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ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

nant of humanity salvaged in spite of themselves and in face of stupendous difficulties by the great white lodge- 81- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust two points warrant attention here. the first and least important from the standpoint of the soul is the disappearance off the earth of practically all signs of the wonderful atlantean civilisation except for those few archaeological treasures which intrigue and interest modern research workers, plus those dim memories of ancient scientific achievement which lead the modern student to investigation and invention, and which incite him to discovery and the production of what we call the triumphs of modern science. the second point is that for the good of humanity, the hierarchy withdrew into the background, leavin

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ilosophical inquiry. it is fully possible to have a rational faith in very large ideas (such as the essential nature of human consciousness) without having to simply "accept" it because religion, cultural ideology or socialization have told you that it is so. the alternative to this "blind acceptance of dogma" is to carefully evaluate the known facts from largely unbiased data such as scientific, archaeological and well developed philosophical concepts and then come to your own conclusions. sometimes to successfully accomplish this task one must learn very new thinhgs such as a new language, or go to school and take some courses in philosophy or to create a unique art. this is part of the responsibility that the antinomian praxis demands of its adherents. through the utilization of the pro

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

6 see blondeau 1998. 7 see blondeau 1971; bellezza 1997; dargyay 1985; karmay 1998c, d, e, and f; kel nyi 2003; kirkland 1982; and stuart 1995. blondeau s article is an outline of a prominent tibetan text on the various classes of tibetan deities 4 tibet, with the advantages of being more recent and organized. it also attempts a broad overview of important deity cults in tibet, taking a primarily archaeological approach supported by textual and ethnographic materials. it is impressive for this scope, but bellezza s central arguments are too speculative and rest too heavily on his own personal opinions and beliefs. due to the deficiencies still present in the study of tibetan protector deities, this discussion hopes to contribute to further dialogue on the subject. nonetheless, my methodolo

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ts found by mr. rivett-carnac "of different sizes varying from six inches to an inch-and-a-half in diameter, and in depth from one to one-and-a-half inch. generally arranged in perpendicular lines presenting many permutations in the number and size and arrangement of the cups- are simply written records of the oldest races. whosoever examines with attention the drawings made of such marks in the "archaeological notes on ancient sculpturing on rocks in kumaon, india, etc" will find in it the most primitive style of marking or recording; something of the sort having been adopted by the american inventors of the morse code of telegraphic writing, which reminds us of the ahgam writing, a combination of iong and short strokes, as mr. rivett-carnac describes it "cut on sandstone" sweden, norway

fic theories and speculations. however it may be, the records of the temples, zodiacal and traditional, as well as the ideographic records of the east, as read by the[[vol. 2, page] 439 modern science mistrusted. adepts of the sacred science and vidya, are not a whit more doubtful than the so-called ancient history of the european nations, now edited, corrected, and amplified by half a century of archaeological discoveries, and the very problematical readings of the assyrian tiles, cuneiform fragments, and egyptian hieroglyphics. so are our data based upon the same readings, in addition to an almost inexhaustible number of secret works of which europe knows nothing- plus the perfect knowledge by the initiates of the symbolism of every word so recorded. some of these records belong to an im

r will not build by the shore. all these phenomena are certain. why may not a gradual change have given place to a violent cataclysm in remote epochs- such cataclysms occurring on a minor scale even now (e.g, the case of sunda island with 80,000 malays[[vol. 2, page] 788 the secret doctrine. specialist, will recognise the immense difficulty of explaining away the cumulative evidences- namely, the archaeological, ethnological, geological, traditional, botanical, and even biological- in favour of former continents now submerged. when each science is fighting for its own hand, the cumulative force of the evidence in its collectivity is almost invariably lost sight of. in the "theosophist (august, 1880, we wrote "we have as evidences the most ancient traditions of various and wideseparated peo

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

m 2205 to 2197 b.c. like all demigods of ancient times, yu the great changes into different shapes whenever necessary, including the forms of bears, humans, and dragons. unlike the demigods of ancient times, yu is the first to pass on his status as ruler to his descendants and thus create a dynasty, or ruling family. he named his dynasty the xia [she ah. it still remains a mythical dynasty, since archaeological evidence has not yet proven its existence. the dynasty that followed, the shang (1523 1027 b.c, has a rich heritage of pottery, bronzes, and artifacts, which places it as the first historical dynasty of china.1 the chinese dragon is not an evil creature. on the contrary, he brings rain and guards the lakes and waterways. he is a composite creature with the horns of a deer, the ears

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d california. we only know of the grand canyon find thanks to lengthy 56 children of the matrix articles in the local paper at the time, the arizona gazette,23 because every effort has been made to suppress the knowledge, as with the discoveries in queensland. the smithsonian institution in washington dc (the smithson family is one of the bloodlines) was created for the very reason of suppressing archaeological discoveries that rewrite the manufactured history while emphasising those that can be encompassed in the fairy tale. the accounts and symbolic religious tales were taken across the globe by the sumerian seafarers like the phoenicians, the bloodlines of atlantis. they reinforced the stories and symbols that were taken to those areas thousands of years earlier by the atlanteans and le

e is buried in a valley called scota's glen about five miles from tralee in county kerry where she died after a bloody war with indigenous irish people. the grave is marked with a slab, but has never been excavated. evans says that scota's descendants went on to become the high kings of ireland at tara in county meath and then invaded scotland or scota-land. evans says that she used old texts and archaeological, linguistic and dna evidence to show that irish and british people descended from egyptians. she says that scota's real name was meritaten and that she was the daughter of the pharaoh, akhenaten, and a half-sister to tutankhamen. the hill of tara, not far from newgrange, was the seat of the irish king of kings (equivalent of the british "pendragon) and it is worth emphasising that t

s that aeneas, the son she has conceived by the mortal anchises, will come to rule the trojans, as will the generations upon generations that succeed him.29 the works of the greek poet, homer, who lived around the 9th or 8th century bc, is the main source of information about ancient troy and the conflicts that led to its demise. the two epics the iliad and the odyssey are ascribed to him. modern archaeological discoveries have confirmed the accuracy of homer's work. in the iliad, aeneas recounts his birth and ancestry to his opponent achilles on the battlefield at troy. aeneas says that he descends from "divine and immortal stock" through both his mother and his father. this connection between divine immortality and the anunnaki under their various names constantly recurs in ancient accou

s well as the earth. all this happened during the pre-cataclysmic atlantean/lemurian "golden age" and this underpins the stories of how the once great and mighty the unholy alliance 103 atlantis came to an end amid high-tech war and catastrophe. but when the anunnaki returned after the upheavals, the same mentality returned with them and the evidence shows that there were more nuclear holocausts. archaeological discoveries in the indus valley show that cities were built there in the period between 3500 and 3000bc (when the anunnaki-controlled sumer empire was well established) and they were destroyed about 2000bc amid enormous violence. what's more, skeletons found at these sites record high rates of radioactivity. around this same time of 2000bc, sumer came to an end with an "evil wind, w

s, and babylonians, were connected by the same brotherhood networks going back to atlantis and lemuria. the sumerian priesthood were the middlemen between the people and the reptilian "gods" and so, in the end, were the others. the invented story of the "exodus" was written to obscure the truth of what really happened in egypt and there is no historical record outside of the levite texts, nor any archaeological evidence, that any such "exodus" ever took place. between 1967 and 1982 when the israelis occupied the sinai desert, they instigated a massive search for evidence of the 40 years the "israelites" were supposed to have lived there. what did they find? nothing. the loss of the egyptian army in the red sea is not recorded in any historical document and this is utterly ludicrous if it h

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, yet to dismiss it and suggest that lifehas only emerged on this one tiny planet is considered credible! you only have toconsider the amazing structures that abounded in the ancient world to see that anadvanced race existed then. we are told that only people primitive in comparison tomodern humans lived in these times, but that is patently ludicrous. like most officialthinking the historical and archaeological establishment makes up its own stories,calls them proven facts, and simply ignores the overwhelming evidence that they arewrong. the idea is not to educate, but to indoctrinate. anyone who doesnt conform tothe official line of history is isolated by their fellow historians and archaeologists whoeither know their jobs, reputations and funding are safer when they stick to the official

phoenicians are crucial to the story andi will come to them in detail in a moment. the cimmerians migrated north west fromthe caucasus and asia minor (turkey) into the countries we now call belgium, thenetherlands, germany and denmark. the roman historians, pliny and tacitus, said thatall the people along the coast from the netherlands to denmark were the same ethnicgroup and this is supported by archaeological evidence which indicates that this peoplearrived in that region about 300 to 250 bc. another group of cimmerians travelled upthe river danube through hungary and austria into southern germany and france. theromans called them gauls and the greeks knew them as the keltoi or celts. groups ofthese celtic tribes also settled in bohemia and bavaria and others invaded northernitaly. sallu

a prisoner for release, but this is simply not true. there was no such custom andthe scene is invention.you can write an entire book about the myths in the bible and, in fact, someone has.its called, appropriately, bible myths, and if you want detailed documentation of theinformation in this chapter i thoroughly recommend it. there is no credible evidencewhatsoever for the existence of jesus. no archaeological evidence, no written evidence,nothing. so it is with solomon, moses, david, abraham, samson and countless otherbiblical stars. all we have are the levite texts and the gospel stories in their variousversions. so desperate did the religious manipulators become to cross reference jesusthat they inserted a pathetically obvious addition into the works of the jewishhistorian, josephus, t

where the planwas hatched was called syon house.37 other bush relatives include the grosvenorfamilies of england and america and the taft family of ohio. the english grosvenorsare the dukes of westminster who own the prime properties in the city of london, thefinancial headquarters of the black nobility. the grosvenors of america founded thenational geographic which is notorious for removing the archaeological treasures ofthe world, especially those with religious significance, and relocating them at thesmithsonian institute in washington dc. the institute is controlled by the grosvenorscousins, the smithsons, who are also descended from the percys.38 the ancestry ofgeorge bush can also be traced to englands king alfred the great and tocharlemagne, the celebrated monarch who served the br

