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by John Chambers


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  About the Author

  John Chambers (1939–2017) had a Master of Arts in English from the University of Toronto and spent three years at the University of Paris. He was the author of Victor Hugo’s Conversations with the Spirit World and The Secret Life of Genius. He wrote for Atlantis Rising magazine and contributed essays to Forbidden Religion: Suppressed Heresies of the West.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Chambers, John, 1939–2017, author.

  Title: The metaphysical world of Isaac Newton : alchemy, prophecy, and the search for lost knowledge / John Chambers.

  Description: Rochester, VT : Destiny Books, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017020306 (print) | LCCN 2017050113 (e-book) |

  print ISBN: 9781620552049

  ebook ISBN: 9781620552056

  Subjects: LCSH: Newton, Issac, 1642–1727. | Philosophy, Medieval. | Philosophical theology. | Theology.

  Classification: LCC B1299.N34 C43 2018 (print) | LCC B1299.N34 (ebook) | DDC 192—dc23

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  INDEX

  All page numbers are refer to the print edition of this title.

  Abraham (biblical figure), 62, 172,

  180, 258, 269, 284–85

  Adam (biblical figure), 30, 108n,

  109n, 195, 201, 231–32, 341

  Adams, Mark, 299

  alchemy, 310–12, 310n, 313–14

  “astronomical theology,” 316–17

  Boyle, 308, 309, 315, 319–20, 321–23

  Cooper, 305–7, 309

  currencies, 273n, 307–8, 308n

  decomposition, 303–4, 313

  Emerald Tablet, 313, 412–13

  Hartlib, 309

  as legal/illegal, 307–10

  Locke, 309, 321–23

  as love/worship of God, 319

  Needham, 311, 314, 320–21

  the Net, 315–17, 316n

  Newman, 315, 316, 317–18, 323–24

  Newton, 273n, 307–10, 312–13,

  314–15, 316–19, 321–24, 363, 373

  papacy, 308

  Philosophers’ (Angels’) Stone,

  273n, 308, 312, 315, 317, 319,

  322, 326, 327

  Principe, 315–16, 317, 322

  Principia (Newton), 319

  prisca sapientia, 316–17

  as secret of life, 307, 317–18, 324

  Starkey, 318–19

  vegetative spirit, 304–5, 307,

  324

  Alexander of Alexandria, 69, 70–71,

  88, 89, 92, 93

  Alexander of Constantinople, 69, 79,

  81, 83, 88, 89–90

  Alexander the Great, 40, 68, 90, 92,

  93, 212, 252–53

  Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 178

  Amichai, Yehuda, 172

  Amihay, Aryeh, 208, 209

  Anaxagoras of Clazomene, 337–41,

  341n

  Anthony (saint)

