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No. | YEARS | PERSONAGE | AFFILIATION OR CONTRIBUTION |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | -50000? < -2000 | Hiram Abiff or CHirem (Chaldeans) Mithras (Persians) Adam Kadman (Hebrew) Brahma (Hindu) Toth (Phoenicia) Mercury (Roman) | Hermes was earthly incarnation of RA (Father) the Egyptian Sun God; (Osiris being the male principle & Isis the female principle or, i.e., Son and daughter); Hermes giver of priestly Wisdom; Teacher of Osiris and Isis; custodian of the Logos; the literal first manifestation of Spirit into physical and primal consciousness.; In Theosophy (and among the Rosicrucians and Illuminate,) the hierarchy of spiritual intelligence are manifest as visible concentrations of energy (i.e., as suns); immutable gold is metal symbolic of the sun; Three suns in each solar system: (1) Spiritual, Holy Spirit, (2) Intellectual or Solar (Christ) or God the Father and (3) Material manifestation of the Holy Spirit as God the Son. Only the latter material world is directly available to our consciousness. |
| 2 | -50000?? | First
Incarnation of
| First incarnation of member of The Great White Brotherhood in a paradise in the Sahara Dessert; but the community became lost to the pleasures of the senses, Germaine withdrew and his subsequent manifestations took the forms of a prophet of the Lord Jehovah (-1050); Joseph (father of Jesus); St Alban (375?); Proclus (410); Merlin (500); Roger Bacon (1214); Columbus (1451); Sir Francis Bacon (1561); last known incarnation was as Comte de St. Germane (1710-1786) who worked to revitalize the functions of the Knights Templar through the Rosicrucians and Freemasons. The latter were activists in the establishment of the USA [NOTE: ref in this work]; appeared in Tibet to Blavatsky and founders of the Theosophical Society. |
| 3 | Egyptian Book of the Dead | ||
| 4 | Bardo Thydol (Tibetan Book of the Dead: ) "The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo." Translated from ancient Tantric Sanskrit by various experts. | ||
| 5 | (Thrice Great--as Philosopher, Priest, and King) | Created the Book of Toth (expressed in the Tarot cards) containing the secret mysteries. Contents summarized in the Bembine Table of Isis. Contributed 20,000 texts on science and philosophy. Major source of Masonic artifacts and ritual. Book of Toth defined as the Tarot of Persia having the same symbolic and logical structure. Vision of Hermes captured in the book: Divine Pymander of Hermes, or simply Piomandres (The Vision of the Mind of the Universe,)(1) Defines the ancient Egyptian mysteries in 17 fragmented writings. Vision of slaying the dragon equivalent to piercing the mystery of life itself. By slaying the dragon, Hermes is transformed into his innate spiritual form.. The details of the vision are strikingly similar to the creation story of Genesis. | |
| 5 | Hymns of The Rigveda: (verses of knowledge); 10 books and 1,028 hymns; compilation of the first spoken words of Aryan man to Brahma the monotheistic god of India. | ||
| 6 | A Mystical profession: Druid is a Gaelic word derived through the Aryan meaning of "wise, holy or magical one." Had three degrees of initiation--Bards, Prophets and Druids. Engaged in secret writings (under Roman proscriptions), used circular or oval places of initiation, taught doctrines of immortality of the soul, metempsychosis, one supreme being, karmic future states based on actions, a metaphysics similar to Pythagoras and methods common to all ancient mysteries, and modern Freemasonry | ||
| 7 | 1800
est
| Organizer of the Persian Mysteries keyed upon the monotheistic sun god Mithras (incarnated from subterranean rock, was crucified, rose after three days.) Established the doctrine of sacred names, named the "I am, that I am" (Note: Exodus: Ehyeh asher Ehyeh). Mithric mysteries celebrated in caves with seven levels of severe initiation. Initiate to be fearless, passionless and pure. Purification by trials of water, fire and fasting. Taught baptism, use of shepherds staff (icon of kundulini), reincarnation and immortality of the soul celebrated by the rites of the passage of seasons. Priests were called the Magi. | |
