FIGURE 28. Enneagram overlaid onto the Blueprint floor plan of Rosslyn
CHAPTER 7
Following the Lost Road
The plane that carried me on my second journey to Edinburgh arrived on a cold but clear Saint Patrick’s Day, 2011. Catching a taxi to the Balmoral Hotel, I was to meet up with Stuart for a pint of Guinness at a charming Scottish pub across the street from the hotel. He had invited me to speak at the Rosslyn Motet 2011 Concert and Science Tour in a couple of days and I needed to go over the agenda with him. More than this, I just wanted to see my dear friend again.
After taking a seat in the pub overlooking the festivities, we toasted the saintly man said to have banished all the serpents from Ireland then got down to business. Stuart explained how the Rosslyn event would unfold. It would begin with an afternoon science talk at the Original Rosslyn Hotel, where I would present, followed by a guided tour of the chapel and a concert of the Rosslyn Motet in the evening. This was the piece composed by Tommy and Stuart based on their interpretation of the musical cubes, which I could not wait to hear performed live in the chapel.
My presentation in the afternoon was to officially announce our findings concerning the true meaning of the tower etching in the chapel’s sacristy. As a buildup to the announcement, my plan was to first explain how the Lady Chapel was connected to Venus and Vedic cosmology through the Hebrew Shekinah symbolism. I would then show how the squaring of the circle unfolds into the chapel’s Venus Blueprint design to create an acoustically balanced space.
As Stuart and I went over some of our findings, we marveled at how the Meru symbolism seemed to explain so much about Rosslyn, especially the upcoming Venus transit. It seemed undeniable that the Sinclairs had built Rosslyn to honor Venus according to the long tradition of Vedic fertility temples.
Jumping from one subject to another, we finally landed on the fact that the concert happened to fall on a so-called supermoon. That night was going to be the closest possible approach of a full Moon to the Earth in a very long time. Downing our beers, we left the pub for a restaurant down the street. It was a chilly but clear evening in Edinburgh.
Above us was the Moon, already looming large in the night sky. Joking how it must be a sign of Diana’s interest in our little escapade, Stuart stopped to pose in front of a theater showing Of Gods and Men on the marquee. With the supersized Moon hanging right above the theater, Diana seemed to be telling us she was a wee bit jealous over our infatuation with Venus and needed some attention of her own.
With the event still two days away, I spent the next afternoon with Stuart and Tommy at Tommy’s house. Chatting it up over a nice Scottish lunch and tea, the topics were the same as they had been during my visit a year earlier—everything fringe. It seemed that off-topic topics were all we had left to entertain us after so much time digging for the truth.
As Tommy put it, knowledge and enlightenment are the only way out of the world of illusion or, as he called it, the miasma. He believes the world cannot be saved from the miasma nor should it be. Instead he sees the world as a kind of kindergarten for tortured souls from which only an enlightened few might hope to escape, thus ending the cycle of their own reincarnation. This, he says, is the purpose of the Enneagram.
Turning next to Rosslyn’s Meru tower etching and its origin in the Rig-Veda, we discussed how the world must have once been unified through a shared Vedic cosmology. With so many similarities in deities and temples, the evidence seemed undeniable. Yet the one thing none of us could say was where it had begun. Where exactly did the Rig-Veda originate? Who wrote it, and how did it get distributed around the world?
The Lost Origin
Until recently the origin of the Rig-Veda was attributed to a nomadic dark-skinned Aryan people of the Bronze Age that Homer and Herodotus called “Aethiopian.” They were thought to have migrated eastward from the Turvasha tribe in North Africa, settling first in Mesopotamia, then India, and finally China.
However new archeological evidence suggests this is not the case. Instead, the origin of the Rig-Veda is thought to be Armenia in what is now northern Turkey, situated between the Caspian and Black Seas. Located just north of the Fertile Crescent, this region is not far from Göbekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old structure and oldest known temple located on the peak of an elongated mountain ridge.
The Sanskrit-speaking people who inhabited this region were called ãrya or Aryans, meaning “noble.” As believers in Brahmanical principles and worshippers of their sun god Indra, they are the ones now believed to have written the Rig-Veda.
