The Hotel des Artists on West 67th Street in Manhattan was considered his masterpiece.
A column by Frederick Sinclair
Walter Russell was born on May 19th 1871 in Boston Mass. and died on the same day in 1963 at the age of 92. He, (Russell), was an impressionist painter, author sculptor, scientist, inventor, builder, musician and cosmologist. Russel had to leave elementary school at the early age of 9 and later put himself through the Massachusetts Normal Art School and also studied art in Paris. Russel was a self tought musician who in his youth earned money as a church organist. music teacher and hotel performer. In 1900 his painting The Might of Ages represented the US and won several awards at the Tourin international exhibition. As a developer/builder, Russell is credited as developing “cooperative ownership into a economically sound and workable principle” after creating 30 million dollars in cooperative apartments. The Hotel des Artists on West 67th Street in Manhattan was considered his masterpiece. Russell excelled in sculpture and at 56 he began producing busts that included Edison, Twain, MacArthur, Sousa, Goodyear, and Gershwin. In 1934 he won the commission for the Mark Twain Memorial, that is noted for including all Twain key characters, and in 1943 President Franklin D. Roosevelt commissioned him to sculpt the Four Freedoms Monument.
Russell served as President of the Society of Arts and Sciences in 1927 and not only received gold metals as leader in the Science of Man Movement but was extensively published in the New York Times. Amid all of the amazing lifelong accomplishments of this self made man, there is a mystical presence of strength and creative ability that powered the life of Walter Russell. In May of 1921 Russell had experienced what he referred to “My Illuminating” during which he described “becoming aware of all things….I could perceive all motion”. This awareness became the core of Russell’s cosmology and The Universal One was published in 1926, The Russell Genero- Radiative Concept in 1930, The Secret of Light in 1947, and A new Concept of the Universe in 1953. Russell wrote that “ the cardinal error of science” was “shutting the Creator out of his Creation.” “God is the invisible, motionless, sexless, undivided, and unconditioned white Magnetic Light of Mind” which centers all things.
In reading the works of Walter Russell, one discovers the power of an illuminated mind as he describes and illustrates how the stillness of the Creator becomes consciousness that vibrates into wave form that follows Natural Law into the formation of physical Creation. The why of it all; is simply because it is God’s Nature. Nature, being the operative clue. Russell was a close friend and associate of Nicola Tesla and the physics of polarity brought forward is also evident in Tesla’s invention of alternating current. Russell forwarded special editions of The Universal One to 125 of the world’s most prominent scientists, physicists and thinkers of that time. The depth and genius of Russell’s cosmology ironically coincides with the birth and formulation of Quantum physics.
Walter Russell is truly one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century.
