Snakes Alive!

05/06/2022 / Matters Blog - Things that Matter to Me / Leave a comment

Serpent worship in some form has permeated nearly all parts of the earth.

Manly P. Hall

The 20th century author and mystic, Manly P. Hall then cites these examples of ‘serpent worship’ in his best known book, ‘The Secret Teachings of All Ages’.

Serpent mounds of the American Indians

Python; the great snake of the Greeks

Druids; sacred serpents

Scandinavia; Midgard snake

Burma Siam Cambodia; Nagas

Jews; brazen serpent

Orpheus; mystic serpent

Greek; snakes at the Oracle of Delphi

Egyptian Temples; sacred snakes, Uraeus coiled on foreheads of Pharaohs and priests

But clearly, from this general idea, there is plenty of detail to fill in. For ‘worship’ and ‘the use of symbols to express something greater than words’, are very different things. None of above list, in my view, are examples of worship of snakes as minor or major deities. They function rather as ‘tools’ for expression of energy and ‘symbols’ of natural law in some way.

Perhaps if we examine the snake as a symbol first, it will help us understand the root and branch of what universal and cultural expressions are being made.

The snake is of course a reptile and different from the mammalian kingdom by laying eggs and having cold blood. We know that reptiles are one of the earliest forms of life and are quite distinct from homo sapiens sapiens. However there is a ‘reptilian’ part of our brains that organises our most basic instincts and therefore we are not so far apart.

The snake moves in a most compelling way that even today makes human jump out of their way instinctively. Most snakes are poisonous and this memory is both in our bodies and our minds.

We should not be surprised that this poisonous aspect of snakes gives them power beyond their size, in fact the smaller snakes are often the most dangerous to humans. Alternatively the snakes that outsize humans several times are able to coil their bodies around us and crush us to death.

We should expect them therefore to be associated with ‘evil’ in our minds.

In addition the shape of snakes and how they move is fascinating to watch. They move on land and water as a ‘standing wave’, the tail taking exactly the same path as the rest of the body and the head.

Waves express energy as static and active states. We watch alternating current on our instruments as a sine wave and are immediately reminded of a snakes powerful and scintillating shape. They appear to move without moving and like energy have an ‘invisibility’ about them.

On a grand scale we see snakes represented in the landscape as rivers curling through flat plains and underground as coiling springs rising to the surface or plunging into the ‘underworld’.

Most compelling of all is the way in which this ‘earth energy’ or ‘chi’, ‘ki’ or ‘prana’, is coiled at the base of the human spine. Through yogic practices (the path to union with the Divine) as described by Arthur Avalon in his classic book ‘Serpent Power‘, human beings can experience the uncoiling of this energy vertically through the chakras and nadis associated with the spinal column and it’s rampant tower of nerves.

When we have ‘spine tingling’ experiences through realisation or fear, we can feel this primal energy and experience being intensely alive.

Not only in these peak moments but also the every day health of the body depends on the balance and even flow of prana as expressed in our every breath. Becoming unwell may have many causes but the return to health involves re-balancing of the powerful creative and destructive processes of living beings.

When we watch waves building and crashing on a beach we are able to tune to this understanding of a most basic truth of nature. Life is given and taken away. The caduceus is a rod entwined by counter coiling serpents is a symbol of this used even today in medicine.

Perhaps the most intriguing and unspoken parts of the human body in which the serpent is expressed, is the male penis which is able to coil and stand erect like a cobra. In it’s standing moments it is able to literally express Prana in the life creating process as a most god-like creative experience of the human body. It literally creates the life of a new being and gives a surge of energy (experienced as ecstasy) so powerful that it enables a soul to be ‘kick started’ into this physical world.

The Ancient Egyptians depict the standing penis unselfconsciously in their wall paintings, but certain prudish visitors to these depictions chose to deface and remove them whenever they could! Perhaps they were influenced by the story in Genesis told in gilded form to wide eyed children.

The story of Old Testament the serpent in the Garden of Eden perpetuates the negative associations of the serpent as a symbol.

But the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat from it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2:17

And the argument of the serpent made to Eve giving her reason to disregard God’s command is clever (and reminds us of the ‘fake news’ of today!)

For God doth know that in the day that ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:5

Interestingly the first example we are given of knowing good and evil is Adam and Eve realising they are naked and feeling this as an ‘evil’ to be redressed by ‘doing good’. They make ‘aprons’ to cover their genitals – a tradition echoed in the Masonic symbols of modern times.

Certainly Adam’s ‘serpent’ is so banished as rapidly as is tried today to the ‘fake news’ distributor.

We might also interpret that this sacred ‘knowledge’ is both a curse and a blessing. For accompanying the descent of human beings from eternal life (Heaven) into the physical world (a garden), they do indeed acquire the awareness of duality represented by the two extremes ‘good’ and ‘evil’.

The dualistic form of thinking is a serpent with so many heads, humans cannot work out which one is real and we are turned to stone; made useless. This understanding is contained in the Greek myth of the goddess Medusa with her head made of serpents.

Psychologically we have descended from the bliss of ‘oneness with God’ to a psychotic state in which we cannot determine the difference between dream and reality, happiness and sadness, toil and rest, gain and loss, good and bad. Our lives are lived in this constant confusion created by a dualistic outlook; believing all things are polarised.

We have to look to the Eastern religions for the veil of this dualistic perception to be lifted. In Zen Buddhism they would only see the whole serpent, not it’s head or it’s tail or it’s body. The real world is a cosmic Unity; a place described as the original Garden of Eden or state of bliss.

Some alchemical gnostics in the West knew this truth and the symbol of the serpent swallowing it’s tail is the expression of this truth, as not told in the Bible.

The serpent’s tale is then one of great complexity throughout history, well beyond what Manly P. Hall describes as being an ‘object of worship’. It appears as a figure holding two serpents in the manner of a pair of scales, with as much regularity as any other. The scales represent objective judgment; the giving of balanced views and feelings which we call wisdom.

It tells us we are not necessarily ruled only by our heads and the compulsions that we imagine derive from our thoughts, but rather we are a function of the coiling energy paths and nexuses in our own bodies. These are neither right nor wrong, good nor bad, but merely the experience of being neither an unborn human being, nor a dead one.

Taking Things Lightly

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‘Angels fly because they take things lightly’

There are two meanings for the word ‘light’ in the English language. The first is ‘something that is not heavy; an easy burden’ and the other is that everyday source of illumination…’light’.

To consider ‘burdens’ first. In the West we tend to acquire information and knowledge at an early age, in a process known as ‘education’. The Victorian roots of this social ideal of free ‘education for all’ has evolved and developed but is still stuck in it’s original root ‘fact learning’ principle. Not useful facts such as what temperature to cook a lasagne but academic facts. Some young people must be highly bemused by this emphasis on information that bears no relation to ‘real life’. Even in later life, adults look back at their school curriculum and realise they have only ever used a tiny fraction of what they were taught.

My generation in the 1960’s, memorised basic multiplication tables and this at least has proved useful, but now most mental arithmetic is obsolete.

Higher education tends to move towards the ‘knowledge’ of things – that is connecting the dots that are the packets of information in order to make sense of things.

