All Genius is the Same Child Wonder

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What is the difference between an obsession and an addiction? Well, don’t bother to answer, really. These terms are relative, as everything is a variation of the All. It is like the frequency variations envisioned by Nicola Tesla, where the philosophy of an electrical universe may be invariably applied to all manner of considerable dualities, albeit, trinities. Consider the minds of two great thinkers, namely Nicola Tesla and H. P. Lovecraft. What is the difference between the two geniuses? No, wait. Do not answer too quickly, for such is a rather vague and broad question. More precisely, we should examine the message of the minds we are drawing comparisons from. Let us consider H. P. Lovecraft first.

Mr. Lovecraft focused on the idea that humanity was a joke left behind by the gods, or the Great Old Ones. In the author’s own words--albeit these are words of fiction, but let us borrow the general philosophy here—he describes mankind as living on a placid island of ignorance in a sea of infinity (never ending darkness). This is a message of horror and terror, but in its heart, in the very core of this fictitious fabrication of the truth, there is the child-like wonder of the cosmos.

Now, considering Nicola Tesla we have the same child-like wonder, a man who as a boy was fascinated by lightning and thunderstorms, and who created toys powered by insects when he was but a child. Tesla’s greatest message may have been that he wanted mankind to be able to understand and make the attempt to comprehend the universe. In Tesla’s own words he describes the universe as energy, frequency, and vibration. Moreover, Tesla wanted to provide free energy to the entire planet, and provide a means to prevent invasion of nations by arming all nations with the one weapon to bring down planes or sink ships (His infamous death ray). And while Tesla was vilified for his death ray, most people overlook the fact that Einstein’s idea of an atomic bomb is far more destructive, and is generally adverse to the environment—albeit, disruptive to the life energy of the planet. And we are seeing the results for this disastrous energy source today (Fukushima, and before that Chernobyl, and so on).

Returning our attention to the question (What is the difference between Tesla and Lovecraft?), one must address the purpose of such a question before answering it in full. Before we enter into the pursuit of drawing comparisons, first accept the fact that we are already concluding that the two are similar (part of the All). No one draws comparisons between things that are completely different, say apples and sports cars, for example. This wouldn’t interest us. And so, we can understand our minds a bit more by looking at how we draw comparisons (Consider the presidential elections when you wish to understand this).

In truth, these two geniuses are part of the infinite All, the great truth that, nothing in the universe is completely isolated or detached. All things are manifest of the All. And the All is One. Tesla’s story is really the one story that Lovecraft was writing or dreaming of in his own mind. We could bring Einstein into the consideration as well, and say that the wonders of all three of these men are the same. Rather, all such geniuses embark on a venture, whether internally driven or externally drawn. The difference is in the delivery of the message. Lovecraft, while in love with a rather Gothic or macabre wonderland, delivered a message of despairing horror. Yet, his attempt to horrify has not shunned his readers away. Why is this? (I’ve read nearly everything written by Lovecraft, and I’ve listened to a number of his audio books before sleeping, and yet I’m not tormented in my dreams nor am I horrified). I believe the answer is simple: Child-like wonder.

The same truth is applicable to Nicola Tesla. Yet, Tesla delivered a message of hope. Tesla was a child of light, as his mother had said he would be during a lightning storm (Tesla’s mother believed her son would be born a child of light, while others had taken the lightning as a bad omen).

We are all of us centers of consciousness, and within us (deeper down and more obscured in some people) is that wondering and dreaming mystic. In pursuit of this genius within one must first have that child-like wonder.