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Star Fire: The Gold of the Gods
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The above-ground part of the temple was constructed from
sandstone quarried from the mountain and it comprised a series of adjoined
halls, shrines, courts, cubicles and chambers. Of these, the key features
unearthed were the main Sanctuary, the Shrine of Kings, the Portico Court, and
the Hall of the goddess Hathor (to whom the whole complex was dedicated).
All around were pillars and stelae denoting the Egyptian Kings
through the ages, and certain Pharaohs such as Tuthmosis III (founder of the
Rosicrucian movement in Egypt) were depicted many times on standing-stones and
wall reliefs.
The adjoining Cave of Hathor was carved into the natural rock,
with flat inner walls that had been carefully smoothed. In the centre (from
about 1820 BC) stood a large upright pillar of Pharaoh Amenemhet III, the
son-in-law of Esau. Also portrayed were his senior chamberlain and his
seal-bearer.
Deep within the cave Petrie found a limestone stela of Pharaoh
Ramesses I - a slab upon which Ramesses (who is traditionally reckoned by
Egyptologists to have been an opposer of the Aten cult) surprisingly described
himself as "The ruler of all that Aten embraces". Also found was an
Amarna statue-head of Akhenaten's mother, Queen Tiye of Egypt, with her
cartouche set in the crown.
In the courts and halls of the outer temple there were
numerous stone-carved rectangular tanks and circular basins, along with a
variety of curiously shaped benchtables with recessed fronts and split-level
surfaces. There were also round tables, trays and saucers together with
alabaster vases and containers, many of which were shaped like lotus flowers.
In addition, the rooms housed a good collection of glazed plaques, cartouches,
scarabs and sacred ornaments designed with spirals, diagonal squares and
basketwork. There were magical wands of an unidentified hard material, and in
the portico were two conical stones of about six inches and nine inches,
respectively, in height.
The explorers were baffled enough by these finds, but they
were further confounded by the discovery of a metallurgist's crucible. Ever
since, Egyptologists have argued as to why crucibles would have been
necessary in a temple - while at the same time debating a mysterious
substance, called mfkzt, which seemed to be related to the crucible and
the conical stones and which had dozens of mentions in wall and stelae
inscriptions.
Some have suggested that mfkzt might have been copper;
many have preferred the idea of turquoise; and others have supposed it was
perhaps malachite. But these are all unsubstantiated guesses, and there were no
traces of any of these materials at the site.
Sinai is noted for its turquoise mines, but if turquoise
mining had been a primary function of the temple masters over so many centuries
then one would expect to find turquoise stones in abundance within the tombs of
Egypt. But such is not the case. Hardly any have been found.
Another cause of wonderment has been the innumerable
inscribed references to 'bread', along with the prominent hieroglyph for 'Light'
found in the Shrine of the Kings.
The discovery which caused the most bewilderment, however, was
the unearthing of something which was identified as the enigmatic mfkzt
to which the 'bread' symbolism seemed to be related. Laying some inches deep
in a storeroom was a considerable supply of the finest, pure white,
unadulterated powder.
At the time, some suggested that the powder could be a remnant
of copper smelting, but, as was quickly pointed out, smelting does not produce
white powder; it leaves a dense black slag. Moreover, there was no supply of
copper ore within miles of the temple, and the old smelting works were in any
event apparent in the distant valleys. Others guessed that the powder was ash
from the burning of plants to produce alkali, but there was no trace whatever of
any plant residue.
For want of any other explanation, it was determined that the
white powder and the conical stones were probably associated with some form of
sacrificial rite, but again it was pointed out that this was an Egyptian temple
and animal sacrifice was not an Egyptian practice. Moreover, there were no
remnants whatever of bones or any other foreign matter within the mfkzt,
which appeared for all the world like a hoard of sacred talcum-powder.
Some of the mysterious powder was taken back to Britain for
analysis and examination - but no results were ever published. The
rest (opened to the elements after 3,000 years) was left to become a victim of
the desert winds.
What has become apparent, however, is that this powder was
seemingly identical to the ancient Mesopotamian fire-stone or shem-an-na
- the substance that was made into bread-cakes and used to feed the Light-bodies
of the Babylonian Kings and the Pharaohs of Egypt.
