JULY
Motto: I build a lighted House and therein dwell.
Phenomena:
JULY 2024
2 Mercury trine Neptune
3 Mercury opposition Pluto, Venus trine Saturn
5 New Moon
11 Sun trine Saturn, Venus trine Neptune
12 Venus opposition Pluto
13 Moon’s first quarter
15 Mars conjunction Uranus
21 Mercury square Uranus, Full Moon
22 Sun trine Neptune, Sun enters Leo, Mars trine Pluto
23 Sun opposition Pluto
28 Moon’s last quarter
Many Years ago:
JULY
July 1
- Gottfried Leibnitz was born this day. He was a German philosopher, mathematician, alchemist and a member of rosicrucian Brotherhood. He devised his metaphysical theory of Monads. He also invented the binary arithmetic based on the dual system, which became the basis of all modern computers.
- European Community: This day in 1967 the European Community is formally created.
- SOS: SOS was adopted in 1908 as the international distress signal. This distress signal was first adopted and became the worldwide standard under the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention, which was signed on November 3, 1906.
- Tsatsos: Tsatsos Konstantinos, Greek politician, philosopher and president of Greece (1975-1980), was born this day in 1899.
- Library: This day in 1862 was founded the Russian State Library located in Moscow. It is the largest in the country and the third largest in the world for its collection of books (17.5 million).
July 2
- Steam engine: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine in 1698.
- Hesse: Hermann Hesse, a German writer an Nobel laureate born this day in 1877. Hermann Hesse was a German poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores the individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
July 3
- Janácek: Czech composer Leoš Janácek, born this day in 1854. Janáček's later works are his most celebrated. They include the symphonic poem Sinfonietta, the oratorio Glagolitic Mass, the rhapsody Taras Bulba, two string quartets, other chamber works and operas.
- Julian Assange: Julian Assange, an Australian journalist and Internet activist born this day in 1971. He is best known as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes submissions of secret information, news leaks and classified media from anonymous news sources and whistleblowers.
July 4
- Supernova: The Crab Nebula, the brightest known remnant of a supernova, was first noticed in 1504 by Chinese and Arab astronomers.
July 5
- Inayat Khan: Inayat Khan was born this day in 1882 to a noble Muslim Indian family. Inayat Khan was the founder of The Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism. His message of divine unity focused on the themes of love, harmony and beauty.
July 6
- Dalai Lama: Tenzin Gyatso, the well-known 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet and Nobel Peace Prize laureate born this day in 1935.
July 8
- Kubler-Ross: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., a Swiss American phychiatrist born this day in 1926. She was a pioneer in near-death studies.
- Jinarajadasa: Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa, a theosophist, freemason and president of the Theosophical Society born this day in 1875.
- Evans: Sir Arthur John Evans, a British archaeologist, born this day in 1851. He is well-known for unearthing the palace of Knossos.
July 10
- Carl Orff: Carl Orff a 20th-century German composer, born this day in 1895. He is best known for his work Carmina Burana.
- Tesla: Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer was born this day in 1856. Nikola Tesla was best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
July 11
- Danov: Petar Konstantinov Danov, a Bulgarian spiritual teacher born this day in 1864. He was a spiritual master and founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity.
- Bardaisan: Bardaisan, a Syriac gnostic, born this day in 154 AD. Bardaisan was the founder of the Bardaisanites, and a scientist, scholar, astrologer, philosopher and poet, also renowned for his knowledge of India, on which he wrote a book, now lost.
July 12
- Neruda: Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician and the winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in 1904.
July 13
- John Dee: John Dee, an English astronomer and mathematician and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I, born this day in 1527. He devoted much of his life to the study of astrology, alchemy and Hermetic philosophy.
July 14
- Bergman: Ernst Ingmar Bergman, a Swedish director, writer and producer for film and television, born this day in 1918.
July 15
- Rembrandt: Rembrandt van Rijn, a Dutch painter born this day in 1606. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history.
- Rosetta Stone: The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egypt by Pierre-Francois Bouchard in 1799. The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts, it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
July 16
- Washington: Washington DC was established by Congress in 1790 as the capital of the United States.
- Hijra: The "Hijra" also Hegira, is the migration or journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina between June 21st and July 2nd in 622 AD. The Muslim year during which the Hijra occurred was designated the first year of the Islamic calendar by Umar in 638 or 17 AH (anno hegirae = "in the year of the hijra").
July 18
- Yevtushenko: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a Russian poet, born this day in 1933. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of several films.
July 19
- Seraphim of Sarov: Saint Seraphim of Sarov, was born this day in 1754. He is one of the most renowned Russian mystics in the Orthodox Church. He is generally considered the greatest of the 19th century startsy (elders) and, arguably, the first. He is remembered for extending the teachings of contemplation, theoria and self-denial, and taught that the purpose of the Christian life was to acquire the Holy Spirit.
