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  • Dr. Stone’s Easy To Read Encyclopedia of Ascension


    Dr. Stone’s Easy To Read Encyclopedia of Ascension


    From Ascending Times magazine Issue #3, posted by John Winston (John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com) Feb 5, 1995:

    The article is called Dr. Stone’s Easy To Read Encyclopedia of ASCENSION by Joshua David Stone, Ph.D. This article was extracted from Dr. Joshua David Stone’s newly published book, “The Complete Ascension Manual”.

    When I first got started on The Path many of the people asked me if I had read about Edgar Cayce and I told them that I hadn’t. Finally after so many did ask me this question, I did read such books as There Is A River and others. Let me be the first to tell you that when they told me the information was good, they were telling the truth. I will now put down some information that sounds a lot like the way he would explain something. He always had an odd way of explaining our past history. Sometime it’s not exactly literal but it is one way of looking at things. I hope you will become a fan of his. He is now on the other side.

    The following story of creation is quite an amazing, and often unbelievable story. I just want to qualify this chapter by saying that I didn’t make any of this up myself. All of this information comes directly out of the universal mind channelings of Edgar Cayce, and other sources such as Djwhal Khul, Ruth Montogomery, The Tibetan Foundation and other similar types of channelings. The amazing thing is that all these different sources tell a basically similar story, so I know that I am very much on the mark, although some of it may be quite surprising to some readers.

    In the beginning was this one source of light, the one presence, called GOD. God, In His great joy and love, had a desire to create, to express himself. From this undifferentiated state God created suns, moons, galaxies, universes and He liked what He had created. Something however, was missing – companionship. God wanted to create self conscious beings who could share His joy of creation. Out of the infinity of God came trillions of sparks of light made in His image.

    Out of this expression also came Amilius, the light, the first expression of the Divine mind; the first manifestation of spirit. All souls were created in the beginning and all souls were androgynous. The unique thing about our cretion was the aspect of free choice.

    In our creation we went jetting out into the universe creating like God creates, with our mind and extending God’s kingdom. We were perfect, and this was the Edenic state. In our travels through the infinity of God, we discovered the physical or material universe and we were intrigued, for in the beginning we didn’t have physical bodies, but rather just spiritual bodies.

    Then we began projecting a part of ourselves into, let’s say the earth, to explore the beauty of matter. There was, in actuality, nothing wrong with this, for the entire infinite universe was a playground of sorts. We began projecting a part of ourselves into a tree to see what a tree was like. Then we would project ourselves into a rock to see what that was like, then into an animal to experience what it was like to eat grass and interrelate with other animals.

    In each case we would do this and then we would leave and project ourselves back into the spiritual planes. We would also, then, with the incredible power of our minds create thought forms of animals, through the power of our imagination. These thought forms would begin to densify and we would inhabit these thought form creatures like we would an animal that had already been created.

    This was all fine until that moment in creation which the bible refers to as the fall of man. It was in this moment that we forgot who we were, because of our over-identification with the material universe. We got caught in the density of matter and thought we were the animals or thought form animal creatures we had created.

    In falling under the illusion that we were material instead of spiritual in identity, began the downward spiral of creation. In this moment “ego” began. Ego being a thought system and philosophy based on the illusionary belief in separation, fear, selfishness’, and death.

    This phenomena of souls getting more and more deeply caught up in the illusion of matter continued at an alarming rate. Amilius (an incarnation of Jesus) and other higher beings who had not fallen, knew that something had to be done to help their fellow brothers and sisters, for man was continuing to create a conglomeration of monstrosities to satisfy his out of control desire.

    He created cyclopes, satyrs, centars, unicorns, animal bodies with human heads, beings with hooves, claws, feathers, wings and tails. Man had become trapped in the grotesque bodies that were not suitable for sons and daughters of God. Man even created the first female whose name was Lilith, the forerunner of Eve. This projection was created to again satisfy his selfish carnal desires.

    The plan that God and the God force created to rectify this situation was the creation of five physical races on the five continents of the planet. Each race was a different skin color. Each skin color was not better than another, but rather was for the different climate conditions. Certain skin colors were better for certain climates.

    The plan was that all those souls who had gotten caught up in matter would use these more perfectly fitted human bodies to incarnate into, that were more fitting to a son and daughter of God. So man did not descend from monkeys as the evolutionist would suggest, we were created.

    After the creation of the five races there were 133 million souls on the earth. The red race lived in Atlantis and America. The brown race in the Andes and Lemuria. The yellow race in the Gobi Desert of East Asia, and the black race was in the Sudan and the upper West Africa. The white race in Iran along the Black Sea and the Carpathian Mountains of Central Europe.

    The basic plan that God created was reincarnation, that souls would incarnate into these human, rather than animal bodies to reawaken to their true identity as God beings and learn to demonstrate this on earth and hence begin their accent back to the Creator.

    This act of creation occurred 10 1/2 million years ago. The animal influences created by the fall, and the initial thought form projections of animals, didn’t completely disappear from the earth until around 9,000 B.C. Remnants of these pathetic creatures were later depicted in our mythology and in Assyrian and Egyptian art.

    Another factor that added into these grotesque animal creations was the fact in these earliest of times that human beings were able to procreate with the animal species and with these grotesque beings. After human souls separated into male and female, God imposed divine laws making it impossible for human beings to produce offspring’s with another species.

    Amilius (the first incarnation of Jesus Christ), Himself descended into matter and became the first Adam upon the creation of the five first root races. Adam was the first of the perfected race. The first of the sons of God as opposed to what the Bible refers to as the daughters of men. Adam was an individual, but also a symbol of all five races as was Eve.


    Sanat Kamara, our planetary logos incarnated into this planet at this time. We are currently living in the Aryan root race. This term was completely distorted by Hitler and Nazi Germany, so please don’t think of it in those terms. The Aryan race has been in existence for over a million years and will continue for some time more.

    The Meruvian root race is just beginning to come into play, so there is kind of an overlapping of root races going on. The name of the seventh root is the Paradisian.

    I would also like to add that Dywhal Khul has told me that the first two races, the Polarian and Hyperboean are often referred to a the Pre-Lemurian root race. This is also how the Tibetan Foundation has referenced them. This is because the first two races were not completely physical, as we understand physicality.

    Tara, the continent for the final seventh root race is a continent that has not emerged yet from the ocean floor in the distant future. The Polarian, or first root race had huge filamentous bodies, and were more etheric than physical. They were also totally sexless. They multiplied by a process of what scientists refer to as fission or budding. For this reason they were basically immortal. They have been called the “Archetypal race”. Their bodies were more gaseous in nature, which is a good way to describe them.

    The Hyperborena or second root race were similar to the first, however they slowly but surely began the process of materializing more. Dywhal Khul and the Tibetan Foundation has often just called these two root races “Prelemurian”, because they weren’t totally physicalized as the Lemurian or third root race was. Human beings, as we know them, began with this third root race.

    When human life first manifested on earth in these first two races the only dry land was at the north pole. The rest of the earth was covered with water. This polar continent looked like a skull cap on the head of the earth. This is the only continent that will never submerge under water in the entire manvantara, or world cycle of all seven root races. One other interesting point was that Lemuria was called the “land of Shalmali” at the time it existed.

    It is also important to understand that the seven root races all have seven subraces. This makes a total of 49 subraces in a manvantara. An example of this would be in our present Aryan root race. The Hindu began 62,000 years ago. The Arabian 42,000 years ago. The Iranian 32,000 years ago. The Keltic 22,000 year ago. The Teutonic 22,000 years ago. The sixth and seventh subraces of the Aryan root race are evolving in America and in a continent that will be arising in the Pacific Ocean. To make God’s plan even more intricate, every subrace has seven family races, which I am not going to get into.

    PRE-LEMURIAN HISTORY.

    There were two great avatars that came in these early Pre-Lemurian times. The first avatar focused on the earth an energy of spiritual attunement. He came forth as a scientist, through a highly developed civilization. His message was to blend the scientific and the spiritual understandings. Humanity didn’t accept His message at this time. They weren’t ready for it. So this great teacher left. He has since returned into that full fledged cocreator state.

    Another great avatar was sent to earth at a later pre-Lemurian time. He was a very tall man and He was fond of wearing a silver robe. He was the first great teacher that really made an impact on the earth. His name was “Lo Chi”. Lo Chi anchored courage, wisdom and love in their beginning stages. He took a war torn civilization and began to build a spiritual community, and temples all over the land. At the end of His reign a mass ascension took place.

    The next great teacher that came changed His approach and stressed the emotional qualities and occupations rather than the scientific as the first avatar had. Some of the greatest art was produced, however the scientific side of society began to shut down. In a sense, a pendulum swing took place, from a more masculine to a more feminine based society. Great strides were made in art, music and dance, but the mental creativity and potency was not there because of this pendulum swing. This began to change over a long period of time and became more balanced and another mass ascension took place.

    Vywanus has called these two previous mass ascensions a period of spiritual harvesting. He says that we are again approaching a harvesting time in this century. This has to do with the Planetary Logos. Sanat Kumara in His cosmic evolution has reached another plateau. Each time He reaches one of these plateaus it is time for “harvesting of souls, or mass ascension.”

    We are currently completing a six thousand, twelve thousand and thirty six thousand year cycle. Each time more than one cycle comes together that period is extremely important. We are in that period now. This harvesting window is approximately 100 years. The end of this one hundred year cycle is from 1995 to the year 2000. The closer to the end of this one hundred year cycle the greater the harvesting. To be incarnated at this time in history is a very great opportunity!

    THE ELECTRICAL WARS.

    It was also in this Pre-Lemurian period that the planet earth was attacked by another group of beings from another planet who wanted to take it over, called the “Electrical one”. Humanity began to defend itself, and this war lasted for 500 years. Earthlings eventually won this battle. The electrical ones were not really evil, but rather simply scientists looking for a new place to live. They came from a very great distance. This war is part of the fear of space ships that still exists to this day in the race consciousness. For these electrical ones took people and animals aboard space ships and did painful experiments on them. A lot of our present day fixations and patterns of attack defense programming stems from this period in the earth’s history.

    The electrical ones were actually seeking to bring their technology of light to the planet to aid in the trip back to the Source. Humanity and the earth, however, were moving towards greater material density. This was not a negative thing on the part of the earth. The earth was saying that we want to learn everything we can within the densest part of physicality.

    A truce was finally declared after 500 years of war and many of the electrical ones left promising to return when the earth was ready. Some stayed in specific areas given to them. The electrical ones stimulated an impatience for this downward materialistic cycle.

    LEMURIA.

    Lemuria or Mu was a land mass lying in the Pacific Ocean, that extended from the part of the United States all the way to South America. The Lemurian stage of existence had to do with the race consciousness learning the lesson of physical attunement. Humanity as a whole progresses in stages, and physical attunement was the key lesson during this period of history.

    The Lemurians were very philosophical and spiritual people. Much more so than the Atlantean civilization which was much more technologically advanced and focused.

    At this period of history great dinosaurs roamed the earth and because of this the Lemurians, to a great extent, had to live underground. They lived in caves hiding from the dinosaurs except to hunt for food. They would make beautifully and artistically decorated caves. The Lemurians were rather small physically. Men were five feet and women a few inches shorter. The survival rate of children was not very high. They lived on grain, berries and fruit.


     

  • History of the Golden Ages


    History of the Golden Ages

    Dedicated to the creators of the future Golden Age…
    Left to humanity as a vision of the future of Planet Earth…

    by EN-MAR – Steve Omar

    From The House of David Teaching Center


    “This is probably the greatest discovery in World history” was stated by Maxine Asher, the co-director of a scientific expedition that found Atlantis at the bottom of the ocean reported United Press International (UPI) and major newspapers in the United States during the summer of 1973. UPI continued that “Maxine Asher said that scuba divers found data to prove the existence of the super-civilization which legend says sank beneath the sea thousands of years ago”…”the divers had found evidence of roads and large columns some with concentric spiral motifs, in the exact place described by the Greek philosopher Plato” (beyond the Pillars o Hercules, off Spain).

    “The group of some 70 scientists, teachers and adventurers was endorsed by Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, CA.” The information is NOT based on any New Age channeling or psychic recall or manifestations. It is primarily based on many ancient writings found around the world.

    RUINS
    1. City on the bottom of Atlantic Ocean off Spain, found by Dr. Maxine Asher’s expedition in 1973 and reported by UPI Asher was Interviewed and evidence was Witnessed by Steve Omar, director of the M.I.N.D. International Research Agency,Maui, Hawaii.

    2. Pyramid explored by Dr. Ray Brown on the sea floor off the Bahamas in 1970. Brown was accompanied by 4 divers who also found roads, domes, rectangular buildings, unidentified metallic instruments, and a statue holding a mysterious” crystal containing miniature pyramids. The metal devices and crystals were taken to Florida for analysis at a university there. What was discovered was that the crystal amplified energy that passed through it. Brown interviewed by M.I.N.D.

