"claimed to have discovered a new motive power which was originally described as vaporic or etheric force, and later as an unnamed force based on vibratory sympathy, by which he produced interatomic ether from water and air"
moar spheres
it seems the powers-that-be really want us to know free energy is most definitely a real thing
"People have no idea of the power of water," Keely said, "a bucket of water has enough of this vapor to produce a power sufficient to move the world out of its course."
Keely also explained that he [...] "got an etheric force from the atmosphere by vibratory action, which is accomplished with the Liberator, and that there was no impingement or abutment or visible exhaust from the pressure, except a slight sound".
"there are few who will fathom the full meaning of these views," his discoveries according to her "embrace the manner or way of obtaining the keynote, or" chord of mass ", of mineral, vegetable, and animal substances "
- we live in a consciousness-actuated hologram
- our bodies are engineered to host a much diminished form of consciousness
- we seem to get recycled back here after we die with our memories erased
- there is an AI at work here, judging by the numerology
so far, I've been able to find 2 coherent yet conflicting interpretations here
First, the "hermetic" one
We're newly-hatched fractals of the Cosmic Consciousness - as such, we're confined to a benign sandbox until we learn to use our creative powers responsibly
Second, the "gnostic" one
We're trapped inside a false reality created by an evil Demiurge and his Archons
There is no rhyme and reason to anything that happens to us, it's all meant to prevent us from looking inwards
Apparently, a single true memory would be enough ...
Judging by the photographic evidence, it seems to have been destroyed by the same bombardment that destroyed the rest of the Old World
A while later - I'm thinking two or three generations, during which the survivors were brainwashed - this sort of creep pops up and writes "Botosani's first monograph"