MercurysBall2 ago

German Chemical Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Chemical_Society

The German Chemical Society (German: Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh) is a learned society and professional association founded in 1949 to represent the interests of German chemists in local, national and international contexts... Adolf von Baeyer was prominent among the German chemists who established DChG in 1867; and August Wilhelm von Hofmann was the first president.[1] This society was modeled after the British Chemical Society, which was the precursor of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Like its British counterpart, DChG sought to foster the communication of new ideas and facts throughout Germany and across international borders.

Honorary Members of the GDCh have included Otto Hahn, Robert B. Woodward, Jean-Marie Lehn, George Olah and other eminent scientist

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/249400112/#249402517

he complete laboratory synthesis of B12 was achieved by Robert Burns Woodward[89] and Albert Eschenmoser in 1972,[90][91] and remains one of the classic feats of organic synthesis, requiring the effort of 91 postdoctoral fellows (mostly at Harvard) and 12 PhD students (at ETH Zurich) from 19 nations. The synthesis constitutes a formal total synthesis, since the research groups only prepared the known intermediate cobyric acid, whose chemical conversion to vitamin B12 was previously reported. Though it constitutes an intellectual achievement of the highest caliber, the Eschenmoser–Woodward synthesis of vitamin B12 is of no practical consequence due to its length, taking 72 chemical steps and giving an overall chemical yield well under 0.01%.[92] And although there have been sporadic synthetic efforts since 1972,[91] the Eschenmoser–Woodward synthesis remains the only completed (formal) total synthesis.

Industrial production of B12 is achieved through fermentation of selected microorganisms.[84]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12#Production

https://www.isom.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Correspondence-B-Vitamins-Stop-Alzheimers-Brain-Shrinking-Breakthrough-in-Prevention-Three-Cases-of-Schizophrenia-28.3.pdf

Ground-breaking research from Oxford

University was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,1

showing that inexpensive B vitamins stopped

shrinkage in the area of the brain that defines Alzheimer’s disease (AD), called the

medial temporal lobe. While most people

diagnosed with dementia have AD the actual diagnosis of AD requires confirmation

with a brain scan that shows degeneration of

this specific area of the brain.

Hoffer’s adrenochrome hypothesis9-11 has been debated inside and outside of the orthomolecular movement..

The hypothesis is alive and it will be stronger because now it is generally accepted that adrenochrome is very important. Not only in schizophrenia, but also in many age-related diseases. It generates some sort of tardive dyskinesia but not exactly that. The neurologists accept that it exists.

MercurysBall2 ago

Most recent Lucis Trust newsletter: https://www.lucistrust.org/about_us/lucis_trust/bi_annual_letter/three_spiritual_festivals_2020_letter?dm_i=935,6SXZF,HQV7OA,R8H1H,1

The Right Concentration of Power - Three Spiritual Festivals 2020

The energy released throughout the Festival Week of the New Group of World Servers,* was of such magnitude that we are continuing its general focus as we prepare for the Three Spiritual Festivals. Our central theme will be “The Right Concentration of Power.” This relates to the directive to evoke Power found in both the mantram of the New Group of World Servers (May the Power of the One Life pour through the group of all true servers) and the Great Invocation (Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth).

..In the foreword to the book, Education in the New Age, the philosopher, Oliver L Reiser wrote of the urgent need for a theory of education “adequate to the new world that is emerging.” In such a philosophy, he said, “three fundamental needs must be met:

1. A psychological theory of the human person to be ‘educated’.

2. A social theory of the kind of society one is trying to create or preserve as a suitable home for the cultural ideals promulgated.

3. A world view or cosmology, a theory of man’s place in the universe in which man is spectator and actor.”

MercurysBall2 ago

Paracelsus also described four elemental beings, each corresponding to one of the four elements: Salamanders, which correspond to fire; Gnomes, corresponding to earth; Undines, corresponding to water; and Sylphs, corresponding to air.

Salamanders in folklore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamanders_in_folklore

The salamander is an amphibian of the order Urodela which, as with many real creatures, often has been ascribed fantastic and sometimes occult qualities by pre-modern authors (as in the allegorical descriptions of animals in medieval bestiaries) not possessed by the real organism. The legendary salamander is often depicted as a typical salamander in shape, with a lizard-like form, but is usually ascribed an affinity with fire, sometimes specifically elemental fire.

