"THINKING AND DESTINY" by Harold W. Percival
I urge you to find space to mention this grand book to our members. I have only scanned my copy but I see its value after 30 years of study in this occult field. It contains 1013 pages and can be purchased in two editions. The single volume edition costs $6 and the Deluxe edition is in two volumes and costs $10. I like to read in bed and after holding the large single volume for a few nights I urge the purchase of the two-volume set if you can afford the extra four bucks. This vast work defies condensation in a manner that would give an idea of the wide scope of its subject matter. I decided to pick an area of the book that should arouse interest in it and quote here:
"You choose the locality of the physical world in which your physical body is to be, on or between the crusts of the earth or beyond the the crusts, alone, among others of your kind, or in relation to a people; You need not be limited to a locality, you may go, in your physical body, where you please: in any part of the solid earth, or its zones; or you may be and act on the physical plane of any of the other three worlds.
"You may appear to travel on surfaces but you can go with the speed of light-matter of the world and plane and state of matter in which you will your body to be. You can be present anywhere. You are where you will to be. You contact any matter or being or place in any of the four worlds or their planes or states. You do this by thinking and by feeling your body where the desire with feeling wishes it to be. You can see through, hear or contact any state or zone or being of the four worlds, from the least progressed unit to the greatest God, and it must obey what you command. But you will command only what it is right that you should command, and only what should be obeyed. You can cause the stars to move; or the sun to focus heat or light; or you can cause these celestial masses to change their courses. But you will do these things only when the people for whom they are done have by their thoughts and acts made it necessary.
"You can bring the fire zone into the air; making the air a raging sea of fire or have it rain lightning on earth, or bury the earth under deep layers of ice; or you may cause the water zone to flood the earth; but only when the land and water areas are to be changed and a people have determined destruction by what they have thought and done. You can cause the earth crust to quake and open and pour forth fire and jets of steam to destroy vegetation and heave like waves between rivers of molten masses; but only when the people of the crust have ceased to learn; and the earth must be prepared for a new course and effort by re-existing doers who are to inhabit it. You need not appear on the outer earth crust to do these things; you can be within the chambers of the earth, or in the inner or outer zones of water or air or fire; and you can be as distant or present as you will. For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong; [11] inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love."
If any member can read that and not want to go through the book he must have BSRA mixed up with the local Lions Club. This is one book I will put in a rubber bag for use on the raft (if I find time to make one) when the old earth has her polar flip. If I survive and have to start all over again I would like this book to be my companion in those days of trial preceeding the New Age. If enough of us learn the technique and apply the teaching we may be able to control the surface adjustment and modify the horror of the period. "Thinking and Destiny", and Percival's other writings, are put out by The Word Publishing Co., 33 West 42nd St., New York 36, NY.
Granville Rice
[Read "Thinking and Destiny" (1954)]
"THE STRANGE WORLD OF THE MOON" by V.A. Firsoff, Basic Books, NY, 1959, 226 pp.
I drew the book from the Tampa library and do not know the price. The author is a geologist, American despite his Russian-sounding name, and nothing in the book indicates any interest in or even any acquaintance with occult or mystic thought. He writes purely as a physical scientist; thus the book should be acceptable to the most orthodox thinkers. It is a fresh look at the subject, presenting a very strong case for there being much more on the Moon than the astronomers admit, or perhaps more than they know.
The author's premise is that science today has so many ramifications that it suffers from compartmentalizing. The sheer volume of knowledge is now so huge that workers in one field cannot keep up to date on what has been brought to light in others. Thus Mr. Firsoff, who seems to be an amateur astronomer as well as a professional geologist, decided to see that the latest geological knowledge would lead to if applied to the existing body of information about the Moon. So far as a layman in science can tell, he has followed rigorous scientific principles, with no effort to reach pre-formed conclusions. The book is divided into a first part, at a level comprehensible to the ordinarily well-educated reader, and a second consisting of elaborate mathematical demonstrations. The final result? Mr. Firsoff does away with the concept of the Moon as an "utterly lifeless, eternally changeless" satellite.
Without attributing any prejudice to professional astronomers, he gives reasons why Moon study has lagged, and indirectly answers such questions as why the great telescopes have been so little used for lunar study. The chief reason is that for many years past, and now, the principal subject of astronomical exploration and study is deep space and the composition of the Universe. This has attracted the best minds; for nearly a generation it has been their main area of work and discussion; and in it they have never hesitated to put forth radical and opposing views.
This, rather than fear of finding something upsetting, has left Moon study to the lesser workers and to the amateurs.
