ISAAC NEWTON'S SECRET

In today's debate between science and religion, there seems to be no common ground. That is, there appears to be none to those unenlightened by history. Sir Isaac Newton, the man most often associated with the creation of science and its separation from religion, was secretly one of the founders of Freemasonry. In the book, "Isaac Newton's Freemasonry: The Alchemy of Science and Mysticism (Inner Traditions), Alain Bauer, the author, tells the tale of how this famous first scientist envisioned expressing spirituality through the scientific method. His science was rooted in the Hermetic tradition including alchemy. The origins of science were founded on a spiritual impulse to move beyond the constraints of institutional religion to express more universal spiritual truths.