SIC ITUR AD ASTRA!!!
The Key to Freedom and Human Survival is now Here with the Publication of Professor Andrew J. Galambos’ THEORY OF VOLITIONAL SCIENCE in his Magnum Opus, SIC ITUR AD ASTRA!!!
Professor Galambos intended for his ideas to be published. He said:
“There will be a book, and the book, of course, puts an intellectual responsibility and an intellectual respectability upon an idea far in excess of what it has when it’s in oral form only. Please note that Isaac Newton did not do very much with the theory of gravitation as long as it was not in printed form. When it was in printed form, it changed the world completely, even though he wrote it in Latin.”
—Andrew J. Galambos, SIC ITUR AD ASTRA, V-50: The Bridge to Freedom, Workshop 3, Part A, pp. 1006-07
Ladies and Gentlemen: As Professor Galambos promised, “there will be a book.” The time for that book is here. Spaceland Publications proudly presents this limited first edition of the long-awaited magnum opus of Professor Andrew J. Galambos, SIC ITUR AD ASTRA, Latin for This is the Way to the Stars:
THIS IS YOUR ONE OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE AND OWN THE FIRST EDITION OF SIC ITUR AD ASTRA AUTHORIZED BY PROFESSOR GALAMBOS AND COMPLETED BY HIS PERSONALLY SELECTED LITERARY EXECUTOR, WILLIAM W. MARTIN. DON’T MISS THIS ONCE IN A LIFETIME HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY. EXTREMELY LIMITED SUPPLY! AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH SPACELAND PUBLICATIONS.
At Spaceland Publications we are dedicated to producing accurate and complete books of and about Professor Andrew J. Galambos as demonstrated by the previously released STIP-2: A Lecture Series on Nothing, “Symposium on Freedom” Lectures, The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine, and Your Freedom, and V-50: The Basic Course of the Volitional Sciences 3-Session Introduction. Now, in releasing the professor’s magnum opus, Spaceland Publications is certifying with our Certificate of Authenticity and with our brand name that SIC ITUR AD ASTRA has been produced to the same exact, complete, and uncompromising standards as these earlier books and most importantly, to the exact specifications of Andrew J. Galambos himself.
Aldous Huxley wrote:
“By means of ever more effective methods of mind manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the more quaint old forms…elections, parliaments, supreme courts and all the rest…will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly like they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile, the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite will quietly run the show as they see fit.”
Sound familiar? It should. Huxley’s prophecies are taking place before your very eyes and you are powerless to do anything about it, until now.
Everyone is for freedom. But what is freedom? Professor Galambos defines freedom as that societal condition that exists when every individual has full (i.e. 100%) control over his own property. Anything less is not acceptable. Is it possible? Yes it is! With SIC ITUR AD ASTRA you now have the blueprint to freedom.
Politics is a processionary caterpillar, a dead end, a form of enslavement of the productive and innovative people who matter the most to mankind’s survival. Freedom has never been found, nor will it ever result from political action, and certainly not in so-called “democracies.”
SIC ITUR AD ASTRA contains the principles and technologies that will enable man to ultimately coexist with the cosmos. But time is running out! This book is more, much more, than a collector’s item. It is the roadmap to freedom, indeed, “The way to the stars.” Read these fifteen volumes, devour them, study them, make their principles and technologies a part of you, then apply them to your own lives, always with gratitude and integrity. If you succeed, not only will you possess an education second to none and a happiness often sought but rarely attained, but what is more, you may very well find yourself remembered in history as the “Halley” of Andrew J. Galambos, the man or woman responsible for the entrepreneurial establishment of freedom.
Fifty-three years after Professor Andrew J. Galambos announced he was ready to begin authoring the book of his theories of volitional science, twenty-seven years after his death, and twenty-one years after his literary executor, William W. Martin, put his stamp of approval on his completion of the work, the first edition of this magnum opus is available for sale! This fifteen-volume exceedingly limited edition has been produced to the standards the professor demanded and will remain for all time the only authorized edition approved by Professor Galambos and with the imprimatur of his appointed literary executor. This is the real deal, ladies and gentlemen, and your chance to own a first edition of the most important and critical book of all time.
ANDREW J. GALAMBOS AND WILLIAM W. MARTIN ON THE IMPORTANCE OF SIC ITUR AD ASTRA HAVING THE IMPRIMATUR OF THE LITERARY EXECUTOR:
“Know this, the real Sic Itur Ad Astra—not the stolen, prematurely published, adulterated version of one of its early, incomplete and therefore unmarketable volumes—has been prepared, organized and formatted precisely and exactly as Galambos wanted it done. What is more, it has the imprimatur of his literary executor. Any other version of this revolutionary fifteen-volumed achievement, even if it were a perfect parallel of the authentic work, could not have been done right, as it would be produced by someone who did not have Galambos’ permission.”
—ORBIT! William W. Martin, p. xi
“Let’s say in that case the world has attained freedom through a book which is based on my ideas but has been written by someone else without my permission. I have lost control over my property. What’s your sercurity? The definition [of freedom] has just been contradicted. You don’t have freedom.”
—SIC ITUR AD ASTRA, V-50X: Session 3, Part C, p. 191
Above are all fifteen volumes of Sic Itur Ad Astra. (above left is a philatelic cachet honoring Archimedes, Galileo, and Newton put out by the Free Enterprise Institute celebrating the 300th anniversary of the publication of Principia Mathematica; above middle a photo of Galambos’ father, Joseph B. Galambos, the single largest input into the theory of primary property, for the centennial of his birth in 1982; and above right a brochure for Galambos’ course P100/101 titled: Physics—The Basis of all Knowledge) SIC ITUR, 7734 pages in all, encompasses the professor’s theories of capitalism (V-50), primary property (V-201), V-50X, and the Joe Pyne interview all transcribed from the original course tapes with nothing edited out other than, in the words of William Martin, his literary executor, “his slips of tongue, sometimes an unfinished sentence, occasionally those moments when he was thinking out loud while unscrambling a train of thought or a confusion of dates or numbers, or when he made a false start or ventured a tentative sentence that he verbally erased for another. Other than this, everything was kept just as it was… even his beliefs in falsely reported history and protracted wartime propaganda were kept just as he said them since these were beliefs that had motivated him to create his theories.”
Also included is the revolutionary new kind of index developed by William Martin, the two volume set he called the “Master Concordex.” 1254 pages of perhaps the most comprehensive and explicit index ever compiled, and in a book truly worthy of such a compilation. The Concordex is an education unto itself. The books also include the hundreds of original slides the professor used during his presentations, most in color and presented exactly when the professor did so during the lectures. A Master Table of Contents is also included with over 4500 headers used in the volumes representing the topics covered by the professor. Finally, this special edition consisting of just fifty sets are, per the professor’s instructions, hardback. They are printed using off-white, high quality, 70# acid free durable paper and each volume is specially numbered and stamped one through fifty.