Yet the process is remorseless in as much as in an ‘information age’ there is no chance to pause for breath. Knowledge piles up in the library shelves of the mind and collects dust. There is an attempt at some point in life to form ‘opinions’ that cannot be taken down by ‘counter argument’ but it is not easy. There are two sides, we learn, to every conviction.

The very way that we are taught to think encourages the ‘taking of sides’ as politics, sports and even wars, mirror. We have to be in one camp or the other or we risk being in no camp at all.

All of this in my view creates a bonfire of the mind that is a type of collective psychosis. We are literally made ill in the mind, leading to depression in people of all ages and in it’s most extreme manifestation, suicide.

Now I am never one to shine light on a problem without having a personal suggestion as to what the solution might be, so here it comes. It involves challenging the very basic assumption that ‘the more you know the cleverer you are’. Memory ‘quiz shows’ on television…even the IQ test…re-enforce this assumption. The biggest swot gets the prize for remembering stuff but then runs into the green room and bursts into tears because there is no IQ for emotional intelligence. The ageing library in our heads of the unused and forgotten, is testament to how education heads us into unsatisfied and unfulfilled beings.

The technique I use now that I am ‘older and wiser’ is to deliberately ignore and forget most stuff. Like so much compost from the garden of life, I create a huge rotting pile of ‘information,’ and let it create heat on it’s own; somewhere where it will cause no harm.

I have come around to thinking that as children in quite a good place, mentally. We are good at questioning, we do not judge, we do not form opinions, we laugh and cry without fear of judgement and when we are hungry, eat.

A Zen master once wrote;

When I eat I eat, when I sleep I sleep.

Simplicity is a virtue that education demands we forget. And yet, humans enter this world with an infinite capacity for self understanding that has not come from books. The ‘University of Life’ has created many self taught geniuses who might never have risen above the formally educated. Those children who spent their school days looking out of the window can do very well for themselves because they have learnt the power or dreaming.

picture credit; The Marketing Desks

If we need a skill, we watch others and acquire it. It is this process of ‘absorption’ which is how we learn naturally. People living close to the land in ‘indigenous tribes’ never go to school but simply absorb all they need to know from the tribal elders.

Wise people, exude an air of calm and a capacity for understanding that is not directly proportional to the number of years that person has spent in education. Wisdom is more a river than a sea. It is constantly moving in speed and direction. It does not study itself or how close it is to it’s final destination, it just is.

So to move to the second meaning of ‘lightly’. Light is that part of the electromagnetic spectrum of energy which illuminates us physically. Our eyes seek light just as our minds seek illumination. When the mind acquires clarity, clarity acquires the mind, meaning; there is a process that takes humans far beyond any skills that they might be encouraged to learn in ‘normal life’.

And because our bodies are completely interconnected, the light which falls upon the eye and the mind also penetrates the heart. By this I do not necessarily mean emotions, although emotional intelligence is part of it, but the certainty of knowledge and the knowledge of certainty that is perceived through the heart.

As a human clutters the mind during the journey through life, like a monkey in a forest of fruit, so too becomes the heart full of nonsensical impressions. These express themselves primarily through the ego and that part of the mind Buddhists call ‘the monkey mind’. It never stops analysing and repeating words to itself, except when it uses the mouth to force other unsuspecting monkeys to listen to it’s own opinions.

You will intuit an ‘enlightened human being’ by the aura of silence and the gentle movements of that person’s body. They will always be completely present. This skill of operating in comparative emptiness to other human beings is needed for moving into parallel dimensional, places that are not apparent to those ‘over busily’ concerned with the physical world.

To the devout, there is only one other dimension worth living in which is the place occupied by Divine love. All other places encountered on this journey are regarded as similar to the ‘dunya’ or ‘maya’ of the physical world in that they have no value and are no more a destination than wind and waves are.

Just as humans can undergo this process of change in a lifetime, so can planets and stars and Universes, all of which have their own lifetimes, albeit on a completely different scale. The energy we know as light is part of the great spectrum of energy that pervades creation, and like all energy, it contains information on a scale incomparable to the largest library on earth.

When humans overcome the limitations of the physical world by becoming one with the physical world, they begin to have access to these ‘Oceans of Knowledge’. This knowledge of certainty is a mere by-product of the greater relationship with love and the loving Creator that is behind all the multiple veils of creation.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Genesis 01:03

The Cave of Light

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*Roman Barcelona – picture Eportfolios@McCaulay*

There is a city plan used by the Romans which is a circle divided vertically and horizontally into four sections. The divisions form streets aligned to the four points of the compass.

The circular form aligned to the cardinal directions had been used by many other cultures before, most notable being the great Henge’s found around the world. Research into these has revealed their astronomical alignments predicted precisely the solar, lunar and stellar cycles. The motivation for understanding these cycles was to appease the instinctive and intuitive desire to be in harmony with nature. Ancient civilisations depended on the cycles of nature for their next meal and their most holy festivals.

There are four principle solar annual events; the equinoxes and solstices. Using the solar calendar the winter solstice occurs in December, the summer solstice in June, the spring equinox in March and the autumn equinox in September; on around 21^st and 22^nd days of these months.

These correspond with four sacred festivals that originate in ancient times and are celebrated to this day, even if they have morphed from their origins.

In the most simple way we can divide the six months from September to March as being ‘winter’ and the subsequent months as ‘summer’. There are six months of ‘darkness’ and six months of ‘light’ in the broadest of terms.

In the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, the goddess Aphrodite or Venus lived in the light or ‘Heaven’ and Persephone in darkness or ‘Hades’. Both were in love with Adonis and appealed to Zeus to decide how they could share him. His decree was that they should have him for six months of each year.

*Aphrodite – picture Smithsonian Magazine*

The figure of Adonis is in this way critical to understanding the importance of the movement of the seasons in ancient times. Nature lived and died quite literally, as did their harvests, from these forces. If the harvests failed, famine turned nature and cities into wastelands.

April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

memory and desire, stirring

dull roots with spring rain

The Wasteland – The Burial of the Dead – (opening lines) by T.S. Eliot

This uncertainty placed enormous importance for people to give proper respect to the ‘gods’ and nature through ritual worship.

Within the solar year are overlaid the twelve ‘moons’ or months within each solar cycle. The phases of the moon and sun combined were known then and to this day, to govern the process from seed to harvest. This is naturally between spring and autumn, the exact length of this season being determined by latitude. Nevertheless, the spring equinox is a date used today to fix the date of the festival of Easter. This is the Sunday after the first full moon after the 21^st or 22^nd March, proving the importance of the moon combined with the sun in their influence for humans and everything on earth.

We know this because of the plethora of ancient gods and goddess whose lifespans fitted into these celestial cycles. Because spring is the ‘rebirth’ of nature there are corresponding stories incorporating the ‘death and resurrection’ cycle. In the Christian calendar this is known as ‘Easter’ but it is known that that the goddess Astarte preceded this in the ancient Near East. Much later Ostara ( medieval Germanic) gave rise to the traditional Easter symbols of the moon gazing hare and eggs.

