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NEW MAGICKS FOR A NEW AGE

Appendices
Volume I: A New Order of the Ages
Book 4: Glossary of Terms

The following is incomplete and needs some revision, but, in conjunction with library sources such
as Wikipedia.com and books and articles on the subject, it can be useful for the student and practitioner
of the esoteric Arts and Sciences, especially astrology.

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Adjectives and qualifiers:

Cytherial: of or pertaining to Venus (same as “Venereal” or “Venerean,” but to moderns

sounds more, ahem, polite)
Jovial: of or pertaining to Jupiter as a psychospiritual influence
Jovian: of or pertaining to Jupiter as a physical Planetary entity
Terrestrial: of or pertaining to Terra, i.e., Mother Earth
Martial: of or pertaining to Mars
Martian: of or pertaining to Mars as a physical, Planetary entity

Aeon, Changes of (esoteric theory): The average length of an Aeon is 2,160 years, one-twelfth of the
period over which the precession of the Earth’s axis of rotation goes through one complete cycle. This is
because an Aeon corresponds to the length of time during which the Vernal Coleur – the celestial
longitude, as measured against the backdrop of the heavens, of the Sun’s position on the first moment of
Spring each year, when He crosses the celestial equator going North on His apparent yearly round of
Earthly skies – remains within one of the twelve Zodiacal Constellations. This, too, may have a
geophysiological basis. According to astronomers Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon,

. . . [Strictly] speaking, the period of the sunspot cycle is not 11 years; it varies
from eight to 15 years. Other periods are also present, for instance the 80- to 90-year
“Gleissberg Cycle” and a 200-year cycle. A period of roughly 2,200 years is suggested
by records of solar magnetism from the radiocarbon abundance in bristlecone-pine tree
rings that can be traced over several millenniums.

-- Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, “The Sun-Climate Connection,” in Sky &
Telescope Vol. 92 No. 6 (December 1996), p. 39

Obviously living things, e.g., bristlecone pines, react metabolically to changing strengths of the Sun’s
electromagnetic field. There is no reason to assume that the reaction might not also be exhibit as gross
behavior among non-sessile beings such as animals, including ourselves, on both individual and
collective levels. Therefore there is a possibility that the progression of the Aeons may be tied to the
cycles of waxing and waning strength of Sol’s electromagnetic field and His cycles brightness associated
with them.

Ages (astrological):

Albedo (astronomy, planetary science): See Planets, physical measures (astronomy)

Alchemy: Decomposition, recomposition (integration); mercury, salte, sulfur; the four Elements;
the Black Dragon of Putrefaction; etc.

Algebra, Boolean: A notation number system which, like our normal decimal or base-10 system,
employs representation of a given number by the vector sum of scalar multiples of exponential powers of
a given numerical base, of the following form:

n
∑ ai • xi = a0 • x0 + a1 • x1 + . . . + an • xn
i=0

= a 0 • 1 + a 1 • x1 + . . . a n • xn + = a + a 1 • x + . . . + a n • x n ,

where x is some base number, e.g., 10 (which we normally use), and the ai are members of a set of
scalars, in this case, the set of digits {0,1,. . .,9}.
But in Boolean algebra, x is equal to 2, and the ai can only take on the values {0,1}. So, as
represented in Boolean notation, a number is a string of 1’s and 0’s. This is now numbers – and, for that
matter, any other kind of information – are presented in a computer.
See entry under Polynomials.

Appulse (astronomy): The near approach of one orbital body to another during a conjunction, when
the declinations of the two are not close enough for them to form an occultation; the culmination at or
crossing of the meridian. Applied particularly to the appulse of the Moon to the Earth’s shadow. See
Eclipse.

Apsis, apsides (pl.) (astronomy): The points of greatest and least distance of a planet, moon, or
companion star revolving about a primary to the latter. Perihelia, aphelia of a member of the Solar
System; perigee, apogee

Ascendant (astrology): See entry under Cusp, cusps.

Aspects: The angles which, as viewed from the surface of one or another planet, moon, or other
celestial body, the celestial bodies in its environment appear to form with one another and the body on
whose surface the observer is located. In particular, the term refers to the geometric interrelationship of
the Earth and any two other celestial bodies, as observed from the Earth’s surface, as these relate to a
horoscope cast for the observer’s position, the date, and the time of the observation.
Suppose an astrological chart has been erected to answer a question (a horary chart); to predict the
outcomes of an event (an electional chart, for timing a ceremony, ritual, etc.); or to analyze the possible
ramifications of some unpredictable event, such as an earthquake, outbreak of war, etc. (an event chart).
The Significator or ruler of that chart, i.e., the Planet ruling the Sign on that chart’s Ascendant,
determines the answer to the question, consequences of the ceremony, or implications of the event
represented by that chart according to the aspects which it makes by progression to the Planets or other
sensitive points in the chart. If the Significator in a horary chart makes no applying aspects to anything
of significance in that chart before leaving its Sign (or, in some cases, taking its station and going
retrograde within that Sign), or isn’t within orb of application to any other body in the chart during that
time, then the Moon becomes the chart’s Significator.* Like transiting Saturn, the progressed Moon
moves through the sky at an average of about one degree per month. By Her progressed motion and the
major aspects She makes as long as She is still in the Sign of Her original placement in that chart, She
brings all things into manifestation.**

*In event charts, separating aspects can also be of significance.

**For horary charts, major aspects to other Planets, the Part of Fortune, and other applicable points in the
chart include the conjunction, sextile, square, trine, opposition, and parallels of declination. For
event charts, this list is expanded to include the quincunx or 150° aspect. The quincunx, sometimes
called the inconjunct (a term also used for semisextiles), isn’t considered to be a major aspect in
horary charts, but as a secondary influence it is considered to be of great importance, since its
appearance in a chart is often indicative of grave illness or a disaster such as an earthquake.
Quincunxes usually abound in event charts erected for disasters such as earthquakes and the outbreak
of war. The geometric supplement of the quincunx, the semisextile, an angle of 30°, may be of
significance with respect to the inception of conditions leading to injuries, disasters, ill-health, etc.
See the Glossary in the Appendices to Volume I of this work for complete definitions of types of
aspects as well as separating vs. applying aspects., etc.

Major aspects are those which have major astrological effects upon the celestial bodies and the
astrological chart under consideration. They include the conjunction (0°); sextile (60°); square (90°);
trine 120°); quincunx (also sometimes called inconjunct, an angle of 150°); opposition (180°), parallel
(same declination, or distance from the celestial equator, on the same side of it), contraparallel (same
declination, on opposite sides of the celestial equator), and occultation (conjunct and parallel each other
at the same time, so that the body nearer to the Earth eclipses the observer’s view of the farther one).
Minor aspects, whose effects tend to modify other things in the chart but aren’t themselves major
influences, include the semisextile (30°; sometimes also called an inconjunct), semisquare (45°), quintile
(72°), sesquisquare (135°), and others.

*For further discussion of these and other minor aspects, see Emma Belle Donath, Minor Aspects
Between Natal Planets (Tempe, AZ: The American Federation of Astrologers, 1982), passim.

The aspects of significance in a horary chart, one erected to answer a question, include the parallel,*
the conjunction, the sextile, the square, the trine, the opposition, and the occultation.

*The two bodies involved in a parallel may both be on the same side of the celestial equator, or on
opposite sides. In either case, in horary and event charts the aspect is considered to be a parallel, and
interpreted as such.
 A partile aspect is one that is exact.
Platic aspect:

If the ruler of the chart makes any major aspects by application to anything else of significance in the
chart, then, should it also make any of the following aspects to other Planets or sensitive points in the
chart, the answer or testimony of the chart is modified in kind. These aspects include the semisextile (see
footnote, above), semisquare (45°), and sesquisquare (135°). The semisextile indicates opportunities,
potentials that can be profitably exploited, and the semisquare and sesquisquare generally indicate
sources of irritations or even serious problems.
Conjunctions: Luna’s conjunctions with the Sun – Her New Moon phase – occur only when She is
between Earth and the Sun, on the straight line determined by the other two bodies. The conjunctions of
Venus and Mercury with the Sun are of two types: inferior conjunction, when they are between the Earth
and the Sun; and superior conjunction, when the Sun is between one of them and the Earth. All other
planetary conjunctions with the Sun – those of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto – take
place only when the Sun is between the Earth and one of Them. See Light, Increasing and Decreasing
in, on the geometry and astrology of those two types of conjunctions. Conjunctions and parallels signify
marriages of the influences of the two bodies involved in the aspect. Such a melding is normally benign
and desirable if the Planets or points involved are benign or neutral, such as those involving Luna
(neutral), Venus (benefic), Sol (usually benefic), or Jupiter (benefic), but generally malefic and harmful
when the Malefic Planets Mars, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune are involved.
The influence of conjunctions and parallels (including contraparallels) depends upon the Planets or
Lights (Sun and Moon) involved. A conjunction or parallel with the any of the Benefics (Venus, Jupiter,
the Moon’s North Node, the Part of Fortune, etc.) signifies favorable conditions, pleasant things, or
harmony. A conjunction with any of the Malefics (Mars, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune) signifies hardship,
obstacles, unfavorable conditions, and is an ill omen. And a conjunction with the Sun, Moon, Mercury,
or Pluto, the “neutral” bodies, has effects dependent on the chart as a whole. Finally, occultations are
always signs of ill-omen.
Sextiles and trines are “soft,” easy,” or “flowing” aspects. Usually their influence is benign,
signifying harmony, pleasure, ease, and favorable conditions. However, when the involve the application
of a Malefic or a neutral Planet to a Malefic, especially when trines to Neptune are involved, they can
signify inexorable, unmitigatable doom. Trines to Neptune are often found in the charts of long-term
addicts and alcoholics, the accident-prone, masochists, and people who are frequently victimized in
certain ways. Trines make it easy to get into a pattern or cycle which is then very hard to break out of.
An analogy is driving a swift, powerful car on an icy road – getting onto the ice is easy, but the hard part
is getting off again in one piece.
Squares, inconjuncts, oppositions, semisquares, and sesquisquares are “hard” aspects that frequently
indicate irritation, friction, hindrance, barriers, disasters, failures, and hope destroyed. But sometimes
they indicate barriers that act as shields, giving protection from evil. Squares and oppositions can
represent major obstacles to becoming addicted to some vicious drug, such as alcohol or cocaine, or may
act to protect someone from major injury or disaster by throwing up obstacles in the way of potential
causes of the latter. These “hard” aspects can act like sand thrown on an icy road, preventing disastrous
skids. As for oppositions, they can signify partnership instead of hostile confrontation. Their basic
meaning is that of face-to-face relationships. Such relationships are characteristic of everything from
outright war to sex, marriage, or a good business relationship. So the effect of an opposition depends on
the context in which it operates.
The quincunx is usually prominent in charts erected for real-world events such as earthquakes and
other disasters; it is also common in charts having to do with illness or injury.
Semisextiles indicate opportunities and possibilities, though without major aspects to key those in
and make them readily useful, they usually come to nothing. They add momentum to whatever else is in
the chart. They can thus be very helpful to the success of the question in that way.
Partile Exact. An exact aspect.
Major, minor (complete list from Donath)
Applying, separating; waxing, waning (see also Luna, phases of).
Superior and inferior conjunction (special case: Mercury and Venus). Inferior conjunctions of
Mercury and Venus with the Sun are interpreted as combust conditions, which are made doubly weak or
unfortunate because of Their retrograde motion at such times. On the other hand, Their superior
conjunctions, when Sol is on the line determined by Her position and that of Earth, between the two
Planets, are interpreted as fortunate conditions; They are in direct motion then, and Their influence is
very strong, the opposite of the case for Their combustion.
Full = superior conjunction = direct motion = most ritual power
New - inferior conjunction = retrograde motion = least ritual power
Inferior (new) vs. superior (full) conjunction and retrogrades, greatest elongation East (third quarter)
and West (first quarter)
Waxing -- moving from inferior to superior conjunction (not necessarily equivalent to growing in
brightness)
Waning -- moving from superior to inferior conjunction (not necessarily equivalent to lessening
brightness)
gibbous: about halfway between superior conjunction from Sol, when He is “full,” and greatest
elongation from Sol, at His first or third “quarter”
balsamic, crescent

Asteroids and planetoids: the Goddess Asteroids (Pallas, Ceres, Juno, Vesta), Chiron and the other
Centaurs, Earth-crossing, Apollo asteroids, the Kuyper Belt, trans-Neptunian bodies, etc.

Astrology: Elective, mundane, horary

Astronomical Unit, or AU: Formally speaking, the distance from the Sun to a massless object in an
unperturbed circular orbit that has an orbital period of 365.2568983 days, equal to 1.4959787066 x 1011
m or ~ 93 million miles. Commonly the AU is taken to be the average distance of the Earth from the
Sun, and is the unit of distance used by planetary astronomers.

BBB

Benefics (astrology): See Planets.

Brown dwarf (astronomy):

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Calendars: In the West, the Gregorian calendar was substituted for the Julian calendar in 1582, to
account for leap-years and other factors not accounted for by the latter. Great Britain, however, waited
until 1750 to adopt the Gregorian calendar, and put it into effect in 1752. At the same time, the
beginning of the legal year was changed from March 25 to January 1. At that time, in England as well as
her colonies in America and elsewhere, 11 days were dropped from the calendar, i.e., were added to
every date in the year, so that, e.g., January 1 became January 12, etc. Subtracting this number of days
for the calendrical ascriptions given by Crowley, the Golden Dawn, et al. for the Court Cards, which runs
from about the 10th or 11th of one month to around the same day on the next, changes them to about the 1 st
of one month to the 1st of the next – i.e., to a given calendrical month, in the usual sense of the term.
Thus the Knight of Wands would rule November; the Knight of Cups would rule February; the Knight
of Swords rules May; and the Knight of Disks rules August.
For more on calendars and calendrical changes, see The Book of Calendars, edited by Frank Parise
(New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1982).

