Free Energy Pioneer- John Worrell Keely

by Theo Paijmans

  59. ibid. page 184.

  60. ibid. page 46.

  61. ibid. page 66.

  62. ibid. pages 66-67.

  63. Afra, 'John Worrell Keely,' Theosophia, 2e jaargang, mei 1893, no.13. the article also refers to Keely's anti-gravity research: '...that Keely researches the ether and one of these days hopes to make it useful for many means, for instance the lifting of heavy objects... '

  64. A. A. C. Bel infante, De Duwkracht. Beschouwingen van stoffen en hun bewegingen als gevolgen van botsende-of duwkracht. Verwerping der aantrekkingskracht, zwaartekracht en moleculaire krachten, enz. Westzaan, Van Dijk en Allan, 1905, page 183.

  65. The Dutch translation of Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 The Coming Race was titled De Mensch der toekomst, De Breuk & Smits, 1873.

  66. Various, Rudolf Steiner in Nederland, Pentagon, 1994, page 244.

  67. J.K. Rensburg, Wereldbouw, Van Loghum, Slaterus en Visser, 1923, page 36.

  68. ibid. page 36. There is some confusion as to the exact tide; while Rensburg lists its title as 'Es gibt keine Gravitation,' the Dutch translation lists the title as 'Die Gravitationslehre... ein Irrtum!' In: Th. Newest, De leer der zwaartekracht een dwaling! Hollandia-drukkerij, 1910. Both sources do not mention the year of the German publication.

  69. Unfortunately without giving any further bibliographical data, the booklets are, according to the Dutch translation: Isenkrahe, 'Ratsel der Schwerkraft,' and Sahulka 'Erklarung der Gravitation.' In: Th. Newest, De leer der zwaartekracht een dwaling!, Hollandia-drukkerij, 1910, page 3.

  70. Everett F. Bleiler, Science Fiction the Early Years, The Kent State University Press, 1990, page 300.

  71. Introduction by Sam Moskowits in Across The Zodiac, Hyperion Press, 1974, pages 4-5.

  72. ibid. pages 5-6.

  73. Everett F. Bleiler, Science Fiction the Early Years, The Kent State University Press, 1990, page 301: 'Obviously a child of Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race.'

  74. Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac, Trubner & Co., 1880, page 22.

  75. ibid.

  76. J.R. Zuberbauer, 'Philosophy of the Keely Drama,' The Sun, November 28, 1897.

  77. William Mill Buder, 'Keely and the Keely Motor,' The Home Magazine, 1898, page 114, 'Keely, Motor Man, Dead, Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 19, 1898: 'The principle upon which the new discovery was based was mat of intermolecular vibration of the ether, to which he gave the name Apergy,' same statement in: American Machinist, vol.21, no.47, November 24, 1898. Another reference appeared in: 'Personal,' New York Times, March 26, 1898: '.. .talk like that in which Keely indulges when discussing the force he calls apergy.'

  78. Megargee, 'Seen and Heard in Many Places,' The Times, March 21, 1898. The article refers to 'Two Hours With Keely,' Daily Ledger and Public Transcript, November 11, 1895, but in this article there is no reference to apergy.

  79. 'Will retain her Privileges,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 9, 1895. 'Mrs. Moore On The Keely Motor,' New York Times, December 9, 1895. Also in: "The Keely Motor,' Evening Bulletin, December 27, 1895.

  80. Other brief references appeared in 'An Expert On Keely's Motor,' New York Herald, January 19, 1896: '... the force which Mr. Keely produces - the reflex action of gravity, known to me Greeks as apergy and to the ancients as one of the triune currents of a polar flow of force, by which all the operations of the universe are regulated and controlled.' and '...when he proposed to have Tesla investigate the operation of apergy on a revolving wheel.' and in: 'Personal,' New York Times, March 26, 1898: '...talk like that in which Keely indulges when discussing the force he calls Apergy.' Gaston Burridge, 'The Baffling Keely Free Energy Machines,' Fate, vol.10, no.7, 1957, page 44.

  81. Letter by Clara Bloomfield-Moore, dated September 14, 1895. Copy obtained through Dale Pond.

  82. Charles Morris, 'Apergy: Power Without Cost,' New Scientific Review, no. 10, 1895.

  83. Letter by Clara Bloomfield-Moore, dated September 14, 1895. Copy obtained through Dale Pond.

  84. Sam Moskowitz, Across the Zodiac: A Major Turning Point in Science Fiction, foreword in: Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac, Hyperion Press, 1974, page 11.

  85. Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac, Trubner & Co. 1880, pages 30-31.