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ake appeared mysteriously in the seance room. the apport of jungle sparrows passed the test of a committee of investigation in milan. six years later, however, bailey got into trouble in grenoble. the investigators claimed that he smuggled in the birds in his intestinal opening, and they found a local dealer who identified bailey as the man to whom he sold them. discredit was also attached to his archaeological objects when the british museum found the clay tablets were fake. where do apports come from? if one eliminated any consideration of fraud, it would be a difficult question. flowers were sometimes traced to nearby gardens. during his visit to the british college of psychic science in 1926, heinrich melzer suddenly fell into a semitrance condition out of doors and in his hands appear

n to draw the visions as soon as they presented themselves, and an exhaustion followed or sometimes preceded the phenomenon. the works produced during these episodes differ entirely in style and character from the painter s ordinary work; most of them resemble caricatures, which she attributed to an extraneous influence. john bartlett produced automatic sketches of glastonbury abbey, bringing out archaeologically verified details with an amazing precision. bartlett would begin at the left-hand top corner and work downward. the tremendous speed with which the automatic execution takes place is one of the most puzzling features of this psychic activity. the seeress of prevorst (frederica hauffe) drew complicated geometrical designs. she threw off the whole drawing, wrote dr. justinus kerner

replies to questions of her husband s that she neither heard nor saw. an even more remarkable illustration is to be found in frederick bligh bond s experiences with s, a woman who figures in the history of the glastonbury scripts. as bond wrote in psychic research, april 1929: i noticed a very curious thing. the communications which she sent me began more and more to follow the line of my current archaeological enquiry. and after we had met once in the summer of that year, this tendency became increasingly obvious. there was some sort of mental rapport of attunement apparently present, and this i attributed to the dominance in both our minds of a very specialized line of interest. on one or two occasions in 1922 this correspondence became more pronounced and the communications took the for

bird, etc..it does not seem possible to formulate a likely explanation (ii) that, moreover, the hypothesis of suggestion becomes inadmissible if we take into consideration the number of experimenters, who were constantly being changed and who were differently seated each time, as well as the material traces which were left of the phenomena. given this, the committee, whilst making reserves on the archaeological value of certain apports, believes it is able, in principle, to come to a conclusion in favor of the objectivity of the facts, and calls the attention of science to these phenomena which find no sufficient explanation in recognised laws. from milan bailey went on to rome. after giving two seances to lady butt he returned to australia. because the milan findings were criticized in ma

chapels of the abbey at glastonbury. bartlett was a friend of frederick bligh bond s, with whom the experiments were conducted and who excavated the abbey site. in his book the gate of remembrance (1918, bond, using the pseudonym john alleyne for his friend bartlett, describes these experiments and their outcome. bond believed that the scripts and also the automatic sketches made by bartlett gave archaeologically correct information, confirmed by the later excavations. critics of bond s book believed that such claims were not justified. sources: bond, frederick bligh. the gate of remembrance. oxford: blackwell, 1918. baru caste of priests in ancient mesopotamia (see semites) bashir, mir (1907) kashmiri palmist noted for his serious study of the subject. during his research on palmistry he

ome of the most eerie and horrific short stories on occult themes ever written. the room in the tower and mrs. amworth have become classic vampire stories. born july 24, 1867, at wellington college (where his father e. w. benson was headmaster, before becoming archbishop of canterbury, he was educated at marlborough, and at king s college, cambridge university. he worked at athens for the british archaeological school, 1892.95, and in egypt for the hellenic society, 1896; he also traveled in algiers, egypt, greece, and italy. he was elected mayor of rye, sussex, 1934.37, living at the famous lamb house that had been the residence of american novelist henry james for 18 years. he was an honorary fellow of magdalene college, cambridge, and was also made a member of the order of the british e

from race memories and legends of astronauts visiting the earth 40,000 years ago. von daniken had been given the idea of ancient astronauts from his reading of jacque bergier s and louis pauwel s the morning of the magicians (1960) and robert charroux s one hundred thousand years of man s unknown history (1963) and had subsequently traveled to north africa and the americas to explore some of the archaeological sites. chariots of the gods? became a best-seller and popularized ancient astronaut ideas that had been surfacing in ufo litertaure for some fifteen years. von daniken and other writers produced a host of books on the theme over the next decade. in response, numerous books critical of these theories were published complaining of such a naive approach to both theology and archaeology

rs, most recently the devotees of the ancient astronauts hypothesis, have attempted to perpetuate the myth that the remarkable engineering achievements of pyramid building were the product of a long-lost occult secret (or ancient science) by which great blocks of stone could be levitated into position by the magical power of sound vibration. such romantic speculations can be made only by ignoring archaeological and hieroglyphical evidence. the restoration work being completed on the great pyramids at the end of the 1990s continued to spark the interest of people all over the world. tourism was hampered somewhat with threats of terrorism on foreign, particularly american, visitors. modern day egypt continues to reveal an interest in the mystical. on april 2, 1968, two moslem workers thought

nal celtic gods and goddesses through home, family, and community/tribe. it is a part of the international celtic revival that became evident in the 1990s in both christian and pagan communities, and advocates what it terms celtic reconstructionist paganism. it actively promotes the cultural heritage of the celtic peoples, and its program is grounded in folk tradition, mythological texts, and the archaeological and historical records of the ancient celts. the celtic world includes the modern peoples of alba (scotland, breizh (brittany, cymru (wales, eire (ireland, kernow (cornwall, and mannin (isle of man, though imbas is open to people of all ethnic backgrounds. imbas members show a deep reverence for the pre- christian celtic deities. their magical practices assume contact with both thei

the mayan hieroglyphs in the yucatan had not been deciphered, but le plongeon claimed significant progress in that regard. he suggested that the writing at chichen itza told the story of a princess moo and an ancient continent to the east (atlantis) that he called mu. he presented his findings in 1896 in a book, queen moo and the eqyptian sphinx, but after he was given a brief hearing before his archaeological colleagues, his ideas were dismissed. le plongeon would be long forgotten if his papers had not passed to one james churchward (1832.1936. churchward claimed to have seen what he called the naacal tablets, a set of materials written in the lost naacal language. the tablets told the story of a lost continent in the pacific as described by a few of the survivors of the continent s fie

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s buckley s work great cities of the ancient world (1852. the next year he assisted walter savage landor in a new edition of imaginary conversations. in 1870 mackenzie married alexandrina aydon, daughter of a freemason. his marriage became the occasion of his joining the craft in the same year. he was author of the royal masonic cyclopaedia (1877) and also planned a work called the game of tarot: archaeologically and symbolically considered, which was announced but not published. in 1861 mackenzie visited the famous french occultist eliphas levi (alphonse louis constant) in paris and published vivid personal recollections of the man and his outlook in the rosicrucian, the journal of the societas rosicruciana in anglia. he also studied occultism with frederick hockley (1808.1885. mackenzie

ed by mediums and psychics. it conjures up many different images in people, some that extend into the far reaches of one s imagination and experience. since the days of ancient egypt and the pharoahs, magicians have practiced the art of magic. from the prehistoric caves of europe and north america, to ancient greece and rome, to the middle ages, long before the days of vaudeville, and television, archaeological evidence and historical records show that audiences were held captive by the masters of trickery and illusion. in america, from the 19th century success of the american-born illusionist harry kellar to the modern-day magicians, such as doug henning and david copperfield, have captured the attention of the public. since the nineteenth century, when spiritualism took root and gained p

es in which he tried to trace the origin of language, symbols, myths, and religions. the work was reminiscent of godfrey higgins (1772.1833. his final product was not well received during his lifetime, the idea of africa as the birthplace of mankind being quite unacceptable in victorian england. thus a book of the beginnings (1881) and his other texts were largely ignored or ridiculed until later archaeological discoveries provided more solid evidence in support of massey s themes. he died on october 12, 1907. sources: massey, gerald. ancient egypt. 2 vols. london, 1907. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 1970. a book of the beginnings. 2 vols. london, 1881. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1974. the natural genesis. 2 vols. london: n.p, 1883. mass of st. secaire a form of bla

e, and aglauros are identified with the underworld. but there were also the mysteries of artemis, of hecate, and the cherites. some of which may be regarded as forms of the great earth mother. the worship of dionysus, trophonious, and zagreus was also of a mysterious nature; however it is the eleusinian and orphic mysteries that undoubtedly are the most important to the occult student, and though archaeological findings (such as vase-painting) it has been possible to glean some general idea of these. that is not to say that the heart of the mystery is revealed by any such illustrations, but that these, supplemented by what the christian fathers were able to glean regarding these mystic cults, give useful hints for further investigations. eleusis the mysteries of eleusis had for their prima

ar clusters. this idea was expanded by later writers to suggest that the lines, which tended to cross at the sites of ancient pagan temples, manifested psychic energy. these writers compared the lines with the acupuncture meridians believed to crisscross the human body and hypothesized that ancient peoples intuitively chose the points where ley lines crossed as places to build their holy shrines. archaeological evidence has proved that some straight paths actually exist, and, apart from any speculations about psychic energy, modern research has shown that magnetic forces surround the earth relative to its magnetic pole. published maps show those lines of forces as well as spots of strong deviation from the norm, which has led to the designation of new power points such as sedona, arizona

hropshire. his interest in conjuring dated from his boyhood, when he watched the medicine show of the great sequah at a fairground, a performance with quack remedies, tooth drawing, and magical tricks. at the age of fifteen, he conducted his first scientific investigation of poltergeist phenomena, staying until midnight in a reputed haunted house with photographic equipment. price was involved in archaeological excavations in greenwich park and discovered a prehistoric cave in shropshire. he assisted the early flying experiments of jose weiss, a year before the wright brothers at kitty hawk. price was an amateur conjurer, a member of the magic circle, elected to the society of american magicians, and from 1921 onward was honorary librarian of the exclusive magician s club. as a psychical r

t circle indicated the orbits of sun and moon, and holes were positioned for posts to mark these orbits. the whole construction indicates remarkable astronomical and mathematical knowledge on the part of the ancient builders. like the pyramids of ancient egypt, stonehenge and similar monuments also involved considerable engineering skill in mining and transporting the huge stones. prior to modern archaeological investigations, stonehenge was surrounded by confusing legends of origin and use. radiocarbon dating has now established a date of around 2000 b.c.e. for the first monument, the second a few centuries later, and the third about the middle of the second millennium b.c.e. it is possible that the druids inherited an oral tradition of the significance of stonehenge and used it for sacre

encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1500 century (1986. his novel the hunger (1981, notable for the very different twist it gave to the vampire myth, was made into a movie in 1983. strieber has also designed games based on various periods of history, including a game about the late middle ages entitled 1480: age of exploration and one covering computer games. he has participated in archaeological projects in central america and has been involved with a scientific group attempting to authenticate the turin shroud. soon after the publication of communion, strieber received more than five hundred letters, many claiming similar experiences of contact by extraterrestrials or other creatures. his experience was further publicized in an article in the international ufo reporter (ja

watercolor paintings to tourists and made paintings for theodore davis. in 1907, he stated working for the amateur archaeologist carnarvon. george edward stanhope molyneux herbert became fifth earl of carnarvon on the death of his father in 1890. after an automobile accident he was advised by physicians to avoid the damp english winter and spent a year in egypt, where he first became attracted to archaeological excavation. the joint explorations of carnarvon and carter began in the winter of 1907.08, with excavations in the valley of der al- bahari in western thebes. in 1910.11, they discovered an unfinished temple of hatshepsut and other remains. in 1911.12, new ground was broken with excavations of xois near the nile delta. it was thought by 1922 that there were no more royal tombs in th

estrial allies, sought to exert malevolent influences over life on earth. charles fort s books, especially the collective omnibus the books of charles fort (1941, influenced many individuals who would go on to become ufologists. if fort had alerted them to reports of unusual aerial phenomena, he had also piqued their interest in other mysteries of the physical world: falls from the sky, monsters, archaeological anomalies, and more. the fortean society continued to collect and chronicle accounts of fortean phenomena after fort s death. in the early ufo age a few ufological theorists, most notably morris k. jessup (in the case for the ufo [1955, and the expanding case for the ufo [1957, sought a sort of unified field theory of anomalistics. jessup wrote that spillage from celestial hydroponi

of fortean phenomena after fort s death. in the early ufo age a few ufological theorists, most notably morris k. jessup (in the case for the ufo [1955, and the expanding case for the ufo [1957, sought a sort of unified field theory of anomalistics. jessup wrote that spillage from celestial hydroponic tanks in alien spacecraft causes falls of fish, frogs, and other organic matter, and in his view archaeological evidence indicates that earth once housed an advanced civilization which has now returned to its ancestral home in flying saucers. both ufologists and saucerians read fate magazine, the first issue (spring 1948) of which featured a long article by kenneth arnold. a digest-sized pulp quarterly which went bimonthly in 1949 and then monthly in 1952, fate became the only national magazi

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ch, wrote five books on atlantis between 1924 and 1943, citing donnelly and his methodology as his principal inspiration. bowing to the consensus view of historians and archaeologists, who held that human beings were living in caves nine thousand years before plato s time, spence held that atlantis had existed nine hundred years before plato. meanwhile, allegations, rumors, and outright hoaxes of archaeological discoveries of atlantean artifacts filled the popular press and kept the mystery alive. the much-circulated channelings of ed g a r c a yce (1877 1945, called the s l e e p i n g p ro p h e t because of the state of consciousness in which he vo c a l i zed his psychic re a d i n g s, often concerned atlantis. many who came to him for psychic guidance learned that they had been atlan

sserting that all ufo evidence pointed to the presence of space-intelligence, relatively near the earth, but yet away from it and in open space. using navigatable contrivances. in his earlier life, he had done graduate-level work in astronomy at the university of michigan. in the course of his studies, and later in his adult life, he traveled in africa and south america, often stopping to examine archaeological artifacts. he became convinced that only an advanced civilization, with a technology that encompassed teleportation, levitation, and space flight, could have created such structures. eve n t u a l l y, he came to believe that about 100,000 years ago, in the pre-cataclysmic era which developed a first wave of civilization. space flight originated on this planet. we may assume that th

ooking for species of exc e ptional promise. as earth was being deve l o p e d, the inhabitants of other planets we re asked to contribute re p re s e n t a t i ves, thus fairies, mermen and mermaids, bi gf o o t/ sasquatch, insects, and dinosaurs. ex p l o rers and re f u g e e s f rom star wars live on the other planets. ev idence of the presence of neighboring extraterrestrials can be found in archaeological discoveries and ancient myths. each group tended to concentrate its efforts in a particular re g i o n, for example ma rtians in the middle east, ur anians in mexico, and plutonians in china. earth and other planets have undergone much turbulence, much of it caused by the tenth planet, phoenix. this huge planet s three thousand plus year orbit is at right angles to the plane of all

amski s meeting with a venusian in the california desert in november 1952 but also to have had contacts with space people himself. a colorful, intelligent, and educated man, williamson advanced many ideas that still circulate in popular culture, though he himself dropped out of sight in the 1960s and died in obscurity in long beach, california, in january 1986. born in chicago, williamson pursued archaeological and anthropological interests in college. several psychic experiences in his youth drew him to the occult and the paranormal, and then to flying saucers. he had close contacts with the chippewa and the hopi and lived with them in the early 1950s. in 1952, while residing in prescott, arizona, he and his wife, betty, met alfred and betty bailey. the two couples attempted to contact sa

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

undamental to many occult traditions. cthulhu is the high priest of the old ones, entombed in the sunken city of r lyeh, where he awaits the time of their return. he is described as a winged, tentacled anthropoid of immense size, formed from a semi-viscous substance which recombines after his apparent destruction at the conclusion of the tale. the narrative also gives evidence, drawn from various archaeological and mythological sources, of the continuing existence of a cult dedicated to the return of the old ones, its exponents ranging from inhabitants of the south seas islands to the angakoks of greenland, and practitioners of voodoo in the southern united states. lovecraft also gives a brief description of the world after its re-inheritance by the great old ones: the time would be easy t

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

holars intheorderbutwroteprincipally on occult subjects(bothas fact and as overt fiction).hebelieved firmly in the secret chiefs and established hisownsolarorderin 1896withthe aimofpropagating their teachings.chapter13 1. marcus worsley blackden was an artist and egyptologistwholatertookup journalism.heprepared many coloured drawingsofwall paintings from tombs at beni hasan and el bersheh for the archaeological surveyofegypt. it seems to have been his egyptian enthusiasmsthatdrewhimto the goldendawn.hewas also a keen yachtsman and moved to fawley to pursue his hobby. in 1925 waite visitedhimand together they'burntcertain g.d. rituals and papers'.althoughreconciled to waite as a friend he made no attempt tojointhef:.r:.c. 2. william alexander ayton (1816-1909) was.notonly a keen alchemist,b

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

med that,inorder to establish the vault of the second order,'itwas found absolutely and imperatively necessary that there should be some eminent member especially chosen to act as the link between the secret chiefs and the more external forms of the order.itwas requisite that such member should be me, who, while having the. necessary .and peculiar educational basis of critical and profound occult archaeological knowledge should at the same time not only be ready and willing to devote himself in everysenseto a blind and unreasoning obedience to those secret chiefs..i,macgregor mathers 's rioghail mo dhream5260=6260,deo duce comite ferro7260=4260,was the frater selected for this work: whom you know as the chief adept of the second order under the title of deo duce comite ferro which ihadtake

rew within the order, so mathers' literary output declined. whether his growing obsession with 'treachery' in the order stifled his literary talents, or whether they had been burned out by ten years of feverish activity is impossible to tell, but after 1898 mathers neither wrote nor published anything of significance. but was he, as he claimed to be, the possessor of 'critical and profound occult archaeological knowledge? certainly he filled his published works with erudite footnotes and long introductions, but his contemporaries were sceptical of his abilities. w.e. yeats, who was not unsympathetic to him, said that 'mathers had much learning, but little scholarship, much imagination and imperfect taste',7while a.e. waite, who was openly hostiletoall that mathers stood for, sneered at his

tribute to a reproduction of the original designs as they were, not as he thinks they ought to be, will do a real service to the study of the tarot. even the well-known and accepted symbols on the best of the current packs, well-drawn and coloured, and well printed to replace the crude and poor examples which are the best we can get now, would be a boon to tarot students, and would demand neither archaeological nor mystic learning. in common with many tarot students i welcomed mr waite's little manual, and found therein as i expected, and as one always expects from his work, the result of careful research, set forth in graceful and elegant diction, an invaluable summary for those who have not the time or the patience, perhaps not the opportunity, to study the original works, of which he gi

ate the influences operating on the querent. we may perhaps compare the symbolic designs to the vignettes illustrating chapters in the egyptian book of the dead.ifthis theory is in any way correct it is obvious thatitis of supreme importance to preserve by all means the ancient symbolic designs, and if possible to restore them to the state in which the original designers intendedtoset them forth. archaeological research is continually bringing to light new and unexpected discoveries, and it may well be that any day some fresh evidence may be forthcoming on the forms of the tarot, before the earliest that are now known, evidence that perhaps will without doubt connect these mysterious cards with one or other of the great races of antiquity and the great systems of philosophy or prove the fa

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(said by the incas to have been introduced by viracocha but later forgotten, and a sophisticated understanding of the principles of engineering and architecture. i had already been impressed by the quality of inca stonework in cuzco. as my research in the old town continued, however, i was surprised to discover that by no means all the so-called inca masonry could be attributed with any degree of archaeological certainty to the incas. it was true that they had been masters in the manipulation of stone, and many monuments in the cuzco area were indisputably their work. it seemed, however, that some of the more remarkable structures routinely attributed to them could have been erected by earlier civilizations; the evidence suggested that the incas had often functioned as the restorers of the

ional conference of ephemerids it was found to correspond to a date of 15,000 bc.5 of course, not a single orthodox historian or archaeologist was prepared to accept such an early origin for tiahuanaco preferring, as noted in chapter eight, to agree on the safe estimate of ad 500. during the years 1927-30, however, several scientists from other disciplines checked carefully posnansky s astronomic-archaeological investigations. these scientists, members of a high-powered team which also studied many other archaeological sites in the andes, were dr hans ludendorff (then director of the astronomical observatory of potsdam, dr friedrich becker of the specula vaticanica, and two other astronomers: professor dr arnold kohlschutter of the university of bonn and dr rolf muller of the astrophysical

best envisaged as a sort of arc de triomphe, though on a much smaller scale, it looked in this setting like a door connecting 14 figures and measurements from the ancient civilizations of peru, p. 92. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 88 two invisible dimensions a door between nowhere and nothing. the stonework was of exceptionally high quality and authorities agreed that it was one of the archaeological wonders of the americas .15 its most enigmatic feature was the so-called calendar frieze carved into its eastern fa ade along the top of the portal. at its centre, in an elevated position, this frieze was dominated by what scholars took to be another representation of viracocha,16 but this time in his more terrifying aspect as the god-king who could call down fire from heaven. his g

