Charles Wentworth Littlefield

Charles Wentworth Littlefield (December 17, 1859 - February 2, 1945) was an American homeopathic physician, surgeon, and prononent of a theory of archebiosis from minerals.

Background
By his own account, as published in the "One thousand American men of mark today" (1916), Littlefield was a self-taught practitioner, "admitted to practice by the State Board of Examination in Arkansas in 1886. In 1896 he received the degree of M.D. from the Kansas City Homeopathic Medical College, valedictorian of class. He has practiced medicine under the State Board of Examiners in Arkansas in 1886-90; in Kansas in 1890-97; in 1897-1909 at Indiana; and since 1909 as Washington. He is a member of the Indiana Institute of Homeopathy, Washington State Society of Homeopathy, King County Homeopathic Medical Society, and the American Institute of Homeopathy."

Saline for the Cure
"I can bring the dead back to life."


 * "DISCOVERS THE SECRET OF LIFE: Indiana Physician Asserts It is Volatile Magnetism, Which Exists in the Air." (newspaperarchive.com) &mdash; article from September 29, 1902 edition of Boston Daily Globe (p. 9)
 * "SAYS DEAD MAY LIVE - Amazing Claims of an Indiana Physician - HE OFFERS PROOF OF HIS THEORY" (news.google.com) &mdash; article from the October 11, 1902 edition of New Hampshire's The Nashua Telegraph (p. 7)
 * "Brings Dead to Life: A WONDERFUL SALINE POWDER" (natlib.govt.nz) &mdash; article from the December 2, 1902 edition of New Zealand's Bruce Herald (Vol. 39, Iss. 93, p. 5)
 * "Dr. Littlefield of Virginia claims to have discovered a Saline Powder Which Quickly Restores Animation" (keelynet.com) &mdash; 1902, source unnamed
 * "Doctor Discovers Secret of Life and Death" (weirdlectures.com) &mdash; 1902, source unnamed

Rainbow Lamps
An instrument for the healing of the body and mind by use of light.


 * See also: Rainbow Temple Association.

Blood, Salt, and Biblical Mantras
"...illustration that thoughts are things and their power may be expressed through certain mineral compounds, such as organic, vegetable, animal and human; and second that our thoughts may be formulated into charms or mantras according to a mathematical system called Personal Numerology or Mantras."

Selected Bibliography

 * "The Riddle of the Ages" (1905)
 * "The Twelve Vitalized Tissue Remedies: for private and domestic use, constituting a new science in the work of health and healing book" (1910)
 * "Harmony of Nature and Revelation"
 * "The Beginning and Way of Life" (1919)
 * "The Mind Control of Matter"
 * "From Mineral to Man"
 * "Archebiosis"
 * "Man, Minerals and Masters" (1937)