The Death of Dr. Baumring & Birth of the Sacred Science Institute The Story of His Passing and the Continuation of His Teachings

Baumring’s Death

In the early 90’s, the health problems caused by Baumring's automobile accident became so badly aggravated that he had to take a leave of absence from his teaching responsibilities and trading in hope of recovery through extended bed rest. He looked for possible medical solutions, but in the 1980’s, aside from having cortisone shots thrice annually with diminishing effects, spinal fusion of four of his vertebra was the only solution the doctors offered. Jerry was aware of the low chance of a positive outcome to this surgery, so refused it and continued instead to try to heal through bed rest. Unfortunately, his disintegrated disks were so bad that this had no positive effect, leaving him in an ongoing torment of excruciating pain with no viable relief or solution. Eventually this simply wore him out physically and he passed away at the unfortunate early age of only 47 years old.

The End of the Gann Harmony Seminar Series

With Dr. Baumring’s untimely passing, the Investment Centre Bookstore closed its doors once and for all, and his Gann Harmony Seminar Series officially ended, having completed only 9 of the intended 12 seminars in the series. Fortunately for his students, due to his form of circular teaching, even without the completion of the final 3 seminars, Jerry had left a clear enough schematic of the system he was elaborating for students to fill in the final pieces and make the final connections on their own.

In a symbolic way this end a very special era of old book stores and wonderful libraries, as the world transitioned into the new digital information age and the Internet was born. Many of Baumring’s students continued with their studies, some working together in teams or small groups to share ideas, notes and research, with a few continuing all the way to their intended goal after completing the full research outlined by Jerry before his death.

The Birth of the Sacred Science Institute

After Dr. Baumring’s untimely death, his widow wanted to assure that the essential research materials required for Baumring’s courses would remain available for his students, and that Dr. Baumring’s work would be preserved for future generations interested in the theories of W. D. Gann. She asked Dr. Baumring’s closest and youngest private student, William Bradstreet Stewart, to become custodian of Baumring’s work and library and to continue publishing his courses and the essential reprints and research materials required for Baumring’s advanced studies. Stewart agreed and continued to reprint both the core collection of critical source works personally selected by Baumring for his educational program as well as Baumring’s own course series, initially keeping them available only for the group of 100 students left behind by Baumring.

Harnessing the Internet to Connect the Work of Gann & Baumring

In 1995, as the Internet began taking form, Stewart thought it looked like an interesting medium to use as a central means of distributing this collection of research materials and Baumring’s Courses, potentially making them accessible to a larger public. He was surprised to discover a wide group of people from across the globe on this early Internet, who were deeply interested, not just in the financial elements of Baumring’s work, but also in the rare and historical scientific and esoteric treatises in the catalog.

Before long there were scientists interested in nontraditional theories, college professors, occultists, and engineers developing alternative technologies, along with financial analysts and traders, all desiring these rare books and seeking even more related materials. The catalog continued to grow to over 400 titles as Stewart reprinted an ongoing series of rare works from his own and Baumring’s extensive libraries, and the clientele continued to diversify as more people began exploring the Internet.

Since two-thirds of the source works in the catalog were not directly related to financial markets, but covered scientifically orientated and esoteric literature, Stewart chose a more neutral name representing the combination of these two fields, Sacred Science Institute, for the new web presence so as to not overly identify the catalog solely with financial market research.

Over the next 20 years, Stewart expanded the Sacred Science Institute library to more than 15,000 volumes and the catalog of publications to over 500 titles, continuously discovering and reprinting new rarities from historical fields of interest, as well as developing new authors, primarily in the fields of financial analysis and trading.

He also developed a program to translate rare and important historical works from foreign languages into English through the Sacred Science Translation Society which proceeded, with the cooperation of over 100 contributors, to translate and publish seven import works in the fields of harmonics, esoteric science and cosmology, gaining the Institute the recognition of the Los Angeles Times for these efforts.

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