"Nikola Tesla seemed to have a cosmic mind that swept the Universe." -Dr. Nikola Tesla: The Forgotten Super Man of Our Industrial Age (1996) "Tesla came to Earth riding a bolt of lightning! He was an intimate of cosmic forces." - Rays from the Rose Cross: A Magazine of Mystic Light (2001) "At the time he conceived these ideas, that is, in the early 1890s, Tesla was studying Herbert Spencer." - Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikolas Tesla (1998) Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a genius who revolutionized the way the world looks at electricity. In February 1915, Tesla published a short 12-page work titled "How Cosmic Forces Shape Our Destinies" in the New York American magazine, republished here. As Tesla explains in this work, "everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside. There is no gap between, no break of continuity, no special and distinguishing vital agent. The same law governs all matter, all the universe is alive."