Another practical consideration is that to reach any tenable or even tentative conclusions, observations must continue for long periods with as little interruption as possible. So just as a simple matter of getting the most valuable use of the'few giant telescopes in the world, it would interfere seriously with the continuing study of the deep sky to turn these often to lunar work -- something like taking the "Queen Mary" off the transatlantic run to carry a crowd from New York to Nantucket. Furthermore, the constant changes in appearance of the Moon break the continuity of observing. The shadow patterns vary from hour to hour and from night to night, and half the time there is no visible Moon.
The author's open-mindedness appears early in the book. For example, he says on page 3: "A mathematical theory is a closed system of thought. Its inferences are potentially present in the assumption made at the start . . . This may not be directly apparent." He goes on to quote Samuel Johnson: " . . . there can be no security in the consequences when the premises are not understood."
Then he goes on to challenge the assumptions of the professional lunar authorities and to re-examine their premises in the light of the latest advances in geology and physics, including spectroscopic analysis.
Briefly, Firsoff's position is that too much weight has been given to the aridity and to the extreme changes in temperature; although these conditions undoubtedly exist, they are not uniformly moon-wide because only in the lunar tropics do the Sun's rays beat straight down; in the higher latitudes and the polar regions, and in deep craters, the heat never gets so intense. Applying conclusions mainly of geology to these known facts, and analyzing recent spectrographic studies of the lunar surface, likewise considering what may now be reasonably be surmised of rock formation by ancient volcanic action, he makes a case for the propositions that there is subsurface water not too far down to support, in favored locations, vegetation comparable to that of earth's deserts; and that atmosphere of a sort exists in deep valleys.
He maintains that although the eminent astronomer Jeans "showed" that there can be no water on the Moon, very many amateurs (as well as a few professionals) at widely-scattered times and places have reported phenomena consistent with his (Firsoff's) conclusions. Truly, he supports his conclusions by mathematics, filling the last half of his book, but as checks upon, not substitutes for, observed appearances.
From the standpoint of flights to the Moon, the author's views indicate that perhaps space vehicles landing there will sink into the loose, feathery dust, dozens or maybe hundreds of feet deep. This book is another instance of conventional science leading to the same conclusions as the occultists have long held.
Robert W. Wilson
[Read "Strange World of the Moon" (1959)]
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Your editor was glad to receive this review of Firsoff's book from Associate Wilson; as you see, it takes an outsider to stand up to the professional astronomer's dogma of a dead moon, and call it wrong! In "Secret Doctrine", H.P. Blavatsky shrewdly observes that the Moon is a [13] corpse, all right, but like all decaying matter the Moon throws off streams of poisons. And where do they go? Right into the earth! This "hidden side of the Moon" is discussed in detail in our "Flying Saucers on the Moon" talk. We believe this hidden side of the moon will be revealed by our space race, and with it the source, the true source, of most of our trouble here on the earth. Your taxes are helping to finance the race to the moon. If you wish to know more about it as a space objective, Charles Fort was one of the first of modern writers to challenge the astronomers and say the moon is inhabited; Major Donald Keyhoe has a chapter, "Enigma on the Moon", in "The Flying Saucer Conspiracy"; and the late M.K. Jessup devotes several chapters of his "Expanding Case for the UFO" to the inhabited moon. We review these briefly in our Moon talk, now in mimeo form, 41 pages, $1.00.
"THE ULTIMATE WEAPON IS FORESIGHT" by GEN. Curtis LeMay
Following are a few quotes from an article in the "Airforce and Space Digest" for May 1962 by the Chief of Staff, U.S. Airforce. The General is concerned with the amazing development of instantaneous Death Ray equipment. Perfection of the LASER and MASER devices apparently portend the doom of the Intercontinental rocket carrying an atomic bomb! our Associate wonders what these Death Rays threaten for the Aquarian Age? What new taxes will be imposed on us, and our children's grand-children? GEN LeMay isn't too pessimistic about it; "beam-directed energy" may bring about technological disarmament!
"They look on space operations merely as an extension of the use of nuclear weapons. This may not be the case at all. Our national security in the future may depend on armaments far different from any we know today. And, believe me, they wont be ultimate weapons either.
"Perhaps they will be weapons that enable us to neutralise earth-based ICBMS. Perhaps they will be weapons that strike with the speed of light. That kind of speed makes the 15,000 mile-an-hour ICBM a relatively slow-moving target.