  and Athanasius, 69–70, 119, 121,

  123–25, 126, 127, 129

  death of, 305

  Flaubert on, 120–21

  idolatry/religious relics, 119, 124,

  126–27

  literacy, 127–28

  Newton on, 70, 120, 121–28

  supernatural experiences, 122,

  124–25, 126

  Antichrist, 22, 23, 28, 128, 154, 161,

  176, 183

  Antigonus Gonatas, 278–80, 281

  Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 40–41,

  187

  anti-Trinitarianism, 47–48

  Arius, 22, 60–61, 69, 71, 75, 78, 79,

  83, 88, 89

  corruptions of Scripture, 46,

  48–49, 55–56

  Jews, 64, 182

  and love/worship of God, 387–88

  Snobelen, 48, 58

  Apion, Peter, 243

  Apocalypse, 21, 22, 23, 29, 134–35,

  136, 137–38, 144–48, 154–55,

  175, 177, 224, 385–87

  Apocalypse in 2060, 15–16, 148, 162,

  166, 167, 168–70, 169

  Aratus, 278, 279, 280–84, 282n

  Archimedes, 280, 333, 360, 363, 377,

  378–80

  Arianism

  Anthanius, 82, 84–85

  Constantius, 82, 114–15

  Melitius, 88

  Newton, 10, 60, 225, 227, 236,

  308

  Whiston, 236

  Aristarchus of Samos, 330, 331–36,

  335n, 360

  Aristotle, 8, 220, 302, 338, 339,

  347–48, 353, 360

  Arius, 60

  anti-Trinitarianism, 22, 60–61, 69,

  71, 75, 78, 79, 83, 88

  Council of Nicaea, 74–75, 77,

  80–81, 89

  death in boghouse as mythical, 77,

  79–81, 83, 113, 114, 119

  excommunication/admittance back

  into church, 75, 78–79, 98, 109

  Ark of the Covenant, 34, 172–73,

  176

  Armageddon, 154, 162–63, 169, 171,

  175, 176

  Arsenius, 85, 95, 101–4, 105, 111–12,

  113–14, 119

  Aspasia, 339, 340, 341, 342

  astronomy

  Anaxagoras, 337–38

  Aristarchus, 330

  “astronomical theology,” 204,

  316–17, 388

  celestial bodies, 229–30, 338, 348,

  349–50, 354

  central fire, 344, 347–49

  constellations, 272–73, 278, 279,

  283–84, 285–87, 326–27

  day-equals-year formula, 185

  earthquakes, 249, 276

  equinoxes, 276–78

  Flamsteed, 220

  Greenwich Observatory, 220–21

  historical records, 275–76, 278

  music/music of the spheres, 353–54

  orbital velocities, 193, 241, 332, 354

  prophetic hieroglyphs, 317

  star globe, 272, 274, 276, 278, 280,

  283–84, 285, 286–87

  Athanasius, 70, 92–93

  and Anthony (saint), 69–70, 119,

  121, 123–25, 126, 127, 129

  as Antichrist, 22

  as Archbishop of Alexandria, 71,

  92–95, 97–106, 109–10, 115–17

  and Arius’s mythical death, 81, 83

  and Arsenius’s death, 85, 95, 102,

  103–4, 105, 111–12, 113–14, 119

  and Constantius, 115–17

  corruptions of Scripture, 50, 69

  Council at Alexandria, 93, 112–13

  Council of Nicaea, 70–71, 74–75,

  88, 89, 116

  Council of Tyre, 97–106, 109–10,

  113, 119

  exile of, 81–83, 111, 114, 118, 123–24

  forged letters by, 93, 105–6,

  111–12, 113–14, 119

  Great Apostasy, 85, 138–39, 151, 156

  idolatry/religious relics, 85, 119,

  124, 126–27

  lies, 127, 128, 129

  Melitians versus, 95–96

  monasticism, 122

  severed hand myth, 85, 101–2, 104,

  111, 114

  supernatural experiences, 122,

  124–25

  Trinitarianism, 22, 55, 60–61, 63,

  65, 69, 70–71, 75, 83, 94, 117–18,

  138, 156

  Whore of Babylon, 129

  Atlantis

  Aristotle, 302

  Chronology (Newton), 289, 293,


  294, 295–96, 300–302

  chronology, global, 293

  Egerton Sykes Collection, 289–90

  flood, Ogygian, 289, 294–95

  Luce on, 293–94

  Maltese archipelago, 289, 296–99,

  302

  Ogygia/Gozo island, 289, 294–95,

  296, 297, 298, 299–300

  Plato, 290, 292, 293, 294, 295–96,

  298, 299, 302

  Solon, 290, 291–92, 293–94, 302

  atomic bomb, 384–85

  Augustine, 127

  Bach, Johann Sebastian, 136, 381

  Bacon, Francis, 375–76, 377

  Bacon, Roger, 305, 318, 327

  Barrow, Isaac, 8, 9, 303

  Basil of Caesarea, 95

  Bedford, Arthur, 178

  Belisarius, Flavius, 158

  Bentley, Richard, 29, 49, 321

  Bible code, 18, 23–26, 153

  Blake, William, 223, 232, 331, 344

  Bondi, Hermann, 2

  Book of Daniel, 38

  day-equals-year formula, 42, 167,

  186–87, 188, 190

  divine plan, 35–36, 41

  Great Apostasy, 163–64, 166, 186,

  187

  Judgment Day, 179

  prophetic hieroglyphs, 33–37, 144,

  163–64

  return of the Jews, 171, 184, 189,

  190, 191

  studies of, 28–36, 38–41

  synchronistical necessity, 38, 41–42

  visions in, 39–40, 375

  Book of Revelation, 18–19, 20,

  21–22, 23, 129

  Apocalypse, 21, 22, 29, 134–35,

  136, 137–38, 144–47, 148,

  169–70

  channeled texts, 62, 136–38, 143,

  146, 148, 149, 155, 160

  Christianity and Constantine, 76

  corruptions of Scripture, 140

  day-equals-year formula, 42,

  168–69, 184

  divine plan, 32, 35–36, 37, 387

  earthquakes, 22, 149, 150

  flood of fire/diluvium ignis, 155,

  158–59

  future history, 42–43, 140–41,

  143, 149–50, 156, 159–60,

  169–71

  Great Apostasy, 139, 139n, 143,

  148, 161, 162–63, 164, 387

  Judgment Day, 152–53

  proof of existence of God, 26, 43

  prophetic hieroglyphs, 33–37,

  143–44, 146, 148, 149–50,

  155–61

  return of the Jews, 162–63

  scholarship, 28–38, 29, 42–43,

  139n

  surrealist images in, 20–21, 33, 147

 

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