by James Churchward

Origin Of The Great Forces

Before attempting to show the origin of forces, I will define what a force is.

A force is that which makes changes in the position of bodies, and sometimes changes in the body itself. No body or matter, however infinitesimally small or ponderously large, can make any change without the aid of a force.

All forces known as atomic forces are only secondary forces governed by some superior force. The superior force moves the atoms and the atoms produce or convey another or secondary force—the superior force is the responsible one. There is one great infinite force that governs all.

A force may be obvious to the sense of feeling, but no force is obvious to the sense of vision.

Forces cannot be stored in super heated bodies, neither can an exhausted force be regenerated in cold areas.

Forces are positive and negative. For every positive force there is a negative one.

Certain of the great forces are limitless in their scope and power, reaching from one celestial body to another. Forces are responsible for the movements of all bodies throughout the universe.

Forces have their affinities, repellents and neutrals in other forces.

Some of the earthly forces have affinities, repellents and neutrals in elements.

Two forces meeting, may do one of two things: They may form a neutral zone where both become non-effective. Example: “When an irresistible force meets an immovable object”—a neutral zone is formed and the struggle ends.

When one force is stronger than the other, it conquers it and passes on.

The movements of forces are vibratory. A live coal may be placed in the palm of the hand without burning it, provided the owner of the hand raises his inner vibrations (higher force) above the vibrations of the heat force.

A neutral zone is formed between the burning coal and the flesh of the hand, beyond which the heat force cannot pass. There is one supreme infinite force which has created four great primary forces. Through and from these four great forces all other forces are generated, and are therefore secondary.

These four great forces are governing the physical universe today, and are working under the command or will of the One Supreme Infinite Force.

This supreme force is the power which started and keeps all other forces working throughout the universe. This supreme force is incomprehensible to man. Being incomprehensible He can neither be pictured or named. He is The Nameless.

It is without doubt appreciated by everyone that we are surrounded and living in the midst of forces whose power is inconceivable; and yet, while we are in their midst and they are moving and governing the immense celestial bodies, we do not feel them; they do not touch us; and if not told by observation of their effects, we should be unaware of their presence and existence. Why is it that these appalling forces do not in any way affect us? First, because being elementary, we are neutral to them, and, second, they are ultra to our minds and bodies.

Man is so created and constituted that everything connected with him has range. His ear can only receive sounds that are within a given range, just so high and no higher, just so low and no lower; beyond these points he cannot hear the sounds, although they may exist, because they are out of his range of reception.

I am about to explain the origin of the great forces, but to successfully build up either a structure or a theory a solid foundation is necessary. I will start my foundation by illustrating the movements of the celestial bodies with a set of cogwheels.

It will be seen that there is a central or primary force, illustrated by a triangle within a circle and having a dot in the center. This circle has no cogs, but is starting the first wheels with cogs into movement. These cogs represent secondary forces, generated by the movements of atoms, or conveyed through the atoms. The first cogwheel meshes into the second with its secondary forces and starts it, and this one the next, and so on to the uttermost ends of the universe.

As an example let us take our solar system.

A superior sun is meshing in her cogs or forces with our suns, cogs or forces. Being more powerful, this superior sun is revolving our sun, and thereby producing secondary forces. Our sun’s forces thus produced are meshing in with the forces of her satellites and revolving those which are not dead. Thus our solar system is a miniature example of the workings of the whole universe.

All governing bodies from the first sun down to the last must revolve on their axis; and, to enable them to do so every revolving body must have a hard crust and soft center; for without this combination they cannot revolve and generate forces.

A solid body without a soft center is a dead body,—it can neither revolve on its axis or generate forces. Our moon and the planet Mercury are examples of dead bodies. All movements of bodies after leaving the first cogwheel body down to the little moons swinging around the planets are worked and controlled by secondary forces, emanating from the first great supreme primary force.

The central power is not governed by any force, for it is the origin and governor of all forces. If it were governed by some other force it would not be the center, there would be something beyond it. The central power is the Great Infinite Force which has always existed and will continue on forever.

The foregoing is my foundation.

The Sciences of the First Civilization. At the time of the destruction of Mu—the Motherland—which occurred about 10,000 B.C. the sciences which were then known and practiced were the development of over 100,000 years of study and experience, if we date their commencement from a stated time.

Today we are practicing sciences, such as they are, that have been developed within the past 500 years. We are probably now treading the same road which our forefathers trod over 100,000 years ago. That they experienced as many troubles and failures then as now, there can be no question of doubt, for legends by the score tell us that this was so. The symbolical legend about the Tower of Babel is one of them.

Scientific human nature has ever been the same—very egotistical, jealous, domineering, selfish, craving for prominence, desiring fame, regardless of whether it is deserved or not, with a most profound worship of Mammon. All of which are quagmires and quicksands in the paths of science; and all those who walk this road are doomed to disappear and be forgotten directly; they are gone. They have done nothing for themselves or for mankind.

In India I found many clay tablets brought there from the Motherland by the Naacals. They originally brought a library of over 10,000 tablets; thus it will be seen that what I found formed only a single paragraph in a long story. All except a very few of these Naacal tablets were on the creation, and the workings of the Cosmic Forces.

