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"Temple of Set Reading List:
Category 20 - The Four (?) Dimensions" (7/1/87CE)
Reprinted from: _The Crystal Tablet of Set_
(c) Temple of Set 1989 CE
Weirdbase file version by TS permission

by Michael A. Aquino, Ipsissimus VI* Temple of Set
Electronic mail: MCI-Mail 278-4041

The philosophy of measurement is a fascinating field. How can and should we
estimate, assign, and evaluate boundaries, categories, and phenomena both
within and without? "Freedom," said Winston Smith in _1984_, "is the freedom
to say that 2+2=4 ~ whereupon the magician O'Brien convinced him that 2+2=5.
The point is that only one who can define measurement is truly free; the
Masons illustrate this by defining "God" as the "great architect" or
"Geometer" of the Universe.

20A. _The World of Measurements_ by H. Arthur Klein. NY: Simon & Schuster,
1974. (TS-3) MA: "A 735-page 'encyclopaedia of measurements', so beautifully
written that it is as intriguing and entertaining as a good novel. But there
is technical material here too, so expect to do some hard thinking as you
read. Major sections on measurement philosophy, time, mass, light,
thermodynamics, radiation, electronics, pressures, densities, waves, fields,
and nuclear disintegrations - to name but a few. As Mr. Spock would say:
'Fascinating!'"

20B. _The Nature of Time_ by G.J. Whitrow. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston,
1972. (TS-3) MA: "This magnificent little book covers almost every possible
aspect of time - relative, absolute, linear, circular, and otherwise. Again
it is highly readable; one need not have a Ph.D. in Physics to understand
its arguments and explanations. 189 pages."

20C. _The Timetables of History_ by Bernard Grun. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1979
[periodically updated; look for most recent edition]. (TS-3) MA: "This giant
book consists of a single, continuous chart [by page] correlating mankind's
achievements in history/politics, literature/ theater, religion, philosophy
& learning, visual arts, music, science/technology/growth, and daily life
from 5000 BCE to the present. Superbly comprehensive and an invaluable aid
in understanding the conditions of civilization surrounding key stages in
human historical development. [For a fascinating tour of some key
interrelationships in human progress, you might enjoy James Burke's
_Connections_ (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1978), the book version of the
BBC television series of the same name. The title refers to the often
obscure and intricate processes by which some important modern technology
began several centuries ago as a number of scattered, seemingly unimportant
discoveries.]"

20D. _Man and Time_ by J.B. Priestley. NY: Crescent Books, 1964. (CS-3) AL:
"A beautifully done book which explains many sound theories of space and
time. Very usable information."

20E. _Body Time_ by Gay Gaer Luce. NY: Bantam Books #553-07455-150, 1971.
(TS-3) MA: "A most thorough and readable book explaining the time-cycles of
various features and functions of the human body. Virtually indispensable
for advanced operations of Lesser and Greater Black Magic, whose
effectiveness often hinges on the physical state of being of both the
magician and the subject. This book also contains an exhaustive bibliography
on each major topic treated."

20F. _Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite_ by
Rudy Rucker. NY: Bantam New Age Books #0-553-23433-1, 1982. (TS-4) MA: "From
the author's preface: 'This book discusses every kind of infinity: potential
and actual, mathematical & physical, theological & mundane.' It does exactly
that. Rucker is a Professor of Mathematics, so can deal with the very
heavyweight mathematical concepts and formulae involved in this subject.
Fortunately for the non-mathemagician, he also has the gift of explaining
[most] things in non-math-jargon. Even so, you're in for some very heavy
thinking if you tackle this book. It starts out fairly conversationally, but
before you know it you're floundering around in: temporal & spatial
infinities, Pythagoreanism, Cantorism, transfinite numbers (from Omega to
Epsilon-Zero & Alephs), infinitesimals & surreal numbers, G~del's
Incompleteness Theorem, robot consciousness, set theory, transfinite
cardinals, etc. Just to irritate you, each chapter concludes with a
selection of problems and paradoxes illustrating the aspects of infinity
covered therein. For example: 'If infinitely many planets exist, then every
possible planet would have to exist, including a planet exactly like Earth
except with unicorns. Is this necessarily true?' See what I mean?"

20G. _Other Worlds: Space, Superspace, and the Quantum Universe_ by Paul
Davies. NY: Simon & Schuster #0-671-42232-4, 1980. (TS-4) MA: "One of the
most lucid and [comparatively] non- technical explanations of quantum
mechanics. Davies discusses subatomic & superspace, mind/ matter, the nature
of reality, waves & particles, holes & tunnels in space, M~bius strip
phenomena, etc. Davies is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University
of Newcastle. The book makes two assumptions that I personally find
questionable: the 'Big Bang' and Einstein's theories of relativity.
Nevertheless there is a lot of analysis here that does not hinge on these
two sacred cows, and in any case it is virtually impossible to find an
otherwise-first-rate physics text that doesn't bow and scrape before them.
[Word has it that scientists of 1522, who knew the Earth is flat, assumed
that Magellan made it all the way around by crawling across the bottom.]"