| 8 | CHirem
Abif
| Legend is the great allegory of Masonry. The Master Builder divided his workmen into three groups (Per a hierarchy that would be found in the Republic of Plato) defined as Apprentices, Fellow Craftsmen and Master Masons and was consequently killed in a ritual murder by three disgruntled Masons (ignorance, superstition and fear) who resented their lower classifications. Allegory is an enactment of the dying god (crucifixion of good) and his subsequent a resurrection by the Grand Master. His name, CHirem, means: "My Father the Universal Spirit", One in essence, three in aspect." He represents Plato's ideal archetype of man. The temple stood for 33 years, equal to the degrees of Freemasonry and the number of spinal vertebrata the rise of kundulini mast pass to reach the crown chakra and create Samadhi. The temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 588 B.C. The allegory reflects the ancient Egyptian rites of Osiris, also a metaphor for the dying god. or the carnal death of the flesh to release the spiritual rebirth of the soul. | |
| 10 | Upanishads: sacred speculations on the nature of the cosmos; major influence for Schopenhauer, Emerson and Yeats | ||
| 11 | The Bhagavad-Gita (Blessed Lord's Song) Book Six of the Mahabharata (dialogue between Arjuna the warrior, and the god Krishna disguised as his charioteer.) | ||
| 12 | Founded the Ionian School: elements are primal | ||
| 13 | Last Ionian- fire is primal, doctrine of eternal change | ||
| 14 | Founded Pythagorean (Italic) School: math is sacred (defines causality), with music, astronomy and geometry; communal assistance; meditation in the silence; ascetic discipline beneficial; First Doctrine of the Monad--Defines God, the Sun, earth and each person | ||
| 15 | Founded Eclectic School: God is ONE incorporeal ALL; form of sphere | ||
| 16 | Atomic theory: binary cosmos: (1) Vacuum and (2) Fullness composed of particles in flux | ||
| 17 | Atoms have form and size; mind is spiritual atoms and soul dissolves with death of body | ||
| 18 | The Tao Te Ching; doctrine of the virtues of opposites (weakness is strength); emersion in the cosmic rhythms; doctrines of simplicity, humility, inaction over interference, mystical surrender; calmness and peace. | ||
| 19 | Doctrine of the middle path through surrender (Meditation in the Silence), acceptance of the four Nobel Truths and following the eight fold path to Spiritual transcendence (Nirvana) | ||
| 20 | Founded Socratic School (a Skeptic): Decendance of Spirit (Soul) into dense matter (Body) and resulting "stupification;" the goal of philosophy is contemplation of God (source) and restoration to spiritual consciousness through contemplation; disciple was Phædo followed by Plisthens | ||
| Student of Socrates; Tripartite cosmos; Doctrine of Forms (invariance, implicate order.) Spirit manifests as material expression, what is real (Spirit) versus what is manifest (unreal material corruption by the senses); concept of philosopher kings with Mystical capacity to engage the information in Spiritual realms, the only ones fit to rule a society; teaching by means of dialogues to bring out inner knowledge which is complete but innate until made manifest as impure due to corruption by the material senses. | |||
| 22 | Aphorisms of Wisdom: System of moral social order based on history (from the sage emperors Yao and Shin, 2200 B C.); integration to a Unity of disparate beliefs (social spiritual, philosophical) defining a tranquil and stable social order; Divine origins of power dare not be betrayed by grasping or abusive use. | ||
| 23 | Founded the Cynics School: man exists for self alone; needs suffering to enter into one's own nature; ascetic gods who need nothing | ||
| 24 | Gods are wise; all the world belongs to the wise (close to gods); gods are friends to wise persons who are friends to each other. | ||
| 25 | Founded Cyrenaic Sect: Doctrine of Hedonism, "good" is known by the experience of pleasure and harmony | ||
