The Faustian face of modern science
Posted By Director on January 20, 2024
The following is taken from Phillip D. Collins, The Faustian Face of Modern Science, Conspiracy Archive, June 11, 2009.
“Luther was to defend himself against a papal decree that excommunicated him from the church (449).
At the Diet, Luther refused to recant any of his beliefs (450). This led to the Emperor issuing an imperial edict for the monk’s arrest (450). However, Luther was rescued by the Elector Frederick III of Saxony (450).
Frederick staged a kidnapping of the monk and hid him away in Wartburg Castle (450).
The regional warlord of Saxony had much to gain by protecting Luther. Frederick represented a group of German princes that opposed the influence of the Church and its secular representative, the Emperor (450). These elites would use Luther’s teachings to justify defying the ecclesiastical authorities and establishing their own secular systems. In the end, the Reformation reformed nothing at all.
It caused a division in christendom and paved the way for Europe’s secularization.
Howard states:
“Indirectly the Reformation gave the impetus for the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century, which centred on Newton, and led to the founding of the Royal Society after the English Civil War.” (148)
The “Scientific Revolution” facilitated by the Reformation led to the popularization of nominalism, which was radically scientistic and occult in character.
Commensurate with this paradigm shift was the rise of the rise of the Enlightenment. Not surprisingly, the writers of Encyclopédie, which was edited by Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot, “praised Protestant thinkers”. The same secret societies that managed the dialectical conflict between the Protestants and Catholics played a prevalent role in the Enlightenment.
Reiterating this contention, atheist scholar Conrad Goeringer states:
“[S]ecret societies and salons, lodges of the Freemasons and private reading clubs would become the focal points for the sedicious and ‘impious’ activists of the Enlightenment. Masonry required that novitiates pass through a series of degrees, accompanied by symbolic ritual, whereupon the secrets of the craft were gradually unfolded; the metaphors of masonry, the remaking of humanity as early masons had remade rough stone, soon served as a revolutionary allegory.”
This became the new model of revolutionary organization — lodges of brothers, all seeking to reconstruct within their own circle an “inner light” to radiate forth wisdom into the world, to “illuminate” the sagacity of the Enlightenment. So pervasive and appealing was this notion that even relatively conservative and respected members of society could entertain the prospect of a new Utopia, “or at least a social alternative to the ancient regime….”
(“The Enlightenment, Freemasonry, and the Illuminati”)
The Enlightenment, which acted as the crucible for all modern sociopolitical Utopianism, represented the codification of Gnostic occultism as revolutionary doctrine.
The new gnosis was science, which Enlightenment thinkers believed should be universally imposed upon all fields of inquiry. For the violent, revolutionary wing of the Enlightenment (e.g., the Illuminati, the Jacobins, etc.), the universal imposition of science included governance. Herein is the conceptual basis for all scientific totalitarianism. (more…)
