Part II

Page 76

-- In the Andes, south of Lima, Peru, in the Bay of Pisco, conquistadores of the sixteenth century found "the miraculous sign of the Three Crosses", which actually looks more like the trident of Neptune with branches. This engraving in rock is 810 feet high and can be seen from a distance of 12.5 miles.

The purpose and meaning of this ’Chandelier of the Andes’ have remained obscure until Beltran Garcia, the Spanish scientist and direct descendant of Garcilaso de la Vega, offered his theory. He believes that the trident in rock was used by the Incas, or their predecessors, as a gigantic seismograph. In his opinion, it was a pendulum with pulleys and cords to register earthquakes not only in Peru but in the whole world. This explanation may be much nearer the truth than the one brought by the conquistadores. They thought the Sign of the Three Crosses was carved by God to thank the Christians for the conquest of the Americas.

COMMENT: "Carved by God"? This perfectly demonstrates how throughout the history of Christianity, there have always existed such arrogant zealots. The true reason for the Pisco Trident is this: Following the Pyramid Wars, the Nibiruans were exhausted from fighting one another and turned their attention to a looming problem of great concern: depletion of the South African gold mines. New sources of gold were discovered in what is now Peru, and Nibiruan Emperor Anu ordered that the gold-mining operations be transferred there. He placed Prince Enki in charge of the new mining operations, to replace the older Duke Nergal. Then the Nazca Plain was constructed as the new Spaceport, since the old Sinai Spaceport had been sabotaged and destroyed by Prince Utu during the Wars. This destruction, incidentally, also took out the Spaceport satellite cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Enki is the equivalent of Poseidon, Neptune, Satan and Shiva, all of whom are depicted carrying tridents (pitchforks). Undoubtedly, Prince Enki created the Pisco Trident in order to "mark his territory", so to speak. However, if the Trident can be seen from 12.5 miles out to sea, then it also could have been designed to "point the way" to the Nazca landing strips, and it does just that! I’m a bit surprised that this detail was overlooked by Andrew Tomas. RS

Page 78

-- Babylonians knew of the ’horns of Venus’. They wrote of the crescent of the planet. Since Venus is nearer to the sun than the earth, it shows phases like the moon. But the ’horns of Venus’ are [not] visible to the naked eye. The burning question is -- how could ancient Babylonian priests watch the phases of Venus without a telescope? They were also aware of Jupiter’s four large moons -- Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Till the invention of the telescope by Galileo mankind had known nothing of these satellites. Strictly speaking, Babylonians should have had no knowledge about them, either.

COMMENT: The same rhetoric is advanced also when considering the Dogon knowledge of Sirius B, "Digitaria". It could be that at certain times, from the pristine unpolluted dark skies of the Chaldean deserts, the "horns of Venus" and Jupiter’s four largest moons could actually be seen with the naked eye. (Note: Tomas left the word "not" out of the above sentence. I’m sure that this was a simple typo.) And as is discussed elsewhere in Osiris & Isis, Sirius B used to be a Red Giant Star, "redder than Mars". Then it imploded and became invisible. On the other hand, the phrase "horns of Venus" may refer to the "wings" of the Winged Disk, the "horns" of the "heavenly heifer", thereby having a completely different meaning. This is unknown. RS

There are only two explanations for these astronomical observations of the phases of Venus and the four major moons of Jupiter conducted in antiquity. The first theory that the priests of Babylon had a telescope sounds somewhat far-fetched and most scientific opinion does not even entertain it as a probability. However, the British Museum has a remarkable piece of rock crystal, oval in shape and ground to a planoconvex form. It was discovered by Sir A. Henry Layard during the excavations of Sargon’s palace at Nineveh. Sir David Brewster suggested that the crystal disc was a lens but most scientists rejected his theory.

The second hypothesis is that in the course of many generations the priests of Chaldea and Sumer had preserved the elements of antediluvian astronomy. It must be borne in mind that the sages of Babylon were not only priests but scientists as well. Their astronomy was closely linked with religion and reserved exclusively for the elect priesthood.

Page 79

-- The African Dogons, who have a theocratic system and old traditions, know of the dark companion of Sirius situated at a distance of almost nine light-years from the earth, and visible only through a telescope. Likewise, the Mediterranean people possess the knowledge of Pleiades beyond the seventh invisible to the naked eye. Are these folk memories from a vanished science?

In the study of early astronomy the accuracy of the ancients in measuring the parallax of the sun has always been a riddle because this could not be computed with the instruments then in use.

The Huat Nan Tzu book (c. 120 B.C.) as well a the Lun Heng of Wang Chhung [sic] (A.D. 82) outline the centripetal cosmogony in which ’whirlpools’ solidify worlds out of primary matter. These writings of ancient china give a preview of modern ideas on the formation of galaxies.

Thus we are faced with two alternatives -- either to admit the existence of superior astronomical instruments in antiquity, or to assume that the priests of Babylon, Egypt or India were the custodians of a prehistoric science at least ten thousand years old.

COMMENT: For the record, the analogy of the "whirlpool" has also been applied to the "Golden Pole" leading up to the "Golden Cage" (the turning millwheel) on top -- "the golden city floating in space"! RS

Pages 83-84

-- The pundits of India also wrote about the infinitely small in such books as the Surya Siddhanta or Brihath Sathaka. In olden times they divided the day into sixty kala or ghatika, each equal to twenty-four minutes, in turn subdivided into sixty vikala, each equivalent to twenty-four seconds. Then followed a sixty-fold division of vikala into para, tatpara, vitatpara, ima and kashta. After this split-up of time the Brahmins arrived at the smallest unit of kashta, which is equal to approximately 0.00000003 second (a three-hundred millionth of a second). Needless to say, without precision instruments, ’kashta’ -- as a fraction of the micro second, is absolutely meaningless. We are inclined to conclude that this measurement of time is merely a tradition preserved by the pundits from an advanced technological civilization probably familiar with nuclear physics. In fact, the author made a startling discovery during his stay in India. The ’kashta’ (3 X 10[-8 power] second) is surprisingly close to the life-spans of certain mesons and hyperons!