| 26 | Founded Academic School: Old, Middle and New Academy; Educated in ancient Egyptian (Hermetic) mysteries; Tripartite reality of Divine permanence: unmoved mover (Primary = GOD); moves of itself (Secondary = Life), is moved (Tertiary = Non-living matter); | ||
| 27 | Primary student of Plato: Two philosophies; Practical (ethics and politics) and Theoretical Metaphysics (physics and logic); Major thrusts: dialectics, physics, ethics and metaphysics | ||
| 28 | (Meng Tzu) | Related to Confucius as Plato is related to Socrates; founder of Chinese democracy; innate goodness of humanity, sense of mercy and compassion; evil equals betrayal of any natural truth; all men are equal; to have power to rule is heavenly mandate, validated by acceptance of people. | |
| 29 | Founded Skepticism (with Timon & Sextus **Imprecise): doubt is eternal hence the quest--seeker must find or admit to not found; Dogmatists assert they have found; Academics still seek | ||
| 30 | Founded the Stoic Sect: Pantheistic, since God is all things, surrender and acceptance to nature is the ultimate devotion | ||
| 31 | Founded Epicurean Sect: Sense is never deceived; sense is the ultimate determiner, senses validate truth, what is not validated by the senses must be considered false; Essence of goodness and truth validated by the gentile pleasures | ||
| 32 | Early advocate for School of Eclecticism: Not philosophically respectable in that it attempts to build model based on pragmatic selection from antagonistic opposites; | ||
| 33 | Founded School of Neo-Pythagoreanisum with Moderatus of Gades; Derived also from Plato, emphasized metaphysical speculation and ascetic habits, doctrines similar to Essenes and were last expressions of priority devotion to mystical knowing in the face of growing materialism (Age of Pisces) or faith in the evidence of the senses | ||
34 | 0 < 33 | The Mystical, GNOSTIC, Jesus | Expounded Gnostic philosophy of the tripartite Christos (Universal GOD made manifest in and through man.) His Gnostic teachings and practices were anathematized by the proto-orthodox Christians who interposed themselves between man and their limited vision of God. They came to dominate the Christian Church by the time of the Council of Nicea (325 CE.) They dominated through their use of the lie, force, coercion, persecutions, and destroying or rewriting the Gnostic Scriptures to conform to their views; Origen and other Gnostic teachers and writings were anathematized by the weak Pope Vigilus under strong pressure from the Christian convert and zealot, Roman Emperor Justinian at the Fifth Council of Constantinople in 553; Jesus demonstrated healing and miracles through the power of the focused intelligence of Spirit working through a profoundly disciplined mind and flesh. He promised that by means of the Gnostic Discipline, "Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these..." [John 14:12, NRSV] . See further notes on Gnosticism vs Proto-Orthodox Christians on this site; Pagels on Gnosticism; More on the Gnostic Jesus; Intellectual Jesus; Orthodox Jesus; Early Christian Writings |
| 0 < 100 | Founded Patristic School of Christianity: Principal Spokesman for the Ante-Nicean period; attacked the Gnostics and proclaimed the absolute authority of the Apostolic Successors [evidence]; Devoted to the supremacy of man and assailing the legacy of pagan mysticism; followed by post-Nicean period declaring absolute authority of the church; Culminated in Augustinianism (Christian Platonism) in which church is infallible "knower" of TRUTH and hence the only legitimate intercessor between the unordained and God. | ||
| 36 | 30 < 200 (approx) | Era of Gnosticism
(record of founder expunged but alleged to be Jesus) |
Period of Christian Gnosticism,
amalgamation of ancient Greek,
Egyptian and Persian metaphysical mysteries (a continuation of the
Essenes'
philosophies,) correct knowledge of their metaphysics and practices
corrupted
by the attacks of Irenaeus (his record maliciously distorts their
philosophy)
until recovery of dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Gnostic Gospels at
Nag Hamadi in the 20th century.