    3. Ruins of roads and buildings found off Bimini Island in the 1960s by the photographed and published expeditions of Dr. Manson Valentine. Steven Forsberg, co-founder of the Lahaina Times newspaper dove into these ruins in 1982 to witness them first hand. Similar ruins were also photographed off Cay Sal in the Bahamas. The ruins are of the same construction as the oldest city ever found on land, according to archaeologists, in Tiajuanaco, Bolivia where a calendar was uncovered that shows the exact position of the stars and planets 27,000 years ago. This is more than 20,000 years BEFORE the oldest civilizations in school history books!

    4. Similar underwater ruins found off Morocco and photographed 50 to 60 feet underwater.

    5. Dr. David Zink found in 1957, off the Bahamas coast, a stylized marble head building block cast in a mold and a construction piece drilled by a bit, as well as a stone column that he reported radiated energy. Forsberg of M.I.N.D. interviewed Dr. Zink and obtained the photographs.

    6. A ruined harbor like complex discovered on the sea floor off Bimini by Captain John Alexander.

    7. The deep sea diving submarine Aluminaut discovered a well preserved paved road on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean make of black top magnesium oxide, running along the sea floor from Florida South Carolina.

    8. Temple pillars buildings, statues, wide curving boulevards with smaller avenues branching out like spokes in a wheel, majestic temples and pyramids videotaped by Captain Reyes Miranga on the Spanish named salvage ship “Talia.”

    9. A huge 11 room pyramid found 10,000 feet under water in the mid Atlantic Ocean with a huge crystal top, as reported by Tony Benik.

    10. Several acres of white marble-like ruins found on tile ocean floor off Cuba reported by Liecesaer Hemingway.

    11. Mysterious dome structures reportedly seen in clear water by several pilots in the Straits of Florida.

    12. Soviet expeditions to Atlantic Ampere Seamount resulted in photographs of ruins destroyed by lava (like the Aztecs and Mayans wrote Atlan was destroyed by.) This discovery was in the New York Times newspaper May 21, 1978.The photos were developed by the Academy’s Petrovsky Marakuyev and reported by the deputy Director of the Soviet Academy of Science’s Institute of Oceanography, Professor Aksyonove, who also reported ruins found off Cadiz, Spain in the same area as Dr. Maxine Asher’s previous discovery.

    13. 1981 expedition of P. Cappellano discovered mysterious ruins with strange symbols on them on the sea floor off the Canary Islands.

    14. 1977 report of a huge pyramid found off cay Sal in the Bahamas, photographed by Ari Marshall’s expedition, about 150 feet underwater. The pyramid was about 650 feet high. Mysteriously, the surrounding water was lit by sparkling white water flowing out of the openings in the pyramid and surrounded by green water, instead of the black water everywhere else at that depth.

    15. An urn brought to the surface by Dr. Aher’s expedition.

    16. The foundations of a 100 by 75 foot structure photographed on the sea bottom off Andros Island.

    17. A sunken city about 400 miles of Portugal found by Soviet expeditions led by Boris Asturua, with buildings made of extremely strong concrete and plastics. He said , “the remains of streets suggests the use of monorails for transportation.” He added that he brought up a statue.

    18. A six foot column or spire protruding from a double circular gear-like base embedded in the ocean floor, with peculiar light emanations from the bottom of the shaft showing up in photos taken by Dr. William Bell in 1958.

    19. Pillars found on the Atlantic floor in 1969 by Robert Fero and Michael Grumley, a chunk of which was carved from rock NOT found anywhere in that part of the world.

    20. A road off the Bahamas explored by Dr. Manson Valentine.

    21. Dimitri Rebikoff, using his underwater platform and a special collecting lens, reported ruins found encircling an underwater freshwater spring.

    22. Marble Acropolis underwater across five acres of fluted columns raised on pillars.

    23. Heinrich Schilemann, the man who found and excavated the famous ruins of Troy (which historians thought was only a legend), reportedly left a written account of his discovery of a bronze vase with a metal unknown to scientists who examined it, in the famous Priam Treasure. Inside it are glyphs in Phoenician stating that it was from King Chronos of Atlantis! IDENTICAL potter was found in Tiajuanaco, Bolivia.

    24. Twenty researchers, including archaeologists, a marine biologist, geologist, and cartographer dived onto ruins on the sea floor off Bimini in 1975 and brought back artifacts from which they concluded that the walls and roads were made of materials not found in that part of the world.

    Plato and others wrote that Atlantis was a huge continent like Africa, stretching across the Atlantic. The Aztecs, Mayans and Incas and other Indian tribes told explorers of the sunken Atlan in the Atlantic and the sunken MU (Lemuria) in the Pacific.

    In the Pacific, ruins of an ancient city were explored on the ocean floor off Ponape Island. Another was found underwater 30 miles off Easter Island. A ruined road on Karotonga Island goes into the ocean, runs underwater for many miles, and comes out of the ocean on another island in a straight line! Professor Menzies, from Duke University, photographed a ruined civilization on the sea bottom between Peru and Tahiti with unknown hieroglyphics on a column. Monolithic ruins from a lost civilization were found on a haft dozen South Pacific Islands, which are said to be Lemurian mountain peaks above water.

    MAP EVIDENCE

    1. Professor Charles Hapgood, Professor of Geology at New Hampshire University reported that a large unknown Atlantic Island appears on an ancient map (the famous Piri re is a map seen on TV and in dozens of books.)

    2. An ancient map that King Henry owned in 1500 A.D. clearly shows Atlantis.

    3. Greek documents and maps showing Atlantis that Christopher Columbus studied before he set sail for America, including the 1482 Benincasa Map showing 3 Atlantis islands that no longer exist!

    ANCIENT WRITINGS ABOUT ATLANTIS

    1. Plato wrote a detailed account of Atlantis with its location, later history culture, and destruction.

    2. Ancient writings from the Aztecs and Mayans like the Chilam Balam, Dresden Codex, Popuhl Vuh, Codex Cortesianus, and Troano Manuscript were also translated into histories of the destruction of Atlantis and Lemuria.

    3. The Oera Linda Book from Holland is said to be one of the oldest books ever found. Adela tells of the destruction of the large Atlantic island by earthquakes and tidal waves.

    4. The ancient Greek historian Diodorus wrote that thousands of years earlier Phoenicians had been to the immense Atlantic island (where Plato wrote Atlantis was.)
    (Note that Phoenician hieroglyphics have been found on numerous ruins in the South American Jungles that are so ancient that the “white” Indian tribes nearby lost memory of who built these ruins.) Diodorus wrote that the Atlanteans had WAR with the Amazonians!

    5. The Greek Kantor reported visiting Egypt where they saw a marble column carved with hieroglyphics about Atlantis.

    6. Greek historian Ammianus Marcellinus wrote about the destruction of Atlantis (he was highly respected.)

    7. Proculus visited the islands off Africa (Canaries or Azores) where the natives told him of the destruction of Atlantis around 450 A.D. long before that date.

    8. Plutarch wrote about the lost continent in his book “Lives.”

    9. Herodotus, regarded by some as the greatest historians of the ancients, wrote about the mysterious island civilization in the Atlantic and a city on it located in the region the Dr. Asher expedition found just that!

    10. The Greek historian Timagenus wrote of the war between Atlantis and Europe and said tribes in ancient France said that was their original home. (Note that clear bright paintings in caves in France clearly show people wearing 20th century clothing: one painting led to an underground pyramid complex. French historian and archaeologist Robert Charroux dated them at 15,000 B.C.

    11. Claudius Aelianus referred to Atlantis in his 3rd century work, “The Nature of Animals.”

    12. Theopompos (Greek historian) wrote of the huge size of Atlantis and it’s cities of Machimum and Eusebius and a golden age free from disease and manual labor.

    13. James Churchward wrote several volumes of books documenting ancient writings he claims to have translated in Southeast Asia concerning Atlantis and Mu, while geologist William Niven claimed to have excavated identical tablets in Mexico.

    14. Dr. George Hunt Williamson, who authored several books on his Atlantean- Lemurian research in the 1950’s, was an anthropologist explorer once listed in Who’s Who in America. Williamson wrote how descendants of the Incas led him to an ancient manuscript in a temple in the Andes Mountains that told of the destruction of Atlantis and Mu, which had an advanced technology, by earthquake and tidal waves. Williamson also visited dozens of Indian tribes in the United States and Mexico that told him of Atlantis and Mu, including the Hopi Indians.

    15. Tablet from Lhasa. Tibet and also from Easter Island. It is clear from ancient writings that belief in Atlantis was common and accepted in Greece, Egypt, and Mayax (Mayan and Aztec Empires) by historians. The Basques of Spain, the Gauls of France, the tribes of the Canary and Azores islands, a tribe in Holland, and dozens of Indian tribes all speak of their origins in a large lost and sunken Atlantic land. Belief in the large sunken? ????

    Human footprints and shoe prints, a perfectly engineered cube, Jewelry, a pre- historic animal with a hole in its skull that scientists admit only a bullet could make, a remnant of a screw, and other modern artifacts have been found in layered rock strata geologists admit formed on these objects MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO! All of these discoveries were printed in public daily news papers when they occurred, and left out books simply because historians could not explain them with THEIR theories.

    Most all ancient civilizations believed in the TITANS, the race of giant humans that inhabited Earth long ago. Different races knew them by different names. These 7 to 12 foot humanoids were thought to be legendary until the excavation of over a dozen skeletons 8 to 12 feet tall, around the world, shook archaeologists. These skeletons were positively human. Some of these skeletal remains are on Maui in lava caves near Ulupalakua and Olowalu. The Spanish Conquistadors left diaries of wild blond-haired, blue-eye 8 to 12 foot high men running around in the Andes during the conquest of the Incas. A couple were reportedly captured but died en route to Europe. If giant animals (dinosaurs) were possible then why not giant men?

    The Germans and the Nordic Scandinavians spoke of a vanished continent in the North Atlantic ocean called Thule with the civilization of HYPERBOREA located on it. THULE reported stretched into what is now the northern polar ice cap where it is buried underneath miles of ice so we cannot see it.

    HISTORY IS A REPETITION OF GOLDEN AGES FOLLOWED BY THE ENDS OF EMPIRES.

    In the dawn of time, a civilization would begin and advance to greatness, only to be destroyed.

    Humanity would then regress back to primitive conditions and have to begin all over again. Little trace of the former empire would remain. Ancient historian stated that civilization has been completely destroyed at least 5 times, either by water or fire. The devastation came either in the form of volcanic earth- quakes or a comet (fire) and earthquakes and tidal waves (water). The last END OF AN AGE came with a combination of fire and water combined with man’s inhumanity to man. Waters that are NOW oblivion had become tombs of ice, glaciers buried whole cities.

    THE REASON FOR WRITING THE EARTH HISTORY IS TO RE-STATE: IT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN!

    Geologists around the world agree that the ice in Alaska and most other polar lands in the north were tropical thousands of years ago. Many plants, fish and animals native to subtropical climates have been found frozen beneath the Arctic glaciers. Coral and palm trees are frozen in Alaska. Frozen animals were found devouring tropical vegetation, found crushed in herds in the positions of running from some cataclysmic disaster that occurred INSTANTLY. Scientists now have proof that the North Pole has shifted its position several times by many thousands of miles! What was once tropical is now ice cap! What was once glaciers is now the tropics! Here in 1990, EXPERTS AGREE that this reversal will occur WITHIN THE NEXT FIFTY (50) YEARS OR LESS!

    If our cities were buried by ice thousands of feet thick weighing billions of tons, our scientists agree that it would grind them to dust beyond recognition, accompanied by thousands of years of rust and rot…to dust. Is that what happened to the THULE civilization spoken of by so many ancients?

    Many famous writers, like Diodorus Pliny, and Virgil wrote about THULE, a land the Greeks knew existed before their time. They described Thule in the, North Atlantic as warm and green surrounded by high mountains, known for breathtakingly beautiful women. The race reportedly was blonde with blue eyes, the men were exceptionally handsome, although some writers spoke of a violet skinned race with golden hair, that ruled these people (that could have genetically died out and became extinct with the dinosaurs.) The ancients agreed that the

    HYPERBOREAN RACE was tall and in excellent physical condition, and some told of how they conquered the aging process and looked youthful in old age. They were reportedly vegetarians and fruitarians who lived in harmony with nature. Although several ancient writers firmly believed in Thule, historians of the Middle Ages, who had no evidence that the north was once warm and therefore inhabited, naturally censored it out of the history books we inherited! Today’s science KNOWS that the far north was once tropical!

    The South Polar continent of Antarctica was also once ice free, and that fact is clearly shown on the ancient Piri-ries Map seen displayed on television documentaries, which show mountain ranges not discovered until the 1940’s! That map could ONLY have been made BEFORE the ice cap! Even the Eskimos speak of the warm lands in the north that was the cradle of civilization as they knew it.

    A German archaeologist, Jurgen Spanuth, wrote that he went to Egypt, where he deciphered some hieroglyphics telling of a Lost Empire in the North. In 1953, Jurgen found ruins of an ancient city of unknowns on the bottom of the North Sea, and he produced photographic evidence!