Classical lore: Pliny, the Talmud, and Augustine

The salamander is also mentioned in the Talmud (Hagiga 27a) as a creature that is a product of fire, and it relates that anyone who is smeared with its blood will be immune to harm from fire. Rashi (1040–1105), the primary commentator on the Talmud, describes the salamander as one which is produced by burning a fire in the same place for seven years.

Saint Augustine in the City of God used the example of salamanders to argue for the possibility of humans being punished by being burned in eternal flame in Purgatory. He wrote "If, therefore, the salamander lives in fire, as naturalists have recorded, and if certain famous mountains of Sicily have been continually on fire from the remotest antiquity until now, and yet remain entire, these are sufficiently convincing examples that everything which burns is not consumed."

A frequently-cited[9][10][11][12] illustration of a salamander is presented in an influential[13] 20th-century occult work by Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages, in which it is attributed to Paracelsus.[14] This illustration appears to originate in a 1527 anti-papal tract by Andreas Osiander and Hans Sachs, where it is identified as "the Pope as a monster".[15] Its association with Paracelsus derives from his Auslegung der Magischen Figuren im Carthäuser Kloster zu Nũrnberg[16] in which the author presents explanations of some illustrations found in a Carthusian monastery in Nuremberg; the illustration in question he labels as "a salamander or desolate worm with a human head and crowned with a crown and a pope hat thereon,"[17] which is later explained to represent the Pope. Catholic Archbishop Raymund Netzhammer (1862–1945) explained that the set of woodcuts it belongs to was commissioned by Osiander based on some old "pope illustrations" found at the monastery, which Netzhammer thought may have dated back to the time of Joachim of Fiore (d. 1202) and were intended as cartoons mocking the Pope and the Church.

..Another idea which is found in several Medieval and Renaissance works was that "Egyptian priests" used a hieroglyph which applied the figure of a salamander to represent a man who is burnt, or in other versions a man who has died from cold.[24] This tradition is first found in the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo (Book 2, Ch. LXII), but it is not now considered to be an authentic representation of hieroglyphic usage.

Early commentators in Europe often grouped "crawling things" (reptiles or reptilia in Latin) together, and thus creatures in this group, which typically included salamanders (Latin salamandrae), dragons (Latin dracones or serpentes), and basilisks (Latin basilisci), were often associated, as in Conrad Lycosthenes' Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon of 1557

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) wrote the following on the salamander: "This has no digestive organs, and gets no food but from the fire, in which it constantly renews its scaly skin. The salamander, which renews its scaly skin in the fire,—for virtue."[26] Later, Paracelsus (1493–1541) suggested that salamanders were the elementals of fire,[27] which has had substantial influence on the role of salamanders in the occult. Paracelsus, contrary to the prevalent belief at the time, considered salamanders to be not devils, but similar to humans, only lacking a soul (along with giants, dwarves, mermaids, elves, and elemental spirits in human form).[28] Francis I of France used the salamander as his symbol

The salamander is found throughout French folklore, although in differing form. In addition or sometimes instead of its fire symbolism, it was attributed a powerful poison. Some legends say that merely by falling into a well, it would poison the water, and by climbing a fruit tree, poison the fruit.[29] Its highly toxic breath was reportedly enough to swell a person until their skin broke; in Auvergne, it supposedly did the same to herds of cattle. This gained it the name of "bellows breath". Like the real animal, the legendary salamander breathed seldom; unlike the real salamander, the only way to kill one was said to be to lock it in a confined space so that it breathed its own poison.[30] The Bretons feared it so they did not dare say its real name for fear it would hear and then kill them.

Early travelers to China were shown garments supposedly woven from salamander hair or wool; the cloth was completely unharmed by fire. The garments had actually been woven from asbestos.[22][31] According to T. H. White, Prester John had a robe made from it; the "Emperor of India" possessed a suit made from a thousand skins; and Pope Alexander III had a tunic which he valued highly.[6] William Caxton (1481) wrote: "This Salemandre berithe wulle, of which is made cloth and gyrdles that may not brenne in the fyre."[6] Holme (1688) wrote: "...I have several times put [salamander hair] in the Fire and made it red hot and after taken it out, which being cold, yet remained perfect wool."