The Universal One: An exact science of the One visible and invisible universe of Mind and the registration of all idea of thinking Mind in light, which is matter and also energy

by Walter Russell

THE UNIVERSAL ONE was originally published in 1927 and distributed to the top scientists in the country. It is being republished at this crucial period for the sole purpose of again releasing vital new scientific knowledge to this new age- of new comprehension. Today the whole world is in a state of chaos fighting against the forces of greed, envy, jealousy and fear. Disharmony is rife. All of our human relations are in a state of violent upheaval. Civilization is in reverse. Science is being used to destroy instead of to build. We talk of world peace, yet those who are to plan the new world do not know the answer, the solution. Present knowledge of man's relation to Nature and Natural Law which controls his human relations is, as yet, inadequate to meet the situation. Man is still too near his jungle to either know the law which inexorably governs his every action and that of everything in Nature or to comprehend that he must obey Nature or be self-destroyed. Still dominated by jungle habits, he settles his human relations by jungle methods. Wars and world chaos will continue until new knowledge applicable to the coming new cycle in man's evolution is acquired by him. What is this new knowledge? A consistent cosmogony is sorely needed for this newly dawning day of man's exaltation which is to come. Walter Russell spent a full seven years in writing this book. When it was first published in 1927, it won more condemnation than favor from a world which was not then as ready for it as now. The book mixed science and metaphysics in a manner which nullified its impression upon physicists. Gradually, however, many of its then radical statements have been verified by some of the world's greatest scientists and have won him many followers. The physicist draws a sharp line between things which he can in some way detect by the evidence of his senses and things which lie beyond that evidence. There is no denial of a "something" beyond the range of his senses and his sensed instruments, but what may be there is conjectural and, therefore, inadmissible as scientific data of a reliable nature. In other words, material evidence which lies within the narrow limits of man's sense-range is the only admissible 3 evidence to science. But what about that vast range which will not respond to our sensed bodies and sensed instruments? Down the ages a rare few have been permitted to sever the senses which connect matter with its motivated Source in the consciousness of Universal Mind. These few have become conscious of the cosmos and have tried to tell the world of its simplicity. Each of these has faced an impossible task. The generalities and symbols which they did set down have been discounted and relegated to poetry or metaphysics or mysticism. Walter Russell had this same sad experience in the beginning--and all this in face of the fact that the mental state of cosmic consciousness is today admitted, and desired, by the greatest of the world's thinkers, although it is little understood and impossible to induce. In the month of May of 1921, the universal One illumined my beloved husband with the cosmic knowledge contained in his immortal THE DIVINE ILIAD* and commanded him to give this new scientific knowledge to aid mankind in his unfolding into a Cosmic Age of awareness wherein man could become knowing man instead of sensing man. Just as the bolometer and negative have reached beyond man's visible spectrum into the heretofore "unseen," so can man's increasing awareness of his relation to the Source make it possible for him to reach deeper and deeper into the invisible and unseen.

Genres: Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, Metaphysics, Physics, Nonfiction, Psychology

Paperback

First published January 1, 1926

About the author

Walter Russell was a accomplished sculptor, painter and philosopher who believed that every man has consummate genius within him.
He became known as a natural philosopher and for his unified theory in physics and cosmogony.

He posited that the universe was founded on a unifying principle of rhythmic balanced interchange. This theory is laid out primarily in his books The Secret of Light and The Message of the Divine Iliad.

Russell was a polymath and also proficient in architecture, music, business and ice skating.
He became a professor at the institution he founded with his wife, the University of Science and Philosophy.

Reviews

[Richard · Rating 5 out of 5]

The days were all twos and it was a Tuesday. I sat up in my living-space with a book in my hands entitled The Universal One. A man called Walter wrote this worldview.

Tesla, who I admire to endless degrees, gave this book remarkable praise, saying it needed hidden, locked away. One thousand years have not passed yet one-hundred are only five short. This ninety-five year-old scientific work I cannot judge through an accomplished scientist’s lens.

I am none the more worthy or less to hold this fantastic book, I simply am. The arrangement of the world, and a little use of amazon.co.uk have put it there.

Exhilarating, The Universal One teaches physics, almost. It’s all about unplugging the tangled ridiculous messy mass of cables that science men trust, and places them one-by-one along elegant, beautiful contours.

Amazing, I rely on our superiors’ views to inform my own, on the accuracy of the science. As a book, a work of creation and explanation, even poetic prose, it is as gallantly elegant as a very well strung harp.

This is a very sound, healthy book to read. I enter the pages of this majestic manuscript with insatiable curiosity. The greatest sense of entertainment and love combine to give company to my joy upon the arrangements of the wording here.

I know this is like Jung’s Red book, it will never leave my functioning mind.

[Filip · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most comprehensive book about the universe, life and existence, I have read. Mind blowing, only for the open minded people who are ready to have their paradigms and belief systems blown away.

[Edward · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am a Walter Russell fan. The book is an awesome study of the light within any man, woman, or child. I hope to come back to this book a thousand times over.

