The books on this glossary listing are likeley used  or referenced in the gossamer articles  and packets  Links will usually connect in both .  And many others are books that have been read, loved and recommended by the reader that these be kept alive.

A HISTORY OF MAGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE -During The First Thirteen Centuries Of Our Era 

Lynn Thorndike 1882-1965    Published 1923

These volumes are encyclopedic and are complete with index, bibliographical index, index of manuscripts.  The contents are organized in Books, with Book 1. THE ROMAN EMPIRE, roughly 335 pages; Book II EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT roughly 200 pages; Book III THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES  roughly 300 pages; Book IV THE TWELFTH CENTURY;  and Book V  THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.

The work was a thesis for the Master's Degree at Columbia Univiersity.  The examination of manuscripts was accomplished across Europe but mostly at the British Museum.

 

A NEW SCIENCE OF HEAVEN

Robert Temple   Published 2021

"Plasma is what this book is about."

"I believe that much of what we have previously called spiritual is really plasma, and that it exists all around us and in us.  Many spiritual experiencs reported throughout human history are really encounters with plasma phenomona or plasma entities. "

My primary purpose is to reconcile the 'spriitual' with the 'material' , and thereby to show that the dispute between them is false."

-quotes above from chapter one of the book

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BEYOND THE GOD PARTICLE

Leon Lederman   Christopher Hill   Published 2013 

Leon Lederman first wrote the God Particle [listed below]

"Within the environs of Geneva we find, today, thousands of the world's best-trained and most highly educated  physicists hard at work.  In a metaphorical sense, they have become the enchanted dwarves, the "Nibelungen" of the ancient Norse pagen religion who lived in a mystical region called Nibelheim, where they mined and toiled in the bowels of the earth.  They ultimately created, from the gold of the Rhine, a ring of enormous magical power for whoever possed it.  It is here in Geneva that the metaphorical Nibelungen, the modern-day particle physicists, have fabricated, deep in the bowels of the earth, a mighty ring of their own."

"The physicists are real and their ring is real.  It is not made of gold but rather tons of steel, ..."

"The product of their labor is not gold but the creation of a new form of matter, far, far, more valuable than gold and vever before seen in this world."     

• above quotes from Chapter One - The Introduction

CYCLES- The Mysterious Forces That Trigger Events

Edward R Dewey [see people glossary]  Published 1971 - Excellent Resource View table of contents

 From the book -

"Obviously if these forces do exist, and if they have influenced human affairs in the past, any theory of human activity that fails to take these forces into account is deficient. History, economics, philosophy, and every other area touched by man would need to be reevaluated."

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DMITRY IVANOVICH MENDELEYEV-His Life And Work

O,N, Pisarzhevsky     Published 1954

Excellent.  I am not sure why this book and others like it were not a part of my era of schooling.  Truly, a generation or two could have received key knowledge along with  inspiring and important historical backgrounds if books as this were in the curriculumn. Mendeleyev was born in 1834 in the Siberian town of Tobolsk.  He became the Russian scientist who developed the Periodic Table of Elements, but that is only one of his achievements.  The legacy of his work may be a part of our current events as we move into changing landscapes.  Learn his name and know his work, and the awareness can make a world of difference.

If you know what its like to watch a badly done movie after you have read the book  ugh, then understand that this is the effect of an internet search on Mendeleyev.  Read the book published in his country.

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LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)   Published 1929

This book has always been a top of the list, always cherished book in my world of friends I never met but loved.  The Introduction written by Lewis Hyde for the 2011 Penguin Books edition is a good overview to understand if the book will appeal to you as reader.  I think it could depend on which stage of life you are in, or how well you remember your twenties.  Rilke and Kappus were in their twenties when the correspondence began, Rilke 26 and Kappus, I think, was 19.

The excerpt below is from the preface of the 2013 Penguin Books edition. 

"And so my regular correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke began, lasting until 1908 and then gradually petering out because life forced me into domains which the poet’s warm, tender and moving concern had precisely wanted to protect me from. But that is unimportant. The only important thing is the ten letters that follow, important for the insight they give into the world in which Rainer Maria Rilke lived and worked, and important too for many people engaged in growth and change, today and in the future. And where a great and unique person speaks, the rest of us should be silent."
Franz Xaver Kappus Berlin, June 1929

MASTER OF THE MYSTERIES-The Life Of Manly P Hall

 Louis Sahagun    Published 2008

Interesting read to say the least.  If you are interested in the work of MPH then this is a worthwhile investment of time.  But it possibley will change your perception of him.  The book showcases the background of Manly Hall's life with the equally interesting history and cast of characters of Los Angeles from the beginning of the 20th century to the latter decades.  As with most biographical work it isn't always easy to gauge the truth from the opinions.   I nearly closed the book in the middle with  disappointment, but I am glad I read to the end.  This is a story of a man, and of an era, a place and time and the people he was caught up with.

SEVEN BRIEF LESSONS ON PHYSICS

CARLO ROVELLI, Italian Physicist   1956-     Published 2016

"These lessons were written for those who know little or nothing about modern science" -from the Preface of the book.

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THE COMING RACE

Edward Bulwer Lytton  1803-1873.     Published 1874  

I recently started the book again and finished it.  It is a slow beginning but becomes interesting as the story moves on.  The old style language also lessens after the first couple chapters.  Some people may know this book as Vril, The Power of The Coming Race as it was called in later publications.  It is the story of a man who is exploring a mine and falls into deep realms.  Unable to climb his way out he travels into the subterranian world of the Vril race of people.  The book is written in a style that leads the reader to believe this could be a nonfiction book, though it is published as fiction.

