THE OCCULT ROOTS OF MODERN SOCIETY
Our modern society is built upon mathematics, the natural sciences, physics, astronomy, biology, music, theatre and philosophy, which all have their origins with the occult.
The Worship of Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos is worshipped by the occult for creating what we know today as the Western World. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle.
Bertrand Russell, in his A History of Western Philosophy, contends that the influence of Pythagoras on Plato and others was so great that he should be considered the most influential philosopher of all time. He concludes that:
"I do not know of any other man who has been as influential as he was in the school of thought."
In Astronomy, Pythagoras was credited with having been the first to teach that the Earth was spherical, the first to divide the globe into five climatic zones, and the first to identify the morning star and the evening star as the same celestial object (now known as Venus).
In Engineering, Pythagoras’s numerology helped Roman emperor Hadrian build the Pantheon in Rome. The temple's circular plan, central axis, hemispherical dome, and alignment with the four cardinal directions symbolize Pythagorean views on the order of the universe. The single at the top of the dome symbolizes the monad and the sun-god Apollo. The twenty-eight ribs extending from the oculus symbolize the moon, because twenty-eight was the same number of months on the Pythagorean lunar calendar. The five coffered rings beneath the ribs represent the marriage of the sun and moon.
But it was Pythagoras’s ancient knowledge on Mathematics that has turned Pythagoras into a divine type of teacher to the occult.
During the Middle Ages, Pythagoras was revered as the founder of mathematics and music, two of the Seven Liberal Arts. The study of mathematics as a "demonstrative discipline" began in the 6th century BC with the Pythagoreans, who coined the term "mathematics" from the ancient Greek μάθημα (mathema), meaning "subject of instruction".
The Pythagorean theorem was known and used by the Babylonians and Egyptians centuries before Pythagoras. Pythagoras adopted these teachings and shared it with Ancient Greece.
The Egyptians thought this had mystical connotations, so they associated their gods, Isis, Osiris and Horus with the numbers 3, 4 and 5. One historian suggests that Egyptian land surveyors may have learned of 3-4-5 triangles in order to lay out accurate right angles with knotted cords, which they were known to use.
The earliest mathematical texts available are from Mesopotamia and Egypt – Plimpton 322 (Babylonian c. 2000 – 1900 BC), the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (Egyptian c. 1800 BC) and the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus (Egyptian c. 1890 BC). All of these texts mention the so-called Pythagorean triples, so, by inference, the Pythagorean theorem seems to be the most ancient and widespread mathematical development after basic arithmetic and geometry.
In Music, Pythagoras pioneered the mathematical and experimental study of music. Pythagoras created the "harmony of the spheres",which maintained that the planets and stars move according to mathematical equations, which correspond to musical notes and thus produce an inaudible symphony.
In ancient times Pythagoras was also noted for his discovery that music had mathematical foundations. Antique sources that credit Pythagoras as the philosopher who first discovered music intervals also credit him as the inventor of the monochord, a straight rod on which a string and a movable bridge could be used to demonstrate the relationship of musical intervals.
But the strangest thing about Pythagoras was that he started his own secret society, in which he became obsessed with occult topics.
Early-Pythagorean sects were closed societies and new Pythagoreans were chosen based on merit and discipline. Ancient sources record that early-Pythagoreans underwent a five-year initiation period of listening to the teachings (akousmata) in silence. Initiates could through a test become members of the inner circle.
It was customary that family members became Pythagoreans, as Pythagoreanism developed into a philosophic tradition that entailed rules for everyday life and Pythagoreans were bound by secrets. The home of Pythagoras was known as the site of mysteries.
In Croton, Pythagoras established the first Pythagorean community, described as a secret society, and attained political influence. The freemasons deliberately modeled their society on the community founded by Pythagoras at Croton and Rosicrucianism used Pythagorean symbolism. Sylvain Maréchal, in his six-volume 1799 biography The Voyages of Pythagoras, declared that all revolutionaries in all time periods are the "heirs of Pythagoras".
Pythagoreanism was a philosophic tradition as well as a religious practice. As a religious community they relied on oral teachings and worshiped the Sun God Pythian Apollo, the oracular god of Delphic Oracle.
