Philip Gardiner, Homosexuality and Alchemy Disinformation

[mopiet]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

Let me just top that with a part of the de la Censerie-article. It is not exactly confirming Gurdjieff, but it is confirming the alchemical teory of the Paris. Quite dramatically even...

'..the christian religion is one of the youngest of the many thousands of our planet.' A religion that, after reading the response articles on the Forbidden Letters, indeed seems to have been exclusively inititiated to form a 'vehicle for alchemy'.


'Within the visible body there resides a spiritual body which Boehme compares to an 'oil' which must be set on fire.'[Aniane]


'And at night, Isis ('who belonged to the cosmology of Heliopolis' [Baring and Cashford]) placed the child in a fire to burn away all that was mortal in him.'[Baring and Cashford]


'Texts about 'burning Horus' and his salvation are extant in various Egyptian and Greek documents.'[Burkert]


'Throughout the Middle Ages, pilgrims visited Heliopolis to view the tree in whose shade, according to the Christian texts, the Holy Family rested on their flight from King Herod. [Quirke]


'You are born once with a soul and a body, and a third agent, spirit, can come in to save that body and soul by making it immortal in the Work of the Sun.'[Hanno Temming in his article on the Forbidden Letters at World Mysteries]


'Through baptism by fire, man, who was before dead, is made a living soul.'[Aurora Consurgens]


'Let the dead bury the dead.'[Jesus in Matthew]


'I am baptizing you with water, for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I. I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.'[John the Baptist in Matthew]


'Nothing depends on baptism with water. Baptism with water only symbolizes the fact that we were born through water, meaning biologically born. We need two births to be saved. The one through water which gives us our spine and brain, the Tree of Life, that infrastructure for the Work of the Sun, and a second one through fire, when God plants our Tree of Life in that fire 'to stand everlasting.' So it's silly to say that you need to be baptized. You need to be biologically born through water, and to be born again though fire. That fire being the alchemical one called Kundalini, that water being the water of the womb. People who practise baptism and think anything depends on that confuse the symbol with the real thing.'[Fenelon]


'Whoever is near me, is near the fire, whoever is far from me, is far from the Kingdom.'[Jesus in Thomas]


'Kundalini either saves or destroys.'[de Beaumont]


'You Christ, who are all fire, have mercy on me.'[Ephraem the Syrian]

P.S.

Aren't we a team, Laura?

 

[Laura]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

On the Forbidden Letters - by Gary Osborn

By Gary Osborn

Part 3

Extract from material written for The Shining Ones (2006):
Note: Only some of this made it into the book.
Unraveling the Phoenix Code

by Gary Osborn

Gary Osborn. Copyright © 2005. All Rights Reserved



The ‘Tree’ of the Phoenix represents the human spine.

Ovid’s descriptions of the ‘tree,’ the ‘oils,’ made from the tree – which are placed in the ‘nest’ at the top of the tree, and all associated with the Phoenix bird which symbolises ‘transformation,’ ‘rebirth’ and ‘immortality’ – are highly symbolic – which is stating the obvious really.

Now taking the individual level here, these items are more clues to the physiological aspects of the ‘enlightenment experience’ in that they symbolise various organs or components associated with certain unknown processes that take place in the individual’s body – the spine. Let’s now follow the clues in Ovid’s descriptions to see where it leads us:

Frankincense and Myrrh (oils) were mentioned and these have been well known for their ‘anointing’ and healing powers for thousands of years. Both these oils are made from resins; dried sap from the Burseraceae family of trees which are common in Somalia – possibly where the word soma, comes from, being the name given to the ‘elixir of life.’ Myrrh was an ingredient used by the ancient Egyptians in their mummification preparations, hence the reason why the dead predecessor of the newly reborn Phoenix is wrapped-up in an “egg of myrrh.ᾠ

The spice, cinnamon, is also associated with immortality. The frankincense and myrrh being produced by the tree, and resting in the nest of the Phoenix at the top of the tree, are excellent clues to what all this is leading to and are therefore part of the code. Like the Biblical Dove, which in later Christian iconography was associated with Jesus, the ancient Phoenix too was associated with a ‘Christed one’ or ‘Anointed one,’ and long before the time of Jesus.

The term, ‘Christ’ is originally rooted in both the Egyptian word ‘Karast,’ meaning, ‘Anoint’ – i.e., caress with oil – and the Chaldean word ‘Chris’ meaning, ‘Sun’.

‘Christ’ also stems directly from the Greek ‘christos’ – equivalent to the Hebrew word messias, as in the term ‘Messiah’ – both terms meaning, “Anointed oneᾠ – i.e., a person who is ‘anointed’ by God.

However, it must be emphasised most strongly, that his epithet of ‘Christ’ is merely a title that applies to any gifted Avatar or person of profound wisdom – his or her wisdom being the result of an extraordinary experience by which one is, or becomes, “anointedᾠ.

Baptism is also associated with one’s ‘anointment’, in that both were really part of the same rebirthing ritual. There are seven sacraments by which one receives the grace of Christ – the first being Baptism. As Jesus is reported to have said: “My Church has seven Sacraments . . . Gates to the kingdom of heaven, Where divine glory awaitsᾠ.

We are again reminded here of the theme of seven – i.e., ‘seven seals’ ‘seven trumpets’ and ‘seven bowls’ of Revelations in the Bible – all associated with the seven levels of reality as represented in the seven chakras.

As many of us will know, 3 is also an important number, and in some ways is more important than 7. We also find that during one’s baptism, the individual is dipped in water three times and that there are three oils associated with anointment.

We have now discovered that like the ‘stone’ these ‘anointing oils’ are really metaphors associated with the ‘enlightenment experience’ and its processes, through which the ‘division’ in mind and consciousness is healed, and internally – even if for a split second in our time.

It is through the “burning,ᾠ bright light of this internal illuminating experience that one is resurrected or ‘reborn’ like the Phoenix from the flames and knows that he or she is ‘immortal’. In other words, one realises that we live, die and are born again.