COMMENT: On the other hand, these may be measurements connected with the Nibiruan Day, not the Earth Day. One Nibiruan Day = 10 Earth Years, or 120 Earth Months. If their day were then divided into 60 "kala" (or "ghatika"), then one of these "kala" would equal 2 Earth Months. If each of these "kala" were then divided into 60 "vikala", then 1 "vikala" would almost exactly equal 1 Earth Day, which could then be further subdivided into smaller units, as described above. Let’s see. A "vikala" was divided into 60 "para". One Earth Day = 1,440 Earth Minutes (24 X 60). Divide that by 60, and you get 24 Earth Minutes for each "para". 24 Earth Minutes = 1,440 Earth Seconds. 1,440 / 60 "tatpara" = 24 Earth Seconds for each "tatpara". And so on. Finally then, such a "kashta" would become the equivalent of 0.00000003 of 1 Earth Day, not 1 Earth Second! Even then, it would still be a tiny fraction of a second. The question therefore inevitably arises: why would this matter, for either us or them?! RS

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-- The statue of Memnon in Egypt spoke as soon as the rays of the rising sun fell upon its mouth. The sound issued from the base of the figure. In the words of Juvenal -- "Memnon sounds his magic strings." The Incas had a speaking idol in the valley of Rimac. Needless to say, the construction of these statues required a knowledge of physics.

COMMENT: Apollonius of Tyana and Damis of Ninevah, when travelling up the River Nile on their way from Alexandria to Ethiopia in July 69 CE, heard this statue of Memnon speak at sunrise. See Life Of Apollonius Of Tyana by Flavius Philostratus, Book IV, Chapter IV. RS

Pages 93-95

-- RELICS CREATE A DILEMMA

Muhiddin Piri Reis, or Admiral Piri Reis (1470-1554), published in Turkey a navigation atlas Bahriyye in 1520. His maps with marginal notes, drawn on roe-skin, were discovered at the palace of Topkapi in Istanbul on 9 November 1929 by Halil Edhem, Director of the National Museums.

In his notes Admiral Piri reveals the story of his maps. In a naval battle with Spain in 1501, a Turkish officer Kemal took prisoner a Spaniard who had been with Columbus on three of his historic voyages. The captive had a set of curious maps.

Christopher Columbus may have known where he was going thanks to these maps. If this supposition is correct, then we can understand the words of his son Ferdinand who wrote in The Life Of The Admiral Christopher Columbus that:

"He noted down any helpful hints that sailors or other persons might drop. He made such good use of all these things that he grew convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt, that to the west of the Canary and Cape Verde Islands lay many lands which could be reached and discovered."

Among the articles confiscated by the Turks from the Spaniard were the maps drawn by Columbus in 1498, or six years after the discovery of the West Indies. Yet the charts show a complete outline of the continents of North and South America, their rivers, Greenland and Antarctica -- all unknown in 1498. The distance between South America and Africa is surprisingly correct.

COMMENT: There is an excellent book on the subject of the Piri Reis Maps and other ancient maps, if you can find it. It is titled Maps Of The Ancient Sea Kings by Charles H. Hapgood (New York, 1966). All of the Piri Reis Maps are pictured in this book. Andrew Tomas refers to this as a "Piri Reis Map" (singular), as if this were a large "world map". I have always been under the impression that there are "maps" plural. RS

Professor Dr. Afetinan of Turkey in his book The Oldest Map Of America writes:

"In the chapter on this ’Western Sea’ we read all that is known about the discovery of America at the time. Of this he (Piri Reis, A.T.) recounts, on hearsay again, how a certain book from the time of Alexander the Great was translated in Europe and after reading it how Christopher Columbus went and discovered the Antilles with the vessels he obtained from the Spanish government. It is quite evident today that Piri Reis came into possession of the map that the great discoverer used."

COMMENT: That is an interesting little footnote of history which I’d never paid any attention to before. Apollonius of Tyana "inherited" certain documents from Alexander The Great, and many of these were subsequently acquired by Roman Emperor Hadrian in about 120 CE. If Apollonius "magically transported himself" (like he did when he disappeared from Rome and instantly reappeared at a port city south of there, where Damis was waiting for him) from "the east" to Mexico and Peru as "Quetzalcoatl" and "Viracocha", then he may have known in advance from Alexander’s private map collection that such "western lands" indeed existed, and perhaps simply decided to tour them after "slipping away unobserved from life" in Greece. Why not? RS

Many things are puzzling about the Piri Reis map. Who drew a chart in Columbus’s or perhaps even in Alexander the Great’s times with the contours of Antarctica free of ice, and how did he do it? After all, it is only in the International Geophysical Year that the continent was sounded through the ice sheet and charted. Greenland is shown as two or three islands. Greenland is buried under 5,000 feet of glaciers and it is only recently that a French Polar expedition disclosed the fact that Greenland comprises two main islands.

COMMENT: Yes, indeed! The Piri Reis Map of "Antarctica" (Atlantis!) is most intriguing. Both Antarctica and Greenland pivoted into polar positions only after the last Polar Axis Shift in about 1587 BCE. Before that, both islands were unfrozen and mapable. Thus, the only conclusion to be drawn is that these islands were charted before they were buried under ice, snow and glaciers! It could be that the maps of Alexander and perhaps even Columbus were copies of other original maps from an even greater antiquity; but the original maps had to have been drawn before 1587 BCE. Simple. RS

Arlington H. Mallery, an American authority on cartography, asked the U.S. Hydrographic Office to check the enigmatic map. Commander Larsen, on behalf of [the] U.S. Navy, then made a statement:

"The Hydrographic Office of the Navy has verified an ancient chart -- it’s called the Piri Reis map, that goes back more than 5,000 years. It’s so accurate, only one thing could explain it -- a worldwide survey. The Hydrographic Office couldn’t believe it, either, at first. But they not only proved the map genuine, it’s been used to correct errors in some present-day maps."

According to Mallery, the archaic chart had a record of every mountain range in Northern Canada and Alaska, including some ranges which the U.S. Army Map Services did not have on their maps. But the U.S. Army has since found them.

