Newton's last secret. Newton's last secret Newton was a Freemason

In general, Isaac Newton was an adherent of a very ascetic lifestyle. He tried not to take an active part in traditional London entertainment, and was not a supporter of smoking and sniffing tobacco (a very common pastime at that time), explaining that “there was no need for this for him.” Other forms of leisure time - musical evenings, theaters or exhibitions - also interested him little, and he described his only visit to the opera as a dubious pleasure: “I listened to the first act with joy, the second became a test for my patience, and at the third I ran out.”

Newton was born in the year of Galileo's death

It seems that he did not read fiction at all, and considered poetry “inventive but nonsensical chatter.” It was largely thanks to the real circumstances of Newton’s life that the familiar type of armchair scientist, a kind of Faust, who was completely absorbed in the problems of the universe and despising everyday life, was formed. As one of the English physicist’s contemporaries noted, “if Newton was left alone, he could rarely be seen without a pen in his hand and an open book.” Like many famous geniuses of his era, Newton was a universal scientist, simultaneously studying issues of physics, anatomy, mathematics, alchemy and even theology.

Newton entered the history of science and culture primarily as the founder of the classical physical knowledge, however, his contemporaries also highly valued his theological writings. Thus, the famous English philosopher Locke wrote in 1703 to his nephew King: “Newton is truly a wonderful scientist, not only because of his amazing achievements in mathematics, but also in theology and because of his great knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, in which few can compare with him.” " In wide circles, Newton's fame as a theologian was very great, and the combination of a mathematician and a theologian that seems strange to us today was the norm for the scientific hierarchy of the 17th century, especially in England, where broad knowledge in the natural and theological sciences could be a good help in political career. Newton's Protestantism and Arianism were one of the forms of struggle against the Catholic Stuarts and the Tory party. The same political roots can be traced in almost all of Newton's historical and theological works.

Shortly before Newton's death, in 1725, a French translation of his historical work Abrégé de Chronologie (Abrégé de Chronologie) was published without the author's consent. With the accession of George I to the English throne in 1714, the figure of the scientist became the subject of special attention from the English court, especially the Princess of Wales, later Queen of England. The princess was in active correspondence with Leibniz and tried different ways to reconcile Newton with him (the German scientist accused the Englishman of plagiarism), and then an opportunity presented itself - the publication of the chronological system developed by Newton over the course of 40 years based on astronomical observations of antiquity.

In the last fragment of the fundamental work “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy,” Newton directly writes: “Reasoning about God on the basis of occurring phenomena, of course, belongs to the subject of natural philosophy.” The planets and their satellites, once set in motion by the mysterious “first shock,” continued to circle in their destined ellipses forever and ever, or at least until the end of all things. Newton's "initial conditions" subsequently formed the basis of later arguments for the existence of God. Thus, the proof from pre-established harmony proposed by Leibniz not only gives the divine principle the status of the first cause of all things, but also offers reasonable justification for the eternal philosophical paradox that good is logically connected with some evil: “As all clocks, without any causal interaction, show the same and at the same time, then there must be a single external Cause that regulates them all.”

Newton hid his alchemical research and encoded its results

Gradually, news of the versatile English genius spread throughout Europe. In 1698, Russian Tsar Peter I, arriving in London as part of his Grand Embassy, was most eager to meet with Isaac Newton. Newton respectfully agreed to such a meeting and even considered the inventive and practical Russian Tsar to be a much more knowledgeable interlocutor in the sciences than the monarch of his own country. In the same year, Newton received the position of manager of the Mint, a post he remained in until his death. Control over public finances was undoubtedly a profitable business, and therefore Newton became a very wealthy man, which allowed him to concentrate entirely on scientific research, even to the detriment of an academic university career. But the path of a leader was by no means alien to the researcher: in 1703 he was elected president of the Royal Scientific Society, which was then not in the best position, being on the verge of bankruptcy. Before Newton, this post was traditionally occupied by aristocrats who perceived their position more as a sinecure, and therefore they cared little about the fate of the enterprise. Newton decided to completely change similar attitude: over many years of leading the Society, he attended almost all of its meetings and even chaired them, summing up the discussions from a special chairman's chair installed at the head of the table. Only after he, having expressed his weighty arguments, sat back down, did the footman who served at the meetings place the official baton of the Society on the table. This was how a special ritual was observed, which essentially identified the royal court with its own, enlightened monarch.

Being a very religious person (though not quite in the traditional sense of the word), Newton did not remain indifferent to esotericism and alchemy. So, he makes friends with the French Protestant exile Jean Desagulier, one of key figures European Freemasonry. Esoteric traditions were partly borrowed by Freemasonry from medieval guild brotherhoods of builders and masons, and partly originated from medieval orders of knighthood. It is not known for certain whether Newton was a Freemason, but his membership in the educational society “Spalding gentleman’s society”, which held informal meetings and discussions about ancient antiquities over a cup of coffee, is certain. In addition, it is known that Newton shared the classical alchemical allegory of Jason's journey for the Golden Fleece.

Newton personally searched for criminals, despite the risk to his life

The American historian of science C. Webster notes that the presence in Newton’s library of books by the famous alchemist Paracelsus and his students indicates that Newton was familiar with the cornerstone provisions of traditional occult sciences. Scientists estimate that the volume of alchemical works that passed through Newton's hands exceeded 5,000 pages. In addition, Newton maintained contacts with alchemists and magicians of the time and was even a member of a secret alchemical society, where he was known under the pseudonym Iegova Sanctus (the One Holy Jehovah) - an anagram of his own Latin name Isaacus Neutonus. At the same time, the main scientific interests of Newton the alchemist were the search for the supposed universal solvent - menstruum, by studying the nature of which Newton hoped to comprehend the secret of transmutation of elements and penetrate into the innermost structures of matter. It is worth noting that being a man of a turning point, when the medieval geocentric worldview was replaced scientific thinking and the consciousness of the New Age, Newton, therefore, with one side of his activity was directed to the past - to the problems of theology, magic and traditional science, and the other - to the future, which broke with the scholastic tradition of medieval scientific schools.

