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PETL Media Release: Province Appoints Special Mediator
Posted 2014-02-10 by MAFA webeditor & filed under News.
Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour
Province directs parties in Mount Allison University labour dispute back to bargaining table with the appointment of special mediator
FREDERICTON (GNB) – The provincial government is intervening and directing both sides in the labour dispute at Mount Allison University to resume collective bargaining with the help of a special mediator.
Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Jody Carr made the announcement today.
Larry Steinberg, a mediator, arbitrator and a leading Canadian labour lawyer, will meet with the Mount Allison University administration and the Mount Allison Faculty Association on Wednesday, Feb. 12, and Thursday, Feb. 13.
"This special appointment directs both parties to return to the bargaining table and highlights a new level of urgency to the process," said Carr. "As a government, our priority is, and will continue to be, to see students finish their term with the least amount of disruption possible, while continuing to respect the collective bargaining process."
Steinberg's appointment is being made in accordance with the Industrial Relations Act and will follow standard procedures. There will be a media blackout.
His role will be to confer with the parties and endeavour to effect a collective agreement. As special mediator he has the power to summon witnesses, require them to give evidence under oath and produce documents for a full investigation into matters. He can also enforce the attendance of witnesses and compel them to give evidence as is vested in any court of record in civil cases. No person shall refuse to answer an interrogation or obstruct the work of the mediator.
Steinberg, a mediator and arbitrator based in Toronto, is part-time vice-chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board and a member of the Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators' Association. He spent his career representing unions and employees in all aspects of employment, labour, administrative and human rights law before all levels of court and tribunals.
Since last August, the administration and the union have been negotiating a new collective agreement. The provincial government has provided both parties with tools under the Industrial Relations Act – including a conciliation officer and a mediation officer – to reach this goal.
However, an agreement has not been reached, and the union exercised its right to strike beginning on Jan. 27. Last week the parties met with the government- appointed mediation officer, however, they were unable to reach a resolution.
"I understand that students and parents, among many others, are frustrated and concerned that their university education may be at risk," Carr said. "Many students have made substantial sacrifices to pursue a post-secondary education at Mount Allison University. The success of our province depends upon a strong, adaptive and educated workforce. We recognize that our post-secondary education sector is vital to growing New Brunswick's economy and creating jobs in order to meet the needs of our evolving labour market."
Tyler Campbell, communications, Department of Post-Secondary, Education, Training and Labour, 506-444-3194.
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M. Lynn Crismon Wins ASHP Distinguished Leadership Award
M. Lynn Crismon, Pharm.D. has been named the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Board of Directors. The award is one of the highest honors in the pharmacy profession.
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Q: Full Calendar v5 Add Attribute to Event In previous versions of Full Calendar, I would use eventRender to manipulate the event element and add data attributes.
Now that we are tasked with upgrading to v5, it looks like eventRender was deprecated and I cannot find a way to do the same thing.
In the docs here... https://fullcalendar.io/docs/event-render-hooks I am able to use eventDidMount to access the element (el) - however any call to attr or data result in a "attr is not defined" error.
 eventDidMount: function(data) {
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data.el.data is not a function

So knowing data is jQuery, I try this...
eventDidMount: function(data) {
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No errors anymore, but also no data attribute added.
So I also tried using "append" to insert an element with an attribute on it, but that adds it as plain text.
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Driving myself mad here trying to do something relatively simple, has anyone else run into this?

A: Its always the way. I tear my hair out for 30 mins, post a question, then find an answer.
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Trump's Stalinist Cure for COVID-19
Opinion » Columnists
For all readers of Pravda.Report, I have some great news. Thanks to the self-deification of Donald J. Trump and William Barr, a cabal of corrupt state and federal judges, and a plethora of Republican governors, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been cured. All it took was a wave of their magic wands, and the huddled masses are now free to herd into parks, beaches, restaurants, churches, and nightclubs without fear of contracting or transmitting this potentially deadly virus.
If there is one certainty from this cure, it is that the daily numbers of those who have acquired and died from COVID-19 in the United States will drop substantially, and Trump's speeches will be dripping with self-congratulations of how his policies single-handedly obliterated this pandemic.
His sycophantic drones will be cheering his name, his reelection will be assured, and his unbridled and self-serving lust for power will continue to be unchecked.
How is this possible, you might ask. Well, the answer is simple. Think of the old philosophical question, "If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody hears it, did it make a sound?"
Now think of the modern Republican version: If a person dies from the Coronavirus, and nobody reports it, did he/she die from the Coronavirus?
To recognize how brilliantly simple Trump's willingness to sacrifice human lives, including the lives of his obsequious supporters, truly is, one only has to look to the playbook of the late Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin.
As we now know, in the mid-1930s Stalin conducted the "Great Purge." Estimates of the number of people killed during this time range from 600,000 to over 1,000,000. Historians now also know that, due to his distrust of his own spies, Stalin was responsible for millions of more deaths by ignoring warnings about the planned Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
Unfortunately, it wasn't until 1956, three years after Stalin died, that his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, gave his "secret speech" to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and it wasn't until 1989 that this speech was actually published.
Thanks to this secrecy, the world was largely oblivious to the extent of Stalin's ineptitude, abuse of power, and brutality.
Fast forward to 2020 and the America of Donald J. Trump. What better way to win reelection, satiate one's megalomania (if such a thing is even possible with an unhinged, racist demagogue like Trump), and delude the public all at the same time than to "cure" the Coronavirus by keeping its effects a secret. After all, by the time the truth comes out, Trump's time in office will most likely have expired, and he and his family will be living lavishly on the riches they plundered from government coffers.
For those who doubt this, they should be aware that (as reported on MSN News), statistics from Georgia, one of the first states to "reopen" (ran by the fraudulently "elected" Republican governor Brian Kemp) actually showed that COVID-19 cases in five counties with the highest number of infections were decreasing. But when it was revealed that this was not the case, it was blamed on a "processing error."
MSN also reported that the state of Florida, ran by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, recently fired a scientist who "refused to manipulate data" concerning COVID-19.
And even though I'm not a gambling man, I will bet that, prior to the 2020 presidential election, there will be a few more firings and "processing errors."
In other words, "pro-life" Republican politicians not only have absolutely no compunction about killing you, they are even willing to cover it up.
Stalin would indeed be proud.
David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Report
Topics covid-19 coronavirus donald trump joseph stalin covid-19 in usa nikita khrushchev


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You score impressively high on our Angry Reader unhinged scale: the personal insult (check), the unfounded accusations (check), the lack of a single fact or supporting element of evidence (check), and the expected threat at the end (check). I'd give your letter an 8 of 10 (the all CAPs, obscenity, grammatical incoherence, and serial exclamation marks were absent).
As to your charges, explain how I lower the IQ of the country. Do you mean people read columns and lose computing or comprehension capacity? Are you drawing on some sort of new neurophysiological research?
