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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
read the article Paracelsus -The Terms He Used In His Works
other articles on PARACELSUS
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.
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.
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.
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.
MOLECULE
The smallest particle into which a material substance can be divided and still have the chemical identity of the original substance.