number 89 - atlantis rising magazine library · 10 atlantis rising • number 90 subscribe or order...

Number 89 • ATLANTIS RISING 41See Our Great 8-page Catalog Beginning on Page 74 Number 89 • ATLANTIS RISING 41See Our Great 8-page Catalog Beginning on Page 74

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atlantis-rising/id445302269?mt=8

See Our Great 8-page Catalog Beginning on Page 74 Number 58 • ATLANTIS RISING 3

Subscribe or Order Books, DVDs and Much More!10 ATLANTIS RISING • Number 90

EARLY RAYS

aterial in a complex, man-made, under-water structure in the Bahamas has been

carbon dated to over 20,000 years BCE. Re-searchers for the Association for Research andEnlightenment (A.R.E.) have been investigatingthe underwater remains of what appears to be acollapsed multi-room building. Originally re-ported in Atlantis Rising #77 (September/October 2009), the investigation by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Drs. Greg andLora Little has culminated in the newly-releasedCarbon 14 dating report.

Located in an area known as “Pino Turolla’sColumn,” the site, Greg Little reports, has al-ready been re-covered with sand. Locals firstfound the structure and notified the Littles whomade several follow-up expeditions. Clearly man-made, the building’s foundation has miteredlimestone corners and other debris inside theouter walls. In the new dating report, accordingto an A.R.E. press release, a sample of beach rockfrom a long, straight foundation wall was carbondated to between 21,520 BCE and 20,610 BCE.Conventional archaeological wisdom holds thatthe oldest dates for humans in the area go back toonly about 1,000 BCE.

The dated sample, recovered by other inde-pendent investigators working with A.R.E., wasforwarded to Little for dating. Even though thebeach rock material is obviously older than thebuilding in which it was found, it is still a very sig-nificant find. “Beach rock forms at the edge ofthe shoreline,” Little explained to Atlantis Rising,“where the waves move back and forth across thebeach.” The rock formed along the ocean�s edge,and, thus, before it could be used for building ma-terial, it had to be moved some distance. The sea

M

Rossi’sE-Cat atwork

In the 20th century, while the Mar-coni's...the Henry Ford's...theThomas Edison's have succeeded in

capturing most of the attention,others with technological prowessbordering on the miraculous,strangely, have gone unnoticed. Menwith names like Tesla, Moray, Rife,Russell and Schauberger, laboring inalmost complete obscurity, andachieving almost incomprehensiblemiracles--free energy, anti-gravity,transmutation of the elements, phys-ical rejuvenation and more--were yetlargely rejected, ridiculed and de-spised by the scientific establishmentof their day. But now, a few decadeslater, a new breed of inventors, scien-tists and researchers is making rapid,if yet unpublicized, strides toward un-raveling the secrets of those unsunggiants who preceded them. Manynow find themselves on the thresholdof breakthroughs, still believed, bymany, to be the stuff of hallucination.Atlantis Rising Video now tells theirstory.

1 Hr. DVD $24.95or VHS $19.95

+ $5.95 S.&H.

To Order Call

800-228-8381

levels where the beachrock formed were

about 300 feet belowwhere they are today.

The rock had to bemoved before the sealevels rose, a process

which began circa15,000 BCE. “We

have to assume theydidn’t go underwater

and pull these slabs up.Around 4,000 BCE

the sea level was about15 feet lower than

today, so by then thisstructure would have

been essentially at theshoreline. The conclu-

sion is that the struc-ture was built on high

ground sometime between 21,000 BC and wellbefore 4,000 BCE.”

Unfortunately any further investigation willhave to await permits which may not be forth-coming any time soon. The spot is in a busy areawith a great deal of boat traffic.

Investigators have been exploring the regionsince the late 1960s and have located many unu-sual underwater3apparently manmade3formations, but this is the first site to be carbondated and to a time long before the last ice ageended, strongly indicating that, contrary to stan-dard academic theory, a highly developed pre-ice-age culture once lived off the coast of the Ba-hamas and operated throughout the region.

The non-profit Association for Research andEnlightenment was founded by Edgar Cayce in1931. A.R.E.3s teams conduct annual expeditionsoff the Bahamas coast in search of the remnantsof sophisticated pre-ice-age culture.

For more information just visit Edgar-Cayce.org.