Celestial Equator:

Centaurs, the (astronomy, astrology): Chiron, Pholus, other Centauroids

Co-rulers (astrology): Before the invention of the telescope, when only the Sun, Moon, and five
planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn – were known to exist by European and Near and
Middle Eastern cultures, every one of the twelve Signs of the Zodiac had only one ruler, and the five
planets each ruled two Signs (with the Sun ruling only Leo and the Moon ruling only Cancer).
 When European astronomers began to discover new planets, since none of the Signs was without a
ruler, in order to fit the new planets in, astrologically speaking, they had to share dominion over signs
already ruled by the traditional planets. Thus Uranus became the ruler of Aquarius, the traditional
dominion of Saturn; Neptune became Lord of Pisces, the traditional dominion of Jupiter; and Pluto
became the ruler of Scorpio, the traditional dominion of Mars.
Many astrologers believe that these Outer Planets have dignities in the other Signs ruled by the
planets with which they share dominion over given Signs, i.e., that Uranus also rules Capricorn,
traditionally ruled by Saturn; Neptune rules Sagittarius, traditionally ruled by Jupiter; and Pluto rules
Aries, traditionally ruled by Mars. In this system, Saturn and Uranus are thus said to co-rule Capricorn
and Aquarius; Jupiter and Neptune co-rule Sagittarius and Pisces; and Mars and Pluto co-rule Aries and
Scorpio. As an added refinement to the system, Saturn rules Capricorn by day and Aquarius by night, the
reverse being true for Uranus; Jupiter is the diurnal lord (see dignity (astrological)) of Sagittarius and
the nocturnal lord (see dignity (astrological)) of Pisces, the reverse being the case for Neptune; and
Mars is the diurnal lord of Aries and the nocturnal lord of Scorpio, the reverse of the case for Pluto.*

*In a variant of that system, Mars is the diurnal lord of Scorpio and the nocturnal lord of Aries, while
Pluto rules Aries by day and Scorpio by night. There is a rather nice symmetry to this variant,
assigning the diurnal dominion of Aquarius, Pisces, and Aries, and of Scorpio, Sagittarius, and
Capricorn respectively to Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and to Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, so that each set
of three planets are assigned consecutive dominions in the same order as their relative distances
outward from Sol.

More generally speaking, this system can be extended to include all the dignities, both diurnal and
nocturnal, such that each pair of planets co-ruling each-other’s rulerships are also exalted and have their
esoteric dignities in the same Signs. For example, Mars is exalted in Sagittarius by day and in Virgo by
night, falls in Gemini by day and Pisces by night, is esoteric Lord of Capricorn by day and of Leo by
night, and has His esoteric detriment in Cancer by day and Aquarius by night; while Pluto is diurnally
exalted in Virgo and nocturnally exalted in Sagittarius, has His diurnal fall in Pisces and His nocturnal
fall in Gemini, is diurnal esoteric lord of Leo and nocturnal esoteric lord of Capricorn, and has His
diurnal esoteric detriment in Aquarius and His nocturnal esoteric detriment in Cancer.*

*See Volume I, Appendix F and Volume I, Book 2, Part 3 of New Magicks for a New Age for the entire
system of the planetary dignities.

In this same system, the Sun and Moon become co-rulers of Cancer and Leo, and each has its other
dignities in the same signs the other does, e.g., Luna has Her diurnal exaltation and Sol His nocturnal
exaltation together in the sign Taurus, and Their corresponding fall by respectively day and night in
Scorpio (see previous footnote).
Finally, to date Venus, ruler of Taurus and Libra, and Mercury, ruler of Gemini and Virgo, have no
co-rulers. However, to fill out the system of the astrological dignities I have postulated two hypothetical
new planets, Persephone and Hera (see Planets (astrological)), assigning Persephone as co-ruler of
Mercury’s traditional dominion of Gemini and Virgo, and Hera as co-ruler of Venus’s dominion of
Taurus and Libra. It is just possible that appropriate candidates for those hypothetical worlds really exist
among the recently discovered trans-Neptunian bodies found in the Kuyper Belt beyond Pluto; or
among the family of asteroid/comets with highly irregular orbits lying between those of Jupiter and
Neptune, the type and first-discovered member of which is the planetoid Chiron (see Centaur
(astronomical)), or in some other part of the Solar System. That, however, still remains to be seen.

Combust (astrology): A planet or the Moon is combust when it is within 8° of the Sun. Such close
proximity to Sol has an effect on the influences of Luna and the planets very similar to that of Their
placement in the Via Combusta.
This may not apply to Mars and Pluto: some authorities find that the strength of these two planets is
markedly increased by close proximity to the Sun, as long as They and He are within the same Sign.
Since Mars rules fiery conditions of various kinds, while Pluto rules extreme, raw power, including the
thermonuclear reactions that power the Sun’s heart, this seems logical.
Also, in the cases of Venus and Mercury, this doesn’t apply when these two planets are in superior
conjunction with Sol (see Light, increasing and decreasing in).

Cusps, House and Sign (astrology): (a) The imaginary line which separates an astrological Sign from
an adjoining Sign, or a House from an adjoining one in a horoscope. (b) An indeterminate but finite,
small arc contiguous to the boundary-line between adjacent Signs or Houses, wherein there is uncertainty
as to a Planet’s or Light’s location at a particular moment, and thus ambiguity as to its influence in a
borderline relationship.
The most important cusps are the Angles (see Houses), the four cardinal points in a horoscope. The
most important of these is the Ascendant, the point at which the First House joins to the Twelfth House of
a horoscope, the point rising due East at the time and for the place for which that horoscope is erected;
and the Midheaven (sometimes abbreviated as “M.C.,” short for Medium Coeli), the point joining the
Ninth and Tenth Houses, which is due South. The other two Angles are the Seventh House cusp, the
point of joining of the Sixth and Seventh Houses, or Descendant, just setting at the moment for which the
chart is cast; and the Fourth House cusp, or due North point, the join of the Third and Fourth Houses. A
natal Planet is stronger when it is on a cusp than when it is in the first degree of a House; the angular
cusps are the sharpest in their effects on a planetary placement. Another term for the Ascendant is the
Oriens; the Fourth-House cusp is sometimes called the Imum Coeli (I.C.) or Nadir; the Descendant is
also referred to as the Occidens.
The Ascendant, Midheaven, Descendant, and Nadir are also called the East Horizon, the North
Vertical, the West Horizon, and the South Vertical. Aside from Sun and Moon, they are the most
powerful and important points in the horoscope. Any planets on the Angles, or within the Houses they
represent (the First, Fourth, Seventh, and Tenth), become immensely powerful for good or evil, according
to Their natures and aspects to other bodies and points in the chart.

DDD

Decanate:

Decrease, rituals of (Magick):

Dignity, dignities: Sign of a Planet’s strength. A Planet or Light is dignified in Signs over which it
has mundane or esoteric dominion, or in which it is exalted. The anti-dignities of a Planet or Light are
the Signs of its weakness, i.e., its mundane and esoteric detriments and its falls.

Divination, divinatory tools:

Dwad:

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Eccentricity, orbital: The variance of that orbit from the perfectly circular, expressed as so many
parts per 100, i.e., as a percentage.

Eclipses (astronomy, astrology): Lunar and planetary nodes, occultations of stars and planets by the
Moon and stars, lunar and solar eclipses, eclipses as seen from other planets. Penumbral, appulse.

Ecliptic:

Elective astrology: See Astrology.

Elements, chemical:

Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements

 Isotopes -- e.g., hydrogen, deuterium, tritium. Hydrogen has one neutron and one electron and
thus an atomic weight of a little over 1; deuterium is a form of hydrogen having one proton
and one neutron (atomic weight slightly more than that of a proton) and thus an atomic
weight of a little over 2; tritium, an isotope of hydrogen with two neutrons, has an atomic
weight of a little over 3.

The elements
Sub-atomic particles: neutron, electron, boson, meson, photon, anti-particles, quark, etc. The
proton is the unit of atomic number and thus the chemical identity and behavior of an
element (see Quantum Mechanics)
Atomic weight: calculated on average weights of the most relatively abundant isotopes of an
element, so that a proton, the unit of atomic number and thus of the chemical identity of an
element, has an atomic weight that is slightly more than 1
Atomic number (Z-number)

Elements, Pythagorean and Taoist:

Entropy: Elegance, order, disorder, uncertainty, certainty, (h + r) = 1, information, randomness

Eukaryote, prokaryote (biology, histology): A eukaryote is any organism, unicellular or

multicellular, whose cells have membrane-bound nuclei and organelles. As opposed to prokaryotes, also
called bacteria and monera, unicellular organisms which lack these.

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Formulas of calculation of various physical variables and mathematical entities:

Mathematics

e, ln
pi (π)
hyperfunctions -- sinh, cosh
integration, differential, log, ln
statistical formulae
trigonometric functions
Volumes of sphere, pyramid, etc.; areas of circle, triangle, etc.

Physical variables

Surface gravity
Density
Escape velocity (from surface of a planet)
Acceleration

Physical constants

Planck’s Constant
Avogadro’s Number
Solar Constant

Functions (mathematics): injective (one-to-one), surjective (onto), bijective (one-to-one and onto);
groups, rings, fields, algebras, permutations, other structures; maps: identity, inverse, other;
A map between sets – to be a function, such a map must be injective.

GGG

Great Circle:
HHH

Heliacal rising (of Stars) (astronomy, astrology):

Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram: A plot of the absolute magnitude of stars against their spectral class.
Equivalently, a plot of the luminosity of stars against their surface temperature.
In the early 1900s, Ejnar Hertzsprung in Denmark and Henry Norris Russell in the United States
independently began to consider how the brightness of stars might be related to their spectra. In 1911,
Hertzsprung plotted the apparent magnitudes of stars in several clusters against their spectral class. In
1913, Russell plotted the absolute magnitudes of stars in the solar neighborhood against their spectral
class. Both astronomers were quick to emphasize the non-random patterns they saw in the arrangement
of the data on these graphs. Such graphs have become extremely important in modern astronomy and are
today called Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams.
A Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, or H-R diagram, is any graph on which a parameter measuring
stellar brightness is plotted against a parameter related to a star’s surface temperature. For example, the
ordinate of the graph may be apparent magnitude, absolute magnitude, absolute bolometric magnitude, or
luminosity, the abscissa spectral class, color index, or surface temperature.
Consider the following two equivalent H-R diagrams, A and B:
A resembles Russell’s original graph. Each dot on it represents a star whose absolute magnitude and
spectral class have been determined from observations. Most of the data lie along a broad line called the
Main Sequence (cv.) that extends diagonally across the diagram. The Sun (absolute magnitude +5,
spectral type G2) is a typical main sequence star. A second prominent grouping of data points represents
very large, cool stars called red giants. In the lower left corner, a third grouping identifies compact, hot
stars called white dwarfs.
An H-R diagram can also be drawn by plotting the luminosity of stars against their surface
temperatures, as shown in diagram B. Notice that temperature increases toward the left. The spectral
classes OBAFGKIM constitute a temperature sequence and the first H-R diagrams were drawn with the
hot O stars on the left and the cool M stars on the right.
These H-R diagrams show that the total range in stellar brightness is 27 magnitudes, corresponding
to a factor of 1011 in luminosity, and the range in the surface temperature of stars is from 2,200º K to
50,000º K. The size of a star is related to both its luminosity and its surface temperature, as indicated by
the dashed lines. Most main sequence stars are roughly the same size as the sun. White dwarfs are about
the same size as the Earth, while red giants and supergiants can be as big as Earth’s orbit around the Sun.
The statistical distribution of data on an H-R diagram demonstrates that stars fainter than the Sun are
far more numerous than those brighter than the Sun. In a given volume in the solar neighborhood, about
90% of the stars are main sequence stars, about 10% are white dwarfs, and about 1% are red giants or
supergiants.
The existence of three main groupings on the H-R diagram means that a typical star passes through
three very different stages during its life. The temperature of a star changes as it evolves, enabling us to
plot the path followed by an evolving star on an H-R diagram.
The evolutionary tracks of contracting protostars show that they change rapidly as gravitational
contraction compresses and heats their cores. When a protostar’s central temperature reaches several
million degrees, hydrogen burning begins, and the evolutionary track stops at the main sequence.
Consequently, main sequence stars are comparatively young, and have hydrogen only recently ignited
burning at their cores.
Pre-main sequence evolutionary tracks deposit new-born stars along the main sequence in agreement
with the mass-luminosity relation (the more massive a star is, the brighter it is). Thus the main sequence
is a sequence in mass, as well as temperature and luminosity. These tracks also show that the more
massive a star is, the more rapidly it evolves.
 As a star consumes its store of hydrogen, it gradually brightens and cooler. When its supply of
hydrogen is exhausted, the star’s core contracts, its atmosphere expands, and it becomes a red giant.
Ageing stars spend their final years as bloated red giants.
Massive stars can end their lives with supernova explosions that leave behind neutron stars and black
holes. These are detected at non-visible wavelengths, so the H-R diagram has no relevance to the post-
red giant evolution of massive stars.
A star less massive than about three solar masses can eject as much as half its mass at the end of its
life, producing a planetary nebula, i.e., a halo of gas and dust surrounding the star in question. The
exposed, burnt-out core of the star then contracts to become a white dwarf. Detailed calculations of this
process produce evolutionary tracks that rapidly take low-mass stars from the red giant region in the
upper right of the H-R diagram to the white dwarf region in the lower left.
Stellar evolution calculations relate the H-R diagram to time, so that these graphs can provide
information about the ages of stars. Such age dating is especially applicable to star clusters.
A very young cluster, such as NGC2362, consists primarily of main sequence stars. However, the
more massive a star is, the more rapidly it consumes its core supply of hydrogen and becomes a red giant.
Since the main sequence is a progression in stellar mass, the stars are the upper end of the main sequence
are the first to leave. As the cluster ages, its main sequence “burns down like a candle” as stars of
progressively decreasing mass and luminosity become red giants. For example, M67 is an old cluster
because only those stars less massive and luminous than the Sun still remain on its main sequence.
Horizontal branch stars, stars aligned along horizontal branches jutting out from the right side of the
H-R diagram, are believed to be low-mass stars that have recently ignited helium in their cores via the
“helium flash.” In an asymptotic red giant, helium burning occurs in a thin shell surrounding the star’s
center.
Between the horizontal branch stars and the red giants is a gap. When the evolutionary track of a
low-mass star takes it across this region, the star pulsates as an RR Lyrae variable.** This gap is at the
lower end of the so-called instability strip, a vertical region in the middle of the H-R diagram where stars
are unstable against radical oscillations. When a massive star passes through this region, it pulsates, and
is called a Cepheid variable.

