T. Henry Moray

From time to time in the world men of vision receive little or no recognition for their work, passing on to leave behind a legacy for others to follow. Such men as Slava (a Spanish physicist), who demonstrated radio 150 years before Marconi; Joshuis Coppersmith, who preceded Bell; LeBon, who predicted the Atomic Bomb in 1891 and Nikola Tesla, the father of our modern system of electricity; found themselves isolated from the rest of the world because they would not accept the dictates of big business and the outside pressure groups.

Very often they became a legend in their own time. Such a man was Thomas Henry Moray, or as he liked to be referred to, T. Henry Moray. Dr. Moray resented the stories often told about him that exaggerated the truth. He felt that people needed to know the truth, whether they spoke for or against him. On occasion he confronted people who were talking about him, telling of his work when he was aware they knew nothing about it.

He had two favorite quotations. First from Tesla, "Throughout space there is energy - if kinetic - and we know it is, for certain -, then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature." Second, from an old text, The Nature of the World and of Man,
"Enough energy is coming to the earth to light over 1.5 million (1,693,600) 100-watt lamps for every human being on the earth today. Without the use of a prime mover, no fuel of any kind need be taken as a dead load since this energy can be 'picked up' directly by ocean liners, airplanes, or any form of transportation. Heat, light and power can be made available for use in all kinds of building and for all kinds of machinery. An example would be to pump water onto the desert lands, the power source being only a fraction of the weight of any steam plant or any kind of engine in use today, and all this at a fraction of the current cost."

"A wild dream? No! It's a proven reality, as hundreds of people know who have witnessed the Moray Radiant Energy invention - powered from the cosmos." So stated Thomas Henry in the original edition of his book, The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats.

Nikola Tesla insisted the energy of the universe was waiting to be tapped. Great scientists have mathematicalIy proven its existence. Why has this great source of energy been ignored? Is the reason political or economic?

It is well documented that he developed a bi-polar semi-conducter as early as 1927, making a complete disclosure to Dr. Harvey Fletcher of the Bell Laboratories. Dr. Fletcher later became head of the department at Bell Laboratories that developed the transistor. His (T. H. Moray's) work dates from he time he was 9 years old (1901), and by 1939 he had successfully demonstrated that his Radiant Energy Device would deliver as high as 50,000 watts of power.

Dr. Moray, was harassed, threatened, and even shot. Even though eminent scientists examined his device during and after its operation, and admitted that they could not understand the source of the power they had witnessed, still he was never able to gain their support for his work.

It is interesting to note that the greatest opponents of his work became the greatest competitors. Dr. Harvey Fletcher gave an unequivocal endorsement to the Eyring Institute regarding the Radiant Energy Device and what he had witnessed years before, where he had refused to do so for Dr. Moray.

Over the 73 years of T. Henry Moray's research, he left behind him a wealth of notes, not only pertaining to Radiant Energy., but a wide range of scientific research bordering all the way from the devulcanization of rubber, the influence of mineral reactions in the presence of high energy, bioelectronic effects (electro therapy), sound pick up, solid state physics, and finally the detection of energy that constituted the major endeavor of his work.

He established his own research organization which has continued to do his research. Cosray plans to bring this work to a conclusion as soon as financial assistance will allow. Today Cosray includes research conducted in two countries following the patterns set down by T. Henry Moray. Decentralization prevents destruction of the work by opponents. His two sons Richard R. Moray, and John E. Moray are actively, engaged in this research organization.

The Morays wish to encourage others to enter into this area of research, not to duplicate Dr. Moray's work. but to show independent verification, thus establishing it in the world. The family has established a research foundation for this purpose and have republished Dr. Moray's original book adding 6 chapters of history under the name of THE SEA OF ENERGY.

Today a number of other researchers have entered the field, however, the Morays have refused to endorse any of their work.

Dr. Moray's corporation still exists and is known today as Cosray Research Institute, Inc., in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The First Operation

The most ancient and the truest operation of the old Philosophers, but dangerous and long, was from the amalgam of Sol and Mercury or Luna and Mercury, which we carried out according to their teaching and with the help of Lumen nature (the Light of nature) in the following way.