20H. _The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility_ by William L. Moore
& Charles Berlitz. NY: Fawcett Crest Books, 1980. (TS-3) (OT-3) MA: "One day
in October 1943, so the story goes, the destroyer U.S.S. Eldridge vanished
into a green fog, appeared for a few seconds at Norfolk, Virginia, and then
reappeared at Philadelphia - the result of an 'experiment gone wrong' in
ship-invisibility by the U.S. Navy. The poor old Navy has spent forty years
denying that anything like the so-called 'Philadelphia Experiment' ever
happened, but unfortunately there is a growing accumulation of evidence that
something took place - perhaps not visual invisibility or dimensional
transportation, but something more along the line of an effort to mask the
radar/electronic 'footprint' of the vessel through the generation of
powerful magnetic fields. If, as #17F and #19I/J maintain, the human body
and mind are seriously affected by electromagnetic fields, intense damage
could have been done to those on board the Eldridge and indeed to anyone in
its vicinity. One would prefer to think that the Navy wouldn't cover up such
a mishap, but the monkey-business presently going on with Project Sanguine
[see Runes #III-3, review of #17F] makes one wonder. #20H is definitely not
a 'nut book', but rather a careful, logical recounting of the author's long
and often frustrating efforts to uncover the truth [or lack thereof] behind
what has become one of the more famous legends of _Outer Limits_-type
research. #20H is reviewed in _Runes_ #IV-2. [See also the fictionalized but
very well done film _The Philadelphia Experiment_  (Thorn EMI VHS cassette
#TVA-2547, 1984).]" T.E. Bearden [in #20K]: "Reversing or lowering the
electrogravitational charge is controlled by biasing the ground potential on
the ensemble pattern transmitters, which can even be on-board the vehicle
itself ~ You can float metal ~ You can even 'dematerialize' or 'teleport'
it. The Philadelphia Experiment may have ben real after all. If so, the test
ship and its personnel were 'blasted' into this strange realm ~"

20I. _Tesla: Man Out of Time_ by Margaret Cheney. Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1981. (TS-3) (OT-3) MA: "Few turn-of-the-century
scientists are more colorful, accomplished, and controversial than Nikola
Tesla, the inventor of radio, pioneer of alternating current, namesake of
the Tesla Coil, colleague of Einstein, and all-around "mad scientist" par
excellence. This lively biography, basis for a Tesla profile in _Runes_ #I-
2, not only tells his tale but also raises many questions [and proposes some
answers] about the nature of electromagnetic energy. Extensive notes and
recommendations for further reading & correspondence are included."

20J. _The Command to Look: A Formula for Picture Success_ by William
Mortensen. San Francisco: Camera Craft Publishing Co., 1945 [originally
published 1937]. (TS-3) (OT-3) MA: "Although ostensibly a manual for the
most enticing layout of photographic work, this small book was held by Anton
LaVey to be among the most crucial for an appreciation of the artistic and
audio/visual principles employed in the early Church of Satan and Order of
the Trapezoid. It prescribes three elements for the CTL: impact, subject
interest, and participation. It further suggests four types of visual
patterns which contribute to the CTL: the diagonal, the S-curve, triangular
combinations, and the dominant mass. In _Runes_ #IV-3/May XXI Magister
Stephen Flowers reviews CTL in detail. Its principles were invariably
utilized in Anton LaVey's own artwork [examples in #6M, #6N and _Satanis:
The Devil's Mass_].""

20K. _Fer-de-Lance: A Briefing on Soviet Scalar Electromagnetic Weapons_ by
Thomas E. Bearden. Ventura: Tesla Book Company, 1986. (TS-4) (OT-4) Bearden:
"Scalar electromagnetics is an extension of present electromagnetics (EM) to
include gravitation. That is, it is a unified electrogravitation, and, what
is more important, it is a unified engineering theory. Its basis was
initially discovered by Nikola Tesla. Western scientists are familiar only
with directed-energy weapons where fragments, masses, photons, or particles
travel through space and contact the target to deliver their effects.
However it is possible to focus the potential for the effects of a weapon
through spacetime itself, in a manner so that mass and energy do not 'travel
through space' from the transmitter to the target at all. Instead ripples
and patterns in the fabric of spacetime itself are manipulated to meet and
interfere in and at the local spacetime of some distant target." MA: "This
spiral-bound book can be ordered directly from the TBC. Write to them at
P.O. Box 1685, Ventura, CA 93002 for a current price list. Bearden is a
retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel with 29 years' experience in air-
defense systems. He holds a Master's degree in nuclear engineering, and is
presently a senior scientist with a major aerospace company."