MAN-MADE BAHAMASSTRUCTURE DATED TO

BEFORE ICE AGE

MAN-MADE BAHAMASSTRUCTURE DATED TO

BEFORE ICE AGE

Pre-ice-age building

Same building, long shot

http://www.atlantisrising.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AR&Product_Code=dvd10&Category_Code=

Number 90 • ATLANTIS RISING 11See Our Great 8-page Catalog Beginning on Page 74

Temple of the FeatheredSerpent, Teotihuacan

he familiar image of stone age man, clad, inskins and dragging his woman by the hair is

in dire need of a reset. Far from being an ignorantsavage, it is clear he was, at the least, a great engi-neer, responsible for many megalithic structureswhich would be difficult to reproduce today.Now, new evidence shows that he was anamazing tunnel builder as well.

German archaeologist Heinrich Kusch saysthat the remains of a vast network of tunnels be-neath hundreds of neolithic settlements from Eu-rope to Scotland to Turkey has been found andpartially mapped. In a new book Secrets of theUnderground—Door to an Ancient World, Kuschargues for the existence of an enormous networkof such tunnels. Parts of the ancient catacombsstill exist today, over 12,000 years later. Somesites go back over 30,000 years. Seven hundredmeters of tunnel have been exposed in Germany’s

TVast Tunnel Complex 12,000 Years Old

Exploring Ancient Tunnels

state of Bavaria. Three hundred and fifty metersworth have been unearthed in Styria, Austria.But that, Kusch claims, is just the tip of the pro-verbial iceberg.

The networks, some believe, were intendedto protect humans from predators. Others thinksome of the linked tunnels were used like high-ways are today, making it possible to travel safelyeven in times of war or dangerous weather. Muchof what remains today is quite small, barely ca-pable of accommodating modern human ex-plorers. In some cases there is more room andeven seating space for visitors. Many of the tun-nels had been sealed off by the medieval church,apparently concerned about a heathen legacy.Not all tunnels link up but many do, and the ex-istence of a massive pre-ice-age network seemsclear.

cientists at NASA say there is almost no need

to worry about the Asteroid Apophis hitting

Earth in 2036. The 46-million-ton space rock will

swing by first in 2029, and if

it doesn’t pass

through a 600

meter “keyhole”

area then, when

it comes back in

2036, it will miss

us. If it does hit

the keyhole, how-

ever, then seven years

later it could make quite a mess

of life on Earth. Now some Chinese

scientists are saying why take a chance.

Shengping Gong, Junfeng Li, and Xiangyuan

Zeng of Tsinghua University in Beijing say we

could launch a small satellite with a solar sail that

could rendezvous with Apophis and change its

orbit. It would be tricky, something like shooting

a gnat at a few million miles, but it could be

done. Of course there is the possibility that the hit

might make the asteroid go way off course and

end up somewhere totally unexpected, but that is

not our problem, and it sounds like more fun

than a video game.

In the meantime a comet from deep space is

zooming toward our neighborhood this year. Not

to worry says NASA; the comet Elenin is not

coming anywhere close to Earth. It should miss us

by a few million miles. And as for a possible colli-

sion between Elenin and asteroid 2005 YU55, sci-

entists says it won’t cause either one to collide

Earth. So for now, Earth does not need to worry

about space rocks and there is at least one less

thing to worry about. We wish we could say as

much for the economy.

S

ASTEROID SAIL TOSAVE THE EARTH?

bundant power from hydrogen

at the bottom of the ocean may

be available soon. That is the implica-

tion of new exploration undertaken

with deep sea submersibles by re-

searchers from Germany’s Max

Planck Institute.

Right now thousands of scientists

from around the world are looking

for clean, renewable forms of energy;

and though often thwarted by preju-

dice and outmoded thinking based on

a perceived scarcity of resources,

many unexpected potential solutions

to the world’s energy problems seem

to be emerging. Intensive efforts to

harness hydrogen as a readily available

fuel has spurred development of hy-

AHydrogen Energy Source Discovered at the Bottom of the Ocean

drogen fuel cells, but until recently a

great living source for such cells had

gone unnoticed.

It turns out, according to the sci-

ence journal Nature, that in hydro-

thermal vents deep below the ocean,

mussels, in great beds, have their own

on-board ‘fuel cells.’ Indeed, symbi-

otic bacteria in the mussels have been

shown to use hydrogen as an energy

source, and on a significant scale. Re-

searchers believe that perhaps soon we

will learn how to tap such hydro-

thermal vent symbiosis as a powerful

renewable source of energy for the

human world above the water, thus

making it possible for civilization as we

know it to stay afloat a little longer.Ocean Mussel Bed


Projectilefrom

space


ost readers of this magazine are fa-miliar with ancient legends thatseem to describe human encounterswith extraterrestrials in prehistoric

times—Ezekiel and the wheels within wheels,stories of sky-gods in ancient Egypt, winged godsin Mesopotamia, the Dogon tribe in Africa. Lesswell known are Native American legends thatmay also point to an awareness of beings from theskies, of actual encounters with aliens.

