CHAPTER THREE:
THE
FUTURE ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES
[Note: This chapter, and all
others in this book, are excerpted from The End of Our Century by
Francois Masson, written in 1979-80. It was transcribed from French into English
by David Michael Steinberg in 1981 and a publisher was never found. It was
finally edited, updated and published on the Internet by David Wilcock in
2001.]
Antediluvian civilizations more advanced technically
than
our
own?
This chapter will take up
future archeological discoveries revolutionary in scope. According to Cayce they
will come to light soon and will prove
the existence of Atlantis and the
technical know-how of that civilization, in some ways more advanced than
ours.
These discoveries, revealing
the true nature of man and his destiny, will cause a deep change in our belief
structure.
For these future findings we
will abandon the line of inquiry of the Letter to the King that we have followed
to its end, and take up the Cayce readings as a basic reference on this
subject. Cayce announced the imminence of
these discoveries and Nostradamus devoted over a dozen quatrains to these
startling finds. One especially, that Nostradamus spends three verses on, must
be very important.
Cayce speaks in many psychic readings of finding
archives of Atlantis in different spots. As usual, these visions also
enlighten us as to the contents of these Temples of Records and the
probable year of their discovery.
Again, in figuring the date, we must bear in mind that
visionaries in every age, from Biblical times to our day, always
seem to describe imminent
events, at least in the eyes of a reader
who measures time by our brief lifespan. But the seers, obviously in touch with
higher spirits for whom time has a different value, speak another tongue. So
when Cayce says, in Reading 2537-1 of July 17, 1941, “These may be found… in a
few years from now” it is highly likely that he means a few decades, which
is still little in terms of world history. One thing is sure, Nostradamus places
these archeological discoveries
at the time of the earth
changes, and as the latter seem fast approaching, at least the first ones, the former will
probably be made before the turn of the century.
To study this question more easily, we have grouped
these new discoveries in two classes, following the apparent meaning of
Nostradamus’
verses. First we will discuss VIII-66,
IX-9, V-66
and II-17 which
refer clearly to a single discovery, in an ancient cave
under a temple devoted to the Vestal Virgins. The second group of verses
probably speak of different finds and involve the
contents of ancient urns. Quatrains I-27, VI-99, VII-14, VIII-56 and IX-7 place the finding of
ancient ewers
or urns near the Pyrenees, which according to Cayce was the
first refuge of the
Atlanteans who fled their country before its final destruction.
Let us examine the first series of verses explained by the Cayce readings.
VIII-66
When the inscription D.M. found *
In ancient cave with a lamp uncovered
Law, King and Prince Ulpian tried,
Pavilion, Queen and duke under the cover.
*D.M. for Diis Manibus was inscribed on many Roman tombs.
If the second half of this
verse is still obscure and may only be understood at the time of the event, or
just before, the first part is quite clear: the inscription D.M. will be found
in an ancient cave which is a cave “a Lampe” or containing a lamp. In the next
quatrain of this group, Nostradamus speaks clearly of this lamp: it is
extraordinary, to say the least.
IX-9
When the Lamp burning with eternal fire
Will be found in the Temple of the Vestals,
A child found, fire water passing through a sieve
Names to perish in water, the markets to fall in Toulouse.
Note first of all that this
discovery will be made during a great flood that will engulf Nimes and partly
destroy Toulouse. As we had pointed out, other verses also speak of secrets
uncovered by geologic upheavals.
But mainly this verse
completes and explains the preceding one: the eternal, undying lamp will be
found under the site of an old temple
devoted to the Vestals. What is this inextinguishable lamp like? Will it be
based on the principle of the atomic pile or rather
on
a system presently
unknown
but spoken of in the Cayce readings and by Nostradamus
in the following verse?
V-68
Under the ancient buildings of the Vestals
Not far from the ruin of the aqueduct.
Are the glittering metals of Sun and Moon
The burning lampe of Trian* of gold plundered.
[*Translator’s Note: Possible meanings: Trojan? Trajan?]
