AAKHU ORBS

A class of ancient Egyptian and Dogon energetic beings whose role is to communicate between domains of energy.   The Dogon term for these is Ogo. - Waters of Life-Ancient Symbology of Life Energy  published 2022 -Laird Scranton

ACTHNA*

An invisible, subterrestial fire, being the matrix from which bituminous** substances take their origin, and sometimes producing volcanic eruptions.  It is a certain state of the "soul" of the earth, a mixture of astral and material elements, perhaps of an electric or magnetic character.

-[ a footnote states:It is an element in the life of the "great snake" Vasuki, that according to Hindu mythology encircles the world and by whose movements earthquakes may be produced.]   source- Franz Hartman from the book Paracelsus published 1896-

*remember that Paracelsus created terms that may not have become part of modern languages

A black viscous mixture of hydrocarbons obtained naturally or as a residue from petroleum distillation. It is used for road surfacing and roofing.- source mac dictionary app

PARACELSUS

ADROP, AZANE or AZAR

 source Franz Hartman -book Paracelsus published 1896

"The Philosophers Stone" not a stone in the ususal sense of the word but an allegorical expression, meaning the principle of wisdom which the philosopher who has obtained it by practical experience may fully rely on. 

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AKASHA : A'KÂSA.

"In Sanskrit and Indian cultures, Akash is an all-encompassing medium that underlies all things and becomes all things.  It is real, but so subtle that it cannot be perceived until it becomes the many things that populate the manifest world.  Our bodily senses do not register Akasha, but we can reach it through spiritual practice."    source:  Ervin Laszlo 1932-    -Science and the Akashic Field. 2004     read the book here

...to " see in events what is not perceptible to the senses, that part which time cannot destroy.  [One] penetrates from transitory to nontransitory history.  It is a fact that this history is written in other characters than is ordinary history.  ...sometimes called the Akasha Chronicle".       -source: Rudolf Steiner. 1861-1925. -Cosmic Memory read the book here  published in U.S. 1959

A'KÂSA.-An Eastern term.  The Living primordial substance, corresponding to the conception of some form of cosmic ether pervading the solar system. Everything visible is, so to say,condensed A'k&sa, having become visible by changing its supraethereal state into a concentrated and tangible form, and everything in nature may be resolved again into A'kisa, and be made invisible, by changing the attractive power that held its atoms together into repulsion; but there is a tendency in the atoms that have once constituted a form, to rush together again in the previous order, and reproduce the same form; and a form may therefore, by making use of this law, be apparently destroyed
and then reproduced.  This tendency rests in the character of the form preserved in the Astral Light. -source Franz Hartman -book Paracelsus published 1896

ALCAHEST

An element which dissolves all metals, and by which all terrestial bodies may be reduced into their Ens primum, or original matter (A'kasa) of which they are formed.   It is a power.[  ] capable of changing the polarity of [  ]  molecules and there by to dissolve them.    -source Franz Hartman -book Paracelsus published 1896

********And there is a modern day video game called by this name.

ALCHEMY

The medieval science that led to the modern science of chemistry.  Today nuclear science, physics, has evolved so far that many physicsts will say that the old alchemists and the ancients understood far more than credited.

"A science by which things may not only be decomposed and recomposed (as is done in chemistry), but by which their essential nature may be changed and raised higher, or be transmuted into each other. Chemistry deals with dead matter alone, but Alchemy uses life as a factor."    -Franz Hartmann  The Life and Doctrines of Paracelsus  published 1891

"For nearly everyone, alchemy is the science of "making gold" and nothing more.  For some, it is a fantasy; for others, a mysterious science of fascinating discovery.  There are also the "spiritually minded" who consider alchemy to be a psychospiritual science of transforming consciousness, ..."    -R.A Schwaller de Lubicz   Sacred Science

"The art and science of transforming substances, situations, or living things to perfect them."   -Dennis William Hauck The Complete Idiot's Guide to Alchemy