Isaac Newton's house and the famous apple tree

Newton's law universal gravity has become a truly universal rule, applicable to various subjects of study, be it the movements of the planets and their satellites, the orbits of comets, or the patterns of tides. The triumph of Newton's genius was so complete that the scientist was in danger of becoming a second Aristotle and turning out to be an insurmountable barrier to scientific progress - Cartesian doubt lost its meaning in a harmonious universe functioning according to Newton's laws. In England, only a century after his death, scientists were able to free themselves sufficiently from his authority to create truly original works in physics and mathematics.

Due to numerous requests, they promised to publish an answer to the question of how, from the standpoint of the teachings of the Orthodox Church, one should treat Isaac Newton and those “laws” that are named after him, or rather, the 3rd law of his name. By this issue there is extensive literature, but I wanted to write in my own words and as briefly as possible, because this is what the people with whom I consulted before starting work on this article recommended me to do.

As you know, Newton’s 3rd law states “For every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction” (I. Newton, Collected works, Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences). What is the danger of this law? As every Orthodox Christian knows, every power in our world has a source, and the great source of everything that happens is the Lord, the Creator of Heaven and Earth. In other words, everything that happens in this world happens according to the Will of God, according to His Providence and a destiny known only to Him. Strictly speaking, the Lord of all Orthodox Christian is felt as the most important and integral force in the whole world. But, based on the formulation of Newton’s 3rd law, the Lord God, as the greatest force, must have an opposing force. Yes, we, Orthodox Christians, know that indeed in the world, to which the Creator gave freedom, there is a force that opposes the Lord, in other words, there is a force, the vector of which is directed strictly against the vector in which the power of God is directed (in terms of the modern formulation of this law). And we all also know the name of this force that dares to resist the Lord, for its name is Satan, the Devil, the ancient serpent, the liar and the father of lies.

But here we come to the most terrible conclusion for a Christian. Let us remember once again what the above-mentioned Newton's law says? Counteracting forces, according to the law, are “equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.” What we have? We have the fact of equalizing the powers of the Lord, the creator of Heaven and earth, and Satan, the liar and father of lies. However, such a conclusion is contrary to all Holy Scripture and the meaning Christian faith. As we know, the Power of the Lord is unlimited and there is no power equal to it. Satan and all his demons are powerless before the Lord and His Will; they can only tempt a person, persuade a person to their side, but this still leaves them insignificant before the power of the Lord.

Some historical digression is necessary here. The fact is that in the history of mankind there were certain teachings that dared to equalize the forces of the Light and Dark (Good and Evil principles) within the framework of these teachings. Thus, in Zoroastrianism, the personification of the good principle, Ahur-Mazda (Ormuzd), is opposed by the personification of the evil principle, Agro-Manyu (Ohriman), and their powers are equal. The successors of the tradition of Zoroastrianism - the Manichaeans, Paulicians, as well as the Cathars (Albigensians) also dared to equate these principles. What follows from the fact that someone, like the Zoroastrians or Newton, recognizes the equality of acting and reacting forces? This will mean not just a person’s freedom of choice between Good and Evil, but (moreover), it will mean a person’s indifference (ambivalence) to the outcome of the World Confrontation. This is what the Yezidis do - a small sect in Syria and Iraq, who preferred to worship the personification of evil, deciding that since the forces are equal, and a good deity will never harm them, because it is good, then they would rather appease the evil god, so that he would not harm them. messed up. A vivid example, when from the phrase “Every action always has an equal and opposite reaction” to open Satanism - one step, and people took it long before Newton, these were the Manichaeans, Paulicians, Bohumils, Cathars, Yezidis...

I will note that at one time, for daring to equate the powers of God and the Devil in their teaching, the Bogomils (Paulicians) in the east and the Cathar Bogomils (Albigensians) by the Roman Church in the west were anathematized and declared heretics and opponents of the Lord. You see, the vile nature of such an opinion that “For every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction” was clear to Catholics in the 12th century, although they already dared to break away from the truth of the Orthodox Faith...

Thus, Newton’s so-called 3rd law reveals a close connection with the content and meaning of many heretical and openly Satanic creeds - such as Bohumilism, Paulicianism, the teachings of the Cathars, anathematized by the Church, and openly Satanic cults such as the Yezidis.

Please tell me, who primarily benefited from this vile lie, based on which one can think and equate the Lord and the forces of evil opposing him in everything? There is no doubt that this lie was beneficial and necessary, first of all, to Satan, who is a liar and the father of lies, which means that he is the source of this lie and this lie, no doubt, was composed and spread out of his obsession. But what is Newton's connection with Satan and was Newton a Satanist?

The answer to this question is very difficult. On the one hand, we know that Newton studied the Holy Scriptures a lot and even wrote a commentary on the Apocalypse in 14 volumes. But has anyone read this comment? I dare to assure you: in it Newton treats the Holy Scriptures, and specifically the Book of Revelation, not with the reverent awe due to a Christian; no, he is looking in it secret meaning, and solves the codes in it, like a codebreaker, or Kabbalists (supporters of the satanic teachings of Kabbalah also use the texts of Holy Scripture, looking for hidden codes, symbols and secret meanings in them).

