Do You Believe in
Magick Part 16
Cynthia Pawl Exposing
Satanism and Witchcraft January 30, 2016
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Magick
From Thelemapedia
Belief in various magical practices has waxed and waned in European and Western
history, under pressure from either organized monotheistic religions or from
skepticism about the reality of magic, and the ascendancy of Scientism.
Scientism
From
Thelemapedia
Scientism has been defined as "an exaggerated trust in the
efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of
investigation.
From Wikipedia
Scientism is belief in the universal
applicability of the scientific
method and approach, and the view that empirical
science constitutes the most
"authoritative" worldview
or the most valuable part of human learning - to the exclusion of
other viewpoints. Accordingly, philosopher Tom Sorell provides this
definition of scientism: "Scientism is a matter of putting too
high a value on natural science in comparison with other branches of
learning or culture."It has been defined as "the view that
the characteristic inductive methods of the natural sciences are the
only source of genuine factual knowledge and, in particular, that they
alone can yield true knowledge about man and society".
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/chap0.htm
THE MAGICAL THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE
The knowledge of exoteric science is comically limited by the fact that we have
no access, except in the most indirect way, to any other celestial body than our
own. In the last few years, the semi-educated have got an idea that they know a
great deal about the universe, and the principal ground for their fine opinion
of themselves is usually the telephone or the airship. It is pitiful to read the
bombastic twaddle about progress, which journalists and others, who wish to
prevent men from thinking, put out for consumption. We know infinitesimally
little of the material universe. Our detailed knowledge is so contemptibly
minute, that it is hardly worth reference, save that our shame may spur us to
increased endeavour. Such knowledge
Knowledge is, moreover, an impossible conception. All propositions come
ultimately back to "A is A".
as we have got is of a very general and abstruse, of a philosophical and almost
magical character. This consists principally of the conceptions of pure
mathematics. It is, therefore, almost legitimate to say that pure mathematics is
our link with the rest of the universe and with "God".
Now the conceptions of Magick are themselves profoundly mathematical. The whole
basis of our theory is the Qabalah, which corresponds to mathematics and
geometry. The method of operation in Magick is based on this, in very much the
same way as the laws of mechanics are based on mathematics. So far, therefore as
we can be said to possess a magical theory of the universe, it must be a matter
solely of fundamental law, with a few simple and comprehensive propositions
stated in very general terms.
The Apologia for this System is that our purest conceptions are symbolized in
Mathematics. "God is the Great Arithmetician." "God is the Grand
Geometer." It is best therefore to prepare to apprehend Him by formulating
our minds according to these measures.
By "God" I here mean the Ideal Identity of a man's inmost nature.
"Something ourselves (I erase Arnold's imbecile and guilty 'not') that
makes for righteousness;" righteousness being rightly defined as internal
coherence.
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The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and
Magic of Dr.Dee
By Benjamin Woolley.
http://www.economist.com/node/540820
Henry Holt; 410 pages; $25.
HarperCollins; £15.99
The Queen's Conjuror Something new under Cassiopeia |
WHAT is the relationship
between science and magic? The two were once closely linked: such eminent
researchers as Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler all dabbled
in astrology and other mystical activities alongside their more orthodox
scientific pursuits. The late 16th century was a time of upheaval—cosmology
was being redefined, the new world colonised, new stars and comets were
appearing in the sky—and the search for knowledge took many forms. The
astronomers who confirmed a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia also
pondered its astrological meaning. It is in this context, argues Benjamin
Woolley, that the occult activities of John Dee, a mathematician, philosopher
and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, should be seen. Rather than unscientific,
Dee's seances with angels and spirits were one of the many ways he tried to
fathom the secrets of the universe.
Dee's thirst for knowledge drove him to assemble one of the finest libraries in
Europe, and throughout his life he nurtured the dream of establishing what would
today be termed a research institute. His wide-ranging expertise meant he was
regarded as an authority on matters ranging from calendar reform to navigation,
cartography and the likelihood of the existence of the fabled north-west passage
to China. He was also learned in cryptography, astronomy and the nascent science
of optics. (That said, Mr Woolley slightly overdoes his claim that Dee
prefigured work done later by Galileo and Newton.) But from his undergraduate
days at Cambridge, when he staged a play whose impressive special effects were
attributed to black magic, Dee was stalked by the accusation that he was
meddling with diabolical forces. Which, indeed, he was.