"It is known, indeed, that it [alchemy] has an ancient ancestry. But not until the fall of the Roman Empire does it emerge into the light of valid history. This much, however, can be inferred, that the art properly called " alchemy " arose in the second or third century of the Christian era, and that it resulted from a union of the practical art of the Egyptians with the philosophy of the Greeks, and with the mysticism which found its home in Alexandria.   -John Edward Mercer  Alchemy, It's Science and Romance

The procedures of medieval alchemy were often religious in character.  They represented a kind of religious ritual intended to symbolize the belief that man was eternally and immutably integrated in a hierarchically organized cosmic order; the transmutation of the lesser metals served as a tangible illustration of a profound inner experience.  This was considered not merely as a chemical process, but also as a mystical process, of which the alchemist, in the role of mediator, was a part, and in which he strove to release his own divine "spark of light" imprisoned in his material body. - Jolande Jacobi PARACELSUS Selected Writings 

ANIMA

The soul. In Paracelsus this term is largely identified with the "sidereal body".  But he also uses it to designate everything similar to the breath, all refined, volatile matter, as well as the specifically  effective part of a medicine, its essence.  - Jolande Jacobi PARACELSUS Selected Writings 

This is also a Jungian term and his use of it will be added here as well.  Many aspects of Jung's work  were centered on alchemy.

ANTHROPOSOPHY: 

"..a discipline of research as well as a path of knowledge, service, personal growth, and social engagement.  Introduced and developed by Rudolf Steiner, [see People glossary page] it is concerned with all aspects of human life, spirit and humanity's future evolution and well being."  -source: -Anthroposophical Society in America website

ANTIMONY

The element, used as an occult alchemistic remedy; the name also designates symbolically a specific stage in the process of transmutation.  - Jolande Jacobi PARACELSUS Selected Writings 

ANTIQUITIES

Antiquity is a word coming from Latin or Old French and was meant to convey things of old,  former civilizations, the olden days, the ancient past.   

ANTIQUITIES

ARCANE

understood only by very few; mysterious or secret

ARCANUM (Arcana -plural)

Paracelsus calls arcana all so called "secret medicines," whose efficacy is manifested in the secret virtues inherent in the various herbs, minerals, metals, etc.  - Jolande Jacobi PARACELSUS Selected Writings 

ASTROLOGY

Astrology is compounded of two Greek words : Astron, a star, and Logos, discourse or reason; and literally implies the doctrine and law of the stars.- source BROUGHTON'S MONTHLY PLANET READER. April 1860

ASTRAL LIGHT 

A universal and living ethereal element, still more ethereal and highly organised
than the A'kâsa. The astral light is universal, the A'kâsa is only cosmic, only pertaining to our solar system. It is, at the same time, an element and a power containing the character of all things.  It is the storehouse of memory for the great world, the Macrocosm, and also the memory storehouse for the Microcosm of the human, from which we may recollect past events. It exists uniformly..., yet it is more dense and active around certain objects on account of their molecular activity, especially around the brain and spinal cord of human beings which are surrounded by it as by an aura of light. It is this aura around the nerve cell and nerve tubes by which a man is enabled to catch impressions made upon the astral aura of the comos, and thereby to "read in the Astral Light."

ATOM

An atom is part of the unseen world that makes up all the visible material stuff and things called matter.  Different types of matter like shoes, or dirt, or water, are created from different types of atoms.  Originally an atom was thought to be the smallest particle of matter.- But ... not so.

Atoms are made up of the even smaller unseen mysterious world of particles.  Now it is said that Inside an atom there is a group of sub-atomic particles.  Sub meaning below or beneath the surface of the atom, sub atom ic .  In this subatomic space is a nucleus, the center so to speak. And within the boundary of the nucleus live the proton and the neutron, two of the subatomic particles.  The third is called the electron but it lives outside the boundary of the nucleus.