    During the 1920-30’s, German researchers who were exploring ancient Nordic writings became believers in the lost continent of Thule, and the race of Super men who had existed then during a glorious Golden Age. They were convinced that the Supermen were genetically and culturally the most advanced race in world history, and convinced professors and historians believed that the Hyperboreans had telepathic and cosmic powers, had been destroyed by ice, and that humanity had degenerated.

    When Borman, Hitler and his central aides heard this research, they theorized that the Nordic Aryan race in Germany had descended from the Supermen who had once ruled the planet, and therefore the Aryans were the superior race. Hitler mated the ideology that the Third Reich of the Arian Nazis were the return of the Super Race for a future Golden Age.

    Remember that Nazi science in the 1930’s and 40’s was, in many ways, more advanced than in the United States and other nations. The Nazis had rockets, Jet planes, radar, and many weapons BEFORE any other country…and had superior submarines and the first freeways!

    In 1945 they were experimenting with real flying saucers that were destroyed in Allied bombings, and the inventors burned the blueprints. The conquering Allies were astounded to find crude but working saucers and tried to reproduce them in strict (yet unsuccessful) secrecy, while captured German rocket scientists invented the U.S. Space Program! Yet even more shocking was the diaries of Nazi leaders who seriously based their world plans on literature about Thule, psychic powers, Atlantis and ancient supermen!

    The founders of the Nazis believed that they were destined to create the new Super Race that would rule this planet in the future Golden Age. The Nazi leaders were convinced that all of history was in cycles, consisting of golden ages followed by disasters. Hitler stated that the repetition of history required that to recreate the supermen who had come and gone, the Nazis must exterminate all of the inferior races they believed inhabited the planet. It was their belief that it was the destiny of the Nazis, in the universal plan, to manifest the Age of Aquarius and a new race. They believed Earth was near the end of a Cycle when all nations would again be destroyed…by a polar shift, earthquakes, fire and tidal waves. The Nazis had plans to survive in under- ground cities in South America, as they believed the Atlanteans had, those who rounded the Aztecs, Incas and Mayans. The Nazis transferred millions of dollar of their gold and secret armies and many scientists to a remote region in Argentina to survive. The infamous genetic experiments on prisoners in Nazi concentration camps were attempts to manipulate genes to create and breed the New Race, which was to be founded by blond, blue-eyed Nazi SS troops.

    Hitler sent generals and SS agents to the Himalayan Mountains to try to learn the yogi techniques of mind-over matter for the New Race (details can be found in book entitled “Morning of the Magicians.”)

    We are not sure how long ago Thule was destroyed. Some ancient writers claim Hyperboreans became so highly evolved over thousands of years that they became transparent beings (is this the teleportation which our own scientists admit will be possible in the future?) We do know that a beautiful chalice made of zinc and silver with intricate inlaid flower designs all “over it” was excavate 15 feet deep in solid rock that geologists confirm was solidified millions of years ago. In 1851, an engineered iron nail was found in Salzburg, Austria in a perfectly formed quartz crystal which geologists said solidified 12 million years ago.

    The Hitler Nazis could have done well with their advanced knowledge, yet they misused psychic powers, just like the Atlanteans had done!

    Special thanks to NewAge On-Line Australia for this and the following links
    (http://www.newage.com.au)


  • The Lost Continent of Atlantis


    The Lost Continent of Atlantis


    Plato gave the world the oldest remaining written account of Atlantis, in Critias, recorded circa 370 BC. By his account, Poseidon, god of the sea, sired five pairs of male twins with mortal women. Poseidon appointed the eldest of these sons, Atlas the Titan, ruler of his beautiful island domain. Atlas became the personification of the mountains or pillars that held up the sky. Plato described Atlantis as a vast island-continent west of the mediterranean, surrounded by the Atlantic ocean. The Greek word Atlantis means the island of Atlas, just as the word Atlantic means the ocean of Atlas. Atlantis was governed in peace, was rich in commerce, was advanced in knowledge, and held dominion over the surrounding islands and continents. By Plato’s legend, the people of Atlantis became complacent and their leaders arrogant; in punishment the Gods destroyed Atlantis, flooding it and submerging the island in one day and night.

    In a sense, Atlantis actually existed, and was indeed destroyed by the sea in a cataclysmic event, very plausibly lasting a day and a night. Plato’s account was wrong in several essential ways, but was derived from correct, if garbled, historical accounts. Plato’s writings embodied the now lost words of Solon, a Greek ruler who visited Egypt circa 590 BC. Plato’s account of Atlantis was thus a retelling of the story of Solon, who in turn told the stories that he had heard during his trip to Egypt.

    In Egypt, Solon heard of the ancient land of Keftiu, a island-nation named for holding one of the four pillars that supported the Egyptian sky. Keftiu was, according to the Egyptians, an advanced civilization that was the gateway to and ruler of all of the lands to the far west of Egypt. Keftiu traded in ivory, copper, and cloth. Keftiu supported hosts of ships and controlled commerce far beyond the Egyptians domain. By Egyptian record, Keftiu was destroyed by the seas in an apocalypse. Solon carried this story to Greece, and passed it to his son and grandson.

    Plato recorded and embellished the story from Solon’s grandson Critias the younger, translating the land of the pillars which held the sky (Keftiu) into the land of the titan Atlas. Keftiu-Atlantis was Egypt’s gateway to the “western” lands (Greece, Libya, and beyond), and was the home of a civilization that held dominion over the surrounding lands. But Plato mistook the location of Atlantis: Atlantis was not west of the Mediterranean, but was merely west of Egypt. Yet Plato preserved enough detail about the land of Atlantis that its identification is now unmistakeable. Plato never realized that the land of Atlantis was already familiar to him: Atlantis was the land of the Minoan culture, namely ancient Crete. The Minoan culture spread its dominion throughout the nearby islands of the Aegean, more than 1500 years BC.

    Crete, now part of Greece, was the capital for the Minoan people — an advanced civilization with language, commercial shipping, complex architecture, ritual and games. The Minoans were peaceful: very little evidence of military activity was found in their ruins. Daedalus, the ancient scientist, was the architect of the 4-storied palace at Knossos, said to be the capitol of the Minoan culture. At Knossos one can still find the ruins of the labyrinth that housed the legendary Minotaur, slewn by Thesius. Minoan culture extended across the island of Crete, with most of its developments along the northern coast of Crete. But after 800 years of dominance, the Minoan culture came to an abrupt end, circa 1470 BC.

    Correspondence of Minoan cultural artifacts with aspects of the Atlantis legend make the identity of the two seem virtually certain. Perhaps the most unusual of these is the Minoan bullfighting. By legend, the inhabitants of Keftiu would engage in ritualistic bullfighting, with unarmed Minoan bullfighters wrestling and jumping over uninjured bulls. This foolhardy practice is richly illustrated in remaining Minoan artwork. Legend also holds that Atlantis was peaceful — this is confirmed by a virtually complete absence of weapons in Minoan ruins and in Minoan artwork — unusual for peoples of that time. Egyptian legend held that elephants were found on Keftiu — while there were presumably no elephants on Crete, the Minoans were known to deal in ivory, and appear to have been the principal access to ivory for Egypt 20 centuries before Christ.

    But what of the fabled apocalypse which, according to the Egyptians, swallowed the Keftiu-Atlantis in one day and one night? This also has basis in historical fact. The trail of evidence leads to the small island of Santorini.

    Santorini (also known as Thera) lies 75 km north of Crete. Santorini was also a Minoan land, and ruins can be found throughout the island. A mountain lay at its center, probably about 1500 meters in height until approximately 1500 BC. This mountain was a volcano; eruptions began about 1500 BC, and smoldered until a final climax about 1470 BC. The volcano at Santorini was geologically similar to Krakotoa in composition, structure, and tectonic location; Santorini was about 4 times larger in diameter than Krakotoa, and probably somewhat more violent. The fury of its final explosion is inferred from geologic core samples, from comparison to the detailed observations made on Krakotoa in 1883, and from the simultaneous obliteration of almost all Minoan settlements.

    In summer, circa 1470, volcanic ash filled the sky, blotted out the sun, triggered hail and lightning, and rained down over the Aegean. Earthquakes shook the land, and stone structures fell from the motion. When the enormous magma chamber at Santorini finally collapsed to form the existing caldera, enormous tsunamis (tidal waves) spread outward in all directions. The coastal villages of Crete were flooded and destroyed. The only major Minoan structure surviving the waves and earthquakes was the palace at Knossos, far enough inland to escape the tidal waves. But in the days that followed, volcanic ash covered some settlements, and defoliated the island. In famine from the ash, with the bulk of their civilization washed away, the remaining Minoans were overrun by Mycenaeans from Greece, and Knossos finally fell.

    The island of Santorini is now the rim of the the volcano — the caldera is covered by the Aegean sea. Mounds of pumice and volcanic ash mark its center, where the volcano remains. New inhabitants of Santorini mine the volcanic ash to make cement — and still find ancient ruins under the stone. The ash is now the soil, olive and fruit trees cover the landscape, and former Atlantis is mostly buried. New inhabitants have rebuilt Crete, but the mute ruins of ancient Atlantis can still be seen.
    References

    This page is a summary of: J V Luce: The End of Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend, 1969, Thames and Hudson. Reprinted 1993 by Efstathiades Group.

    Copyright © 1996 Lakeshore Technologies Incorporated. All rights reserved


     

  • Trapped Essences


    Trapped Essences


    Joshua David Stone

    In an absolutely fascinating transcript from the Tibetan Foundation, Betty J. Dix channeled Ashtar on the subject of “trapped energy in the Earth.” In this transcript, Ashtar speaks of the later days of Atlantis when the Sons of Belial (egocentric people and lords of materialism) trapped many people’s “essences within pseudo-crystals.” I don’t mean to say that the soul extension or incarnated personality itself was trapped, but rather that a certain portion of the soul extension’s energy was trapped. The pseudo- crystals are not true crystals: true crystals would not allow that to happen. The Sons of Belial created the pseudo-crystals to look like regular crystals, and some of them are coming to the surface of the planet now. Ashtar says that these crystals don’t feel right when you pick them up. The energy in them feels dead.

    In order for these souls to go to their next level of evolution, their trapped essences need to be released. Souls on the inner plane are requesting that this work be done now because of the great transformation that is taking place on Earth. Ashtar is requesting that all Light workers help in this important work. The crystals don’t have to be physically broken to release the energy, just worked with energetically. Some of the pseudo-crystals can be placed on crystal clusters and asked to heal and release the energies that have been trapped inside. It can also be requested that the pseudo-crystal heal and become a true crystal.

    Interestingly enough, when the trapped essence leaves, many pseudo-crystals just disappear. Some transmute into another form and other into a true crystal in its beginning stages of conscious development.

    Ashtar states that these pseudo-crystals are all over the planet, but found especially in Africa, South America, and the United States. Once it is released, the essence will usually return to its soul. In some cases the trapped essence may need some guidance to return to the soul.

    In Atlantis, toward the end time, the Sons of Belial actually created entrapment machines to accomplish the process. They were able to do it without the machines, but he machines did it faster. He also says that implants were used to pull out the essence.

    It is very important to make people aware of this phenomenon, for most people have never heard of it. Ashtar says that out of twenty pounds of crystals, as many as five pounds could be pseudo-crystals. Working with pseudo-crystals in meditation to release the trapped essences and transform the pseudo-crystal is a great service that can be rendered to many souls.

    The pseudo-crystals can also be worked with without coming into physical contact with them, although some will have to be physically touched to facilitate the releasing process. The more Light workers focus on releasing the trapped essences, the more others will be able to come to the surface, for many are trapped in the Earth.

    Ashtar says that in the future the Earth will be of such a great magnitude of Light that the essence will be unable to stay. Most of the pseudo-crystals look like clear quartz, smoke quartz, and a lavender shade of amethyst. Your will not be able to know a pseudo-crystal by just looking at it: you will have to feel it to know for sure, although when viewed clairvoyantly, the distinction is obvious. Ashtar says that there are hundreds of thousands of pseudo-crystals.

    Source Of Information: Hidden Mysteries. Light Technology Publishing P.O. Box 1526, Sedona, AZ 86339.


    I would like to add, that the essences aspect comes from the over identification toward a technical approach. In an extreme case you may consider this, a scientists essence goes into the astral-form of his/her development due over identification to it. As ego is to focus will on physical plane, the balance is important to use it, else astral aspect of a personality goes really trapped. Trapped Essences might perceived as a specific form of karmic tie.


     

  • The Legend of Atlantis


    The Legend of Atlantis


    by Bob H.
    We are currently living in the “end of time” and many people are now talking about the new millennium or Golden Age which follows our “end of time”

    Everyone agrees that everything will be quite different during this Golden Age and that Christ consciousness will again prevail on this planet. But can we see that this will require and enormous change to occur within us as well?

    As the time comes for these planetary changes to manifest, everyone will be able to exercise their choice of either accepting or rejecting these new environmental conditions. some will be so entrenched in the old ways that they will have no choice but to deny the very existence of their new surroundings. There are many famous past examples of people confronted with a totally new situation, who were completely unable to accept that they had heard or seen what actually transpired and so simply ignored the event.