The longitude on this map is exact. This is baffling as it is only two hundred years since we learned how to calculate it. Mallery even remarked: "We do not know how they could map so accurately without an aeroplane."

This map demonstrates the existence of science in a faraway epoch which is considered to have possessed none. Did the expedition of Alexander the Great come into possession of papyri from the temple of Sais in Egypt? Its priests definitely knew about America, for, as Plato writes, Solon was told that the Atlantic "is a real sea and the surrounding land may be most truly called a continent."

The arguments set forth in favour of the very ancient origin of the Piri Reis map which Christopher Columbus allegedly possessed, can be substantiated by another startling fact. Space satellites have disclosed that our planet is somewhat pear-shaped. A letter from Columbus is still extant in which he states that the earth is "pear-shaped". Two decades ago we did not know about the strange form of our planet. How did Columbus learn about it?

COMMENT: This refers to the fact that Earth has an "equatorial bulge" making it somewhat "pear-shaped" instead of being precisely round. RS

Pages 98-103

-- SKYSHIPS OF ANTIQUITY

It is quite reasonable to surmise that most of the legends about skyships in olden times are echoes of aviation and astronautics from a former civilization. Despite the strong opposition to the theory of an advanced technology in the dim past, coming from the majority of scientists, there are numerous facts which support this hypothesis.

The Ramayana of India contains detailed descriptions of a "vimana" or airship. It was self-propelled by a yellowish-white liquid. The vimana was large -- it had two stories, windows, dome with a pinnacle. The airship of antiquity could fly with the "speed of the wind" according to one’s skill, and gave forth a "melodious sound". Its control required high intelligence. The craft could travel in the sky or stop and remain motionless in the air.

The vimanas were kept in "vimana griha" or hangars. The ancient records state that the vimana soared above the clouds and from the altitude "the ocean looked like a small pool of water". The aviator could see the "country round about the ocean and the mouths of rivers meeting the ocean".

The archaic planes were employed in warfare by kings and for sport by the "foremost people among pleasure seekers". It is most unlikely that such precise details could be mere fancy.

In China the Emperor Shun, who lived about 4,200 years ago, constructed a flying chariot. Shun is not only the first recorded pilot but also the first parachutist.

Chu Yuan (340-278 B.C.) wrote a description of an air trip in a poem called "Li Sao". As he knelt at the grave of the Emperor Shun, a jade chariot drawn by four dragons appeared. Chu Yuan boarded the craft and flew at a high altitude across China in the direction of the Kun Lun Range. In his aerial journey he observed the earth, unaffected by the winds and dust of the Gobi. Chu Yuan not only successfully landed upon the completion of the flight but also subsequently made another survey of the Kun Lun Mountains from the air.

The founder of the Shang dynasty, the Emperor Cheng Tang (1766 B.C.) ordered Ki Kung Shi to build a flying chariot. The ancient engineer completed the assignment and tested the aircraft in flight, reaching the province of Honan. However, the vessel was destroyed by imperial edict so that the secret of its mechanism would not fall into wrong hands.

The flying machines of ancient China were either a product of scientific experimentation or a memory from a precataclysmic race. As the Chinese had no technology at the time, there is no alternative but to accept the second possibility.

Chu Yuan’s flight to the Kun Lun may, perhaps, give us the clue to the source of this technical knowledge in ancient China. The mighty Kun Lun Range is considered by the Chinese people to be the abode of ’gods’.

These skyships were traditionally reserved for the Emperors and Taoist scholars who were supposed to act as intermediaries between the ’genii of the mountains’ and mankind.

An indirect proof of our theory that in ancient times man knew of aviation, is found in the presence of the words ’flying chariot’ in Chinese vocabulary. When confronted with the appearance of the aeroplane early in this century, the Chinese did not have, like ourselves, to invent a new term -- they used the old one -- fei chi (flying chariot).

In the twelfth year of the Emperor Yao’s reign (2346 B.C.) a strange man appeared. His name was Chih Chiang Tzu-yu. He was so skilful an archer that the Emperor named him ’Divine Archer’ and appointed him ’Chief Mechanician’.

In the annals of Chinese history he is reported to have ridden a ’celestial bird’. When "carried into the centre of an immense horizon" he noticed that he could no longer observe the rotary movement of the sun. In space, beyond the earth, our astronauts are also unable to see the sun rise or set. Does the ancient record of the ’Chief Mechanican’s’ flight intimate that man could bridge interplanetary space thousands of years ago?

The great Chinese thinker Chuang Tzu wrote an essay entitled "Travel to the Infinite" in the third century before our era. He relates how he rode on the back of a fabulous bird of enormous size into space to the distance of 32,500 miles from the earth.

According to Taoist beliefs ’Chen Jen’ or perfect men, are able to fly through the air on the wings of the wind. They pass on the clouds from one world to another and live in the stars. Teng Mu, a scholar of the Sung dynasty, wrote about "other skies and other earths". Ma Tse Jan, a distinguished physician of old China, after having mastered the philosophy of Taoism, was taken to heaven alive.

In his travels through Tibet and Mongolia Professor Nicholas Roerich saw passages in Buddhist books about "iron serpents which devour space with fire and smoke" and "inhabitants of the distant stars".

Viacheslav Zaitsev in the Soviet magazine Neman (No. 12, 1966) writes about the strange stone discs discovered in the district of Baian-Kara-Ula on the border of China and Tibet. They have holes in the centres like gramophone records. A double groove inscribed with hieroglyphics spirals from the centre to the edge of the discs.

Professor Tsum-Um-Nut, with four colleagues, has deciphered the writing in the grooves. However, their discovery was so sensational that at first the Peking Academy of Prehistory did not allow the Chinese scientists to publish their findings. After the permission had been granted, a book appeared under an intriguing title, Disc Hieroglyphics Speak Of Spaceships 12,000 Years Ago.

An analysis of the stone particles from the discs revealed amazing results -- they contained a large quantity of cobalt and some other metal. Tested under an oscillograph the discs displayed a peculiar frequency as if they had been electrically charged thousands of years ago.