By all accounts, this rebirth (enlightenment experience) is also associated with the shamanic ‘trance state,’ as the trance state can actually initiate it or “triggerᾠ it.

Now if the ‘tree’ of the Phoenix is the spinal column, then aside from the outstretched branches, which is a metaphor for the brain, its ‘nest’ is also a metaphor for the human head or skull. This also means that the contents of the nest – i.e., the ‘egg’ which contains the “bodyᾠ of the dead predecessor – as well as the “oilsᾠ – are symbolic of certain organs, inside the brain.

This will become more apparent as we go on – suffice to say that all the evidence points to there being three important organs – ‘three jewels’, ‘golden apples’, ‘berries’, ‘thrones’ – as based on the esoteric Triad.

As many of us will know, ‘Three Kings’ or ‘Three Wise Men’ or Magi gave three gift items to the baby Jesus – frankincense, myrrh and gold.

These three Magi are also said to be connected with the ‘three belt stars’ of Orion, which – according to Bauval’s ‘Orion Correlation theory’ – the three great pyramids of Giza are reflecting on the ground and to which the Great Pyramid itself is aligned.

Earlier I mentioned that it was originally believed that there were three components to the ‘third eye’ – three organs in the brain, making up a Triad. These are the pineal, the pituitary and the central thalamus.

Those who were initiated into these mysteries believed that the functions of two of these organs (pineal and pituitary) – each associated with one of the opposites – were somehow synchronised or fused (mixed together) so as to activate the central “eyeᾠ (thalamus) and possibly trigger the enlightenment experience. If so, then Jesus – a ‘Christed One’ – like the avatars before him – personified this experience, which is why he was presented with three gifts that actually symbolised these three organs and this internal process. The gesture of presenting these three gifts to Jesus is allegorical in that he was being identified as the ‘Christ’ – a ‘Shining One’ who possessed the innate spiritual knowledge and experience associated with these internal processes which brings one closer to the ‘source of intelligence’ to which we are all linked.

The teachings attributed to Jesus were all about this process, and his crucifixion is really symbolic of the enlightenment experience, and so it was intended that the story of his life, as borrowed from the more ancient myths surrounding the archetypal shaman, such as Osiris/Horus for example, remain as an example to the rest of us. However, seeing how much these teachings were twisted and exploited, it could be said that pearls were merely being “thrown to swineᾠ.

For instance, the following sayings of Jesus taken from the Gospel of Thomas allude to the ‘union’ or ‘fusion’ of opposites’ as being the ‘key’ to greater inner spiritual strength and unlimited energy to do the “impossibleᾠ – and this deeper meaning has been lost on a lot of people.

Verse 61: “ . . . I say if one is whole, one will be filled with light, but if one is divided, one will be filled with darknessᾠ.

Verse 48: Jesus said, “If two make peace with each other in a single house, they will say to the mountain, ‘Move from here!’ and it will moveᾠ. [1]

“Moving the mountainᾠ is a metaphor – meaning that via this superimposition or fusion of one’s divided energies, one has the extra energy to achieve anything one desires. What seems to be implied here is the ability of psychokinesis – mind over matter.

Now returning to the Phoenix:

As said, the Phoenix is equatable with the Bennu bird of the ancient Egyptians, and the Dove of the Bible and Christianity, but it is also the Firebird of Russian folklore, the Yel bird of the Native Americans, the Ho-Oo bird of the Japanese and the Feng-huang of the Chinese – a bird that again, symbolises the union of yin (female) and yang (male) opposites. Are we surprised?

Its evident that the symbolic device of the ‘Phoenix’ as used by the Shining Ones to communicate and preserve in man’s memory, several themes at once – concerning not only their knowledge and wisdom, but also the nature of the catastrophe that ended the ‘Golden Age’ – seem to have come ashore at different places around the world – hence the reason why the myth of the Phoenix is worldwide. Going by the more popular accounts, at the end of its life cycle and at the point of death, the mythical Phoenix – whose gold or orange-yellow wings give it a flame-like appearance – is said to ‘self-combust’ – turning its nest into a funeral pyre.

After being consumed by fire, the Phoenix is then reborn from its own ashes in the form of a worm which grows from the bones and marrow of the dead bird and “sliversᾠ away, only to then mature into a self-reincarnated, adult Phoenix.

Again, the ‘worm’ is a further symbolic clue also associated with the snake or serpent as this worm was later called the ‘Lindworm’ and ‘Lind’ or ‘Lin’ means, ‘snake’ or ‘serpent’. This detail, which was added later, is an obvious clue – further evidence that relevant information has been added to the myth at certain points in history, as if to nudge certain people in the right direction. The people are those initiates who would understand it, so as to solve the mystery for themselves – being the only way a person would believe it.

What processes are these items – as associated with the spinal column and the skull – describing?

Well the clue to this is in 1,) the ‘fire’ through which one dies and is reborn, and 2,) the included detail of the Lindworm – which is really the snake or serpent.

The processes being described can only be the Kundalini – the ‘inner serpent fire’ – an experience triggered by the shamanic trance-state.

If the ‘nest’ is the head or skull, then we can see that the funeral pyre in the nest – i.e., the ‘nest being alighted’ by the sun – is the ‘Inner Sun’.

This is an unmistakeable reference to the climactic phase of the enlightenment experience – the “fireᾠ – through which one becomes reborn. This can only be the bright-white-light explosion, which takes place at the centre of the head at the point of enlightenment, brought about by the fusion of one’s opposite energies at this location.

The human head or skull then, is the Mixing Bowl – the Grail.

This Gardiner and I had determined in The Serpent Grail. However, there is more to the Grail than the head – its what is inside the head and the nature of the processes that are taking place in the brain – i.e., the Hindu ‘power centres’, in which the two opposites are mixed to produce the spiritual elixir of immortality.

I will quote writer William Henry:

‘Grail researcher Andrew Sinclair says the original French word for Grail was escuele. Phonetically, escuele, like eschol, is ‘a skill’ (a skull or skool). This makes sense. Christ was called ‘wisdom’. His skill involved a transformation of homo sapien into a pure one, a Cathar. In conclusion, the blue apples of Eschol (the Languedoc?) represent powerful physiological knowledge: the means to transform human blood into the blood of light . . . preparatory to entering the gate of God’. [2]

We are reminded of the line from The Taittireeya Upanishad.

