Isaac Newton invented calculus, theories of planetary rotation, computed the oblate-spheroid shape of the earth, quantified gravity, and ran the British Mint.
He was one of the smartest men who ever lived. After he died, his notebooks, written, if I remember correctly, in some sort of code, revealed his fascination with, and great knowledge of, Bible History. They also revealed Newton’s obsession with changing base metals into gold.
Newton was, in fact, an alchemist. That may be why he was selected to run the mint. “If anyone can figure out how to turn lead into gold, it’s Newton!”, the rulers may have been told. “If he can do that, Britain will become the richest, most powerful nation on earth.”
Conventional wisdom, of course, is that neither Newton, nor anyone else, could figure out how to turn less valuable substances into gold. That is probably right. But, if one were to have asked Napoleon how England managed to come up with, in today’s money, countless billions of dollars to bribe foreign officials, then subsidize and arm Russia, Prussia, Austria and German nations with modern weapons, while keeping huge armies in the field and fleets of its own afloat without bankrupting the comparatively small nation, he might have said. “Hmm. Maybe the British are able to make gold out of lead.”
When the smartest scientist of an age, in many ways, the inventor of “Science”, thinks that it’s possible to “make” gold, we cannot dismiss the notion quite as flippantly as if we heard that our brother-in-law was working toward that goal.
Newton was a Protestant. He knew The Bible well. His incredibly impressive attempts to identify the Kingdoms in the prophetic parts of The Bible are so learned that he makes all other Protestant historians look comparatively ignorant. He also knew that the only molecular structures that changed on earth were the transformation of bread and the fruit of the vine into The Body and Blood of Christ.
Like all who strive to pull The Only Church Jesus Founded down to human levels, and, like all who strive to please their employers, in this case the Protestant rulers of England, Newton was trying to attain a more temporal enriching goal. In the process he was trying to “dethrone Jesus” as the “Transforming King” who ruled Heaven and Earth and please those who’d seized the throne.
If his wisdom had been coupled with sufficient humility, he would have understand that Jesus had shared with His Bishops, who in turn could impart the same authority to priests ordained in The Only Church He Founded, to change the substance of bread and wine into Christ’s Body and Blood. If not blinded by vanity, and it is hard for the “smartest man in the world” to not be, Newton would have received that Holy Food and been enlightened, in this world and the next.
Newton would have understood the only earthly connection between “Holy Molecules” and alchemy. He would have fallen to his knees in awe of the knowledge that the only alchemy mankind could know was free for all those who humbly and obediently strove to be forever enriched by it.
All who ignore the opportunity to turn our own “base metal” into gold make the same, vain mistake. For the humble, there is some correlation between intelligence and knowledge leading to salvation. For the vain, intelligence and knowledge often turn into instruments of their own destruction.
Poor Isaac Newton. He ignored the “Holy Molecules” that would have saved his soul. Instead, he focused too much on base metals and ended up with death. So smart, and yet so dumb.