I have hardly written at all about "crime" or Black Lives Matter; and when I have it is to note the tragic spiral that we find ourselves in with inordinate per capita black crime creating stereotypes which in turn manifest in increased vigilance concerning inner-city black male youth, which in turn is seen as scapegoating and profiling, which in turn further poisons race relations. Our mutual goal should be to create viable job opportunities in the inner city, offer better vocational training, close the border to offer African-Americans more leverage with employers, and to focus on arresting hardened gang member criminals who make life for others so dangerous. As for Black Lives Matter, I object to any tribal chauvinism whether La Raza ("the race") or any "white" affiliated group. All lives of course matter equally, and there is no such thing as "the race" that is innately superior to any other.
Finally, we all die, and half us will in truth end up in some sort of "hole," so I don't quite follow your final threat. Do you mean at 65 that I should prematurely die now rather than naturally in just a few years?
Why are progressives and liberals so full of hatred and venom? Is it a psychological sort of squaring the circle? Are their natural furor and frustrations projected onto others, as they adopt cosmic for-show liberal pieties to mitigate the elemental anger that drives them to issue threats like your own?


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Foreign Office of Germany facts for kids
1870, Reichsauswärtigesamt
Government of Germany
Minister responsible
Sigmar Gabriel, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de
The traditional name of the ministry handling Germany's foreign affairs is the Foreign Office or AA (German: Auswärtige Amt). It is responsible for the foreign policy as well as the German EU politics. It is led by the federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (German: Bundesminister des Auswärtigen)
North German Confederation
German Empire (1871-1918)
Department I
Department II
Weimar Republic 1919-1933
The Third Reich 1933-1945
Spies of the DDR Ministry of State Security ("Stasi")
The old Reichsbank and the new buildings
The Foreign Office is part of the foreign service of Germany. The other part is the parts of the other agencies of the federal government based abroad.
The Foreign Office handles contact between Germany and other countries or international organisations such as the United Nations. This included trying to get a permanent seat in the Security Council of the United Nations as part of the proposed 2005 UN reforms. The Foreign Office is near the old DDR Foreign Ministry in Berlin. The big old building in the Werderschen Markt became the Reichbanks headquarters in 1940 and from 1959 the central committee headquarters of the SED. The Foreign Office has a "second headquarters" on Adenauerallee in Bonn.
Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) has been Foreign Minister since January 2017.
There are German embassies and consulates or consulates-general in most capitals of the world as well as in larger towns of the countries.
The Berlin headquarters job is to coordinate German diplomacy, and study the information passed on from the embassies, permanent representations and consulates. These are the "eyes, ears and voice" of the Federal Government abroad.
The Foreign Office has 145 embassies, 59 consulates general, twelve permanent representations (at international organisations) and ten offices abroad.
There are also three "German Information Centres (GIC)" with the job of giving information about Germany and the German language.
The biggest GIC is in Washington, DC, after it moved from New York in 2003. A GIC in Cairo is for the Arabic speaking world. The other GIC is in Paris, for French speaking areas
There are also 356 honorary consuls. These are often German businessmen who do some work for the Foreign Office.
The Bonn office handles information technology particularly. Every German agency abroad is connected to Bonn, which can send the information to Berlin. The Bonn office also arranges communications for the Foreign Minister and the Chancellorwhen they are abroad.
Some people say that there is corruption in the way senir jobs are filled.
This is because the Foreign Office does not publish the qualifications of its top diplomats anymore. They stopped after terrorists used the information to attack the German embassy in Stockholm in 1975 and the RAF murdered diplomat Gerold von Braunmühl in 1986.
The Foreign Office started in 1870 as a part of the North German Confederation. It was headed by a permanent secretary, just like the Foreign Office of the German empire. There were ministers only since 1919. This was why it was called an Office not a ministry .
The Foreign Office of the German Empire was based in Berlin Wilhelmstraße 76.
The empire tookover the Foreign Office of the North German alliance unchanged. However the German federal states kept a considerable degree of independence in their own foreign policy.
The AA had two departments
Higher politics, personnel, ceremonies, budgets, registeration of the schools and churches. The head of this department was a permanent secretary who was also the permanent representative of the German Chancellor in the Foreign Office at the same time. The German Chancellor had the topmost responsibility in foreign policy.
The second department was responsible for trade, traffic, consulates, national law, civil law, the art and science, the private matters of Germans abroad, also, justice, police and Post Office, emigration, ship matters. This department was headed by the director of the Foreign Office.
Legal matters were transferred to the new Department III in 1885. A colonial department was formed in 1890, it became the Imperial Colonial Office in 1907. Department IV was formed in 1915 to handle intelligence.
Directors of the colonial department
1 Friedrich Richard Krauel 1890 1890
2 Paul Kayser 1890 1896
3 Oswald Freiherr von Richthofen 1896 1898
4 Gerhard von Buchka 1898 1900
5 Oscar Wilhelm Stüberl 1900 1905
6 Ernst Fürst von Hohenlohe-Langenberg 1905 1906
7 Bernhard Dernburg 1906 1907
The Foreign Office became a ministry in the Weimar Republic, headed by a Reich Minister. The permanent secretary no longerThe minister had the sole responsibility for the foreign policy now. The name "Foreign Office" was kept, out of tradition. Gustav Stresemann was the most famous foreign minister of this time, and moulded German foreign policy just like Bismarck had done during the empire.
When the Nazis seized power the Foreign Office started following Nazi Party ideas. However, there was some resistance, especially from people like Adam von Trott zu Solz and Ulrich von Hassell.
The Foreign Office wrote a formal letter about the Jews and foreign policy in 1939: It said that giving the Jews a homeland in Palestine was dangerous to world peace. This note is a big reason why the second set of Nuremberg Trials included officials from the Foreign Office.
Also see: Fritz Kolbe, Kurt Georg Kiessinger
After the Second World War Germany stayed under allied control, at least in part, until 1955. This meant that there was no need for a Foreign Office until 1951, when the new Germany got more control overs its own affairs.
The new Foreign Office was set up on March 15th, 1951 in Bonn and kept the name of "Office".
Many of the senior officials of the AA were ex nazis. in fact More ex party members were in charge parts of the Foreign Office than there were party members doing the same type of job during the Third Reich.
Since 1966 the Foreign Minister has often been the leader of the smaller coalition partner in coalition governments. The exceptions were the vice-chancellorships of Jürgen Möllemann and Franz Müntefering.
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs handled the foreign policy of the government of the DDR.
