Nuclear Power and the Demonic

Tucker Carlson wondered aloud if nuclear power was given to us by demons seeing how destructive it is and how hard it is to trace out who really came up with the technology.  He also thinks it’s not an accident Christians were targeted by its usage (the main Christian community in 1945 in Japan was Nagasaki). 

At the very least nuclear power as a weapon is something only the devil would love. 

The line between inspiration and perspiration is often thin like the line between divine assistance and human effort in someone like Mother Teresa. Where man ends and the supernatural begins is often a hard to determine but in reading about nuclear history there are some interesting nuggets. 

If there was a conduit between the natural and supernatural one could start with British scientist Frederick Soddy (and look at Ernest Rutherford and James Chadwick as well). None of these men would be allergic to demonic influence, being atheists and one an anti-Semite. Soddy especially seems friendly to the occult. 

Interesting that the book of Genesis and Enoch have parts in which it is said that an alien or ancient race communicated scientific knowledge.  

From an article: 

In 1921, Frederick Soddy won the Noble Prize in chemistry for his research into radioactive substances and his studies of isotopes, yet curiously this Oxford scientist mused about a ‘forgotten race of men’. What were the relations between Soddy, the Theosophical Society of Madame Blavatsky and Atlantis, if any? There have been many speculations on the theme of highly advanced ancient knowledge, leading to an abundant number of works that border, unintentionally, on fiction. Authors such as Charles Hapgood, for example, put forward conjectures as to lost ancient civilizations that were capable of mapping the entire globe.

Radium is not a substance that one readily connects with mysticism; but through a peculiar series of connections between science, speculation, and spiritual beliefs, one can trace a direct line from a scholarly work on the characteristics of radium from the Oxford professor Frederick Soddy’s The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom, all the way to the Theosophical doctrines of Blavatsky and ideas on lost knowledge.

In 1875, Blavatsky and two colleagues founded the Theosophical Society. Blavatsky was deeply interested in the origins and meaning of various world religions, the beginnings of human civilization, and the connection between esoteric knowledge and contemporary science and technology. She believed in Atlantis as an historical fact, and held that part of the human race had its origins there. 

Theosophy’s rise in a period of intense scientific and technological development, during the late 19th century is not as contradictory as it might seem. As the historian of science Jeff Hughes notes: ‘One of a number of systems of belief that came to prominence in this period as alternatives to organized religion and scientific rationalism, theosophy drew on ideas from Eastern philosophy, mysticism and ancient occult traditions dating back to Pythagoras. Its blend of esoteric wisdom and spiritual philosophy... appealed to Victorian audiences disenchanted by the materialism of much modern science... In particular, theosophy’s emphasis on esoteric wisdom gave it a strong appeal to intellectuals. They saw in it a way of exploring and expressing hidden realities in an increasingly materialistic world...”