On the Alchemic, Hermetic origins of science, the rise of pathological materialism and why futurism is doomed without a restoration of a more true science
The idea of 'travelling to Mars' at this point is Hermetic in itself. Evola's Hermetic Tradition can clarify this. It's a step. They are talking about us, but off our radar, which is what alchemy always was.
It doesn't come clear until one has dissolved their ego, or materialist perspective which is why the nutters back in the Enlightenment were trying to make real gold in their mothers basement, rather than meditating on what the "gold" truly meant. This is not to say making gold isn't physically possible, it is and they do but not with a bunsen burner'n'sheeiiit, but with stars, code words hidden in plain sight all through the media system, and markets etc.
Christians think I'm satanic, atheists think I'm christian; others again think I'm an Indian-obsessed Hindu, there's no way to get through to people that eastern metaphysics (which was once ours/everyones) is the answer to all our western problems - including science/tech./health - without being thought of as mad somehow. Pretty frustrating.
In the same way you see people speak of court historians and court history you also get court scientists and court science. By adding the adjective you are really saying both that this is not science or history and also saying that your degenerate version is just a front for the interests of the court, regardless of who the court actually is.
Science at its core is simple. It is merely a method of trying to determine truths, especially regarding the natural world, though you can certainly apply the method to other things, though they may not get you the same rigorous and solid answers.
The issue our current court has is that when this neutral method gives answers which harm their position their answer is not to change their positions, but instead to silence the scientists.
This is part of how you get the Neil Tyson trying to argue that women are the equal of men in athletics, and Bill Maher (who is at best a clever entertainer) making him look like a fool. This interchange between two men who were not that important in the grand scheme was a microcosm of the entire issue.
The whole system has created an illusion for itself that enemies normally commit great resources to try to create. The problem is of course a problem for us all as the court is running society and at the moment they are running it off a cliff
Very good essay! I've had to actually stop watching videos or reading article when authors have shown their ignorance of this history, either focusing only on the occult elements of Alchemy (in a very simplistic skeptical manner) or boiling it down to the search for gold or a very material concept of the Philosopher's Stone. Of course, perhaps even before the Royal Society there was some split between those who concentrated on the transmutation of metals (which got more than a few, like Edward Kelley, into some hot water) and the transmutation of the soul (ie, the Philosopher's Stone).
Science, especially medicine, could really use a return to a higher spirituality. There seems to be something to things like Homeopathy, Mesmerism, and even the Doctrine of Signatures and accompanying planetary assignments to plants seems to have some kind of validity. With our current science medicine has become some kind of blunt object to wield unsubtley at every problem like a person with a hammer that only sees nails. Holism and Health are not the goals but a kind of interventionism that cannot be questioned lest someone fall afoul of The Science. Meanwhile expansions into realms that might offer less invasive first approaches and the philosophy of "Do No Harm" are forgotten or maligned by our technocracy.
One could even argue that the evidence of a universe based in etheric, electrical and plasma energy is being ignored for a simplistic Newtonian materialistic model that is not really serving us well at this point, and as you point out, might not be how we actually can get to Mars- or anywhere else in space for that matter.
You mention above the near elevation of abortion to near sacramental status. This, I believe is in part a result of the rise of the other thing you mention, the denial of sex. As subpar men claiming to be women (because it is the only way they can win) have moved into women's spaces, sports, etc, claiming scholarships, association and status formerly enjoyed by women, the only thing left that is actually female is the uterus and the ability to give birth. The gnashing of teeth over this issue is, I suspect, a subconscious knowledge that if something inevitable happens when men with little emotional continence are allowed into private spaces, at least one would have a choice not to carry the child of the mentally ill. Heck, I'm not sure I'd want to bring a child into a world where sick men take drug cocktails to fetishize the nursing of babies. I'm personally for the ability of women to choose what happens to their physical bodies but am quite dismayed by the demands to almost normalize termination- of course we are also up against some pretty dark sorts who have been accused of forcing abortion on their victims and profit by normalizing it. But then again, the whole trans/DEI agenda is designed to have us at each other's throats, to separate the sexes and confound language so that the most basic of nomenclature becomes useless. Pretty much the opposite of alchemy, really.
Well said. I call the Democrat party demonic precisely because it is the turning upside down of every truth and norm, contrary to reality. The maternal impulse turned into death. Men in women's and children's spaces is colonization by any honest definition, but somehow the highest form of justice in a demonic rendering.
Sadly, Christianity has proved very little defense to this. Protestant churches have mostly embraced it, while even Catholic faithful are overwhelmingly supportive.
I feel like I have had to mostly tiptoe around the occult in this substack, as previously any post about it would result in a number of canceled subscriptions. But something seems to have shifted so I expect to lean more into it.
Funny, I come here for the occult/spiritualistic slant of your writing. There are few other places that contain both accurate research and sympathy for the subject.