This, of course, explains the temple inscriptions denoting the
importance of bread and light, and this white powder (the shem-an-na) was
identified with the sacred manna that Aaron placed in the Ark of the Covenant.
In Egypt, the cakes made from this powder were called 'scheffa food',
while the Israelites called them 'shewbread'.
The Book of Exodus tells us that the Master
Craftsman who made the original shewbread for Moses in Sinai was Bezaleel, the
son of Uri Ben Hur. But Bezaleel was not a baker; he was a noted goldsmith - the
very man who made the golden accoutrements for the Tabernacle and the Ark of the
Covenant.
This conforms precisely with the function of the priestly
Master Craftsmen in Mesopotamia. They were the great Vulcans and metallurgists
of Tubal-cain, who manufactured the valuable shem-an-na from pure gold.
As for the crucible, the conical stones and the great array
of tanks, tables and equipment which made the Sinai temple appear more like a
gigantic laboratory than a church, it emerges that this is precisely what it
was.
What Petrie had actually found was the alchemical workshop of
Akhenaten and of the 18 dynasties of Pharaohs before him - a temple-laboratory
where the furnace would have roared and smoked in the production of the sacred
fire-stone of the high-spin shem-an-na. Quite suddenly, the words of Exodus
begin to make sense as we read them again with a wholly new insight:
And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke because the Lord
descended upon it in fire, and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a
furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
In Exodus we read that Moses took the golden calf which the
Israelites had made, and then burnt it in the fire and ground it to a white
powder. This is precisely the process of a shem-an-na furnace, and it is evident
that the Egyptian priests of the goddess Hathor had been working their fire
for countless generations before the priests of Aten became involved in the time
of Moses.
It was in fact Pharaoh Tuthmosis III who had reorganised the
ancient mystery-schools of Thoth and founded the Royal School of the Master
Craftsmen at Karnak. They were called the 'Great White Brotherhood' because
of their preoccupation with a mysterious white powder. A branch of this
fraternity became especially concerned with medicines and healing, and they
became known as the Egyptian 'Therapeutate'. In much later times, the
Therapeutate extended its activities into Palestine, especially into the Judah
settlement of Qumran where they flourished as the Essenes.
But what was so special about the goddess Hathor? Why was she
the chosen deity of the Sinai priests? Hathor was a paramount nursing
goddess, and as the daughter of Ra she was said to have given birth to the
Sun. She was the originally defined 'Queen of the West' and 'Mistress of the
Netherworld', to where she was said to carry those who knew the right spells.
She was the revered protectress of womanhood, the 'Lady of the Sycamore', and
the goddess of love, tombs and song. And it was from the milk of Hathor that
the Pharaohs were said to gain their divinity, becoming gods in their own right.
On one of the rock tablets near to the Mount Ser�b�t cave
entrance is a representation of Tuthmosis IV in the presence of Hathor. Before
him are two offering-stands topped with lotus flowers, and behind him is
a man bearing a conical cake of white bread. Another relief details the mason
Ankhib offering two conical bread-cakes of shem-an-na to the king, and there
are similar portrayals elsewhere in the temple complex. One of the most
significant perhaps is a depiction of Hathor and Amenhotep III. The goddess
holds a necklace in one hand, while offering the emblem of life and dominion to
the Pharaoh with the other. Behind her is the treasurer Sobekhotep, who holds in
readiness a conical cake of white bread. Sobekhotep is described as the
"Overseer of the Secrets of the House of Gold, who brought the noble and
precious stone to His Majesty".
I mentioned earlier that, upon coming out of Egypt into Sinai
en route to Canaan, the Israelites would have expected to be made familiar with
the laws and ordinances of their new homeland. However, although this appears to
have been partially the case, the situation was largely reversed on the
religious front, with the Egyptian customs being introduced to the native
Hebrews.
It was upon the mountain at Sinai that Jehovah first announced
his presence to Moses. Being an Aten supporter, Moses asked this new lord and
master who he was, and the reply was "I am that I am", which in
phonetic Hebrew became 'Jehovah'. However, for the longest time afterwards, the
Israelites were not allowed to utter the name 'Jehovah' - with the exception of
the High Priest who was allowed to whisper the name in private once a year. The
problem was that prayers were supposed to be said to this new godhead - but how
would he know the prayers were said to him if his name was not mentioned?
