The Biblical Calendar Belies Heliocentrism

In his dedication to Pope Paul III (r. 1534-1549) Copernicus implored the Pope to silence all possible critics who, not being knowledgeable of mathematics, would dare criticize his book with Biblical quotations totally irrelevant, as he claimed, in the context of the revolving earth. In other words, Copernicus was intentionally contradicting the truth of divine revelation with his mathematical equations. The same arrogance lurks behind the title of Newton's book; mathematical principles explained to Newton the workings of the universe better than ordinances of God. Newton shared with Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler their Pythagorean faith that mathematics would reveal the structure of the world.
Saul Bellow once observed that a great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. In the Renaissance Rome the need for mathematical illusion was unlimited. In ancient Rome 'Babylonian' was synonymous with 'mathematician.' The Babylonian astrologers called planets 'wanderers' or 'sheep' and they called the Sun, 'The Shepherd' which, of course, means a sun-centered system.
Latium Latinus (the Roman form of the Greek Lateinos), and Lateo, “to lie hid,” all alike come from the Chaldee “Lat,” which has the same meaning. This is evident from the name of the fish Latus, which was worshipped along with the Egyptian Minerva, in the city of Latopolis in Egypt, now Esneh, that fish Latus evidently just being another name for the fish-god Dagon. We have seen that Ichthys, or the Fish, was one of the names of Bacchus; and the Assyrian goddess Atergatis, with her son Ichthys is said to have been cast into the lake of Ascalon. That the sun-god Apollo had been known under the name of Lat, may be inferred from the Greek name of his mother-wife Leto, or in Doric, Lato, which is just the feminine of Lat. Dagon was venerated by the Philistines whom the KJV turned into Palestinians. By order of emperor Hadrian the Holy Land was renamed Palestine.
It should be reminded here that the Etruscans, called themselves Rasena; and the descendants of the most ancient families always believed that the Rasena had come from the great and ancient city of Resen or RSN, the capital of Aturia in the land of Assyria situated on the great river Tigris. In the country of Ethiopia, where the Pharaohs had granted lands to a group of no less than 240,000 Rasenas, they built the town of Esar – that was the Etruscan word for demigod. From Egypt they had brought many of their sacred rites; for many centuries they used to place Egyptian things and implement in their tombs.
The founding fathers of the modern astronmy, like their ancient predecessors: “set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. And they say, how doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Eternal God? - Ps 73: 9-11
The ancient Jews also possessed sufficient knowledge of mathematical astronomy to fix the dates of festivals and holidays: “And the children of Issachar that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do” 1 Chron. 12:33. There is, however, a problem with this verse; we know from the Bible that it was Judah who was given authority over the calendar, so why does Scripture say it was Issachar that had “understanding of times.”
We find solution to this problem in the Biblical mention of such important astronomical tool as sun-dial. And this is a very revealing mention: “And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that has spoken; Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degree which is gone down in the sun-dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.” - Isa 38:7-8
This verse was supposed to be a caution to all ancient and modern scientists who trusted more in their tools and their mathematical reasonings than in God's teachings. Unfortunately, in their arrogance they forget that it is God who rules the world and not their speculative laws expressed in mathematical formulas. The sons of Issachar were working out calculated calendars and prophet Isaiah wrote about the calendar which rested purely on the observation of the sun and the moon. Let me unmask for you the frightening superficiality of the heliocentric mind which ignored the profound teaching of the Hebrew Bible.
The first commandment the Jews were given as a people is the mitzvah of Rosh Chodesh, the New Moon: “And God said to Moses...in the land of Egypt ... This month is for you, the head of the months. First it is for you among the months of the year.” - Ex 12:1-2
This is a strange first commandment. You'd think the development of the calendar would only come after the establishment of the basic fundamentals like the Ten Commandments. And yet the Torah considers the process of establishing the new month as a major breakthrough in creating a nation. And what was wrong with the solar calendar that everyone else had been using? What is the significance of basing the Jewish calendar on the moon?
Whereas the sun is the symbol of unchanging nature, rising in the east, setting in the west, day in and day out every day of the year, the moon changes and it seems to be telling us something. And her message thwarts all matematical calculations. The moon is mathematically unpredictable. By commandment of the New Moon which meant the rejection of Egyptian mathematical and godless science Moses consolidated his nation. Moses did, what this blog is trying to do. Let's hope that the eye of the sun god Horus will disappear from the one dollar bill. Do you prefer One Nation under Horus?