*A theoretically predicted event in the evolution of a lower-mass star. After the hydrogen in its core has
been exhausted and the star has become a red giant, the central temperature will rise to the point at
which helium fusion suddenly begins. It is unlikely that the explosion will reach the surface of such
a star. In a more massive star, helium fusion begins gradually because of different conditions in its
core.

**RR Lyrae variables are often called short-period Cepheids or cluster-type variables, which have
Cepheid-like variations in luminosity but with extremely short periods of a fraction of a day. These
rapidly pulsating stars have light curves that differ from the classical Cepheids. Most rise very
quickly to maximum brightness in only a tenth or less of their total period. Their minima are
comparatively prolonged, so that for a few hours their light remains constant. Their spectral types
range from A to F. They are giants; those in our galaxy belong to spherical clusters

Horary astrology:

Houses: Houses of Life, Substance, Memory/Emotion, Relation; Mode (Angular, Succeedent,

Cadent)
The Heavens -- Northern Signs -- Summer Signs -- Night Houses -- the Revealed -- realm of
humanity
The Hells -- Southern Signs -- Winter Signs -- Day Houses -- the Concealed -- realm of the Gods
Shemhamforash -- the 36 Just Men (Northern Houses) and their Wives )Southern Houses -- the
Babylonian system of the decanates, North and South

Hydrosphere: That portion of Gaia comprising all her water, including oceans, lakes, seas, rivers,
underground water, water vapor, etc.
 Hypernova: An exceptionally powerful supernova, possibly as the result of the collapse of an
extremely large young star. Explosions a hundred times more energetic than supernovae and the possible
source of powerful gamma ray bursts (GRB), making them the most energetic events known in the
Universe other than the Big Bang. Hypernovae were first proposed by Bohdan Paczynski of Princeton
University in 1998 as a way to explain GRBs, which were initially discovered by U.S. military Vela
satellites in the 1960s. With an explosion energy orders of magnitude greater than a canonical supernova,
hypernovae are likely related to the formation of black holes, possibly due to the collapse of massive
stars and/or their mergers with dense, or compact, objects. This scenario has become particularly
attractive because of the evidence that GRBs appear close to massive star-forming regions where such
activity is likely to occur. But astronomers still know little about the true nature of GRBs or hypernovae.
“I suspect GRBs may well be just a tip of an iceberg, as we have no clue why some explosions generate
so much gamma-ray emission,” Paczynski said. For example, the brightest GRB known, the recently
observed GRB 990123, represents more energy than any one star could produce, assuming the radiation
astronomers saw left its source in all directions. One explanation for all this energy is that the radiation
was actually confined into a beam during the explosion. This concentration of energy is known as the
beaming effect, which may significantly affect the energy estimate of a GRB. For example, the brightest
GRB known, the recently observed GRB 990123, represents more energy than any one star could
produce, assuming the radiation astronomers saw left its source in all directions. One explanation for all
this energy is that the radiation was actually confined into a beam during the explosion. This
concentration of energy is known as the beaming effect, which may significantly affect the energy
estimate of a GRB. “By studying remnants of GRBs or hypernovae in nearby galaxies, we can calculate
their explosion energies without the beaming effect,” Wang said. “We can also examine the environment
of the explosions to infer their true nature.” The environment of NGC5471B is a star-forming region.
The event that produced NGC5471B, Wang said, was therefore most likely the collapse of a massive star.
Indeed, M101 is one of a few nearby galaxies with vigorous ongoing star formation. This explains why
one single galaxy could contain two relatively rare hypernova remnants with ages less than about a
million years. Although a hypernova remnant may last tens of million years, it does not shine as
gloriously as the initial explosion. In fact, the two hypernova remnants cannot be seen in a typical visual
picture in optical light. But they are visible in X-ray and in emission lines from some specific atomic
transitions. “We have used a combination of tools to uncover these remnants,” said Wang, “just like
doing archaeology.” Wang's observations were based primarily on data from the German/US/UK joint
mission ROSAT X-ray satellite, while Chu's observations were from the Hubble Space Telescope and the
4-m telescope at Kitt Peak National Optical Astronomical Observatory. See, e.g., NASA Science News,
April 14, 1999 (http://exosci.com/adsystem.cgi?http://www.exosci.com/).

Hypersea: The sum total of plant, animal, protoctistan, and fungal life on land, plus any viral or
bacterial symbionts or parasites living in intimate association with the tissues of these organisms. It
doesn’t include the bacterial component of the terrestrial biota that was able to survive on land before the
first land plants appeared, and therefore doesn’t include the sort of bacterial communities that flourished
there before the invasion of their habitat by plants, animals and fungi, such as microbial mats and rock
varnish microbes.
Land biota has had to find ways to carry the sea within it and, in addition, to construct watery
conduits from point to point. To do so, this biota has evolved one entirely new kingdom of life of
tremendous importance: the fungi. Without the web of fungal hyphae in forest soils there would likely
be no trees. The anastomosing (merging) habits of fungi and their unique enzymatic capabilities enable
them to surround the surfaces of tiny particles of rock, extracting crucial nutrients, and then to probe or
infest the tissues of tree rootlets to deliver those nutrients to them in exchange for carbohydrates
manufactured by the partner tree. Land organisms have necessarily evolved together as part of a greater
interconnected mass of living cells. In moving out of marine waters, complex life has taken the sea
beyond the sea and folded it back inside itself to form Hypersea.
Land biota may then be regarded in a new way: as an interaction of cells that is far more than just an
aggregation of organisms that succeeded independently in finding ways to live on land rather than in the
sea. This concept of the Hypersea encourages us to view the mass of terrestrial organisms as a
geophysical phenomenon with unique properties of mass and velocity. Hypersea, more dispersed than,
say, the Alps, is far more geochemically important, for it has a far greater affect on the distribution and
movement of molecules on Earth’s surface. Plants and land animals thus belong to the same collective,
and ought to be considered parts of a unified whole. Cases of parasitism and disease are related by
Hypersea perspective to examples of mutualistic symbioses where the hosts and symbionts both benefit
by living together. Natural selection evokes interesting phenomena within organisms.
Hypersea is a biogeophysical entity composed of the bodies and fluids of all eukaryotic land
organisms and their symbionts. Second, Hypersea is a scientific theory. Either the symbiotic
interconnectedness of land organisms is the major factor responsible for the high diversity and vast
biomass of terrestrial biota, or something else is. Evaluation of this last constitutes the core of any
research program that the Hypersea theory might inspire. Third, Hypersea is a perspective or scientific
outlook on land biota that enables one to ask questions about it that one might not otherwise have thought
to ask. See Mark McMenamin and Dianna McMenamin, Hypersea: Life on Land (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1994).

III

Increase, rituals of (Magick):

KKK

Kuyper Disc

LLL

Light (astrology): The Sun, the only member of the solar system which gives off light produced by
itself; and the Moon, Whose apparent radius as seen with the naked eye from Earth is on average
identical to that of the Sun, so that She is thus larger than any of the Planets. These two bodies are also
frequently referred to as planets by astrologers, but generally only in reference to a collection of bodies in
the solar system that include either or both of Them but also one or more others.

MMM

Madness, synonyms for:

A couple of angstroms off cyan**

After his brain was assembled, they found a bucket of leftover parts*
At least three hues over the rainbow
Half a bubble off level**
Her lucky number is pi**
His lucky number is ex + i√2
His hat is short a couple of layers of aluminum foil**
His mind is a fifty-yard mile*
His orbit is subject to strong tidal effects**
If sanity was gunpowder, he’d fizzle*
Not playing with a full deck
Not the sharpest hypodermic in the alley**
Several comets short of a K-T event
Several dozen pixels shy of a full screen
Several million ants shy of a good picnic
Several screwdrivers shy of a toolbox
Several trillion googols shy of a googolplex
Sniffed a few too many tubes of glue
Stairs don’t go all the way to the top
When they put the hardware in his skull, they decided to let the chips fall where they may**

*Thanks to Rich Ransdell

**Thanks to John Burt

 Magnitude, absolute magnitude (astronomy): The magnitude of an astronomical body is its
brightness, measured on an inverse logarithmic scale. An apparent magnitude of 1 is exactly 100 times
brighter than magnitude 6, each magnitude being 2.512 (e1) times brighter than the next. Magnitudes
brighter than 0 are minus figures. Thus, e.g., Sirius’s magnitude is -1.4, and Sol’s is -26.8; the faintest
objects yet photographed are magnitude 26 and higher. The absolute magnitude (M) of a body is the
visual magnitude which it would have at a standard distance of 10 parsecs (32.6 light-years). If m =
apparent magnitude and r = distance in parsecs, M = m + 5 - 5 log r.

Malefic (astrology): See Planets.

Mundane astrology:

Mutual reception:

NNN

Native (astrology): The subject of a horoscope.

Nativity, natus (astrology): Natal chart.

Noachian (planetary science): This term is taken from the story of Noah and the Flood in the Old
Testament book of Genesis. Used scientifically, it refers to eras dating back to the establishment of a
planet’s first definitely solid crust, the impacting of that crust by meteor and cometary bombardment
from outer space, and the first traces of life on that world, if any. For a highly enjoyable fictional
exploration of this aspect of planetary evolution, see Kim Stanley Robinson’s trilogy Red Mars, Green
Mars, and Blue Mars, (New York: Bantam, respectively1993, 1994, 1995), in which the probable nature
of the Noachian era on Mars is mentioned and described.

Nodes (astrology, astronomy): See Eclipses.

OOO

Occam’s Razor (philosophy of science): A principle first formulated as such by the English
philosopher William of Ockham (c. 1235 - c. 1349; the spelling of name varies), frequently used in
analyzing scientific and practical problems. According to this principle, the best explanation of an event
is the one which is the simplest, using the fewest assumptions or hypotheses. It is often formulated as
“Do not multiply assumptions unnecessarily.”

Oört-Öpik Cloud: The Dutch astronomer Jan Oört hypothesized that there is a more or less spherical
“cloud” of comets orbiting the Sun at a distance of between 30,000 and 100,000 AU. If a comet in this
“cloud” is perturbed for any reason, perhaps by a passing star or even a remote planetary body, it may
move in toward the Sun. If it is then perturbed by a planet – usually Jupiter – it may be captured and put
into a short-period orbit. Alternatively it may be expelled from the Solar System altogether, or else
simply returns to the Oört Cloud, not to return to the inner Solar System for an immensely long span of
time. As yet, there is only rather sparse supporting evidence that such a cometary “cloud” exists in our
Solar System, but the theory does seem to fit the facts as we know them at present.
Indeed, as our Solar System bobs up and down through the plane of the galaxy on its long, long
revolution around the galactic center, from which it lies about 20,000 light-years out, it must from time to
time pass through the giant clouds of cold molecular gas that fill some areas of our galaxy, especially in
its outer arms, where our own Solar System lies. In addition, it must occasionally come near enough to
other stellar systems to perturb the bodies in the outer reaches of those systems, including any comets
they might harbor there. It is therefore likely that occasionally our Sun captures comets from other
stellar systems, or from swarms of them lying within cold molecular clouds, and that these comets would
then join the population of comets in the Sun’s Oört-Öpik Cloud. At such times, the capture of new
comets would likely involve the jostling of comets already in orbit around the Sun by the newcomers. As
a result, some older comets would either be kicked out of the Solar System entirely by such chance
encounters, while others would thereby be batted into the inner parts of the Solar System. Indeed, the
astronomers Victor Clube and William Napier, in their books The Cosmic Serpent (London: Faber and
Faber, 1982) and The Cosmic Winter (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), postulate cycles of greater and lesser
fluxes of comets into the inner Solar System due to the Sun’s capture of comets from beyond the Solar
System of 15 and 33 million years’ length, tying these to cycles of great extinctions on our planet going
back to the dawn of Earth’s life.
See Comets, Asteroids, Comet impacts, ain Soph.

Orbit (astronomy): Eccentricity, inclination

Other Side, The (Sitra Achra): The Hell Universe, Hell Dimension, Hell Plane of Being.

PPP

Panspermia theory: Originally proposed by Svante August Arrhenius, who held that life was
originally brought to Earth by way of a meteorite.

Paraävian: A non-terrestrial organism with animalian metabolism and tissues and general
conformation and functions like those of terrestrial birds.

Parameter: Definition

Perihelion (astronomical): Location in a planetary orbit of closest approach to the Sun.

Phases, Lunar (astrology, astronomy): Waxing Moon, waning Moon.

Phases, planetary (astronomy, astrology):

Phases of moons relative to their primaries (astronomy, astrology):

New, crescent, first quarter, balsamic, gibbous, full, dark Moon, werewolf Moon (see q.v.,
“Eclipse,” “Nodes”)
Waxing -- moving toward full from new, growing in brightness
Waning, moving from full to new, lessening in brightness
Gibbous -- about halfway between a quarter and full

Planetary year (astronomy):

Planetary (astrology):
Ages of Man:
Angels:
Colors:
Days (ruled by): See Volume I, Book 2 for Planetary rulers of the days and hours
Flavors:
Forms:
Jewels and precious stones:
Metals:
Motions:
Converse:
Direct:
Diurnal:
Hourly:
Rapt, raptus:
Re-direct:
Retrograde:
Slow of course:
 Stationary:
Stations, in retrograde (stationary retrograde, or SR, and stationary direct, or SD):
Swift in Motion:
Objects and substances:
Pathology:
Patterns: E.g., checks, plaids, etc.
Periods, or cycles:
Physiology:
Physiques:
Significators:
Horary interpretations:
Mundane interpretations:
Spirits:
Vegetation and herbs:
Vocations and avocations:
Planetary Years:

Planetary dignities (astrology): Disposition, mutual reception, mutual (reciprocal) disposition

Sign/House dignities -- hegemonies -- dominions -- strengths: mundane Lord, ruler, dominion,
hegemony, essential dignity; exaltation; esoteric Lord or ruler
Sign/House weaknesses -- debilities -- detriments: mundane detriment, fall, esoteric detriment
When a Planet is in a House ruled by a Sign in which that Planet is strong, the Planet is said to
be accidentally dignified to the same degree and in the same way as it would be if it were in
that Sign

Planetary pattern: A symmetrical arrangement of two or more planets or sensitive points around a
common axis (see Nicholas de Vore for the rest).

