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  Spence, Lewis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
(James) Lewis (Thomas Chalmbers) Spence was a Scottish scholar of the occult, and attached special interest on the Atlantis theme, born in Forfarshire, Scotland, on November 25, 1874, and educated at Edinburgh University before following a journalistic career.
Spence was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and Vice-President of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society.
Other books by Spence on occult themes included: The Magic and Mysteries of Mexico (1932), The Problem of Lemuria (1932), The Occult Causes of the Present War (1940), The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain (1945), The Fairy Tradition in Britain (1951), and Scottish Ghosts and Goblins (1952).
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  Lewis Spence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lewis Spence (November 25, 1874 - March 3, 1955) was a Scottish journalist and writer.
Spence was also the founder of the Scottish National Movement which later merged to form the National Party of Scotland which later merged to form the Scottish National Party.
In The Mysteries of Britain, Spence theorized that the original Britons were descendants of a people that migrated from Northwest Africa and were probably related to the Berbers and the Basques.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewis_Spence   (153 words)

  
 Lewis Spence -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lewis Spence (November 25, 1874 - March 3, 1955) was a (The dialect of English used in Scotland) Scottish journalist and writer.
Spence has been credited in reviving the study of Scottish (The unwritten literature (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture) folklore.
Spence was also the founder of the Scottish National Movement which later merged to form the (additional info and facts about National Party of Scotland) National Party of Scotland which later merged to form the (additional info and facts about Scottish National Party) Scottish National Party.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/lewis_spence.htm   (130 words)

  
 phoenixnewtimes.com | | Music | War in Peace | 1999-10-21
Spence is barely even a footnote in the history of rock 'n' roll, an enigmatic free spirit who cut away his anchor with a fire ax and drifted away forever more than 30 years ago.
No one noticed much when Spence passed on, except for the morbid few who had his name on their roster of celebrities expected to die this year as part of DeadPool '99 (www.deadpool.org); he was worth 48 points.
Spence and Lewis were like brothers, "different sides of the same coin," Lewis says, and he's tired of going over it all again -- how his friend "got lost" a few decades ago and never quite found his way back.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1999-10-21/music4.html   (2067 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / DSS commissioner lightens workload
Spence, 57, said last week that he is giving up his post as assistant secretary of Health and Human Services.
Spence said a combination of Western medicine and Eastern therapies had temporarily appeared to arrest the progress of his illness.
Spence noted that in 1971 he served as special assistant to the state's first secretary of health and human services.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/08/30/dss_commissioner_lightens_workload?mode=PF   (447 words)

  
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Spence writes of the wood bugs that got into the main house, “so that summer evenings over cribbage or dominoes were punctuated by the grinding crunch of the insects munching away under the bark” that sheathed the structures.
Whereas Lewis Spence describes a loving if fundamentally Victorian relationship between a boy and his grandfather, Half the Way Home is a search for understanding of a father-son relationship where love was not voiced until the last possible moment, where fear, guilt and impenetrable barriers ruled the years.
Spence’s Adirondack idyll is at the headwaters of the Saranac, Hochschild’s at the head of the Raquette; each is fractured for a different reason.
www.adirondackexplorer.com /amemoriessweet.htm   (2360 words)

  
 Spence Air Base
Spence was reactivated in 1951 during the Korean conflict due to the increased need for well trained military pilots.
Spence was noted for both its standardization and safety record and received several USAF commendations for both.
Spence Air Base was a model of cooperation between military and civilian personnel with strong support from the surrounding community.
www.spence-air-base.com   (1304 words)

  
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From 1908, Spence's interest in the occult and folklore came to the forefront and that year he published his study of the Mayan culture, The Popul Vuh.
Spence investigated and wrote numerous works concerning mythology from around the world.
Spence was a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
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 King Arthur and Osiris
Lewis Spence is, to me, an enigmatic character of whose life I have been unable to find anything.
In later Welsh mythology, Spence saw the associations of Arthur with the western land Avalon and with the sunken land of Lyonesse as a distorted memory of Arthur's connection with Atlantis.
Spence notes that the cult of Osiris was connected with that of the Cabiri, which followed the same eastward route as that of Osiris from North-West Africa to Egypt.
www.geocities.com /dagonet_uk/osirisar.htm   (1560 words)

  
 Alibris: Lewis Spence
Lewis Spence (1874-1955), one of the world's great mythologists specialized in the myths of Latin America.
Spence does a compelling job in detailing the various myths and legends of the Aztecs, Brazilian Indians and the North American Indians, all in full...
Lewis Spence presents evidence that Atlantis was located somewhere in the western hemisphere, in and around Central America.He does an impressive job of comparing Indian myths from various lands including Peru, Brazil, Central America, North America and...
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Lewis_Spence   (995 words)