THE GOD PARTICLE

Leon Lederman   with Dick Teresi   Published 1993 

The title refers to a subatomic particle called the Higgs boson which was long theorized until the powerful particle collider at CERN confirmed its existence.

"HOW DOES THE UNIVERSE WORK?  This book is devoted to one problem, a problem that has confounded science since antiquity. What are the ultimate building blocks of matter?"   from Chapter One

This book is not only easily understandable- considering the subject 'matter'- but FUN, educating, consciousness changing if you are looking for answers to big questions. Reading it feels ike a great conversation with a friend of a friend.  Years ago I  was telling the brother of a friend I knew in high school about this book and my admiration for Lederman, when the person I was speaking with said- "Oh, I worked with him".. and then validated all my good impressions.  Of course.

This book is where I first encountered Wolfgang Pauli.  Gotta love him.!  I got to know him better in the biographical story[ies] of the friendship between Pauli and Carl Jung. 

Lederman tells a story of the number 137 that all physicists ponder.  Then a funny made up story about 137 and Pauli and God, made up to show the Pauli personality known and probabley loved, most definitely respected.  He then relays this story of Pauli ..."There's a true story also - a verifiable story- that takes place here on earth. Pauli was in fact obsessed with 137, and spent countless hours pondering its significance. The number plagued him to the very end. When Pauli's assistant visited the theorist in the
hospital room in which he was placed prior to his fatal operation, Pauli instructed the
assistant to note the number on the door as he left. The room number was 137." 

THE MADONNA SECRET

FICTION    Sophie Strand   Published 2023

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THE SECRET MAGDALENE 

FICTION    Ki Longfellow  1944-2022    Published 2005

A story of Mary Magdalene.  A well researched well written excellent novel.  

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THE SECRET SOCIETIES OF ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES

Charles William Heckethorn   Published 1875

The book is a comprhensive and interesting account of 150 or more secret organizations which were known to the author and existed during or preceding his lifetime. As he said put it, these societies existed from the most remote ages down to the present time, which was 1875. 

THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

Manly P Hall  1901-1990   Published 1928 

THE UNSEEN UNIVERSE

Balfour Stewart (1828-1887) co author with PG Tait   Published(1875)

a much-discussed attempt to reconcile modern physics with Christianity.

The characters within this glossary listing are from the books, mythologies, or ancients texts where they live.  As each becomes referenced in the gossamer articles or info packets links will connect to these.  This is for those who want to learn or remember the characters from the era, epoch  and the original texts, and not the movies or other modern story telling.

A'BAS,

Mythology  [Greek? Roman?] -a son of Meganira, was turned into a newt, or water-lizard, for deriding the ceremonies of the Sacrifice.                                                                 Source  -A Handy Dictionary of Mythology For Everyday Readers   -published  1890's  

ABSY'RTUS 

Mythology [Greek] -brother of Medea.

AM'RAM

Bible- Old Testament

A Levite of the family of the Kohathites.  Son of Kohath and father of Moses.

SOURCE: Bible Dictionary Wm Smith LLD published 1884

ARIEL

Ariel, the airy spirit, in Shakespeare's The Tempest   article

'grace, tenderness, speed and especially freedom and lightness...  the other spirits [elementals] hate the magician, yet are compelled to serve him...  Ariel obeys him thankfully and truly, without lies, without mistakes... for this, his perfect freedom, his all, is promised him within a certain time,.. his lord [Prospero] will miss him when he has given him his freedom; ... but he, the airy creature, will feel no longing after his dear master, whom he only seems to love for the sake of his promised freedom.  - -Gervinus

Caliban 

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A half human, half demon, deformed monster whom Prospero has made his slave.  He is

"all earth, all condensed, and gross in feelings and images;   he has the dawnings of understanding without reason or moral sense, ... "  -Coleridge

E'lohi, or E'loi  -E'lohim

Bible- Old Testament

The Hebrew name for God - or gods E'lohim  plural  or Elohim, denotes God displayed in his power as the creator and governor of the physical universe      

SOURCE: Bible Dictionary Wm Smith LLD published 1884

JOCH'EBED

Bible- Old Testament

A daughter of Levi, sister of Kohath, wife of Am'Ram and mother of Moses.       SOURCE: Bible Dictionary Wm Smith LLD published 1884

KOHATH

Bible- Old Testament  

SOURCE: Bible Dictionary Wm Smith LLD published 1884

LEVI

Bible- Old Testament

The third son of Jacob and Leah, born about B.C. 1753                                           SOURCE: Bible Dictionary Wm Smith LLD published 1884

MOSES

Bible- Old Testament  

Born to Amram, his father and  Jochebed, his mother, at Goshen, in Egypt, B.C. 1571 Moses was concealed by his mother for three months hidden in the house in order to save him from "the general destruction of the male children of Israel".  He was then placed by his mother  "in a small boat or basket of papyrus closed against the water by bitumen.  This was placed among the aquatic vegetatian by the side of one of the canals of the Nile."  The sister of Jochebed remained there hiding to see what would happen to the baby.  An Egyptian princess found the baby and decided to raise him as her own son.  The sister then passed by the princess and recommended Jochabed as a nurse for the baby, so Moses's own mother was able to influence his first period of training as a "child of Israel" even though he was in the splendours of Pharaoh's court and considered Egyptian.   The Pentateuch is blank on the period of Moses as an Egyptian, but the New Testament he is presented as "learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians" and as mighty in words  and deeds.  This is known as the second period  of Moses' training.  SOURCE: Bible Dictionary Wm Smith LLD published 1884