The carvings of [the] Baian-Kata-Ula discs depict the sun, moon and the stars as well as some strange dots gliding from the sky towards the earth.

COMMENT: These "strange dots gliding from the sky towards the earth" probably were intended to depict the "rainbow bridge" connecting Earth to Heaven, beyond the North. RS

Tschi Pen Lao, of the University of Peking, has discovered curious drawings in the mountains of Hunan and on an island in Lake Tungting. Made about 45,000 B.C. these granite carvings portray people with large trunks and cylindrical craft. It is difficult to admit the existence of spacehelmets and spaceships so long ago -- yet what other explanation can one offer?

From the study of myths and historical records it follows that men flying heavenward and cosmic guests coming earthward were a reality in a bygone age. Whether these space visitors came from another planet or from a secret Atlantean colony in a remote part of our globe, is largely a matter for speculation. However, there is no contradiction between the two versions if we assume, on the basis of available data, that Atlantis had contact with other planetary civilizations.

COMMENT: On the other hand, it could be that all of these memories of space travellers reflect periods when Planet X Nibiru is tethered to our North Pole. Certainly Atlantis experienced such a "Golden Age" as this. RS

In an article, "By the Path of Legends", U. Tkachev, writing in the Soviet magazine Smena, stresses the usefulness of imagination in the field of science. Because of the affinity of his ideas with the plot of the present book we will cite it:

"The earth was visited by an expedition of cosmonauts. It is upon the continent of Atlantis that the spaceship landed. Apparently the earth was not their principal base as otherwise their stay would have left more definite traces. Evidently the astronauts possessed such a technology that they could construct satellites with their own peculiar conditions for life. Using these as bases, they reached the earth and other planets in ’planetoplanes’. Presumably they acquainted the Atlanteans with but few branches of culture, none of which could be employed for enslaving the neighbouring peoples because of their immeasurable humaneness. In all likelihood, these were -- painting, sculpture, architecture, mathematics and astronomy. Possibly they had visited the earth a number of times and these flights were recorded in folklore as the descents of gods upon the earth. The Atlanteans founded the first state in the history of earth. Their continent sank 11,500 years ago. The principal site of culture perished. Knowledge was gradually lost by mankind. Occasionally ancient science would come to the surface."

Dr. Carl Sagan, an American astrophysicist of the first magnitude, has made interesting conclusions on the basis of mathematical computations. He suggests that if each advanced civilization in our galaxy sends a spaceship once a year by our time reckoning, in the direction of neighbouring stars, the interval between cosmic visits would be equal to about 5,500 years. According to Dr. Sagan’s calculations, the explorers from other solar systems are soon to fly over us on their regular inspection tour. Upon landing on earth the cosmonauts would be greatly surprised at the progress mankind has achieved since the first dynasty in ancient Egypt.

COMMENT: The late Dr. Carl Sagan of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was one of the most vociferous critics of Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky. Their "Velikovsky Affair" is legendary amongst certain academicians. Books have been written about it. Dr. Sagan would never have considered the writings of Zecharia Sitchin, Andrew Tomas or me to be anything other than "fanciful mythological imaginings". And Dr. Sagan got his timeframe wrong: the period is 3,600 years, not 5.500 years! RS

Incidentally, the tradition of Aztecs speaks of a promise of the ’sons of heaven’ to return in 6,000 years -- that is in our historical epoch.

Dr. C. Sagan believes that "the earth may have been visited many times by various galactic civilizations during geological times and it is not out of the question that artifacts of these visits still exist". The American scientist recommends us not to discard ancient myths which may contain accounts of appearances of space visitors described as ’gods’ or ’angels’ in scriptures and folklore.

COMMENT: According to the accompanying footnote, Dr. Sagan expressed this view in an article published by the Los Angeles Times. Generally, Dr. Sagan scoffed at any and all reports of visits by extraterrestrials to Earth. RS

Today the reaction of simple men and women who have never seen an automobile or aeroplane in some isolated part of the world, would be much the same as the one shown by the ancients when confronted with the appearance of a strange apparatus. In the fifties a jeep was dismantled, carried over the 13,400-foot Rohtang Pass in the Himalayas, and reassembled on the Lahoul side. As it descended into a valley, the surprised natives who had never seen a mechanically propelled vehicle, came out to worship this manifestation of supernatural power. When the first plane landed in Ladakh in 1948, the reaction of Tibetans to this flying monster was even more comic -- they brought hay to feed it.

COMMENT: Leonard "Mr. Spock" Nimoy had a television series in the 1970s titled "In Search Of". I watched most of the episodes. In one of them, Mr. Nimoy reported on a tribe of natives in New Guinea who, not understanding the science behind the airplanes flying overhead, built models of these "sky boats" in their villages and worshipped them as "gods". RS

K.E. Tsiolkovsky, the Russian pioneer in astronautics, when asked to express his opinion on the probability of interplanetary contacts, said that the visitation of our planet by cosmonauts could have taken place in the past, and would indeed occur in the future.

Faced with the same question in 1930 Professor N.A. Rynin of U.S.S.R. answered that,

"if we turn to tales and legends of hoary antiquity, we will notice strange coincidences among legends of countries separated by oceans and deserts. These coincidences in legends comprise the visitation of earth by dwellers of other worlds in time immemorial. Why not admit that a grain of truth still lies in the kernels of these legends?"

If beings from other planets paid us visits in a forgotten epoch, then it is clear how fruits and grains unknown to earth were brought by the ’gods’ from other ’lokas’ or worlds, as Brahmin books claim.

The subject of cosmic contacts in past ages, possibly in the Atlantean era, has been contemplated by men of science. It is assuredly worthy of a serious consideration in this Space Age, when we ourselves are about to explore other planets.

Behind legends can be dimly discerned a distant epoch in which a vanished race might have attained to a high degree of technology.

