Monk, can you comment on some of the following quotes from Sir Isaac Newton who is recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, at least in relation to your assertion that he was a student of Cabbalism.
''This most beautiful System of the Sun, Planets and Comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. And if the fixed Stars are the centers of other like systems, these being form'd by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially, since the light of the fixed Stars is of the same nature with the light of the Sun, and from every system light passes into all the other systems. And lest the systems of the fixed Stars should, by their gravity, fall on each other mutually, he hath placed those Systems at immense distances one from another...'' -
http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/vi...ized/NATP00056
''This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all: And on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God παντοκράτωρ, or Universal Ruler. For God is a relative word, and has a respect to servants; and Deity is the dominion of God not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants. The supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect; but a being, however perfect, without dominion, cannot be said to be Lord God; for we say, my God, your God, the God of Israel, the God of Gods, and Lord of Lords; but we do not say, my Eternal, your Eternal, the Eternal of Israel, the Eternal of Gods; we do not say, my Infinite, or my Perfect: These are titles which have no respect to servants. The word God usually signifies Lord; but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God; a true, supreme or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme or imaginary God. And from his true dominion it follows, that the true God is a Living, Intelligent, and Powerful Being; and from his other perfections, that he is Supreme, or most Perfect.'' - Newton 1968, Principles, vol. 2, p. 389.
[[20r]] For there were certain principles of religion preached by the Apostles from the beginning, & in which all men were to be instructed before baptism by catechizing them, & there were many other truths which they were to learn after baptism by studying the scriptures to the end of their lives. The Principles the Apostle compares to milk to be given to babes, the other truths to strong meat which belongeth to men of full age .... (MS. Bodmer, Ch. 2, p. 20),6 Newton goes on to tell us that these "Milk" doctrines are "repentance from dead works, faith in God, Baptism, laying on of hands, & the doctrine of the resurrection & day of judgment...." (MS. Bodmer, Ch. 2, p. 20) 77 - quoted from Goldish, M. (2013). Judaism in the theology of Sir Isaac Newton (Vol. 157). Springer Science & Business Media.
''And I think it is not to be doubted but that the hereticks of the circumcision who before their conversion were instructed in the Jewish Cabbala and other fabulous traditions of that nation, would borrow some opinions from thence. For the Apostle in opposition to the first heresies admonishes the Christians not to give heed to Jewish fables endless geneologies & oppositions of science falsly so called [[1 Timothy 6:20]] .... (Yahuda MS. 15.3, p. 53r)
By Jewish fables he means the fables delivered down by tradition among the Jews in their Cabbala, by endless genealogies, the genealogies of the Sephiroths & separate intelligencies in those
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] which may be multiplied to infmity, & by oppositions of science falsely so called the disputes of the Gnosticks & contentions which were apt to arise amongst those who pretended to skill & understanding in this sort of Theology falsely called science. These hereticks & their disciples from their boasting of knowledge were called Gnosticks, & gloried in the name. (Yahuda MS. 15.7, p. 1l0r)26'' - ibid.
''They err therefore saith Irenaeus in ascribing to God the affections & passions of men & making him a compound. For God is not as man nor are his thoughts like ours. He is simple & not compound. He is all like & equal to himself all sense all spirit all perception all Ennaea all Logos, all ear, all eye all light. He is all sense which cannot be separated from it self, nor is there any thing in him wch can be emitted from any thing else. Thus does Irenaeus represent & confute the Metaphysicks of the Gnosticks. (Yahuda MS. 15.7, p. 128r)'' - ibid.
The ancient heresies consisted chiefly in certain cabbalistical & heathen opinions superstitions & impieties web some converted Jews & Gentiles had imbibed before their conversion & would not relinquish but mixed with the Christian religion. And the chief of those opinions was that all things came from one first Being by emanation, emission, dilatation or projection of substance & were animated by him & returned into him: & that all the Gods were either parts or powers of the Supreme God & by unity of substance were but one God; & that the chief of them were begotten of the supreme God & of one another successively before the world began or at least before the flood. For these were the opinions of the ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks <& Cabbalists> & is the opinion of the Indian Brachmans to this day. (MS. Bodmer, Ch. 4, p.lr.)
From this opinion [[emanation]] came the metaphysical philosophy of the heathens about the origin of the world the generation & nature of the Gods & the transmigration of souls. And this doctrine of Daemons [[!]] was as old as the Idolatry of the heathens. For their Idolatry was grounded upon it. And therefore Moses to prevent the spreading of this sort of Philosophy among the Israelites wrote the history of the creation of the world in a very different manner from the Cosmogenies of the heathens, attributing the production of all things to the immediate will of the supreme God. Yet the Israelites by conversing with the heathens frequently lapsed into the worship of their Gods & by consequence received their Theology until they were captivated for these transgressions. And afterwards by conversing wth the <Babylonians> Chaldaeans <Assyrians, Egyptians & Persians> Egyptians & Greeks they imbibed their metaphysical Theology as is manifest by the Cabala ofy· Jews web consists chiefly in describing how the first Being ... emitted ten gradual subordinate emanations .... (Yahuda MS. 15.7, p. 137r)20