The photos below depict two possible scenarios for the future of our species. Either the destruction of everything in a nuclear holocaust (or worse), or expansion into the cosmos with a short-term goal being the Andromeda Galaxy. What factors determine which outcome becomes reality? What can you as an individual do to influence the outcome? Will our species have a glorious future with the possibility of existing as long as the cosmos itself or will “the ants inherit the earth?” What path do you think we are headed for? Are you going to accept this fate as inevitable or stand up and make something of your life by joining the idealogical flowstream? Professor Galambos often said, “The future belongs to those who build it.” Are you destined to be a builder? If so it is time to educate yourself in the theory of volitional science and join us at spaceland publications in our quest for a durable society.
CLICK ON THE PHOTOS BELOW TO HEAR PROFESSOR GALAMBOS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF SIC ITUR AD ASTRA
There will be a book, and the book, of course, puts an intellectual responsibility and an intellectual respectability upon an idea far in excess of what it has when it’s in oral form only. Please note that Isaac Newton did not do very much with the theory of gravitation as long as it was not in printed form. When it was in printed form, it changed the world completely, even though he wrote it in Latin.—SIC ITUR AD ASTRA, V-50: The Bridge to Freedom, Workshop 3, Part A, pp. 1006-07
Giordano Bruno. Reduced to a pile of ashes, his books survived. There are books of Giordano Bruno in existence today. And his books influenced the world forever after—or again, let me reduce it to as long as man endures, which can be as long as the duration of the universe, if we don’t blow it in the next century or more immediately, in the next decade. Giordano Bruno, who is dead and wiped out, his books are not dead. His ideas are not dead. And so, this is the permanent recording.— SIC ITUR AD ASTRA, V-201: Session 32, Part A, Vol. V, p. 298
Once Newton published Principia Mathematica, his work was here for the ages, for the duration of man’s civilization. And what’s more, after that, all those yapping dogs in his wake who were yapping at his heels and saying, “you’re wrong.” Or, “This is no good.” Or quibbling about this. Or, “you stole this from me, Mr. Newton, I did this first.” All these little yapping dogs passed away. There’s an old saying that dogs bark but the caravan passes on. When Newton published that, not only was the idea secured forever—well, let’s say as long as the human species endures—what’s more, his credit for it was assured. And ultimately all of the yapping dogs who were annoying him, who chased him into the mint and destroyed his personal happiness—that was behind him. And pretty soon there was no question as to who discovered the law of gravitation, who developed the World Machine. Everything else was so puny by comparison. These little ideas and idealets of other people, the Robert Hookes who said they developed gravitation, was a joke. A total joke. He couldn’t even prove that the planets moved in ellipses. If he can’t prove that very basic application, how can he claim to have developed the theory? The thing became a joke. A very bad joke. It injured Hooke. In the same way publication is the strongest form of protection for an idea, as long as it’s a cosmological concept. There’s no real basic hazard in that. You don’t even need my theory to protect the idea’s authorship on that basis, as long as the book exists.—SIC ITUR AD ASTRA, V-201: Session 32, Part B, Vol. V, p. 297
LITERARY EXECUTOR WILLIAM MARTIN ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE THEORY OF VOLITIONAL SCIENCE AND THE TYPE OF PEOPLE IT IS LOOKING FOR
EXCERPT FROM LITERARY EXECUTOR WILLIAM MARTIN’S LETTER TO THE FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE MARKET ON THE KIND OF PEOPLE IT WILL TAKE TO BUILD FREEDOM
“Once every few hundred years a great new revolution is born. It is liberating, exhilarating, full of dynamite. It rescues souls from estranged and sick lives. It does great work. As time passes its beneficiaries grow rich, and fulfilled. Their creative fires do not go out. They make a new world. Such occurred after Newton’s integration of the physical sciences, Darwin’s integration of biology, Maxwell’s integration of electro-magnetism and light…Now we have the integration of the social sciences. A revolution so great that all the others pale in comparison. Without this last revolution all the others are doomed to extinction.
I am looking for students and worthy investors, men rich and poor whose inner lives have grown dim. This is not a religion. It is not politics. It is a great proprietary venture, a new world outlook, the beginning of true freedom.”—William W. Martin, letter to Erik Falvey, October 24, 2007
“I am sixty-three now, my years are growing fewer, and the work obviously is larger than I can finish in my lifetime. In short, I am seeking my successor. I am also looking for intellectuals who have fire in their bellies, revolutionaries who are unadulterated by flatland, radicals who are conversant with literature and have a burning sense of destiny in themselves. The time to build is now. There will never be another like it. Years ago I read that Lenin was once approached by his cronies who were excited about some new prospects for the cause. With a flick of his hand he said, ‘Get rid of them, they are not on a furlough from death.’ It was a great statement. Uttered for the wrong reason of course. But a great statement nonetheless because it applies even more to the building of freedom. And herein lies one of the challenges of this letter, namely, the creation of an inner core of intellectuals who will take root and sprout and produce a harvest of a hundredfold. If this does not come to pass, I will die without a successor and the work of getting the remaining achievements of the professor published will have to wait, as in the days of the great cathedral building, the arrival of worthy craftsmen and scholars.”—William W. Martin, Orbit!, pp. 406-07
EXCERPT FROM THE FOREWORD TO SIC ITUR AD ASTRA BY WILLIAM W. MARTIN
“For the first time in history, a definitive and universal theory of human volition now exists in book form which explains our behavior and our own events and puts them in a logical picture; a feat, as I say, never before accomplished, or, to quote the professor, even imagined ‘in all the millennia since man has had a recorded history and even before that, too.’ In fact, the significance of the knowledge contained in Sic Itur Ad Astra is so stupendous, so monumental in every way, it almost defies belief, even for those who were in Galambos’ market and knew the professor firsthand. In his great course V-201 Galambos said, ‘I wonder how many of you realize that this is the difference between your survival as a species and your extinction as a species? I wonder how many of you have even the slightest sensitivity to that?'”
“Go where you will in any field of human accomplishment, explore the lives of its greatest innovators, exhaust the frontiers of what they knew—from the moment you begin your investigations to the moment when you draw past the furthermost of these luminaries and find yourself alone, you will always see before you one solitary stellar-like object, undimmed and constant: the inexhaustible radiance of Galambos’ achievement. That luminosity, never before attained in human history, permeates every page of these revolutionary volumes and completely justifies the Latin title of this greatest of all books. Galambos learned its meaning in childhood from his Father, and loved to quote it when concluding V-201. Translated from the Latin it means: ‘This is the way to the stars.'”
THIS IS YOUR ONE OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE AND OWN THE FIRST EDITION OF SIC ITUR AD ASTRA AUTHORIZED BY PROFESSOR GALAMBOS AND COMPLETED BY HIS PERSONALLY SELECTED LITERARY EXECUTOR, WILLIAM W. MARTIN. DON’T MISS THIS ONCE IN A LIFETIME HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY. EXTREMELY LIMITED SUPPLY! AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH SPACELAND PUBLICATIONS.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Following are lightly edited excerpts from a William W. Martin interview explaining what volitional science is, why it is important, and what SIC ITUR AD ASTRA is all about:
WHAT IS VOLITIONAL SCIENCE?
