While I will, temporarily, forego more than mere mention of occult ideas surrounding annointed doorways, and the attatched allusions and implications they were employed for purposes from everything to serving as the receiving resonant cavitites in scalar physics- based materialization feats, to being activated by various annointings to serve as windows into the auric realms and the realms of the afterlife, and perhaps even physical doorways to the unknown in certain instances (one example in mind is the Gates of Tiahuanaco where magnetic compass spin resembling that of the Bermuda Triangle has been reported, and this considered in light of the contents of Carlos Castaneda’s work- ancient miracles and portals to other worlds)...
Besides the other magicks, technical and otherwise, that are discussed on these pages, there remain many desirable feats. In my reckoning, the ancients who preceeded us had intriguing ways of approaching everyday tasks and problems, and there is much to indicate they indeed possessed the understanding to make many of these fundamental wishes into reality. Even beyond this, however, the discussion and study of the systematics again may shed light on many related areas, even all of the magick under discussion in general.
It is my belief, for example, that the ancient use of static electricity, could have easily been extended to where they could have been extended by electrical genuises such as Nikola Tesla. One tends to hear a great deal about Tesla coils and this giant amongst men who created lighting with giant towering apparati; we hear less of his plans to approach the mundane concerns of everyday life, but yet the indications are there.
Tesla’s approach to the simple act of bathing, for example, was to apply high freqency electricity instead of water to the task... something that can be made a hundred thousand times more efficient that our current practices of washing ourselves in the single substance most irreplacably valuable to life.
Again and again, he demonstrated and proved how safely and reliably that routine contact with his electricty could be, safely wrapping people in glowing coronas of millions of volts, and knowing fully well the characteristics of this high frequency electricity and the "skin effect", that it occupies the surface of objects rather than passing through them, thus refusing to infringe on the nervous systems of persons, unlike the dangerous fashion of electricity we currently use.
Also in distinction, because this electricity refuses to travel through objects, it does not experience resistance or dissipation as heat, thus it is likewise not the wasteful and expensive sort of electricity we currently use.
The ancient applications of this sort of electricity are evidenced many times, including the strong implications that the Aegis, or sheild of Zeus, appropriately the God of Lightning, could be used as an electrophorus, or static generator, much like rubbing a balloon on one’s hair, and used for various purposes from dusting to seperating the light chaff from the heavy grain with greater speed and efficiency than we may enjoy today.
Appropriate to Tesla’s vision, and the extention of his “electric shower” to clean bodies of debris, to other similar uses- cleaning dishes, carpets, furnishings, clothes, there is also Biblical evidence of such strategies, for in the Old Testament, it is commanded that mildewed laundry be taken to priests to be handled. The likely scenario, even aside from the astounding stories of the electrical properties of the Ark of the Covenant, is that the temples constructed of rams hides, loosely tied and flapping in abrasive, ionized desert winds, and again acting as electrophoruses, accumulating huge static electical charges.
The priest would simply grasp the tent flaps in one hand, have the electricity pass over his person, and direct it over a wand or staff in his hand. As he touched it to a bundle of mildewed or soiled laundry, the electrical charge, favoring surfaces or not, would prove sufficient to electrocute the offensive organisms and neutralize their offensive chemical outputs, which is in no way different than the elctrochemistry of disinectants such as bleach, nor the modern use of germicidal ionizing ultraviolet light.
These techniques, as well as other considerations such as Michael Faraday’s discoveries about the nature of charge-migration, demonstrated in his experiments with a bucket and a silk cone, might be applied to households, that having the necessary apparatus in place, that dust, dirt and debris would be made to “magickally” exit the premises, or to accumulate in a single receptacle for disposal... an infinite boon to many, especially those who are physically challenged and seeking further independance in their lifestyles, striving to be less of a “burden” to others. In truth, the “burden” may prove to be the sluggish, herd-like mentality that places the interests of makers of cleaning products before the interests of such persons; the magickal housecleaning genie in question is liable to consume far fewer resources as well.