Migrating into ancient Mesopotamia some 6,000 years ago, they became the inspiration behind the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh and its sacred Mount Mashu. Moving westward into ancient Ethiopia, they sparked the great pyramid-building civilization in Egypt with its Ennead of gods. Pushing eastward across the Indian subcontinent, they intermarried with the Dravidic tribes in the Indus Valley to become the Indo-Aryan Hindus.
From there they pushed south, settling on the seashore of southern India around Tamil Nadu to begin building some of the greatest Meru temples in the world. Having discovered that India tapers to a point like a mountain, they believed the island of Sri Lanka was once the summit of Mount Meru, broken off into the sea.33 They believed that Sri Lanka was heaven, the sacred land of gold and gods. And in this heaven grew an entheogenic mushroom named Copelandia cyanescens, the object of their affection.
From India, the Indo-Aryans continued eastward into China, bringing with them the Rig-Veda from which Buddhism and Jainism evolved. Many earthen pyramids remain in China to this day, dating back to at least 1766 BC and perhaps as early as 3000 BC. More than five hundred tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed Aryan mummies have been found buried in these pyramids, decorated with swastika symbols accompanied by Venusian goddess artifacts.
Thus the great civilizations of the ancient world—from Europe to North Africa to Mesopotamia, India, and China—all descended from the cosmological beliefs of the Sanskrit-speaking Aryans from Armenia and their sacred hymns of the Rig-Veda.34 Yet this is not the end of the story—not by a long shot.
Aryan sailors, perhaps ancestors to the Phoenicians or Phaeacians, carried their Vedic cosmology and temple-building tradition to America. We can find evidence for their transatlantic voyages in the underwater ruins of Bimini, running all the way to Andros in the Bahamas.
These underwater ruins, dated to between 3000 and 4000 BC, include what appears to be a road constructed from large blocks and stone foundations demarking a harbor. In this area multiple layers of stone masonry have been found, including wedge stones under large blocks, tool marks on some stones, and various artifacts. In fact stone anchors identical to Phoenician anchors from the Mediterranean have been excavated from these Bahaman ruins.
Ancient European artifacts have also been uncovered on the mainland. For instance a small terra cotta head called the “Roman” Tecaxic-Calixlahauca exhibits a beard and other European-like features not found in Native Americans. Discovered in 1933 in the Toluca Valley southwest of Mexico City, this artifact was in a burial offering underneath three intact floors of a precolonial building dating between 1476 and 1510. Studied by Roman art authority Bernard Andreae, director emeritus of the German Institute of Archeology in Rome, Italy, and the Austrian anthropologist Robert von Heine-Geldern, both confirm the style is compatible with small Roman sculptures of the second century AD. The head was subsequently thermoluminescence dated to between 870 and 1270 BCE, suggesting it could have been brought there some 3,200 years ago.
Other pre-Columbian artifacts in America exhibit clear Vedic influence. The Fuente Magna Bowl in Peru and Pokotia Monolith in Bolivia both exhibit proto-Sumerian writing. Unexplained Greek Eleusinian Amphora patterns have also been found in Incan pottery. It seems that every day more evidence of transatlantic voyages is found.
In 1984 over 300 artifacts were found in La Maná, Ecuador, bearing concentric cymatic patterns, inlaid Vedic designs, and Sanskrit text. Known as the Resonance Mandala
s, these and many other discoveries are proving that ancient transatlantic voyages were indeed made by people from the Mediterranean, bringing with them their art, language, and religious culture. Of all the evidence to support early Vedic influence, the best may yet be the stepped pyramid temples of the Native Americans.
In Guatemala, the Mayan pyramid of Tikal not only resembles many Indian temples, such as the Brihadeshwara Meru Temple in Thanjavur, but also has the same name as the Sanskrit word for temple—a vatica or tikal. Can it be mere chance that two entirely separate civilizations would choose the same word for their temples?
