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                               The Secret
                             of Life, Death
                             and Immortality

                      A Startling Proposition, With
                       a Chapter Devoted to Mental
                      Therapeutics and Instructions
                            for Self Healing

                                  _By_
                             HENRY FLEETWOOD

                               _Author of_
                            “MUSIC AS A CURE”

                      Published by Henry Fleetwood
                               Los Angeles
                                  1909

                             Copyrighted by
                             HENRY FLEETWOOD
                              Dec. 3, 1908




TABLE OF CONTENTS


                                CHAPTER I

                                  Life

    Cosmic Evolution; Life Germs—how produced; “The Word”—evolution
    of; Universal Vibration—the only Immortality; Continuous
    Evolution—the condition of creation.

                               CHAPTER II

                          Electricity and Life

    Proof that Electricity is Life; recent discoveries in the
    wireless telegraph and telephone, telepathy, etc.,—how they
    affect the human race; other possibilities of Electricity.

                               CHAPTER III

                             Love and Music

    Their relation to Life; their effect on creation; the power of
    love; the power of music; all emotion subject to these powers.

                               CHAPTER IV

                               Immortality

    There cannot be conscious immortality; what is immortality?;
    why we hope for consciousness in a future life; how the
    ancients regarded a future life.

                                CHAPTER V

                                 The Sun

    Its relation to life; what is radiant energy?; why the ancients
    worshipped the sun; the Parsees the present sun worshippers.

                               CHAPTER VI

                                  Fear

    The great curse of the Universe—the only devil—its insidious
    claims—its effect on life.

                               CHAPTER VII

                                  Death

    Its relation to Life; the only Immortal; its loving purpose;
    its relation to evolution.

                              CHAPTER VIII

                                 Healing

    Mental Therapeutics, or healing suggestions; Christian Science;
    Faith healing, etc.

                               CHAPTER IX

                         Resume and Conclusion.




PREFACE


The writer of these pages a few years ago invented, patented and
successfully demonstrated in the city of Los Angeles, California, a
mechanical device by which he transformed musical vibrations into
“electrical” waves. These when conveyed to the human organism were
found to be harmonizing, vitalizing, and curative, in many nervous and
functional disorders. Further study and research along these lines
convinced him that all vibration, or motion, or activity is electrical.
That all phenomena are electrical phenomena. In fact, that there is but
one substance in the universe, and that is—Electricity.

Without any attempt to enter the realm of metaphysics, the writer desires
to state that he uses the term Life in its absolute or universal sense,
and not in the conditioned or limited sense in which it is ordinarily
and loosely used. He distinguishes between Life—with its eternal,
inherent unceasing impulse and energy—and the resultant of that impulse
and energy; whether that resultant be a molecule of hydrogen or what
is called consciousness, intelligence, manifesting through an organism
called man.

This Life is not mind, nor its product matter. It is Substance—and
that substance the writer calls electricity. It is eternal. It is the
totality of what is, or Be-ing. It has a dual impulse or tendency, viz.
(the positive and negative)—attraction and repulsion of its infinite
integral constituent particles or ELECTRONS. This attraction and
repulsion, this breaking and closing of the circuit, this vibration
or motion—always in a straight line or a circle—this infinite eternal
polarity, being continuous creation or evolution, and destruction or
devolution.

It has not been possible in the limited space devoted to this book to
attempt a discussion and proof of the statements made herein. While the
statements made are scientific and rational the writer could not do more
than point out through them the direction in which the truth is to be
sought and found.

The reader will find many thoughts suggested along the line of the
wireless telegraph and telephone, musical vibrations, thought vibrations,
telepathy, clairvoyance, “Spiritualistic phenomena,” death, post-mortem
consciousness or “Conscious immortality,” etc.

We are living in an age of scientific investigation and inquiry. The
human mind is awakening to the necessity of doing its own thinking
instead of being bound by the many dogmas