‘Where the skull divides there lies the Gate of God’.

I would remind the reader that the Roman historian Tacitus said that the Phoenix “infused the nest with the germ of lifeᾠ – meaning that it placed something within the nest. This would also be the “eggᾠ containing its dead predecessor, and this reveals how clever this code is. The dead predecessor in the “eggᾠ is a metaphor for the memories of the former self and selves which are being carried over into the next life.

In other words, the “eggᾠ represents the reincarnating soul.

And again, if the nest is the skull, then its possible that out of these three organs, the major centre in the brain is also the alchemical “eggᾠ – believed to represent the soul of the individual.

The correspondences here are wrapped-up in occult Green language – appropriately called the Language of the Birds. We can see that to get at the true meaning, a bird’s egg has been crossed with the human female ovum also an egg, which contains the genetic nucleus. This nucleus is the ‘stone’ – a metaphor for the seed-stone found at the centre of the“fruitᾠ.

What all this amounts to is that the “eggᾠ in the nest (skull) at the top of the tree (spine) is the Thalamus, which is located at the centre of the brain, and which has often been described as an “eggᾠ by contemporary physicians. Esoterically, the physical thalamus represents the ‘Cosmic Egg’ of rebirth and regeneration, and I have uncovered a mountain of evidence for this, which unfortunately is outside the scope of this essay.

The spherical “fruitᾠ in the above analogy would be the skull. The reason why this thalamic centre in the brain is identified with the ‘Cosmic Egg’, is because being at the centre of the head, it was seen to be synonymous with the core-centre of the earth, the ecliptic centre in the heavens to which the polar axis was once possibly aligned – also the centre of the universe and the centre of creation itself.

Furthermore, the spherical head, like the earth – as symbolised by the spherical fruit – is associated with the feminine principle, as in the earth being the body of the ‘world mother’ – especially its interior which was believed to be the domain of the Underworld, which in terms of the human psyche, we have linked to the ‘collective subconscious’. Again these are shamanic beliefs, which means that the people who devised this code, and have been adding to it throughout history, were familiar with these shamanic cosmologies and principles.

If the spherical head is associated with the female, then the straight body or spine (linear) is associated with the male, and here again we have the two binary symbols I and O – as seen fused together in the Ankh symbol – the crux ansata.

And if the tree or ‘world pillar’ on which the Phoenix perches itself, is the spinal column, and the apex pyramidion of the pillar is the head or skull, then the “eggᾠ is the thalamus – the part of the body that was believed to represent the soul and the part that was passed over from incarnation to incarnation.

We can see that the Phoenix bringing the ‘egg’ containing the ashes of its former self to place on the altar of the Temple of the Sun – the altar being an obelisk or pillar – has the Shining One’s belief in Reincarnation at its core.

As we know the Phoenix places it on top of the pillar.

The Bennu bird of ancient Egypt, which is based on the Phoenix, is associated with the Benben capstone of the pyramid, and the pyramidion capstone is the same as the capstone of the pillar, and so the same can be applied to the pyramid.

This would also mean that the Pyramid, which is based on the world-mountain and the human spine, and illustrates the rising and converging energies which end at the apex, is a large-scale Benben stone and therefore it is also a large representation of the skull or head of the Shining One where rebirth takes place.

If the capstone represents the egg of the Phoenix or Bennu then it also represents the thalamus in the brain, which is associated with centre of the seventh chakra point – again, the bindu point above the head – the Inner Sun.

It is said that the opening of the ‘third eye’ (inner vision) as associated with hypnagogic trance state, is really related to the thalamus, and that this awakening in the thalamus is activated by some kind of synchronisation taking place between the pineal and pituitary glands in the brain which secrete chemicals – the “oilsᾠ of the tree.

The awakening of the third eye can lead to the enlightenment experience associated again, with the seventh chakra, the bindu point above the head as symbolised by the capstone of the pyramid. The shape of the pyramid is like the peaked wizards hat, which gives emphasis to that point above the head. And the conical hat symbolises the vortex, which reduces into a point – the “eye of the stormᾠ. It’s interesting that the Egyptian word ‘Bennu’ sounds like the Hindu word, ‘Bindu’, and that the Benben stone – as was the Bennu bird – signified the sun.

We would note though that the capstone, the Benben of the Great Pyramid, is missing from the structure, as if emphasising the ‘point’, that in general man is unconscious of this spiritual source and these ‘life-death-rebirth’ processes, and that his acknowledgement of this will again initiate a collective rebirth. I would conclude that only then would be the right time to place the capstone on top of the Great Pyramid.

The Phoenix myth and everything associated with it, is a code that when broken down, conveys the processes associated with reincarnation.

This process of rebirth – Kundalini – that can happen to an individual during his or her lifetime, is being used to convey the message that this same process plays its part at the point of death and in the reincarnation of the self after physical death.

The symbolic Phoenix device is also being used to convey the ‘rebirth’ of the Shining Ones after the ‘death’ of their people (former self) and the destruction and their homeland, and therefore the rebirth of the human race as a whole.

For those who are sceptical and would perhaps criticise my interpretation of the Phoenix myth, I would like to stress the point that I have merely followed a logical path to this conclusion with the clues we have been given.

References:

1. Patterson, Stephen and Meyer, Marvin, The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version, Polebridge Press, 1992

2. Henry, William, Secrets of the Cathars, Why the Dark Age Church Was Out to Destroy Them, Atlantis Rising magazine, Dec, 2002


Gary Osborn.

 

[mopiet]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

Laura,

Did you know that you were quoted in the Reich article too?

And Laura Knight remembers us of the fact that Fulcanelli called the
labyrinth of the cathedral of Chartres Solomon's Labyrinth.

