The Great White Brotherhood
in the Science of the Polish Nation
 

Nicolaus Copernicus
1473-1543
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God
who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use."—Galileo Galilei

"The comparatively few have the misunderstood gift of genius,
and yet God did create all men equal in the sense that all have equal opportunity
to attain the crown of Life and then, with that attainment, to go onward into infinite excellence.
In the spiritual realm there is never any competition, for the very nature of attainment itself
precludes the very possibility of competition."—Master R, The Soulless One, 'Identity'

"Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man? . . . Man has access
to the entire mind of the Creator, is himself the creator in the finite."—Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Of all discoveries and theories none may have had a greater effect upon human spirit
than the doctrine of Copernicus. The world had scarcely become known
as round and complete when it was asked to give up its tremendous privilege
of being the center of the universe. Never, perhaps, was a greater demand made on mankind
—for by this admission so much irretrievably vanished into thin air!

"What became of our Eden, our world of innocence, piety and poetry;
our testimony of the senses, our poetic or religious faith?
No wonder Copernicus' contemporaries did not wish to let all of this go
and offered every possible resistance to the doctrine which demanded from its believers
freedom of convictions and greatness of thought so far unknown,
indeed not even dreamt of."—Goethe


"Geometry is a science explained by Pythagoras and demonstrated by him. It is the science of God and its formulas are illustrative of the fact of the very energy of life that can be focused in the angle, in the pyramid, in the octagon, in the cell structure that is also geometric.

"Form itself designed by God is a protection for the eternal Flame. Even the form you wear has a design of the star-fire body intended to be, geometrically speaking, the ultimate protection for the soul. The geometry of the chakras and the beauty of the unfolding of the flower becomes a model of contemplation that ought to be considered when designing the physical temple.

"The poem that is “lovely as a tree” reflected in these evergreens high in the Himalayas and in the Rocky Mountains of the north presents an exquisite design that also has a formula whereby life is enhanced and the sacred energies of nature are released. Even the starry bodies and the rays that come to earth to stimulate the very growth of the hairs on your head are eternally and perfectly designed.

"Thus, beauty and mathematics, proportion and the golden ratio serve to enhance the message of the Word itself. Thus, we sought and ever seek in our retreat to bring to life the ancient records of akasha of the great souls who have ensouled a living flame. We study the geometry of virtue as it can be seen in the etheric plane. We study the dimensions of the aura and how the vibrations of light and their harmony enable the individual to carry greater and greater light.

"We would transfer to our teachers in our schools here some understanding of the necessity
for grace and line and movement, which brings us to the subject—whether of yoga or ballet or the dance or marching—of the natural grace of the soul that ought to be expressed in the body form for the release of fohat, for the release of the sacred fire breath. Patterns of sound and music outpictured become the means for the opening of the heart chakra, the lessening of tension and therefore the increase of love and appreciation for life.

"We come back then to the purpose of art to enhance the love of Christ always. The shepherds of the people who contain that pure love will neither lead them astray nor abandon the people in the hour of tragedy or danger.

"Thus, when there is the loss of Christ, of the divine spark and the light of the soul, all else suffers and art is no longer true; and there is a violation and abuse of science. That which can never lie is mathematics itself. People may attempt to fool one another by the manipulation of statistics, but number itself cannot be denied. And the number one as the Law of the One comes back to the central point of love—the Great Central Sun."

Paul the Venetian

Mikolaj Kopernik [Nicolaus Copernicus] is a founder of modern astronomy. He graduated in mathematics and optics from the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland; in canon law from the University of Bologna, Italy. On his return from Italy Copernicus became a canon of the Frombork cathedral where he continued a sheltered academic life for the rest of his days.

For relaxation Copernicus painted and translated Greek poetry into Latin. His interest in astronomy grew gradually, his quiet research was carried out alone, without assistance or consultation. His astronomical observations were made 'bare eyeball' as a century was still to pass before the invention of a telescope.

In 1530 Nicolaus Copernicus presented his great work "De Revolutionibus" to the world, in which he asserted that the earth rotated on its axis once daily and circled the sun once annually: indeed a fantastic concept for the times. Until Copernicus' days the western world believed in the Ptolemean theory that the universe was a sphere suspended in a void.