Any number of New Age books and websitesnow purport to contain accounts of NativeAmerican interactions with ETs and other be-ings—be it through direct physical contact, ethe-real shamanism or other means—but a seriouslook at the subject of ancient encounters requiressources that predate modern influences.

This author had an early interest in such In-dian/Native American stories because my ma-ternal grandmother in rural Arkansas used to talkabout such things. Because she considered herselfand our family to be of Cherokee descent, I wasnaturally drawn to the stories of that tribe of Na-tive Americans. Her mother, my great-grandmother, used to regale us kids with storiesof legendary Cherokee figures—The Ridge,Stand Watie, John Ross—and told us about

M Encounters of the Third Kind?Of particular interest are Cherokee legends of

strange flying creatures. As with Ezekiel andother ancient witnesses to strange objects and be-ings descending from the sky, we can readily in-terpret the old stories in light of the thousands ofUFO encounters reported in the modern age.One of Mooney’s interviewees, an old chiefnamed Swimmer, for example, told the story of“What the Stars Are Like.”

“There are different opinions about the stars.Some say they are balls of light, others saythey are human, but most people say they areliving creatures covered with luminous fur orfeathers.“One night a hunting party camping in themountains noticed two lights like large starsmoving along the top of a distant ridge. Theywondered and watched until the light disap-peared on the other side. The next night, andthe next, they saw the lights again movingalong the ridge, and after talking over thematter decided to go on the morrow and tryto learn the cause. In the morning theystarted out and went until they came to the

tribal legends as well. Unfortunately, I was tooyoung to write down, or to remember, the detailsof those strange tales, and later I was too in-volved with teenage concerns to tape-recordthem while my grandmother was still living. But,with that interest in mind, I later visited theEastern Cherokees in Cherokee, North Caro-lina, where I found an old book by nineteenthcentury anthropologist, James Mooney. Readinghis work reinforced many of the old stories.

In Myths of the Cherokees and Sacred For-mulas of the Cherokees, originally published in1888, Mooney presents information about howone Native American tribe may have encoun-tered aliens and other mysterious creatures, re-cording these accounts as campfire stories andlegends. As an anthropologist with the Smithso-nian Institution, Mooney spent the years of 1887through 1890 living with the Cherokees ofNorth Carolina, listening to their stories, re-cording their myths, legends, and sacred for-mulas. Because Mooney’s works were publishedlong before the age of flight and even before theGreat Airship Flap of the late 1890’s, we canconsider these reports as untainted by moremodern interest in UFOs and aliens of all stripes.

Continued on Page 59

UFOs

Three Cherokees visit London in 1762. (Engraving)

Could Cherokee Folklore Have Described UFOsCould Cherokee Folklore Have Described UFOsand Close Encounters of the Third Kind?and Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

Three Cherokees visit London in 1762. (Engraving)• BY ARLAN ANDREWS, Sr., Sc.D., P.E.• BY ARLAN ANDREWS, Sr., Sc.D., P.E.


dreams, vivid imaginary tales, or news stories thechildren are repeating from television. Some par-ents, who come from cultures where belief in re-incarnation is more common, listen to their chil-dren’s tales and take them at their word.Sometimes they even have enough informationto seek out the family in the location where theirchild says he has lived before.

Simply put, reincarnation is the belief thatsouls can be reborn in different bodies at dif-ferent times and places. Many different faithsembrace reincarnation, including Hinduism,Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, as well as the beliefsof numerous indigenous groups. People who be-lieve in reincarnation see it as normal part of theprogression and development of the spirit,whereby an individual soul evolves through dif-ferent lives. Many faiths say this same process oc-curs with animals and other forms of life.

Historically, writings about reincarnationshow up around the fifth or sixth century BC inEast Indian, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions aswell as in Greece. Pythagorus believed that thesoul of humans was spiritual and eternal, onlytemporarily residing in the body, and survivingphysical death. Plato also supported this idea andsuggested that if a person lived a good life, he

• BY PATRICK MARSOLEK

THE OTHER SIDE

would progress to a more spiritual state. TheHindu belief in karma proposes a much moreelaborate correlation between how our activitiesin one life affect how we are reincarnated in thenext, proposing a progress from lower to higherand more realized forms of embodiment.