    For example, I am told that when they first fleet arrived in Botany Bay, the aborigines totally ignored it, because they had never seen anything like that before and could not make any connection with this event and their own reality. Perhaps something has happened in your own life, which your logical mind has simply denied as being possible?

    How are we to prepare ourselves then, for these coming earth changes?

    I suspect that everyone’s preparation will have to be quite different and will need to be guided by their own intuition. Generally speaking, people with a Western background will still have a strong connection to the old Atlantean mindset. This also manifested later in Egypt. It strongly exercises the properties of duality, namely a strong will for domination of your surroundings in an eternal struggle of “good against evil”.

    It was in Atlantis that the concept of egoic separation from our source was born. By contrast, the descendants of the Lemurian civilization even today still do not act as if they were living in separation from their fellow human beings and god’s world of all that is. The problem which we of the Western world have subsequently inherited was recognized by the Indian culture and recorded in Sanskrit writings some two thousand years ago. It is simply that the instant you consider yourself as a separate egoic entity, which is not totally connected to all that is, you will be subjected to great dilemma.

    Since we in our western culture all tend to fit into the category of classifying ourselves as “separate”, we will get a shock when the new Christ-consciousness arrives and suddenly people around you know how you are really feeling and actually know what is on your mind.

    The Legend of Atlantis book and video series [see bottom of article] was designed to minimize the shock of the changes which will arrive for all of us on this planet and elsewhere. It is intended to give us the insight into understanding the mistakes made as a result of “egoic separation”, starting way back in the days of Atlantis. It attempts to dissolve the classical divisive doctrine of “They are the evil ones and we are the righteous ones”. No matter which side you were born into, this concept has been the basis of all human interaction since the days of Atlantis and is the very essence of what has created all our wars in the past.

    The message is aimed at those born into the world of logic. I suspect that this is because they (we) are the ones who will have to make the greatest sacrifice. It is not given because you need to gather information in order to be able to plan and control. Its purpose is to prevent people from entering into a state of shock and denial, when these changes come. It is so that we will understand our past patterns and then be able to let go of the delusion of separation from God (or All that is).

    Clearly I am not in a position to know the details of this new reality at the moment, but I believe that in the new world of Christ consciousness, we will be making everyday decisions which are intended to benefit the collective structure, not just our separate little egoic selves. There will not be the possibility of lying, because your neighbour will know what you are thinking. You may find it humorous at first to contemplate that, but the enormous consequences of living permanently under these conditions are difficult for us to comprehend fully at the moment, because we are not accustomed to such a human condition. History will not even need to be recorded, it will just be known – as it once was a long time ago. (The Druids, for example, saw no need to leave any physical record of the history).

    I suspect that we all recognize the fact that at the moment we do not have access to the real truth about any single point in history. Our history has always been one of a struggle for domination and then the records were written by the victor. This does not leave us with an unbiased account of the past.

    We know that in order to predict a mathematical progression for example, you must have at least three numbers in the series. In a similar vein, this message recognizes the fact that in order to be able to move into the future in a sensible way, you must first come to grips with your past and your present. We must know the real truth about our past and our present, in order to be able to make sensible decisions about our future.

    “The Legend of Atlantis” [see end of article] looks at the past role of black masters and the necessity for humanity to have experienced duality in our separation – i.e.. the notion that good and bad people exist. It explores the existence of other dimensional realms on our planet, such as Agartha and Shamballa. It was created sot that we can all move confidently and with understanding into the future which awaits us. The coming earth changes over which we as ordinary human beings appear to have no control are also discussed.

    The coming Golden Age will not be achieved by you being taken up in a flying saucer, but only you “Being There”. There will be no escape from the coming “Christ Consciousness”. the prevailing physical conditions in our solar system will simply be such that in order to survive, humanity will literally have to evolve into a dimension of higher frequency. (See also Malachi, 4)

    The good news is that we are receiving considerable help and those people who do not live in rejection of the incoming energies will succeed in making the required quantum jump in our human evolution.

    There are those who have known for some time, what the future in this dimension holds and sought to escape it by all kinds of technological devices. They have created inhabited living environments within and without this planet, using the massive economic resources available to western governments. But no matter how we squirm, we will all simply have to accept the new consciousness reality. A simple case of “shape up or ship out”.

  • Atlantis – An Introduction

    The following Introduction contains excerpts from the following full length articles (which are linked at the end of the article):-

    History of the Golden Ages – by Steve Omar
    Crystal Power and Energies in Atlantis – by Geoffrey Keyte
    The Way – by T. Donovan


    Evidence For Its’ Existence

    “This is probably the greatest discovery in World history”, was stated by Maxine Asher, the co-director of a scientific expedition that found Atlantis at the bottom of the ocean, reported United Press International and major newspapers in the United States during the summer of 1973. UPI continued that “Maxine Asher said that scuba divers found data to prove the existence of the super-civilization which legend says sank beneath the sea thousands of years ago. The divers had found evidence of roads and large columns, some with concentric spiral motifs, in the exact place described by the Greek philosopher Plato”.

    “The group of some 70 scientists, teachers and adventurers was endorsed by Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, California.”

    The document “History of the Golden Ages” reveals over 30 ruins including pyramids, domes, paved roads, rectangular buildings, columns, canals and artifacts that have been found on the ocean bottoms from the Bahamas to the nearby coasts of Europe and Africa, referencing the vast size of the lost continent.

    Dozens of historians and famous writers wrote about the Atlantis they believed existed, how the Mayans and Aztecs had told their conquerors that they came from Atlantis and Mu, about ancient tablets photographed in Peru showing those two lost continents, Atlantis and Lemuria, and ancient maps clearly showing Atlantis.

    Just some of the ruins so far found include:

    – A pyramid explored by Dr Ray Brown on the sea floor off the Bahamas in 1970. Brown was accompanied by 4 divers who also found roads, domes, rectangular buildings, unidentified metallic instruments, and a statue holding a “mysterious” crystal containing miniature pyramids. The metal devices and crystals were taken to Florida for analysis at a university there. What was discovered was that the crystal amplified energy that passed through it.

    – Ruins of roads and buildings found off Binini Island in the 1960’s by the photographed and published expeditions of Dr Mansan Valentine. Similar ruins were also photographed off Cay Sal in the Bahamas. Similar underwater ruins were found off Morocco and photographed 50 to 60 feet underwater.

    – A huge 11 room pyramid found 10,000 feet under water in the mid Atlantic Ocean with a huge crystal top, as reported by Tony Benlk.

    – A 1977 report of a huge pyramid found off Cay Sal in the Bahamas, photographed by Ari Marshall’s expedition, about 150 feet underwater. The pyramid was about 650 feet high. Mysteriously the surrounding water was lit by sparkling white water flowing out of the openings in the pyramid and surrounded by green water, instead of the black water everywhere else at that depth.

    – A sunken city about 400 miles off Portugal found by Soviet expeditions led by Boris Asturua, with buildings made of extremely strong concrete and plastics. He said “the remains of streets suggests the use of monorails for transportation”. He also brought up a statue.

    – A marble acropolis underwater across five acres of fluted columns raised on pillars.

    – Heinrich Schilemann, the man who found and excavated the famous ruins of Troy (which historians thought was only a legend), reportedly left a written account of his discovery of a bronze vase with a metal unknown to scientists who examined it, in the famous Priam Treasure. Inside it are glyphs in Phoenician stating that it was from King Chronos of Atlantis. Identical pottery was found in Tiajuanaco, Bolivia.

    Many other examples of roads, buildings and columns are available, many of them made with materials not available in their areas.

    Many ancient maps are also known to have Atlantis on them, including the ancient Greek ones studied by Christopher Columbus before he set sail for America.

    Ancient writings from the Aztecs, Mayans, Greeks, Egyptians, Spain, India, Tibet, and islands in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans all speak of ancient sunken continents and their connection to them.

    Human footprints and shoe prints, a perfectly engineered cube, jewelry, a prehistoric animal with a hole in its skull that scientists admit only a bullet could make, a remnant of a screw, and other modern artifacts have been found in layered rock strata geologists admit formed on these objects MILLIONS of years ago. All of these discoveries were printed in public daily newspapers when they occurred, and left out of history books simply because historians could not explain them with THEIR theories.

    Who Were the Atlanteans?


    Firstly, it’s important to point out that Atlantis was not the only continent from ancient times that sank beneath the waves. There was the huge continent of Lemuria which also incorporated other countries like Mu and Mar in the Pacific Ocean, and Lumania in the Indian Ocean. Remnants of the lost continents may still be seen as the peaks of their mountains make small islands in the middle of vast oceans – Easter Island is thought to be a remnant of Lemuria and still bears the great stone statues, though only their heads are showing above the ground.

    There were also the lands of Thule and Hyperborea in the north, which are believed to be sunk below what is now the north pole. There is also information about this land at the north pole continuing to exist today on a fourth dimensional level – but that’s another story. Also the land which is now at the south pole was also thought to be once inhabited when it was a tropical land.

    The story of how these various continents became inhabited with highly advanced civilizations is a fascinating one, but after many thousands of years it all came to an end for the last time around 11,500 years ago with dramatic planetary events which sank and shifted continents and covered much of the earth with water. Clues to the history on earth before our own recently recorded history can be found in the Sumerian texts.

    So who were the Atlanteans and how did they live? The following information has been gathered from various sources for a very brief introduction. I recommend that you read the original documents for more in-depth information [linked at the bottom of the page].

    The original Atlanteans were of extra-terrestrial origin and came to earth over 50 thousand years ago. They were of human shape, but not modern earth humans as we are. They were very tall and fair skinned and probably originated from the Lyrian star system. They are also known as the Elohim or Annunaki and their story is hidden in the texts of Genesis. They had life spans of around 800 years and are known in some texts as ‘the tall ones’.

    Most all ancient civilizations believed in the Titans, the race of giant humans that inhabited Earth long ago. Different races knew them by different names. These 7 to 12 foot humanoids were thought to be legendary until the excavation of over a dozen skeletons 8 to 12 feet tall, around the world, shocked archaeologists. The Spanish Conquistadors left diaries of wild blond-haired, blue eyed 8 to 12 foot high men running around in the Andes during the conquest of the Incas.

    They, along with other groups working on the planet, eventually developed the smaller human being by genetic manipulation, originally for use as workers.

    The ‘Adamu’ (or man) were originally created to work in various projects around the world. Some of these were mining, food production, construction, etc. By giving man the ability to reproduce on his own (the original sin), the population began to multiply quite rapidly. The Annunaki began to clamor for more of the workers. Human females were further altered so that conception was possible not once per year, but every 28 days. This can be found in Genesis, Chapter 3, Verse 16.

    The Annunaki soldiers eventually started to reproduce with the earth human females: “When the sons of the Elohim came unto the daughters of man, and they bore them children”.

    Technology on Atlantis


    The Atlantean consciousness eventually evolved from a less material, fourth-dimensional form toward the sensual, or physical. Far from being like the other ‘ancient’ civilizations that we know about, the level of technology reached when Atlantis was at its’ peak was far superior to our own.

    Among the accomplishments of the Atlanteans, for example, was ‘perfect’ weather control. Now the average immediate notion is of abundant fields of waving grain in endless summer alongside the most beautiful of beaches. They had that, and it bored them; too utilitarian to them, like we might look at a vineyard. They left such backlands to the serving creatures. The Atlanteans had come into the physical world essentially for the stimulation. They loved storms. Whole areas of their land were given over, like national parks, to violent displays of atmospheric turbulence. Their servants, of course, were less fond of these events, which could kn the equivalent of “artistic license” spill over and kill them, destroy their homes, etc. If the Atlanteans noticed and/or cared, they could restore all this damage at will. Some did, some didn’t.

    They also had the ability to effect geological events for their experiential pleasure. Volcanic fountains were a favorite, but much was done with steam and mineral venting for artistic result. They had plenty of time. The earlier ones were still immortal. More than one volcanic seamount poking its head above the waters of the Atlantic Ocean started out this way. Later, of course, they lost control.

    The real core of Atlantean technology that can still be dug up around the earth was far beyond something as simple as weather control. What has attracted the military like carrion is the ‘threshold’ technology. Some hint of this floated up in the movie ‘Stargate’, except that the Atlantean version could be called ‘Probability Gate’. It’s a solid state device (with no selectable ‘dial’ like the stargate in the movie, for instance) that uses what we think of as time/space as an energy source. The threshold is a lens into probable existence streams, or continua. This area was delved into more deeply with research like the Philadelphia Experiment.

    Atlantean Crystals

    The Atlanteans used crystals quite extensively, and misused them to such a degree that they eventually led to the catastrophe which caused Atlantis to disappear into the ocean.

    The Atlanteans used the knowledge of the crystal refraction, amplification and storage. It is known that a beam of light directed intensely and focused specifically on certain series of facets in a gem will, when it exits from the reflective plane of the gem, be amplified rather than diminished. And further, these amplified energies were broken down into a wide and sophisticated spectrum. The Atlanteans used the spectrum of this energy so as to be more useable, and for a specific purpose, much as one would use petroleum in terms of its various spectrum limitations for specific purposes.