The oldest and most perplexing temple in the Americas is the one at Caral dating back to 2600 BC. Located about a hundred kilometers north of Lima, Peru, in an agronomical “no-go area” where hardly anything grows, twenty-five large ceremonial sites have recently been found that include stepped pyramids built a century before the Great Pyramid of Giza. The people who built these pyramids in Peru predate the Incan civilization by some 4,000 years. Who exactly built these structures? Why did they build them in such a remote area, and where did they come from?
Since the Phoenician civilization did not begin until around 1550 BC, we have no choice but to accept the existence of transatlantic voyages and colonization by a pre-Phoenician Vedic civilization beginning 1,200 years earlier. So it seems that as the Aryans were migrating into North Africa and Mesopotamia, a missionary project to America also began.
The Lost Continent
A century ago most scholars believed human civilization originated in a lost continent either in the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans. Known as Mu, Lemuria, or Atlantis, many believed the lost continent had been a land bridge between East and West, submerged long ago by some cataclysm. But with the rise of tectonic plate theory, the theory of evolution, and genetic testing during the twentieth century, this theory has been proven improbable and abandoned. Since then the question has remained open as to the origin and meaning of these legends.
Augustus Le Plongeon, a nineteenth-century archeologist and Freemason researcher, found Mayan writings that told the story of an ancient continent. Naming this continent Mu from a translation of the Troano Codex by Charles Bourbourg in 1864, he identified it as the lost land of Atlantis. The Atlantis legend can be traced back to the fourth century BC, when Plato wrote about it in his Timaeus. Even then it was an old legend about a continent that had sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.
These stories parallel yet another lost continent legend known as Lemuria. First introduced through the work of occultist Helena Blavatsky in the 1880s, she claims to have learned about this through channeled messages from the Mahatmas or Ascended Brotherhood (more on this later).
Described in her Book of Dzyan about ancient pre-Atlanteans, Blavatsky describes a complex cosmology involving seven “root races” and certain metaphysical forces that caused the submerging of Lemuria and the rise of Atlantis. This story was later repeated in the early twentieth century by theosophists William Scott-Elliot, Charles Leadbeater, and James Bramwell, the latter of which proposed the Lemurians as the ancestors of the Aryan race.
In recent years, a number of independent researchers have proposed several locations as the possible source for these lost-continent legends. Unfortunately none of them seem to fit the descriptions we have nor are they large enough to be considered a continent. There is, however, one other much more likely explanation for the lost-continent legend that I will propose here.
Rather than assuming some missing continent sank into the ocean, why not consider it as a distant memory of ancient transatlantic voyages to America? After all, this is the only explanation compatible with the geological evidence, underwater ruins, and dislocated artifacts.
It is really not difficult to imagine how the lost-continent legend could have started in the ancient Phoenician settlements on the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa. As these islands lie along the same favorable sea route taken by Columbus on his first voyage, ancient Phoenicians or their earlier Vedic ancestors probably sailed to the Americas along this path, perhaps in search of their sacred mountain. Finding land, this would become Meru.
There are a number of reasons to suspect America is the lost continent of Meru. First the names for Mu and Lemuria do bear a striking resemblance to the Sanskrit word Meru. Second the description of Meru in the Vedas describes it as a transcendental mountain emerging from the sea, not unlike a continent emerging over the horizon after a long voyage. Ancient peoples could easily have described the American continents as “submerged” and “underneath” the Atlantic Ocean. And finally since Meru was believed to be at the center of the world, would this not describe America between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
More than likely, the lost continent legend is simply descended from an ancient mariner’s tale. For Vedic Phoenician sailors, the top of wonderful Meru was the pole star.35 Also known as the North Star, it was central to a mariner’s survival since it provided a stationary reference to maintain heading and successfully navigate the seas. This star and the pattern of stars rotating around it would have been a topic of great concern to these sailors and central to most any story told on the long and treacherous voyage to a submerged continent. To Vedic sailors, America would have been at the center of the world and the lost continent of Meru.
