The Secret of the Atomic Age

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Nuclear Energy is at once the most up-to-date and the most ancient of all mysteries. Its practical uses in the cause of both war and peace represent only a fraction of its vaster implications which are based on using the powerful atomic energy which exists within each one of us. Miss Alder traces the universal processes of creation, growth and transmutation throughout all the kingdoms of nature, up to their flowering in man himself. She suggests how he will attain his spiritual majority, develop the new quality of World Guardianship and learn how to bring into being a new and ethically practical World Civilization. Vera Stanley Alder During a successful career as a portrait painter, Vera Stanley Alder began to investigate the Ancient Wisdom, and this revolutionized her life. She made it her task to simplify and summarize this knowledge, in order to present it to others. Since 1938 she has been lecturing and writing; demonstrating, as one reviewer has put it, 'a rare gift for condensing and synthesizing the essentials of esoteric teaching