"If a new generation of-space weapons can neutralize an aggressor's ICBMs, the world will enter a new era in warfare, or in the prevention of warfare. What I am saying is that space capabilities may bring about the technological disarmament of nuclear weapons. Let me give you one brief example of what I am ta1king about. Beam-directed energy weapons may be used in space. And the energy directed by these weapons could travel across space essentially with the speed of light. This would be an invaluable characteristic for the interception of ICBM warheads and their decoys.
"We have evidence from scientific papers they have published that the Soviets are also interested. And Khrushchev himself has boasted publicly about 'fantastic weapons'. Suppose the Soviets were first to develop advanced weapons of this sort and to employ them aboard maneuvering Spacecraft? If they could neutralize our ICBMS with such a system, they could change the balance of decisive power in their favor. If they could neutralize satellites and spacecraft with such a weapon, they could prevent [14] us from developing an equal defense against their ICBM. And they could prevent us from going into space for peaceful purposes.
"I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that with such a capability an enemy would have the potential to dominate the world. He would have the military superiority essential to support all forms of aggressive policies to pursue his objectives."
The Associate concludes his review of the LeMay article: "Many scientific journals have been running articles on this 'beam-directed energy traveling with the speed of light' and named a Laser or an Optical Maser. A device the size of a flashlight and comparable to a Buck Roger dis-ray gun (for dis-integrator) has as its heart, which generates the Laser light beam, a ruby in the form or a rod eight inches long and a half inch in diameter. General Electric Company scientists use the Laser to cut holes through diamonds 'in 200-millionths of a second with explosive force and generating temperatures in the order of 10,000 degrees F. The diamond surface exposed to this beam is vaporized in the instant the light~beam strikes it. Tremendous light and energy are compacted in the light-beam which remains pencil-thin even when projected over long distances.' Diamonds are, of course, the hardest substance known to man."
Harold D. Kinney
[Read "The Ultimate Weapon Is Foresight" (May 1962)]
"GRAVITATIONAL THEORY FROM ENGLAND" by P.G.A.H. Voigt, from the GAUSS Scientific Journal, May 1960, $2.00 a year, Robert Morris, Editor, 5866 Shepard Ave., Sacramento 19, Calif.
When some of the ancient Greeks deduced that the earth was round their ideas proved unacceptable because they were quite unorthodox in a relation to the thinking of that time. It was not till about two millennia later that those early ideas were proved correct and are now generally accepted.
The ancient Greeks and many others must have wondered about gravity or why things had weight. In the last three centuries, Newton and many others have considered the problem. Yet, though the laws are well known, no modern textbook explains the "why" of gravity in simple terms. If an explanation of gravity had been produced which fitted the general ideas on the subject, it is fairly certain that the reason for the pull of gravity would now be described so clearly in the text books that every schoolboy would understand it perfectly.
Many, many scientifically minded persons must have given the subject considerable thought. From the fact that none seem to have been successful except at the super mathematical level, we can hazard a guess that the true answer is not to be found in the direction of orthodox thinking and may therefore prove to be quite incompatible with ordinary orthodox ideas on the subject.
If the real answer contains unorthodox features, will not history repeat itself, and as in the case of the "round" earth, the "wise" men [15] of the day reject the suggested explanation? Georges-Louis Le Sage (1720-1803) seems to have bumped into that kind of trouble with an unorthodox explanation of gravity. A newer one developed in 1950 (about two centuries later) by P.G.A.H. Voigt, which has recently come to our notice, seems to have fared no better. Is it possible then that promising explanations of gravity already exist but have not gained general acceptance because of their unorthodox features? Is history repeating itself once more?
We did not hear about these possible explanations of gravity until a copy of GAUSS for May 1960 was brought to our notice. In this, an article entitled "Gravitational Theory From England" discussed Mr. Voigt hypothesis and compares it with earlier suggestions of LeSage, etc. The following extracts from that article are reprinted by permission:
"Those who were at the Gravity Research Foundation's meeting last August will remember that Mr. P.G.A.H. Voigt spoke for a few minutes debunking Sir George H. Darwin's 1905 refutation of the LeSage theory of gravity. For over 10 years.now, Mr. Voigt, who is an Electrical Engineer, has made a side-line study of the unknowns of science, including the structures of gravitational; magnetic and electrical fields, the mechanism 'behind' the Law of Gravity, etc. He was a pioneer in the development of British Electrical (Electronic) sound recording systems in the 1920s and was invited to address the British Sound Recording Association on the occasion of their 21st anniversary in September 1957 In the course of that address he mentioned those sideline studies.