We took one ounce of Aurum (gold- purged - purified) by antimony, six ounces of Argentum which was vivified by sublimation of Mercury, and prepared the amalgam from them in the usual way. This we pressed through leather until only three ounces of the amalgam were left, that is one ounce of Aurum and two ounces of Argentum Vivum. Having placed it in a hermetically closed phial we kept it on a very light fire until after over 40 days it started to pass ad nigredinem (into the black stage), which Philosophers call Caput Corvi (Raven's Head). Then we gave more fire until Various colours as in cauda Pavonis (Peacock's Tail) began to appear. Here we made an error. The fire applied was stronger than it was necessary, and the matter turned red at once and the precipitate from it was such that no operation (i.e. transmutation) could be performed, however it was very useful for healing the human body. I understand that this operation could have been carried to a successful end but regimen Ignis (Mastery of Fire) is very difficult and dangerous, and requires great perseverance and a very long time.

In this way acted the old Arabs, such as Morigenes, Alphidius, Calid Balilonus, Blemidas, Adros, Abohali (i.e. Avicenna), Tabid, Chora, Charab, and of the Greeks, Olimpidorus Alexandrinus, Ostanes, Heliodorus and Albugazai, the teacher of young Plato and among the more recent and fron the last century Augurellus, Bernardus Trevisanus, Magister Hospitalis and Beatus Thomas de Aquino, if he is the author of those books usually circulatcd under his name. In many times this operation was performed in Rome by Jacobus Boncompagnus, the duke of Sora and Arpino, and by Wernalcon, a great man from Naples, but not one of them arrived at the correct result due to the length of the process. as at least three years must be devoted to it.

Michael Sendivogius

The Second Operation

Then we performed it with the same amalgam but in another way, since instead of the common Mercury (Argentum vivum communa) we took live Mercury (Argentum vivum factum obtained from the Sun and the moon These two we conjoined together with common Mercury, adding the ferment of gold (fermentum ex Auro) for retainment. Here again an error had been made because of the fire which in a few months, turned all this into red powder or rather precipitate.

I do not consider this process to be worthless, either, but state that it requires a long time of as many years (as the previous one) and is dangerous because of the fire.

The Third Operation

Others, with whom he stayed, worked on the amalgam of Sol and Mercury, to which they added sublimated Arsenic as a medium joining the two extremes, that is Sol and Mercury. However they also did not achieve anything because in no way could they fix that matter permanently.

The Fourth Operation

Leaving the amalgams in peace, we started working on sublimated Mercury alone, according to the teachings of Geber the Arab, though we did not understand his doctrine well at that time. We sublimated for several times ordinary Mercury (Mercurium vulgi) with salt and Vitriol. Then we put this sublimate in a hermetically closed glass container (Vitro) and sublimated it, bringing down what had gathered at the top for many times until Mercury refused to sublimate and remained at the bottom in the form of oil. We thought it had been the oil of fixed Mercury sublimate and conjugated it with small stones of crystal gold (Lapillis Chrystallinis Auri) and kept it upon fire until the matter became intensely red. Then we performed projection on Luna and tinged it considerably to the 24th degree. But we did not achieve anything, as after digesting the precipitate (cementum) in nitric acid (aqua forti) only one part of it proved to be gold, so that the long work was not rewarded. Both in this operation and in others a great failure occurred in fixation.

The Fifth Operation

Thus not having achieved anything, I then performed with Sir Teodor Lacki in Rome another operation which he had learned from a Franciscan monk. The monk had given him an ounce of the ready medicine and taught him how to multiply it, but he had not taught him the exact preparation of it (verum modum operandi). The operation of the monk was the following: he ordered to take one ounce of Mercury sublimated seven times and four ounces of the Lime of Luna (Calx Lunae), to rub it together on a stone, and then to sublimate it in a glass vial on low fire (lentus ignis) for so many times that Mercury sublimates no more and remains on the bottom together with the Lime of Luna. Later, when this occurs, he ordered to add another ounce of sublimated Mercury and fixate it as before, and repeat this multiplication infinitely (in infinitum). Sir Lacki performed all this first at Bologna, multiplying that one ounce he had received from the monk and transmuting Venera into most perfect Luna. However, when he wanted to teach this process to Boncompagno in Rome and when it had to be begun from the beginning, he could not do anything because he was unable to prepare the Lime of Luna (Calx Lunae). I take this operation to be a true one because it agrees with the true doctrines and precepts of the Philosophers and also (because) I sold the silver made in this way, while Boncompagno gave several thousands to Sir Lacki when lie had seen the projection of this medicine on Venera. However, as Sir Lacki did not know the beginning, which the monk had not revealed to him, there has been no benefit from this operation since that time.