What is less well known in our current times is the antithesis of this ‘spirit of new life’. There is a tradition of the deaths of various ancient gods and goddesses at this time; the goring of Adonis by a boar, Dionysus with the first leaves from grape vines, the rape of Persephone and the death of Hyacinthus. Each of these however is given a heavenly reprieve by a resurrection. Adonis was turned into a Myrtle tree, Persephone released from Hades for six months of the year and Hyacinthus turned into a spring flower, the Hyacinth by Apollo – the Solar deity.

It was natural therefore when the Roman Church fixed the date for the death and resurrection of the Christ Jesus, to choose the beginning of spring in the celestial manner described above. The church fathers did not need to know about the strong and balanced influence of the sun and full moon at this time of year, but relied upon the old method of supplanting old ways with a new religion using the previous festivals.

Adonis is an interesting mythological character as for many scholars his festival occurred in spring. In the city of Byblos (in modern Lebanon) where he was born and worshipped, the river ran red each year with the spring rains mixed with red earth. This fertility symbol and literal fertility for the fields, remind us of the menstrual cycle in women, bearer of eggs; nature’s cycle is the same as the human cycle.

And yet, according to Rudolph Steiner in his lecture on Easter*, the ‘Festival of Adonis’ was celebrated at the time of the autumn equinox rather than spring.

(*available on You Tube)

Numerous ancient temples (the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt) and dolmens (New Grange, Ireland), are aligned to allow the solstice rays of sun to penetrate an entrance passage into a womb like chamber and fill it with life giving light.

*Abu Simbel solar solstice – picture La Vanguardia*

Steiner describes the ‘Feast of Adonis’ as being conducted by women in pagan societies. They would sow seeds like cress, on a thin layer of soil in a broken pot shard. After tending them during the spring, the summer drought would kill the plants. After two days of ceremonial mourning, these were ceremonially processed on the third day to the sea or a nearby lake to be immersed as an ‘image’ of Adonis. Adonis is therefore a tragic god who is ‘born to die’ as much later was written into the story of the Christ Jesus. Further evidence is contained in Sir James Fraser’s prodigious work The Golden Bough (an anthropological study of Mediterranean religions) claiming the Jesus is a fertility god in the lineage of Adonis.

*The Entrance Stone to the Garden Tomb – picture Inspiration Cruises and Tours*

The references to dying processes taking three days, is described by Steiner as being a reference to an ancient understanding of the human dying process which also takes three days. The first day completes the death of the physical body, the second the ‘ether’ body and the third the ‘astral’ body. This is an theosophical categorisation similar to the ‘body, soul and spirit’ of the Hermeticists or ‘animal, vegetable and mineral’ of the Idealists. Either way, man and nature take three days for the process of dying or ‘transitioning’.

It is a fact that the dying sun the during winter solstice, stops moving on the horizon for three days, before the days lengthen again. The circular stone rolled over the tomb in which the body of Christ Jesus was moved after a similar number of days, referencing him to be a solar deity; a ‘sun of God’.

The true dates of the life of Christ are not stated in the Bible, although there are a few clues. If we are persuaded to imagine the nativity to take place in the winter, then there are suggestions that state otherwise. The first is that shepherds were out in the fields at night, indicating that they were ‘lambing’ – a season that all farmers know. A ‘census’ of people is unlikely to be held in the dark and cold winter months for practical reasons; the Romans were practical administrators. The ‘star in the east’ is likely to be Venus which is well known by agricultural communities, to rise in the early morning in the East in the spring.

*Nastrium Egg – picture The Ornament Emporium*

Finally, it is curious how men travelling east were following a star appearing in the east. It is probably, in my view, that this information is coded and the direction east indicates a time of year rather than direction of travel; after all, their direction of travel is not important information to progress the story and a good story teller would omit this. It is only included to complete the sub-narrative.

The east road of the city is of course corresponding to spring on the solar calendar and the time of year you would expect a ‘sun god’ to be born. So, whether the ‘Christ Mass’ is held in the winter, spring, summer or autumn is open to interpretation and would not be contradicted by the Bible.

What modern observers would do well to recognise is not the dogma but the symbolism of the Christian churches. The ‘mass’ is confidentially encouraging congregations to drink blood and eat human flesh on the solar day of the week whilst facing the rising sun.

For me, the symbols are only partly transcendent, as we feel in the energy of spring, while carrying more than a hint of the macabre death and the dying sun/son.

That corpse you planted last year in your garden,

Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?

Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?

poem: The Wasteland 1922 – The Burial of the Dead – T.S. Elliot

Seeing is Unbelieving

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Seeing is Unbelieving

There is an intriguing eye test in which the subject looks at a cross and black dot spaced out on a sheet of paper. As the paper is drawn closer, whilst staring at the cross, the black dot disappears.

The explanation we know to be the ‘blind spot’ in the retina where the optic nerve enters and fans out. What is intriguing is that the brain is constantly filling in this ‘blind spot’ with information that we are not aware of.

It is the same with white ceilings. If there is a blemish or a stained patch, the brain will ‘see’ the ceiling as perfectly white. What we see is therefore, in some degree, doubtful.

Perhaps it will help us if we define ‘seeing’ and ‘looking’. Most of the time we ‘look’ without discernment. If however we focus our mind on what we are looking at, more information and understanding will become apparent. Artists learn to ‘see’ in order to render every aspect of the subject they are describing to an extraordinarily high degree.

The visual apparatus of humans can be trained, but we should also realise that what the brain does with the information is highly selective.

When two soccer teams play a match, the supporters identify with their own team. If there is an incident where the referee has to make a decision in favour of one side or the other, both sets of ‘witnesses’ i.e. supporters, will be highly biased towards their own side. They will talk about the incident and the injustice of the referee’s decision for weeks afterwards, based on their own biased view.

Witnesses in criminal cases are notoriously biased and the justice system has to record what they saw as objectively as possible. When two witnesses present differing versions of events, which is the truth?

In one extreme case when people on a bus witnessed an incident in Israel, the police used a hypnotist to access what they saw in extraordinary detail. Our brains retain most of what we see, it is just that we blank most of it out unconsciously. Hypnotism retrieves this information in an unbiased way, so that for instance, car registration plates will be remembered.

Unfortunately, we do not have hypnotists to solve our family arguments about who said what to whom and how long this has been going on. Neither do whole nations have access to truthful descriptions of what is going on in the world and dictators exploit this.

It is possible to create a narrative so extreme that it can even be used to start a war with a neighbour. Witnesses to events in the war, even professional reporters, are today regarded as suspect in their reporting because even the media can either intentionally or unintentionally, select the truth according to their editor’s wishes.

*picture credit; World Press Freedom Index*

Even the photographs and videos are no longer able to be trusted as software is available to alter them.

All of this happens in what we call ‘the physical world’ but of course what we see is not always physical. Take an audience watching a film in a cinema. They are certainly not watching anything ‘real’ in the conventional sense, but they will be completely transfixed by the narrative being played out before them. There may be some self awareness retained as the popcorn in handed around which is similar to the way hypnotised subjects experience what they are viewing, but their focus is mainly in a virtual reality.