Other arguments support the above idea. Newton was also a Freemason and a member of a number of other occult organizations, in particular the Priory of Sion, which, by the way, he headed and was a Prior. Under Newton, the Royal Scientific Society - the British Academy of Sciences - was founded. It was then that it became customary that in order to become a member of the Royal Society, it was not enough to just be a scientist: you also had to be a Freemason. There is every reason to believe that it was Newton who accepted Peter 1 and Menshikov into Freemasonry during their visit to England, when Peter and his favorite, without any merit in science, without even having an education, became members of the Royal Society. Homosexuality goes hand in hand with Freemasonry and Satanism. We know about Newton that all his life he avoided women, treated them with distrust, and never married, living all his life in the same room with his secretary. Newton's correspondence, published several years ago, allows us to speak of his relationship with his secretary as a sodomitic connection carried through his entire life...

Newton was a consistent successor of the work of Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler. His “first law” is a development of Galileo’s principle of relativity of motion, and his “law of universal gravitation” is a development of Kepler’s law. There is another connection between these individuals (Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Copernicus), again suggesting secret societies practicing occult teachings and mysticism. I note that the supporters of Copernicus and Galileo initially behaved like a sect, or, more accurately, like a kind of secret society, the same Freemasons or Illuminati (many of the scientists of the 16th-18th centuries were actually members of the latter). Thus, the propagandist of the ideas of Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, who, when free from making money by drawing up horoscopes, was engaged in astronomy and mathematics, literally wrote the following in one of his letters to his correspondent: “We who adhere to the Copernican heresy must support each other in every possible way...” (see. Selected works, History of Mathematics, Volume II, 1970, p. 63.). Thus, even Kepler himself spoke of himself and his followers as supporters of heresy, and Newton was one of them.

The mechanics created by Newton met with numerous criticism both among his contemporaries and among his descendants - both scientists and public figures. Yes, oh. Sergius Bulgakov wrote in his “Philosophy of Economics” that “everything that bears the stamp of a subject and has signs of life is incompatible with a scientific, purely objective attitude towards the world.” And further he pointed out, first of all, speaking about science in its, as it would later be called, positivist understanding: “science commits deliberate murder of the world and nature, it studies the corpse of nature, it is the anatomy and mechanics of nature, such is its biology, and physiology, and psychology " A believing Christian, the founder of electrodynamics, Maxwell also greatly criticized Newton's mechanics: he said that the All-Great God could not create the world according to such laws, because Maxwell established that the basis of everything in the world is the atom, but if the electron in the atom rotated according to the laws Newtonian mechanics, then it would inevitably fall onto the nucleus and all the atoms would die. This means, Maxwell reasoned, the laws of Newtonian mechanics are not only disgusting to the Lord, who would not create the world according to them, but also contrary to nature itself. By the way, there is information that in the twilight of his years, Maxwell converted to Orthodoxy, receiving holy baptism in the true Apostolic faith from the confessor of the Russian Embassy in London, but this is a completely different story...

The Lord, having created man in His Image and Likeness, gave him freedom of choice, endowing him with the ability to make decisions. All of us, the children of Adam and Eve, the numerous descendants of Noah, are endowed with this right and it is the greatest gift. But it is important not only to remember our right to choose, but also, while using it, implementing it, not to forget that we ourselves will have to answer for the choice we make - the choice between the Lord and Satan, between Good and Evil, between Truth and False - before the face of the Eternal Judge from whom no one can hide anything...

This is something you should always remember. This is where I would like to end this article.

With trust in the Lord, R.B. Alexander
written in the City of the Holy Apostle Peter on the 11th day of August, in the summer of 2013 from the Nativity of Christ, 7521 from the Creation of the World

Newton was born in the year of Galileo's death

Newton entered the history of science and culture primarily as the founder of classical physical knowledge, but his contemporaries also highly valued his theological writings. Thus, the famous English philosopher Locke wrote in 1703 to his nephew King: “Newton is truly a wonderful scientist, not only because of his amazing achievements in mathematics, but also in theology and because of his great knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, in which few can compare with him.” " In wide circles, Newton's fame as a theologian was very great, and the combination of a mathematician and a theologian, which seems strange to us today, was the norm for the scientific hierarchy of the 17th century, especially in England, where broad knowledge in the natural and theological sciences could be a good help in a political career. Newton's Protestantism and Arianism were one of the forms of struggle against the Catholic Stuarts and the Tory party. The same political roots can be traced in almost all of Newton's historical and theological works.

Shortly before Newton's death, in 1725, a French translation of his historical work Abrégé de Chronologie (Abrégé de Chronologie) was published without the author's consent. With the accession of George I to the English throne in 1714, the figure of the scientist became the subject of special attention from the English court, especially the Princess of Wales, later Queen of England. The princess was in active correspondence with Leibniz and tried in various ways to reconcile Newton with him (the German scientist accused the Englishman of plagiarism), and then an opportunity presented itself - the publication of the chronological system developed by Newton over 40 years based on astronomical observations of antiquity.

