05/27/2026
"Although a speculative interest in alchemical theory might be harmless enough, the goal of the practicing alchemist is always to force the elements of the universe, without without demonic assistance, to yield up their secrets and their power, and this goal has never been far from the minds of modern scientists, who, as Goethe complained, tortured nature."
Here is the link to part one of an essay on Isaac Newton the occultist and sometime physicist. This begins a series on anti-Christian occultism, "Darkness Visible."
"Although a speculative interest in alchemical theory might be harmless enough, the goal of the practicing alchemist is always to force the elements of the universe, without without demonic assistance, to yield up their secrets and their power, and this goal has never been far from the minds of modern scientists, who, as Goethe complained, tortured nature."
This is the first section of the first part of a series of articles on the central significance of occultism . Like many of the fathers of modern science and Enlightenment--René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Elias Ashmole, and Robert Boyle--Isaac Newton was a devoted alchemist and occultist.