There is also evidence that reincarnation mayhave been believed in much earlier in human his-tory. There are reports that the early Druidicpractices embraced the idea. Some of the earlyrecords in Egypt show the path of the soul leavingthe body and becoming embodied again. Also,since there is widespread belief in reincarnationamong indigenous cultures, it is reasonable tosuggest that as soon as early, primitive culturesadapted more elaborate rituals at death, the exis-tence and movement of the soul was part ofhuman thought.

The majority of modern Christian andMuslim practitioners reject reincarnation.Though early Christian believers did embrace re-incarnation, in AD 553 it was officially stigma-tized as heresy and effectively removed fromchurch doctrine. Modern theologians thoughhave suggested that reincarnation would not con-flict with the teachings of the church, and someIslamist sects accept the idea. Now with the prev-

Exploring the Traditions andthe Evidence for Reincarnation the Evidence for Reincarnation


o you believe in reincarnation? Haveyou lived before? Will you come tolive again in another physical bodyafter you die? Several of the major

world religions and cultures around the worldhave some belief in reincarnation. By some esti-mates, as many as a quarter of people worldwidehold such beliefs.

How would you respond if your child begantelling you a story about who he had been ‘be-fore’ and included a list of very specific details, in-cluding names and places, about his previous life.For example, Kemal, a child in Turkey, told hisparents details of his previous life since he wasaround two. He claimed he had lived in Istanbul,500 miles away. He said his family name had beenKarakas, that he’d been a wealthy ArmenianChristian who lived in a large, three-story house.He also named his neighbor and stated that hishouse had been on the water where boats weretied up and was next to a church. Kemal gavemany more details about his life.

How would you respond if you heard such astory? Parents in more materialistic societies be-lieve their children’s stories are playful day-

D



t is very absurd, if a truth can be absurd.” Sostated renowned French scientist CharlesRichet, referring to the results of some ex-periments that he and Dr. Gustave Geley,

the director of the International Metaphysical In-stitute (Institut Metapsychique International) inParis, had carried out with Franek Kluski, aPolish medium, during November and December1920.

The two scientists succeeded in having “enti-ties”—a more acceptable word to scientists than“spirits”—dip their hands and feet, and even partof the face of one, into some paraffin so thatmolds could be made of their body parts. The“Paraffin Hands Case” has gone down in the an-nals of psychical research as one of the most, ifnot the most, convincing case offering objectiveevidence of spirit life.

Richet was certainly not a pseudoscientist, asdebunkers like to claim when some researcherfinds evidence for the paranormal. Winner of the1913 Nobel Prize in medicine for his research onanaphylaxis, the sensitivity of the body to alienprotein, Richet was a physiologist, chemist, bacte-riologist, pathologist, psychologist, aviation pio-neer, poet, novelist, editor, author, and psychicalresearcher. He held doctorates in both medicineand science, serving as professor of physiology atthe medical school of the University of Paris for38 years.

Nor could Geley be called a pseudoscientist.A Laureate of the French Academy of Medicine,he had gained some fame for his research in anes-thesia and for new methods of treating smallpox,erysipelas, and scarlatina when, in 1918, he ac-cepted the directorship of the Institute, of whichRichet was president. The primary objective ofthe Institute was to investigate paranormal phe-nomena, especially mediumship, under strict sci-entific controls and conditions.

Kluski was a 50-year-old writer and poet whohad discovered his mediumistic ability just 18months earlier. In Paris, there were 14 separateexperiments with Kluski, all but one in Geley’s la-boratory. Other scientists, including CamilleFlammarion, a world-renowned astronomer, satin on one or more of the experiments.

The general protocol called for the mediumto be thoroughly searched before being admittedto the laboratory and for the doors of the labora-tory to be locked from the inside at all times.With some mediums, Geley went so far as to re-quire gynecological and rectal examinations torule out hidden objects. Because the ectoplasmproduced by mediums and later reabsorbed bythem is sensitive to white light, red lights wereused, permitting some visibility, although it wasinadequate for photography; and there was con-cern that flash photography would negatively af-fect the ectoplasm and thereby injure the me-dium.

It was Richet, who some years earlier, gave the

I• BY MICHAEL E. TYMN

THE OTHER SIDEname “ectoplasm” to the mysterious proto-plasmic substance that streams from an orifice ofthe medium—from the mouth, ears, nose, pores,and even from the vagina of some mediums. Ithad earlier been referred to by scientists as tele-plasm, psychoplasm, psychic force, and odicforce. When Sir William Crookes, an esteemedBritish chemist, first reported on it in connectionwith the mediumship of Florence Cook duringthe early 1870s, Richet was among the many sci-

entists who scoffed and thought that perhapsCrookes, the discoverer of the element thalliumand a pioneer in x-ray technology, had “lost it.”But after his own investigation of mediumsbegan during the 1880s, Richet changed his posi-tion. “I avow with shame that I was among thewillfully blind,” he wrote in dedicating his 1923book, Thirty Years of Psychical Research, toCrookes, commending him for his courage andinsight.