I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. It was good to be with friends last night and share what we were thankful for. Gratitude is such a wonderful spiritual lesson! :)
Yes, a bulk of my spiritual practice is merely oft-repeated thoughts and words of gratitude. With significant gratitude comes humility, and real humility brings one closer to the divine.
There's a fantastic trilogy of books by Linda Proud that delves into the occult and hermetic background of the great personalities of the Italian Renaissance, especially Ficino and Pico Della Mirandola, but also the poets, painters and other artists of the Medici circle. In the strictest sense they are fictional books, but I learned more about the broad underpinnings of Renaissance thought than I ever scratched the surface of in school (big surprise there, I know). It was transformative to read about the breadth of the old schools of ancient and Eastern thought that they studied and brought back to life. So much more than rediscovering perspective and making some pretty paintings and sculptures.
Tabernacle for the Sun, Pallas and Athena, and The Rebirth of Venus. I cannot recommend them enough.
Similar to the people saying the elders of Zion being fake but, holy Toledo, the accuracy is absolutely astounding for someone that made them up.........
A greatly written article . I would not travel on a rocket by Musk-it would most likely explode before getting there. Technally speaking we have a long way to go before we can travel to Mars publically
Though I have good intel that the US MILITARY have tech that is centuries beyond where we are now
That is something John Cater has alluded to, if there were an actual opening of the books/cleaning house it would result in a massive technological boom, all the stuff our military amd intelligence community have buried and are too incompetent to do anything with.
I’m a little dubious about that, though I would be happy to be proved wrong. I do feel absolutely Government in the United States has been holding back tech and economic growth, or rather, smothering it to death. The ten or fifteen federal departments investigating Elon for not being sufficiently censorious with X.
That said, I like the earth, my feet on the ground. There is nothing on the surface of Mars I am interested in. But more power to Elon and John Carter.
Well done William. I appreciate the knowledge and research required to create this analysis of the state of science. I have shared with 6 men, 2 of them brothers.
Its a shame. I don't personally know any women who would read this.
Thank you Amking. A lot of educated women seem to think liberalism is synonymous with progress, and everything else is backwards and negative. Whereas I think a lot of us have begun to see liberalism as a long process of increasing decadence leading to endemic corruption and societal collapse. Though I am not certain how much to put that on liberalism, and how much on scientific materialism, which are distinct things.
The idea of 'travelling to Mars' at this point is Hermetic in itself. Evola's Hermetic Tradition can clarify this. It's a step. They are talking about us, but off our radar, which is what alchemy always was.
It doesn't come clear until one has dissolved their ego, or materialist perspective which is why the nutters back in the Enlightenment were trying to make real gold in their mothers basement, rather than meditating on what the "gold" truly meant. This is not to say making gold isn't physically possible, it is and they do but not with a bunsen burner'n'sheeiiit, but with stars, code words hidden in plain sight all through the media system, and markets etc.
Christians think I'm satanic, atheists think I'm christian; others again think I'm an Indian-obsessed Hindu, there's no way to get through to people that eastern metaphysics (which was once ours/everyones) is the answer to all our western problems - including science/tech./health - without being thought of as mad somehow. Pretty frustrating.
Which is why I have slowly introduced such ideas to my audience, all the while until recently losing 2 subs for every three I gained.
In the same way you see people speak of court historians and court history you also get court scientists and court science. By adding the adjective you are really saying both that this is not science or history and also saying that your degenerate version is just a front for the interests of the court, regardless of who the court actually is.
Science at its core is simple. It is merely a method of trying to determine truths, especially regarding the natural world, though you can certainly apply the method to other things, though they may not get you the same rigorous and solid answers.
The issue our current court has is that when this neutral method gives answers which harm their position their answer is not to change their positions, but instead to silence the scientists.
This is part of how you get the Neil Tyson trying to argue that women are the equal of men in athletics, and Bill Maher (who is at best a clever entertainer) making him look like a fool. This interchange between two men who were not that important in the grand scheme was a microcosm of the entire issue.
The whole system has created an illusion for itself that enemies normally commit great resources to try to create. The problem is of course a problem for us all as the court is running society and at the moment they are running it off a cliff
It was funny watching Tyson destroy his legacy like it is nothing. He would probably argue the sky is purple, if that is what the court demanded.
John Dee was like the opposite, where the court said go find the truth.
Very good essay! I've had to actually stop watching videos or reading article when authors have shown their ignorance of this history, either focusing only on the occult elements of Alchemy (in a very simplistic skeptical manner) or boiling it down to the search for gold or a very material concept of the Philosopher's Stone. Of course, perhaps even before the Royal Society there was some split between those who concentrated on the transmutation of metals (which got more than a few, like Edward Kelley, into some hot water) and the transmutation of the soul (ie, the Philosopher's Stone).