(One may surmise these ancient ways were, for intents and purposes, “lost”, in much the manner that greedy competition obscured many of Nikola Tesla’s inventions, his credit for his inventions, and further still, polluted and perverted them into the forms we now know, forms deliberately designed to use far more, even tens of thousands of times more, power than necessary, all for the purpose of making ulitity merchants into millionaires, even when the dollar had twenty times its current buying power. The story of Tesla is rich in the names of such “venerable” scoundrels, whose notiorous greed and deviousness is twisted into a superficial heroic image of benevolence and success for unsuspecting schoolchildren.
Thus I point out yet again, that there is a common birthright for the Christian, the pagan, and the scientist, and these are brothers in the loss of it.
However, I will also here entail once more what so rarely I hear, that given the principles of photoelectricity and triboelectricity, the clothing and Rosary rituals of nuns together promise, by combining principles of photoelectricity and triboelectricity, and possibly quantum statistical transmutation, to constitute a potent electrical sterile feild generator, since long before there was an Einstien and his theory of photoelectricity, or the term quantum mechanics had, to our present knowledge, been coined.
The net effect would be that the feild would cover the clothing and extend to surround the uncovered areas- the face and hands- that nuns and priests thus properly prepared could attend the sick and contagious, touch their hand and physically comfort them, while enjoying immunity from contagious plagues or the fear of contracting them.
I present this as more strong possible evidence that amazing resourcefulness was brought to bear on these matters in the past, and once again, is a missing birthright of human heritage.)
Indeed, there are peculiar parts of history in these areas. Even though the ancients demonstrate formidable technical prowess again and again, we are forced to ask why they did not invent window glass, or window screens, for example, and the answer is certainly not they were lacking the skill or ingenuity. Rather, there are interesting ancient customs regarding doors and windows, many of them having a very strange universality, that need to be examined more carefully.
We can hardly discuss the custom of consectrating or bluing doorways for example, without running into substances and materials and even etymological support that the ancients, typically, not only practiced such an artform, but refined it. Our word, “door”, is cognate with “duir”, an older word in our language meaning “oak”. It would be too easy to simply rationalize that oak wood is good for the use of making doors and doorframes.
Rather, looking closely at the both the materials, and the ritual materials applied, such as the likelihood that door bluings included what may well be the most well-known of the ancient colorings, a blue which the Egyptians derived from the sacred and venerated Water Lily (Nympheae sp.), we may find that the common demoninator may be that they contain or border on exotic matter, or other less usual types of matter and energy that may make them better suited not only for participating in the purging of dust or debris, but a number of purposes, including those which being to show discrimination.
(Indeed, the way in which such aquatic plants as the Water Lily and Lotus may have to stay afloat, such as splitting water, possibly through a peroxide phase, may require them to work with muons and/or exotic matter. This may give them various electrical or chemical properties that may related to their sacred status in numerous cultures; likewise, Native Americans attribute powers to Lotuses that pertain to their alleged role in “creating” fog, which may be based on observations of such exotic matter or the associated feilds evidencing themselves by interacting with surrounding matter.)
Such purposes are those very same ones we could idealize as we grow increasingly fearful of diseases, some “magickal” guardian who waits at the door to slay germs that might otherwise be brought into the warm and accomodating enviroments which all too often, if not acting as incubators for pathogens, are at least the close quarters in which they may be all too easily spread.
Such purposes are also those as we currently face, using ever-more elaborate srcutiy to insure that precious energy is not leaking form our dwellings and being wasted, as if the genuises of old had taken something like what we now call “Maxwell’s Demon”, a device or configuration that can sort warm atoms from cold ones, installed it at the otherwise preposterously leaky and inadequate door, and set it to work maing heat to remain indoors and cold to vacate the premises.
Also extremely viable for inclusions in such strategies would be the electrostatic cooling and heating methods accredited to Oscar Blomgren, one of the scientists renowned by those who are well informed about modern inventors who tend to be ignored or forgotten.
There are enough respectable scientific terms today for such things that to try to dismiss them as whimsy, wishful thinking, or fancy would at the very least border on ignorance.
