great desire for relief from tension. Decay, death, discharge, explosions and flame give matter that relief from tensions which it desires. Bear this fact in mind. Remember that the first desire of all Creation is Mind-expression by division of the universal equilibrium. Remember also that the desire to again return to the normal universal equilibrium is equally intensive. To divide an equilibrium requires work. To return to the normality of the universal equilibrium does not require work. Bear in mind, then, that it is hard to live but easy to die. Radioactivity is making it harder for bodies to live by releasing the tensions which makes them die.
Later in this book you will find that every atom is exactly like your tire. It is an electrically compressed ring with a hole in it. See Fig. 41. Nature has to seal her compressed rings to imprison that compression, just as you do, but the cap she uses to seal them is the eternal cold of space which encases every one of them with a frozen crust. That keeps the heat sealed inside, as it does to our earth. It seems strange to speak of the frozen crust of the sun, but it is frozen, nevertheless, otherwise the sun would explode.
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of space, or carbon in an octave, or a loop of force in an electric current. All atomic rings collide to unite four pairs of them into one sphere. See Fig. 29. This you will understand later in detail, but an understanding of the essence of it now will help you to comprehend the quick death principle by means of which radioactivity lets imprisoned matter escape suddenly, just as a spark lets imprisoned dynamite escape suddenly.
The special reason you should begin to understand the essence of it now is because it is against all scientific tradition and concept. It will be proven to you all through this book, however, for our whole case rests upon it. If present day belief is right in its concept that the atom is held together from the inside, then we have no case, and these writings are worthless. If we are right in our knowledge that all matter is a powder keg which is intensely desirous of being released from its forced imprisonment, and needs only the right kind of match to explode it, you can then see that radioactive fission is that match, and these writings are priceless saviours of the race.
It only stands to reason, therefore, that if every cell in your body wants to explode, and that radioactivity releases millions upon millions of deadly niton and alpha "matches" in our atmosphere, which will help your body cells to explode, and you breathe in enough of them, you could no more continue to live than your tire could hold its air if you open its valve. This actually happened in a laboratory where some radioactive gas escaped and a man breathed it in. It was said of him that he had a lethal dose and could not live. Of course he could not live, nor can the whole human race and the earth's vegetation live when microscopic strontium, barium, radium and plutonium "matches" by the millions are in all the water you drink, all the food you eat, and in every breath you take. Some of your cells will constantly explode. Strontium will give you bone cancer and make you breed terribly abnormal children. Radium and plutonium will kill you by eating your red blood cells and causing leukemia victims by the millions. We will give you the detailed reasons for this as we proceed, but we do not need to tell you what cyanide of potassium will do to you, for you know. Nor do we need to

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tell you what chlorine, the most deadly gas which laboratories fear, will do to you, for you know. What then can plutonium rays do to you? Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, a noted authority, tells us that they are a million times more deadly than chlorine gas, which every laboratory dreads. Also, what can it do to the planet? Its rays are said to endure for 20,000 years. It is quite possible that the earth could remain barren that long, or very much longer. Organic life would have to "evolve" again, from its beginning.
That could really happen if thousands of reactors were scattered all over the world, for each reactor has a uranium pile of ten tons. That means that thousands of Frankensteins would be in our midst against which we are helpless. We could not even approach them to destroy them. Naturally that could not happen, for mankind would discover his great error long before the country could be dotted with plants, but it is more than probable that enough would be constructed, and their shields become as dangerous as they themselves are, to cause wholesale migrations to far northern latitudes for very survival. Great cities would become deserted and tens of millions would die from polluted food, water and air. The primeval life which would necessarily become imperative for the small number of survivors in the then temperate climate of the north and south poles, would set civilization back for many thousands of years, for life would be utterly impossible within a thousand miles of naked reactor plutonium piles.
One of the greatest errors in reactor construction is the use of aluminum tubes for uranium containers. Aluminum would become charged with radioactive death very quickly in comparison with silver, gold or any other metal on the blue side of the spectrum. Steel is on the red side, but its density is so much greater than aluminum that it is a better metal than aluminum for that purpose. Nickel would be better than steel, for nickel is on the blue side. The idea of constructing shields of any material at all, for protection against uranium and plutonium is only a temporary expedient. The time will come when the shields will be as dangerous as the cores. It is impossible to be otherwise. The time element may be long, but when that time comes, the greatest mi-

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gration history has ever known will take place, and its road will be paved with millions of dead, largely from leukemia which will rapidly increase until it becomes a scourge.
The element of surprise which could delay the discovery of the great danger, and thus allow more plutonium piles to come into existence, is the fact that scientists are looking near the ground for fall-out dangers and other radioactive menaces. The greatest radioactive dangers are accumulating from eight to twelve miles up. This seems to be ignored. The upper atmosphere is already charged with death dealing radioactivity for which it has not yet sent us its bill. It is slowly coming, however, and we will have to pay for it for another century, even if atomic energy plans ceased today. That is why it is possible to have many reactors in use before discovering it is too late to stop building them. It would be impossible to destroy them for they could not be approached. Plutonium and uranium piles cannot be destroyed in any other way than by redistributing them the way Nature does. As that is utterly impossible, the only recourse left to man is to flee from them and let the centuries renormalize the earth made barren by man.
Let us quote Britain's Manchester Guardian Weekly of May, 1956, in relation to the heavy price we will soon pay from the upper atmosphere fall-out to earth: "Since records have been kept the amount of radiostrontium which has fallen out on Britain has multiplied six times. In 1948 radioactivity, to roughly two-thousandths of a gram of radium, had fallen out on each square mile of countryside. Since then the rate of deposition has increased, and now the equivalent of nearly sixthousandths of a gram of radium are settling each year. And there is plenty more of it to come. . . . The concentration of radioactivity eight miles up is some 200 times greater than it is at ground level. Between 10 per cent and 20 per cent of this is thought to settle upon the earth each year."
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them to perform the beneficial service intended of them. They are all good in their place, in fact they help to create the very water you drink and make humus for the soil, which gives you food. God's whole plan is good. When man upsets that plan he makes for himself that which he calls "bad."
Let us give you an example of our meaning. It is good and healthful for you to sit upon a great granite boulder with the sun shining warmly upon you. All of its radiations are good, for they are in normal balance with the pulsation frequencies of every cell in your body. Now if you "bombard" that 100 ton boulder and take it all apart, you will obtain fourteen ounces of uranium and two pounds of thorium. If you then sit upon that you will soon die from the explosions caused in your body cells. You can also procure other metals which will not hurt you from that boulder. You can obtain 1,000 pounds of titanium, 180 pounds of manganese, 70 pounds of chromium, 40 pounds of nickel, 10 pounds of tungsten, 5 tons of iron and 8 tons of aluminum. The reason WHY these tons of metals will not hurt you, and WHY the few ounces of thorium and uranium WILL hurt you, is the reason why it is now necessary to know the relation of LIFE and DEATH of organic bodies, to the elements of matter of which they are composed.
For this reason we again repeat the great simple basic fact that all death is caused by expansion, and all life is caused by compression. We also repeat the as yet unknown fact that life deeply desires to live, but has to work hard to keep sufficiently charged to maintain life, while death can fulfill its desire to die without effort. To charge a body with life takes time and much effort, but a discharge can be timeless and without effort. The flash of a short circuit is not only a good example of this fact but is a demonstration of its proof. If you will but submit this new thought to your reasoning you will see the naturalness, and significance of it. Death means rest, or cessation of motion. Sound is motion created with an effort, but it ceases without effort. It is an effort for you to arise and work, but it is no effort for you to cease working and rest. It is an effort to heat a rod of iron but the rod will cool without effort. You must, therefore, realize that

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all things will die normally and naturally without help. That is what radiation is. Multiplied expansion means helping matter to expand quickly, and that is what radioactivity is. The use of nuclear fission, therefore, vastly multiplies the difficulty of living things to keep alive, by vastly aiding them to die.
The mystery which we will clarify in this book is to tell how man can be master of life through knowledge, instead of letting death master him through ignorance. The first essential in knowing how to gain this control is to first realize the profundity of the basic facts above stated, and relegate all cause of normal death to normal expansion, and all quick death to abnormal expansion. Add other details to this afterward. Do not say that he died of arsenic poisoning, for there is no poison in the purposeful things of Nature, which must fulfill their purposes. He died of abnormal expansion due to contacting a higher voltage electric current than his body could stand. That was the cause of his death. It was radioactive electrocution, not poisoning.
This example will apply to all radioactive effects which we shall describe herein. The lethal dose of radioactive emanation which killed the laboratory worker heretofore mentioned, was not a poison, nor was it a chemical death. He died by electrocution, slow electrocution which consumed two weeks of time to slowly expand enough to kill. As our last word, before taking the next simple step in our clarification, let us remind you that this universe of motion is entirely electrical. Every effect of any nature, whatsoever, is basically electric. Whatever happens in any way stems from the electric current. To know just one wave unit of the electric current is to know all there is of the construction of matter, or the cause of any effect of motion, whatsoever.
We tell our students constantly that the secret of Creation lies in the octave wave, therefore, know the wave. We, likewise, tell our students who are doctors, or chemists, lawyers, metallurgists, astronomers or inventors, that they must first be electricians. We, likewise, say the same thing to the humanist, poet or missionary. First be an electrician. Know the electric current if you wish to control people, matter, or your destiny. The chemist and musician make use of the same octave tonal scale, and the clergyman

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who knows its rhythms is vastly more fitted to balance human problems. We say to all men in all professions, and all walks of life, from the statesman to him who wields a hoe: "If you would know your universe of motion, your relation to it and your control over it, first thoroughly know just one cycle of an electric current and the still fulcrum from which it has its being."
THE SUPREME MYSTERY OF LIFE AND DEATH
We shall now write for you what seems like an insoluble paradox, or an impossibility of Nature, but it is a fundamental, nevertheless. Please carve it indelibly upon your consciousness now, and await its gradual comprehension as other unknown fundamentals of Nature will be gradually revealed to you herein. It is as follows:

All material bodies, organic and inorganic, live and grow by increasingly fast motion. They also die and decay by increasingly fast motion.

This eternal fact of Nature has always stared man in the face very conspicuously, without having been seen. Even so great a thinker and observer as Albert Einstein passed it by when he wrote his equation of 1905, which states that fast motion multiplies electric potential. That fact of Nature is true, but as it is equally true that fast motion divides potential his whole equation is invalid as a law, for a half truth which voids itself cannot become an eternal law.
It is not to be wondered at that this fact of Nature escaped observation by the senses, for man is so accustomed to the fact that effects disappear through slow motion, and that death is consummated by cessation of motion. The senses are not to be trusted, however. When you fully understand the above postulate you will also understand the incredible death speed of plutonium radiations which are approximately 170,000 miles per second.
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create living bodies of matter. In the creation of matter the generoactive, polarizing, centripetal speed which multiplies to create solids, begins with zero at the first octave and reaches its maximum generoactive speed of 186,400 miles per second at carbon, which is the maturity of Creation. This is the increasingly fast speed which multiplies potential. It is centripetal. From there it begins its radioactive, depolarizing, centrifugal speed at zero and reaches 186,400 miles per second, just beyond plutonium at the amplitude point of the 9th octave wave. This is the increasingly fast speed which divides potential to assist matter to die. It is, centrifugal. Up to nearly that point the word fusion has taken the place of combustion, but beyond it the speed of death is so great that the word fission has been coined to meet it. The speed of flame by fission causes one short circuit in about one hundred millionth of a second. Its actual speed could be computed by dividing the speed of light into the time it takes for one wave frequency.
Thus we end another lesson in unfolding your comprehension to the meaning of multiplied death before again opening new doors for still greater comprehension of the true nature of our universe.
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SUMMARY New thinking is very difficult. We will make it easier to comprehend by telling it simply and in easy stages. As a first step in this direction you must know that life in a man's body is exactly the same as life in your car battery. As long as its electrical charge exceeds its discharge it lives and grows with increasing vitality. When its discharge exceeds its charge it loses its vitality and slowly dies. This is as true of a flower as of a man, or atom, or flaming sun. We again repeat the fact that all things live and grow because of their ability to generate enough heat to charge their bodies with their normal voltage, and no more. Each living body has a normal temperature and pulsation frequency which must be constant in order to live and grow. Death begins with the slightest

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upset of that normalcy. Even one degree of extra heat beyond 98.6 will upset the entire metabolism of man. That one degree of fever is one fifth of his way to death. That is equally true of everything. Our planet already has one degree of fever, caused by radioactivity. That one degree has already upset the earth's metabolism enough to cause many fishes in the seas to migrate into colder waters. It is causing ice caps and glaciers to melt. Ten more degrees of radioactive fever will make of this planet a barren waste.
All things which die and decay do so because of their inability to continue the electric strain of compression sufficiently to preserve their normalcy. All living bodies compress. All dying bodies expand. This should not be a difficult first lesson upon life and death, for compression and expansion are the only two effects of motion and force in all this universe. Also, all things in it are eternally compressing and expanding in alternate sequences, forever. Your heart beat, your breathing, and the pulsations of every cell in your body are continually compressing and expanding in orderly ordained normal rhythms, each unit having its own normalcy of rhythmic frequencies, and each one being not only in balance with the whole, but also in balance with its normal environment.
Consider a living man, in his normal environment of temperatures and pressures, being subjected to an electric pulsation frequency of a 10,000 volt current. That tremendous abnormalcy expands every cell in his body so suddenly that they violently explode. All expanding bodies are always exploding slowly, over long periods of time. We do not use that word for slow expansion, however. We do not say that a decaying tree, which takes fifty years to go back into the ground, is exploding. If you burn it, however, the flame is a series of quick explosions which will do in two hours what Nature intended should take fifty years.
Consider your car battery in the same way. If small wires are used the charge in your battery explodes slowly. You can drive hundreds of miles because of those slow gradual explosions which gradually discharge your battery. If, however, you connect both poles with a large wire and touch the ends together you discharge

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the whole battery instantly. A brilliant flash of intensely hot flame appears from an environment which was cold. That is what radioactivity is. It multiplies the frequencies of slow, invisible radiation to fast visible radioactive fusion.
If, for another example, you wind a tungsten wire with silk, then pass a hundred thousand volt current through it in a vacuum tube, you will see a brilliant white flash of intensely white hot light which lasts for only about one millionth of a second. That light is so hot that it instantly explodes the tungsten. Nothing but helium gas remains in the tube. Also those radioactively multiplied voltage frequencies are so quick that the silk thread has not been even singed.
Fix in your mind the primary fact that flame and radioactivity are one. Flame is quick death always. Coal dies slowly by slow loss of heat while in the ground. It takes thousands of years to radiate itself away, while flame does it in an hour. If you multiply the frequencies of flame you are, likewise, multiplying its power to quicken the death of anything. A sulphur match will not produce a hot flame. It will burn wood slowly but it will not set iron on fire. The hotter flame of the acetylene torch will set iron on fire, however, but it will not set granite or concrete on fire. If you multiply the radioactive power of flame still more, by making an oxyacetylene flame, you can then electrocute granite or concrete. It will burst into flame and slowly disappear.
These great radioactive heat and multiplied frequencies are nothing, however, as compared to the intense heat which nuclear fission produces with plutonium, barium, radium and other radioactively explosive elements. They are a far cry from the flame power produced by the sulphur match. These elements have made a match for man which has produced a heat so great, and so quickly, that it has utterly destroyed millions of tons of rock deep down in an island and vaporized other millions of tons of sea water in a millionth of a second. The heat thus so timelessly generated is greater than the hottest part of our sun. That is what we mean by describing radioactivity as quick death.
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penetrates the atmosphere. Call it radioactivity, fission, fusion or what you will, its principle in Nature is the release of a frozen body from its imprisonment by releasing its binding tensions. It is the relaxing principle of Nature. It is the restoration of tense matter to its Natural state of equilibrium.