In Moses we find the development of the mind; to him were given the tablets of the
law. - Manly P Hall

PROSPERO

Shakespeare's The Tempest   article

The great enchanter, the very opposite of the vulgar magician (Caliban).  "With command over the elemental powers which study has brought to him, he posses moral grandeur and a command over himself, in spite of occasional fits of involuntary abstraction and of intellectual impatience; he looks down on life, andsees through it, yet will not refuse to take his part in it .... it has been suggested that Prospero, the great enchanter, is Shakespeare himself ..."    -Dowden

ZEE

Book The Coming Race  - A main character from Edward Bulwar Lytton's novel, a female of the Vril people and a leader in the community.  She belonged to the College of the Sages.  Throughout the story her character displays immense power not only of the vril force but also a power of individuality retained in a way of nonconformity, but in a non confrontational way. 

 The information on this page is likely used in the gossamer articles  and packets and links generally connect in both . 

The information is generally sourced from a mix of old and new books, encyclopedia, etc.  Many old books written for schools and students in the late 19th and early 20th century are a favorite go to for ease of understanding and simpler presenation. 

ACCUMULATOR, or Condenser.:

A term often applied to an apparatus called a Leyden Jar or Condenser, which per-
mits the collection from an electric source of a greater charge than it would otherwise be capable of giving.
The ability of the source to give an increased charge is due
to the increased capacity of a plate or other conductor when
placed near another plate or conductor.

Accumulator, storage or Secondary Cell.:

Two inert plates dipping into a liquid incapable of acting
chemically on either of them until after the passage of an
electric current, when they become capable of furnishing an
independent electric current.

ADHESION:

The attraction that exists between unlike molecules.

AFFINITY,

-Chemical Affinity; 

Atomtc attractions.  The force that causes atoms to umte and form chemical molecules  more detail

-Electron Affinity;

The electron affinity is defined as the amount of energy released when an electron is added to a neutral atom or molecule in the gaseous state to form a negative ion.

ANODE

The anode is the positive electrode [see below] by which an electric current enters a conductor.  The conductor may be liquid, a gas, or a solid.  The anode may be a terminal post as in a storage battery, a prong as in a radio or television tube, or a plate of impure copper as in the electrolytic refining of copper.  The anode is ALWAYS positively charged.  This is why the anode attracts the negatively charged ions or anions.  It is at the anode that the anions give up their electrons and become oxidized.

source  -Young Peoples Science Encyclopedia  published 1970

CATHODE

A cathode is a negatively charged terminal point of an electrical circuit.  In electrolysis [see below] the conductors that dip into the solution are called electrodes instead of terminals.  The cathode is the negative electrode whereby the current enters the solution.  The cathode's counterpart is the positively charged anode where the current leaves the solution and electrons enter the wires, to flow back to the cathode.  Similarly, electron tubes contain a small metal cathode that accepts electrons from the circuit.  It in turn emits an electron stream tot he anode in order to conduct the electrical current neccessary for the tube's operation.  In a simple voltaic cell the cathode may be just a zinc bar.                  source  -Young Peoples Science Encyclopedia  published 1970

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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.

COMPOUND SUBSTANCE

CONDUCTOR -of Electricity:

Lets just say that in the invisible electrical world of all matter, all the physical material world, the stuff, is either a conductor or an insulator from the electron point of view.  The kind of stuff, such as copper or gold and other metals, that contain a lot of free electrons, -free because they can move around and travel from one atom to another, this material stuff conducts electricity and because of this is called electrical conductors. 

Pretty much like a train conductor gets everyone on the train and then takes them somewhere.  Electrical Conductors move electricity, which is the free to move electrons, the tiny particles inside an atom.

  The stuff that doesn't allow electrons to move around is the electrical insulators, such as plastic or glass.  That is the short version of conductors and insulators.  -   extended article

ELECTRICITY

"The name given to the unknown thing, matter, or force, or both, which is the cause of electric phe-nomenon.  Electricity, no matter how produced, is believed to be one
and the same thing.  The terms frictional electricity, pyro-electricity, magneto electricity, voltaic or galvanic electricity, thermo-electricity, contact electricity, animal or vegetable electricity, etc., etc., though convenient for distinguishing their origin, have no
longer the significance formerly attributed to them as representing different kinds of the electric force."      -an 1889  dictionary of electrical words

"Electric charge is one of those things that can be measured, thought about, and used, but cannot be defined in terms of anything simple.   - Young Peoples Science Encyclopedia  published 1970

"Electricity is the flow of electrical power or charge. Electricity is both a basic part of nature and one of the most widely used forms of energy.  The electricity that we use is a secondary energy source because it is produced by converting primary sources of energy such as coal, natural gas, nuclear energy, solar and wind energy into electrical power. Electricity is also referred to as an energy carrier, which means it can be converted to other forms of energy such as mechanical energy or heat."    - eia.gov  the U.S. Energy Information Administration

ELECTRODE

a conductor through which electricity enters or leaves an object, substance.  Electrode,  and similarly an-ode and cath-ode derive from the Greek hodos - way- ie.. cathode may refer to the way out...