There are other provisions within our current body of knowledge to do such things as sort living from non-living things entering, healthy from virulent, from the intriguing properties of the (static?) electricity discovered by Eric Dollard of Borderlands Sceinces Research Foundation when working with a Tesla transmitter, to which a portion of one of his videos is devoted, to such possibilities as feilds which apply properties of phase conjugate novelty filters, and still other factors scarcely taken into account.
Indeed, such techology may have arisen out of the need to keep disease-carrying insects from entering doors and windows. Observations may have been made from various consequences of annointing doors and windows with insect repelling herbs, many of which may have latent electrical properties, from “the electric wintergreen lifesaver effect”, that is, the modern (re?-)discovery of the triboelectrical qualities of certain aromatic molecules, to ionizing properties of certain aromatic molecules, or both. The development of such ancient technologies may also have arisen in different way, such as the interest in plants which seem to contain or preceed exotic matter, or perhap the technologies developed simultaneously.
The ancient Egyptians are good candidates for having been able to invent window glass, not only having prodcued interesting lasswork, but of whom the “legends” of being able to “magickally” or “alchemcially” produce soft glass even at room temperatures as opposed to the great heat we currently use in glassmaking, have probably been vindicated by scientists and their recent discoveries of “arylgels” and fluid behavior of silicon dioxides when the molecular lattice is infiltrated with numberous molecules of oxygen. Using ionizing radation that is perhaps still best understood only as some dramaitic specie of “pyramid rays”, or “dielectric radiation”, they could have easily accomplished the same feat, on a considerably large scale.
Instead, history records the curious rituals of annointing doorways with blood and indeed, next to the question of how to keep disease bearing insects from enetering uncovered doors and windows, what the Bible tells us is ludicrously backwards, as often so, and as is often the way of the teachings of many “trickster” traditions as they amuse children with such comical errors and challenge them to re-interpret the texts more sensibly to pan out the nuggets of true golden wisdom from the riddles.
Ethnobotanical re-examination of the Exodus might suggest that the “blood” applied to the doorways was a figurative term for an herb used to cause plagues to “pass over” by repelling the insects which carried them, and serendipitously, an herb that might grow readily in front of doors both convenient and well suited for this purpose may be a specie of Knotgrass, which can age to a distinct blood-red color, which may weild exotic matter in the cause of fighting plagues and carriers, but perhaps more importantly, has been used as an anti-abortion drug by Native Americans. In context, it might be the only thing that stands between life, and countless miscarriages caused by the “ceremonial” use of Wormwood (The Biblical use of Wormwood prior to the Exodus is in fact the same identical ethnobotany as practiced by countless cultures).
Thus, the Exodus story of the Bible is riddled with sweeping, ludicrous, and even very dangerous ideosyncracies; any truth in it may be found in the customary way to glean the blessings of travesty, namely that all of the key words or concepts are there, but need to be rearranged in a more sensible fashion.
Certainly, however, the issues we have raised here ride on the layers of meaning that are apparent within the story, and in many other places. In numerous cultures, ritual cleaning of the house is associated with various virginal or purity Goddesses such as Artemis who governs the Wormwoods (Artemisias), although there may be many layers of ancient efficiency built onto the basic premise of a pleasant scented and antiseptic sweeping that may be accompished with various species of Artemisia.
Many specie of Artemisia may also prove to be donor of exotic matter, relating again to the way in which biological peroxides are conjugated; a wide variety of Artemisias have “molecular” or large-molecule peroxides which may relate to many of their properties, from their astonishing medicinal values to the amazing way in which Artemisia vulgaris (Mugwort or Comapss Plant) acts like a living magnet, aligning itself magnetic north and south).
Likewise, in a time when millions of people are self-medicating their depression, which many many knowledgable people attribute to a lack of natural light necessary for the processes in the body which involve the D Vitamins, and perhaps others, with scuh fad herbs that are now being found to pose a serious threat of liver damage due to such chronic misuse (St. John’s Wort has been allegedly banned by the Canadian government very recently, on the heels of many reports that it is causing liver damage, and presumably the two are closely connected), our use of energy for light greatly deserves reconsideration.