It is fun to imagine that the earth and the moon are within a nucleus, and the sun is the electron .  It makes your head spin, and funny enough, that is the name of the game is played out and the subatomic level-  spin.  Only not a circular spin, more about angles and momentum.... it gets complicated and starts to look something  like this S= h √ s (s+1)

So in an oversimplifed version it all works like this.
1. Matter- that stuff that takes up space and can be seen, touched, tasted, heard
    2. Molecules- a group of atoms held together by a force of electrical charge
        3. Atoms- particles of matter, all the invisible pieces
            4. Subatomic particles- particles of the atom, such as the electrons 

Fun Fact- ATOMS is a term derived from a Greek word atomos meaning indivisible. 

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ATOMIC NUMBER

Each element has an atomic number.  The number of protons in an atom is referred to as the atomic number of that element.

AUTOMATON: 

that which posesses the power of spontaneous movement without consciousness; a machine that performs a function according to a predetermined set of coded instructions, especially one capable of a range of programmed responses to different circumstances. 

simple etymology- autos -self, of or by oneself;  mntos, men- [think MIND MENTAL] automa, automata, automatic, automat-ion...

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BOLSHEVIK :

a member of the Bolsheviki [or Bolsheviks] - "the more", or Maximalists (extremists), the Russian proletarian party made up of Social Democratic and Social Revolutionary factions, which overthrew the provisional government, November 1917 and surrendered to Germany March 14, 1918.  Opposed to the Mensheviki, or "The Fewer" or Minimalists (moderates).  Bolshevism - akin to nihilism: a Russian movement embracing, in its varied history, elements of communism, anarchism, terrorism, socialism and pacifism.  

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), the founder of Bolshevism 1870-1924.  During the years between 1887 to 1895 he was a leader in the movement for emancipation of the working class, which prepared the way for the founding of a revolutionary Marxist workers' party and Bolshevism.   

BOMB 

Atomic Bomb

The fission bomb is known as the atomic bomb, since the process splits the nucleus of the atom.  See fission

An atomic bomb implodes, blasts inward, and brings together quantities of uranium and plutonium in such a way to create a critical mass.  This is the required weight of fissionable material that will sustain a chain reaction.  This causes the nucleus of the uranium or plutonium to be bombarded with neutrons which will cause the nuclei to split resulting in the formation of lighter elements, the release of more neutrons, and another violent  release of energy... a chain reaction.

Dirty/Clean bomb- see neutron bomb below

Hydrogen Bomb- was first tested on November 1st 1952.  In this fusion, or thermonuclear bomb, an explosion is created by the fusion reaction of hydrogen isotopes, deuterium and tritium.  Hydrogen bombs are far more powerful than atomic bombs.  It is heat that initiates the release of nuclear energy.

Neutron Bomb is actually a small hydrogen bomb, in which a nuclear-fission reaction triggers a nuclear-fusion reaction.  The result is not a great ball of fire and radioactive cloud as a hydrogen bomb is, but is a  blast which will develop into a burst of neutrons which will destroy living things  but not buildings.  This feature difference is what gave rise to the term 'clean' as opposed to 'dirty' bombs.

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CABOCHON

A gem or mineral cut in a convex, a more or less round outward extending exterior surface, imagine a ball or spherical shape, as opposed to a concave, imagine how a crater caves inward not outward.

CARTESIANISM

Cartesianism a term used to categorize ideas that originated with the 17th-century philosophy of René Descartes.  He established the idea of “cartesian dualism"  by  which reality is split into the mind and the matter.  Possibly understood as the reality conceptualized by the mind and the reality concretized by matter. 

CHAIN REACTION

Through fission an atomic bomb implodes, blasts inward, and brings together quantities of uranium and plutonium in such a way to create a critical mass.  This is the required weight of fissionable material that will sustain a chain reaction.  This causes the nucleus of the uranium or plutonium to be bombarded with neutrons which will cause the nuclei to split resulting in the formation of lighter elements, the release of more neutrons, and another violent  release of energy... a chain reaction.

