Silver (Ag)
Silver was known to ancient Hebrews, Greeks and the earliest Egyptians. Silver was known to the alchemists as a female element closely related to the Moon. The Moon is the "lesser light to rule the night" of Genesis. This is representative of the female, left-hand side and the dream and intuitive part of our brain and minds.
Isn't it strange that the fictional vampires roamed at night and the only thing they feared or were ruled by was silver? As we will see later - silver is indeed deadly to bloodsuckers, bacteria and parasites that feed from other life forms. Is it then strange silver represents the night-side of our characters and lives as believed by the ancients?
This shiny metal has many common uses, including dentistry, ornamental jewelry, in the photographic industry and in medicine. Found native and in various ores, including argentite, chalcopyrite and copper. Silver is the best conductor of heat and electricity of all the metals. In the case of electricity conduction silver appears to be almost superconductive or "transparent" to the current flow. Molten silver absorbs many times its own volume of oxygen and will visibly swell during this process. Silver is highly impervious to damage except by sulfur which causes tarnish. Silver compounds have interesting commercial uses including seeding clouds to produce rain, as a cement for glass, in mirror production and in the construction of electrical components. Silver alloys have been used for centuries all over the world as coinage and barter. Another use for silver is in musical instruments as a wrapping on vibrating strings used on violins, tenors, violoncellos, guitars, etc. and are a prepared wire or catgut, plain or covered, usually the 4th or "G" string. Strings of steel or brass wire are used for all instruments which are struck with hammers or plectra, as dulcimers, pianos, etc. Each string being of a different thickness according to the tone and tension required. Silver has a high reflecting power throughout the visible light spectrum which accounts for its "silvery" or "white" color. When fabricating mirrors very fine layers of vaporized silver are deposited in a vacuum onto glass. The gradual build-up of the fine layers of transparent coats goes through a magnificent color change from rose-red, then red-violet, then blue-violet and finally to a wonderful blue. Silver has spectral wavelengths from 2145.60 to 5665.43 angstroms. There is more information given on the wave numbers and spectra of silver on pages 29-31.
When silver is made into a colloid solution it becomes the best bactericide and disinfectant ever known to medical science. This solution (actual silver metal particles suspended in water) is reported to be deadly against 650 varieties of germs, parasites and bacteria whereas conventional antibiotics are only somewhat effective against a half dozen or so7. The colloid of silver has no side effects whatsoever while standard antibiotics are notoriously dangerous if used improperly. These "modern" antibiotics are so dangerous they require a trained and certified practitioner to prescribe their use. The silver colloids, on the other hand, are so safe they are not even regulated. See [Our Silver Works - colloidal silver]
This antibacterial property of silver was not always known. In the 4th century B.C. the army of Alexander the Great conquered Persia and Phoenicia and invaded India. In India the Greek army was stricken with an outbreak of a mysterious gastro-intestinal disease. It was noted the military commanders fell victim to the same disease but far less frequently than their men even though they shared all the same accommodations of the camp life with their men. More than two thousand years passed before science could explain the reasons for this. The soldiers drank from tin cups and their superiors from silver ones. It was proved that silver dissolves in water forming a colloid solution that kills pathogenic bacteria. Although the solubility of silver in water is low, it is quite sufficient for disinfection.
