Heliocentrists are Heathens

Prominent astronomers are commonly seen by the public as scientific minds who only have interest in objective facts and the scientific method. They are also typically advertised as people who have reverence for Christian beliefs, even if they themselves are not Christians. Many Christians today continue to labor under the belief that those who philosophize about outer space for a living, retain some level of respect for God and the Christian Bible.

So if I were to make the claim that heliocentrism is not scientific at all, and is really just Babylonian mysticism and sun-God worship packaged as scientific discovery, you might think I was crazy. Furthermore, if I were to say that heliocentric thought leaders are either atheists, pagans, occultists, and devil worshippers, OR just actors — whose explicit goal is to personally enrich themselves at the expense of the truth — you might think I was being a bit over the top. So, I’m not going to claim any of those things— because it’s much easier to just let them tell you in their own words

Kepler

“it is my pleasure to yield to the inspired frenzy, it is my pleasure to taunt mortal men with the candid acknowledgement that I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far, far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God Himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study Him” — Johannes Kepler ; German astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher. He is credited with coming up with the laws of planetary motion which preceded Isaac Newton. Like Newton, Kepler had a bit of a secret/not-so secret obsession with Hermeticism

Nicolaus Copernicus

“Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus, and Ephantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in a rotation from west to east about its own center” — Nicolaus Copernicus, originator of the Heliocentric model

“thus, indeed, as though seated on a royal throne, the sun governs the family of planets revolving around it”

“Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.”

Isaac Newton

“In the eighteenth century and since, Newton came to be thought of as the first and greatest of the modern age of scientists, a rationalist, one who taught us to think on the lines of cold and untinctured reason. I do not see him in this light...Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians”

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“For in vulgar modern terms Newton was profoundly neurotic of a not unfamiliar type, but — I should say from the records — a most extreme example. His deepest instincts were occult, esoteric, semantic-with profound shrinking from the world, a paralyzing fear of exposing his thoughts, his beliefs, his discoveries in all nakedness to the inspection and criticism of the world”

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“His experiments were always, I suspect, a means, not of discovery, but always of verifying what he knew already. Why do I call him a magician? Because he looked on the whole universe and all that is in it as a riddle, as a secret which could be read by applying pure thought to certain evidence, certain mystic clues which God had laid about the world to allow a sort of philosopher’s treasure hunt to the esoteric brotherhood.” — John Maynard Keynes: Newton, the Man (1946)

George Lemaître

“The Bible knows nothing about physics, and physics knows nothing about God” — George Lemaître; Jesuit priest, Theoretical Physicist, and inventor of the “Big Bang” theory

Steven Hawking

“When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s like asking directions to the edge of the earth; The Earth is a sphere; it doesn’t have an edge; so looking for it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god. No one created our universe, and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization; There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.”

Lawrence Krauss

“Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today” — Lawrence Krauss; “anti-theist” Theoretical Physicist and Harvard Professor

“I can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but I’d much rather live in a universe without one.”

“The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.”

“As a scientist I always judge things on empirical evidence and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him, but I’ve never seen anything else, so as a scientist, my presumption is that whatever the problems were I would believe him over other people…I don’t feel tarnished in any way by my relationship with Jeffrey (Epstein); I feel raised by it”

Bill Nye “The Science Guy”

“I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.”

“I worked at comedy clubs — if I can use the term ‘work’ — for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.”

“I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.”

“NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget”

“I’ve got no problem with anybody’s religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that’s just wrong.”

“Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.”

“As a taxpayer and voter, the introduction of this extreme doubt about climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen… So I can see where people are very concerned about this, and they’re pursuing criminal investigations as well as engaging in discussions like this….That there is a chilling effect on scientists who are in extreme doubt about climate change, I think that is good.”

Carl Sagan

“The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed. — Carl Sagan; Science Fiction writer

“I can remember another early visual experience with cannabis, in which I viewed a candle flame and discovered in the heart of the flame, standing with magnificent indifference, the black-hatted and -cloaked Spanish gentleman who appears on the label of the Sandeman sherry bottle. Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.” — Mr. X, Carl Sagan’s alter ago, the alias which he used to write into Marijuana Reconsidered in 1971 while in his thirties. He continued to smoke pot his whole life.