Science, especially medicine, could really use a return to a higher spirituality. There seems to be something to things like Homeopathy, Mesmerism, and even the Doctrine of Signatures and accompanying planetary assignments to plants seems to have some kind of validity. With our current science medicine has become some kind of blunt object to wield unsubtley at every problem like a person with a hammer that only sees nails. Holism and Health are not the goals but a kind of interventionism that cannot be questioned lest someone fall afoul of The Science. Meanwhile expansions into realms that might offer less invasive first approaches and the philosophy of "Do No Harm" are forgotten or maligned by our technocracy.
One could even argue that the evidence of a universe based in etheric, electrical and plasma energy is being ignored for a simplistic Newtonian materialistic model that is not really serving us well at this point, and as you point out, might not be how we actually can get to Mars- or anywhere else in space for that matter.
You mention above the near elevation of abortion to near sacramental status. This, I believe is in part a result of the rise of the other thing you mention, the denial of sex. As subpar men claiming to be women (because it is the only way they can win) have moved into women's spaces, sports, etc, claiming scholarships, association and status formerly enjoyed by women, the only thing left that is actually female is the uterus and the ability to give birth. The gnashing of teeth over this issue is, I suspect, a subconscious knowledge that if something inevitable happens when men with little emotional continence are allowed into private spaces, at least one would have a choice not to carry the child of the mentally ill. Heck, I'm not sure I'd want to bring a child into a world where sick men take drug cocktails to fetishize the nursing of babies. I'm personally for the ability of women to choose what happens to their physical bodies but am quite dismayed by the demands to almost normalize termination- of course we are also up against some pretty dark sorts who have been accused of forcing abortion on their victims and profit by normalizing it. But then again, the whole trans/DEI agenda is designed to have us at each other's throats, to separate the sexes and confound language so that the most basic of nomenclature becomes useless. Pretty much the opposite of alchemy, really.
Well said. I call the Democrat party demonic precisely because it is the turning upside down of every truth and norm, contrary to reality. The maternal impulse turned into death. Men in women's and children's spaces is colonization by any honest definition, but somehow the highest form of justice in a demonic rendering.
Sadly, Christianity has proved very little defense to this. Protestant churches have mostly embraced it, while even Catholic faithful are overwhelmingly supportive.
I feel like I have had to mostly tiptoe around the occult in this substack, as previously any post about it would result in a number of canceled subscriptions. But something seems to have shifted so I expect to lean more into it.
Funny, I come here for the occult/spiritualistic slant of your writing. There are few other places that contain both accurate research and sympathy for the subject.
I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. It was good to be with friends last night and share what we were thankful for. Gratitude is such a wonderful spiritual lesson! :)
Good to know. I will keep that in mind.
Yes, a bulk of my spiritual practice is merely oft-repeated thoughts and words of gratitude. With significant gratitude comes humility, and real humility brings one closer to the divine.
There's a fantastic trilogy of books by Linda Proud that delves into the occult and hermetic background of the great personalities of the Italian Renaissance, especially Ficino and Pico Della Mirandola, but also the poets, painters and other artists of the Medici circle. In the strictest sense they are fictional books, but I learned more about the broad underpinnings of Renaissance thought than I ever scratched the surface of in school (big surprise there, I know). It was transformative to read about the breadth of the old schools of ancient and Eastern thought that they studied and brought back to life. So much more than rediscovering perspective and making some pretty paintings and sculptures.
Tabernacle for the Sun, Pallas and Athena, and The Rebirth of Venus. I cannot recommend them enough.
Thanks for the reference. I intend on a few posts explaining in greater detail how hemetics etc influenced the Renaissance.
Similar to the people saying the elders of Zion being fake but, holy Toledo, the accuracy is absolutely astounding for someone that made them up.........
A greatly written article . I would not travel on a rocket by Musk-it would most likely explode before getting there. Technally speaking we have a long way to go before we can travel to Mars publically
Though I have good intel that the US MILITARY have tech that is centuries beyond where we are now
That is something John Cater has alluded to, if there were an actual opening of the books/cleaning house it would result in a massive technological boom, all the stuff our military amd intelligence community have buried and are too incompetent to do anything with.
I’m a little dubious about that, though I would be happy to be proved wrong. I do feel absolutely Government in the United States has been holding back tech and economic growth, or rather, smothering it to death. The ten or fifteen federal departments investigating Elon for not being sufficiently censorious with X.
That said, I like the earth, my feet on the ground. There is nothing on the surface of Mars I am interested in. But more power to Elon and John Carter.
Looking forward to reading this one
Well done William. I appreciate the knowledge and research required to create this analysis of the state of science. I have shared with 6 men, 2 of them brothers.
Its a shame. I don't personally know any women who would read this.
Thank you Amking. A lot of educated women seem to think liberalism is synonymous with progress, and everything else is backwards and negative. Whereas I think a lot of us have begun to see liberalism as a long process of increasing decadence leading to endemic corruption and societal collapse. Though I am not certain how much to put that on liberalism, and how much on scientific materialism, which are distinct things.