Keely
He has again reduced in size the instrument producing the force. From 1882 to 1884 the "Generator" was six feet long and corresponding wide and high, but failing to make the arrangement automatic upon which its mechanical usefulness depended, Keely found a new standard for research in an experiment often made by himself, but never before successful, which resulted in invention in 1885 of the "Liberator" not so large as a lady's small round worktable. He made astonishing progress with this beautiful piece of vibratory mechanism, so as to combine the production of the power, operation of the cannon, his engine and his disintegrator in a machine no larger than a dinner plate and only three or four inches in thickness. This was completed in 1886, up to which time his experiments were upon the principle of sympathetic vibration, for liberating a vapory or etheric product. His later experiments were another modification of vibratory sympathy, and the size of the instrument used now, 1888, for the same purposes is no larger than an old fashioned silver watch. A pressure of 30,000 lbs. to the square inch in raising of the lever, and all other operations, without one ounce of pressure in any part of the apparatus, are effected by the ether. The force is transmitted along a wire of platinum and silver. Keely has named this new modification "Negative Attraction." The two forms of force with which he has experimented and the attendant phenomena, are exactly antithetical. It is by changing the vibrations of the cosmic ether that Keely releases this energy. Dr. Dupuy, of New York, experimented along these lines for many years, but without success to the degree Keely had. [underline added] [Snell Manuscript - The Book, page 3]
""Demonstrating the overcoming of gravity, Keely used an airship model weighing about 8 lbs., which, when the differentiated wire of silver and platinum was attached to it, communicating with the sympathetic transmitter, rose, descended, or remained stationery midway, the motion as gentle as that of thistledown floating in the air." [Snell Manuscript - The Book, page 3], [MECHANICAL INVENTIONS AND INSTRUMENTS]
"The positive vibrations are the radiating or propulsive, the negative vibrations are the ones that are attracted towards the neutral center. The action of the magnetic flow is dual in its evolutions, both attractive and propulsive. The sound vibrations of themselves have no power whatever to induce dissociation, even in its lowest form. Certain differential, dual, triple and quadruple chords give introductory impulses which excite an action on molecular masses, liquid and gaseous, that increase their range of molecular motion and put them in that receptive state for sympathetic vibratory interchange which favors molecular disintegration, then, as I have shown, the diatonic enharmonic is brought into play, which further increases the molecular range of motion beyond fifty percent of their diameters, when molecular separation takes place, giving the tenuous substance that is necessary to induce progressive subdivision. This molecular gaseous substance, during its evolution, assumes a condition of high rotation in the sphere or tube in which it has been generated, and becomes itself the medium, with the proper exciters, for further progressive dissociation. The exciters include an illuminated revolving prism, condenser, and colored lenses, with a capped glass tube strong enough to carry a pressure of at least one thousand pounds per square inch. To one of these caps a sectional wire of platinum and silver is attached; the other cap is attached to the tube so screwed to the chamber as to allow it to lead to the neutral center of said chamber." [Snell Manuscript - The Book, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS, page 6]
"The diamagnetic receding movement in the metal silver when brought close to the poles of a magnet operated by alternating current, is caused by "interatomic bombardment" of some 800,000 "corpuscular percussions" per second, or, expressed more exactly, by "intersympathetic vibrations" (non-operative on molecular, intermolecular or atomic sympathy, but penetrating within these to the interatom) or "interatomic bombardment". [What Electricity Is - Bloomfield Moore]
"If a disk of proper proportions of silver, gold and platinum were used with the Trexar in connection with a "negative focalizer" (an accessory used in his magnetic engine, which he also calls his "polar radiator") the alloyed disk would exhibit high induced cohesion by adhering to this focalizer with such affinity as to become inseparable from it, notwithstanding any force which might be mechanically applied to pry them apart." [Snell Manuscript]
Schauberger
If such ennobled water is drunk, which accumulates normally insoluble trace-elements in a 'released' state and binds its oxygen content up to a maximum of 4%[13], then the dissolution of normally insoluble sediment accretions takes place, enabling sclerosis, encrustation of the blood, sap and lymph vessels to be healed. The organisms thus treated regain their metabolic functions as well as their reproductive abilities. In this way senile men almost fully recover their virility. After extended consumption of regenerated drinking water, even people who wear glasses can use weaker ones, because the capillaries of the eye, which supply it with high quality nutrients, will be purged of deposits. Rheumatic disorders are cured within a short space of time, for through this general detoxification the joints move freely and painlessly again and are provided with a film of essential oils. Kidney and gall stones also dissolve after only a few weeks of drinking such healing water and are passed out in gravel-like form with the urine. All those suffering from cancer can get relief from their tearing pains almost immediately, because the almost oxygen-free water binds the excess oxygen in the blood[14], thus eliminating dangerous hyperacidity. It is therefore not only possible to prevent cancer in this way, but even to cure this dreadful disease, if this all-healing water is drunk in good time. The healing of rheumy eyes with the aid of gold earrings also occurs in a similar way. Situated in the earlobes - the coolest location, they function bio-catalytically and make any form of water secretion impossible. If one burns one's finger, then almost intuitively one grasps the earlobe, where the relatively strongest falling temperature gradient prevails, and an almost instantaneous relief from the burning sensation is felt. Catalysts in the form of the emanations from gold and silver not only function oligodynamically (they kill pathogenic bacteria), but also build up apathogenic bacteria, as happens in the vicinity of high springs. Having recognised this, a very open-minded doctor, the director of the old peoples' home at Lainz near Vienna, attempted to cure the sclerotic symptoms of seriously rheumatic W.W.II soldiers by administering the finest gold and silver dust. He only achieved a partial cure, however, because this can only be done with the infusion of precious metals in an organic state.
