Following up on the donation by the Belgians (think Congo uranium / diamonds) of the veiled Isis statue to Herbert Hoover for his “service” to the starving Belgian people during WWI.
@jenlake noted the motif of the veiled Isis was not uncommon during the enlightenment era.
@leo brought to my attention Einstein’s reference to de Broglie’s work on wave function as “lifting the veil.”
Jen also brought William Winwood Reade to my attention. He wrote a book on the Veiled Isis and Druids, which can be read on Wayback Machine as well at another book, The Martyrdom of Man, said to have been a major influence on Cecil Rhodes and HG Wells. In my heart I believe nature, and ancient trees especially, have a particular role in what is happening. @Gino
Consider my post yesterday about Walter Russell along with Reiser on optics and color, and biophysics / the nature of matter. The friend who told me about Russell also shared about the Bayse, VA vortex and the Shrine Mount of Transfiguration managed by the Episcopal Archdiocese of VA.
“Route 263 is the only Virginia state highway that dead-ends. Well, actually it doesn’t end - it veers around an enchanting village green and returns upon itself, like the upper circle of an ankh. Or, to complete the Egyptian metaphor, it loops like a sandal strap around the ankle of the goddess. 
The place where this happens is the tiny village of Orkney Springs, VA - a quiet settlement of white-painted houses, a post office, a nonremarkable store / deli with odd hours (it never seems to be open), a historical hotel complex, springs with a reputation for healthful waters and, not the least of all, a unique open-air church without walls or roof: the Cathedral Shrine of the Transfiguration, part of Shrine Mont. Astoundingly, many people visit Orkney Springs, drive around the green and then out the way they came, without ever realizing that a jewel of religious and architectural history sits up along a hillside behind a grove of trees, at a distance equal to a city block, or less.”
"But it is a question of more than history: the circa 1925 cathedral under the trees, brainchild of one Rev. Edmund Lee Woodward, is a visionary structure whose roof and walls are conceptual, suggesting a body made of energy rather than dense physical matter. To some it embodies an example of what yogis call the higher vehicle, helping us understand what the term “energy vortex" means. The 
goddess metaphor is apt as well – but more on that below.”
“Shrine Mont’s baptismal font is made of a hollowed out stone used by the Indians to grind corn (corn @leo). Ritually the font is a basin within which the infant is connected to divine blessing. The alchemical lexicon has a symbol corresponding to such a basin: it is called athanor (ref. to quote from Ralph Metzner, below), and it is the vehicle within which liberated consciousness is formed.”
“Basye & Bathsheba . From Finland, to India and Egypt, streams and rivers are the cradle of rediscovered divinity. By an odd coincidence, Basye is named after a feminine Biblical figure related to rivers and springs: named Batya – of which Basye is a variant – in the Book of Jasher, referred to in Joshua and 2 Samuel, she is the Egyptian princess who found Moses in the Nile. She is also mentioned, in another context, in 1 Chronicles 4:8. In Hebrew, “bas” and “bat” both signify daughter. Many believe that Orkney Springs is the seat of goddess energies on the eastern seaboard of the U.S.”
"Basye comes from a French word meaning “threshold.” The word is not found in standard dictionaries, but it is listed in Atlas Linguistique de la France (Linguistic Atlas of France , 1912), which maps the geographical distribution of less common usages. (Click to view the relevant page of the Atlas – “Basyé " is on page 45.) Basyé is a synonym of seuil , meaning threshold, door-sill, or portal.
The Basye Genome - Basye Vortex”
For those who want to know more on vortices and physics - wild stuff, but given what I know of high-level folks investigating such things - worthy of careful consideration. Light Sailing - Basye Vortex