Newton hid his alchemical research and encoded its results

Gradually, news of the versatile English genius spread throughout Europe. In 1698, Russian Tsar Peter I, arriving in London as part of his Grand Embassy, was most eager to meet with Isaac Newton. Newton respectfully agreed to such a meeting and even considered the inventive and practical Russian Tsar to be a much more knowledgeable interlocutor in the sciences than the monarch of his own country. In the same year, Newton received the position of manager of the Mint, a post he remained in until his death. Control over public finances was undoubtedly a lucrative business, and therefore Newton became a very wealthy man, which allowed him to fully concentrate on scientific research, even to the detriment of his academic university career. But the path of a leader was by no means alien to the researcher: in 1703 he was elected president of the Royal Scientific Society, which was then not in the best position, being on the verge of bankruptcy. Before Newton, this post was traditionally occupied by aristocrats who perceived their position more as a sinecure, and therefore they cared little about the fate of the enterprise. Newton decided to completely change this attitude: over many years of leading the Society, he attended almost all of its meetings and even chaired them, summing up the discussions from a special chairman's chair installed at the head of the table. Only after he, having expressed his weighty arguments, sat back down, did the footman who served at the meetings place the official baton of the Society on the table. This was how a special ritual was observed, which essentially identified the royal court with its own, enlightened monarch.

Being a very religious person (though not quite in the traditional sense of the word), Newton did not remain indifferent to esotericism and alchemy. So, he makes friends with the French Protestant exile Jean Desaguliers, one of the key figures in European Freemasonry. Esoteric traditions were partly borrowed by Freemasonry from medieval guild brotherhoods of builders and masons, and partly originated from medieval orders of knighthood. It is not known for certain whether Newton was a Freemason, but his membership in the educational society “Spalding gentleman’s society”, which held informal meetings and discussions about ancient antiquities over a cup of coffee, is certain. In addition, it is known that Newton shared the classical alchemical allegory of Jason's journey for the Golden Fleece.

Newton personally searched for criminals, despite the risk to his life

The American historian of science C. Webster notes that the presence in Newton’s library of books by the famous alchemist Paracelsus and his students indicates that Newton was familiar with the cornerstone provisions of traditional occult sciences. Scientists estimate that the volume of alchemical works that passed through Newton's hands exceeded 5,000 pages. In addition, Newton maintained contacts with alchemists and magicians of the time and was even a member of a secret alchemical society, where he was known under the pseudonym Iegova Sanctus (the One Holy Jehovah) - an anagram of his own Latin name Isaacus Neutonus. At the same time, the main scientific interests of Newton the alchemist were the search for the supposed universal solvent - menstruum, by studying the nature of which Newton hoped to comprehend the secret of transmutation of elements and penetrate into the innermost structures of matter. It is worth noting that, being a man of a turning point, when the medieval geocentric worldview was replaced by scientific thinking and the consciousness of the New Age, Newton, therefore, with one side of his activity was turned to the past - to the problems of theology, magic and traditional science, and the other - to the future, breaking with scholasticism. tradition of medieval scientific schools.

Isaac Newton's house and the famous apple tree

Newton's law of universal gravitation has become a truly universal rule, applicable to various subjects of study, be it the movements of planets and their satellites, the orbits of comets, or the patterns of tides. The triumph of Newton's genius was so complete that the scientist was in danger of becoming a second Aristotle and turning out to be an insurmountable barrier to scientific progress - Cartesian doubt lost its meaning in a harmonious universe functioning according to Newton's laws. In England, only a century after his death, scientists were able to free themselves sufficiently from his authority to create truly original works in physics and mathematics.

