Biographical Register

Key Figures in the Home Study Course and Cosmogony

• Walter Russell (1871–1963): American polymath, sculptor, painter, architect, musician, and natural philosopher; author of The Universal One (1926), The Secret of Light (1947), and co-author with Lao Russell of the Home Study Course (1950–1952).

• Lao Russell (1904–1988): Philosopher, author, and co-founder with Walter Russell of the University of Science and Philosophy at Swannanoa Palace, Waynesboro, Virginia.

• Nikola Tesla (1856–1943): Electrical pioneer and contemporary admirer of Walter Russell’s wave-field cosmology.

• Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907): Russian chemist whose 1904 periodic table is critiqued and contrasted with Russell’s 9-octave spiral chart in Lesson 47 (Figs. 175–177).

• Robert Kennedy Duncan (1868–1914): Author of The New Knowledge (1905), cited by Russell in Fig. 175 on the Periodic Law as “God’s alphabet of the universe.”