Planets (astrology): slow in motion, swift in motion; increasing, decreasing in light; Benefics,
Malefics; peregrine: retrograde; combust, under the Sun Beams, Cazimi (within 17’ of arc of the Sun);
Outer Planets; androgynous; barren and fruitful; cold and hot; diurnal and nocturnal; dry and moist;
electric and magnetic; masculine and feminine; morning and evening (matitutinal and nocturnal);
superior and inferior.
Superior:
Waning -- moving from opposition to conjunction
Waxing -- moving from conjunction to opposition
Combust
Full = opposition = Planet’s greatest (esoteric) power (in ritual) = retrograde motion
New = conjunction = Planet’s least (esoteric, ritual) power = direct motion
Inferior:
Waning -- moving from superior conjunction to inferior conjunction
Waxing -- moving from inferior conjunction to superior conjunction
Combust – inferior conjunction – New

Planets, inside orbit of observer, relative to Sun: See Planets (astrology).

Planets, physical measures (astronomy):

Ellipticity: ratio of polar to equatorial diameter of a planet
Albedo: Reflectivity of a surface, the percentage of visible light falling on it reflected away
rather than transmitted or absorbed by that surface. The percentage of light reflected back
to space from the surface of a Planet

Plate tectonics (planetary science):

Polynomials: See also Numbers, bases.

Precession (of axis of rotation of a planet) (astronomy):

 Progressions: Primary, secondary, others – see also list given in Halloran software, other sources. A
progression of a chart is a chart erected for a date that is as many days, months, or other time-unit (and
fractions thereof) after a given birth-date and time as the age in years (and fractions thereof) of the
subject of the original chart. There are several types of progressions, the two basic ones being the
primary and secondary.
In the primary progression, first the angular distance the Sun will have moved through the Signs in
that number of days after the original time and date is calculated; then that arc is added to (or subtracted
from) every point in the chart. In effect, a primary progression is a rotation backwards or forwards of the
chart relative to itself by an amount equal to the number of degrees the Sun will have moved along the
Ecliptic from His original position to the one on which He stood as many days (and fractions thereof)
after the original date & time as actual years (and fractions thereof) have elapsed since then. The aspects
which significant points in the progressed chart make to those in the original are then analyzed to see
what is likely to occur within the next 12 months after the time for which the progressed chart is erected.
In the secondary progression, for a given number of years (and fractions thereof) after the original
time and date of a given birth or event, a transit chart (what is going on in the sky at the time) for the
same number of days (and fractions thereof) after the time and date of the original chart is erected.
Aspects of points in it to those in the original are then analyzed to see what they portend for the future.
Planets and points in secondary progressions are not all the same arc-length from their original
positions, as they are in primary progressions. Both types of progression work, but a given astrologer
usually finds it easier to work with one technique than with the other.
Other useful types of progression include the Lunar progression, especially useful for working with
charts pertaining to women as well as meteorological (weather) and earthquake charts, the “4 minutes on
the Midheaven per year” technique of erecting a chart for a time equal to the original time and date plus
the number of years (and fractions) after it under consideration, times four minutes; and several others.
If you like, I can go into each of them, their pros and cons and various uses at length some other time, but
to save space now I’ll just say that there are three types of Lunar progression: in the first, for every year
after birth, a chart is calculated for that many calendrical months after the original time and date; in the
second, for ever year after the original time and date, a chart is calculated for that many synodical
months, based on the time it takes for the Moon to go from a given phase back to that phase (e.g., full-to-
full, new-to-new); in the third, the Lunar-sidereal month -- the time it takes for Luna, as seen from Earth
against the background of the Fixed Stars, to go once completely around the Zodiac and return to Her
starting point -- is used rather than the Synodical month, but otherwise the two techniques are identical.
Now, as to why Philadelphia: progressed charts are always erected for the same place as that of the
original ones. In this case, that of the U.S. natal chart, the place of our nation’s birth was Independence
Hall, Philadelphia, PA. So the place of any progressions of that chart is always Philadelphia, PA.

QQQ

Querent, quesited (horary astrology, Tarot, other forms of divination):

RRR

SSS

Scalar: In, on, or involving a scale or scales. In mathematics, designating or of a quantity that has
magnitude but no given direction in space, as volume, temperature, or mass. Noun: a scalar quantity:
distinguished from vector.

Scattered disk (astronomy): Collection of icy planetisimals in high-eccentricity orbits in the ecliptic
plane beyond Neptune. Objects in the scattered disk may be escapees from the Kuyper Belt and/or may
be scattered Uranus-Neptune planetisimals.

Semimajor axis (astronomy): One-half of the major axis of an elliptical orbit. The semimajor axis is
commonly thought of as the average distance between an object and the body about which it is in orbit.

Shemhamforash (Qaballah): See Signs.

 Sidereal month:

Sidereal year:

Sign, signs (astrology): See also Zodiac, Tropical.

General astrological/alchemical classification: Ascending vs. Descending; Barren/Sterile vs.
Fruitful/Fecund; Bestial vs. Human; Bicorporeal (Double-Bodied); Bitter (Aries, Leo,
Sagittarius) vs. Sweet (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius); Boreal (Northern); Broken vs. Whole or
Perfect; Perfect vs. Imperfect; Brutish; Changeable; Choleric; Cold vs. Hot;
Commanding (Northern); Common (Mutable); Conceptive (Fixed, Cherubic); Crooked;
Diurnal (positive) vs. Nocturnal (Negative); Dry vs. Moist; Dual, or Double-bodied
(Bicorporeal); Dumb (Mute) (the Water Signs); Effeminate – said of the sign Pisces);
Equinoctial (Aries & Libra) vs. Tropical (Cancer & Capricorn); Estival (Summer) vs.
Hiemal, Hyemal (Winter); Feminine (Negative); Feral (Bestial); Flexed (Mutable);
Fortunate (Positive); Four-Footed (Aries, Taurus, Leo, Sagittarius, Capricorn); Fruitful vs.
Barren; Hoarse (Mute) (Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces); Idle (Pisces); Long Ascension
(Ascension); Luxurious (Aries); Masculine (Positive); Melancholy (Earth Signs);
Moveable (Cardinal Signs); Negative (Earth and Water) vs. Positive (Fire and air);
Northern vs. Southern; Obeying, Obedient (The Southern Signs); Masculine vs. Feminine;
Ruminant (Aries, Taurus, Capricorn); Short Ascension; Speaking (Voice); Sympathetic
(Signs of the same polarity, consisting of each opposition Sign: Air and Fire, or Earth and
Water. Some confine the term to those Signs which together form either a trine or sextile.
Planets in trine are always in the same element; those in sextile, are in elements that are
sympathetic); Violent (those in which the Malefics are strong: Aries, Leo, Libra, Scorpio,
Capricorn, Aquarius, and possibly also Gemini and Virgo; also applied to parts of Signs in
which are any remarkably violent stars, such as Caput Algol in 26° Taurus); Vital (Fire
Signs, so termed not because they have more vitality, but because they spend it to excess,
hence are often prone to anemia and nervous debility. Since the measure of lung capacity in
actual use is the index to vital energy, one must limit this classification to a certain
psychological quality of vitality or “punch”); Voice (Gemini, Libra, the latter part of Virgo,
and the first part of Sagittarius, since, when any of these are on the Ascendant, with
Mercury or the Moon well-placed and unafflicted, this indicates someone with a strong
talent for speaking or oratory. Some authorities include Aquarius); Whole (Taurus,
Gemini, Leo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Aquarius, also termed Strong Signs, since the Sun in
these Signs, unafflicted or rising, gives a strong body and greater powers of endurance).
Element: Fire, Air, Water, Earth
Mode (Cardinal/Moveable, Fixed/Cherubic, Mutable/Common)
Cardinal Fire. Ascending, barren (this one is questionable), bestial, bitter, boreal (Northern;
also called commanding), choleric, diurnal, dry, equinoctial, fiery, four-footed, hot,
inspirational (spiritual or moral), intellectual, luxurious, movable (Cardinal), positive
(diurnal, fortunate, masculine), short ascension, ruminant, violent, vital.
Cardinal (Movable) Water (emotional, esthetic, psychic); boreal (Northern, commanding),
broken (imperfect, mutilated), descending, estival (maternal = Summer Signs), fruitful, long
ascension, moist, mute (dumb, hoarse), negative (cold, feminine, nocturnal, unfortunate),
phlegmatic, tropical, weak.
The Heavens – Northern Signs – Summer Signs – Night Houses – the Revealed – realm of
humanity
The Hells – Southern Signs – Winter Signs – Day Houses – the Concealed – realm of the Gods
Shemhamforash – the 36 Just Men (Northern Houses) and their Wives )Southern Houses – the
Babylonian system of the decanates, North and South

Soliton: A solitary, traveling wave pulse solution of nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE).
The nonlinearity will play a significant role. For most dispersive evolution equations these solitary waves
would scatter inelastically and lose ‘energy’ due to the radiation. Not so for the solitons: after a fully
nonlinear interaction, the solitary waves remerge, retaining their identities with same speed and shape. It
should have remarkable stability properties. Stability plays a important role in soliton physics. For a
more detailed description of a soliton, see article on same in Dragon Physics.
 Spacetime:

Specific gravity (physical chemistry): The ratio of the weight or mass of a given volume of a
substance to that of an equal volume of another substance (water, for liquids and solids ; air or hydrogen
for gases) used as a standard.

Stars (astronomy):
Main sequence: Sol-sized Stars begin small and cool and grow hotter and larger as they grow
older
Luminosity
Temperatures: core, surface
Proper motion
Magnitude
Precession

Stars, Fixed (astronomy, astrology: Spica, Algol, Arcturus, Aldebaran, Regulus, Fomalhaut, Sirius
(Thoth, the Star of Magick)

SubGenius, Church of the:

It has been claimed that the ultimate aim of the Church of the
SubGenius is to get people to think for themselves – or at the very
least, to pull the wool over their own eyes, themselves, rather than
relying on various sorts of con-artists (“politicians,” “clergy,”
“mystics,” “New Age gurus,” etc.) to do it for them. It has been said
of the Church that it is in fact trying, via all sorts of Nasrudinoid,
Crowleyan, Neumanish ploys sneakily disguised as “entertainment,”
“parties,” “jokes,” etc., to get people to not only ask for themselves
such questions as, “Since specialization came to be, and for ages long
served to bind people more closely together – HOWCUM it now
functions only to alienate them from one another and drive them far
apart spiritually?”, “HOWCUM the more we Progress, the Shittier
everything gets?”, “HOWCUM I pay more and more for less and
less”, and “Who the FUCK is RUNNING this show, anyway?!”, but
actually go out and get the answers for themselves, the real answers to
these questions . . . and then act on what they find out, on their own
initiative.
All life on Earth – including Homo sapiens – has been so badly
gene-damaged and brain-warped by everything from radioactive
fallout to dioxin and silver iodide in the watersheds from whence
cometh the runoff that we store and use as our drinking- and cooking-
water, to DDT, BHT, Red Dye No. 7, and various nitrates in what
passes in our “food,” to the atrocious television programming and
disinformation bombardment that daily batters our minds and
judgment from all sides and all media, that we are already living in
Post-Apocalyptic times, denizens of a brave New Earth (whether or
not with equally valiant New Heavens to match!), for whom the old-
time cultures, churches, politics, and so on simply won’t work any
more. We are all therefore sadly in need of brand-new institutions to
cope with this staggering astral-body-burden of Future Shock. It has
been claimed that to this end, J. R. “Bob” Dobbs, Head High Epopt
and founder of the Church of the SubGenius, has declared, “I want to
do for mutants what Disney did for kids.”2
In short, it has been claimed that the Lords of Chaos have opened
the gates on Infinity for this planet, to
 . . . a seething, noisome vortex of grinning Chaos that can reach
out with titanic, sizeless hands and twist the fabric of time and space
if so inclined . . . a hulking dread that literally inhabits each and every
one of us to some unguessable extent.

The Book of the SubGenius, First Edition, p. 38

If we and this poor, battered, gutted, sick world of ours are to

have any chance at all of survival into the centuries ahead, we’d
bloody well better do our ultimate best to GROW THE FUCK UP:
we who do the living and the dying had better take back the power of
life and death and the responsibility for our lives and souls and ACT
on it, use our minds and hearts and spirit for what they were MEANT
for instead of clinging to the gutters of spiritual poverty, complacently
retreating to the back-wards of life as self-willed imbeciles, happily
rotting away in the sewers of the soul and letting the treasures of our
hearts putrefy into psychic pus and then turn to dust and blow away
on the winds of Eternity! THIS, it has been claimed, is what the
Church of the SubGenius is all about: To give this planet a real
choice, instead of the same old echo that has been all it’s had for
millennia, so that, for those who truly Will to follow it out of the
gutter-mud of “civilized” despairing complacency, there is a real road
out to the stars.
Of course, that’s all a crock of shit.
It would be an offense to Reason, Right-Thinkingness, and the
Laws of Nature to believe that anything like that could exist! Why, it
would spell the End of Civilization as We Know It! No one would
want anything to do with it, however low and perverted and warped
he or she might otherwise be, anyway. No, friend, just disregard
those ugly rumors: they’re all just so much Pink flapdoodle, to
distract the Yetinsyny3 who might otherwise investigate the Church
and decide to join by turning them thoroughly OFF from the whole
idea BEFORE they ever take a look at it.
What, then, is the Church of the SubGenius? When, where, and
how did it originate? At whose instigation? Why was it formed, and
what are its purposes?
The Church of the SubGenius was founded by one J. R. “Bob”
Dobbs, who, up until the 1950s, was just a young nobody who made
his sparse, intermittent living as an odd-jobber and part-time
salesman. But in that strange era just after the opening of the
Atomick Age, but prior to the inception of the Spaced Age and the
Cybernetic Age, Dobbs suddenly found himself inflicted with an
Emaculation, a series of visions concerning the history and the future
of this planet and our own species. These visions were so awesome,
frightening, and urgent that he was impelled to found the Church of
the SubGenius in order to alert the world to what lay in wait, just
around the Apocalyptic corner, in the 1990s; and to gather together
those with eyes to hear and footglands to psmell, instruct them in the
wisdom imparted to him in his Emaculation, and thus do all that could
be done to save at least a small but deserving remnant from otherwise
certain extinction.
Throughout our planet’s history, he learned from these visions,
the destinies of Earth, and in particular of our own species have been
shaped and manipulated by extraterrestrial influences. The foremost
of these have been the mad machinations of an E.T.J.D. whom we
know as JHVH-1, who, having created our world as the result of a
bar-bet, has taken great amusement ever since in diddling his creation
in the most sinister ways possible. This “mad alien from some cor-
porate sin galaxy” is at one and the same time the Author of all our
destinies and the ultimate underlying Prime Mover of all the
conspiracies, evil conclaves, and sinister covens that have ever
existed, from the Old Man of the Mountain to the Trilaterals to the
Aldebaranian Snake-Men, the Deros, the UFO-AIDS-plague creators
and disseminators, and, worst of all, the American Cardboard Box
Manufacturer’s Association. And yet . . .
And yet, as the Bible of SubGenius, The Book of the SubGenius,
has to say:

. . . Oh, all that that right-wing stuff about the

Council on Foreign Relations is true enough. The
world is run by rich, old, white, ugly men . . . but
they’re just the plant supervisors of this Hell Factory
Earth . . ..

