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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrocosm_and_microcosm
“Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek Neo-Platonic schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the cosmos, from the largest scale (macrocosm or universe-level) all the way down to the smallest scale (microcosm or sub-sub-atomic or even metaphysical-level). In the system the mid-point is Man, who summarizes the cosmos.
Many ancient peoples other than the Greeks (Incas, Aborigines, Vikings and Celts, amongst others), observed the golden ratio in many parts of the ordered universe both large and small. The Greeks were philosophically concerned with a rational explanation of everything and saw the repetition of the golden mean throughout the world and all levels of reality as a step towards this unifying theory. In short, it is the recognition that the same traits appear in entities of many different sizes, from one man to the entire human population.
Macrocosm/microcosm is a Greek compound of μακρο- “Macro-” and μικρο- “Micro-”, which are Greek respectively for “large” and “small”, and the word κόσμος kósmos which means “order” as well as “world” or “ordered world.” Cosmos comes from the same root word as ‘chaos’.
Today, the concept of microcosm has been dominated by sociology to mean a small group of individuals whose behavior is typical of a larger social body encompassing it. A microcosm can be seen as a special kind of epitome. Conversely, a macrocosm is a social body made of smaller compounds.”
We Physicists Are the Only Scientists Who Can Say the Word “God” and Not Blush – Michio Kaku
“As you know, I work in something called String Theory which makes the statement that we are reading the mind of God. It’s based on music or little vibrating strings thus giving us particles that we see in nature. The laws of chemistry that we struggled with in high school would be the melodies that you can play on these vibrating strings. The Universe would be a symphony of these vibrating strings and the mind of God that Einstein wrote about at length would be cosmic music resonating through this nirvana… through this 11 dimensional hyperspace—that would be the mind of God. We physicists are the only scientists who can say the word “God” and not blush.
The fact of the matter is that we are dealing with the cosmic questions of existence and meaning. Thomas Huxley, the great biologist of the last century said that the question of all questions for science and religion is to determine our true place and our true role in the Universe. For both science and religion it is the same question.
However, there has essentially been a divorce in the last century or so between that of science and the Humanists and I think that it’s very sad that we don’t speak the same language anymore.”
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BigThink.com Michio Kaku:
“The “mind of God” is a phrase of Einstein’s, who used it to refer to an ultimate understanding of the universe and its laws, and stated his desire to achieve that understanding through science. The supercollider is a “Genesis Machine” that will re-create, on a microscopic scale, perhaps the most glorious event in the history of the universe–its birth–and take us one step closer to fulfilling Einstein’s goal – and mine.”
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“Today the LHC may have the potential to explain the origin of all four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Physicists believe that at the beginning of time there was a single superforce that unified these fundamental forces. Finding it could be the crowning achievement in the history of science.
Through the LHC, we hope to finally prove the existence of the Higgs boson, which is the only particle yet to be observed by the Standard Model. There is a hypothetical, ever-present quantum field that is supposedly responsible for giving particles their masses; this field would answer the basic question of why particles have the masses they do or why they have any mass at all. According to CERN, “The answer may be the so-called Higgs mechanism. According to the theory of the Higgs mechanism, the whole of space is filled with a ‘Higgs field,’ and by interacting with this field, particles acquire their masses. Particles that interact intensely with the Higgs field are heavy, while those that have feeble interactions are light. The Higgs field has at least one new particle associated with it, the Higgs boson. If such a particle exists, experiments at the LHC will be able to detect it.”
Ultimately, what we want to get out of the Large Hadron Collider is something so fantastic, it could rewrite science entirely. We want to create something called sparticles (super-particles) that represent the next set of vibrations of the superstring. We are now on the verge of being able to detect signals from the eleventh dimension—signals from hyperspace. In the eleventh dimension, these four forces just melt together into one gorgeous theory that—if understood and proven—will allow us to “read the mind of God.”
From Universe to Multiverse – Micho Kaku
String Theory, M-theory, Parallel Worlds Pt. 1
BigThink.com Michio Kaku:
“The “multiverse” idea—once thought to be so crazy it only belonged on late night television—has now become the dominant theory in all of cosmology. The idea now dominates conversations in science circles and it seems you cannot avoid the theory of the multiverse.