Hypnotised subjects reveal much about the complexity of how visual information reaches the mind and how it is interpreted. There is one case referred to in Michael Talbot’s book The Holographic Universe, in which a man is hypnotised and told that his teenage daughter is invisible to him. She stands in front of him and much to the delight of the audience and his giggling daughter, he swears he cannot see her. Then the hypnotists takes out a unique watch and presses it against the back of the young lady. He asks the father details about the watch which he squintsat and reports correctly everything he is asked about the watch.

There is no explanation for this phenomenon, but clearly it shows us that what we see is far more extensive and complicated in it’s mechanics than the diagrams of the eye that we study at school, explain.

In a lifetime a person may experience visual ‘discontinuities’. These generally fall into the concept of ‘extra sensory perception’ such as seeing ghosts, spirits, poltergeist events, psychokinesis. Lorna Burne is a modern mystic who has written books about how she has seen and interacted with angels and archangels since she was a child. Her whole visual world includes angels and spirits which the ‘ordinary’ observer is completely unaware.

Is it right to dismiss those with ‘second sight’ and their experiences or should society be more tolerant and inclusive towards people who in historical times would be regarded as either saints or witches?

Ironically, history has always taught us not to believe our eyes. The whole concept of an invisible God enables us to ‘look inward’ into our hearts and minds. A God who is never revealed is not open to be disproved or proved and yet, humans have sustained the experience of the ‘godhead’ across aeons and continents. The ancient Greeks experienced a world in which minor gods revealed themselves to mortals, and their stories, artefacts and architecture give vivid and consistent accounts of each and their powers to help or obstruct human endeavour.

The Ancient Greeks also believed in the idea that the eye ‘sees’ by projecting energy at the subject in the manner of a torch in a darkened room. Mind was an integral part of the process of seeing to the extent that the observed physical world is capable of being created by the observer.

Quantum physics has rested it’s gaze on exactly this probability; that the observer alters the events that take place right before our eyes. It supports the ‘idealistic’ philosophy in which mind has control of the material Universe. We understand that the Creator or Mind initially created the Universe by thought alone. Now scientists can step down through the different scales in which energy and matter perform their visual effects, and conclude that they personally are part of the experiment.

It is intriguing therefore as ordinary people, to become more sceptical about the ‘reality’ of our world of physicality and factor in our dreams, memories, intentions, ideals, beliefs, expectations, preconceptions in an attempt to grasp the slippery fish we call our world.

As Simple As 1,2,3

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‘Shake the tree and not the branches‘

Philosophy is the study of tree trunks whereas much of the activity in the modern world is to do with shaking branches. Few attempt to shake the trunk of the tree as advised by the old proverb.

Grasping this concept will make you a philosopher. Breadth of understanding is akin to wisdom because it understands how things operate in their generality. Details fall into place once the correct concept has been initiated. A journey is started by selecting the road.

As a consequence of this ‘universality’ of truthful thought, we should understand what ancient people’s understood about the world – even though they lived millennia ago. Whilst the archaeologist are studying the shards of pots, philosophers are walking in the Palace of the thoughts of those who used them.

For example, the Trinity is a concept as old as the mountains and deserts. Long before the Christians used ‘Father, son and Holy Ghost’, something universal is described by the Trinity. It appears again and again in history as how a complimentary duality creates a mysterious third.

Pythagoras said the numbers are the first thing in nature. The number ‘one’ multiplied by itself, is one, and divided by itself is also, one. It is therefore a very unique expression of the fundamental reality of things. It is the Unity or ‘Godhead’ from which all other numbers are made. It anticipates what in theoretical physics is known as ‘the point of singularity’ or the original source of Creation at or/and, just after the apparent begining of all things.

Next, the One divides itself and creates duality. If the oneness is the perfection of the garden of Eden, then two-ness creates opposite and complimentary systems. The duality of ‘God’ and ‘Adam’ was the splitting of universal perception that God created to know Himself. To understand something it must be viewed from without as well as within.

In geometry, any two points can be connected by a straight line. These two points will always have the potential to be connected by a straight line but only on one spatial plane; meaning, able to move in any direction but not up or down.

We see this expressed in the two dimensional graphical representations of the perceived world in Islamic art and decoration.

The understanding of the triangle as the compilation of the concepts of both one and two, was in my view, one of the greatest achievements in understanding by mankind. Any three points will always make a triangle, a magic formula by any measure.

Both ancient Mayans and Egyptians, understood geometry and it’s value in describing the essence of things. They expressed this most memorably as a three dimensional square pyramid. This shape is so fundamental that it is easy to overlook and become distracted by the infinite and fascinating detail contained in their mathematics and cultural symbolism.

Archimedes famously discovered that the volumes of a cone sphere and drum have volumes in the ratio of one, two and three.

These are no longer puzzles in school exercise books, created for children to repeat without understanding. These are the building blocks of our perception and therefore understanding of the universe, as limited as that may be!

The Freemasons inherited much of their ancient knowledge of how thoughts and things are put together and work. Geometry is most perfectly expressed by buildings. The great medieval cathedrals of Europe continued the expression of geometry and measure contained in these ancient temples and pyramids around the world.

Freemasons represented the power of the three dimensional pyramid as the ‘Eye of God’ or sometimes the capital letter ‘G’. This is found today on the United States dollar bill. A pyramid built in thirteen courses, (twelve plus one – Jesus and his disciples) is topped by an Eye floating in a detached pyramidion. The concept of the ‘fractal’ or ‘all is One’ is expressed so simply that it could not be plainer to see.

The geometric trinity of space, as we experience the physical world, is made infinite and mysterious by a fourth dimension…time. Time is expressed in the physical world as ‘movement’; describe by the polymath Jean Cocteau as ‘the most beautiful thing in nature’. Time is created by man in an attempt to measure movement and like all such attempts may be mere illusion.

Ancient people were intimately connected to the apparent movement of the stars and planets and were able to measure and therefore, predict planetary movements and positions relative to each other and the sun; solstices, equinoxes and other astronomical events. In doing so, they were gaining an experiential knowledge of the Divine or sacred within and without of the physical world. They even joined the ‘dots’ of the stars to make meaningful patterns which today we call constellations. The passing of time was measured as ‘months’ as the twelve constellations of the Zodiac appeared on the horizon for the first time. As different energies were associated with these appearances the ancients knew auspicious moments for human activity which will end well.

The great lines of monoliths, menhirs, cromlechs, dolmens are reminders to us today of how magic is contained within this geometry, meter and movement. It is a magic that powers everything, that we know and experience.

If we are to understand ourselves and thrive on this planet, as did millennia of ancient Egyptian dynasties and Mesopotamian dynasties, we must follow truths that our ancient ancestors expressed and left for us to interpret and understand. The answers to life’s questions were written in stone in order to be ‘flood proof’ for they had an ancient universal memory of ‘the Great Flood’ and catastrophies further back in time.

The simplicity of geometry is akin to the simplicity of truth and how the world is merely a mirror between the smallest and grandest of scales. Add to that our tiny planet’s complex spiralling movements through space and time and other dimensions beyond and the simplicity of one, two, three can be lost – but we lose it at our peril for we are simple creatures of ‘little brain’ as followers of Pooh Bear will understand.

