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Electroculture is a method of applying atmospheric electricity to the fertilization of plant life, and has, during the past few years, developed to such an extent that it is to-day being practised in many of the countries of the world, viz.: France, England, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, etc. Its success has been...

World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936–1938. Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent “World Encyclopaedia” that could help world citizens make the best use of universal inf...

Wake not the Dead: —they bring but gloomy night And cheerless desolation into day; For in the grave who mouldering lay, No more can feel the influence of light, Or yield them to the sun’s prolific might; Let them repose within their house of clay— Corruption, vainly wilt thou e’er essay To quicken: —it sends...

The Last Lords of Gardonal. (1867). William Gilbert. Its author, William Gilbert (1804–1890) was an English writer and Royal Navy surgeon. He was also the father of W. S. Gilbert, a dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator. ONE of the most picturesque objects of the valley of the Engadin is the ruined castle of Gardonal, near...

The Vampyre. (1819) John William Polidori. This is the first published modern vampire story, it was written by John William Polidori (1795–1821), English writer and physician, although it was originally attributed to Lord Byron, later both Byron and Polidori affirmed that the story is Polidori’s. It was published in The New Monthly Magazine (a British...

We’ve all heard about the Monroe Institute and Out of Body Experiences…. Well this little report is fascinating look from a scientific perspective – or at least as scientific as you can probably get from 1983. How does the gateway program work? Out of Body Experiences and Astral Travel. Imagine how far the black project...

Publisher’s Summary Our Story of Atlantis – Written Down for the Hermetic Brotherhood. It is not necessary for an author in these later days always to be able to say he writes of his own knowledge. This has become a recognized fact. He may write from another’s experience, in whose honesty and reliability he has...

ARCHIMAGO, the wicked magician (whose other name you may remember was Hypocrisy,) who had worked such mischief to Una and the Red Cross Knight, was very angry when he found that in the end all his evil wiles were defeated, and that the Knight and the lady were happily betrothed. He would willingly have brought...

Britomart is a female knight, the embodiment and champion of Chastity. She is young and beautiful, and falls in love with Artegal upon first seeing his face in her father’s magic mirror. Though there is no interaction with him, she falls in love with him, and travels, dressed as a knight and accompanied by her...

The Wisdom of the Ancients, or rather, De Sapientia Veterum (for it was written in Latin), is a short treatise on the mythology of the ancients, by which Francis Bacon endeavors to discover and to show the physical, moral, and political meanings it concealed. If the listener is not convinced that the ancients understood by these fables all...

From Ritual to Romance is a 1920 book written by Jessie L. Weston. The work is notable for being mentioned by T. S. Eliot in the notes to his poem, The Waste Land: Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L....