CHAPTER II
How Radioactivity Kills
I As we sit in meditation by our fireside let our imaginations wander a bit. Here we sit in perfect comfort. Our room is warm. We can go to bed when we wish and sleep in comfort all night. We are not hungry. We have good bodies. Our temperatures are 98.6—as they should be. Our pulses are normal—as they should be. Everything about us is normal. We can get up in the morning, have breakfast, go to town in a ready waiting car, and plan our day's work and evening's relaxation without fear of interference, because everything outside our home is as normal as it is at home. That is what you want, is it not? Is not that what all civilization is striving for? Is it not a fact that human happiness, health, safety, prosperity and all things worthwhile depend upon the normalcy of our environment and our human relations?
Our temperature could not remain at 98.6 if this planet could be pushed five million miles nearer to the sun. Our temperature would rise. We would have a fever of several points. Naturally that could not be done, but its equivalent could be done by the use of radioactive fission. Our normal life could quite easily be made unhappy and dangerous if the town's water supply became polluted, or a hundred other things which could happen to you in your home, or to the town or nation, which would upset your normalcy.
Epidemics of typhus, polio, smallpox, and many other things have upset the normal growth of individuals and nations. Two thirds of middle Europe were wiped out by bubonic plague. A war tomorrow might draft you out of your comfortable home, your bed, your work and your relaxation. Your own desired nor-
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FIG. 5. The nine octaves of matter. This electric universe is a harp of nine wave strings. It produces matter by the vibration of its strings, exactly as a harp produces sounds. Different “substances” and different “sounds” are analogous. All matter consists of tonal vibrations. Matter is not substance.

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malcy can be ended in a flash, and an abnormalcy take its place, which you do not desire. Instead of a happy Hungarian family and comfortable home of this minute, some are dead, and some are in prison, or exiled to Siberia in the next hour. This is true, is it not? It is quite a familiar picture to the whole world, and not one person in all the world remains untouched by the abnormalities which have upset the great orderly rhythmic growth which Nature intends for all creating things, and will give to them if they cooperate with Nature in keeping that normal rhythm of her orderly unfolding of all creating things.
Normalcy of environment is a necessity of all Creation. Eidelweis will not grow in a valley. No one would attempt to raise tropic fruits in Canada, nor could polar bears survive in Florida. If you knew that certain actions of man would so change the normalcy of your environment that it would cause an epidemic of bubonic plague, would you not rise en masse with your neighbors to prevent it? Of course you would. Bubonic plague would be a mild and transient effect as compared with what is now being planned for the human race, for many would survive it, and future centuries would forget it. Not so with radioactive fission, however, for none would survive to forget it. We wish to demonstrate and explain to you why oxygen dependent vegetable and animal life could not again appear upon this earth for twenty to thirty thousand years if man's plan is consummated.
I I It will be interesting and enlightening to again use your imagination regarding your comfortable and safe position in the universal house of the human race and other organic life. To aid the picturing of the position of organic life in this universe we are printing a map of the entirety of Creation for you to see it as a whole. Figure 5 tells that whole story of Creation, and your safe house within its dangerous surroundings, which we will point out to you later. That safe house of yours in our universe is indicated by a triangle which bounds its walls of safety. You will see it right near the middle of the map. That triangle is the limit of

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your safe environment. Beyond it you cannot go for there are twenty-two vicious killers in the far reaches of the environment which surrounds your house, which you cannot see. You need have no fear of them, however, for Nature has chained them very securely so that they cannot hurt you while so securely imprisoned. Man is planning to alter Nature's plan, however, and release them into your environment, even within your very house. These killers are the invisible metallic death rays which penetrate every cell of your body with ultra-microscopic poison metal bullets at speeds of around 160,000 miles per second.
These killer metals which are soon to multiply to uncountable millions, will await you in your drinking water, which will be polluted from underground over the whole region of atomic activities, from buried atomic waste. They will await you in your food, for every grass blade will take it into the beef you eat and the milk you drink. They will also await you in every breath you take, for miles of it will accumulate in the upper atmosphere to fall upon the earth increasingly, year by year. Do not find comfort in assurance that you can be protected from it. We will consider that later, but you can no more be protected from it than you could protect the dryness of earth from becoming wet when it rains. Neither can this planet be protected from the rise in its whole temperature, which alone would so change the earth's environment that all life would be impossible.

I I I The universe might very appropriately be likened to a harp of nine strings, with nine tones in each string. In our diagram the strings are all indicated as of the same length for simplicity. In Nature the lower string is the longest. They grow gradually shorter up to the 9th. Likewise, the tonal positions and frequencies change in each string. In every case each note on each string is one octave higher than its next lower string. You will note that each string begins with a zero and ends with a zero. These are the key notes of each octave. They are the cathodes of every electric anode. They are called inert gases, such as helium, neon, argon, krypton, etc. They are the seed of all matter and

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the supreme mystery of matter. In them is the answer to the great mystery of life and death, which shall be deferred for full explanation in Chapter 11 of this book, after preparation for its comprehension in the pages which intervene.
Perhaps you may better understand our meaning by a study of your piano keyboard. There are only seven tones there. Each eighth tone is the same as the beginning note, except it is one octave higher. The reason for that change is due entirely to pressure mathematics. Compression pressure has reached a position where the vibration frequencies have multiplied in cube ratio. If you put a book upon the top of an organ pipe you will find that its tone will jump to just one octave higher.
Like the low tones of a harp the low spectrum tones on the Cosmic harp are of so few frequencies that they cannot even be perceived by human senses until the third string is reached. Up to 1926 only one of these tones had been perceived, but at that time the Russell Charts numbered 1 and 2 in the Introduction, were published, which completed all of the octave tones of that third octave. Also, up to the issuance of the Russell Charts in 1926, the chart then in use was known as The Mendeleéf Table of the elements. In that chart hydrogen was the only element shown in that otherwise empty third octave, an impossibility in Nature which creates all units in pairs, and all octaves in four pairs. The Russell Charts complete this deficiency. Also, hydrogen, and its octave, were shown without an inert gas preceding it. This is as impossible in Nature as the growing of a tree without a seed is impossible. Also hydrogen was placed in the first column instead of the fourth column under carbon. Hydrogen has never been suspected as being carbon, one octave lower, as silicon is also carbon, one octave higher.
The reason that each succeeding tonal note, which constitutes the elements of matter, are one octave higher is one entirely of increased pressure. You can better understand that by compressing some air in an enclosed box or tube in which you have inserted a whistle. The more air you pump in, the higher the whistle will sound when you open its valve. If you tighten a wire the same thing will happen. The same harp string can give you many

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tones if you turn the tuning pins higher, or lower. By the time the first octave string has multiplied in cube ratio nine times, the speed of vibration frequencies and intensity of pressure have reached the incredible proportions of 1,073,741,824 times greater in the 9th string than the first string.
You can better imagine the tremendous explosive pressures which lie behind radium and plutonium bullets by actually seeing the pressure figures. Try it. Start with the first octave at 8. By cubing 8 it equals 64, then 512, then 4,096. The carbon octave comes next with pressure of 32,768. These are your normal pressures, as well as for all organic animal and vegetable life. When you cube your normal pressures you are running into danger. Nitrogen, for example, is phosphorous when cubed once, and it is arsenic when cubed twice. Nitrogen is necessary for you but phosphorous and arsenic will immediately "eat up" the nitrogen of your body and kill you by their radioactive expansion.
Oxygen is sulphur when cubed once to equal 262,144 pressures. Sulphur will kill you, however, for sulphur is the dying body of oxygen and you cannot eat your dying body. If you ignite sulphur it will consume oxygen. If you cube oxygen five times you arrive at the deadly radiumuranium-plutonium octave with its tremendous pressures of over a billion. These are the very nearly dead bodies of the elements which constitute the universal body. The reason that these bodies poison you is the simple fact that you cannot eat the dead bodies of parts of your own living body. If we cannot survive the ptomaine poisoning of slightly decayed fish, how can we possibly survive the maximum putridity which radioactivity is?
The deadly strontium octave reaches the tremendous pressure of 16,777,216, and the barium octave reaches 134,217,728 pressures. Underground these tremendous explosive pressures give birth to lower pressures by releasing higher ones from crystallized structures. That is the cyclic, or reincarnation process of Nature. Above ground, however,, the cycle acts in reverse. Dead bodies kill living bodies instead of borning them. That is why oxygen and the free radioactive metals cannot co-exist. That is why thousands of tons of radioactive death in plutonium, stron-

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tium, thorium, radium and the other nearly dead elements used in reactor plants and discarded as waste, will gradually consume the earth's atmosphere and its oceans if not prevented from allowing the dead to remain buried, instead of resurrecting it to kill the living. We must understand that all bodies beyond carbon are dying bodies and that living bodies cannot live by consuming dead ones. There is a point of decay in all bodies, whether they are carrots, meat, fruit, oxygen or nitrogen. You do not have to be convinced that you cannot live if you consume decaying bodies of vegetables or animals which are composed of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon. Why should it be necessary to convince you that you cannot live if you consume decaying oxygen, nitrogen or carbon in their natural forms? Decay and radioactivity are one, except that radioactivity is fast decay.
Pressures in electric matter are dominated by the geometry of space wave-fields, which are based upon the cube. We recite this fact in passing, to explain the use of the word, but its further explanation would require too much space to record here. We will lightly touch upon it at the end of this book, however.
You can better understand the death dealing speed of radioactive light "bullets," which radium or plutonium can shoot at you, if you but compare the speed and power of Colonial musket bullets to the modern ones, and then multiply that by thousands of times. Or if you put sixty pounds of pressure in your tire, instead of thirty, and compare the hiss of that explosion when you open the valve, with the hiss of a thirty pound pressure, it will give you a more clear picture of what over a billion times thirty pounds would do if you could blow up a tire to such a high pressure.
I V Let us now enter our house of safety within which our environment is all contributory to the well being of organic life. By organic life we mean oxygen dependent bodies. Within that triangle on the universal harp are only five of its tones out of its total of 121. Those five tones are carbon, silicon, oxygen, hydro-

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gen and nitrogen. It will probably amaze you to be informed that four of these five elements constitute 981/2% of your whole body composition. More amazing still, all five constitute 981/2% of the upper few feet of the earth's crust upon which your body is dependent for the food it needs for survival. The basic constituent of animal bodies is carbon while the basic constituent for the fertile life giving earth's crust, is silicon. Silicon is the first stage of death for carbon. It is, therefore, as good for purposes of earth as carbon is for purposes of life.
Our bodies need many metals but it is extremely important to realize two things about such needs. One is, that out of the many their total is only 11/2% of our bodies. The other is that not even a millionth of a milligram of metal enters the body in its free state. They can be present only as mineral salts, or oxides. Iron, calcium, magnesium, sodium and many other mineral salts are necessary, but only in infinitesimal amounts. To indicate the small amounts of metals the body will accept we cite such examples as manganese, which is present in only seven hundredths of one per cent, copper one thousandth, nickel two ten thousandths, and gallium three one hundred thousandths of one per cent. Iron, calcium, iodine, sodium and other metal salts are necessary also, but in extremely small fractions.
This seems a very strange thing, for Nature creates only metals. The text books give lists of non-metals, but there are no nonmetals. All stone in this universe is composed of one or more pairs of metals in union. The stone, of which your grindstone is made, is the main source of aluminum, but the mate of aluminum is phosphorous. Likewise, the stony carbon is composed of boron and nitrogen in union. Nitrogen is classified as a gas, but all gases are low pressured metals. The next octave above nitrogen is phosphorous. It has been multiplied into a solid by one octave of additional pressure. Nitrogen and oxygen are good friends in the atmosphere we breathe, but phosphorous will burst into flame and consume oxygen if exposed to it, and if we breathe it we would die—yet it is but concentrated, or compressed nitrogen. If you multiply nitrogen another octave the result is arsenic,

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and that is obviously a metal. If you breathe arsenic vapors or take a very little of it into your body, even as a salt, it will kill you quickly—yet that too is but compressed nitrogen.
Every gas, and dense element of every octave, becomes an obvious metal when multiplied into higher octaves—and therein lies one of the reasons why organic life is possible only by keeping within the limits defined by the triangle on the map herein given.
V We will take for the next step the as yet unknown fact that the structure of the universe, as one whole body, lives and grows to maturity, then dies, just as man, and all organic life does. Carefully note the parallel. A man matures at about forty, which is about one half of his cycle. During all of that period of time he is growing stronger and is more vital. From that moment, however, he begins to die. His generoactive maximum is reached and his radioactive period begins. He may still grow stronger in body but his cells are dying faster than he can keep them regenerated. When he is about eighty death has caught up with the power which charges bodies into life. The WHY of that is what you need to know for your own sake, and the WHY of the death of metals is what atomic engineers must know. The entire birth and growth of matter matures at carbon. It matures as a flaming true sphere, any part of which will crystallize as a true cube when frozen into form. The cold cube of space and the hot sphere of matter are the consummate forms of Nature. Beyond that they cannot go. Also, they are Nature's limitations in pressures, temperatures and frequencies. Beyond the cube and the sphere they cannot go. When you understand this fundamental of Nature you will then understand WHY and HOW you and all things live, and WHY and HOW you die. Follow this explanation carefully then, and you will know. As to "WHERE you go when you die," that can wait, but that also you will know before you finish this book. We will leave this idea of cube-sphere limitation, and its reversal for a moment, but will return. Now look at your chart and find carbon in the fourth octave

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symbolized by a cube centering a sun. From that point on death begins and multiplies its power to die in the same ratio as it has multiplied its power to live. In other words, it now accumulates as much centrifugal speed to disappear into its invisible Source as it accumulated centripetal speed on the way to its destination in carbon. The only difference is that the generoactive speed of compression is inward from the outside until maturity in carbon, and after that its radioactive speed explodes outward from the inside. In each case the inward speed of 186,400 miles per second is reached at the maximum point of life in carbon, and the outward speed is reached at the amplitude of the 9th octave, just beyond the transuranium elements, which is the maximum point of universal death.
What we have just stated is one of the most significant facts of Nature. It has never been known because it has never been known that the universe lives and dies just as man lives and dies. Nor has it been known that bodies live by fast motion and also die by fast motion. All through this book you will never lose sight of that fact, for it runs through the book like a golden thread in a tapestry, as it does all through Nature.
You must fully understand that electric compression continues to generate after carbon has been reached, and death has begun to find supremacy, just as a forty year old man may still become stronger and more vital after he has begun to die. If you examine these elements beyond carbon you will find that they are all more dense and much more heavy than any element up to and including carbon. Plutonium is the heaviest of all elements. It is also the greatest of the twenty two killer metals. These killer metals are what atomic energy is intending to release into our atmosphere. We will now explain why killer metals kill and why other metals do not kill.