"He has sent us the full text of the address to the B.S.R.A. and has given us permission to quote the mid-part which relates to gravity. This reads: 'In 1946-47 as you may remember my health broke down and I was nearly paralyzed. Except for the fact that I still have to rest a great deal, things are now normal. Had it not been for the rest periods necessitated by my health, that scientific work would never have been started. This intrusion into my life began on the 7th of January when, during one of my rest periods, I started thinking about the unknowns of science . . .
"'When I started exploring the unknowns of science, I found myself in a wonderland of strange and unexpected things, a region where nothing made sense unless you first abandoned most of what you had learned and started all over again. Take gravity for instance. When Newton considered the subject he described gravity as a 'pull'. When Einstein reviewed the subject, he abandoned the idea of pull and described gravity as a byproduct of the curvature of the 4-dimensional time-space continuum.
"'I don't know what those words mean to you at this moment, but in 1950 they meant nothing to me. So I had to begin afresh, from the ground up. Like Einstein before me, I found that I too had to abandon the idea that gravity was a pull. An alternative explanation which is easily understood was arrived at during that fateful January.
"'Imagine a primitive gas. A gas with particles much smaller than electrons. Particles which I shall call Microls, so fine that they can [16] pass or bounce their way freely through the atom. These microls move at an incredible speed and this sub-atomic gas occupies all space, from the vast distances between the galaxies down to the small ones between the parts of the atom. (Why not call the microls Ether? Crabb.)
"'If an object is located out in space midway between the galaxies, as many microls will bounce off its molecules or pass through them from one direction as from any other. The impact forces will therefore be equal on average, and so balance out. But near a body such as the earth, microls are bouncing about too. If some of these get a little tired by the time they bounce out again, there will be a region around the earth with a percentage of tired microls. The impacts affecting an apple, such as Newton's, will then be unequal vertically, with the downcoming impacts more powerful than those due to the tired upcoming microls. Thus there is a state of unbalance, a differential force, with a resultant whose direction is toward the body causing the tiredness. And this force can easily be what we call the force of gravity.
"'What I have told you, is of course, a streamlined and simplified version of the subject, but you will see now what I meant when I spoke of a wonderland of strange and unexpected things, a place where gravity does not pull, but is the consequence of an unbalanced push of forces instead: Such an unbalance is mechanically and mathematically exactly equivalent to a pull. Therefore no direct experiment can be devised to decide whether gravity pulls or pushes, certainly an amazing thought.
PHYSICAL MODEL FROM MATHEMATICAL FORMULA
"'At first I thought I had done something spectacular and that I had invented a new explanation of gravity. It was not till about four years later, when I compared this sub-atomic gas idea with Einstein's concept that I woke up. In any rectangular volume, this gas-like medium has the usual three dimensions. In addition, the microls of which it consists, have speed, and speed is measured in distance per second. The whole medium has more than three dimensions, and one of the extra dimensions is time. Further, as it is continuous throughout all space, Einstein's words, '4-dimensional time-space continuum' not only begin to make sense, but they fit remarkably well.
"'Suppose now that we plot tiredness contours around the world. These would have the shape of spherical shells concentric with the earth. At great distances, the radius will be great, the local curvature will therefore be slight. Also, out there, the percentage of tired microls in a given volume will be low. Nearer the earth, the curvature of the contour is greater, so is the percentage of tired microls. Does the concept which Einstein described as a 'by-product' of the curvature fit? Well, to me something resembling a relationship is now very obvious indeed.
"'The sub-atomic gas concept I had deduced, thus seems to be only a physical model of hat Einstein had deduced mathematically some 35 years earlier. Einstein's Continuum could well be such a sub-atomic gas; the Curvature could be [17] the curvature of a contour line; and the By-product, the force acting in a direction toward the center of curvature, could be caused by unbalanced impacts. Simple, isn't it?
"'Since starting on these explorations, I have found that this gas is important in many other ways. It is involved in magnetic fields and in electro-static fields. Also it is the stuff out of which nature makes electrons. The structures of magnetic and electrical fields are simple but the mechanisms by which magnetic and electro-static forces act are such that gravity is elementary by comparison. There is no time now, and this is not the occasion for discussing these matters. The details were communicated by instalments, over the years, to the proper place; but science has been progressing along the mathematical route now for so long that anything else is not taken seriously.'
"Mr. Voigt has asked us to add that when preparing the text of that address, he knew that time would be short and that non-technical guests would be present. It was therefore not practical to go too much into detail and ideas had to be kept simple. When he spoke of 'tired' microls therefore, what he meant was that they had lost some of their translational velocity. Spin has no gravitational action. If their spin has increased, this can take care of the Law of Conservation of Energy.