Ibid., p. 45

In short, the worst scenario you could possibly think of in your

wildest, Acid-spawned, paranoid-schizophrenic fever-dream fantasy
falls far, far short of the true horror of the reality. The UFO-kidnap
cases – the microwave/Bakelite traps from the fractal Cosmoid
dimension – the Venus fortune-cookies – these are the very least of it!
The Hollow Earth Nazis are merely the gofers, the email-room crew
for the real villains . . . who are the ones you don’t see, and never
will..
If you’re lucky.
The true owners of this world.
Oh, yes, friends, this world is on a downhill skid to Hell – and
Pink Boyz, the fat, dumb, and happy dupes, agents, and front-men of
the Conspiracy, have bought themselves first-class tickets on that little
old Down-Bound Train!
If we would be spared the horrors about to be visited upon an
unrepentant, smugly comfortable, Slackless world, we have to WAKE
UP!, absorb the message that Slack-Master Dobbs has tried so heart-
breakingly hard to get across to us all these years, and act NOW to
turn this world around and get it on a new heading, before doom falls
on us all.
And time’s-a-wastin’! On July 5, 1998, at 7 o’clock a.m. (that’s
Central Daylight Pink Time, folks, i.e., at the meridian of Dallas,
Texas, USA), still other space aliens, the Xists, will land on Earth, to
judge the Quick and the Dumb. When the crunch comes, will we be
ready by then to return with them to our true homes, our True Selves
– as Stars, among the Stars? . . . Or will we be stomped back into
primordial goo like so many cockroaches in the kitchen of a chef mad
for hygiene, ready to serve as the raw material for another start at it
all over again?!?
Only if J. R. “Bob” Dobbs has succeeded in his desperate,
Augean labors, and it is clear even to the alien tri-fold pnostrils of the
E. T. Xists that the world belongs to the SubGenii, and to the Muthuh
Church of SubGenius – one world, gathered lovingly into the folds of
the all-embracing fleece of one World Religion – will we be safe.
And, even then, our enemies, the Pinks, and the “Bobbies,” the
Pseudo-Subs, will be out in the cold – will never be allowed aboard
those great Golden Ships in the Sky at any price. No, only the true
elect, those saved in “Bob”, will be aboard the Xist saucers on that
terrifying, glorious Day of Days!
And the rest of Homo so-called sapiens?
 . . . Well, where does the candle-flame go when it’s – blown out?
But how will the Xists know? How will they separate the Pink-
fleeced psheep from the SubGoats?
By one simple criterion: Slack.
What is Slack?
Slack is . . .
. . . never having to say you’re sorry. – Or even secretly think it.
Slack is the Golden Fleece, the Pot of Gold at the end of the
Rainbow, the Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the Ultimate Orgasm,
winning the Irish Sweepstakes, the Ultimate Cancer cure, the stingless
honey-bee, a 100% successful cure for AIDS, a 101% successful cure
for horniness, seeing your worst enemy go roaring off a cliff – in your
second-worst enemy’s brand-new Porsche, finding somebody to
scratch your back exactly where it itches, five more minutes in bed,
finding nobody is in the john when you have to pee in the worst way –
in short, what you’d sell your soul to get . . . without having to sell
your soul to get it. All true SubGenii are dedicated to Life, Liberty,
and the Eternal Pursuit of Slack. Slack is to the Muthuh Church what
Grace is to Christianity, Nirvana is to Buddhism, Submission to the
Will of Allah is to Islam, Thelema is to Crowleyanity, and Agape is to
Thelema – the ultimate goal and crown of existence.
This attitude cannot be faked. SubGenii, descendants of the
noble Yeti (however bastardized by the genetic taint of Homo sap
they may be) seek Slack by instinct.
Pinks, on the other hand, believe in work.
Selling (out) their libidos to the Conspiracy in exchange for the
Nice, the Pleasing, the Comfy, Normalcy, Pinks labor for their False
God, Calvin the Mammonite, with a good will, a hey nonny-nonny,
and a happy heart, knowing, like the good little ants they are, that
come winter-time they will be on the warm, cozy inside looking out –
at all us poor, freezing, starving grasshoppers.
. . . Never noticing, or caring, that somehow it’s always they, not
us, who seem to get the majority of heart-attacks, cancers, perforated
ulcers, children who hate them, permanent nervous breakdowns,
suicidal depressions, and Screaming Indigo Mid-Life Horrors. After
all, it has been they, not us, who’ve been able to buy all those keen
Yuppie toys, from a houseful of slaves and seventy on-call courtesans
of all sexes ‘way back there in Nineveh, Tyre, and Babylon, to a
stableful of racing-chariots and race-horses and the jockeys to go with
them in Old Imperial Rome, to fine Swiss watches and a brace of
pistols with silver-chased grips in 17th and 18th Century Europe and
America, to their very own desk-top computer systems, swimming-
pools, and boxed sets of custom-made vibrators of every shape and
style, today. Hasn’t the world always been their oyster, not ours?
Yes – but not for very damned much longer.
For in just a few more short, fleeting years, the Xists will land,
and then – and THEN . . . then all those pretty toys and constipated
attitudes and Normal life-styles won’t be worth a red-hot revolving
fart in a hurricane: only Slack – and those who cherish it – will
survive the Millennial Maelström that will be visited on this poor
suffering world on that day, that great day, that GLORIOUS DAY –
(*)! (Kaff . . . Somebody, please pour me a glass of water from that
pitcher over there, would you? – Thanks . . .) Anyway, only SubGenii
will MAKE it on that day when “Bob” gathers his faithful to his
capacious, voracious bosom and, with them, takes off for the stars!
Until then, what can we do?
First, understand and ACT on the Four Divine Rules of
SubGenius:
 The first Rule is: “Too Much Is Always Better Than Not
Enough.”
The second Rule is: “If you can’t tell shit from tunafish, DON’T
order seafood in a French restaurant.”
The third Rule is: “Anyone you see driving a Porsche DOESN’T
DESERVE IT.”
And last, but certainly not least: “If you don’t have a sense of
humor, DON’T TRY TO BE FUNNY!!!”
Second, take to heart that Golden Maxim of the “Bob”: “FUCK
‘EM if they can’t take a joke!”
And third, understand that while the ways of the world may be
Pink, even so, the money of the Conspiracy is green. This
understanding leadeth to the Way of True Slack.
And what about all those claims, those allegations about the true
nature, aims, and policies of the Church of the SubGenius? Those
irresponsible rumors and rumblings of revolutionary revelations
quoted at the beginning of this article?
Why, don’t you believe a word of it! How could it be?
For don’t you see . . . if people really thought for themselves,
rather than merely deciding which bit of cultural junk soul-food to trot
out from moment to moment on their mental Lazy Susans – why, the
next thing you know, we’d have real freedom! And how could
anyone ever stand that hellacious burden?!
. . . You will pay to know what you really think!
– Or kill me.
1
Rather, the interested reader can, for a mere $30 of their hard-
earned, blood-stained, sweat-soaked Slack, send away to the
SubGenius Foundation in Dallas, Texas, USA, the Silver Lone Star
Capital of the Inner Order of the New Aeon of Odin,** for a full,
lifetime. membership in the Church of the SubGenius. Or, for just
$15† (again, the same numismatic considerations apply), he or she
can obtain from the same address a copy of The Book of the
SubGenius, which goes into all of this in full, bullshattering detail,
leaving the reader totally confused.

*American currency or international postal money-orders only, please!

Those outside the United States should add something extra for
postage, if possible. Postal money-orders, Traveler’s Checks, checks
drawn on banks in the United States are preferable to notes and coins,
which often become lost in the mail, but these are nice, too . . .
assuming they escape the greasy clutches of the Mailgate Daemons
and arrive safely.

**See the glossary at the end of this paper for the full address of the
SubGenius Foundation.

†Until next year’s dues come due and prices go up, that is.
– Don’t kvetch over the price! With inflation, in just a few more
years it’ll go up to $23 – not to mention the $93 which authentic High
Church Initiation is gonna ding those frantic, desperate, wannabe
Saved-in-”Bob” by June 1998, just before the Xist Muthuh Ship lands
in Dallas!

2
I am indebted for this bit of Dobbsiana to Reverend Doktor Ivan
Stang, Sacred Scribe of the Muthuh Church, who had the wit to record
 this some time ago. Otherwise, after the untimely, stunning
martyrdom of “Bob” in early 1984, this and much else of the
Master’s sayings would have been lost to us forever, for which the
whole world would have been much poorer.
3
See the glossary, below.

Glossary
“Bob”: J. R. “Bob” Dobbs. Born October 29, 1929 (possibly in Los An-
geles, California, USA, about dawn; records are uncertain); died
January 21, 1984, at 11:30 p.m., in San Francisco, California, victim
of the bullets from the gun of an Unknown Assassin. While a young
itinerant salesman and television repairman eking out a bare living in
the 1950s, this American Boddhisvata experienced a series of Visions
or Emaculation by which was revealed to him the Ultimate Truth
Behind Everything, plus a good recipe for tuna casserole. Impelled by
the urgent power of these visions, he founded the Church of the
SubGenius, to prepare humanity for the hell about to descend on the
world during the closing years of the 20th century, and give our poor,
battered little planet a chance in the coming End Times lurking just
around Time’s cruel corner to wreak havoc upon it – and us.

Bobbies: The fake SubGenii. Those who think that the Path to Slack is
paved with ejaculation of SubGenius slogans, weird behavior, Sub-
trendy clothing, and so on. Those who espouse SubGenius orthodoxy,
who do not understand that those who would truly cherish “Bob” must
kill him. – As many times, as messily, and as soul-satisfyingly
thoroughly as possible, until even the remotest tinge of Pinkness,
taken by “Bob” onto his broad shoulders as he descends into
SubGenial Avernus (only to cum again on the third day) is thereby
completely purged from the Psoul.

The Book of the SubGenius: See the bibliography, infra, for publication
data as well as information concerning price and ordering.

The Con: See “The Conspiracy,” infra.

The Conspiracy: The true rulers of this world. The Occultati. Them.
Those behind everything – even the American Cardboard Box Manu-
facturers Association. Those who serve the Elder Gods (the ones to
whom Charles Hoy Fort referred when he said, “We are owned.” See
The Book of the SubGenius, pp. 43-47.

Couch-Do: The Way of the Potato. The New Age Schism of SubGenius.
(Like, the Upper Lower Devonian. Mit terres de pomme, yet.) The
Zen of Head-launching: “First there is a scheduled program, / Then
there is no scheduled program, / Then there is . . .” A sect that
consumes only pretzels, beer, and TV dinners . . . except for the
Exerciser Heresy, which demands of the Faithful that occasionally
they get up, go into the kitchen, make some hot, fresh, buttered pop-
corn, and bring it back to the Viewing Room to consume as a
sacrament during Beevis & Butthead.

Footgland: The SubGenius foot doubles as a gland. It “intuits” the world

around us so subtly that we rarely notice its functioning. According to
Dr. Philo Drummond,
 . . . When Man stands on his brain and thinks with his feet, THEN
HE’LL KNOW EXACTLY WHICH WAY TO GO and how to FIND
“BOB”.

It is activated by walking. Better than a brain, because it doesn’t talk to it-

self all the time.

’frop: Short for HABAFROPZIPULOPS. An herb grown high in the

Himalayas by Yeti High Priests of JHVH-1 and their Sherpa slaves.
From this Heavenly Herb is made Nectar, Ambrosia, ordinary food
and fine cordials, smoke and PILS, all used freely and copiously by
SubGenii at all times. Produces superhuman clarity of insight,
sensory hyperanaesthesia, total loss of judgment identical with the
most profound wisdom, placid ecstasy, bless‚d repose, and a pretty
good buzz, as well. The only shortcut to the realization of the Dobbs
state. Safe, beneficial, and necessary to the SubGenius’s bodily
health. Promotes – nay, makes possible – the biological transmutation
from Yetinsyny to Übermanhood. (See The Book of the SubGenius,
Second Edition, p. 54.)