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the two visible yellows of flame in fission state. When a sun has become a true sphere its center has reached the white invisible still point in the spectrum where motion has ceased. Up to that very point the inward speed of compression has multiplied to its limit of 186,400 miles per second. At that point also the sun has reached its maximum temperature. At that point also, there is but one center of gravity. Until then there are two. White light is always invisible, for it is always still. It could not be white otherwise. Any motion, whatsoever, would be visible as yellow.
The point which we wish to emphasize by the above is that when generoactivity has created a true sphere it also has created within it a white light of gravity to center it. It has also created its maximum speed and maximum temperature. It can go no farther. The Creator has consummated His Creation. He has given all He has to give. One half of His Law of Love has been fulfilled. Up to that point The Einstein Equation of 1905 fits perfectly. It fully accounts for the mathematics of life, but not for death. The other half of the Law of Love must now be fulfilled. That which has been given must be equally regiven. The balanced rhythm of this universe must not be upset. For this reason that which has been must be repeated in reverse, to void that which has been, for neither life nor death can end or begin. They can only be repeated, and when they are repeated they do so through each other.
You have now taken another big step in comprehending the difference between slow normal death and quick radioactive death. We must again hold this idea in suspense for a time, as it has many angles and facets which are better to be completed together, as a good diamond cutter does, instead of trying to complete one at a time.
V I I The next step for comprehension brings two words into our story which are of great import. These words are centripetal and centrifugal. Their real office in Nature has not yet been known, other than the fact that one supposedly contracts from the inside

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—which is not true, and the other expands. What is not yet understood is the fact that centrifugal spiral motion, in this entire universe, is expressed where pairs of centripetal pairs meet in sex union in Nature's electric current, and begin the journey of re-giving back to the Giver of motion. If this fact had been known there would have been no "expanding universe" theory. The text books say that there is no uphill flow of energy. Centripetal motion is that uphill flow. The cyclone vortice is that uphill flow. The winding of the universal clock spring is that uphill flow. The charging of your battery, your body, and the creative process of compression, is that uphill flow. Nature creates atom units centripetally in mated pairs. She causes atom unit pairs to collide and explode. There are not any atomic systems in Nature until mated pairs meet in sex union at wave amplitudes.
Look into the heavens. Every spinning spiral nebula is an atomic system on a stellar scale. It is made up of the dying parts of a united pair which has arrived at its centripetal maximum and must begin its dissolving journey back to its source. That dissolution is expressed by rings which wind up into spheres. These spheres throw off more rings centrifugally until all "wound up matter" has been "unwound." Centrifugal motion is the outward direction of death. Radioactivity is centrifugal. The power to kill, which has been generated in the twenty-two radioactive killer metals, is due to the intensively high pressure which has been compressed into them beyond their ability to hold. As a result they discharge their death rays in metal bullets for the thousands of years they consume in their dying. These metal bullets are as potent in killing you as bullets discharged from a revolver, and the principle of their projection is the same. The only difference is that radioactive bullets are so ultra microscopic that five billions of them would not make up a pinhead in size, but their expanding power within your body more than makes up for their smallness. In fact, their power to expand within your cells is their danger, for expanding cells are dying cells.
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would be impossible to protect you from feeling the effects of the sun. Let us, therefore, first examine radium expansion bullets.
V I I I We again refer you to your nine stringed Cosmic Harp. You will find radium on the 9th string. Remember that all bodies are dying from the 5th string to the 9th, although they are trying very hard to live. Look at carbon with that thought in mind. Imagine its relationship to matured life such as you would find in a virile athlete of forty. Its cube crystal form indicates its perfection of body. Now look at silicon on the 5th string. The athlete is now a virile man of fifty, but not his equal of ten years ago. Silicon and silicates can reach amplitude and the hexagon in crystal structure, but cannot reach the balanced cube. Now look at the 6th and 7th strings. The athlete is dying with great spasmodic efforts to live. He can never reach amplitude again, however. Carbon was enabled to void its metallic quality by the union of a pair. In the 6th and 7th octaves, however, that amplitude collision is not consummated, even though five terrific efforts are made to accomplish it. The yield has been but five pairs of metals, and their inability to create a sphere with one center of gravity, instead of five pairs of centers, has yielded the high pressured metals known as cobalt in the 6th octave, and rhodium in the 7th. Beyond the 7th octave the effort to live becomes greater. That tremendous effort to compress multiplies the power to die. Thirteen efforts in pairs are made in the eighth octave with the yield of a prototype of cobalt known as lutecium. You may study all of these pairs of metals by examining The Russell Periodic Chart No. 1. In the radium octave these pairs of efforts are detectable on the red side of the spectrum, but not on the blue side, for reasons which would occupy too much space to tell here, and not sufficiently necessary to this story. As a part of it, however, take note that all of the worst radioactive killer metals are on the red side. Now, as to radium. What is it? Let us examine its ancestry.

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Beryllium, in the 4th octave, which has a pressure intensity of 32,768, begat magnesium, which has an explosive pressure intensity of 262,144. Magnesium begat calcium, which has an explosive pressure of 2,097,152. Calcium begat strontium, at 16,777,216 units of pressure. Strontium begat barium, at 134,217,728, and barium begat radium which has accumulated the enormous power to eject its bullets of 1,073,741,824 times that which it had at birth 9 octaves back.
Your greatest comprehension of the deadliness of the radioactive elements can come by the study of radium. We cite radium, for you can very easily visualize its deadliness by purchasing a little inexpensive instrument called a spinthariscope at any opticians for about three dollars. Within it is a fine needle which has touched a long empty, supposedly used up small vial of that very expensive radium. We cite this fact to drive home to you the potency of so inconceivable an element as this, which cannot seemingly ever be used up. It may be that several hundred thousand more spinthariscopes can still be made from that empty vial.
If you look through the lens toward a fluorescent screen you will see a sight so glorious that it could not be matched except by looking through a telescope at a star cluster. Thousands of stars seem to be exploding against that screen. What you see are the death rays of one of the most poisonous of the radioactive elements. You are seeing the luminous metallic expansion bullets which leave their metallic quality in their target to continue their expansion, and pass through, and beyond it into an inert gas named niton, then through another named zenon, then through another named krypton, and another named argon, and still another named neon until it finds its final resting place in helium. In passing through all these they have expanded them all to get back to the low pressures of the 4th octave. Further description of this principle must be deferred until the inert gases can be more fully explained in Chapter XI. We can add, however, that plutonium bullets are not content to stop at helium. They continue right through to the inert gas of the beginning of Creation in octave 1.

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The wonderful, and amazing fact of this little instrument is that you could still see it as it now is for thousands of years. That fact should answer for you the question as to the ability of man to protect you from it after thousands of tons of the still_ more deadly plutonium are distributed all over the country in solid ten ton piles, and not just in the scrapings of an empty milligram vial.
An interesting story is told about radium when it was first discovered. For awhile it was thought that the life principle had at last been found. This was so sincerely believed that instruments were made to charge drinking water with these "life giving rays." Such instruments were purchased by the wealthy for as high as $1,000. Very soon, however, the tragic error was discovered before it became serious. Today, however, the danger is so well known that the number of seconds in which one is exposed to X rays, or any radioactive effect, are checked and counted to prevent too much exposure to these now known death rays.
In closing this description of radium we feel that your decision as to whether or not YOU can be protected from its dangers would be affected by the following story of the tragedy which resulted from a slight accident in a laboratory, which we are quoting from an article from Colliers. Such things are impossible to prevent. In reading it remember that it is only radium, the lesser radioactive element in that octave. That might also happen with plutonium, which is many times stronger.
"A graphic example of how fast and far contamination can spread occurred a few years ago when someone in a Navy laboratory on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay stepped on a glass vial containing a barely visible amount of radium salt. The accident was discovered late in the afternoon, and by the time decontamination crews got on the job 16 hours later, the radium had already spread throughout the San Francisco area for a radius of 20 miles.
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canny," recalls Lieutenant Commander Royce K. Skow, who directed much of the decontamination work. "With our instruments, we could trace the movements of the men just as though their tracks were visible. A sofa showed the outline of a student's body where he had lain down. We traced one young father from his living room to his child's crib. Two 'hot' spots showed where he had put his hands on the railing of the crib."
In a typical home, seven miles from the laboratory, a student had contaminated doorknobs, towels and water faucets. His bedspread and pillow, his slippers, his armchair, a writing desk and his pencils, his clothes—all showed radioactivity.
Since the contamination had spread outside the laboratory, where it could have been handled more effectively, drastic measures were called for. Decontamination teams ripped out carpets from a dozen homes. Automobile mats and seat covers were junked. Shoes which were only lightly affected were scrubbed again and again until instruments indicated they were clean.
The laboratory building was permeated with radioactivity and showed concentrations of radon, radioactive gas given off by radium; men entering the building wore special respirators. After a few days, crews went into the structure and burned the surface of concrete areas with scaling torches. Paint was removed. Every foot of the building was washed down. Linoleum was peeled up.
Two hundred drums of highly contaminated objects, principally carpets, clothing, linoleum and cleaning rags, were weighted with concrete and dumped into 100 fathoms of water far at sea. The building itself, a 31-room structure, could not be used for three months.
Everything connected with radioactivity is complicated by its indestructibility. A piece of contaminated newspaper cannot be burned except in a special incinerator. Even then, the ash must be carefully disposed of and gases and smokes given off in the burning must be washed or filtered. Then the poisoned water and filters must be isolated or buried."
I X Once more we refer you to the nine octave chart. To describe radium is to describe them all, for their effects are the same. One should know them all, however. Practically all of the deadly

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killers are on the red side of the spectrum. You will gleam the reason for this in later chapters. They begin with three silvery white metals on the lowest of the radioactive octaves, the silicon octave. The first two are sodium and magnesium. Sodium will set water on fire and burn its oxygen out, if you throw a lump of it in water. One small pinhead of it as a free metal will kill you, but when deprived of its metal quality by union with chlorine you need it in minute quantities in your body. It is table salt. Magnesium is the familiar flashlight of photography. Naturally its radioactivity will kill you if taken into your body in its free state, yet you need a minute fraction of it as a mineral salt. Aluminum has such a density that its radioactive powers need not be feared in that octave, but in its succeeding octaves it gradually becomes more deadly than radium. Its highest form is actinium, which is an element between radium and uranium.
The sodium series, including lithium, potassium, rubidium, caesium and an unknown element one octave higher, are in the deadly class, especially because of their power to destroy oxygen by expanding it with such quick death that it bursts into flame. This effect is so little understood that a brief example will simplify it. If you touch a match to oxygen you will get a hot flame. If you compress oxygen into a liquid and then touch a match to it you will get a hotter flame, for you have multiplied its speed and expansion by multiplying its compression.
Sodium, calcium or potassium multiply the expansion of oxygen in its gaseous form and give forth the heat that liquid oxygen would give. Likewise, oxygen is multiplied in its heat-giving power if united with calcium-carbide to create an oxyacetylene flame. Consider the deadliness of potassium in this respect by the following example. You will find potassium one octave above sodium. You very freely take carbon and nitrogen into your body. They are two of your five essential elements. If you add a minute amount of potassium to them, however, you produce cyanide of potassium, a deadly quick electrocuting poison. This is an example of what a minute quantity of radioactive matter would do if added to the essentials of our blood

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plasma. That is why leukemia, birth deformities and impotence will be the forerunners of greater scourges to come.
We will again leave these thoughts in abeyance until they are more completely tied together at the end of the book.

X
We have stated before that all of the elements of matter are frozen flame. The generoactive compressive force of Nature quite easily freezes low potential explosions. Each succeeding higher potential requires greater effort to freeze it, therefore, it requires greater heat to melt it. The highest melting point of all the elements is 3,600 centigrade. This high point is reached at carbon. Silicon in the next octave reaches only 1,420 degrees and cobalt only 1,440 degrees.
The great unexplained mystery of melting points is the fact that the red side of the carbon octave reaches high melting points because of the fact that two of them are dense solids. On the blue side all three are gases and have melting points as low as 223 degrees below zero. Fluorine reaches this point while its mate on the red side, which is lithium, reaches 186 degrees above zero.
It seems strange that this octave of the highest maturity has three below zero elements on its blue side and high ones on its red side, when the dying elements have very high melting points on the blue side and less than half of those points on the red side. It is more strange still to metallurgists that many of the elements in the radioactive half of the chart are heavier and much more solid than carbon, the heaviest element on the living side of the chart. Tantalum, for example, reaches 3,400 degrees, while its close neighbors on the blue side, reach 2,900, 2,700, 2,250, 1,750 and 1,063. The answer to this is also more clearly defined later, but, very briefly, the reason is that the red side of the spectrum represents the fatherhood of Creation, which seeks the inside of forming spheres where the fires of Creation are centered, and the blue side represents its motherhood and seeks the outside to fashion bodies in her womb, and cool them

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into form. In the first half of the electric creating process the blue half is compressed out of the generating body, by exploding from within, while the red half gains its center, by compression exerted from the outside. In the second half the situation is reversed. All Nature is constantly reversing, and in doing so is constantly turning inside out and outside in. This conspicuous and obvious fact of Nature has not yet been sensed by observers.

SUMMARY
The foregoing has described the manner in which Nature projects motion from space and space reflects it back again. The one point which we accentuate in this whole process is the highly explosive nature of the radioactive metals. We do this for the purpose of demonstrating that this high and quick explosive power is needed in Nature's death process to assist in the decay and death of the slow dying rocky formations which first constitute the bodies of new planets, which Nature has set out from her sun crucibles to freeze. Millions of years—or perhaps billions—are consumed in the process of decaying enough of the earth's surface to create the conditions necessary for organic life. Such conditions cannot be possible nearer to the sun than seventy to eighty million miles, and ceases to be possible when a planet reaches as far out as Mars.
Water, oxygen, humus and the necessary carbohydrates of life are created by the exploding metallic bullets of the dying elements as they assist dense elements to die, but if they also project their death into less dense bodies, such as animal tissues, those lesser solids and the gases of their atmosphere, will again be assisted in their desire to expand, which is inherent in all matter.
In conclusion, therefore, we say to you that every ounce of free radioactive metal which is removed from its purposeful position of bombarding the unfertile, dry, hot rocks of Nature to yield pairs of bodies for making organic life possible on this planet, will not only clear the entire planet of all organic life but will keep it thus cleared until the many uranium piles above ground, are entirely dissolved by their own radiations. The num-

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ber of thousands of years necessary for that is not predictable, but it is calculated by authorities that plutonium rays have a duration of over twenty thousand years. That is a long time. The dawn of Consciousness was but 10,000 years ago. How far back will man be, therefore, when he again appears on earth—if he ever will?