Außenstaatssekretäre 1871 - 1919
1 Hermann von Thile 1871 1872
2 Hermann Ludwig von Balan1 1872 1873
3 Bernhard Ernst von Bülow 1873 1879
4 Josef Maria von Radowitz1 1879 1880
5 Chlodwig Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst1 1880 1880
6 Friedrich Graf zu Limburg-Stirum1 1880 1881
7 Clemens Busch1 1881 1881
8 Paul Graf von Hatzfeld zu Trachenberg 1881 1885
9 Herbert Fürst von Bismarck2 1885 1890
10 Adolf Freiherr Marschall von Beiberstein 1890 1897
11 Bernhard Fürst von Bülow 1897 1900
12 Oswald Freiherr Richthofen 1900 1906
13 Heinrich Leonhard von Tschirschky und Bögendorff 1906 , 1907
14 Wilhelm Freiherr von Schoen 1907 1910
15 Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter 1910 1912
16 Gottlieb von Jagow 1913 1916
17 Arthur Zimmermann 1916 1917
18 Richard von Kühlman 1917 1918
19 Paul von Hintze 1918 1918
20 Wilhelm Heinrich Solf 1918 1918
21 Ulrich Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau 1918 1919
1 acting
2 acting until 17 May 1886
Reichsminister des Auswärtigen 1919 - 1945
1 Ulrich Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau 13 February 1919 21 June 1919 Independent
2 Hermann Müller (SPD) 21 June 1919 26 March 1920 SPD
3 Adolf Klöster 10 April 1920 8 June 1920 SPD
4 Walter Simons 25 June 1920 4 May 1921 Independent
5 Friedrich Rosen 10 May 1921 22 October 1921 Independent
6 Joseph Wirth 26 October 1921 31 January 1922 Centre
7 Walther Rathenau 1 February 1922 24 June 1922 DDP
8 Joseph Wirth 24 June 1922 14 November 1922 Centre
9 Friedrich von Rosenberg 22 November 1922 11 August 1923 Independent
10 Gustav Stresemann 13 August 1923 3 October 1929 DVP
11 Julius Curtis 4 October 1929 9 October 1931 DVP
12 Heinrich Brüning 9 October 1931 30 May 1932 Centre
13 Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath 1 June 1932 4 February 1938 NSDAP(from 1937)
14 Joachim von Ribbentrop 4 February 1938 1 May 1945 NSDAP
15 Arthur Seyß-Inquart 1 May 1945 2 May 1945 NSDAP
16 Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk 2 May 1945 23 May 1945 Independent
Minister für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten der DDR 1949 - 1990
Life data
1 Georg Dertinger 1902-1968 12 October 1949 15 January 1953 CDU
2 Anton Ackermann1 1905-1973 15 January 1953 July 1953 SED
3 Lothar Bolz 1903-1986 July 1953 24 June 1965 NDPD
4 Otto Winzer 1902-1975 24 June 1965 20 January 1975 SED
5 Oskar Fischer 1923- 3 March 1975 12 April 1990 SED
6 Markus Meckel 1952- 12 April 1990 20 August 1990 SPD
7 Lothar de Maizière2 1940- 20 August 1990 2 October 1990 CDU
2 Jointly as prime minister of the DDR
Bundesminister des Auswärtigen seit 1951
1 Konrad Adenauer1 1876-1967 15 March 1951 6 June 1955 CDU
2 Heinrich von Brentano 1904-1964 6 June 1955 17 October 1961 CDU
3 Gerhard Schröder 1910-1989 14 November 1961 30 November 1966 CDU
4 Willy Brandt 1913-1992 1 December 1966 20 October 1969 SPD
5 Walter Scheel 1919-2016 21 October 1969 15 May 1974 FDP
6 Hans-Dietrich Genscher 1927-2016 17 May 1974 17 September 1982 FDP
7 Helmut Schmidt1 1918-2015 17 September 1982 4 October 1982 SPD
8 Hans-Dietrich Genscher 1927-2016 4 October 1982 17 May 1992 FDP
9 Klaus Kinkel 1936- 18 May 1992 26 October 1998 FDP
10 Joschka Fischer 1948- 27 October 1998 22 November 2005 GREEN
11 Frank-Walter Steinmeier 1956- 22 November 2005 27 October 2009 SPD
12 Guido Westerwelle 1961-2016 28 October 2009 17 December 2013 FDP
13 Frank-Walter Steinmeier 1956- 17 December 2013 27 January 2017 SPD
14 Sigmar Gabriel 1959- 27 January 2017 Present SPD
1 Jointly as Chancellor of the Federal Republic
Two Chancellors also Foreign Minister. Konrad Adenauer as the first Foreign Secretary of the Federal Republic of Germany and Helmut Schmidt, after FDP had left coalition and cabinet. Hans-Dietrich Genscher was Foreign Minister under both an SPD and a CDU chancellor.
Year joined BRD Foreign Ministry
Year recruited by Stasi
Assumed name
Christine Bauer 1986 Jasmina
Helge Berger
Hagen Blau 1961 1960 Detlef, Merten
Herbert Kemper
Ruth Kemper
Reiner Müller
Ludwig Pauli Adler
Lilli Pöttrich 1983 1976 Angelika
Gisela von Raussendorff Blume
Klaus von Raussendorff 1957 Brede
Karl-Heinz Rode Maro
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), mainly funded by the Foreign Office
German Federal Cabinet
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Nice, France - ESL or French Literacy Outreach ...
Most people around the world think of Nice as a glamorous beach vacation destination, home to mansions, yachts, and movie stars. But Nice is also home to a significant Muslim population (France has the largest percentage of Muslims as compared to their total population in the EU). Nice is the second largest French city on the Mediterranean, after Marseilles, which is the most Muslim French city with a 20% Muslim population. The Joshua Project says that Nice is a "formerly or falsely reached" city.
Pioneers has a team working with Muslim background peoples in Nice, and they are currently looking for new team members to help them reach out to this community through teaching English and French, as well as initiating friendships and Discovery Bible Studies in the community.
Reach Muslim-Background People in Vienna
Vienna is a melting-pot of cultures, languages, spirituality and people-groups. The Muslim population, currently about 10% of Vienna's population, is growing fast.
One of the unreached people-groups of Vienna are the Albanian speaking immigrants. Having fled their home due to war or poverty, they hold on to the one thing they have; Islam. We have a small team with big demands; to reach out to these people with God's love and his call to accept Jesus for salvation. We currently have a couple working specifically with Albanian-speakers who would value more workers.
There are other Muslims, too, with different backgrounds: Immigrants from Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, and the list goes on. What they do have in common, though, is the need to hear the message of Jesus in a way that they can understand and accept.
We'd love those with a heart to reach Muslims to help fill a need here and talk with us about how they could join us. Are you one of them?
Tagged: Muslim Background, Immigrants, Refugee
Reach Asian Background Immigrants and Refugees in Cardiff, UK
Do you have a heart for immigrants and refugees? If so, consider joining our team in Cardiff, United Kingdom. The Pioneers team has partnered with the Cardife Asian Christian Outreach (CACO).
ACO is a partnership of six evangelical churches working together for the past fifteen years. We support and encourage both 'British' and 'ethnic' Churches/ fellowships which are already established and meet in the city to be involved in gospel outreach among the different ethnic communities.
Tagged: Immigrants, Refugee, children, training
Street Art in Paris Suburbs
Tilleuls' is the name of the neighborhood. Most everyone here comes from elsewhere - North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Subcontinent... "I come from where I am loved" is a French rap line. Come share the love of Jesus and the hope of reaching His eternal home..."
Do you desire to leverage your God given creativity for the sake of gospel-renewal in France? If so, consider joining our team.