Already, viable schemes, or sizable and formidable parts thereof, for making perpetual sources of light, appear on the internet, in such places as the posts to the KeelyNet BBS or E-mail list. Even though there are stiking and sometimes uncanny accounts of the ancients having accomplished this technology also, appearing in the works of “otherwise normal” and often, very serious academic personnel, failing this science, there are other alternatives.
Nikola Tesla, who may yet prove to be the true inventor of the incandescent light, even as he is currently recognized as the inventor of flourescent lights, left us a brilliant legacy which includes references to a way of lighting areas that causes the light to appear to emanate from everywhere, thus alleviating the inefficiency of bulbs breaking or wearing out, and the problems caused by obejcts casing shadows.
The ability to grow plants in indoor enviroments, foods of superior quality which have not required the use of pesticides or herbicides, could not be more in need of such a blessing, since even as we speak it becomes still increasingly more difficult to assure ourselves of the histroy and the quality of the soil with which we are seeking to feed ourselves. The very mention of many materials which may be contaminating our food is constantly swept under the rug.
The ability to grow plants indoors without lights has been suggested by neglected and already nearly forgotten experiemtns by Thomas Galen Hieronymous, also a scientific pioneer of formidable caliber, but failing the development of this, Tesla’s techology for light without apparent source is still promising beyond estimation.
Indeed, prior to invention of window glass, there may remaining the question of how adequate light was introduced into various dwellings which were, allegedly of necessity, nearly or completely sealed.
We could fancy, wishfully, to somehow make light come into those dwellings, to magickally let the light in even where there is no window.
But is this mere fancy or wishful thinking? Besides a great legacy of magick pertaining to invisibility, as well as causing the invisible to become visible, what does science have to say of this? In addition to the well-known chemical invisibility that popular magazines devoted to science announced to the public many years ago (chemistry that runs uncannily close to that of plants which, if there are no references to be found that they were used in magickal invisibility, were certainly held in incomparable regard by witches and pagans and various persuasions and used in other astounding applications such as binding the flying broom’s bristles)...
...And also the weighty “rumors” that the U.S. Navy had dabbled in scientific invisibilty during the second World War (the infamous Philadelphia Experiment), and the magazine articles which preceeded this, speaking of scientists creating invisibility before live audiences using techniques of “harmonic lighting”...
The increasing complexity (and more importantly, increasing candor and sophistication) of science seemingly does more to confirm than to dispute such possibilities.
We read in the modern popular science work by John Briggs and F. David Peat, “Turbulent Mirror” (pg 130):
“Another type of soliton penetration, called “self-induced transparency”, shows what can happen when light and matter engage in non-linear interactions.
Whereas crystals such as diamond, quartz, and rock salt are transparent to light, other solids reflect and absorb all the light that falls on them. In these absorbing systems, any light energy that manages to penetrate into the solid is immediately absorbed by it atoms. This absorbed energy then leaks away in the form of atomic vibrations, in other words, heat. So the only effect of trying to force more light through an opaque surface is to heat its surface.
However, if the light falling on the solid becomes particularly intense, as in a very high energy burst from a laser, then the solid becomes transparent and the light pulse passes though unabsorbed.
What’s the reason for this hat-trick effect? With a sharp laser burst, all the atomes in the lattice are pumped into an excited state. The excited atoms interact non-linearly with light so that the two are momentarily fused to form a whole system, which along its wave fron, operates collectively, The soliton that passes right trough the previously opaque system is not strictly light, neither is is atomic excitation. Rather it is a complex, nonlinear combination of both, a new form of being which theoreticians call a “polariton”.”
Perhaps the question therefore, is not “could they have” or “did they” or “how could they have”, but “in what particular way would they have treated the material that normal sunlight is to pass through so that it reacted As If it were struck by such a laser”? Looking carefully at the text quoted from Briggs and Peat, one might begin to think of a number of ways in which this could be done.
Thus, besides the magick that may live within the name and legend of Janus, the Roman God of Doorways, whom I hope for the reader now has become a far more sensible and meaningful figure, there is much out there to “magickally” enrich our homes with comfort and ease, if we are willing and desirous to achieve it. That is our legacy of science and magick.
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