[Ref in OT-MP] |
| 37 | Greek biographer of antiquities, magician and ethicist | ||
| 38 | Simon Magus(3) | Simon Magus, attributed to be the organizer of Christian Gnosticism from the core teachings of Jesus. These are related to Neo-Platonic metaphysics as expressed through the Essenes who nurtured Jesus' formative years. Two cults were formed, Syrian (dualistic emphasis) and Alexandrian (based on Egyptian Hermetic Pantheism); deepest roots of Gnosticism are lost in the ancient mysteries; Gnotics taught that the writings of the Apostles were vulgar (for the common mind) and masked the esoteric mysteries (for the Spiritual mind.) based on Emanationism, the reconciliation of opposites: absolute Spirit and absolute substance. Gnostics integrated the metaphysics of the Qabbalah and Buddhism. Basilides (Alexandrian) taught that Matthew provided the esoteric substance and included Hermeticism, Oriental occultism, Persian philosophy and Chaldeans astrology in his teaching. Christ in Jesus is the personification of Divine Mind. The visible creation is the manifestation of the Demiurgus, an intermediate deity several levels removed from the Godhead (as taught in Theosophy.) Bishop Origen, who taught universalism and reincarnation, was the last great proponent of Gnosticism. He was anathmatized, along with all Gnostic teachings and advocates, on the order of Roman Emperor Justinian by Pope Vigilus in 553 at the Second Council of Constantinople. | |
| 39 | Founded Neo-Platonism: Last major effort to publish the Secret Doctrines (core of the ancient mysteries transmitted heretofore only by verbal initiations); focused on the higher metaphysics; all valid doctrine derives from the shell of spiritual verities knowable only through highly developed mystical practices (meditation in the Silence); hence any teaching of organized religion was corrupted compared to the direct (mystical) knowing of Spiritual TRUTH. | ||
| 40 | Founder of Manichæism: Persian Dualism re contest between good and evil | ||
| 41 | Greatest female Mystic and pagan martyr; disciple of the magician Plutarch, head of Alexandria School of Neo-Platonism | ||
| 42 | 389 | Burning
of the Library at Alexandria
| 700,000 texts, scrolls and carvings of the world's treasure of sacred and mystical knowledge were destroyed, first partially by Caesar while burning the fleet in the year 51, then the remainder by Christians at the order of Theodosis who ordered the Serapeum (a building sacred to Serapis, ancient Brahmic god associated with Gnostic Christianity) to be burned. It is believed that some of the most precious texts were removed in time and buried in Egypt or India where they remain undiscovered. |
| 43 | Last proponent of the Ancient Greek schools of philosophy | ||
| 44 | Established Monasticism; Benefitted from Mystical Experience and Powers; Replaced Temple of Apollo with Benedictine Monastery | ||
| 45 | New School of Scholasticism: Eclectic in nature by John; Mysticism by represented by Bernard with St. Bonaventure; and rationalism of Peter Abelard | ||
| 46 | Disciple of Guru Marpa (The Translator) | Greatest Sage of Buddhism, benefitted from Marpa's translations of the ancient Tantric Yoga and Sanskrit texts of Buddhism; his life was a profound demonstration of the human will to self-discipline by realization, of the subjugation of thought and emotion, of empowerment of the Spiritual transcendence over the bondage of the intellect and its sensual illusion. His Disciples founded nine reformed schools of Buddhist practice Practices and metaphysics have many resemblances to Christian Gnosticism. [Ref in OT-MP] | |
47 | 1207 < 1273 | Mowlana J. Rumi (Sufi Poet) | "The name Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi stands for Love and ecstatic flight into the infinite. Rumi is one of the great spiritual masters and poetical geniuses of mankind and was the founder of the Mawlawi Sufi order, a leading mystical brotherhood of Islam. ...He was introduced into the mystical path by a wandering dervish, Shamsuddin of Tabriz. His love and his bereavement for the death of Shams found their expression in a surge of music, dance and lyric poems, `Divani Shamsi Tabrizi'. Rumi is the author of six volume didactic epic work, the `Mathnawi', called as the 'Koran in Persian' by Jami, and discourses, `Fihi ma Fihi', written to introduce his disciples into metaphysics." [See reference] |
| 48 | Thomiasm: Christian Aristotle, sought resolution of Scholasticism; faith is a projection of reason | ||
| 49 | God = good; Essence of good = Love, the root of all evil is the estrangement of Love | ||