Upon their disclosures I commenced to write this book. Details about the finding of these tablets were given in my first book, “The Lost Continent of Mu.”

Sixty years ago I was sitting in the shade of feathery palms in India, with my old preceptor, the Rishi, deciphering and translating these precious Naacal relics. Today I find myself alone, in America, sitting at a library table deciphering other sets of ancient writings, over 3,000 in one set alone.

This set consists of stone tablets found by William Niven in Mexico, at spots varying from 4 to 6 miles north and northwest of Mexico City. William Niven has generously and kindly copied and photographed them all, and sent to me the copies for deciphering if I can.

From some of these tablets it is shown that they are more than 12,000 years old, but how much older I cannot say.

All but a few of them are picture writings, and are tableaus depicting sentences from the Sacred Inspired Writings of Mu. A great number are about the Creation, and over 1,000 about the Cosmic Forces, giving their origin and workings, also showing what life is, and how elements are given life.

I find in these American tablets many links missing in the Oriental Naacal tablets. As both sets, the American and the Oriental, came originally from the same source—the Sacred Inspired Writings, we can make a start in an inquiry into the mysteries of nature, and learn how our great scientific forefathers saw it after more than a hundred thousand years of study and experience.

I have made numerous experiments, following the Naacal writings. One experiment extended, continuously, day and night, for a period of seven years. This experiment was made for the purpose of satisfying myself as to the cause of the various changes in the forms of life which have taken place since the advent of life on earth. (This will be explained in a later chapter.)

At this point it will no doubt interest some of my readers to see the form of these ancient American tablets, with their symbols and pictorial form of writing. Also how they are deciphered and read. These are pictures which fate has preserved and handed to us for study, that we may correct the scientific errors into which we have fallen.

I will first take a few of Niven’s Mexican tablets, then follow them with a few from the American Mound Builders virtually coming out of our own front gardens.

This is probably the most valuable tablet in the whole of Niven’s Mexican collection of over 3,000; as it clears up two important points in ancient man’s cosmogony, and explains what has hitherto been looked upon as mythical.

As will be seen, when understood, there is nothing mythical about it, but something very profound, and beyond our knowledge of today.

This tablet tells a tale that is far-reaching. It first tells us that there are four great primary forces, which were used in Creation, and are now governing the movements of all bodies throughout the universe. It tells us that these forces are working from west to east, and carry all celestial bodies in the direction of west to east and further it shows that all living revolving bodies revolve on their axes from west to east.

It tells us that these forces by their actions cause the revolving bodies to continue their force, so that apparently the force comes from the movements of the body. The scientific world calls this atomic force. There is no such a thing as an atomic force. What is now called an atomic force by scientists does not obtain its energy from elements of the atom. The atomic element is simply a collector, carrier and distributor of the portions of primary forces that have been handed to it. Revolving bodies, like the earth, may be termed in popular language, transformers; receiving from the primary forces portions of the main volume, which each body distributes throughout itself, according to nature’s requirements.

Coming through the atom, which is kept constantly charged, scientists have assumed that it is the atom which creates the force, which is erroneous, for the atom is only a conveyor. We hear a lot about smashing the atom to get its forces. Why smash a brook of running water and scatter it? Why not turn the water into account as it flows on? By smashing the brook, a run of water with its power is cut off. By smashing the atom the flow of forces through it is destroyed. The ancients used the flow, they did not destroy it.

Returning to the tablet. It shows the origin of forces and the power that turns the first cogwheel in our diagram as seen above.

It clearly and distinctly shows and states that: The Power is the Will and Command of the Infinite.

My readers may ask: How are these deductions arrived at? I will anticipate this question by dissecting and translating the vignette on the tablet.

1. The central circle symbolizes the Creator—the Infinite.
2. The curved arms symbolize the four primary forces.
3. The arms project from the circle. Being joined to the circle, they are coming from it. That is, these forces emanate from the Creator.
4. Within each arm is written its name. The glyph here used is equivalent to architect and geometrician, so that it says these are the four great architects, the four great geometricians, the four great builders.
5. Within the circle is the Hieratic letter H, the alphabetical symbol of the great four. Being within the circle designates that they are in the Creator, and as one of the names in an arm is connected with the Hieratic letter H it designates that the four are to be called the four great geometricians, etc. Being within the circle, it is within the Creator. Being within and coming from the Creator, it becomes His will and command; thus showing that the actual origin of all forces is the Creator.
6. Here is shown the Hieratic letter H within the circle, the alphabetical symbol of the great four.
7. Each of the arms, a great primary force, has projecting from it an arrowhead, the Motherland’s symbol of activity, thus showing that these forces did not cease their work on the completion of creation but are continuing on in some capacity.

The ancients thoroughly understood this, for in this vignette they depict it and in their writings they say: “When the sacred ones had completed creation, they were given charge of the physical universe.”

This is not appreciated today, nor will it be until after it is learnt what life really is, how it is created and afterwards maintained. At present the world is far from this knowledge, otherwise the bizarre theory of evolution could not be considered.