The Israelites knew that Jehovah was not the same as Aten
(their traditional Adon or Lord), and so they presumed he must be the equivalent
of the great State-god of Egypt, even if not one and the same. It was decided,
therefore, to add the name of that State-god to all prayers thereafter, and the
name of that god was 'Amen'. To this day, the name of 'Amen' is still recited at
the end of prayers. Even the well-known Christian Lord's Prayer (as given in the
Gospel of Matthew) was transposed from an Egyptian original which began,
"Amen, Amen, who art in heaven..."
As for the famous Ten Commandments (said to have been conveyed
to Moses by God upon the mountain), these too are of Egyptian origin and they
derive directly from Spell Number 125 in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. They
were not new codes of conduct invented for the Israelites, but were simply newly
stated versions of the ritual confessions of the Pharaohs. For example, the
confession "I have not killed" was translated to the decree "Thou
shalt not kill"; "I have not stolen" became "Thou shalt not
steal"; "I have not told lies" became "Thou shalt not bear
false witness"; and so on.
(Here is a copy of Spell
Number 125 from the Papyrus of Ani, translated by Budge -- Webmaster)
Not only were the Ten Commandments drawn from Egyptian ritual,
but so too were the Psalms reworked from Egyptian hymns (though they are
attributed to King David). Even the Old Testament Book of Proverbs - the
so-called 'wise words of Solomon' - was translated almost verbatim into Hebrew
from the writings of an Egyptian sage called Amenemope. These are now held at
the British Museum, and verse after verse of the Book of Proverbs can be
attributed to this Egyptian original. It has now been discovered that even
the writings of Amenemope were extracted from a far older work called The Wisdom
of Ptah-hotep, which comes from more than 2,000 years before the time of
Solomon.
In addition to the Book of the Dead and the ancient
Wisdom of Ptah-hotep, various other Egyptian texts were used in compiling the
Old Testament. These include the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts,
from which references to the Egyptian gods were simply transposed to relate to
the Hebrew god Jehovah.
In Bloodline
of the Holy Grail I made the point that the modern style of
Christianity, which evolved from the Roman Church in the 4th century AD, was
actually a created 'hybrid' - a religion based on themes from numerous others,
including, of course, Judaism.
Now it transpires that Judaism itself was no less of a hybrid
in the early days, being a composite of Egyptian, Canaanite and Mesopotamian
traditions, with the stories, hymns, prayers and rituals of the various and
sundry gods brought together and related to a newly contrived 'One God' concept.
What is particularly interesting is that, historically, this
was not fully contrived in the time of Abraham, nor even in the later time of
Moses. It did not happen until the 6th century BC, when tens of thousands of
Israelites were held captive by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Until that time,
the Hebrew and Israelite records referred to any number of gods and goddesses by
individual names, and under a general plural classification of 'the Elohim'.
Through some 500 years from the captivity, the scriptures
existed only as a series of quite separate writings, and it was not until after
the time of Jesus that these were collated into a single volume. Jesus
himself would never have heard of the Old Testament or the Bible, but the
scriptures to which he had access included many books that were not selected for
the compilation that we know today.
Strangely, though, some of these books are still mentioned in
the modern Bible text as being important to the original culture. They include
the Book of the Lord, the Book of the Wars of Jehovah, and the Book
of Jasher. Why were they not included? Quite simply because their content
did not suit the new Jehovah-based religion that was being created. Jasher, for
example, was the Egyptian-born son of Caleb; the brother-in-law to the first
Israelite judge Othneil; and the appointed royal staff-bearer to Moses. It is
generally reckoned that the Book of Jasher's position in the Bible should be
between the books of Deuteronomy and Joshua, but it was sidestepped by the
editors because it sheds a very different light on the sequence of events at
Mount Horeb in Sinai.
The familiar Exodus account explains that Jehovah issued
instructions to Moses concerning masters and servants, covetousness, neighbourly
behaviour, crime, marriage, morality and many other issues including the
all-important rule of the Sabbath, along with the Ten Commandments.