e right: another possible representation of toxodon from tiahuanaco. the raised nostrils are indicative of a semi-aquatic animal, somewhat like a modern hippopotamus in its habits, which is what toxodon is known to have been. reconstruction-drawing of toxodon, a south american species that became extinct in the eleventh millennium bc. to my eye this looked like striking corroboration for the astroarchaeological evidence that dated tiahuanaco to the end of the pleistocene, and further undermined the orthodox historical chronology which made the city only 1500 years old, since toxodon, presumably, could only have been modelled from life. it was therefore obviously a matter of some importance that no fewer that forty-six toxodon heads had been carved into the frieze of the gateway of the sun

ld: they had been left behind by the teams of archaeologists who had burrowed here diligently from 1931 until funds ran out in 1966. somehow, these narrow, low-ceilinged corridors had borrowed an atmosphere of antiquity from the vast structure all around them. moist and cool, they offered an inviting and secretive darkness. following a ribbon of torchlight we walked deeper inside the pyramid. the archaeological excavations had revealed that it was not the product of one dynasty (as was thought to have been the case with the pyramids at giza in egypt, but that it had been built up over a very long period of time two thousand years or so, at a conservative estimate. in other words it was a collective project, created by an inter-generational labour force drawn from the many different culture

transforming a tropical paradise into something resembling the lowest circle of dante s inferno. since the oil boom of 1973 the town of coatzecoalcos, once easy-going but not very prosperous, had mushroomed into a transport and refining centre with air-conditioned hotels and a population of half a million. it lay close to the black heart of an industrial wasteland in which virtually everything of archaeological interest that had escaped the depredations of the spanish at the time of the conquest had been destroyed by the voracious expansion of the oil business. it was therefore no longer possible, on the basis of hard evidence, to confirm or deny the intriguing suggestion that the legends seemed to make: that something of great importance must once have occurred here. 1 the gods and symbol

m or deny the intriguing suggestion that the legends seemed to make: that something of great importance must once have occurred here. 1 the gods and symbols of ancient mexico and the maya, p. 126. 2 aztecs: reign of blood and splendour, p. 50. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 123 the olmec sites of tres zapotes, san lorenzo and la venta along the gulf of mexico, with other central american archaeological sites. i remembered that coatzecoalcos meant serpent sanctuary. it was here, in remote antiquity, that quetzalcoatl and his companions were said to have landed when they first reached mexico, arriving from across the sea in vessels with sides that shone like the scales of serpents skins .3 and it was from here too that quetzalcoatl was believed to have sailed (on his raft of serpent

the ancient kingdoms of mexico, p. 24. 6 ibid. 7 mexico, p. 638. 8 matthew w. stirling, discovering the new world s oldest dated work of man, national graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 126 soon afterwards the american archaeologist made a second unsettling discovery at tres zapotes: children s toys in the form of little wheeled dogs.9 these cute artefacts conflicted head-on with prevailing archaeological opinion, which held that the wheel had remained undiscovered in central america until the time of the conquest. the dogmobiles proved, at the very least, that the principle of the wheel had been known to the olmecs, central america s earliest civilization. and if a people as resourceful as the olmecs had worked out the principle of the wheel, it seemed highly unlikely that they woul

g of the planets. lamentably, the bulldozers of the developers had flattened virtually everything of interest before proper excavations could be conducted, with the result that many of the ancient structures had not been explored at all.8 we will never know what they could have said about the people who built and used them. matthew stirling, who excavated tres zapotes, carried out the bulk of the archaeological work done at la venta before progress and oil money erased it. carbon-dating suggested that the olmecs had established themselves here between 1500 and 1100 bc and had continued to occupy the site which consisted of an island lying in marshes to the east of the tonala river until about 400 bc.9 then construction was suddenly abandoned, all existing buildings were ceremonially deface

old. they seemed rootless. and that, of course, was impossible, because all forms of artistic expression have roots somewhere. hypothetical third party it occurred to me that one plausible explanation might lie in a variant of the hypothetical third party theory originally put forward by a number of leading egyptologists to explain one of the great puzzles of egyptian history and chronology. the archaeological evidence suggested that rather than developing slowly and painfully, as is normal with human societies, the civilization of ancient egypt, like that of the olmecs, emerged all at once and fully formed. indeed, the period of transition from primitive to advanced society appears to have been so short that it makes no kind of historical sense. technological skills that should have take

nced and as yet unidentified civilization might once have been in contact with the native cultures. and there was a sense of great age about this contact, as though it took place at such an early date that it had been almost forgotten. i thought again about the sudden way the olmecs had emerged, around the middle of the second millennium bc, out of the swirling mists of opaque prehistory. all the archaeological evidence indicated that from the beginning they had venerated huge stone heads and stele showing bearded men. i found myself increasingly drawn to the possibility that some of those remarkable pieces of sculpture could have been part of a vast inheritance of civilization handed down to the peoples of central america many thousands of years before the second millennium bc, and therea

at teotihuacan. harleston reported his findings in october 1974 at the international congress of americanists.8 his paper, which was full of daring and innovative ideas, contained some particularly curious information about the citadel and about the temple of quetzalcoatl located at the eastern extreme of this great square compound. the temple was regarded by scholars as one of the best-preserved archaeological monuments in central america.9 this was because the original, prehistoric structure had been partially buried beneath another much later mound immediately in front of it to the west. excavation of that mound had revealed the elegant six-stage pyramid that now confronted me. it stood 72 feet high and its base covered an area of 82,000 square feet. still bearing traces of the original

ahmed fakhry, the pyramids, university of chicago press, 1969. 23 mysteries of the mexican pyramids, pp. 230-3. 24 ibid. 25 the prehistory of the americas, p. 282. 26 mysteries of the mexican pyramids, pp. 11-12. 27 ibid. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 171 hints of forgotten wisdom leaving the temple of quetzalcoatl behind me, i recrossed the citadel in a westerly direction. there was no archaeological evidence that this enormous enclosure had ever served as a citadel or, for that matter, that it had any kind of military or defensive function at all. like so much else about teotihuacan it had clearly been planned with painstaking care, and executed with enormous effort, but its true purpose remained unidentified by modern scholarship.28 even the aztecs, who had been responsible fo

ed to walk northwards along the street of the dead and turned east towards the pyramid of the sun. before reaching this great monument, however, i paused to examine a ruined patio, the principal feature of which was an ancient temple which concealed a perplexing mystery beneath its rock floor. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 174 chapter 23 the sun and the moon and the way of the dead some archaeological discoveries are heralded with much fanfare; others, for various reasons, are not. among this latter category must be included the thick and extensive layer of sheet mica found sandwiched between two of the upper levels of the teotihuacan pyramid of the sun when it was being probed for restoration in 1906. the lack of interest which greeted this discovery, and the absence of any foll

e entire northern, eastern and southern faces. the result was catastrophic: the underlying adobe surface began to dissolve in heavy rains and to exhibit plastic flow which threatened to destroy the whole edifice. although the slippage was halted with hasty remedial measures, nothing could change the fact that the sun pyramid had been deprived of almost all its original surface features. by modern archaeological standards this was, of course, an unforgivable act of desecration. because of it, we will never learn the significance of the many sculptures, inscriptions, reliefs and artefacts that had almost certainly been removed with those twenty feet of the outer shell. nor was this the only or even the most regrettable consequence of bartres s grotesque vandalism. there was startling evidenc

and new siberian islands, only a very short distance from the north pole.16 researchers have confirmed that of the thirty-four animal species living in siberia prior to the catastrophes of the eleventh millennium bc including ossip s mammoth, giant deer, cave hyena and cave lions no less than 11 professor frank c. hibben, the lost americans, cited in the path of the pole, p. 275ff. 12 f. rainey, archaeological investigations in central alaska, american antiquity, volume v, 1940, page 307. 13 path of the pole, p. 275ff. 14 the biblical flood and the ice epoch, p. 107-8. 15 a. p. okladnikov, excavations in the north in vestiges of ancient cultures, soviet union, 1951. 16 the path of the pole, p. 255. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 210 twenty-eight were adapted only to temperate con

aid things like this: the craftsmen-gang, how powerful is the white crown of khnum 19 see valley of the kings; for saqqara (fifth and sixth dynasties) see traveller s key to ancient egypt, pp. 163-7. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 293 khufu khufu khnum-khufu year seventeen20 it was all very convenient. right at the end of a costly and otherwise fruitless digging season, just when a major archaeological discovery was needed to legitimize the expenses he had run up, vyse had stumbled upon the find of the decade the first incontrovertible proof that khufu had indeed been the builder of the hitherto anonymous great pyramid. one would have thought that a discovery of this nature would have settled conclusively any lingering doubts over the ownership and purpose of that enigmatic monume

rdian of the secret and sacred writings .3) under the grooved edge of the gilded casket on which his effigy now crouched was found an inscription: initiated into the secrets .4 alternative translations of the same hieroglyphic text rendered it variously as he who is upon the secrets, and as guardian of the secrets .5 but were there any secrets left in egypt? after more than a century of intensive archaeological investigations, could the sands of this antique land yield any further surprises? bauval s stars and west s stones in 1993 there was an astonishing new discovery which suggested that there was much still to learn about ancient egypt. the discoverer, moreover, was not some astigmatic archaeologist sieving his way through the dust of ages but an outsider to the field: robert bauval, a

emerged into a chamber and, lifting his light, saw that the walls were covered from top to bottom with hieroglyphic inscriptions. these were carved with exquisite craftsmanship into the solid limestone and painted over with turquoise and gold. 19 today the hieroglyph-lined chamber beneath the ruined pyramid of unas is still reached through the north face by the long descending passage the french archaeological team excavated soon after the foreman s astonishing discovery. the chamber consists of two rectangular rooms separated by a partition wall, into which is let a low doorway. both rooms are covered by a gabled ceiling painted with myriads of stars. emerging stooped from the cramped passage, santha and i entered the first of the two rooms and passed through the connecting doorway into

made this frank admission: 52 ibid, p. 26-7. for numbers of stars visible to the naked eye see ian ridpath and wil tirion, collins guide to stars and planets, london, 1984, p. 4. 53 sacred science, p. 173. 54 the ancient egyptian pyramid texts, p. 165, line 964. sacred science, p. 287. 55 the ancient egyptian pyramid texts, pp. 165, 284; sacred science, in particular p. 287ff. 56 the established archaeological horizon of the calendar can indeed be pushed back even further because of the recent discovery, in a first dynasty tomb in upper egypt, of an inscription reading, sothis, herald of the new year (reported in death of gods in ancient egypt, p. 40) 57 sacred science, p. 290. 58 ibid, p. 27. 59 e. a. wallis budge, an egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary (2 volumes, john murray, london, 1920

ty challenges for egyptologists and raised questions to which no satisfactory answers had been supplied. to reiterate the central problem: everything about the three stunning and superb pyramids of khufu, khafre and menkaure proclaimed that they were the end products of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of years of accumulated architectural and engineering experience. this was not supported by the archaeological evidence which left no doubt that they were among the earliest pyramids ever built in egypt in other words, they were not the products of the mature phase of that country s pyramid-building experiment but, anomalously, were the creations of its infancy. a further mystery also cried out for a solution. in the three great pyramids at giza, egypt s fourth dynasty had reared up mansions