[13] This is slightly equivocal and can be interpreted in two ways: Either 4% of the 100% oxygen content is bound, or, up to 4% of the 100% oxygen content is bound, namely 96%. In view of what has been stated in "The Liquefaction of Coal by means of Cold Flows" on p. 95 of this book, it would appear that the latter interpretation is what is intended here. — Ed.
[14] The free oxygen radicals are bound. — Ed. [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, The Catalysts]
[16] List of paramagnetic and diamagnetic elements:
1. Apart from iron, nickel and cobalt, whose magnetic properties are already known, osmium and almost all iron compounds are paramagnetic metals.
2. Bismuth and antimony are particularly diamagnetic. Zinc, tin, lead, copper, silver and gold as well as glass and carbon disulphide and other non-conductors are strongly diamagnetic. [Aloys Kokaly, Implosion Magazine, No. 45, p. 19. For further elaboration of the various forms of magnetism, see Chapter 2, endnote 23, p. 88, The Fertile Earth, Vol. III of the Ecotechnology series. - Ed.] [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, The Catalysts]
Cayce
"While those of the Silver 'cord' makes for that transmutation of impulse from the brain to the organs of the body, sustaining - as it were - that spark of life itself in a material plane." Cayce (5500)
"The Silver, is to enable the activity of the eliminating system to so eradicate the effects of the suppression of activity in the muscular and tendon forces as to allow same to be eliminated from the body." Cayce (735)
Samaan22 finds that while colloidal silver preparations are less efficient as disinfectants than is ionic silver (e.g. silver nitrate) a 1:5000 solution of colloidal silver is a stronger disinfectant than phenol solution, 1:250. Moreover, the colloidal solutions of silver solution are much less irritating and are mush easier to use than is silver nitrate solution.23
A silver colloid prepared with more than 19% and less than 45% silver with protein (usually egg albumin) is used as an antiseptic and germicide in 5 to 50 percent solution, which acts as a mucilaginous demulcent and protective.23
An important facility of silver is its light sensitivity when in a salt such as silver chloride, silver bromide or silver iodide. This wonderful sensitivity to light may play an important function in silver’s antibacterial dynamism. We know from scientific studies that light will destroy any bacteria. Light also has curative qualities. Later on we will look at other aspects of light relative to functional properties of these three metals. Divine Triplet or the Law of One in considering Gold, Silver & Platinum as applied to the Mind, Body & Spirit
Uses
Our Silver Works - colloidal silver (in colloidal solution) has germicidal effects and kills many lower organisms effectively without harm to higher animals.
http://www.svpvril.com/osw.html is capable of rendering stored drinking water potable for a long period of time (several months). Water tanks on ships and airplanes are often "silvered".
Disposal of even small quantities of Silver Nitrate connected to a septic tank is guaranteed to destroy the septic bacteria and require pumping out, flushing and seeding with fresh bacteria.
Silver Nitrate has antiseptic properties. A very dilute solution is sometimes dropped into newborn babies' eyes at birth to prevent contraction of gonorrhoea or chlamydia from the mother.
Fused Silver Nitrate, molded into sticks, was traditionally called lunar caustic. It is used as a cauterizing agent. Silver Nitrate is melted at 212°C ( 413°F ) and poured into a mold of the desired shape.
Silver Chloride is used as an Antibacterial agent for concrete ( 1 Lb Silver Chloride per cubic yard of Concrete (4,050 lbs) ).
Silver Chloride is used to help prevent bacteria from growing on Glass (when melted into the glass).
Silver Carbonate is used as an Antibacterial agent for concrete ( 1 Lb Silver Carbonate per cubic yard of Concrete (4,050 lbs) ).
Silver Carbonate is used as a biocide against bacteria, yeasts and molds in some Paints and Resins.