| 50 | Proponent of Christian Pantheistic Mysticism (in opposition to church dogma.) Because he was so beloved by his congregations, his persecution by the Inquisition was staved off until he mysteriously died in prison of "natural causes" thus escaping his sentence to be burned at the stake. | ||
| 51 | Revised the traditional texts of Celsus and restored and improved the corrupted integrity of Hermetic philosophy. Idea that everything in the universe is good for something if the linkages can be found. Physician must be a servant of nature. | ||
| 52 | Carmelite Nun, Mystic; collaborator with St John of the Cross; plagued by serious illness; NDE, visions and revelations; founded 17 monasteries. | ||
| 53 | custodian of the Bembine Table of Isis | Recovery of a symbolical table of the Egyptian Sacred Trinity. It is of a type used at the time of Plato's initiation into the Egyptian Priesthood (376 B.C.) and the ancient mysteries by the Hierophant (hyrophant) of the Great Hall of the Pyramid at Gizeh.(4) (Name derived from first known custodian at the time Cardinal Bembo.) | |
| 54 | Spanish Poet, Mystic, member of the Carmelite Order; metaphor of seven room castle, inner prayer, (Silence) Follower of St Thomas Aquinas... | ||
| 55 | 1561 < 1626
1564 < 1616 |
(Shakespeare) | School of Inductive Logic; rule of pure reason; because matter is a refection of underlying spirit, one can focus on and deduce from the seen; true author of Shakespearean literature; laid the philosophical foundations for modern science; was Rosicrucian; encoded secret symbolic messages into the folios (plays); founder of Freemasonry as the contemporary custodian of the ancient Mysteries. Validated King James version of the Bible. Per usual, official biographies ignore his mystical dimension and activities as these were out of favor with the establishment biases. |
| 56 | Student of Bacon, but departed mysticism to follow the materialist route that was dominant in his era; matter is the only reality, only mathematics of physical bodies are valid, words are powerful as the equivalent of physical bodies | ||
| 57 | Contributed (with Bacon) a system of modern science. Conclusions were based on observation of the internals (complimenting Bacon's focus on externals); builds on hierarchy of premises without which all that follows is impossible-- the first being: Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am) Establishment of "dualism" that permitted the church to accept science (deals only with the material world) while the church retained custody of the world of spirit (that which is unseen behind matter.) This limiting dualistic schism persisted until the last two decades of the 20th Century when the irrefutable links between matter and spirit could no longer be dismissed. [See White, 1990] | ||
| 58 | Thoughts of the mind are as real as matter; mind begins as a blank slate (Tabula Rasa); mind is experience plus reflection; man limited to contemplate God as an inference. (Hume a disciple.) | ||
| 59 | 1632 < 1677 | God only attributable through His attributes which are extension and thought; reason permits rising above the illusory world of the senses | |
| 1643 < 1727 | Isaac Newton More on Newton | Newton was a Mystic of profound Spiritual depth. While mostly known for his mathematical theory and mechanics of the universe, he developments included the calculus, found in his great treatise, Principia Mathematica , and the science of light published as Opticks, From the middle of his life on, he was deeply involved with the Mystical Dimensions of the Quaballa and Gnostic Christianity. Re religious views of Newton | |
| 60 | Defined monad as the essence of the organizing power (intelligence) implicit in the sum total of the smallest divisible units of an entity: physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. Revealed the calculus independently and concurrently with Newton | ||
| 61 | Idealist: all reality is of the mind, and ideas are the real objects of knowledge; belief in real objects a mental condition. (Conceptually related to Hartley and Hume (ideas are fundamental principles of psychology) and John Stuart Mill (higher state of intuition or reason yields the true substance of things.) | ||
| 62 | Last man to know all available knowledge; at age 56 began having mystical visions; discourse with past mystics, Plato, Aristotle and other luminaries, plus interplanetary travel. Had clairvoyance and remote viewing capability--Found lost articles from guidance of deceased; from 300 miles away, described in detail a major fire in Stockholm as it was occurring three weeks before word could arrive that validated his descriptions in detail. Vision of spiritual world similar to Tibetan but without reincarnation, one chose heaven or hell as permanent abode. Influenced the mystical poets: Blake, Henry James, Emerson, and Coleridge | ||