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

s with the secret chiefs: secret cipher of the ufonauts 67 it was found absolutely and imperatively necessary that there should be some eminent member especially chosen to act as the link between the secret chiefs and the more external forms of the order. it was requisite that such a member should be me who, while having the necessary and peculiar educational basis of critical and profound occult archaeological knowledge, should at the same time not only be ready and willing to devote himself in every sense to a blind and unreasoning obedience to those secret chiefs. israel regardie described mathers fateful encounter in this way: while walking in the bois de bologne one day, meditating. mathers claimed triumphantly that he was approached by three men. he asserted that these were adepts be

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

cording to a tradition found in ancient chronologies, egypt was originally divided into separate kingdoms of upper (southern) and lower (northern) egypt. a king menes was said to have united these kingdoms and founded a new capital at memphis to be the balance of the two lands. menes cannot easily be identified with any specific king known from contemporary records. early kings there is plenty of archaeological evidence for a series of powerful southern kings in the late fourth millennium bce. the hieroglyphic system of writing may have been invented for administrative and ritual purposes at the court of these kings.9 two early towns were associated with their rule: nagada, later known as ombos, where the local god was seth, and nekhen, later known as hierakonpolis, where a falcon god was

ater literary tradition was favorable to sneferu but not to his successor khufu (cheops, the builder of the great pyramid at giza (see under kings and princes and magicians in deities, themes, and concepts. writing in the fifth century bce, the greek historian herodotus reported a legend that king khufu had been cursed by the gods for closing down their temples to divert resources to his pyramid. archaeological evidence suggests an element of truth to this tradition. local temples seem to have received little royal support during the fourth and fifth dynasties. the huge pyramid complexes of this era seem to concentrate wholly on the divinity of the king, but this is partly an accident of preservation. reliefs and statues in the badly damaged pyramid temples did once show the king interacti

and script. the lessons on middle egyptian grammar are interleaved with essays on the geography, history, and culture of ancient egypt. several of these essays discuss creation myths. john baines and jaromir malek. atlas of ancient egypt. rev. ed. new york: checkmate books, 2000. an excellent introduction to the history and geography of ancient egypt with a superb range of maps. the gazetteer of archaeological sites includes concise information on all the major temples and royal tombs. there is an essay on religion and a list of important deities. erik hornung. idea into image: essays on ancient egyptian thought. translated by elizabeth bredeck. princeton, nj: timken, 1992. this book makes complex ideas accessible to readers with little prior knowledge of ancient egypt. the nine essays ex

formation on tutankhamun, and there is an excellent children s section. mythology gallery members.aol.com/egyptart/ a beautifully illustrated introduction to egyptian mythology by artist richard deurer. it has a helpful glossary and good lists of deities and symbols but a poor bibliography. sca guardians.net/sca/ the website of the supreme council of antiquities, the organization in charge of all archaeological sites and museums in egypt. the site is not updated as often as it might be, but it does have interesting information on current excavations. tour egypt www.touregypt.net/gods1.htm the official site of the egyptian ministry of tourism. go to its old egypt mythology section for detailed information on egyptian deities. there are translations of original source material and some good

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ons for divinatory procedures. oswald wirth's le livre de thoth: les 22 arcanes de tarot dessines a l'usage des inities sur les indications destanislas deguaita (edition limited to 100 copies with the twenty-two major trumps, hand-coloured, in a slip-case, was also published in 1889. it is unlikely that this book was known in great britain. a prospectus for k. r. h. mackenzie's the game of tarot, archaeologically and symbolically considered 'in preparation, in small quarto, with lilustrations in the text, and lilustrations in a separate case. price one guinea- reached at least the proof stage. mackenzie mentioned the book in a letter to westcott dated 7 august 1879. if this publication had ever appeared it would have antedated papus's le tarot des bohemiens by a number of years (see my the

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no reason to dissent from this dictum, but latterly i am inclined to wonder- and more than wonder. as my great-uncle's heir and executor, for he died a childless widower, i was expected to go over his papers with some thoroughness; and for that purpose moved his entire set of files and boxes to my quarters in boston. much of the material which i correlated will be later published by the american archaeological society, but there was one box which i found exceedingly puzzling, and which i felt much averse from showing to other eyes. it had been locked and i did not find the key till it occurred to me to examine the personal ring which the professor carried in his pocket. then, indeed, i succeeded in opening it, but when i did so seemed only to be confronted by a greater and more closely lo

r angell had seen the hellish outlines of the nameless monstrosity, puzzled over the unknown hieroglyphics, and heard the ominous syllables which can be rendered only as "cthulhu; and all this in so stirring and horrible a connexion that it is small wonder he pursued young wilcox with queries and demands for data. this earlier experience had come in 1908, seventeen years before, when the american archaeological society held its annual meeting in st. louis. professor angell, as befitted one of his authority and attainments, had had a prominent part in all the deliberations; and was one of the first to be approached by the several outsiders who took advantage of the convocation to offer questions for correct answering and problems for expert solution. the chief of these outsiders, and in a s

of antiquated issue, a celluloid advertising calendar for 1893, some cards with the name "edwin m. lillibridge, and a paper covered with pencilled memoranda. this paper held much of a puzzling nature, and blake read it carefully at the dim westward window. its disjointed text included such phrases as the following: prof. enoch bowen home from egypt may 1844- buys old free-will church in july- his archaeological work& studies in occult well known. dr drowne of 4th baptist warns against starry wisdom in sermon 29 dec. 1844. congregation 97 by end of '45. 1846- 3 disappearances- first mention of shining trapezohedron. 7 disappearances 1848- stories of blood sacrifice begin. investigation 1853 comes to nothing- stories of sounds. fr o'malley tells of devil-worship with box found in great egypt

d been submerged and come up again after long ages- all since those blocks were made and used. it is a matter of hundreds of thousands of years- or heaven knows how much more. i don't like to think about it. in view of your previous diligent work in tracking down the legends and everything connected with them, i cannot doubt but that you will want to lead an expedition to the desert and make some archaeological excavations. both dr. boyle and i are prepared to cooperate in such work if you- or organizations known to you- can furnish the funds. i can get together a dozen miners for the heavy digging- the blackfellows would be of no use, for i've found that they have an almost maniacal fear of this particular spot. boyle and i are saying nothing to others, for you very obviously ought to hav

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

no reason to dissent from this dictum, but latterly i am inclined to wonder- and more than wonder. as my great-uncle's heir and executor, for he died a childless widower, i was expected to go over his papers with some thoroughness; and for that purpose moved his entire set of files and boxes to my quarters in boston. much of the material which i correlated will be later published by the american archaeological society, but there was one box which i found exceedingly puzzling, and which i felt much averse from showing to other eyes. it had been locked, and i did not find the key till it occurred to me to examine the personal ring which the professor carried always in his pocket. then, indeed, i succeeded in opening it, but when i did so seemed only to be confronted by a greater and more cl

ssed him as merely 'queer. never mingling much with his kind, he had dropped gradually from social visibility, and was now known only to a small group of aesthetes from other towns. even the providence art club, anxious to preserve its conservatism, had found him quite hopeless. on the occasion of the visit, ran the professor's manuscript, the sculptor abruptly asked for the benefit of his host's archaeological knowledge in identifying the hieroglyphics on the bas-relief. he spoke in a dreamy, stilted manner which suggested pose and alienated sympathy; and my uncle showed some sharpness in replying, for the conspicuous freshness of the tablet implied kinship with anything but archaeology. young wilcox's rejoinder, which impressed my uncle enough to make him recall and record it verbatim, w

r angell had seen the hellish outlines of the nameless monstrosity, puzzled over the unknown hieroglyphics, and heard the ominous syllables which can be rendered only as 'cthulhu; and all this in so stirring and horrible a connection that it is small wonder he pursued young wilcox with queries and demands for data. this earlier experience had come in 1908, seventeen years before when the american archaeological society held its annual meeting in st louis. professor angell, as befitted one of his authority and attainments, had had a prominent part in all the deliberations, and was one of the first to be approached by the several outsiders who took advantage of the convocation to offer questions for correct answering and problems for expert solution. the chief of these outsiders, and in a sh

INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN FACES OF DARKNESS

analysis. if i wish to re-create the practices of others, the first place to start is the hard facts. i am fortunate at the wealth of operant material available to me, the papyri and tablets. likewise a surprising number of primary texts dealing with the illustrative magic of hermeticism has likewise survived such as the enneads of plotinus or the hermetica. these primary texts combined with the archaeological and historical records available give us an accurate picture of what these magicians did- not only in the material sense, but in terms of there social and linguistic milieus. the later material is necessary to discover how these individuals perceived the order of their worlds. magic, the art of changing the subjective universe in order to produce a proportionate change in the object

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ell as that of jesus, came from the realm of darkness! who knows better than they? where can more competent living witnesses be found? christian not have been ossocikted, in the character of a redeemer, with that universally known and archaic emblem. id noticing this admission of dr. lundy, mr. charlea sotleran remarked, in a lecture before the american philolof^csl society, that both legends and archaeological remains unite in proving beyond (jueation "tliat ireland, like every other nation, once listened to the propagandists of siddhirtha-buddha" 744 "the rdigidn of multiplied baptimu, the scion of the still existent sect named the 'chriatiaus of st. john' or mendaeans, whom the arabs call d-mogianiah, the baptists. the aramaean verb leba, origin of the name smm, is a synonym of pamt" be