Neil de Grasse Tyson

“It’s quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. … I bask in the majesty of the cosmos. I use words, compose sentences that sound like the sentences I hear out of people that had revelation of Jesus, who go on their pilgrimages to Mecca.” — Neil de Grasse Tyson

“Does it mean, if you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here’s a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn’t understand [and now we do understand] […]. If that’s how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on — so just be ready for that to happen, if that’s how you want to come at the problem”

Elon Musk

“Well I don’t really worship anything, but I do devote myself to the advancement of humanity using technology. It does beg the question, if there is some sort of super-consciousness, where did the super-consciousness come from? I think the most likely explanation is that complexity evolved from simplicity. That the simple elements over time combined to become more complex and arrived at what we are. — Elon Musk

“Thank you for the blessing, but I’m ok with going to hell, if that is indeed my destination, since the vast majority of all humans ever born will be there”

Michelle Thaller

“There’s no such thing as life, really. We’re very complicated rocks. We’re a chemical reaction that got complex enough to become conscious — Michelle Thaller; Assistant for Science Communication at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

“There’s no such real thing as the ‘scientific method’ ”

“Today I’m going to be talking about how every one of your atoms was forged inside a star that had to die. And that’s literally true!

“I fall in love with everybody all the time. That’s what being a scientist is to me.”

“So you have this one tiny chance to have the universe look through your eyes. And what are you gonna do with that chance? And what I do, I connect to people…too hard. I have sex with all the wrong people”

Jack Parsons

“Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again” — — Jack Parsons, Founder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories and follower of Occultist Aleister Crowley

“I height Don Quixote, I live on Peyote, marihuana, morphine and cocaine. I never knew sadness but only a madness that burns at the heart and the brain, I see each charwoman ecstatic, inhuman, angelic, demonic, divine, Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon that brims with ambrosial wine. I went to the city and found it a pity the devil was playing at hell, And ten million mortals had entered hell’s portals and thought they were all doing well. I said: “See, dear people, on every church steeple an imp of the devil at play, See ghouls cut their capers in daily newspapers and fiends in police courts hold sway; The mountains are palaces, women are chalices meant to be supped and not sold, The desert a banquet hall set for a festival, ripe for the free and the bold; The wind and the sky are ours, heaven and all its stars, waken, and do what you will; Break with this demon spawn’d hel-inspired nightmare bond — Magick lies over the hill.” — Jack Parsons, Oriflamme, Journal of the O.T.O., 21 February 1943

“So Jack became a loyal follower of Mr. Aleister Crowley/He took an oath to be a Magister Templi/His pretty house in Pasadena was notorious for the orgies…” — “Blood & Rockets: Movement I — Saga of Jack Parsons…” — The Claypool Lennon Delirium, South of Reality

Parsons was also frequently observed reciting Crowley’s poem “Hymn to Pan” in an ecstatic manner during rocket tests. Here is an excerpt from Hymn to Pan:

Come with Apollo in bridal dress
(Shepherdess and pythoness)
Come with Artemis, silken shod,
And wash thy white thigh, beautiful god,

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I am numb
With the lonely lust of devildom.
Thrust the sword through the galling fetter,
All-devourer, all-begetter;

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Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god,
Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.
With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks
Through solstice stubborn to equinox.
And I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend
Everlasting, world without end,
Mannikin, maiden, Maenad, man,
In the might of Pan.
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!

It is worth noting that the original series of “Moon Missions” were called Apollo missions, and now our government is going “back” to the moon via the Artemis missions.

Aleister Crowley was an occultist drug addict who did not believe in right and wrong - only in pursuing the desires of the flesh. Crowley was also obsessed with occultist Magick, a term associated with sorcery. Since Crowley seemed to have such an influential effect on the scientists at JPL, it’s worth mentioning a few quotes of his own:

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”

“Thou hast no right but to do thy will… For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect”

“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness”

“Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment, and practice than in any other branch of physics”

“Every man and every woman is a star”

“Sanity is a compromise”

L Ron Hubbard

“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.” — L Ron Hubbard, Science Fiction Writer, Close Friend of Jack Parsons, and Founder of Scientology