Tagged: Art, Immigrants, Muslim Background
Muslim Background Outreach
11% of French are muslims and Islam is the second most practiced religion in France - after atheism (63%). There have been numerous, and sadly failed, attempts to integrate north african and Arab populations into french society. Could the answer to France's desire for integration only be achieved in Jesus, where there is, "no greek, jew, slave or free?" We are in desperate need for 'ministers of reconciliation' who will reconcile muslims first to God and then to others.
Is God leading you to engage this unreached people group? If so, prayerfully consider joining our team.
Tagged: Muslim Background, Immigrants
Reach Chinese Immigrants in the UK
Join a church-planting team working among Chinese immigrants short- or long-term. Get experience building relationships with Chinese while teaching English to Chinese and other international students, minister to Chinese mothers and their children. Learn to share the Gospel with the Chinese immigrants who are eager to learn about God and facilitate Bible studies for those who are seekers and new believers. You will enjoy this vibrant ministry while living and working in the UK with this team.
Tagged: Immigrants, Chinese, UK, England
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Hermetic Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Therapeutics
THE art of healing was originally one of the secret sciences of the priestcraft, and the mystery of its source is obscured by the same veil which hides the genesis of religious belief. All higher forms of knowledge were originally in the possession of the sacerdotal castes. The temple was the cradle of civilization. The priests, exercising their divine prerogative, made the laws and enforced them; appointed the rulers and controlled than; ministered to the needs of the living, and guided the destinies of the dead. All branches of learning were monopolized by the priesthood, who admitted into their ranks only those intellectually and morally qualified to perpetuate their arcanum. The following quotation from Plato's Statesman is apropos of the subject: " * * * in Egypt, the King himself is not allowed to reign, unless he have priestly powers; and if he should be one of another class, and have obtained the throne by violence, he must get enrolled in the priestcraft."
Candidates aspiring to membership in the religious orders underwent severe tests to prove their worthiness. These ordeals were called initiations. Those who passed them successfully were welcomed asbrothers by the priests and were instructed in the secret teachings. Among the ancients, philosophy, science, and religion were never considered as separate units: each was regarded as an integral part of the whole. Philosophy was scientific and religious; science was philosophic and religious I religion was philosophic and scientific. Perfect wisdom was considered unattainable save as the result of harmonizing all three of these expressions of mental and moral activity.
While modern physicians accredit Hippocrates with being the father of medicine, the ancient therapeutæ ascribed to the immortal Hermes the distinction of being the founder of the art of healing. Clemens Alexandrinus, in describing the books purported to be from the stylus of Hermes, divided the sacred writings into six general classifications, one of which, the Pastophorus, was devoted to the science of medicine. The Smaragdine, or Emerald Tablet found in the valley of Ebron and generally accredited to Hermes, is in reality a chemical formula of a high and secret order.
Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician, during the fifth century before Christ, dissociated the healing art from the other sciences of the temple and thereby established a precedent for separateness. One of the consequences is the present widespread crass scientific materialism. The ancients realized the interdependence of the sciences. The moderns do not; and as a result, incomplete systems of learning are attempting to maintain isolated individualism. The obstacles which confront present-day scientific research are largely the result of prejudicial limitations imposed by those who are unwilling to accept that which transcends the concrete perceptions of the five primary human senses.
THE PARACELSIAN SYSTEM OF MEDICAL PHILOSOPHY
During the Middle Ages the long-ignored axioms and formulæ of Hermetic wisdom were assembled once more, and chronicled, and systematic attempts were made to test their accuracy. To Theophrastus of Hohenheim, who called himself Paracelsus (a name meaning "greater than Celsus"), the world is indebted for much of the knowledge it now possesses of the ancient systems of medicine. Paracelsus devoted his entire life to the study and exposition of Hermetic philosophy. Every notion and theory was grist to his mill, and, while members of the medical fraternity belittle his memory now as they opposed his system then, the occult world knows that he will yet be recognized as the greatest physician of all times. While the heterodox and exotic temperament of Paracelsus has been held against him by his enemies, and his wanderlust has been called vagabondage, he was one of the few minds who intelligently sought to reconcile the art of healing with the philosophic and religious systems of paganism and Christianity.
In defending his right to seek knowledge in all parts of the earth, and among all classes of society, Paracelsus wrote: "Therefore I consider that it is for me a matter of praise, not of blame, that I have hitherto and worthily pursued my wanderings. For this will I bear witness respecting nature: he who will investigate her ways must travel her books with his feet. That which is written is investigated through its letters, but nature from land to land-as often a land so often a leaf. Thus is the Codex of Nature, thus must its leaves be turned." (Paracelsus, by John Maxson Stillman.)
Paracelsus was a great observationalist, and those who knew him best have called him "The Second Hermes" and "The Trismegistus of Switzerland." He traveled Europe from end to end, and may have penetrated Eastern lands while running down superstitions and ferreting out supposedly lost doctrines. From the gypsies he learned much concerning the uses of simples, and apparently from the Arabians concerning the making of talismans and the influences of the heavenly bodies. Paracelsus felt that the healing of the sick was of far greater importance than the maintaining of an orthodox medical standing, so he sacrificed what might otherwise have been a dignified medical career and at the cost of lifelong persecution bitterly attacked the therapeutic systems of his day.
Uppermost in his mind was the hypothesis that everything in the universe is good for something–which accounts for his cutting fungus from tombstones and collecting dew on glass plates at midnight. He was a true explorer of Nature's arcanum. Many authorities have held the opinion that he was the discoverer of mesmerism, and that Mesmer evolved the art as the result of studying the writings of this great Swiss physician.
The utter contempt which Paracelsus felt for the narrow systems of medicine in vogue during his lifetime, and his conviction of their inadequacy, are best expressed in his own quaint way: "But the number of diseases that originate from some unknown causes is far greater than those that come from mechanical causes, and for such diseases our physicians know no cure because not knowing such causes they cannot remove them. All they can prudently do is to observe the patient and make their guesses about his condition; and the patient may rest satisfied if the medicines administered to him do no serious harm, and do not prevent his recovery. The best of our popular physicians are the ones that do least harm. But, unfortunately, some poison their patients with mercury, others purge them or bleed them to death. There are some who have learned so much that their learning has driven out all their common sense, and a there are others who care a great: deal more for their own profit than for the health of their patients. A disease does not change its state to accommodate itself to the knowledge of the physician, but the physician should understand the causes of the disease. A physician should be a servant of Nature, and not her enemy; he should be able to guide and direct her in her struggle for life and not throw, by his unreasonable interference, fresh obstacles in the way of recovery." (From the Paragranum, translated by Franz Hartmann.)
The belief that nearly all diseases have their origin in the invisible nature of man (the Astrum) is a fundamental precept of Hermetic medicine, for while Hermetists in no way disregarded the physical body, they believed that man's material constitution was an emanation from, or an objectification of, his invisible spiritual principles. A brief, but it is believed fairly comprehensive, résumé of the Hermetic principles of Paracelsus follows.
THE TITLE PAGE OF THE BOOK OF ALZE.
From Musæum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum.
This title page is a further example of Hermetic and alchemical symbolism. The seven-pointed star of the sacred metals is arranged that one black point is downward, thus symbolizing Saturn, the Destroyer. Beginning in the space immediately to the left of the black point, reading clockwise discloses the cryptic word VITRIOL formed by the capital letters of the seven Latin words in the outer circle.