ELECTROLYSIS

Many molecules in a solution or fluid stae may be easily separated into positive and negative particles or groups of particles called ions.  When positive and negativeelectrical charges are placed at two different points within the fluid the positive ions migrate to the negative charge and the negative ions go to the positive charge.  In this way each ion neutralizes some of the charge placed in the fluid. 

The ions in this process recombine with the opposite ions to form new molecules.

source  -Young Peoples Science Encyclopedia  published 1970

ION

Basically an ion is an atom, or molecule, that is not neutral.  It is either (+) or (-) in electrical charge.

An ion is an atom or molecule with an electric charge - either positive or negative.  A neutral atom is not charged because it contains an equal number of positive and negative particles- thereby neutral.

"When an electron is pulled off a neutral atom, the particle which remains is a positively charged ion.  Similarly, when an electron is added to a neutral atom the particle formed is negatively charged, a negative ion, because there is then a surplus of negative electrons."         source-Young People's Science Encyclopedia  published 1970

see also -The Elements of chemistry That Matter

QUOTES FROM BOOKS OLD NEW AND IN BETWEEN

the UNSEEN

The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.    -Balfour Stewart and PG Tait  THE UNSEEN UNIVERSE  published 1875  . 

Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiating, Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them,
Wandering, yearning, curious, with restless explorations.....
Ah who shall soothe these feverish children
Who justify those restless exolorations?
-Walt Whitman 1819-1892  - Passage to India 

the SCENES

"He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old."  -Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Coming Race. published 1874   

"It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old to every three new ones".      -C S Lewis 1898-1963

"..new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason, but because they are not already common. But truth like gold, is not the less so for being newly out of the mine."  -L.D. Broughton

Behind the SCENES

"I think with your friend that it has been of late too much the mode to slight the
learning of the ancients."     -Benjamin Franklin,  (1774.)

And you, O my Soul, where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres, to connect them,           Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,                                   Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul. -Walt Whitman 1819-1892   from A Noiseless Patient Spider.

"Students of a mind to affiliate with an occult organization should examine with the greatest of care the merits and demerits of the movement. It is the height of folly to impulsively link oneself with any organization which has not been thoroughly examined and analyzed with all discrimination. Fantastically named organizations should, of course, be entirely avoided. Any group claiming to be the only possessor of most ancient and profound secrets should be avoided at all costs."   Manly P. Hall -Words to the Wise. -

Edward BULWER-LYTTON. 1803-1873

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George W CAREY:  1845-1924

source: Inez Perry from the book The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation  Carey and Perry  copyright 1932 and republished  in 2013 by Martino Publishing

Dr. George Washington Carey was born in 1845 in Dixon, Illinois.  In 1847 his family traveled by covered wagon to Oregon, a journey which took 6 months.  In his early forties he became the first Postmaster of Yakima, Washington.  Years later, together with a number of physicians, he founded the College of Biochemistry in Yakima Washington.

Biochemistry is said to be an ancient Sanscrrit science.  The Bichemic System of Medicine, a work of Dr Carey, was published in a Health Magazine in India, and he was recognized as a western brother helping to bring back the ancient of biochemestry.

Carey sold the copyright of this work to Luyties Pharmacal Company, of St. Louis.  The founders of company had interviewed Dr. William Schuessler, [see listing on this page] the originator of biochemestry in Oldenburg Germany.  They learned his method of preparating  the cell salts or mineral constituents of the blood, and presented it in this country.   It was Dr. Carey who ascribed to each sign of the zodiac its corresponding chemical element or salt (salt is an old term for earth).  Carey wrote The Relation of the Mineral Salts of the Body to the Signs of the Zodiac.  His work was never copyrighted and is said to ahve been copied and plagiarized.  Carey wrote various other works and published these via Chemistry of Life Co. in Los Angeles in the early decades of the 20th century.  

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Edward R DEWEY:  1895-1978

SOURCES: Cycles Research Institute;

In 1930 Dewey was appointed Chief Economic Analist by President Hoover.  His main task was to report on the cause of the Great Depression.  From this point on the studies of cycles was the focus of Edward Dewey's life long research.  He formed the FSC Foundations for the Study of Cycles in order to study cycles on anything for which sufficient time span of feliable data could be found.   Studies were not limited to the economy and stock market but expand in such areas as wildlife, fashion, weather, wars and more.  He wrote books, articles, reports and published a magazine focused on cycles.  It is noteworthy that computers did not play a role in Dewey's research fields until the final years of his life, most analysis was completed by hand, computers not being accessibleuntil the latter decades of the 20th century.

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SCHOOLERS

CYCLES

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Rene DESCARTES:  1596–1650

source: The American Mathematical Monthly Vol.V -year 1898

 The third child born to his parents.  His mother died as a result of his birth.  It was recorded that at an early age he showed an inquisitive mind, and was called by his fath-
er, "my philosopher." He was sent to school at the age of eight, the school of
La Fleche  where he continued  from 1604 to 1612.  In 1613 he had moved to Paris and here made the acquaintance of Mydorge, one of the foremost mathematicians of France.  He devoted the years 1615 and 1616 to the study of mathematics.  In 1617, at age 21 Decartes left France for the Netherlands.
It was during his time in the Netherlands that his mathematical career began and it was at this period that is noted as the birth of modern mathematics.

At the height of its power Descartes moved to Holland.  There for twenty years he lived, giving up all his time to philosophy and mathematics.  And with these subjects alone his writings are concerned.