The Sixth Operation

We also made, and that was our first operation in Venice with the Abbott Jacobo Busenelo (who is still alive and in whose possession I had earlier seen a little of the powder of the Philosophers' Stone), the White Elixir from the oil of Arsenic and the oil of Luna, imbibing them with the oil of winestone (Tartarus) and then dissolving in humidity into an oil (in humido in oleum), and finally congelating in ash bath. It tinged Venera but did not withstand the trial in fire. There we also made small stones from the Sun of Mars and Venera (alternatively: from the Sun, Mars and Venera) and obtained a tincture, but it was impermanent in fire.

The Seventh Operation

We prepared oils from the sun and the Moon, which served for macerating imperfect bodies. Those from the sur were made with royal water (aqua regis), and those from the Moon with strong water (aqua forte, i.e., nitric acid), prepared from Vitriol and saltpeter. However, after long putrefaction they did not become real oils, because they reduced again into metallic bodies. And we observed that strong waters do not dissolve metallic bodies but only calcinate them.

Also in Venice, we made many, at tempts with Jupiter and Saturn but with no benefits because, as says Aristotle in the second book of Physics, "Not everything is formed from any given germ but from a specific one." And the same Aristotle in the book "On Animals", adds: "Nothing is formed from any germ but from one only, and only from that one."

The Eighth Operation

Afterwards, giving up those workings we drew the tincture of the Sun out of gold with spirit of wine (per spiritum Vini), according to the teachings of Theophrastus. A heavy and whitish Body was left on the bottom of the vessel, from which we made live Silver (Argentum vivum), and then from that live Silver we prepared an oil and conjungated it with the Tincture extracted from gold, as above. We kept it over Lamp Fire (ad Ignem Lampadis for nine months until it congeall into a red transparent Stone, so that we believed we had the true Elixir in hand. However, when we performied its projection, first on Mercury and then on Luna, it evaporated in the fire to our great disappointment.

The Ninth Operation

Then we set to study the works Raimundus Lullus, which appeared fundamental to us and described the operations very reasonably. First, prepared his Vegetable solvent (menstruum Vegetabile), in the following way. We calcinated Tartar (i.e. wine stone) in reverberatory fire until it turned white and then dissolved it in humidity into oil, and then, after filtering, we congealled it in an Ash Bath (in Cineribus). Then again we solved, filtered and congealled it, peating thisfor many times, until th was nothing earthly left in it and until it became as transparent and bright as crystal. On it we poured the spirit of Wine and extracted the soul of Tartar by repeated distillation until the Tartar on a red-hot sheet of copper did not give off any smoke. Then we calcinated the Tartar prepared in this way on the strongest fire for three days until it got loose like a sponge. Next we put it into a vessel with a long neck, poured animated spirit of Wine on it and kept it in a water bath (balneum Mariae) digesting for two days. Then we dissolved the Phlegm which separated from the earth impregnated with its soul (anima). Then we added more spirit of Wine and acted as in the first instance until the earth absorbed the whole of the spirit and the soul. Taking it off the bath, we put it in an ash bath and exposed to the fire of sublimation for twenty-four hours, keeping the same grade of fire. On the sides of the vessel sublimated the salt of Wine, as transparent as pearls, which Raimundus Lullius calls the nonfermenting Stone. We took four ounces of this salt and twelve ounces of a most pefectly rectified spirit of Wine and conjugated them. Then, on distilling it, we dissolved the sun in it and putrefied it in a bath for a philosophical month. Then we separated the vegetable water and beneath there was left a gum of gold, which was volatile and therefore it would take a long time to fix it, so we made a medicine for curing human bodies of it. We did so especially because I was going to Poland and could not stay there any longer.

The Tenth Operation

Then I prepared, already here in Poland, the animal solvent of Raimundus (menstruum Raimundi Animale), with which I perfected Mercurial water made from sublimated Mercury and the white of a hen's egg. This water dissolved also the Sun and the Moon but when I came to the end of the work, it could not be fixed by any means. With the same solvent made from animal salt and Mercurial water, I dissolved the Moon and passed it distillating through the Alembic. Then I dissolved the Sun in that water with the Moon. But when it came to fixation, all the work proved to be good for nothing. Finally, understanding that the Philosophers took a different Mercury, for their works, not the vulgar one, I prepared Mercury from various imperfect bodies, such as Mars, Saturn, Jupiter. I amalgamated the amalgam of Mercury and Saturn with gold, digesting it with the oil made from common salt and fixed it. After putting it in an ash bath, the gold I had added was left, but the amalgam of Mercury and Saturn evaporated.