But, in Jasher (which pre-dates the Exodus writings), these
laws and ordinances are not conveyed to Moses by Jehovah. In fact, Jehovah is
not mentioned at all. The new laws, says the Book of Jasher, were
communicated to Moses and the Israelites by Jethro, High Priest of Midian and
Lord of the Mountain. In effect, Jethro was the overall governor of the Sinai
temple.
In Hebrew, the title 'Lord (or Lofty One) of the Mountain' was
translated as 'El Shaddai', and this is particularly significant for that was
precisely the name related to Moses when he asked the Lord to reveal his
identity. The Lord said, "I am that I am. I am he that Abraham called 'El
Shaddai'". "I am that I am" eventually became transposed to the
name 'Jehovah', but, as related in Jasher (and as confirmed in Exodus when
correctly read), this Lord was not a deiform god at all. He was Jethro the El
Shaddai, the great vulcan and Master Craftsman of the Hathor temple.
Apart from the fact that we are taught about certain aspects
of the Bible text, I think it is fair to say that not too many of us actually
study the books ourselves. As a result of this, our perceived images are
generally those conjured by picture-books and films. Hollywood, of course, has
done us proud with its portrayals of Moses on the mountain and God blasting the
words of the Ten Commandments onto two great, barely portable, granite slabs. In
Exodus, however, there is no such depiction, and the Commandments are said to
have been written down by Moses himself (at the dictation of the Lord) after he
had broken the first tablets that he was given.
As for the other part of the Sinai package, the Tables of
Testimony, these are stated in the teachings of the Kabbala and the Midrash to
have been held within a sacred gemstone which Moses placed "in the palm of
his hand". This was the same Divine Stone of Wisdom said to have been
inherited by King Solomon. In the earlier texts of Egypt it was called the
'Tablet of Hermes', which embodied the wisdom of Thoth.
According to the records of the ancient Dragon Court of Egypt
(founded by Queen Sobeknefru in 1785 BC), an early guardian of the Table was
Chem, the High Priest of Mendes. The word chem (or khame) means 'blackness', and
from this root word derived the word 'alchemy' - the science of extracting light
from the blackness. To us, Chem is perhaps better known as the biblical Ham, the
grandfather of Nimrod, whose family was cursed by the Hebrews because his
historical tradition was in conflict with the emergent Jehovah-based culture.
Readers of Gothic novels and books about sorcery will, of
course, recognise the name Chem of Mendes. He is often symbolised by a goat,
which was precisely the emblem of Ham in ancient Egypt. The only difference is
that in latter-day Christian lore the goat is meant to be symbolic of the Devil.
What we now discover, however, is that by following the story of Chem of
Mendes we are led directly to the Sinai temple and to the white powder of gold.
Mendes was a major city of the Egyptian Delta, and Chem was
the temple's designated Archon of the 10th Age of Capricorn. It was in this
Capricorn regard that his symbol was a goat, generally depicted by an inverted
pentagram. This five-pointed star has two uppermost
points, which are the horns of the Goat of Mendes. The two downward-sloping side
points represent the ears, and the single base-point is the chin and beard.
When a pentagram is seen in this inverted position, it is
regarded as a male emblem, but the pentagram star is, of course, a female device
(a Venus symbol) and is usually shown with the single point uppermost.
In the pentagram's male position, Chem is personally
identified by an emerald jewel set centrally at the meeting of the horns. When
turned about, the pentagram achieves its female status with the uppermost single
point becoming the head of the goddess. The side points are now arms, while the
twin points (once the horns) are now at the base, being the legs of the goddess,
with the emerald jewel of Venus established in the vulval position.
Sometimes the inverted pentagram of Chem is shown with flames
rising from the sacred jewel between the horns. These flames are traditionally
referred to as 'Astral Light'. But when reversed into the Venus position, the
uterine flames are identified as 'Star Fire', the lunar essence of the goddess.
From the earliest times, whether representing Astral Light or
Star Fire, the pentagram was indicative of enlightenment. It was associated with
the pre-Jewish Sabbath - a ritualistic period of reflection and experience
outside of general toil. For this reason, Chem of Mendes was called the
'Sabbatical Goat' - from which derived today's use of the word 'sabbatical' in
academic circles.