So did Pythagoras obtain this knowledge by himself or was he taught this ancient knowledge of the occult by a teacher? If we look at where Pythagoras travelled we can see he was initiated into the Babylonian triple deity religion by Zoroaster of Babylon.
The Origins of Alchemy
Zoroaster is regarded as the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism, which was the religion of Babylon from 6th-century BC to the middle ages. The 1st-century AD writer Pliny the Elder stated that magic had been first discovered by the ancient philosopher Zoroaster around the year 647 BC. Zoroaster has also been described as a sorcerer-astrologer – the creator of both magic and astrology. Zoroaster was also known as "Zaratras," and he is described as a "teacher of Pythagoras".
The alternate Greek name for Zoroaster was Zaratras or Zaratas/Zaradas/Zaratos. Pythagoreans considered the mathematicians to have studied with Zoroaster in Babylonia. Lydus, in On the Months, attributes the creation of the seven-day week to "the Babylonians in the circle of Zoroaster and Hystaspes," and who did so because there were seven planets.
The magic that Zoroaster passed down to Pythagoras was in a Grimoire, which is a textbook of magic with instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms, and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, deities, and demons.
The earliest known written magical incantations come from ancient Babylon where they have been found inscribed on cuneiform clay tablets that archaeologists excavated from the city of Uruk. The ancient Egyptians also employed magical incantations, which have been found inscribed on amulets and other items. The Egyptian magical system, known as heka.
After Zoraster passed down his knowledge to Pythagoras of the ancient practice of worshipping demons to obtain knowledge, Pythagoras would modernize and translate all his teachings to the western world. After Pythagoras died his teachings would be passed down to Plato, Aristotle and would eventually inspire the creation of the Library of Alexandria in 285 BC.
Alexandria acted as a melting pot for philosophies of Pythagoreanism, Platonism, Stoicism and Gnosticism which formed the origin of alchemy's character. An important example of alchemy's roots in Greek philosophy, originated by Empedocles and developed by Aristotle, was that all things in the universe were formed from only four elements: earth, air, water, and fire.
Alchemy began penetrating every aspect of life until Jesus came in 4 BC and died on the cross in 33 AD. After the establishment of Christianity and it’s massive growth from 100 AD - 300 AD, these gnostics / mystics had to go into hiding or leave where ever Christians existed.
We see this with the Jews who didn’t believe in Jesus and moved to Babylon around the year 120 AD where they started perfecting this ancient magical religion of Babylon. Remember the religion of Zoroastrianism was located in Babylon at the time and we see many alchemical / numeric / symbolic aspects of this ancient Triad religion were written into the main texts of Judaism: gematria, kabbalah, merkabah, sefirot, talmud, oral torah, etc.
We see a rise in alchemy in Europe, the same time kabbalah was on the rise in 1200 AD. and this obsession with the Ancient Greeks returns in a strong way to influence the minds of European Christians.
These magicians / alchemists needed to infiltrate the minds of Christians through culture, science, music, philosophy, etc. over generations in order to try and change the world back into the days before Jesus.
Prior to Jesus, we can see the Triad / man-made religion was reaching perfection with the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans. The massive structures, the beautiful paintings, the engineering marvels, etc. all in honor of their false gods.
They desperately wanted to return society to this mindset and the kabbalah represents that.
The word chemistry comes from a modification during the Renaissance of the word alchemy, which referred to an earlier set of practices that encompassed elements of chemistry, metallurgy, philosophy, astrology, astronomy, mysticism, and medicine. Alchemy is often associated with the quest to turn lead or other base metals into gold, though alchemists were also interested in many of the questions of modern chemistry.
According to mathematicians, "squaring the circle" means to construct for a given circle a square with the same area as the circle. The trick is to do so using only a compass and a straightedge.
A symbol of a circle within a square within a triangle within a larger circle began to be used in the 17th century to represent alchemy and the philosopher's stone, which is the ultimate goal of alchemy. The philosopher's stone, which was sought for centuries, was an imaginary substance that alchemists believed would change any base metal into silver or gold.
There are illustrations that include a squaring the circle design, such as one in Michael Maier’s book "Atalanta Fugiens," first published in 1617 AD. Here a man is using a compass to draw a circle around a circle within a square within a triangle. Within the smaller circle are a man and a woman, the two halves of our nature that are supposedly brought together through alchemy.