Newton's model
Not much is known about the great English physicist Isaac Newton: he discovered the law of universal gravitation, developed the basics of the theory of differentiation...
This is not in the official biography:
Towards the end of his life, Isaac Newton (1643-1727) was left alone. He didn’t even have students to whom he could pass on his archive and diary entries with scientific reasoning and evidence.
Less than six months before the death of his complex and contradictory life, he wrote a letter-message, not addressed to anyone, about which almost no one in the scientific world knows. Here it is:
\"Letter to the One who can do What I was unable to do. I, the great physicist and learned man Newton Isaac, who repented of everything that was done and not done by me, and admitted my failure in matters of physics, convey this work into the hands of One who can do What I did not do, will realize the knowledge I have received and will preserve the relics of Nature that dominates everyone and all that have been handed over to me... I ask You, O Good Friend of my research, to convey What You will find here, people... On this I remain a slave of Your Will and actions, "teacher of the physics of lies", Isaac Newton! "
That's it! This letter is by no means an emotional outburst of a powerful talent, but a sober and self-critical assessment of all of his scientific activity, which, according to the scientist, was unable to be brought to its logical conclusion. The question arises - what prevented him from completing it to the end or to the intended point? He had enough power, assistants, money. This can only be explained by ideology, in which he became disillusioned before his death, or by the understanding that the end of life had come and he was no longer subject to the forces that forced him to do so. One way or another, a person of his level and type could not act purely emotionally, which means he had reasons for doing so.
To understand this almost dying letter from a scientist, addressed to virtually no one, it perhaps makes sense to recall some information about Newton’s life. In the early 70s of the 17th century, being by that time still a very young but already famous scientist, Isaac joined the Royal Scientific Society of London, which was founded under the auspices of the most brilliant minds of England back in the time of Cromwell. Only Masons were members of this society. And Newton was one too.
By the way, Freemasonry modern type arose precisely in England and very quickly spread in the bourgeois and noble circles of many European countries. As it is presented, the Freemasons sought to create a secret world organization with the goal of the world unification of humanity in a religious fraternal union - a noble goal, But. But the real goal of Freemasonry is power over humanity. Masons are waging a constant, cruel and unprincipled battle with society. This is evidenced by extreme secrecy, the widespread search for remaining knowledge and its isolation from society, as well as the development and dissemination of mechanisms for economic and political influence on society. Thus, the Masons appropriated knowledge, realizing that knowledge is power. By depriving the enemy of knowledge and appropriating it for themselves, they acquired a long-term clear advantage over the enemy.
Having become president of the Royal Scientific Society in 1703, that is, practically the supreme scientist of the country, Newton energetically used the power he received to publish as widely as possible and repeatedly reprint his works. But, in addition to the official presidency of the Royal Society, Isaac was also the Navigator (otherwise the head) of the semi-legal lodge "Prior of Sion", which arose in the eleventh century and was founded by Godfrey of Bouillon with the aim of restoring the Merovingian dynasty.
At the end of his life, Newton felt very unwell, and his affairs at the Royal scientific society and in the "Prior of Zion" box things went very badly. Due to poor health, he could no longer see the swindlers around him, who, taking advantage of the exorbitant ambition of their leader, gained his trust in order to maliciously turn the true admirers of the scientist’s talent against him personally. Isaac did not notice any of this, which is strange, because this was his school. Moreover, due to his old age, he sometimes allowed himself liberties that were absolutely unacceptable for his significant position. His former "comrades-in-arms", and now open and secret enemies, felt the weakness of the ear and were eager for power, and were not slow to take advantage of it. Gradually, as if jokingly, they declared him to be out of his mind, a worthless old man, since at times he quite seriously told his “companions” about some documents that no one had ever seen, supposedly received by him from “ambassadors” who arrived from distant stars." At the same time, he began to openly laugh at his own previous judgments and sharply questioned the foundations of mathematics and physics that he had developed.
At the beginning of December 1726, during one of these conversations, which eventually turned into an obvious conflict due to the fact that those listening to Newton did not believe his “cosmic nonsense” at all, he decisively declared that he would leave his archive to anyone , but not to his former comrades. They, naturally, did not attach serious importance to his threat, since the rules of the “Prior of Sion” strictly prohibited the disclosure of his secret to outsiders. And Isaac, returning home, writes the already mentioned message.
But in March 1727, when the scientist died and members of the society and the lodge came to pay their last respects to him, they, to their great surprise, found neither the archive nor the diaries. There was a commotion. Enraged members of the "Prior of Sion" searched the entire house, but to no avail. Only by destroying most home, the already half-mad five members of the lodge discovered what they were looking for in a carefully hidden chest, but they did not notice the scientist’s message...
Here it must be said that the deceased’s chief archivist was George Warren Bacon, a distant relative of Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the philosopher and founder of English materialism. This last representative of the Bacon family did not share the opinion of his associates in the "Prior of Sion." Deeply revering his late boss, he sought a way to fulfill it last will and finally found it.
Somehow the archivist heard about the young and talented physicist Thomas Young, who had been looking for information about Newton’s archive for quite some time in various libraries...
And here we read from Jung’s diary: “On August 27, 1727, I stayed late in the office to complete some business... A sudden knock on the door distracted my attention... I stood up and asked: “Who’s there?” ", but they did not answer me. Then, opening the door, I saw a man of very noble appearance and, apparently, rich. I let him into the house, although his intentions remained a mystery to me. He introduced himself to me as George Warren Bacon, a distant a relative of the famous Francis Bacon, and said that he was the archivist of the secret society "Prior of Sion"... For my part, I expressed surprise: how could I be useful to him, to which he handed me a strange letter with the following content."
Everything else is known. We included the letter-message at the very beginning.
Jung was very lucky. He was stunned by the contents of Newton's diaries and archives. But the guest warned Jung that everything he brought must be returned very soon, that is, before the return of the members of the "Prior of Sion" lodge, who are now in France at negotiations, and the secret archive was stolen by him and brought, in his opinion, to the only a person who can appreciate the importance of what is happening.
Jung spent only a few days studying secret materials. During this time, he managed to rewrite no more than one third of the “Doctrine of the Breath of the World,” which Newton himself labeled as a “work” given to him by “extraterrestrial rulers.” However, this was enough for Thomas to think seriously about the origins of light energy, the boundaries of knowledge of the World Will, and much more.
Before picking up the archive and diaries of your former boss, Bacon earnestly asked Jung to use the acquired “knowledge” very carefully, since the members of the “Prior of Sion” lodge closely monitor the development of science and any suspicion that someone has penetrated their secrets can lead to serious consequences.
Unfortunately, the young scientist did not listen to his advice. He immediately wanted to make Newton's knowledge available to society and hurried to publish a series of articles in which he invariably referred to the "greatest physicist."
As a result of this, the archivist disappeared without a trace, and Jung fled to France, where later, thanks to the reading of Newton's secret materials, he became famous primarily as the founder of the wave theory of light.
So, as a result of the violation of the rules of the “Prior of Sion” by Newton himself, his faithful servant and the young scientist Thomas Young, the great scientist did not manage to defame anyone. Bacon, most likely, was killed by members of the lodge, and the young talent became famous in science.

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In 1590, Galileo Galilei conducted a series of experiments showing that the speed of free fall physical bodies depends on the density of the medium, and not on their gravity.

In 1609, Johannes Kepler, using Tycho Brahe's table, derived three laws of planetary motion.

In the 1670s, Isaac Newton developed a theory that brought all these discoveries together and allowed the behavior of the mechanical universe to be described in three simple formulas.

Of course, there is a temptation to see in this a triumphant breakthrough of humanity into the modern world, a way out of a long era of obscurantism and ignorance into the clear light of reason. But the dedicated priests of the Egyptian temples, who knew a few thousand years ago that Sirius was a triple star system, knew perfectly well that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Moreover, as we will soon see, there is evidence indicating that the heroes modern science- people from whom we would least expect it - were deeply fascinated by ancient wisdom.