CHAPTER III
The World Voice
I This chapter is devoted to the world opinion and the world fear of radioactivity. It is not written to support the evidence we have given, but merely to express the world voice. We include it, also, because the world fear does not know what it fears. The effects are known, but the WHY of those effects are not known. That is why we must write the WHY, else the danger will be beyond remedy before the world becomes aware of it. We will cite two reasons for this statement before we quote the press— and the fears of scientists.
Our first reason is our belief that the greatest danger from the use of radioactivity is defective births and leukemia. That danger will creep upon civilization without any way of detecting it. One cannot go about with instruments to measure genetic damage, as one can do to measure the amount of strontium and other radioactivity, which is falling on the soil from year to year. We believe that sterility will be an accompanying effect, while abnormalities of living bodies will be secondary. It could not be otherwise, for genes are not basic in potency. There is something behind and underneath genes, and that is the seed. No human has ever attempted to explain the seed, therefore, it is permissible for us to say that the principle of rebirth in bodies is not yet known on earth. We know it, however, and because of that we know the danger which has no meaning to those who do not know. This mystery has to do with knowledge of the purpose of inert gases in relation to the seeds of things. We will more fully explain this mystery in Chapter XI. Right here, however, we can say that every living body refolds into
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its seed simultaneously with its unfolding from its seed. With radioactivity in general use it will not be many years before the translucent light of the inert gases, especially niton, which we described in relation to the deadly blue-white light radiations from radium, and the still more deadly blue light of uranium, will make seed-regeneration gradually impossible in either animal or vegetable species. This is the danger which will come unannounced. It is the one of which we are most apprehensive, and could cost hundreds of millions of sterile humans and more millions of defective births.
Geneticists have already begun to talk about mutations, for they understand how the seed-pattern can be altered by abnormal environment, but beyond that, to the seed itself, and its manner of refolding a dimensioned material image, such as a hundred ton oak, into a dimensionless, weightless, formless micro-pin-point inert gas recording of itself, they do not know. Nor does anyone know what the blue-white fluorescent light of inert gas from radium or from plutonium, means to the seed and to sterility. We believe, for instance, that if a reactor plant, such as the Hanford one in Washington, is placed north of New York City, as now planned, it would not be many years before the whole of that vast watershed would have to be abandoned, including many other cities near New York. To us that is as much a certainty as that a two foot high sapling will be ten feet high in a few years. It is an orderly mathematical fact of growth. In the processes of Nature it could not be otherwise. One could be forewarned of that danger before it had reached that extremity, but one cannot be forewarned of the sterility of all organic life until it has affected possibly more than half the population of the whole world in various degrees.
When radium was first used its danger was not known. No one was then forewarned of it. Because of that fact a laboratory worker named Dr. Emil H. Grubbe, was constantly exposed to it until he developed cancer burns. These did not kill him but since then he has had to undergo 90 operations because of them. He still lives at 81, but his isolated case would certainly number millions by 1970 if nuclear fission comes into general

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use. Does it make you feel comfortable to contemplate that fate for you, and more especially your children?
Dr. Percy Brown, a Boston X-ray specialist, had fifty operations because of various X-ray effects, including cancer. He died in 1950 after 24 years of suffering from those effects.
The well known case of accidental death which came to young Harry K. Daglian, Jr., of New London, is typical, for every known means of protection surrounded him every moment. Yet he died in 25 days because of the bomb test accident at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Back in those days before radium danger was known, seventeen girls had been employed to paint watch dials with a radium mixed paint. One by one, they all developed strange bone and blood diseases until all of them died. It has been said that such a thing could not happen now because we are forewarned. There would be thousands of cases continually happening where one could not be forewarned, such as the San Francisco case where someone accidentally stepped upon a very small vial of radium and exposed a whole city, which could have been wiped out because of it, had the accident not been accidentally discovered.
Dr. Alfred H. Sturtevant is an eminent geneticist. In 1955 he made the following statement: "The last bomb test alone probably produced more than 70 human mutations which are likely to produce large numbers of defective children in the future." Our mental and other institutions for defectives are already overflowing. The tax upon normal humans for the support of these defectives is a great burden. Such an increase in defectives as radioactivity threatens in the near future will make it imperative that all defectives be destroyed at birth. There could be no other way. Think of what our civilization would be like if it fell to such a low level as that.
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nor attract. Matter is compressed and will expand and destroy, but it will not absorb. And in that misconception lies a terrible danger, for what does actually happen is that lithium expands oxygen and destroys it. And so does sodium, potassium, strontium, calcium and the other silvery white killer metals, which look like silver but which you could crush between your fingers. If lithium and sodium expand oxygen in water, and your body is two thirds water, think of what it would do to your body. Always bear in mind that everything which is dying is expanding, or, conversely, expansion is the basic condition for necessary death. Sudden expansion causes flame and great heat, for sudden expansion is an electric short-circuit.
Another dangerous misconception is evidenced in the commonly used term: ". . . releases an extraordinary amount of energy." Energy is not released. What actually happens is that potential is released, not energy—and that means expansion. Atomic fission helps matter to explode instantly instead of decaying over long periods. "Released energy" means quick expansion, and quick expansion into the universal vacuum is the death process of any kind of material body, whether it be iron, carbon or a human blood corpuscle. That conception which gives to energy the quality of expanding or contracting, is one of the contributing factors to the deadliness of radioactivity as a power for man's use. Energy is changeless. It is the eternal vacuum of the zero universe—God's universe. To confuse the compressive power of electricity to create potential for the purpose of simulating energy, with energy itself, it extremely unfortunate.
If radioactivity ever came into general use there would be thousands of planes continually discharging ultramicroscopic particles by the billions per square mile. Thousands of ships would do, likewise, and kill every fish in the seas in time. Hundreds of reactor plants would make it impossible for you to eat any untainted food, whatsoever. Such a thing as the normal food you are accustomed to would soon be as impossible for you as it is for the cow, which is now compelled to eat contaminated

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grass to make into the milk you drink and the beef you eat. Let us make clearer to you what we mean by the ability of metals like
lithium, sodium, calcium or strontium to expand within you and hasten your death. A metal like iron, or gold, cannot hurt you from outside of your body because it will not expand unless you apply an intensely hot acetylene flame to it. Lithium will expand and explode in ordinary room temperature. It cannot be kept in its metallic state unless immersed in oil. If you touch an ordinary match to it a white hot flame quickly consumes it at the cost of a lot of oxygen.
Sodium will burst into flame without a match. Just throw it in water. The resultant flame does not absorb water, it expands the oxygen in it and sends it back into its cathode zero where all dead things go. It bursts into flame. Flame destroys. It does not absorb. A lesser heat than a flame expands towards death, even though it may not destroy.
In this connection the Atomic Energy Commission issued a report to the effect that the first atomic submarine, the Nautilus, had now been in operation two years without a single illness from radioactive poison taking place. Here is an inference that the atomic submarine has been proved safe. Is it? One year ago the second atomic submarine, the Sea Wolf, was launched. It is now known that its liquid sodium power system cannot be prevented from leakage and has to be removed. If a thousand such ships sailed the seas and each lost even a very little of such poison it would so utterly change the percentage of sodium in the ocean that no fish could survive it.
We have now given our two main reasons for believing that the humans who are thus dealing with death do not know the deadly nature of these killer metals, nor do they know that their power to kill lies in their power to expand every other atom or cell of matter which they come in contact with. It is that very power which makes them valuable and necessary in their own environment. Their ability to expand and "kill" granite, basalt, and other rock formations, gives to earth the few feet of decayed soil, atmosphere and water, necessary for organic life.

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II The following extracts from the National Academy of Sciences are the findings and opinions of 145 leading scientists who met for the purpose of studying this problem, under a financial grant from the Rockefeller Foundation:

"The problems of radiation fall naturally into two main classes: (1) the effects on human beings; (2) the various ways in which radiation can reach human beings through the environment.
The inheritance mechanism is by far the most sensitive to radiation of any biological system.
Any radiation which reaches the reproductive cells causes mutations (changes in the material governing heredity) that are passed on to succeeding generations.
Human gene mutations which produce observable effects are believed to be universally harmful.
Everyone is subjected to the natural background radiation which causes an unavoidable quantity of so-called spontaneous mutations. Anything that adds radiation to this naturally occurring background rate causes further mutations, and is genetically harmful.
There is no minimum amount of radiation which must be exceeded before mutations occur. Any amount, however small, that reaches the reproductive cells can cause a correspondingly small number of mutations. The more radiation, the more mutations.
The harm is cumulative. The genetic damage done by radiation builds up as the radiation is received, and depends on the total accumulated gonad dose received by people from their own conception to the conception of their last child.
So far as individuals are concerned, not all mutant genes or combinations of mutant genes are equally harmful. A few may cause very serious handicaps, many others may produce much smaller harm, or even no apparent damage.

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when the inheritance line in which they are carried dies out. In cases of severe and obvious damage this may happen in the first generation; in other cases it may require hundreds of generations.
Thus, for the general population, and in the long run, a little radiation to a lot of people is as harmful as a lot of radiation to a few, since the total number of mutant genes can be the same in the two cases.
It is difficult to arrive at a figure showing how much genetic harm radiation can do. One measure is the amount of radiation, above the natural background, which would produce as many mutations again as occur spontaneously. It is estimated that this amounts to 30 to 80 Roentgens.
[The roentgen is a unit of radiation. To give an idea of its value, the average dental X ray deliver five roentgens to the patient's jaw, but only five thousandths of a roentgen of stray radiation to more remote parts of the body such as the gonads.]
It is also estimated that a dose of 10 roentgens to every person in the United States would cause something on the order of 5,000,000 mutant genes, which would then be a part of the population's inheritance pool. This figure is subject to considerable uncertainty.
At present the United States population is exposed to radiation from (1) the natural background, (2) medical and dental X rays, (3) fall-out from atomic weapons testing. The 30-year dose to the gonads received by the average person from each of these sources is estimated as follows:
1. Background—about 4.3 roentgens. 2. X rays and fluoroscopy—about 3 roentgens. 3. Weapons tests—if continued at the rate of the past five years would give a probable 30-year dose of about 0.1 roentgens. This figure may be off by a factor of five, that is, the possible range is from 0.02 to 0.5 roentgens. If tests were conducted at the rate of the two most active years (1953 and 1955) the 30-year dose would be about twice as great as that just stated. At present test explosions of atomic weapons are the only significant source of radiation in the general environment, above the natural background. Meteorologists have found no evidence that atomic explosions have changed the weather or climate. Nor do they believe that continued weapon tests, at the same rate and in the same areas as in the past, would have such an effect.

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Radiation from explosions passes into the atmosphere and much of it eventually returns to the ground as "fall-out."
Fall-out divides into three classes: (1) close-in—material that comes down within a few hundred miles of the explosion and within 10 to 20 hours, (2) intermediate—material that descends in a few weeks after the explosion, (3) delayed—material that remains in the air for months or years.
Close-in fall-out from test explosions affects only restricted, uninhabited regions.
Intermediate fall-out would descend very slowly if it were pulled down only by gravity. It is mostly washed out of the air by rain and snow. It spreads over large parts of the earth, but its effect over a small area may be accentuated if there is heavy precipitation while the radioactive cloud is overhead.
Delayed fall-out is stored for long periods in the stratosphere. Meteorologists know very little about the interchange of air between the stratosphere and lower layers, so they cannot predict exactly how long the material will stay up, or where it is likely to descend."
National Academy of Sciences Genetics Committee states:
"The report of the Genetics Committee of the National Academy of Sciences was unanimous and blunt: "Any radiation is genetically undesirable, since any radiation induces harmful mutations [changes]."
This complex chemical compound known as a gene cannot repair itself, and to date we know of no way of repairing it.
The injured gene will handicap some descendant, even though it may skip many generations before it does so. It may cause physical and mental handicaps to a whole line, and it will keep trying until at last it kills off the line.
Thus, the geneticists say cold-bloodedly, from the standpoint of the human race it would be better to have a few thousand humans severely radiated than to have whole populations subjected to minor radiations.
If, as medical evidence overwhelmingly shows, man-made radiation is not good for healthy human beings, the logical questions are: Where and how might you be exposed? What can you do to protect yourself and your family?

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You could be exposed through: 1. Ordinary medical X rays; 2. Eating food, drinking water or milk or breathing air that has been
contaminated by fall-out from the explosion of atomic weapons tested by the United States, England and Russia; 3. Food or water contaminated by radioactive wastes from an atomic installation; . . ."
Dr. W. F. Libby says:
"Last May 2, Dr. W. F. Libby, Commissioner, United States Atomic Energy Commission, presented to the National Academy of Sciences what is probably the most authoritative public report to date on "Radioactive Strontium Fall-out."
Samples of radioactive strontium, Dr. Libby said, were detected in the snow at Admiral Byrd Bay in the Antarctic; in the waters of the Danube, the Mississippi, the Seine and the Moselle Rivers; in alfalfa in the fields of Wisconsin and Iowa, and in soil in various sections of the country.
Dr. Libby concluded his report by observing that the average content of radioactive strontium is increasing in milk supplies all over the world, and therefore more and more human beings are putting more and more radioactive strontium into their bodies.
Since growing children concentrate calcium, they are likely to absorb more of this dangerous relative of calcium into their bones than adults. And any material incorporated into their bodies during childhood will have a longer time to act."
An atomic laboratory worker dies from atomic rays:
"Philadelphia VP)—Exposure to atomic radiation in a government laboratory between 8 and 10 years ago has taken the life of a Philadelphia physician, the city medical examiner said.
Medical Examiner Joseph W. Spelman issued his finding after an inquest into the death last July 24 of Dr. Kenneth A. Koerber, 50, of Philadelphia. Dr. Koerber had worked in the Atomic Energy Commission's Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, N. Y., between 1946 and 1948. He inspected laboratories to protect workers from radiation.
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his death. We have conclusively proved that he was subject to atomic radiation or to the inhalation or to the eating of atomic compounds. At the present time his bones contain 1,000 times the maximum safe concentration of radiation."
We quote from James Poling, in Better Homes and Gardens, May, 1957. The following is far from comforting, if not alarming.
"An H-bomb explosion at our Bikini test site, March 1st, 1954, blew a scientific concept, as well as an island, into smithereens. Fallout had previously been regarded as a hazard confined to the immediate vicinity of an atomic explosion. But a recording instrument at Rongelap, 100 miles to the east of Bikini, revealed that this bomb had sprayed alarming quantities of radioactive dust over that atoll. And we learned for the first time that fallout from a multimegaton bomb was lethal over an area of several thousand square miles. Now we know the naked horror of the bomb. It poses as a potential threat to all mankind."
The Miami Herald prints the following:
DETROIT ATOM PLANT CALLED DANGEROUS
"Washington—In a memo suppressed by Atomic Energy Chairman Lewis Strauss, atomic scientists have warned sternly that the "fast breeder" power reactor he approved for construction outside Detroit may "risk the health and safety of the public."
Last November, a similar but smaller experimental reactor at Arco, Idaho, melted down into a hot radioactive heap that couldn't be touched for six months. Puzzled scientists still haven't found the cause.
Yet Strauss, ignoring the urgent advice of his own safety experts, okayed construction of the same design atomic power plant in Detroit's populous back yard."

The eminent scientist authority upon radioactivity, Dr. Ralph Lapp, upholds our contention that the upper stratosphere will not send in its full bill for our payment until the late seventies. There is no question but what the stratosphere is accumulating death rays for destruction of earth's oxygen at an increasing rate. The freely expressed belief that "the pull of gravity" will bring

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the fall-out to earth is costly to human survival. A small percentage of the higher potential goes toward earth, but the larger percentage is of a potential which is lighter than the earth pressures. These seek the upper levels and the stratosphere. It, is possible that enough has already collected to take toll of millions of lives, or cause millions of defective births, even if we stopped the use of radioactivity now. We print Dr. Lapp's warning in full, as issued by The Daily Oklahoman of July 5, 1956— and other papers:
SCIENTIST SAYS H-TESTS NEAR DANGER LEVEL
"Washington, July 4 (INS) —A leading U. S. scientist warned Wednesday that the world may already have passed the point of safety in testing hydrogen-bomb weapons.
"Dr. Ralph Lapp, citing evidence that the U. S. has exploded four H-bombs in the Pacific this year, said the world is a lot closer to the maximum safe level of radioactivity than was indicated in a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences.
"Lapp said the NAS report, issued June 13, was "misleading" when it indicated that the testing of nuclear weapons could be increased 25 to 30 times above the 1950-55 average without endangering the world's health.