  
 National Party of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The meeting was presided over by Robert Cunninghame-Graham, who had been a Liberal Party, then Scottish Labour Party (1888-1893) politician.
The NPS was formed by the amalgamation of GUSNA with the Scots National League, Lewis Spence's Scots National Movement and the Scottish Home Rule Movement.
Lewis Spence was the first nationalist to stand for election in 1929.
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 Lewis Spence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lewis Spence, whose works on Atlantis were published in the 1920's, revived the popular fifteenth-century tradition of a rectangular continent between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific called Antilia.
Spence modified this historical belief by suggesting that Antilia was a land bridge connecting Atlantis to the Americas.
Believing that western Europe was populated by successive waves of Atlantians, Spence used the early paintings of the Cro-Magnons to argue that these non-Europeans had to come from the lost continent.
www2.kenyon.edu /depts/IPHS/Projects/Stella/Theories3.htm   (387 words)

  
 webGED: Elliot's Family Data Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lewis Wall, a descendant of Theophilus Lewis, told me that after theEpiscopal church was built at Stoneville the old chapel over on the farmhad long stood unused and uncle John moved it to town and put it behindthe hotel as a stable for guests' horses.
The Lewis hotel at Stonevillehas long since burned down, but the old Lewis Chapel, a solid buildingyet, can still be seen standing on the back of the lot (where the townwater tank now stands).
The Bob Lewis family relocatedto Madison, and are burried there in the Presbyterian cemetery on thecorner of Academy and Franklin Streets.
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 Amazon.com: Occult Sciences in Atlantis: Books: Lewis Spence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lewis Spence was a Scottish journalist who was involved in the Scottish Nationalist movement as part of the Celtic Renaissance.
Spence also quotes extensively from other ancient traditions, including ancient Hebrew beliefs (mentioning the _Book of Enoch_ in which the "sons of god" came down and had relations with the "daughters of men") as well as ancient American belief among the Indians, Aztecs, and Mayans.
Spence also notes that had Atlantis not existed it would have been necessary for man to have invented it, so as to explain the development of folklore and tradition in the greater world.
www.amazon.com /Occult-Sciences-Atlantis-Lewis-Spence/dp/0850301572   (1609 words)

  
 OLD SPENCE CEMETERY,
There is what appears to be an old apple tree a short distance from the cemetery, and a obviously level spot near the apple tree where a structure of some sort stood, probably a barn, although probably in the 1900's.
Lewis & Frances' daughter Martha Spence who died unmarried at 30 years old, is also likely buried here.
Lewis Spence in his lifetime sold land to Henry J. Spence (who disappeared in the Civil War) on Bear Creek, so it is possible that some of Henry's line could be buried here also.
homepages.rootsweb.com /~willspnc/spence/spencegraveyard.htm   (749 words)

  
 UFO Area Books - The History of Atlantis by Lewis Spence
Lewis Spence (1874-1955) wrote five books about Atlantis, and this one is considered his best.
Spence sifted through a tremendous body of research in fields from mythology and comparative religion to geography, geology, and archeology.
The result is the most authoritative study ever published on the history, geography, animal life, government, and religion of this fabled island.
www.ufoarea.com /spence_atlantis.html   (119 words)

  
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Spence, 57, has stepped down as assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, but says he has no plans to give up his post with DSS.
Spence's job was to facilitate the Romney administration's wish to create a more user-friendly and streamlined social service bureaucracy that has been criticized by advocates as difficult to navigate.
From 1980 to 1984, Spence was the court-appointed receiver of the Boston Housing Authority.
www.whdh.com /news/articles_p/local/B52035   (400 words)

  
 The Celtic origins of the Holy Grail
Lewis Spence's views on the origin of the Holy Grail are inseperable from his wider agenda
Central to Spence's thesis concerning the origin of the Holy Grail in magical Celtic cauldrons of the plane of Annwn is his consideration of the poem 'The Spoils of Annwn'.
This cauldron, for Spence, is clearly that of the goddess Ceridwen, which gave prophetic insight and whose contents Taliesin had accidentally sampled.
www.geocities.com /dagonet_uk/cauldron.htm   (2407 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Nation / Obituaries in the news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Spence funded the Charles L. Spence Asian Study Tour Endowment to help students and educators travel and study in Asia.
Spence's father was working in the timber industry when he handled timber sales for rebuilding ports and other installations after an earthquake in which 142,000 people died in and around Tokyo in 1923.
During World War II Spence served in Navy intelligence, mostly in the Seattle area, then joined the family business and resumed doing business with Japan at a time when many competitors held back because of ill feelings from the war.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/11/10/obituaries_in_the_news?mode=PF   (2384 words)

