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Title: Ancient and Modern Physics

Author: Thomas E. Willson

Release Date: January 21, 2004 [EBook #10773]

Language: English

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ANCIENT AND MODERN PHYSICS

by Thomas E. Willson

Contents

Preface
I. Physical Basis of Metaphysics
II. The Two Kinds of Perception
III. Matter and Ether
IV. What a Teacher Should Teach
V. The Four Manifested Planes
VI. One Place on Earth
VII. The Four Globes
VIII. The Battle Ground
IX. The Dual Man
X. The Septenary World
XI. Stumbling blocks in Eastern Physics

PREFACE

The Editor of the Theosophical Forum in April, 1901, noted the
death of Mr. Thomas E. Willson in the previous month in an
article which we reproduce for the reason that we believe many
readers who have been following the chapters of "Ancient and
Modern Physics" during the last year will like to know something
of the author. In these paragraphs is said all that need be said
of one of our most devoted and understanding Theosophists.

In March, 1901, The Theosophical Forum lost one of its most
willing and unfailing contributors. Mr. T.E. Willson died
suddenly, and the news of his death reached me when I actually
was in the act of preparing the concluding chapter of his
"Ancient and Modern Physics" for the April number.

Like the swan, who sings his one song, when feeling that death is
near, Mr. Willson gave his brother co-workers in the Theosophical
field all that was best, ripest and most suggestive in his
thought in the series of articles the last of which is to come
out in the same number with this.

The last time I had a long talk with T.E. Willson, he said"

"For twenty years and more I was without a hearing, yet my
interest and my faith in what I had to say never flagged, the
eagerness of my love for my subject never diminished."

This needs no comment. The quiet and sustained resistance to
indifference and lack of appreciation, is truly the steady
ballast which has prevented our Theosophica