THERE'S SECOND ANGLE
"He said in an interview that the NAS limit was based only on "external" radiation. He declared the safe maximum is far lower for "internal ingestion" of radioactive particles carried into the human system by air, food and water.
"The point I would emphasize," the atomic scientist said, "is that all of us already have measurable quantities of this bomb-generated radioactive material in our system.
"Although the quantities are not as yet dangerous in the cases where measurements have been taken, we now have enough information to determine definitely when the maximum safe level of radioactivity will be reached."

FOURTH BLAST HINTED
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commission said he believes that three super-bombs probably equal to about 10 million tons of TNT each had been set off in the current Pacific test series before Tuesday.
"The Japanese central meteorological station announced evidence of a fourth super-explosion described as "possibly" an H-bomb Tuesday morning. If the total for the series is equal to 40 million tons of TNT, this would double the average annual rate for tests conducted from 1950 through 1955.
"Lapp's warning concerned the effects of radioactive strontium, an element created when uranium atoms split. The element is chemically similar to calcium and tends to cause cancer and other ailments by concentrating in the human skeleton.
CONCLUSION CITED
"Making the much more conservative assumption that test rates would slowly accelerate and would double by 1970," he said, "I concluded that by 1962 there will be enough radioactive strontium committed to the stratosphere to produce a 100 percent 'maximum permissible amount' in every person on the planet.
"Because of a hold-up of the invisible particles in the upper air — the particles fall to earth at a rate of about 10 percent a year—this radioactive strontium would not show up in full amount in the human body until the late 1970s. "However, by 1962 the die would have been cast irrevocably."
Instead of a slow acceleration, Lapp said, "the upward arc of bomb testing is proceeding out of control." With Russia, the U. S. and Britain conducting H-bomb experiments, he declared, the total exploded by 1960 could exceed the equivalent of one billion tons of TNT.
BATTLE NOT NEW
"Lapp has been conducting a running battle against the AEC's secret policy which prevents announcements concerning most of the tests and, even at the public detonation May 21, withheld the explosion data necessary to calculate the exact amount of radiation.
"Education about the biological effects of nuclear radiation is an absolute prerequisite if the human race is to survive," Lapp said, adding:
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ioactivity might also prove a valuable deterrent to the unlimited use of nuclear weapons."

Collier's was probably the first prominent magazine to vividly portray the tragic dangers of radioactivity. Two years ago it published an article about the dangers of "ATOMIC GARBAGE" by Robert De Roos, which should awaken every human to this dreadful way of exterminating the human race. We herein print copious extracts from his article. This article is the first one, ever to have been published to our knowledge, which discloses the true facts about plutonium, as being the most deadly of the killer metals. Its greater importance as a killer, lies in the fact that it loses only half of its radioactivity in 23,000 years. Its primal effect upon the human body is in its direct attack upon the bone marrow where human blood corpuscles are formed. Together with strontium, these super calciums could cause more defective skeletal births and agonizing deaths than any plague heretofore known to have hurt mankind.
When you read these extracts have this thought in mind; that radioactivity has hardly begun as yet. This fuel is not intended for temporary use, but for permanent use. Think ahead, therefore, for a hundred years. If conditions are as they now are, after but a few experimental years, what would they be in a hundred years? We believe that there will not be one man on earth in a hundred years even if so few as fifty reactors, such as Hanford and Oak Ridge, are erected.
It cannot be said that the danger to human life is not fully realized, for the cost of the waste storage tanks is 1287,000 each, and the Hanford plant has already purchased 127,000,000 worth of these tanks. The fallacy of this tank plan is that the tanks themselves will disintegrate in a century or two, or become as radioactive as their contents in twenty years, thus fully releasing these deadly rays for many thousands of years of destruction. Many of these tanks have been thrown into the deep sea. We, of this generation, are quite safe from them, but other generations will pay dearly for what we are doing to them. Is not that a dreadful thought?

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The latest idea for waste disposal is to lock it up in glazed bricks. Radioactive metals will destroy bricks as readily as they destroy granite and other rocky formations. It is a slow process but future generations will be the sufferers from it. There is no possible safe way of getting rid of radioactive waste beyond a few years. The deserts of the world offer the only chance. By plowing very deep furrows for hundreds of miles, and distributing all waste and free metals in very small amounts over thousands of such miles in many deserts, it may be possible to save our atmosphere. Otherwise, we will have no atmosphere in time.
One woman of the middle west, who read the following Collier's article, was heard to say: "Every pregnant woman of the future will continually fear that her baby may be a defective." What a horrible thought, especially for women of this generation, to whom such a thought never occurs.
"Far out in the desert wasteland of eastern Washington, at the Atomic Energy Commission's gigantic Hanford plutonium works, radioactive elements surge in vast underground tanks—a pent-up sea of useless energy which is a constant worry to the scientists who unwillingly created it. This deadly broth of fission products is the garbage of the atomic age.
And these highly active liquid wastes are only part of the story. Potentially dangerous atomic garbage comes in all forms: liquids, solids, gases and vapors. The ordinary defenses of man are powerless against all of them. Radioactivity is invisible and silent; it cannot be touched or tasted or smelled. And everything a radioactive element comes in contact with becomes contaminated: a wrench used in atomic installations, steel drums, a bit of wastepaper from a laboratory. Carcasses of experimental animals may contain small amounts of radioactivity; even the laundry water used to wash contaminated garments gets polluted.
The story of radioactive wastes is just being understood by the public. For years it was cloaked in the secrecy which surrounds all dealings with the atom. But the dilemma posed by the wastes has been with us ever since the first self-sustaining atomic pile was activated under the bleachers at Stagg Field in Chicago in 1942, for when the physicists pulled the switch on the atomic age, they

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also created something else: the world's first radioactive rubbish— the inevitable, lethal products of nuclear fission.
Ten years of production, which has seen the world-shaking atom bomb pale before the even more shattering hydrogen bomb, has left the AEC with an accumulation of millions of gallons of liquid radioactive garbage and tons of contaminated solid objects. And there's more every day.

The problem facing the AEC—and a problem which it confidently asserts is being handled with great efficiency and success—is how to keep these new materials out of the environment—out of the air we breathe, out of our drinking water and food supplies. The garbage must be kept tightly under control because unbelievably small— often invisible—amounts can contaminate large areas.
What makes the problem so serious is the fact that this radioactive garbage is bulking up at increasing rates—thousands of gallons every day.
And it's only the beginning. The atomic-energy industry, big as it is, is only an infant now, and today's rubbish can be handled by storing it in remote sections of the country. But under the provisions of new Congressional legislation, private manufacturers will be encouraged to develop the commercial uses of fission material. So in the not-too-distant future, disposal of wastes will become a neighborhood matter.
Some of the best engineering brains in the country are grappling with the serious question, but unless they come up with workable solutions, constantly swelling stores of waste may hamper full development of such peacetime atomic projects as generation of electric power, heating of whole communities from central atomic "furnaces," propulsion of ships and planes, and thousands of undreamed-of new ideas.
At Hanford, where the atomic refuse represents the greatest nonmilitary concentration of radioactive elements ever known to man, the scientists rely on CC to dispose of highly active wastes. The radiation level of the hot stuff is fantastically high: the tanks the trash is buried in contain several million times the radioactivity of the world's entire commercial supply of radium.

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Just one element sloughed off in making plutonium—strontium 90—is over 60 times as radioactive as radium. How dangerous is that? An engineer of the General Electric Company, which operates Hanford for the AEC, figured out what would happen in the hypothetical event that you threw the element into the Columbia River—which no one would be likely to do. After covering a sheet of paper with computations, he came up with this answer: "It would take over eight hours of the full flow of the Columbia—fifty-three billion gallons—to dilute one gram of pure strontium 90 to the point where the water would be safe enough to drink according to the AEC's permissible limits. Or putting it another way, if you dripped three grams of the element in the Columbia every day, the water of the sixth-largest river in the U. S. would be unfit to drink." (A gram is 1/28 of an ounce.)
In addition to strontium 90, the chain reaction spews out about 40 other radioactive waste elements with half lives ranging from seconds to millions of years. A half life is the time it takes half of the atoms in a radioactive element to become disintegrated.
Storage of the really hot stuff is very expensive. A recent contract for six 1,000,000-gallon tanks was let for $1,724,000. Hanford has $27,000,000 worth of tanks with a storage capacity of 67,000,000 gallons.
No one claims the tanks provide the solution to atomic rubbish disposal. "We are uncertain about the effects of these radioactive wastes," comments General Electric's Dr. Herbert M. Parker, director of the radiological sciences department at Hanford. "We are starting conservatively while trying to get answers which may modify the present program."
David F. Shaw, the AEC manager at Hanford, adds: "Meanwhile we keep building the tanks." At $287,000 each.
Meanwhile, most of the rubbish is stored. The only highly radioactive wastes being thrown away are those now sent out to sea to be dumped in very deep water beyond the continental shelf. A federally sponsored committee hopes this system may provide the ultimate solution to the waste-disposal problem. On the other hand, oceanographers, sanitary engineers, marine biologists and marine geologists are already concerned about what will happen when large amounts of radioactivity are thrown into the oceans.

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"The sea has the same topography as the land," says Dr. Abel Wolman, of The Johns Hopkins University, a consultant to the AEC and one of the top sanitary engineers in the United States. "Big as it is, it won't accommodate everything we want to throw into it."
How winds, waves and currents will affect the dispersion or concentration of radioactive materials is under very serious study. Dr. Wolman says: "One thing that makes me a little reluctant about using the ocean is the memory of the New York garbage mess—when New York dumped its trash far at sea only to have it drift back to the Jersey beaches. And what about international control of dumping at sea?"
At Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the vast silences of the Appalachian Mountains, stand the tremendous gaseous diffusion plants where U235 is made by the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Company, a division of Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation.
Oak Ridge, a 60,000-acre site, also contains the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which produces most of the country's radioactive isotopes for experimental work.
HOW OAK RIDGE GETS RID OF ITS REFUSE
Although its waste problem does not compare with Hanford's in volume, Oak Ridge still pours 50,000 gallons of highly active refuse into its underground tanks every week. Another 5,000,000 gallons of less active rubbish also must be disposed of.
Because Oak Ridge is located in a remote region, the disposal of less active wastes is not a minor worry; but getting rid of the highly radioactive rubbish is harder. Teams of scientists, headed by Dr. Z. K. Morgan, director of the health physics division of the National Laboratory, believe they have an answer for final disposal of the dangerous, long-lived refuse at Oak Ridge, if not in all other parts of the country.
Two huge pits were bulldozed out of a hillside above White Oak Lake and large amounts of very hot wastes were poured in. The theory was that the radioactive fission products would be trapped by the fine particles of shale underlying the pits; any small amounts of hot stuff that seeped through would be diluted in the waters of the lake.
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through the ground. At the end of two months, only one waste element had penetrated through to one well."

McCalls Magazine for January of 1957, had this front cover headline for a story by Pare Lorentz, "RADIOACTIVITY IS POISONING YOUR CHILDREN." We quote parts of his story which is indicative of the fear which is felt throughout the world of this threat to the human race:

"It is no secret today that a hydrogen war, no matter who starts it or who is attacked, will mean the destruction of most of the human race. One of our own high-ranking generals has stated publicly that a hydrogen attack by our forces might take the lives of three or four hundred million people—enemy or ally—"depending on the direction of the winds"!
What is not so well known, but what could be equally disastrous, is a possible slow degeneration of the human race caused by radioactive poisons released during times of peace.
Here is a substance you can neither see, feel, hear, taste nor smell. You may be exposed to it unwittingly; you may inhale it, or absorb it by drinking polluted water or by eating contaminated food. You may not feel any immediate ill effects, yet some materials remain radioactive for years in the body, operating as so many infinitesimal but dangerous X-ray machines.
1. No amount of man-made radiation, external or internal, is "good" for healthy, living things. Any amount of exposure does some harm, however slight.
2. Radiation is cumulative and irreversible. To put it very unscientifically, you have just so much radiation tolerance, and every time you are subjected to X rays or any other kind of man-made radiation, you have drawn against your total allowance. Some people have more tolerance than others, but, ideally, the quantity of total body radiation to which a human being is exposed during his lifetime should not be greater than that to which he is subjected from the sun, stars and planets and radiation arising from the minerals in the earth's surface.

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3. There is no such thing as a peaceful use of atomic energy, if by "peaceful" you mean "harmless." Even the by-products of a peaceful nuclear reactor could be used in one form or another for military purposes. Radiations inside atomic plants are dangerous. Air escaping from the plants can become contaminated. If water is used to shield or to cool the plant, it can become contaminated. The waste materials—the by-products of nuclear fission—are radioactive, some materials remaining highly dangerous for centuries.
4. The more people exposed to radiation, the more damage to generations yet unborn.
For years, many groups of scientists in many parts of the world have issued appeals for a cessation of atomic explosions, on the grounds that the fall-out of radioactive materials gradually is poisoning the earth. Because of the cloud of secrecy surrounding the military facts of atomic energy and because some of these scientific groups are politically suspect, many of these appeals have been reported in the daily press as political rather than scientific discussions.
A careful study of the official reports of our own authorities, however, should convince anyone that sooner or later the atomic powers will have to stop releasing poisonous materials in the atmosphere. If they do not stop, and stop completely, they will have achieved mutual annihilation just as surely as though they had engaged in actual, all-out hydrogen warfare.
What is more, even if all bomb tests were stopped tomorrow, it is estimated that the main part of the poisonous materials that already have been released into the upper atmosphere will not have fallen on us until 1970, and there will be a continuation of this noxious rain long after that."
The following is quoted from the Christian Science Monitor—as written by its Science editor, Robert C. Cowen:

"A special study group of leading American natural scientists has concluded that there is no radiation danger to human life from the present rate of atomic weapons tests. This cuts the technical ground from under the repeated demands that such tests be

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stopped because of the radioactive materials they release into the atmosphere.
But, at the same time, these experts warn that the full worldwide development of peaceful uses for the atom could produce more of a radiation hazard in the form of radioactive wastes than would an allout atomic war. In fact, this "hot" waste disposal problem is growing so quickly today that their report urges its immediate and urgent consideration at the international level to determine and set up adequate safeguards.
This report by responsible natural scientists should help to bring more balanced thinking than has been evidenced in the past to bear on the vexing question of whether or not the human race is endangering its own future by releasing atomic radiations into its environment.
The report was based on extensive studies by 145 natural scientists conducted under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences and financed by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The studies were set up specifically to help resolve the worldwide controversy over radiation hazards and to provide some useful data in a field that is beset with ignorance and uncertainties."
The following is from the Washington Daily News, Monday, September 10, 1956, by Gene Shumate:

WE ARE BREATHING ATOM-AGE AIR HERE
(It's Radioactive Most of the Time) The air over Washington has been radioactive more than 70 per
cent of the time since 1951, a Naval Research Laboratory report said today.
In 1953, it said, Washingtonians breathed pre-atomic air for only 60 days.
ATOMIC AGE
"We haven't had normal, clean air since before the atomic age — or since we started testing atomic weapons at Yucca Flats, Nev.," Dr. Herbert Friedman of the laboratory's Electron Optics Branch told The News.
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It said the Navy has studied the air in a series of areas since 1949—Chicago, Washington, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Memphis, Puerto Rico, Panama, seven scattered Pacific isles, North Africa, and Alaska.
Of all of them, the report said, Washington and Chicago were the most radioactive.

