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All ancient books which have once been called sacred
by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and
those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial
of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the
darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,--real nuggets
of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.
-- Max Müller, Introduction to the
Upanishads Vol. II.
Fig 1. Sample of extinct Akkadian (Cuneiform) writing
(translation below):
When heaven above was not yet named, nor earth below
pronounced by name, Apsu, the first one, their begetter and
maker Tiamat, who bore them all, had mixed their waters
together, but had not formed pastures, nor discovered
reed-beds. When yet no gods were manifest, nor names
pronounced, nor destinies decreed, then gods were born within
them.
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Introduction
The wisdom of our ancestors frequently puzzles
modern people. In fact, an average person is totally unaware of that
wisdom and many of today's thinkers who study ancient writings do
not understand their true meaning.
The ancient texts are usually interpreted in two ways:
1. Spiritual
This approach views the ancient writings as a source of religious
methodology of spiritual self-perfection and knowledge about God,
Life and Death, Evolution,
and the meaning of life.
Vision of the Throne of the Lord (The Paris Apocalypse)
Image Source:
http://www.wga.hu/html/zgothic/miniatur/1401-450/index.html
from the "Illuminated Manuscripts" section of the "Web Gallery
of Art":
http://www.wga.hu/html/zgothic/miniatur/index.html
Where does God live, where can one find Him?
The overwhelming majority of people involved in primitive forms of
religion would answer this question by pointing up to the sky. Just
like they raise eyes and hands when praying.
Where does the belief that God is above originate from? Maybe the
reason is that on the Earth’s surface one sees suffering and
temptations and in the sky — tranquil clouds, endless expanse,
caress of the Sun, mystery of the Moon and distant stars?
But Jesus laughed at such speculations: “If your leaders say
to you: ‘Look, the (Father’s) Kingdom is in the sky!’ then the birds
of the sky will precede you.
… Rather, the Kingdom is within you and it is outside
you.” (The Gospel of Thomas, 3)
“(And) those who seek should not stop seeking until
they find. When they find, they will be disturbed, … they will
marvel, and (having established in the Kingdom) will reign over all”
(The Gospel of Thomas, 2).
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2. Literal
This approach treats ancient texts as a source of information about
historical events
(The Bible becomes a history book).
Is there any truth about history of the mankind and our planet in
ancient writings,
or is it all religious fantasy and fairy tales?
Can we penetrate the sacred wisdom hidden in the writings of our
ancestors?
High Technology in the Bible?
There are readers out there who would be surprised or
offended with the notion that high-technology was described in the Bible.
There are other readers who have realized that the only explanations to
Biblical mysteries are ancient Close Encounters. A good question is: Why
are certain, Old Testament events written about in the Bible? The answer
could be that these were special events between basically two groups of
people: One group was the primitives or the general state of humanity in
Biblical times. The other group was the relatively few HUMANS that still
retained and utilized technology originating from the days of Atlantis.
Read the whole article on this subject: HIGH-TECHNOLOGY
IN THE BIBLE.
Spaceflight in the Mahabharata?
"[...] After the Lokopalas had gone away,
Arjuna -- that slayer of all foes -- began to think, O monarch, of
the car of Indra! And as Gudakeca gifted with great intelligence was
thinking of it, the car endued with great effulgence and guided by
Matali, came dividing the clouds and illuminating the firmament and
filling the entire welkin with its rattle deep as the roar of mighty
masses of clouds. Swords, and miscrias of terrible forms, and maces
of frightful description, and winged darts of celestial splendor,
and lightnings of the brightest effulgence, and thunderbolts, and
Tutagudas furnished with wheels and worked with atmospheric
expansion and producing sounds, loud as the roar of great masses of
clouds, were on that car. And there were also on that car fierce and
huge-bodies Nagas with fiery mouths, and heaps of stones white as
the fleecy clouds. And the car was drawn by tenthousand horses of
golden hue, endued with the speed of the wind. And furnished with
prowess of illusion, the car was drawn with such speed that the eye
could hardly mark its progress. And Arjuna saw on that car the
flag-staff called Vaijayanta, of blazing effulgence, resembling in
hue the emerald or the dark blue lotus, and decked with golden
ornaments, and straight as the bamboo. And beholding a charioteer
decked in gold seated on that car, the mighty-armed son of Pritha
regarded it as belonging to the celestials. [...] Matali the
charioteer of Cakra, hearing these words of Arjuna, soon mounted the
car and controlled the horses. [...] Arjuna, blazing like the sun
itself, ascended the celestial car. And the Kuru prince, gifted with
great intelligence, with a glad heart, coursed through the firmament
on that celestial car effulgent as the sun and of extraordinary
achievements. And after he had become invisible to the mortals of
the earth, he behold thousends of cars of extraordinary beauty. And
in that region there was no sun or moon or fire to give light, but
it blazed in light of its own, generated by virtue and ascetic
merit. And those brilliant regions that are seen from the earth in
form of stars, like lamps (in the sky) -- so small in consequence of
their distance, though very large -- were beheld by the son of Pandu,
stationed in their respective places, full of beauty and effulgence
and blazing with splendor all their own. [...] 'These, O son of
Pritha, are virtous persons, stationed in their respective places.
It is these whom thou hast seen, O exalted one, as stars from the
earth!'"
The
Mahabharata
translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
published by Pratap Chandra Roy
Calcutta 1886-1890
The quotation above comes from The Mahabharata and
may lead to many possible
interpretations ...
The Mahabharata and Ramayana are the national epics of India.
They are probably the longest poems in any language. The
Mahabharata, attributed to the sage Vyasa, was written down from 540
to 300 B.C. It tells the legends of the Bharatas, one of the Aryan
tribal groups. The Mahabharata was written down a long time ago,
before the technology which is described in some parts of it, was (re)invented
in our time. Even at the time of the complete literal and close English
translation, in the years 1886-1890 (by Kisari Mohan Ganguli,
published by Pratap Chandra Roy), no aircraft ever flew and the
first combustion engine was just invented a few month earlier.
Get your own copy of
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Mesopotamian "Tree of Life"
The Olmec "Tree of Life" (Mesoamerican Cosmology).
The
lineage founder, 2 Grass, is being born from a twisting World Tree. Detail from
Selden Codex page 2. Source:
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In this space age, with it?s remarkable technological
advances, it is becoming apparent that the "miracles",
and other seemingly supernatural events reported in ancient
texts, the megalithic constructions, and the enigmatic lines and
artwork over the Earth, resulted from an advanced technology
which was incomprehensible and indescribable by the ancient
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