Volition refers to the ability to make choices. And science is organized knowledge. For the first time in the history of the world, we have an integrated science that refers to volitional interactions. This has never happened before. There have been approximations to it. There have been attempts at it. But nobody has ever succeeded. We have to grow up now and begin again, and we begin with the theory of freedom contained in SIC ITUR AD ASTRA which is the great integration between volition and physics. They’re now unified, using the same epistemology.
WHAT IS SIC ITUR AD ASTRA?
SIC ITUR AD ASTRA is a unique publication of a very great scientist’s work. Professor Galambos never did write any of his theories out. Fortunately for the world, and for us, he recorded all of his lectures on reel-to-reel tapes and we have been able to transcribe the material on those tapes down to the last syllable. And from those transcripts, edit—very sparsely—what he said. And organize it in a way that reads very rationally and very elegantly, I should say. Professor Galambos always said that repetition is the mother of learning. And it’s a very effective, pedagogical tool. And sometimes when his sentences would appear to be run on, we would not try to rewrite that or paraphrase it at all. We would simply put a comma in, here and there. And the beauty of it was that, after a while, we found out that this had its own unique style and it was cumulative. And we found also that when you read the transcripts of his live lectures, you had a profit from it that was an example, in the sense that you remembered so much more. And it’s pleasurable reading because it’s got a homely touch to it, like a fireside chat.
SIC ITUR AD ASTRA IS ON PAR WITH ISAAC NEWTON’S PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA
In SIC ITUR AD ASTRA we have produced to the world something that is of the caliber of a Principia Mathematica, by Newton. Where you’re actually almost there… present… live… in his lectures. Galambos often said that it is not enough to teach the content of a theory, you have to also teach its history and its philosophical basis which made it possible. Well, here we get it all. We get the historical background. We get the man, as you say, and all the flavor of that, along with the beautiful philosophical basis that supports and justifies and renders valid all of his great scientific principles that make it possible for man, someday, to be completely free for the first time.
WHY IS SIC ITUR AD ASTRA SO LARGE?
The voluminous writings are all necessary because there is an awful lot to know and there are many delusions that man has to get rid of. And this really is not too much different from learning the theory of relativity. If you wanted to learn the theory of celestial mechanics, you would have to pay the price.
SIC ITUR AS ASTRA IS AN EDUCATION
Professor Galambos had a very unique attitude about education. He taught that the subject was basically the transmission of absolutely right concepts to those who could understand them and derive them and who, furthermore, would go out and live them and apply them in the real world, which he defined as the world which is derived from rationality and morality, those terms being defined absolutely. Very few people will ever pay the price to become truly educated.
SIC ITUR AD ASTRA IS UNIQUE AND ONE OF A KIND
Nowhere is this taught anywhere in the colleges. Nowhere is this taught in the universities. It’s not taught in the magazines. You can’t go to any bookstore. You can’t get it anywhere. You get it through what I would call the underground press. You’ve got to go where men chase the Holy Grail of knowledge and travel light. They will sacrifice everything for it.
WHY IS SIC ITUR AD ASTRA IMPORTANT?
How can I emphasize the magnitude of this late addition to the subject of philosophy, without which there is no hope for mankind? None! Absolutely none. Because we have the ability to destroy ourselves and we don’t have the ability to prevent that from happening. We have a doomsday machine. We have for the first time a non-theological, non-science-fiction doomsday machine where the body of the science of the world is controlled by the brain of a Frankenstein. The collective insane minds of political opportunists and those who are behind them. So this final addition is all-important. It’s morality, non-theological and non-mystical. And mankind, for the first time, can have a cosmic destiny. That’s what he was born for.
IS SIC ITUR AD ASTRA FOR EVERYONE?
We’re hungry, we’re thirsty. We’re not unique. I mean, there’s plenty of potentially great men. They’re lost. They’re at sea, and my heart goes out for them. And that’s why I am doing this. [Martin gestures to Sic Itur Ad Astra on his desk.] But this will never reach the masses. This is for the progeny that must come first.
HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE RIGHT?
Developing a Razor-Sharp Criterion
Now, let’s go on to the subject that I really started to give, and I’m almost finished with the first half of the tape, so, it was sort of a half-session improvement on the course. I will now bring up what I asked the question for before I came to this. How many of you believe that there are absolutes as to right and wrong? Well, the reason I asked the question in the first place was, if there are absolutes as to whether there are right or wrong, you can immediately have a razor-sharp, precision distinction, as to the ego major and ego minor.
A person who has a positive ego for reasons that are right, and a person who has a positive ego—which is superficially the same thing—for reasons that are wrong, this is not a matter of opinion, this is not a matter of conjecture. This is not a matter of checking with your friends and neighbors and associates and compatriots to find out, how many of you agree with the other fellow and how many agree with me in order to find out who’s really right? Because that’s relative to other people’s opinion and not to absolutes. But if there’s a razor-sharp criterion, and if there is a razor-sharp criterion, then how do you identify that criterion and how does it manifest itself?
How Do You Know You Are Right?
Question one: How do you identify the criterion? That’s already been answered in session two and three of V-50, a most useful and practical course. True, valid, moral. True is observationally corroborable. Valid leads to intellectual generalizations called conclusions of arguments, which are logical—that is logical which is valid, and that which is illogical is invalid. Valid is such that the conclusions that you arrive at which are generalizations that can be repeated as to application again and again and again. That the conclusion, every time it is tested for its truth will pass. Therefore, if the conclusion arrived at by a thought process will always produce true conclusions—and always does not mean most of the time, it does mean a majority of the time, it doesn’t mean whenever we can make it to work. It doesn’t even mean a specific percentage; 80% of the time, or 90% of the time or 99% of the time. It doesn’t even mean all but once. “If it only has one failure, we’ll have to skip that, because it has many successes.” It means all of the time it is true. The conclusions that you get by a certain thought process and that thought process is identified as valid.
The two together simultaneously applied will produce a conclusion which is called right in physics. When you do not deal with volitional choices. When you have volitional choices, this will be inadequate, which is why social science is not a science and has always failed to produce useful results and has with the best of desires, attempts, and hopes, and dreams, and prayers—which are irrational to assume it will affect the outcome—has always led to disastrous consequences. And, given long enough, civilizations have tumbled, economies have collapsed, nations have warred, internal parts of nations have civil warred or had insurrections, rebellions, and you always have an endless stream of failures after another. Therefore, you need a third criterion to make it right in volition, and that is morality.
Morality in Volition Is Arrived at Through the Concept of Property
Morality is originally arrived at through a concept of property. Property is an individual volitional being’s life and all non-procreative derivatives of life. Property belongs to its owner. Owner is defined in terms of property. Owner is the person, the individual, who has full, total, moral and permanent control of property until voluntarily transferred where it is possible. That means that primary property cannot be transferred. Secondary can.