Being unsatisfied with this, I calcinated imperfect bodies of Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, extracting their souls with the spirit of Wine. Then I calcinated the damned earth (terra damnata), again added the souls of their Earths, and sublimated from this animated earth the metallic sulphur of nature, which I treated with oil of the sun, that is sulphur of Saturn and Mars, while that of Jupiter - with oil of the Moon. I congealled all this together and then solved, repeating this operation several times. However, all this work was good for nothing and I came to the conclusion that the Philosophical elixir cannot be prepared from imperfect bodies.

The Eleventh Operation

Next I began working with minor minerals, such as Antimon, Mineral Cinnabar, fixed White Sulphur, and finally took to Vitriol of Gold, going even to Padua, to Grumi, who had been working on this vitriol for over twenty years. In all these things I also found nothing but sophistications and futile excuses, as the old rule says that the one who does not have, cannot give anything (Nemo dat quod non habet). And everything that was and is done by contempoary Artists, who do not know - as says Theophilus - that Philosophers make many intentional errors in their books, does not allow them to reach the end. And therefore says the Senior: "They have not hidden anything but the preparatory working, because it is the most difficult thing. That is why when seekers found the proper thing, they did not know how to prepare it. The matter cannot be realised without knowing the proper way of preparation."

The Twelfth Operation

I also know of others who prepared Elixir from Vitriol and Gold in the following way. They made oil of Vitriol as usual, and then from the dead Head (Caput mortuum) of this vitriol they extracted salt with distilled water. This salt was then conjugated with the oil and circulated in a water bath for a long time. Then they dissolved calcinated gold in it, purified that gold, and finally congealled it in an ash bath. However, they could not produce any transmutation in this instance, though it was a good medicine for human bodies.

Others made oil from Antimony and sublimated mercury. When it was well rectified, they dissolved gold in it. Putrefied and congealled it repeatedly but did not invent anything.

Others made Mercury from Antimonite and metal from Antimony, but none of them reached the desired end. And I saw various operations of many people, none of whom has reached the completion of the art. About them says the sixth book of Aristotle's Tropics that they should be blamed for too literal translation of names and for the style of their work, but not for their reasoning.

I have made many errors myself and have seen others making them. All of us, as Hali says, have completed the first part of the work properly but failed to understand the second one, and also lacked the necessary confidence. Without these the first part cannot be continued. And so we kept shooting beside the aim and have been left with unfulfilled intentions. The first part will not be permanent if the second one is not allied to it, because that second part is the key to the whole work. That is why Balgus says in Turba Philosophorum: "At one time I saw a person who understood the question of the Elixir in the same way as I do. However, he did not reach his happiness because of the harshness of his character, misunderstanding the idea of the Key, impatience in carrying out the process, and excessive hurriednes of, the whole understanding."

Summing up my previous attempts I state that after many experiments and after reading many books I have understood that the old Philosophers, seeing the difficulty, length and danger of some operations, and the uncertainty of others, found a safer way which adheres closely to one and the same law of Nature. However, they wrote so little about it that there is no book in which there would be a sentence of ten understandable words about it. Because the old Philosophers, having learned the origins of both generation and multiplying of metals, as well as well as where their diseases come from (the interference of which causes that less of the Sun or the Moon comes into being), discovered a means of removing those diseases and defects. They found in metals a certain substance which protects them so that they are burned neither by fire nor by their own sulphur so abundant in them. They called this substance the Fixed Philosophical Mercury. It can be elicited from all metals in the one and only way and by one and only method, without any separations, solutions, sublimations or fixations, because it solves itself, purges itself, coagulates itself, sublimates itself, fixes itself, and makes itself fusable without any care or danger. This is the greatest secret of all secrets, namely that there is no more certain or shorter way than this one which leads through the fixed Mercury of Metals, because you cannot make any error here, nor can you damage your work with fire. For one cannot fix that, the substance of which is already fixed.

Let us (says Geber the Arab in the book "De Perfectione Magisterii") adore the glorious and highest GOD who created Mercury and gave it substantiality and substantial properties. It would probably be impossible to find any other thing in Nature which would possess the properties of this kind and equal power. Mercury is that which is superior to fire: not only is it not conquered by fire, but it is even friendly towards fire and rests in it with joy.

Aristotle in Tropics: "One cannot reach the truth if he has not known the falseness."