  86. Sam Moskowitz, Across the Zodiac: A Major Turning Point in Science Fiction, foreword in: Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac, Hyperion Press, 1974, page 10.

  87. For a literary analysis, see: Everett F. Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Early Years, The Kent State University Press, 1990, pages 300-301.

  88. Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac, Trubner & Co., 1880, pages 23-25.

  89. ibid. page 25.

  90. ibid. page 29.

  91. ibid. pages 29-30.

  92. Everett F. Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Early Years, The Kent State University Press, 1990, page 355.

  93. Chris Morgan, The Shape of Future's Past, Webb & Bower, 1980, page 116.

  94. ibid. page 158.

  95. Everett F. Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Early Years, The Kent State University Press, 1990, page 355.

  96. For a literary analysis and description of Hay's novel, see: ibid. pages 355-356, and Chris Morgan, The Shape of Future's Past, Webb & Bower, 1980, pages 116-118.

  97. Chris Morgan. 'The Shape Of Future's past, Webb & Bower, 1980, page 116.

  98. ibid. page 117.

  99. ibid. pages 158-159, page 117.

  100. Martin Gardner, Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery, Prometheus Books, 1995, page 163. Story also told in: Oahspe, A New Bible in the Word of Jehovah and the Angel Ambassadors, Oahspe Publishing Association, reprint, Ray Palmer, 1972, pages 907-910.

  101. ibid.

  102.ibid.

  103. ibid. page 164.

  104. John Ballou Newbrough: Oahspe, A New Bible in the Word of Jehovah and the Angel Ambassadors, Oahspe Publishing Association, 1882, Ray Palmer, 1970, page 583.

  105. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 365.

  106. John Ballou Newbrough: Oahspe, A New Bible in the Word of Jehovah and the Angel Ambassadors, Oahspe Publishing Association, 1882, Ray Palmer, 1970, page 587.

  107. ibid. page 586.

  108. ibid. page 584.

  109. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 155.

  110. Martin Gardner, Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery, Prometheus Books, 1995, page 166.

  111. ibid. page 163.

  112. ibid. page 175.

  113. Robert Cromie, A Plunge into Space, Frederick Warne & Co., 2nd edition, 1891, page 167.

  114. ibid. pages 15-16.

  115. Sam Moskowitz, Across the Zodiac: A Major Turning Point in Science Fiction, foreword in: Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac, Hyperion Press, 1974, page 11.

  116. Robert Cromie, A Plunge into Space, Frederick Warne & Co., 2nd edition, 1891, pages 41, 43.

  117. ibid. pages 12-13, 17.

  118. ibid. pages 49-50.

  119. ibid. pages 128-129.

  120. ibid. page 227.

  121. Derek Wilson, The Astors, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993, page 200.

  122. Sam Moskowitz, Across the Zodiac: A Major Turning Point in Science Fiction, foreword in: Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac, Hyperion Press, 1974, page 11.

  123. Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac, Trubner & Co. 1880, page 153.

  124. Robert Cromie, A Plunge into Space, Frederick Warne & Co., 2nd edition, 1891, page 156.

  125. John Jacob Astor, A Journey In Other Worlds Appleton, 1894, page 20.

  126. ibid. page 29.

  127. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, 'The Veil Withdrawn,' no date. Sympathetic Vibratory Physics Homepage, Internet.

  128. John Jacob Astor, A Journal in Other Worlds, Appleton, 1894, page 20.

  129. ibid. page 30.

  130. ibid.

  131. For a literary analysis and summary, see: Everett F. Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Early Years, The Kent State University P
ress, 1990, page 24.

  132. John Jacob Astor, A Journal in Other Worlds, Appleton, 1894, page 72.

  133. Robert Cromie, A Plunge Into Space, Frederick Warne & Co., 2nd edition, 1891, page 173.

  134. Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, 1996, pages 152-153.

  135. His name appears in the list of May, 1890. In; Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol.V, 1888-89, Trubner & Co., page 591.

  136. Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, 1996, page 153.

  137. Letter by Clara Bloomfield-Moore, dated September 14, 1895.

  138. Letter by J.R. Zuberbrauer, 'Philosophy of the Keely Drama,' The Sun, November 28, 1897.

  139. See: Joscelyn Godwin, Arktos the Polar Myth, Phanes Press, 1993, John Michell, At the Centre of the World, Thames and Hudson, 1994.

  140. The Unknown World, December 15, 1894, vol.1. No.5, page 237.

  141. Daniel Cohen, The Great Airship Mystery, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1981, page 129.

  142. Curtis C. Smith, editor, Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Writers, St. James Press, 1986, page 643.