"Science, may be compared to a tree; metaphysics is the root, physics is the trunk, and the three chief branches are mechanics, medicine, and m:orals, these forming the three applications of our knowledge, namely, to the external world, to the human body, and to the conduct of life ."   -Rene Decartes

He spent the time from*1629 to 1633 writing Le Monde, a work embodying an attempt to give a physical theory of the universe.   But finding its publication likely to bring on him the hostilitv of the Church, and having no desire to pose as a martyr, he abandoned it. The incomplete manuscript was published in 1664.  

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Pierre FERMAT: 1601-1665

Fermat ranked with his contemporaries Pascal and Descartes in shaping the course of modern mathematics.  Yet he saw himself as a hobbyist and never sought to publish his work.  He is known in our time

source: Famous Mathemeticians .org

Born in France to a wealthy family, he became a lawyer, married and had five children.  He explored the world of mathematics claiming this to be a hobby.  Fermat would send his work to famous mathemeticians in France.  Through this he established a connection with Marin Mersenne which would eventually gain him international recognition.  He was not generally recognized as a mathemetician during his lifetime but the work of his own which he shared was kept alive by others.  Isaac Newton would later say sthat his invention of calculus was based on Fermat’s methods of tangents.  Fermat, along with Pascal, is known as the founder of Theory of Probabilities, which grew out of Fermat's research into the theory of numbers.

Johann Wolfgang GOETHE: 1749-1832

source: New World Encyclopedia

One of Germany's principle literary figures, a minister elected to public office, and Goethe also contributed significant work to the sciences.  His great creation, the retelling of the tale of Faust, who sells his soul to the devil for success and fame, became a kind of Enlightenment manifesto against the church and religion.  Goethe returned to the German legend of Faustus which could trace its roots back to the Middle Ages. While writing this distinctly Germanic tale he would incorporate his understanding of the classical Greek and Roman traditions which Germany along with the rest of Europe had inherited.  Faust was written in stages.  The first portion was published in 1808 and was widely popular. The full completed writing was published after his death.

It is said that Germans would rank Goethe as the William Shakespeare of Frankfurt. It is not an exaggeration to say that modern German literature begins with Goethe and that he ranks as one of the most important figures in European literature.

He was studied minerals, and early mineralogy.   The mineral goethite is named for him. 

His great work of writings  inspired the thought of many philosophers, such as Hegel, Nietzsche, Steiner among others.

His works of poetry were set to music by almost every major German composer from Mozart to Mahler.

My favorite Goethe quotes:

 "There is nothing worse than imagination without taste." 

"Divide and rule, a sound motto; unite and lead, a better one."

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

As a minister elected to public office in Weimar, Goethe would attract large crowds of people who would come to hear him speak and to ask questions 

H. A. GUERBER:  1859-1929

There does not appear to be much information on the person of Helene Adeline Guerberwas who was a lecturer on mythology, an author of books of which a portion seem to have been for schools. Encyclopedia

The original books were published in the 1890's but have been republished repeatedly in the 1980's and 1990's.  I am guessing she was American, most original books were published by American publishing houses in the 1890's to early 1900's.  Her books are listed in the U.S. Library of Congress data base.

Ernst HAECKEL:  1834-1919

source: New World Encyclopedia

According to New World Encyclopedia  Haeckel was a  professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, and was an early popularizer of Darwin's work in Germany.  Haeckel embraced evolution  not only as a scientific theory, but as a worldview. He outlined a new religion or philosophy called monism, which cast evolution as a cosmic force, a manifestation of the creative energy of nature. A proponent of social Darwinism, Haeckel became increasingly involved in elaborating the social, political, and religious implications of Darwinism in the late nineteenth century.

Manly Palmer HALL:  1901-1990

Charles William HECKETHORN   1829-1902

 

Werner HEISENBERG: 1901-1976

A Nobel Prize winner for his work in theoretical atomic physics.  He was the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Munich.  Heisenberg was one of the pioneers in the field of Quantum Theory.  In 1927 he formulated the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which is the underlying foundation for wave-particle duality, the heart of quantum mechanics.

Carl JUNG: 1875-1961

John Worrel KEELY: 1837-1898

Leon LEDERMAN: 1922-2018

Leon Max Lederman was born in Manhattan, New York, where his father operated a hand laundry.   He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from City College of New York in 1943. He served in WWII . In 1951 he received a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. He work at the school's particle accelerator and after leaving Columbia University, he became the director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 1979. His experiments deepened science's understanding of the subatomic world.

Lederman, Jack Steinberger, and Melvin Schwartz received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for demonstrating that there were at least two kinds of particles called neutrinos.

Lederman wrote several books including The God Particle written with Dick Teresi.

He died on October 3, 2018 at the age of 96.  He has been described by his peers as a giant in his field who also had a passion for sharing science, resulting in his book, The God Particle.  His wife said of him after his death  “What he really loved was people, trying to educate them and help them understand what they were doing in science,”

He is listed on the Nobel Prize website.

Hamilton Wright MABIE:  1846-1916

Source: The Life and Letters of Hamilton W Mabie  published 1920  -Edwin W Morse

"The story of the life of Hamilton W. Mabie is of public interest and importance for two principal reasons. In the first place his influence as an educational force, through his writings and his lectures, was vastly greater than most people were aware of. This influence was nationwide in extent, and was powerful in effect, especially upon the young people of his generation. Through his contributions for nearly forty years to The Christian Union and The Outlook, through his books, and through his addresses before popular audiences on literary subjects, he was always a torch-bearer on the difficult path leading to high ideals, attainable only through intellectual enrichment and spiritual enlightenment. His followers, who gained courage and inspiration from his words, were
numbered by the thousands, and their debt-to him was great."