DOSAGE IS SMALL
Dr. Friedman said the average dosage present in the air here is only two-tenths of a roentgen—far from being immediately dangerous—"but we're not sure what the accumulative effect on man will be."
It takes about 500 to 600 roentgens to kill a man outright, he said. "There's a lot we don't know as yet about what effect breathing even slightly radioactive air over extended periods will have on us," Dr. Friedman said. "We do know that certain isotopes up there are bad actors."
The greatest and most powerful expression of fear from the use of radioactivity which has yet been made by anyone among the higher intellectuals, is the following world-broadcast appeal by Dr. Albert Schweitzer Norwegian Nobel Committee, asking that "public opinion demand an end to nuclear tests."

The New York Times, April 24, 1957.
SCHWEITZER URGES WORLD OPINION TO DEMAND END OF NUCLEAR TESTS
Nobel Winner's Plea Broadcast in 50 Lands Says Alternative Is Catastrophe for Mankind
OSLO, Norway, April 23—Dr. Albert Schweitzer has appealed to the world to end nuclear tests.
The appeal of the 82-year-old missionary surgeon, philosopher and musician, addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, was broadcast today in about fifty countries, including most of those in Europe. It was broadcast in Swahili from Nairobi and Japanese stations carried it.

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Dr. Schweitzer's message was read in Norwegian by Unnar Jahn, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, who in 1952 bestowed the Nobel Peace Prize on Dr. Schweitzer. Translations of the text were read in English, German, French and Russian on Norwegian short-wave stations.
The impact of the warning was heightened for Norwegian listeners because the broadcast followed by fifteen minutes a report of a recent radioactive rain over Norway caused by Soviet nuclear explosions.
The initiative for the broadcast came from Dr. Schweitzer himself. The Norwegian state radio planned to send a reporter to his hospital in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa, where Dr. Schweitzer lives and works, to make a recording of the speech.
Dr. Schweitzer said he was too weak to read the appeal himself. It was, therefore, decided that the message would be read in translation and Dr. Schweitzer expressed the hope that it would reach the whole world.
Dr. Schweitzer said his aim was to awaken public opinion before it was too late. He warned that the human race was heading for a catastrophe if nuclear explosions were continued. This catastrophe must be prevented, he said.
"There can be no question of doing anything else, if only for the reason that we cannot take the responsibility for the consequences it might have for our descendants; they are threatened by the greatest and most terrible danger," Dr. Schweitzer said.
He emphasized that to fail to consider the importance of radioactive elements created by man and their consequences would be a folly "for which humanity would have to pay a terrible price." "We are committing this folly in thoughtlessness," he said.
PUTS IT UP TO PUBLIC
Dr. Schweitzer asked why the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain did not come to agreement to stop the tests. He believed the reason was that there was no public opinion asking for it. Japan, he added, is the only exception.
He accused "official and unofficial sources" of evading the problem when they assured that the increase in radioactivity of the air did not exceed an amount the human body could tolerate without harm.
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in the air we are indirectly affected through that which has fallen down, is falling down and will fall down," he declared.
He also stressed that not only was the health of the present population threatened by internal radiation but also that of future generations.
"The fact is that the cells of the reproductive organs are particularly vulnerable to radiation," he said.
Dr. Schweitzer concluded his warning by appealing to public opinion in all nations to demand an agreement to stop the tests. "The end of further experiments with atomic bombs would be like the early sunrays of hope which suffering humanity is longing for," he said.

SCHWEITZER'S APPEAL TO END NUCLEAR TESTS
OSLO, Norway, April 23 (Reuters) —Following is the translation of excerpts from a letter issued by Dr. Albert Schweitzer through the Norwegian Nobel Committee, asking that public opinion demand an end to nuclear tests:
Since March 1, 1954, hydrogen bombs have been tested, by the Americans at the Pacific island of Bikini in the Marshall Group and by the Russians in Siberia.
After the explosion of a hydrogen bomb . . . something remained in the air, namely an incalculable number of radioactive particles emitting radioactive rays. This was also the case with the uranium bombs which were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima and those with which subsequent tests were made. However, because these bombs had smaller size and less effect compared with the hydrogen bombs, one hardly paid any attention to this fact.
Since radioactive rays of sufficient amount and strength have harmful effects on the human body, one started discussing if the radiation resulting from the explosions that had already taken place represented a danger which would increase with new explosions.
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from complete, allows us to draw the conclusion that radiation resulting from the explosions which have already taken place, represents a danger to the human race, a danger not to be underrated, and that further explosions of atomic bombs will increase this danger to an alarming extent.
I raise my voice, together with those of others who have lately felt it their duty to act, in speaking and writing, as warners of the danger. My age and the sympathy that I have gained for myself through advocating the idea of reverence for life, permit me to hope that my appeal may contribute to the preparing of the way for the insight so urgently needed.
There are two kinds of atom bombs, uranium bombs and hydrogen bombs. To these two bombs has recently been added the cobalt bomb, a .kind of super-atom bomb. The effect of this bomb is estimated to be many times stronger than that of hydrogen bombs having been made till now.
The explosion of an atom bomb creates an inconceivably large number of exceedingly small particles of radioactive elements.
PARTICLES HAVE LONG LIFE
Of these elements, some exist for hours, some for weeks, or months, or years, or millions of years, undergoing continuous decay. They float in the higher strata of air as clouds of radioactive dust. The heavy particles fall down first. The lighter ones will stay in the air for a longer time or come down with the rain and the snow. How long it will take before everything carried up in the air by the explosions which have taken place till now has disappeared, no one can say with any certainty. According to some estimates, this will be the case not earlier than thirty or forty years from now.
What we can state with certainty, however, is that the radioactive clouds will constantly be carried by the winds around the globe and that some of the dust, by its own weight, or by being brought down by rain, snow, mist and dew, little by little, will fall down on the hard surface of the earth, into the rivers and into the oceans.
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the radioactive dust. Cobalt-60 must also be mentioned as particularly dangerous.
WATER MADE RADIOACTIVE
The radioactivity in the air, increased through these elements, will not harm us from the outside, not being strong enough to penetrate the skin. But the danger which has to be stressed above all the others is the one which arises from our drinking radioactive water and our eating radioactive food as a consequence of the increased radioactivity in the air.
Following the explosions on Bikini and Siberia rain falling over Japan was, from time to time, been so radioactive that the water from it cannot be drunk. And not only there: reports of radioactive rainfall are coming from all parts of the world where analyses have recently been made. In several places, the water has proved to be so radioactive that it was unfit for drinking.
Wherever radioactive rainwater is found, the soil is also radioactive—and in a higher degree. The soil is more radioactive not only by the downpour, but also from radioactive dust falling on it. And with the soil the vegetation will also have become radioactive.
The radioactive elements deposited in the soil pass into the plants where they are stored. This is of importance, for as a result of this process it may be the case that we are threatened by a considerable amount of radioactive elements.
The radioactive elements in grass, when eaten by animals whose meat is used for food, will be absorbed and stored in our bodies.
What this storing of radioactive material implies is clearly demonstrated by the observations made when, at one occasion, the radioactivity of the Columbia River in North America was analyzed. The radioactivity was caused by the atomic plants at Hanford, which produce atomic energy for industrial purposes, and which empty their waste water into the river.
FINDS PROBLEM EVADED The radioactivity of the river water was insignificant. But the radioactivity of the river plankton was 2,000 times higher, that of the ducks eating the plankton 40,000 times higher, that of the fish 150,000 times higher. In young swallows fed on insects caught by

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their parents in the river, the radioactivity was 500,000 times higher and in the egg yolks of water birds more than 1,000,000 times higher.
From official and unofficial sources we have been assured, time and time again, that the increase in radioactivity of the air does not exceed the amount which the human body can tolerate without any harmful effects. This is just evading the problem.
Even if not directly affected by the radioactive material in the air, we are indirectly affected through that which has fallen down, is falling down, and will fall down. We are absorbing this through radioactive drinking water and through animal and vegetable foodstuffs, to the same extent as radioactive elements are stored in the vegetation of the region in which we live. Unfortunately for us, nature hoards what is falling down from the air.
None of the radioactivity of the air, brought into existence by the exploding of atom bombs is so unimportant that it may not, in the long run, become a danger to us through increasing the amount of radioactivity stored in our bodies.
What are the diseases caused by internal radiation? The same diseases that are known to be caused by external radiation.
They are mainly serious blood diseases. If the cells in the bone marrow are damaged by radiation they will produce too few or abnormal, degenerating blood corpuscles. Both cases lead to blood diseases and, most often, to death. These were the diseases that killed the victims of X-rays and radium rays.
It was one of these diseases that attacked the Japanese fishermen who were surprised in their vessel by radioactive ashes falling down 240 miles from Bikini after the explosion of an hydrogen bomb. With one exception, they were all saved, being strong and relatively mildly affected, through continuous blood transfusions.
DAMAGE TO DESCENDANTS
In the cases cited, the radiation came from the outside. It is unfortunately very probable that internal radiation affecting the bone marrow and lasting for years will have the same effect, particularly since the radiation goes from the bone tissue to the bone marrow.
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the profound damage of these cells corresponds a profound damage to our descendants.
To find out how the existing radioactive radiation has affected posterity, comparative studies have been made between the descendants of doctors who have been using X-ray apparatus for years and those of doctors who have not. Among the descendants of radiologists, a percentage of still births of 1.403 was found, while the percentage among the nonradiologists was 1.222.
In the first group, 6.01 per cent of the children had congenital defects, while only 4.82 per cent in the second.
It must be remembered that even the weakest of internal radiation can have harmful effects on our descendants.
The total effect of the damage done to descendants of ancestors who have been exposed to radioactive rays will not, in accordance with the laws of genetics, be apparent in the generations coming immediately after us. The full effects will appear only 100 or 200 years later.
We are forced to regard every increase in the existing danger through further creation of radioactive elements by atom bomb explosions as a catastrophe for the human race, a catastrophe that must be prevented under every circumstance.
There can be no question of doing anything else, if only for the reason that we cannot take the responsibility for the consequences it might have for our descendants.
They are threatened by the greatest and most terrible danger. That radioactive elements created by us are found in nature is an astounding event in the history of the earth. And of the human race. To fail to consider its importance and its consequences would be a folly for which humanity would have to pay a terrible price. When public opinion has been created in the countries concerned and among all nations, an opinion informed of the dangers involved in going on with the tests and led by the reason which this information imposes, then the statesmen may reach an agreement to stop the experiments. A public opinion of this kind stands in no need of plebiscites or of forming of committees to express itself. It works through just being there. The end of further experiments with atom bombs would be like the early sun-rays of hope which suffering humanity is longing for.

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New York Times, April 21st. 1957.
EUROPE'S NUCLEAR FEAR
An Analysis of Changed Sentiment Toward Danger of Atomic Warfare
PARIS, April 20—Europe is growing alarmed about nuclear bombs. The mood today has markedly changed from that of the late decade, when the United States monopoly or predominance in nuclear power was widely regarded as assuring peace and the security of this Continent.
Nuclear weapons are no longer considered a beneficent invention. At the very moment when the United States officially promised nuclear arms to its European allies, eighteen West German physicists joined in declaring they opposed the use of such arms by their country and would do nothing to further nuclear armament. They said current tactical nuclear weapons were as destructive as the original atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and that their acquisition by West Germany might increase its danger.
Europeans are becoming convinced that nuclear weapons are a menace even if there never is a nuclear war. A committee of the Atomic Scientists Association in Britain has reported that as a result of the hydrogen bombs exploded so far one person in 50,000 is likely to get cancer in the next few decades from the strontium entering his bones. This is an unproved estimate but represents a scientific judgment based on the assumption that the likelihood of cancer is proportionate to the radioactivity in the bones.
Pending more conclusive evidence and fuller agreement among experts, many Europeans favor suspension of the bomb tests that produce radioactive "fall-out" of greater or lesser malignancy. British statesmen find it more difficult to defend their nuclear bomb tests, which are only beginning.
Soviet bomb tests have led to disturbing atmospheric results in Japan. After measuring the radioactive fall-out this week, Japanese scientists warned of the danger and opinion grew in favor of a ban on all nuclear tests by all nations. An official Japanese protest to Moscow brought the reply that the Soviet Union was willing to suspend the tests if the Western powers agreed.
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Western scientists were the first to develop the atomic bomb. A Western power, the United States, was the first to use it in war. The Western alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has based its strategy on the assumption it will use nuclear weapons to meet an aggression. This decision was reasserted on Thursday by Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Deputy Commander in Chief of the Atlantic forces in Europe.
Thus the Western powers are faced with a moral and strategic dilemma that troubles the consciences of many in Europe.
If the West foregoes use of nuclear weapons it will be hopelessly inferior on land to the Soviet Union in Europe and to Communist China in Asia. Both these powers have enormous armies that the West cannot match. The West is not even trying to match them but, as the recent British defense decision showed, is reducing armies in favor of nuclear weapons.
THE CONTAMINATION PROBLEM
But if the Western powers adhere to their policy of basing their defense on nuclear weapons in the hope of thus preventing war, they will risk playing into the hands of Soviet propaganda and causing the vast uncommitted Middle East and Far East to believe the West is responsible for a nuclear arms race.
At the same time the Western governments probably will face growing criticism from their own peoples, who fear not only a nuclear war but even the periodic nuclear bomb tests that contaminate the atmosphere that people breathe and the plants and animals they eat.
Western leaders have sought to limit armaments, including nuclear armaments, but have been unable to find any system of inspection to insure enforcement of any agreement. But it is urged in Europe that no such system is needed to drop bomb tests, since all such tests by the Soviet Union are immediately detected and announced in Washington. Much concern was felt throughout the country last July (1956) by the sensational testimony given by Lieut. General James A. Gavin before the senate subcommittee investigating air power. Lieut. General Gavin was asked by Senator James F. Duff, of Pennsylvania, what in his opinion, would be the effect of hydrogen bombs dropped on Russia.