[Christy ofthewoods · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book. Not for beginners that’s for sure, there were definitely moments that I felt too stupid to be reading it. But even if you don’t understand all the science, you will still absorb A LOT of important stuff.

[Y · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of those books that is either brilliant or crazy, so I split the difference and gave it 3 stars. Russell lays out his theory on physics/theology that has hard differences from conventional science. Myself being but a simple man, I don’t know enough the be able to prove or disprove his assertions. He also covers topics fairly quickly without explaining from a ground zero level, he typically was just stating what he thought rather than explaining how or why he thought what he did. It strikingly resembles Gurdjieff’s ray of creation and eastern thought on metaphysics.

God is mind. Mind is the universe. All parts of the universe are part of the whole. Man is part of the universe, therefore man is god.

Russell believed in a version of pantheism, where god and the universe are one. Everything is light. Matter is light slowed and cooled down. Light therefore cannot have a fixed speed. Gravity isn’t real. The fundamental forces are two: male/generating/contracting/inhalation/electricity/attractive/positive/northward force and female/radiating/expanding/exhalation/magnetic/repelling/negative/southward force (reminded me of yin and yang). The pulsation of these two factors are the cause of everything in the universe. All matter can be thought of as octaves or tones, which can go up and down these scales. Planets are born from the sun, moons are born from the planets (like Gurdjieff’s ray of creation). Space is not a vacuum but has intense pressure the closer you go to the sun. Therefore, Jupiter and Saturn have less mass than we imagine since they are under less pressure and therefore less dense. Everything travels in spirals or cones.

It was fairly dryly written and it was very dense. Most discussion online about his theories are either similarly opaque or are essentially ad hominem attacks. I’d be curious to learn more from someone who can explain why Russell believed what he did in a way I can understand.

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

In essence, everything is everything, and everything is one. Walter is an artist so he has attempted to unify concepts like the colour spectrum, periodic table, and other dualistic or physics concepts into one theory. This is a flowing scientific yet spiritual poem.

[Abraham Kemper · Rating 2 out of 5]

If ya want some quality, pithy Spirit-Science, my go-to is The Kybalion. Sorry Russell. :(

[M●13RA · Rating 4 out of 5]

8.2/10

[John J · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nonsense

Waste of money. This "cosmology" makes no sense whatsoever. It's just thousands of words strung together in subject-verb-object sentences that all sound alike. Walter Russell is referred to as Dr. Russell on the book, but I have no idea of what kind of doctorate he held. As far as I can tell, Russell was an accomplished painter and sculptor, but he had no formal scientific education. His premise seems to be that everything is made of light, but he has no idea what electromagnetism is. The positive Amazon reviews were apparently submitted by people who were carried away by the artistic beauty of the bound hard copy. I guess I failed to see the beauty because my copy was the inexpensive Kindle version, but I'm just thankful I only wasted ten bucks instead of throwing away even more money on the hard copy. Amazon will probably purge this review after sending me a nasty message because it violated its rules, but so be it.

[Vaida Macerenkaitė · Rating 5 out of 5]

Honestly, I have never read anything so easy to understand. Everything Walter Russell spoke about is what new-age physicists are trying to prove. It's like we are stuck in a never-ending loop of understanding that we originated from the source, are connected with the source (this realization is called awakening of the soul or spirit), and are all returning to the source. "Energy cannot be destroyed, it just changes shapes and forms" - is a fundamental principle of physics known as the law of conservation of energy. Love this book!

[Judith D Mitchell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aged Knowledge

I did not know what to expect when I started reading. I can only recommend this book to readers who are also successful spiritual seekers. With some thoughtful seeking I found deeper understanding of the octives can be found in other places on the internet. I liked how the author revealed his ideas in plain speech and Clear explanations which only go as far as your present knowledge allows. Don't give up read to the end.

[Ruben Lake · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book reads like a conceptual bootcamp, motivating the reader to imagine the dichotomies of motion and force the author presents. The reader should however only pick up what they feel resonates with their being and discard all that which doesn't intuitively make sense.

[Will · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book, it goes well with the Eastern Christian metaphysics of the essence/energy distinction (Gregory Palamas).

[Bella · Rating 4 out of 5]

wow

[jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

difficult to understand

Difficult to comprehend.
You would or should understand science more to understand.
Understanding electrical theory not sure I agree with this theory.

[Heather Lynn Powderly · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5/5

[Riad AlQadi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I tried to read a book

[Lukas Van Veen · Rating 3 out of 5]

dnf

[Paul Edlund · Rating 3 out of 5]

DNF. Just a rehash of what I have read in dozens of other treatises.

[William Wagstaff · Rating 3 out of 5]

good but very dense, even as an audio book I found it a bit too much. very well put science and philosophy but hard to retain the information

[Theresa Hryckowian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Things have to be read, and then re-read, and then re-read again to grasp. It's not an easy reading book. Very convoluted but it's a convoluted subject.

[AttackGirl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Physicist? Science major, dreamer of esoteric energy then this book is for you

Surely we must call it God! He God but why not Dog?

[Arnold Sunneräng · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seems to be written more in the language of the heart than in the language of numbers,
but may very well be coherent nonetheless!