The
Ignoble Origins of Science
Many 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,