Copernicus acknowledged that his brilliant ideas came from reading ancient texts, and when Kepler formulated his theories, he felt ancient wisdom flowing through him. In the preface to the fifth volume of Harmonices Mundi (1619), he wrote: “Yes, I stole the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a chapel to my God...”

Kepler had been a childhood friend of Richard Beschold, who worked closely with Valentin Andrea and is generally believed to have been his co-author in the drafting of the Rosicrucian manifestos. Isaac Newton was born in the town of Woolsthorpe in Lincolnshire. He never grew above five feet. Newton was a strange, eccentric, sexually awkward and lonely man. During his apprenticeship, he lived in the same house with a pharmacist, who turned out to be an expert in alchemy, and this circumstance determined his life path. Newton, like Cornelius Agrippa before him, wanted to develop complete system of the universe.

Newton became convinced that the secrets of life were encoded numerically in the fabric of nature. He believed that the keys to deciphering these codes were hidden in ancient books of wisdom, as well as ancient structures such as the Great Pyramid and Solomon's Temple. It looked as if God had decided to give humanity an exam. Only after the intellectual abilities of humanity rise to a certain level will it be able to realize the existence of these codes and decipher them. According to Newton, that time has already come.

It is generally accepted that the Ptolemaic map of the spheres was replaced by the ideas of Copernicus, Galileo and other scientists, but in fact it was and remains an accurate map the spiritual dimension of the cosmos - a dimension that seemed more real to the ancients than the material cosmos

From Newton's point of view, every part of the universe is endowed with intelligence. Even a stone is intelligent, and not only in the sense that it indicates the presence of a higher plane. According to the ancient worldview held by Newton, animal, vegetable and mineral are not completely different categories. They naturally overlap, mix, and in some circumstances can change from one to the other. According to Newton's contemporary Lady Conway, who studied the Kabbalah, "there are transformations from one variety to another, as, for example, from stone to earth, from earth to grass, from grass to sheep, from sheep to human flesh, from human flesh to the lowest varieties of man, and of them into the noblest spirits." Thus, according to Newton, everything in the universe tends towards reason. Inanimate matter tends towards vegetable life, which in turn tends towards animal life through rudimentary sentience. The higher animals have an instinct almost as intelligent as the thinking ability of human beings, who eventually evolve into superintelligent beings.

This is the universal desire for a super-intelligent view of the heavens that the Stoics hinted at. The 16th-century Kabbalist Isaac Luria put it this way: “There is nothing in the world, even among silent things such as dust and stones, that does not have a certain life, a spiritual nature, a specific planet and its perfect form in the heavens.” Luria spoke of the mind as a seed that represents intelligent intention in the light of the sun. The ancient esoteric tradition did not assume that all the information necessary for the development of a plant was contained in the seed. The process of growth is the result of the interaction of the intelligence contained in the seed with the intelligence of the surrounding cosmos.

From John Maynard Keynes's study of the occult aspects of Newton's worldview, we know that these ideas fascinated him. Newton wondered whether it was possible to identify separate centers of consciousness that existed behind the material form of things. It cannot be said that Newton ever imagined these centers in the form of angels sitting on clouds, or visualized them in some other naive anthropomorphic way, but at the same time he did not consider them completely impersonal, much less perceive them as pure abstractions. He called them “intellects,” which implied the presence of will.

As we have seen, all esoteric researchers have taken a special interest in the interaction between the animal and vegetable kingdoms, on the one hand, and between the vegetable and mineral kingdoms, on the other hand. In esoteric understanding, here lies the key to understanding the secrets of nature and controlling them. The plant principle serves as a mediator between thought and matter. It can be called the gate between worlds.

To better understand why anyone might believe this, it is worth recalling the idealistic creation story presented in the early chapters of this book. If you believe that the world was created by the mind, then you need to explain how the immaterial formed the material. Traditionally, this question in all the ancient cultures of the world was considered in the context of a successive series of emanations of the mind, initially too ephemeral for any form of sensory perception and even more subtle than light. It was from these ethereal emanations that matter was eventually formed.

This etheric aspect continues to occupy a place between the mind (animal aspect) and matter. Hence the traditional gradation: animal, vegetable and mineral.

Mind could not - and still cannot - directly create or change matter, but can do so through the plant aspect. In fact, the mineral aspect of the cosmos comes from the plant aspect. This means something important to practicing occultists. The vegetable body, which Paracelsus called ens vegetalis, is subject to the mind, and since the mineral aspect is derived from the vegetable aspect, it is possible to exercise the power of mind over matter through this medium.

This subtle intermediary, which the mind can use to reorganize the cosmos, Newton called sal nitrum. In his notes on his experiments, he describes the experiments he conducted with the aim of possibly using sal nitrum to revive metals. These notes represent a report from a real alchemist about the work done. Newton saw how sal nitrum circulates from the stars to the depths of the earth and gives them life, usually plant life, but in certain circumstances it also gives life to metals. With growing delight, he describes how metal compounds come to life in nitrate solutions and develop like plants. This "growth of metals" strengthened Newton's belief that the universe had wildlife, and in his personal papers he used the concept of sal nitrum to explain the effects of gravity.

As we peer into the secret lives of the heroes of science—the men who shaped the mechanistic worldview and made enormous advances in technology that have made our own lives safer and more enjoyable—we often learn that they were deeply interested in esoteric thought, especially alchemy.

We can also consider a lesser known paradox, which is that many famous occultists, mystics and seers were practical men who often made discoveries and inventions.