Prayer and Miracles

17/11/2021 / Matters Blog - Things that Matter to Me / Leave a comment

Most people have some idea of what a prayer is. They will either pray on the basis of this belief or not. In the West young people are encouraged to pray in school and in some families at home as well. But as common as prayer is, I believe the question is rarely asked, ‘how does it work?’

I do not believe that prayer is a method of ‘getting things’ for yourself. It might be appealing to keep ‘requests to God’ as a back stop to failure in life, but that was never part of the deal with the Almighty. If we remember Genesis, part of the punishment for obtaining knowledge is freewill. That is, if we foul up it’s entirely our fault.

The Arabs have a saying; ‘Trust in God but tie up your camel first’. So when people ask the question, ‘how could God let this happen?’ they are imagining a perfect universe in which God is an autocratic ruler. That would be simple, but turning oneself into a victim and apportioning blame outside of oneself is a philosophy doomed to disatisfaction. It should be comon sense that camels will walk off on their own if not tied to a palm tree. We are responsible for our own actions and that was always the deal.

If you can agree with this philosophy of personal account and blameworthyness, then it is easy to adjust to the reality that God will not respond to prayers asking for earthly personal rewards.
To an intellectual where words are all that there is, this is an unsatisfactory state of affairs. They might become so frustrated by the lack of answers that they form the conclusion that ‘there is no God’. It’s logical but of course, logic does not run the Universe. If it did there would be no access to and need for spirituality.

In my own view and probably others, prayer does create change but an inward change, not outward. If you examine the palmed hands and prostration and kneeling common to many religions, it is obvious that a submissive posture and quiet mind is paramount to effective prayer. The effect of this is like plucking a guitar string in one room and somewhere else another guitar string chimes in sympathy. This is the resonant universe in which all things are connected quiet naturally and without effort. In this way, I argue, we are connected to the all powerful Creator God however you imangine that ‘Mind’ to be.

If you look at sacred imagary throughout history, minor gods and angelic forms are depicted carrying and playing musical instruments. The classic example is angels with harps, flutes and even reeds in the wind are metaphors for resonance between God and the physical world.

Prayer, in any religion, can have the effect of stilling the human mind and spirit to become in harmony with the God-self, that is the tiny part of the Creative Mind within ourselves. This is hidden reason why Muslims are required to pray five times a day, to keep the inner Divine strings humming constantly.

Resonance, to paraphrase the prophet of Islam, Mohammed, (sas) can move mountains.

Tibetan monks in 1939 were recorded by Kjellson levitating huges rocks up a mountainside to build a monastery. They used the power of their long musical horns arranged in a specific pattern and backed by rows of humans in prayer.

By becoming One with the Universe we can create events that we want.
This is part of the paradoxical nature of being alive in which a human with freewill can direct that freewill to union with the Creator of freewill and thus a ‘connection’ that is not connected…as in two strings vibrating in harmony.

So we move on to miracles. I said at the begining that prayer is not a means to get what we want. That was not quite true because there is an exception and that is miracle making.
There are rare moments (and by that I mean very rare) where Divine intervention at a resonant level as described, can make a humble individual ‘all powerful’.

Jesus the Christ was revered for his miracles, some of which are described quite literally in the Holy Bible and some allegorically. An example of a literal miracle is raising Lazarus from the dead, something Jesus was taught to do by the gnostics of the time. An example of an allegorical miracle would be turning water into wine.
In the old testament we have the Israelites being chased by the mighty Egyptian army and trapped by the Red Sea. One faithful follower entered the waters and started to walk. At the point where his head went under water the seas parted.

So if we ignore the allegorical stories about miracles as having another purpose, we can see the common theme that real miracles happen when an individuals or a collective’s very existence is in danger of extinction. It may not happen at a time and in accordance with human desire.

Delay and misdirection are caused by the impurity of our human resonance with God, not the other way around.
As the old saying goes, ‘the pot always calls the kettle black’. So the sooner we stop ignoring or doubting His prescence within each one of us, the sooner our lives will change.

You Will Own Nothing and You Will Be Happy

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Quotation from ;The Great Reset by 2030 – World Economic Forum

What do the bad guys usually want? From the Blofeld’s and Goldfingers of our imaginations to the Alexander the Greats and Caesars, we might think the answer is, ‘world domination’.

In our present era, there is indeed smoke in the air warning us of a world conflagration. The word ‘global’ is something we are accustomed to hearing; in a way that would not have been, say one hundred years ago.

Since then, we have had round the world flights and sailing navigation’s and of course two world wars. Now we are told of a global climate emergency. Global is the new National.

Sadly, for we had to wait until the sea was lapping at our toes and the wind spinning away our hats before taking responsibility – if that was achieved at the recent COP 26 in Glasgow. Those living near the sea may be wise to go out and buy aqualungs.

*picture credit Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists*

Concurrently we have yet another global emergency called the ‘pandemic’. This could also have been better prepared for, as humanity has been fighting virus’s for it’s entire history and has never been so well armed to respond as we are today; even if the common cold has escaped elimination.

And then there is China, and the Chinese Communist Party. When I studied China in school fifty years ago, the Chinese people went around on flocks bicycles and ‘stuff’ was made in Hong Kong. Now the Chinese are the center of the world’s commerce and principle producer of goods. This is driven by low wages, long hours ( ‘search engine ‘ the numbers 669) and economical (though global climate harming ) global traffic and trade. Most Pacific rim nations view the highly capable Chinese military as their principle threat and many human rights organisations lay numerous allegations of inhumanity, at the door of the Chinese leaders.

First Chinese bicycles. Historical artwork of people riding bicycles in Shanghai, China, in 1900. Taken from: Histoire de la Locomation Terrestre, published in Paris in 1936. Credit Science Photo Library

Is all this global Covid, Climate and China just chance or should we be suspecting ‘foul play’ on a scale never conceived of before?

If humanity feels it is being forced into a corner with basic freedoms being taken away, why is this and who is doing it?

In my view the ‘giant at the top of the bean stalk’ is technology. No one ever voted for new technology. A few scientists have had second thoughts on realising how destructive their discoveries are e.g. the A-bomb…but most inventions, like the washing machine, set us free.

For the freedom loving democracies, life, in my view, is about to become a whole lot less free. To understand the means to this end one must only look at China and how it uses technology to control in fine detail, the lives of it’s citizens. CCTV cameras produce images with names and numbers floating above each face in the supermarket or airport concourse. Money as cash has long gone as it cannot be traced. Instead citizens wave their phones at tills in shops and the transaction goes straight to CCP headquarters…just in case they might need it.

By the time it reaches Europe and the USA I predict mobile phones will enable our governments to more or less monitor and control our lives. Everything you are and do will go to a special sealed circuit board in your phone. It will be called your ‘Freedom Pass’. Sounds okay doesn’t it, but read on. Interestingly Elon Musk has other plans to insert this techology directly into your brain, something that may be used instead of or as well as mobile phones. Both will of course be presented as benefits to the individual.