"Following this, Fulcanelli discusses the enigmatic labyrinths that are
found in some churches such as those in Sens, Reims, Auxerre, Saint-Quentin,
Poitiers, Bayeux, Chartres, and, above all, Amiens, to which he devotes an
entire chapter(...) Reminding us of the labyrinth's presence in ancient
times, mentioning, among others, the one in Cnossos, (Crete) . He calls the
labyrinth of the cathedrals "Solomon's Labyrinth"(...)"[Knight]

 

[Laura]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

Laura,

Did you know that you were quoted in the Reich article too?

And Laura Knight remembers us of the fact that Fulcanelli called the
labyrinth of the cathedral of Chartres Solomon's Labyrinth.

"Following this, Fulcanelli discusses the enigmatic labyrinths that are
found in some churches such as those in Sens, Reims, Auxerre, Saint-Quentin,
Poitiers, Bayeux, Chartres, and, above all, Amiens, to which he devotes an
entire chapter(...) Reminding us of the labyrinth's presence in ancient
times, mentioning, among others, the one in Cnossos, (Crete) . He calls the
labyrinth of the cathedrals "Solomon's Labyrinth"(...)"[Knight]

Indeed, a quote from a book review. Too bad he didn't read Secret History, he would have known a bit more about this.

Hundreds of mazes and labyrinths are found scattered across Europe, parts of Africa, Asia and the Americas. They are composed of turf, hedges, stone, brick, or tile work on floors. There are paintings and carvings of mazes on rocks that are incredibly ancient. One of the oldest representations that I have found is a 20,000-year-old bracelet carved from a single piece of mammoth ivory, found at Mezin, Ukraine. This piece has a magnificent “Greek Meander" or “maze" design which predates any other maze we are going to discuss here, but most definitely offers a clue since this area of the world is that hot-spot of Grail legends identified by Littleton and Malcor.

What most people know about the maze, or labyrinth, is due to the myth of Theseus and Ariadne. Briefly, the tale tells of King Minos of Crete, who demanded tribute from Athens, after defeating them in a war. The tribute was an annual shipment of seven youths and seven maidens who were sacrificed to the Minotaur by sending them into the maze, the specially constructed home of the beast, built by the great architect, Daedalus. The labyrinth was so cleverly constructed that even Daedalus had difficulty navigating in it. The Athenian young people would wander around in the maze, lost, until the Minotaur, half bull (top half) and half man (bottom half) caught up with them and devoured them. This, of course, reminds us of Herodotus’ story of the Hyperborean girls sent to Delos bearing gifts, who died while there under what seem to be mysterious circumstances.

As a side note, we would like to draw attention to the fact that Daedalus, the “great architect" , was connected to a king named Minos. Another king named Menes was the great unifier of Egypt, builder of the great city of Memphis, and a famous temple of Hephaestus there. This is dated to around 3100 BC, and we wonder if the image of the half bull, half man might not be a clue to a date such as the point at which the constellation Taurus was “cut in half" to make room for Aries, the ram, who represents Agni, god of fire. Hephaestus is, after all, the Greek version of the Smith God. Discovering a great architect connected, even indirectly, to a great unifier of two kingdoms and builder of a great Temple on the one side, and connected to another king with a similar name, and builder of a great labyrinth which is connected to a “power in the center" , - the Minotaur, keeping in mind the legends of the building of Stonehenge, the “cloisters of Ambrius" where the god danced all night in the center around 3100 BC, makes us wonder if this is not all a clue to the manifestation of a certain power that has to do with sound and gravity and stones and so forth. We are naturally drawn to make connections between these matters and the myth of Solomon and Hiram Abiff and the Ark of the Covenant. When we think of the Temple of Solomon (about which we will learn a great deal further on), which was built to house the Ark, and we then think of the labyrinth which was built to house a monster, we naturally wonder just what is going on here? We also note that the victims of King Minos of Crete were “Athenians" , and we remember what Plato said about the war between Atlantis and “Athens" , even if we don’t put any stock in it actually being the Athens we know today.

According to the myth, the labyrinth was built for one reason only: to hide the Minotaur, which was a source of horror and shame to Minos, whose wife had given birth to the monster after mating with a bull. This really doesn’t follow logic since the victims were rounded up in public, and everyone apparently knew about the Minotaur.
In South Africa, a popular Zulu game is played where a maze is drawn on the ground, and the players take turns “finding the way to the king’s hut" which is at the center. The game is played with toys carved in the shape of bulls. It seems that, thousands of miles from Crete, the same elements of the legend are played out from time immemorial: kingship, bulls, and conflict at the center of a labyrinth.

Excavations at Knossos have indeed uncovered evidence of a bull cult practiced in a maze like “palace" of hundreds of chambers and corridors. There were innumerable images of bulls in bas-reliefs, small sculptures, bull-shaped vessels, seals and imprints of seals, as well as stylized bulls’ horns. All of these things linking the dynasty of Minos with bulls suggested that the vitality of the Minoan kings, like that of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, was identified with the bull-god. What is more, ancient Greek writers came right out and said that the labyrinth of Minos was modeled on an original in northern Egypt. Very little survives of this Egyptian marvel except for a few brick courses. What Herodotus had to say about it is rather fascinating:

Being set free after the reign of the priest of Hephaistos, the Egyptians, since they could not live any time without a king, set up over them twelve kings, having divided all Egypt into twelve parts. These made intermarriages with one another and reigned, making agreement that they would not put down one another by force, nor seek to get an advantage over one another, but would live in perfect friendship: and the reason why they made these agreements, guarding them very strongly from violation, was this, namely that an oracle had been given to them at first when they began to exercise their rule, that he of them who should pour a libation with a bronze cup in the temple of Hephaistos, should be king of all Egypt (for they used to assemble together in all the temples).

Moreover they resolved to join all together and leave a memorial of themselves; and having so resolved they caused to be made a labyrinth situated a little above the lake of Moeris and nearly opposite to that which is called the City of Crocodiles. This I saw myself, and I found it greater than words can say. For if one should put together and reckon up all the buildings and all the great works produced by the Hellenes, they would prove to be inferior in labour and expense to this labyrinth, though it is true that both the temple at Ephesos and that at Samos are works worthy of note.