Richet, Geley, and other researchers came torealize that ectoplasm takes on different forms.Sometimes it is thick and milky looking and atother times vaporous and invisible. Kluski’s wasof the latter type. “This ectoplasmic formation atthe expense of the physiological organism of themedium is now beyond all dispute,” Richet pro-claimed. “It is prodigiously strange, prodigiouslyunusual, and it would seem so unlikely as to be

incredible; but we must give in to the facts.” While there were a few mediums in the world

strong enough or developed enough to produceectoplasm which would result in full body materi-alizations, Kluski apparently was not one ofthem. Faces, arms, and hands were usually ob-served with him. According to Geley, the experi-ments would begin with a strong odor of ozone.“Then, in weak light, slightly phosphorescentvapor floats around the medium, especially above

his head, like light smoke, and in it there aregleams like foci of condensation,” he explained.“These lights were usually many, tenuous, andephemeral, but sometimes they were larger andmore lasting, and then gave the impression ofbeing luminous parts of organs otherwise invis-ible, especially finger ends or parts of faces. Whenmaterialization was complete, fully formed handsand faces could be seen.”

At one sitting, Geley observed a hand at theend of an arm form under his eyes, cross the circlein front of Kluski and touch Mme. Geley, whowas facing him. “It was a masculine hand, verywell formed,” Geley wrote. “The wrist wasslender, the forearm and upper arm were envel-oped in white tissue with regular longitudinalfolds. Immediately after the contact felt by Mme.Geley the hand disappeared.”

Was the Reality Was the Reality of the Spiritof the SpiritWorld Conclusively ProvenWorld Conclusively ProvenNearly a Century Ago?Nearly a Century Ago?

Hands fromKluski sessions


“


GREATER DIMENSIONS

ay 7, 2012, will be the 200th anni-versary of the birth of RobertBrowning (1812-1889), the greatEnglish Victorian poet to whom we

owe such works as The Pied Piper of Hamelin andPippa Passes. If, on that birthday, the poet were tobe awakened from his grave for a day to join inthe celebrations, he would be appalled and dis-gusted by the overheated “2012” talk of rapture,catastrophe, apocalypse and shifting realities.

Browning was a tough-minded, near-Agnostic Christian deeply interested in science,who held in contempt many aspects of mysticismand all aspects of “psychic” phenomena. He wasespecially scornful of mediumship, or “chan-neling,” and for a particular reason. The poet,whose hearty optimism masked a deep despair atman’s capacity for evil, had several encounterswith Daniel Dunglas Home (1833-1886), themost celebrated medium of his day and a manwhose uncanny, seemingly supernatural skills al-ways provoked a strong reaction. Browning tookaway from those encounters a profound skepti-cism of all things spiritualist and a violent hatredof Home. This latter spurred him to write a2,000-line poem, “Mr. Sludge, ‘the Medium’”(1864), which constitutes a crushing indictmentof all aspects of mediumship and is a portrait of aD.D. Home-like medium who is no better than apsychopath and fraud.

Love and sex lurked in the background to addfuel to the fire of Browning’s animosity towardHome. On July 23, 1855, the poet attended, atthe house of Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Rymer, of Ealing,England, a séance presided over by the tall, pale,consumptive-looking medium. At Browning’sside was his wife, the almost equally famous Eng-lish poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), who is best known today for her Sonnets

M


from the Portuguese.Elizabeth was initiallyenchanted by thisséance and became,for a while, a believerand near-acolyte ofHome. Robert was fu-rious, not only at what hesaw as an insult to his in-telligence, but because he be-lieved Home was using thesetrumped-up displays of para-normal power to flirt with hiswife and perhaps seduce her.

The details of thecourtship and marriage ofRobert Browning andElizabeth BarrettBrowning are well-known and were fa-mously depicted in the1934 film The Barrettsof Wimpole Street star-ring Norma Shearer. Itwas only with the suc-cess of his long series ofpoems, Bells and Pome-granates (1841-1845),that Robert finally madehis name as a poet. Eliza-beth Barrett, better knownat the time, read Bells andPomegranates and insertedglowing praise for Browning’spoetry in an upcoming volume ofpoetry of her own. Robert read thepraise, wrote Elizabeth to thank her for the com-pliment and declare that he had fallen in lovewith her poetry—and with the poetess! He asked

TheBrownings

and theand the

Medium

Not All Romantic PoetsApproved of Spiritualism

• BY JOHN CHAMBERS

RobertBrowning

DanielDunglasHome

ElizabethBarrett

Browning

to come round and see her.This wasn’t easy to ar-

range. Elizabeth had beena semi-invalid from an

early age, suffering fromthe early stages of tuber-

culosis. Now she was39. The hothouse-like

confinement of herearly years had perhapshelped her gifts to ma-

ture early. She was towrite: “At four I first

mounted Pegasus[began writing poetry].”