Property, therefore, is that characteristic of the derivative of life, volitional life, that is naturally, properly under the control and jurisdiction of the owner. If this is interfered with, or an attempt to interfere with it is made, on a purposeful, intentional basis, that’s called coercion. If that coercion is successfully performed, it is called a crime. This concept of crime, then, is such that it is a successful interference with the property of another such that someone else acquires control of the property other than the owner, without the consent of the owner. Since people want different things they have different preferences, the concept for that is called good.
Good
Good is simply a name assigned to identify any given volitional individual’s preference of something over something else, and the transition from the lower preference to the higher preference—that transition—is called good. Good, incidentally, I call to your attention, does not refer to any status or characteristic, but to a change from a lower to a higher preference. It’s the process of moving up in preference. That is called good. And not good is going from a higher to a lower preference which, of course, is done involuntarily, not because you chose it but because you couldn’t avoid it.
Going from a lower to a higher order of preference transition, is good, but in doing so you might interact with other people and their derivatives, which is called property. Good is subjective to everybody and it’s relative to you. What is good for you may not be good for someone else. But if you make the transition from a lower to a higher order of preference in such a way that it does not in any way interfere with anyone else’s property, then that is called absolute good, because then it has no concern upon other people. If while you’re pursuing what you call good, injures someone else’s property, then you have committed a crime.
Absolute Good
By not committing a crime and not interfering with someone else’s property while you pursue what your own goals are, then you have performed a rarer, but even much more necessary to do act, which is called absolute good. The absoluteness is not in the preference, but in the non-interference with anyone else’s property. It is the same from all points of view. If they disclaim that you have injured them, there’s been no injury. You have no injury. That’s an absolute good.
Morality Deals with Absolutely Good Behavior
Morality deals with behavior which is absolutely good, and anything which does not injure any person’s property [AJG snaps his fingers], anything you do that injures nobody’s property can be said to be moral. If you then add moral to true and valid and make a requirement of both groups—the true and valid is one group which is called rational; and the other group of not interfering with property which is called moral; if they are both to be simultaneously applicable that, then, is right. And that’s an absolute.
—Andrew J. Galambos: PBVS-274, Session 11, Part A
JUST A FEW EXAMPLES OF THE 739 SLIDES, MOST IN COLOR, WHICH PROFESSOR GALAMBOS USED, ALL OF WHICH ARE IN SIC ITUR AD ASTRA
TWO PAGE SAMPLE OF THE TWO VOLUME 1254 PAGE MASTER CONCORDEX TO SIC ITUR AD ASTRA
A BRIEF HISTORY BEHIND THE WRITING OF SIC ITUR AD ASTRA
In William Martin’s last letter to the pre-publication subscribers in April 1999 he explained how SIC ITUR AD ASTRA would be written, gave his reasons for this, and quoted the professor’s support of these reasons in SIC ITUR AD ASTRA. He also conjectured about why the professor hadn’t written his book, and why Mrs. Galambos and James Gafford had not succeeded after his death. William Martin wrote:
“Instead of trying for a conventional scientific treatise, I thought, why not go for an unconventional approach. It just might be the way to the solution, like Kepler when he finally abandoned his quest for the perfect circular orbit and chose the imperfect ellipse that would lead to his discovery of the first law of planetary motion. Could it be the same for Book 1 [SIC ITUR AD ASTRA]? Could it be that the problem all along had been a presupposition of elegance and order that had put a constraint on writing and prevented key questions from being asked that would open the way to the solution. In other words, why change the language as Mrs. Galambos had done? Why reshuffle things? Why not just skip all the formal stuff and stick with the lectures just as they were given and simply call them the collected lectures of Andrew J. Galambos? Who could tell? Inherent in all the spontaneous imperfections, tangents, asides, imaginary dialogues, and other perturbations and distractions, there might be a major discovery lurking. And that discovery would consist in the one and only true way to bring the world the revolutionary theories of volitional science exactly the way they should be disclosed and no other.
“… I learned it in stages, in accretions large and small. First, there was the decision to add in all the transcribers references to the professor’s and the audience’s laughter. Then there was the discovery that the six session outline should be included, along with the discussion of the money-back guarantee and the proprietary notices. Then there was the further discovery that nothing should interfere with the historical setting of the lectures. Even the original use of the words airplane and forever should be preserved even though the professor changed these later to aeroplane and eternal.
“Still later I asked my wife to audit the transcripts with an ear for ambience that the transcribers missed. Before long she was busy correcting the occasional errors and omissions of the transcribers; adding in more audience participation and atmosphere, even the tinkling of ice as the professor drank from his cup (a happy discovery she announced to me one day). In other words, anything and everything that brought back the actual happenings of the time, which we were beginning to realize was an emotionally necessary concomitant to the actual textual content of the book. It was not just a scientific treatise. Here was a historic disclosure of a revolutionary new science that unlike all other sciences in history impacted on every aspect of human existence.
“And so, gradually, I began to get the idea that if the book had actually been written by the professor, it couldn’t have been written any better than the actual courses were themselves. The very asking of this question was very exciting to me. I mean, how could the professor possibly have improved on what I was doing now, which wasn’t really me but the professor himself, at least to the extent that I could capture him correctly with well-placed subheadings, effective punctuation, formatting of slides, etc. One day in early September of last year [1998] I was struck by an even more exciting notion. Had our great teacher subconsciously known this all along? Had this kept him from acting upon his conscious beliefs? In fact, could it have been possible that this conflict had built up a pressure head of frustration that periodically found outlet in the various forms and expressions that we’ve all heard?”
On the 18th of September, 1998 William Martin continued:
“I now believe I know the true reason. His subconscious mind knew that there was one, and only one, way for his living revolutionary theory to be written up, and that one indispensable way was precisely what I am doing now: editing his tapes in presentable, readable form with warts and all. Any other approach would lose the vital quickening power of his volitional and subvolitional inputs, without which the reader cannot fully feel, as well as grasp, the unprecedented break from man’s volitional and subvolitional past. Also to be noted. Galambos himself consciously believed, falsely I think, that his edited tapes would be an inferior albeit acceptable alternative to his formal, more rigorous writing of the book. As this was, I believe, not true, and was at variance with his subconscious, he was powerless to resist its blocking power. So in the end, he knew what he was doing after all, by proving true to his subconscious promptings.
“… Then on 1999, March 24, while thinking of my discovery of the previous summer, it dawned on me that since I had never heard the 1973-74, 1977 V-201 lectures, why not search through the remaining raw transcripts of the sessions ahead to see if Galambos had in fact voiced this same discovery. I asked my associate, Ben Cooper, to make the search and two days later, on Friday, March 26, he found me on the beach below my office where I was having lunch with my wife. I could not hear his shouting because of the crashing of the waves. But I could see his excitement as he waved a computer printout over his head. Was this the confirmation of what I had hoped for? Indeed it was! Galambos had actually come to this same realization in his final session of V-201!