The pyramids also were greater than words can say, and each one of them is equal to many works of the Hellenes, great as they may be; but the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids. It has twelve courts covered in, with gates facing one another, six upon the North side and six upon the South, joining on one to another, and the same wall surrounds them all outside; and there are in it two kinds of chambers, the one kind below the ground and the other above upon these, three thousand in number, of each kind fifteen hundred. The upper set of chambers we ourselves saw, going through them, and we tell of them having looked upon them with our own eyes; but the chambers under ground we heard about only; for the Egyptians who had charge of them were not willing on any account to show them, saying that here were the sepulchres of the kings who had first built this labyrinth and of the sacred crocodiles.

Accordingly we speak of the chambers below by what we received from hearsay, while those above we saw ourselves and found them to be works of more than human greatness. For the passages through the chambers, and the goings this way and that way through the courts, which were admirably adorned, afforded endless matter for marvel, as we went through from a court to the chambers beyond it, and from the chambers to colonnades, and from the colonnades to other rooms, and then from the chambers again to other courts. Over the whole of these is a roof made of stone like the walls; and the walls are covered with figures carved upon them, each court being surrounded with pillars of white stone fitted together most perfectly; and at the end of the labyrinth, by the corner of it, there is a pyramid of forty fathoms, upon which large figures are carved, and to this there is a way made under ground.

What was Herodotus describing? He declared all the great architectural works of the Greeks and Egyptians, including the pyramids, to be “inferior in labour and expense to this labyrinth" . We would also like to note that there were no references to bulls hidden in the Egyptian labyrinth; rather, in the hidden underground chambers were the “sepulchres of the kings who had first built this labyrinth and of the sacred crocodiles" . Diodorus has a slightly different story about who built this famous labyrinth:

When the king died the government was recovered by Egyptians and they appointed a native king Mendes, whom some call Mares. Although he was responsible for no military achievements whatsoever, he did build himself what is called the Labyrinth as a tomb, an edifice which is wonderful not so much for its size as for the inimitable skill with which it was built; for once in, it is impossible to find one’s way out again without difficulty, unless one lights upon a guide who is perfectly acquainted with it. It is even said by some that Daedalus crossed over to Egypt and, in wonder at the skill shown in the building, built for Minos, King of Crete, a labyrinth like that in Egypt, in which, so the tales goes, the creature called the Minotaur was kept. Be that as it may, the Cretan Labyrinth has completely disappeared, either through the destruction wrought by some ruler or through the ravages of time; but the Egyptian Labyrinth remains absolutely perfect in its entire construction down to my time. […]

For they chose a site beside the channel leading into Lake Moeris in Libya and there constructed their tomb of the finest stone, laying down an oblong as the shape and a stade as the size of each side, while in respect of carving and other works of craftsmanship they left no room for their successors to surpass them. For, when one had entered the sacred enclosure, one found a temple surrounded by columns, 40 to each side, and this building had a roof made of a single stone, carved with panels and richly adorned with excellent paintings. It contained memorials of the homeland of each of the kings as well as of the temples and sacrifices carried out in it, all skillfully worked in paintings of the greatest beauty. Generally it is said that the king conceived their tomb on such an expensive and prodigious scale that if they had not been deposed before its completion, they would not have been able to give their successors any opportunity to surpass them in architectural feats.
Next there is the report of Strabo:

In addition to these things there is the edifice of the Labyrinth which is a building quite equal to the Pyramids and nearby the tomb of the king who built the Labyrinth. There is at the point where one first enters the channel, about 30 or 40 stades along the way, a flat trapezium-shaped site which contains both a village and a great palace made up of many palaces equal in number to that of the nomes in former times; for such is the number of peristyle courts which lie contiguous with one another, all in one row and backing on one wall, as though one had a long wall with the courts lying before it, and the passages into the courts lie opposite the wall. Before the entrances there lie what might be called hidden chambers which are long and many in number and have paths running through one another which twist and turn, so that no one can enter or leave any court without a guide. And the wonder of it is the roofs of each chambers are made of single stones and the width of the hidden chambers is spanned in the same way by monolithic beams of outstanding size; for nowhere is wood or any other material included. And if one mounts onto the roof, at no great height because the building has only one story, it is possible to get a view of a plain of masonry made of such stones, and, if one drops back down from there into the courts, it is possible to see them lying there in row each supported by 27 monolithic pillars; the walls too are made up in stones of no less a size.

At the end of this building, which occupies an area of more than a stade, stands the tomb, a pyramid on a oblong base, each side about 4 “plethora" in length and the height about the same; the name of the man buried there was Imandes. The reason for making the courts so many is said to be the fact that it was customary for all nomes to gather there according to rank with their own priests and priestesses, for the purpose of sacrifice, divine-offering, and judgment on the most important matters. And each of the nomes was lodged in the court appointed to it.

And above this city stands Abydos, in which there is the Memnonium, a palace wonderfully constructed of massive stonework in the same way as we have said the Labyrinth was built, though the Memnonium differs in being simple in structure.

Pliny tells us still another version of the stories about this amazing structure:

Let us speak also of labyrinths, quite the most extraordinary works on which men have spent their money, but not, as may be thought, figments of the imagination. There still exists even now in Egypt in the Heracleopolite Nome the one which was built first, according to tradition 3,600 years ago by king Petesuchis or Tithois, though Herodotus ascribes the whole work to Twelve Kings and Psammetichus, the latest of them.

Various reasons are given for building it. Demoteles claims that it was the palace of Moteris, Lyceas the tomb of Moeris, but the majority of writers take the view that it was built as a temple to the Sun, and this is generally accepted. At any rate, that Daedalus used this as the model for the Labyrinth which he built in Crete is beyond doubt, but it is equally clear that he imitated only 100th part of it which contains twisting paths and passages which advance and retreat-all impossible to negotiate. The reason for this is not that within a small compass it involves one in mile upon mile of walking, as we see in tessellated floors or the displays given by boys on the Campus, but that frequently doors are buried in it to beguile the visitor into going forward and then force him to return into the same winding paths. This was the second to be built after the Egyptian Labyrinth, the third being in Lemnos and the fourth in Italy, all roofed with vaults of polished stone, though the Egyptian specimen, to my considerable astonishment, has its entrance and columns made of Parian marble, while the rest is of Aswan granite, such masses being put together as time itself cannot dissolve even with the help of the Heracleopolitans; for they have regarded the building with extraordinary hatred.