Claude MYDORGE: 1585-1647

source: The Galileo Project -online resouce

The premier mathemetician of his day, Mydorge's work was primarily in mathematics and optics, but also astronomy.  His geometry was directed to the study of conic sections and published work on the subject included ingenious and original methods that later geometers frequently used.  He was a wealthy man and was married to the sister of La Haye, the French ambassador to Constantinople. 

Mydorge was a close and faithful friend to Decartes.  In the year 1627 he spend more than 100 thousand ecus, the French coin of the day, to make lenses and optical instruments to aid Decartes in his search for an explanation of vision.  He also played a role in the reconciliation between Descartes and Fermat after 1638.

Pieter van MUSSCHENBROEK :  1692–1761 

German professor, -[ our modern resources of information refer to the professor as a Dutch scientist], of the University of Leyden, known for the Leydon Jar experiment.

Wolfgang PAULI: 1900-1958

 

Linus PAULING: 1901-1994

Historically this man was the only person to ever receive two unshared Nobel Prizes.  One for Chemistry in 1954 and one for Peace in 1962.    In his era, decades ago, these Nobel Prizes meant something more.

Pauling was born in Portland Oregon.  In 1917 he entered Oregon Agricultural Collage which is now  Oregon State University, in Corvallis, Oregon, he graduated in 1922. Pauling studied physical and chemical properties of substances as related to the structure of  atoms.

He then moved to Pasadena  to further his studies at California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech). He received his doctorate, in chemistry in 1925.  

Pauling traveled in Europe for two years following his studies at Cal Tech.  In Europe he continued with studies in the new field of quantum mechanics. . In the fall of 1927 Pauling was appointed assistant professor on Cal Tech's faculty of theoretical chemistry. Later he was made a full professor of chemistry. Pauling  stayed at Cal Tech until 1963.

The contibutions that Pauling gave humanity over his long life are vast and varied.  Several writings will discuss his work and spirit and more resources offered through out these current and upcoming articles.

     SCIENCE.      MINERALS        INTERESTING PEOPLE      LINUS PAULING

G P QUACKENBOSE

 

RUMI : Jalil al-Din Rumi. Maulan 1207- 1273

Jalaluddin was born in Balkh [modern province is in Afghanistan].   The name Rumi is how he is known in the West but other names attributed to Rumi are Mawlana, Mevlana and Jalaluddin.   For many years of his life he lived in Anatolia [Turkiye] which in his day was refered to as Rum, [East Rome] as it was designated from the Byzantine.  This is how Rumi became attached to his name. 

He is known as a Persian Poet and Sufi mystic, [see Sufism] but at the time of his death he was mouned not only by Muslims, but also Christians and many other regious creeds.  The volume of works we associate with Rumi were not written by him, but are thought to be works written by followers from oral teachings.  

Rumi's father was a masters of Sufism in Balkh and a leading theologian of his day . In his youth Jalaluddin -Rumi received a thorough education in the Arabic and Persian classical texts and religious studies of his time, the 13 Century.

Dr. Wilhelm Heinreich SCHUSSLER: 1821-1898 [also spelled Scheussler]

source: direct from -Schuessler Cell Salts: Biography of Dr. Schuessler

 Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Schüssler was a homoeopathic doctor. He became fascinated by the discoveries of Dr. Virchow [see listing on this page]who discovered the cells of the human body. Schuessler began to do research in the base of the cell knowledge for the causes of illness and their treatment.  He laid his main focus on mineral salts and trace elements.  Over time he discovered twelve mineral salts which are very important for the functioning of the human body.

Dr. Schüssler found out where these mineral substances exists in the human body. He developed a method to process the mineral salts homeopathically, that they can be assimilated by the body especially well.  Nevertheless, according to Dr. Schüssler his new method clearly differs from the homoeopathy because with his mineral substance treatment the Simile principle is not applied what is so vital for the homoeopathy (Simile principle: The similar is cured by similar).

Dr. Schüssler called his method of treatment "biochemistry", because the chemical connections of the human biology are considered. In english the healing method is often called biochemic cell salts. 

Isha SCHWALLER de LUBICZ:1885-1963

 

R A SCHWALLER de LUBICZ: 1887 -1961

To summarize any persons life is antithetical to life itself.  But as humans we do this to chisel a material record of the soul that once liminted the vast essence to the condensed physical body, for a time, and affected the material reality in this way.  Following, is offered a summary of the man R A Schwaller.  To know who he was  in his vastness, one must look to his works.

source: Translator's Preface of The Temple In Man -1977 English Translation- Robert and Carol Lawlor

In 1949  an unusually large academic controversy began in the renowned Department of Egyptology of the College de France, Paris.  It was was created by the book The Temple In Man.   Rene Adolphe Schwaller, author of the book, was born in France.  At the age of eighteen, after having completed his apprenticeship in pharmaceutical chemistry, he went to Paris.  There he studied modern chemistry, physics and every alchemical text he could get his hands on.  He was for a time a painter and student of Matisse and himself inflenced many artist in Paris at the time.  One such was Prince O.V. de Lubicz Milosz who in 1919 conferred his family title on Schwaller as a means of expressing his admiration and gratitude.