There is one vital substance in Nature upon which all things subsist. It is called archæus, or vital life force, and is synonymous with the astral light or spiritual air of the ancients. In regard to this substance, Eliphas Levi has written: "Light, that creative agent, the vibrations of which are the movement and life of all things; light, latent in the universal ether, radiating about absorbing centres, which, being saturated thereby, project movement and life in their turn, so forming creative currents; light, astralized in the stars, animalized in animals, humanized in human beings; light, which vegetates all plants, glistens in metals, produces all forms of Nature and equilibrates all by the laws of universal sympathy–this is the light which exhibits the phenomena of magnetism, divined by Paracelsus, which tinctures the blood, being released from the air as it is inhaled and discharged by the hermetic bellows of the lungs." (The History of Magic.)
This vital energy has its origin in the spiritual body of the earth. Every created thing has two bodies, one visible and substantial, the other invisible and transcendent. The latter consists of an ethereal counterpart of the physical form; it constitutes the vehicle of archæus, and may be called a vital body. This etheric shadow sheath is not dissipated by death, but remains until the physical form is entirely disintegrated. These "etheric doubles, "seen around graveyards, have given rise to a belief in ghosts. Being much finer in its substances than the earthly body, the etheric double is far more susceptible to impulses and inharmonies. It is derangements of this astral light body that cause much disease. Paracelsus taught that a person with a morbid mental attitude could poison his own etheric nature, and this infection, diverting the natural flow of vital life force, would later appear as a physical ailment. All plants and minerals have an invisible nature composed of this "archæus," but each manifests it in a different way.
Concerning the astral-light bodies of flowers, James Gaffarel, in 1650, wrote the following: "I answer, that though they be chopt in pieces, brayed in a Mortar, and even burnt to Ashes; yet do they neverthelesse retaine, (by a certaine Secret, and wonderfull Power of Nature), both in the Juyce, and in the Ashes, the selfe same Forme, and Figure, that they had before: and though it be not there Visible, yet it may by Art be drawne forth, and made Visible to the Eye, by an Artist. This perhaps will seem a Ridiculous story to those, who reade only the Titles of Bookes: but, those that please, may see this truth confirmed, if they but have recourse to the Workes of M. du Chesne, S. de la Violette, one of the best Chymists that our Age hath produced; who affirmes, that himselfe saw an Excellent Polich Physician of Cracovia, who kept, in Glasses, the Ashes of almost all the Hearbs that are knowne: so that, when any one, out of Curiosity, had a desire to see any of them, as (for example) a Rose, in one of his Glasses, he tooke That where the Ashes of a Rose were preserved; and holding it over a lighted Candle, so soone as it ever began to feele the Heat, you should presently see the Ashes begin to Move; which afterwards rising up, and dispersing themselves about the Glasse, you should immediately observe a kind of little Dark Cloud; which dividing it selfe into many parts, it came at length to represent a Rose; but so Faire, so Fresh, and so Perfect a one, that you would have thought it to have been as Substancial, & as Odoriferous a Rose, as growes on the Rose-tree." (Unheard-of Curiosities Concerning Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians.)
Paracelsus, recognizing derangements of the etheric double as the most important cause of disease, sought to reharmonize its substances by bringing into contact with it other bodies whose vital energy could supply elements needed, or were strong enough to overcome the diseased conditions existing in the aura of the sufferer. Its invisible cause having been thus removed, the ailment speedily vanished.
The vehicle for the archæus, or vital life force, Paracelsus called the mumia. A good example of a physical mumia is vaccine, which is the vehicle of a semi-astral virus. Anything which serves as a medium for the transmission of the archæus, whether it be organic or inorganic, truly physical or partly spiritualized, was termed a mumia. The most universal form of the mumia was ether, which modern science has accepted as a hypothetical substance serving as a medium between the realm of vital energy and that of organic and inorganic substance.
The control of universal energy is virtually impossible, save through one of its vehicles (the mumia). A good example of this is food. Man does not secure nourishment from dead animal or plant organisms, but when he incorporates their structures into his own body he first gains control over the mumia, or etheric double, of the animal or plant. Having obtained this control, the human organism then diverts the flow of the archæus to its own uses. Paracelsus says: "That which constitutes life is contained in the Mumia, and by imparting the Mumia we impart life." This is the secret of the remedial properties of talismans and amulets, for the mumia of the substances of which they are composed serves as a channel to connect the person wearing them with certain manifestations of the universal vital life force.
According to Paracelsus, in the same way that plants purify the atmosphere by accepting into their constitutions the carbon dioxid exhaled by animals and humans, so may plants and animals accept disease elements transferred to them by human beings. These lower forms of life, having organisms and needs different from man, are often able to assimilate these substances without ill effect. At other times, the plant or animal dies, sacrificed in order that the more intelligent, and consequently more useful, creature may survive. Paracelsus discovered that in either case the patient was gradually relieved of his malady. When the lower life had either completely assimilated the foreign mumia from the patient, or had itself died and disintegrated as the result of its inability to do so, complete recovery resulted. Many years of investigation were necessary to determine which herb or animal most readily accepted the mumia of each of various diseases.
Paracelsus discovered that in many cases plants revealed by their shape the particular organs of the human body which they served most effectively. The medical system of Paracelsus was based on the theory that by removing the diseased etheric mumia from the organism of the patient and causing it to be accepted into the nature of some distant and disinterested thing of comparatively little value, it was possible to divert from the patient the flow of the archæus which had been continually revitalizing and nourishing the malady. Its vehicle of expression being transplanted, the archæus necessarily accompanied its mumia, and the patient recovered.
THE HERMETIC THEORY CONCERNING THE CAUSATIONS OF DISEASE
According to the Hermetic philosophers, there were seven primary causes of disease. The first was evil spirits. These were regarded as creatures born of degenerate actions, subsisting on the vital energies of those to whom they attached themselves. The second cause was a derangement of the spiritual nature and the material nature: these two, failing to coordinate, produced
JOHANNIS BAPTISTAE VON HELMONT.
From von Helmont's Ausgang der Artznen-Kunst.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century von Helmont, the Belgian alchemist (to whom incidentally, the world is indebted for the common term gas, as distinguished from other kinds of air), while experimenting with the root of A—, touched it to the tip of his tongue, without swallowing any of the substance. He himself describes the result in the following manner:
"Immediately my head seemed tied tightly with a string, and soon after there happened to me a singular circumstance such as I had never before experienced. I observed with astonishment that I no longer felt and thought with the head, but with the region of the stomach, as if consciousness had now taken up its seat in the stomach. Terrified by this unusual phenomenon, I asked myself and inquired into myself carefully; but I only became the more convinced that my power of perception was became greater and more comprehensive. This intellectual clearness was associated with great pleasure. I did not sleep, nor did I dream; I was perfectly sober; and my health was perfect. I had occasionally had ecstasies, but these had nothing in common with this condition of the stomach, in which it thought and felt, and almost excluded all cooperation of the head. In the meantime my friends were troubled with the fear that I might go mad. But my faith to God, and my submission to His will, soon dissipated this fear. This state continued for two hours, after which I had same dizziness. I afterwards frequently tasted of the A—, but I never again could reproduce these sensations." (Van Helmont, Demens idea. Reprinted by P. Davidson in The Mistletoe and Its Philosophy.)