| 63 | 1724 < 1804 | Addressed the power and limits of human understanding, gave higher status than matter, | |
| 64 | Information | Mysterious Adept, Founder of the Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry, mystic predictor of the details of the French Revolution, imprisoned by the Inquisition for attempting to found a Masonic lodge in Rome. Was initiated in Freemasonry by a Contemporary of the ageless Comte de St.-Germain who is known to have lived in different parts of the world under a variety of names between 1710 an 1722, and who maintained a retreat in Tibet. | |
| 65 | All things exist with their opposite, pure logic, from nothing to everything explained as flow of opposites: thesis, antithesis, synthesis. God is a process of unfoldment of Divine Consciousness. Only deity is immortal as a ceaseless flow. | ||
| 66 | Primal force is will to live, intellect and emotion subservient to the will, bodily parts are functions are the will creating their function, Buddhist theological view, Nirvana is the gift of subjugated will. Proof follows necessity created by the will. | ||
| 67 | Positivism School: Crass materialism, Human thought by three stages: (1) theological, (2) metaphysical, and highest is (3) positive. "Positive" well directed compared to vain searching. Led to Traditionalism (Christianity), Sociological (humanity is a vast organism), Encyclopedist (taxonomists); Voltairism (extreme skepticism), and Neo-Criticism (French revisions of Kant.) | ||
| 68 | Progenitor of New Thought revival of Gnostic Christian Principles: Mind not limited by time or space; Developed applications of mesmerism (electro-magnetic fluid controlled by will experienced as hypnosis); a remarkable healer, healed Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science) who became a protégé. He said that doctors and priests were the two most dangerous professions to the well being of man. Warren Evans (1807-1887) was healed and became a protégé and added to his concepts. Influenced other New Thought religion founders: Emma Curtis Hopkins (Divine Science), Earnest Holmes (Religions Science and Science of Mind) and Charles and Myrtle Fillmore (Unity.) | ||
| 69 | Transcendentalism--Mystic--Power of the transcendental mind over the physical and material; strong eastern and Buddhist influence; concept of the Oversoul (SuperConsciousness.) Law of Compensation is western equivalent of Karma | ||
| 70 | Doctrine of natural Selection; eliminated "Spirit" from the universe; substituted infinite and omnipresent mind equal to all pervading of impersonal nature; promoted Agnosticism (the nature of the ultimate is unknowable) | ||
| 71 | Positivist--said: "God is infinite intelligence, infinitely diversified through infinite time and infinite space, manifesting through a infinitude of ever-evolving individualities." Evolution applies equally to both form and the intelligence underlying the form | ||
| 72 | Established Christian Science; all healing is self healing; faith is the galvanizing force. Christian Science can be labeled "new age fundamentalism" because the last word has been written by an inerrant Mary Baker Eddy. To this day, nobody can teach her principles from any other perspective than hers. All services are constrained to teach selected Bible verses presented by a reader (not aminister) who also reads applicable verses from Mary Baker Eddy's writings, e.g., Science and Health With Keys to the Scriptures. | ||
| 73 | Russian Mystic who Founded The Theosophical Society (Wisdom Religion), with William Q. Judge. Theosophy seeks the unity of all religions and the integration of science and metaphysics. Linked with a "Great White Brotherhood" (Cosmic Spiritual Teachers.) She was multi-lingual including Sanskrit. She split most of her adult life between the United States, India and Tibet. Her Voice of the Silence, Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine contained insights and assertions for much scientific fact that would not come to revelation until the 20th Century. Einstein kept a copy of The Secret Doctrine on his desk. | ||
| An English person of indian birth, educated at Kings College and Oxford, he served in India as an educator (as director of the Government Sanskrit College at Poonah, Bombay.) He devoted his later years to introducing the mysteries of India to the west. He was knighted by Queen Victoria for his epic poem, "The Light of Asia," by means of which, among other writings, he first brought to western mind the beauty of Mysticism, and way of life of the far east as embodied in the teachings of Buddha. | |||