For much of his life Dee conducted seances or “actions” in which he
communicated with the spirit world through a medium, or “skryer”, who spoke
on their behalf. Dee's most gifted skryer was a mysterious young man called
Edward Kelley, through whom Dee variously attempted to discover the location of
buried treasure, the secrets of the original language spoken by Adam in the
garden of Eden, and clues to the future course of European politics.
Because of his boundless curiosities, and because he moved between the worlds of
science, mysticism, religion, politics and espionage, Dee proves an ideal
character around whom to tell a number of intriguing stories. His fortunes rose
and fell precipitously during his career; he went from being penniless to being
a valued royal counsellor and back again several times, and was imprisoned,
denounced and deceived for his pains along the way.
Mr Woolley paints a subtle and sympathetic portrait of his subject, siding
neither with the “hard-headed rationalists” who dismiss Dee as a fool, nor
with the “muddle-headed mystics” who regard him as a Merlin-like wizard or
an English Nostradamus. It is a shame that Dee was not born a century later, as
he would have thrived in the scientific revolution. After all, Mr Woolley
argues, Dee's main interest was magic, which is traditionally divided into
natural magic (obeying natural laws) and supernatural magic (involving
supernatural forces). The word “magic”, in other words, is a term which
includes understanding the world and exploiting that understanding. The modern
term for this is science.
Source: http://www.economist.com/node/540820
Hermeticism,
also called Hermetism, is a religious, philosophical, and
esoteric tradition based primarily upon writings attributed toHermes
Trismegistus ("Thrice Great"). These writings have
greatly influenced the Western
esoteric tradition and were considered to be of great importance
during both the Renaissance
and the Reformation.
The tradition claims descent from a prisca
theologia, a doctrine that affirms the existence of a single, true
theology
that is present in all religions and that was given by God to man in antiquity.
Much of the importance of Hermeticism arises from its connection
with the development of science
during the time from 1300 to 1600 AD. The prominence that it gave to
the idea of influencing or controlling nature led many scientists to
look to magic
and its allied arts (e.g., alchemy, astrology) which, it was thought,
could put Nature to the test by means of experiments. Consequently, it
was the practical aspects of Hermetic writings that attracted the
attention of scientists.
Isaac
Newton placed great faith in the concept of an unadulterated,
pure, ancient doctrine, which he studied vigorously to aid his
understanding of the physical world. Many of Newton's
manuscripts—most of which are still unpublished - detail his
thorough study of the Corpus
Hermeticum, writings said to have been transmitted from ancient
times, in which the secrets and techniques of influencing the stars
and the forces of nature were revealed. Source: Wikipedia |
The
Forbidden Universe
http://www.picknettprince.com/books/...enuniverse.htm
Copernicus' On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
Page from Copernicus' world-changing On the Revolutions of the
Celestial Spheres
U and eye Symbolic representation of the "participatory
universe" as developed by physicist John Archibald Wheeler
'Fascinating and erudite' Publishers Weekly
'The authors show how central Hermeticism was not only to the
Renaissance, but to the rise of modern science... Picknett and Prince
have made a good case for the continuing relevance of Hermeticism
today.' Magonia Review of Books
'I highly recommend this concise and well constructed book for any
serious student of science or hidden history' New Dawn
'Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince... present their case splendidly, with
wit, irony and a knack for the sublime. Furthermore, the book has
balls…' Mindscape |
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The Forbidden Universe
uncovers a story that has been suppressed for centuries: that an ancient magical
tradition holds the key to the true origins of science.
In 1543, from his deathbed, the astronomer Nicolas Copernicus published his
great world-changing work, setting out the sun-centered model of the cosmos. For
most historians this marks the start of the Scientific Revolution, but this book
charts an alternative story, which begins with the rediscovery of long lost
Egyptian documents: the writings of the legendary sage, Hermes Trismegistus, or
'thrice-great Hermes'.
