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.

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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant

I am not against science or scientific method. I am against science and scientific method in the hands of people who do not recognize the superiority of super-rational Wisdom over rational knowledge.
I accede that to most people the super-rational and the irrational sound very much the same.

It is up to the individual to arrive at a level wherein she or he may discern and know the difference between that which is above grammar, syntax and mathematical systems and that which is twaddle.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com