Schwaller served as a chemist in WWI, at the close of the war he published works on implementing peace.  Later he moved to the Swiss Alps where during this time his scientific and philosophic vision coalesced around an understanding of universal laws of harmony.

source: Serpent In the Sky  -John Anthony West

"When Le Temple de l'Homme [The Temple of Man] first appeared in French in 1957, the eminent Egyptologist Etienne Drioton counseled his colleagues to "build a common wall of silence" around it lest it find its way out into public view. With just a few notable exceptions, that injunction was obeyed within Egyptology itself." -JA West

"Schwaller de Lubicz began his work at Luxor on the hunch that the Great Temple there was the Parthenon of Egypt — that is, a sacred structure built according to strict harmonic proportions. If this hunch could be proven, it would mean that knowledge of harmony and proportion existed some fifteen hundred years before their alleged invention by the Greeks. This in turn would necessitate a drastic revision of widely-held opinions of
human social evolution.  By the time he had finished his fifteen years' work at the site, the nature of the revelations forced upon him by the Temple had led Schwaller de Lubicz to reinterpret the whole civilisation of ancient Egypt." -

"The Temple of Man is not bedtime reading, but readers willing to put in the effort to study it in depth will finally understand why ancient Egypt was regarded by the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome as the source of all wisdom." -JA West

Rudolf STEINER: 1861-1925 

The length and scope of this man has been reduced in our time to just a few splashes  that come up when one dives into his deep and potent personage.  To skim over Steiner's volume of work is to accept a handshake upon meeting as a deep and imtimate relationship.  An overview may be read here.

The biography by Johannes Hemleben and autobiography by Steiner himself are essential.  The resources of Thomas H Meyer, based in Basel are high quality, and additionally the archives of books and lectures are highly valuable if one is fully aware of choosing the translations of his work done by persons who lived among him and were indeed a part of his world and work.  Modern non human translation will loose the very essence of being, and relay instead merely the mechanical material words fashioned without soul.

source: Rudolf Steiner An Illustrated Biography  JOHANNES HEMLEBEN

Steiner called his spiritual philosophy 'anthroposophy' which he defined as 'the consciousness of one's humanity'.  As a highly developed seer, he spoke out of his direct perception of the spiritual world.  But rather than founding a new religion or sect, he provided suggestions for renewal of many human activities, including education, agriculture, medicine, economics, architecture, science, philosophy, the arts. His many published works, his books and lectures, feature his research into the spiritual nature of the human being, the evolution of the world and humanity, and methods of personal development.  During his life he wrote some 30 books and delivered over 6000 lectures across Europe.    

Balfour STEWART (1828-1887)

was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who was interested in psychical research. He was co-author with PG Tait of The Unseen Universe published 1875, a much-discussed attempt to reconcile modern physics with Christianity.

Nicola TESLA:  1856-1943

Lynn THORNDIKE:  1882-1965

Thorndike taught history at Columbia University from 1924 until 1952.  He was an authority of medieval history and science, and was also president of the American Historical Association from 1954 to 1955. He wrote college textbooks, and his major work an encyclopedic eight volume  A History of Magic and Experimental Science.

Frances E TOWNSEND:  1867-1960

SOURCES: online -encyclopedia .com;   Social Security History -SSA.gov website

Townsend was a medical practionaer in the early decades of the 20th century.  In 1919 he moved to California and settled in Long Beach.  During the peak of the Depression years Townsend sought to reform some of the state politics and introduced a plan to assist citizens 60 years of age and older.  The Townsend Plan sought to establish a pension plan of $200 a month funded by a 2% sales tax in the state.  Suppoters of this plan became known as Townsendites, and formed a pressure group to push reform.  On August 14 1935 President Roosevelt created the SSB, the Social Security Board which evolved into the Social Security Administration.  Townsend and his plan supporters played a role in this part of California and  U.S. History.   article. 

HISTORY

Rudolf VIRCHOW: 1821-1902

source: Boston Medical and Surgical Journal October 22 1891

Rudolph Ludwig Karl Virchow (13 October 1821 – 5 September 1902) was a
German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician,
known for his advancement of public health. Referred to as "the father of modern
pathology," he is considered one of the founders of social medicine.

.. no physician of our time has done more to promot the change, or by individual efforts to win his generation to accept, than Rudolf Virchow.  He founded, in 1847 the celebrated archive, which now in its one hundred and twenty eighth volume, is the greatest storehouse of facts in scientific medicine possessed by us today.

Francesco Redi coined the maxim Omne vivum ex ovo ("every living thing comes from a living thing" — literally "from an egg"), Virchow (and his predecessors) extended this to state that the only source for a living cell was another living cell.

source: Virchow: The Pope of Medicine, Richard B Gunderman MD, PhD   The Pharos, Winter 2025

"Virchow exerted huge influence on medical education in Germany, helping to teach influential figures such as Ernst Haeckel, [see listing on this page] a physician and biologist who originated such terms as ecology, phylum, and Protista and played an improtant role in promoting Darwin's theory in Germany" 
"Virchow also taught pathology to tow highly influential American phuysicians who served as founders of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, William Weich and Sir William Osler.

Norman WALKER : 1886-1985

source: drnwwalker.com

Dr. Norman Wardhaugh Walker was born in Genoa, Italy, and moved to New York City in 1910.  Later Dr. Walker moved to Long Beach, California and opened a juice bar together with a medical practitioner. By 1930 they invented several fresh juice formulas catering to specific conditions and ailments. His invention in 1930 of the ‘Norwalk Juicer’, one of his key contributions to the health of people.