High Holidays: There are as many of these per year per SubGenius as
he/she has Ünbirthdays in that year, plus one to grow on. You do
anything on a given High Holiday that increases your Slack as much
as possible. What makes them High Holidays is the ritual partaking
by the Faithful of ’frop, the “Sacramental Herb of SubGenius,” the
“closest thing to the untainted essence of ODIN on Earth.”
On High Holidays, especially July 5, the pre-anniversary of the
Xist landing, and Dobbsmas, October 29, the SubGenius Wor Flag,
representing the ultimate triumph of the Will of Odin over the
Conspiracy, must be flown (preferably upside-down, to show the all-
permeating of influence of ’frop on all things SubGenial). This
rectangular flag has a snowy-white background, to symbolize the pur-
ity of dedication to the pursuit of life, liberty, and Slack of Dobbs’
spiritual children, on which are two horizontal scarlet stripes, one near
the top, one near the bottom; between these two stripes, centered in
the rectangle, is a Unicursal hexagram with a pentagram at its center,
surrounded by a circlet of chain with many of its links broken open
explosively, the whole of the circlet rippled and otherwise disturbed
as if by perturbed by the shockwave of some violent nearby explosion,
all – hexagram, pentagram, and chain – done in the same explosive
scarlet as the stripes. The scarlet symbolizes the blood of Dobbs, shed
for us when he was gunned down by Unknown Assassin # 1 during
Night of Slack in January 1984, or maybe the usual color of the ink in
the account-books of the SubGenius foundation. The hexagram
symbolizes the unity of SubGeniusdom; the pentagram at its center
represents either the Will of Odin or something Stang’s car ran over
the other night after he was coming home from a talk given to the
Dallas DSR*’s Friday Night Sewing-Circle and Fornication
Committee Meeting on SubGenius Morals and Ethics (about two
minutes long; then they adjourned for beer & brownies). The
shattered chain represents the destruction of all things Normal and
Pink , and the end of the Conspiracy, through the efforts of “Bob” and
his followers, with a final wrap by the Xists on July 5, 1998.

*Daughters of the SubGenius Revolution.

IRS: The Church of the SubGenius does not enjoy tax-exempt status. We
pay our dues, just like everybody else! (Not for want of trying, of
course – it’s that alas, the Conspiracy proved to be just too big for us
on this one!)

JHVH-1: A “mad alien from some corporate sin galaxy,” NOT GOD.
AKA Yah-Weh, Odin, Pan, Bog, Rag, Iah, AFFA, Mammon, Shiva,
Wotan, Adonai Moloch, Abulldad, Ad-Llubad, Shamash, Demiurgus,
Iadabaoth, Old Nobodaddy, Crom, etc. The creator of this world and
all in it, including both Humanity and Yetianity. A cosmic nut.
Warning: is armed and may be very dangerous. In the past has used
Deluges, rains of frogs, plagues of locusts, falls of fire and brimstone,
banishing to an Inferno, etc. to make points and eliminate the opposi-
tion. If you see him, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ARREST HIM!!!
Instead, report it to your nearest Xist Interfuzz Headquarters by
calling 1-8888-888-705-1998.

Last Church of Nhee-Ghee: See also entry under “Nhee-Ghee,” below.

The Way of the Left-Hand Path of SubGenius. Teaches that the Path
to Slack lies straight through the Conspiracy – using a late-model
road-grader and a couple of cases of TNT!! (Or maybe a couple of
cases of ’frop, dumped into the central reservoir of the biggest urban
bastion of Pinquitude around? – But seriously, folks . . . primo ’frop is
too hard to come by to waste it so criminally!!) Current head of the
Church is the Reverend Rabbi Doktor Ipsillimus Anson Relay, Head
High Poobah of the Last Church of Nhee-Ghee, and one mean Head-
launcher!

Marginals Movement (AKA The Alternative Press): The Outer Order of

the New Aeon of Odin, comprising all Yetinsyny efforts anywhere in
the world, individual or collective, to transmute this world from one
infested by creeping Normalcy to one fit for Übermen/women to
inhabit. Includes all Internet and Usenet/Newsnet communications,
as well as publication of prozines, slickzines, APA publications,
garage-band tapes and CDs, garage-cinema VCRs, broadsides done in
purple-and-green crayon on butcher-paper and pasted up on the sides
of buildings and mailboxes, etc. etc. devoted to WARNING THE
WORLD about the Conspiracy, EDUCATING the masses about ’frop
and other aspects of our SubGenius heritage, or just having FUN.
Does NOT include CNN, USA Today, the New York Times, or any
other Pink media organ. Includes about 150,000,000 members in the
U. S. alone. Represented by a flag comprising seven horizontal red
stripes and six horizontal white ones, and a canton of night-sky blue
containing a circlet of thirteen silver stars.

Nhee-Ghee: JHVH-1’s alternate personality (he also has 22 others on tap,

ready for all emergencies or the next good party that comes along).
Lord of the Left-Hand Path of SubGenius.

Normals: If the term doesn’t speak for itself, YOU SHOULDN’T BE

READING THIS!!!! Those who make a religion of worship of the
Great God Status Quo, i.e., of Normalcy. (The term was, after all,
invented by Warren Gameliel Harding – and look where it got him!)

Overman/woman (Überman/woman): A fully developed, sexually mature

Yetinsyny who has, with the help of ’frop and a few Xists, achieved
 the Final Transformation into post-imago maturity. The
Overman/woman is possessed of a huge, bulbously swollen cranium, a
permanent smile, powers of flight and invisibility, the Cough of
Command, an indescribably superior mental state, and a nose that
picks itself.

Pinks: (Colloq.) Slang corruption of the formal SubGenial derogatory

term PINK BOYS or PINK BOYZ. Refers to all conformist,
sheeplike, status-quo cherishing, Normalcy worshipping idiots who
live in terror of making their own decisions. This term refers to
neither skin-color, sexual identity or preference, nor age, though it
does come from Black slang for “suburban white men.” The term
refers to the outlook and attitudes of people so designated, and to the
view through the rose-colored shades they gotta wear while gawping
at their Yuppie future.

Slack: “Slack was known to the Buddha – to Lao-Tse – to Jesus – to Billy

Graham – to all the great avatars.” (The Book of the SubGenius, First
Edition, p. 63). Yes – but what the Hell is it?!
– Man, when you have to ask what Slack is, you don’t have it!
To quote the immortal Ivan Stang, Sacred Scribe of the Church of the
SubGenius:

People have to ask me what Slack is. And

that’s sad, mister. You were born with Slack. Oh,
yeah! You were born with Slack – and then the
Conspiracy took it all away.

From Media Barrage Tape No. 0, “What the HELL Do

You Think You’re DOing?!” See bibliography for
tape listings

Slack is what ain’t there any more after society and “civilization”
get through training the Godhead out of you – the Godhead each
of us was born an heir to, that all Life partakes of. The Way of
Slack is Wu-Wei – if you think you know what it is, you’ve just
lost it. See The Book of the SubGenius, First Edition, Chapter 5
(pp. 61-69).

The SubGenius Foundation: Headquarters of the Church of the Sub-

Genius. This is where you send your money for copies of The
Book of the SubGenius, the infamous “Pamphlet No. 2,” The
Stark Fist of Removal (the official organ of the Church of the
SubGenius!), Media Barrage Tapes, the (whisper it!) SubGenius
Video Tapes, and lots of other SubGenial goodies, as well as for a
LIFELONG membership as a fully ordained minister of the
Church of the SubGenius:

The SubGenius Foundation

Post-Office Box 140306
Dallas, TX 75214
USA

(Checks or money-orders preferred. Overseas residents please

send international postal money-orders or Traveler’s Checks in
U.S. Currency only, please – and add a little something for
postage, which ain’t cheap!)
 Full membership in the Church costs a mere $30, and it gets
you – in addition to FULL membership privileges, such as
unlimited access to cute little Bobbies and fantastic discounts on
’frop orders – four copies of The Stark Fist of Removal,
Pamphlets, Catalog, posters, documents, stickers, and a wallet-
sized, legal-looking MINISTER’S CARD granting you EVERY
imaginable (and a few UNimaginable) rights, and excusing ALL
SINS). This is the only way to get on the Mailing List of the
Chosen, pierce the shroud of secrecy insulating the cult from the
Normal world and the Conspiracy, and obtain such privileges as
benefit membership in an elite secret society of this scope.

X-Day: July 5, 1998. (Not to be confused with the End of the Fourth
World. That belongs to a different calendar entirely.) On this
day, at 7 a.m., Dallas, Texas USA time, the Xists will land. On
this day, all true SubGenii will be transformed in an instant into
Overmen and Overwomen, and will be carried out to the Stars by
the Xists to reclaim their full Yeti heritage and fulfill their True
Will as the true heirs of Atlantis – while the Normals, Pink
wimps, and the Conspiracy will be . . . dealt with.

Xists: A race of benevolent aliens somewhere between Man and

JHVH, but without most of the nasty habits of the latter. (They
have nastier ones!) Normally bodiless, but can manifest
infinitely polymorphically. Omnipresent and, in some ways (but
NOT ALL) almost omniscient. (Occasionally omnipotent as
well.) Henchbeings of WOTAN, they have been instrumental
from the beginning in shaping the evolution and destiny of
Earth’s life – including OURS. On X-Day they will land in force,
descending with their scientific Magick and Magickal high
technology to deluge us with a superabundance of goodies which
we simply won’t be able to handle. If “Bob” isn’t there to
explain to them our subsequent misery, panic, and collective
nervous breakdown, they will PUT US OUT OF OUR MISERY.

Yeti: All SubGenii, regardless of their apparent individual “races” or

“ethnic backgrounds,” are true kin. Their common ancestor is
Homo directus, the True Atlanteans, one of two lines of descent
from a small, insectivorous proto-primate called
Primoanthropocus originalis that existed some 70 million years
ago, when WOTAN used the Dark Star Shiva, his Star Fist of
Removal in its most fearsome apotheosis, to edit the dinosaurs
out of the cosmic television script that is Earth’s planetary
history, in order to modify the plot into something more in line
with the tastes of the Trans-Universe Couch Potatoes that have
been happily mind-bombing themselves forward into the Post-
Biotic with our cruddy little Solar Space Opera for several
gigayears now. The other line of descent from this tiny,
monkeylike animal, which itself only avoided the dinosaur’s fate
because Wotan had a hangover that day and couldn’t draw a bead
on it properly, was Australopithecus, the forerunner of Homo
sapiens.
Full-blooded Atlanteans still exist, inhabiting the lost Glass
City of Chang-Eng on the Ice Plateau that Time Forgot
somewhere in the remotest, least accessible regions of Tibet.
Infrequently glimpsed as they run naked through Himalayan
snows by lowland indigenes or explorers, these are the beings
called the Yeti – “Abominable Snowmen” – by the Sherpas.
 These are the True Men, what we all should be.
But ‘way back when, the Yeti fell – they degenerated so far
that they even lusted after and mated with HUMANS, those
bovine, ITless beings who, though close cousins of the Yeti,
evolutionarily speaking, were stupid, physically weak specimens
with a genetic tendency to mental and emotional malfunctions,
such as drawing to an inside straight, as well as this thing for
highly processed sabre-tooth meat and refined white acorns
dipped in sugar-cane juice, who hadn’t even the potential for
further evolution. The result was Homo yetinsyny, the SubGenius
– a half-breed Yeti who, though genetically tainted by human ad-
mixture with the noble Yeti blood, still has the potential for
SALVATION.

A Very Small Sampler of Church Saints, Current and Posthumous

Barnum, Phineas T.: “Bob” may be the Saint of Sales, but P. T.
Barnum was the Buddha of Bulldada, and to some extent has the
same relationship to “Bob” that John the Baptist did to Jesus of
Nazareth.

Dobbs, Constance Marsh: “Bob”’s first wife, now his widow. Born
on March 23, 1933, daughter of refugees of the Innsmouth Horror
(the sea-coast town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts), in which an
unknown number of innocent émigrés into the United States from
the South Seas were massacred by the United States Navy on
orders of the Conspiracy puppets in the United States
government, who finally settled in Washington, DC (where things
are so fishy, anyway, that no one would ever notice!). The
ultimate exemplar for all true Überwomen, she is still true to the
spirit of her first, undying love:

Hymn to Connie*

Roses, red roses, from the deep, warm breast

Of Her, whose progeny in Space and Time
Are one with us, Her children, – latest, best
And fairest fruitage of Her prime –

Within thy chaliced heart there glows

The crimson tide of Life. The wine
Of youth, eternal, welling, flows
O’er thy curved rim incarnadine.

The fragrance of Her tresses, sweet

As tender breezes that o’erflow
The sun-kissed hills at dawn, and meet
And whisper love to buds that blow;

A pulsing flame – a sky that burns –

A sun god’s pyre and altar blent,
Veiled by thy velvet breast that yearns
To spill its gold and be content;

The music of soft rains that beat

With pattering fingers on our doors,
In gusty, flying showers, replete
With memories of the wind-swept moors;
 Of tender flesh, the keen, sweet tang;
Of fruitful earth, the warm embrace
That lured the lusty vine which sprang
To bear aloft thy virile grace –

Roses, red roses, jeweled Grails of Love

And Sex – mysterious and more divine
Thy symbols shine on high above
The lilies pale on Mary’s shrine.

The rich, red torrent of thy life made bold

Since Time began, the hearts of men
To sing of freedom and of joys untold –
Inspired in turn the voice and pen

Of those who know that Love is Power

And Power is love, beyond the reach
Of mortal minds that halt and cower
Before the truths thy roses teach.

And yet, thy fire is in the bard

Who sings of love or ruthless strife.
Thy flame is in the hearts that guard
The spirit’s growth from life to life

Till forms shall fade and systems rest.

The rhythm of thy magic pulse is stilled.
Still flames thy symbol on the breast
Of Isis, Ishtar – mother, matter filled.

The snow-white wonder of Her form divine,

Stretched cruciform with upturned face,
Awaits with radiant joy the coming sign
Of Him, Creation’s Lord, in Time and Space.

Her eyes, eternal wells of loving light,

The Beauty dread and high which Gods can know –
And lo – within Her mighty heart, for Him, enshrined
Roses, red roses ever-blooming glow.*

*”Red Roses.” From A. M. Stephen’s The Rosary of Pan (Toronto:

McClelland & Stewart, Publishers, 1923), pp. 24-25.

Drummond, Philo: So far, the only SubGenius who has made the
fearful transition to Überhood, through the Magick of Xist
technology under the direction of his late friend J. R. “Bob”
Dobbs.

Eris: AKA “Isis,” “Kali,” “Spider-Woman,” etc. Consort of JHVH-1,

head of the Rebel Gods, and Mother of most or all other Rebel
Gods (the dreaded “Yurugu Gang”) by JHVH-1. May also be the
ultimate Creator/ix, the Source of All Things, being both mother
of Chaos and mother of the children of Chaos, the Elder Gods,
 including JHVH-1. See “Hymn to Connie,” under entry for
“Dobbs, Constance Marsh,” above. Also:

I love that Dark Beauty,

With the ruffled hair, enticing the world.
So I love her.

