Newton’s Papers, the Occult and Modern Thinking

Posted on March 4, 2008
Filed Under Awareness, Fake Culture, Society |

Today the western world is embroiled deeply within a mind-set of fundamentalist-materialism. This is the belief that the current materialistic-scientific methods we posses are capable of answering anything and everything. If we don’t have the answers now, then with todays methods we will discover those answers tomorrow. Further, this mind-set of fundamentalist-materialism is utterly convinced with the infallibility of its own perspective; that everything in existence is measurable and physically observable.

This then, is a large factor in the diminishment in the prevalence of ‘occult’ knowledge, theology and philosophy in the day-to-day world. The materialist notion of compartmentalization, has caused us to use separate categories of knowledge in order to perceive the world. Not only do we use these separate categories, but we keep them utterly independent from each other. Science never connects to our religion, our work never connects to our hobbies, politics never connects to love, and so on.

To put it in the vernacular; the pursuit of any activity is for the goal of the activity itself, there is no higher truth or one all inter-connected reality.

The Cartesian-Newtonian perspective then.

But that’s one mighty apple-cart to upset. In 1936 a collection of papers and documents went on auction in London, these were the personal papers of Issac Newton. They had never before be extensively shown in public, and no one knew what they said, as Newton had written them in code.

After years of dedicated work those journals and papers have slowly been decoded, and disclosed a revelation indeed. Issac Newton was not merely concerned with mathematics and gravity…but had a primary drive into the occult, alchemy, theology and Greek mythology. This wasn’t just a scholarly interest, but something far deeper. Newton believed that the ancients of history possessed a far greater knowledge of reality than was available in his current time. He felt that encoded into these artifacts of information from ancient history were lost secrets and great understandings.

Newton did not have a mechanistic view of the world in anyway, he lived in a time where religion was the predominate cause for questioning reality. All investigations derived from that focus, and in many ways it could be described in modern terms as a holistic perspective. He sought ‘higher-truth’ in what he believed was an all-encompassing all-connected reality.

The mythologies of Greece weren’t just legends or stories, but were encoded with deeper meaning. Newton believed these myths to be alchemical recipes, encoded into metaphor. The Gods were principle elements of the universe. In an example from the Greek poem “The Metamorphosis”, Vulcan catches his wife Venus in bed with Mars. As punishment he casts them into a net. Vulcan, Venus and Mars as ‘elements’ are fire, copper and iron, when combined these produce a purple alloy with tiny crystals on the surface forming a net like structure.

The Museum of Jerusalem possess a number of Newton’s manuscripts, showing his intense interest in biblical texts. Through these he decoded the measurements and geometry of the sacred temple of Solomon, and even identified the date of Armageddon as occurring on or after 2060.

What twisted irony then that, modern mechanistic thinking be based largely upon a man who was not mechanistic, but rather viewed nature as a unified whole. There is a truth buried here, that is overlooked all too often; all great thinkers from every age always seek a ‘higher truth’, they accept hidden occult knowledge and metaphysical ideas as a given, just as they readily seek the hidden forces of life, the spirit and the divine. And just as in every age these great thinkers are ridiculed for this pursuit, from Socrates to Galileo. And in the cases where these individuals works become the foundations of society - then everything is accepted bar the unthinkable. Far easier to believe in the infallibility of measured knowledge rather than the possibility of the unknown.

But such awareness can only stay suppressed for so long, because sooner or later it always finds a way.

Newton’s Papers - An Exhibition