These alchemists just so happened to be the most influential people of all time. The famous scientists, engineers, writers, philosophers, etc. that are all taught to us in school and their philosophies have become entire industries in our modern world.
The Men who Formed Western Society
Below I have listed some of the most influential scientists, philosophers, musicians, writers etc. of all time to show that they were all heavily influenced by alchemy / occult thinking / Pythagoras. I also included many occultists / magicians because they were also influenced by the same exact material as the ‘great men of history’. It’s a very interesting parallel that shows just how embedded alchemy is in our modern day.
Dante Alighieri (1265 AD - 1321 AD)
Dante was an Itlalian poet, writer, and philosopher who created the Divine Comedy, a medieval poem describing Dante going into Hell, Purgatory and Heaven.
In Dante’s description of Hell, he creates a 9+1 structure. He adds Circle 1 (Limbo) to Upper Hell and Circle 6 (Heresy) to Lower Hell, making 9 Circles in total; incorporating the Vestibule of the Futile, this leads to Hell containing 10 main divisions.
The Kabbalah Tree of Life follows this pattern of 9+1 with the 10 sefirot circles.
Dante Alighieri was fascinated by Pythagorean numerology and based his descriptions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven on Pythagorean numbers.
Dante wrote that Pythagoras saw Unity as Good and Plurality as Evil and, in Paradiso XV, 56–57, he declares: "five and six, if understood, ray forth from unity.”
The number eleven and its multiples are found throughout the Divine Comedy, each book of which has thirty-three cantos, except for the Inferno, which has thirty-four, the first of which serves as a general introduction.
Dante describes the ninth and tenth bolgias in the Eighth Circle of Hell as being twenty-two miles and eleven miles respectively, which correspond to the fraction 22/7, which was the Pythagorean approximation of pi.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 AD -1519 AD)
He epitomized the Renaissance Humanist ideal, painted the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, Vitruvian Man and inventor of many scientific methods incorporating anatomy, botany, etc.
He worked at the Platonic School of the Medici and also lived with the Medici Family around 1480 AD. The Platonic School was responsible for the Italian Renaissance and resurgence of Pythagoras thought onto society.
When he was 24, Leonardo and three other young men were charged with sodomy in an incident involving a known male prostitute.
He dissected human corpses at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence. In 30 years, Leonardo dissected 30 male and female corpses of different ages.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man incorporates the same symbolism of the circle, square and triangle.
Vitruvian Man
Johannes Reuchlin (1455 AD - 1522 AD)
The Reformation founder Martin Luther made a comment that justification by faith was the "true Cabala" in his Commentary on Galatians has been explained as relating to Reuchlin's influence.
Reuchlin synthesized Pythagoreanism with Christian theology and Jewish Kabbalah, arguing that Kabbalah and Pythagoreanism were both inspired by Mosaic tradition and that Pythagoras was therefore a kabbalist.
In his dialogue De verbo mirifico (1494), Reuchlin compared the Pythagorean tetractys to the ineffable divine name YHWH, ascribing each of the four letters of the tetragrammaton a symbolic meaning according to Pythagorean mystical teachings.
Was a professor at the Jesuit University of Ingolstadt, where the founder of the illuminati, Adam Weishaupt founded the secret society.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 AD - 1543 AD)
Born in Royal Prussia
Formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun, rather than the Earth at its center
In 1533 AD, Pope Clement VII, one of the Medici Popes, approved Copernicus’s theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
Was a humanist that studied Pythagoras, Plato and other Latin / Greek authors.
In his preface to his book On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres (1543), Nicolaus Copernicus cites various Pythagoreans as the most important influences on the development of his heliocentric model of the universe
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486 AD - 1535 AD)
Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy published in 1533 drew heavily upon Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and neo-Platonism. His book was widely influential among esotericists of the early modern period.
Agrippa's popular and influential three-volume treatise De Occulta Philosophia cites Pythagoras as a "religious magi” and advances the idea that Pythagoras's mystical numerology operates on a supercelestial level, a religious term used to describe a high heavenly realm used during his time.
Paracelsus (1493 AD - 1541 AD)
Paracelsus was one of the first medical professors to recognize that physicians required a solid academic knowledge in the natural sciences, especially chemistry. Paracelsus pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine.