After the San Francisco health department banned the sale of unpasteurized vegetable juices Dr. Walker began manufacturing his juice machine. The manufacturing plant which was set up in Anaheim, California, sustained despite the steel shortage during World War II.  By the late 1940s, Dr. Walker had moved to St. George, Utah where he established a juice plant in an old cotton mill. However, when local health department regulations once again proved to be a stumbling block, he sold his share to his business partner. He then concentrated his energies on publication of a health magazine, The New Health Movement Review. For several years Dr. Walker ran a health ranch in Cottonwood, Arizona, but he eventually gave up the ranch to devote himself entirely to writing.

John Anthony WEST

A Place Is a Particular Point In Space 

And space may be travelled by unearthly means, with spiritual wings, nightly dreams.  One place can change the world for the person who experiences its secrets.  Have you found  your place in the world ?

The places here are likely highlighted somewhere in these gossamer threads. 

CERN- the Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire

European Council for Nuclear Research  is located in Geneva Switzerland.  The research facility houses the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, which is nothing less than the most powerful particle accelerator on Planet Earth.  CERN belongs to Europe and is the largest physics laboratory globally.

In simpler terms the LHC is the world's most powerful microscope, or an underground giant ring of steel, copper, aluminum, nickel and titanium 300 feet underground with a layout of very large magnets.

"In 1994 the First International Conference on the World Wide Web was held at CERN and was hailed as the Woodstock of the Web"   Key legislation was passed in 1991 that made the ARPANET a high speed data transmission network, open to the general public Info Source - Beyond the God Particle

PARTICLES

CHARTRES CATHEDRAL - France

Never Been.  But if I was a traveller in this life I would go there.  I would go to see the alchemical glass of the stained glass windows.  It is said that the ruby red color came from copper oxide, green from iron oxide, yellow from sulphur, the sapphire blue from cobalt oxide,  purple from manganese.  It seems to be of good sense and sensory wisdom that medieval alchemist would reveal the secret of color from the vibration of light and minerals that build the human body.  They were called the Builders after all. 

ESALEN - Big Sur California

My first time here I was foolishly naive and avoided the opportunity to soak in the tubs of mineral waters overlooking the Pacific Ocean.  But the miraculous garden and the heavenly food prepared from the garden I did experience with love.  And I lost the taste for anything less than seeded sunlight grown in dirt minerals, watered for weight, and sprouting in the greens, the golden vegetables, red tomatoes and seed filled sunflowers.  My palate remains in awe of the flavor of sunlight.   The workshop was good, but not as memorable.  Later in life I would compare Esalen to Wilbur Hot Springs by the way nature juxtaposes mind and matter.  Esalen's green, lush, cool, serene and wooded landscape on a blue ocean coastline, was peopled by fast paced buzzing bodies housing intellectual worlds.  Whereas Wilbur, my haven years later, was a hot, dry, loudly quiet, yellow stickery and gray gravelly chaparral landscape with a trickling creek passing along the tubs.  A landscape harmonized by calm and peaceful beings, soaking silently , sunning like the lizards, cooking individual meals together in a shared space, sharing the quiet library place with someone napping, or discussing life and lives while savoring a fine scotch and sharing a saffron harvest.  Here I made soul freinds that I would never meet again.  It was easy to tell when someone had just arrived.  Invariably while soaking silently one hears the long, deep sigh of release as the world washes away from the soul of the newcomer with the first plunge into the tubs.

HOME

No matter where home is, inevitable it is the place I want to be.  I experienced, with a whole community, the catastrophic and sudden loss of home, and for a while didn't have that place I wanted to be. I had to take on the turtle totem and carry my home outside the box of a building, take things slower.  During this phase while traveling between places I stopped to refuel.  While holding the gas pump in the tank I looked up at a billboard that said four words.  Do More, Own Less.  The words sunk in, but being in turtle mode the destination took a longer  to get to.  Eventually I arrived, with help and gratitude.  Home is that particular point in space that simply feels like the right place, at the right time.

Lembert Dome - Yosemite National Park  California

Lembert Dome isa part of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range and is located inside Yosemite National Park.  It is a granite dome rock formation. It was named for John Baptist Lembert who took up a homestead in a section of Tuolumne.

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the Nadir

the point opposite of the zenith, the lowest point ... 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.   more info

Nadir in astrology is not the same as the IC or Imum Coeli since it is not necessarily located on the ecliptic 

 

PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY - Los Angeles California

 

WILBUR HOT SPRINGS - Williams California

The History of Wilbur goes way back before European settlers inhabited the land. According to local lore, General John Bidwell "was searching for gold in 1863 when one of his men became critically ill. Local Native Americans told him about a source of powerful curative waters, later to be known as Wilbur Hot Springs. Bidwell brought his man to the waters where he was miraculously cured. General Bidwell went back to San Francisco and Chico (where he owned the best known farm in California) and spread the word of these healing waters."  from the Wilbur website.

Here there is no wi fi, no phones, no screens, no image to uphold, only your true self to behold after a few days of retreat.  I am forever grateful to have been so fortunate to be able to travel here when life was hard, or happy. Renewal is the one word from my memories, and Gratitude from my heart. 

Here it is no secret that the sacred minerals revitalize.