Von Helmont is only one of many who have accidentally hit upon the secrets of the early priestcrafts, but none in this age give evidence of an adequate comprehension of the ancient Hermetic secrets. From the description von Helmont gives, it is probable that the herb mentioned by him paralyzed temporarily the cerebrospinal nervous system, the result being that the consciousness was forced to function through the sympathetic nervous system and its brain–the solar plexus.
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mental and physical subnormality. The third was an unhealthy or abnormal mental attitude. Melancholia, morbid emotions, excess of feeling, such as passions, lusts, greeds, and hates, affected the mumia, from which they reacted into the physical body, where they resulted in ulcers, tumors, cancers, fevers, and tuberculosis. The ancients viewed the disease germ as a unit of mumia which had been impregnated with the emanations from evil influences which it had contacted. In other words, germs were minute creatures born out of man's evil thoughts and actions.
The fourth cause of disease was what the Orientals called Karma, that is, the Law of Compensation, which demanded that the individual pay in full for the indiscretions and delinquencies of the past. A physician had to be very careful how he interfered with the workings of this law, lest he thwart the plan of Eternal justice. The fifth cause was the motion and aspects of the heavenly bodies. The stars did not compel the sickness but rather impelled it. The Hermetists taught that a strong and wise man ruled his stars, but that a negative, weak person was ruled by them. These five causes of disease are all superphysical in nature. They must be estimated by inductive and deductive reasoning and a careful consideration of the life and temperament of the patient.
The sixth cause of disease was a misuse of faculty, organ, or function, such as overstraining a member or overtaxing the nerves. The seventh cause was the presence in the system of foreign substances, impurities, or obstructions. Under this heading must be considered diet, air, sunlight, and the presence of foreign bodies. This list does not include accidental injuries; such do not belong under the heading of disease. Frequently they are methods by which the Law of Karma expresses itself.
According to the Hermetists, disease could be prevented or successfully combated in seven ways. First, by spells and invocations, in which the physician ordered the evil spirit causing the disease to depart from the patient. This procedure was probably based on the Biblical account of the man possessed of devils whom Jesus healed by commanding the devils to leave the man and enter into a herd of swine. Sometimes the evil spirits entered a patient at the bidding of someone desiring to injure him. In these cases the physician commanded the spirits to return to the one who sent them. It is recorded that in some instances the evil spirits departed through the mouth in the form of clouds of smoke; sometimes from the nostrils as flames. It is even averred that the spirits might depart in the form of birds and insects.
The second method of healing was by vibration. The inharmonies of the bodies were neutralized by chanting spells and intoning the sacred names or by playing upon musical instruments and singing. Sometimes articles of various colors were exposed to the sight of the sick, for the ancients recognized, at least in part, the principle of color therapeutics, now in the process of rediscovery.
The third method was with the aid of talismans, charms, and amulets. The ancients believed that the planets controlled the functions of the human body and that by making charms out of different metals they could combat the malignant influences of the various stars. Thus, a person who is anæmic lacks iron. Iron was believed to be under the control of Mars. Therefore, in order to bring the influence of Mars to the sufferer, around his neck was hung a talisman made of iron and bearing upon it certain secret instructions reputed to have the power of invoking the spirit of Mars. If there was too much iron in the system, the patient was subjected to the influence of a talisman composed of the metal corresponding to some planet having an antipathy to Mars. This influence would then offset the Mars energy and thus aid in restoring normality.
The fourth method was by the aid of herbs and simples. While they used metal talismans, the majority of the ancient physicians did not approve of mineral medicine in any form for internal use. Herbs were their favorite remedies. Like the metals, each herb was assigned to one of the planets. Having diagnosed by the stars the sickness and its cause, the doctors then administered the herbal antidote.
The fifth method of healing disease was by prayer. All ancient peoples believed in the compassionate intercession of the Deity for the alleviation of human suffering. Paracelsus said that faith would cure all disease. Few persons, however, possess a sufficient degree of faith.
The sixth method–which was prevention rather than cure–was regulation of the diet and daily habits of life. The individual, by avoiding the things which caused illness, remained well. The ancients believed that health was the normal state of man; disease was the result of man's disregard of the dictates of Nature.
The seventh method was "practical medicine," consisting chiefly of bleeding, purging, and similar lines of treatment. These procedures, while useful in moderation, were dangerous in excess. Many a useful citizen has died twenty-five or fifty years before his time as the result of drastic purging or of having all the blood drained out of his body.
Paracelsus used all seven methods of treatment, and even his worst enemies admitted that he accomplished results almost miraculous in character. Near his old estate in Hohenheim, the dew falls very heavily at certain seasons of the year, and Paracelsus discovered that by gathering the dew under certain configurations of the planets he obtained a water possessing marvelous medicinal virtue, for it had absorbed the properties of the heavenly bodies.
HERMETIC HERBALISM AND PHARMACOLOGY
The herbs of the fields were sacred to the early pagans, who believed that the gods had made plants for the cure of human ills. When properly prepared and applied, each root and shrub could be used for the alleviation of suffering, or for the development of spiritual, mental, moral, or physical powers. In The Mistletoe and Its Philosophy, P. Davidson pays the following beautiful tribute to the plants: "Books have been written on the language of flowers and herbs, the poet from the earliest ages has held the sweetest and most loving converse with them, kings are even glad to obtain their essences at second hand to perfume themselves; but to the true physician–Nature's High-Priest–they speak in a far higher and more exalted strain. There is not a plant or mineral which has disclosed the last of its properties to the scientists. How can they feel confident that for every one of the discovered properties there may not be many powers concealed in the inner nature of the plant? Well have flowers been called the 'Stars of Earth,' and why should they not be beautiful? Have they not from the time of their birth smiled in the splendor of the sun by day, and slumbered under the brightness of the stars by night? Have they not come from another and more spiritual world to our earth, seeing that God made 'every plant of the field BEFORE it was in the earth, and every herb of the field BEFORE IT GREW'?"
Many primitive peoples used herbal remedies, with many remarkable cures. The Chinese, Egyptians, and American Indians cured with herbs diseases for which modern science knows no remedy. Doctor Nicholas Culpeper, whose useful life ended in 1654, was probably the most famous of herbalists. Finding that the medical systems of his day were unsatisfactory in the extreme, Culpeper turned his attention to the plants of the fields, and discovered a medium of healing which gained for him national renown.
