Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Unseen Forces
From ancient wisdom to modern art and science via Isaac Newton, Salvador Dalí, and Terence McKenna
This is an excerpt from Sky Gods and the Recipe for Immortality: The secret influence of psychoactivity over science, society, and the supernatural.
Isaac Newton, who discovered gravity when an apple fell from the Tree of Knowledge, tapped ancient wisdom for scientific insight. The National Endowment for the Humanities refers to Newton as “The Last Magician.”
Newton once translated an occult sacred text, the Emerald Tablets of Hermeticism, which proclaimed:
“That which is below is like that which is above… And as all things have been & arose from one by the mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation…
By this means you shall have ye glory of the whole world & thereby all obscurity shall fly from you. Its force is above all force. For it vanquishes every subtle thing & penetrates every solid thing. So was the world created… Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of ye philosophy of ye whole world…
