Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Secret Lanthanides
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
7.1
7.1 Promethium metallicum
Promethium originally didn't exist on earth because it's too radioactive. The longest lasting isotope Promethium-145 has a half-life of almost 18 years. Promethium is created in nuclear reactors. The only salt potentized at the moment is Promethium muriaticum. Promethium is used in batteries. The salts have a green-yellow color. The air surrounding Promethium is pale blue-green. There's a strange star, HR465, in the Andromeda galaxy that contains a lot of Promethium.
Promethium can be seen as a contradiction in itself. The Lanthanide aspect is completely individual, whereas the Stage 7 aspect is of working together. This kind of duality can also be seen in Technetium, which was also originally non-existent on earth.
Analysis
Helping with independence
Cooperation in autonomy
Learning to be free
Teaching the inner world: Humanity
Helping with independence
They want to help other people to be free and independent. They help them to be strong, someone who’s in control of themselves. They help people to take their life in their own hands. They help others to be something special, not ordinary.
Cooperation in autonomy
They like to work together with other people who are also autonomous. They can work together as long as it’s clear that everyone has his own responsibility and everyone can keep his own autonomy. They feel autonomy as indispensable for real cooperation. They know that dependence only leads to obedience instead of cooperation.
Learning to be free
They want to learn to be free in all kinds of situations. They have found their basic autonomy, but also want to be able to keep and show it in all kinds of situations. They can even seek many different situations to try themselves out and to expand their independence.
Humanity
The combination of cooperation and autonomy is very human. Man is given freedom but he doesn't have to be alone in that. Cooperation can even add to freedom and independence. Working together give people even more in control of themselves.
Humanity has created culture, arts and sciences through cooperation and freedom, the freedom to think and go where the mind leads us. The powers that-be have often tried to suppress this freedom but that has always led to a decline in inventions and culture. Dictatorship has always been the biggest enemy of cultural flowering.
Teaching the inner world
They also want to teach others to stay independent. Because of that they also want to master their inner world. They go on searching all different aspects of their inner world in order to know what there is and how to become a master of those powers. They want to teach others to become masters of their own inner world. They can become therapists or teachers, helping others to become independent.
Autonomy
Promethium wants to share their autonomy with others. They feel that autonomy is only real when others have it too.
Shadow
The shadow isn't conquered that easily. It’s so fast that it can escape human power. It eludes man’s control. You need the help of the Gods to catch it.
Power
Promethium researches further possibilities of where he can find and exert his power.
Symbolism
Myth: Heracles Work 4: Heracles catches the Hind of Cyreneia with the help of Artemis.
Myth: The name Promethium comes from Prometheus. Prometheus stole the fire from the Gods and brought it to mankind. For this he was punished by Zeus and he was tied to a mountain where an eagle came to pick the flesh from his liver everyday. In the night the liver grew again. Prometheus was liberated by Heracles.
Fire or light is symbolic for seeing and insight, a theme of the Gold series and Lanthanides. Prometheus was helping mankind by bringing them the light, helping being a Stage 7 theme. The liver is a prominent organ in the Lanthanides.