This black darling resides in the heart

Of Shiva, the god of all gods.
Again Krishna the Dark
Is the very life of the Brajaland,
Engrossed with cowgirls there.
Hence I love black, I adore it.

Banamali Krishna became the Black Goddess, Eris.

So says Celine, making no distinction
Between the two.

So I love the dark beauty,

Syama, the heart’s throb, the ruffled hair,
I love and adore her.*

*Paraphrased from Ajit Mookerjee, Kali: The Feminine Force (New

York: Destiny Books, 1988), p. 106.

Koresh, David and the Other 86 Martyrs: Hideously mass-murdered

for no particularly good reason (as usual!) by Conspiracy tanks
and flame-throwers at 12:01 p.m. Central Daylight Pink Time on
April 19, 5 B. X. (Before X-Day) at the Branch Davidian
Compound in Waco, Texas. An example of just why we must be
on guard against the Conspiracy, day and night, until the Xists
land and ELIMINATE it. Doing nothing wrong, not even
breaking any U.S. laws, only working out their own way of
pursuing life, liberty, and holy Slack, the Branch Davidians were
subjected to an all-out Blitzkrieg attack on their home
reminiscent of the fire-bombing of Hamburg by armed
Conspiracy thugs who, disguised as official employees of real
U.S. federal police agencies, on that evil day burned alive all but
a tiny remnant of the inhabitants of the compound – the latter
being those fortunate enough to come out the front way and thus
straight at the television news cameras trained on them.
Afterwards, of the pitifully few adult survivors of the holocaust,
all were given long, harsh sentences in federal prisons, not for
any real crime, but simply for having been in the compound with
Koresh, i.e., as “conspirators.” Not the first SubGenial martyrs
(that horrifying honor probably goes to Gerry Reith, who was
almost certainly “suicided” by the Conspiracy in 1984), but
definitely the most spectacular to date!! And whatever the
Conspiracy was trying to do when it holocausted the Branch Da-
vidians, judging from the growing uproar over the mass-murders
and the unspeakable “trial” of the survivors that followed, it just
may have failed. (In some ways similar to “Bob”, the Conspiracy
does manage to fuck up now and then . . . but unlike “Bob”, it
won’t make that $ M over this one . . . not if the Xists have their
alien, extra-galactic way!!!!)
The Emperor Norton:

“Everybody understands Mickey Mouse.

Few understand Herman Hesse.
Hardly anybody understands Einstein.
And nobody understands Emperor Norton.”
– Malaclypse the Younger, K.S.C.

Joshua Norton, or as he preferred to be called,

Norton I, proclaimed himself to be Emperor of the
United States and Mexico in 1859.
Although a pauper, he was fed free in San
Francisco’s best restaurants.
Although a madman, he had all his state
proclamations published in San Francisco’s
newspapers.
While rational reformers elsewhere failed to
crack the national bank monopoly with alternate
currency plans, Norton I had his own private
currency accepted throughout San Francisco.
When the Vigilantes decided to hold a pogrom
against San Francisco’s Chinese population, and
sane men would have tried to stop them, Norton I
did nothing but stand in the street, head bowed,
praying. The Vigilantes dispersed.
Although a fool, Norton I wrote letters which
were seriously considered by Abraham Lincoln and
Queen Victoria.
Although a charlatan, Norton I was so beloved
that when he died in 1880, 30,000 people turned out
for his funeral.

Pee-Wee Herman: One of the most beloved of “Bob”’s Tel-Apostles,

St. Pee-Wee was framed by the Conspiracy in the Summer of
1992 e.v. (6 B.X.), charged with a crime so unspeakable that we
dare not even mention it here, convicted by one of the
Conspiracy’s tame judges, and sentenced to – but there are some
things just TOO FOUL even to whisper among civilized beings,
even in the company of hardened SubGenii . . . Suffice it to say
that he has never again been allowed to continue his Mission to
the Normals, because of which possibly hundreds of millions of
souls will go UNSAVED, and will be swept away into Eternal
Nothingness on X-Day! How do you like that, you smug Pink
Conspiracy-sucking Squirt-Police?!?!

Puzzling Evidence: Moderator of The Show, on Radio KPFK, from

Berkeley, California. May have an alternate personality, the
Dreaded Unibrow, who undergoes transformation into a Werebat
whenever given unlimited access to ’frop. For months after
“Bob”’s death during Night of Slack in early 1984, unkind rumors
claiming that Puzzling Evidence was in fact Unknown Assassin
#1 – the one who had gunned down Our “Bob” – filled the air.
Was Puz really the Judas of the SubGenius movement? Or was
he, as some have claimed “Bob”’s last will and testament noted,
“Bob”’s Good Kevorkian, come to lead him out of this Vale of
Tears and into the Beforelife? Or was “Bad Bob White,” arch-
 villain and Goldstein of SubGeniusdom, the one who wielded the
gun? Depends upon which head you’re talking to . . .

someone else: Who is the real Power behind it all? This strange,
enigmatic, shadow-figure, brains to Stang’s brawn, may also be
the true founder of the Church – and possibly even “Bob” . . .
underneath that smiling mask!!

Stang, the Reverend Doktor Ivan, A. O. 32º: The Sacred Scribe of the
Church of the SubGenius. “Bob”’s business agent for the Church.

tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE: An artist, writer, musician, and

performance artist who makes the wildest, most maniacal of his
Church brethren and cistern look like tame Pink pet poodles!
Declared the rest of the Church to be a heresy, and has waged the
Wor on it ever since. Even if “Bob” isn’t there on X-Day to
Explain Things to the Xists, if they so much as pee wrong, all we
have to do is threaten them with tENT and they will behave their
skinny, alien, three-cheeked little anti-buns!

For more on the Church of the SubGenius, see also “The Church of the SubGenius: Beer-Bust of the
Gods!, Or, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the World’s First Industrial Church but Were
Too Attached to Conspiracy-Fostered Values To Ask, Third Edition, by the Very Left Reverend Doktor
Magistra Batrix, Το Μικρον Θεριον \cw ]xh, the Infra-Red Woman of the Church of the SubGenius,
Pope of All Broadview and About Half the 134th Block of Greenwood Avenue North, 23® = 3.14159™
(Seattle: Djehuti-Quetzlcoatl Press, 1997), from which the preceding was taken.

Supermembrane or superbrane:

Supersymmetry:

Surjective: an “onto” function (mathematics)

Symmetry (physics):

Synod, synodical month:

TTT

Time (astrology, esoteric theory, geology, physics, natural history):

Aeons
Epochs

Transits, transiting (astrology, astronomy):

UUU

VVV

Via Combusta, the (astrology):

Via Vita, the (astrology): 15° Aries to 15° Taurus

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 Weights and Measures: In 2024, using his bully pulpit, Governor Steve Yeats got the New California
state legislature to adopt the old British FPS (foot/pound/second) system, ultimately gearing the foot,
pound, and second to the wavelength of the yellow spectral line of the element sodium, the Planck
length, the Planck time, and the mass of the electron, abandoning the metric or CGS system that had been
in use in the U.S.A. and almost all other countries at the time of the Two-Day War. Yeats, who has come
to hate the UN and everything socialistic, thanks to what happened to all his family as a result of the
War, deliberately re-establishes the older system in part out of spite, but also because he has an enormous
love of history as well as the literary references to that system in his favorite literature, that of 19th-
century England. Also, there is the not inconsiderable matter that in order to use the FPS system, you
have to do a little more thinking than when you use the metric system. Since they do have battery
calculators and computers, it isn't that much of an inconvenience, but it does require just a little bit more
thought. (That, Yeats believed, was something that desperately needed to be brought back into whatever
schools came into existence after the War -- something that required both students and teaches to think.
He was determined that never again would schools, at least in New California, sink to the levels they did
in America before the War.)
From then on, officially temperature was to be measured in Fahrenheit degrees, and the practical
units of mass, length, and time became the pound, the foot (or inch), and the second, which were in turn
respectively calibrated in terms of the wavelength of the yellow spectral line of the element sodium (589
nanometers, i.e., 589 x 10-9 meters = 5.89 x 10-7 m), the Planck length, the Planck time, and the mass of
the electron, as standards (see below for conversion units). Depending upon application, units of energy
were the electron-volt, the foot-pound, the BTU, and the kilowatt-hour. The ohm, the ampere, the BTU,
the volt, etc. were defined as they had been before. (Metric units were still referred to because old
records documented things in terms of the metric system, and one had to convert from that. Educators
still taught what the metric system is, and scientists continued to use it, especially for research in such
areas as quantum mechanics and optics, but in everyday use the foot/pound/second system became the
standard.)
Foot: 0.3048 meters = 3.048 x 108 nanometers; one meter = 3.2808 feet. Inch: 3.6576 x 109
nanometers; one meter = 39.37008 inches. Hence the yellow spectral line of the element sodium is
equal to 589 x 109 x 3.2808 . . . = 1,932.415 x 10 -9 feet = 1.932415 x 10-6 feet = 2.31889764 x 10-5 inches.
Angstrom: 10-8 centimeters = 10-10 meters = 3.2808 x 10-10 feet = 3.937 x 10-9 inches.
Planck units: In 1913, physicist Max Planck showed that the constants G (the Gravitational
Constant, which may in fact be a variable, but is currently reckoned to be equal to 6.67 x 10 -8 dyn-cm2 g-
2
), c (the speed of light in a perfect vacuum), and (Planck’s constant, the cornerstone of quantum
mechanics, associated with the wavelike nature of particles and the corpuscular properties of radiation,
equal to 6.626 x 10 -34 joule-second; it gives the ratio of a quantum of radiant energy E to the frequency υ
of its source, and is expressed by the equation E = υ) can be combined to create natural units of length,
time, and mass. These units are calculated as follows: We suppose that a particle exists of mass m* that
has a gravitation length equal to its Compton length (a characteristic wave-like size of a particle traveling
close to the speed of light, calculated as λp = /mpc, where mp is the particle’s mass and λp is its Compton
length; e.g., that of the electron is about 137 times smaller than the hydrogen atom). Its gravitational
length is a* = Gm*/c2, and its Compton length is a* = /m*c. By equating the two, we find the Planck
units. (A black hole of quantum mechanical size constitutes such a particle, and is therefore a quantum
black hole.)

Planck length: A constant a* expressed as a* = (G/c3)1/2 = 2 x 10-33 centimeters = 6.5616 x

10 feet = 7.874016 x 10-34 inches, the distance that light could travel in the Planck time (see
-35

below for definition of Planck time). At the moment the universe was born (10-43 seconds after
the Big Bang, the Planck time), its diameter was just over 3.937008 x 10-34 inches, the Planck
length. All the matter and energy of the universe was then squeezed into a region with this tiny
diameter, creating an intense gravitational field almost precisely balanced by the almost exactly
equally intense outward expansion of this newborn universe.
Planck mass: A constant m* expressed as m* = (c/G)1/2 = 2 x 10-5 grams.
Planck time: 10-43 second, obtained by dividing the Planck length a* by the speed of light.
That time in the evolution of the universe after the Big Bang before which classical theories of
gravity do not apply. The ultimate quantum of time, the smallest that has any physical meaning.
As far as the laws of physics that operate in our universe are concerned, that universe as “born”
with an age of 10-43 second; there was no earlier time, in any meaningful sense of the word.
 (Prior to that but after the universe was zero seconds old, one presumes that the universe had
been conceived and was gestating, but wasn’t yet born.)

The ohm is defined as the unit of resistance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one volt
maintains a current of one ampere. One BTU is about 252 calories, more strictly defined as that quantity
of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. An ampere is a
rate of flow of charge in a conducting medium of one coulomb per second. A coulomb is defined as
6.281 x 10^18 electrons, the charge carried by one ampere per second. An electron volt is 1.602 x 10^-
19 Joule, and is equal to the energy entailed in one electron falling unimpeded through a potential
difference of one volt. A volt is the electromotive force, or difference in potential, that causes a current
of one ampere to flow through a conductor having a resistance of one ohm. One atmosphere of pressure
= 1,013.25 millibars (1.013.25 bars) = 14.696 pounds per square inch.
Baron Patrick Henry Wall, the cyber-baron, gave Steve Yeats particular hell about having to rewrite
all his company’s software code to deal with the changes in weights and measures. But in Nevada, Judge
Buddy O’Banion, governor of Nevada, followed suit as soon as he learned of the New California state
legislature’s establishment of the foot/pound/second system as the standard. The same was true of Baron
Mish Pushkin in New Mexico, Baron Henry Englund in Idaho, etc. Slowly the entire West and allied
areas returned to the older pound/foot/second system, discarding the metric system for everything but
scientific and certain types of technological work, especially in the area of medicine. From then on,
every company that stocked measuring equipment of any kind made a huge profit on measuring devices,
from rulers to clocks to volumetric measuring equipment to every other sort of measurement tool, which
gave simultaneous read-outs in metric and Old British units

Abbreviations for units

mm = millimeter
cm = centimeter
m = meter
km = kilometer
Ǻ = angstrom
mg = milligram
g – gram
kg = kilogram
ml = milliliter
MKS = meter/kilogram/second
SI (from French S[ysteme] I[nternational]: international system of weights and measures, using the
metric system augmented by scientific units used in technology
FPS = foot/pound/second

Conversions

Miscellaneous conversions

l or L (liter) 1.0567 liquid quarts

g (gram) 0.0353 ounce (avdp)
kg (kilogram) 2.2046 pounds (avdp)
metric ton 1.1023 short tons
long ton 1,016.0416 kg
cm (centimeter) 0.3937 inches
m (meter) 39.3701 inches
km (kilometer) 0.6214 mile
cm2 (square centimeter) 0.155 square inch
m2 (square meter) 1.196 square yards
km2 (square kilometer) 0.3861 square mile
cm3 (cubic centimeter) 0.061 cubic inch
m3 (cubic meter) 35.3147 cubic feet
atm (one atmosphere of pressure) ‡ 1,013.25 millibars
 atm 14.696 pounds per square inch
atm 101,325 Pascals (Pa)
bar one million dynes per square centimeter
dyne (force) one gram-cm/sec2
newton one kg-m/sec2
°F 32 = 1.8 x °C
°C (°F – 32) x 5/9
nautical mile (U.S.) (NM) 1.1508 statute miles