From the stories of ancient mariners, the legend of the lost continent must have circulated along trade routes, becoming more fantastic with every telling. Named Amurru after the Akkadian god and holy land east of Egypt, the story would have passed through many generations of Vedic Phoenicians to reach Plato. Renaming it Atlantis, after the Greek Titan Atlas underneath the Atlantic, it was a sailor’s blend of Vedic cosmology and the American continent.
To the Phoenicians, it was the Promised Land of gold. It was where the plumed serpent lived and where the Phoenix could be reborn from its Cosmic Egg. This was the navel of the world and the fountain of youth where men could be reborn. This was the real lost continent, far beyond the Pillars of Hercules at the bottom of the sea.
The Lost Tribe
In The Templar Revelation by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, the Sinclair family of Rosslyn is described as having descended from the Jewish lines of David and Aaron, who escaped from Jerusalem around the time of the fall of the Hebrew Temple. Other European royal families also claim this bloodline, including the d’Anjou family, the Hapsburg dynasty of Prussia, House of Lorraine in France, the Medici family in Italy, and many others. Virtually all of the royal families in Europe claim descent in one way or another from the Jewish Davidic line or “vine,” theoretically making them related to the family of Jesus Christ.
However this is quite unlikely and was instead a cover story for a more embarrassing descent from the so-called Lost Tribe of Israel. The true story of the blue bloods begins with King Dagobert I, one of a long line of Frankish kings known as the Merovingians, who claimed to be descended from the mythical King Merovech. According to this legend, Merovech’s father was the sea-god Neptuni, a Quinotaur sea monster described as having the head of a bull with five horns.
In reality, the mythical Quinotaur is an Indo-European version of a much more ancient Indic mythical creature known as Apam Napat, the “grandson of the water.” He was considered a fire god of the sea and father of other sea gods, including the Etruscan god Nethuns, Celtic Nechtan, and Roman Neptune. The legendary birth of Merovech from the sea parallels Vedic Shukra, the “bright light” of Venus who is born out of the eastern ocean as the protector of Meru. Thus an alternative and more revealing spelling of this royal name might be Meru-vingian, meaning “vine of Meru.”
While the Merovingian family liked to tell the story of their cosmological birth, the true story can be traced back to 414 AD with the king of the Salian Franks named Chlodio, the Long-Haired King. According to some scholars, he was descended from the Siunia Dynasty that ruled Syunik beginning in the first century. These rulers then belonged to an Armenian family descended from a King Sisak whose
homeland was the Syunik Province centered on Mount Ararat and Lake Sevan, one of the Seas of Armenia.
Here again is a connection to the Aryan homeland, the Rig-Veda, and the seven seas of Meru. The dynastic names Salian or Siunia are in fact a reference to salt and the sea, linking the Siunia dynasty back to the Vedic sea legend of Meru. So where then did this royal bloodline legend get its start? Scholars suggest it began with a tribe of Jews from northern Israel known as the Danites.
According to the Hebrew Torah, the Danite tribe originally occupied the territory closest to the northern and eastern borders of Canaan (or Amurru), thus exposing them to Assyria and the Arameans (Armenians). Their goal was to occupy the coastal area of Canaan, including Joppa. But due to their enmity with the Philistines, who had already settled there, they were forced to begin migrating northward. Then as the Assyrians finally overran their territory, the Danites were exiled and fled in mass to the north. In the process their tribal history was destroyed, and they became known as the Lost Tribe of Israel.
According to British Israelism, the Danites migrated to Europe through Assyria, reaching as far north as Danmark (Denmark) and centering in Armenia, the ancient birthplace of the Rig-Veda. Now Armenia is where the Merovingians founded their first kingdom, making them likely descendents of the Dan tribe. Thus the Merovingians and European royal families all probably receive their Jewish heritage and divine bloodline from the Danites—not the Davidic line as most believe.
There is other evidence to support a Danite descent. The most famous Danite was Sampson of the Bible, well known to have had long hair believed to give him strength. Long hair was also a tradition of all Merovingian kings, as they too claimed it gave them special powers of intuition, such as the ability to talk to animals. This Danite-Merovingian tradition stems from a biblical passage of an angel telling the parents of Sampson: “Cut not thy hair and no bullet or blade can harm thee.”
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