Job Opportunities in Radionics

[ecosophia]

I had occasion earlier today to check up on the state of the art in radionics.  Radionics?  It's a weird hybrid of sorcery and technology, in which a variety of electro-etheric devices such as the Hieronymus Machine (an example is on the left) are used in place of the typical medieval technology of wands and star-spangled robes. Rather more than a decade ago I built a Hieronymus machine, collected all the necessary information to use it, and spent a while getting a good sense of its potentials for spirituality, divination, magic, and healing; I don't do a lot with it any more, but I've still got my endearingly clumky homebrew machine, and get good results with it when I do use it. 

I was pleased to find that my old friend Joseph Max has gone from creating his own finely crafted radionics devices to selling high-end radionics machines -- his site, Aetheric Arts Labs, is worth visiting just to wallow in the glorious dieselpunk esthetic of his products. (Here's an essay, lavishly illustrated, about the construction of his first Hieronymus machine.) I was less pleased to find that there's not much else available out there, and most of it is very pricey. Joseph's machines are expensive, but they're worth it because of the quality of the materlal and workmanship; a lot of the others are pricey because the manufacturers are charging what the market can bear. 

Me, I like to see occult knowledge and practice finding its way to as many people as possible, and that's difficult in this case when you have to shell out $1500-$3000 for a device that you can build for about $50 if you buy all the parts new. I have a lot of talented readers, a fair number of them can read simple schematic diagrams and build things, and it occurs to me that a lot of people just now are interested in finding a way to bring in money that doesn't depend on selling their time to an employer. So it occurs to me to wonder aloud if anyone out there is interested in learning how to make Hieronymus machines, which can sold via the usual online venues; there's apparently a substantial market, and a good practical model for a reasonable price (say, $200-$300) would likely fly off the shelves. 

I've got a very substantial collection of documents on the Hieronymus machine, including T. Galen Hieronymus' original patent, the schematic of a later transistorized version, and detailed instructions for manufacture and use, which I will make available to anyone who wants them and sends me a PM or a comment marked NOT FOR POSTING with an email address. What I ask in return is one of the machines you make. Interested?  Let me know. Baffled by all this?  Well, that's why my journal allows comments...

***Update**** -- I've received an enthusiastic response to this, which is great. One resource that might be helpful to those who plan on building their own Hieronymus machine using the transistorized circuit I've included is this detailed discussion by Joseph Max. The comments are particularly useful. 

***Update 2*** -- I'm temporarily suspending my offer as Magic Monday draws closer. Interest in this project turned out to be much higher than I expected; rather than the half dozen or so packets I expected to email, I've sent out close to 40, and I want to make sure I don't get a couple of hundred requests while Magic Monday is in process! I'm going to look into other ways to make information on radionics and building your own Hieronymus machine available to those who are interested; I'll post something here as soon as I've gotten that worked out. In the meantime, if you're frantic for plans, the Wayback Machine has something to get you started,  and Joseph Max's discussion of how he built one using the same circuit is not to be missed...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah- I did some of the early stages of solidifying mercury back in the day.
Essentially there are 3 parts to it; purifying the mercury, multiplying it's power by treating with various herbs and in various ways, and finally solidifying it.
I still have a few of the ones I made.
How we didn't die of mercury poisoning is still a mystery to me :)
Lurksalong

[open_space]

Nice! The only account and footage I’ve seen of solidified mercury that I know is through a consecration of a linga of the goddess Bhairavi.

I would love to know more about your process and experience of how you did it as well as any resources you could share if possible. That is one of the things I hope to figure out! It certainly seems to be a very good medium for consecrations, a field I am very interested in.

[(Anonymous)]

Late to the discussion but I once had a chuckle at somebody online insisting that this one grimoire was *clearly* fake since it recommended using solid mercury for some of the talismans, and everybody knows mercury is a liquid! Those dumb medieval peasants...
Of course they didn't stop to think that maybe alchemists knew something they didn't. I had already read enough about alchemy to know that it was possible, and I know absolutely nothing by alchemy standards.
I'm too chicken to do anything with mercury personally, although I know the safety procedures exist.

[robertmathiesen]

I played a little with mercury in my home basement chem lab when I was in high school, back in the later 1950s, and even distilled some from cinnabar in a retort. Beautiful stuff, and the simple metal isn't as dangerous as some organic compounds. As for solid mercury, mercury forms amalgams with many things, and mercury amalgams are generally solid, so far as I know.

[open_space]

Interesting. I don't know if this solidified mercury is the same thing as the amalgams but at least the one I was referring to, the one used in rasalingas or perhaps in this particular rasalinga is solidified using only prana through a consecration ceremony. It's solid, but still malleable somewhat like putty. And according the Yogi, the linga can stay intact energy-wise for at least 1000 years. I am interested to see, a long time from now, if such solidified mercury could be used as a very efficient etheric capacitor.

You can see the solidified mercury in the first minutes of this video and then it is inserted into the core of the linga for the final consecration.

Edit: I looked into mercury amalgams using copper, it definitely looks similar! Thanks, Robert

What I know is that the poisonous are mercury oxides that poison the water, by itself I think only if you ingest it the weight of it makes holes in your stomach...