This verse confirms and reveals completely the meaning of the two preceding ones. The finding of the burning lamp, the undying lamp found under the “ancient vestal edifices” – that is, in a temple already ancient consecrated to the Vestals, and that old temple will not be far from a ruined aqueduct. But Nostradamus adds another detail about the probable operation of the lamp – it is powered by shining metals, the solar and lunar metals, for the Burning Lamp feeds on, draws from, the golden Trian. In Nostradamus’ day sun and gold had virtually the same meaning. The basic gold piece was the “sol.” So the lamp was probably fed by shining "solar metal." Here is Cayce's explanation about these metals:
(2157-1, March 27, 1940)
…When the Poseidian land was the greater in power, when there were the meetings called for those of many lands, to determine means or manners in which there would be the control or handling of the animals that were destructive to many of the lands.
The
entity then acted in the capacity of one who guided
the ships that sailed both in the air and under water; also was the maker of that
which produced the elevators and the connecting tubes that were used by
compressed air and steam and the metals
in their emanations. All of these were a part of the entity's experience and
development, especially as to things controlled
by the facet for the radiation
activity
from the sun upon metals, and the control of such, as well as the manner of air
ships through that sojourn.
Cayce speaks clearly of capturing the sun's rays on
metals to activate, power and steer the airships of that period. In
other readings Cayce speaks
at length of this process of
harnessing solar energy. We have yet to invent, or re-discover, this
revolutionary process. In many readings Cayce places the main site of the
records in Egypt, near the Sphinx, but he also states that records exist in
other places. As for
Nostradamus, he locates the site, as cited above, in an
old cave under an ancient Vestal temple not far from the ruins of an aqueduct.
Since he twice refers to this temple of the vestals, we must examine his
language and symbolism to understand his prophecies. All his
verses reveal a thorough
familiarity with the Greco-Roman world, which he evidently studied extensively, and his repeated
allusion to the temple and building of the Vestals is his clue to us that if we
study the symbol of the Vestal Virgins, we will grasp what the discovery is all
about.
This find, then, will be under a temple devoted to the
keeping of the Sacred Fire, which was the duty of the Vestals in
Roman times.
What is the Sacred Fire but the science of antiquity,
knowledge which must not be allowed to die out. It is quite possible – as was
done in the Christian era, when churches were built on the foundations of pagan
temples – that the Vestal temples were built on the antediluvian sites where the
Sacred Fire was preserved – records of the holy secrets along with a material
proof such as the undying lamp. (We
might add here that the French writer Cyrano de Bergerac
(1619-1654)
stated that inextinguishable lamps were found in ancient tombs, but
that the men
of his time, in trying to see what was
inside, irrevocably destroyed them.)
[Note: Similar accounts of permanently functioning lamps
can be found in Jesus and the Essenes by Dolores Cannon. This was a
first-person account of a hypnotic subject who was regressed in real-time back
to the Essene community that was responsible for training and teaching Jesus.
Among other valuable and verifiable data points, the subject reported
sphere-like balls of crystal that sat atop metallic cylinders, and simply needed
to be twisted on their base to give off light. The subject was told that these
were remnants of Atlantean technology and that they no longer understood how
they functioned. It is very possible that such technology was used in the
building and maintenance of underground chambers, such as those in the Gizeh
plateau, that would otherwise be completely dark except for smoky, fallible
torches – and no burn marks are seen on the walls. Certain ancient Egyptian
drawings seem to depict such lamps quite clearly. (DW)]
So we
should expect this find in the area of the Roman Empire, probably near the
Mediterranean.
Here are some of the Cayce readings predicting the discovery of records dating from old Atlantis and he locates it near the Sphinx:
Q 4. In which pyramid or temple are the records mentioned in the readings given through this channel on Atlantis in April 1932? (364 series)
A 4. As given, that temple was destroyed at the time there was the last destruction in Atlantis.
Yet, as time draws nigh when changes are to come about, there may be the opening of these three places where the records are one, to those that are the initiates in the knowledge of the One God:
The temple by Iltar will then rise again. Also there will be the opening of the temple or hall of records in Egypt, and those records that were put into the heart of the Atlantean land may also be found here – that have been kept, for those that are of that group. The records are One."
(5750-1, 12 November 1933)
Three other readings mention the eventual discovery of these writings:
…in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the buildings of the various tombs…
The entity was among those that aided in the actual building of some of these buildings that still remain, and in the preparation of that one yet to be uncovered – the hall of records – where much may be brought to light.
(519-1, 20 February 9934)
…the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when there was the knowledge – through the teachers or leaders in the Law of One – as related to the destruction of the Atlantean or Poseidon land.