In Today's Marketplace
Samsung has introduced washing machines that inject silver ions into the wash and rinse cycles to kill 99.9% of odor causing bacteria. Silver atoms, electrolytically stripped of an electron, are injected during the wash and rinse cycles, allowing over 100 quadrillion silver ions to penetrate deep into the fabric to sanitize clothing without the need for hot water or bleach. These machines can wash about 3,100 loads using 1 Troy Ounce (31.1 grams) of Silver metal.
Kohler has introduced a line of toilet seats that include an antimicrobial agent formed into the plastic which inhibits the growth of odor causing bacteria, mold and mildew.
American Standard StayClean whirlpool systems have plastic pipes manufactured with Antimicrobial Alphasan which are blue in color. This revolutionary material uses silver's natural antimicrobial characteristics to help keep the whirlpool free of 99.9% of microbes, mold and mildew.
NanoHorizons, Inc. SmartSilver are nanoscale silver additives for urethane, nylon and cotton. These permanent anti-odor/antimicrobial additives are added to the fibers during manufacturing.
Electrical Ionization units impregnate water with silver and copper ions. These sanitize pools, spas and fountains without the harsh effects of chlorine.
AgION Silver based antimicrobial protects Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse against a broad spectrum of bacteria.
Sherwin-Williams Silver based antimicrobial will provide FasTopâ„¢ Flooring Systems with continuous protection against a broad spectrum of microbes.
Ice-O-Matic Uses Silver based antimicrobial protection for the life of their ice cube machines to prevent bacteria, slime and fungus growth.
FoodTouch silver based food packaging liners preserve food quality. Superior to parchment, wax or butcher paper.
In Medicine
Silver or silver compounds are used externally in wound and burns treatment.
Curad Natural Silver Antimicrobial bandages. Laboratory testing showed that silver reduced bacterial growth like Staph. aureaus, E. coli, E. hirae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (a powerful germ that does not respond to many antibacterials) in the dressing for 24 hours.
Elastoplast Silver Healing bandages. The pads in these bandages contain silver ions. These ions kill over 150 different bacteria, fungi, yeast and other harmful germs.
Silver Sulfadiazine is an antibacterial and antifungal agent. It is used as a topical cream to prevent and treat skin infections on areas of burned skin. The U.S. patent for Silver Sulfadiazine issued in September 1973.
Silver Chloride has the ability to eliminate or flush out mercury from the body.
Silver Chloride is used as a thin coating on the surface of Medical Electrodes for EKG machines. (Placed against the skin).
Silver Chloride is used as an anti microbial agent in some infection resistant surgical fabric materials.
Silver Chloride is used to help prevent bacteria from growing on Latex (mixed into the Latex before it is formed).
Silver Carbonate is used as a biocide against bacteria, yeasts and molds in some Cosmetics.
Silver Carbonate is used in some topical antibiotic creams ( about 1% Silver Carbonate).
Silver Carbonate is used in some tooth surface treatments to prevent cavities.
In History
· Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, wrote that silver had beneficial healing and anti-disease properties.
· The Phoenicians used to store water, wine, and vinegar in silver bottles to prevent spoiling.
· Prior to antibiotics, Colloidal Silver was used widely in hospitals as a bactericide.
· In the early 1800s, doctors used silver sutures in surgical wounds with very successful results.
· Pioneers of the American West found that if they placed silver or copper coins in their casks of drinking water, it kept the water safe from bacteria, algae, etc.
· In the early 1900s people would put silver dollars in milk bottles to prolong the milk's freshness.
· Silver compounds were used successfully to prevent infection in World War I (before antibiotics).
· Silver leaf was used to combat infection in wounds sustained by troops during World War I.
· By 1940 there were approximately four dozen different silver compounds on the market being used to treat every known infectious disease.
· Settlers in the Australian outback suspend silverware in their water tanks to retard spoilage.
· The widespread use of silver went out of fashion with the development of modern antibiotics.
However, recently there has been renewed interest in silver as a broad spectrum antimicrobial. In particular, it is being used with alginate, a naturally occurring biopolymer derived from seaweed, in a range of silver alginate products designed to prevent infections as part of wound management procedures, particularly applicable to burn victims.
Health precautions
Silver plays no known natural biological role in humans, and possible health effects of silver are a subject of dispute. Silver itself is not toxic but most silver salts are, and some may be carcinogenic.
Silver and compounds containing silver (like colloidal silver) can be absorbed into the circulatory system and become deposited in various body tissues leading to a condition called argyria which results in a blue-grayish pigmentation of the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes. Although this condition does not harm a person's health, it is disfiguring and usually permanent. Argyria is rare and mild forms are sometimes mistaken for cyanosis.
