I apologize for this contribution in advance. (pressed buttons and all that)Victoria Steele wrote:I immediately recognized the work of H. P. Blavatsky, thanks kevin and was drawn to this part of her biography. Gee . who does this sort of sound like?
http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/longseal.htm
Victoria
Atomic Bomb
Splitting the atom to create a destructive force.
This story is most often quoted as being the first reference to the idea of an atomic bomb.
...not wise to wreck incautiously even the atoms of a molecule...
...one grain of matter contains sufficient energy... to raise a hundred thousand tons nearly two miles...
"The agent I will employ has cost me all life to discover. It will release the vast stores of etheric energy locked up in the huge atomic warehouse of this planet I shall remedy the grand mistake only to a degree which it would be preposterous to call even microscopic; but when I have done what I can, I am blameless for the rest. In due season the whole blunder will be cured by the same means that I shall use, and all the hideous experiment will be over, and everlasting rest or quasirest will supersede the magnificent failure of material existence. This earth, at least, and, I am encouraged to hope, the whole solar system, will by my instrumentality be restored to the ether from which it never should have emerged. Once before, in the history of our system, an effort similar to mine was made, unhappily without success."
"I stand," he cried out in a strident voice, raising his arm aloft, "I may say, with one foot on sea and one on land, for I hold the elemental secret of them both. And I swear by the living god--Science incarnate--that the suffering of the centuries is over, that for this earth and all that it contains, from this night and for ever, Time, will be no more!"
A great cry rose from the people. "Give us another day--only another day!"
But Brande made answer: "It is now too late."
"Too late!" the people wailed.
"Yes, too late. I warned you long ago. Are you not yet ready? In two hours the disintegrating agent will enter on its work. No human power could stop it now. Not if every particle of the material I have compounded were separated and scattered to the winds. Before I set my foot upon this rock I applied the key which will release its inherent energy. I myself am powerless."
From The Crack of Doom, by Robert Cromie.
Published by Not known in 1895
Additional resources -
This novel bears a number of similarities to the works of writers like Blavatsky, writing about the etheric nature of the world and the universe
I have heard that the nuclear weaponeers of the inner circle cited Blavatsky as a justification for the nuclear test program. ie that aided by the effects of mutation engendered by atomic detonations, a superior human would arise.
Such an undertaking was a Dark Art, indeed with an inner circle.
This is not to state that Blavatsky would have counternanced such a hijacking of the principles of which she wrote.
It is in this light, ie at a spiritual level, I see Dr Brown in competition with sections of government, industry and military. I see this as a driver to his actions such as teaming up that guy from Los Alamos.
That is, he was competing with those forces on a spiritual and moral basis.
Thanks for indulging me. Im a single minded critter.
More links:
http://teozofija.info/Theosophia/Theoso ... l3_No3.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/tv/God/latierra02.htm
http://www.alpheus.org/html/articles/es ... story.html
and as for the application of the Dark Side to this:
http://www.monicasjoo.org/books/naessay ... essay1.htm
Nuclear weaponeers did see themselves as Adepts and saw no need to justify themselves to mere mortals, for in their view, what they were doing
was for the good of the civilisation and the species. However others of equal standing disagreed. The uses to which technology is put is a moral and spiritual issue......