A Living Universe of Motion

Walter Russell presents a revolutionary understanding of the universe that challenges our most basic assumptions about reality. While his work can seem complex, at its core lies a profoundly simple and elegant vision.

Why Russell Appears Throughout Word Cosmology

Walter Russell perceived organizing principles of creation through direct knowing. What makes his work relevant here is how consistently his terminology aligns with mathematical patterns revealed through converting words to numbers.

Russell describes creation unfolding through nine octaves. As he writes: “An invariable characteristic of Nature is to express life-death cycles of any idea, in nine lesser interweaving cycles enfolded in the one.”

Word Cosmology reveals this same nine-stage sequence through numeric patterns. When words are converted to numbers, their total values (reduced to single digits) position them within a 1-9 creative sequence. Russell perceived this nine-stage unfolding through direct observation of elemental creation. Converting words to numbers reveals the same organizing principle recognizable in language, in which there are nine positions through which ideas unfold from potential (1) through manifestation (6) to completion (9).

When Russell appears in Word Cosmology analyses, it indicates his intuitive perception corresponds with patterns visible through numeric conversion. His cosmogonic principles use language for organizing principles that mathematical analysis makes visible.

Reading Russell’s Terminology

Russell uses familiar words with specific cosmogonic meanings:

• Light = not primarily visible illumination but the fundamental substance/process of creation
• Mind = universal consciousness, not personal thinking
• Thinking = the creative process itself, not mental activity as conventionally understood
• Motion = “Motion simulates substance by the control of its opposing wave pressures.” He is not referring to objects moving through space.
• Desire = the fundamental creative impulse, not personal wanting

Understanding these distinctions helps you recognize how Russell’s descriptions correspond with numeric patterns revealed in word analyses.

The Universe as Mind Expression

Russell begins with a premise he states directly: “Mind is all there is; beyond Mind there is nothing.”

Everything we perceive as solid matter is, in Russell’s view, thought made visible through motion. He describes creation emerging from what he calls “desire in the Light of Mind for creative expression,” which he identifies as “the only energy in this universe.”

Rhythmic Balanced Interchange

Russell describes creation operating through what he calls “rhythmic balanced interchange.” As he explains: “The whole principle of creation lies in equal giving. The Oneness of the Light is divided into an equal and opposite two, and all interchange between the two must be equal in their giving.”

He uses the analogy of breathing: “The pulse beat, the swinging pendulum, the inbreathing and outbreathing of living things all exemplify God’s one law of rhythmic balanced interchange.”

A Universe of Motion, Not Substance

Russell makes a startling assertion: “This universe is substanceless. It consists of motion only. Motion simulates substance by the control of its opposing wave pressures of motion which deceive the senses into seeing substance where motion alone is.”

He clarifies this with an analogy: “If a cobweb could move fast enough, it would simulate a solid steel disc—and it could cut through steel. If such a thing could happen it would not be the ‘substance’ of the cobweb which cut through the steel—it would be the motion which cut it.”

The Giving-Regiving Cycle

Russell describes creation as continuous cycles of giving and regiving: “Nature never takes. It but gives for regiving.” He elaborates: “Each half of a cycle eternally gives to the other half for re-giving. Nature forever unfolds into many for the purpose of refolding into one.”

As he writes: “The heartbeat of the universe is eternal. So long as the universal heartbeat continues, every divided pair, and every unit of every divided pair, will reappear to express life as surely as it will again disappear in eternal repetitions to express death.”

The Thinking Universe

In Russell’s cosmogony, thinking itself is the creative force: “The force called ‘thinking’ which impels Mind into concentration and decentration in sequence is the only energy of the universe.”

He explains: “Mind thinking sets divided idea into two-way opposed motion to produce the effect of simulating idea by giving form to it. Formed bodies are but pressure-conditioned motion, however. They are not the IDEA which they simulate.”

The Sequential Unfoldment of Creation

He explains: “Every completed idea in Nature is expressed in nine efforts—or stages—which are eight octave waves plus the matured centering amplitude wave of the whole nine-octave cycle.”

Russell identifies carbon as the balance point: “Carbon, in the fifth octave, is the endothermic dividing line of the cycle… The first four and a half octaves lead to the maturity of carbon by the generative contraction of gravity… The last four and a half octaves lead from maturity through old age to disappearance.”

The Recording and Repeating Universe

Russell describes the inert gases as a universal recording system: “The inert gases are God’s recording and repeating system. They record, remember and repeat all actions-reactions of all things from eternity unto eternity.”

He further explains: “The inert gases write down in God’s books of Light all That John, and Bill, and Sue, have ever been—likewise what the ant, the elephant, the tiger, violet and bee have ever been—or have ever done since their beginnings—and give them back to them after every rest period which divides their cycles.”

Light and Stillness

Russell describes light as fundamental to creation: “God is Light. God is Universal Mind. Mind is Light. Mind knows.”

He distinguishes between still Light and light in motion: “The Light of Mind is the zero fulcrum of the wave lever from which motion is projected. Its zero condition is eternal.”

As he writes: “Stillness never can be motion, or become motion, but it can appear to be. Motion merely seems, but stillness always is.”

All Motion Records Mind

Russell’s cosmogony reveals a universe where, as he states: “All motion is Mind motivated. All motion records Mind thoughts in matter.”

This understanding positions Mind not as emerging from matter but as the source from which all motion and appearance unfold. As Russell writes: “Desire in the Light of Mind for creative expression is the only energy in this universe.”

Quotes are from Walter Russell’s three popular publications. Universal One, The New Concept of the Universe, and The Secret of Light.

Find out more about Walter Russell and get his publications at: University of Science and Philosophy – philosophy.org/