Truth Has Been in the World Unrecognized

They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized.

Source: Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire  by Manly P. Hall

They Are Metaphysicists Rather Than Scientists

"The theory," he said, "wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people...

Source: New York Times article July 11th 1935

A Mass of Error and Deceptive Ideas

The theory of relativity he described as "a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense.

Source: New York Times article July 11th 1935

Acceptance of the Copernican Cosmology Was a Religious Act

If there was an infinity of worlds, as Bruno maintained, for whom in particular had Christ died on this earth? If the universe was eternal, what would become of God the Creator? Acceptance of the Copernican cosmology was a religious...

Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World  by Frank E. Manuel

It Affirms, in Effect, That Living Beings Create Themselves

As a scientific theory, Darwinism would have been jettisoned long ago. The point, however, is that the doctrine of evolution has swept the world not on the strength of its scientific merits, but precisely in its capacity as a Gnostic...

Source: Teilhardism And The New Religion  by Wolfgang Smith

Their Misplaced Faith in Gravity

Here they are hurling through space on a molten rock at 67,000 miles an hour and the only thing that keeps them from flying out of their shoes is their misplaced faith in gravity.

Source: 3rd Rock from the Sun

Every Myth Represents the Absolute Truth Within Its Society

Also, every myth represents the absolute truth within its society. The word ‘myth’ is derived from the Greek word mythos, which can mean ‘story’, but also means ‘word’, in the sense of ‘the final word’. Indeed, anybody who dared to...

Source: Big Bang  by Simon Singh

He Is a Lesser Divine Being Who Serves as the Instrument of the Higher Powers

What this secret tradition reveals is that the one whom most Christians naïvely worship as creator, God, and Father is, in reality, only the image of the true God. According to Valentinus, what Clement and Ignatius mistakenly ascribe to God...

Source: The Gnostic Gospels  by Elaine Pagels

Those Who Are the Most Captivated by Its Spell

The study of cosmology shows how our relationship to the universe and our fellow humans is inextricably conditioned by our underlying belief systems and mythologies. As every thoughtful person realizes, the life of each civilization-and every individual-is influenced by underlying...

Source: Jesus Christ, Sun of God  by David Fideler

You Don’t Know Because Only I Know

Of course you don't know. You don't know because only I know. If you knew and I didn't know, then you'd be teaching me instead of me teaching you. And for a student to teach his teacher is presumptuous and...

Source: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

The Slaying of a Beautiful Hypothesis by an Ugly Fact

It is the supreme challenge, and a brutal one, but every scientific theory must be testable and compatible with reality. The nineteenth-century naturalist Thomas Huxley stated it thus: ‘The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis...

Source: Big Bang  by Simon Singh

It Channeled Funds Through Three Private Medical Research Foundations

It channeled funds through three private medical research foundations. One of these, the Geschikter Foundation for Medical Research in Washington, D.C., is still active. Another, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology Inc., was disbanded in 1965. A third...

CIA Funding Was Involved

The CIA's intrusion into the foundation field in the 1960s can only be described as massive. Excluding grants from the "Big Three"- Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie--of the 700 grants over $10,000 given by 164 other foundations during the period 1963-1966,...

The Use of Philanthropic Organizations

The use of philanthropic organizations was a convenient way to pass funds, in that large amounts could be transferred rapidly, and in a form that need not alert unwitting officers of the recipient organizations to their source. In addition, foundation...

Touted as Absolute Truths

One group of the religious looked upon the absorption with secondary causes as a deflection from contemplation of the divine Primary Cause and hence suspect, if not heretical, especially when propositions like the Copernican hypothesis, touted as absolute truths, contradicted...

Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World  by Frank E. Manuel