Between the ages ofseven and eight she read

the history of England,Rome, and Greece “and

began poetry in earnest”—Scott, Pope’s Iliad, Shakespeare.

“At eleven I wished to be con-sidered an authoress—

novels were thrown aside,poetry and essays were

my studies.” Her fatherprivately printed her

first major poem, TheBattle of Marathon, in

1820, when she was 14.By the time Robert

contacted her, she was,along with Alfred LordTennyson, the most fa-

mous English poet of herday.

By now, though, ElizabethBarrett was virtually a prisoner

in the Barrett household onWimpole Street in London,not only because of her poor

health but because of thetyranny of her father. Mr.

Barrett, who had been awidower for 10 years,

forbade all 11 of hischildren, including not

only his beloved, frail,brilliant eldest

daughter Elizabeth butalso all of his sons, to

ever marry. It was onlywith great difficulty,

and surreptitiously, thatRobert could get to seeElizabeth. A torrid ro-

mance, in exquisite prose,was carried on by letter. In

1846 Robert and Elizabetheloped, first to Paris then on to

Italy, without telling Mr. Barrett.(He disinherited his daughter imme-

diately upon hearing the news.) The hap-pily married couple lived in Italy almost continu-


ANCIENT MYSTERIES

• BY CHRISTOPHERDUNN

n January 2011, an important andhistoric exploration took place in-side the Great Pyramid. However,the remarkable evidence that was

discovered seemed to pass into historywithout fuss or fanfare. A small article inthe New Scientist magazine, with thepromise of a future scholarly report onthe findings, seemed to be an extremelymuted response to an event that has tradi-tionally been promoted to attract mil-lions of “pyramid watchers” across theworld. Has the interest in pyramid discov-eries waned, or was this exploration an-other casualty of the Arab Spring, whichsaw a revolution in Egypt that oustedPresident Hosni Mubarak and saw thestaccato-like firing/hiring/firing of one ofthe world’s most prominent Egyptolo-gists, Zahi Hawass? Perhaps the explora-tion in the Great Pyramid earlier this yearcame at a time when Hawass did notwant any attention brought on himself, ashe was receiving enough attention by theEgyptian protesters in Tahrir Square whocriticized his handling of the affairs of theSupreme Counsel of Antiquities (SCA).With the recent changes in Egypt’s

I

power structure, we are left to ask:• What are the implications behind the

relative silence from the SCA re-garding this exploration?

• Will the Southern Shaft of theQueenBs Chamber and Ganten-brink’s “door” ever rise to promi-nence again?

• Did the discoveries behind Ganten-brink’s “door” support or contradictthe many theories about what wouldbe found there?Going back as far as the seventeeenth

century, there are accounts of numerousexplorations into the Great Pyramid thathave yielded significant new details of thestructure. Before 1872, the Queen’sChamber shafts were no mystery becauseas far as visitors to the chamber were con-cerned, they did not exist. All thatchanged, however, when British explorer,Waynman Dixon, detected a crack in thewall and was able to push a rod deep intothe crack without meeting any resistance,prompting him to have the limestonechiseled away revealing a square openingmeasuring 20.32 cm (8 in) wide and22.35 cm (8.8 in) high. A similar shaftwas subsequently found in the north wall.

Because of the machine-like, technicalappearance of the Great Pyramid and theprecision with which it was built, I began,in 1977, developing a theory that theoriginal function of the Great Pyramidwas intended not to be a tomb but apower plant. Within the context of thepower plant with all its attributes andanomalous features which other theorieswere unable to explain without resorting

to symbolism, I found a practical answer.The Queen’s Chamber, I proposed,served as a reaction chamber; and theshafts leading to this chamber suppliedtwo chemicals (I proposed a combinationof dilute hydrochloric acid and hydratedzinc) that, when mixed together, createdhydrogen.