    Extracting this and that and other things from the same basic substance, they used certain divisions of the energy for growing things. Others for healing, others for knowledge or increasement of substance. Other phases of spectrum for disassembling molecule structures, and yet other combinations of these strata for building, assembling structures, as in chains; or producing matter, transmutation of matter and that sort. Their basic technology is still available in the earth plane in various locations.

    Crystals have the ability to transfer energy, to retain it, to maintain its intensity, to focus and transmit it over great distance to similar receivers as are equal or comparable to the transmitter. Thus, from one pyramid to another the Atlanteans, in a sense, transmitted energy. That when the face of the earth was directed toward a certain point, one pyramid would function to intensify and transmit energies to other pyramids which would then act as receiving devices and would disperse energy as it was needed. The opposite would be true, when that pyramid was at unfocusable point to their celestial alignment the others would transmit to those. Very simple method, very effective method. Though it brought them many difficulties later.

    Atlantean crystals were natural forms, but their growths were speeded up. Some specimens of clear quartz were produced to almost 25 feet high and 10 feet in diameter, had 12 sides and were used for storing and transmitting power.

    Small crystals, four to five feet high were infused with different colors, and had a varied number of facets, to be used for different purposes, such as healing, meditation, psychic development, increasing mental capacity, communications, powering generators, dematerialization, and transport of objects, magnetic force fields, and travel at speeds undreamed of by our culture today.

    A number of crystals were shaped into inverted pyramids, with four to six sides, were infused with various shades of pink or rose, which created a light beam for surgery, by changing molecular structure, and for soothing pain, particularly in the delicate areas of the brain, the eyes, the heart and reproductive organs. Gold or yellow crystals changed colors to deeper hues in the presence of disease or bodily vibrational disorders. Ruby and purple stones helped cure emotional and spiritual problems; and black crystals, no longer in existence, were powerful protectors.

    For general rejuvenation and a return of vitality the ancient Atlanteans periodically meditated 15 to 20 minutes inside a circle of 6, 11, 22 or 24 stones of different types, holding a clear quartz in their hands, which acted as a control and focaliser.

    All these various crystals received their power from a variety of sources, including the Sun, the Earth’s energy grid system, or from each other. The larger stones, called Fire Crystals, were the central receiving and broadcasting stations, while others acted as receivers for individual cities, buildings, vehicles and homes. On a higher spiritual level, rooms made of crystals were places where the Initiates left their bodies in the Final Transcendence, often never to return.

    In the modern Bermuda Triangle, on the ocean bottom where the ruins of Atlantis now exist, the energy build-up in the sunken and damaged Fire Crystals can periodically trigger dematerializations of anything in the area.

    One of the most detailed descriptions of the Atlantean use of a mysterious instrument called the Great Crystal was given by Edgar Cayce, who mentioned it many times. The crystal, he said was housed in a special building oval in shape, with a dome that could be rolled back, exposing the Crystal to the light of the sun, moon and stars at the most favorable time.

    The interior of the building was lined with non-conducting metal or stone, similar to asbestos or bakelite, a thermosetting plastic. The Crystal itself, which Cayce also called the Tuaoi Stone, or Firestone, was huge in size, cylindrical in length, and prismatic in shape, cut with six sides. Atop the crystal was a moveable capstone, used to both concentrate incoming rays of energy, and to direct currents to various parts of the Atlantean countryside.

    It appears that the Crystal gathered solar, lunar, stellar, atmospheric and Earth energies as well as unknown elemental forces and concentrated these at a specific point, located between the top of the Crystal and the bottom of the capstone.

    The energy was used for various purposes. In the beginning it was used as purely a spiritual tool by initiates who could handle the great energy. The early Atlanteans were peaceful people. As they developed more physical material bodies, they used the crystal to rejuvenate their bodies and were able to live hundreds of years while maintaining a youthful appearance.

    Later the Crystal was put to other uses. Currents of energy were transmitted throughout the land, like radio waves, and powered by these, crafts and vehicles traversed the land, through the sky and under the sea at the speed of sound. By utilization of other currents originating from the Crystal, the Atlanteans were also able to transmit over great distances the human voice, and pictures, like modern television. In the same manner, even heat and light could be directed to specific buildings or open arenas, giving illumination and warmth by seemingly invisible means.

    Toward the end of their existence, however, the Atlanteans became greedier for more power, the operation of the Crystal was taken over by those of less spiritual fortitude, and the energies of the Great Crystal were tuned to higher and more destructive frequencies.

    Finally the Crystal was tuned too high, activating volcanoes and melting mountains, ultimately causing the submergence of Atlantis, and perhaps even the axis shift of the Earth itself.

    THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS

    The above Introduction contains excerpts from the following full length articles:-

    History of the Golden Ages – by Steve Omar

    Crystal Power and Energies in Atlantis – by Geoffrey Keyte


     

  • A letter addressed to “the sheeple” from “The Globalist NWO”

    A letter addressed to “the sheeple” from “The Globalist NWO”


    A letter addressed to “the sheeple” from “The Globalist NWO”


    Please pass this on, far and wide.

    I received this over the internet last year. It is not too late to stop them, yet, but it soon will be.
    Please print this out for the majority who don’t have computers, and give it to as many people as you can. Everyone on Earth should read this and it will never get into the papers, for the reasons stated in it, that is why everyone should make as many copies as they can and pass them on. How else will people be able to read it? If everyone does their bit we can inform the world and set the wheels of redemption in motion.

    Peace be upon you,

    JAH.


    A LETTER ADDRESSED TO “THE SHEEPLE” FROM “THE GLOBALIST NEW WORLD ORDER”*

    (with added details of THE ONLY WAY to DEFEAT the NWO and bring True and Lasting Peace and Justice to Planet Earth)

    *The original letter (in plain text) was received from an American contact and has not been altered in any way, it purports to come from a New World Order elitist. All notes and references in italics have been added later.


    Dearest Citizen of the World,

    I believe the time has come to reveal to you some of the perplexities you have faced in recent decades. It is well for you to understand some of these things so that you might know how to behave in the New Order now taking shape on the earth. We want you to be able to become fully involved and integrated into our new society. After all, this is for your best interest if you will do.

    First of all, it is well that you understand some of our purposes so that you may more fully co-operate. I cannot tell you the hard times you will face if you resist us. We have ways of dealing with resisters. I am only telling you this now, since it is much too late to turn things around. The days of putting a stop to us have long since past. We have full control of the earth and its finance, along with the major media propaganda, and there is simply no way any nation or power can defeat us.

    We have eyes in every level of government in every nation of the world. We know what is being planned, for our ears and eyes are ever present.

    State secrets are fully known to us. China recently accused the media in the U.S. of lying about Kosovo. Oh, you silly people, of course we lie*. In this way we can keep the people unbalanced and always facing controversy which is very helpful to us. Have you not seen the talk show spectacle? Some of you believe we are the liberals and the good people are the conservatives. In reality, both serve our purposes. Each camp merely serves with the stamp of our approval but they are not allowed to present the real issues. By creating controversy on all levels, no one knows what to do. So, in all of this confusion, we go ahead and accomplish what we want with no hindrance.

    * Ye are of YOUR father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the Truth, because there is no Truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father (inventor) of it.
    – John 8:35

    Consider the President of the United States. Even though he regularly breaks every known check on his power, no one can stop him. He goes ahead and does whatever we want him to do anyway. The Congress has no power to stop him.

    He does what we want since he knows if he does not, because of his rather dark character, we can have him removed in a moment’s time. Is not that a rather brilliant strategy on our part? You cannot take us to court because you can’t see us and the courts are our servants as well. We run everything, yet, you do not know who to attack. I must say this hidden hand is wonderfully devised and without any known historical precedent on this scale. We rule the world and the world cannot even find out who is ruling them.

    Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.
    Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil (and his advocates ­ the NWO).
    For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
    Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God**, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
    – Ephesians 6:10-13

    This is truly a wonderful thing. In our media we present before you exactly what it is we want you to do. Then, as if in a flash, our little servants obey. We can send American or European troops to wherever we like, whenever we like, and for whatever purpose we like, and you dutifully go about our business. How much more evidence do you need? We can make you desire to leave your homes and family and go to war merely at our command. We only need to present some nonsense to you from the president’s desk or on the evening news and we can get you all fired up to do whatever we like. You can do nothing but what we put before you.

    YOUR VAIN RESISTANCE

    When any of you seek to resist us, we have ways of making you look ridiculous as we have done with your militia movement. We have delighted to use this movement to show the world how impotent any resistance is. They look so silly marching around with their guns as if they were some match for our military. Look at what we did near Waco. Did the Davidian’s little store of weapons help them? We have generously taxed you and used that money to make such sophisticated weapons you can in no way compete. Your own money has served to forge the chains we bind you with, since we are in control of all money.

    And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell-fire.
    – Matthew 10:28

    Some of you think you may escape by buying some land in the country and growing a garden. Let me remind you that you still pay us ground rent. Oh, you may call it property taxes, but it still goes to us. You see, you need money no matter what you do. If you fail to pay your ground rent to us, we will take your land and sell it to someone who will pay us. Do you think we cannot do this?

    And with your ground rent we pay for the indoctrination of your children in the public schools we have set up. We want them to grow up well trained into the system of our thinking. Your children will learn what we want them to learn, when we want them to learn it, and you pay for it through your ground rent.

    Those funds are also used for other projects we have in mind and our contractors are paid handsomely for their work. You may doubt that we own your children, or have such control, but you will find that we do. We can declare that you abuse your children when you spank them and have them confiscated.

    If they do not show up for school indoctrination, we can accuse you of neglect, thereby, giving them to us. Your children are not yours. They are ours. You must inoculate them, you must bring them to our hospitals if we decree or we will take them from you. You know this and we know this.

    Through our electronic commerce we are able to see where you are, what you are buying and how much you have to buy things with. Where do you suppose we come up with our monthly financial statistics? Through the Internet and other sources we can even know how you think and what you say. It is not especially important to us what you believe as long as you do what we say. Your beliefs are nonsense anyway*. But if you think you have a following, and we perceive that you might be somewhat dangerous to our agenda, we have ways to deal with you.

    * Here is where the NWO’s weakness lies ­ their dis-belief in God and His Infinite Power is the root of their arrogance and complacency.
    “Don’t under-estimate The Force. The ability to destroy a planet (weapons of “mass destruction”, etc.) is insignificant next to The Power of The Force (God’s Powers)” ­ Please read the “Starwars, fact not fiction” booklet at
    http://i.am/jah/starwar.htm for a more detailed explanation of this statement.

    We have a Pandora’s box of mischief with which to snare you. We can have you in court so long you will never get out. We can easily drain away all your assets over one pretext or another. We have an inexhaustible fund with which to draw from to pay our lawyers. These lawyers are paid by you in the form of taxes.

    You do not have this vast supply of wealth. We know how to divide and conquer. Have we not brought down rulers of countries through our devices? Do you think your tiny self will be any match for us?

    When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
    But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
    – Matthew 19:25-26

    And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
    – Matthew 12:25

    YOUR VAIN ORGANIZATIONS

    And, let us consider your religions and the “moral majority.” The “moral majority” is neither moral nor is it in the majority. We have delighted to use this wet noodle of a movement to make ridiculous the Christian faith. The silly men who run that organization always end up with egg on their faces*. We have always put them in defense of themselves as we have so successfully done with the NRA. We can make it seem by our media propaganda that the National Rifle Association is actually the New Radical Attackers.

    * Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch (or Pit).
    – Matthew 15:14

    Have we not turned the American conservative movement on its ear? If it serves our purposes we can use the conservatives to turn the liberals on their ear. It makes no difference to us but it serves to make you believe there are two sides struggling for their particular position. This helps to make things seem fair and free since everyone has a voice. Actually, there is only one side now with all kinds of masks on, but you are unable to penetrate our purposes.

    You see, we can do whatever we like and you can do nothing about it. Does it not seem reasonable that you simply obey and serve us?* Otherwise, you get eaten up in the resistance you suppose will liberate you.

    * Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
    And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
    Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him ONLY shalt thou serve.
    Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
    – Matthew 4:8-11

    You cannot be liberated. Imagine how you can. We supply your fuel for your cars. We can turn it off whenever we like claiming that there is some sort of fuel shortage. What if your car breaks down? You cannot get parts for it without us. We supply all the money you use. At any whim of our desire we can stop the money supply or cause a complete crash all together. We can then order the president to declare all money worthless and that we will have to have new money. All of your stashes of cash will go up in smoke in a moment’s time.

    Don’t you need food? If necessary, we can cause a trucker’s strike which would stop deliveries of food to your local store. We can starve you whenever we like. You only have food because we have provided it to you from our table.

    During the great depression we controlled the food. We heaped mountains of food behind fences and let it rot. The hungry were then made to work in our labour camps even though there was enough and more to feed them. Do you really think you can beat us? You say you will hoard gold coins so you will still have money in the time of the crash. We can simply pass a law which outlaws the possession of gold as we have done in the past. If we find gold in your possession, we would simply confiscate it and put you in prison for breaking the law.

