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Why does Stone describe three positions—positive, negative, and neutral—when a stick has only two ends? Follow that question through two charts in Energy, learning to search, compare scan and text, and trace a term as you go.
Five short tasks · Allow about 15 minutes · No knowledge of Stone’s work needed
By the end, you will be able to explain the stick analogy in Stone’s model, recognize its three-part pattern in another chart, and find and share the sources yourself.
You will use the real site. Each task opens in this tab, with instructions and a return link above the source. Nothing is timed or scored; skip ahead or repeat a task whenever you need it.
1. Find a chart by its reference
Start with Book 1, Chart 3: The Three Modes of Motion of Mind and Matter. Its title poses our question: what makes this a three-part relationship? Use a reference search to reach the source before interpreting it.
- Open Search and enter book 1 chart 3 in Search Dr. Stone’s books. Results appear as you type.
- Under Direct references, open the result for Book 1 · Chart 3.
- Check the chart number and title, then notice the straight and bent stick drawings. What three labels appear on them? Use Return to tutorial: step 1 above the reader to come back.
Check your result / help finding it
The heading is Chart 3, followed by The Three Modes of Motion of Mind and Matter. The reference identifies Book 1, Energy, printed page 46. Chart numbers and printed page numbers are different references.
If you found several books, include book 1 in your query. If search is unavailable, open the example chart directly and check its heading.
2. Read the scan and transcription
The straight stick has two ends and a middle. Before reading Stone’s explanation, predict what happens to those three positions when the stick bends. Compare the scan with the transcription to test your reading.
- Open Chart 3 in the reader. Below the title and reference, choose Scan. Find the two stick drawings.
- Choose Zoom in to inspect the lettering. Use the Pan buttons to move around; choose Fit scan to see the whole page again.
- Choose Text and find the paragraph beginning “Let us take a stick for example.” Then choose Both to compare the two.
Check the diagram and the reader views
The straight stick’s ends are marked positive and negative, with neutral at the middle. In the bent drawing the ends are below and the neutral middle is at the top; a line joins the ends to complete a triangle. The drawing changes shape while retaining three named positions.
Scan shows the original page; Text shows the recovered transcription; Both shows both. On a wide screen they sit side by side. On a phone or narrower window they stack, with the scan first—scroll down for the text.
If the scan is still enlarged, choose Fit scan. With JavaScript off, scan and text are both present without the switches; opening the scan image gives you the full-size original.
Keep a reference for your notes
Below the chart title, choose Copy reference, then paste into your notes. It includes the book, chart, printed page, and source URL. Copy link copies just the permanent page address. If your browser blocks copying, select and copy the displayed reference or link yourself.
Return using Return to tutorial: step 2 above the reader.
3. Search for words in the books
Now find Stone’s explanation of the drawing. Search for stick to return to the passage by its words rather than its chart number.
- Open Search and enter stick.
- Under Search in, choose Book 1 — Energy to narrow the results to Book 1. Leave Charts, Pages, and Essays checked for this example.
- Find the full-text result for Chart 3. Open it and read the highlighted paragraph beginning “Let us take a stick for example.” How does Stone move from three positions to twelve? Explain it in your own words before checking below.
Check your result / recover an empty search
You should be back at Chart 3, with stick highlighted in the text. Stone describes the two ends of the bent stick joining through energy currents to make a triangle. He then applies positive, neutral, and negative to each of four elements—Fire, Air, Water, and Earth—giving three times four, or twelve. This is the connection we will look for in the next chart.
Search arrivals open the text view so the passage is visible; you can still switch to Both. Use Back to search results to return to the same search, or the tutorial return above the reader to come back here.
If you see no results, check the spelling, select All works, and make sure Charts is checked. To compare your settings, open the worked search. Search matches recovered words, titles, and indexed terms; it cannot read lettering from a scan that has no transcription.
4. Follow a word from a drawing
The drawing says neutral, while the paragraph uses neuter [neutral]. Follow this term through the Keyword Index, which connects recorded illustration words to their charts.
- Open the Keyword Index. In Find a keyword, type neutral.
- Find neutral [neuter] and open its Book 1, chart 3 link.
- Check the label at the straight stick’s middle against the wording in the paragraph. Does neutral name an end or a third position? Use the tutorial return above the reader to come back.
Check the term and choose the right search tool
Neutral names the third position in this example: the middle of the straight stick and the top of the bent one. The transcription preserves neuter and supplies neutral in brackets. Those brackets are the original transcription team’s editorial help; they let you connect the wording without silently rewriting Stone.
Use Search for a passage, phrase, or page/chart reference. Use Keywords for the recorded terms inside illustrations and the charts connected to them. A word can appear in a transcription without being an illustration keyword, so an empty keyword result does not mean the word is absent from the books.
Without JavaScript, choose N in the alphabetical index and find neutral [neuter]. Clear removes a typed filter when JavaScript is enabled.
5. Try it on your own
Find Book 1, Chart 4 and choose Both. Look for the four element diagrams surrounding the central circle. How does this chart develop the three-times-four pattern from the stick paragraph? In the Fire diagram, identify the three body labels at its corners. Try it before opening the help.
Write two sentences explaining the connection between Charts 3 and 4, then use Copy link to attach your source. Your explanation and the reference should make it possible for someone else to check your reading.
I need a hint
Search for book 1 chart 4 and use the reference match. In the reader choose Both. Look at the Fire triangle at the upper left, then compare the separate Air, Earth, and Water triangles with the central circle. Below the title, choose Copy link; if copying is blocked, copy the displayed page address manually.
Check your result
The page identifies Book 1 · Energy, Chart 4, and printed page 48. Its permanent address ends in /books/energy/chart-4/. A copied source link does not include tutorial or search information.
Each of the four element diagrams contains a triangle; the central circle combines the four triangles into twelve positions. The Fire triangle’s corners are labeled Head, Solar Plexus, and Thighs. Chart 3 supplies Stone’s threefold analogy; Chart 4 applies that pattern across the four elements and assigns body correspondences. These diagrams present his model.
Compare with the correct chart. You have completed the tutorial when you can locate the sources, explain that connection using their text and images, and share a source link. Revisit any step you could follow but could not yet explain.
Choose where to go next
- Read Energy in order — use its contents to choose a starting point, then Previous and Next to move through the book. On a phone, open Contents from the reader’s top bar.
- Browse the charts — choose a book and inspect its plates.
- Read John Chitty’s essays — later commentary on Stone’s terminology, identified separately from Stone’s texts.