‘Everything you are’ means your personal details and bio metrics, consumer profile, money and possessions, travel, education, health and politics.

‘Everything you do’ means your work and leisure, credit and tax records, work skills and placement, travel credits, health status, voting credits.

The first of these should not surprise us as this is what computers do and have been doing since the 1990’s. What we haven’t reached yet is the experience of having our money and assets frozen because we voted for the wrong party ( oh yes, you will use your phone to vote ) or our self drive car restricted to no further than a five mile radius, (known as a withdrawal of travel credits ) because we put up a post on social media criticising the government.

Cleverly your ‘Freedom Pass’ will measure your ‘credits’ not take your ‘freedom’ away. It will just take credits that you were awarded for following government protocols, away. Your fault, not the governments.

If this future shocks and horrors you then there is an alternative, but be warned, it is not for the faint-hearted.

*picture credit Maribyrnong City Council*

The alternative is to throw your mobile phone into a lake. Some of us lived before mobile phones and before domestic computers and I can assure you, life was fine and dandy. Birds sang, beaches were clean and people made love not war.

If you fancy this lifestyle today it is probably because you are spiritual. I mean by this that for your life is not just about local gossip and watching TV and going to the supermarket – the sort of life style acted out on the TV soaps.

Those who have a deeper vision of what it is to be human and free will probably be either extremely rich ( so that they are part of the Global Government Party ) or spiritual. By spiritual I encompass all religions and those who have a feeling of a Divine presence or if you prefer ‘goodness in life’. For them it is not important if the supermarket refuses to accept payment because their money credit has been taken over by the State. There is an option, an alternative lifestyle that is not ‘Mad Max’.

You will have to leave the cities, where 50% of humanity have already been funneled. Eventually most people will eventually be sent to cities in order to ‘protect the environment’ or ‘preserve a scientific special interest zone’ or some other ‘desirable noble cause’. In reality it is to put the sheep in their pen.

Freedom lovers will vote with their feet and choose to live in small self-sufficient communities in remote locations. The governments will be powerless to stop this because they will not need to. People living ‘off the grid and off the net’ are no threat to what governments are aiming to achieve. However hard you try to grow just corn, there is always a corner or a dip in the field where weeds grow. Governments know this.

There will be ‘sheep’ and ‘goats’ in most countries across the globe. The sheep will be tended for their basic needs but under the watchful eye of the sheep dog. The goats will move to the wild lands, too high for sheep, too few in number for the sheep dog to chase.

Perhaps you will see in front of you the stairs that enable believers to climb into the ‘New Earth’ as Dolores Cannon calls it. Your vibrational level will change your perception fundamentally. Dolores uses the metaphor of an aircraft propellor which becomes invisible when it changes frequency of spin.

So even though your are still here , you will not be. What was important in the material world will become inconsequential. As a Tibetan monk once told the Dalai Lama after 18 years of captivity by the Chinese, ‘I was in danger twice. Both times because I came close to not forgiving my captors.’

Slay Your Dragon

17/08/202114/03/2022 / Matters Blog - Things that Matter to Me / Leave a comment

Males Gain the Reward of Understanding Feminity and Visa Versa

To understand this essay you have to acknowledge the possibility, at least, of reincarnation. If it cannot be proved it can, at least, not be proved to be untrue.

To my mind you only have to observe natural processes to see that nothing is ever lost or thrown away. All the survival lessons learnt by plants, insects, reptiles, fish and animals are locked away in the DNA locker so that they will ‘rise again’ in the next generation.

In a period of knowledge where the physical is given preference over the energetic, it is understandable that some people think when their bodies expire, so does their consciousness. But because the events are concurrent, there is no reason for your energy body to expire with the physcial body. Why should it, when it has so many lessons gained in it’s lifetime?

Such lessons are like the oak tree that has learnt how to warn neighbouring oak trees of the presence of a root disease in the area. This skill will become part of what all oak trees are able to do. So with humans. Our souls learn lessons and ‘evolve’ naturally for the individual and collective.

If you think this is a ‘fairy story’ then prepare for more bad news. You see, there do be Dragons! When the scientists tell you that dragons are a mythical creature, they are themselves relaying a myth that they have accepted without proof…other than the empirical absence of dragons.

But in the reality of our energy bodies, we all carry a dragon or two. Imagine a soul awaiting rebirth onto this planet. This soul will have been ‘judged’ on arrival in Heaven and certain ‘flaws’ targetted for removal. For an abbreviated list of flaws there are seven known as ‘the deadly sins’…deadly because they can kill you, but more of that later.

To remind you they are; pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth.

The timing of the rebirth of the soul in need of ‘correction’ is key. The arsenal of personal strengths is contained in the twelve astrological sun signs. Each sign gives a new soul the strength of personality that they did not have in a previous life, such as being overwhelmed by lustful thoughts or greed. Such a soul might be reborn under the restraining discipline of Capricorn ruled by Saturn, governor of time and order.

The subject is huge and the examples examined in great depth but for the purposes of this short essay I shall suggest that you make friends with your astrological strengths and weaknesses and observe both in action as you live your daily life.

It will probably be some quirk or weakness of character that has been apparent since childhood. Perhaps you were spiteful as a child and always hurting other children, so that you had few friends. This is your dragon, alive and well and carried over from your previous lifetime. It is not created by family and social influence, it is not even your ‘nature’ but part of your previous life’s failure to learn.

The good news is that you have an ally. This ‘saviour’ has entertained and lifted the hearts of children in their stories for millennium, it is the ‘knight in shining armour’. This man or woman, has the inner strength of nobility, enshrined in the code of honour of the knight. They also have a suit of armour that protects the soul of the knight from harmful ‘slings and arrows’ that the enemy will send their way. But most useful of all is the proactive tool of the lance. With the aid of speed provided by a fast horse and accuracy provided by training, the lance has the power to penetrate the heart of the dragon and pin its dying body to the ground.

Children understand these ‘fairy stories’ in a manner that many adults do not.

They remember this ancient battle that that have played out over and over in recurring births. They are back on earth because in every previous lifetime the dragon has breathed fire on the knight and cooked him or her until death.

The ‘deadly sin’…the sin that kills a soul’s life chances…is often more powerful, than the noble knight. And yet, and yet, we will eventually prevail because we have as many chances as we need to use the strength of our planet and our birth date, to rise above the flames of the dragon’s breath.

That lifetime is ideally this moment. It may seems strange to you that there is an unusual amount of uncertainty at best, horror at worst, in the world right now. This is the battle field of old Medi-evil times that is the human condition. It has ‘speeded up’ our collective and personal evolution because the controlling power over us which we perceive as ‘time’ is losing it’s grip.

We have to adapt to survive quickly in difficult times and the greatest journey any of us can make is to adopt the knight’s noble code of honour, armour and spear to hunt down our inner dragon.

Once slain, our souls will experience a release that they have never experienced before. Perhaps another dragon will emerge, but hopefully not. Hopefully you will be able to join the line of noble souls that guard the Portcullis of Heaven and all things which have a value beyond the physical world.

Dragons live in the heavy physicality of Earth. Knights live in shining energetic light of Heaven. Where do you want to be?