    While in prison you would be required to work in one of our prison industries. We have so formed a picture of the labour camps in our prisons these days that no one seems to object to them. We tell people that murderers should pay for their own keep.

    No one seems to consider that we have the power to put tomato growers there also. We can pass laws that prohibit gardens and then make up some scientific reason why you may only buy food from our sources. If someone sees you growing tomatoes, they will report you to us and then we will have you in our fields working for us. Oh, silly nationalists, there is no escape for you, for since long before you were born, we were planning your capture. Your teachers and ministers have been forming your thoughts for us for generations now. You have no idea how to pull out of our influence short of suicide. Go ahead and commit suicide, it will only help us to deal with the excessive population. You cannot hurt us, find us, or even imagine what we are up to.

    I am throwing you these few crumbs only so that you may, if you have a little good sense, obey and follow our orders.

    And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
    For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
    But rather seek ye the Kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
    Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
    – Luke 12:29-32

    YOUR CONTROLLED MIND

    We run Hollywood. The movies such as Terminator and Armageddon, along with a great host of others, were simply created to get you thinking according to our directions. You have been made to delight in violence so that when we send you off to kill some bad man we have put before you, you move without a whimper.

    We have placed violent arcade games in your malls to prepare your young minds in the art of battle. We have made you to view our armies and police as the good forces and you submit to things that were unthinkable just a few decades ago. Our artful programs, are all designed to help you submit and even help the New World Order.

    Star Trek, and other such creations, have taught you to simply obey orders from the new international rulers. Oh, silly people, you thought you were being entertained, while you were actually being educated. Dare I use the words, “brainwashed” or “mind control?” By the way, have you seen the new Star Wars?

    What a masterpiece of mental manipulation. Humans confer with nondescript beasts of all shapes and sizes and they confer in English. I wonder where those space beasts learned English. Oh, the simpleness of the mind of the citizen. He never considers he is being taken into fairyland. We have placed advertisements for Star Wars almost everywhere you go. You will find them in Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Taco Bell and a host of our institutions of commerce. There is something we want you to learn from this movie. Or, perhaps it could be said, there is something we do not want you to learn, from Episodes 4-6. Either way, we will have what we want in the whole affair.

    For a full explanation of, and the reason why “they” don’t want you to learn from episodes 4-6 of the Starwars films, please study the “Starwars, fact not fiction” Booklet at http://i.am/jah/starwar.htm or send £1 Sterling or $2 US plus postage, for a printed copy of it, to the address at the end of this article.

    Of course, to keep you off guard we have instructed our elected officials to appear to be correcting the evil of our violence. President Clinton is now speaking against violence in Hollywood movies. This will not solve the problem, but will only make the people believe the problem is being worked on. Sex and violence are the very best powers to use to help us gain our advantage. How the people loathe to give up their sex and violence, so we place all they want before them. In this way, we keep them so occupied they do not have the integrity or brain power to deal with the really important matters which are left entirely in our hands. President Clinton has been very helpful to us. We knew of what character he was before we placed him as president. Exposing him was very helpful in adjusting the moral habits of the youth downward. This is to our advantage.

    Even more agreeable to us were the vain efforts of those who thought they could remove him against our will. He is useful to us and he will not be removed by anyone until we are ready to have him removed. Excuse me if I seem to be mocking your system of beliefs, but they are rather outdated. Have you no eyes to see your vain liberties and your righteous pontifications are nothing before us? You can only do what we say you can do. We remove presidents when we are ready and the leader we set up will be there until it serves us to have another.

    At that time we place our proposed leader before you and you vote for what we want. In that way we give you the vain voting exercise in the belief you had something to do with placing your president in office.

    We use the nations for what we want to use them for. Everyone knows that they must yield to us or die. Fortunately, we have had a few resisters such as Saddam and Milosevic that have been helpful in showing the world leaders what we will do to them if they do not submit.

    There is only glory in following our purposes and doing what we say. If one does not, there will be such a sad and tragic result. I would really have you spared of such an end. But, then, again, if you are not spared, it is of no consequence to us. We will use you to alleviate some of the overpopulation problem.


    YOUR SILLY REBELLION AGAINST OUR DOMINION

    Some of you have thought you could stop us by placing a bomb in one of our abortion clinics or in a government building. Silly souls! How can that hurt us?

    All that does is give us an example to use so that we might place more controls and heavy burdens on the population. We love it when you rebel and blow something up. You are our reason for making more laws against all those things which might contribute to your freedom from us. If someone did not blow something up on occasion, we would have no justification in placing more hedges about you. Can’t you see how impossible it is for you to resist us? The more you wriggle, the more we squeeze.

    Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
    But I say unto you, Do not resist evil (with evil): but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheeck, turn to him the other also (and thereby neutralize the evil with good).
    And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
    – Matthew 5:38-40

    Our kingdom is the kingdom of money. Excuse me, but I must confess that we are the rulers of the kingdom of non-money. You must see the humour in that statement. We have given you a piece of paper or some numbers on a computer screen that we have termed money. It is backed up by nothing and proven by nothing but what we say it is. We create it from nothing, we print it, we loan it, we give it its value, we take its value away. All things that have to do with money are in our hands. Think of it, what is it that you can do against us without money? If you try to resist, we can cancel your credit or freeze your accounts. Your cash is easily confiscated. We have made so many rules in the realm of living that you cannot live without money.

    Camp on government land and you must move in two weeks. You cannot grow much of a garden in two weeks. Many of our wilderness trails are entered by permit only. We have passed laws that do not allow you to live in trailers over a certain period without moving to another location. Have you not thought it ridiculous that we will allow a man to live in a box full time but we will not allow a man to live in an RV full time unless he is in a taxpaying campground?

    Please study Matthew chapter 23 in its completeness for Christ’s opinion of all lawyers, politicians and priests of every denomination.

    OUR UNFATHOMABLE MYSTERIES

    Our recent war in Serbia has many purposes to it but we do not speak of these things openly. We let the talk show hosts blather all sorts of nonsense but none of it touches the core. First of all, there is a wealth of natural resources in Kosovo that we must have complete control of. Kosovo has large supplies of uranium in its soil and uranium is very helpful to our regime. Also, it suits us to keep all such minerals out of the hands of potential enemies.

    Milosevic has not been helpful in giving those resources into our hands so we simply make things difficult for him until he does. Even now victory over Yugoslavia is imminent.

    We are reducing that proud nation to the level of humility we require from all people. After the war, if Mr. Milosevic does not sufficiently humble himself, we will take him to the world court charged with war crimes. We made up that term; rather ingenious, don’t you think? How could there be such a thing as a war crime? The very nature of war is that the rules are off. It is so entertaining to watch the nations try to fight war according to the laws we have placed before them. The only war crime there really is only involves the crime of being against us. Anyone against us is violating our law. As you have seen when someone is for us we do not care what they do. Was not Nelson Mandela a bomb-toting terrorist who killed many of his enemies? We made a hero of him.

    We observe no laws when it comes to war. We do what we want, when we want and where we want. We can starve nations to death, we can ruin civilians and any other horror for which we would take our enemies to court. Look at our example.

    We bomb Serbia out of its wits, bomb Kosovans out of their homes, poison their rivers and streams, turn off their electricity making a grand crisis in that country, and then we masterfully make it appear it is all Mr. Milosevic’s fault and he needs to go to court for it. It is the same way we made our inferno at Waco look like Mr. Koresh’s fault. Then there was our chief villain, Saddam with all of his weapons of mass destruction. Bad men are a dime a dozen and we can conjure one up whenever it suits us. This is really quite funny when you think of it. I am not one who is usually given to humour, but I do catch myself laughing sometimes at the absolute absurdity of the notions we place before you and you readily accept.

    Do you wonder that the leaders of the world tremble at our presence? They know they have no power except the power we give them. We have no fear of Russia or China for we are already in full control of their system of things. China knows that we can freeze any number of its corporations in America and all of its capital at the stroke of a pen.

    We want you to be in the system. When you are buying a house, we not only receive the tax revenue to use for our purposes, but we gain large increases from the interest on the loan. You may pay for your house two or three times over from the interest alone. The interest is also taxed which is again placed for use in those sectors of influence we choose.

    We do not want you to escape free and that is why we have made it as we have. You are our property. We will not permit you to buy or sell unless you submit to our mark of authority*. If you go to court against us, we will wear you out there and in the end you will lose. If you use violence, we will end up having you in one of our labour camps, more specifically called prison industries. You need our money, our entertainments, our fuel, and our utilities to function and if you don’t have them, you feel deprived. By this, you are made to yield to our will.

    * And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
    And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast (system), or the number of its name.
    Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of man (created 6th day); and its number is Six hundred threescore and six (man, man, man).
    – Revelation 13:16-18

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  • Buffalo Calf Woman


    Buffalo Calf Woman


    White Buffalo Calf Woman

    (Ptecincala Ska Wakan)

    The Gift of the Sacred Pipe

    Before the appearance of the Buffalo Calf Woman, the Indian honored the Great Spirit. But for the Sioux, the coming of Buffalo Calf Woman brought a most important instrument, the pipe, which is now used in all ceremonies.

    The sacred pipe came into being many, many years ago. Two men of the Sioux tribe were hunting when they saw something approaching in the distance. As the figure grew close, they observed a maiden, attired in white buckskin, carrying a bundle wrapped in buffalo hide.

    As she walked slowly toward them she sang out and repeated;

    Behold me.
    Behold me,
    For in a sacred manner
    I am walking.

    One of the men had evil thoughts about this maiden and moved towards her. the other Sioux tried forcibly to restrain him, but the evil warrior pushed the good warrior away. A cloud descended and engulfed the evil one, and when it lifted, his body was a skeleton being devoured by worms. This symbol-ized that one who lives in ignorance and has evil in their hearts may be destroyed by their own actions.

    The good warrior knelt in fear, trembling as the buckskin-clad maiden approached. She spoke to him, telling him to fear not and to return to his people and prepare them for her coming. The warrior did so, and the maiden appeared, walking among them in a sunwise, (clockwise) direction. She held forth her bundle and said:

    This is a sacred gift
    And must always be treated in a holy way.
    In this bundle is a sacred pipe
    Which no impure man or woman should ever see.

    With this sacred pipe
    You will send your voices to Wakan Tanka.
    The Great Spirit, Creator of all.
    Your Father and Grandfather.

    With this sacred pipe
    You will walk upon the Earth
    Which is your Grandmother and Mother.
    All your steps should be holy.

    The bowl of the pipe is red stone
    Which represents the earth.
    A buffalo calf is carved in the stone facing the center
    And symbolizes the four-legged creatures
    Who live as brothers among you.
    The stem is wood and represents all growing things.
    Twelve feathers hang from where the stem fits the bowl
    And are from the Spotted Eagle.
    These represent all the winged brothers
    Who live among you.

    All these things are joined to you
    Who will smoke the pipe and send voices to Wakan Tanka.
    When you use this pipe to pray,
    You will pray for and with every thing.
    The sacred pipe binds you to all your relatives;
    Your Grandfather and Father,
    Your Grandmother and Mother.

    The red stone represents the Mother Earth
    On which you will live.
    The Earth is red
    And the two-leggeds who live upon it are also red.
    Wakan Tanka has given you a red road-
    A good and straight road to travel,
    And you must remember that all people
    Who stand on this earth are sacred.

    From this day,
    The sacred pipe will stand on the red earth,
    And you will send your voices to Wakan Tanka.

    There are seven circles on the stone
    Which represent the seven rites
    In which you will use the pipe.

    The Buffalo Calf Woman then instructed the people to send messengers to the different bands of the Sioux nation, to bring in the leaders, the medicine people, and the holy ones.

    When the people gathered, she instructed them in the sacred ceremonies. She told them of the first rite, the Keeping of the Soul. She told them that the remaining six rites would be revealed to them through visions. As she prepared to leave she said:

    Remember how sacred the pipe is
    And treat it in a sacred manner,
    For it will be with you always.
    Remember also that in me are four ages.
    I shall leave you now,
    But shall look upon you in every age
    And will return in the end.

    The Sioux begged the woman to stay among them. They promised to build a fine lodge and let her select a warrior to provide for her, but she declined their offer.

    No, the Creator above,
    The Great Spirit,
    Is happy with you
    You the grandchildren.
    You have listened well to my teachings.
    Now I must return to the spirit world.

    She walked some distance away from them and sat down. When she arose, she had become a white buffalo calf. She walked farther, bowed to the four quarters of the universe, then disappeared into the distance. Her sacred bundle was left with the people. To this day, A Sioux family, the “Keepers of the Sacred Bundle,” still guards the bundle and its contents on one of the Sioux reservations.

    Today, other ceremonies have supplanted some of the original seven ceremonies taught by the Buffalo Calf Woman. The Sun Dance, Sweat Lodge and Vision Quest are still major ceremonies that are widely practiced. The Pipe Ceremony itself is now used to open gatherings, meetings, and sweat lodges. The Pipe Ceremony is used in naming ceremonies, in which one is given an Earth or Indian name. It is also used in Indian marriage ceremonies.

