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28-668: Residents included Nictzin Dyalhis ’s first wife and Joe Root . Known staff included Penny Colman ’s father and Philipp Schwartz as well as Dr. Hanus Jiri Grosz, a Czech-born psychiatrist who went on to pioneer the use of group therapy in the U.S. This article relating to a hospital in Pennsylvania is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nictzin Dyalhis Nictzin Wilstone Dyalhis (June 4, 1873 – May 8, 1942)

56-589: A box nailer in 1918, a chemist in 1920, a machinist in 1930, and a writer for magazines in 1940. About 1912 he married Harriet Weber Lord, daughter of Samuel and Fidelia A. (Phillips) Lord of Sugar Grove , Warren County , in northwestern Pennsylvania . In 1918 and 1920 the couple was living in Sugar Grove, in the latter year with Harriet's widowed mother. Harriet was committed to the Warren State Hospital there about 1928, where she spent

84-697: A daughter, Mary Agnes Dyalhis, born in Waynesboro in 1932. In the 1930 and 1940 censuses, his May 1939 Social Security application, and 1942 draft registration Nictzin consistently misrepresents his birthdate as June 4, 1880 and his birthplace as Pima, Arizona ; Mary/Netulyani also made a fraudulent Social Security application in September, 1938. The Dyalhises were living in Fruitland, Maryland in 1940 and 1942; Nictzin died in nearby Salisbury on May 8, 1942. His first wife Harriet passed away at age 84 in

112-454: Is generally believed to be populated by angels , spirits or other immaterial beings. In the late 19th and early 20th century the term was popularised by Theosophy and neo- Rosicrucianism . Another view holds that the astral plane or world, rather than being some kind of boundary area crossed by the soul, is the entirety of spirit existence or spirit worlds to which those who die on Earth go, and where they live out their non-physical lives. It

140-447: Is light and there is but one long day. In his book Autobiography of a Yogi , Paramahansa Yogananda provides details about the astral planes learned from his guru. Yogananda claims that nearly all individuals enter the astral planes after death. There they work out the seeds of past karma through astral incarnations, or (if their karma requires) they return to earthly incarnations for further refinement. Once an individual has attained

168-535: Is most easily and readily categorized as occult fantasy, involving spiritual travel on the astral plane, journeys to Hell, and reincarnation. In "The Eternal Conflict" (1925) and "The Dark Lore"(1927) adventurers in the astral plane encounter the traditional Judaeo-Christian Hell . "The Red Witch" (1932), "The Sapphire Goddess" (1934; variant title "The Sapphire Siren"), "The Sea-Witch" (1937) and "The Heart of Atlantan"(1940) all feature souls that transmigrate across time or undergo reincarnation to enact conflicts from

196-565: Is uncertain. His World War I draft registration card establishes his full name as Nictzin Wilstone Dyalhis, but it marks the earliest known appearance of this name. His first wife's death certificate gives his first name as "Fred", and he has been thought to have possibly altered his surname to Dyalhis from a more prosaic "Dallas"—in his stories, Dyalhis played with common spellings, so that "Earth" becomes Aerth and "Venus", Venhez . According to L. Sprague de Camp , however, Dyalhis

224-488: Is understood by adherents that all consciousness resides in the astral plane. Some writers conflate this realm with heaven or paradise or union with God itself, while others do not. Paramahansa Yogananda wrote in Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), "The astral universe ... is hundreds of times larger than the material universe ... [with] many astral planets, teeming with astral beings." The "World of Al-Ghaib " and

252-437: Is visible and known. According to Max Heindel 's Rosicrucian writings, desire-stuff may be described as a type of force-matter, in incessant motion, responsive to the slightest feeling . The desire world is also said to be the abode of the dead for some time subsequent to death. It is also the home of the archangels . In the higher regions of the desire world thoughts take a definite form and color perceptible to all, all

280-580: The Brotherhood of Purity and others, when translated into Latin in the Norman era , were to have a profound effect upon European medieval alchemy and astrology . By the 14th century Dante was describing his own imaginary journey through the astral spheres of Paradise . Throughout the Renaissance , philosophers, Paracelsians , Rosicrucians , and alchemists continued to discuss the nature of

308-517: The "World of Barzakh " are related concepts in Islam (also the concept of 'âlam al-mithâl " imaginal world " in Sufism ). In Judaism , it is known as the "World of Yetzirah ", according to Lurianic Kabbalah . Plato and Aristotle taught that the stars were composed of a type of matter different from the four earthly (classical) elements – a fifth, ethereal element or quintessence. In

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336-459: The "astral mysticism" of the classical world the human psyche was composed of the same material, thus accounting for the influence of the stars upon human affairs. In his commentaries on Plato's Timaeus , Proclus wrote the following: Man is a little world (mikros cosmos). For, just like the Whole, he possesses both mind and reason, both a divine and a mortal body. He is also divided up according to

364-784: The 1930 census he was reported to have been born about 1880 in Arizona to parents also born in that state. In bibliographic sources, his year of birth was usually cited (with a question mark) as 1879; Dziemianowicz gives it as 1880; and he was speculated to have been born in England—;or Pima, Arizona. Among the imaginative readers of his stories, Dyalhis acquired a reputation for possessing unusual abilities and an exotic history as an adventurer and world traveler. The known facts of his life are more prosaic, mostly centering around Pennsylvania and Maryland. At some time during his youth he lost one eye, as noted on his draft card. He worked as