The astonishing secrets of the Hermetica cast their magic over many of the
greatest minds in history. Although barely acknowledged today, the Hermetic
revival not only fuelled the Renaissance but also launched the revolution in
early scientific thinking that formed the bedrock of the Enlightenment. As Lynn
Picknett and Clive Prince prove in this brilliantly argued history, all the
pioneers of science - Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Leibniz
and even Isaac Newton - owed their world-changing achievements to forbidden
occult beliefs.
Setting the record straight presents a whole new perspective on many great
events of the era - not least the true story of Galileo's rocky relationship
with the Church. His persecution was not, as is usually claimed, simply due to
him championing the heliocentric theory, but was in fact a sign of the terror
with which the Vatican viewed Hermeticism. It posed a huge threat, challenging
both the Church's teachings about mankind and its political power base because
of the Hermetica's influence over the hearts and minds of not just philosophers
and artists, but also kings and emperors. The Hermeticists taught that a wide
acceptance of the heliocentric theory would be the trigger for a religious and
political revolution. If and when people were allowed to believe that the earth
orbits the sun, and not the other way round as they taught, then - to them - all
hell would break loose. They could not let this happen, so they threatened
Galileo with the usual agonising death of heretics.
Part Two of The Forbidden Universe takes the story to the present day,
contending that the view of the universe emerging from the latest scientific
discoveries, particularly of quantum physics and cosmology, can be seen to
vindicate the ancient Hermetic belief in an evolving, living, conscious
universe. Far from being merely a historical footnote, Hermeticism hold the key
to humanity's future.
There is something else, some great irony and even a cover-up on the part of
today's scientific orthodoxy. The fact is that, although staggering to many,
science itself has proven beyond doubt that the dazzling array of fine-tunings
of the laws of physics and biochemistry that has enabled life to be arise in the
universe cannot be ascribed to chance. Therefore, science itself implies the
existence of a designer…
However, it must be stressed that while this shows that life has been created
and is meaningful, it neither proves the existence of the biblical God nor the
truth of the account of creation in Genesis.
Yet totally in denial, scientists have rushed to embrace the totally speculative
multiverse theory - which by its very nature can never be proven - rather than
admit that they themselves have demonstrated that the universe has been
designed. This is not science. This is desperation.https://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/...ence-and-magic
Historian Dana Rovang Explores the Odd Partnership of Science and Magic
Author: Christopher Weber
It was a scene worthy of J.K. Rowling. A young American student, Dana Rovang,
walked nervously down a London alley and knocked on a door marked in
astrological signs. It opened. Rovang entered and disappeared down a spiral
staircase.
That mysterious door, as well as the treasures behind it, belonged to the Magic
Circle, one of the semi-secret societies dedicated to the history and lore of
magicians. Rovang, then a University of Chicago Ph.D. candidate in the history
and philosophy of science, was there to plumb the Magic Circle’s archives for
occult knowledge normally off limits for scholars.
These days, magic is considered a form of anti-science, the foe of the clear,
demonstrable, openly explained “tricks” known as experiments. But in
science’s infancy in the 1700s, it was a prime tool of magicians, a means of
generating cutting-edge illusions. And magicians were proselytizers for this
emerging field.
London was ground zero for this odd partnership, and so it was only natural that
Rovang went there to trace its origins. Her first inklings of this blurring of
the lines between science and showmanship came from reading about Michael
Farraday’s demonstrations of electricity at the Royal Institution. “He was
putting on these spectacular shows in order to garner public interest in
science,” Rovang explains. “I thought to myself, ‘This is magic. He’s
putting on a magic show.’”
In the Magic Circle archives, in 2011, she examined some of the earliest
instructional texts on magic tricks going back to the sixteenth century. These
outlined how magicians could use optics and engineering to achieve surprising
results. The librarians at the Magic Circle also provided helpful guidance about
an elusive London magician, Jonas, who flourished in the 1770s. Jonas did most
of his tricks with cards and coins, but he was the first London magician to use
phrases like “Mathematical and philosophical experiments” in his
advertisements.