In view of this age-old tradition, it is hardly surprising
that the pentagram and Sabbatical Goat became associated with heterodox
Christians (like the Cathars of Languedoc) from medieval times. In contrast, the
orthodox Christian Church endeavoured to overawe the old wisdom of the mystery
schools by creating a hybrid religion based upon salvation from the unknown - a
salvation that was only attained through people's subjugation to the authority
of the bishops. As an outcome, the spiritually based doctrines of the Gnostic
movement (which sought to 'discover' the unknown) were declared blasphemous by
the Inquisition, while the pentagram and the goat were denounced as symbols of
black magic and witchcraft.
From those times (even to the present day in some circles),
personal attainment and learning which does not conform to the bishops' opinions
has been considered heretical. And individually acquired wisdom became so feared
that the Goat of Mendes has been decried as the epitome of the Devil himself.
This is manifest in a wealth of trashy propagandist novels (by Dennis Wheatley
and others) wherein crucifixes and holy water abound as the weapons used against
the so-called emissary of Satan.
Ham (or Chem) is given in the Old Testament as a son of
Noah, but in the oldest records he is correctly identified (along with Japhet)
as being a son of the great Vulcan and goldsmith Tubal-cain who is better known
to historians as King Meskalam-dug, the Hero of the Good Land.
In the early lore of Palestine, Chem was synonymous with a
certain Azazel of Capricorn who (according to the Book of Enoch) made
known to men "all the metals, and the art of working them, and the use of
antimony". Antimony is the black element otherwise known as 'stibium'. This
is an essential ingredient of the preparatory alchemical process when producing
the Philosophers' Stone. In the ancient Arab world, antimony was called kohl,
from which derives the word 'coal', meaning 'that which is black'. The related
word 'alcohol' stems from the Arabic al-kohul - the highly refined
'philosophical mercury' prepared from spirits of wine rectified over antimony.
Azazel of Capricorn actually appears in the Bible, but not in
the authorised English-language translation. In the Vulgate Book of Leviticus
there is an early reference to the custom of Atonement, and it states that Aaron
shall cast lots upon two goats, "one for the Lord, and the other for
Azazel". That which fell to the lot of the Lord was to be sacrificed as a
'sin offering', and the other was to be sent into the wilderness as an
'atonement'.
The more familiar English translation is somewhat
confusing, for the name 'Azazel' has been supplanted by the word 'scapegoat'.
The reason for the substitution was simply that the original sequence made it
quite clear that Hebrew offerings were made both to Jehovah and to Chem-Azazel,
while the Book of Enoch (which was excluded from the Old Testament) drew
readers' attention to the direct link between Azazel and hermetic alchemy.
In the tradition of the Rosicrucian mystery schools, the
writings of Chem (the Tabula Smaragdina Hermetis) were recorded as
"The most ancient monument of the Chaldeans concerning the Philosophers'
Stone". Being associated with the wisdom of Thoth (or Hermes), they were
defined as hermetic teachings, and they were directly linked to the fire alchemy
of pyramid construction.
The very name 'Hermes' derives from the word herma, which
means 'a pile of stones', and the Great Pyramid was
called the 'Sanctuary of Thoth'. The word pyr, from which derive 'pyro-', 'pyre'
and 'pyramid', actually means 'fire' - and the pyramids were so called because
they were 'fire-begotten'.
This leads us to one of the great unanswered questions: How
did they build the pyramids? Were the thousands of massive blocks raised to
great heights with such accuracy by hundreds of thousands of slaves using
nothing but ropes and ramps over an undefined period of time, as is the common
speculation? Certainly not. To construct an inclined plane to the top of the
Great Pyramid at a gradient of 1:10 would have required a ramp 4,800 feet
(approx. 1,463 metres) long, with a volume three times greater than that of the
Pyramid itself.
As we saw earlier, the powder of the highward fire-stone is a
monatomic superconductor. It is exotic matter with a gravitational attraction of
less than zero. Recent experiments with this amazing white powder of gold have
proven that, under certain conditions, the substance can weigh less than nothing
and can be made to disappear into an unknown dimension. The most interesting
quality of the powder, however, is that it rides upon the Earth's magnetic
field, so that when it is in a zero-gravity state it is capable of transposing
its own weightlessness to its host, thereby facilitating levitational powers.
