Good docuмentary.
I'd like to hear about Isaac Newton.
Isaac Newton was born to his widowed mother on 4th Jan. 1643 [Gregorian calendar], a year after Galileo died. When he was about four-years-old his mother, for financial reasons, got married again to an Anglican vicar. Both then abandoned Isaac, leaving him to be reared by his grandparents. This left him psychologically scarred for life. At school, Newton was a loner, often bullied, but a bright boy, excelling at Latin, the language of the learned, and maths, always an easy subject for the young Isaac. One of the first books that he read, we are told, was The Mysteries of Nature and Art by John Bate. This work inspired Newton to be a great natural philosopher. Curiously, Isaac had a fascination for the sun from an early age. He would make and collect precision sundials and preferred their accuracy to the clocks of the day. When he was 18 years-old, Newton went to Trinity College Cambridge where he studied logic, ethics and rhetoric. These were Aristotelian at the time, and reflected the geocentric view of course. There he remained for the next twenty-eight years, first as a student, then as a lecturer. By the time Isaac Newton and the Royal Society of London were finished however, Trinity College had abandoned the geocentric order and adopted a heliocentric one instead.
These days, if not for the last 300 years, Sir Isaac of the Royal Mint is nearly always portrayed as a learned theist, a staunch Christian philosopher, a Biblicist who devoted his life’s work to God. What is not made clear however, is that Newton’s god was the Pythagorean and masonic ‘Great Architect of the Universe.’ Nevertheless, books and articles abound with pious utterances about him and many other such accolades gathered from his theosophical beliefs. The most famous of course it that given to him by the English poet Alexander Pope:‘Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in the Night. God said,
Let Newton be! and all was Light.’--- Alexander Pope
‘And all was light,’ but whose light, Lucifer’s?
Isaac Newton carefully researched those things of interest to him. He believed everything could be rationalised and reasoned out. For him it was simply a question of studying something very thoroughly before discerning where the truth of the particular subject lay for him. One of the subjects investigated by Newton was Christianity, even learning Hebrew so as to translate the Bible for himself like the good Protestant he pretended to be.
‘As can clearly be seen from voluminous manuscripts that survive, Newton had early in his life reached the conviction that a massive fraud beginning with the fourth and fifth centuries had perverted the legacy of the early Church, and that central to the fraud was the Scriptures, which he believed had been corrupted to support the doctrine of the Trinity. “In Newton’s eyes, worshipping Christ as God was idolatry, to him the fundamental sin.”[1] To this it can be added that he did not even have the courage to make his views public, as would surely have been incuмbent in any man of principle who saw his compatriots engaged in what he believed to be “the fundamental sin” of idolatry even if martyrdom had been the result. He not only refused to make his “important discovery” public, a phrase used by one of his friends who shared the same views - in order to preserve appearances and to avoid damage to his career and popularity, he even continued to commit the “fundamental sin” himself until just before he died. Westfall tells us: “No one considered Arians[2] a threat to the state. They were a threat rather to the moral foundations of society. Newton was well aware that the vast majority of his compatriots detested the views he held – more than detested, looked upon them with revulsion as an excretion that fouled the air breathed by decent persons….His heterodoxy allowed him every concealment… As long as he was willing occasionally to take the sacrament of the Church of England [is not a sacrament, only a symbol of Christ’s divinity] the law required nothing of him at which he need balk. Only on his deathbed did he venture to refuse the sacrament.”’[3] Westfall shows that ‘Sir Isaac Newton hated and feared Popery.’ Koestler shows that he was: ‘A crank theologian… who held that the tenth horn of the fourth beast of the Apocalypse represented the Roman Catholic Church.’[4] Newton’s exhaustive studies of the ancient religions led him to believe the old Vestal Cult as the original true religion.
[1] Richard Westfall: Never at Rest, Cambridge University Press, 1983, p.314. [2] Those who deny the divinity of Christ: first promulgated by the priest Arius. [3] N.M. Gwynne: Sir Isaac Newton & Modern Astronomy, quoting Westfall, pp.7-8. [4] A. Koestler: op. cit., p.536. ‘Newton also proposed that the religion ‘most ancient and most generally received by the nations in the first ages [i.e. after Noah] was that of the Prytanea or Vestal Temples.’ These temples, he explained, were circular structures with a burning flame at their centre that represented the Sun. In De Revolutionibus, of course, Copernicus had radically relocated the sun at the centre of the solar system, ‘this most beautiful of temples,’ whilst Vossius has considered the ancient cult of the Vestal fire as having represented the Sun. Newton believed these Vestal temples proved the ancients had originally understood the heliocentric universe as ‘rediscovered’ by Copernicus.’[1]
[1] David Boyd Haycock: The Long-Lost Truth. Chapter 6: The Newton Project. More if you want it L:asramie.
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