Newton as Scientist, Mystic and Alchemist

Few scientists seem willing to acknowledge that Newton was not only one of England’s greatest men of science but also one of her most ardent students of mysticism. All that despite the outright assertions of people such as Sir Robert Robinson, past President of the Royal Society, who, asking how Newton could be both a mathematician and a mystic, himself answered that it was because he ‘perceived a mystery beyond and did his best to penetrate it.’

This talk attempts to show that Newton’s great discoveries owed their origin to his mystical insights of which his science was only a component. First we attempt to elucidate the mind processes whereby the mystic attains to his insights by something like direct contact with the unknown sources that surround us; and why Lord Keynes was moved to declare that Newton’s  ‘deepest instincts were occult’, and that ‘the clue to his mind is to be found in his unusual powers of continuous concentrated introspection.’

Next we explain why the mystic and scientific ways are entirely complementary as Professor E.N. da C. Andrade FRS, was forced to confess, at the Tercentenary Celebrations in 1946, that ‘a mixture of mysticism and natural science is not unexampled.’

Finally we turn to Newton’s theological and alchemical research and explain their ever increasing importance in our day and age when the supremacy of the paradigm of scientific materialism is being challenged by the findings of quantum physics which seem to resonate in large measure with the doctrines of what is generally known as the prisca sapientia, Newton’s own term for the perennial philosophy, the sacred wisdom. We stress the reasons why Lord Keynes affirmed to a private audience at the Royal Society Club in 1942 that ‘all his unpublished works on esoteric and theological matters are marked by careful learning and extreme sobriety of statement. They are just as sane as the Principia.’ Did Newton’s alchemical and esoteric research influence future generations of scientists, especially Einstein?

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