“Reading the raw transcript I saw that it was all there, every word of it; and it was as apt and right and perfect when he said it in 1977 as I had independently concluded in September of 1998, some twenty-one years later. Here is that heroic passage:
‘In all due honesty, I do not think the book would have been anywhere near as good as its going to be with the disclosure as I have done it. This theory which was correctly presented in 1964, but very briefly, was too brief. There are many more things in it now. Not only is the theory deeper, wider; but it is also larger in all directions. It covers the anticipated objections, to which, of course, an innovator is not easily in tune… In my evaluation, the theory of primary property is the single highest form of cultural achievement that can be made available at this time in the history of man. It is the natural follow-through to the Newtonian integration.'”
Andrew J. Galambos SIC ITUR AD ASTRA, V-201: Session 48, Part A, Vol. VIII, p. 116
William W. Martin Orbit! pp. 235-36
Ladies and Gentlemen, Andrew Galambos never wrote his book with pen and paper. Instead he left tapes of his revolutionary theories behind from which he knew that in the hands of a competent literary executor would be produced the ideal disclosure of the most revolutionary theory man had ever before seen. In the hands of William W. Martin that has become a reality with the publication of SIC ITUR AD ASTRA!
The following review of SIC ITUR AD ASTRA was written by long time Galambos student, friend of William Martin, and associate of Spaceland Publications, Mr. Pete Caneer.
Freedom—New Ideas AND a New Marketing Approach By Pete Caneer
Thinking of reading SIC ITUR AD ASTRA? What’s in it for you?
Most middle-class Americans are hardworking family people, and really don’t hate the better offs—the high achievers—although they don’t admire the ones who became very rich by being crony capitalists, catering to the state as computer or weapons manufacturers. These Americans normally don’t cause social problems especially since the state feeds them small benefits that can build up over time. Their kids can get free lunches in school. If they lose their jobs, they can get unemployment benefits, and of course there are health insurance and social security, too. This is so-called American freedom …so-called western style civilization.
Libertarians think outside that box. Many libertarians are well read and feel comfort in the natural law and natural rights tradition of our Founders. Others come from a more narrow economic perspective. Libertarian slogans say ‘don’t hurt people and don’t take their stuff.’ Pretty simple. Happiness and prosperity is the goal, and right behavior is the key to getting there. That doesn’t mean, though, that everyone makes good choices. That’s why we need police and politicians, right?
While non-libertarians go along with the politicians most of the time except during elections, both libertarians and non-libertarians realize that deep down there are many big problems. Politics in general, a befuddled and basically dishonest economic system—a central bank inflation machine, taxes, general waste, schools that don’t educate, merely spew state-spun propaganda, ignorant and dishonest politicians, chaotic foreign policy with constant warfare, unfair racial reparations policies built around historical fabrications, and excessive regulations on virtually everything in our lives. Even generally happy folks, deep down, are concerned that their children won’t fare well in the future, societal collapse could ensue, and neither the state nor religions would be effective in restoring peace and order. And then there’s always the risk of nuclear Armageddon. Our system is called capitalistic and although ‘flawed’ it’s supposed to work better than anything else, right? So, does it?
Capitalism and Libertarians and Morality
Traditional ‘libertarians’ incorrectly identify the state as the problem, yet they can’t break away from the past. They occasionally make valid economic and political arguments for freedom but mostly ignore the critical component of morality.
Conservatives claim to understand the social need for moral foundations but often just favor organized religion and tradition, which are often unconvincing to many modern Americans, and are usually plain wrong.
In Ayn Rand and Capitalism, Dr. David Kelley said that capitalism was the result of three revolutions, each of them a radical break with the past. The political revolution established the primacy of individual rights and the principle that government is man’s servant, not his master. The economic revolution brought an understanding of markets. The Industrial Revolution radically expanded the application of intelligence to the process of production.
But none of this resulted in freedom. Freedom isn’t an economic concept or state-granted right to vote for our own tyrant. As Albert Jay Nock said, while (property-protecting) ‘government’ can be a good thing, our enemy IS the coercive ‘state.’ Now what to do? Fight the state? Protest? Go to jail like Thoreau? Certainly not. Even the Randians could only recommend less political coercion as the solution, but hoping for less coercion from a ballot box is a waste of time.
The problem is that mankind never broke with its ethical past. If freedom is to survive and flourish, Dr. Kelley said we need a fourth revolution, a moral revolution that establishes the moral right of the individual to live for himself.
That moral revolution is now here with the discovery of Volitional Science by Andrew J. Galambos.
“The Book” and the Audience
Galambos was a Hungarian-born astrophysicist, a professor of physics, astronomy and mathematics and popular lecturer on freedom as a derivative of physics—what he called Volitional Science.
After five decades, the magnum opus of Andrew J. Galambos, SIC ITUR AD ASTRA, (Latin translation This is The Way to the Stars) is finally published. Galambos himself referred to it as ‘The Book.’ SIC ITUR AD ASTRA (SIAA) is actually a 15-volume set (over 7,700 pages with an amazing index of over 1,200 pages)—the meticulously transcribed lectures of Professor Galambos. It’s a high-quality production and beautifully bound. One glance at the massive Index (Master Concordex) is an education all by itself. The book is lengthy and it’s quite expensive, but well worth the time and expense to the reader who is curious, intelligent, aspires for higher things, and is intellectually honest. The clientele for it is likely to be smaller, more educated and opinionated, and not a subscriber to the book of the month club. The ultimate target audience is the entrepreneur and the innovator… particularly those at a high level—significant innovators and entrepreneurs.
When Galambos gave his courses, he offered the first three sessions of his intro course, V-50, as a filter before delving into anything more. If you buy SIAA it will contain the entire V-50 course on volitional science, plus the more advanced course, V-201 on the Nature and Protection of Primary Property, as well as V-50X: Surface the Giant! and the Joe Pyne interview. Be sure to go through the courses in order or you won’t really understand it. The Concordex is an unique and invaluable reference tool.
Galambos presented his theories in oral and taped lectures through his Free Enterprise Institute from 1961 to 1989 in Los Angeles, California. He developed over 117 courses for FEI’s curriculum over a period of twenty-eight years which probably were heard by 20,000 people. Galambos explicitly instructed his trustee, Galambos’ former lawyer, to provide funding from his estate to his literary executor, William Martin, to edit, print, and publish his books. The lawyer had other ideas and Martin was left to fund the project on his own with the help of two private investors and eventually completed the full book for the professor in the year 2003.
The Current Market
What happened to the 20,000 people who listened to these lectures? A lot of people in this market have simply gone away or died without ever having the actual book they paid Galambos (pre-publication agreement) up front for. About tweny-four years ago, the estate TTEEs obtained the work-product by Mr. Martin up to that point, removed him contrary to Galambos’ specific instructions, and published a single volume of some of the lectures and called it a day. It was atrocious with thousands of errors. I took my copy of it to Ben and Lou Weinstein’s renowned Heritage Books in Los Angeles to assess the binding quality and was told that the TTEE production would be lucky not to fall apart after a small number of reading hours. Some in the market were placated, most were not. But the lawyer involved allowed no options or recourse. Galambos would be dead in the water. Until now.
