Laurence Gardner - Gold of the Watchers

review by Robert Camp

 

Laurence’s amusing and highly informative address traced a path through history, back to the Watchers at the beginning of civilisation and finding the first written reference to the Annunaki overlords, not in ancient Sumerian Mesopotamia, but in central Europe.

He began by detailing the problems of unravelling history through layers of distortion and dogma, in order to reveal the truth at it’s source. History is written as being the truth as perceived in it’s own time, but as history tends to be recorded by life’s winners, that perception normally is biased and belittles the losers. Ever since the Sumerian clay tablets were discovered in the 19th century, the cuneiform writing was regarded as having developed in total isolation, and was not linked to any other language or pictogram system.

However, in the 1940s in the Transylvanian village of Tartaria three small clay tablets were discovered, and in 1968 the Scientific American journal linked them to similar Mesopotamian tablets, but they were carbon dated to 4500 BC. They were found to mention Enki and Ur of the Annunaki gods and so linked them to Sumerian cuneiform texts, but were at least 1000 years earlier!

Archaeology has often been funded by organisations aiming to justify Old Testament historical dating. The Church could not have been pleased to discover evidence of a sophisticated culture system proven to exist before their own date for the creation of Adam and Eve (4004 BC). So, in Transylvania in 4500 BC the Annukani overlords were known to the People of Anu (in Celtic "Danu"). They were people of power - Sidhe. The were painted or tattooed - Pict. The church miniaturised them, the Pict/Sidhe, became Pixies!

The Pict/Sidhe were miners working in gold. The worlds greatest gold reserves were in Transylvania. About 4000 BC they tamed horses and migrated, spreading as far as Ireland, Scotland, Persia and Tibet in search of food and gold. They operated a clan system centred on a gold base standard. Their leaders were called Phares, meaning "of a great house", the same root as "Pharaoh". The 17th century diminutised them as Fairies. They operated a system of kingship. Funeral goods excavated in the Altai mountains contained the same writing as was later found on the Transylvanian tablets. Buried with horses covered in gold, the carefully mummified bodies of these Scythian people proved them to have been tall - the women 6’ 6" and the men 7’ or more. They wore armour made of small bronze coins, tarnished green and serpentine looking, and followed shamanic culture. These were not the "little people", but tall powerful warriors, with kings, priests and the knowledge of metallurgy, botany and animal husbandry. Their main symbols of leadership were the Ring of Eternity, and the Rod of Justice, representing the kingly measure, or rule. In times of war, the ring would be worn beneath a helmet, and through this practice, the ring eventually developed into the regal crown.

Laurence has the ability to allude to deep memories in the psyche and further the knowledge of those with a questing spirit. Perhaps, peeling the layers from history is alike to riding the coils to the head of the serpent.............. the pathway of kings, crowning eternity.

Adrian Gilbert - Opening the Star-gate and the Hermetic Philosophy

review by Hannah Hardiman

Adrian Gilbert began his lecture by reminding the audience of the core concept of Hermetic tradition – "As above, so below", which would be reflected through his talk. The Hermetic way balances science and mysticism, the rational and the irrational, to find true wisdom.

The study of light and shade is universal. Certain buildings including Egyptian obelisks, pyramids and the stepped pyramid of Quetzalcoatl/Kulkulkan have been designed to show patterns of shade and light. At the equinox, a serpent shadow appears on the side of the pyramid of Quetzalcoatl.

At Commagene in Turkey, Adrian examined a 158m deep shaft cut into a mountainside. The shaft, angled at 33° doesn’t lead anywhere. Carved into the rock next to the entrance is an inscription recording that Antiochus had built the site, which also included many reliefs and statues, as a memorial to his father, Mithridates.

The purpose of the shaft is something of an enigma. Explanations range from an escape route (but it doesn’t go anywhere) to a burial site (but no evidence of bones or grave goods have been found). Having worked on The Orion Mystery with Robert Bauval, Adrian thought that the shaft might signify an important alignment.

When Adrian returned home from his trip, he checked the astronomical alignments on his computer. Somewhat conveniently, he found that the shaft was in alignment with the star Sirius at the time it was dug out. One of the shafts in the Great Pyramid had also been found to be in alignment with Sirius. What an amazing coincidence!

One problem though. Adrian found on a subsequent trip that the shaft was facing due west, not due south as he had assumed. But the story didn’t end there. Adrian wondered when light would shine directly down into the bottom of the shaft without casting a shadow.

After figuring out the likely date of construction (which was difficult because it was at the point when the local population was switching from a solar to a lunar calendar), he found that this would have happened when the sun was in conjunction with Regulus in the constellation of Leo. This also coincided with the date of the king’s ‘official birthday’. A very auspicious day.

Adrian then turned his attention to the alignments found in Egypt. The 30°N line almost cuts through the old city of Cairo. In this position, some natural geometry starts to emerge. Imagine that it’s the equinox and you are stood looking at an obelisk. The obelisk is casting a shadow. Now draw an imaginary line linking the end of the shadow to the top of the obelisk. This forms a triangle. The imaginary line forms a 60° angle with the floor. By simple geometry, you can calculate that the angle at the top is 30°.

Moving on to the pyramids, Adrian talked us through the orthodox explanation of why Khafre’s pyramid was steeper than Khufu’s. According to the text books, Khufu’s pyramid was so expensive to build, that when work started on Khafre’s pyramid, the decision was taken to make the sides steeper, to use less materials, and to therefore save money.

When Adrian looked at the geometry, he noted that the pyramid had been built in a 3-4-5 ratio. It was built when the sun was in Leo.

Adrian then took us through a phenomenon he observed when the sun was at its highest point, by displaying a series of slides (one featuring a copy of his new book in front of the pyramid!). As he stood at the base of the pyramid, the sun appeared to be sat directly on top of the pyramid. He also explained that if the pyramid still had its original limestone casing intact, the sun would not have cast a shadow on any side. This could be demonstrated by looking at where some of the original stones were still intact at the bottom of the pyramid.

Bringing the audience back to England, Adrian went on to explain how use of light and shade can be seen in London. Adrian has examined the shadows cast by obelisk-like monuments in London, such as the Monument and Nelson’s Column (both of which measure 202ft in height), at the Summer Solstice – rather than the equinox. He found that the phenomenon observed in Egypt was reversed, i.e. the 30° angle was at the bottom and the 60° angle at the top.

Adrian Gilbert’s new book is called "Signs in the Sky".

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