Einstein first gave us the idea that the universe is a soap bubble of some sort and we reside on the skin of this expanding bubble. This observation of an expanding bubble is now one of the greatest experimental achievements of the last century. Now imagine if you run the videotape backwards, the bubble would shrink and eventually become small enough to put in your coat pocket. If this “bang” happened once, it can happen again, again and again. This concept is mind boggling, that idea that entire universes are being created as you are reading this very blog entry.
When speaking about the multiverse, I’m often asked questions about the different kinds of universes that can form as a result of extra dimensions, string theory or even chaotic inflation for example. These are in some sense different kinds of universes but for me personally, it’s very aesthetically pleasing. This all goes back to my childhood with my parents being Buddhist. In Buddhism, you believe in nirvana and timelessness with no beginning and no end. As a child I went to Sunday school where I learned about arks, great floods and the instant of creation when God said, “Let there be Light”. So, all my life I’ve had these two competing paradigms in my head. With the multiverse idea, we have the beautiful melding of these two ideas. The reason being is that we do have this nirvana, this timelessness, this eleven dimensional hyperspace, this arena of string theory. But we also have bubbles that form all the time, almost like a bubble bath. Sometimes the bubbles expand rapidly giving us universes, combine with other bubbles and sometimes even pop. This continual creation, the idea of a multiverse is very pleasing to me because I can now meld Buddhist nirvana with Judeo-Christian epistemology.
We have this arena of eleven-dimensional hyperspace and within it these bubbles start to expand and they vibrate. In string theory we of course have the music of strings which gives us the particles we see in nature. This is also pleasing to me because Einstein spent the last three decades of his life trying to read the mind of God and he asked himself “What are God’s thoughts?” Well, believe it or not, for the first time we now have a candidate for the mind of God. The mind of God, according to this multiverse picture, is cosmic music resonating through eleven dimensional hyperspace. When I say “God,” I’m talking about the God of Spinoza, not necessarily the personal God that answers prayers and feeds the sick. I’m speaking metaphorically about the God of both harmony and beauty. In other words, as I have stated time and time again, it didn’t have to be this way: our Universe could have been random, chaotic and ugly. And I find it absolutely staggering that we can summarize all the laws of physics going back 2,000 years to the Greeks on a single sheet of paper. The goal of string theory is to, of course, have it in an equation no more than an inch long. In the beginning, there was not light but rather there was the one-inch equation which then drives the gears of the entire Universe. This is the Holy Grail.“
“The Golden Ratio, roughly equal to 1.618, was first formally introduced in text by Greek mathematician Pythagoras and later by Euclid in the 5th century BC. In the fourth century BC, Aristotle noted its aesthetic properties.
Aside from interesting mathematical properties, geometric shapes derived from the golden ratio, such as the golden rectangle, the golden triangle, and Kepler’s triangle, were believed to be aesthetically pleasing. As such, many works of ancient art exhibit and incorporate the golden ratio in their design. Various authors can discern the presence of the golden ratio in Egyptian, Sumerian and Greek vases, Chinese pottery, Olmec sculptures, and Cretan and Mycenaean products from as early as the late Bronze Age. The prevalence of this special number in art and architecture even before its formal discovery by Pythagoras is perhaps evidence of an instinctive and primal human cognitive preference for the golden ratio.”
Nature by Numbers
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It is in De Divina Proportione that the golden ratio is defined as the divine proportion. Pacioli also details the use of the golden ratio as the mathematical definition of beauty when applied to the human face.
“The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.” from De Divina Proportione (1509)
Golden ratio discovered in a quantum world
“When applying a magnetic field at right angles to an aligned spin the magnetic chain will transform into a new state called quantum critical, which can be thought of as a quantum version of a fractal pattern. Prof. Alan Tennant, the leader of the Berlin group, explains “The system reaches a quantum uncertain – or a Schrödinger cat state. This is what we did in our experiments with cobalt niobate. We have tuned the system exactly in order to turn it quantum critical.”