Jews calculated the month according to the phases of the moon, each month consisting of either twenty nine or thirty days, and beginning with the appearance of the new moon. It was impossible to know in advance whether a particular month would have twenty-nine or thirty days. The length of the moon was never determined until the thirtieth day actually arrived.
Whe the Sages of Israel decided to adopt the Calculated Rabbinical Calendar to avoid further tragic political persecutions the Moon of that calendar became a mean or average moon moving uniformly, in the same way as the artificial moon of Hilarius (or Dr. Jarvik's artificial heart), which is used in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. The beginning and duration of the months depend on the moladoth (the times of the new moon) and the time which elapses from one molad to the next. The average figure given by tradition for this interval is 29 days and 12 hours and 793 parts.
New Moon in Scripture, the visible crescent is not the same as the astronomical new moon (molad), which is not visible. molad is the moment that the moon passes between the Earth and the sun. It is the theoretical beginning of the new moon. molad is commonly used not for the actual time of New Moon, but for the computed time, which governs the commencement of each year and of each cycle, axactly, like Newtonian principia mathematica.
This astronomical new moon enabled the mathematical astronomers to play the role of “God knowing good and evil, times and seasons.” Indeed, many ancient philosophers were venerated by illiterate people as “gods knowing good and evil” (The Biblical hieroglyph 'good and evil' denotes wisdom gained by dialectic, i.e. speculative philosophy) And indeed, most of them were familiar with practice of magic and divination which were forbidden by the Bible. Attempt to foretell events was guiding Copernicus's endeavor. Kepler believed that man's ability to understand the mathematical laws governing the universe enabled him to mirror God's own thoughts and thus put him in special mysthical union with the Creator of the Universe.
This is nothing else but the very well known ancient mathematical mysticism, or Gnosis against which the words of Prophet Isaiah are directed: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Is 55:8-9)
God's months begin with the new moon, mathematicians' months begin with the calculated, theoretical conjunction of the sun, earth, and moon which occurs in the midst of what is generally 1.5 -- 3.5 days of the moon being concealed. You won't see the astronomical new moon even with the biggest telescopes, so the astronomers are on the safe side, nobody can contradict them if they made a mistake i.e. if their calculations don't match the actual events in the heavens.
This mathematical hoax was invented by the ancient Egyptian astrologers who used the time when the old crescent was invisible in the morning as the beginning of their month. This Egyptian custom of using the old crescent was embraced by our modern astronomers who also use the conjunction as the marker. And that also explains why the Torah considers the process of establishing the new month as a major breakthrough in creating a nation. The Jewish national uniqueness is reflected in their calendar which became the catechism of this nation. There is no room for flawed mathematical formula in Science of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew prophets did not express their teachings in the imaginary mathematical equations. The Biblical Calendar is the science of synchronicity between the heavens and the earth.
Only God can expose heliocentrists' pretentious ignorance and He actually did that to prove the Truth of His teaching. “Owing to inequalities in the rate of both the solar and the lunar motion in longitude, the mean conjuntion (molad) may precede or be preceded by the true conjunction.” (Cecil Roth, editor, Enc. Judaica, Vol.5, p. 46, article: Calendar.
The Jews readily admit that the current calculated calendar in use, exactly like the Gregorian Calendar, is in error and needs reform. Here is a relevant passage from Enc. Judaica: “The present calendar system was expected to be replaced again by a system based on true values more akin to the earlier Jewish calendar in which New Moon and intercalations were proclaimed on the basis of both observation and calculation.” (ib.)
In Jesus' time the new moon was established by observation. What we know from first-century records is that the calendar was operated by observation and controlled by the Sanhedrin. If Jesus and the Church followed this habit, then Jesus accepted something that, as some are claiming, is unacceptable. Maybe that was the true reason that Jesus was crucified by Pilate. The Roman AUC (AUC stands for Ab Urbe Condita, meaning “from the foundation of Rome”) calendar was enforced, with capital punishment for non-compliance, throughout the powerful Roman Empire of the time. The Jewish calendar starts with the creation of the world. But creationism is so “unscientific”!
Hadrian had issued decrees against certain specific Torah-practices. After the war, and after the general punitive slaughter and the great sale of a multitude into slavery, Hadrian decreed a general Shmad against all forms of Torah-practices. Now was introduced a period of the greatest suffering in the history of the Jews. Everywhere, men and women were slaughtered and tortured and were forced to undergo death in the most painful manner, whenever they were discovered fulfilling any precept of the Torah.
The Roman persecution was so intense that Rabbi Akiva had to go to Babylon to declare a leap-year (Mishna: Yevamos 122A), because this was at that time not possible to do in any land under Roman domination (this was before Trajan conquered Babylon in the year 115 CE). And for that “crime” Rabbi Akiva was also crucified; he offended the offcial Roman sun god Sol Invictus. Tyndale who translated the Bible from Hebrew into English was imprisoned near Brussels and interrogated by theologians from Louvain; he was garroted and his corpse burnt in October 1536.
A few lines from M. Capella’s Ode to the Sun found in his general compilation of scientific knowledge entitled The Marriage of Mercury and Philology (De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercuri) unveils the religion hidden behind the solar calendar:
“Latium invokes thee, Sol, because thou alone art in honor, after the Father, the centre of light; and they affirm that thy sacred head bears a golden brightness in twelve rays, because thou formest that number of months and that number of hours.”
The baboons, as the Egyptians believed, were wont to raise their paws in adoration to the Sun. Mankind, they thought ought also to act like these pious and learned animals, and thus to say to the rising sun: “Adoration to thee, O Re!” Accordingly, Copernicus came to believe that the Sun was a god! What really mattered for him was his pagan belief in the divinity of the Sun. Darwin came to believe that “he who understands baboon knows more about metaphysics than philosopher Locke.”
As I mentioned earlier, the official Syrian translation of the New Testament Peshitta turned Jesus into a Jewish Copernicus thus contradicting the teaching of Col 2:8 : “Take care there is not someone who will carry you away as prisoners by means of his philosophy and idle fancies, following human traditions and the world's crude notions instead of following Christ.” Let me remind here that reading the Bible was punishable by death in the Papal empire. In a Major Motion Picture Release Ben Stein exposes the frightening agenda of the “Darwinian Machine” in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
The same "religious beliefs" defended by the pagans in their debates against and with many early Gentile Church Fathers are yet today the very backbone of Gentile Christianity and their doctrines! What still amazes me and what escapes most Christians today is that historical investigation of many of these "debates" provides the multiple evidence that testifies to the fact that the early Christians and Chruch Fathers acknowledged that they had in fact copied the pagans and their beliefs and merged such beliefs into the "Christian faith." Astounding! Your New Testament is full of the dogmas and doctrines originating in Sun Worship and without such knowledge you read them as if it were "Divine Revelations." The Christian faith today is nothing more but an evolution of “Sun” worship which over time was transfigured into “Son” worship. (See, David Fideler, Jesus Christ, Sun of God).
On Jan 4, 2008 Peter Popham reported for the London Independent that the astronomical observatory that was a part of Castel Gandolfo for more than 75 years was dismantled.. The pope needs more room to receive diplomats, so the telescope must go.
But it was the mundane question of the reform of the calendar that first induced the popes to give house room to star-gazers of the 16th century. “Pope Gregory ordered a tower to be erected in 1578 and to be fitted out with the greatest and best instruments of that time,” Pope Leon XIII wrote in 1891. “There he held the meetings of the learned men to whom the reform of the calendar had been entrusted. When touched by the rays of the sun that are allowed from above the designs demonstrate the error of the old reckoning.” Indeed, "Astronomy is the science of continualy correcting your earlier errors". In other words, the mathematical straitjacket put by astronomers on God is bound to fail sooner or later, and the Gregorian calendar is no exception. The ecclesiastical Full Moon dates (Paschalia) is not the astronomical Full Moon – it is based on tables set up in 325 that do not take into account the full complexity of lunar motion. As a result, the date of an ecclesiastical Full Moon differs from that of true Full Moon.
The telescope was one of the central instruments of what has been called the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. It “revealed” hitherto unsuspected phenomena in the heavens and had a profound influence on the controversy between followers of the traditional geocentric astronomy and cosmology and those who favored the heliocentric hoax of Copernicus. Long before Galileo, some people could see phases of Venus with the naked eyes.

Philosophical Category of Heliocentrism

Five of the most important philosophers of the Renaissance – Cardano, Telesio, Patrizi, Bruno, and Campanella – were panpsychists. All of them were admirers of classical heliocentrism. They had to be, because heliocentricm in terms of philosophy is panpsychism.
The Renaissance panpsychists were nothing but a new generation of Stoics who insisted that all material objects are “bodies”, and they are in fact “compounds of 'matter' and 'mind' (god or logos). Mind is not something other than body but a necessary constituent of it, “'reason' in matter.”
A short passage from Pliny's Natural History will allow to better grasp the essence of panpsychist world view:
“Upheld by the same vapour between earth and heaven, at definite spaces apart, hang the seven stars which owing to their motion we call 'planets,' although no stars wander less than they do. In the midst of these moves the sun, whose magnitude and power are the greatest, and who is the ruler not only of the seasons and of the lands, but even of the stars themselves and of the heaven. Taking into account all that he effects, we must believe him to be the soul, or more precisely the mind, of the whole world, the supreme ruling principle and divinity of nature. He furnishes the world with light and removes darkness, he obscures and he illumines the rest of the stars, he regulates in accord with nature's precedent the changes of the seasons and the continuous re-birth of the year, he dissipates the gloom of heaven and even calms the storm-clouds of the mind of man, he lends his light to the rest of the stars also; he is glorious and pre-eminent, all-seeing and even all-hearing – this, I observe, that Homer the prince of literature held to be true in the case of the sun alone.”(2-1)
Giambattista della Porta, the celebrated Italian alchemist and the first member of the Academy of the Lynxes, modern Europe’s first scientific society founded in Rome in 1603 published in 1569 his book Magia Naturalis in which he tried to show to the world the groundlessness of their accusations of magic being a superstition and sorcery. In the book he based all of the occult phenomena possible to man upon the world-soul which binds all with all, exactly like Newton’s gravity. The latests biographer of Newton titled his book Newton. The Last Sorcerer.
Newton in his Principia based all his speculations upon the "soul of the world," the great universal, magnetic agent, which he called the divine sensorium: "Here the question is of a very subtile spirit which penetrates through all, even the hardest bodies, and which is concealed in their substance. Through the strength and activity of this spirit, bodies attract each other, and adhere together when brought into contact. Through it, electrical bodies operate at the remotest distance, as well as near at hand, attracting and repelling; through this spirit the light also flows, and is refracted and reflected, and warms bodies. All senses are excited by this spirit, and through it the animals move their limbs. But these things cannot be explained in few words, and we have not yet sufficient experience to determine fully the laws by which this universal spirit operates." In the final analysis all motion in the universe is dependent on the activity of a World Soul.
Let me quote here a prayer to the World-Soul, the Famous Gayatri of the Rig Veda, “the holiest verse in the Vedas.” It runs as follows: “Let us adore the Supremacy of that Divine Sun, the Godhead, Who illuminates all, Who recreates all, from Whom all proceed, to Whom all must return, Whom we invoke to direct our Understanding aright in our Progress toward His Holy Seat.” (Sir W. Jone's Works, XIII. 367. “His Holy Seat” suggests the thought that the state where He does not move is fixed.) Let me mention here that the term see denoting a district under a bishop's authority, for instance Holy See, is derived from Old French sie, or sied which, in turn, is derived from Latin sedes, abode (sedere, to sit). According to Webster's Universal Dictionary of 1936 see also denotes the seat of regal authority; a throne.. Copernicus's sun god who rules his family of stars is seated on a royal throne.
Plato represented the planets as moved by an intrinsic Rector, one with his dwelling, like “a boatman in his boat.” Aristotle called those rulers “immaterial substances;” though he rejected the gods as Entities. But this did not prevent him from recognizing the fact that the stars and planets “were not inanimate masses but acting and living bodies indeed…” As if “sidereal spirits were the divine portion of their phenomena, (ta theoitera pon phaneron)” (De Caelo. I. 9). Kepler “baptized” Plato's Rector and called him angelus rector conducting each planet. In his third letter to Bentley Newton mentioned “agent, material or immaterial” as the cause of gravity and later identified gravity with the spiritual body of Jesus Christ.
Well, possibly Newton with Pliny also believed that Spanish mares could conceive by turning their hindquarters to the wind (Natural History IV.35 and VIII.67). That's what panpsychism is all about. In the erotic cult of the Mare-goddess children were believed to enter into women's womb as sudden gusts of wind.
We have similar synthesis of pagan ideas with Christian doctrine in the young K. Wojtyla's Renaissance Psalter. The leading poem of this collection entitled Magnificat unites through imagery the pagan, the medieval, the Renaissance panpsychism and the modern. The ancient worship of the oak tree, becomes transformed into Christian belief without leaving behind the pagan symbolism; rather, it incorporates it. God is present in the ancient soil, in the rocks of the Tatra (like he is believed to be present in the Kaaba), and in the oaks.
In Laws Plato also embraced a soul or souls as the cause of various phenomena:
“Now consider all the stars and the moon and the years and the months and all the seasons: what can we do except repeat the same story? A soul or souls ... have been shown to be the cause of all these phenomena, and whether it is by their living presence in matter ... or by some other means, we shall insist that these souls are gods. Can anybody admit all this and still put up with people who deny that 'everything is full of gods'?” Like those rocks of Tatra and oaks full of gods...
Since time immemorial astrology went hand in hand with the theory of emanationism, philosophical and theological theory that saw all of creation as an unwilled, necessary and spontaneous outflow of contingent beings of descending perfection, from an infinite, unchanged primary substance. In conformity with this theory Kepler wrote about “species immateriata” (which corresponds to Aristotle's “immaterial substances”) which flows out of the sun, inundates all the planets, including the earth, and sets them in whirling motion. Now his angelus rector became Plato's “a boatman in his boat”
Kepler said that he understood perfectly how the Pythagoreans could believe that all the globes disseminated through Space were rational Intelligences¸facultates ratiocinativae, circulating around the Sun. He wrote about anima telluris i.e. soul of the Earth. Copernicus wrote about divines mundi revolutionibus (I, 9). The publisher removed from the printed edition of The revolutions the expression divina corpora and replaced it with corpora coelestia. Like Copernicus, also Kepler believed that the stars were born of the semen of the sun god (disseminated is derived from Latin semen, seed). Remember the Hindu sungod in the shape of linga (phallus)? In Hindu myth when the Desire (Kama) arose in it, “the creation” or rather emanation or emission of semen followed.
Heliocentrism and Holocausts of Jews
Philosopher M. Polanyi observed, “Newtonian physics and Darwin’s notion of the survival of the fittest were key elements both in the Marxist concepts of class warfare and of racial philosophies which shaped Hitlerism and scientific world view.”
This enmity against Christianity rooted in the Hebrew Bible on the part of many cultured pagans was not a purely intellectual matter, but was deeply rooted in class prejudice. The “cultured and sophisticated” could not conceive the possibility that the Christian rabble could know a truth hidden to them. Their main objection was that Christianity was a religion of barbarians who derived their teaching, not from Greeks of Romans, but from Jews, a primitive people whose best teacher never rose to the level of Greek philosophers. If anything good is to be found in Jewish Scripture – they said – that is because the Jews copied it from the Greeks. So, the Biblical geocentrism which could not be proved to be copied from the Greeks or any other pagan belief was recognized as an invention of an uneducated, barbaric people. Rome was always heliocentric: “Sun…the leader, the prince and the steerman of the other stars, the soul and the ordering principle of the world, so large that it enlightens and fills up the whole universe…the orbits of Mercury and Venus follow him as his satellites.” This declaration of Cicero attests that the old Pythagorean heliocentrism was ever present in the minds of the enlightened circles of ancient Greece and Rome. Cicero proclaimed that the Jews who believed in the Biblical geocentrism were a nation born to servitude (nationibus nati servituti).
Dio Cassius in his History reported: “Fifty of the strongest fortified places, and 985 of the best towns and villages were ruined. Very few Jews remained alive. 580,000 lost their lives on the battlefield or by the sudden attacks by the Romans, in addition to those without number who perished of starvation and pestilence or who were burned alive. The entire land of Judea was changed into a desolate wilderness” (69:14)
The early Christian chroniclers wrote: “The populace in many other cities were slaughtered or sold into slavery. The multitude for sale as slaves was so great that their price was extremely low, yet there were no enough buyers. At Hebron a great slave market was held; subsequently, the huge remaining number was taken to the slave-market at Gaza, which now because of this became known as Hadrian's Market. Those who could not be sold were shipped to Egypt. In Egypt they fell into the hands of their bitter enemies the Greeks; and instead of being purchased as slaves, many were slain.”
Not long after Hadrian abolished the name of Judea with its potentially subversive overtones, and called the province Syria Palestina instead, he founded in Rome the school of philosophy, oratory and literature which he called Athenaeum, and which conducted the true psychological war against the Jews and their Holy Scriptures. You will grasp better the perennial policy of Rome vis-a-vis Israel when you recall that the goddess Athena was usually portrayed with her dress adorned with swastikas. She was the most beloved goddess of Adolf Hitler.
Gen. John Bagot Glubb, the supreme commander of the Arab Legion in Israel's War of Independence in 1948 regarded the creation of Israel as a crime. Glubb, like most of the British elites, was an unabashed anti-Semite, who firmly believed that the “unlikable character” of the Jews had provoked their persecution throughout history; that most Russian and East European Jews were really Khazar Turks with no connection to the promised land.
You may recall that Darwin in his book castigated the Turkish people as belonging to an inferior race. So when Gen. Glubb put the Jews in the same racial category as Khazar Turks he continued A. Hitler's racial crusade against the Jewish people. So, you see, Pope John Paul II knew very well what he was doing when he was rehabilitating evolutionism and heliocentrism, the “sciences” that were taught in Hadrian's Athenaeum. Once a miniature Palestinian state is created the “civilized world” won't stop there. Only when the last Jew is exterminated its mission civilisatrice will be regarded as fulfilled. Copernicus and Darwin blinded the world to dangers the secularists may encounter while executing this new Holocaust. Exactly, like they blinded A. Hitler.
Hundreds of gravestones were toppled at a Jewish cemetery in New Jersey; hundreds of gravestones were knocked over, some broken from hitting each other. It looked like it was hit by a bomb. The Jews are the one and only people who are not allowed to rest in peace. When moral foundations are shaken, we unleash our instincts. But released instincts belong to the animal world.
If we forget God our country is doomed.
The French Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin, the favorite philosopher of Karol Wojtyla argued: “There is necessarily a double aspect to matter's structure ... Coextensive with their Without, there is a Within to things.” “We are logically forced to assume the existence in rudimentary form ... of some sort of psyche in every corpuscule, even in those (the mega-molecules and below) whose complexity is of such low or modest order as to render it the psyche imperceptible...”
He was mourning his Church’s unwillingness to incorporate what Science had discovered into its understanding of the world, criticizing the “geocentricity” to which she clung psychologically for four hundred years after she had ceased to support it astronomically, and rebuking those religious thinkers who recognized nothing new under the sun since “instantaneous creation”.
De Chardin wrote: “Christianity’s only chance to grow lay in her being born again among the Gentiles because only the Gentiles had retained their pagan taste for the earth.” “Christianity must break out of the closed world of Israel into the pagan world”. De Chardin posited above Suess’s biosphere the existence of an even more significant covering of the earth – its “thinking skin”, the “noosphere”. The earth once again became a goddess. De Chardin’s “apostle” in Poland the young K. Wojtyla wrote a poem entitled Material about the “thinking skin”.
As Pope John Paul II he retained the Gentiles' pagan taste for the earth and introduced the ritual of hugging the goddess Earth (Gaia) on his numerous pilgrimages.
Several of the most illustrious thinkers of the postwar period have called for Western religion to forsake the solitary and overpowering, personal deity of the Bible, not for science or rationalism but for naturalistic polytheism of ancient Greece. Sun and Earth are equally encompassed in this metavision.
After a decade of technical articles and studies that began in the 1960s with his work for NASA, Lovelock introduced his Gaia theory to the general public in Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth published in 1979 by the Oxford University Press. Igniting a scientific, environmental, and spiritual movement that has burgeoned through scores of seminars, symposia, and songfest at home and abroad, the Britisher’s opinions on Gaia have since been roundly in demand.
The idea of the living Earthgoddess today exercises a profound intellectual enchantment. The notion of our planet as an infinitely integrated super organism has compelled world leaders from Mikhail Gorbachev to Pope John Paul II, R. Reagan to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar to Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Bruntland to write on the theme of global interdependence in the Gaia Peace Atlas, published simultaneously by Gaia Books (London) and Doubleday (New York) 1988, which concludes by thanking Lovelock “for his continuing inspiration.”