CHEMISTRY

The science that deals with what the earth and the universe are made of.  The material that makes up the universe is called matter.  Chemistry is the science of what matter contains and how matter changes.

CONSCIOUSNESS: 

  the knowledge of that which passes in one's own mind. 

"being conscious, or being conscious of one's self, that is ego consciousness" . ... "but with the formative consciousness essence as a starting point...founded on action.

.. the formative "consciousness essence" refers to a synthesis of "Being containing in itself it's own opposition", which is the creative function, and which will appear later as a generating power ..."   

"In this spirit, the material of form - from energy to the densest corporeal state- is nothing but a qualitative specification, an expression of the consciousness that seeks itself, through all its metamorphosis."  

"...psychological consciousness is now undergoing a modification of its foundation; its basis is no longer the specified thing, but the specification of the thing.  The thing becomes symbol and the function becomes reality. "

"...a psychological condition defined by the English philosopher John Locke as “the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind.” 

"In the early 19th century ... Some philosophers regarded it as a kind of substance, or “mental stuff,” quite different from the material substance of the physical world. ..."

CYCLE

a period of time from beginning to completion; a period of of time taken to complete series of events; a day of 24 hours; a week of 7 days; a series of days seen as the phases of the moon from new to full and back to new, feferred to as a moonth, month; the period of time as determined by days, 365 days for the planet earth to orbit around the sun;  twelve cycles of the moon equates to one cycle of the earth around the sun'

a period to time; a movement of time; a frequency in time

DARK MATTER

Matter that cannot be observed directly via electromagnetic radiation.

 A New Science of Heaven Chapter 8 - tells the history of a Swiss astronomer named Fritz Zwicky 1898-1974, who is credited for observing an anomaly while researching the Coma galaxy cluster.   His gravitational calculations showed discrepencies with his observation from Mount Palomar Observatory in California in 1933.  He concluded that unseen matter must exist there, in his observations, to account for the gravitational forces.  He would name the unseen anomoly- dunkle Materie ie Dark Matter.   The chapter expands on this portion of history and the struggle of Zwicky and others throughout the 1930's, 40's and 50's.

DOXOGRAPHISTS 

"...lost works recorded by later writers, but also by the varieties of ancient reportage that are extant. The modern name for these forms of reportage is ‘doxography’, which could be translated ‘tenet-writing’. Broadly speaking, doxography encompasses those writings, or parts of writings, in which the author presents philosophical views of some or other of the ancient philosophers or schools, in some or other areas, or on some or other topics, of philosophy, whether with or without presentation of the argumentation or analysis through which they offered philosophical support or reasons in favor of their ‘tenets’, and whether or not they also include critical evaluations and comments of the author's own. In other words, these are works (or sections of works) taking as their subject matter the tenets or doctrines of the philosophers, rather than independent works of philosophy ..." -online source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy     

ECONOPHYSICS:

In the mid 1990's this research field was developed by physicists as a way to tackle complex problems posed by economics and financial markets.  Econophysics was an outcome of the availability of huge amounts of financial data beginning in the mid 1980's.

FIAT

One of the various ways to define the word is as the activity of expressing Thought and Will;  the Great First Cause, the act of creation; the energy by which the Light created the universe into an objective existence

Fiat Lux, Let there be Light

In a modern dictionary we will read the definition as: a formal authorization or proposition; a decree: Or, - an arbitrary order.  But we may still find the word origin listed  as coming for the late Middle English: from Latin, and meaning ‘let it be done’, or from fieri ‘be done or made’.

Interestingly we can note why the term fiat currency is used to describe our modern money system.  Let it be made.

FIRE

The internal activity which manifests outwardly or externally as manifestations of heat and light.  The activity of fire is understood differently on each different plane of manifastion, ie.., spiritual plane, astral plane, terrestial plane.  We use terms as burning love, or burning hatred to describe a manifestation, and fiery passion as another manifestation.  On the earthly plane we understand fire as combustion.