By tuning the system and artificially introducing more quantum uncertainty the researchers observed that the chain of atoms acts like a nanoscale guitar string. Dr. Radu Coldea from Oxford University, who is the principal author of the paper and drove the international project from its inception a decade ago until the present, explains: “Here the tension comes from the interaction between spins causing them to magnetically resonate. For these interactions we found a series (scale) of resonant notes: The first two notes show a perfect relationship with each other. Their frequencies (pitch) are in the ratio of 1.618…, which is the golden ratio famous from art and architecture.” Radu Coldea is convinced that this is no coincidence. “It reflects a beautiful property of the quantum system – a hidden symmetry. Actually quite a special one called E8 by mathematicians, and this is its first observation in a material”, he explains.
The observed resonant states in cobalt niobate are a dramatic laboratory illustration of the way in which mathematical theories developed for particle physics may find application in nanoscale science and ultimately in future technology. Prof. Tennant remarks on the perfect harmony found in quantum uncertainty instead of disorder. “Such discoveries are leading physicists to speculate that the quantum, atomic scale world may have its own underlying order. Similar surprises may await researchers in other materials in the quantum critical state.”
geometric psychology, google names for further research
“Subjective geometry” is a term coined by Weintraub and Krantz to describe the distortion imposed upon geometric patterns by the visual system itself—so-called optical illusions. The latter are widely regarded as being generated by misplaced “constancy” effects, i.e., they are regarded as stemming from the invariance of an object’s appearance under wide variations in viewing conditions, such as obliquity, rotations, etc. The invariances represented by these constancies—shape constancy, size constancy, etc.—are spatiotemporal invariants of certain Lie subgroups of P4(R) circled plus CO(1, 3) circled plus GL(4, R) that govern Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry. That Euclidean subgroups describe a Cyclopean visual world; the non-Euclidean, a binocular (bipolar) world of hyperbolic nature, according to the work of Luneburg, Blank, Indow, and others. The visual field of view is itself a geometric object involving not only “figure” and “ground” but also visual contours (orbits of the Lie groups involved), linear perspective, interposition, and contact and symplectic structures. The retina and “cortical retina” are both covered by a family of “circular-surround” cellular response fields (of a “Mexican hat” nature) which constitute an atlas for the visual manifold S. Upon this manifold are defined certain equivariant vector bundles that account for constancy phenomena and certain jet bundles, arising out of the vector bundles by prolongation, that generate the differential invariants characterizing higher form perception. The resultant theory of perceptual-cognitive processing has been termed “geometric psychology,” in analogy to MacLane’s “geometrical mechanics” and Brockett–Hermann–Mayne’s “geometry of systems,” the mathematical structure being very similar in all three instances. Functorial maps from the category GvFB(S) of equivariant fibre bundles to the simplicial category and the category of simplicial objects complete the theory by extending the perceptual system to cognitive phenomena and information-processing psychology.
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Quote From: Our History of Conspiracy Theories – National Geographic – American Conspiracy Articles
“Collectively, their accusations form a meta-narrative in which official sources cannot be trusted, and in which nothing ever seems to happen by chance.”
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“Our societal attraction to conspiracy theories is evidenced by a 2007 national poll carried out by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University. The poll indicated that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that federal government officials may have chosen to ignore advance warnings of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, and 81 percent believed that it was “somewhat likely” or “very likely” that oil companies conspired to keep the price of gasoline high. Thirty-seven percent believed that flying saucers might be real and that the government was hiding the truth about them, while 42 percent suspected that government officials might have had prior knowledge that President John F. Kennedy would be assassinated in 1963.”
None of this is completely new. As University of Utah historian Robert Goldberg notes in an essay in the 2003 book, Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia, Americans struggling to survive in a new land early on saw themselves as being beset by enemies, both real and imagined. One of the first manifestations was the Salem witch trials of the 1690s, triggered by Massachusetts colonists’ belief that members of a coven had entered with Satan into a diabolical plot to drive out the Christian religion from the new land. In the late 1700s, the American Revolution was fueled in part by a belief that the British government was plotting to systematically enslave the colonists, some of whom harbored an even darker suspicion that King George III actually was the Antichrist predicted in the biblical book of Revelation in part because the numerical conversions of Greek and Hebrew translations of the phrase “royal supremacy in Great Britain” totaled 666.