Pages 108-109

-- In 1969 the Cosmic-Ray exploration at Giza took an unforeseen turn. It was aptly described by John Tunstall in the Times Saturday Review for 26 July 1969:

"Scientists who have been trying to X-ray the Pyramid of Khephren at Giza, near Cairo, are baffled by mysterious influences which are throwing into utter confusion the readings of their Space Age electronic equipment. The equipment was demonstrated with dramatic success at the New York World’s Fair and the agreement for the joint U.A.R.-United States pyramid project was signed on 14 June 1966. Between 1966 and early 1967 the cosmic ray measuring equipment was installed in the burial chamber at the base line of Khephren’s pyramid."

On his second visit to Giza John Tunstall interviewed Dr. Amr Gohed, the Arab scientist in charge of the installation at the Khephren pyramid. This is his story:

"He showed me the new I.B.M. 1130 machine surrounded by hundreds of tins of recordings from the pyramid stacked in date order. Though hesitant at first, he eventually told me of the complete impasse that had been reached.

"’It defies all the known laws of science and electronics,’ he said, picking up a tin of recordings made in October, 1968. He put the tape through the computer, which traced the pattern of cosmic ray particles on paper. He then selected a recording of the next day in October and put it through the computer. But the recorded pattern was completely different. The salient points which should be repeated on each tape were absent.

"’This is scientifically impossible,’ he told me. But it is happening before the scientists’ eyes.

"After long discussion and many cups of Arabian coffee, I put the ultimate question to Dr. Gohed: ’Has all this scientific know-how been rendered useless by some force beyond man’s comprehension?’ He hesitated before replying, then said: ’Either the geometry of the pyramid is in substantial error, which would affect our readings, or there is a mystery which is beyond explanation -- call it what you will, occultism, the curse of the Pharaohs, sorcery, or magic, there is some force that defies the laws of science at work in the pyramids.’"

This is a tremendously significant development at Giza. Where does this force field come from? What superior science and technology created it? As modern physics cannot neutralize cosmic rays, the prehistoric engineers must have had a superior science.

And so the Treasure of the Sphinx still awaits discovery.

Pages 117-119

-- SEEK IN THE MOUNTAINS AND THE SEA

Secret storehouses of a prehistoric civilization are located not only in the Mediterranean basin but also in other parts of the world.

For weeks I used to admire Kanchenjunga with its veil of snow, looming high above the horizon. Why is this Himalayan peak called the ’Five Sacred Treasures of the Great Snow’? Are treasures really buried deep within its bosom? Hillmen from Sikkim and Bhutan pay homage to the Five Treasures of Kanchenjunga. Tibetan folklore affirms that the precious things hidden in the innermost recesses of the mountain, have been guarded for centuries.

Nicholas Roerich, the famous painter and explorer, writes in Himalayas, The Abode Of Light that the Himalayan foothills contain entrances to subterranean passages leading far below Kanchenjunga. He remarks that a closed stone door has been seen leading to the Five Treasures of the Great Snow but the time is not ripe for its opening.

Also from Nicholas Roerich we learn that there are other secret storehouses in the Himalayas. On the Karakoram pass at an elevation of 19,500 feet, Roerich’s groom said that great treasures were buried in the snowy ridge. He remarked that even the lowly ones among the natives knew of vast caverns which contained treasures from the beginning of the world. He wondered if Professor Roerich was aware of the books recording the location and contents of these subterranean vaults. The man of the mountains was asking Roerich why foreigners, who claimed to know so much, could not find the entryway to underground palaces. Then he concluded that the gates to them were guarded by a mighty fire which outsiders could not pass.

These legends of hidden treasures are persistently heard in Asia. The Tibetan epic of Ghessar Khan predicts the opening of the Treasures of the Mountains.

India has a number of secret repositories according to H.P. Blavatsky. She wrote that initiated yogis knew of a vast network of underground galleries which run from cave temples. This engineering feat suggests a high technology in remotest antiquity.

In her travels through Tibet, Blavatsky met Buddhist pilgrims who claimed that in a secluded part of Altyn Tagh Ridge there existed a vast network of galleries and halls housing a collection of several million books. Madame Blavatsky estimated that the British Museum could not have accommodated all the cultural treasures of this underground library.

The locality is described by her as a deep gorge with a small cluster of unimpressive houses to mark the site of what may be the world’s greatest library. It is secure from intrusion and nothing will disturb its age-old manuscripts. The entrances are thoroughly concealed and the vaults with books lie deep within the bowels of the earth. It is most unlikely that our world will ever see this fabulous treasure-house of culture. But we can be more optimistic about the treasures of Atlantis buried in Egypt.

COMMENT: One certainly hopes that this is true. One hopes that in this great world library there is a copy of every single book that has ever been published in the history of this planet. RS

The sages of the East are in a position to present strange documents which will upset the opinions held by our historians. Blavatsky predicts that some of these manuscripts will soon be released.

Our central topic of secret halls of records left by a former civilization may be hotly debated. Nevertheless, more significant than the writer’s theories is the testimony given by Plato, Cicero, Manetho, Josephus, Proclus, Ibn Abd Hokm, Masoudi, and in recent time, by Blavatsky and Roerich.

The stage is now set for a momentous event in world history -- the discovery of Atlantean antiquities. The prophetic words of Ignatius Donnelly, the American pioneer of Atlantology, uttered late in the last century, ring now in our ears:

"Who shall say that one hundred years from now the great museums of the world may not be adorned with gems, statues, arms, and implements from Atlantis, while the libraries of the world shall contain translations of its inscriptions, throwing new light upon all the past history of the human race, and all the great problems which now perplex the thinkers of our day."

COMMENT: For additional information on Atlantis, see Chapter 5 of Planet X Nibiru : Slow-Motion Doomsday. RS

Pages 124-125

-- IT HAS ALL HAPPENED BEFORE

Civilization is largely the product of human intelligence. From caves to skyscrapers, from boomerangs to space satellites, is a jump achieved by the power of mind. Deprive man of one half of his present intellect, and the whole social edifice of today will suffer a setback comparable with a planetary disaster. Culture the mind, and you will have a sky-rocketing civilization. Develop the moral nature of humanity, and you will have a utopia to live in.