As a physician of the early 16th century, Paracelsus held a natural affinity with the Hermetic, Neoplatonic, and Pythagorean philosophies central to the Renaissance, a world-view exemplified by Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola.
Paracelsus drew the importance of sulphur, salt, and mercury from medieval alchemy, where they all occupied a prominent place.
He is credited as the "father of toxicology". A toxicology work attributed to the 10th century author Ibn Wahshiyya called the Book on Poisons describes various toxic substances and poisonous recipes that can be made using magic.
Paracelsus also had a substantial influence as a Rosicrucian prophet or diviner in his "Prognostications".
John Dee (1527 AD - 1609 AD)
Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, teacher, occultist, and alchemist.
He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy.
As an antiquarian, he had one of the largest libraries in England at the time.
John Dee was heavily influenced by Pythagorean ideology, particularly the teaching that all things are made of numbers.
From Hermeticism he drew a belief that man had the potential for divine power that could be exercised through mathematics.
His goal was to help bring forth a unified world religion through the healing of the breach of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches and the recapture of the pure theology of the ancients.
Francis Bacon (1561 AD - 1626 AD)
He led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the scientific method and his works remained influential even in the late stages of the Scientific Revolution.
His mentor John Dee was an alchemist who would summon demons to try and obtain lost knowledge.
Leader of the Rosicrucian Secret Society and was attracted to men.
Wrote the blueprints for the the occult nation United States of America, called New Atlantis.
Bacon's search for hidden meanings in myth and fables in such texts as The Wisdom of the Ancients as succeeding earlier occultist and Neoplatonic attempts to locate hidden wisdom of Pythagoras.
Galileo Galilei (1564 AD - 1643 AD)
The father of observational astronomy, modern-era classical physics, the scientific method and modern science.
He discovered Jupiter’s four largest moons and named them after the four Medici brothers, who were his patrons.
Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, a kabbalist who followed the lectures of Galileo, called him, ‘Rabbi Galileo’. One of Delmedigo’s teachers was Elijah Montalto, who was the personal physician of Maria de Medici, the Queen of France.
Delmedigo’s great grandfather, Elia del Medigo, was a also a kabbalist and follower of Maimonides, and he influenced kabbalist Pico della Mirnadola, to combine concepts of magic, Hermeticism and Kabbalah with Plato and Neoplatonism.
Robert Fludd (1574 - 1637)
Fludd is remembered as an astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian.
Fludd is best known for his compilations in occult philosophy. He had a celebrated exchange of views with Johannes Kepler concerning the scientific and hermetic approaches to knowledge.
He believed his own musical writings to have been inspired by Pythagoras.
Isaac Newton (1643 AD - 1727 AD)
Formulated the Laws of Motion, Universal Gravitation, Calculus, Telescope, etc
Searched for the discovery of the Philosopher’s Stone and Elixir of Life
He wrote the ‘Notes on the Jewish Temple’, where he studied the Midrash, Talmud and Zohar and wrote notes on the Jewish Temple and its rituals.
He was influenced by the Rosicrucian Movement
He was part of Secret Societies
President of the Royal Society
Master of the Mint
Spalding Gentelmen’s Society
He interpreted the Book of Revelation as code and said there will be a futuristic ‘second coming of Jesus’ in Jerusalem and the world would end around 2060 AD.
Isaac Newton firmly believed in the Pythagorean teaching of the mathematical harmony and order of the universe. Though Newton was notorious for rarely giving others credit for their discoveries, he attributed the discovery of the Law of Universal Gravitation to Pythagoras.
Adam Weishaupt (1748 AD - 1830 AD)
He was a German philosopher, professor of civil law and later canon law, and founder of the Illuminati.
Weishaupt was initiated into the Masonic lodge "Theodor zum guten Rath", at Munich in 1777.
He was a strong admirer of Pythagoras and, in his book Pythagoras (1787), he advocated that society should be reformed to be more like Pythagoras's commune at Croton.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Mozart’s compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music.
For the last seven years of his life Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Mason. The Masonic order played an important role in his life and work.
Mozart was admitted as an Apprentice to the Viennese Masonic lodge called "Zur Wohltätigkeit" ("Beneficence") on 14 December 1784.
Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati, was a friend of Mozart. The Illuminati and rationalist Masons espoused the Enlightenment-inspired, humanist views proposed by the French philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot.
The Freemasons used music in their ceremonies, and adopted Rousseau's humanist views on the meaning of music. "The purpose of music in the [Masonic] ceremonies is to spread good thoughts and unity among the members" so that they may be "united in the idea of innocence and joy.”
Mozart incorporated Masonic and Pythagorean symbolism into his opera The Magic Flute.
Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
Founded the Theory of Evolution
Eramus Darwin, Charles Darwin’s grandfather, was a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham and had been a freemason his whole life.
Erasmus Darwin developed a theory of universal transformation. His major works, The Botanic Garden (1792), Zoonomia (1794–96), and The Temple of Nature all touched on the transformation of organic creatures.
Transmutation was one of the names commonly used for evolutionary ideas in the 19th century. Transmutation had previously been used as a term in alchemy to describe the transformation of base metals into gold.
Francis Darwin, Charles Darwin’s uncle, was made a Freemason at Tyrian Lodge, No. 253 in 1807 AD and his descendants were all also Freemasons.
The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine from 1919 AD - 1935 AD said:
“ The theory of evolution (hitpattehut) is increasingly conquering the world at this time, and, more so than all other philosophical theories, conforms to the kabbalistic secrets of the world.”
Nikola Tesla (1856 AD - 1943 AD)
Nikola Tesla was heavily influenced by Goethe's Faust, his favorite poem, and had actually memorized the entire text. It was while reciting a certain verse that he was struck with the epiphany that would lead to the idea of the rotating magnetic field and ultimately, alternating current.
In the Poem Faust, the protagonist Faust summoned satan using a pentagram that was missing one side. The architect of Washington D.C., Pierre Charles L’Enfant, added the same pentagram missing one side into the streets of the city.
Faust struggled with what he considers the vanity and uselessness of scientific, humanistic, and religious learning, turns to magic for the showering of infinite knowledge. Faust then makes a blood pact with Satan to grant him an experience of transcendence on Earth.
Elon Musk uses Tesla’s name for Electric Car company and uses a goat head for the logo. Goat of Mendes is tied directly to the upside down pentagram. Elon Musk also wore a the goat of Mendes symbol for a Halloween party in 2022.
The Vibrational Healing Device that Tesla tried to create was based off of Pythagoras, who also tried to create musical medicine through math.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Einstein stated this about his religious views:
"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. I believe in Spinoza's God"
Spinoza’s God is in reference to the 1677 AD book called Ethics (Spinoza book), written by Baruch Spinoza, who was a leading Enlightenment philosopher of Poruguese-Jewish origin and was very critical of the Bible.
Spinoza's first publication was his 1663 geometric exposition of proofs using Euclid's model with definitions and axioms of Descartes' Principles of Philosophy.
The 3:4:5 right triangle is among the essential symbols of Freemasonry, demonstrating Euclid’s 47th Problem. The divine mother, father and son are represented by this triangle.
Albert Einstein believed that a scientist may also be "a Platonist or a Pythagorean insofar as he considers the viewpoint of logical simplicity as an indispensable and effective tool of his research."
So what does this all mean?
The foundations of our society has been built upon the occult’s way of life. Alchemy is taught in every school, it has shaped the way our society functions, and has penetrated the minds of men.
After creating this thread, it has given me more questions than answers but hopefully this is the start of more uncovering into the truth.
Anon_fa_mous, you have been so gifted in research and connections within the world history of knowledge! “Dante wrote that Pythagoras saw Unity as Good and Plurality as Evil.....” So, now we know the occult root of the desire for a one world governance!
I’ve observed one truism in life and your article demonstrates this. Whatever is created for good WILL be used for evil.
This will continue until the evil one’s time of influence over earth comes to an end, as we know it will. We also now clearly see why God sending His Son for His chosen was such a threat....and still is in the form of believers.
God’s time is infinite and we know how this ends!🙏. Another article I’m saving for my reference! God bless you, Anon_fa-mous.🙏🙏
This is really heavy. God has blessed you with the ability to break it down. Thank you and God continue to bless you.