Think About the Place Where You Live

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. ²

Leo Tolstoy
The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Another reason why the Greeks rejected Aristarchus’ Solar
System was its apparent failure to stand up to scientific scrutiny.
Aristarchus had built a model of the universe that was supposed to match reality, but it was not clear that his model was accurate.

Did the Earth really orbit the Sun? ³

Simon Singh
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

The Square is a right angle, formed by two right lines. It is adapted only to a plane surface, and belongs only to geometry, earth-measurement, that trigonometry which deals only with planes, and with the earth, which the ancients supposed to be a plane. The Compass describes circles, and deals with spherical trigonometry, the science of the spheres and heavens. ⁵

Albert Pike
Morals and Dogma

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, or simply Morals and Dogma, is a book of esoteric philosophy published by the Supreme Council, Thirty Third Degree, of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction of the United States. It was compiled by Albert Pike, was first published in 1871 and was regularly reprinted thereafter until 1969. ⁶

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Well, we ain’t sure where you stand
You ain’t machines, and you ain’t land

And the plants and the animals, they are linked
And the plants and the animals eat each other

Modest Mouse
Never Ending Math Equation

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 by an ugly fact.’ ¹⁰

Simon Singh
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

First, the Greeks expected that if the Earth moved then we
would feel a constant wind blowing against us, and we would be swept off our feet as the ground raced from under us.
However, we feel no such constant wind, and neither is the ground tugged away, so the Greeks concluded that the Earth must be stationary. ¹¹

Simon Singh
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

Being a sphere, it therefore had to be a finite object, with a finite—that is, limited—surface area. With this awakening the ideas of world trade and related colonial proprietary rights were born. ¹⁵

L. Fletcher Prouty

Albert Pike (December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891) was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in exile from 1864 to 1865. He had previously served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, commanding the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. A prominent member of the Freemasons, Pike served as the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 to 1891.

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Leroy Fletcher Prouty (January 24, 1917 – June 5, 2001)^[1] served as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President John F. Kennedy. A colonel in the United States Air Force, he retired from military service to become a bank executive. He subsequently became a critic of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the covert activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which he believed was working on behalf of a secret world elite.

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