The same in the first book of Ethics: "That one is a good judge who properly estimates the things which he knows."

Rafal T. Prinke's Comments on the Alchemical Diary of Michael Sendivogius

The text of the Twelve Operations by Michael Sendivogius was translated From the original Polish version published in 1970 from the MS now in Lvov (USSR). It was written in 1586, i.e. when Sendivogius was twenty years old, and forms a kind of diary or memoirs of the young (though mature) alchemist, describing his experiences in laboratory practice up to that year. The document is of great importance both as a list of experiments and theories current among practitioners of alchemy at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, and especially as presenting Sendivogius in a different light than is used to be done.

In the article on the Polish Alchemist in The Hermetic journal No. 15^* I tried to explain why most of contemporary authors treat him as an imposter who stole the tincture and manuscripts of books from an adept, Alexander Sethon. While all the older writers considered Sendivogius to be an authority, Michael Maier, a very influential alchemical and Rosicrucian author, included him among the twelve greatest adepts in history. The cause of that mistreatment of Sendivogius can be traced to A. E. Waite's Alchemists Through the Ages and further back to hostile French publications about Sendivogius published in the 17th century. However, there are some notable exceptions among contemporary writers on Alchemy, such as Manly Palmer Hall or Frater Albertus, who treat him with due respect.

One of the false opinions about Sendivogius circulated by most modern books on the subject is that he had been ignorant of the art of Alchemy before he met Alexander Sethon and acquired a certain amount of the Stone from him. This statement is definitely false as is clearly seen from the above text. It was written in 1586 (i.e. sixteen years before meeting with Sethon) and shows Sendivogius to be well versed in Alchemical literature and experienced in laboratory practice.

The first operation he describes was carried out according to the teachings of no less than 17 authorities, both old and new, whom he quotes, and is the traditional process with the usual sequence of colors, etc. Operations two and three are variants of the first one, and then Sendivogius goes on to try out the teachings of Geber in operation four. The fifth, sixth and seventh operations were performed according to the recipes he had learned from people he knew, the eighth one is according to Paracelsus, the ninth and tenth according to the teachings attributed Raymond Lull, and the eleventh operation relates his own attempts. Finally the twelfth operation describes the attempts of Sendivogius's contemporaries, about which he knew, and contains his conclusions. He is honest enough to state that he has not achieved the desired end and gives the reasons why, according to him, he was unsuccessful.

The twelfth and last operation contains also the germ of the later theories of Sendivogius, expounded in New Light of Alchemy, Treatise on Salt, Treatise on Sulphur and his complete work 55 Philosophical Letters. The key role in those theories is played by saltpeter (KNO₃), which he calls variously "the central salt/sal centrale/", "the salt which floats on the sea of the world," "the water which does not wet hands and without which nothing in the world can come into being," etc. This salt, according to the Polish Alchemist, draws to itself "the aerial Mercury" or "spiritus vitalis" from the air, which is solidified or fixed in it and can be obtained from it. His descriptions of this vital substance show very clearly that it may be identified with oxygen and therefore that Sendivogius was the real discoverer of that chemical element. Moreover, he also describes the function of oxygen in the processes of burning and breathing, stating that its seat in the human organism is in the blood. He also understood the laws of vegetable life and encouraged the use of fertilizers, especially, saltpeter, in agriculture.

These few words are enough, I believe, to show that Sendivogius was a true seeker, while the well documented transmutations which he performed during his life testify that he was successful in his search.

*EDITOR: Adam McLean, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Pointers for Manufacture of Sulphur Crystals

by Wriednig Ludwig

There are two kinds of sulphuric acids. One sulphuric acid is dark, the other light. The sulphuric acid manufactured in England is light and is to be preferred to the dark. The influence of the sun's rays causes the sublimation of the sulphuric acid in the pot. This sublimation of the sulphuric acid penetrates from within to the outside of the fired pot, and it becomes visible on the outside as a pure sulphur salt (or: sulphate) in crystallized form.

When all of the sulphuric acid has been sublimated, the sulphate crystals are carefully removed from the outside of the pot. In so doing, it is especially important that no sample ever be taken. Hands must be protected by always working with gloves.

This salt is extremely sensitive to light, air, and humidity. It is now triturated finely. While pulverizing it, a quarter of flowers of sulphur, as free of arsenic as possible, is added. This sulphur salt (or: sulphate) is to be kept airtight and dry in a dark vessel.