    In times of religious persecution, the visible ceremonies had to go underground. Sweat lodges, which were common around most lodges and tipis in the early reservation days, started to disappear when Christian missionaries began to entrench their power with governmental authorities. The pipe was much easier to hide. Sioux spirituality thus came to depend for its secret expression upon the pipe. Now that Native Americans have won back their religious freedom, the Pipe Ceremony remains established.

    The Buffalo Calf Woman told the Sioux where to find the sacred red stone to make the peace pipe. In the pipestone quarries in southwestern Minnesota, near the town of Pipestone, the Sioux and all other Indian nations dug for their red stone in peace. They also traveled to and from the quarries in peace. No warfare was allowed. Peace councils were often held in this place.

    Mother Earth is now in grave danger. Why not turn to ceremony, at least to get the feeling, the message that Mother Earth must live? She is speaking to us quite strongly already. Let Her speak also in ceremony. We can gain a special resolve by communicating within the ceremonies. By listening to nature through nature-based ceremonies, we can be like the Sioux. Deforestation, the thinning ozone layer, global warming, overpopulation and the pollution of our streams, rivers and oceans present great odds. But we can adapt. We can live, and our planet can survive.

    The Seven Sacred Rites

    Seven traditional rituals use the sacred pipe in accordance with the Buffalo Calf Woman s teachings.

    The Seven Sacred Rites

    • The Keeping of the Soul
    • Inipi: The Sweat Lodge Ceremony or Rite of Purification
    • Hanblecheyapi: Vision Quest
    • Wiwanyag Wachipi: The Sun Dance Ceremony
    • Hunkapi: Making Relatives
    • Ishnata Awicalowan: Preparing a Girl for Womanhood
    • Tapa Wanka Yap: Throwing the Ball

     

  • Building a Sweat Lodge


    Building a Sweat Lodge


    Building a sweat lodge is not particularly difficult, but careful consideration should be given to various details.

    Choosing a Location and Siting the Lodge

    A quiet and secluded area is the obvious setting for a sweat lodge. Privacy is essential, yet the area must also be accessible. Once you have found the site, you must then choose where you wish to place the lodge itself.

    There is no hard, fast rule that the doorway of a sweat lodge must face a particular location. The lodge doorways at the base of Spirit Mountain in the Black Hills face west. Most Sioux and Ojibwa sweat lodges face east or west, but you must consider the terrain, location, and setting of the entire lodge area when selecting your lodge opening. In the interest of fire safety, you may have to select your fireplace area first. This will determine the direction of the opening for you, since lodges almost always face the fire.

    Fire Safety

    Fire safety is of extreme importance in selecting the lodge site and choosing the location of the fire pit. At times, fire pits may have to be dug deeper then what may seem necessary and their location will have to take advantage of windbreaks or shelter from the wind. Even if it is a calm day, assume that the wind could become a factor. Seldom is a sweat lodge built for only one evenings activity; therefore, always consider that high winds can come up during the time the fire is heating the rocks for a later ceremony and resulting sparks and drier conditions could result in a fire.

    Heating the Rocks

    Early on, assign several participants to gather firewood and rocks. Put one or two persons in charge of preparing the fireplace, building the fire, and heating the rocks. If you start the fire early, the rocks are usually hot by the time the lodge is finished.

    Be sure the fireplace is far enough from the lodge so that the ceremony participants can have some privacy. Many times there will be two successive sweat ceremonies, and people usually wait their turn sitting around the comforting fire. Their conversations could be distracting to the ceremony if the fireplace is too close to the lodge.

    Rocks should be of limestone or granite, without significant cracks. Use rocks a little larger than a softball, or the size of a cantaloupe. Never use sandstone or other porous, water-absorbing-type stones. Wet sandstone can explode when heated in the fireplace. Lava rocks are probably the best rocks to use because they seem to retain their heat and also convey unusual images when they are heated to a red glow and are observed within the dark confines of the lodge.

    Several hatchets, a shovel, and a pitchfork are useful tools for the fire and stone heating.

    Building the Frame

    If everyone pitches in, you can build a sweat lodge in three to four hours. All it takes is a knife, a hatchet, and a ball of string. The frame is usually made of willow, but any sapling will do.

    The average size lodge will comfortably seat eight to twelve people. To estimate the size, first draw a circle two feet in diameter in the center of the lodge site. This will be the rock pit that you will dig later. Sit cross-legged on the ground facing the circle, and leave at least a foot or two between your knees and the center circle’s outer edge. Place a stick with a string tied to it in the center of the circle. Run the string a few inches behind your sitting position. The string serves as a radius for the lodge, and you can then draw the circumference on the ground. A nine foot diameter lodge will seat twelve people com-fortably. A ten foot diameter lodge will seat fifteen to sixteen people. Remember, however, that a large lodge will be difficult to heat unless it is well insulated. With the black tarp found in so many hardware stores and the blankets participants bring, however, a large lodge can be built that will hold the heat.

    Cut twelve saplings with a base approximately the size of a quarter or fifty cent piece. After the saplings have been brought to the lodge area, remove the branches and sharpen the bottoms. If you have selected willow, use the soft branches and leaves for the floor of the lodge. Place the sharpened ends into the ground at an equal distance around the drawn circumference, leaving an opening for the doorway. You may use a heavier pointed stake to make the holes for the saplings, or use a hunting knife if the ground is very hard.

    Be sure the saplings are embedded deep enough into the ground so they hold firm when they are bent and tied together to form the domed frame. The bend of the sapling should allow for a large man to sit comfortably. Don’t build your lodge too tall or it will be difficult to heat. Bind the saplings with string, fishing line or willow bark peeled in long strings.

    To strengthen and reinforce the lodge, tie sapling crossbraces horizontally to the upright saplings. While work is progressing on tying the saplings together, send part of the group to gather grass, sage, cedar, or leaves to place on the floor for people to sit on. If wildflowers are available, a sprinkling within the lodge adds a pleasant aroma. When placing the seating material, leave room for the rocks to be rolled into the lodge, usually a foot wide path from the doorway to the rock pit.

    Covering the Sweat Lodge

    Tarps are excellent for covering the sweat lodge frame. They are waterproof, and if it rains, participants will find a dry haven inside the lodge. The best method is to cover the frame with a tarp and then cover the tarp with clean blankets. The blankets provide heat and sound insulation and also block out all the light. The more blankets draped over the frame, the better the insulation, and the fewer rocks you will need. If it is colder weather, drafts will not penetrate inward. Use a thick blanket, or several blankets for the doorway. For an adequate supply of blankets, ask each participant to bring one or two. To prevent blankets from sliding off the lodge, use twine or tie the corner of each blanket to the corner of a counter balancing blanket draped on the opposite side of the lodge.

    Transporting the Rocks

    The ceremony can begin when some of the rocks are glowing red. A long handled pitchfork is a convenient tool for adjusting rocks around a fire and transporting them to the lodge.

    You will also want to have several five gallon buckets of water both for the ceremony and for dousing the fire when everyone is ready to leave the area. You will also need a dipper and a two to three gallon pail for splashing water onto the heated rocks.

    Sweat lodges are easily constructed structures made of saplings bent together and tied with twine to form a half sphere. A pit is dug in the center for heated rocks. The structure is covered with a tarp or blankets. In days past, hides of buffalo robes covered the frame. The earthen floor is strewn with sage, flat cedar, flowers, grass or reeds. Participants gather within the darkened interior to endure the steam generated by dippers of water poured over the hot stones. Inipi is the Sioux term for the sweat lodge.

    While the sweat lodge itself is simple to describe, it is impossible to convey the ultimate culmination of spiritual, mystical and psychic expression of the Sweat Lodge Ceremony. You have to experience it to fully understand its fullness and depth.

    The average-sized lodge is approximately eight feet by twelve feet. A group can get together on a remote or semi-remote area and build its own “little church” in a few hours.

    In the past, participants visited the sweat lodge prior to engaging in the Vision Quest, Sun Dance, and Spirit Calling Ceremonies. Traditional Native Americans held these main ceremonies to meet the spiritual needs of the tribe, group or individual. The sweat lodge prepared them for a higher, deeper plane or dimension. Before the Sun Dance, sun dance pledgers cleansed themselves physically and spiritually within the steamy mist of the sweat lodge. Then the Sun Dance chief or assisting holy man would conduct the Inipi in the early morning hours, before or while the sun rested on the horizon. Vision Questers would cleanse and prepare themselves in the sweat lodge before ascending a lonely hilltop or before the long climb to the top of Spirit Mountain (Bear Butte) in the Black Hills.

    Today, however, the cleansing experience is fast becoming a major ceremony for those of all races, creeds, and nationalities who seek natural, nature based, Mother Earth based expression. Even among Native Americans, for whom it was once only a preparation, the sweat lodge experience is becoming a major ceremony, especially among Native Americans living in cities, who have limited access to other tribal ceremonies.

    Once the lodge is covered and the ceremony is under way, the participants find a deep connection back into a past. A tribal closeness to the Natural Way unfolds like a budding blossom. A natural bonding begins within the misty, generative womb of Mother Earth. A bonding to one’s own concept of God, the Creator, and the created Mother, upon which we all thrive daily. The spiritual bond is likened to an attachment to Mother Earth as one sits within her warm womb. It can be a key function in the search for a spiritual link to God’s creation-nature, the environment.

    Eagle Man, an Oglala Sioux, equates the Inipi as the ceremony that “intermingles and conveys the lifeblood of the world.” Water is the lifeblood of this ecosystem of fire, water, air, and earth,-the four elements. Although the Pipe Ceremony precedes a Sweat Lodge Ceremony, the peace pipe is not smoked until after the participants have endured the Sweat Lodge Ceremony. The Pipe Ceremony honors and brings forth universal truth, but first the lifeblood of water must come forth from the participants.

    The four directions are called upon within the lodge. The misty fire heated steam covers you, bringing forth your own mist (sweat). Your universal lifeblood comes forth and intermingles with the misty waters of your brothers and sisters around you. The waters of the world (the bucket of water), which have been brought into the lodge, join and mix with the air of the four directions when the dipper of water is ladled onto the hot stones, making steam. The four winds will carry the life blood out of the lodge to the four quarters of our planet. A part of your lifeblood will seep back into Mother Earth.

    The peace pipe is smoked after the four endurances of the Sweat lodge. The participants are refreshed; their lifeblood is traveling through the ecosystem; and their visible breath, symbolizing truth, will be carried throughout the universe. The sweat lodge, in conjunction with the peace pipe, makes for very powerful ceremonies.

    The Sweat Lodge Ceremony recreates time and space, at least in the Indian sense. Powers wrote in Oglala Religion, “The placing of tobacco representing the four winds, zenith, nadir, and Spotted Eagle in a sacred pipe renders the pipe powerful because it contains the entire universe. When it is lighted, life and breath are invested in the universe; and when it is smoked, the universe passes through one’s own body and is sent back to Wakan Tanka.” The universe stands for truth. It is the Great Spirit’s ultimate creation, and all universal things work synchronistically, harmoniously, in accord with the ultimate truth of the Great Mystery Creator. All traditional Indians are very careful about what they say while holding the pipe. Their visible breath of their words must be truth, otherwise they would be very disrespectful of the universe and the Creators ultimate power, which was passed through the pipe.


     

  • Inipi Ceremonies


    The Ceremony


    Some Indians prefer only males in Inipi ceremonies; others do not differentiate, or mind the mixed male and female participation within the same lodge. As time moves on, mixed lodges are becoming more prevalent. Many believe there should be no differentiation as we are all creations of the Great Spirit, all equal, all holy, especially in the spiritual sense. What differences there are between man and woman are special, due to the Creator. It is a special relationship, in practical respects, but on a spiritual level there is an equal sameness.

    An Inipi usually starts with the loading and offering of the peace pipe. As in the majority of Sioux ceremonies, the Woman’s role reflects her position of honor. A woman, representative of White Buffalo Calf Maiden, will take tobacco and circle clockwise around the fireplace, trailing some particles of tobacco. She will then leave a trail from the fireplace to the sweat lodge opening. She enters the lodge with her remaining portion of tobacco and circles the stone pit with a light sprinkling. The sweat lodge is now considered open, and the participants may proceed to undress for the lodge.

    Loin cloths, tennis shorts or swimming trunks are preferred for the men, shorts and a halter or tee shirt for the women. Participants may wear, or carry in their pockets, special stones, crystals, or other significant objects. Once the ceremony group has entered and is seated around the stone pit, the ceremony leader enters, sitting slightly to the side of the doorway. If the leader has an assistant or a singer, that person sits on the opposite side of the doorway. A fire tender is stationed outside and may serve as a doorkeeper and water tender as well.

    The lodge leader calls upon the doorkeeper to drop the flap, usually a thick blanket, covering the lodge opening. The lodge becomes black, and at this point the lodge leader asks for a short, contemplative silence.