July 20
- Hillary: Explorer Sir Edmund Hillary - who in 1953, was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, was born this day in 1919 in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Moon landing: On this day in 1969, the Eagle lunar landing module, carrying U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin landed on the Moon.
- Alexander the Great: Greek king of Macedonia and conqueror of Persia born this day in 356 B.C.
July 22
- Friedrich Bessel: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, born this day in 1784, was a German astronomer who made the first measurement of the distance of a star other than the Sun.
July 23
- Heindel: Max Heindel, born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Aarhus, Denmark on July 23, 1865 - was an occultist, astrologer and mystic.
July 24
-Machu Picchu: Hiram Bingham, formally an explorer, treasure hunter and politician from the United States, made public the existence of the Quechua citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911.
July 26
- Huxley: Aldous Huxley, an English writer, was born this day in 1894, in Godalming, Surrey. Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, in particular Vivekananda’s Neo-Vedanta and Universalism.
- Carl Jung: Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded Analytic Psychology, is born this day in 1875.
July 28
- Chavez: Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, born this day in 1954. Chávez was a Venezuelan politician who was the President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. Following Chavism, his own political ideology of Bolivarianism and Socialism of the 21st Century, he focused on implementing socialist reforms in the country as a part of a social project known as the Bolivarian Revolution.
July 29
- Theodorakis: Mikis Theodorakis, a Greek composer, was born this day in 1925. Theodorakis; is a Greek songwriter of over 1000 songs and composer. He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973). He is viewed as Greece's best-known living composer.
Hammarskjold: Dag Hammarskjold, the Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Peace prize Laureate, born this day in 1905.
U Sobhana: Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana, born this day in 1904, was a Burmese Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of Vipassana (Insight) meditation in the West and throughout Asia. In his style of practice, the meditators anchors their attention on the sensations of the rising and falling of the abdomen during breathing, observing carefully any other sensations or thoughts.
- Mahdi: Hujjat ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mahdī is believed to be the Mahdi, an ultimate savior of humankind and the final Imam of the Twelve Imams who will emerge with Isa (Jesus Christ) in order to fulfill their mission of bringing peace and justice to the world.
July 30
- American masonry: The first Masonic Grand Lodge is constituted in Massachusetts in 1733.
- Bagdad: This city is founded by caliph Al-mansur in 762 AC.
1. One cannot fill a vacuum from within itself.
2. When a certain point is reached, pain becomes its own anodyne.
3. Many a man will follow a mis-leader. Few will recognize truth at a glance.
4. Esteem that to be eminently good, which, when communicated to another, will be increased to yourself.
5. Be persuaded that those things are not your riches which you do not possess in the penetralia of the reasoning power.
6. As many passions of the soul, so many fierce and savage despots.
7. No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
8. It is the business of a musician to harmonize every instrument, but of a well-educated man to adapt himself harmoniously to every fortune.
9. It is excellent to impede an unjust man; but if this be not possible, it is excellent not to act in conjunction with him.
10. Sin should be abstained from, not through fear, but for the sake of the becoming.
11. Vehement desires about any one thing render the soul blind with respect to other things.
12. Many men who have not learnt to argue rationally, still live according to reason.
13. The equal is beautiful in everything, but excess and defect do not appear so.
14. It is the property of a divine intellect to be always intently thinking about the beautiful.
15. As two pieces of wood may come together in the ocean, and having met, may separate again; like this is the meeting of mortals.
16. Youth is like a mountain-torrent; wealth is like the dust on one's feet; manhood is fugitive as a water-drop; life is like foam.
17. Who fulfills not duty with steadfast mind, duty which opens the portals of bliss, surprised by old age and remorse, he is burned by the fire of grief.
18. Even in a forest hermitage, sin prevails over the unholy; the restraint of the senses in one's own house, this is asceticism.
19. Who performs a right action, free from impurity, the house of that man is a forest hermitage.
20. As the streams of a river flow on, and return not, so pass away the days and nights, taking away the lives of men.
21. Unenduring are youth, beauty, life, wealth, lordship, the society of the beloved; let not the wise be deluded by these.
22. In this world, fugitive as tempest-driven waves, death for another is a rich prize earned by virtue in a former birth.
23. The shadows of a cloud, the favor of the base, new corn, a flower, these last only a little time; so it is with youth and riches.
24. Let the wise think on wisdom as unfading and immortal; let him fulfill his duty as though Death grasped him by the hair.
25. If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.
26. Pagodas are measured by their shadows, and great men by their enviers.
27. The sage does not say what he does; but he does nothing that cannot be said.
28. The man who finds pleasure in vice, and pain in virtue, is still a novice in both.
29. The wise man does good as naturally as he breathes.
30. He is a man who does not turn away from what he has said.
31. The heart of the fool is in his tongue; the tongue of the wise is in his heart.