392-444: The 7 Cosmic Planes The Seven-fold constitution of Man The Ten-fold constitution of Man Sephirot Ray of Creation According to various occult teachings, the astral plane can be visited consciously through astral projection , meditation and mantra , near death experience , lucid dreaming , hypnosis , or other means. Individuals that are trained in the use of the astral vehicle can separate their consciousness in

420-716: The Moon. Such doctrines were commonplace in mystery-schools and Hermetic and gnostic sects throughout the Roman Empire . Among Muslims the "astral" world-view was soon rendered orthodox by Quranic references to the Prophet's ascent through the seven heavens. Scholars took up the Greek Neoplatonist accounts as well as similar material in Hindu and Zoroastrian texts. The expositions of Ibn Sina (i.e.Avicenna),

448-537: The Warren State Hospital on August 20, 1959, and his second wife Mary died in April, 1977. Their daughter Mary Posavec died in 2009. Dyalhis's earliest stories, including "When the Green Star Waned" and its sequel "The Oath of Hul Jok", are fairly firmly in the science fiction genre; the former is the source of the earliest known example of the term "blaster" in reference to a ray gun. Yet his overall output

476-399: The astral vehicle from the physical body at will. The first stage in development, according to William Walker Atkinson (also known as Yogi Ramacharaka), is "mastery of the physical body and its care and attention", which pertains not only to the physical body but also to its double in the astral. In addition, one must spend time tuning the "instinctive mind". The first three subdivisions of

504-689: The astral world intermediate between Earth and the divine. Once the telescope established that no spiritual heaven was visible around the Solar System , the idea was superseded in mainstream science. Gross and subtle bodies 1. Spiritual / Divine / Logoic / Mahaparanirvanic plane /Adi 2. Spiritual / Monadic / Paranirvanic plane /Anupapaduka 3. Spiritual / Pneuma / Nirvanic / Atmic plane 4. Spiritual / Soul / Causal / Intuitional / Noetic / Buddhic plane 5 Mental /Manasic/ Causal / Intellectual plane 6. Astral / Emotional plane 7. Material - Ethereal plane The 7 Worlds and

532-399: The instinctive mind are passions, desires, and lusts. The second stage is the intellect, otherwise known as the sharpening of the mind. Someone operating largely out of the instinctive mind would "have only a glimmering of intellect", similarly those who are centered in the intellect would only have an inkling of the third, 'spiritual' stage of development. Once both earlier stages are completed

560-614: The past. Dyalhis' last four stories have been described as " sword and sorcery ", since they feature heroes battling against malevolent supernatural forces. In a field of popular literature characterized by prolific production, Dyalhis gained a kind of reverse fame by the extreme paucity of his output: he published only eight stories in Weird Tales over a fifteen-year period. Several additional stories appeared in Adventure and Ghost Stories magazine, and gangster fiction pulps. In

588-485: The remainder of her life. Nictzin moved on, though she was likely unaware of it; in 1930 and 1940 the census shows her as still married, and on her death certificate she is listed as a widow. Nonetheless, Nictzin evidently remarried. The 1930 census shows him near the southern border of Pennsylvania, living as a wedded couple with one Netulyani Dyahlis in Waynesboro . Her actual name was Mary G. Sheddy. They had

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616-401: The spiritual mind can be awakened. In early theosophical literature the term "astral" may refer to the aether . Later theosophical authors such as Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater make the astral finer than the etheric plane but "denser" than the mental plane. In order to create a unified view of seven bodies and remove earlier Sanskrit terms, an etheric plane was introduced and

644-413: The term "astral body" was used to replace the former kamarupa - sometimes termed the body of emotion, illusion or desire . Some of those propounding such claims explain their belief that letting go of desires is spiritual progress by noting that, the more one lets go of earthly 'desire' feelings, the less tied down to the physical world, a world of illusion, and the more connected to the astral, where all

672-430: The two stories from Adventure and the two from Underworld . Astral plane The astral plane , also called the astral realm or the astral world , is a plane of existence postulated by classical, medieval, oriental, esoteric , and New Age philosophies and mystery religions . It is the world of the celestial spheres , crossed by the soul in its astral body on the way to being born and after death , and

700-459: The universe. It is for this reason, you know, that some are accustomed to say that his consciousness corresponds with the nature of the fixed stars, his reason in its contemplative aspect with Saturn and in its social aspect with Jupiter, (and) as to his irrational part, the passionate nature with Mars, the eloquent with Mercury, the appetitive with Venus, the sensitive with the Sun and the vegetative with

728-481: The verdict of one SF commentator, Dyalhis "established a reputation in Weird Tales out of proportion to either the quality or quantity of his contributions." Yet his stories were very popular with readers, and a few, notably "The Sapphire Goddess," have been featured in anthologies. Nine of Dyalhis's stories were included in the collection The Sapphire Goddess , published in 2018, the first time his work appears to have been collected in print. The collection leaves out

756-450: Was an American chemist and short story writer who specialized in the genres of science fiction and fantasy . He wrote as Nictzin Dyalhis. During his lifetime he attained a measure of celebrity as a writer for the pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales . Firm facts about Dyalhis's life are few, as he coupled his limited output of fiction with a penchant for personal privacy, an avoidance of publicity, and intentional deception. Even his name

784-606: Was his actual surname, inherited from his Welsh father, and his given name Nictzin was also authentic, bestowed on him due to his father's fascination with the Aztecs. His World War I draft registration card and 1920 Census record establish his birthdate as June 4, 1873, and his state of birth as Massachusetts . According to the 1920 census, his father was also born in Massachusetts, and his mother in Guatemala . But in

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