Intellectual development in human society is not unlike a chain reaction in nuclear physics. Jean Sylvain Bailly, the French astronomer of the eighteenth century, summed up this process like this:

"Ideas have been successively gathered together, heaped up; they have mutually engendered each other, the one has led to another. It remains therefore merely to rediscover this succession, to begin with the earliest ideas; the path is traced out; it is a journey that one may make again because it has already been made."

COMMENT: My own present work reflects these sentiments in a microcosm: Alexander Von Humboldt, Professor William Smith, Sir Paul Brunton, Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, Dr. Whitfield Leggett Russell, Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, U.S. Congressman Ignatius Donnelly, Miss E. Valentia Straiton, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechend, Erich von Daniken, Peter Tompkins, Gerald Hawkins, Andrew Tomas, Robert K.G. Temple, Murry Hope, Zecharia Sitchin, Darío Salas Sommer, William Bramley, R.A. Boulay, Rose and Rand Flam-Ath, prominent amongst others for two centuries, all have led to me; and from me there will inevitably be those who follow on this mesmerizing path to ultimate cosmic truth about the origin and home of our Archons, our "custodial gods". RS

Behind Copernicus, Galileo and Bruno stood the shades of Pythagoras, Aristarchus, Anaxagoras, Anaximenes and other Greek philosophers. Newton acknowledged his debt to antiquity by saying: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

But many of these giants of the classic world studied, in their turn, at the feet of Egyptian hierophants. From whom did the wise priests of the Land of the Nile receive their secret philosophic and scientific tradition? From Thoth, who had come from an island in the Western Sea. Thus the fount of learning can be traced to legendary Atlantis.

Much of the New World civilization is an enigma without the Atlantis theory. No race ever built such roads as the Peruvians. They crossed the deepest canyons and pierced the highest mountains by tunnels which are still in use. On ancient asphalt-surfaced roadways modern cars travel today. No people, past or present, ever erected such megalithic structures as the pre-Incan races. No other nation ever has woven, by hand or machine, textiles of the workmanship of ancient Peruvians. No civilization ever had such an accurate astronomical calendar, in which every one of the 18,980 days were individually distinguishable, as the Aztecs and the Mayas.

COMMENT: One of the reasons for my including the foregoing excerpt was the notation of a "?" that I had placed in the margin of this book years ago next to the mention of "18,980 days". At the time I first read this book, I was greatly absorbed by the mathematics of ancient calendars, and apparently I’d intended to come back "later" and analyze this figure. Well, here we are. The first thing to do is to divide it by the number of days in one year: 18,980 / 365.25 = 51.964. Thus, this figure refers to the number of individual days in the basic Mayan cycle of "about 52 years" (13 X 4). Despite all that has been written about the Mayan Calendar, I personally have always thought that it is "illogical" because in no way can it be precisely mathematically reconciled with the Precession of the Equinoxes as other ancient calendars can be. The reason for these "peculiarities" in the Mayan Calendar is that they incorporated a Venus cycle along with an Earth cycle. Why Venus? Well, even Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky confused Venus with Planet X Nibiru. Perhaps after Nibiru last departed, the Mayas felt that it had somehow "usurped" the orbital position of Venus. But that is only a guess. Surely somewhere there is a "valid" reason as to why the Mayas so venerated Venus, and thus why Dr. Velikovky was so mistaken. RS

Pages 128-131

-- Archaeology considers the civilizations of Mohenjo-Daro, Sumer or Egypt as the earliest in history. In fact, science does not recognize any history as such prior to about 5000 B.C. Nevertheless, there may be relics of advanced nations buried in the oceans. If discoveries are ever made to that effect, history will have to make drastic corrections.

The rise of man from simple agricultural states of the valleys of the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates to our present technological era is too short a period for so fantastic an advance, unless man carried with him hereditary traits from another cycle of civilization.

To have progressed from ox-pulled carts to luxurious automobiles and from boomerangs to earth satellites in the short period of six thousand years is truly a miracle. But science has no place for miracles. Unknown factors could account for them. The time is too brief because it represents but a fraction of one per cent of the total accepted age of man. The "Caveman to spaceman in twenty-five thousand years" idea may be altogether erroneous.

It is anticipated that these views will be condemned by most scientists. Nevertheless, the controversy can be resolved overnight in our favour if one of the Atlantean ’time capsules’ becomes accessible to the public. Until then the author is prepared to act as a target for the outbursts of irritated professors.

COMMENT: As contemporary examples, I cite the unceasingly vitriolic, almost hysterical attacks by ex-Velikovskian C. Leroy Ellenberger on the ideas propounded by Planet X specialist James McCanney, or the denunciations by Professors Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould of the historical achievements of Dr. Velikovsky. Some academicians are simply too slavish and weak-willed to ponder the real meaning of life outside the strict parameters of their entrenched establishment doctrines. Apollonius of Tyana encountered this same sort of "robot behavior" when he engaged the pseudo-philosopher Euphrates in debate at the headquarters of Roman Emperor Vespasian in Alexandria in 69 CE, before he and Damis departed for Ethiopia and before Jerusalem was destroyed the following spring by General and future Emperor Titus, son of Vespasian and friend of Apollonius. RS

To summarize: man is more ancient than our academies conjecture. The earth has experienced violent cataclysms, mainly due to axis shifts and falls of huge meteorites. In these geological upheavals great civilizations disappeared without a trace.

Bhagavata Purana, a sacred book of India, speaks of four ages which have passed, each destroyed by the fury of the elements. Our present cycle is the fifth.

Hesiod, an ancient Greek poet who lived in the eighth century before our era, writes about a similar belief in Greece. There were four ages in the past. First, the gods created a golden race. They were mortal yet lived like gods. The second race was silver. They were of inferior intelligence. The next cycle was that of brass. Men were then strong and warlike and they destroyed themselves. The fourth era was the age of heroes whose adventures inspired men ever since. According to ancient Greek lore we are now in the fifth age -- the age of iron. They believed we should likewise be destroyed by Zeus as were the other races. Censorinus (b. 238 A.D.) writes that the Greeks thought the world was either inundated or burnt after each epoch.