  
 McCoy Family Web Site - pafg29 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
David Spence [Parents] was born in 1538 in Wormeston Fife Scotland.
I believe that David Spence, son of David Spence of Wormiston and Margaret Learmonth, was the father of John Spens of Dysart and grandfather of David Spence of Somerset County, Maryland.
William Spence [Parents] was born on 28 Mar 1809 in Randolph Cty NC..
home.byu.net /jrm2/pafg29.htm   (1928 words)

  
 The Encyclopedia of the Occult
Lewis Spence was a scholar and journalist, born in Scotland in 1874.
An Encyclopedia of Occultism was published by Spence in 1920 and it seems that The Encyclopedia of the Occult that this reviewer owns is the same book under a different title.
Spence, Lewis; The Encyclopedia of The Occult, Bracken Books, Studio Editions Ltd, London, 1994, 451 pages including index.
the-philosophers-stone.com /regulars/books/reviews/spence.htm   (494 words)

  
 Spence, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers (1874-1955). Poet.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
James Lewis Spence was born in Broughty Ferry on 25 November 1874.
He was one of the first modern poets to make use of archaic Scots words, and his friendship with Hugh MacDiarmid was tarnished by an argument over Spence's role in the "Scottish Renaissance".
An advocate of Scottish independence, he was one of the founder-members of the National Party of Scotland (1928), and was the first Scottish Nationalist to contest a parliamentary seat.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~crumey/lewis_spence.html   (182 words)

  
 ScotlandOnline.com - scottish leisure directory - maps of scotland - eating drinking guides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Spence studied dentistry at Edinburgh University, but switched from pulling teeth to pushing The Scotsman newspaper, where he was a sub-editor from 1889.
This led him into an association with the Scottish renaissance movement and, almost inevitably, with Scots nationalism, where he was a founder member of the National Party of Scotland in 1928.
Spence was the first Scottish Nationalist to contest a parliamentary by-election, when in 1929 he stood unsuccessfully in the North Midlothian Constituency.
www.scotlandonline.com /directory/heritage_gscots_detail.cfm?id=81   (290 words)

  
 Spence Air Base Guestbook
Spence AB and all the cadets are forever fresh in my mind, as is Mr.
Spence was a great combination of the community and military working together in an environment of mutual support.
Spence Field was the primary auxiliary field where T-37 students from Moody Air Force Base learned how to fly the traffic pattern and do touch-and-go landings.
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 Encyclopedia of Occultism - Lewis Spence
Lewis Spence (November 25, 1874 - March 3, 1955) was a Scottish journalist and writer.Spence has been credited in reviving the study of Scottish folklore.
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism is an encyclopedia of occultism by Lewis Spence, published in 1920.
Lewis Spence - Myths of the North American Indians - 0486259676
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 Gnosticism
Gnosticism is, depending upon one's point of view, either an alternative type of Christianity, true Christianity, a generic term for Pagan mystery religions contemporary with the beginnings of Christianity, or a precursor to the Western World's major religions.
Lewis Spence, in The Encyclopedia of the Occult, defined Gnosticism as "an admixture of Indian, Egyptian, Babylonian, and Christian creeds, astrology and magic, with much of the Jewish Kabbalah also."
According to Lewis Spence, some gnostics converted to Islam and became Dervishes, i.e., Sufis.
www.worldspirituality.org /gnosticism.htm   (510 words)

  
 Inventions
He was “Inventor of the Year” for four years in a row in the 1980's for the state of Florida.
It turned out after my life led me to poetry and writing and metaphysics that I met Lewis C. Spence (the writer) in books that just (appeared) in my life, and I hold a special connection to Lewis Chalmers Spence.
If anyone has a copy of that mag (I think it was August issue 82 or 83)please scan a pic for me. My company was automatin techniques co. This link will soon have much of his work as well.
www.stephentree.com /lewis.htm   (169 words)

  
 Lewis & Clark
Two centuries after their expedition awoke the nation both to the promise and to the disquiet of the vast territory out west, Lewis and Clark still stir the imagination, and their adventure remains one of the most celebrated and studied chapters in American history.
This volume explores the legacy of Lewis and Clark's momentous journey and, on the occasion of its bicentennial, considers the impact of their westward expedition on American culture.
Mark Spence is Associate Professor of History and Chair of American Studies at Knox College and author of Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks (1999).
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9327.html   (418 words)

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