It would be impossible to describe in detail the layout of that building and its individual parts, since it is divided into regions and administrative districts which are called nomes, each of the 21 nomes giving its names to one of the houses. A further reason is the fact that it also contains temples of all the gods of Egypt while, in addition, Nemesis placed in the building’s 40 chapels many pyramids of 40 ells each covering an area of 6 arourae with their base. Men are already weary with traveling when they reach that bewildering maze of paths; indeed, there are also lofty upper rooms reached by ramps and porticoes from which one descends on stairways which have 90 steps each; inside are columns of imperial porphyry, images of the gods, statues of kings and representations of monsters. Certain of the halls are arranged in such way that as one throws open the door there arises within a fearful noise of thunder; moreover one passes through most of them in darkness. There are again other massive buildings outside the wall of the Labyrinth; they call them “the Wing" . Then there are other subterranean chambers made by excavating galleries in the soil. One person only has done any repairs there-and they were few in number. He was Chaermon, the eunuch of king Necthebis, 500 years before Alexander the Great. A tradition is also current that he supported the roofs with beams of acacia wood boiled in oil, until squared stones could be raised up into the vaults.

We seem to have a bit of a problem here. Notice that Pliny assures us that Herodotus was wrong not only about who built the labyrinth, but also about when it was built. Pliny dates it to almost four thousand years before his own time. He also makes the most interesting remark that the building was regarded with extraordinary hatred. That would certainly be true of a structure that was utilized for dreadful sacrifices. Pliny mentions the mythical labyrinth of Crete, though it is a certainty that the temple at Knossos that was identified as the labyrinth by Arthur Evans was no longer available for view in the time of Pliny. It seems that Pliny, along with everyone else just took it for granted that the legends of the labyrinth on Crete were the truth.

So it is that we have found that the earliest known written account of the existence of labyrinths appears in the writings of the Greek historian Herodotus in approximately 450 BC. He describes a great labyrinth located in Egypt at the ancient site of Arsinoe on the eastern bank of a large body of water, Lake Moeris. The labyrinth was constructed in the style of a great compartmental palace with 3000 different chambers, 1500 of which were above ground and 1500 were below ground. The foundation was approximately 1000 feet long x 800 feet long. He claimed that it was built by Ammenemes III in the twelfth dynasty of the Old Kingdom in approximately 2300 BC. He further said that its primary purpose was for burial, and many kings were buried there. Pliny verified Herodotus’ account in his writings on the four famous labyrinths of antiquity in approximately 50 AD. The remains of the city of Arsinoe have been excavated, but a great labyrinth to the extent of Herodotus’ description has never been found.

Flinders Petrie did extensive excavation of the city of Arsinoe in 1888, but he never discovered the fantastic site that Herodotus described. Petrie found only a great bed of fragments which he believed was the labyrinth. The body of Ammenemes III was supposedly unearthed corroborating Herodotus. A sufficient quantity of the original foundation was unearthed which handily allowed it to be measured at 1000 feet X 800 feet which is exactly the dimension quoted by Herodotus! That it was definitely a labyrinth could not be determined.

More recently, Egyptologists have decided that the so-called “pyramid of Hawara" is the famous Egyptian labyrinth, but that makes no sense at all. Herodotus, Diodorus, Strabo and Pliny all describe so marvelous a structure that we are hard put to not think that there is truth behind what they were describing. The various propositions for what must be the “remains" of the structure simply do not fit the descriptions. And, while we can have some doubts about the accuracy of the history ascribed to the monument by the various ancient authors, depending on who gave them their information, it’s difficult to doubt that they either saw it themselves, or had direct information.

Modern experts suggest that “Lake Moeris" is really Lake Qarun, the third largest lake in Egypt, which is located in Faiyyum. If so, we wonder why there are no remains of this labyrinth which Pliny tells us was constructed of, “Parian marble, while the rest is of Aswan granite, such masses being put together as time itself cannot dissolve even with the help of the Heracleopolitans; for they have regarded the building with extraordinary hatred" .

Of course, this last may provide a clue: if the building was so hated, it is altogether possible that it was deliberately destroyed, cut to pieces, and carried away block by block.

The bottom line seems to be that the legend of the labyrinth containing a horrible creature is based on the Egyptian labyrinth. The fact that the Cretans became “experts" in some sort of funerary cult, only created a fertile ground for transferring this legend to Crete.

To be continued...

 

[Laura]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

Continued from Secret History:

The majority of experts who write about the labyrinth, tell us that the plan and meaning of the maze clearly originated in Egypt, where it was the scene of the religious dramas involving killing the god-king in the form of a bull. They further tell us that the sacrifice was only token, and that a divine bull was substituted for the king in the culmination of several days of ritual dance, drama and combat performed in a labyrinth. A similar cult is said to be at the root of the Cretan labyrinth myth. The “bull of Minosᾠ would be the representative of the kingship and power of Minos; and Theseus, by killing the bull and taking the king’s daughter, was claiming the throne symbolically.

Indeed, such a solution would explain why bull, king and labyrinth occur together in both Crete and Egypt, but what it does not explain is the labyrinth itself and why the same design is found all over the world. Most scholars of ancient history and archaeology are powerfully influenced by the theories of Egyptology which posit that all civilizations diffused from ancient Egypt, or from Mesopotamia, at least. However, the sheer volume of physical evidence suggests that this is not the case.

The Egyptian labyrinths were always composed of straight lines, and the abstract mazes on seals were usually made up of square fret patterns. While Cretan coins from classical times often show labyrinths, some of which are of the Egyptian fretwork kind, most of them show a maze of a very different construction - the square or rounded spiral design - the Greek meander - of European tradition, which is never found in Egypt.

