Re: The Ignoble Origins of Science


"Visual Purple" <DoreenDotan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Scientists delight in disparaging mystics and those on spiritual
> quests. Though they may concern themselves with ethics as individuals
> and in an ad hoc manner, few scientists will allow that one's moral
> and/or spiritual orientation or level of development will affect the
> outcome of one's experimentation or theoretical calculations. Most
> scientists will tell you that the saint and the scoundrel will produce
> the exact same results in a laboratory if both keep to exactly the same
> algorithms.

This post really made me think....Mostly, when
will this imagined fatuous foolishness end, already?
Ta ta, I have to run now.

GWC

> This and more, most scientists are of the opinion that those who are
> spiritually inclined are those who are not capable of rigorous
> "scientific method" and/or "higher mathematics".
>
> I will demonstrate that the very inverse is the case. Science is none
> other than degraded mysticism. Science was created for those who were
> not able to perceive or appreciate the depths of existence with awe by
> those who had this ability and wished to protect their Wisdom from
> non-initiates who would attempt to plunder their spiritual riches and
> use them for debased purposes. Science is, and was, created expressly
> for those who do not possess the ability to look into the Soul of
> matter. Science was a device for keeping the attention of those who
> could not be initiates into the secrets of Truth busy with what they
> imagined were very esoteric matters, but which were, in truth,
> meaningless activities.
>
> It is commonly agreed that alchemy is the progenitor of science.
> Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy
> As we can see alchemy is called "protoscience" and alchemists
> "pseudo-scientists".
>
> But what was alchemy? From whence came alchemy?
>
> The answer lies here: "But it (Hermetic Philosophy) is not found in
> books, to any great extent. It has been passed along from Master to
> Student; from Initiate to Hierophant; from lip to ear. When it was
> written down at all, *its meaning was veiled in terms of alchemy and
> astrology so that only those possessing the key could read it aright.
> This was made necessary in order to avoid the persecutions of the
> theologians of the Middle Ages, who fought the Secret Doctrine with
> fire and sword; stake, gibbet and cross.* Even to this day there will
> be found but few reliable books on the Hermetic Philosophy, although
> there are countless references to it in many books written on various
> phases of Occultism. And yet, the Hermetic Philosophy is the only
> Master Key which will open all the doors of the Occult Teachings!
>
> In the early days, there was a compilation of certain Basic Hermetic
> Doctrines, passed on from teacher to student, which was known as "THE
> KYBALION," the exact significance and meaning of the term having been
> lost for several centuries. This teaching, however, is known to many to
> whom it has descended, from mouth to ear, on and on throughout the
> centuries. Its precepts have never been written down, or printed, so
> far as we know. It was merely a collection of maxims, axioms, and
> precepts, which were non-understandable to outsiders, but which were
> readily understood by students, after the axioms, maxims, and precepts
> had been explained and exemplified by the Hermetic Initiates to their
> Neophytes. *These teachings really constituted the basic principles of
> "The Art of Hermetic Alchemy," which, contrary to the general belief,
> dealt in the mastery of Mental Forces, rather than Material
> Elements-the Transmutation of one kind of Mental Vibrations into
> others, instead of the changing of one kind of metal into another. The
> legends of the "Philosopher's Stone" which would turn base metal into
> Gold, was an allegory relating to Hermetic Philosophy, readily
> understood by all students of true Hermeticism."* Source:
> http://kybalion.home.att.net/kybalion.html
>
> Now we see that alchemy was the result of people who did not understand
> the allegories of mystical principles of mental states trying to put
> into practice the *allegories* that the principles were written it.
>
> Alchemy was a wild goose chase that those who could never be initiated
> into higher truths but wished to use Wisdom for debased purposes were
> sent on. And science it alchemy's child!
>
> To this very day it is true that most scientists are people who are
> incapable of peering beyond the physical into the moral and the
> spiritual. They are people who not only cannot see the Soul of matter,
> they disdain those who can and say that those who claim that they can
> see inner dimensions of reality are deluded or lying for cynical
> reasons.
>
> Science is for those who can only see with their physical eyes. Science
> from its inception was, and is, for those whose eye of the Soul is
> blind.
>
> VP
>


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