As the nation grew, so did its suspicions. In the early 1800s, the Freemasons, who were rumored to have murdered an ex-member to conceal their nefarious doings, and the Roman Catholic Church, suspected of plotting to use Irish Catholic immigrant votes to take over the U.S. government, came under scrutiny, while by the century’s end, the Populist party was fingering Wall Street and big banks of engaging in “a vast conspiracy against mankind.” In the 1920s, industrialist Henry Ford decided that the Jews actually were culpable, and published articles and a book accusing them of everything from secretly backing communism to fixing baseball games. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, some Americans found it suspicious that U.S. aircraft carriers were safely at sea that day, and decided that President Roosevelt had allowed the attack to happen so he would have an excuse to enter World War II. In the 1950s, the John Birch Society and Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, among others, proclaimed that the U.S. government had been infiltrated by vast numbers of communist agents. Others argued that the fluoridation of drinking water, ostensibly to prevent tooth decay, actually was a Soviet plot to physically and/or mentally weaken the American public, so they would be unable to resist a future communist takeover.
American conspiracism grew even more explosively over the last half of the 20th Century. Perhaps the greatest single impetus was the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In their grief, many Americans found it difficult to believe that a single, disgruntled assassin was responsible, and the Warren Commission’s release of vast amounts of physical evidence and testimony, intended to calm suspicions, only fueled them. “The big mistake was publishing 26 volumes of evidence, which had a lot in it that didn’t substantiate the report,” Paul Hoch, publisher of the Echoes of Conspiracy newsletter, once explained. “Anyone could shell out $80 and get all the material and look at it.” JFK assasinologists pounced upon the inevitable inconsistencies and unexplained details, using them as raw material for myriad theories, ranging from the second gunman scenario to speculation that official culprit Lee Harvey Oswald was a U.S. secret agent—or a KGB double-agent. Others posited the involvement of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro or the Mafia.
Even a subsequent Congressional reopening of the JFK investigation in the 1970s didn’t stop the public fascination with conspiracies. Partly to blame, no doubt, were discomforting revelations of other actual, verifiable government cabals, such as Watergate and the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret attempts to develop a mind-control drug. A decade later, the Reagan Administration was caught selling weapons to Iran and using the profits to fund the overthrow of the Nicaraguan government, a scandal that arguably helped make even the craziest accusations seem not quite so implausible. By the 1990s, America had dueling choruses of conspiracy theorists at opposite ends of the political spectrum, with leftists accusing the CIA of having imported and sold crack cocaine, and rightists claiming that Clinton Administration aide Vince Foster—found dead in 1993 of what several official investigations concluded was a self-inflicted gunshot wound—had been murdered to cover up liberal wrongdoing. In the middle, still others warned that both political parties were complicit in a larger plot to impose a “New World Order” and unify the planet under a single international government.”
from Collation of Theosophical Glossaries: SWASTIKA
As differentiated from the swavastika (or sauvastika), which is similar but which has its legs take off from the ends of the cross to the right, left-handed (motion), implying counter-clockwise direction — counter to the currents of Nature — the swastika has legs which take off from the ends of the cross to the left, right-handed (motion), implying clockwise direction — and therefore ‘with’ the currents of Nature. The symbol which Hitler used for the Nazi party was actually a swavastika (or sauvastika).
from Theosophical Glossary: Svastika ( Sk. ). In popular notions, it is the Jaina cross, or the “four-footed” cross (croix cramponnee). In Masonic teachings, “the most ancient Order of the Brotherhood of the Mystic Cross” is said to have been founded by Fohi, 1,027 B.C., and introduced into China fifty-two years later, consisting of the three degrees. In Esoteric Philosophy, the most mystic and ancient diagram. It is “the originator of the fire by friction, and of the ‘Forty-nine Fires’.” Its symbol was stamped on Buddha’s heart, and therefore called the “Heart’s Seal”. It is laid on the breasts of departed Initiates after their death; and it is mentioned with the greatest respect in the Ramayana. Engraved on every rock, temple and prehistoric building of India , and whereverBuddhists have left their landmarks; it is also found in China , Tibet and Siam , and among the ancient Germanic nations as Thor’s Hammer. As described by Eitel in his Hand-Book of Chinese Buddhism: (1) it is “found among Bonpas and Buddhists”; (2) it is “one of the sixty-five figures of the Sripada”; (3) it is “the symbol of esoteric Buddhism”; (4) “the special mark of all deities worshipped by the Lotus School of China”. Finally, and in Occultism, it is as sacred to us as the Pythagorean Tetraktys, of which it is indeed the double symbol.