In ancient wisdom fire is considered a purifying element, and in some teachings it may be considered as Life.

FIRMAMENT

The soul of the Macrocosmos, the sphere of the Microcosmos.

source- Franz Hartmann, PARACELSUS and the Subatance of His Teachings published 1899

FISSION

Fission splits an atom’s nucleus into fragments.  In fission reactions it is heat and blast that cause the release of energy, and the immediate destructive radiation.  The atomic bomb used at Hiroshima was a fission, atom nucleus splitting bomb.

source- NEUTRON BOMB: AN EXPLOSIVE ISSUE November 15, 1981

FUSION

Fusion forces two nuclei together.                  

source- NEUTRON BOMB: AN EXPLOSIVE ISSUE November 15, 1981

GEOLOGY

"Geology is the physical history of the earth and its inhabitants, as recorded in its structure. It inchides an account of the changes through which they have passed, the laws of these changes, and their causes. In a word, it is the history of the evolution of the earth and its inhabitants.   -Joseph Le Conte

GNOMON

GNOMON, in Dialling , the style, pin, or cock of a dial, which by its shadow shows the hour of the day.

The gnomon of every dial reprefents the axis of the earth: .— The word is Greek, which literally implies something that makes a thing known;  by reason that the style or pin indicates or makes the hour known.

Gnomon, in astronoomy, a style erected perpendicular to the horizon, in order to find the altitude of the sun.  -source 1815 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica

GOSSAMER:

The often unseen thread like substance spun by spiders in the natural world; the wispy and delicate web work that may be seen shimmering in landscapes when light reflects upon it; subtle insubstantial thread like webs connecting objects in a landscape and usually unobserved by uninterested eye.

HEBREW

The Hebrew people are said to be decended from Jacob, the grandson of Abraham. Both Abraham and Jacob were patriarchs of the Old Testament.  The teachings and traditions of these ancient people formed the basis of the Jewish religion.  The books of the Old Testament were written almost entirely in the Hebrew language which some books say was one of the three earliest known languages.

HYDROGEN

The chemical element that has an atomic number of one

HYDROGEN BOND

a weak chemical bond formed by the attraction of a slightly positive hydrogen atom with a partially negative atom of another molecule or region of the same molecule

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

the branch of chemistry dealing with non-caarbon-based compounds.

IONIAN PHILOSOPHERS

" Ionia, first and most important of the Greek colonies, was situated in Asia Minor on the shores and islands which look westward towards the Grecian peninsula across the A*gean Sea. The most notable city of Ionia was Miletus, birthplace of all three philosophers here discussed."  a) Thales; b) Anaximander ; c) Anaximenes.

source -  Paul Glenn The history of philosophy : a text book for undergraduates. published 1929

ION

Ions are the atoms that have lost the balance of zero charge and carry a (+)  or  (-) charge.   Ions or atoms combine to form molecules.

IONIC BOND

an attracting force that holds together two ions with opposite electrical charges

IONIZATION ENERGY

is the type or amount of energy required
to completely remove an electron from an isolated atom or
ion. The Ionization Energy is always positive.

ISOMERS

differrent compounds that have the same molecular formula but different spatial arrangements of the atoms

ISOTOPE

an element/ atom could have two or more forms that each containthe same numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei, and each of these forms is an isotope.  Each isotope then has a different relative atomic mass but not different chemical properties.  In particular, isotopes have to do with the radioactive form of an element.

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the KORDYLEWSKI CLOUDS

Named for Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski who in 1961 discovered these cloud like features.  The two difficult to see dust clouds are said to be orbiting Earth in a similar way the moon orbits it, and may be about the same distance as the moon.  The clouds are said to be nine times the size of earth.

In 2018 these clouds were rediscovered by Hungarian astronomers.  

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LEYDON JAR

The Leyden jar is simply a glass bottle or jar coated with tin-foil inside and outside, When charged with electricity the jar will hold its charge until the two coatings are connected by a metal wire or another good conductor of electricity.