    After the brief silence the flap is raised, and the leader calls upon the fire tender to bring in the stones. Before a ceremony, a fire tender should be briefed on the safe handling of the stones. A pitchfork is preferred to a shovel for bringing the stones into the lodge as it prevents glowing coals, which create discomforting smoke within the lodge, from being carried along,. A shovel is preferred for fire tending at the fireplace site, especially when the glowing coals have to be kept over the rocks or stones to keep them hot for a second ceremony. In the old days, elk horns or deer horns were used for pitchforks and shovels.

    The lodge leader and his or her assistant usually have a short, stout stick and greet the entering stone. “Hau kola” (Hello, friend), they say to the stone. After four stones have been brought in, the flap is closed.

    The lodge is dark and quiet. The participants see only the glowing red-orange stones within the lodge. Some may see within those stones images that have waited since time immemorial. Energized by Father Sky, energized by the fire, which, in turn was from the trees, and they, in tu rn, gave of themselves, they whose only life energy came from the sun, the sun a part of Father Sky-all creation part of the great Oneness. Long, long ago, these rocks were created by the One, and the images reflected from them were placed purposely by the Creator, specifically for the participants’ perception at this particular moment in time. Purposely, specially, and powerfully! A Sweat Lodge Ceremony thus begins with deep, meaningful, refreshing power.

    Before the first dipper of water is poured on the rocks, the leader should assure all within the lodge that anyone is free to leave at any time. Anyone who becomes frightened or fearful should try to endure or try to summon courage to stay, but at times there are some who cannot endure a Sweat Lodge Ceremony. If this is the case, the participant should simply call out, and the ceremony will be halted temporarily so that person can carefully leave through the doorway.

    The following is the way one Oglala Sioux begins a ceremony while the participants are looking for symbols within the cooling stones.

    First Endurance: Wiyopeyate (West)

    The recognition of the spirit world is symbolic of the First Endurance. For some, it is time to ask the Almighty for a spirit guide.

    In Black Elk’s vision, the First Grandfather was from the west. This Grandfather held a cup of water and said that water was the power to make live.

    In the west, in the black, we believe the spirit beings live. Someday, if we have lived a good life, we too will be among the spirit beings and will be looking down upon this world and our families and friends.

    In this ceremony we are going to ask those above, who are looking down upon this tiny lodge, to hear the prayers that shall come from the lodge.

    Black Elk spoke of the powers of the four directions; we will call upon these powers in our four prayers, our four endurances today.

    At this point, a dipper of water will be poured upon the rocks. Steam will shoot upward. Three more dippers will be poured onto the rocks.

    My friends, we will contemplate and pray to the
    Great Spirit above, Wakan Tanka, thanking the
    All-Providing One for the life-giving rains which this
    water symbolizes. We shall ask that our spiritual
    lives become strong and healthy. Let this ceremony,
    with its lifeblood of water, cleanse our spirit
    and refresh us. We will be mindful that the four
    directions shall enter here tonight, and our lifeblood
    of water that we give up from our bodies
    shall be carried to the four quarters of this planet.
    We therefore shall pray sincerely, because of the
    power of this ceremony. We shall ask the helpers
    of the Great Spirit to enter into our lodge, and to
    give encouragement to the prayers and beseechments
    that we will make here tonight.

    Oh, Wakan Tanka,
    Oh, Great Spirit Above,
    We are gathered here below
    In our pitiful little lodge
    Made upon our Mother, Mother Earth.

    We shall call upon the four powers
    The four quarters
    The four directions
    The four Grandfathers of Black Elks’ vision.

    Father Sky said he would help us;
    Mother Earth said she would help us;
    The Buffalo Calf Woman has instructed us;
    And our relatives shall be looking on while we pray.

    Oh, Wakan Tanka,
    Oh, All-Providing One,
    Oh, Creator of All,
    We shall beseech you
    Through the powers you have created for us.

    Mitakuye oyasin [Literally, for all my relatives]
    Ho. Hetch etu aloh [It is so, indeed]

    At this time, those within the lodge may introduce themselves to the Spirit World, beginning with the person to the left of the lodge leader.

    “Oh, forces that come among us within this womb of our
    Mother, I am Cetan Lutah, and I am most pleased to be here
    tonight. Hetch etu aloh.”

    The introductions help to allow a more personal perspective within this powerful group beseechment. After the introductions, the fire tender or doorkeeper will be called, and the cool air will be allowed to refresh the participants for a few minutes before the second Endurance begins.

    The leader may comment while the flap is held open:

    Appreciate the life giving air.
    We must be aware.
    Someday, each of us will take our last breath.
    This cool air rushing inward
    Reminds us to appreciate
    Our Breath
    Our Life.

    More rocks may be called for, although if an “easy” approach was called for in the first endurance, there is usually enough heat in the stones for the second endurance.

    Second Endurance: Waziya (North)

    The flap is closed and the second endurance begins. The cleansing steam and the recognition of courage symbolizes the second endurance.

    We will now call upon the power
    From the white north
    Let us think about the Great White Giant, Waziya,
    Or Way-ah-zahtah.
    The one who puts our Mother Earth to sleep
    Under the winter’s mantle of snow
    Endurance, strength, cleanliness, honesty.

    A dipper of water is poured upon the rocks. Enough dippers are poured to bring forth the steam throughout the lodge.

    Endurance, cleanliness, strength, purity
    Will keep our lives straight
    Our actions only for a good purpose.
    Our words will be truth.
    Only honesty shall come from our interaction
    With all things.
    I shall give up some of my waters.
    I shall endure this ceremony to send my prayers.

    The drum may be sounded for a time, while the participants endure and contemplate.

    The second Grandfather
    Held an herb of power in his hand.
    The black horse, the horse of the spirit
    Was gaunt and sick.
    The black horse took the herb and
    Became strong and healthy.
    Oh, powers of the universe,
    I will take this herb
    To become strong and healthy to endure.

    At this time, the leader may pass out sage to the participants to hold or chew. The sage represents the healing herb, the fortifying herb, the herb that can help overcome the bad things of the world.

    Since from the north comes the great, white, cleansing wing, the leader can take a wing, or several feathers and fan the air.

    The thunder nation is appearing.
    Behold.
    The white goose nation is appearing.
    Behold.

    Let this cleansing wing
    And the sage you have upon you
    Give strength and courage to endure this ceremony.

    If the heat subsides, more steam may be generated by applying more water.

    The second endurance comes to an end after a period of contemplation. By this time, all the participants should be sweating. The fire tender or doorkeeper is then called upon to lift the flap. As the flap is raised and held open, the leader asks the participants how they are feeling. Most respond enthusiastically at this stage. A dipper of water may be passed to those participants who desire to pour the water over their heads.Minne mitak oyasin (water for all my relatives) may be called out, meaning that the water shall take their water (sweat) into all parts of the earth and to all their relatives.

    Third Endurance: Wiyoheyapa (East)

    Usually more rocks and a new bucket of water are needed before the third endurance. After the new stones have entered, the flap is closed. The recognition of knowledge and praying individually out loud symbolize the third endurance. All within look upon the stones in silence, viewing images upon and within the red glow. After a while, water is poured upon the rocks and the leader begins.

    Red is the color of the east. The third Grandfather,
    the Grandfather of the daybreak star, appeared to
    Black Elk. The daybreak star symbolizes an awakening.
    From awakening can come knowledge and
    wisdom for all races to overcome the ignorance,
    the destructive and wasteful, consuming fears that
    detour our resources. This morning we begin a
    new day. New knowledge came with this day, as evidenced by the red way that is before us here
    . The red peace pipe was presented by our third
    Grandfather. The pipe is spiritual. With spirit and
    knowledge the world can be made well.

    The drum is sounded for a few moments. The leader continues:

    Brothers and Sisters
    Each of you is asked to pray:
    Pray for what you desire in this life,
    Pray for a loved one or a relative,
    Pray for better leadership in this world,
    Better religious leadership,
    Better political leadership,
    Pray for our Mother Earth.
    Any and all of these things you may pray for.
    End your prayer with HETCH ETU
    when you are finished, so that your brother or sister
    next to you may begin his or her prayer. > My sister or brother sitting next to me,
    Please begin your prayer.

    This prayer indicates the beginning of individual prayers.
    The participant sitting to the left of the leader prays first. The rest follow with their prayers in a clockwise or sunwise manner.

    Oh, Great Spirit,
    I thank you for this experience tonight.
    I pray that all ways, all hoops
    Come together in understanding.
    I pray that the world leaderships come together
    To end the needless waste or war spendings.
    I pray that the ways of the Indian people live on.
    I pray that our environment
    Becomes cleaner and less polluted.
    I thank you again, Great Spirit, for this ceremony.
    HETCH ETU ALOH.

    This prayer or similar versions are common in a Sweat Lodge Ceremony.
    After all have prayed, the leader calls for the fire tender or doorkeeper to raise the flap. Mitakuye oyasin is called out as the flap is raised.

    The dipper of water may be passed around again to those who wish the water to be poured over their heads to refresh and cool themselves and to facilitate the mixing of their lifeblood of water with Mother Earth.

    Forth Endurance: Itokaga (South)

    The last endurance centers on healing. “Yupayo!” (Close the door) the fire tender is commanded, and the last endurance prayer may begin.

    The south stands for healing and growth. Black Elk spoke of south, from whence comes the power to grow. The bright red stick with green leaves in Black Elk’s vision was given by the south Grandfather. The stick grew into a great shading tree that stood in the center of the nation’s circle. From knowledge (the east) comes growth (the south), and from growth can come healing.

    Let us think of Mother Earth, her rich bounty will result
    from springtime, the golden corn and the seeds of
    harvest, all grown strong from Mother Earth, the
    spring rains, and the energy of Father Sky. It is time
    to consider healing: healing of ourselves, healing of
    a loved one, healing of adversaries for peace among
    nations, and healing of the harms done Mother Earth.
    There are four concepts of healing, my friends, for
    you to contemplate to the Great Spirit above while
    I sing this song [or play the drum].

    The leader will then pour four dippers of water onto the rocks, and the steam will build. The drum is played and/or a song is sung while the participants contemplate. The leader may call out a short reminder for the benefit of the participants’ contemplation; for example:

    Oh, Great Spirit,
    I pray for myself in order that I may be healed.
    Oh, Great Spirit,
    I pray for my close friend who is sick and needs help.
    Oh, Great Spirit,
    I pray for this world so that all these atomic weapons
    And other bad things that we point at each other
    Will someday soon all be destroyed.
    I pray that all adversaries will communicate
    And all of the mistrust will be healed.
    Oh, Great Spirit,
    I pray for the environment.
    I pray for its cleansing
    And the renewal of our Mother Earth.

    The leader may point out some specific areas and ask for the Great Spirit’s wisdom regarding them.
    When the steam has subsided, the leader will usually offer a summarizing prayer, or one or several of the participants may pray out loud in respect to a particular area of healing. Usually the leader will have briefed certain individuals regarding preparing, to some degree, a prayer regarding healing; or the individuals are free to request time to voice their healing prayer.

    The leader concludes the ritual with a short final prayer – a prayer of thanksgiving for a successful Sweat Lodge Ceremony.

    The light of the Great Spirit surrounds us.
    The love of Wakan Tanka enfolds us.
    The power of the Creator protects us.
    The presence of God watches over us.
    Where ever I am, the Great Spirit is!

    The fire tender or doorkeeper is called and the participants leave the lodge one by one in a clockwise manner, beginning with the first person to the right of the entrance.
    The participants usually change into a dry set of clothes to be comfortable when they gather once again to smoke the peace pipe that was loaded earlier. After the pipe has been smoked, there might be a supper. The hot coals are excellent for metal boiling pots loaded with stews which are cooking while the ceremony is in progress. Coolers of juice, mineral waters, or soda are consumed in quantity by thirsty participants after the ceremony. Garbage bags are brought to take out all that has been brought in. A plate of food is placed at a distance from the lodge as an offering to all the spirits that entered the ceremony.

    The ceremony is very refreshing. Many participants will linger to sit around the fire in peace and serenity, appreciating and remembering their moving spiritual experience.

    Sweat Lodge Checklist

    For Building the Frame

    • Hatchets
    • Hunting knives
    • String, twine or fishing line
    • Tarps
    • Several clean blankets

    For the Fireplace

    • Hatchet
    • Shovel
    • Pitchfork (or deer horns)
    • Matches
    • Limestone or granite rocks (approximately 20 per ceremony, cantaloupe size)
    • Several five gallon water containers

    For Inside the Lodge

    • Two or three gallon pail
    • Dipper
    • Drums, rattles
    • Eagle-bone or wooden whistle
    • Sage

    Personal Items

    • Change of clothing and towel
    • Tobacco bundles
    • Special amulets, stones or crystals, medicine bags
    • Peace Pipe (if you have one)
    • Mineral water, soda, or juice; absolutely no alcohol*
    • Food contribution for supper
    • Cooking and eating utensils
    • Potholders
    • Garbage bags.

    For thousands of years the Native North Americans beseeched and acknowledged in ceremony without any form of drugs or alcohol. Their spiritual path led them to a highly harmonious lifestyle, social and environmentally. They also reaped a high self-esteem and positive self-worth. Respect Indian ceremony and its proven history. For thousands of years Mother Earth was very respected. Respect the deep dignity of these spiritual ways.