At about 150 A.D. Claudius Ptolemy, an Egyptian from Alexandria developed a theory that the earth was a fixed, inert, immovable mass firmly positioned in the center of the universe. All celestial bodies, including the sun and fixed stars, revolved around it.

Copernicus was in no hurry to publish his new theory though parts of his work were circulated among a few of his colleagues; indeed Copernicus' work might not have ever been published if not for a young man who sought out the master in 1539. George Rheticus was a 25-year-old German math teacher who read one of Copernicus' papers and was fascinated with his theories.

Copernicus' reluctance to publish was not due to his concern what the church might say about his novel theory ("De Revolutionibus" was placed on the famous and infamous Church Index in 1616 and removed only in 1835) but rather because he was a perfectionist. Even after working on his theory for thirty years, Copernicus did not believe that his work was finished—there still were observations to be checked and rechecked.

The original manuscript of "De Revolutionibus" was lost for 300 years and eventually found in Prague in the middle of the XIXth century. The MS shows that throughout his life Copernicus was continually adding revision after revision; all in Latin, as was en vogue for scholarly writings in those days.

Copernicus died in 1543, never to hear of the stir his work would cause. His theory went against any and all philosophical and religious beliefs of the mediaeval times. Two other Italian scientists of the century, Galileo and Bruno unreservedly embraced the Copernican doctrine and both greatly suffered at the hands of the ever-powerful church inquisitors.

Bruno was one of the most brilliant men of his day
. He instructed the French king Henry III in the art of memory, taught philosophy at the University of Toulouse and mingled with the literary circle that surrounded England's Queen Elizabeth I. His prolific and unusual writings gained a small but ardent following.

He was either far ahead of or far behind his times. His ideas about the universe presaged some of the discoveries of twentieth-century physics. But Bruno was not a scientist. In the nineteenth century, intellectuals revered him as a martyr to scientific inquiry and freedom of thought, largely for his defense of Copernicus' sun-centered view of the solar system.

Bruno even shared enemies with the Copernicans—one of his inquisitors, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, would also question Galileo about his observations that the earth revolved around the sun. However, Bruno did not share Copernicus' scientific world view.

It was mysticism and philosophy that brought Bruno to his vision of innumerable worlds. Bruno agreed with Copernicus that the earth could not be the center of the universe. But, as he saw it, neither was the sun. He believed the earth was only one among an infinite number of worlds.

At a time when most people thought the stars were permanently pasted to the sky, Bruno detailed his revolutionary beliefs: "There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void; in it are innumerable globes like this on which we live and grow. This space we declare to be infinite . . . In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own."

For Bruno, the idea of infinite worlds opened the door to the idea of infinite human possibility. If there are infinite worlds, then why can't there be infinite opportunity in which to explore them? A person, whether in or out of a body, Bruno wrote, "is never completed. He has the opportunity to experience life in different forms. Even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter."

The Church would later claim that Bruno was not burned for his defense of Copernicus or for his doctrine of infinite worlds but rather for his theological errors and belief in magic. But trial records reveal that both infinite worlds and reincarnation were at issue. The two ideas appear in his original indictment, which also accused Bruno—still officially a monk—of boasting of his female conquests and joking about the final judgment.

Bruno was tried by the Inquisition, condemned and burned at the stake in 1600 for his belief in Copernican theories. Galileo, threatened with torture and death in 1633, was forced to renounce on his knees any and all association with Copernican ideas and was thereafter sentenced to life imprisonment.

Goethe wrote: "Of all discoveries and theories none may have had a greater effect upon human spirit than the doctrine of Copernicus. The world had scarcely become known as round and complete when it was asked to give up its tremendous privilege of being the center of the universe. Never, perhaps, was a greater demand made on mankind—for by this admission so much irretrievably vanished into thin air!

"What became of our Eden, our world of innocence, piety and poetry; our testimony of the senses, our poetic or religious faith? No wonder Copernicus' contemporaries did not wish to let all of this go and offered every possible resistance to the doctrine which demanded from its believers freedom of convictions and greatness of thought so far unknown, indeed not even dreamt of."

 

Pitagorejskie koncepty
i heliocentryczny system
Mikolaja Kopernika

(Pythagorean Concepts
and N. Copernicus)

Kuthumi's Embodiments
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Giordano Bruno
— w obronie Kopernika

Giordano Bruno In Defense of Copernicus

Elizabeth C. Prophet
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