MEXICAN TABLET NO. 1086. A CONVENTIONAL BIRD. I am using this tablet to confirm the previous one, inasmuch as I claim that the primary forces originate directly from the Creator.

In all parts of the earth, among all ancient peoples, birds were one of the symbols for the creative forces. In America it was and is called the “Thunder Bird.” In the “Lost Continent of Mu” Indian legends and their beliefs about the “Thunder Bird” are given. I will now confirm Tablet No. 1086 regarding the origin of forces.

The eye of this bird is a double, which was the Uighur symbol for the Deity or Creator.

The Hieratic letter H—the alphabetical symbol for the four great primary forces—the sacred four. This is shown projecting from the body, therefore projecting or coming out of the Creator Himself. Beneath the letter H is an apron composed of four bars. Four was the numeral symbol for the sacred four.

Truncated Figures. In this group there are 116 tablets, and with no two identically alike. (Nos. 494, 1623, 1138 and 513, see below.)

They are purely conventional figures, and were not intended to represent any form of life. As a matter of fact they are completely made up of symbols and the old form of numeral writing.

They are designed to show the origin and workings of two of the four great primary forces.

THE BODIES. Their bodies are either in the form of a chrysalis or a pod, used as a symbol for the home of forces, but referring to two only of the primary four.

BODY LINES. The bodies of these various figures have lines and symbols engraved upon them. The lines are the old temple esoteric form of writing and explain what particular action of the forces the figure is symbolizing. The numeral writing carries a hidden meaning. The numbers used in this form of writing are from 1 to 10, inclusive.

Numeral writing was the temple writing in Egypt down to 500 B.C and probably a little later. We know this from the Greek, Pythagoras, who when in Egypt was initiated into the Sacred Mysteries. When he returned to Greece he taught his pupils “to honor God with numbers.” On every one of these 116 tablets the Creator is mentioned as the One from which the great primary forces originate.

THE ELEPHANT TRUNK. The trunk is a symbol telling us which way or direction the forces move throughout the universe.

All movements are from west to east and circular or elliptical.

All the heavenly bodies are moving from west to east.

All revolving bodies revolve from west to east.

One particular force controls these movements either directly or indirectly.

Every one of these figures is facing west with their trunks curling towards the east, symbolizing the circular movement of the forces.

Some have a second trunk at the back like tablets Nos. 494 and 513. This trunk is curled within the head and still traveling from west to east. This trunk symbolizes the gyroscopical force, which possibly is the daughter of the great centripetal force,—the force which collected the gases, compacted
them and formed worlds out of them. This great centripetal force, as soon as the body revolved, became dead as far as that world was concerned; then the gyroscopical force took up its parents’ work and keeps its world upright.

THEIR LIMBS. Their limbs number from none (see tablet No. 1138), to four (as shown in tablet No. 1623).

These mark the movements of the sun.

For two reasons I have taken many of the pictures which are found in America as examples to show the accuracy of the Oriental pictures and writings on the Cosmic Forces:

First. Because when other countries are being shown to have had super-civilizations, America at the time was not behind them.

Second. To show that our scientists can find more at home here in America that is worth while, than by gallivanting all over the world searching for the remains of very early man. Some ambitious ones declare that it is to be the very first man with them or nothing. If this is actually what they want they would be more likely to find him here in America than in the Gobi Desert or some other out-of-the-way corner of Asia.

Egypt, India, Greece and all ancient histories tell us that man’s advent on earth was on Mu—an ancient continent that now forms the bed of the Pacific Ocean.

It is from written Oriental records, with their explanatory vignettes, that I have attempted to give some insight into the ancient Cosmic Forces of the earth’s first great civilization, the foundation of all true sciences.

In the writings of this great civilization we are told that the universe is governed and controlled by four great primary forces, that these great forces originate and emanate from the Creator, that “they are his executors in carrying out His commands, His desires, His wishes.”

The ancients, understanding the origin of these forces, and the power that has always worked them, so revered them that they could never find a name sufficiently divine to call them. Their attempts to give them more appropriate names led to their being known by many. I have collected a list of over fifty.

The ancient scientists, apparently, on all occasions made drawings descriptive of the working of them. Following I am showing some of them, also giving their meanings:

Fig. 1. This is the original symbol used for speaking of the four great forces. I first found it in the Sacred Writings of Mu, which were written over 70,000 years ago. It is prominent in Mexican writings and tablets, also among the American Mound Builders’ remains.

Fig. 2. The same four forces, showing that they emanate from the Deity as the Creator. This is also found in Mexico, the Mound Builders and the Cliff Dwellers of North America.

Fig. 3. Another form of expressing the same conception as Fig 2. It is not as old as the previous figures but was universal throughout the world, and especially prominent among the Mound Builders’ remains.

Fig. 4. A contemporary symbol with Fig. 3. It simply emphasizes the fact that the four great forces originate in the Creator. It was very universally used and is very prominent in the Mexican tablets and the Mound Builders’ remains.

Excerpt from The Cosmic Forces of Mu

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