Magus #9: Sir Isaac Newton

Magus #9: Sir Isaac Newton

From The Three Ravens Podcast by Three Ravens

April 6, 2026 · 1h 12m · Season 7 · Episode 76

About this episode

This episode explores the magical life of Sir Isaac Newton during the Enlightenment, highlighting his scientific achievements and occult pursuits.

For our April 2026 episode of Magus we're plunging elbow-deep into the Enlightenment to talk about the magical life of Sir Isaac Newton! Arriving on this planet during the first few months of the English Civil War, Newton was abandoned by his mother, raised by his dead father's parents, and was a vengeful, mischievous child. After a fist-fight in a churchyard during his early teens Newton turned things around, becoming the top student at his local Grammar School, earning a scholarship to Trinity College Cambridge. The standard view of Newton's life was then that, while refusing to complete his training to become a priest, he also made some of the most important discoveries in all of physics. What people speak less of is his occult life, which remained hidden until the 1930s. For Newton laboured for 27 years seeking the Philosopher's Stone, translating the works of Hermes Trismegistus, reading myths and legends and alchemical formulae, and doing terrible things to his own health. A tale of secretive obsessions, heretical beliefs, and monk-like solitude, as Keynes said of him, "He was not the first of the Age of Reason by the Last of the Magicians." We really hope you enjoy! Speak…

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Hosts: Martin Vaux, Eleanor Conlon

Topics covered

  • Enlightenment
  • Sir Isaac Newton
  • occult life
  • Philosopher's Stone
  • alchemy
  • history

Keywords

  • Sir Isaac Newton
  • Enlightenment
  • occult
  • alchemy
  • Philosopher's Stone
  • history
  • English Civil War

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