The Scientific Method And A New Revolution
As Mr. Martin wrapped up his years of work on SIAA he excitedly exclaimed:
“Once every few hundred years a great new revolution is born. It is liberating, exhilarating, full of dynamite. It rescues souls from estranged and sick lives. It does great work. As time passes its beneficiaries grow rich, and fulfilled. Their creative fires do not go out. They make a new world. Such occurred after Newton’s integration of the physical sciences, Darwin’s integration of Biology, Maxwell’s integration of electro-magnetism and light… Now we have the integration of the social sciences. A revolution so great that all the others pale in comparison. Without this last revolution all the others are doomed to extinction.”
What Is Volitional Science
Volition refers to the ability to make choices. Psychology weighs heavy here. But volitional science is about a lot more than choices. It is about both rational and moral life choices, the reasons for making them, and the results of those decisions and actions both for individuals and for the rest of humanity. This is a big deal—real science—using the scientific method, and like all science it’s organized knowledge. For the first time we have an integrated science that deals with human volitional interactions. There have been approximations to this; there have been attempts at it. But nobody has ever succeeded until now. This could be a world-changer, as Mr. Martin says, a revolution so great that the others pale in comparison and could be doomed to extinction without it. The bottom line is that Freedom is a product. You have to invent it, and then build it. Galambos discovered the principles and then invented it. Now it has to be built.
Galambos’ approach was refreshingly different. Seemingly complex, it was actually very simple, based on using the scientific method and heavily dependent on semantic precision just as physics is. If you can’t properly define mass and energy you aren’t going to build many airplanes or bridges that work. If you don’t define terms like liberty, freedom, coercion and crime, moral and immoral, impossible and possible, absolute and subjective, right and wrong, you’ll never get anywhere. One of the most interesting topics that depends on this semantic precision is ‘how do you know you are right’—on an absolute basis—about anything. The answer to that is a life-changer. This is just one valuable gem in SIAA.
With Galambos, rather than just recite the evils of the state and watch helplessly, we can build something that works. After 6,000 years of recorded history, it finally works. And the good news is, ironically, that the masses don’t have to understand it any more than they know how their TV works.
We begin with the theory of freedom contained in SIC ITUR AD ASTRA which is the great integration between volition and physics. The definition of freedom and its achievement depends directly on the proper definitions of property, coercion, morality, and rationality. Freedom is the societal condition that exists when every individual has full (i.e. 100%) control over his own property.
This isn’t the same old ‘social science.’ Physics and volition are now unified, using the same epistemology. It’s analogous to Newton’s Principia Mathematica which integrated physics. Newton pointed out he was standing on the shoulders of giants. Like Newton, Galambos also was downstream from giants and he clearly acknowledges all of those people and their inputs.
Primary Property
Much of SIAA is on The Nature and Protection of Primary Property. Providing credit to your intellectual antecedents is a vital part of Galambos’ theory since what he terms ‘primary’ property is more important that any other form of property. Importance is defined as the total amount of property affected or involved (as the result of the primary property). ‘Primary’ property is your mind, your intellect, your opinions, attitudes, innovations, creations and of course your ego. It’s a Ballade in the mind of Chopin before he wrote it down. It’s the discovery of wing lift by the Wright brothers, and it’s Maxwell’s thoughts on electromagnetic wave propagation that led to television. And, on the other side, it’s Stalin’s plan to exterminate 30 million peasants. It’s the thing that exists before it becomes a tangible thing. And it’s indeed ownable like any other tangible thing—a point of contention for some respected libertarians who think innovations are only what you find for free in the communist warehouse of ideas, although innovators are supposedly ‘protected’ by patents and copyrights. We all remember what happened to Tesla when George Westinghouse’s board of directors got through with him. Can you imagine that anyone claiming he wrote War and Peace last month would be taken seriously?
What if innovators really ‘owned’ their discoveries, realized the moral and rational thing to do, and prevented the state from using them to kill millions of innocents and even put human survival in doubt. For this reason alone SIAA and volitional science has never been so needed. We should never underestimate the danger of politicians—or the importance of major innovations.
Marketing Freedom – A Different Approach
In any discussion about freedom, there are as many ideas as there are people. Some favor monarchies. Maybe ‘democracy’ is best, but no one seems to know what it is. Some libertarians love the term ‘anarchy’ or anarcho-capitalist. Some dream of selling it all and migrating to the libertarian paradise of Liberland in the Balkans. Good luck on that.
SIAA isn’t a product for folks who still think if their political party were in power, all would be fine. It’s not for the mass market. It’s not Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and won’t create torchlight rallies.
Politicians use the most advanced advertising technology to fool you into accepting the crimes against you and your property. There are no absolutes and the best we can do is compromise on everything. It’s bad enough if you are just a consumer. It’s far worse if you are an innovator or producer. Your property isn’t really yours if I want some of it. You’ll be like Henry Ford who saw his well-paid workers destroy his factories. Or the small business where the employees want to unionize. Or the teacher who is condemned for not wanting to just parrot the bureaucratic subject matter. The radical truth is that politics has to go. It has to go because while it attempts to protect property, its only method of doing so is by interfering with it. Volitional science provides property protection without any interference.
Again, the best market for this book is the high level innovator and entrepreneur—and their confidants and facilitators and marketers.
The Ideological Program and SIAA Marketing
Protecting and encouraging the production of new primary property is where freedom starts. Innovators are rare and don’t come free. Cutting edge things that improve and expand life, enrich our experiences, cure disease, control nature, and make life easier don’t just happen, contrary to what most people think. Most consumers lack gratitude—a key component of SIAA. Innovators should enjoy a great positive ego at the same time they enjoy a good public reputation and popular gratitude instead of apathy or jealousy.
Galambos explains his Ideological Program where Innovators (often cosmologists) come up with some new thing like the integration of electricity and magnetism, but don’t know enough to protect themselves from theft and copycats—nor how to produce it properly and get well paid for it. They don’t know enough to hire (contract with) the right people, so even the highest paid employees walk off and set up a competing business. They are accused of being a monopoly, or being discriminatory in hiring, or not paying enough in taxes. They need help. They need the right interface between themselves and the rest of humanity since they don’t even know how to market themselves. Tesla again comes to mind.
If and when innovators aren’t treated well, they just don’t innovate. If the scientific advances innovators make—new tools—are instead used by politicians with a loose screw—and turned into weapons, everyone suffers. White phosphorus, great for agriculture, is used as a horrible weapon by bureaucrats.
Early adopters who can interface with innovators, help protect them from abuse, fraudulent misappropriation, and misapplication are essential to a world where the most important types of property are protected and properly used. They could be an excellent market for SIAA.