The spiraling maze consists of a series of interlocking concentric bands, usually seven in number, with a straight line of exit running from the center to the base. This is the form of nearly all the ancient mazes of Europe, including those known to have been focal points of nature religions and folk activity such as festivals, dancing, dramas and games. These designs are known as Troy towns. Spiral mazes with names that are obviously derived from the word “Troyᾠ are found in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, England, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Russia.

In short, there is absolutely nothing Egyptian about the Troy mazes, and there is every reason to believe that they are indigenous to the megalithic cultures, which were independent developments from the civilizations of the Near East.

But in the stories of the Hyperborean girls, the myths of Theseus, as well as several other myths we are going to examine, we find two independent aspects of the maze puzzle meeting and interacting, and what they have in common is, in our opinion, ancient technology - a device that may have been at the center of the dance of the god at Stonehenge, utilized to manipulate gravity, space and time. [...]

In the stories of the Egyptian labyrinth, the object at the center was a terrible, devouring power. In the story of the Hyperboreans, the dance of the god was a celebration of life, of bounty, of victory over the serpent. The “spear-armed Marutsᾠ danced and brought forth baskets of bountiful blessings, materializing from the waves of the great Star Goddess, the Enthroned Queen.

Something happened. Something terrible, and whether or not we discover that any sort of “objectᾠ was at the center of the labyrinth, we believe that our investigations will lead us to the knowledge of the Ark. [...]

Going back to Fulcanelli, we find that his discussion of the origins of the Gothic cathedrals is most interesting. He tells us that the term “gothicᾠ, which imposed its rules on all the productions of the Middle Ages, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, was not an inheritance of ancient Germanic peoples as many “expertsᾠ suppose, but was rather a production of the descendants of the Argotiers, or Argonauts. He then speaks of the journey to Colchos, the land of the Golden Fleece, and that art got is really art cot, or the art of light of the spirit. Fulcanelli then makes a most amazing remark:

The fact is that there is neither chance nor coincidence nor accidental correspondence here below. All is foreseen, preordained, regulated; and it is not for us to bend to our pleasure the inscrutable will of Destiny.
Again and again we find Fulcanelli suggesting the existence of a hyperdimensional reality in which our own world is “embeddedᾠ, and from which our reality takes its form as a shadow cast upon the cave wall described by Plato. As we continue to think in these terms, it becomes more and more apparent that this Great Work of the alchemists was essentially the process of becoming “free of the Matrixᾠ, described in alchemical and allegorical terms.

Fulcanelli then takes us through several remarks about the symbolism of the art cot, until he brings us to the ornamentation of the floors of cathedrals. Here, he connects us to Fomenko’s ideas by remarking that the art of ceramics had reached perfection, and the use of multi-colored marble, in the manner of the Byzantine mosaics, was also utilized. The Labyrinth at Chartres designated by Fulcanelli as La Lieue (the league) and Le Lieu (the place) is described, and finally he tells us that there used to be a scene of the combat of Theseus and the Minotaur at the center. He then remarks that the point is to make a connection between the mytho-hermetic meanings rather than to establish any connection to the famous constructions of antiquity, the labyrinths of Greece and Rome. [...]

Right here we notice a strange thing: the famous labyrinths of antiquity were not those of Greece and Rome, they were those of Egypt and Crete! But we already know that there was a significant difference between the Egyptian/Cretan Labyrinths and the labyrinths of the Northern peoples. So, immediately, we realize that Fulcanelli has dropped a “double clueᾠ in our lap.

Fulcanelli then, immediately, jumps to the subject of the Labyrinth of Solomon! The only problem is: there was no famous labyrinth of Solomon; at least not unless Fulcanelli is telling us in this way that the famed “Temple of Solomonᾠ was really a maze, and the object placed in the “temple of Solomonᾠ was the same as the object at the center of the maze. He then tells us that this labyrinth/temple of Solomon is:

...a series of concentric circles, interrupted at certain points, so as to form a bizarre and inextricable path. The picture of the labyrinth is thus offered to us as emblematic of the whole labour of the Work, with its two major difficulties, one the path which must be taken in order to reach the center - where the bitter combat of the two natures takes place - the other the way which the artist must follow in order to emerge. It is there that the thread of Ariadne becomes necessary for him, if he is not to wander among the winding paths of the task, unable to extricate himself.

My intention is not to write, as Batsdorff did, a special treatise on what this thread of Ariadne is, which enabled Perseus to fulfill his purpose. But in laying stress on the cabala, I hope to furnish shrewd investigators with some precise information on the symbolical value of the famous myth.

We are first of all struck by the terms “bitter combat of the two naturesᾠ, in terms of Zarathustra’s claim that the battle between the forces of good and evil take place within the human being. We are also puzzled: what does Ariadne have to do with Perseus ? What do the Argonauts have to do with Aeneas? What is the relation between the Fields of Laurentum and Colchos? What is the connection between the Golden Fleece and the Holy Grail? What about the Temple of Solomon and the Labyrinth and the Ark of the Covenant and the Minotaur? And what is the “symbolical valueᾠ of the famous myth?

Now, allow me to give you the key to this whole mystery: the Egypt of Alchemy was not the Egypt we now know as Egypt. It was located in France. The evil labyrinth was located at Carnac, and the "Temple of Solomon" was Stonehenge.

See my discussion of "Where Troy Once Stood."
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/Laura-Knight-Jadczyk/article-lkj-04-03-06-h.htm

 

[Keit]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

So we moved again? From Religion, to Baked Noodles and now to Channel Watch?
Sick and tired of me bringing in the Noodle-header? Changing the rules because you couldn't win the game?

:)

"Win the game"? Oh, this is classic. This "winning the game" blind spot will get you (and those like you) every time. ;)

Let me just top that with a part of the de la Censerie-article. It is not exactly confirming Gurdjieff, but it is confirming the alchemical teory of the Paris. Quite dramatically even...

P.S.

Aren't we a team, Laura?