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

this magic and sacred in the estimate of the rosicracians? an inquirer will very naturally ask. the answer to all this is very ample and satisfactory; but particulars must be left to the sagacity of the querist himself, because propriety does not admit of explanation. suffice it to say, that it is one of the most curious and wonderful subjects which has occupied the attention of antiquaries. that archaeological puzzle, the round table of king arthur, is a perfect display of this whole subject.of the origin of the garter; it springs directly from it, being the same object as that enclosed by the mythic garter, garder, or girther. king edward the third chose the octave of the purification of the blessed virgin for the inauguration of his order. andrew du chesne declares that this new order w

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

gence "in their own image" bluntly "what's the difference" the basic thought is that man is living in a world in which he is neither the completely dominant nor the supremely intellectual being. huh, he'll never admit it, though: pride. there has been a raging controversy for generations between pro-atlantians and anti-atlantians as regards the antiquity of civilized mankind upon this planet. the archaeological remains of those nuclei civilizations, which have, for 7,000 years or more been recovering from the celestial impact which caused the traditional flood, redistributed the surface soil of the earth, destroyed continents and made new ones, sunk atlantis and mu and raised hob in general, are readily available in quantity. they offer easy materials for study. archaeology and ethnology

flight (b) the same, but with space flight developed internally (c) space flight independent of man on earth, bringing occasional widgets from extraterrestrial sectors of intellectual development (d) falls of items originally on the earth but previously expelled by explosion or other force (e) falls of items blown off other exploding planets. we cannot forever ignore the immense antiquity of some archaeological items. it is not fashionable with archaeological circles, which is anything but an exact science, to admit the existence of culture or rather civilization, more remote than that of the historically recorded egyptians and orientals: four to seven thousand years at most; and heaven forbid if one suggests advanced races in eras of ten, twenty, forty, or one hundred thousand years ago

ous. let's take a look at some of these great monoliths, and note their size, their geographical distributions, and, where possible, something of their age and any other details which stand out. one such example is that of sacsahuaman fortress, in the high andes of peru, above the ancient inca, and pre-inca city of cuzco. there are several eras of civilization represented in the poorly understood archaeological remains at, and near, cuzco. the latest, aside from the present spanish- indian population, are the inca ruins, most of which were in use at the time of the iniquitous spanish conquest. the incas were also using some structures which were inherited from their predecessors, and this has led to some confusion, because practically all other ruins in the neighborhood have been vaguely a

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

f the age. the same symbol was also found among the aztecs, which shows their connection with egypt. they represented their chieftain by this symbol of the age, which was their sign for god, because the chief was looked upon as god fs representative. there are still tribes in central africa among which that double axe has a hut to itself, as a great chief would have. 248. quite recently extensive archaeological researches have been made in the island of crete, and among other things discovered there was this symbol of the double axe, which there also stood for the deity(*fig. 9 is reproduced (with permission) from an illustration in the palace of minos in knossos, by sir arthur evans) in the outer courts of the temples of the great kingdom of knossos there were many statues, but when one p

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all masons are greatly indebted to r. f. gould, the great masonic historian; w. j. hughan; g. w. speth; david murray-lyon, the historian of scottish masonry; dr. chetwode crawley, whose work upon the early irish craft is in its way a classic; and others of the inner circle of the famous lodge quattuor coronati, no. 2076, the fascinating transactions of which are a precious mine of historical and archaeological lore. two great names in germany are j. f. findel, the historian, and dr. wilhelm begemann, who made the most minute and painstaking researches into the old charges of the operative craft. a vast amount of material which will be of permanent value to students of our craft has become available through the labours of the scholars of the authentic school. this school, however, has limi

ks, even before 10,000. b.c(*op. cit, pp. 309-10) 221. recent discoveries in crete 222. it is only since the year 1900 that, largely owing to the work of sir arthur evans, the modern world has come to know something about the cretan civilization, and to realize that in age and splendour it compared even with the grandeur of ancient egypt. but even now, though there is abundant appreciation of the archaeological value of the cretan discoveries, not much attention has yet been given by freemasons to the highly interesting fact that the minoan civilization shows us the existence, five thousand years ago at least, of a mystery-religion which in its symbols and general arrangements closely resembles our modern ritual. one feature of those cretan mysteries especially attractive to co-masons is t

resembles our modern ritual. one feature of those cretan mysteries especially attractive to co-masons is that in them women were admitted as well as men. the admission of women was the practice of almost all the mysteries of the ancient world, but clearer traces of the fact remain to-day in crete than in any other country. these mysteries do not lie in the direct line of masonic descent; but the archaeological remains of initiatory rites are so plentiful and so strikingly similar to our present system as to be exceptionally interesting. 223. for those who are not conversant with the results of the excavations in crete, it may be well to give a brief survey of the historical knowledge gained by their aid. until recently most text-books of history taught that the greek civilization began in

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

st great ice age retreated, the low-lying lands of the south were first exposed, and pollen analysis indicates settlement on sjalland and elsewhere by around 10,000 b.c.e. we know little about these settlements, but by 6500 b.c.e. or so, a hunting and fishing culture may be identified. by 2500 b.c.e. or so, there are indications of agriculture and the raising of animals. at around 2000 b.c.e. the archaeological record begins to show characteristic small ax heads, made of stone but carefully copying the marks of metal pouring that was used for such axes to the south in europe. a hypothetical culture associated with these axes and an even more hypothetical immigration of persons with them from europe is known as the boat-ax culture. around 1000 b.c.e. the scandinavian bronze age begins, and

differences between danish and icelandic traditions, as opposed to variation within icelandic tradition reported to saxo, has never been fully sorted out and probably never will be. besides these and a host of other written sources, from inside and outside scandinavia and in languages ranging from english to arabic, there are valuable nonwritten sources. of these the most important is surely the archaeological record. we have, for example, numerous representations from the viking age of the encounter between thor and the midgard serpent, from scandinavia and also from england. we have numerous small hammer-shaped amulets, which must be representations in the human world of the protective power conferred by thor fs hammer. we even have dies for casting such hammers and for casting christia

conversion. some small objects with human form have been interpreted as representations of various gods in sculpture. although these carvings and objects are understood by application of the texts, archaeologists are quite confident in their identifications, and our understanding of scandinavian mythology would be less rich without them. some adventurous scholars have even attempted to work from archaeological artifacts back to the mythology, for example, by using the illustrations on introduction 27 migration period bracteates (small brooches) to reconstruct a set of hypothetical myths about odin as a healing god. an example of the importance of the text-object relationship is the large number of small pieces of stamped gold foil that are increasingly being unearthed in apparent cult con

mullenhoff, gfrija und der halsbandmythus, h zeitschrift fur deutsches altertumn 30 (1886: 217.260, which argues for a kind of solar myth that, as f. klaeber put it, gcompels admiration rather than acceptance h (beowulf and the fight at finnsburg: edited with introduction, bibliography, notes, glossary, and appendices, 3rd ed, with first and second supplements [boston: d. c. heath, 1950, 178. the archaeological background is explored by birgit arrhenius, gdet flammande smycket, h fornvannen 57 (1962: 79.101, and gzum symbolischen sinn des almadin im fruheren mittelalter, h fruhmittelalterliche studien 3 (1969: 47.59. the parallel between brosinge mene and brisinga men is treated by ursula dronke, gbeowulf and ragnaro c k, h saga-book of the viking society 17 (1968: 302.325, and helen damic

bout the neck, are the only indica- 288 norse mythology a hanging amulet of thor fs hammer (ted spiegel/ corbis) two of the most elaborate of thor fs hammers, made of silver. the figure on the chain was found in erikstorp, sweden, along with a hoard of treasure. the hammer on the left is from kabbara, sweden, also found with a hoard of treasure (statens historiska museum, stockholm) tion from the archaeological record of talismans associated with specific accouterments of the gods. thor was probably the most important god of late paganism, as is suggested by the presentation in medieval scandinavian sources of the conversion as a struggle between thor and christ. during the last years of paganism in iceland, poets left us with two fragments of poems addressed directly to thor, in the secon

s. when odin returns, ollerus is in turn exiled and finally killed. he was, saxo deities, themes, and concepts 299 detail of sparlosa rune stone from vastergotland, sweden, around 800 c.e, interpreted by niels age nielson as depicting a sacrifice to ull (the art archive/dagli orti) says, such a cunning magician that he could travel over the sea on a bone; viking age bone skates are known from the archaeological record. two curious passages in eddic poetry refer to ull, one to his grace (grimnismal, stanza 42, the other to an oath sworn on his ring (atlakvida, stanza 30. these tantalizing details might be connected with the story in saxo to suggest that ull was some kind of sovereign figure. the etymology of his name, which means something like gglory, h might suggest that he was once a sky

993: 363.387. encyclopedias several encyclopedias offer easy access to relevant information on norse mythology. philip pulsiano, kirsten wolf, paul acker, and donald k. fry, medieval scandinavia: an encyclopedia, garland encyclopedias of the middle ages, 1; garland reference library of the humanities, 934 (new york and london: garland publishing, 1993, offers articles on literary, historical, and archaeological subjects. it supplements the 22-volume nordic compilation, published in all five nordic countries, entitled in swedish kulturhistoriskt lexikon for nordisk medeltid fran vikingatid till reformationstid (malmo, sweden: allhems forlag, 1956.1978; the articles are in the scandinavian languages, but the references may be helpful even to those who cannot read those languages. the diction

collection, 4 (odense: odense university press, 1987, sets skaldskaparmal against the learned medieval encyclopedic background. alexandra pesch, brunaold, haugsold, kirkjuold: untersuchungen zu den archaologisch uberprufbaren aussagen in der heimskringla des snorri sturluson, texte und untersuchungen zur germanistik und skandinavistik, 35 (frankfurt am main and new york: p. lang, 1996, reads the archaeological record print and nonprint resources 335 against heimskringla. a german commentary (accompanying a translation) to snorri fs gylfaginning that i have found very useful is that of gottfried lorenz, snorri sturluson, gylfaginning: texte, ubersetzung, kommentar, texte zur forschung, 48 (darmstadt: wissenschaftliche buchgesellschaft, 1984. on heimskringla, see diana whaley, heimskringla:

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ants, much like darwin s finches, and that some variants harbored more and bigger kernels than did others. they then selected these variants, sowed them, and continued to select further variants for the production of bigger ears harboring more and more kernels, until corn, as we know it today, finally appeared. the gradual transformation of teosinte into corn has been extremely well documented by archaeological findings and carbon-14 dating. we also know that modern corn, as we buy it in supermarkets, differs from original teosinte in the structure of at least 1,200 genes, a very large number. the point here is that artificial selection by humans, exercised on a living organism that still exists today, allowed the fixation of an average of 16 different gene mutations every 100 years, the r

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rather with a view to indicating to what great heights of spiritual attainment the craft degrees point as achievable, than with the expectation that they will be readily comprehended by readers without some measure of mystical experience and perhaps unfamiliar with the testimony of the mystics thereto. purposely these papers avoid dealing with matters of craft history and of merely antiquarian or archaeological interest. dates, particulars of masonic constitutions, historical changes and developments in the external aspects of the craft, references to old lodges and the names of outstanding people connected therewith--these and such like matters can be read about elsewhere. they are all subordinate to what alone is of vital moment and what so many brethren are hungering for- knowledge of t

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out of paradise, out of eden. deprived of his umbilical connection to theearth mother, man took his first step on the road to oblivion.perhaps we will never fully understand the mystery of that original mutation from egalitar-ian to state society. certainly no standard explanations are adequate (david watson, thepathology of civilization. there is no evidence either from ethnographic accounts or archaeological excavations tosuggest that rates of accidental trauma or interpersonal violence declined substantially withthe adoption of more civilized forms of political organization. in fact, some evidence fromepilogue: time to change the road youre on146atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation archaeological sites and from historical sources suggest the opposite (mark nathan cohen

o another. behind it all, lay, and still does, the object of throwing a clearer light onthe accuracy of bible history generally, and to the archaeologists for the most part to write anythingwhich confirms moses and bible history generally induces pious folks to subscribe large sums for exca-vation purposes to those who claim to be able to reassure them from any agnostic doubts. in some casesthese archaeological claims are absolutely dishonest; in others, excavators and so forth are led astray bytheir own enthusiasmfor these reasons, any egyptologists who claim to interpret the past should belooked upon with the utmost reserve (p. 76)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation261 appendix b: book abstracts the abduction and manipulation of humans using advanced technologyby v aldam

was based in babylon, near the 33rd parallel. the empirestretched from the persian gulf to the middle euphrates river and upper tigris river regions. ham-murabi, the last great king of the first dynasty, developed his legal code and ordered it to be incisedon a basalt column and placed in the temple of shamash, the god of justice, for all to see.4.1500 b.c. tel megiddo: one of the most important archaeological mounds in israel, tel megiddohas the remains of historic megiddo, a fortified city that sat strategically on the ancient trunk roadfrom egypt to syria and mesopotamia. near the 33rd parallel, tel megiddo has served as anatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation275 appendix c: suggested areas of research important junction and battlefield throughout history. it is mentione

the first hydrothermal vent system ever discoveredin the late 1970s. there's a good case that this could have been the kind of environment where lifebegan.egyptian artifacts in the grand canyonthe phoenix gazette- april 5, 1909remarkable finds indicate ancient people migrated from orientthe latest news of the progress of the explorations or what is now regarded by scientists as not only theoldest archaeological discovery in the united states, but one of the most valuable in the world, whichwas mentioned some time ago in the gazette (see photo at left, was brought to the city yesterday byg.e. kinkaid, the explorer who found the great underground citadel of the grand canyon during a tripfrom green river, wyoming, down the colorado, in a wooden boat, to y uma, several months ago. according to

ving been in the service of the smithsonian institute. even briefly recounted, his historysounds fabulous, almost grotesque: first, i would impress that the cavern is nearly inaccessible. the entrance is 1,486 feet down the sheercanyon wall. it is located on government land and no visitor will be allowed there under penalty of tres-pass.the scientist's wish to work unmolested, without fear of the archaeological discoveries being disturbedby curio or relic hunters. a trip there would be fruitless, and the visitor would be sent on his way. the story of how i found the cavern has been related, but in a paragraph: i was journeying down thecolorado river in a boat, alone, looking for minerals. some forty two miles up the river from the eltovar crystal canyon, i saw on the east wall, stains in t

ian tribes found in arizona are descendants ofthe serfs or slaves of the people, which inhabited the cave. undoubtedly a good many thousand of yearsbefore the christian era a people lived here which reached a high stage of civilization. the chronologyof human history is full of gaps.professor jordan much enthused over the discoveries and believes that the find will prove of incalcula-ble value in archaeological work. one thing i have not spoken of, may be of interest. there is one chamber, the passageway to which isnot ventilated, and when we approached it a deadly, snaky smell struck us. our light would not pene-trate the gloom, and until stronger ones are available, we will not know what the chamber contains.appendix d: scientific evidence292atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipu

es.connection between egypt and chinabeijing, aug. 7, 2001more than a dozen heads of maces dating back to between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago, extremely similarto those used by kings of ancient egypt, were recently unearthed in northwest china.the findings indicate that the contact between east and west civilizations began as early as the prehis-toric period, said li shuicheng, a professor from the archaeological department of beijing university.previously, historical documents and archaeological discoveries have shown that east and west culturalexchanges started from the qin and han dynasties over 2,000 years ago. the new discovery greatlypushes back that date. the oldest ones among the mace-heads found in gansu, shaanxi and xinjiang innorthwest china date back to 5,500 years ago, judging f

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onceptualizer of this principle: the designer. to rewrite the crucial sentence in the above quote from the point of view of a neter "a thing created in the mind thereby exists" this is dangerous ground to tread, so much more so for an ancient egyptian civilization whose entire "natural" cosmology was based upon the perfection and harmony of the universe. former director of cairo's french oriental archaeological institute serge sauneron comments "to understand the attitude of the egyptians, it is necessary to emphasize the striking contrast between their view of the world and ours. we live in a universe which we know is in perpetual movement; each new problem demands a new solution. but for the egyptians this notion of time which modifies the current knowledge of the world, of an alteration

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in this book have limited the commentary solely to those parts of kirk's text which seem, either subtly, or quite openly, to assert a perennial wisdom-tradition. it is not too obscure a task to detect the presence of such material; we have many fragmentary records of it from the ancient world, from early christian writers, from classical norse, celtic and other european myths and legends and from archaeological evidence. we also have a wide range of texts from the renaissance period onwards, in which such perennial metaphysical and magical themes and systems are restated in various ways although kirk's book is always declared to be a text or collection of folklore, it often reads like a book on alchemy renaissance theosophy, or esoteric spiritual arts. it is only fair to state firmly at th

ay, local people insisted that 'fairy rings' upon carterhaugh, which stands at the conflux of the rivers yarrow and ettrick, were evidence of the magical struggle for liberty. similar traditions are linked to the reverend robert kirk of aberfoyle, and to thomas of ercledoune, both historical characters with documented backgrounds. in other parts of britain, folk tradition has often been proven by archaeological excavation, particularly where local customs and tales provide rationalizations that preserve memory of pre-christian worship and burial sites. 5. tam lin is both physical and non-physical in various versions of the ballad, verses occur (not included in the text above) http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (5 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds wh

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nition- the worship of false gods. if the setian sees self as the ultimate god-form of realization, there can be no other answer. paganism 1. deities: a core pantheon. perhaps one particular deity and his consort were designated as the supreme beings. these were all given human traits in super-human proportions, and linked with cosmic forces or perceived realities in a somewhat archetypal manner. archaeological evidence seems to suggest that the first god forms venerated were of the goddess or mother type. it was not until this century that the concept of archetype as a factor of the human subconscious was widely understood through the works of carl jung. so it can't be assumed that this was the intent among the ancients, though in some cases the written evidence of symbolism suggests simi

ard in his statement: since a given god could be portrayed in a number of different ways, identifying the "core god" is difficult. i suspect this is due to the fine art of anthropomorphism, i.e: the inflicting of human characteristics upon unsuspecting gods, daemons, and animals. the work of the eminent egyptologist abd el hamid zayed has provided us with the following clue. in his 1968 (iii a.s) archaeological analysis of the stele of revealing,(3) he informs us that: a very interesting point about these stelae is the evidence they afford for the religious views of the period. most noteworthy is the identification of forms of ra-horakhty with soker-osiris. and as dr. aquino points out: summarily the stele of revealing is not based on the osirian triad at all; its themes are those of a the

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and women became the first clergy, or priesthood, and were believed to have magical powers and to have the ability to cure illness, which was thought to be caused by spirits, or supernatural beings. this class of shamans began to organize the belief system and to create certain traditions and rituals, such as the sacrificing of animals to different gods. early religious practices it appears from archaeological evidence that one of the earliest organized religions may have been the worship of the mother goddess. archeological evidence of mother goddess worship exists in several different ancient cultures, including c atalho yu k in modern turkey (c. 6,000 bce, carchemish in ancient iraq (c. 2,000 bce, many people show respect, or veneration, to their relatives through ancestor shrines and

e mother goddess was worshipped for her role in promoting the fertility of both the land and the people. over time, the mother goddess was largely displaced by patriarchal, or male-dominated, pantheons, perhaps as a result of a better understanding of man s part in reproduction. the ancient minoan civilization has left a graphic and very beautiful record of its female goddess in wall paintings in archaeological ruins found on the island of crete. the mother goddess was not only important in prehistoric europe, but has been found in the traditions of ancient canaan, sumeria, egypt and other african countries, india, native north america, western europe, and australia. these fertility-worshipping religions slowly gave way to more male-oriented belief systems. in europe, invasions from the ea

of the more well-known aspects of daoism to those outside the religion is feng shui (pronounced fung shway. for many in the modern world, feng shui is simply a method for designing and decorating living or working space. but feng shui is much more than a system of interior design. it is actually a religion of its own that has been blended into daoist practice. feng shui means wind and water, and archaeological evidence (physical remains of the past) indicates it may be four thousand years old. feng shui discovers the qi, or energy of the dao, as it runs through the earth and affects humans. followers of feng shui believe that it is necessary to channel the qi to keep it from disturbing the lives of humans who live in it. those who practice feng shui attempt to ensure that the qi flows pro