In Doctor Culpeper's correlation of astrology and herbalism, each plant was under the jurisdiction of one of the planets or luminaries. He believed that disease was also controlled by celestial configurations. He summed up his system of treatment as follows: "You may oppose diseases by Herbs of the planet opposite to the planet that causes them: as diseases of Jupiter by Herbs of Mercury, and the contrary; diseases of the Luminaries by the Herbs of Saturn, and the contrary; diseases of Mars by Herbs of Venus and the contrary. * * * There is a way to cure diseases sometimes by Sympathy, and so every planet cures his own disease; as the Sun and Moon by their Herbs cure the Eyes, Saturn the Spleen, Jupiter the Liver, Mars the Gall and diseases of choler, and Venus diseases in the Instruments of Generation." (The Complete Herbal.)
Mediæval European herbalists rediscovered only in part the ancient Hermetic secrets of Egypt and Greece. These earlier nations evolved the fundamentals of nearly all modern arcs and sciences.
NICHOLAS CULPEPER.
From Culpeper's Semeiotica Uranica.
This famous physician, herbalist, and astrologer spent the greater part of his useful life ranging the hills and forests of England and cataloguing literally hundreds of medicinal herbs. Condemning the unnatural methods of contemporaneous medicos, Culpeper wrote: "This not being pleasing, and less profitable tome, I consulted with my two brothers, DR. REASON and DR. EXPERIENCE, and took a voyage to visit my mother NATURE, by whose advice, together with the help of Dr. DILIGENCE, I at last obtained my desire; and, being warned by MR. HONESTY, a stranger in our days, to publish it to the world, I have done it." (From the Introduction to the 1835 Edition of The Complete Herbal.) Doctor Johnson said of Culpeper that he merited the gratitude of posterity.
[paragraph continues] At that time the methods used in healing were among the secrets imparted to initiates of the Mysteries. Unctions, collyria, philters, and potions were concocted to the accompaniment of strange rites. The effectiveness of these medicines is a matter of historical record. Incenses and perfumes were also much used.
Barrett in his Magus describes the theory on which they worked, as follows: "For, because our spirit is the pure, subtil, lucid, airy and unctuous vapour of the blood, nothing, therefore, is better adapted for collyriums than the like vapours which are more suitable to our spirit in substance; for then, by reason of their likeness, they do more stir up, attract and transform the spirit."
Poisons were thoroughly studied, and in some communities extracts of deadly herbs were administered to persons sentenced to death–as in the case of Socrates. The infamous Borgias of Italy developed the art of poisoning to its highest degree. Unnumbered brilliant men and women were quietly and efficiently disposed of by the almost superhuman knowledge of chemistry which for many centuries was preserved in the Borgia family.
Egyptian priests discovered herb extracts by means of which temporary clairvoyance could be induced, and they made use of these during the initiatory rituals of their Mysteries. The drugs were sometimes mixed with the food given to candidates, and at other times were presented in the form of sacred potions, the nature of which was explained. Shortly after the drugs were administered to him, the neophyte was attacked by a spell of dizziness. He found himself floating through space, and while his physical body was absolutely insensible (being guarded by priests that no ill should befall it) the candidate passed through a number of weird experiences, which he was able to relate after regaining consciousness. In the light of present-day knowledge, it is difficult to appreciate an art so highly developed that by means of draughts, perfumes, and incenses any mental attitude desired could be induced almost instantaneously, yet such an art actually existed among the priestcraft of the early pagan world.
Concerning this subject, H. P. Blavatsky, the foremost occultist of the nineteenth century, has written: 'Plants also have like mystical properties in a most wonderful degree, and the secrets of the herbs of dreams and enchantments are only lost to European science, and useless to say, too, are unknown to it, except in a few marked instances, such as opium and hashish. Yet, the psychical effects of even these few upon the human system are regarded as evidences of a temporary mental disorder. The women of Thessaly and Epirus, the female hierophants of the rites of Sabazius, did not carry their secrets away with the downfall of their sanctuaries. They are still preserved, and those who are aware of the nature of Soma, know the properties of other plants as well." (Isis Unveiled.)
Herbal compounds were used to cause temporary clairvoyance in connection with the oracles, especially the one at Delphi. Words spoken while in these imposed trances were regarded as prophetic. Modem mediums, while under control as the result of partly self-imposed catalepsy, give messages somewhat similar to those of the ancient prophets, but in the majority of cases their results are far less accurate, for the soothsayers of today lack the knowledge of Nature's hidden forces.
The Mysteries taught that during the higher degrees of initiation the gods themselves took part in the instruction of candidates or at least were present, which was in itself a benediction. As the deities dwelt in the invisible worlds and came only in their spiritual bodies, it was impossible for the neophyte to cognize them without the assistance of drugs which stimulated the clairvoyant center of his consciousness (probably the pineal gland). Many initiates in the ancient Mysteries stated emphatically that they had conversed with the immortals, and had beheld the gods.
When the standards of the pagans became corrupted, a division took place in the Mysteries. The band of truly enlightened ones separated themselves from the rest and, preserving the most important of their secrets, vanished without leaving a trace. The rest slowly drifted, like rudderless ships, on the rocks of degeneracy and disintegration. Some of the less important of the secret formulæ fell into the hands of the profane, who perverted them–as in the case of the Bacchanalia, during which drugs were mixed with wine and became the real cause of the orgies.
In certain parts of the earth it was maintained that there were natural wells, springs, or fountains, in which the water (because of the minerals through which it coursed) was tinctured with sacred properties. Temples were often built near these spots, and in some cases natural caves which chanced to be in the vicinity were sanctified to some deity.
"The aspirants to initiation, and those who came to request prophetic dreams of the Gods, were prepared by a fast, more or less prolonged, after which they partook of meals expressly prepared; and also of mysterious drinks, such as the water of Lethe, and the water of Mnemosyne in the grotto of Trophonius; or of the Ciceion in the mysteries of the Eleusinia. Different drugs were easily mixed up with the meats or introduced into the drinks, according to the state of mind or body into which it was necessary to throw the recipient, and the nature of the visions he was desirous of procuring." (Salverte's The Occult Sciences.) The same author states that certain sects of early Christianity were accused of using drugs for the same general purposes as the pagans.
The sect of the Assassins, or the Yezidees as they are more generally known, demonstrated a rather interesting aspect of the drug problem. In the eleventh century this order, by capturing the fortress of Mount Alamont, established itself at Irak. Hassan Sabbah, the founder of the order, known as the "Old Man of the Mountain, " is suspected of having controlled his followers by the use of narcotics. Hassan made his followers believe that they were in Paradise, where they would be forever if they implicitly obeyed him while they were alive. De Quincey, in his Confessions of an Opium Eater, describes the peculiar psychological effects produced by this product of the poppy, and the use of a similar drug may have given rise to the idea of Paradise which filled the minds of the Yezidees.
The philosophers of all ages have taught that the visible universe was but a fractional part of the whole, and that by analogy the physical body of man is in reality the least important part of his composite constitution. Most of the medical systems of today almost entirely ignore the superphysical man. They pay but scant attention to causes, and concentrate their efforts on ameliorating effects. Paracelsus, noting the same proclivity on the part of physicians during his day, aptly remarked: "There is a great difference between the power that removes the invisible causes of disease, and which is Magic, and that which causes merely external effects [to] disappear, and which is Physic, Sorcery, and Quackery." (Translated by Franz Hartmann.)