"He is also apologetic for having suggested that Newton was responsible for the word 'Pull' in connection with gravity. Recently he learned that Newton avoided the word 'pull' and deliberately used the word 'attraction' instead. Furthermore, Newton made it abundantly clear that he was leaving quite unspecified the nature of this attraction, i.e. how the particles were 'impelled' (Newton's own word) toward one another.
"Mr. Voigt points out, that since, with the mechanism described, the only forces occurring are those due to microl impact (or drag -- which also involves contact) gravitational force is the consequence of a change in microl velocity. An increase of velocity involves an acceleration in the direction of motion. A decrease of velocity on the other hand (deceleration), involves the mathematical equivalent of an acceleration in the opposite direction. Einstein, in his famous Principle of Equivalence, made it clear long ago, that gravity and acceleration are mathematically equivalent. This model shows why.
"Mr. Voigt has advised us that in 1958-9 he learned from the Gravity Research Foundation of New Boston, New Hampshire, U.S.A., that the ideas he had in 1950 while still in England, were in large part anticipated by LeSage about 200 or so years earlier. He also thanks the Canadian National Library, Ottawa, for helpful references to the Swiss-born LeSage (1724-1803) who became a professor of Mathematics in France and whose very important paper was read in Berlin. It was entitled 'Lucrece Newtonian'. An excellent translation, entitled 'Newtonian Lucretius' has been published in the United States. (Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution 1898 (printed 1899, pp 139-160))
The GAUSS article goes on to discuss the ideas of LeSage and of the ancient Greeks. It seems that LeSage in 1747, on the basis of gravitational arguments alone and because gravity is no surface effect, deduced that the atomic structure was practically empty and wide open. Certainly an unorthodox idea in his day. Rutherford's work in 1911 confirmed the [18] accuracy of that early idea and it is now generally accepted.
LeSage also visualized as the agent of gravity "ultra mundane" particles shooting about in space in all directions "so thinly sown that mutual collisions rarely occurred." They were so fine that only a very small proportion would be intercepted when passing through a body such as the earth. Again an unorthodox idea in his day, and again an anticipation; for the modern scientist credits the Neutrino with powers of penetration at least as what LeSage suggested, that "if 10,000 particles presented themselves to traverse the earth, only one would be intercepted."
According to LeSage, by such interceptions a gravity-producing body "such as the earth upsets the perfect balance existing in gravity-free regions of space, and by that unbalance produces on other bodies near the earth a differential force acting toward the earth. For simplicity, the subsequent history of intercepted particles could be ignored. However in a more detailed work, LeSage made it clear that he regarded them as leaving with reduced velocity. Thus, LeSage also anticipated Voigt's idea of "tired" particles. The GAUSS article continues:
"In LeSage's time the Law of Conservation of Energy had not been formulated. Consequently, the problem of what happens to the energy lost by such particles as are slowed down did not receive his attention. However, the subject was discussed in 1871-72 by Sir William Thompson, who later became Lord Kelvin. The answer he suggested agrees approximately with that of Mr. Voigt for his microls. Mr. Voigt, a 20th Century engineer, is of course familiar with the modern kinetic theory of gases. According to this, individual gas molecules move randomly, each born along by its momentum till it collides with another, when it rebounds, so they are bouncing about continuously. Therefore, when he suggested at the beginning of his gravity discourse that a 'primitive gas' capable of occupying the small spaces 'between the parts of each atom' be visualized, this automatically included the concept of an extremely short mean free path. Later, where he referred to contours and the percentage of affected particles, this seems to involve long distance paths, but since momentum is passed on through collisions, that simplification was appropriate to the occasion.
"Thus, while LeSage's and Voigt's concepts have much in common, there seems to be between them a major difference in the length of the mean free path visualized and the associated difference in the numerical quantity of the particles involved. With the short mean free path inherent in Voigt's 'sub-atomic gas' a vastly greater number of particles is involved. Any unbalance in the overall resultant force produced is then the combined effect of many relatively weak impacts. This will make the action of the differential force smoother than if fewer particles, each more effective, are involved as visualized by LeSage . . ."
The end of extracts from GAUSS leaves unanswered the question: Is history repeating itself by rejecting unorthodox ideas? Will impact explanations of gravity eventually prove to be correct? and become generally acceptable? Or is there some totally different explanation?
Wilbert Smith
President, Ottawa Flying Saucer Club, 10 Lotta St.
[Read "Gravitational Theory from England" (May 1960)]
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