Summary of Walter Russell's The Universal One

By IRB Media

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#1 God is all there is, and all there is, is Him. The universe is but the One substance in motion, light. Everything in the universe is but a part of God, and nothing in the universe is infinite. Everything in the universe is comprehensible and measurable by man.

#2 All matter is evolving, and all matter is living. Life is the registration, in matter, of states of motion of thinking Mind. There is no death.

#3 Everything in the universe is but a part of God, and nothing in the universe is infinite. Everything in the universe is understandable and measurable by man. The cause of all motion is the dynamic action of thinking of the One universal living Being, which man refers to as God, or Mind, or by other names.

#4 Everything in the universe is but a part of God, and nothing in the universe is infinite. Everything in the universe is understandable and measurable by man. The cause of all motion is the dynamic action of thinking of the One universal living Being, which man refers to as God, or Mind, or by other names.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350031928

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

God is the Universal Mind, and the substance of all things in the universe is light. The entire universe is just the One substance in motion, light. There are not two substances in the universe. There cannot be two substances in the universe.

#2

All life is immortal life. There is no mortal life. Life is a vitalizing property of all matter. Life is in and of all things from the beginning, always and forever. Life has no beginning or end.

#3

The cause of all motion is the dynamic action of thinking of the One universal living Being, which man calls God, or Mind, or by other names. All motion of thinking Mind is born in the maximum high speed of the universal constant of energy. It runs the gamut of periodic and opposing deceleration and acceleration in six full tones, one double tone, and a master-tone, to each of ten lowering octaves.

#4

All matter is simply an effect of two opposing forces, gravity and repulsion, which are respectively electric and magnetic. All motion is oscillatory, swinging between two seemingly opposite forces.

#5

The universe is full of motion, appearances, and illusions that deceive us. Man is familiar with only a few of these illusions.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The substance of Mind is the foundation of creation. It is the seed of the universe. The One substance is absolutely frictionless, temperatureless, non-compressible, non-expandable, non-absorbent, non-reflective, and non-resistant. It does not exist in a state of non-opposition, or inertia.

#2

All of the elements between the third gravitational and third radiational tones are the hard, dense, heavy solids of great rigidity. They are made up of light units in maximum motion-in-opposition.

#3

The One substance is a formless, thinking substance. It is not a substance with attributes. It does not have form, and its electric and magnetic orbits are in spirals of many planes, approaching nebulosity in appearance as they near their inertial planes.

#4

The passage of all thought through the Ocean of Universal Mind may be compared to the passage of big boats and little boats and all the winds of heaven upon the Ocean of Universal Mind. Without the exertion of these forces, there would be no appearance of variability in the universe of Mind.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The process of thinking is a simple one. It is a swing of the cosmic pendulum from the stability of Mind substance to apparent instability and back again to stability. The registration of this effect in the ocean of universal Mind is contained within the form of an elongated sphere, and all its variability and complexity may be read upon two exactly opposite spiral waves within two halves of that sphere.

Insights from Chapter 4

#1

The action impulse and the reaction impulse of the thinking process are alternating between the apparent opposites of generation and radiation. All motion, whether in opposition or in inertia, is in equilibrium. The amount of energy expended in any two opposite swings is always quantitatively the same.