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Nikola Tesla, Forgotten Magician

Nikola Tesla
forgotten magician
Sidian M.S. Jones
at RedefineGod.com
Nikola Tesla Document

His name does not ring through the history books. He is not famous, celebrated, or otherwise widely known. Like all great magicians, he has all but disappeared. But not before dazzling the minds of his time and the minds of those who would pursue his great and mysterious work in this modern day. His name was Nikola Tesla, a God of science. Born in 1856 Tesla can be marked responsible for alternating current (as in AC and DC), wireless communication, the electric motor, basic lasers and radar, x-rays, neon, robotics, remote control, cellular technology, and even had developed plans for tactical warfare in space. All of this taking place over one hundred years ago.
He died alone, in poverty in a New York hotel room at the age of 86. A man who was known to sit casually in the midst of crackling arch-lightning like a proud, ingenious animal, sometimes reading a book as if he were at home among his electric storms. A display, which struck fear in others, was to him an abstract comfort.
And although he had achieved reverence among the rich and glamorous in his younger years in New York, his fame was jealously frowned upon by one very rich and very famous fellow God of science. Thomas Edison.

There became a war between the forces of Alternating Current (Tesla) and Direct Current (Edison). The entire industry was at stake. Edison held that Tesla’s work was far too dangerous. Tens of thousands of volts accompanied Tesla’s Alternating Current while only hundreds with Direct Current. Edison, driven by his spite, held public electrocutions of animals in the city, using Alternating Current (a horse first, then even an elephant) to drive the seed of fear into the public mind.
But while the world was still waiting to be lit up they could only observe as these two men schemed and battled against one another, reinventing the field as they fought. And though Edison held sway over the industry at the time, Tesla was not to be outdone. He set out to light up the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, a spectacle no human had ever witnessed until that day. A success beyond expectation. Then partnering with George Westinghouse to erect the worlds first hydro-electric system at Niagra Falls. An incredible gamble that no one could be certain would work. Except Tesla, man of the hour. Another historic achievement.
Tesla was electric; an intuitive machine computing and manipulating the laws of nature, a poet in white gloves, fluent in six languages. But as history will invariably reveal, such genius must always accompany some madness.
“I have seen all the air around me filled with tongues of living flame. Their intensity, instead of diminishing, increased with time.” Hallucinations, obsessions with cleanliness or the number 3. These were a daily factor in Tesla’s life.
Soon though, Tesla was to undertake his most epic inventions yet. One such invention dubbed Wardenclyffe was designed to provide communication via sound or pictures for the entire world. The project was funded by none other than the famous banker J.P. Morgan who’s contract with Tesla provided that Morgan always remain a “silent partner”. But Tesla held a cunning secret, that Wardenclyffe could provide limitless, free electricity everywhere, to everyone, without wires. However, Morgan became privy to this secret and would have nothing to do with it. He knew Tesla could deliver and the bank would have no way to cash in on it.

Morgan canceled the contract, marring the project and thereby destroying Tesla’s chance to fund it any other way. Then a man named Marconi beat Tesla to the sending of the first transatlantic wireless signal, another crushing defeat.
Tesla suffered a nervous breakdown which he would never regain his momentum from. Nevertheless he pressed on. Decade after decade, inventing and publishing new ideas, new inventions of transportation, air flight, and even warfare, including a Death-Ray that utilized satellite technology. But his time had passed and Tesla, in his old age spent much time in his apartment, collecting newspaper clippings from his better times, walking the streets of New York, haunting Grand Central Station or feeding pigeons.
No one could imagine what great secrets Tesla had yet to reveal, no one by J. Edgar Hoover who waited patiently for Tesla to die so that he would collect the rest of Tesla’s journaled secrets. To this day, much of Tesla’s work is still classified and used in many immense projects.

So this story is not about a historical figure who stood admired in a spotlight, but a figure who shone brightly, if only for a moment, like a bolt of lightning, and then was gone for few to revere.
With his last breath Nikola gently smiled, said “Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and his accomplishments. The present is theirs. The future for which I have really worked - is mine.”

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Comment by Jeff H on November 8, 2008 at 2:53pm: good read

Comment by andrewjvb on November 8, 2008 at 5:31pm: JP Morgan was a sonofabitch.

Comment by Sidian M.S. Jones on November 8, 2008 at 9:51pm: doone that is quite incredible and makes me love Tesla all the more. Thank you guys for reading my essay. I hope it was enjoyable and yes, JP Morgan was a sonofabitch. Today the government is the sonofabitch holding Tesla's information in captivity because it would mean free energy to the public if they didn't.