So you ARE feeling better in this category. You've become more friendly and forthcoming - already providing quotes that "not exactly confirming Gurdjieff", eh?
Probably this is also a reason that you feel as a part of the team so soon? ;)

 

[Ryan]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

Wow, this "mopiet" (is that pronounced, "muppet"?) is a live one! With the amount of paramoralisms, conversive thinking, and inflammatory comments (yet switching back to "cool and reasonable" in the very next post), I'm wondering if we have a genuine essential psychopath here?

 

[mudrabbit]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

Yeah, and he never once really addressed the questions put to him.



also note;
How the tone of his voice has changed to imply he is superior in knowledge to Laura, or anyone for that matter. How condecendingly he brushes off who he percieves as "the little guy" to gain the percieved upper hand.

Clearly he has no idea what this forum is about, but will provide an excellent learning experience :)

 

[name]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

The problem is that Thompson's info is not relevant to the article. Whether the Old Testament is history, or not, is not important. Hume simply demonstrated that alchemy travelled with the text.

Supposing that I am understanding you right: Why would it not be important if the Old testament is history ? If we take "history" as used above to mean "historically true", or, more to the point, "containing truth" or "true": why would that NOT be important ? Given the current state of the world and that the Old Testament is one of the sources of all the trouble, why not ? Also, if truth is not important to you, what is ? Your say-so ? By now, I think that it has become quite well-known what kind of people assign more importance to their say-so than to truth. And, that is what I've seen while reading thru this thread.

In case you haven't noticed, the world is burning.

Not yet, Laura, not yet.

So you have the matches and want to use them too ?

As for those forbidden or hidden or secret letters, well, what could be said about those . . .

 

[vinny]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

Now, if you don't like to be in the company of whackos, if you don't like people who try to 'dominate' others 'with their delusions', then kindly leave. I didn't ask you to be in this thread. As they say in your country:

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

mopiet seems to be well informed enough about the relevant stalker background details about Laura including her country of origin, whilst SOMEHOW being simultaneously blissfully unaware of even the most basic facts, ie: that this IS her kitchen!

yeah, fun and games is what he/she is here for - some real-good flip-flop's of emotional-direction/emphasis/attack-vector going on here. but we're wise to that tired old game, we've all seen it played out too many times and already know all the moves in advance. someone just came into the wrong bar for a fight.

 

[domi]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

In case you haven't noticed, the world is burning.

Not yet, Laura, not yet.

Then could you elucidate us with facts backing your statement?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Zadius Sky]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

In case you haven't noticed, the world is burning.

Not yet, Laura, not yet.

Mopiet, are you planning on burning the world? As domivr mentioned, what brought you to that notion that the world is "not yet" burning? Have you open the window and look out to see what's going on in the world?

I've gotten the impression that you like to play the game. And, you didn't answer any of the questions.

(...)games is what he/she is here for - some real-good flip-flop's of emotional-direction/emphasis/attack-vector going on here. but we're wise to that tired old game, we've all seen it played out too many times and already know all the moves in advance. someone just came into the wrong bar for a fight.

It is an old game, but just new perceptions. Thanks for the training ground, mopiet!

 

[j0da]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

I've been reading a lot of posts on this Forum, and that seems to be really your thing: to call people psychologically unhealthy.

Interesting choice of words, mopiet. Did you use "to call" like in.. "name calling"? Could you provide some examples with your commentary why do you think Laura's estimation of someone's mental state was wrong? I'm not asking about your opinions only - back up your statements with some sources, psychological texts, references, etc.

And "your thing" is equally interesting in this context. Sounds like you are suggesting that using knowledge of psychology is Laura's ...fetish.

Now, I'm not going to suggest that you are psychologically unhealthy

We don't give a damn what you are going to do, we pay attention to what you actually do. The problem with above phrase is that it is well known dirty trick. Dude, it just reeks with suggestive manipulation straight from the NLP workshop.

having a different opinion than you is obviously most of the time enough to be branded a psychopath by you.

Oh yeah, this one is a variety of our favourite complaint. It's as hysteric as it's false. If you don't agree - prove me wrong - give me some examples.

 

[NormaRegula]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

Threads like this one are extremely informative...but not in the way the self-absorbed Mopiet would like with his foolish vectoring of his own 'superior' belief systems and his pathetic belittling of Laura and others on this forum. Much wisdom is learned from fools. How quickly they turn (and get oh-so-nasty) when faced with a bit of criticism, skepticism, and/or posts pointing out the truth vs. disinfo. Mopiet is very impressed with Philip Gardnier...and himself. He has come here to set us all straight...just like a good missionary!

Sheesh. You'd think these types that pop up almost weekly on this forum would learn they can't push their delusions, disinfo, and sacred cows over on the wiser members of the QFG. Self-observation is obviously not on their menu. It's a given when they scream that they're being 'insulted,' 'flamed,' or 'accused of lying' when faced with the real work of having to answer the hard questions...let alone answer to themselves.

That said, this episode of "As the World Burns" was well worth the couple of hours spent going through the posts, rereading more Gurdjieff, and learning once more about the value of objective vs subjective debating skills.

Yum. Baked noodles can be so nutritious! :)

 

[Zadius Sky]

Philip Gardiner: expert on hidden mysteries? PSY-OPS Agent

Sheesh. You'd think these types that pop up almost weekly on this forum would learn they can't push their delusions, disinfo, and sacred cows over on the wiser members of the QFG. Self-observation is obviously not on their menu. It's a given when they scream that they're being 'insulted,' 'flamed,' or 'accused of lying' when faced with the real work of having to answer the hard questions...let alone answer to themselves.

Since I joined this forum three-something months ago, I was quite surprised on how many of those types of people came in and played their obvious games. Playing the oldest tricks in the book, even though we already know of them. It seems that the Controllers are sending out their troops weekly to vector or distort our thinking, in hope of "scaring" away the notive seekers.

If they are not answering any of the questions or they attempts to avoid such questions by addressing another issue or such, that would be the sign of the "baked" individuals crawling around on our discussion table. And, I hope we are not running out of spray "ban" cans.

Yum. Baked noodles can be so nutritious! :)

Would you like fries with that?