  143. Illustration of the cover of this particular issue of 'Frank Reade Library' appeared in The Complete Book of Outer Space, edited by Jeffrey Logan, Maco Magazine Corporation, 1953, page 113, and stems from Sam Moskowitz' collection.

  144. Everett F. Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Early Years, The Kent State University Press, 1990, page 557.

  145. Daniel Cohen, The Great Airship Mystery, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1981, page 129.

  146. Everett F. Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Early Years, The Kent State University Press, 1990, page 665. Also: Curtis C. Smith, editor, Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Writers, St. James Press, 1986, page 645.

  147. Peter Haining, The Jules Verne Companion, Souvenir Press, 1978, pages 15, 90.

  148. Everett F. Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Early Years, The Kent State University Press, 1990, pages 630-631.

  149. ibid. page 823.

  150. William Kingsland, 'De Natuurkunde in de geheime leer,' Theosophische uitgeversmaatschappij, 1911, page 25.

  151. The name was the house name of the American Stratemeyer Syndicate and was used mainly in the two Tom Swift series, a series of juvenile hardcover scientific invention novels. Howard Garis wrote the first 35 of the series. The second series was begun by Mrs. Harriet Adams, the daughter of Edward Stratemeyer. In: Peter Nicholls, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Granada, 1979, pages 40, 244, 609.

  152. Everett F. Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Early Years, The Kent State University Press, 1990, page 15. Bleiler remarks on the name of the inventor, Tesledy, 'undoubtedly invokes the inventor Nikola Tesla.'

  153. H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, T.P.S., 1888, book I, part II, page 555.

  154. The Complete Index of Tom Swift Adventures, SF-lovers Archives, Rutgers University, no date. Tale not seen.

  155. Desmond Leslie and George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, Werner Laurie, 1953, pages 80, 102-108. Leslie also notes the similarity between Keely and Newbrough's Oahspe.

  156. Jerome Clark, The Emergence of a Phenomenon, the UFO Encyclopedia, vol.2, Omnigraphics, 1992, page 3. Since Cromie was also Northern-Irish, it is possible that both had access to me same source. Perhaps this was in the form of a bound volume of newspapers in a local library. Both could have read Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine.

  Chapter 9. The Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Occult Connection

  1. George M. Eberhart, A GeoBibliography of Anomalies, Greenwood Press, 1980, pages 781-786. Also mentions Keely.

  2. Margery Silver, Introduction to Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, University Books, 1962, page xiii.

  3. Arthur Edward Waite, The Brotherhood of the Rosicross, William Rider, 1924, pages 601610, Christopher Mcintosh, The Rosy Cross Unveiled, Aquarian Press, 1980, page 129, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience, Castle Books, 1991, pages 519-520, H. Spencer Lewis ed., Rosicrucian Manual, Rosicrucian Library vol.8. The Rosicrucian Press Ltd., 1918, 1955, pages 66, 128-129.

  4. Francois Gavel, De Geschiedenis der Vrijmetselarij en der geheimen genootschappen van vroegeren en later en tijd, Van Goor, 1843, page 73.

  5. This was 'Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred' by Louis Sebastian Mercier. In: Neil Barron, Anatomy ofWonder: Science Fiction, R.R. Bowker, 1976, page 26.

  6. The Fringes of Reason, Harmony Books, 1989, pages 11-12. Also James Webb, The Occult Underground, Open Court, 1974, page 117.

  7. About this Golden Dawn temple, either in Chicago or Philadelphia, see: Israel Regardie, My Rosicrucian Adventure, Aries Press, 1936, page 33, and R.A. Gilbert, 'The Golden Dawn Companion,' The Aquarian Press, 1986, page 40.

  8. Christopher Mcintosh, The Rosy Cross Unveiled, Aquarian Press, 1980, page 132, Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy, Rider, 1989, page 91.

  9. Joscelyn Godwin, Christian Chanel, John P. Deveney, The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Weiser, 1995, page 66.

  10. Arthur Edward Waite, The Brotherhood of the Rosicross, William Rider, 1924, page 613.

  11. Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft, Facts on File, 1989, page 200.

  12. ibid.

  13. Margery Silver, introduction to Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, University Books, 1962, pages xiii, xiv.

  14. ibid. page xiv.

  15. Charles Godfrey Leland, The Poetry and Mystery of Dreams, E.H. Butler & Co., 1856.

  16. Margery Silver, introduction to Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, University Books, 1962, page xi.

  17. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 49.

  18. Short mention in Richard Cavendish, A History Of Magic, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1977, page 138.

  19. Joscelyn Godwin, Christian Chanel, John P. Deveney, The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Weiser, 1995, page 40.

  20. Arthur Edward Waite, The Brotherhood of the Rosicross, William Rider, 1924, page 614615, Christopher Mcintosh, The Rosy Cross Unveiled, Aquarian Press, 1980, page 132.