This sulphur salt (or: sulphate) is a universal cureall (or: panacea) which acts especially upon the bone structure in human beings.

It is dispensed in the order of magnitude (?) of a grain of a lentil, and it can only be taken once in ten years.

Before the sulphur salt (sulphate) is administered, a diet must be followed whereby everything acid, such as beer and also coffee, must be avoided. After taking the sulphur salt (or: sulphate) orally, the diet must be followed for at least another 14 days (or: two weeks). If this diet were not adhered to, the quantity (one lentil) would be increased many times, so that the sulphur salt (or: sulphate) would combine with kindred salts present in the body, and thus there would be danger to the life of the person concerned.

Since the administration in the order of magnitude of a grain of a lentil seems to me somewhat high, I would advise to arrange the dispensation in the sense of Homeopathy. If the persons take the same, the therapeutic effect is by far not the same.

Should someone try to manufacture this sulphur salt (or: sulphate) freed of arsenic, it is urgently recommended that he submit his manufactured sulphur salt (or: sulphate) to examination (or: a test) before administering it.

This process requires a time period of one year.

The vessel had at all times been exposed to the sun.

At night and also in the winter, the vessel had been placed in a humid cellar (in the window of a first floor English ground floor cellar.) (Note: Maybe the author means a basement room).

After this preliminary preparation of the sulphuric acid in the sense of Jacob Lorger, the sulphur crystals can now be further enriched with solar energy in order to obtain a sun remedy.

The use of sulphur crystals in biology is immeasurable (or: cannot be foreseen).

May 26, 1976

Medicine and Esotericism

by Dr. Werner Nawrocki

The number of physicians who turn with great interest to traditional medical treatments is growing steadily. In many places mostly young doctors, dentists - even surgeons - are forming groups for regular developmental meetings, so as to familiarize themselves with the "unscientific" methods. Such a circle - comprising exactly 500 members of the medical professions of all of Upper Bavaria - meets about every four weeks in Schwabing. Mostly so-called "outsiders" are the speakers. Thus a short while ago, the Frankfurt physician and esotericist Dr. Werner Nawrocki spoke on the subject of "Medicine and Esotericism." Here now, compiled by Theo Ott, follow a few excerpts from his spontaneous address:

The only thing that really cures is recognizing the meaning behind everything - meaningfulness.

Concerning myself: I am relatively, young, and therefore many may think: Oh well! What can he have to say! I have studied medicine and psychology, and have also received the additional title of "Doctor of Naturopathy and Homeopathy." I have lectured at world congresses in Geneva, Vienna and Florence - last year for the first time in connection with the topic "Esotericism and Medicine". Perhaps I can also tell you - so that you do not take me for a crackpot - that I am trained esoterically. On the other hand, I am a lecturer on general medicine at the University of Frankfurt.

And now I would ask you to leave, so to speak, your entire education I mean especially the academic one in the checkroom, so that together we can begin at a total zero mark.

Let us start with the concept of esotericism. Why is it called esotericism?

Formerly, we only spoke of the occult or secret sciences. But these words are already very difficult per se and always arouse unpleasant associations, especially with academicians - of course. "Secret Science" and "Occult"! For heaven's sake, are you doing table tilting or something like it?

No, it has nothing to do with that whatsoever. The word is Greek: Esoteros, the inner. It is actually due to the fact that since man has been on earth there has always existed a so-called inner circle. Today and at any time certain individuals are recruited from this esoteric inner circle, who then appear publicly and serve to communicate these ancient secret sciences, these old occult teachings, to those who are ready to hear them. In esotericism a very important point is: "do not indulge in missionary activities," "do not proselytize!" We should only speak to those who ask about it. And then only as much as they can assimilate at the time.

To think esoterically means to think substantially, to think according to the deeper meaning of things and events. First: Who am I? Who among you really knows who he is? Yes, you may say: I am John Smith, was born in such and such a town, etc., but that is a far cry from knowing who You really are. This is one of the most important and central questions of the whole of esotericism, ie., the whole of the "secret sciences."

The second question is: From where do I come? Here one can of course again say: I am the son of such and such parents, grandparents - and thus we somehow land at Adam and Eve. Is that satisfactory? I do not think so.

The third question is: What is that surrounding me? This also means the men and women whom I meet in the course of my life as well as the whole material plane, that is, the Earth, the houses, towns, and the relation in which I stand to them. Why have I married just this woman? - Yes, you say, it happened one day when I was, on vacation. Suddenly I met this girl and it is she whom I married later. Are these meaningful explanations to the three really important questions:

Who am I? From where do I come? What is that surrounding me and in what relation do I stand to it?

