Water

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“ Here, the Zed Aliz Zed, had the scribe darken the door of an emphasize.

"...that the current associated with sacred and megalithic sites reverses the direction of its flow in accordance with a monthly lunar cycle."

"These results are obtained in many cases by professional men, engaged by local councils and building contractors to locate under-ground faults, lost waterpipes, drains, etc., who have developed a justifiable confidence in their own accuracy. On the subject of the connection between ancient sites and underground water they are in general agreement. Some important principle of ancient science and civilization is involved here, of which virtually nothing is now known. The solution of the mystery lies in the complete understanding of all the correspondences of the number 1080 and of the others that re-late to it, for they illuminate an aspect of reality which, for the lack of an adequate language, has for too long been allowed to remain beyond the comprehension of science.

In Revelation and in the apocalyptic works of the Old Testament particular emphasis is placed on the waters that flow beneath the holy city or temple. They play an active part both in the destruction of the old city and in the creation of the new. Wherever there is a legend of the Temple, it is said that the waters of the world spring from beneath it. Old maps show the four rivers of paradise as a cross within a circle with the holy city at the centre. Jung finds the arche-type of the New Jerusalem expressed in the cloister with a fountain at the centre. The formal gardens of Persia, which are laid out as figures of cosmic geometry, always surround a central spring of water. In a dry country this water is conveyed with great labour and in-genuity in culverts, often several miles in length from the lower slopes of the hillls. All known ancient cosmic temples, at Jerusalem, Hieropolis, Cnossos and elsewhere are found to have been built over extensive labyrinths of chambers and watercourses. F. Bligh Bond discovered a curious system of tunnels and culverts below Glaston-bury Abbey. Plato's Atlantis, which is a cosmic model, Carthage and other cities were arranged in concentric rings of land and water-ways. In Egypt, Babylon and China elaborate systems of canals were constructed on a geometrical pattern, particularly in the areas surrounding the great temples. The carefully contrived balance between areas of land and water was reflected in the pattern of waterpipes beneath the temple itself. The monks of Glastonbury made and maintained a wonderful canal system alongside the prehistoric / Page 153 / causeways of the country around the abbey, and these waterways have a mystical association with King Arthur's legend.

In the third chapter of Man and Temple Dr Patai gives an exellent account of the legends and rituals referring to the waters beneath the Temple of Jerusalem and at other cosmic centres. They were conceived as the female partner in the annually celebrated marriage between the waters of the earth and of the heavens. When fertilised, they conveyed benefits to all the world.

Quite a number of legends tell in an interesting variety of versions about this subterranean network of irrigation canals that issue from underneath the Temple and bring to each country its proper power to grow its particular assortment of fruits. If a tree were planted in the Temple over a spot whence the water-vein issued forth to a certain country, it would grow fruit peculiar to that country; this was known to King Solomon, who accordingly planted in the Temple specimens of fruit trees of the whole earth.

The waters that issued forth from the Temple had the wonderful property of bestowing fertility and health. Legends have it that as in days of old so again in the days of the Messiah "all the waters of creation" will again spring up from under the threshold of the Temple, will increase and grow mighty as they pour forth all over the land.'

The stone at the centre of the earth in the Temple of Jerusalem was supposed to press down the surging waters of the earth, and the Altar stone at Stonhenge, which could at one time have stood erect, may have had a similar function. The waters beneath the Temple were not mythical, nor are the stories of the advantages to be gained from their proper union with the cosmic element in any way exagerated. These legends are poetically true, they have a deep philosophical and psychological meaning and they recall a vanished world order founded on cosmic principles. But more than that, they record a former system of natural science, practised by men who understood the earth as a living creature, the mother of all her inhabitants, not only in a poetic sense but literally as a fact of nature. The prosperity of all life on the planet was considered to be a reflection of the earths own state of health and morale, which was naturally of the greatest concern to men, the intelligent parasites. According to the philosophy on which the forgotten science of antiquity is based, the earth must be regarded as an essentially female organism, being particu-larly susceptible to the influence of the moon, and craving seasonal intercourse with the fertilising solar shaft.

Every year therefore, the earth was made the bride of the heavens, the terrestrial flow was animated by the radiant power of the sun, Page 154 / all the correspondences of 1080 were brought together with those of 666; the opposites were united in the Temple as in Noah's Ark. At Jerusalem the great ceremony of the year, attended by vast, excited crowds, took place at the start of the rainy season, and was intended by vast, to promote the union between the upper and the lower waters. But its purpose was not simply to invoke the fertilising autumn rains, for the marriage of the elewments prompted a similar desire among the congregation at the Temple, which spread along the chain of magical correspondences, infecting all nature with the urge for union.

Evidently the Temple functioned as the generator and transmitter of a form of energy which was beneficial to the earth and all its in-habitants. This was not the belief of idiots or degenerate savages. To the Jews and to all the civilised people who possessed the institution of the Temple it was a self evident fact, which they percieved with their own eyes. A spirit was generated at the Temple; they saw the operation, felt its power and observed its effect in the increased fertility of the countryside. We may speak of sympathetic magic, mass delusion and invent other names for phenomena which we are not able to explain, but the fact is that the performances at the Temple led to the actual invocation of a spirit that provoked a physical reaction throughout nature.