At the time, the Committee
on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science was part of the
University’s Division of Humanities, but in 2005, it shifted to the Division
of Social Sciences. Along with the Nicholson Center for British Studies, the
Committee helped fund Rovang’s London trip, and another she made to Austin,
Texas, to examine magicians’ manuscripts up to 300 years old, including ones
in the personal library of Harry Houdini.
“Magicians are naturally historians,” says Rovang. “History is an
extension of their craft. A lot of the tricks are very proprietary. Their
intellectual property is the spin they put on their magic tricks. They have to
know the lineage of a trick in order to make sure they’re doing something
new.”
“I love the spirit of collaboration of working with magicians.”
That collaboration continues, even though Rovang recently graduated. A prominent
Chicago magician, Jay Collen, read and edited some of her dissertation chapters.
Rovang is currently turning portions of her dissertation into articles that may
form the basis of a book. The article on the little-known Jonas will fill a
significant void in the histories of London, science, and magic — literally.
Rovang recently sent to London her “payment” for use of the Magic Circle
archives: a bound copy of her dissertation, now deposited in the occulted
stacks.
University of Chicago - Social Sciences News
http://www.infoplease.com/encycloped...s-science.html
Science
The Beginnings of Science (See more at the above link)
Science as it is known today is of relatively modern origin, but the
traditions out of which it has emerged reach back beyond recorded
history. The roots of science lie in the technology of early
toolmaking and other crafts, while scientific theory was once a part
of philosophy and religion. This relationship, with technology
encouraging science rather than the other way around, remained the
norm until recent times. Thus, the history of science is essentially
intertwined with that of technology.
Practical Applications in the Ancient Middle East |
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The early civilizations
of the Tigris-Euphrates valley and the Nile valley made advances in both
technology and theory, but separate groups within each culture were responsible
for the progress. Practical advances in metallurgy, agriculture, transportation,
and navigation were made by the artisan class, such as the wheelwrights and
shipbuilders. The priests and scribes were responsible for record keeping, land
division, and calendar determination, and they developed written language and
early mathematics for this purpose. The Babylonians devised methods for solving
algebraic equations, and they compiled extensive astronomical records from which
the periods of the planets' revolution and the eclipse cycle could be
calculated; they used a year of 12 months and a week of 7 days, and also
originated the division of the day into hours, minutes, and seconds. In Egypt
there were also developments in mathematics and astronomy and the beginnings of
the science of medicine. Wheeled vehicles and bronze metallurgy, both known to
the Sumerians in Babylonia as early as 3000 B.C., were imported to Egypt c.1750
B.C. Between 1400 B.C. and 1100 B.C. iron smelting was discovered in Armenia and
spread from there, and alphabets were developed in Phoenicia.
http://www.magickofthought.com/2011/...rough-science/
Exploring Magick Through Science
by MIKE SENTENTIA on MAY 12, 2011
Science = Scientific Method
Science isn’t
technology. It’s not a microscope or a computer.
Science isn’t the knowledge of a scientific field. It’s not physics,
chemistry, or psychology.
Science isn’t in the words you use — trusting science-y terms like
“quantum” and distrusting mystical ones like “spirit.”
Science means distilling what works, and discarding what doesn’t, through
the scientific method: Systematic explanation, reliable observation,
and tests that can disrupt our expectations. I’ll explain how each applies
to magick in its own post.
“Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.”
Fantasy writer Larry Niven
“any
sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey
The following video is over an hour long. PLEASE DO NOT LET THAT DETER YOU
FROM WATCHING! It provides a lot of clear, undeniable information that will
open your eyes to the TRUTH. WATCH! Also, I highly recommend the website: CELEBRATE
TRUTH
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This next video will give you a clear understanding of how Science has
developed over the years and who/what is behind it. Close your eyes if you
choose...but you only do harm to yourself.
Continued
in Part 17 - CERN