from Working Glossary: Svastika , any lucky or auspicious object; a sign shaped like a Greek cross, with the extremities of the four arms bent at right angles in the same direction.
from Sanskrit Keys to the Wisdom-Religion: Swastika A mystical cross with its arms bent at right angles suggesting a whirling motion; also, a symbol of good fortune and blessing. Swastika is a compound of su — a particle meaning ‘auspicious,’ ‘blessed,’ ‘virtuous,’ ‘beautiful,’ and ‘rightly’; and astika derived from the verb-root as — to be; hence ‘that which is blessed and excellent.’ The Swastika is a very archaic and sacred symbol which can be found in the religious relics of every ancient nation, for it depicts the whole story of the cosmos and man, their contrasting dual aspects, the four directions of space, the revolution of worlds, cyclic progression, and the union of spirit and matter at the heart of things. In H. P. Blavatsky’s words:
Within its mystical precincts lies the master-key which opens the door of every science, physical as well as spiritual. It symbolizes our human existence, for the circle of life circumscribes the four points of the cross, which represent in succession birth, life, death, and IMMORTALITY. — The Secret Doctrine , II, 556-7
from The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects: Gammadion , a short-armed swastika, taking its name from the fact that it is composed of four Greek gammas. It was one of the most widely distributed sacred signs…Gammadions appeared on coins…Christians copied it and used it liberally on tombs and catacombs. Like its relative the swastika, the gammadion probably presented the solstices and equinoxes, or the four directions, four elements, and four divine guardians of the world.
from The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects: Swastika , Named from the Sanskrit “so be it,” or “amen,” the swastika has been a religious emblem of worldwide occurrence since at least 10,000 B.C. It appeared on the oldest coinage in India , on images of Buddha in Japan , and on Greek and Roman figures of the Great Goddess. On artifacts dating from the thirteenth century B.C. onward, the swastika has been found in Asia Minor , Greece , China , Persia , Lybia, Scandinavia , Britain , and Iceland . It was still used as a magic sign in Europe up to the beginning of the twentieth century. A swastika with arms pointing clockwise was generally regarded as a solar emblem. A counterclockwise one (sauvastika) represented the moon, night, and the feminine principle. The swastika was much used in medieval church decoration and heraldry…It was adopted by Hitler’s Third Reich on the supposition that it was a “pure Aryan” sign. This was not true, although a variant eight-armed swastika had long represented German anti-Semitic secret societies like the Vehmgericht . A twelve-tailed German swastika appeared in magic books as a victory charm.
from Symbol Sourcebook: Swastika , the fact that an ignominious fanatic placed a Swastika on his battle flag is insufficient reason for ignoring this symbol’s historic significance. The Swastika has been whirring around since prehistory and used in widely separated cultures as a favorable symbol representing many things to many people: the supreme diety, infinity, the sun’s power, the four winds, well being, the succession of generations. Swastikas face clockwise or counterclockwise. in India the former relates to the masculine and signifies leading to the outer world; the latter represents the feminine and indicates leading to the inner mind of man. Time is bound to erase the association of the Swastika with the Nazi holocaust. Then one of the most distinctive of graphic symbols will be absolved of its latter-day stigma and its early meanings will again be known.
from The Secret Language of Symbols: Swastika , this widespread symbol is particularly revered by the Jains, the Buddhists and followers of Vishnu. It is essentially a cross spinning at its centre, with the angles at the end of each arm representing light streaming as the cross turns. Spinning clockwise, it symbolizes male energy; anticlockwise, female. In Jainism, the four arms represent the four levels of existence. The anticlockwise form has been debased into a symbol of black magic and negative energies.
from Signs, Symbols and Ornaments: Swastika was an ornamental sign known to the old Chinese, the Babylonians, and the Mayans in America .