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Gavin replied that deaths would run into several hundred millions, and, depending on which way the wind blew, would extend well into the Japanese, and perhaps the Philippine Islands areas or well back up into Western Europe.
That testimony brought forth this reply from Senator Mike Mansfield, of Montana: "The horrible conclusion given by Lieut. General Gavin should make us realize that in this difficult era, with the world's scientists running riot, we are faced with an uneasy peace based on the idea of mutual terror.
"It would be my sincere hope that the administrations of the world will take into the most serious and deliberate consideration the dreadful reality of Lieut. General Gavin's reply and explore ways and means through which the peoples of the world can be protected from terrible devastations over which they have no control."
These reports from scientific sources speak fluently regarding the danger to every human being if radioactivity is used. After reading them do you feel assured that you and your children are safe from it? Are you willing that it shall be tried out, knowing as you do, that the human race would be the guinea pig for the most dangerous experiment ever tried by man, and his last one, if he is wrong?
In reading these statements you probably noticed that the small experimental plant at Arco, Idaho, blew up. It could not even be approached for six months afterwards. Accidents happen to a big plant as well as a small one. Does it make you feel comfortable to think that a plant like the Hanford one, or the one to be built near New York, or Detroit, might blow up?
When you think of the world concern and care given to protect people from the two pounds of radium, which was all the world had twenty years ago, does it make you feel comfortable to know that 8,000 tons of much more deadly uranium salts are produced each year from a present stock pile of 600,000 tons of uranium ore? Also, do you feel that it is quite safe to continue multiplying the effects you have read about for a hundred, two hundred, or three hundred years, which we would have to do if radioactivity is to be the next world fuel? Do you

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realize that the government is spending $2,000,000,000 a year in atomic experiments, and private industry is spending an equal amount, or more, for a dangerous and costly fuel when it could quite easily have a perfectly safe and inexpensive fuel in abundance for not more than $100,000 and a little knowledge of the true nature of electricity?
Before making your own decision whether or no you would vote in favor of radioactivity, read once more what Dr. Ralph Lapp said about the atom bomb tests distribution of strontium in the atmosphere. He said: "That at the present rate of H. bomb tests, if continued and probably accelerated, by 1962 there would be enough radioactive strontium committed to the stratosphere to produce a 100% maximum permissible amount in every person on the planet." Do read his report with great mental concentration. No other report gives much concern to what he calls "hold up." Again we say that our primary danger is in that stratosphere "hold up," and not in the "fall out." Dr. Lapp estimates that this "hold up" will fall at about 10% a year. If this is true the human race could not survive another ten years of bomb tests such as the United States and Russia are conducting.
We are not in full agreement with Dr. Lapp concerning the 10% fall to earth, for the potential of that "hold up" is lower than the potential of a pressure ten miles up, and it is slowly expanding to still lower potential. The already too heavy "hold up" will blanket the atmosphere layer and eat into it slowly, but irrevocably and thus thin our life giving and life protecting blue envelope. If Dr. Lapp is right, the human race would already be doomed.
Again we urge everyone to obey the advice given by Dr. Lapp, which we quote from his report as follows: "Education about the biological effects of nuclear radiation is an absolute prerequisite if the human race is to survive."

PART II

PRELUDE
In the heart of every man is the desire for love—for happiness, peace and prosperity. In the hearts of nations of men is the One-World desire for international unity. Universal Brotherhood is the ultimate world-goal. How far are we from that goal? The distance is far ahead for the human race. Its distance is measurable only by the yardstick of LOVE, and love has not yet entered the doorway of human relations, and will not until unity opens the door for it to come in.
Unity means Oneness. Unity balances the mate-hood of all pairs of people and equalizes their transactions in giving and regiving. Civilization has not yet progressed to the point where UNITY, through the GIVING and REGIVING of LOVE, can even be comprehended by more than a few of man's millions.
Man's greatest lesson is to learn how to give. We are still in the barbarian age of taking—of even taking life. The spiritual age is dawning, however. Its doors are slightly ajar, but that is all, for our World-House is erected upon the sands of disunity. The product of disunity is fear. A house divided against itself by disunity and fear must fall. Peace, happiness and prosperity cannot enter a divided house of fear.
If you now ask when peace, happiness and prosperity will come to man, we say to you that it will come when the Light of Love unites all men as ONE, and that shall come to pass only when man ceases to create fear.

CHAPTER IV
The True Nature of This Mind and Motion Universe
I The time has come in man's unfolding when he should have more knowledge of the nature of this electric universe of motion. He has never truly known it, for he has but sensed its shadow. The real meaning of substance has never been known by man for what it is. He only knows it for what he senses it to be.
Actually we live in two universes—the invisible zero universe of CAUSE, and the visible universe of EFFECT. We have sensed the EFFECT and believed in its reality. We have never yet known the universe of CAUSE. It is time that we begin to know God's invisible universe which is in absolute control of the visible universe. Man will never solve the riddle of the universe until he fully knows and comprehends the zero universe which he can in no way hear or see. He can know it, however, and in so knowing he can, likewise, know God. He can even prove the fact of the omnipresent God in his laboratory. Nor shall man ever solve the riddle of his own Self—his own Identity, until he knows that he, himself, is as eternal as God is eternal. When man knows that he is Mind and that his body is his Mind-Creation, as the whole universal body is the Mind-Creation of God, he will then know what the consummate mystic of two thousand years ago meant when He said: "I and My Father are ONE."
That is man's first great lesson. For ages he has believed that his body is his Identity, and that his Mind is in his body but limited to the boundaries of his body. It has never occurred
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to him that his Mind is IN—but not OF his body. It has not yet occurred to him that his body is but a "tape recording" of what his Mind is "dictating" into it. He has not yet begun to realize that there is but ONE CREATOR in this universe, nor that he is ONE with that ONE. When man's first great lesson has been learned through the awakening of that divine Cosmic spark, which has for so long been dormant in him, he will then have reached his first stage of God-awareness which all men seek, even though long ages pass before any man even suspects that he is seeking the Light of his divine Self. When that great lesson is fully learned he will then know that he lives eternally and cannot die—and that his body manifests his thinking for awhile, then rests for an interval before again manifesting his thinking from the point where it rested in his yesterday.
I I As a prelude to this very brief outline of the principles upon which our universe is founded we will reduce that entire principle to one sentence, from which we will not depart during this entire narrative. We will but expand this one basic principle by describing its processes. Herein follows that one sentence: The Father-Mother of Creation divides His sexless unity into sex-divided pairs of father and mother bodies, for the purpose of uniting them to create other pairs of father and mother bodies in eternal sequences forever. This is the whole simple plan of Creation. We will now begin to unfold the seeming complexities of its really very simple processes which so mightily deceive our senses. If our comprehension is strong enough we will be able to continually see a simple thread, which is repeated over and over in every effect of motion throughout all Nature, and throughout every event and experience of life. We will endeavor to enable you to see that simple continuing thread by repeating it many times in many ways.
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growth. Ages of marked wisdom become archaic to ages of greater wisdom. The last two or three decades of progress have moved the world ages ahead of the last century, and the last two or three years have promised to open new doors into that invisible universe where The Creator awaits man's recognition and awareness of His omnipresence.
Science is discovering God's invisible Magnetic Mind universe through little peepholes into it through a newly dawning Intelligence, but science is not yet aware of what it is discovering. Science calls it anti-matter as yet. That is wonderful—and hopeful. To have discovered and believed that there is a something outside of matter, which is seemingly the source of matter emerging from it, is so wonderful that it seems like a thousand years of progress in a day.
Matter is motion. The anti-matter, which now engages the serious attention of science, is stillness. Some scientists say it is pure energy. If matter, which is but motion, is energy, and anti-matter, which is not motion, is pure energy, what kind of energy is that which is impure? What does it mean? The time has come when it is imperative that science must divorce motion and energy as one identity, and regard matter as but the product of the Energy Source.
We wish to demonstrate to you that the anti-matter stillness, which science is discovering, is the Creator's Energy Source. Yes—there is an invisible zero universe. It is the Mind-universe of Magnetic Light. For scientific purposes in explaining the construction of matter, we will name it the omnipresent universal vacuum. The universal vacuum is the expansion end of the universal piston, and gravity is the compression end.
As electricity is the creator of focal points, which we call gravity, and because compression is the sole office of electricity, every oscillation of the electric current of Creation is an interchange between the stillness of the universal vacuum of God's Mind-universe of CAUSE, and the electric universe of motion, to produce EFFECT.
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is a cycle. Pulsing cycles constitute the heart beat of this universe, which simulates Mind-Idea through pulsing cycles of two-way motion. Every pulsation of the life principle of multiplying motion creates divided electric male and female bodies, which seek rest in each other from the strains and tensions of their division into pairs of opposites.
The supreme effort of this book is to have you comprehend that Creation is a division of The Eternal One into countless twos of sex-conditioned opposites, which eternally seek to void their division by uniting as One.
Creation is a Mind-imagined journey of electrically divided male and female opposites in increasingly greater speed and power in the direction of each other, where they unite in rest to re-divide, and return with ever increasing speed and decreasing power, to the zero of rest in the Magnetic Light of Mind from which they sprang into action. Creation is an illusion which stimulates substance by multiplying the speed of centripetal motion, and loses its appearance of substance by multiplying its centrifugal speed. If we prove this new state of facts to be in accord with Nature's plan, it will obviously be necessary to have very different concepts of the Nature of the universe than those concepts which are now held by man.
IV We herein print two diagrams to symbolize both ends of the compression-expansion pump, which this universe is. We cannot move our little finger without gaining the power to do so from the vacuum Source of that power. We do not know that fact yet. We do not yet know that we live, and breathe, and express our multiple desires only by constantly taking power for each cycle from God and giving it back to Him at each cycle's end. Man has not yet become aware of the fact that he is but the motion within the divine Cosmic vacuum tube which sparks its little light from out of its dark, and is, himself, that dark when his light goes out. When man is fully aware of the fact that he eternally lives in God's invisible Magnetic Light as One with it, and merely manifests life by action in the electric universe,

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he will then know that when action ceases it merely ceases without affecting him, even as sound ceases without affecting him who made the sound.
One of these drawings symbolizes the Energy end of the Cosmic Piston from which gravity emerges in moving pairs to simulate energy by motion. The other drawing symbolizes the effects of motion at the compressed end of the Cosmic Piston.
V It is self-evident that all motion springs from rest and returns to rest for eternal repetition in sequences which we call electric frequencies. It is also self-evident that all motion springs from out of the dark in divided pairs and multiplies their gaseous beginnings into dense bodies of incandescent suns, then disappears into the dark through the gases of themselves. WHERE and WHAT is this invisible dark from which the light of motion appears, and into which it disappears? Is not this the supreme question of all the ages? Can there be any other answer to that question than the fact that Creation emerges from its Creator? The .greatest thinkers in science have repeatedly said that matter emerges from space and is swallowed up by space in some unknown and mysterious manner. The word space is rather a casual word to use in place of the Creator. Likewise, it is a misleading word, for space is not an expanse of something outside of matter. It is as omnipresent within matter as it is without, and it is in control of matter from within as well as from without. Future generations of enlightened men will cease thinking of this electric universe as being matter and substance. They will know it for what it is, which is motion only. When the idea of substance has passed out of our thinking, and simulation of substance by motion will have taken its place, mankind will then comprehend his Mind-unity with the Universal Mind. And he will know his body for what it is—merely an instrument for creating form-images of Mind-thinking.
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FIG. 6 symbolizes the uncreated universe, the zero vacuum universe of rest, from which the objective electric universe of motion emerges to manifest eternal life by simulating it in cycles of motion. This is God's omnipresent universe of Idea, and Desire for the expression of Idea, by moving forms which symbolize Idea. This is the universe of The Imaginer Who builds forms in the image of His imagining for giving and regiving in cyclic intervals, which unknowing man calls life and death.
This is the omniscient universe of eternal MIND-QUALITIES from which transient electric QUALITIES emerge to simulate the qualities of Mind— Magnetic Light—Knowledge—Idea—Energy—Life—Soul—Love—Truth— BeautyRhythm—Balance—Law—Silence—Rest and Stillness.
This is the abiding place of eternal MAN who is ONE with GOD. It is God's kingdom of heaven within man, which the Nazarene bade men to seek.
of Being. The supreme urge back of His divided pairs is to seek unity in each pair. This is as true of the elements of matter, as it is true of living organic beings. Since all matter is divided into mate-pairs, is it not time that the Father-Motherhood principle of Oneness in the Creator, be recognized as the desire to attain that father-motherhood oneness by all of the divided mate-pairs of all Creation? Every particle of inorganic and organic matter in the universe is perpetually seeking unity with its balanced mate. There is no exception to this fact in all Creation. Sodium seeks balanced unity in chlorine. It does not seek it in aluminum, phosphorous or silicon. Nor do any of

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EFFECT FIG. 7 symbolizes the transient, created quantities of divided pairs of units of electric motion which emerge from the vacuum zero universe to manifest its qualities for timed intervals, and are then dissolved into its equilibrium for reemergence. These seeming quantities are Electricity—Compression—Form— Lightspectrum—Expansion—Sex—Sound—Heat and Motion. These multiple quantities seem to exist. They appear and disappear to again reappear, to simulate the qualities of life, energy and idea which they seem to be, but are not. This is the "motion-picture" universe of simulation and illusion which dramatizes the idea of REALITY by electrically projecting the thoughtimaged-forms of Mind—Idea upon the imagined-screen of space, which Nature is. There is no life, energy, knowledge, idea, truth, intelligence or any other quality of Mind or thought, in the motion which man calls matter and substance, and mistakes for reality. It is time that man realizes that there is nothing, whatsoever, in this visible universe but motion, and that REALITY exists only in the vacuum from which motion emerges as heat to simulate the Light of Reality.
the elements on the red, alkaline side of the spectrum, seek union with each other, nor do those on the blue, acid side seek union with each other.
If this search for balanced mates is universal in all bodies of matter, and if the division of an equilibrium into polarized pairs is the effect which electricity produces, why do we not recognize the sex principle as the basis of all electrically divided, and pressure conditioned matter, and discard the old text-book idea of two kinds of electricity, one which repels and the other

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which attracts, as being the basis of matter and motion? See Fig. 8. The Coulomb law would be more understandable under this concept,
for, naturally, males do not seek union with males, and two red, or two blue sides of the spectrum do not make a complete spectrum. Such an inconsistent concept should be no longer applicable in a progressive world of slowly unfolding intelligence. The Coulomb law of attraction of opposites and repulsion of likes, has no relation, whatsoever, to Natural law. Nature does not attract, nor does it repel. Pairs of opposites in Nature are projected centripetally toward each other by the light mirrors of wave-field projectors of light images, which must await further explanation in the very brief description of the geometry of space that we can include in this book. This basic new science is unknown as yet but we are preparing to leave full records of it for posterity if—and when— posterity shall be ready for it. Suffice it for here to say that all mates which are approaching each other for union are electrically forced to approach each other from the outside. They are not "attracted" together from the inside. They cannot help being forced. They are being wound up together electrically in spiral vortices. They must inevitably collide and become one even as a threaded screw is forced to interpenetrate an oppositely threaded nut. This simile is a good one in other ways. It exemplifies the red and blue of the spectrum and the red and blue of sex division. The red interpenetrates the blue in all elements up to carbon. Beyond carbon the blue interpenetrates the red. This is also an unknown basic characteristic of the creative process, for no text book of science even mentions it.
The Coulomb law has been fundamental for decades. Those who still desire to cling to it must deny the Einstein Equation of 1905, for both of these contradictory laws cannot be true. One or the other must be wrong.
V I All motion in all this universe is based upon the fact that the sexless condition of stillness has been divided into two sexed

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conditions. The division begins its tension at the cathode and multiplies that tension as the division extends from the cathode toward the anode. Electricity thus creates tensions and strains, which we call electric potential. Electric potential is the measure of compression at any one point in the universe. Gravity is evidenced wherever compression from without is maximum. Gravity is a focal point from which matter desires to explode outwardly. Gravity does not pull inwardly from within as the deceptive illusion of Nature would have you believe. Neither is it the attractive force which Newton's senses were deceived into believing, for a center of gravity is a point of maximum electric potential. Gravity never changes. It is never more or less. It is maximum everywhere. It is electric potential which changes by multiplying and dividing the measure of power it is able to express by drawing it from its gravity center of control. It is like the power of a man who can draw but little from the great omnipotence which centers him, as compared with another man whose knowledge enables him to draw more of it. Electric potential is the tension caused by the electric division of the ONE universal condition of rest into two unbalanced conditions of motion.
Polarity and sex are one. The two poles which unite are male and female opposites in all matter. The idea that sex is solely a characteristic of organic bodies is not a true concept. Sodium and chlorine are as male and female as man and woman are male and female. Every particle of matter in the universe is either male or female, and these pairs are electrically projected together in the ratios of force which Newton gave to the acceleration of gravity, and upon a multiplication of speed and potential principle, which Einstein gave in his Equation of 1905.
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Illustrating the Father-Mother Principle of building bodies by dividing light into polarized units, and reproducing bodies by uniting two oppositely projected units into one by centripetal compression. POLARITY and sex are ONE. Sex and electric potential are ONE.

