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PAGE THIRTEEN; SPECIAL REPORT PAGE 2
IN DEFIANCE OF SCIENCE
THE APPLE DUDE
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), now there is an enigma. The man who invented gravity (or was it gravy?), he is renowned as the first physicist. Less well-known is his connection with the mysterious science of alchemy. And as for his association with the Knights Templar, of Holy Grail fame, that does not get a mention at all in my encyclopaedia.
Every kids’ encyclopaedia has a picture of the Apple-Dude getting it on the head. Mine shows a member of Status Quo sitting beneath a tree gazing intently at the offending fruit as he creates the new science of physics.
...It seems that even before he got into the band, old Isaac was quite a guy. Some time before he became the Apple-Dude, he had already made a name for himself for his discoveries in the field of optics. These laid the basis for the conclusions (not to say contusions) he arrived at following his grapple with the apple.
...On the basis of his discovery of gravity he proposed a scientific system that stated that everything in the physical world happened according to a set of consistent and rational laws. Essentially, those laws became the basis for modern science and, in particular, for physics.
...Seeing nature as a complex billiard game in which matter and energy stay within set rules, makes it unnecessary to theorise about a hidden world; everything that happens is aboveboard, no more than a predictable cause followed by a predicted event.
...Despite the fact that the workings of nature cannot be explained in terms of rationality let alone those of solid bodies, straight-line motion and fixed constants proposed by Newton, for the scientific establishment the allure of objectivity proved stronger than the call of commonsense. If nature functioned in the same way as a machine, according to consistent laws, rationalised the scientists, everything must be capable of reduction to a mathematical formula.
...And that is where we are today.
...But if Newton was a man of the future, he was also a man of the past. It is hardly surprising that Newton took up the alchemical arts since they were the basis of science as we know it. Chemistry and physics are, however, not what alchemy is about. Alchemy is a spiritual journey that is merely described in chemical terms. It is, indeed, a science of philosophy. Despite this, alchemy does involve chemical processes and through these and the philosophical texts associated with them, Newton made many of his discoveries.
...More interesting is the association of Newton with the ancient Knights Templar. Thought to have survived their enforced disbandment in 1307 only as the Freemasons, the Knights continued as a secret organisation known as the Priory Sion. Committed to protecting the ‘great secret’ that had brought them untold power and wealth, the Priory Sion was traditionally headed by a descendent of the Merovingian dynasty ofShamanic priest/kings. On the few occasions when there was no suitable candidate to bear this singular honour, the Priory sought to recruit a Grand Master from outside. Such was the power of the secret it held, that the Priory was able to recruit the greatest minds of the age to serve in this role. It is thus that we find Newton listed in the roll of the Grand Master of the Priory Sion alongside such interesting names as Leonardo da Vinci , Botticelli, Victor Hugo and Jean Cocteau.
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