The Alchemical Dual Gender Dragon –
*it is already happening in you*

Ancient Light Part Three

14/07/202121/08/2021 / Matters Blog - Things that Matter to Me / Leave a comment

In Part One of this trilogy entitled ‘Ancient Light’, I have described the curious electrostatic qualities of many ancient monolithic structures. They appear to be designed principally to concentrate weight upon piezoelectric rocks. This produces subtle effects that can be sensed by the human body and mind, even to the present day.

I have also examined the unique design of the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Cheops as an example of use of this same principle. The highly selective construction techniques suggest that static electricity was intentionally generated, stored and exploited in the pyramid. The Arc of the Covenant operates as a capacitor potentially discharging static electricity as an ‘arc light’ and even lightning from the pyramid’s peak.

In this final section I shall describe the ancient knowledge of the production of monatomic gold shared (and possibly inherited) with the Mesopotamian civilisations.

There are depictions of gold mined by humans for the Anunnaki ruling Mesopotamia in ancient times. Humans were possibly created as a slave race mining gold for their rulers. Even as far away as South Africa, Zulu legends speak of a time when “visitors of the stars” came to dig gold and other natural resources.

For more insight into the mystery of the ancient gold mining across Earth the work of Michael Tellinger is the authority on the subject.

Interestingly there is little in the Mesopotamian drawings to suggest a use for their gold. What there is however is a remarkably common theme in visual representations of two ‘demi-gods’ standing either side of ‘the tree of life’ holding a bag and cone shaped object.

When examined closely the ‘cones’ appear to be made of many spherical objects which have been formed together into the shape of a cone. It is always held at mouth level as if in the gesture to eat. It is surely no coincidence that this same image appears in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Akhenaten Offering / Honouring Bread to the Sun god Ra and the life giving ‘solar energy*’ symbolised by the Ankh at the end of the ray.

The best line of investigation that allows modern readers to penetrate this mystery, comes from a renowned Egyptologist Sir Francis Petrie of University College London. He produced a report for his sponsors on a trip he made in 1904 to Mount Horeb in the Sinai Peninsula.

The full story is described in detail by Sir Laurence Gardener in the excellent video below;

Gardener describes Petrie’s discovery of an ‘alchemical laboratory’ in an Egyptian Temple on Mount Horeb ( later Mt. Sinai), dedicated to the goddess Hathor. Within the temple store rooms, is found 50 tons of a mysterious white powder, conical stones, metallurgists crucibles, tanks and basins. Much of the design stylisation on these and other objects is Mesopotamian. Inscriptions mysteriously refer to ‘Mfkzt’ (pronounced Muf Khut)’ and ‘bread’ and ‘light’.

Petrie decided that the use of this laboratory went back to the very first Ancient Egyptian Dynasty and continued in production until the final 18^th Dynasty. Laurence Gardener describes the story of the flight of Moses and the Israelites. Moses famously went up Mt. Horeb (or Mt Sinai, as it was later called) where there was seen fire and smoke at night. We are told that this came from an Alchemical Laboratory where Moses would have observed the transmutation of gold into a powder. Exodus describes how Moses burnt the golden calf in the fire and ‘ground it to a powder’.

We should be aware that Moses was trained as a priest by the Egyptians. His great grandfather was Thutmoses 3^rd, who reorganised the ancient mystery schools of Thoth and founded the ‘School of Master Craftsmen’ at Karnak. They were called ‘The Great White Brotherhood’ because of their preoccupation with a mysterious white powder.

In the tradition of the goddess Hathor, a cow and a nursing goddess, came the ‘powdered milk that;

‘…gave the Pharaohs their divinity’.

It is no secret today that gold can be transmuted into a white powder in a furnace and this powder confers good and longevity, (common to Royal families even to this day!). It is called ‘monatomic gold’ or ‘ormus’ and can be even purchased on E-bay!

‘There is nothing new under the sun’ – King Solomon

Is it possible that in large quantities over long periods of time, this powder may alter human consciousness to a higher ‘god-like’ level? Clearly the Mesopotamians and Ancient Egyptians thought so, to the extent that they must have processed large amounts of precious gold to deify the Pharaoh. After all, the role of the Pharaoh was to be both man and a god, and achieving this status whilst living, was his or her aim.

Just to explore the Old Testament, Moses story a little more, there is the narrative of ‘Mana’ appearing on the ground like dew ‘from Heaven’. This mana could be made into cakes and consumed and appeared when the Israelites had run out of food. Can we conjecture that this substance was also powdered gold placed there overnight by priests for the people, until we consider a clue from Mesopotamia. Here the name for powdered gold was Shemana and it is more than tempting to take this as being identical to Mana.

There is a discrepancy in appearance – or perhaps it appeared in two forms. The ‘mana from heaven’ described in Exodus as feeding the Israelites, is described as being ‘like a coriander seed in size and shape’. This appearance resembles the ‘seeds’ that make up the cone shapes in Mesopotamian reliefs.

And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me always’

Exodus 25:30

This extract from Exodus show us firstly how important ‘shewbread’ (or white powder cakes) was. The cone shaped stones found by Petrie in the Temple of Hathor on Mt Horeb, may well have been moulds with which to make cone shaped vessels to hold or mould the shewbread.

Laurence Gardener tells us that the 4^th Dynasty was the era of the pyramid building where Hathor is always depicted with representations of the Pharaoh. We can imagine a society in which the workers drank beer, the middle classes and aristocrats used a narcotic derived from the blue water lily and Pharoahs ate Monatomic gold.

With the Ark present in the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid, I have described in part two how high voltages and plasma could have been generated between the wing tips of the Cherubim. Such a high temperature might have been used as a furnace to turn gold into the precious white powder but I do not believe there is any evidence for this. Such a process would have produced smoke and waste materials and the interior of the King’s Chamber is remarkable for being clean.

The alchemical creation of white powder was in furnaces in the Temples, not in the pyramids, in my view. But there is another cleaner method for producing monatomic gold, which could have been one of the functions of the pyramids.

As a clue, one of the contents of the Ark of the Covenant, as well as the tablets on which the commandments were inscribed, was some Mana. According to the Book of the Epistles, this was possibly held in a pot made of gold.

Modern pyramid experimenters have found many extraordinary characteristics even in scale models of pyramids. Modern experimenters Mary and Dean Hardy of Allegan, Michigan took a gold coin and hung it at the King’s Chamber level of a Great Pyramid model. After some time the gold coin got a clear “oil” on it and the gold was etched away under the drops of oil. This oil can be reduced to the white powder known as Orm or Monatomic Gold.

From my own personal experience I once worked for an architect in Australia who described himself as a ‘modern alchemist’ and had a laboratory over our work place that he regrettably never showed me. I remember him telling me however, that it was possible to produce oils from metals, a fact that struck me at the time, as worth remembering.

An unlikely scientist in this story is Sir Isaac Newton. He was an alchemist for the second part of this life and deeply interested in the Bible and the pyramids. The following extract is from a recent sale of some manuscript belonging to the great scientist.

