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[[H. P. Blavatsky]] has this to say about Lucifer:
| name              = Percy Williams Bridgman
 
| image            = Bridgman.jpg
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The literal words used, and their translation, are: "Aïk Naphalta Mi-Shamayim Hillel Ben-Shahar Nigdata La-Aretz Cholesch Al-Goüm," or, "How art thou fallen from the heavens, Hillel, Son of the Morning, how art thou cast down unto the earth, thou who didst cast down the nations." Here the word, translated "Lucifer," is הֵילֵל, Hillel, and its meaning is "shining brightly or gloriously."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. VIII (Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1960), 27.</ref>
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1882|04|21|df=yes}}
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| birth_place      = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], [[United States|USA]]
 
| death_date        = {{death date and age|1961|08|20|1882|04|01|df=yes}}
== Notes ==
| death_place      = [[Randolph, New Hampshire]], [[United States|USA]]
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| death_cause      = [[Suicide]]
| nationality      = [[United States]]
| field            = [[Physics]]
| work_institutions = [[Harvard University]]
| alma_mater        = [[Harvard University]]
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Wallace Clement Sabine]]
| doctoral_students = [[John C. Slater]]<br />[[John Hasbrouck Van Vleck]]
| known_for        = High Pressure Physics
| influences        =  
| influenced        =  
| prizes            = [[Rumford Prize]] (1917)<br />[[Elliott Cresson Medal]] (1932)<br>[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1946)
}}

Revision as of 15:16, 6 June 2012

H. P. Blavatsky has this to say about Lucifer:

The literal words used, and their translation, are: "Aïk Naphalta Mi-Shamayim Hillel Ben-Shahar Nigdata La-Aretz Cholesch Al-Goüm," or, "How art thou fallen from the heavens, Hillel, Son of the Morning, how art thou cast down unto the earth, thou who didst cast down the nations." Here the word, translated "Lucifer," is הֵילֵל, Hillel, and its meaning is "shining brightly or gloriously."[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. VIII (Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1960), 27.
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