This host might be a laboratory pan, a container, or a table - or it could just
as easily be an enormous block of stone!
The age-old tradition relates that in the secret repository
of the King's Chamber within the Great Pyramid the builders had placed
"instruments of iron, and arms which rust not, and glass which might be
bended and yet not broken, and strange spells".
But what did the first explorers find, having tunnelled their way into the
sealed chamber? The only furniture was a lidless, hollowed stone coffer, and it
contained not a body but a layer of a mysterious powdery substance. This
has been superficially determined to be grains of feldspar and mica, which are
both minerals of the aluminium silicate group.
During the course of the recent white powder research,
aluminium and silica were two of the constituent elements revealed by
conventional analysis of a granular sample that was known to be a 100 per cent
platinum-group compound.
Standard laboratory testing is done by striking a sample
with a DC arc for 15 seconds at a Sun-surface heat of 5,500� Centigrade.
However, with the white powder, a continuation of the burn-time way beyond the
normal testing procedure revealed the noble platinum metals of which the
substance truly consisted.
It is because of the limitations placed on the conventional
testing sequence that five per cent by dry weight of our brain tissue is said to
be carbon, whereas more rigorous analysis reveals it as the platinum metals
iridium and rhodium in the high-spin state.
The King's Chamber was, in fact, contrived as a
superconductor, capable of transporting the Pharaoh into another dimension of
space-time. And it was here that the Pharaoh's Rite of
Passage was administered in accordance with the Book of the Dead.
(Note: Pyramid: pyra (Fire) + mid
(Middle); hence "Fire in the middle" -- Webmaster)
The key to this Rite of Passage is defined by a single
conical inscription near the entrance to the Chamber. This hieroglyphic symbol -
the only verifiable hieroglyph on the whole of the Gizeh Plateau, and the very
same as appeared many times at the Sinai mountain temple - reads, quite simply,
'Bread'.
In the context of this talk, we have stepped beyond the bounds
of the Bible to witness the alchemical and scientific process which facilitated
the genesis of the Grail Kings. This line of succession from Cain, through Egypt
to King David and onward to Jesus, was purpose-bred to be the earthly Purveyors
of the Light. They were the true Sons of the Gods, who were fed firstly on Anunnaki
Star Fire from about 3800 BC and, subsequently, on 'high-spin' metal
supplements from about 2000 BC. In short, they were bred to be leaders of
humankind, and they were both mentally and physically maintained in the 'highward'
state: the ultimate dimension of the missing 44 per cent - the dimension of the
Orbit of Light, or the Plane of Sharon.
Only during the past 150 years or so, and more specifically
during the past 80 years, have the great storehouses of Egyptian, Mesopotamian,
Syrian and Canaanite record been unearthed from beneath the desert sands.
First-hand documentary evidence from before Bible times has now emerged on
stone, clay, parchment and papyrus, and these many tens of thousands of
documents bear witness to a far more exciting history than we were ever told.
Had these records been available throughout the generations,
the concept of a particular race enjoying a single Divine revelation would never
have arisen, and the exclusivity of Jehovah - which has blinded us for the
longest time, setting us in warlike fashion against those of other faiths who
follow their own traditions - would never have taken such an arrogant hold.
Gradually, as new discoveries are made, it is evident that we
are now emerging from the darkness of our preconceived but unfounded notions.
Even so, our centuries of Church-led indoctrination make it very difficult to
discard the restrictive dogma of inbred third-hand tradition in favour of a
greater enlightenment from those who were there at the time.
The truly inspiring prospect is that the learning curve has
still not ended. Just as a single glacier is but a continuation of age-old
activity, so too are the ancient wisdoms that now fall to us one by one, with
each new facet of learning ready to be stacked upon the former knowledge.
Fortunately, the dawn of consciousness is already behind us
and, although some will choose to look backwards beyond its veil, many will step
with vigour into the new millennium to witness a bright new sunrise - a
revelation of unbounded possibility and a restoration of our true universal
inheritance.
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