To these questions we 1 believe 1 can speak for all of you have received no answer at the university. Certainly not.

Esotericism means the everyday, it means life, living - it actually means that we get certain clues which enable us to experience the everyday better because we understand what is happening, because slowly we comprehend ever better who we are, why we are connected with these persons or this town. And as our understanding increases it may take a long time, even decades, faster with some, more slowly with others - our everyday becomes better!

In regard to these three questions Who am l? From where do I come? What is surrounding me, in what relation do I stand to it? - we have precisely excluded functional thinking. Now we begin to think substantially, to think in regard to substance or content.

Why is just this happening to me at this moment?

You should perhaps ask yourself this question a bit more often from today. If you ask it at first only for fun, even if you do not understand everything or are still rejecting almost everything, you will develop a wonderful relation to that which all of us reject more or less because we have been educated in such an odd way: that is, "religio." Only not "religio" in the sense of the Church institutions but in that of "religio" proper, which means, "linking back" or "reconnecting."

Because if you ask yourself: Why is this happening to me now? You are trying to connect back with the origin, whatever it may be. And then you are in the middle of esotericism. Thai which the priest should actually be, namely, the "Pontifex Maximus" - the bridgebuilder - this he has unfortunately not been. It means that at least on the whole priests have built very few bridges for me in regard to my special question: Who am I actually, why am I on this earth? The fundamental difference between scientific and esoteric thinking, or between functional and substantial thinking, is that we should always put the question after an event: Why is this happening to me at present?

Let me say a few words about chance, this subject always being a beautiful starting place for academicians. In so doing, we shall quickly see that our entire previous thinking would have to be remodeled. if we examined chance just a little.

As they are reaching the boundaries of our measurable areas, physicists increasingly arrive at the question: There must really be something behind it but what is it? This means, they arc inquiring substantially after the meaning. At least they have now got to the point where they admit: We cannot explain it, but we notice that this cosmos, in which we have developed for millions of years into Homo sapiens, is founded on specific constants, and if these would change by even one iota, everything would disappear.

Accordingly, nature operates by law. Could it be that the crown of creation, Homo sapiens, is an accidental factor, a chance happening? By chance, Jenny Jones? Has met her husband by chance? The contrary is true: Nothing is by chance, i.e., everything has meaning, everything is according to law. If we exclude chance, life becomes very unpleasant for each of us. It would have immense consequences, that is, you would have to consider everything as meaningful.

The only reason why we are so ready to postulate chance actually is that we are unable to recognize the law governing it. However, it is possible to do so. That all of us more or less cannot do it is not due to the fact that there is no law in operation but that we are too stupid to recognize it.

Such is also the case for esotericism, also for chance, also for the laws in operation. And this is so, absolutely and certainly so. It is at this certainty that we have to arrive. The way is a very difficult and hard one, and that is why nobody likes it.

If, therefore, there exists no chance, everything happening around us has meaning. That you knock your head, that you fall down the stairs, that you are fleeced by the Internal Revenue Service. . . . It all has its deeper meaning.

There is but a small problem: the time factor. Look, when you are 50 years old some day, then you can say: Really, it was not so stupid that my father brought me up so severely. He never gave me a penny, I had to work for everything myself. At that time I was mad, but when I look back - back at this today - I am grateful to him.

When I reach 50, I can recognize and explain many a thing as reasonable - and good which seemed to me nonsensical at the time.

A further important point is that we should recognize reality as it is and not as we wish it to be. That is why the esoteric training is quite a hard one. If, in fact, I learn to see the world as it is and not as I would like it to be, I hurt myself at first every tenth of a second But if I have overcome myself and have placed myself willingly under the law - it is what Schiller also writes, e.g.: "Wenn Pflicht und Neigung ubereinstimmen, bist Du frei!" (If duty and inclination coincide, you are free!) - then it is so beautiful that it can hardly be described.

Therefore, this means: no matter what you touch, for instance, a wall in reality it is not static, it vibrates, the wall. When 1 speak, there are also vibrations. All is vibration.