In 1993, a German robotics engineer,Rudolph Gantenbrink, on contract to in-stall ventilation fans in the King’sChamber shafts, after cleaning the debrisusing a robot, proposed that he use hisrobot, named “Upuaut II” (meaning“opener of the ways”) to coax from thedepths of the pyramid more of its secretsby exploring the Southern Shaft in theQueen’s Chamber. While the exits fromthe shafts from the King’s Chamber arefound on the outside of the pyramid, noexit has ever been found for either of theQueen’s Chamber shafts. I was viewingthe exploration by Gantenbrink; andwhen the robot came to the end of theshaft, what is now famously known asGantenbrink’s “door” came into viewwith two metal pins attached. (The shaftdue to its small size could only allow asmall animal to pass—Gantenbrink doesnot call the block a “door,” as have var-ious Egyptologists—but rather a USO, orUnidentified Stone Object, a nomencla-ture that I will adopt for purposes of thisarticle.) A friend immediately claimedthat they looked like electrodes, whichmade sense to me; for in order to main-tain the head pressure, the shafts had tobe kept full, and electrodes could serve asa switch to signal replenishment. In 1998,my book, The Giza Power Plant, incor-porated this theory.

Then in 2002, to much fanfare andexcitement, “Opening of the LostTomb”, which offered to show live a newexploration of the Queen’s ChamberSouthern Shaft, was broadcast in Europeby National Geographic and in the U.S. by

42 ATLANTIS RISING • Number 90



A Professional Tool-Design Engineerwith Startling New Evidence that thewith Startling New Evidence that the

Great Pyramid May Have BeenWired for Electricity

Fox Television. The documentary cap-tured 30 million viewers in the U.S.alone, glued to their television sets towatch a new robot named “pyramidrover” drill through the limestone blockwhich held the metal fittings and then in-sert a camera through the hole to see whatlay beyond. Prior to this broadcast, Iposted two articles on my website ex-plaining the reasoning behind my analysisof these shafts and what would be re-vealed if we were able to look behind it.Based on what I wrote in The Giza PowerPlant, the last article outlined a predic-tion of what would be found behind the“USO.” The prediction included adrawing of the continuation of the metalfittings, or wiring attached to them, and achemical supply shaft for the delivery ofthe chemical. The information gatheredby the robot was not conclusive, but partsof the theory were supported—particularly the USO’s thickness.

Following the 2002 exploration, anoccasional report would appear thatpromised a new exploration in the nearfuture. Then on May 25, 2011, an articleappeared in New Scientist online maga-zine describing the latest exploration of anew robot, named Djedi, which providednew images taken behind the USO.These images show that my design con-cept, while being a workable solution, wasnot quite correct. But far from being dis-mayed, I was impressed that the ancientEgyptians’ design was much better anddelighted to note that greater evidencehad been revealed than I had hoped!

I was astonished that information re-garding this long awaited exploration hadbeen released without fanfare. ZahiHawass, the minister of antiquities inEgypt, and director of this recent expedi-tion, described these internal features asthe “last great mystery of the Great Pyr-amid.” With the last exploration broad-

cast on Fox television in the U.S. gar-nering 30 million viewers, why was Na-tional Geographic or Fox television not in-volved?

Reading the article and looking at thegrainy images of the back of the stoneblock with the metal fittings, it becameclear that the author and expedition teammembers were aware of the power planttheory. Rowan Hooper writes, “Metal isnot part of any other known structure inthe pyramid, and the discovery ignitedspeculation that the pins were door han-dles, keys or even parts of a power supplyconstructed by aliens.” As the first personto publish a work that described the pinsas electrical devices, I must set the recordstraight that I have never credited theconstruction of the Great Pyramid toaliens, or any other people, except the in-digenous people living in that area at thetime. Moreover, the discovery of the pinsin 1993 was not the trigger that gavebirth to the idea that the Great Pyramidwas a power plant; they simply enhancedthe proposed use that I had formulated in1977 for the Queen’s Chamber and theshafts. Shaun Whitehead, the camera de-signer from the company Scoutek inMelton Mowbray, UK, said, “Our newpictures from behind the pins show thatthey end in small, beautifully made loops,indicating that they were more likely or-

namental rather than electrical connec-tions.”

Kate Spence, an Egyptologist at Cam-bridge University, UK, indicated that theUSO would have served a symbolic pur-pose, a door with door handles. This no-tion has been proposed before. GermanEgyptologist, Rainer Stadelmann, specu-lated in the 2002 documentary that thepins were symbolic door handles for theKing to use to symbolically raise the doorso that his soul can fly off to the stars towhich the pyramid shafts are allegedlyaligned.