Ancient Egyptians divided history into three principal eras. First was the kingdom of the gods. In the second period demigods and heroes ruled on earth. Then with their departure, men reigned over Egypt and the world. When classic historians and myths speak of gods and demigods, we do not take them seriously. Yet superior men could have walked the earth in a golden era.

In China the people of Yunnan have preserved the memory of an age when levitation of heavy rocks was a commonplace matter, when all were prosperous and lived long lives. The Pai tribesmen sing of that bygone epoch in these words:

In olden days rocks used to walk,
Is this true or false?
In olden days the rocks could walk,
This is true not false.
At that time the world was all peace,
Do you believe what I say?
At that time the world was all peace,
I believe what you say.
At that time there were no rich or poor,
Do you believe what I say?
At that time there were no rich or poor,
I believe what you say.
At that time people lived hundreds of years,
Do you believe what I say?
At that time people lived hundreds of years,
I believe what you say.

It is easy to call legends mere fantasy and laugh at the traditions of many peoples. It is much more difficult to appraise history in its entirety.

This work has an aim and a moral. Its aim is to call the attention of the public to the startling possibility of a discovery of a hidden depository left by a race now considered mythical. Its moral is contained in the question: "Are we not treading upon the footsteps of Atlantis?"

At the entrance of La Sainte Chapelle in Paris a guide was explaining to us the meaning of various ornaments. Before the panel depicting Noah’s Ark and the Flood he delivered an oration on the biblical story of the Flood and concluded: "And so, mesdames et messieurs, people and animals began to multiply and, the process is still going on -- till the next Flood."

According to Plato, the Atlanteans perished when they were engaged in imperialistic wars. But in a better epoch they loved peace, cherished camaraderie and despised avarice.

COMMENT: Sound familiar, America? RS

It is only hoped that the modern world may ensure a better destiny for itself than Atlantis. The Catalan poet Jacinto Verdaguer mourned Atlantis in these words:

Atlantis, woe to thy children!
Alas, shall we live to see another dawn?
Our ancestor’s words came true one by one:
His Atlanteans, land and gods are no more.

Plutarch in Isis and Osiris recorded the opinion and belief of the most ancient sages,

"that there will become a fated and predestined time when the earth will be completely levelled, united and equal, there will be but one mode of life and but one form of government among mankind who will all speak one language and will live happily".

The discovery of the Treasure of the Ages will completely revolutionize all of our views on ancient history. From the lessons of the past, mankind will learn to avoid the mistakes of the vanished race. Man will then be able to find his proper place on this beautiful planet, his true mission and work towards a glorious future.

Page 136

-- At the source of all ancient civilizations there always stands a divine bearer of culture. Thoth brought a ready-made culture from a western land. His titles ’Lord of the Overseas’ and ’Guardian of the Two Lands’ by which he is referred to in the Book of the Dead and certain Pharaonic inscriptions, suggest that he was an Atlantean leader. A significant myth about the god Thoth says that it was on wings that he transported the gods to the east -- to "the other side of the lake Kha". Airlift of a cultural élite from Atlantis to Egypt?

COMMENT: This "Lake of Kha" is just another name for the "Lake of Sa" or "Pool of Natron" or "Pillar of Thoth". See Illustration 6 of Planet X Nibiru : Slow-Motion Doomsday (right). The "two lands" were Planet Earth Tiamat and Planet X Nibiru. Thoth was/is Hermes ("Salute, Hermes!"), Prince Nannar of Planet X, member of The Council Of Twelve. Even Darío Salas Sommer (pseudonym, John Baines) writes of Thoth’s ancient influence on Egypt in his spellbinding The Stellar Man. One wonders, in passing, if Señor Sommer is keeping up with the latest in this field of research. Or is he simply laughing all the way to the bank from his retirement villa in Santiago de Chile? RS

Pages 138-142

-- MYTHS PROVEN TRUE

The Mansi tribe in the Arctic tundra of Siberia has a legend. Long, long ago a firebird lived with the ancestors and it was so warm that giant trees grew and queer animals grazed. But someone stole the firebird and severe cold and winds set in. The strange trees and animals perished.

This is not a myth but a scientific fact as fossils of prehistoric trees and animals are found in Siberian tundra. Verbal accounts, handed down from generation to generation, can often preserve an amazing degree of accuracy.

COMMENT: Giant trees and queer animals? Did these animals look like tomcats, squirrels, monkeys or coyotes? All of the above? None of the above? "The strange trees and animals perished" when The Cosmic Tree last detethered and departed. In 1588-87 BCE when Planet X Nibiru arrived last time and the North Pole shifted from the North Atlantic Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, the change was so swift and the Siberian cold so sudden that whole animals froze to death instantaneously. Even the food in their stomachs was undigested because of the abrupt polar cold. Some of these animals were so perfectly preserved that when discovered centuries later and defrosted, their meat was still fresh enough to be eaten. See also Chapter 2 of Slow-Motion Doomsday. RS

We have talked a great deal about myths in this book. The average person thinks they are a by-product of fancy. However, this is not always the case. Folklore, as the collective memory of the human race, contains many records of past events, often coloured by ancient story-tellers and unavoidably distorted because of the passing of legends from one generation to another. But not infrequently traditions are actual fossils of history. It is utterly unscientific to discard mythology as a collection of fables. A reality of yesterday, is a myth today. The world we live in, will be hardly more than a myth itself ten thousand years from now. In that distant future, sages will engage in polemics about the mythical character of legends connected with our vanished civilization.

Until about two hundred and fifty years ago the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii were nothing but a myth. After their excavation and discovery the two cities became history. When I saw Pompeii, the city seemed to be only asleep.

Among the more fabulous stories of Herodotus is the tale of a distant country where griffins guard a golden treasure. Soviet archaeologists have discovered that country. It is Altai, or Kin Shan in Chinese, meaning the golden mountain. Gold mines have been located there since ancient times. In the valley of Pazyrka scientists have found remains of a high culture. Rich decorations prominently display the griffin. Thus a vague myth about griffins guarding the gold has ceased to be a mere legend.