The numbers with which we are dealing were once the instruments of elemental control. Their first and most essential reference is to the natural forces of the cosmos, to the spirits that are behind all manifestations of movement in wind and water, as well as in the less perceptible electro-magnetic currents of the earth and atmosphere, The earliest passage in the I Ching express the relationship between the principles in terms of cosmic forces. So it is in the oldest forms of myth and in the basic traditions of the cabala. The most ancient art, architecture, mythology is always more impersonal and funda-mental than that which came later . In the case of the I Ching, suc-cessive generations of scholars widened the interpretation of the symbols to provide canons of deportment and etiquette, their original elemental significance becoming obscure in the process.

The Temple was not merely a symbol of the cosmic order; it was an instrument designed to fuse the spirit of the sun, 666, with the soul of the earth, 1080. In the same way the waters and catcombs beneath the Temple were not intended simply to represent the water of inspiration as a monument to the sanctity of the spot, or for any other such picturesque purpose. They played a physical part in the process of fusion as the medium through which the current of fertility, raised in the Temple, was transmitted across the landscape. /

Page 155 As the waters beneath the Temple nourish the earth, so the spiritual water of revelation rises within the human mind. These two aspects of fertility were formerly linked with the power of the moon and classified under the number 1080. But this number, like all others has its dark side. The spirit of the waters..." "...1007), known to the cabalists as the bride..." "...= 1006, is also the mother of a hideous, elemental brood, the atavistic gods of the underworld, represented by St John as the beast from the bottomless pit (1081). In Ezekiel 8, the prophet descends through a secret door into a chamber below the Temple of Jerusalem 'and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about'. He hears a voice, 'Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the Lord seeth us not.' Here the sinister cavern beneath the Temple represents the deep recesses of the mind, inhabited by the carefully nurtured monsters of individual fantasy. But the beast in the Cretan labyrinth was no less real than the crocodiles that inhabited the subterranean vaults of Egyptian temples. That these creatures are also natives of the imagination is proved by the rumour, endemic in New York, that the city's sewers are haunted by giant alligators, a notion which is poetically true of all drains and tunnels, if not physically so in this particular case.

Under the regime of the Temple poetic or psychological reality was reproduced on the physical plane in a series of magical correspondences which we now find scarcely conceivable, for we are yet infants in the study of the mind, impeded by the linear and materialistic habits of thought to which we have been con-ditioned. Within each man lies the hidden city, the ideal model of the cosmos, a standard of reference in every department of life, com-posed of all the numbers in creation. This is the city of Plato's Republic:

'But perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it and, having seen it to have found one in himself,' "

The scribe here added the word herself.

Hearuponin, Alizzed took a left right back to front, momentary aside.“

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According to the alchemists, life is created out of the fusion of two, elements, mercury and sulphur, the first representing the receptive, 'female' principle in nature which is animated by the second, the positive 'male' force. The two numbers corresponding to these in the old numerical philosophy were 1080 and 666, and the sum of these, 1746, is represented by the 'grain of mustard seed' at the Pyramid's tip.

In this formula are expressed the nature and purpose of the forgotten science of which the Pyramid, like all temples and monuments in the ancient world, was designed as an instrument. The operations of the medieval alchemists were the last flickerings of a scientific tradition

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which flourished in prehistoric times, when the elements of sulphur and mercury were brought to fusion, not merely in an alchemist's retort, but on a far grander scale within the great retort or womb of the earth itself. The element of mercury in this operation was represented by the spirit of the earth, which was ceremonially 'wedded' at certain seasons with the sulphurous element, radiating from the sun.

The marriage of heaven and earth took place at the Pyramid as a union between the terrestrial current, accumulated in its rocky mass, and the divine spark of celestial fire distilled from the ether at the point of its gold and crystal apex. From this union was born the life essence, the vitalists' elan vital, formerly known by such phrases as the Spirit of the World whose number in the Greek cabala is 1746.

It is recognized by the Hebrew cabalists that a similar operation was performed within the Holy of Holies in the Temple at Jerusalem, where lay the Ark, the Israelites' source of power from the days when they were a nomadic people. The effect produced by that operation is described in the Old Testament phrase: 'The Glory of the Lord filled the House' - an effect of light and power, capable of striking dead any of the priestly operators unprepared for it, from a fusion of energies in the generation of the life spirit by which the whole country was made fertile. In the Greek scriptures this phenomenon is referred to as 'the Glory of the God of Israel' the -value by gematria of which phrase is 1746. Temple legends, as recounted by Raphael Patai in Man and Temple, tell of the underground streams and fissures leading from beneath it to all parts of the land, by which the vital spirit was universally dispersed. The chthonic mysteries of the earth goddess were celebrated in vaults below the Temple, into which ran metal rods, connected to golden spires on the temple's roof. By these the positive charge of atmospheric electricity was introduced into the veins of water and metal within the earth's crust. Thus in many various ways the temple formed an instrument offusion between the elements from above and those of the earth beneath.

One of the ways in which the number of fusion, 1746, relates to the Great Pyramid is illustrated in the diagram overleaf, (diagram omitted) in which the profile of the Pyramid is placed in association with that basic figure of sacred geometry and architecture known as the vesica pis cis or 'vessel of the fish'. The figure of the vesica is formed by the intersection of two equal circles, the circumference of each of which passes through the centre of the other. It is not merely a figure of abstract geometry, for it occurs in many of the patterns of nature. It represents a state of perfect equilibrium between two equal forces, and in the symbolic (Diagram omitted)

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vocabulary of the old geometers it was an image of the inter- penetrating worlds of heaven and earth, spirit and matter, and other such complementary elements. In this case, the height of the vesica being that of the Pyramid, some 481 ft., the diameter of each of the two circles forming it is equal to that number divided by half the square root of 3, or 555.5 ft., and the circumference of each circle is therefore 1746 ft.