Science Worship as Witchcraft
CS Lewis speaks of the link between the lust of alchemists for power over nature, and the ambition of scientists.
I have not realized the link was, in one case, literal:
Francis Bacon (1561–1626), “Lord Verulam,” was rumored to be the secret son of Elizabeth I, perhaps the author of Shakespeare’s plays, and a founding father of Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism.
Fact, not rumor, confirms he was a lawyer and high officer of state, Bacon served as Solicitor General, Attorney General, and ultimately as Lord Chancellor of England. He is best known, however, as a philosopher and proponent of science and the scientific method.
This, I learn from an excellent article by our own Hans Schantz, the man who is fated to overturn quantum mechanics via a return to classical mechanics and something akin to pilot wave theory. Read his fascinating column on France Bacon, father of Science Worship, here
For those of you unfamiliar with them, Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism are esoteric secret societies drenched in Hermetic occultism, theosophy, heresy, and morbid mysticism, and devoted to the destruction of the Catholic Church and the Christian world.
Marx followed Hegel who followed hermetic thinkers of the German “enlightenment” — which was, in fact, a return to the Gnostic heresy of the First Century.
All these folk are basically witches. Strange.
Wish someone had told this to me in my youth.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
July 2, 2025 @ 1:48 pm