In SIAA, we learn about moral and rational product production where innovators can actually control their discoveries for beneficial uses only, and where consumers will have more happiness in life than ever before.
Even consumers who could be laggards in production or in innovation—at what Galambos called the ‘cold end’—will benefit enormously. People like the Wright brothers won’t have to waste time trying to protect their creations from people like Glenn Curtiss. Newton won’t retire from science and retreat to the Mint to get irritations like Father Linus out of his life.
If nuclear scientists didn’t leave ‘morality’ to the state while they create bombs to obliterate whole cities, and if they got paid correctly, we and our children might be able to finally live without fear of annihilation by some moral reject with a political agenda.
Galambos discovered the Freedom machine’s principles and then invented it. Now it can be built. SIAA is now published—it’s critical that it now lives and gets into the right hands.
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A FEW WORDS FROM PROFESSOR GALAMBOS
The most important thing in my life is that my work survives and through that the species.
—JBG-STIP 17: Session 3, Part A, July 11, 1982
The selection of a natural estate trustee is a personal responsibility of the one who makes it. However, it doesn’t really make any difference, because even with the best selection, even in you say this company is really slated to be a successful one, and it’s intended for the species time scale and you think it’s going to make it, you could be wrong. And you don’t want your natural estate wiped out now, do you? Just because you selected a poor netco? [AJG drinks] So your will should provide that if certain minimum standards of handling your property are not fulfilled, the company automatically losses your account. And you should diversify it anyhow, and put it into several companies, once there is more than one company. And there will be competition….In the long run, in a thousand years, it will make no difference whether you selected the trustees or not. In the long run, it will be up to competition anyhow, and the natural estates will be competitively operated, and the best ones will get the most money, on behalf of their clients, who may or may not have known about this company and its selection.
—SIC ITUR AD ASTRA, V-201: Session 22, Part A, Vol. IV, pp. 63-4
Other books of Professor Andrew J. Galambos available through Spaceland Publications and Amazon.
Spaceland Publications proudly presents another radical, revolutionary must read for any intelligent, curious, intellectually honest person who aspires for higher things: STIP-2: A Lecture Series on Nothing:
Spaceland Publications is honored to present STIP-2: A Lecture Series on Nothing. This has been transcribed directly from the tape recorded lectures of the live presentation of STIP-2 by Professor Galambos. Spaceland Publications-following the example of Galambos’ literary executor, William W. Martin-has edited out nothing other than, “the professor’s slips of tongue, false starts, rare moments of trying to unscramble confusions of thought, dates, numbers, etc.” This is in keeping with the procedure William W. Martin-used in editing Galambos’ fifteen volume magnum opus, Sic Itur Ad Astra. The result? Vintage Galambos! No dull exposition of scientific facts here. Rather, an animated, excited, often humorous and always articulate teaching of the most profound concepts of physics, biology and volitional science by a professor whose love of the subject matter was palpable. It is the hope that the reader will feel more like he is listening to a lecture than reading a book, that Professor Galambos is talking to him, not writing to him.
Why, you may ask, are we publishing STIP-2 first? Why not STIP-1? And what has happened to the other nineteen STIP courses the professor delivered? Tragically the answer to those questions requires an understanding of the criminal (as defined by AJG himself) actions and negligent lack of actions on the part of the so-called “trustees” of Galambos’ natural estate. For this documentation I refer you to Bill Cobb’s thoroughly documented books. For now, let it suffice to say that Professor Galambos gave over one hundred seventeen courses including the twenty STIP courses. Spaceland Publications has reason to believe that many, probably most, of these courses have been destroyed. Spaceland Publications looks upon this as THE major crime against civilization. The publication of this short but significant course is the beginning of rectifying these injustices, out of gratitude to Professor Galambos. STIP-2 was originally scheduled as a one-day open-ended course for 1976 September 11. After delivering two sessions that day the professor realized he had only scratched the surface of the significance of “nothing.” Therefore, one year to the day, on September 11, 1977, Sunday, the professor delivered a three-session extension to the course, making it five sessions in all and renamed the whole as “A Lecture Series on Nothing.”
Professor Andrew J. Galamos
Spaceland Publications Presents: The “Symposium on Freedom” Lectures and The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine, And Your Freedom by Andrew J. Galambos:
“Symposium on Freedom” Lectures
In 1952, Andrew J. Galambos changed his name to Joseph A. Galambos in order to honor the memory of his late father, Joseph B. Galambos, whose influence, more than any other, inspired the younger Galambos’ achievements. He retained this name until 1964, when, realizing that he actually might be obscuring his Father’s place in history, he changed his name back to Andrew J. Galambos.
Though seemingly contradictory, both name changes in fact arose from the same motivation: that of honoring his Father. Thus, the name shown in the title of these lectures and the name shown in the prototype and copyright all belong to the same person: Andrew J. Galambos.
Professor Galambos delivered two lectures at The Symposium on Freedom in 1961. The first on December 2, entitled “How Freedom Will Win”; the second on December 16, entitled: “Freedom vs. Destruction.”
It should be noted that Professor Galambos delivered these early lectures approximately eight months after he had formally integrated Volitional Science (on April 28, 1961) and provide a tremendous introduction to his ideas and fundamental principles.
Readers familiar with Galambos’ work will note the mention of several key concepts: capitalism, freedom and property; concepts that would all evolve and come into full fruition by 1964, when Professor Galambos presented his seminal course: “The Nature and Protection of Primary Property.”
Spaceland Publications has the honor to present both these lectures in printed form for the first time in history.
The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine, and Your Freedom
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2022
This book is a real tribute to Professor Andrew J. Galambos, and a major celebration of Western civilization and its rich history at a time when some people with perverted agendas are trying to destroy it. There is much historical information and strong evidence that Thomas Paine was the actual original author of the Declaration of Independence—certainly the ideological author. Galambos maintains that what Thomas Paine started is the beginning of a much larger concept of freedom, a larger American Revolution and a much larger concept than we struggle with now—which is still anchored to the Newtonian principles of rational scientific thinking from which you can develop a higher level social structure (that includes morality). And we’d better get with it, or there may not be a species at all. ‘The bomb’ matters and now we have biological weapons capable of wiping out humanity completely.
With Galambos’ deep understanding of American history and our ideological heritage of pursuing freedom, this book will help you understand what the American founders really thought and really said about the real purpose of the American Revolution. It will help you put things in perspective if you’re a history student or if you’ve read background documents like Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiment or the writings of Etienne de la Boetie or Locke.
The lectures point out that the Declaration of Independence was an attempt to improve things with a political system based more on natural law than on hereditary monarchy. It was indeed a start. And now the second phase of the American Revolution is here. For people interested in Galambos’ ideas on freedom and volitional science the last section (lecture) in the book is a great introduction. Wouldn’t it be pleasant in the future to not have children grow up without constant fear of nuclear war, without having crime and racial mayhem on the news constantly, without having victimhood officially confirmed as a virtue by the ‘government’ and without politicians claiming that no responsible person should even want to bring children into the world?
