Blavatsky on Occult Vibrations

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and William Quan Judge · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 8 pages

A verbatim record rather than an article. Judge took it down at Blavatsky's dictation in 1888 meaning to print it then, did not, brought it home with him, and published it in The Path in June 1893, two years after her death. It runs as question and answer throughout, which makes it one of the most direct things in the series.

Judge opens by proposing that the difference between an ordinary person and an adept might lie in the rate of vibration of the brain molecules and their coordination with the vibrations of the higher brain — and she confirms it, adding that the differences among all persons are largely due to vibrations of every kind. From there the conversation moves to the claim the document is remembered for: that in occultism atoms are called vibrations, and collectively sound; that it is sound which produces colour and not the reverse; and that by correlating the vibrations of a sound in the proper way a new colour is made. A passage from The Path on the Divine Resonance as the outbreathing of the first sound of the Aum leads her into Mercury as the god of secret wisdom and the universal stimulator of the intellectual faculties.

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