| 75 | Pragmatism: the "true" is defined as expedient to our way of thinking and what is "right" is defined as what is convenient to our needs. | ||
| 76 | Anti-Mystical; Profoundly antagonistic to Christianity and God; Primal force is will to power in the process of eternal recurrence; ultimate achievement is the superman, The dimension that defined a the complete superman as having virtue with the power of self control and compassion got left out in application. More information. | ||
| 77 | New Thought "Teacher of Teachers" : Co-Founder with Nona Lovell Brooks (with sisters Malinda E. Cramer & Fanny James as writers/teachers) of Divine Science; influences Ernest Holmes, and the Fillmores (Myrtle & Charles,) Unity School of Christianity. | ||
| 78 | Intuitionalist: mystic promoted anti-intellectualism based on a premise of creative evolution emphasizing the positive; God is life overcoming the limits of matter. | ||
| 78 | Developed the Holistic philosophy that undergirds General Systems Theory; He was mentor at Harvard to James G. Miller (below.) The Cosmos was defined as a God centered metaphysics based on non-materialistic elements manifesting as observable events (See Plato); an organismic, fully integrated, and Holistic system of systems none of which could be assessed without consequence for the remainder of the whole. | ||
| 60 | Modern skeptic, promotes the life of
reason and rejection of the
senses and accumulation of errors of the ages. More
Information "Who does not remember history is condemned to repeat it." |
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| 81 | Concept of archetype applications of Hermetic Mysticism and Paracelcus. Concept of "archetypes" grounded in Mystical insights. | ||
| 82 | 1878 < 1945 | Mystic & Clairvoyant: Able to enter SuperConsciousness while in a supine trance state: able to acquire relevant medial facts beyond current technology and rare remedies unknown to scientific medicine; foretold numbers of events; mystical descriptions of the role of Jesus and Christianity. Founder of Association for Research and Enlightenment at Virginia Beach, Va, a voluminous storehouse of meticulously gathered and maintained records documenting the validity of his success and world wide reputation. | |
| 83 | New Thought: Founder of Religious Science and progenitor of Science of Mind. Thoughts are things and the focused energy of the mind produces healing, supply, prosperity,. companionship, health, happiness and peace. [Teachings] | ||
| 84 | 1854 <
1948
1845 < 1931 |
New Thought: Founders of the Unity School of Christianity; most successful revitalization of Gnostic Christianity. | |
| 85 | 1901 < 1972 | Austrian biologist who fathered General Systems Theory (GST.) All universal systems of increasing levels of complexity, while appearing different to the senses and although made subject to a differential nomenclatures by specialized investigators, are in fact behave according to the rules of equifinality (i.e., as in many roads to the mountain top from different starting points) in which all systems are mathematically congruent, and therefore they behave according to the same general principles. Implications are that the entire earth is a single organism, (called Gaia) one with itself and within some number of intervening energy-intelligence fields all of which are embraced the ultimate GOD field or UNIVERSE of Universes, i.e., the largest single organism of humanity which is the universe. [see Bertalanffy, 1968] | |
| Contemporary philosopher-writer (The Ghost in the Machine, Darkness at Noon.) He was an intuitive and advocated a metaphysics of consciousness. Called behaviorists "ratomorphs" for their stimulus-response experiments using rats. | |||
| 87 | Opus Magnus: Living Systems | Father of Living Systems or
the dynamic taxonomy of GST. All systems defined as "Living" have 19
critical
subsystems that are congruent at every level of organizational
complexity : cell-- organ-- organism (individual)--
group--
organization-- society-- supra-national systems. By understanding these
principles, workers at any level of complexity can translate the
knowledge at that
level
of specialization (e.g., cytology or the study of the cell) to any
other level, e.g., the
behavior
of complex human institutions or organizations.
GST's
fundamental
validity lies in its coherence with the Spiritual Principles inherent
in metaphysics. He
honored his scientist wife Jessie (also deceased) as~ "colleague in
every line." See brief Summary of Miller's System on this site. Visit a "Taste of the Wholeness Seminar" |
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