It is a hard way, the way of sensitizing the body to such an extent that other vibrations can be perceived. In the United States, in the medical science, in particular in Los Angeles, is a group of openminded scientists who say: No matter who you are, if you are able to heal with your hands, come to us and do it! They are so openminded that they examine everything. But they also fall into the error of believing that everything that is reality can be measured. There exists a fine saying of a scientist which runs: "The opinion Of present-day science is but the sum of the errors of living research." Precisely! In former years people were burnt because they asserted that the Earth was moving. Such is also the case for the outsiders of medicine.

Whoever has done a little bodysurfing knows: It is improbably beautiful to reach the crest of a big wave exactly. Meaning if we become one with the rhythm, it becomes quite easy, but by going against it, problems arise. And so even official medicine has recognized it. Since a few years we have biorhythm research, chronobiology. They have even already discovered that cortisone must be taken at a specific time!

In science there are a few men who chew something that must eternally be chewed again. However, a turning of the tide seems to come in slowly. It is really worthwhile bothering about these other things, this other pole.

Thus we have arrived at polarity, at the law of polarity. The ancient ones wrote: All is polar. There is nothing in the world of phenomena that is not polarized. This is quite an important point, also in esoteric thinking.

Esoteric thinking is always binding. It means that when something is said, it is valid on all levels of thought, and there exists no plane where this basic law does not apply. Just this factor is the reason why all of us do not really like this esotericism.

It is unthinkable that you become engaged or educated esoterically and yet remain the same man or woman who you are today. At one point it will become quite binding. You can no longer continually cheat, not even the IRS. Nor can you kill every fly.

And if you remember what beautiful negative thoughts you have had today and yesterday against your colleagues, against your wife, against some man in the street - you could probably fill many volumes if you recorded them day after day.

In the cosmos there exists a basic law: It is never aggression but the principle of love that wins. I ask all my patients to tell me the most beautiful experience of their life - most of them cannot think of any. Some women just some remember giving birth. And then I ask about the worst experiences. Then it starts! It shows that it is incredibly difficult to recognize a beautiful experience. That is so sad. If one day one gets to know the other face of reality, every day turns into a beautiful one.

The basic law of polarity is the flow - or the breath. It means that there is nothing that is not polar: Health-sickness; war-peace ... Already the next polarity turns up: life and death. Why then is death so bad? "Yes then one can no longer get drunk, no longer smoke .." But then you can do quite different things. Only we don't know anything about it, and that is why we repress death.

Leaving polarity aside, we will now turn to the concept of disease, as that is important for us physicians. When a deep freezer breaks down, there is normally a red warning lamp. The technician will not simply unscrew the little lamp and then say: "Look, now it works again!" We would answer: "You are crazy, my dear!" But in medicine we are doing exactly the same, and this we have done for decades.

When I have someone before me who says: "Doctor, my knees are hurting," I ask: "What are you lacking?" He then replies: "My knees are hurting." - "That was not my question; I asked: 'What are you lacking?'" - Formerly, with the ancients in Greece and Egypt - it can all be read in books, the physicians who, by the way, were priests (only not in the present-day sense), asked: "What insight are you lacking?" And the sick person replied: "Yes, that is just my problem, I do not know it! I must have misunderstood something or done something wrong, because my knees are hurting." That it is precisely the salient point. Because we do not learn this at the university because we are too stupid to see it: which man has what. It can be learned relatively fast. Only, it is a hard way, but it works. We do know a little something from the iris diagnosis. If we become a bit more sensitive to these things, we can immediately recognize everything.

What we do in medicine is so crazy. We always only doctor the least little sore spot. Fate, the best psychotherapist by the way, knocks at your door because there are a few things you have done wrong: Now I will show you by means of high blood pressure! And if you do not understand that, you will get a heart attack. Then you will be taken to the intensive care unit, and there you will surely reflect a little on what you have done wrong. And we physicians, we good doctors, including the naturopaths, we are so fantastic: We very quickly help the patient NOT to get his insight. We help him away from the insight. In so doing - this is the fault of the therapists - we catapult him upon a much harder level of fate. That was already known to our grandmas and grandpas. They said: "Treat the whole man!" But please: "The whole man" does not simply, mean diet. Today everything has to be diet. To eat the largest possible amount of grains! You can eat grains for twenty years if you have no insight. No diet exists that can cure me. Healing is always somewhat connected with becoming whole.

When I arrive at the point where this fundamental question suddenly becomes clear to me: Who am I? From where do I come? What is around me? - therefore, when I recognize why everything is as it is, then everything will become much more beautiful and easier.

There is one thing only that really heals, it is recognizing the meaning behind everything ... meaningfulness.