from An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols: Swastika , one of the oldest and most complex of symbols, prehistoric and universal except for parts of Africa and Sumeria…The swastika did not occur in Egypt until a few centuries BC and not at all in Central Africa and Lower Mesopotamia, but it has been suggested that the four-faced gods were a swastika symbol, while Count Goblet D’Alviella suggested that the swastika and the crux ansata and the winged disk were basically the same symbol…[Its symbolism] has variously been suggested as the revolving sun; the radiate wheel of the noon sun; the sun chariot; the Pole and the revolution of the stars round it; the four cardinal points; the four quarters of the moon; the four winds and the four seasons; a whirlwind movement; the motion of revolving round the world; the Centre; creative force in motion; the generation of the cycles; the revolution of the wheel of life; the cross as the four quarters over which the solar power revolves converting it into a circle; the cross as the vertical and horizontal lines depicting the spirit and matter and the four grades of existence. It is also suggested that the swastika is a conventionalized human form of two arms and legs, or the union of the male and female principles; the dynamic and static; mobility and immobility; harmony and balance; the two complimentary phases of movement, centrifugal and centripetal, inbreathing and outbreathing, going out from and returning to the centre, beginning and end…In all circumstances it is the symbol of good luck; good augury; good wishes; blessings; longevity; fecundity; health and life. There are two forms of the swastika taken to symbolize the male and female, solar and lunar aspects; movement clockwise and anti-clockwise…The swastika appeared frequently as a symbol in the catacombs signifying Christ as the power of the world. In medieval times it was the gammadion, used to symbolize Christ as the cornerstone, also the four Evangelists, with Christ as the centre…Hindu: The origin of the word Swastika – ‘It is well.”…
from A Dictionary of Symbols: Swastika , Right-handedness is characteristic of all symbols of natural life…Similarly, the right side takes on an extra implication of birth and life, while the left side acquires an association with death. Another consequence, apparent in allegories and emblems, is that the right side corresponds to higher virtues…The swastika, being an intermediate sign between the cross and the wheel, is similarly regarded by some as a solar and by others as a polar sign. This sign is to be found in almost every ancient and primitive cult all the world over…The implications of the swastika are very wide, for it is a synthesis of two symbols of independent force: the (Greek) cross with four arms of equal length and the cross with four arms appearing to rotate in the same direction. The tetraskelion, or swastika with four arms at right angles, is also called the gammadion because it can be formed by joining up four gamma letters…There are in fact two swastikas: the right-handed Swastika and the left-handed Swavastika.
from The Seal of The Theosophical Society: Swastika , A Sanskrit word meaning “well-being,” “auspicious” — the perennial symbol of good fortune found in the cradle of ancient cultures of India, China, Japan, and the Americas, as well as Greece and Rome (including the early Christians). In Scandinavia it was Thor’s hammer and in India Vishnu’s discus and the Jaina cross. In Buddhism, it expresses the “wheel of the Law.” Symbol of evolution and perpetual motion, the swastika denotes the ever-churning “mill of the gods,” in whose center is the soul, while the bent arms suggest the ceaseless turning of the wheels of life throughout universal existence. When we look at photos of faraway spiral galaxies, we are wonderstruck to see that they clearly resemble swastikas in their vortical motion.
from The Men Behind Hitler, by Bernard Schreiber: The idea for the use of the swastika by the Nazis came from a dentist named Dr. Friedrich Krohn who was a member of the secret Germanen order. Krohn produced the design for the actual form in which the Nazis came to use the symbol, that is reversed, spinning in an anti-clockwise direction. As a solar symbol, the swastika is properly thought of as spinning, and the Buddhists have always believed the symbol attracted luck. The Sanskrit word “svastika” means good fortune and well being. According to Cabbalistic lore and occult theory, chaotic force can be evoked by reversing the symbol. And so the symbol appeared as the flag of Nazi Germany and the insignia of the Nazi party, an indication for those who had eyes to see, as to the occult nature of the Third Reich.
from Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 99: Swastika, an even cross, the arms of which are bent at right angles. Since all four bars point in the same direction (either clockwise or counterclockwise), the form creates an impression of perpetual rotation.