Considering both of these groups, it is difficult to make a clear distinction between scientists and occultists, even when we move into the modern era. Rather, there is a whole spectrum of falls, with each person being both to varying degrees.

Paracelsus, perhaps the most respected of the occultists, revolutionized medicine by introducing the experimental method. He was the first to isolate zinc and give a name to this metal, proved the importance of hygiene, and also first formulated the principles that formed the basis of homeopathy.

Giordano Bruno - great hero science, who was burned at the stake in 1600 for defending the heliocentric model of structure solar system. But we could already see that this was due to his ardent faith in the ancient wisdom of the Egyptians. He believed that the Earth revolved around the Sun primarily because the initiated priests of the Ancient World were convinced of this.

The Flemish alchemist Jean Baptiste van Helmont provided an important service to secret societies by reintroducing into Western esoteric teaching the concept of reincarnation, which he called “the cycle of human souls.” In addition, by separating gases during his alchemical experiments, he coined the term “gas,” and while experimenting with the properties of magnets, he coined the term “electricity.”

The German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was Newton's competitor in the development of differential and integral calculus. Leibniz's discoveries grew out of his fascination with Kabbalistic numerical mysticism, which he shared with his close friend, the Jesuit occultist Athanasius Kircher. In 1687, Kircher, who studied the properties of the plant aspect of existence, revived a rose from the ashes in front of the Queen of Sweden. Leibniz himself provided the most detailed and reliable account of the alchemical transformations of base metals into gold.

The Royal Society was the great intellectual engine of science and technological invention. One of Newton's contemporaries, Sir Robert Moray, began publishing the world's first Science Magazine Philosophical Transaction and was an ardent follower of Rosicrucian teachings. Robert Boyle, whose law of thermodynamics paved the way for the development of the internal combustion engine, was a practicing alchemist. In his youth, he wrote about being initiated into the “invisible college.” Also practicing alchemists were Robert Hooke, the inventor of the microscope, and William Harvey, who discovered blood circulation.

Frontispiece by John Evelyn from official history Royal Society, published in 1667. Francis Bacon is depicted as the founding father of the society. He sits under the wing of an angel, which echoes the final phrase of the Rosicrucian manifesto “Fama Fraternitatis”

Descartes, who gave birth to rationalism in the mid-17th century, spent a lot of time searching for traces of the Rosicrucians and studying their philosophy. He rediscovered the ancient esoteric concept that the pineal gland serves as the gateway to inner vision. The ideas that allowed him to make a revolutionary breakthrough in philosophy came to him while he was in a visionary state. His most famous saying can be seen as a paraphrase of the Rosicrucian creed on the development of independent thinking: “I think, therefore I am.”

Blaise Pascal, one of greatest mathematicians of his time and an outstanding philosopher, as was established after his death, carried in the lining of his cloak a sewn-up piece of paper on which was written: “Summer of the Lord 1654, Monday, November 23, St. Clement, pope and martyr. From half past ten in the evening until half past twelve at night, FIRE.” Pascal achieved the enlightenment that the monks from Mount Athos sought.

In 1726, Jonathan Swift, in Gulliver's Travels, predicted the existence and orbital periods of two satellites of Mars, which were discovered by astronomers using telescopes only in 1877. The astronomer named the moons Phobos and Deimos (“Fear” and “Horror”), so shocked was he by the obvious evidence of Swift’s supernatural abilities.

Swedenborg, the great Swedish seer of the 18th century, wrote detailed accounts of his journeys into the spirit worlds. His stories about encounters with ethereal beings, who told him many interesting things, inspired esoteric Freemasonry of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In addition, he was the first to describe the cerebral cortex and endocrine glands, and also designed a dry dock, which remains the largest in the world to this day.

As you know, Charles Darwin attended seances. Thus he had the opportunity to learn the secret doctrine of evolution from fish to amphibians and on to land animals and the human form through his close acquaintance with Max Muller, one of the first translators of the sacred Sanskrit texts.

Nikola Tesla, recently described by one science historian as "the consummate genius of visualization," was a Serbian-American. In America, he patented about seven hundred inventions, including a fluorescent lamp and a Tesla coil that generates alternating current. As with Newton's greatest achievements, his latest invention was due to his belief in the existence of an ethereal space between the mental and physical planes.

IN late XIX- At the beginning of the 20th century, many leading scientists thought about using a scientific approach to occult phenomena, believing that this would make it possible to measure and predict the manifestations of occult forces such as etheric currents (which seemed to them only slightly more elusive than electromagnetic radiation), sound waves or X-rays. Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, and therefore Godfather any sound recordings, along with the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Bell, suggested that psychic phenomena were an entirely appropriate topic for scientific research. Both of them were interested in esoteric Freemasonry and Theosophy. Edison tried to make a radio tuned to the spiritual worlds. Their great scientific discoveries were made possible by these explorations of the supernatural. Even television was invented as a result of an attempt to record the psychic effect on the fluctuations of gases in front of a cathode ray tube.

For an answer to how we should understand this strange fusion of occultism and science, we must go back to Francis Bacon, the great genius who launched the scientific revolution.

One of the main discoveries of Francis Bacon was that if we consider the objects of sensory perception as objectively as possible, discarding all preconceived opinions and ideas, then new patterns will appear, deeper and more significant than those previously identified by priests and other spiritual leaders. You can use these new patterns to predict and control events.

Historians of science view this as a great beginning and as the moment when inductive reasoning became part of humanity's approach to the world around us. From that moment on, the scientific revolution and all the industrial and technological transformations that occurred subsequently began.

However, if one examines Bacon's account of the process of scientific discovery more deeply, it appears less straightforward and, at least at first, rather mysterious.

