Why Didn’t Anyone Want to Buy Newton’s Legacy
Question: When the great Newton died, his relatives wanted to sell his writings. Naturally, they wanted to get hundreds of thousands of pounds for it.
Buyers came from the Cambridge Library, from the British National Museum, bishops, and so on. They would open Newton’s writings, start reading them and pushed them away as if it were a plague. His work remained untouched for many, many years.
The fact is, Newton believed in one God. Among other things, he quoted Rambam and followed the Jewish sages.
He wrote about the uniqueness of God, who created everything, who transmitted knowledge about the system of the universe to the first man—Adam, and then to the chosen few up to Abraham, and then to the Jewish people. This is how Newton defined the role of the Jews in the world history.
However, in a direct way, the secrets were accessible to very few. That is, they were accessible to Moses and carefully encrypted in the structure of the Jerusalem Temple. So, Newton began studying the Jerusalem Temple. In every turn and corner, he saw the harmony of the universe and wrote about it.
I do not know if it is possible to make such a comparison, but Abraham and Moses got such access to the Creator, so Newton wanted to get it too. That is, he wanted to break through to the Creator by means of science. Is it possible or not?
Answer: Through science? I think not. Many people wanted to break through science to a vision of the upper world, the upper governance, but no one was allowed to do it that way.
Question: Can you tell us why? Basically, did he take the first steps?
Answer: On the outside, he took external steps toward this in his discoveries.
Question: Yes, and he also studied Hebrew. But why is it not allowed?
Answer: The fact is you cannot reveal it that way. One must discover new instruments for attaining nature and make it so that nature would reveal itself to him. That is, from the side of man to the Creator and from the side of the Creator to man. I do not think this is possible except through Kabbalah and the science of Kabbalah. In fact, many have tried to accomplish this, but encountered such restrictions that they could not achieve this.
Question: So, after such attempts, is there no opening appearing in the heart or somewhere inside a person?
Answer: It opens up a little and it is opening, in fact, in science.
Question: And then one goes back to science?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: So, this fulfillment of the scientist—shuts everything down.
Answer: You can see how it happens. From generation to generation science somehow moves forward in small steps, but it is in fact not allowed to go further.
Question: You have been doing this all your life, and you say, “Only through Kabbalah.” You seemed to have tried to break through both the scientific method and the method of Kabbalah. And you still say: “Through Kabbalah?”
Answer: Yes.
Comment: Here we have one point you keep talking about called “faith above reason.” That is, the scientist follows the mind. The Kabbalist follows faith above reason.
My Response: Yes.
Question: For regular people, can you explain again what is it, what is the difference between the other sciences if faith is above reason?
Answer: I cannot explain it. A person should seriously engage in self-education, but not from other methods or sources.
Comment: Not psychology.
My Response: This is not psychology. One must position himself in relation to nature so nature will let him in.
It lets you in when a person is ready to serve it in everything for the sake of attaining nature. That is, for the Creator to be above all else for him. This is not a religious attachment to the Creator, but rather a devotion to the Creator in the idea, the adhesion to the Creator.
Question: What is the difference between religion and the science of Kabbalah in this case? You said: “This is not a religion.” Religion too has a direction, it has a specific aim. But here?
Answer: Here one must follow the commandments of the Creator in order to attain Him.
Question: But not there?
Answer: No, religion does not offer a direction to attain the Creator; no.
Question: So why do I follow the commandments?
Answer: To follow His external instructions, external laws.
Question: But this point of attaining Him is missing?
Answer: Yes, although you cannot explain it at all. You need to study and little by little begin to understand what is required of you.
Question: So it still requires me to change?
Answer: Yes.
Question: At what point do I realize I have to change? I keep studying and studying—at what point?
Answer: When complete self-annulment is required.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/8/24
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