Silver Ions and silver compounds show a toxic effect on some bacteria, viruses, algae and fungi typical for heavy metals like lead or mercury, but without the high toxicity to humans that is normally associated with them. Its germicidal effects kills many microbial organisms in vitro (i.e. in a test tube or a petri dish). The exact process by which this is done is still not well understood, although several different theories exist. One of these is a process generally known for heavy metals called the oligo-dynamic effect, which goes a long way explaining the effect on microbial life forms but does not explain certain antiviral functions.
Alternative Medicine
Today, various kinds of silver compounds, or devices to make solutions or colloids containing silver, are sold as remedies for a wide variety of diseases. Although mostly harmless, some people using these home-made solutions use far too much and develop argyria over a period of months or years, and several have been documented in the last few years in the medical literature, including one possible case of coma associated with a high intake of silver (see medical references). It is strongly advised to notify a doctor when taking silver as a form of self-medication.
In Food
In India, foods can be found decorated with a thin layer of silver, known as Varak. Silver as a food additive is given the E number E174 and classed as a food coloring. It is used solely for external decoration, such as on chocolate confectionery, in the covering of dragées and the decoration of sugar-coated flour confectionery. In Australia, it is banned as a food additive.
Because of the mysticism surrounding silver's lunar associations, as well as the aesthetic qualities of the white, reflective metal that cause it to be associated with purity, silver in European Folklore has long been traditionally believed to be an antidote to various maladies and fictional monsters. Notably, silver was believed to be a repellent against vampires (this primarily originates from its holy connotations; also, mirrors were originally polished silver, and as such, vampires allegedly cannot be seen in them because they are wicked) and it was believed that a werewolf, in his bestial form, could only be killed by a weapon or bullet made of silver, and was equally effective against vampires, as described in Eastern European folklore. This has given rise to the term "silver bullet," which is used to describe things designed to cure or fix a wide array of maladies.
The Ogligodynamic Effect
Discovered in 1893 by the Swiss KW Nägeli as a toxic effect of metal-ions on living cells, algae, moulds, spores, fungi, virus, prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, even in relatively low concentrations. This antimicrobial effect is shown by ions of: mercury, silver, copper, iron, lead, zinc, bismuth, gold, aluminum and other metals.
Especially heavy metals show this effect. The exact mechanism of action is still unknown. Data from silver suggest that these ions denature proteins (enzymes) of the target cell or organism by binding to reactive groups resulting in their precipitation and inactivation. Silver inactivates enzymes by reacting with the sulfhydryl groups to form silver sulfides. Silver also reacts with the amino-, carboxyl-, phosphate-, and imidazole-groups and diminish the activities of lactate dehydrogenase and glutathione peroxidase. Bacteria (gram+ and gram-) are in general affected by the oligodynamic effect, but they can develop a heavy-metal resistance, or in the case of silver a silver-resistance. Virus in general are not very sensitive. The toxic effect is fully developed often only after a long time (many hours). http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/holistic_alternative_medicine/news.php?q=1232051103
Silver (Ag)
Silver was known to ancient Hebrews, Greeks and the earliest Egyptians. Silver was known to the alchemists as a female element closely related to the Moon. The Moon is the "lesser light to rule the night" of Genesis. This is representative of the female, left-hand side and the dream and intuitive part of our brain and minds.
Isn't it strange that the fictional vampires roamed at night and the only thing they feared or were ruled by was silver? As we will see later - silver is indeed deadly to bloodsuckers, bacteria and parasites that feed from other life forms. Is it then strange silver represents the night-side of our characters and lives as believed by the ancients? Divine Triplet or the Law of One in considering Gold, Silver & Platinum as applied to the Mind, Body & Spirit
Diamagnetic Property
"Keely states "The diamagnetic receding action of the metal silver, which it exhibits towards an alternating magnetic flow is caused by "some 800,000 corpuscular percussions" per second - interatomic bombardment or more exactly expressed, "intersympathetic vibrations." [Snell Manuscript]
See Also
Colloidal Silver
German Silver
Gold
oligodynamic effect
oligodynamic
Our Silver Works - colloidal silver
Oxygen
Platinum
Table of the Elements - Russell Elements