Disease is unnatural, and is evidence that there is a maladjustment within or between organs or tissues. Permanent health cannot be regained until harmony is restored. The outstanding virtue of Hermetic medicine was its recognition of spiritual and psychophysical derangements as being largely responsible for the condition which is called physical disease. Suggestive therapy was used with marked success by the priest-physicians of the ancient world. Among the-American Indians, the Shamans–or "Medicine Men"–dispelled sickness with the aid of mysterious dances, invocations, and charms. The fact that in spite of their ignorance of modern methods of medical treatment these sorcerers effected innumerable cures, is well worthy of consideration.
The magic rituals used by the Egyptian priests for the curing of disease were based upon a highly developed comprehension of the complex workings of the human mind and its reactions upon the physical constitution. The Egyptian and Brahmin worlds undoubtedly understood the fundamental principle of vibrotherapeutics. By means of chants and mantras, which emphasized certain vowel and consonant sounds, they set up vibratory reactions which dispelled congestions and assisted Nature in reconstructing broken members and depleted organisms. They also applied their knowledge of the laws governing vibration to the spiritual constitution of man; by their intonings, they stimulated latent centers of consciousness and thereby vastly increased the sensitiveness of the subjective nature.
In the Book of Coming Forth by Day, many of the Egyptian secrets have been preserved to this generation. While this ancient scroll has been well translated, only a few understand the secret: significance of its magical passages. Oriental races have a keen realization of the dynamics of sound. They know that every spoken word has tremendous power and that by certain arrangements of words they can create vortices of force in the invisible universe about them and thereby profoundly influence physical substance. The Sacred Word by which the world was established, the Lost Word which Masonry is still seeking, and the threefold Divine Name symbolized by A. U. M.–the creative tone of the Hindus–all are indicative of the veneration accorded the principle of sound.
The so-called "new discoveries" of modern science are often only rediscoveries of secrets well known to the priests and philosophers of ancient pagandom. Man's inhumanity to man has resulted in the loss of records and formula: which, had they been preserved, would have solved many of the greatest problems of this civilization. With sword and firebrand, races obliterate the records of their predecessors, and then inevitably meet with an untimely fate for need of the very wisdom they have destroyed.
CHEMICAL SYLLABLES.
From De Monte-Snyders' Metamorphosis Planetarum.
De Monte-Snyders declares that each of the above characters forms one syllables of a word having seven syllables, the word itself representing the materia prima, or first substance of the universe. As all substance is composed of seven powers combined according to certain cosmic laws, a great mystery is concealed within the sevenfold constitution of man, and the universe. Of the above seven characters, De Monte-Snyder writes:
Whoever wants to know the true name and character of the materia prima shall know that out of the combination of the above figures syllables are produced, and out of these the verbum significativum."
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Nesta Carter and Jonielle Smith Land 100m Titles At CAC Games
Nesta Carter and Jonielle Smith swept the men's and women's 100m for Jamaica on Day 2 at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla Monday.
By Gary Smith | Published on July 30, 2018
BARRANQUILLA, Colombia — Nesta Carter and Jonielle Smith swept the men's and women's 100m for Jamaica on Day 2 at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla on Monday.
Carter, who broke 10-seconds with the support of a slight tailwind on Sunday, returned a day later to post a season's best time of 10.07 seconds to secure the gold medal in the men's race.
"I feel good coming out here – it's not the best conditions here in Colombia but we are making the best of it – running a season's best, I am very pleased with it," Carter said.
"I am very pleased with the 10.07."
Carter, who won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in the 4x100m, is the sixth fastest man all-time with a personal best of 9.78 from 2010.
Jason Rogers of St. Kitts and Nevis bagged the silver medal in 10.15 seconds, while Cejhae Greene of Antigua & Barbuda, who set a new Central American and Caribbean Games record of 10.00 seconds in the semi-finals, grabbed the bronze in 10.16.
Mario Burke of Barbados was just behind in fourth in 10.17.
In the meantime, Jonielle Smith of Jamaica secured the gold medal in the women's 100m with a wind-aided time of 11.04 seconds (+2.3 m/s).
"I feel awesome! I don't feel I could have executed a better race," Smith said after the win.
Trinidad and Tobago's Khalifa St. Fort followed Smith home in 11.15, beating Venezuelan Andrea Purica finished third in 11.32.
In another medal events on Monday's Day 2, Jamaica captured another gold medal when 2015 World Championships bronze medalist O'Dayne Richards set a new CAC Games record of 21.02m to win the men's Shot Put.
National runnerup Ashinia Miller made it a 1-2 finish for Jamaica after he threw 20.19m for the silver medal to edge British Virgin Islands' Eldred Henry, who collected the bronze with personal best mark of 20.18m.
Elsewhere, Colombia's Olympic Games triple jump champion Caterine Ibargüen won the women's long jump with a mark of 6.83m (+2.9 m/s), Rose Mary Almanza of Cuba won the women's 800m in 2:01.63, while the men's two-lap event went to Mexico's Jesús Tonatiu López in 1:45.2.
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Photo #: ISS022-E-58538 Date: Jan. 2010
Geographic Region: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Feature: SIR BANI YAS ISLAND, LAGOON, SALT DOME
Sir Bani Yas Island, United Arab Emirates
Sir Bani Yas Island is located in the Persian Gulf near the western coastline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Roughly 14 kilometers (9.7 miles) by 9 kilometers (6 miles), the island is the surface expression of a salt dome, which is pocket of salt minerals that balloons upward into overlying layers of sedimentary rocks.
Salt domes start during past periods of alternating wet and dry climate. A common scenario is an enclosed basin that is alternately flooded and then subjected to extreme drying. High rates of evaporation deposit thick layers of salt minerals, such as common table salt and gypsum (a chalky mineral that is a major component of wallboard). These layers are eventually buried by sediments. If the salt layers are buried deeply enough, the pressure can cause them flow. Salt has lower density than the surrounding rock, so it tends to flow upwards, pushing up the overlying layers of rock to form a dome. While many salt domes retain a cap of the youngest rock layers at the surface, in some cases the underlying salt extrudes all the way to the surface.
This astronaut photograph illustrates the varying character of surfaces on Sir Bani Yas. The central mountains of Jebel Wahid (image center) mark the location of the Sir Bani Yas salt dome. The dome has breached the surface but exposed salt, primarily gypsum, is eroded, leaving a rugged, insoluble cap made of fragments of the overlaying sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Sand and silt derived from the Jebel Wahid and surrounding gravel-covered areas form beaches along the outer edge of the island.
Sir Bani Yas Island was the personal retreat of the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan who was president of the UAE from 1971-2004. He established a nature preserve on the island for animals native to the Arabian Peninsula (including striped hyena, cheetah, oryx, ostrich, and gazelle) that is now open to the public. The numerous orchard plots than cover much of the island were part of a desert agricultural research program also started by the late Sheikh. Tan graded areas along the western and northeastern coast of the island (image bottom and image left) may be revegetated with additional plots or developed for other land uses.
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SIR BANI YAS ISLAND, LAGOON, SALT DOME
24.3N x 52.6E
N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
N The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West
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