COMMENT: There is more to this than Mr. Tomas realized. The "griffins guarding the gold" were the Saurian guards at the various "checkpoints" in and around the Duat, or "Hidden Place" where the "celestial chariots" landed and departed, climbing up and down "the golden pole" to "the golden city floating in space": Hyperborea, which lay beyond the Rhipaean Mountains, which were in turn accessible from the Altais. See also Chapter 8 of Slow-Motion Doomsday. RS

Although the mountain stronghold of Petra, lost in the desert south of the Dead Sea, was described by Eratosthenes, Pliny, Eusebius and others, in time it became a legendary city. It was only at the dawn of the nineteenth century that Burckhardt gained entrance into the gorge and beheld an edifice carved out of solid rock, an amphitheatre and numerous caves. Once again a fable was turned into fact.

When Heinrich Schliemann started excavations on the mounds of Hissarlik in Asia Minor in 1870 in search of the legendary city of Troy, professors thought he was mad. Yet the Iliad of Homer was right -- Troy was no myth. Schliemann found ruins of a city which was even more ancient than Troy itself. Eventually Troy’s remains were identified to the triumph of Heinrich Schliemann.

The story of Diego de Landa, written in 1566, about the Sacred Well of Sacrifice in Yucatán into which human victims and jewellery were thrown, has been regarded by historians as a mere tale. Then in the nineteenth century an American diplomat and archaeologist E.H. Thompson discovered the well of Cichén-Itzá and validated the old Indian legends.

Six hundred years ago a Chinese ambassador, Chow-Ta-Kwan, submitted to his emperor a report of a fantastic walled city, the hub of a thriving kingdom, south of China, completely lost in the jungle. When the document was published in 1858, Western scholars dismissed it as fiction. Before long a French naturalist -- A.H. Mouhot -- stumbled upon the remains of Angkor Thom in Indo-China. The description of the legendary jungle city by the mandarin surprisingly corresponded to the actual panorama of Angkor Thom.

When Marco Polo returned to Europe with tales of black stones found in China which burned and heated daily baths, the Venetians of his day only laughed. First of all, no stones could burn, secondly how could anyone in the world afford such a luxury as a hot bath daily? The reader has, no doubt, recognized the reference to coal in Polo’s story. His accounts of black oil of the Caspian available in large quantities from the bowels of the earth, were also ridiculed. What were amusing tales to the citizens of Venice, are now scientific facts familiar even to children.

At times it is difficult to ascertain where myth ceases and history commences, or where history ends and myth begins. There is a tendency in scientific circles nowadays to regard mythology and folklore as sources of history. Dr. Carl Sagan, a prominent United States astrophysicist, has successfully proved this point by referring to the voyage of La Perouse to the north-west of America in 1786. The legends of Indians who saw the ships of the navigator, contain amazingly accurate details as to the actual appearance of the French fleet which had visited the lands of these tribes. This shows how an actual event can be preserved in the memory of the masses by verbal transmission from one generation to another.

COMMENT: Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, not Carl Sagan, was the pioneer in interpreting myth in terms of history and science. In fact, today’s The Velikovskian Journal styles itself as "A Journal of Myth, History and Science". RS

Guatemalan Indians have interesting legends which date to the sixteenth century. When miraculous appearances of gods and their way of life were closely examined by the University of Oklahoma, it became apparent that the mythological beings were none other than the Spanish invaders.

Allowance must be made for inaccuracies, distortions and exaggerations which creep into a tale transmitted through the centuries. None the less, it may contain a kernel of truth and a chronicle of life in bygone epochs. In this light, we should not cast aside legends speaking of a highly advanced civilization of the past which perished in a planetary catastrophe.

Present-day science is gradually reiterating the wisdom of the ages. Have we not proven the correctness of the formula of Democritus -- "in reality there is nothing but atoms and space"?

The children of ancient Greece were taught that the earth was a globe floating in infinite space. Their teachers knew about the relative sizes of the sun and the moon, and their approximate distances from the earth. Philosophers delivered lectures in forums about the Milky Way as a conglomeration of stars, each a sun in itself. In colonnaded temples leaned men in tunics and togas spoke of life on other planets.

Almost two thousand years later the schoolchildren of Europe were taught that the earth was flat, the centre of creation, and that the stars were holes in the firmament. What right have we then to look down upon the sages of the classic world who possessed more wisdom than the theologians of the Dark Ages?

The tradition of the ancients in regard to a treasure hidden thousands of years ago, is not a myth. If we but take it as a working hypothesis, a great discovery could be made in this century.

Its impact on our life may be stronger than imagined. Evidence of a sudden geological cataclysm that had destroyed Atlantis, will necessitate adjustment in a science which admits no abrupt catastrophes on a planetary scale. History, with so many missing chapters, will gain an undistorted picture of the story of mankind. Our sociology will find out what social and economic systems had existed in the pre-cataclysmic world, and how they had developed -- a fact of utmost importance in the modern conflict of ideologies. Archaic instruments or machinery constructed on principles unknown to us, might set our science on a new track. The acquaintance with the beliefs of the vanished race will show the growth of human consciousness. The discovery of a new world in time can be equated with the discovery of an inhabited world in space -- both can set mankind in upheaval.

Great revelations have been made by questioning the accepted opinions of the times. Roger Bacon has well diagnosed the causes of human error in his Opus Majus:

"For every person, in whatever walk of life, both an application to study and in all forms of occupation, arrives at the same conclusion by the three worst arguments, namely, this is a pattern set by our elders, this is the custom, this is the popular belief: therefore it should be held."

Like our predecessors we still live in a mentally conditioned society in which every departure from the recognized mode of thinking is regarded as a revolt against the idols of the time. But thousands upon thousands of people nowadays are beginning to think for themselves on all subjects. To them this book will be more than fiction.

COMMENT: When this book was published in the 1970s, the best decade of my life in many ways, indeed more and more people were beginning to think for themselves. That changed in the 1980s, and today we are worse off intellectually than at any time I can remember. But at least now, we have the Internet, making available every idea under the Sun to anyone who seeks to know about it. The contemporary, pathetic, mainstream American "intellect" (if one can call it such) hit rock bottom years ago and now is hopelessly mired in vacuous mindlessness.
 

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