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MAGIC 

The science and art of consciously employing invisible (spiritual) powers to produce visible effects.  Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that every one posseases, and the one who knows how to develop them and to use them consciously and etfectually is a magician.  One who uses them for benevolent purposes practises white magic.  Anyone who uses them for selfish or malevolent purposes is a black magician.
Paraceleus uses the term Magic to signify the highest power of the human spirit to control all lower influences for the purpose of good.   -Franz Hartmann from the book PARACELSUS and The Substance Of His Teachings  

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MAGNET  MAGNETICS  MAGNETISM:

The magnet , magnes in Greek, is said to have received this name from Magnesia, the city of Asia Minor, or Ancient Greece near which it was first found.

A magnet is a body which has the property of attracting and being attracted.  There are natural and artificial magnets.  A lodestone is a natural magnet found in the earth which has the property of drawing to itself, [attracting] steel filings, needles, small pieces of unmagnetized iron.  The lodestone has been known in antiquity.  In addition nickel, cobalt, and brass, when hammered, have been found to have magnetic properties to a lesser degree.

The attractive power of a natural magnet is not spread equally throughout all parts, but is strongest at the extremities and lessens or disappears toward the middle.  The areas at the extreme ends where to force is strongest are called the poles, and the area with no force is called the neutral zone.

FUN FACT not always known is that vibration is what moves a magnet.  The very subtle vibration is like a pendulum swinging back and forth till the force settles at the attracted point- ie terrestial North

Iron or steel brought in contact or very close range, with natural magnetics acquire the magnetic force and become artificial magnets.  Iron may lose the magnetic properies but steel retains the force permanently.  The natural magnet loses none of its force from this transfer.  Familiar artificial magnets are commonly used today.

Magnetism may be imparted to iron or steel by way of:

* induction- a magnetic atmosphere or field surrounds every magnet.  A piece of iron or steel brought within this magnetic field has its neutral fluid decomposed and enables magnetic properties, said to become magnetized by induction.  The earth magnetizes by induction.

*the sun's rays are a source of magnetism.  Sunlight, specifically the violet rays of the solar spectrum, if concentrated by lenses on steel needles has been shown to transfer magnetism to the needles.  [of course in the present day era  of 2025 - projects immensely more powerful are underway and likely also completed creating giant magnet powers ]

* electric currents- the intimate connection between electricity and magnetism was establish over a hundred years ago, in 1819, by Hans Christian Oersted. 

*direct contact with a magnet by various methods will transfer magnetism to steel needles or  bars etc - see articles [link below] for more detail on the experiments that can be done.

MAGNETISM deals with the laws, the properties, force and phenomena of magnets.

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MATHEMATICS:

Mathematics is the science of quantity.  Branches of mathematical science are Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry.  [quantity is anything which may be increased, decreased, or measured such as lines, numbers, space, motion, time, volume and weight.]

In mathematics a unit is a single thing; a number -or quantity- is a unit or a collection of units which may be concrete or abstract.  Concrete numbers refer to particular material things as books, or pebbles.  Abstract numbers do not refer to particular things but rather are numbers used without designating objects, such as 5 + 7, or 9 x 4.

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MATTER: 

Whatver occupies space, whatever we can see or touch is known as matter.  All matter, technically speaking, is ponderable, meaning it has weight.  But there is also a term, imponderable matter, that has been applied to light, electricity, heat, magnetisim.  Imponderable meaning without weight.  

In the mid 19th century, about the 1870’s, imponderable matter began to be seen as conditions of matter, as forces, and not actually matter.  

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MOHS SCALE: 

A method called the Mohs scale has been the common way to determine hardness of a stone since 1812. To test the hardness of precious stones that have not been cut or polished, the scale of ten minerals was devised by Frederich Mohs, a German mineralogist.

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MOLECULE

 The smallest particle into which a material substance can be divided and still have the chemical identity of the original substance. 

