The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

Darwinism is a set of ideas of transmutation of species or of evolution.

His definition is based on the presence in the esoteric currents of four essential characteristics: a theory of correspondences between all parts of the invisible and the visible cosmos, the conviction that nature is a living entity owing to a divine presence or life-force, the need for mediating elements ( such as symbols, rituals, angels, visions ) in order to access spiritual knowledge, and, fourthly, an experience of personal and spiritual transmutation when arriving at this knowledge.

Frederick Soddy ( 2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956 ) was an English radiochemist and monetary economist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions.

If the ion energy is sufficiently high ( usually tens of MeV ) to overcome the coulomb barrier, there can even be a small amount of nuclear transmutation.

" And this food is called among us Εὐχαριστία Eucharist ... For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these ; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh .”

The ideal of chivalry as the ethos of the Christian warrior, and the transmutation of the term knight from the meaning " servant, soldier ", and of chevalier " mounted soldier ", to refer to a member of this ideal class, is significantly influenced by the Crusades, on one hand inspired by the military orders of monastic warriors, as seen retrospectively from the point of view of the beginning Late Middle Ages, and on the other hand influenced by Islamic ( Saracen ) ideals of furusiyya.

Neptunium is also found in trace amounts in uranium ores due to transmutation reactions.

The element is not changed to another element in the process ( no nuclear transmutation is involved ).

Fission is a form of nuclear transmutation because the resulting fragments are not the same element as the original atom.

In about 150, Justin Martyr wrote of the Eucharist: " Not as common bread and common drink do we receive these ; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Savior, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh.

According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is " music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying.

* The superhero / trickster figure of Uncle Sam in Robert Coover's The Public Burning ( 1977, New York, Grove Books ) is described in the following terms ( p. 7 ): " American Autolycus, they called him in the Gospels, referring to his cunning powers of conjuration, transmutation, and magical consumption ( he can play the shell game, not with a mere pea, but with whole tin mines, forests, oil fields, mountain ranges, and just before Thanksgiving this past year made an entire island disappear!

The ouroboros is an ancient symbol of eternity, eternal becoming, or transmutation and transformation, but in this case it indicates more especially the eternity of attainment in the spirit.

26th, Mr. Edward Kelly cam to Trebona from Prage ”), and according to Dee ’ s diary it was during this time that Kelley is said to have performed his first alchemical transmutation ( on December 19, 1586 ).

According to tradition, this bardo is held to commence when the outer and inner signs presage that the onset of death is nigh, and continues through the dissolution or transmutation of the Mahabhuta until the external and internal breath has completed.

While it is easy to imagine natural selection producing the variation seen within genera and families, the transmutation between the higher categories was harder to imagine.

This transmutation is now more commonly used than the original.

Magnus does not confirm he discovered the stone in his writings, but he did record that he witnessed the creation of gold by " transmutation.

It needed careful work by Soddy and Rutherford to prove that atomic transmutation was in fact occurring.

Building upon the nuclear transmutation experiments by Ernest Rutherford, carried out several years earlier, the laboratory fusion of heavy hydrogen isotopes was first accomplished by Mark Oliphant in 1932.

According to the BMDO, the research on neutral particle beam accelerators, which was originally funded by the SDIO, could eventually be used to reduce the half-life of nuclear waste products using accelerator-driven transmutation technology.

The political and theological implications were intensely debated, but transmutation was not accepted by the scientific mainstream.

Some anatomists such as Robert Grant were influenced by Lamarck and Geoffroy, but most naturalists regarded their ideas of transmutation as a threat to divinely appointed social order.

In November 1844, the anonymously published popular science book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, written by Scottish journalist Robert Chambers, widened public interest in the concept of transmutation of species.

Natural processes which produce trace radioisotopes include cosmic ray bombardment of stable nuclides, ordinary alpha and beta decay of the long-lived heavy nuclides, Thorium-232, Uranium-238, and Uranium-235, spontaneous fission of natural Uranium-238, and nuclear transmutation reactions induced by natural radioactivity, such as the production of Plutonium-239 and Uranium-236 from neutron capture

The anatomist Richard Owen used this to support his idealist concept of species as showing the unrolling of a divine plan from an archetype, and in the 1830s attacked the transmutation of species proposed by Lamarck, Geoffroy and Grant.

Deviations from the ( evolving ) galactic average, locally-sampled around the time that the sun's nuclear burning began, can generally be accounted for by mass fractionation ( see the article on mass-independent fractionation ) plus a limited number of nuclear decay and transmutation processes.

From this premise, it was reasoned that the transmutation of one metal into another could be affected by the rearrangement of its basic qualities.

Magnus does not confirm he discovered the stone in his writings, but he did record that he witnessed the creation of gold by " transmutation ".

Cuvier was critical of the evolutionary theories proposed by his contemporaries Lamarck and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, which involved the gradual transmutation of one form into another.

Imprisoned by Augustus as an incentive to hasten his research, Böttger was obliged to work with other alchemists in the futile search for transmutation and was eventually assigned to assist Tschirnhaus.

Debates over the applicability of teleology to scientific questions came to a head in the nineteenth century, as Paley's argument about design came into conflict with radical new theories on the transmutation of species.

In some decays the parent and daughter are different chemical elements, and thus the decay process results in baby transmutation ( creation of an atom of a new element ).

Since the 1820s large numbers of private medical schools joined by the new had introduced the " philosophical anatomy " of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire based on unity of plan compatible with the transmutation of species, implying ideas of progressive improvement and hence radical support for democracy.

The law of conservation of energy and mass tends to corroborate this – in all cases of energy transmutation, a sacrifice is necessary so a new form may be born.

Some concern has been expressed that used MOX cores will introduce new disposal challenges, though MOX is itself a means to dispose of surplus plutonium by transmutation.

The defining goals of alchemy are often given as the transmutation of common metals into gold ( known as chrysopoeia ), the creation of a panacea, and the discovery of a universal solvent.

This can result in a transmutation that changes the number of protons or neutrons in a nucleus.

The first 98 elements have been detected directly on Earth as primordial nuclides present from the formation of the solar system, or as naturally-occurring fission or transmutation products of uranium and thorium.

On Earth ( and elsewhere ), trace amounts of various elements continue to be produced from other elements as products of natural transmutation processes.

A concept that anticipates both the four classical elements of Empedocles and Aristotle's transmutation of the four elements into one another.

In the second volume of the first edition of Principles Lyell explicitly rejected the mechanism of Lamark on the transmutation of species, and was doubtful whether species were mutable.

After the transmutation of the Holy Gifts, the bishop presents to the newly ordained priest a portion of the Lamb ( i. e., the Body of Christ )"

For Cuvier, this was related to another principle of his, the conditions of existence, which excluded the possibility of transmutation of species.

The transmutation of lithium atoms to helium in 1932 was the first fully man-made nuclear reaction, and lithium deuteride serves as a fusion fuel in staged thermonuclear weapons.

A longtime goal of the alchemists was the transmutation of base metals into precious metals.

However, within magick, it takes on a special meaning — the transmutation of ordinary things ( usually food and drink ) into divine sacraments, which are then consumed.

Trace amounts of neptunium are found naturally as decay products from transmutation reactions in uranium ores.

In contrast to the conceptions of the Gaia theorists, or the promoters of cyberspace, Vernadsky's noosphere emerges at the point where humankind, through the mastery of nuclear processes, begins to create resources through the transmutation of elements.