Read the V-76 Lectures and take a deep breath. At the end of the book, Galambos’ lecture includes an introduction to volitional science and shows the connections between it and Paine’s thinking. You see, Paine was a student of Isaac Newton, including some knowledge of astronomy. He was a rational thinker. So was Galambos a Newtonian and an astrophysicist. After much clear thinking, just as physics requires clear thinking, his main premise is that we can live without politics quite well simply by being rational, and moral. You’ll see that moral behavior for thousands of years has been centered around respect for property. And, you’ll see that we’re thankfully on the verge of a second American Revolution that could change the world.
Spaceland Publications has again done a great job of making Galambos’ lectures available as originally presented to live audiences, word for word, easy to read with an excellent table of contents and an amazingly thorough index to find any topic in seconds. If you’re curious about our American historical beginnings and want new and correct thinking about freedom itself—not just acceptance of the political state or more drivel about which political party is best—this book is for you. You might then want to read the entire 15 volume lecture series, with many more exciting and innovative ideas, also from Spaceland Publications.
“Anybody here ever thought that that [Newton’s going to the mint] was the greatest tragedy for the progress of man? And how many of you prior to meeting me would have picked Newton going to the mint as that? I can only name one thing comparable with that, and that hasn’t happened yet. But if my work doesn’t get finally in a position where it’s permanently recorded, that will be of comparable catastrophe. But that hasn’t happened yet, so that’s still open.—Sic Itur Ad Astra, Session 12A, VOL. II, p. 416
William W. Martin, Literary Executor for Andrew J. Galambos, the man responsible for putting Galambos’ work in a position of being permanently recorded.
Spaceland Publications is proud to present the first and only unabridged and unadulterated version of Andrew J. Galambos’ Course V-50, published in June 2023, containing the all-important moral application and imprimatur of the professor’s Literary Executor, William W. Martin, and the company he founded, Spaceland Publications. The full nineteen sessions are now available as the first three volumes of the full Sic Itur Ad Astra. See above for more information and to order!
There’s nothing else like it
Reviewed in France RF on June 28, 2023
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V-50 is a simplification of a subject that previously was confused beyond all comprehension.
This is a course on science, but science in a revolutionary new context. A science which has been extended from the classical physics into a new domain called volition; in other words, the extension of the scientific method (rationality) into the domain of sociology.
You will see that semantics is the beginning point of science and here you will discover totally new and revolutionary definitions of: freedom, property, happiness, morality, and capitalism.
You learn what justice is; you will learn what science is.You will know the difference between right and wrong on an absolute basis.
Above all else, you will discover an absolute definition of property, totally unique in world history. Property, in all of its manifestations, is the main subject matter of volition (the same way that energy is themain subject of physics.)
Essentially what you’ll get out of this course is how to enhance your happiness by being properly educated to the real world. You will lay hold of happiness, the likes of which you’ve never known before.
There’s nothing else like it.
This introductory ticket and sampling of the first three sessions of Andrew J. Galambos’ revolutionary Sic Itur Ad Astra is intended for intelligent persons who care about the future of the human species.
If you are one of those intelligent persons, the first of these three sessions will sensitize you to the crises presently confronting mankind, the alternatives for civilization and the consequences to be expected, the inadequacy of the present techniques to cope with these crises, and the new approach to freedom. You also will learn the first few fundamental definitions of Galambos’ theory of volition, along with the importance of precision, as well as the identification of the path to be taken to achieve genuine solutions to problems.
The second session will teach you the requirement for absolute standards of rightness and will provide you examples of relative and absolute rightness. You will be taught the success in achieving absolute standards in physics and the failure to do so in the social sciences. You will go on to learn the identification not only of absolute rightness in the physical sciences and why there has been failure, thus far, to extend this to the social domain, but also of how to overcome this successfully. Further, you will learn the identification of absolute rightness in the volitional sciences, and what the scientific method really is, and how it has now been applied to volitional science.
In the third session you will learn how a new science of volition has been established, and the two basic postulates that make this possible, along with examples and applications.
The result? You’ll be inspired to master all fifteen volumes of Sic Itur Ad Astra— for without the knowledge and principles contained in these volumes no man can build a new life for himself or help to build the world of freedom to come.
—William W. Martin, Literary Executor for Andrew J. Galambos
Foreword to V-50: THREE-SESSION INTRODUCTION
“The future belongs to those who build it.”—Professor Andrew J. Galambos
William W. Martin, Literary Executor for Andrew J. Galambos
Professor Andrew J. Galambos
“You must always see yourselves as producers in the species time scale. If there is a future for man your posterity will look back to you as heroic figures staggering out of long darkness into the light, with Archimedes and Newton as your contemporaries. But should this not come to pass, if it is too late to halt the destruction, then you must know that you have lived rightly and were worthy of freedom.”—William W. Martin, Literary Executor for Andrew J. Galambos
“And I would like at this time to say that when I was a small boy my father taught me a small but most monumentally large statement…And that, ladies and gentlemen is Sic Itur Ad Astra which means: ‘This is the way to the stars.’…I would like to introduce you to man’s first major, near-term goal: our nearest neighbor in galactic space— the Andromeda Galaxy—about a million light years away.”
Professor Galambos’ closing words to course V-201.
V-201: Session 48, Part B
Vol. VIII, p. 168
Statue of Herman in the Teutoberg Forest, North Rhine, Westphalia.
In 7 AD one of the largest armies in the history of the Roman Empire, three legions under the command of General Quintilius Varus, marched to conquer and garrison the Germanic lands beyond the Rhine. They would have succeeded were it not for the courage and indomitable will of one man: Herman, who the Romans called Arminius.
In 9 AD Herman organized the chronically feuding German kingdoms to resist the invader. In the thickly forested area called the Teutoberger Wald, Herman and his Germanic brothers attacked the Roman legions. After a battle lasting for days, the Roman legions were completely decimated. When news of the defeat reached Rome, Caesar cried out in the Senate: “Varus, where are my legions? Give me back my legions.” It was one of the worst defeats in the history of Rome. As a result, never was Rome able to conquer this region and the Germanic peoples were spared the fate of Rome.
Though victorious, Herman suffered greatly. His pregnant wife’s father, Segestes, betrayed his homeland and daughter by handing her over as hostage to the Romans, where Caesar had her paraded through the streets of Rome in chains. This treatment led to the loss of Herman’s son who was born in captivity. Tacitus in his Annuls, quotes Herman’s powerful speech to his fellow Germans:
“Noble the father, mighty the general, brave the army which, with such strength, has carried off one weak woman. Before me, three legions, three commanders have fallen. Not by treachery, not against pregnant women, but openly against armed men do I wage war….Let Segestes dwell on the conquered bank…If you prefer your fatherland, your ancestors, your ancient life to Roman tyrants and their new colonies, follow me to glory and to freedom rather than Segestes to ignominious servitude.”
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