PERIOD:  in chemistry, s horizantal row of the periodic table

PERIODIC LAW:  the recurrence of chemical properties of the elements when arranged by atomic number

PERIDOIC TABLE:  the presentation of the chemical elements and information about them.  The elements are arranged by atomic number with elements sharing similar chemical properties located in the same vertical grouping   . -also see Mendeleyev

PHILOSOPHY:   

"...to take a thing philosophically is to consider it as a whole, not as an isolated phenomenon peculiar to ourselves, but in comparison with the whole of our life and as something which might, and possibly does, happen to others as well as to ourselves. When a man realizes that a great personal calamity is not something peculiar to himself but common to the majority of his fellow-beings, ....it no longer fills the whole of his mind and soul. In popular language we say that he has become more resigned to it and is taking it philosophically. Much of the philosophy of Epictetus? is directed towards inculcating this attitude of mind."

" ...philosophy is concerned with viewing things in their context and with assigning a right value to them in relation to the whole of that context. Plato defined it as a speculation upon all time and all existence."

"We shall expect, then, to find that philosophy is concerned with viewing things in their context and with assigning a right value to them in relation to the whole of that context. Plato defined it as a speculation upon all time and all existence."

quotes from -The Elements of Greek Philosophy. published 1922. R. B. Appleton

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PHRENOLOGY "Phrenology (derived from (pgnv, phren, mind, and Aoyo;, logos, discourse) treats of the faculties of the Human Mind, and of the organs by means of which they are manifested ; but it does not enable us to predict actions."   -Elements of Astrology George Combe 1788-1858

Phrenology is a science founded on the formation and function of the brain. In certain compartments on the surface of the brain, the organs of the mind, as faculties, sentiments, and pro-pensities, are developed, which the external part of the head diseovers; and in proportion to the number, strength, and development of these organs, so does the phrenologist give his opinion on the intellectual faculties, moral sentiments, and animal propensities of individuals.'  -BROUGHTON'S MONTHLY PLANET READER April 1860 issue.

PHYSIOGNOMY. -Physiognomy is a science which teaches us to form ideas of the dispositions and natural propensities of mankind, on beholding the countenanoe, and judging from the lines, curves, profiles, and proportion of the various features of the face, the form of each feature taken separately and collectively, to which we often add the profile of the whole head and body.  Physiognomists also assist their judgment in a variety of ways, by observing the manners of individuals on various occasions. their gait, and from the general personal appearance.  The countenance is the index of the mind, which can be accurately read by observation, study, and experience." Every person is a physiognomist to a certain degree.     - source BROUGHTON'S MONTHLY PLANET READER April 1860 issue.

PLASMA [physics]

A form of matter that is made up of ions, and proton and electron particles.  Plasma has been called the fourth state of matter, - solid, liquid, gas,- plasma.  It has been said that matter is made of whole atoms, while plasma is of subatomic particles. 

It has also been called the first state of matter.  According to V.E. Fortov;

"Practically all the visible contents of the cosmos- not just the stars, but even the regions of rarefied interstellar dust containing barely a million particles per cubic metre - are in a plasma state."

Quote below is from Fundamentals of Physics   -B N Ivanov    Published 1989

"Let us consider some properties of plasma using a completely ionized hydrogen plasma as an example. Such a plasma holds a promise of carrying out a controlled fusion reaction which offers a practically unlimited source of energy for future generations.

POLARITY:  the property possessed by certain bodies as in electrified or magnetized bodies by which they arrange themselves in certain directions or tend to given poles.  SOURCE New Dictionary of the English Language 1921 Edition

the property of having poles or being polar: the direction of a magnetic or electric field:  the state of having two opposite or contradictory tendencies, opinions, or aspects:  SOURCE - Dictionary App for Mac

POLARIZATION:  the act of polarizing; the state of being polarized.  SOURCE New Dictionary of the English Language 1921 Edition

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PROTON a subatomic particle found in the nucleus of the atom and carrying a positive charge

QUANTUM MECHANICS

Quantum mechanics is the field of physics dealing with the “wave-particle duality.” , based on the idea that particles can sometimes behave like waves, and waves can sometimes act like particles that have no mass.  Particles being the tiny pieces of matter and waves being a disturbance or variation [in matter] that transfers energy.

