A ‘New Force‘

Electrotherapy really began with the pioneering work of Nikola Tesla, on electrical currents. A little remembered fact is that Tesla, (the father of alternating current) worked with Thomas Edison (a Theosophist) to develop the electrical system we take for granted today.

Nikola Tesla

Blavatsky mentions Edison’s “new force,” (Isis Unveiled 1:126), “which force seems to have little in common with electricity, or galvanism, except the principle of conductivity. If demonstrated, it may remain for a long time under some pseudonymous scientific name.”

 ”Nevertheless, it will be but one of the numerous family of children brought forth from the commencement of time by our kabalistic mother, the Astral Virgin.”

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Edison in his laboratory, New Jersey 1901

Electric Boy

“The electrical boy was a favorite eighteenth-century experiment, often performed as entertainment. Such experiments were in part pioneered by Hooke’s successor as the curator of experiments at the Royal Society.
“The second curator, Francis Hauksbee, was under the patronage of Isaac Newton, the Royal Society’s president.

Newton

“Electrical experiments often referred to Newton’s late suggestions of a subtle conducting fluid of the ether.”

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“This engraving is taken from William Watson’s 1748 work. A rotating crank generates electricity which is transferred to the shoes of a boy suspended on silk ropes.

“The boy in turn transmits a genteel shock to the girl who is standing on a tar-covered barrel.

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Her other hand is probably extended to attract feathers or small pieces of paper.”