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REVIEWS © QUEST FOR ZERO POINT ENERGY specialised topics of vital interest to all those and Uriel's Machine (see 5/02, 6/06). What Engineering Principles for inventors plugging away to find a long-term, _he uncovers is a fascinating account of the "Free Energy" viable answer to the energy crisis. machinations to do away with religious by Moray B. King So while we may still be waiting for a superstitions and introduce a new view of Adventures Unlimited Press, USA, 2001 device truly able to tap into the limitless the physical world, based on scientific ” , potential of space, King rekindles our hope method. 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Henry Moray, {tp /Amww.madaboutbooks. com: NZ ers expunged from both the Society and ith tof The Se of E) 1 in whi th the Hodder Moa Beckett, tel (09) 478 1000; Englis ‘Freemason and the Ro’ al Societ author of The Sea of Energy in w 1976 ust EUTOPE—NEXUS Office; USA/Canada—_ pat el scientific society" y arty Boats. “hal realisation in 177 Just NEXUS UK Office, tel +44 1342 322854 L eee asurprisine new slant, not served to strengthen his resolve to rediscov- _ Lomas gives a surprising new slant, no er and tap the fundamental source of energy, just on history but on the history of science. re holy rai of the aetna vacuum. Royal Society, the world's pre-eminent sci- ae ears of investigation and experimentation entific society founded by 12 luminaries at THE resulted in King's Tapping the Zero-Point Gresham College near London in 1660. But ‘ Energy, a celebrated selection of papers he wondered how it came to be founded and IN V | S | B oe E published in 1989. This next book, Quest who actually founded it. He discovered its . A ~ for Zero Point Energy, covers the period members came from opposing factions and Ge @) k I, EG E 1991-2001 and is a compilation of papers were brought together at the end of the which take the ZPE theory forward with ref- English Civil War—within five months of erence to various promising ideas and inven- the restoration to the throne of the Stuart line s a young engineer and scientist, Robert Lomas marvelled over the aura of the tions from past and present lights, among with Charles II. He claims they were not them Viktor Schauberger, E.V. Gray, Floyd _ just "the first scientists", they were "the last Sweet, Tom Bearden and Ken Shoulders. sorcerers", and among them were the Rev. Each chapter is heavily referenced and the John Wilkins, Robert Boyle, Sir Christopher book contains technical diagrams and Wren and Sir Robert Moray. Common to patents aplenty, so this is a minefield for many of them were their links with serious researchers. The subject matter cov- _ Rosicrucianism and Scottish Freemasonry. ers vacuum energy vortices, charge clusters, Lomas became a Freemason in 1986, and vortex filaments, torsion fields, zero-point went on to document many aspects of the ROBERT LOMAS energy coherence and scalar compression— __ craft's history, co-authoring The Hiram Key specialised topics of vital interest to all those inventors plugging away to find a long-term, viable answer to the energy crisis. So while we may still be waiting for a device truly able to tap into the limitless potential of space, King rekindles our hope in the elusive promise that it's all possible. But some major funding wouldn't go astray! APRIL — MAY 2002 and Uriel's Machine (see 5/02, 6/06). What he uncovers is a fascinating account of the machinations to do away with religious superstitions and introduce a new view of the physical world, based on scientific method. The chief instigator, Lomas discov- ers, was Sir Robert Moray, engineer, politi- cian, diplomat, courtier and spy, who had links with Scottish Freemasonry, was once a confidant of the dreaded Cardinal Richelieu and gained the trust of Charles II. He had a hidden agenda in assisting the new king solve technical problems for his navy. But while the Royal Society may have started out steeped in esoteric roots, after the death of its patron, Charles II, its mindset was transformed, the Jacobite influences were expunged from both the Society and English Freemasonry, and the Royal Society became "a purely scientific society". Lomas gives a surprising new slant, not just on history but on the history of science. THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE ; LS WwW . Tie ROYAL SOCtETY ROBERT LOMAS NEXUS + 73 www.nexusmagazine.com