Rounding The Nadir

In some schools of thought rounding the nadir is akin to the passing of great trials or hardships successfully.  And after you have rounded it you begin the upward journey of climbing, ascending rather than falling. 

Hitting Rock Bottom is what happens before rounding the nadir

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SCIOLIST 

- Superficial pretender to knowledge, smatterer. Hence or cogn. sciolism(2) n., sciolistic a. [ sciolus smatterer  -from The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English 1912

-a person who pretends to be knowledgeable and well informed -from Apple Dictionary App. 2026

-sciolism - superficial knowledge - from The New Dictionary of the English Language  

Now, as not everyone can be expected to be a sciolist we may as well state, for the benefit of those who ...read the  article

SORCERY

Sorcery is not Magic, but stands in the same relation to Magic as darkness to light.
Sorcery deals with the forces of the human and animal soul, but Magic with the supreme power of the spirit.  -Franz Hartmann from the book PARACELSUS and The Substance Of His Teachings

This explanation may be better understood with the awareness of Natural Law as provided in the following quote.

"Everything that exists upon the Earth has its ethereal  counterpart above the Earth, and there is nothing, however insignificant it may appear in the world, which is not depending on something higher, so that if the lower part acts, its presiding higher part reacts upon it"  - from the book PARACELSUS and The Substance Of His Teachings Franz Hartmann attributes this  to -Sohar Wajecae,

SPECIFIC GRAVITY:

The number which expresses the relation between the density of any substance and the density of water is called the specific gravity number of the substance.  

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the STANDARD MODEL [physics]

"The Standard Model explains how the basic building blocks of matter interact, governed by four fundamental forces. The theories and discoveries of thousands of physicists since the 1930s have resulted in a remarkable insight into the fundamental structure of matter."       - quoted from the CERN website CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, located in Switzerland.

STREAK [of a mineral]: 

The streak of a mineral is the color of its powder.
 

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SWIVELLER'S DIVERSIONS'

Swiveller was a character of English author Charles Dickens, in his book The Old Curiousity Shop

According to  the home page of a website titled The Swiveller  - “In the course of writing The Old Curiosity Shop Dickens discovered a curious thing. The novel was too diverse, too random, too probabilistic to control. The only way to bring order was to introduce an inconsistent point of view. Dick Swiveller provides authorship by equivocation. His uncertainty is both internal and all around him. Only his ambivalence removes the barrier between writing and the imaginary world.“

This seems to allign with C W Heckethorn and his reference of this character in his book London Memories.  

Now, we know that Ceres, or Virgo, or the Virgin—that is, Venus—is the sign next to Leo; we further know from Swiveller's Diversionsn that ...read the  article

THEOSOPHIA

Supreme wisdom, acquired by practical experience, by which it is eminently distinguished from merely speculative philosophy. Theosophy, or divine self-knowledge, is therefore not to be confounded with theosophical doctrines that are the
result of theosophical knowledge; to say nothing about the idle dreams and vagaries which are often dealt out under the name of " theosophy," and which have brought this term into general disrepute.  -Franz Hartmann from the book PARACELSUS and The Substance Of His Teachings

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UNRAVELING THREADS

These are articles here on the gossamer threads which are a process or way of writing that unwinds itself beginning with one topic or question and maybe uses switchbacks as a method of explaining or exploring complicated or unsolved aubjects.  These are best understood as taking a leisurely hike in a wild setting without a predetermined destination, just an intention to explore nature and take in the scenery.

VALENCE

the number of electrons an atom must gain or lose in order to fill its outer most shell.  The VALENCE SHELL is the outer most electron shell of a neutral atom

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