And the entity was among those who journeyed from Atlantis or Poseidia itself, first to the Pyrenees or Portuguese land and later into what would be called in the present the Egyptian land – during those periods after the recall of Ra-Ta, when he… attempted to make for a unification of the knowledge.
(1486-1, November 26, 1931)
…the entity was the first to set the records that are yet to be discovered, or yet to be had of those activities in the Atlantean land, and for the preservation of the data, that as yet to be found from the chambers of the way between the sphinx and the pyramid of records.
(1486-1, November 26 1937)
…in the Egyptian land…
The entity was of the Atlanteans who set about to preserve records… the entity came with those groups who were to establish the hall or house of records, and the entity directly or in-directly may be among those who will yet bring these to light...
(3575-2, 20 January 1944)
Other readings lead us to believe the records will be found soon:
Before that, the entity was in the Atlantean land, when there were those periods necessitating the exodus because of the destructive forces being used by the children of Belial.
The entity was a priestess in the Law of One, and among those who will come into the Egyptian land, as the elders in those groups for preserving the records, as well as for preserving a portion of that race, that peoples.
With the periods of reconstruction after the return of the Priest, the entity joined with those who were active in putting the records in forms that were partially of the old characters of the Ancient or early Egyptian, and part in the newer form of the Atlanteans.
These may be found, especially when the house or tomb of records is opened, in a few years from now.
(2537-1, 17 July 1941)
The entity was in the Atlantean and Egyptian land. The entity was among the children of the Law of One who came into the Egyptian experience for preserving the records…
…became the supervisor of the excavations – in studying the old records and in preparing and building the house at records for the Atlanteans, as well as a part of the house initiate – or the Great Pyramid.
(2462-2, 19 June 1941)
The entity… aiding the Priest in that preparation, in that manner of building the temples of records that lie just beyond that enigma that still is the mystery of mysteries to those who seek to know what were the manners of thought of the ancient sons who made man – a beast – as a part of the consciousness.
(2402-2, 16 November 1940)
It would be well if this entity were to seek either of the three phases of the ways and means in which those records of the activities of individuals were preserved – the one in the Atlantean land, that sank, which will rise and is rising again; another in the place of the records that leadeth from the Sphinx to the hall of records, in the Egyptian land; and another in the Aryan or Yucatan land, where the temple there is overshadowing same.
(2012-1, 25 September 1939)
…the entity was in the Egyptian land, among the Atlanteans who came in with those peoples in authority. For, there the entity was one who PERSONALLY cared for the records that were brought by the leaders of that people for preservation in that portion of man's experience in the earth.
(2523-1, 1 July 1941)
…the entity made for such experience and expression that these periods of the entity’s sojourn then are still preserved in the halls of record there.
(1182-1, 1 June 1936)
…it was this entity who was the designer for many of the edifices in Egypt, especially those in which the Atlanteans preserved their records, as well as the record house for the Priest…
(3605-1, 21 January 1944)
Another reading gives more precise data on the location
of the hall of
records and the kind of information stored
there.
The entity Hept-supht led in the keeping of the
records and the buildings that weren’t in their respective
actions or places of activity at this
time.
This was in the period, as given, of 10,500 years before the entering of the Prince of Peace in the land to study to become an initiate in or through those same activities that were set by Hept-supht In this dedicating ceremony.
Q 2. Give in detail what the sealed room contains.
A 2. A record of Atlantis from the beginnings of those periods when the Spirit took form or began the encasements in that land, and the developments of the peoples throughout their sojourn, with the record of the first destruction and the changes that took place in the land, with the record of the sojournings of the peoples to the varied activities in other lands, and a record of the meetings of all the nations or lands for the activities in the destructions that became necessary with the final destruction of Atlantis and the buildings of the pyramid of initiation, with who, what, where, would come the opening of the records that are as copies from the sunken Atlantis, for with the change it must rise (the temple) again.
This in position lies, as the sun rises from the waters, the line of the shadow (or light) falls between the paws of the Sphinx, that was later set as the sentinel or guard, and which may not be entered from the connecting chambers from the Sphinx's paw (right paw) until the time has been fulfilled when the changes must be active in this sphere of man’s experience.
Between, then, the Sphinx and the river.