  21. Jean-Pierre Bayard, La Spirituality des Rose-Croix: histoire, tradition et valeur initiatique, St.-Jean-de-Braye, 1990, Dutch translation, 1994 , pages 183-184.

  22. Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy, Rider, 1989, page 91. According to Howard, the order had a total of 773 members in 1980.

  23. Sylvia Cranston, The Extraordinary Life of Helena Blavatsky, Putnam, 1993, page 131.

  24. ibid. page 133.

  25. H.P. Blavatsky, A Modern Panarion, vol.1, T.P.S., 1895, pages 15-34.

  26. H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, J.W. Bouton, 1877, pages 125-127.

  27. H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, T.P.S., 1888, vol.1, pages 554-560.

  28. In: 'Lucifer,' no.20, April, 1889.

  29. Sylvia Cranston, The Extraordinary Life of Helena Blavatsky, Putnam, 1993, page 13.

  30. Patrick Curry, A Confusion of Prophets, Victorian and Edwardian Astrology, Collins & Brown, 1992, page 39.

  31. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism, The Aquarian Press, 1985, page 19.

  32. Joscelyn Godwin, Christian Chanel, John P. Deveney, The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Weiser, 1995, page 47.

  33. Adepts are instructed to read Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni and A Strange Story with the remark: 'Valuable for its facts and suggestions about Mysticism' and 'Valuable for its facts and suggestions about Magick.' In: The Equinox, vol.III, no.1, page 23.

  34. Jack Sullivan, The Encyclopedia of Horror and Science Fiction, Penguin Books, 1989,

  page 63, Lewis Spence, An Encyclopedia of Occultism, Routledge, 1920, page 256, Karl R. H. Frick, Licht Und Finsternis, Gnostisch-theosophische und Freimaurerisch-okkulte Geheimgesellshaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Wege in die Gegenwart, Teil II: Geschichte ihrer Lehren. Rituale und Organisationen, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt Graz,' 1978, page 351.

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p; 35. Thomas H. Burgoyne, The Light Of Egypt, vol.11, 1900, 1963, page 66.

  36. George Andrews, 'Blind Spots and Taboo Areas in UFO Research,' lecture held at the 32nd National UFO Conference, page 3. Also: Eugenia Macer-Story, 'Abduction and Fascination,' in: 'Magick Mirror, MUFON-NYC Newsletter,' Fall, 1995, pages 6-8.

  37. Karl R. H. Frick, Licht Und Finsternis, Gnostisch-theosophische und Freimaurerisch okkulte Geheimgesellshaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Wege in die Gegenwart, Teil II: Geschichte ihrer Lehren. Rituale und Organisationen, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt Graz,' 1978, page 351. Also: Ellic Howe, The Magicians of the Golden Dawn, Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1972, pages 31-32. Howe writes that 'no information about an alleged Rosicrucain lodge in Frankfurt is available,' however, the information on me identity of mis Frankfurt lodge stems from Frick's monumental standardwork, written six years after Howes study.

  38. Karl R. H. Frick, Licht Und Finsternis, Gnostisch-theosophische und Freimaurerisch-okkulte Geheimgesellshaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Wege in die Gegenwart, Teil II: Geschichte ihrer Lehren. Rituale und Organisationen, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt Graz,' 1978, pages 25-26.

  39. Peter Bahn, 'Im Zeichen des Rosenkreuzes,' New Scientific Times, no.2, 1996, page 31.

  40. Karl R. H. Frick, Licht Und Finsternis, Gnostisch-theosophische und Freimaurerisch okkulte Geheimgesellshaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Wege in die Gegenwart, Teil II Geschichte ihrer Lehren. Rituale und Organisationen, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt Graz, 1978, pages 351-352, about this order see: Karl H. Frick, Die Erleuchteten, Gnostisch-theosophische und alchemisch-rosenkreuzerische Geheimgesellschaften bis zum Ende des 18.Jahrhunderts - ein Beitrag zur Geistescheschichte der Neuzeit, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt Graz, 1973, pages 562-566.

  41. Ellic Howe, The Magicians of the Golden Dawn, Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1972, page 31.

  42. Confirmed in Comte De Gabalis by the Abbe N. de Montfaucon de Villars. Rendered out of French into English with a Commentary, published by me Brothers, 1913, page X, and Christopher Mcintosh, The Rosy Cross Unveiled, Aquarian Press, 1980, page 124. On me connection of Zanoni with me 17m century Rosicrucians, see also: Peter Bahn, Der Vril-Mythos, Omega verlag, 1997, pages 42-43.