“He was trying to find proof for his theory of gravitation, but in addition the ancient Egyptians were thought to have held the secrets of alchemy that have since been lost. Today, these seem disparate areas of study – but they didn’t seem that way to Newton in the 17th century,” Gabriel Heaton, Sotheby’s manuscript specialist, told The Guardian.

The traditional quest of alchemists is that they tried to turn ‘lead into gold’. Such a ‘story’ in my view, is yet another example of a ‘red herring’ to hide the truth. The transmutation of gold using a ‘secret fire’, is the true ‘secret of alchemy’. Chemists such as Nicolas Flamel called the Shemana, Mana, white powder, Ormus – the Philosophers’ Stone.

Oil of Gold – picture credit Kymiaarts.com

The ‘secret fire’ may not be actual fire but the concentrated energy within the pyramid at the location of it’s inner chambers, where gold transmutes by the action of invisible fire or ‘energy’.

The findings and analysis of his ‘white powder’ by Sir Flanders Petrie where never published. This may have been because it contradicts some elements of the Old Testament. It may also be that the knowledge of the philosophers stone and it’s effects was desired to remain secret by those in powerful positions who already knew about it…such as the Freemasons and other Societies in possession of and trusted with guardianship of ancient secrets.

There is a twist in the story, because the white powder has been analysed in modern times by the physicist Andrei Sarhakov. He describes it as ‘exotic matter’ because one of it’s characteristics was that it weighed less than nothing! In other words it was not affected by gravity. It’s ability to levitate itself could be transferred when placed on other matter.

These gravitational effects remind us of the interest that Sir Isaac Newton took in developing a theory of gravity that has advanced civilisation to this day! Was he also exploring the possibility of ‘anti-gravity’?

Even more extraordinary is that Sarhakov found Orm could move into another dimension if we want it to, a concept familiar to Quantum physicists and modern mystics, but which the general public find hard to comprehend.

Interdimensional Travel – not new to mystics and of greater benefit than physcial space travel…

This three part story is one with many ‘loose ends’ as a pessimist would describe them or ‘exciting paths to explore’ for optimists. If we accept the possibility of knowledge, nay enlightenment, in the ancient past that is but a memory today, the narrative becomes just slightly easier to tie together.

The great unknown remains the ‘energy’ associated with the monoliths and large buildings from our past. We know that these buildings are found all over the world and were inspired by known effects on human consciousness . All of this was enhanced to a superlative level by the ingestion as ‘bread’ of a mysterious white substance which today is called monatomic gold.

I conclude with a quotation from the rear cover of John Michell’s classic book;

‘The View Over Atlantis’;

*’The entire surface of the earth is marked with traces of a gigantic work of prehistoric engineering, the remains of a once universal system of natural magic, involving the use of a polar magnetism together with another positive force related to solar energy’.

There remains a great mystery about this energy known as ‘Chi’ and many other names. What we can be sure of, is that there is no smoke without, fire.

All the World is a Stage

31/05/2021 / Matters Blog - Things that Matter to Me / Leave a comment

A very famous playwright coined this idea many years ago;

All the world is a stage

and all the men and women merely players,

Each has his entrances and his exits,

A friend of mine, who lived alone, wanted to move house. The reason was that one of her neighbours had lost her husband. Maybe her friend would now sell up and move away. The pond in which she swam was now missing a fish and more might go. Soon it would be empty. Moving house and finding new friends seemed a good idea.

I suggested that moving house may not solve the problem. I proposed that our lives consist of three things. The ‘scenery’, the ‘actors’ and the ‘story’. Each is as important as the other and all are fundamental to enjoying life. Merely changing the scenery will not necessarily invite new characters and a new story.

For example, foreign holidays are popular with many people. It’s a way of packing up and ‘leaving everything behind’. As I once overheard a man say in the queue for passports about his holiday, ‘you have to get away from staring at the same four walls.’

The backdrops to our lives do become visually repetitive.

‘Either this wallpaper goes or I do!’ – Oscar Wilde

Even the daily journey to work becomes an extension of the wallpaper and we begin to detest it, whether it is the inside of a car or private Lear Jet. So the simplistic solution we take is to change it; even if only for a couple of weeks each year. Off we go to the Balearic’s with all our ‘bare necessities’ in a suitcase or three, our beloved partner and a smile of expectation. Expectation because you know the hotel; you should do…it’s been your holiday destination for the last fifteen years.

For some, this is all the scenery change they can handle. There is comfort when they know what to expect. They know where their favourite restaurant is, the best bars. Some vacationers are more adventurous in their scenery choice. They go to different hotels each year or even different countries. If you have enough money, today the sky is no longer the limit. You can ‘Spacecation’.

But again, life or rather our expectations of life, let us down. After two weeks we are bored walk of the beach and the frog in the shower and the hotel mini bus that is always full. We begin to long for home.

Going abroad has not even changed the people in our lives, unless we were lucky enough to find a ‘holiday romance’ or get the phone number of the ‘nice couple we met on the plane’. We went with the wife or husband and we return with the wife or husband. The rows on the hotel balcony pushed down into the suitcase of our mind, strapped up and locked away until another time.

It is easy to change the scenery but changing the characters, that is something different. Families are by definition almost, designed to stay together whatever happens. They are our insurance policy to support us through whatever troubles life brings. Families do break up but it is better they do not.

Friends are great but from the day we are capsized out of Junior School, we realise friends we love, disappear. Only the very best of friendships will sustain you through all of your tempests and becalments.

And the world of work will treat us with more indifference than is good for us. If there is a reason why the company needs to cut staff, then the company comes before your mortgage repayments. You are out.

The characters in our life are born and pass away before our eyes, sometimes quite literally. We become resigned to the phases of life. When we are young new characters keep appearing. They amuse and delight us and then are gone.

When we are old, the characters who we have held dear, fall off the calendar until we are left alone and awaiting our cue to exit, stage left or right.

And as if this warp and weft of life is not complexity enough there is the third dimension, and the one which troubles or delights us most; the story.

Think back to your favourite movie. Whilst you will remember some of the backdrops to the scenes, some of the performances and appearances of the actors, it is the story which holds fast in your memory. Human beings are hard wired to remember stories as we do melodies.

We spend our childhoods dreaming of what we are going to become; explorers, pilots, politicians, film stars! The stories we aspire to are almost always unrealistic. That is after all, the nature of dreams is;

” If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:…’

from ‘Midsummer Nights Dream’ epilogue, William Shakespeare

We watch one or two grown ups who have been in the right scene at the right time with the right character and have been given an opportunity to reach for a goal they never dreamed would come. It did, which makes the rest of us think our ‘fifteen minutes of fame’ will come to us to. Perhaps it will.

But the movie in which you have the staring role, is not remotely likely to bring you fame. Be it ever so humble, we should not be ashamed of an uneventful life. While we are responsible for how we respond to opportunities in life, we are not responsible for the ‘hard knocks’, false starts, mirages, tricksters, fraudsters, liers, cheats, charlatans, and ‘low ballers’ that knock us off our feet.

Two dimensional life is just about management. Holidays are fun. But when you add the third dimension of a narrative, you had better be ready to run. And remember, like Tom and Jerry, the wallpaper of life is on a very very very long roll.