The origin of the swastika symbol is unknown. For thousands of years, it has been used as a symbol of the revolving sun, fire, infinity, or continuing re-creation, as well as a decorative motif in the Americas , China , Egypt , Greece , and Scandinavia . Swastikas have been found in the catacombs of Rome , on textiles of the Inca period, and on relics unearthed at the site of Troy . The swastika has also been important in Eastern religions: to Buddhists, it represents resignation; to Jains, it represents their seventh saint; and to Hindus, a swastika with arms bent to the left represents night, magic, and the destructive goddess Kali.
In the mid-20th century in Germany , a swastika with arms bent to the right became the symbol of the Nazi party (see National Socialism). Some members of the German Free Corps, who later formed the nucleus of the early Nazi Party, are believed to have brought the swastika to Germany from Finland and Estonia , where it had been an official and decorative emblem. In 1920 many troops wore the swastika on their helmets when they occupied Berlin in their abortive attempt to overthrow the German Republic .
From March 1933, a few weeks after the ascent of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany , the swastika flag flew side by side with the German national colors. From September 1935 until the downfall of the Nazi regime in 1945, the swastika flag was the official flag of the Third Reich and was prominently displayed. The swastika is still used as a symbol by supremacist and separatist hate groups. See also Cross.
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Crazy Demon Bitch says of symbolism:
What there was, moreover, of the eternal in the warlike religion of Wotan and Thor — and, before that in the immemorial Nordic religion of the Sky, the Earth, and “Son” of the one and the other, which Dr. Hermann Wirth studied — was to survive in Christian esotericism, and in esotericism as such. This has, parallel to the teaching of the Churches, continued throughout history to have its initiates, less and less numerous, undoubtedly, but always present, and sometimes very active. (One counts among them such immortal creators as the great Dürer and, later, Goethe, Wagner, and to a certain extent, Nietzsche.) And it is known that Frederic II, “the Great,” King of Prussia — the hero par excellence of the Führer — was Grand Master of the Old Prussian Lodges). The deep significance of the ancient Irminsul, Axis of the world, is not, at the bottom, different from that of the Cross, detached of all Christian mythology, i.e., of the story of the execution of Jesus considered as a fact in time. The point of the venerable Germanic symbol indeed aims at the Pole star, which appears as the “One” or supreme Principle; and its curved branches are supposed to support the circle of the Zodiac, symbol of the Cycle of manifestation, being driven around its motionless center. There are in certain very old churches of Germany today “crucifixions” in which the cross itself has the curved branches of the “pagan” Irminsul — the ensemble suggesting the fusion of the two religions in their most elevated and most universal symbolism. In addition — according to Professor von Moth, of Detmold — the Fleur de Lys, connected, as everyone knows, with the idea of royal or imperial power, is, in its form, a somewhat stylized Irminsul, or “Pillar of All,” having like it a polar and axial significance. Any legitimate power comes indeed from On-high. And the Swastika, also “essentially the sign of the Pole” thus of the “rotational movement which is achieved around a center of an immutable axis” and — the movement representing life — of “the vivifying role of the Principle in relation to the cosmic order” is connected thereby to the Irminsul and the cross (René Guénon, Fundamental Symbols of Sacred Science, 89, 90). [Image: Irminsul, sacred pillar ("world-tree") of the Saxons.]
What, therefore, was important, what was exalted, was all that had contributed, or could contribute, to reinforce the Germanic will to power — condition of the universal “rectification,” which only regenerated Germany could begin. It was, in addition, to keep alive the deposit of traditional truth, i.e., of more than human — cosmic — truth transmitted down through the ages. The expression of this heritage, the form in which it was presented, could certainly vary from one time to another thanks to the political fluctuations of the visible world, but at bottom remained one, and is explicated as well in the supreme beauty of the old Scandinavian sagas as in the music, eminently Christian in inspiration, of Johann-Sebastian Bach, and, this goes without saying, in the “complete artwork” [Gesamtkunstwerk] (musical and literary), also initiatory, of Richard Wagner.
This deposit, more invaluable than anything, came from mysterious Hyperborea, original homeland of the “transparent men,” sons of the “Intelligences of Beyond”; of the Hyperborea whose center — the “capital” — was Thule.
Human Intelligence – The Bell Curve
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Plucker, J. A. (Ed.). (2003). Human intelligence: Historical influences, current controversies, teaching resources. Retrieved [12/11/09], from http://www.indiana.edu/~intell