Comment by Hole Spirit of TuHanTu on November 13, 2008 at 4:55am: Thanks for this posting this, Sidian... I promise you, I would go to take the picture of Tesla´s museum with my own hand... (I am not that good of a photographer, tho :)

The story of Tesla and the pigeon is incredible! I love the pigeons too... I am amazed by their internal GPS.

Comment by trojan_libido on November 17, 2008 at 2:04am: R.I.P Tesla. A person who shone so brightly it took some of the most powerful men in history to dim his light. This man should be revered and the others who stole from him, torn down from history.

Comment by RevLGKing on December 15, 2008 at 11:43pm: Tesla's father was a Christian Orthodox priest. I read somewhere that he was deeply spiritual and advocated a religion based on a combination of Buddhism and Christianity.

Comment by RevLGKing on December 16, 2008 at 12:57pm: TESLA'S GOD HYPOTHESIS
The great scientist and genius, Nicola Tesla--the one who brought us alternating current, the Tesla coil, and numerous other electronic inventions was once asked his description of God. He responded: "God has no properties".

BTW, the son of an Orthodox priest, Tesla was highly mystical/spiritual. He thought of the cosmos as being one with the divine mind which he thought of as God.

As I have said elsewhere, rather than using the noun, God, I like using the acronym, GOD--that which is Good, Orderly and desirable. When writing about matters of science I simply substitute the symbol Ø, the null, the O. It symbolizes the all that is, including chaos. Out of this chaos, the truly artistic, humane and loving mind can, in harmony with all Being, bring goodness order and design--which as I understand it is the very basis of quantum mechanics--into the whole process we call creation.

GØD is not a property, in any way, shape or form. This is why I feel the need for this new term , GOD or GØD. BTW, Orthodox Jews use, G-d.

It is my opinion that Tesla's refusal to sell his soul to the evil of ego-based materialism--at its height in the 1930's--probably prevented the Nazi scientists from unlocking the secrets of the atom.

We know now that Hitler and his henchmen we insane. In the face of defeat they demonstrated this in the way they were prepared to see Germany destroyed, along with them, rather than admit defeat. Can you imagine what destruction they would have heaped on the Globe had scientists like Tesla and Einstein joined their cause?

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ABOUT TESLA AND THE RADIO
There is ample evidence to believe that Tesla conceived of the radio long before Marconi.
check out: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html

Marconi got the credit for inventing the radio because of his connections. Unlike Tesla, he was also a great self-promoter.

Comment by RevLGKing on January 9, 2009 at 2:12pm: IF IT IS TRUE, THIS SITE BELOW DESERVES THE ATTENTION OF EVERY HUMANE AND SPIRITUALLY-MINDED PERSON--RELIGIOUS AND NON-RELIGIOUS.

It is about the work of Nicola Tesla--someone who has been of interest to me for decades. In his early days he worked with Thomas Edison. Interestingly, Edison's parents were Canadians. His first job was as a telegrapher in Toronto.

He and Edison, who was all for DC, had a conflict over the best way to deliver electricity over long distances. Despite Edison's opposition--and it was strong--he demonstrated that AC was best. This led to the development of hydroelectric power and the harnessing of Niagara Falls.

As I have said elsewhere, Tesla, was the son of an Orthodox priest. However, though he was a very spiritually-minded and devout person, he was not narrow in his spiritual views. It seems that his concept of God differed from that of the traditional Orthodox Christianity--God as an all-powerful father figure, beyond space/time, "who art in heaven. " I like to think he was more interested in orthopraxy--do what works--than in orthodoxy.

TESLA'S THEOLOGY
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Similar to the modern writer, Echhart Tolle (The Power of Now), Tesla spoke of GOD as the One with the Eternal and Infinite Presence, the Now--in and through all that is--a concept which has made sense to me, for decades.

As Paul puts it in Acts: He saw God as Being--the One, "in whom we live, move and have our being. " Because of this, he recommended that Christianity needs to see the positive values in other forms of faith, especially Buddhism with its challenge for us to seek enlightenment in all of life.

Because he rejected the lure of money, power and materialism he died in relative poverty. With his intelligence and ability, he could have been a very rich man.

The site below, which I mentioned above, was recommended to me by Sheldon Sugar, a friend.

http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/9.08/freeenergy.html

This is a very interesting story, but is this too good to be true? Are the claims based on fact? I would like to hear the opinion of anyone in the know about modern physics.

Sheldon wrote that it, "...it talks about "free energy" and explains what groups stop us from making it available. but there is a twist...as we are ourselves one of those "groups". The last 1/3 of the article is very spiritual and yet
practical. Very interesting..."

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