Re: The Ignoble Origins of Science
- From: "Visual Purple" <DoreenDotan@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 20 Aug 2005 14:55:59 -0700
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The Ignoble Origins of Science
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 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...As we have stated, the
Hermetists were the original alchemists, astrologers, and
psychologists, Hermes having been the founder of these schools of
thought. From astrology has grown modern astronomy; from alchemy has
grown modern chemistry; from the mystic psychology has grown the modern
psychology of the schools. But it must not be supposed that the
ancients were ignorant of that which the modern schools suppose to be
their exclusive and special property. The records engraved on the
stones of Ancient Egypt show conclusively that the ancients had a full
comprehensive knowledge of astronomy, the very building of the Pyramids
showing the connection between their design and the study of
astronomical science. Nor were they ignorant of Chemistry, for the
fragments of the ancient writings show that they were acquainted with
the chemical properties of things; in fact, the ancient theories
regarding physics are being slowly verified by the latest discoveries
of modern science, notably those relating to the constitution of
matter. Nor must it be supposed that they were ignorant of the
so-called modern discoveries in psychology--on the contrary, the
Egyptians were especially skilled in the science of Psychology,
particularly in the branches that the modern schools ignore, but which,
nevertheless, are being uncovered under the name of "psychic science"
which is perplexing the psychologists of to-day, and making them
reluctantly admit that "there may be something in it after all."
The truth is, that beneath the material chemistry, astronomy and
psychology (that is, the psychology in its phase of "brain action") the
ancients possessed a knowledge of transcendental astronomy, called
astrology; of transcendental chemistry, called alchemy; of
transcendental psychology, called mystic psychology. They possessed the
Inner Knowledge as well as the Outer Knowledge, the latter alone being
possessed by modern scientists." 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.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@xxxxxxxxx
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