.
Length

Old English metric

mil 0.254 mm
inch = 1,000 mils 2.54 cm
foot = 12 inches 0.3048 m
yard = 3 feet 0.9144 m
rod = 5.5 yards 5.0292 m
furlong = 40 rods 201.168 m
(statute) mile = 8 furlongs 201.168 m

Nautical

Old English metric

fathom = 6 feet 1.8288 m

cable length (U.S.) = 120
fathoms 219.456 m
nautical mile (U.S.) = 8.43905
cable lengths 1,852 m

Surveyor’s Measure

Old English metric

link = 7.92 inches 20.1168 cm

chain = 100 links 20.1168 m
furlong = 10 chains 201.168 m

Area

Old English metric

square inch 6,4516 cm2

square foot = 144 square inches 929.0304 6,4516 cm2
square yard = 9 square feet 0.8361 m2
square rod = 30.25 square yards 25.2929 m2
acre = 160 square rods 0.4046 hectares
square mile = 640 acres 2.59 km2

Cubic Measure

Old English metric

cubic inch 16.3871 cm3

cubic foot = 1,728 cubic inches 0.0283 m3
 cubic yard = 27 cubic feet 0.7646 m3

Volume or capacity

Liquid measure

Old English metric

minim = 0.0038 cubic inch 0.061612 ml

fluid dram = 60 minims 3.6967 ml
fluid ounce = 8 fluid drams 29.5738
gill = 4 fluid ounces 0.1183 l
pint = 4 gills 0.4732 l
quart = 2 pints 0.9464 l
gallon = 4 quarts 3.7854 l

Dry measure

Old English metric

pint = 33.6 cubic inches 0.5506105 l

quart = 2 pints 1.1012 l
peck = 8 quarts 8.8098 l
bushel = 4 pecks 35.2391 l

Weight

Avoirdupois weight (avdp)

Old English metric

grain 64.79891 mg
dram = 27.34375 grains 1.7718 g
ounce (avdp) = 16 drams 28.3495 g
pound (avdp) = 16 ounces 453.5924 g
short hundredweight = 100 pounds (avdp) 45.3592 kg
(short) ton = 20 short hundredweights 907.1847 kg

Troy weight

Old English metric

grain 64.79891 mg
pennyweight = 24 grains 1.5552 g
troy ounce = 20 pennyweights 31.1035 g
troy pound = 12 troy ounces 373.2417 g

Apothecaries’ weight

Old English metric

grain 64.79891 mg
scruple = 20 grains 1.296 g
dram = 3 scruples 3.8879 g
troy ounce = 8 drams 31.1035 g
troy pound = 12 troy ounces 373.2417 g
 Other terms and units

Name

ampere: the basic unit of electrical current intensity, equal, in the MKS system, to a rate of flow
of charge in a conductor or conducting medium of one coulomb per second and, in the SI
system, to a constant current that, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of
infinite length and negligible circular cross-section placed one meter apart in a vacuum,
would produce between these conducts a force equal to 2 x 10 7 newtons per meter of length;
abbreviated A or amp; cf. ohm, below
atmosphere: a standard unit of pressure used to measure atmospheric pressure, equal to the
pressure exerted by a column of liquid mercury metal that is 760 millimeters (29.9213
inches) high at 0°C at sea level, abbreviated atm.
bar: the basic unit of pressure in the CGS system, equal to the pressure of a force of one million
dynes per square centimeter, abbreviated b.
becquerel: the basic unit of radioactivity in the SI system, equal to a rate of decay of the
disintegration of one atomic nucleus per second, equal to 2.7 x 10-11 curies; abbreviated Bq.
BTU: abbreviation for British Thermal Units, a unit of heat equal to about 252 calories; the
quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree
Fahrenheit
calorie: the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree
Celsius, also called gram calorie, or small calorie; when spelled with a capital C, it means
the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree
Celsius, also called great calorie or kilocalorie
candela: the basic unit of luminous intensity in the SI system, now defined as the luminous
intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency
540 x 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian;
abbreviated cd
celsius: designating or of a thermometer on which 0° is the freezing point and 100° is the
boiling point of water; centigrade; the formula for converting a Celsius temperature to
Fahrenheit is °F = 9/5 °C + 32; abbreviated C
coulomb: the basic unit of electric charge in the SI and MKS systems, equal to the charge of
6.281 x 1018 electrons, the charge carried by a current of one ampere in one second;
abbreviated C
degree Celsius: a unit of temperature such that 0°C = 273.16°K (Kelvin); abbreviated °C
dyne: the basic unit of force in the CGS system, equal to the amount of force that imparts to a
mass of one gram an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second (0.00001
newton); abbreviated dyn.
electron volt: a unit of energy equal to that attained by an electron falling unimpeded through a
potential difference of one volt; 1.602 x 10-19 joule; abbreviated eV
erg: the basic unit of energy or work in the CGS system, equal to the amount of work done by a
force of one dyne acting through a distance of one centimeter (10-7 joule)
farad: the basic unit of electric capacitance in the SI and MKS systems, equal to the capacitance
of a capacitor that stores a charge of one coulomb when one volt is applied; abbreviated F
foot-candle: a unit of illumination, equal to one lumen per square foot (10.764 lux), or the
amount of light from a source of one candela directly thrown on a square foot of surface at a
distance of one foot; abbreviated fc
gauss: the basic unit of magnetic flux density in the CGS system, equal to one line of magnetic
flux per square centimeter, or one Maxwell per square centimeter (0.00001 tesla);
abbreviated G
hectare: one hundred acres or 10,000 square meters or 0.01 square kilometer (11,959.9 square
yards or 2.471 acres); abbreviated ha
henry: the basic unit of electrical inductance in the MKS and SI systems, equal to the
inductance of a circuit in which the variation of current at the rate of one ampere per second
induces an electromotive force of one volt; abbreviated H
hertz: the basic unit of frequency on the ST system, equal to one cycle per second; abbreviated
Hz
horsepower: a basic unit of power in the FPS system, equal to the power needed to raise a
weight of 550 pounds a distance of one foot in one second, or a weight of 33,000 pounds a
distance of one foot in one minute (746 watts or 42.41 British thermal units per minute),
used especially for measuring the power of motors or engines; abbreviated hp
joule: the basic unit of energy or work in the SI and MKS systems, equal to the amount of work
done by a force of one newton acting through a distance of one meter; abbreviated J
Kelvin: designating a scale of thermodynamic temperature measured from absolute zero, at
which all molecular motion ceases (-273.16°C; the formula for converting Celsius to
Kelvin is °K = °C + 273.16); a basic unit of temperature on this scale, equal to one degree
Celsius; abbreviated K
knot: a unit of speed of one nautical mile (6,076.12 feet or 1,852 meters) per hour, abbreviated
kn or kt. Derives from use of knots tied at regular intervals in a line used to measure a
ship’s speed, and is loose equivalent to Nautical mile per hour
liter: the basic unit of volume or capacity in the metric system, equal to 33.76 fluid ounces or
1.0567 liquid quarts (0.9081 dry quarts or 61.0237 cubic inches); the volume of one cubic
deciliter or one kilogram of water at its maximum density at 4°C; abbreviated l or L
long ton: a unit of weight equal to 2,240 pounds avoirdupois (1,016.0469 kg or 1.016 metric
tons or 1.12 short tons), commonly used in Great Britain
lumen: the basic unit used to measure the flow of light in the SI system, equal to the amount of
light emitted through a solid angle of one steradian by a light source with the intensity of
one candela (0.0015 watt); abbreviated lm
lux: a basic unit of illumination in the SI and MKS systems, equal to one lumen per square
meter (0.0929 foot-candles or one candela per square meter); abbreviated lx
maxwell: the basic unit of magnetic flux in the CGS system, equal to the flux through one
square centimeter perpendicular to a magnetic field with an intensity of one gauss; one
Maxwell equals 10-8 weber; abbreviated Mx
metric ton: a unit of weight, equal to 1,000 kilograms (2,204.623 pounds avoirdupois or 1.1023
short ton or 0.9842 long ton)
mile: a unit of length in the FPS system equal to 5,280 feet = 1,760 yards = 8 furlongs
(1.609344 kilometers or 0.869 nautical miles, also known as statute mile; abbreviated ml
mole: referring to molecular weight, the quantity of a chemical substance having a weight in
grams numerically equal to its molecular weight; one mole of a substance contains
6.022137 x 1023 molecules of that substance. The amount of a substance containing the
same number of units, whether molecules, atoms, or ions, as there are atoms in 12 grams of
pure carbon-12 (6C12); a basic unit in the SI system, abbreviated mol
nautical mile: since 1959, an international unit of length equal to one minute of arc of a great
circle of the earth or 6,076.12 feet or 1.1508 miles (1,852 meters or 1.852 kilometers);
abbreviated NM
newton: the basic unit of force in the SI and MKS systems, equal to the force which imparts to a
mass of one kilogram an acceleration of one meter per second per second, abbreviated N
ohm: the basic unit of electrical resistance in the SI and MKS systems, equal to the resistance of
a circuit in which an electromotive force of one volt maintains a current of one ampere;
symbol Ω
pascal: the basic unit of pressure in the MSK and SI systems, equal to the pressure of a force of
one newton per square meter (0.00001 bar or 0.01 millibar); abbreviated PA
radian: the basic unit of a plane angle in the SI system, equal to 57° 17’ 44.8” (57.29578°) of
arc, the angle formed at the center of a circle by two radii cutting off an arc whose length is
equal to the radius of the circle; one degree equals 0.017454 radian, and 360 degrees = 2π
radians; abbreviated rad
short ton: a unit of weight, equal to 2,000 pounds avoirdupois (907.1847 kg or 0.90718 metric
ton or 0.8929 long ton), commonly used in the United States, Canada, South Africa, etc.
qsiemens: the basic unit of electrical conductance in the SI system, equal to one ampere per
volt; abbreviated S
steradian: the basic unit of solid angular measure in the SI system, equal to the solid angle
subtended at the center of a sphere by an area, on the surface, that is equal to the square of
its radius; one sphere equals 4π steradians; abbreviated sr
tesla: the basic unit of magnetic flux density in the SI and MKS systems, equal to one weber per
square meter (10,000 gauss), abbreviated T
volt: the basic unit of electromotive force in the SI and MKS systems, equal to the
electromotive force, or difference in potential, that causes a current of one ampere to flow
through a conductor having a resistance of one ohm: abbreviated V
watt: the basic unit of electric, mechanical, or thermal power in the SI and MKS systems, equal
to one joule per second or 107 ergs per second (1/746 horsepower); for electrical power it is
equal to one volt-ampere; abbreviated W
weber: the basic unit of magnetic flux in the SI and MKS systems, equal to 108 maxwells;
abbreviated Wb

International Systems of Units (SI)

In the International System of weights and measures, any prefix indicating number, as listed
below, can be combined with any unit. E.g., milli- + ampere = milliampere (m + A = mA)

Prefix Symbol Multiplier

yotta- Y 1024
zetta- Z 1021
exa- E 1018
peta- P 1015
tera- T 1012
giga- G 109
mega- M 106
kilo- k 103
hecto- h 102
deka-, deca- da 10
deci- d 10-1
centi- c 10-2
milli- m 10-3
micro- μ 10-6
nano- n 10-9
pico- p 10-12
femto- f 10-15
atto- a 10-18
zepto- z 10-21
yocto- y 10-24

Notes

Planck’s Constant
Avogadro’s Number and definition
Density standard -- water
Pressure standard -- bars, millibars, Earth-atm = 1 = 760 mb (?)
Linear: metric, Angstroms, English
Angstrom: One angstrom = one hundred millionth of a centimeter or one ten thousand millionth
meter = 10-10 meter = 10-4 microns (one ten-thousandth of a micron), light-year, parsec,
astronomical unit (AU)
Light-year:
Parsec: 3.0857 x 1013 km = ~ 3.3 light-years
Mass: poundals, metric
Volume: metric, English
Electrical: ampere, ohm
Magnetic: Gauss
Sonic: Decibel (dB)
Visible light: lumens
Force: gravities,
Thermal: Fahrenheit, Centigrade, Kelvin
 Energy: watts, joules, BTUs

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Unconsolidated notes

Algebra: Generalized mathematical structures of all kinds; functions and mappings of all kinds,
including linear, multilinear, nonlinear, trigonometric, transcendental, logarithmic, etc.

Angular momentum (mechanics):

Angular radius, angular diameter:

Blue shift, red shift (astronomy): See Distance measurements.

Calculus: Definition. Uses.

Carbon chemistry: Carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide(CO2), etc.

Diophantine equations:

Distance measurements (astronomy): Blue- and red-shift, standard candles, etc.

Ellipticity (astronomy, planetary science): See Planets, physical measures (astronomy).

Galaxies, galactic cluster, superclusters (astronomy):

Geometry:
Two dimensional: polygons and polygrams, e.g., Square, Pentagram, Hexagram, Triangle,
Circle, etc.
Three dimensional: polyhedra, e.g., Cube, Pyramid, Sphere, etc.; tensors
Hyper-geometry, n-dimensional geometry

Gödel, Kurt; Gödellian mathematics:

Greenhouse effect:

Grex (botany, biology):

Hypothesis: Definition

I Ching:

Inclination (of an orbital plane) (astronomy): See also Orbit (astronomy).

Main sequence (stellar evolution) (astronomy):

Number Theory:

Numbering systems: Hebrew, Arabic, etc.

Numbers, bases: See also Polynomials.

Numbers, notation: See Polynomials.

Numbering, ordinal vs. cardinal:

Numerical nomenclature (scientific notation): micro-, centi-, nano-, pico-, terra-, etc.

Qaballah:

Quantum mechanics:

Qlippoth (Qaballah):

Revolution (around a primary) (astronomy):

Rotation on an axis, planetary day (astronomy):

Seasons: See Signs (astrology).

Shells (of the Qlippoth) (Qabballah, Magick):

Tarot:

Topology:

Torque (mechanics):

Transfinite mathematics: Georg Cantor

Trigonometry: