In very early times great respect was paid to baboon; and the simple-minded Egyptian, when he heard him chattering just before the sunrise and sunset, assumed that he was in some way holding converse or was intimately connected with the sun god.
In Phaidros Plato and Socrates declare that “He (Toth, the Egyptian baboon-shaped god of wisdom) was who invented numbers and arithmetic and geometry...” Aristotle also argued that the Egyptians had created the caste system and hence “Egypt was the cradle of mathematics because the caste of priests were given great leisure.” According to him, the priests had invented the mathematikai technai (mathematical arts), which included geometry, arithmetic and astronomy, which the Greeks were beginning to possess. These priests spent most of their time squaring circles to find out the value of the number π.
With time, Thoth evolved into a human and under his Greek name Hermes Trismegistus wrote a book entitled Hermetica which, became the inspiration for all subsequent heliocentrists including early Church Fathers and Copernicus. Hermes became an icon in many Roman churches; one of them should be mentioned here. It was painted by Giovanni di Stefano in 1488 for the Cathedral of Siena; its stylized frame is made of swastikas, the solar symbol since time immemorial. Let me remind here that Adolf Hitler who for a period of time resided at Lambach Abbey in Austria, first saw the swastika symbol on the Abbey's exterior decorations.
The early heliomaniac, pharaoh Akhenaten had his children portrayed as apes. In 1838 Charles Darwin wrote: “Origin of man now proved...He who understands baboon would do more toward metaphysics than Locke.” Heliocentrism and evolutionism converge in the baboon-shaped god Thoth.
Ficino translated Orphica, a collection of hymns to various pagan deities, attributed to Orpheus but actually dating from the early centuries AD. He practiced magical self-improvement by singing hymns, accompanying himself on his ‘Orphic lyre’. He believed that by singing the hymn to a particular planetary deity, while concentrating his thoughts and emotions on the planet, he could draw down into himself a flow of the planet’s influence and power..
One of Ficino’s pupils, Francesco da Dia Cetto, explained more clearly how this was done. To attract the influence of the sun, the Orphic hymn to the deity was sung when the sun was ascending in Leo or Aries, on a Sunday and in the hour of the sun. The magician surrounded himself with things corresponding to the sun. He wore a golden mantle and a crown of laurel, strewed sunflowers about him, burned myrrh and frankincense on an altar and anointed himself with saffron, balsam or honey made when the sun was in Leo. The technique induced a sense of superhuman power, which could be applied to curing disease or for any other purpose.
In Egyptian myths a Cow was impregnated by a beam of light from the Sun, and a white bull-calf was born which became the sacred Apis Bull. G. Bruno who dreamed about converting the world to the solar religion of the ancient Egypt was like those Israelites who forced Aaron”to make them Golden Calf” because the gold was believed in Egypt to be flesh of the sun god.
Palestinian history textbook teach: “Moses and his followers wandered in the desert; they were not endowed with any scientific or artistic talents and made no cultural achievements whatsoever…” Because they did not belong to the leisure class they could not have science.
Using the words of the Psalmist, the founding fathers of the modern astronomy and their Palestinian admirers: “Set their mouth against the Heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. And they say how God knows. And is there knowledge in the Eternal God?” (Ps. 73:9-11).
They recognized the God of the Bible as a liar and ignoramus because He taught: “When you look up to the sky and behold the sun and the moon, and the stars, the whole heavenly host, you must not be lured into bowing them or serving them” (Dt. 4:9)
Behind the scholastic equivalence of light and matter which gives rise to the “world machine” (machina mundi) by plurifying itself was the concept of the philosophers who speculated that all things were composed of atoms and who said that bodies were composed of surfaces, and surfaces of lines, and lines of points, like in Galileo's Book of Nature But since there is no reality to a mathematical point or line, except when they are being conceptualized as such the world of Euclid belongs to the same category as the world of Platonic ideas; though merely mental, they were the ultimate objects, of which the visible and tangible objects of the world were only pale shadows. And that’s exactly what the Indian yogis dismissed contemptuously as the illusory realm of maya. In the Eastern view, searching for some kind of reality, either in the physical world (prakriti) or in the rational mind (manas) is a sheer waste of time, since they are both ultimately unreal - “phantom figures” in Omar Khayyam's heliocentric rubayat. We are such stuff as dreams are made of (Shakespeare)
The Buddhist aims at pure consciousness with no object in sight, which is practically synonymous with sunya (this sunya is the conditio sine qua non for the Newton gravity to work), the void. The Buddha merely stressed the sole reality of nirvana, which the Germans translate as Nullpunkt.The Tao Te Ching and the Chuang Tzu are the cornerstones of the Taoist tradition and in them we find the initial identification of Nonbeing (Big Bang’s starting point) with the source of all things.
In other places, the preferred term is wu (in Japanese, mu), commonly translated as “Nonbeing”. Chuang Tzu, in effect, made Nonbeing an equivalent for the absolute Tao, a kind of absolute void. The principles of this nihilistic ontology are mirrored in Hindu mathematics which evolved into a mature place-value system promoting to full membership of a tenth numeral a round symbol for zero (graphic representation of point) or sunya, as the Hindus called it. Confusion about the status of this mysterious numeral persisted for centuries, and as late as the 15th century it was described as “a symbol that merely causes trouble and lack of clarity.”
How, it was asked, could a symbol, which means “nothing”, when placed after another numeral, enhance its value tenfold? The problem finds its solution in the philosophical theory of a “coincidence of opposites”, that is identification of elements that are mutually exclusive in ordinary logic. The goal of introspection is to overcome the intellectual “opposites”; the being arises in the context of non-being; man is a walking corpse, as a Russian proverb says. The Buddhist concept was known as dhrama-dhatus pratitya-samupada, which translates as “the interdependent arising of the universe”: things are said to have “emptiness” and “fullness of emptiness” at the same time.
According to Max Muller "the two words 'cipher' and 'zero,' are in reality but one. Cipher is the Arabic sifr, and means empty, a translation of the Sanskrit name of the nought sunya. The Arabs had their figures from Hindustan, and never claimed the discovery for themselves. In Boethius's Geometry, composed in the sixth century, we find the Pythagorean numerals the 1 and the nought, as the first and final cipher.
Consider James Jeans’ description of the universe of relativity as the four-dimensional surface of a cosmic sphere of which the inside is made of “empty space welded onto empty time.” The Puranas insist on the identity of Vishnu with Time and Space. And Vishnu, like Chuang Tzu's absolute Tao, is a kind of absolute void. The Jewish Pythagoreans or kabbalists recognized numbers as prima materia. Their “Genesis” proclaimed: In the beginning nothing (zero) blew up. Amen!
Accordingly, the modern heliocentrists believe that the world we see and experience in everyday life is simply a convenient mirage attuned to our very limited sense, an illusion conjured by our perceptions and our mind. All that is around us, which appears so substantial, is ultimately nothing but ephemeral networks of particle-waves whirling around at light speed – so called matter is mostly emptiness, void of anything except occasional dots and spots! And scattered electric charges. If all the nuclei of all atoms that make up the whole of mankind were packed together, their global aggregate would be the size of a large grain of rice. But that “grain of rice” devours daily two billion eggs, 1.6 million tons of corn, 727,000 tons of potatoes, 365,000 tons of rice, and the “favoured races” of the world enjoy 2.7 tons of caviar in Moscow’s restaurants! That’s how the heliocentric magic works!
The Bible follows Israel’s 12 memorial stones from the temporarily dry bed of the Jordan (Josh 4:19) to a place called Gilgal and then loses track of them forever. The word ‘gilgal’ means ‘a circle of stone’, (Ibn Ezra in his 12th c. work The Book of the Number calls zero galgal, meaning wheel or circle) and throughout Europe and the Mideast, “circles of large stones have been found dating back a quarter million years or more, to homo erectus times.” The most famous stone circle is Stonehenge. Stonehenge well corresponds to Diodorus’s description of a “magnificent temple of Apollo” which he locates “in the center of Britain.” At that time the British had already their first homo erectus, I don't know, if male or female, or maybe both evolved simultaneously!
Sar (circle) is the Babylonian god of the sky. He is also Assaros or Asshur (the son of Shem), and Zero -- Zero-ana, the chakkra, or wheel, boundless time. The god Aten, or the Egyptian counterpart of the Nordic Odin (Wotan) had originally represented merely the physical sun, but Amenhotep stripped that body of all the gross theological conceptions which had been linked with it ever since the Pyramid Age endowed it with a new esoteric meaning. The ancient symbols of Ra – the pyramid, the falcon, the lion and cat- he replaced by a simple CIRCLE representing the sun’s disk. Since then, as Plato observed, god was always geometrizing writing for Galileo the Book of Nature. (“Philosophy is written in that very large book that is continually opened before our eyes (I mean the universe), but which is not understood unless first one studies the language and knows the characters in which it is written. The language of that book is mathematical and the characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures.” Galileo Galilei: Pensieri, motti e sentenze; Florence, 1949) The Hindu Vishnu holds a disc or a rounded piece of gold in his hand. The Egyptian Ra wears a disc as a crown.
A Babylonian column made of serpent-circles, bears on its top a symbol of the sun. Such a pole is symbolic of the pivotal point around which all things turn, and so is a counterpart of the Buddhist Tree of Enlightenment in the “Immovable Spot” at the center of the world.
The chakra (wheel) represented the sun in early Vedic ceremonies. With the wheeling planets overhead and the circumference of the horizon, the cosmos of the ancients must have seemed obviously circular. Life in the cosmos was created, and maintained, by the balance of opposing forces – male and female, day and night, heat and cold, good and evil, attraction and repulsion (coincidence of opposites ). Such ideas as this concerning the nature of the universe were summarized in the “wheel of life”. To this diagram of cosmic principles, must be added a concept which seems, almost visibly, to set the cosmic circle to revolving like a wheel. This is the idea, present in Sanskrit, Pali, and Greek, that life occurs in an endless cycle of rebirths.
No wonder then that the Hebrews destroyed the circles of stones that stood for this solar theology also known by its Greek term anakuklesis. The phoenix-like character of matter reborn from its “ashes” was “proved” by the Soviet physicist A. Sakharov in his dogma of the “solar phoenix”, or strictly materialistic principle of the “spontaneous resurrection of energy (The Hindu term brahma means energy) such as takes place in the sun's core.”
A certain Honi the circle drawer used to invoke God's power (through drawing circles) to cause it to rain. John Dominique Crossan argues the Honi in drawing his circles was performing magic, not as an Hasid (a Hasid being a charismatic figure who worked wonders and operated outside of the established religion) but as a magician, which got results. E.P. Sanders discussed Honi as the son who importunes the father for blessings as a parallel to Jesus being called the “Son of God” in Matthew 14:33. The reason is because no one ever claimed that Honi attributed to his own power the ability to cause it to rain from making circles, rather it was because God answered his prayers. The passage in Matthew 26:53 claimed the same for Jesus when he said: “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
Morton Smith in his book Jesus the magician and other works tried to convince their audience that Jesus was a magician and magic was the modus operandi in Early Christianity.
Josephus had emphasized Honi's being a zaddik, that is a righteous man who prayed and God answered, and how later Honi was stoned to death for refusing to use his power of calling on God to curse others' enemies to help them in war. In Josephus' original account of Honi, he was considered a man of powerful prayer, but not as a miracle worker. This aspect of Honi developed in the later Mishnah and Talmuds which basically shows Honi undergoing a “rabbinization” in order that his actions of drawing circles was in accord with the Torah and the Sanhedrin confirms his action.
Eisenman has further shown how the letter of James in the New Testament climaxes in the imagery of rain, comparing the coming of the Lord with the judgment with the coming of the rain (James 5:4-8). Eisenman, notes that Epiphanius told that James when he prayed to God with uplifted hands to heaven, heaven at once sent rain. James did this as the High Prriest “wearing the mitre of the High Priest.”
Some scholars have identified Honi with the leader of the Qumran community. Craig A. Evans also discusses Honi's obdurate determination for an answer to his prayer as paralleling the parables that Jesus taught of the importunate widow (Lk 18:1-8), and the persistent friend (Lk 11:5-8)
Math has drawn its strength from “imaginary” or, more properly speaking, absolutely inconceivable magnitudes known as irrational numbers. Among them there is a large number of the most important quantities that constantly occur in all calculations, e.g. the square roots of most numbers, the relation of the diagonals to the side of a square, of the diameter of a circle to its circumference. There is an acute remark of Goethe’s: “He who devotes himself to nature attempts to find the squaring of the circle.” Like the above mentioned Egyptian priests. In fact, it is the religious ritual imposed on all mathematician again by the sacred books of the Hindu religion. This problem is better understandable if one keeps in mind that Greek mathematicians did not need to name their numbers since they worked with numbers as lengths of lines.
In the Rig-Vedas, every male head of a family was obliged to perform, every day, certain acts of worship known as purvas. For this purpose he had to set up in his house three kinds of fire, protecting his house and the fires by placing them in altars of special design. The fires were known as Dakshina, Garhapatya and Ahavaneeya. The altars, intended to shield the fires, had to be built to design plans, which related them to each other in shape and area. For example, the problem might be to construct square altar equal in area to a given circular altar. This insoluble problem was “solved” by regarding the latter as a polygon with an “infinite” number of sides, all therefore infinitely small.
De Morgan in his book Budget of Paradoxes (1872) suggested the term ‘morbus cyclometricus’ as being the ‘circle squaring disease.’ De Morgan tried to persuade these circlesquarers that their methods were incorrect.
“It is almost unbelievable that a definition of π was used, at least as an excuse, for a racial attack on the eminent mathematician Edmund Landau in 1934. Landau had defined π in his textbook published in Gőttingen in that year by the, now fairly usual, method of saying that π/2 is the value of x between 1 and 2 for which cos x vanishes. This unleashed an academic dispute, which was to end in Landau’s dismissal from his chair at Gőttingen. Bierbach, an eminent number theorist who disgraced himself by his racist views, explains the reasons for Landau’s dismissal: - Thus the valiant rejection by the Gőttingen student body which a great mathematician, Edmund Landau, has experienced is due in the final analysis to the fact that the un-German style of this man in his research and teaching is unbearable to German feelings. A people who have perceived how members of another race are working to impose ideas foreign to its own must refuse teachers of an alien culture.” (A history of Pi, http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uc/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html)
In Plato’s Timaeus we read that the sphere is the most perfect and most uniform shape, because all points on its surface are equidistant from the center. Parmenides, repeated the image: “Being is like the mass of a well-rounded sphere, whose force is constant from the center in any direction.” This idea inspired the expanding universe of Big Bang.
The Sicilian Empedocles of Agrigento devised a laborious cosmogony; there is one stage in which the particles of earth, air, fire, and water form an endless sphere, “the round Sphairos, which rejoices in its circular solitude.”
The French theologian Alain de Lille – Alanus de Insulis – discovered at the end of the 12th c., this formula which the ages to come would not forget: “God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
A Christian sermon that has survived from the mid-fifth century called On The Trinity quotes in profusion the words of the Pagan gods. The doctrine of the trinity probably derives from sacred geometry: “the transcendental number” π is hidden within the circle, a symbol of the All and so of God.” The un-German style of Edmund Landau was that his value of π had nothing to do with the revelation of pagan gods but was rather inspired by the Biblical value of this number which is 3. (1 Kings 7: 23 and II Chronicles 4:2 )
According to modern mathematician it is “not a very accurate value and not even very accurate in its day, for the Egyptian and Mesopotamian values of 25/8 = 3.125 and √10=3.162 have been traced to much earlier dates. Well, if you want to make a circle you simply choose the length of radius not a particular value of π, which is irrelevant. Only when one has to define a trajectory of a planet one uses a particular value of this number, which makes all cosmological speculations very imprecise (the date of equinox, which, according to Gregorian mathematics, was to fall forever on March 21 moved to March 18 these days. On this date, day and night are nearly of the same length)
A mantra of the heliocentric astronomy proclaims: “Halley working in Newton’s program, calculated on the basis of observing a brief stretch of a comet’s path that it would return in 72-years’ time; he calculated to the minute when it would be seen again at a well-defined point of the sky. 72 years later, Halley’s comet returned exactly as Halley predicted.” Did it really? Halley predicted the return of his comet in 1758, but, according to Chinese and European records, the comet returned in March of 1759. Then the Halley’s comet returned in 1910, or 3.5 years earlier than predicted.
Indeed, every return of this comet brought significant changes with it, for instance, in 1986, declining from all previous orbits, this comet appeared in the Southern Hemisphere. The confusion of the Soviet scientists is mirrored in an article published in the journal Astronomiya i Astrofizika (1989) whose authors argued that “the motions of Halley’s comet are chaotic” and that “the model of its motions is not determined!” In political terms it meant an earthquake. On Oct. 4, 1957 when the first sputnik was launched from the Soviet Union, the Soviet scientists assured that its speed and trajectory were calculated using Newton’s Laws, the same laws that Halley used to calculate the trajectory of his comet. The nauseating prostitution of Soviet scientists to the immoral aims of their state seems to be overcome.
There is a different kind of thinking behind the Biblical value of π. When one cuts a circumference and straightens it one obtains a finite line segment not a segment of transcendental (infinite) length.
In The Annotated Alice (1970), Martin Gardner suggests that Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are games for grown-up scientists: “It is only because adult – scientists and mathematicians in particular – continue to relish the Alice books that they are assured of immortality.” If modern scientists keep the Alice books alive, they do so because Dodgson’s oscillation between symbolic logic and bizarre fictional games anticipates a central theme of modern science.
The ‘paradox’ of circlesquaring matches Zeno’s paradox of the dichotomy as described by Aristotle: There is no motion because that which is moved must arrive at the middle of its course before it arrives at the end. In other words, in order to traverse a line segment it is necessary to reach its midpoint. To do this one must reach the ¼ point, to do this one must reach 1/8 point and so on ad infinitum. And thus, furtively, Zeno transformed a finite line segment into a transcendental i.e. infinite line. Behind Zeno’s clever trick lies the assumption that if a magnitude can be divided then it can be divided infinitely.
Zeno’s paradoxes were his answer to the Pythagorean dogma proclaiming that extended physical bodies are composed of nonextended mathematical point (cp. the Big Bang dogma in which a point of matter is expanding into infinity, like Lenin's electron) Zeno argued that everything in the universe is both infinitely large and has no size at all. The infinite divisibility of any physical body regardless of size means that it is composed of an infinite number of elements and thus is infinitely large. On the other hand, the body has no size at all because no number of nonextended units can produce an extended body. Influenced by Zeno's speculations Lenin, nearly hundred years ago, said in his book Materialism and Empiriocriticism that “the electron is as inexhaustible as the atom, nature is infinite…”
We have two different opinions on Zeno’s impact in history of mathematics. B.L. van der Waerden argues that the mathematical theories which were developed in the second half of the 5th century suggest that Zeno’s work had little influence. Heath, however, seems to detect a greater influence: Mathematicians, however, … realizing that Zeno’s arguments were fatal to infinitesimals (Newton infinitesimal calculus!), saw that they could avoid the difficulties connected with them by once and for all banishing the idea of the infinite, even the potentially infinite, altogether from their science; thenceforth, therefore, they made no use of magnitudes increasing or decreeing ad infinitum, but connected themselves with finite magnitudes that can be made as great or as small as we please.” Which is exactly what the Biblical authors and the above mentioned mathematician Landau did. In the Confucian geocentric lore π=3, like in the Bible.
It took more than two thousand years in order that the learned world could understand the deeper meaning of the Biblical mathematics. In Lobachevskian hyperbolic space the circumference of a circle is larger than 2 π times the radius. Accordingly, the state of Louisiana in 1897 enacted a law setting the legal value of π at 4. In Riemannian elliptical space the circumference of a circle is always smaller than 2 π times its radius. Accordingly, a Tennessee legislator suggested the value be legally fixed at 3, exactly like in the Hebrew Bible.
To the Pythagoreans it was the pentagonal geometry that was sacred. We may speculate that this was because the whole of this geometry was ruled by Φ, a symbol of perfection, which appears to have been honored with the status of god. Exactly, like Π is, by a multitude of mathematicians. Contrary to Newton's speculations, Jesus did not pray, Our Π who art in Heaven... So, it came as no surprise that Brazil's statue of Jesus made the cut for the seven, new wonders of the world and the sun god Apollo's “magnificent temple” at Stonehenge did not.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
The Battle Goes On
Fighting the influence o the Aryan heliocentrism embraced by the great Mystic Lao Dse (with him we enter the realm of the Indian realization of union with the Divine), Confucius made fun of its magical aspects saying: What harm can a man do to the sun or the moon by wishing to stop either in its course? It only shows that he knows not his own limitations. This question could be explained as a reflection on the Joshua miracle described in Josh 10:12 when Joshua stopped the sun and the moon for a defined period of time, but nor forever, like Copernicus. When the battle was over the sun and the moon continued their course.
The ritual of heliocentric magic was wide-spread and well-known in the antiquity; for instance, the Mikado or Dairi believed to be an incarnation of the sun goddess, the deity who rules the universe, gods and men included, was obliged to sit on the throne for some hours every morning, with the imperial crown on his head, like a statue, without stirring either hands or feet, head or eyes, nor indeed any part of his body, because according to a heliocentric dogma “quiescence is the Master of motion”… (cp. Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover) The Polish saying about Copernicus that “he stopped the sun and moved the earth” is derived from the same heliocentric magic (Copernicus’ along with Faustus’ study of magic in Poland was reported as fact by Philipp Melanchton). In an official decree of the year 646 the Emperor is described as “the incarnate god who governs the universe.” Similarly, as ordained priests, most scholastic doctors firmly believed in the powers they and their sacerdotal confreres were endowed with. Voltaire made fun of it; in Catholic countries one sees every day priests and monks who manufacture gods by the hundred, eat and drink their god…”
The legend had it that Lao Dse was the son of the virgin mother, conceived under the influence of a falling star (in Lebanon, the flight of a shooting star was interpreted as the descent of the amorous goddess Astarte to the arms of her lover), i.e. he was regarded as a typical Hindu jamad agni or, “he who knows the identity of god and fire.”
The Confucian geocentrists decided to make fun of this solar myth and they concocted a wise story about an ancient period when there were originally ten suns encircling the earth. But when the people felt blinded and their crops withered and perished in the fierce heat they sought a method of curbing the sun’s power. When the earthly ruler YAO implored the Lord of Heaven, Di Jun to restore the old order whereby only one sun appeared at a time Di Jun ordered his assistant Yi, an expert archer to shoot down the nine suns.
The Chinese story inspired J. Kepler with such a reasoning: If the little disks of, say, 10,000 stars are fused into one, how much more will their visible size exceed the apparent disk of the sun? If this is true, and if they are suns, as all heliocentrists claim, why do not these suns collectively outdistance our sun in brilliance? Why do they all together transmit so dim a light to the most accessible places? When sunlight burst into a sealed room through a hole made with a tiny pinpoint, it outshines the fixed stars (i.e. billions upon billions) at once! Will Galileo tell me that the stars are very far away from us? This does not help his cause at all. For the greater the distance, the more does every single one of them outstrip the sun in diameter. If this infinite Ocean of Fire is ever encircling our earth how can we explain rain, dew, frost, ice? In order to escape such difficulties heliocentrists of all times thought in paradoxes because paradoxes are apt to bewilder the unwary. Zen Masters’ paradoxical utterances (koans) were used as a meditative focus for Zen training; they invited the hearers, by means of their tales or riddles, to pass over from the attenuated world of jaded sense to some fabulous yonder they saw before them. And the way into this alternate state, where alternative wisdom prevailed, was by finding a crack in the wall of common sense and ordinary experience. Zen master will function effectively, without thinking because without-thinking need not observe rules or formalities.
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“He stretched out the North over the empty place and
hangeth the earth upon nothing” (Job 26:7)
The ideal prince of China professing Confucian geocentrism rules by moral force (te) contrasted with li “physical force”; he is compared to the north polar-star, which remains in its place while all the lesser stars turn about it. A Confucian scholar observed: “To make ourselves deserving partners of Heaven, we must be constantly in touch with that silent illumination that makes the rightness and principle in our heart-minds shine forth brilliantly.” (Cp. Kant’s famour maxim, “Starry Heaven above me and moral principle inside me”). This Confucian geocentrism is depicted on the flag of China and of Alaska. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Chin...
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DISPOSING OF MORALITY IN THE HELIOCENTRIC UNIVERSE
Natural Man portrayed in Tharsymachean guise has two main characteristics. His psychological make-up is simple: he is out to get what he wants, and what he wants is narrowly circumscribed. Power and pleasure are his exclusive interests. But to get what he wants this wolf has to wear the sheep’s clothing of the conventional moral values. His masquerade can only be carried through by putting the conventional moral vocabulary to the service of his private purposes. He must say in the law courts and the assembly what people want to hear, so that they will put power into his hands. Thus the arête of such a man is to learn the craft (special skill), the techne, of molding people by rhetoric. He must take them by the ear before he takes them by the throat.
42ND CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE TO BE SET UP IN JAPANESE UNIVERSITY
Beijing, Feb. 25 (Xinhuanet, Feb. 27, 2006) – A prestigious Beijing-based university will jointly set up a Confucius Institute in a Japanese University, which will mark the third in Japan and the 42nd in the world. Beijing Language and Culture University signed an agreement with the Japanese Hokuriku University here Friday. Under the agreement, the two universities will found a Confucius Institute in the Japanese one to launch the Chinese language courses, Chinese speeches and seminars. They will also give the HSK tests, a Chinese testing system, said Wang Lujiang, director with the school affairs committee of the Beijing Language and Culture University.
The Chinese University has been in close academic contact with its Japanese peer, Wang said. They forged “sister-school” ties in 2001, and in 2003 inked a deal of co-training undergraduate program. The new institute will open in the coming April, with an investment of from Hokuriku University. The Confucius Institute came into being with the increasing popularity of the Chinese language in the world. Despite the strained relations between China and Japan, three Japanese universities applied to set up Confucius Institute in 2005, namely Ritsumeikan University, Obirin University, and Aichi University.
Metropolitan Kyrill attacks Darwinism
In an interview for the German Spiegel Online published January 10, 2008 entitled The Bible Calls it a Sin Metropolitan Kyrill, foreign minister of the Russian Orthodox Church asked how he would approach Darwin's theories if he were a teacher, answered: “I would say that the theory has many adherents, but also a few unanswered questions. For instance, no one has provided precise proof of the transition from one species to another. It would be wrong to treat Darwin's theory as the only correct one. It is the leading theory today, but it could be replaced by another theory tomorrow. There was also a time when Marxism considered itself the only correct and scientifically justified theory...”
In a veiled allusion to the Declaration of the Senate of the Warsaw University Metropolitan Kyrill said: “What I am saying is something that the liberal SPIEGEL will never print: You undoubtedly think that this Metropolitan Kyrill is out of his mind and that what he is saying is complete nonsense.”
We also learned from the interview that Vladimir Putin says that he often reads the Bible on his presidential plane during long trips and that in an essay, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has invoked the New Testament to criticize a unipolar world dominated by the United States.
Metropolitan Kyrill named interim leader of Russian Church
06/12/2008 20:10 (Recasts, adds details)
MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - The governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, elected on Saturday Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad as the interim leader of the Church.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II, who led the Russian Church for 18 years, died at the age of 79 in his residency near the capital on Friday. His body has been brought to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and will be lying in state.
Alexy II will be buried on Tuesday in the Annunciation side-chapel of Moscow's Epiphany Cathedral.
Alexy II became patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1990, shortly before the collapse of the atheist Soviet Union, and presided over a religious revival in Russia, with thousands of churches and monasteries being restored and hundreds of new ones built across the country.
A national council of bishops, priests, monks and laymen should be summoned within six months to elect a new patriarch for the Russian Church.
From Gamow to Wolszczan
“Oddly, astronomer George Gamow frequently seems to get more credit for creating the Big Bang idea than its earlier advocates... LeMaitre in particular. During part of 1929-1930 he became a Rockefeller Fellow at Cambridge University where he specialized in thermonuclear reaction in the interior of stars. In 1931 he was recalled to the Soviet Union to be Master of Research at the Academy of Science in Leningrad. In 1933 he defected to the U.S. by way of a Professorship at the University of London, from whence he went to the University of Michigan in 1934. Finally, he settled in The Chair of Physics at George Washington University from 1934-1956, working on the atom and hydrogen bombs during WWII.
The circumstantial evidence leading to the conclusion that Gamow was a major spy for the Soviet Union is rather easy to piece together.... His university background and prominence abroad and at home during the hard Stalinist days would have made his "defection" in ‘33 very difficult...if not planned. His precipitous elevation to the Chair of Physics at GWU and his early championing of the Big Bang paradigm had great influence in making that concept--which conforms ideologically to atheistic communism--take hold in non-communist academia world wide. His concentration on the Origin of the Universe and his niche as an expert in establishing the assumption-laden concept that stars are thermonuclear power plants not only served to advance communist ideological "science", but served also to thwart other sensible concepts such as the Electric Universe Model now demanding serious attention.” (The Theoretical Science Establishment Controls Cosmological and Biological Sciences. Part II The History of Bing Bangism’s Triumph. A Comedy of Errors. www.Fixedearth.com)
Aleksander WolszczanSeptember 25, 2008 4:30 PM Subscribe
In 1992, Aleksander Wolszczan discovered the first planets outside our solar system. Now, the Penn State professor been accused of spying for SB, the Polish Secret Police. He calls it a "smear campaign."posted by up in the old hotel (6 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
“I actually had this guy for an astro class last semester, which was basically a class about aliens. I always thought he seemed cool but cool enough to be on a postage stamp?”
Wolszczan's discovery of the pulsar PSR B1257+12 being orbited by two planets with masses at least 3.4 and 2.8 times that of Earth mass echoes similar event of 1943. By Christmas of 1943, medium Maris Orsic of the Vril Gesellschaft, claimed that subsequent transmission from Aldebaran revealed there were two habitable planets orbiting that star and that the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumeria was linked to earlier colonies of Aldebaran explorers. The seers discovered that the Aldebaran written language was identical to that of the Sumerians and was phonetically similar to that of spoken German.
It was also revealed that a 'dimension channel' or 'worm-hole' existed connecting our two solar systems. Thus in January of 1944, possibly aware that Germany's war efforts were faltering, Hitler and Himmler authorized a plan to send a Vril-7 ship into the dimensional channel, perhaps to secure assistance from the Aldebaran civilization. The venture resulted in near disaster, the Vril-7 returned with its hull reportedly aged as it it had been flying for a hundred years and its surface damaged in several places.
In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower was allegedly secreted away to a meeting with Extraterrestrials at MUROC airfield near Palm Springs, CA. One particular group was reported to be 'Nordic' looking and they offered Eisenhower Free-Energy technology in exchange for nuclear disarmament. Ike declined! And as the story goes, these 'Nordic' ETs subsequently met with Pope Pius XII at the Vatican as well. www.ufodigest.com/news/0208/aldebaran-mystery5.html
Creating “Scientific” Base for Existence of Huris
The “Face on Mars” policy was further developed in 1996 when Y. Arafat had its first one-on-one Oval Office chat (See, New York Times, Thursday, May 2, 1996). Two months later a photograph of one particularly striking example – a segmented wormlike object resting languidly on a bed of mineral grains – has appeared in newspapers, in magazines, and on TV shows around the world. This “worm” – if “worm” it is – has become Mars’s de facto ambassador to Earth. This worm was supposed to be the fulfillment of the Copernican “principle of mediocrity”.
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There was nothing new in this deceiving enterprise. In March 1961 three American scientists told the New York Academy of Sciences: “We believe that wherever this meteorite (found at Orgeuil in France) originated something lived.” In the November 18, 1961 issue of Nature magazine the researchers reported that they had found, in a fragment of the Orgeuil meteorite objects somewhat similar to fossil algae found in sediments on earth. However, the skeptics of the University of Chicago challenged the validity of various analyses by their New York colleagues that had suggested a biological origin for the objects. In the November 17, 1964 issue of Science they made it clear that, to them, the most likely explanation of the “fossils” was a hoax.
And in early 1998 the Mars Society was founded which proclaimed, “If we find signs of life, it will indicate that life is probably spread across the universe.” As Mohammed believed it was. And here Mohammed’s religious imagination encounters the ancient Roman UFOmania as advanced by the philosopher Lucretius. Lucretius, the Roman disciple of the Greek atomists wrote like a modern believer in extraterrestrials: “We must therefore admit again and again, that elsewhere there are other gatherings of matter such as this one which our sky holds in its eager embrace…Now if the
atoms are so abundant that all generations of living creatures could not count them, and if the same force and nature remains with the power to throw each kind of atom into its place in the same way as they have been thrown here, you must admit that in other parts of the universe there have been worlds and different races of men and species of wild beasts.”
Almost all medieval Scholastics held the view that God had in reality created only one world. Extraterrestrials were restricted to spiritual beings like demons ethereal in their make up, which, it was supposed, lived in the “middle region”, between heaven and earth. Only following the Copernican revolution, could the idea of other worlds and other life made of ordinary matter finally take hold.
Another “scientific” bonus for Y. Arafat came when Toby Owen, a member of the imaging team found the “face” on Mars while examining a photographic mosaic sent by the Viking 1 Orbiter through a magnifying glass. NASA itself distributed the picture with the caption the “Face on Mars?” Interestingly, “the Face of Mars” bore a very striking resemblance to Y. Arafat’s face! The big break for the face on Mars was its appearance in a screaming story in the “Weekly World News”, the most ridiculous of the tabloids. By the time R. Hoagland wrote “The Monuments of Mars” (1987), there was not only a face, there was a city and even a pyramid.
Two astronomers at Moscow University, Josif S. Shklovskii and Nicolai Kardashev, became interested in the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations during the early 1960s. Shklovskii wrote a book that was translated and expanded by Carl Sagan: it became the bible of SETI enthusiasts worldwide. Shklovskii suggested that the two moons of Mars, named Phobos and Deimos, might be artificial space stations.
The ideologists of the Soviet space program added a new, very dangerous neo-Nazi twist to their propaganda. Dr. Vyacheslav Saitsev of the University of Minsk in his two articles A Spaceship in the Himalayas and Angels in Spaceships proclaimed that Jesus came from outer space, that he was a representative of a higher civilization, and that that would explain partly his supernatural powers and abilities (A Polish saying claims similar powers for Father N., Copernicus). Dr. Saitsev’s articles were actually a new version of the famous forgery The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ perpetrated by the czarist agent N. Notowitch which made Jesus a disciple of the Tibetan lamas. savannahnow.com/node/497143
Sagan propounded a new theory: that Moses, Jesus, and all the great religious figures of ages were really extraterrestrial beings. The miracles of the Bible had all happened as described; they used advanced technology that was perfectly ordinary on their planet. In the middle of a dinner, Sagan slammed his fist on the table, sending the dishes rattling. He looked his guest, Abrahamson in the eye and bellowed, “I tell you, Jesus Christ is extraterrestrial!” Nothing new! A Syrian merchant named Marcion advanced this hypothesis two thousand years ago for which he was pronounced a heretic and expelled from Rome.* This Syrian Jesus matches Clark Kent of the series Smallville.
The American edition of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Sagan was co-author with Shklovski) appeared in 1966. But then, Shklovski published his new view of things in a 1976 article in the Russian journal Voprosy Filosofii. The article’s title translates as “Could Intelligent Life in the Universe Be Unique?” News of Shklovski’s apostasy spread throughout the SETI community. It was a personal setback to Sagan. Shklovski had been one of the first to share a dream that so many considered outlandish.
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Widely hailed as the first science fiction story, A True Story, by Lucian of Samosata is a voyage to the edges of the universe and reason. The title is the first clue that this will be a tall tale. As much a predecessor of Douglas Adams as Jules Verne, Lucian's fantasy explores not only outer space (where he brokers war and peace between the inhabitants of the sun and moon), but also the Elysian fields, the geography of the Odyssey, and the interior of a giant whale. We get to meet Homer, Pythagoras, Socrates, and other immortals, as well as a host of bizarre creatures (Recall all those mutants from the series Star Trek). The text is riddled with puns, innuendo, parody and satire; however most of this humor will escape the modern reader. Suffice it to say that this was considered pretty funny in the second century C.E. The narrative breaks off in the second book. Whether there were more adventures or Lucian just ran out of ideas is unknown.
www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/true/index.htm
Among ancient philosophers to speculate about possible lunar inhabitants were Anaxagoras, Xenophanes, Pythagoras and his followers, Plutarch, and (in fiction) Lucian. In the late middle ages, Nicholas of Cusa favored life on the Moon. However, speculation became more intense following the Copernican Revolution and Galileo's first lunar studies with the aid of a telescope (1608). In his Discovery of a New World in the Moone (1638), John Wilkins summarized what were then widely held beliefs.
The Copernican Principle of Mediocrity
corresponds to Zarathustra's dogma that “the progression of the stars was not generated for your sake." This is the idea, which is central in the Copernican Revolution, that there is nothing special about our own view of the universe; that what we see around us, including life, is likely to be replicated over and over, not in detail but in wonderful diversity. The universe, according to this mythical notion, is a starlit Garden to which Mohammed found the gate, and we simply have to find the lost key. No wonder, then, that Carl Sagan energetically promoted the search for extraterrestrial life and for signals from alien civilizations.
*Fr. Funes, the Vatican's chief astronomer said there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of “extraterrestrial brothers” perhaps more evolved than humans.
“How can we exclude that life has developed elsewhere,”: he told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview, explaining that the large number of galaxies with their own planets made this possible.
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Let me remind here what A. Hitler said on the same subject: “Ultimate wisdom consists in understanding the instinctive causes – that is: a man must never fall into the madness of believing that he has really risen to be lord and master over Nature – which is so easily induced by the conceit of half-education – but must understand the fundamental necessity of Nature's rule, and realize how much his existence is subject to these laws of eternal combat and upward struggle. Then he will sense that in a universe where planets revolve around suns, and moons turn about planets, where force alone forever masters weakness, compelling it to be an obedient servant or else crushing it, there can be no special laws for man. For him, too, the eternal principles of this ultimate wisdom hold sway. He can try to grasp them; but escape them, never.” This is the essential idea of Copernicus's machina mundi.
(www.adelaideinstitute.org/Think/bush_hitler1.htm)
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Excerpts from Man of the Century by Jonathan Kwitny
Romuald Kukułowicz*, the son of Catholic intellectuals from the Laski circle, worked as a clerk but had done underground printing during World War II. Some friends from those days, now students at the Jagiellonian, approached him, raving about a young professor whose lectures on Catholic ethics and communism were inspiring and ought to be published. Did Kukulowicz know anyone who could do it?
Kukulowicz found an underground printer in Lublin. His friends arranged for him to pick up the manuscript from the professor – Wojtyła – at a convent in Krakòw. As the manuscript was typed, edited, and published, there were more meetings between Kukułowicz and Wojtyła, but little small talk. “When I saw him it was always to discuss what to publish and how,” Kukułowicz remembers. “It was a very strict conspiracy.”
Some 250 reams of printing paper were stolen by the members of this “conspiracy” from the institutions where they worked. A World War II press was used, requiring eac h page to be rolled by hand over a typed matrics. Kukułowicz calculates that his friends had to press some 112,750 sheets of paper separately to make the book. It was published in two volumes, a year apart, with only 200 to 250 copies in each edition – loose pages in an envelope, to be bound, if desired by the recipient. Copies went to priests who taught students in all the major cities of Poland.
The work, called Catholic Social Ethics, is nowhere described in Kalendarium or any other available literature; Kukulowicz’s is the only copy I have encountered. The Vatican confirms his story. To my knowledge, this is the book’s first public disclosure, and it belies much that has been written about Wojtyła in recent years.
Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, now secretary of the Polish Episcopate but in 1954 a student in Wojtyła’s social ethics course at the Jagiellonian, remembers being stunned to learn that Father Wojtyła had written a manual, several copies of which were passed around at the school.
As a priest in the 1970s, Pieronek visited Cardinal Wojtyła for dinner and found parts of that old manual on a bookshelf in the dining room. “We learned about capitalism for the first time from Wojtyła’s text,” Bishop Pieronek recalls. “He tried to explain each system:”
His rationale for private property differed from that of the free-market theorists, and what he wrote about it makes for fairly explosive reading in the 1990s:
The Church realizes that the bourgeois mentality, and capitalism with its material spirit, are contradictions of the Bible According to the tradition of … monastic/religious life, the Church also can appreciate the idea of communism…Communism, as a higher ethical rule of ownership, demands from people higher ethical qualifications.
The Canon Law doesn't recognize private property..
The ritual of heliocentric magic was wide-spread and well-known in the antiquity; for instance, the Mikado or Dairi believed to be an incarnation of the sun goddess, the deity who rules the universe, gods and men included, was obliged to sit on the throne for some hours every morning, with the imperial crown on his head, like a statue, without stirring either hands or feet, head or eyes, nor indeed any part of his body, because according to a heliocentric dogma “quiescence is the Master of motion”… (cp. Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover) The Polish saying about Copernicus that “he stopped the sun and moved the earth” is derived from the same heliocentric magic (Copernicus’ along with Faustus’ study of magic in Poland was reported as fact by Philipp Melanchton). In an official decree of the year 646 the Emperor is described as “the incarnate god who governs the universe.” Similarly, as ordained priests, most scholastic doctors firmly believed in the powers they and their sacerdotal confreres were endowed with. Voltaire made fun of it; in Catholic countries one sees every day priests and monks who manufacture gods by the hundred, eat and drink their god…”
The legend had it that Lao Dse was the son of the virgin mother, conceived under the influence of a falling star (in Lebanon, the flight of a shooting star was interpreted as the descent of the amorous goddess Astarte to the arms of her lover), i.e. he was regarded as a typical Hindu jamad agni or, “he who knows the identity of god and fire.”
The Confucian geocentrists decided to make fun of this solar myth and they concocted a wise story about an ancient period when there were originally ten suns encircling the earth. But when the people felt blinded and their crops withered and perished in the fierce heat they sought a method of curbing the sun’s power. When the earthly ruler YAO implored the Lord of Heaven, Di Jun to restore the old order whereby only one sun appeared at a time Di Jun ordered his assistant Yi, an expert archer to shoot down the nine suns.
The Chinese story inspired J. Kepler with such a reasoning: If the little disks of, say, 10,000 stars are fused into one, how much more will their visible size exceed the apparent disk of the sun? If this is true, and if they are suns, as all heliocentrists claim, why do not these suns collectively outdistance our sun in brilliance? Why do they all together transmit so dim a light to the most accessible places? When sunlight burst into a sealed room through a hole made with a tiny pinpoint, it outshines the fixed stars (i.e. billions upon billions) at once! Will Galileo tell me that the stars are very far away from us? This does not help his cause at all. For the greater the distance, the more does every single one of them outstrip the sun in diameter. If this infinite Ocean of Fire is ever encircling our earth how can we explain rain, dew, frost, ice? In order to escape such difficulties heliocentrists of all times thought in paradoxes because paradoxes are apt to bewilder the unwary. Zen Masters’ paradoxical utterances (koans) were used as a meditative focus for Zen training; they invited the hearers, by means of their tales or riddles, to pass over from the attenuated world of jaded sense to some fabulous yonder they saw before them. And the way into this alternate state, where alternative wisdom prevailed, was by finding a crack in the wall of common sense and ordinary experience. Zen master will function effectively, without thinking because without-thinking need not observe rules or formalities.
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“He stretched out the North over the empty place and
hangeth the earth upon nothing” (Job 26:7)
The ideal prince of China professing Confucian geocentrism rules by moral force (te) contrasted with li “physical force”; he is compared to the north polar-star, which remains in its place while all the lesser stars turn about it. A Confucian scholar observed: “To make ourselves deserving partners of Heaven, we must be constantly in touch with that silent illumination that makes the rightness and principle in our heart-minds shine forth brilliantly.” (Cp. Kant’s famour maxim, “Starry Heaven above me and moral principle inside me”). This Confucian geocentrism is depicted on the flag of China and of Alaska. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Chin...
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DISPOSING OF MORALITY IN THE HELIOCENTRIC UNIVERSE
Natural Man portrayed in Tharsymachean guise has two main characteristics. His psychological make-up is simple: he is out to get what he wants, and what he wants is narrowly circumscribed. Power and pleasure are his exclusive interests. But to get what he wants this wolf has to wear the sheep’s clothing of the conventional moral values. His masquerade can only be carried through by putting the conventional moral vocabulary to the service of his private purposes. He must say in the law courts and the assembly what people want to hear, so that they will put power into his hands. Thus the arête of such a man is to learn the craft (special skill), the techne, of molding people by rhetoric. He must take them by the ear before he takes them by the throat.
42ND CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE TO BE SET UP IN JAPANESE UNIVERSITY
Beijing, Feb. 25 (Xinhuanet, Feb. 27, 2006) – A prestigious Beijing-based university will jointly set up a Confucius Institute in a Japanese University, which will mark the third in Japan and the 42nd in the world. Beijing Language and Culture University signed an agreement with the Japanese Hokuriku University here Friday. Under the agreement, the two universities will found a Confucius Institute in the Japanese one to launch the Chinese language courses, Chinese speeches and seminars. They will also give the HSK tests, a Chinese testing system, said Wang Lujiang, director with the school affairs committee of the Beijing Language and Culture University.
The Chinese University has been in close academic contact with its Japanese peer, Wang said. They forged “sister-school” ties in 2001, and in 2003 inked a deal of co-training undergraduate program. The new institute will open in the coming April, with an investment of from Hokuriku University. The Confucius Institute came into being with the increasing popularity of the Chinese language in the world. Despite the strained relations between China and Japan, three Japanese universities applied to set up Confucius Institute in 2005, namely Ritsumeikan University, Obirin University, and Aichi University.
Metropolitan Kyrill attacks Darwinism
In an interview for the German Spiegel Online published January 10, 2008 entitled The Bible Calls it a Sin Metropolitan Kyrill, foreign minister of the Russian Orthodox Church asked how he would approach Darwin's theories if he were a teacher, answered: “I would say that the theory has many adherents, but also a few unanswered questions. For instance, no one has provided precise proof of the transition from one species to another. It would be wrong to treat Darwin's theory as the only correct one. It is the leading theory today, but it could be replaced by another theory tomorrow. There was also a time when Marxism considered itself the only correct and scientifically justified theory...”
In a veiled allusion to the Declaration of the Senate of the Warsaw University Metropolitan Kyrill said: “What I am saying is something that the liberal SPIEGEL will never print: You undoubtedly think that this Metropolitan Kyrill is out of his mind and that what he is saying is complete nonsense.”
We also learned from the interview that Vladimir Putin says that he often reads the Bible on his presidential plane during long trips and that in an essay, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has invoked the New Testament to criticize a unipolar world dominated by the United States.
Metropolitan Kyrill named interim leader of Russian Church
06/12/2008 20:10 (Recasts, adds details)
MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - The governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, elected on Saturday Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad as the interim leader of the Church.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II, who led the Russian Church for 18 years, died at the age of 79 in his residency near the capital on Friday. His body has been brought to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and will be lying in state.
Alexy II will be buried on Tuesday in the Annunciation side-chapel of Moscow's Epiphany Cathedral.
Alexy II became patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1990, shortly before the collapse of the atheist Soviet Union, and presided over a religious revival in Russia, with thousands of churches and monasteries being restored and hundreds of new ones built across the country.
A national council of bishops, priests, monks and laymen should be summoned within six months to elect a new patriarch for the Russian Church.
From Gamow to Wolszczan
“Oddly, astronomer George Gamow frequently seems to get more credit for creating the Big Bang idea than its earlier advocates... LeMaitre in particular. During part of 1929-1930 he became a Rockefeller Fellow at Cambridge University where he specialized in thermonuclear reaction in the interior of stars. In 1931 he was recalled to the Soviet Union to be Master of Research at the Academy of Science in Leningrad. In 1933 he defected to the U.S. by way of a Professorship at the University of London, from whence he went to the University of Michigan in 1934. Finally, he settled in The Chair of Physics at George Washington University from 1934-1956, working on the atom and hydrogen bombs during WWII.
The circumstantial evidence leading to the conclusion that Gamow was a major spy for the Soviet Union is rather easy to piece together.... His university background and prominence abroad and at home during the hard Stalinist days would have made his "defection" in ‘33 very difficult...if not planned. His precipitous elevation to the Chair of Physics at GWU and his early championing of the Big Bang paradigm had great influence in making that concept--which conforms ideologically to atheistic communism--take hold in non-communist academia world wide. His concentration on the Origin of the Universe and his niche as an expert in establishing the assumption-laden concept that stars are thermonuclear power plants not only served to advance communist ideological "science", but served also to thwart other sensible concepts such as the Electric Universe Model now demanding serious attention.” (The Theoretical Science Establishment Controls Cosmological and Biological Sciences. Part II The History of Bing Bangism’s Triumph. A Comedy of Errors. www.Fixedearth.com)
Aleksander WolszczanSeptember 25, 2008 4:30 PM Subscribe
In 1992, Aleksander Wolszczan discovered the first planets outside our solar system. Now, the Penn State professor been accused of spying for SB, the Polish Secret Police. He calls it a "smear campaign."posted by up in the old hotel (6 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
“I actually had this guy for an astro class last semester, which was basically a class about aliens. I always thought he seemed cool but cool enough to be on a postage stamp?”
Wolszczan's discovery of the pulsar PSR B1257+12 being orbited by two planets with masses at least 3.4 and 2.8 times that of Earth mass echoes similar event of 1943. By Christmas of 1943, medium Maris Orsic of the Vril Gesellschaft, claimed that subsequent transmission from Aldebaran revealed there were two habitable planets orbiting that star and that the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumeria was linked to earlier colonies of Aldebaran explorers. The seers discovered that the Aldebaran written language was identical to that of the Sumerians and was phonetically similar to that of spoken German.
It was also revealed that a 'dimension channel' or 'worm-hole' existed connecting our two solar systems. Thus in January of 1944, possibly aware that Germany's war efforts were faltering, Hitler and Himmler authorized a plan to send a Vril-7 ship into the dimensional channel, perhaps to secure assistance from the Aldebaran civilization. The venture resulted in near disaster, the Vril-7 returned with its hull reportedly aged as it it had been flying for a hundred years and its surface damaged in several places.
In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower was allegedly secreted away to a meeting with Extraterrestrials at MUROC airfield near Palm Springs, CA. One particular group was reported to be 'Nordic' looking and they offered Eisenhower Free-Energy technology in exchange for nuclear disarmament. Ike declined! And as the story goes, these 'Nordic' ETs subsequently met with Pope Pius XII at the Vatican as well. www.ufodigest.com/news/0208/aldebaran-mystery5.html
Creating “Scientific” Base for Existence of Huris
The “Face on Mars” policy was further developed in 1996 when Y. Arafat had its first one-on-one Oval Office chat (See, New York Times, Thursday, May 2, 1996). Two months later a photograph of one particularly striking example – a segmented wormlike object resting languidly on a bed of mineral grains – has appeared in newspapers, in magazines, and on TV shows around the world. This “worm” – if “worm” it is – has become Mars’s de facto ambassador to Earth. This worm was supposed to be the fulfillment of the Copernican “principle of mediocrity”.
thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/
There was nothing new in this deceiving enterprise. In March 1961 three American scientists told the New York Academy of Sciences: “We believe that wherever this meteorite (found at Orgeuil in France) originated something lived.” In the November 18, 1961 issue of Nature magazine the researchers reported that they had found, in a fragment of the Orgeuil meteorite objects somewhat similar to fossil algae found in sediments on earth. However, the skeptics of the University of Chicago challenged the validity of various analyses by their New York colleagues that had suggested a biological origin for the objects. In the November 17, 1964 issue of Science they made it clear that, to them, the most likely explanation of the “fossils” was a hoax.
And in early 1998 the Mars Society was founded which proclaimed, “If we find signs of life, it will indicate that life is probably spread across the universe.” As Mohammed believed it was. And here Mohammed’s religious imagination encounters the ancient Roman UFOmania as advanced by the philosopher Lucretius. Lucretius, the Roman disciple of the Greek atomists wrote like a modern believer in extraterrestrials: “We must therefore admit again and again, that elsewhere there are other gatherings of matter such as this one which our sky holds in its eager embrace…Now if the
atoms are so abundant that all generations of living creatures could not count them, and if the same force and nature remains with the power to throw each kind of atom into its place in the same way as they have been thrown here, you must admit that in other parts of the universe there have been worlds and different races of men and species of wild beasts.”
Almost all medieval Scholastics held the view that God had in reality created only one world. Extraterrestrials were restricted to spiritual beings like demons ethereal in their make up, which, it was supposed, lived in the “middle region”, between heaven and earth. Only following the Copernican revolution, could the idea of other worlds and other life made of ordinary matter finally take hold.
Another “scientific” bonus for Y. Arafat came when Toby Owen, a member of the imaging team found the “face” on Mars while examining a photographic mosaic sent by the Viking 1 Orbiter through a magnifying glass. NASA itself distributed the picture with the caption the “Face on Mars?” Interestingly, “the Face of Mars” bore a very striking resemblance to Y. Arafat’s face! The big break for the face on Mars was its appearance in a screaming story in the “Weekly World News”, the most ridiculous of the tabloids. By the time R. Hoagland wrote “The Monuments of Mars” (1987), there was not only a face, there was a city and even a pyramid.
Two astronomers at Moscow University, Josif S. Shklovskii and Nicolai Kardashev, became interested in the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations during the early 1960s. Shklovskii wrote a book that was translated and expanded by Carl Sagan: it became the bible of SETI enthusiasts worldwide. Shklovskii suggested that the two moons of Mars, named Phobos and Deimos, might be artificial space stations.
The ideologists of the Soviet space program added a new, very dangerous neo-Nazi twist to their propaganda. Dr. Vyacheslav Saitsev of the University of Minsk in his two articles A Spaceship in the Himalayas and Angels in Spaceships proclaimed that Jesus came from outer space, that he was a representative of a higher civilization, and that that would explain partly his supernatural powers and abilities (A Polish saying claims similar powers for Father N., Copernicus). Dr. Saitsev’s articles were actually a new version of the famous forgery The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ perpetrated by the czarist agent N. Notowitch which made Jesus a disciple of the Tibetan lamas. savannahnow.com/node/497143
Sagan propounded a new theory: that Moses, Jesus, and all the great religious figures of ages were really extraterrestrial beings. The miracles of the Bible had all happened as described; they used advanced technology that was perfectly ordinary on their planet. In the middle of a dinner, Sagan slammed his fist on the table, sending the dishes rattling. He looked his guest, Abrahamson in the eye and bellowed, “I tell you, Jesus Christ is extraterrestrial!” Nothing new! A Syrian merchant named Marcion advanced this hypothesis two thousand years ago for which he was pronounced a heretic and expelled from Rome.* This Syrian Jesus matches Clark Kent of the series Smallville.
The American edition of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Sagan was co-author with Shklovski) appeared in 1966. But then, Shklovski published his new view of things in a 1976 article in the Russian journal Voprosy Filosofii. The article’s title translates as “Could Intelligent Life in the Universe Be Unique?” News of Shklovski’s apostasy spread throughout the SETI community. It was a personal setback to Sagan. Shklovski had been one of the first to share a dream that so many considered outlandish.
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Widely hailed as the first science fiction story, A True Story, by Lucian of Samosata is a voyage to the edges of the universe and reason. The title is the first clue that this will be a tall tale. As much a predecessor of Douglas Adams as Jules Verne, Lucian's fantasy explores not only outer space (where he brokers war and peace between the inhabitants of the sun and moon), but also the Elysian fields, the geography of the Odyssey, and the interior of a giant whale. We get to meet Homer, Pythagoras, Socrates, and other immortals, as well as a host of bizarre creatures (Recall all those mutants from the series Star Trek). The text is riddled with puns, innuendo, parody and satire; however most of this humor will escape the modern reader. Suffice it to say that this was considered pretty funny in the second century C.E. The narrative breaks off in the second book. Whether there were more adventures or Lucian just ran out of ideas is unknown.
www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/true/index.htm
Among ancient philosophers to speculate about possible lunar inhabitants were Anaxagoras, Xenophanes, Pythagoras and his followers, Plutarch, and (in fiction) Lucian. In the late middle ages, Nicholas of Cusa favored life on the Moon. However, speculation became more intense following the Copernican Revolution and Galileo's first lunar studies with the aid of a telescope (1608). In his Discovery of a New World in the Moone (1638), John Wilkins summarized what were then widely held beliefs.
The Copernican Principle of Mediocrity
corresponds to Zarathustra's dogma that “the progression of the stars was not generated for your sake." This is the idea, which is central in the Copernican Revolution, that there is nothing special about our own view of the universe; that what we see around us, including life, is likely to be replicated over and over, not in detail but in wonderful diversity. The universe, according to this mythical notion, is a starlit Garden to which Mohammed found the gate, and we simply have to find the lost key. No wonder, then, that Carl Sagan energetically promoted the search for extraterrestrial life and for signals from alien civilizations.
*Fr. Funes, the Vatican's chief astronomer said there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of “extraterrestrial brothers” perhaps more evolved than humans.
“How can we exclude that life has developed elsewhere,”: he told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview, explaining that the large number of galaxies with their own planets made this possible.
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www.zacktaylor.ca/.../07/aliens-are-real.html
Let me remind here what A. Hitler said on the same subject: “Ultimate wisdom consists in understanding the instinctive causes – that is: a man must never fall into the madness of believing that he has really risen to be lord and master over Nature – which is so easily induced by the conceit of half-education – but must understand the fundamental necessity of Nature's rule, and realize how much his existence is subject to these laws of eternal combat and upward struggle. Then he will sense that in a universe where planets revolve around suns, and moons turn about planets, where force alone forever masters weakness, compelling it to be an obedient servant or else crushing it, there can be no special laws for man. For him, too, the eternal principles of this ultimate wisdom hold sway. He can try to grasp them; but escape them, never.” This is the essential idea of Copernicus's machina mundi.
(www.adelaideinstitute.org/Think/bush_hitler1.htm)
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Excerpts from Man of the Century by Jonathan Kwitny
Romuald Kukułowicz*, the son of Catholic intellectuals from the Laski circle, worked as a clerk but had done underground printing during World War II. Some friends from those days, now students at the Jagiellonian, approached him, raving about a young professor whose lectures on Catholic ethics and communism were inspiring and ought to be published. Did Kukulowicz know anyone who could do it?
Kukulowicz found an underground printer in Lublin. His friends arranged for him to pick up the manuscript from the professor – Wojtyła – at a convent in Krakòw. As the manuscript was typed, edited, and published, there were more meetings between Kukułowicz and Wojtyła, but little small talk. “When I saw him it was always to discuss what to publish and how,” Kukułowicz remembers. “It was a very strict conspiracy.”
Some 250 reams of printing paper were stolen by the members of this “conspiracy” from the institutions where they worked. A World War II press was used, requiring eac h page to be rolled by hand over a typed matrics. Kukułowicz calculates that his friends had to press some 112,750 sheets of paper separately to make the book. It was published in two volumes, a year apart, with only 200 to 250 copies in each edition – loose pages in an envelope, to be bound, if desired by the recipient. Copies went to priests who taught students in all the major cities of Poland.
The work, called Catholic Social Ethics, is nowhere described in Kalendarium or any other available literature; Kukulowicz’s is the only copy I have encountered. The Vatican confirms his story. To my knowledge, this is the book’s first public disclosure, and it belies much that has been written about Wojtyła in recent years.
Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, now secretary of the Polish Episcopate but in 1954 a student in Wojtyła’s social ethics course at the Jagiellonian, remembers being stunned to learn that Father Wojtyła had written a manual, several copies of which were passed around at the school.
As a priest in the 1970s, Pieronek visited Cardinal Wojtyła for dinner and found parts of that old manual on a bookshelf in the dining room. “We learned about capitalism for the first time from Wojtyła’s text,” Bishop Pieronek recalls. “He tried to explain each system:”
His rationale for private property differed from that of the free-market theorists, and what he wrote about it makes for fairly explosive reading in the 1990s:
The Church realizes that the bourgeois mentality, and capitalism with its material spirit, are contradictions of the Bible According to the tradition of … monastic/religious life, the Church also can appreciate the idea of communism…Communism, as a higher ethical rule of ownership, demands from people higher ethical qualifications.
The Canon Law doesn't recognize private property..
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Copernicus’s “Children of Light” vs. “Children of Darkness” (Jews)
In 1865, Nietzsche read David Friedrich Strauss’s study of The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined, a historical analysis of the New Testament that destroyed any shred of credibility in the miraculous aspects of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. If one set of beliefs was fading, there were others to take its place. Throughout the preceding century, as the tenets of Christianity grew harder to maintain, contemporary Germans had begun to practice their own new religion of Greek art and myth.
Consider in this context what an official Vatican publication, Guide to the Vatican Museums (Gestione Vendita Publicazioni Musei Vaticani, Citta del Vaticano. 1979, o. 12) has to say in this matter: “ It was this spirit which inspired the creation of two of the most illustrious of the humanistic institutions of the Holy See: the Vatican Library and the Vatican Museums. Both were the outcome of a vision of Graeco-Roman culture as the perfect, almost timeless expression of human creativity at its highest levels - thought and art - and as the precursor, at times almost the prefigurement, of Christanity, above all in the West.
New gods meant new human ideals to be worshiped. The residents of Olympus had initially been revived and reinvigorated by a Prussian cobbler’s son, J. Winckelmann, who had taught himself to pray in Homeric quotations and founded the discipline of classical art history (In 1764 Winckelmann was appointed Commissioner for Roman Antiquities). It was from the realm of imaginative desire that Winckelmann drew the ideals of sunny health and nakedly uninhibited joyousness which “ancient Greeks” held out for generations of German thinkers oppressed by bourgeois (i.e. Christian) morality, and heavy clothing. Thus the Germans came to view the Hebrew Bible as the primitive book of a still primitive faith that evolved only after centuries into the true religion: High German Christianity. Die Germanische Glaubensgemeinschaft as pictured in Dem Deutschen Buch (Verlag: Kraft und Schoenheit) shows two adult men on heir knees joining the outstretched hands under radiating swastika. Nothing expresses better the ideal of the Platonic, gay “pure” love. This poster was inspired by Hans Waldau’s anthology Aus der Freundschaft sonnigsten Tagen (1906).
The first Japanese Tenno whose reign started in 660 BC or in the period of the XXVth Egyptian dynasty was regarded as a child of the sun – “arahitogami” or, a “person ruling the entire world (like the sun) , who, at the same time is a god. The Persian Cyrus was similarly supposed to be one of the divine incarnations – the sun in person; hence he favored the idea that his name signified “the Sun.”
Trained at Toynbee’s Oxford, Aldous Huxley was one of the initiates in the ”Children of the Sun”, a Dionysian cult comprised of the children of Britain’s Roundtable elite. Among the other initiates were T.S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Sir Oswal Mosley (an open Nazi), and D.H. Lawrence, Huxley’s homosexual lover. It was Huxley, furthermore, who would launch the legal battle in the 1950’s to have Lawrence’s pornographic novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover allowed into the United States on the ground that it was a misunderstood “work of art.” And thus the American Sex and Drugs Revolution was initiated.
Carl Sagan, a New Ager, a lunatic chasing Kepler’s Lunarians and one of the High Priests of the scientific establishment, expressed the gist of Copernicus’s belief in “family of stars” as follows: “Our ancestors worshiped the sun, and they were far from foolish. It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars, because we are their children.” (See, Richard A. Baer, Jr. They Are Teaching Religion In The Schools,” Christianity Today, 1-17-84, p.12) Well, as early as the 5th century B.C.E Sophocles called the sun “He who engenders the gods” (i.e. stars) and “Father of All things”. In this cosmogony the ETs are a must! If you don’t believe in them, you are a heretic, not a politically correct Scientific American!
Like the maverick Soviet scientist, Vernadsky who reminded us: “The biosphere is as much, or even more, the creation of the sun as it is a manifestation of Earth process. Ancient religious intuitions, which regarded terrestrial creatures, esp. human beings as ‘children of the Sun’ were much nearer the truth that those which looked upon them as a mere ephemeral creation, a blind and accidental product of matter and earth-forces. Terrestrial creatures are the fruit of a long and complicated cosmic process, and, subject to predetermined laws, form of necessity part of a harmonious cosmic mechanism in which chance does not exist.” Carl Sagan followed in his footsteps. Whoever venerates the sun god also hugs his mistress Gaia i.e. the earth goddess! Like Pope John Paul II was doing on his innumerable pilgrimages.
Let me remind here that Aldous Huxley told T. Leary that the obstacle to the evolution was the Bible: “Drugs that open the mind to multiple realities inevitably lead to a polytheistic view of the universe. We sensed that the time for a new humanist religion based on intelligence, good-natured pluralism and scientific paganism had arrived.” Indeed, it had arrived along with N. Copernicus.
The youthful apostle of a one-world government, John Lenon’s song Imagine attacked religion (“Imagine there is no heaven. It’s easy, if you try, No hell below us. Above us only sky”), espoused a do you own thing philosophy (“Imagine all the people, Living for today”), attacked nationalism (“Imagine there’s no countries”), attacked religion (It is isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too”), called for the abolition of private property (“Imagine no possessions”), supported a new international order (“I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people, Sharing all the world”). Lenon called for abolition of private property and then left his Japanese-born widow a $250 million estate. Former President B. Clinton had chosen to play this tune on saxophone during his visit to Israel.