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The cathode in Nature is the still point of Magnetic White Light of Mind from which motion begins to compress in two opposite directions to create sexdivided bodies. Gravity begins when compression begins. Polarization and compression are ONE.

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This drawing shows the method and process of interchange between the zero universe of Mind and the multiple universe of motion. Study all other drawings and relate them to these two. The more you comprehend them the more you will also comprehend that life is but fast motion and that death is a cessation of motion.
V I I The division of sexless Oneness into pairs could not be a part of Nature's process without also dividing the Oneness of Light. God's Magnetic Light is white because it is still. It has no tensions or strains in it, for it is not divided. It is invisible to the senses because it has no motion in it. The moment motion begins the Light of the Creator's energy is divided into pairs which multiply their red and blue intensities in the ratio of their extension from their cathode beginnings, just as electric potential multiplies its intensity for the same reason. If, there-

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This shows how the heartbeat piston operates between the vacuity of the Creator's Magnetic Light universe of Mind-energy and the potential of the electrically pressured universe to create cycles of two-way motion. The more you can comprehend the secret of God's Mind-control over His Creation, which is His universal 5ody, the more you will be able to control your body, for you will then know that God's Mind and yours are ONE.
fore, the Creator electrically divides His One pressureless, motionless Light into two oppositely pressured lights of motion, is it not imperative that we associate these two similar effects rise from the same cause, and judge them as ONE. Should we not recognize the fact that these two colliding light pressures wind up together, as a bolt threads into a nut, or more properly as one spiral spring intertwines into another? Is it not logical, therefore, to realize that the interpenetrating half of the spectrum is red, and the outer half is blue? That is the way we

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A study of Fig. 18 together with the bar magnet diagrams and other polarity diagrams shown in Figs. 11 to 16 will prepare you for a better understanding of the nature of electricity and the electric current.
find it in Nature. The inner core is the red of its heat and the outer layers are the blue of space into which the red core projects its heat to expand it. The outer layers then cool it and thus create imprisoned bodies whose sole desire is to escape imprisonment. Beyond carbon the inner core reverses to blue.
That is the way it is all through Nature. Compressed motion heats bodies which endeavor to escape. Expanded cold freezes bodies to keep them from escaping. That is the principle of body-forming. That is the principle of growth from a seed to a tree. The seed generates heat from the moisture of the sun-warmed ground. The seed explodes in its endeavor to escape from its compression prison. The explosion creates heat which is cooled and that which unfolds is refolded. Cell by cell is thus added by the interchange of motion between red light and blue, and between heat and cold as the father interpenetrates the mother womb of Nature to generate bodies, and the bodies escape from their wombs to return to their source.
As we thus unfold Nature's processes and her way of working you will gradually comprehend that there is no place in God's Cosmogony for such a concept as negative electricity, or negatively "charged" bodies. We live in a universe in which all creating, charging, polarizing, compressing and heating bodies manifest LIFE, and all discharging, depolarizing, expanding and cooling bodies manifest

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DEATH. One cannot say that a dying body is negatively charged, for a charging body is positive. It is living. Your car battery can be charging from its generator, and simultaneously discharging, from its use, but if you had no generator in your car the battery would discharge its charge until electricity ceased in it. While it is dying you would not even then say that it is negatively charged, for it would still be positively charged until it could no longer move. We do not say "negative sound" or "silent sound" when it is ceasing, or has ceased. Nor do we say "negative warmth," or "cold warmth," when a hot iron is cooling, or has cooled. Nor do we say "negative life," when a man is dying, or is dead.
Electricity compresses and ceases to compress, but we do not then say that it is "negatively compressed." It is for that reason we put a positive sign wherever an electric condition is existent, but there is no need for any sign unless there could be two which indicate sex, and two which indicate charge and discharge. When motion ceases electricity ceases. It is not then negative electricity—as death is not negative life. In all of these charging and discharging effects the tensions of the color spectrum parallel the tensions of electric potential. That is why they should be considered together.
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power to charge or compress. It necessarily and logically follows that .a negative electricity would be impossible in an electrically polarized universe in which both divided mates are equal. It also would be unnecessary if the other end of the compression pump, which this universe is, is the universal vacuum. Shall we call this new thinking, or is it but changed thinking? Shall we concede that early observers who arrived at such conclusions in the infancy of scientific research, were right, without the possibility of being mistaken? Or can we not consider them as torch bearers, rather than anchors?
It is in this sense that we present quite a different picture of the universe than the old one, which early observers sincerely and conscientiously gave to us as the best they knew in those early days. We cannot present the new concept of the Nature of the universe in the terminology which sprang from old concepts, however, so we beg of our readers that you realize the necessity of so doing is not critical of past contributions to world progress, but are only adding to it by changing old concepts to fit new illumining, which time and research have made possible. We feel that this explanation is necessary because some of these new changes of concept are so radically different from traditional training and thinking.
We repeat, however, that the main purpose of this book is to give this new knowledge in the interest of world-survival only at this time, and is not given as a text book of new scientific thinking for educational purposes. That will come later, and in other ways, such as we are gradually giving to our students. For this reason these writings are brief, but brief as they are, they will throw more light upon the new age of transmutation, which would surely follow a change from the old concepts of matter and motion to the new concepts briefly outlined herein. Transmutation needs but the comprehension of a few men of vision, men whose minds are not fixedly closed to make it a reality.
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discover that matter and motion is tonal—and thoroughly controllable. The elements are not substances. They are but states of motion, which can be controlled by knowledge and electric power. The present concept, which makes it necessary to knock out an electron from one element to transmute it to another, is contrary to Nature's working. No one would think of trying to knock out one part of a sound to make it into another sound, or to take an arm from a man to transmute him into a horse. That is what science is trying to do, however, by knocking an electron from mercury to produce gold. There are no electrons in the elements to knock out, in any case, as we shall see.
Nature's patterns, species and sexes can be modified but they are the same in kind. Transmutation means modification through knowledge of how to control that modification, which is as simple as the retuning of a harp string by increasing its vibration frequencies. Nature divides, multiplies and combines by the use of electricity. Man has all the electric power he needs at his command. Every state of motion, and any combination of those states, can be made use of by man if he but knows how Nature does it. Every element can be retuned or divided into pairs, and the pairs retuned. Every combination, such as the atmosphere, can be divided and its pairs used separately or recombined as one wishes. Hydrogen, oxygen or nitrogen, in combination, can be taken apart with ease and used separately, or recombined, or modified at will. Likewise, salt water can very simply be taken apart and recombined minus its salt, at will.
When Nature divides she always creates male and female mate pairs. She then multiplies those mate pairs separately, or in union. She multiplies sodium into potassium, then into calcium. She multiplies fluorine into chlorine, then into bromine and again into iodine. Man could do this same thing with any tonal element and even split them into semi-tones. Man could also divide such elements as carbon and produce, from carbon alone, five pairs of rustless, stainless metals of high melting points, high malleability and conductivity. The elements are but the alphabet of man to write what he chooses with its letters. They are but the tonal notes upon the nine octave keyboard of the

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Cosmic instrument with which he has but begun to compose the symphonies of his desiring and his imagining.
Nature can create cyclones if it becomes conditioned for cyclones, but man can control those conditions and divide them at his will. Likewise, man can create rains wherever he wishes and in any amounts. The world's vast deserts can be forested with date palms and carpeted with a verdure which would end dust storms forever, and add materially to the world food supply. To enable man to do this he needs only the knowledge of space-geometry, mathematics, the wave of gravity control, and the nature of electric current.
The great power to transmute through Mind-control by Mind-knowing, is man's when he finally knows CAUSE instead of being limited to the effects of cause. When that day comes man will no longer need to use the limited supply of the earth's fossil fuels, nor need he labor to procure them. The age of transmutation can be but one year away if man chooses to open his mind to new concepts, or, otherwise, it may be three thousand years away. CAUSE can never be known by the study of its EFFECT in motion. Cause is in knowing Mind, not in sensed-body. Cause lies within the invisible universe which does not respond to the senses, and not in the senses which can but sense motion and can never know.
The senses forever look out through the convexity or concavity of pressure lenses and mirrors of a curved universe of two-way motion. Distorted images and an upside-down universe is recorded upon the senses. The inner vision is not electric. It is Magnetic. The cube mirrors of space are of zero curvature and do not distort. The Mind-conception transcends the sense-objective, and is not deceived by illusion, for Mind is the creator of illusion. Mind knows and projects its Light. Senses can but reflect. They cannot know.
And so it is that man peers into microscopes, and telescopes. He builds great laboratories for research into effects of things which move. He gathers much information about their movements and develops great skills in controlling the movements of moving things. He then reasons and assembles, but reasoning

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is not knowing—and assembling is not creating. But what does man KNOW? Informing the senses of effects of motion does not awaken knowledge in Mind. On the contrary all effects of motion are optical illusions, which deceive the senses and cause men to form conclusions which are not true to Nature.
It is now time that man must realize that the key to Nature's secrets can never be found in the visible universe. It can only be found in the invisible universe which creates and controls the visible. But we cannot know the invisible universe because we cannot see it," man says. As the spiritual nature of man unfolds he becomes aware of the fact that he can see one half of the universe and never know it, and the other half he can know but cannot see.
We believe, also, that man can never find true happiness until he has finally solved the full meaning of what life and death really are, instead of the dread meaning which he has given to a belief in death, which has no validity, whatsoever, in Nature. For these reasons we shall briefly define God as we have pictured His Omnipresence and purpose in Lesson Number 13 of our "SCIENCE OF MAN HOME STUDY COURSE." This basic foundation of Creation will aid in comprehending the true nature of electricity and gravitation.

CHAPTER V
Prelude—the Transformation of Man
When man shall at last know God he shall then be transformed. Dynamic knowledge of the Identity and Presence of God within the
Soul of Man—and throughout all Nature is a necessary stage for the human race to attain before it is possible for him to build an enduring civilization of unity and brotherhood.
The only reason man has never known God is because he is still in his intellectual infancy and his ideals and practices are still pagan and barbarous.
To know God man must know what Light is, and energy, Magnetism, electricity, gravitation and God's processes in the building of bodies which manifest His Presence and His purposes. And he must know the mysteries of life, death, and growth, and of the seed into which even the giant oak disappears but still retains its identity. And he must know how man retains his identity when he also disappears.
No man has yet known these things. The concepts of modern sages regarding them are totally unlike God's processes. The conclusions of man regarding them are the conclusions of his senses. His Mind has never yet pierced their illusions. He still senses EFFECTS without knowing their CAUSE.
These things you shall now know—and when you comprehend them within your Inner Self you will then know God.
We shall now devote this entire chapter to the complete understanding of the Identity and Presence of God. It has always been presumed that God is, and forever will be incomprehensible and improvable, because He is invisible, and that which will not respond to human senses must be beyond human knowing.
That is not true. The invisible can be KNOWN and COMPREHENDED even though it cannot be seen. One cannot see
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gravity, but one can know and comprehend it, for one must obey it or perish. Polarity, truth, silence and love cannot be seen but these invisible realities constitute the great powers which rule the universe, and they too can be KNOWN. Climaxing all these is your Mind. You cannot see your Mind, nor ours, but you know that your Mind is the basis of you, and that it controls your visible body. Likewise, you cannot see God's Mind yet you know that this universe is His creation and that He rules it with a power which you also cannot see, but you must obey it together with all creating things.
Primate man demanded a God who could be seen. He worshipped the sun, then made idols. Our present civilization is still pagan. It has never passed beyond that stage. The great mass of mankind still conceives a huge objective manshaped God with human emotions of wrath and vengeance.
It is time that the human race should know God as He I.S. A happy, progressive and enduring race is impossible until that new dawn of Conscious awareness of His ever-present Being is intimately close to us always. How far away from that day are we? Out of the world's pagan thousands of millions there are but a few who have begun to comprehend that the path to the Light of the inner kingdom is illumined with Love, and that Love is inevitable and irrevocable LAW which no one can violate and survive. Our present almost primitive civilization is barbarian, in the respect that it is attempting to survive, endure, be happy and prosperous by violating God's Law of Love. Man has not yet learned that he cannot violate or break God's Law, but that the Law can break him. When man thinks he is breaking the law by hurting his brother, he is but fulfilling the law of balance which regives to him the hurt which he has intended to inflict upon another.
You shall now begin to know that great mystery which has for ages hidden its face from man. That knowledge of the Identity of God will so increase your spiritual unfolding that your inner-sensory perception will lead you far into the path which leads to the "Brahmic Bliss," which Buddha bade men seek, or "The kingdom of heaven," which Jesus told man to seek. It is not

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possible for this age of man to comprehend God unless false conceptions of electricity, magnetism, gravitation, energy and the construction of the atom, as now conceived, are eliminated and replaced with Nature's ways and processes.
All of man's fundamental conceptions have been the result of forming conclusions which have been based upon the outer-vision of the senses, and not upon the inner-vision of the Mind. The senses see illusion and are mightily deceived. Mind-vision does not deceive for CAUSE begins there, and EFFECT is but its product.
The truth of all fundamentals of Nature is just the reverse of the conclusions of science, just as the reflections in a mirror are the reverse of their cause. These conclusions began with someone rubbing amber and glass with wool and silk, and progressed through Newton and other very much deceived observers up to the fantasy of Neils Bohr's impossible atom, which has no resemblance to Nature, whatsoever. The gravity concept at least resembles Nature in reverse, but the Rutherford-Bohr atom has not even that virtue.
When we explain the true nature of electricity we will clearly demonstrate that the familiar model of the atom, which shows electrons moving in orbits of many intersecting planes around one centering nucleus, is an utter impossibility in Nature. It defies every principle of the electric current and the wave, and should, therefore, be relegated to pure invention. It is difficult to describe the shocking effect such a concept has upon an Illuminate who can "see" into the atomic or stellar systems without microscope or telescope, while the outer-vision cannot even discern what holds matter together with twenty million dollar cyclotrons. When you know Nature's working principle you will comprehend what a shock it is to know that it is possible for an enlightened age to believe that electrons in certain numbers revolve around inert gases. When you know what the office of inert gases is in Nature you will be even more shocked.
To exemplify our meaning let us remind you of the familiar belief that magnetism is a force, separate and apart from electricity, which has the power to pick up nails on a bar magnet and