(378-16, 29 October 1933)
In all his readings, Cayce named Egypt as the main place for finding the Atlantean records, but he also speaks, though less often, of other spots where they may have been kept. Making archives to preserve the memory of Atlantis seems to have been a major concern of all the refugees, whether they went to Yucatan, Gobi, Indochina or the Pyrenees and Portugal. Although we cannot be absolutely sure, Nostradamus' Vestal temple is probably related to the Atlanteans who fled first to the Pyrenees and Quatrain II-17 makes us believe it:
The field of the Vestal Virgin’s temple
Is not far from Ethene and the Pyrenees
The great conduit* is hidden in a trunk
NORTH jettison river and vines matinees
[Translator’s Note: *or the great one conducted (led, transported).]
This verse seems to refer to the same Vestal Temple as
those
previously cited and it places
it towards Ethene and the
Pyrenees. But what is Ethene,
Athens? “Le grand conduit” could be
a large tunnel, but what does “hidden in a trunk” mean? The end of the quatrain
is still more bizarre: “North jetty
flow” is quite
odd; the only connection possible is with North, the
English Prime
Minister from 1770 to 1782,
who imposed the Tea Tax,
leading to the dumping of tea into the
Charles River in Boston – but what are the “vignes
matinees”? Could this be an allusion to Vinland of the Vikings, discovered
around B.C. 1000 and located somewhere
between Nova Scotia and the present Hudson River?
“Vignes matinees” in Old French means “mongrel” or
hybrid vines, thus the cross-bred vines of
America. Nostradamus has used elsewhere the same system of designating
lands – it is nearly certain that this verse with North thrown in the river and
hybrid vines creates a
link between
the finding
of the vestal temple near the
Pyrenees and the USA, especially its cradle, the Boston
region. Still, this verse
remains quite obscure and the nature of this connection escapes
us.
This Quatrain II-17 is
typical of Nostradamus’ obscurity, but the author still believes that it is
related to the archeological discovery, for other more explicit verses name
the Pyrenees as a likely site of further discoveries:
VI-99
The learned enemy will turn confused
The great camp sick and defeated by ambush
Pyrenees mountains and Poenus refused to him
By the river discovering ancient urns.
Once again we find the
Pyrenees in a context mentioning antique discoveries, and urns or amphorae. But
what is Peonus –Phoenix,
Arizona?
Cayce speaks in a
reading given below of that part of the U.S. once having been a refuge for Atlanteans. There are two allusions to the present U.S.A.: North and Phoenix,
but it is really hard to grasp the meaning.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now
known as Yucatan, when there were those establishing in the land from the
Atlanteans. The entity was in the temples, set as the recorder, in the name then
Arsth. In the experiences there were those periods of dissension with those in
authority when they were the decisions of most of the peoples to join with the
movement in what is now portions of Arizona. The entity chose to remain in the
experiences there. Records may eventually be discovered again. (5245-1, 3 June
1944)
To all the preceding, add Quatrain III-14 which seems to describe our times:
He will come to expose false topography
The urns of the tombs will be opened
Sects and holy philosophy multiply
Black for white and new for old.
We find here the pullulation of sects and
the holy philosophy
that marks an epoch ripe for religious change, which would
put the opening of the antique pitchers sometime
before the end
of our century; the rest of the quatrain
remains quite obscure.
Before studying Quatrain
VIII-56 and others which may denote an
entirely different discovery, here are the Cayce readings on the settlement of
the Atlanteans in the Pyrenees
and their
final destruction by the
African invaders.
Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, but
of the Atlantean peoples, when there was the exodus from Atlantis to what is now
the Spanish or Pyrenees land, and then to Egypt.
With the establishing of the coalition between the
Egyptians and the Atlanteans, the entity – with those of Atlantis who had been
in authority who cane to the Egyptian land – eventually aided in those
activities as relating to the preparation of individuals – or the vocational
activities for all the varied groups of peoples during that period. (2916-1, 11
February 1943)
Before that we find the entity was in the land that
has been called the Atlantean, during those periods when there was the
breaking up of the land and there had been the edict that the land must be
changed.
The entity was among those that set sail for the Egyptian land, but entered rather into the Pyrenees and what is now the Portuguese, French and Spanish land. And there still may be seen in the chalk cliffs there in Calais the activities, where the marks of the entity's followers were made, as the attempts were set with those to create a temple activity to the follower of the Law of One.