Another President of the U.S., Jimmy Carter, who considered Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeni a “holy man” reported sighting UFOs and his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski made speeches proclaiming the advent of the New Age; the Joint Chiefs of Staff every morning read so-called intelligence reports on the biorhythms and horoscopes of the members of the Soviet Politburo.
In 1964, the biologist George Simpson wrote a skeptical paper entitled On the Nonprevalence of Humanoids, in which he emphasized the futility of the search for advanced extraterrestrial life. He termed it a gamble of the most adverse odds in history. Pointing out that humans are the product of countless special historical accidents, he concluded: “The assumption, so freely made by astronomers, physicists, and some biochemists, that once life gets started anywhere, humanoids will eventually and inevitably appear is plainly false.” (Science 143 (1964) p. 772). But his voice was ignored by the NASA.
The Mind of a New Age Astronomer
The Apollo astronaut Russel Schweikart, a New Ager, of course, (See, Gaia, Evolution and the Significance of Space Exploration, JS Journal, published by International Synergy (December 1987; 2:2, p. 29) “was the first person to walk in space without an umbilical cord to the craft, swept along by the magical, invisible connection of shared momentum,” believes that Gaia may be nearing some sort of threshold analogous to giving birth. Wee may conclude that a new member will soon be added to Copernicus’s astrorum familia.
On November 19, 1898 F. Bilek, a 19th century Czech artist published in Polish magazine Życie (Life), II, 44, p. 579 a cartoon mocking the Copernican heliolatry; Earth goddess Gaia, a great planetary organism circling around the sun god.
The New Age author Peter Lemesurier in his book The Armageddon Script writes enthusiastically about the worship of the Great Mother Earth. He writes as though he is an astronaut in a spaceship in orbit around our planet. As they rounded the barren lunar globe for the… last time, and the resplendent half-earth once again rose from behind that now familiar curved and rocky horizon, what they saw coming up to meet them was strangely familiar.. An image straight out of the racial memory. A god out of the world of the archetypes. It was none other than the rounded form of the Great Mother, Earth herself, clad in the same flowering robes of shimmering blue and white that had been those of mother-goddesses of earth and sky throughout man’s history – and not least his most recent mother-goddess, the Virgin Mary herself…” (245-6)
And last but not the least, in 1975 Prof. S. Sambursky (NA), a friend of Einstein’s introduced Copernicus to the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities as “the man who initiated this era of modern science…as the man who by the sheer force of imagination broke the chains of sense perception, the ingenious discoverer of a scientific truth involving one of the greatest revolutions in man’s view of the world.” (See, Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, vol. V, No. 11). He did not care to mention that Copernicus’s book presents the sun as All Seeing God.
Some try to explain the Copernican “paradigm shift” in Israel as a result of “the moon walk.” Hannah Newman in her series The Rainbow Swastika observed: “If you are wondering how you missed the shattering trauma that hit Judaism after the Apollo moon landing, you are not alone. Even the recovery of the Western Wall in 1967, as momentous as it was, didn’t cause “all our practices and beliefs” to be “reframed”… However, be aware that man’s brief hip-hop on the moon is high on the New Age list of milestone events in human evolution. So is the first use of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, mentioned as a “shift point” (www.philologos.org__eb-trs/naI.htm). The German magazine Der Spiegel published recently a photo of 120 Nazi rocket scientists in Huntsville, Alabama to whom America owes the “glory” of fraudulent moon landing.
How the Aryan Science Replaced the Biblical Creationism
After Giovanni di Medici was elected Pope Leo X (1475-1521) a lampoon was posted on the Pasquino Navona to the effect that Giovanni might make a good Pope if only he believed in God.
The “moon landing” was nothing surprising , if one considers the invisible New Age link between Washington and the Vatican. On the 16th of August 1820, the Congregation of the Holy Office reported that Settele, the professor of astronomy at Rome and Washington might teach (Venia legendi) the Copernican system as truth established. This meant promotion of T.Paine’s anti-Semitism based on his admiration for philosophical heliocentrism and contempt for “barbarity” of Jewish Biblical culture. Quite recently Pope John Paul II recognized evolutionary hypothesis also as truth established.
And American New Age inquisition is as terrifying (or should I say terrorizing) as that of the Vatican. Consider the case in Rice(!) County, Minnesota, in which faculty member Rod LeVake is fighting to be reinstated in his position as biology teacher at Fairbault High School (Independent School District 656). LeVake, who holds a Masters degree in Biology Education, was not even attempting to introduce creationism; he merely wanted his students to examine the scientific weaknesses in the theory of evolution. He was reassigned by his superiors in 1988 on the grounds of “a deep conflict between his religious beliefs (sic) and the teaching of evolution.” The presiding judge in the Rice County District Court, Bernard Borene, a New Ager, dismissed LeVake’s lawsuit that the school had deprived him of academic freedom. In his judgment, Borene stated that as a biology teacher LeVake had no “right of academic freedom,” and that he could legally be prevented from presenting criticism of evolution, even “though they may be scientifically meritorious.” Roma locuta, causa finita.
Einstein needed space and time to be able to change in the presence of mass. So space and time had to be dynamic, rather than static. Consequently, space-time, and so the universe, could not remain still; and if it had to change it could only really get bigger or smaller. Hence it ought to be gently expanding or contracting. But Einstein was very unhappy about this idea. As a firm believer in the Newtonian idea of an infinite unchanging universe, he convinced himself that there was a law of physics which would prevent any overall expansion or contraction. There had to be something which would allow local variations, as space-time was affected by mass, but not affect the overall status of the universe. Einstein therefore added an extra factor to his equation, the “cosmological constant”: a kind of weakly repulsive force to cancel the inward pull of gravity and thus prevent an overall dynamic change.
But the Vatican said no. And, accordingly, Abbe George Lemaitre (1894-1996), a Catholic priest and Belgium’s most famous astronomer could see no reason to introduce this “cosmological constant” out of thin air. Supposing you just stayed with the mathematical model of a gently expanding universe. This would mean that the expansionary force would counter the gravitational force, and so all the matter in the universe could stay separated. Not only that; if the expansionary force slightly exceeded the gravitational force, then the universe would continue to expand and become bigger tomorrow than it is today. That would also mean that it had to be smaller yesterday than it is today, in order to expand to today’s size. The universe would therefore have to be progressively smaller the further back in time you went. And that meant that at some point, very long ago, the universe would have been at its smallest possible size. Lemaitre suggested that this would be the starting point of the universe, the moment of “creation”. He thought he had fund the perfect model: a universe which “bing banged” from a “primeval atom,” and which continued to grow and expand like an oak tree from an acorn; and a universe which at the same time faithfully followed all the mathematics of Einstein. But Einstein remained unimpressed. He suggested that Lemaitre had a poor grasp of physics involved. Indeed, Lemaitre’s universe was derived from a story of the Indian Upanishads.
Big Bang*: Atoms Are ForeverMatter is the Only Things that has Reality
But in January 1933 Abbe Lemaitre traveled with Einstein to California for a series of seminars. After the Belgian detailed his Big Bang theory, Einstein stood up applauded, and said, “This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I had ever listened.” Lemaitre’s theory, the idea that there was a burst of fireworks which marked the beginning of time and space on “a day without yesterday” was inspired by researches of another Catholic Priest, Pierre Gassendi, a French philosopher who was as famous in his day as Descartes or even Galileo. Gassendi was an extremely important figure, for it was he who was primarily responsible for reintroducing the “atomism” (i.e. Materialism) of Democritus and Epicurus into modern philosophy, offering it as the most satisfactory model for science explanations. Despite his epicureanism and materialism – two positions that had long been condemned as atheistic – Gassendi managed to function quite well within the Catholic Church. Gassendi’s revival of atomism culminated in the Big bang theory advanced by Lemaitre.
Influenced by the work on radioactivity of Pierre and Marie Curie, Abbe Lemaitre imagined the entire universe as resulting from the radioactive decay of a single super-atom. In the course of time this “primeval atom theory” evolved into its present form which says that some 15 billion years ago an incredibly compact pellet of matter exploded to launch its components on a voyage that still continues.
It was politics which dictated this transformation of the theory; in the Hindu theology God is considered a “puru” i.e. geometrical point and this dogma is reflected in the notion of a pellet of matter. (In the Newtonian physics the difference between matter and spirit is that of degree of condensation). Big Bang theory also referred to as Modern “Genesis” retired the Biblical Genesis because the American social Darwinist and a New Ager John Fiske imparted to the enthusiastic audiences his conviction that the political genius of Aryan peoples was the hope of the world. According to this Aryan “Genesis”, we are bundles of atoms i.e. bundles of energy at the quantum level, and bundles of energy consist of 99.99999% empty space. We are all transparent, so to say.
For his work, Lemaitre was inducted as a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. An international commission awarded him the Francqui Prize. The archbishop of Malines, Cardinal Josef Van Roey, made Lemaitre a canon of the cathedral in 1935. The next year Pope Pius XI inducted Lemaitre into the Pontifical Academy of Science. At last they got rid of the God of the Bible, or so it seemed, until an independent Israel was created in 1948. This was a really shocking event for all New Agers.
*In Hebrew, many Israelis use the expression that there is no zbang ve’gamarnu (”bang, and it’s done”)
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