w. so a druid was one who knew the oak, that is, could understand the mysteries of the ancient forests and could lead people in outdoor religious rituals. world religions: almanac 379 neo-paganism druid beliefs and practices druidism was a polytheistic religion practiced in many countries. druids were never organized into a single group but practiced their religion at the local, tribal level. the archaeological record shows that at least 374 different gods and goddesses were worshipped. at least three hundred were probably local tribal gods. the main group of gods and goddesses number perhaps thirty-three (a sacred number among ancient celts) and include arawn, brigid, cerridwen, danu, herne, lugh, morgan, rhiannon, and taranis. modern druids work to reconstruct the myths and practices of

natural and magical beliefs. he studied ritual weapons and the malay kris, a type of dagger with a wave-shaped blade. his first published work, kris and other malay weapons, resulted from this interest. he conducted original research into the early civilizations of malaya (now malaysia, writing for the royal asiatic society journal and becoming an expert on the native people of malaya. he mounted archaeological expeditions in search of lost cities of the east. gardner was able to finance his work with the income he made from the rubber trade. gardner retired at age fifty-two and returned to england with his wife, whom he had married in 1927. they settled in the south of england, in the area known as new forest. he spent most of his time leading archaeological expeditions throughout europe

the first of his surviving epistles. in corinth, paul once again encountered legal difficulties, as jews brought charges against him for preaching christianity. in the year 52 he was called before an official named gallio, who concluded that the matter was unimportant and dismissed the charges. the event is of some significance because it is one of the few in paul s life actually documented with archaeological evidence as having taken place. archaeological evidence are physical remains from history, such as ancient records. afterward paul began his third missionary journey, which again took him through asia minor to macedonia and antioch. in ephesus, a region of greece, he caused an uproar when he spoke out against the practice of worshipping statues of the greek goddess artemis. many of

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after daud of tai and maaruf karkhi (in the order of the builders. thuban founded the malamati, or blameworthy, order of sufi, which has certain similarities with freemasonry. the masonic pillar of the temple boaz (the black pillar) may be albuazz, a form of thubans name abulfaiz. the fourth blooming began in the middle of the nineteenth century, when western occultism began to focus seriously on archaeological data coming from egypt. particularly important highlights were the publication of the rite of the headless one, in which the deity transforms himself into has certain typhonic names. aleister crowley s success with that invocation in april 8, 9 and 10 of 1904, wherein part of his revelation consisted of the audible word coph(rr- which is the word of set. april 30, 1966 when anton sz

bout inscription to extend ideas, and also to preserve the embodiment of oneself through time, they must be inscribed in some way and they must be inscribed within some sort of medium. the study of consciously created, and unconscious inscription, is what forms the basis of the science of archaeology. typically then, mant older inscriptions are the remnants of funerary practice and other types of archaeological digs. the great pyramids of ancient egypt are an example of this form of inscription, as is the taj mahal and the great burial mounds found in the united states, japan and other parts of the world. however, there are a few other forms of inscription worth mentioning. the first is the inscription of ideas through time that can be found within the writings of a culture, in its art, an

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r bone and were used for the same purpose. the fork was not entirely unknown in medieval france, but it was used only on occasion for bringing large chunks of hot meat from the fire to the table. in england, the fork had been used through the middle ages as a utensil for eating fruits and preserves, but not at the table to eat one s dinner. based on the evidence of primitive cutting implements in archaeological digs dating back nearly a million years, even humankind s earliest ancestors used some kind of cutting implement. perhaps those elementary tools were originally fragments of flint or other stone, but it seems clear that the knife, or some kind of cutting tool, was one of the first implements to be devised by early humans. the knife took many forms and was made of many materials duri

the bodies were placed in these megalithic chambers in a sitting posture. the aryans, an indo-european people, burned their dead and placed the ashes in urns shaped like rounded huts with thatched roofs. decorating graves with flowers and wreaths is an old custom that appears to date back to the earliest human burial observances. wreaths made of thin gold have been found in athenian graves during archaeological excavations. the egyptians adorned their mummies with flowers, and paintings on the walls of tombs depict the mourners carrying flowers in their hands. a custom in sixteenth-century europe was to make wreaths of flowers from ribbon and paper and give them to the church in memory of the deceased. these artificial wreaths of long ago evolved into the contemporary mourning wreath of li

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e others, each differing somewhat in size and detail, are held in museums or private collections. people claim that being in max fs proximity provokes images and visions within them. they believe to see scenes from the past history of earth, and frequently they perceive ufo-related scenes and messages. gwhether you believe any of that or not, if you simply look at the artifact on a scientific and archaeological level, you cannot help being overwhelmed and awed at the skilled worksmanship that was involved in creating him, h jo ann parks has commented. the british crystal skull on display at the london museum of mankind is considered to be a nineteenth-century artifact. scientists, at least, are convinced that all evidence weighs toward recent origins of all crystal skulls. until convincing

y an earthquake about 1700 b.c.e, a date that marked the end of one phase of the early history of crete. minoan civilization had regular contact and trade with ancient egypt, which lies southeast, across the mediterranean, from crete. crete, then, qualifies as a land far to the west (in those days) of egypt where atlantis was said to be by the egyptian priests who spoke of the continent to solon. archaeological excavations early in the twentieth century unearthed remarkable artifacts of minoan civilization. then, in 1939, greek archaeologist sypridon marinatos (1901.1974) discovered pumice, volcanic ash, on crete. marinatos connected the ash to the tremendous eruption of a volcano on thera, a nearby island. the eruption was reported in ancient histories. the explosion would have created ha

d. grand rapids, mich. zondervan publishing house, 1965. harpur, james. the atlas of sacred places. old saybrook, conn: konecky& konecky, 1994. kunstel, marcia, and joseph albright. their promised land: arab and jew in history fs cauldron.one valley in the jerusalem hills. new york: crown publishers, 1990. shanks, hershel. the city of david: a guide to biblical jerusalem.washington, d.c: biblical archaeological society, 1975. starr, chester g. a history of the ancient world. new york: oxford university press, 1991. westwood, jennifer. mysterious places. new york: galahad books, 1996. karnak on the banks of the nile, between the ancient cities of luxor and thebes, lie the remains of karnak, one of the most magnificent temple complexes ever constructed. in ancient egyptian, karnak means gthe

names for a legendary lost continent, which, according to its proponents, existed in the caribbean ocean and had many of the attributes associated with atlantis. the mysterious lost lands of lemuria and mu were conceived of during the nineteenth century, when the theory of evolution was introduced and was among the advances in the sciences that challenged conventional ways of understanding life. archaeological discoveries among the ruins of the egyptians, mayans, and other societies were forcing new interpretations of history, and radical forms of mysticism, such as theosophy, were becoming popular. references to the lost continent of mu can be traced back to 1864 and a french archaeologist named charles-etienne brasseur de bourbourg. he had become fascinated by hieroglyphics found on may

lives most of its life on two legs, and ends life on three legs? in oedipus the king, a play by the greek dramatist sophocles (c. 496.406 b.c.e, the title character solves the riddle with the answer ga human, h for an infant crawls on four legs before it begins to walk on two legs, then as an aged person, he or she walks with the use of a cane, or a third leg. in 1967, herbert ricke of the swiss archaeological institute uncovered a temple at the foot of the sphinx. niches in the temple form sanctuaries dedicated to the rising and setting of the sun, and a colonnade court in the temple features 24 pillars, which ricke suggested represents the 24 hours in a day. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d places of mystery and power 269 in 1587

process was repeated until the lintel stone rested on timber at the necessary height to push it in place to complete the trilithon. whether such methods were actually used during the construction is not known. still, human sweat and ingenuity were shown as a legitimate alternative to merlin fs magic and other theories about how stonehenge was erected. m delving deeper bahn, paul g, ed. 100 great archaeological discoveries. new york: barnes& noble, 1995. de camp, l. sprague. the ancient engineers. new york: barnes& noble, 1993. harpur, james, and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. hodges, henry. technology in the ancient world. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1970. taos pueblo in 1992, taos pueblo in new mexico was admitted to the world heritage

e larger structures, and the surrounding countryside where farms were located also would have been underwater. radiocarbon dating suggests instead that tiahuanaco was founded around 400, and after three centuries of gradual settlement, the city was abandoned around 1000. in the interim, the settlement had grown from a ceremonial center to a major city inhabited by 40,000 to 80,000 people. regular archaeological excavations have been underway in tiahuanaco since 1877. the semi-subterranean temple next to the akapana yielded a 24-foot tall monolith in 1932. that find and the generally arid climate helped sustain the idea that tiahuanaco served primarily as a ceremonial center. later finds, however, showed that it had been a thriving city, and dates for the time settlement and abandonment wer

it, for they never learned to use a technique of the ancient dwellers of tiahuanaco. the mysterious unknown people farmed on raised fields, which were filled and built up with soil from surrounding areas. canals between the fields kept them watered, and by farming on raised fields the crops were kept safe from the danger of frost and erosion by water. m delving deeper bahn, paul g, ed. 100 great archaeological discoveries. new york: barnes& noble, 1995. deuel, leo. conquistadors without swords: archaeologists in the americas. new york: st. martin fs press, 1967. flights into yesterday. new york: st. martin fs press, 1969. irwin, constance. fair gods and stone faces. new york: st. martin fs press, 1963. making the connection archipelago from the greek arkhi, meaning gchief or main h and pe

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s, residues of powerful minds like the phantom in the broad-brimmed hat? next, consider this. ufo activity is concentrated in the same areas year after year. in the ohio valley, they show a penchant for the ancient indian mounds which stand throughout the area. could some ufos be mere tulpas created by a long forgotten people and doomed forever to senseless maneuvers in the night skies? there are archaeological sites in the mississippi valley which have been dated to 8,000 years ago. long before the indians are supposed to have arrived. some of the indian mounds (there are hundreds of them scattered throughout north america) are laid out and constructed with the same kind of mathematical precision found in the pyramids of egypt. while it is known that the indians were still adding to some

any people in almost every country and have immodestly claimed credit for everything from the building of the pyramids to the sinking of atlantis. erich von daniken, a swiss author, has popularized the concept that members of an extraterrestrial civilization did contact early earthlings, basing his theories on expansive misinterpretations and in several instances, deliberate misrepresentations of archaeological curiosities. von daniken seems to be totally ignorant of the work of european scholars such as brinsley trench, paul misraki, and w. raymond drake, who have examined the same curiosities very carefully in the past ten years and developed elaborate philosophical hypotheses about the intrusion and effect of alien beings on mankind since the beginning. their concepts are wider in scope

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