Thergic

/ˈθɜːr.dʒɪk/

adjective

Relating to or characterized by wonder-work; imbued with the energy of creative, extraordinary, or miraculous action.

Etymology

From Greek Thauma (θαῦμα, “wonder, miracle”) + Ergon (ἔργον, “work, action”). Historically, it is considered a contraction of the word “Thaumaturgic”.

Quotation from first usage

“By the grace of divine Providence, the crystal vessels revealed phenomena most wondrous, as if Heaven itself had set its hand upon the work. Truly, these effects are thergic, and so is the anomaly they reveal.” — Friedrich Schmidt, Laboratory Notes, Patagonia, 1803

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First recorded in manuscripts that were discovered in Patagonia, Argentina, in 1967. The texts are attributed to Friedrich Schmidt, a visionary natural philosopher and theologian who lived from 1762 to 1827. The manuscripts themselves were encased by a natural formation of stone and other minerals, that would take several centuries to form, or at least volcanic activity not present in the surrounding area. Carbon dating of the manuscripts suggests an origin around 627, more than a millennia before the European discovery of the continent, confirming the recorded temporal anomaly of the area.

The encasing contained Schmidt’s laboratory notes, along with a crystal-shaped stone strikingly similar to descriptions in the Umbracodex. Around the casing were also recovered several anomalous objects of uncertain provenance, including metallic fragments with no identifiable smelting process, and a set of engraved plates whose inscriptions do not correspond to any known writing system. Schmidt himself compares his findings with “the signs witnessed at the Concilium Aurorae,” though no historical records of such a council exist.

This was one of the findings in the archaeological dig operation that took place in Patagonia after what we know now as the third convergence, an event already alluded to in the suppressed Jesuit accounts of the Silent Eclipse, and more explicitly catalogued in the Fragmenta Australis.

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