“Nature is a labyrinth,” he wrote, “and the faster you move, the more likely you are to get lost.” Bacon wrote that a scientist seems to be playing chess with nature. To get answers, he must first put nature in check. Nature demands that she be forced by cunning to reveal her secrets, because cunning is an inherent quality of nature itself.

Modern historians of science try to present Bacon as a pure materialist, but they are only wishful thinking. Although Bacon wrote that interesting new results could arise if you treated sense data as if they were not endowed with some higher meaning, he did not claim that this was actually the case. For example, it is known that he believed in the existence of astrologica sana - a kind of receiver of magical celestial influences, which, in accordance with the recommendations of the Renaissance magician Pico della Mirandola, transmits them to the human soul. Bacon, like Newton, believed in an ethereal intermediary between spirit and matter, and that this intermediary, called the “etheric body,” existed in people who were “imprisoned in a denser body.”

Rosslip Chapel near Edinburgh. The Scottish roots of Freemasonry were deliberately hidden in the 18th century due to its connection with the Stuart dynasty, when the Freemasons began to support its claims to the throne. Rosslip Chapel, built in the 15th century by William Sinclair, first Earl of Caithness, is decorated with copies of the double columns of Solomon's Temple - Jachin and Boaz - in a special style characteristic of future Masonic lodges. The carving on the lower frame of the window in the south-west corner of the chapel appears to symbolize the Masonic First Degree. There is no doubt that Scottish lodges existed at least a hundred years before the official appearance of the first English lodges

Bacon said: “Into this human kingdom of knowledge, as well as into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot enter until you are converted and become like children.” Obviously, he meant that in order to achieve higher knowledge, one must first achieve an altered state of mind in which one becomes like a child. Paracelsus said something similar when he described the process of setting up experiments: “The door will open only to him who with all his heart desires to find it, and then knocks persistently.”

These words once again confirm that higher knowledge becomes available in altered states of consciousness. Jean Baptiste van Helmont, who worked in the same circles as Bacon and Newton, wrote: “There is a book within us, written with the finger of God, in which we can read all things.” Michael Meyer, who wrote about the Rosicrucians as if he had inside information, and who published some excellent works of alchemical literature, said: “To him who drinks the inner life in large gulps, the higher life. He who discovers the inner also discovers what is in space.” The point of all these statements is that the key to scientific discovery lies somewhere within a person.

We see that throughout history there have been small groups of people who have put themselves into altered states of consciousness. Does all of the above mean that Bacon and his followers said that the scientist must somehow attune himself to the perception of the plant aspect of existence? What if you somehow manage to enter the dimension of changing forms, then you will be on the path to understanding the secrets of nature?

We have learned that the great scientific geniuses and founders of the modern era had a serious fascination with ancient wisdom and altered states of consciousness. Maybe the point is not that genius borders on madness, but that genius borders on altered states that are caused by special esoteric training?

If the heroes of the Rosicrucians - John Dee and Paracelsus - were strange and unbridled personalities, then the magicians of the next era resembled respectable businessmen.

Freemasonry has always shown an impassive face to the world. Anglo-Saxon lodges were particularly modest about their esoteric origins. The statement that the Freemasons are sufficient high level initiations study the secret doctrine and history of the world described in this book may seem implausible even to many Masons.

The social roots of Masonic teachings can be traced back to the construction of Solomon's Temple by Hiram Abiff, the suppression of the Knights Templar and the emergence of closed guilds of artisans such as the Cotpagnons Du Devoir, the Children of Father Soubise and the Children of Father Jacques.

When considering the factors that influenced the formation of secret societies, especially Masonic lodges, fraternities are often forgotten. Founded in the 15th century, they were originally lay brotherhoods attached to monasteries. Members of such fraternities led a spiritual life, but at the same time lived in society, engaged in charity work, commissioned works from artists and led processions in church holidays. They imposed a regime of secrecy to ensure the anonymity of charitable donations, but this began rumors of robes, secret rituals and initiates. In France in the 15th century, these fraternities, which absorbed the ideas of Joachim and the Cathars, were ultimately driven underground.

But the emergence of modern “speculative” Freemasonry is dated by official historians to the 17th century.

There are sometimes statements that the first reliable case of initiation into the Freemasons took place in 1646 and was associated with the personality of the famous antiquarian and collector, founding member of the Royal Society, Elias Ashmole. There is no doubt that this man was one of the first English Freemasons, nor that he enjoyed great influence.

The son of a saddler, born in 1617, Elias Ashmole trained as a lawyer, was a soldier and a civil servant. He proved himself to be a tireless collector of various curiosities. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, based on his collection, became the first public museum. Elias also had boundless intellectual curiosity. In 1651 he met William Backhouse, an elderly man who owned Swallowfield Manor. As it turned out, this house, which had an unusually long gallery, was a real treasury of inventions and rarities, among which were rare alchemical manuscripts. Apparently Backhouse was a character very close to Ashmolean, and from Ashmolean's diaries we learn how Backhouse offered to adopt him.

By this Backhouse meant that he was going to name him as his successor and heir. He promised that before he died he would reveal Ashmole main secret alchemy, the true composition of the philosopher's stone, so that he could further transmit the secret tradition, which began in the time of Hermes Trismegistus. Over the next two years, Backhouse took his time training the eager Ashmole; Apparently, he was experiencing some kind of hesitation. But in May 1653, the young man made the following entry: “Lying sick in Fleet Street, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, and not knowing whether he would live or die, my father Backhouse, about eleven o'clock, revealed to me the true composition of the philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me. as your inheritance."