The continuation of the pins on thebackside of Gantenbrink’s USO was notthe only discovery captured by the newrobot. The images also revealed some

Number 90 • ATLANTIS RISING 43

Gantenbrink’s “Door”

Entrance to north shaft fromthe Queen’s ChamberEntrance to north shaft fromthe Queen’s Chamber


LOST HISTORY

ushtonLodge—betterknown as the

Triangular Lodge—isconsidered by many tobe only a folly—abuilding without a realpurpose, other thandecoration. But the his-tory of the structure ismore than interesting,inviting the questionwhether it might notactually contain a veri-table secret message, sofar not uncovered.Such questions arisefrom the strange Eliza-bethan saga of SirThomas Tresham.What happens whenyou release a Catholicfrom jail? The answerin the case of Treshamis: the TriangularLodge. The smallbuilding near Rushton,in England’s North-amptonshire, at theedge of Tresham’s es-tate was, ostensibly,built to serve as a veryenigmatic home for therabbit warden. It is re-ferred to in theRushton estate docu-ments as “The War-ryners Lodge.”

Tresham was re-leased from prison in1593. He had beenheld because he was aCatholic and was considered a threat to theruling Protestant order. It is said that his prisoncell contained drawings and material that wouldultimately find their way into the design of theTriangular Lodge. As the story goes, while inprison at Ely in 1590, he was reading a treatise onproofs of the existence of God. Suddenly threeloud knocks startled him and inspired upon himthe overwhelming theme for his lodge-to-be: thenumber three.

The political history of the Tresham family isinteresting. In 1559, Thomas became one of thelargest estate owners in the country. The familywere supporters of Mary Tudor (later Mary I);and while Henry VIII suppressed the Order ofSt. John of Jerusalem, when it was reinstated in1557-1558, Thomas Tresham the elder—thegrandfather of the lodge builder—became GrandPrior. Thomas “the builder” was knighted by

R

Elizabeth I at Kenilworth Castle in 1575. About1566, he had married into another Catholicfamily, to Meriel, the daughter of Sir RobertThrockmorton, of Coughton Court in Warwick-shire. Together, they would create one of themost impressive libraries in Elizabethan England.

However, in 1570, Pope Pius V launched abull declaring Elizabeth deposed and released herCatholic subjects from their allegiance. WhenSpain launched the Armada against England in1588, English Catholics were expected to assist,but few felt “called upon.” Penal laws againstCatholics were passed in 1581, 1585, and 1593.As a consequence, Thomas was continuously inprison, subject to house arrest, or under surveil-lance between August 1581 and April 1593. Hewould find himself in prison again for a fewmonths in 1594 and again in the winter of 1597-1598.

Work on the lodgestared on July 28, 1594

and it was completedby 1597. It is not the

only enigmaticbuilding Tresham

created. He also builtNew Bield at Lyveden,

which he started in1594 and which was

left unfinished at thetime of his death in

1605. Here, he com-memorated the Cruci-fixion rather than the

Holy Trinity, with across-shaped plan and afrieze of carvings of theInstruments of the Pas-sion.

But what is remark-able about the lodge isthat it is all about thenumber three. Seeing

that Tresham was aCatholic, Triangular

Lodge is seen as a sym-bolic hymn to the

Trinity. However, afew have noted that the

Trinity is not exclu-sively Catholic, andhence, the question

arises: was Tresham’sdevotion to the

number three “merely”Catholic, or somethingmore?

At a basic mathe-matical and visual level,

the entire structurerepresents three. Each

of the three exteriorwalls is 33.3 feet long,

each has three trian-gular windows and is

surmounted by three gargoyles. The inside hasthree floors. Decoration-wise, there are threeLatin texts, each 33 letters long, which runaround the building. They read: Aperiatur terra& germinet salvatorem (Let the earth open and…bring forth salvation, Isaiah 45:8); Quis seperabitnos a charitate Christi (Who shall separate usfrom the love of Christ?, Romans 8:35); Conside-ravi opera tua domine et expavi (I have contem-plated thy works, O Lord, and was afraid, a para-phrase of Habakkuk 3:2).

Though three is the common denominator,there is great variation within the details. Thewindows all have different designs. The largest isa trefoil, the family emblem; the basement win-dows are small trefoils with triangular lights.Around the windows on the first floor areplaques for the family emblems, some of them leftempty, no doubt to be filled in by future genera-

• BY PHILIP COPPENS

The Very Strange Legacy of Sir Thomas Tresham

The RushtonRebus

When Three Is a CharmWhen Three Is a Charm



http://www.atlantisrising.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=AR&Category_Code=DL

number 89 - atlantis rising magazine library · 10 atlantis rising • number 90 subscribe or order...

Documents