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To discover the true meaning behind any subject,

it is sometimes necessary to unlearn what has been taught.

Take the concept of paradise, for example.

While Eastern traditions equate paradise with the higher ideal,

Western traditions view it as a pure land

tainted by evil, reserved for the virtuous,

and accessible only to the dead.

But this view is based on errors in translation

from older sources, further distorted

through religious motives and then

through unquestioned repetition, accepted over time as dogma

despite it bearing little resemblance

with the original teachings.

So what is paradise really about?

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Antiquarians such as John Michell

summed up paradise as a kind of life mission

whose aim is the attainment of philosophical

as well as biological perfection.

And to quote Michell, "just as the forms of nature,

such as the rose, the crystal, and so on

reflect an ideal symmetry, which no individual among them

ever achieves, so it is with humanity."

In deriving all the forms of nature

from ideal and manifest prototypes,

traditional philosophy reverses the evolutionist's notion

of human assent from lower creatures

and inculcates the opposite myth that we

are descendants from a divine creation

and may properly aspire to re-enter the primeval paradise.

If so, how do perfection and paradise overlap?

Is it really a state that can be experienced when one is still

in this world?

And if paradise is more than an imaginary realm,

how and where can it be reached?

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Our quest begins with the most unlikeliest

of topics, the Knights Templar.

Back in the 12th century, recruits

wishing to join the Templar Order

made a vow to discover the joys of paradise.

It seems odd that military men and mercenaries

with big swords, people who engage in war for a living,

should make such a preposterous statement.

Or was there something more to the Templars

that meets the eye, a spiritual angle perhaps?

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It is known that the inner brotherhood of the Templars

behave more like an ecumenical college than an elite fighting

outfit.

And they also conducted a secret ritual

that culminated in a mystical revelation.

And a hint of what this entailed came

to light in the 14th century.

After the Templars escaped persecution,

they moved to Portugal and Scotland.

And following a secret ritual on the summit of a sacred mountain

on the spring equinox, they changed their name

to Scottish Rite Freemasonry.

So in a matter of speaking, the Templars

were one of the first organizations

to successfully employ brand marketing and public relations.

But it enabled the practices to remain untouched.

So in the Masonic third degree, for example, the candidate

is lifted from a figurative grave.

They're pronounced risen from the dead.

And then his or her blindfold is removed.

Why?

Because having been exposed to restricted knowledge,

they became enlightened.

And the third degree itself was symbolic

of an actual ritual that was performed

in a restricted underground chamber in which the candidate

undertook an induced out-of-body experience.

Now, the initiates who successfully completed

the ritual claimed that they had experienced paradise

and were therefore free from fear of physical death.

And it gave them a completely different view

of how the universe really is rather than how it appears.

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Well, to add to this, there's the Masonic 17th degree.

And it's said to be the most spiritual of all the teachings

because it paves the way to understanding

the laws of nature and establishing a relationship

with a non-physical reality.

Now, clearly such concepts didn't just appear overnight.

They are the sum of hundreds, if not

thousands, of years of acquiring specialist

information and, of course, personal experience.

So the question is just how old is

the knowledge the Templars and the Scottish Rite Masons

were professing?

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Around 8,000 BC, a group of sages of gods

introduced a sacred book to Japan.

The collective teachings are known

as The Way of Ise, an odd title because it

appears to be the Japanese name for the Egyptian divine bride

Isis.

Consisting of 17 [JAPANESE],, or ways,

they embody the rules for proper conduct

as well as for raising the latent spirituality

within the practitioner, the effects of which resulted

in spiritual perfection.

The reward was a state of inner peace.

It is the earliest known text that

teaches a person how to embody a paradisial state of mind.

Prehistoric Japan wasn't the only place where

these teachings were promoted.

On the other side of the world, Abydos, for example,

similar knowledge was transmitted

in a restricted chamber called the Osirion.

And it was originally a freestanding temple

beside the Nile.

This Osirion was designed to mirror the process of creation

itself.

There's a deep moat that represents

the primordial waters of the cosmos.

And it surrounds a large stone platform,

the island of creation, upon which stands

the sum of all knowledge.

Well, the candidates would alight from a small boat.

They would walk up a short staircase.

And they would take instruction on universal concepts

beginning with the fundamental principle of how

energy evolves into matter.

And it's represented here by a rectangle

in the proportion of the Golden ratio, the mathematical form

behind all organic life.

And beside it, another box in the shape of a square

symbolizes the balance of the four elements

that make up the physical world.

Around this platform, there are 17 chambers.

And each transmitted a sacred teaching or way.

And their combined knowledge supports

the ceiling of the Osirion, which

in turn represents the cosmos.

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Around 4,000 BC, the language of the temple

was taken north to Ireland where a group of mystics

built the massive double passage mound at Knowth.

And amid this ritual environment,

the knowledge was necessary for the candidates

to achieve spiritual perfection.

And it was conveyed in each of the 17 mounds.

And once mastered, they completed training

by entering the central mounds passageway via the west

at the spring equinox sunset.

And then they spent an unspecified time

inside the inner chamber to access a paradisial land

before emerging reborn in the East.

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It appears the same teachings were practiced

throughout the world by many interlinked groups of wisdom

keepers.

In Peru, for example, the ancient city of Cuzco

stands a limestone butte carved inside and out

with unusual alcoves, and symbols, and staircases.

And all these things lead nowhere.

But inside, there's a chamber resembling a womb.

Prior to entering this hand-carved chamber,

the initiate arrived in a preparatory courtyard

surrounded by 17 niches and each one

said to contain a restricted teaching.

And then they entered the restricted chamber

to undertake an out-of-body experience that took them

to a land beyond our world from which they return perfected

three days later.

Such examples build a picture of people involved

in search of the paradisial environment

from which they return very different from when

they departed.

And that's the difference.

They experience paradise while alive

and return to this world to carry on

with their daily affairs.

To get a better sense of what was going on,

let's add another layer to the story, the original story

of two people who lived in one of paradises

original earthly counterparts This was Adamah

and Havah, otherwise known in the Western tradition as Adam

and Eve.

In the Hebrew version of the story,

these two hapless antediluvian people

are booted out of paradise and its blissful state.

However, in the once banned agnostic tradition,

which is far closer to the original Sumerian account which

itself was copied from an even more ancient text,

things turned out very different when Eve was plucking the apple

from the tree.

The serpent in this version is a benevolent hero,

while the god portrayed in the story

is not a pleasant individual at all.

He's very jealous.

He's a shadow god.

And we see this when the serpent asks

Eve what did God say to you?

Was it to not eat from the tree of knowledge?

And Eve replies, he said, not only do not eat from it

but do not touch it lest you die.

And the serpent reassures Eve and she says to her,

do not be afraid.

With death, you shall not die for it was out of jealousy

that he said this to you.

Rather your eyes shall open and you

shall come to be like gods recognizing evil and good.

And sure enough, once she and her Adam

ate from the tree of knowledge, they

experienced enlightenment because the knowledge empowered

them to reach spiritual transfiguration and all

of this while living in paradise.

And since the original meaning of paradise is a fertile plain

surrounded by water, clearly this was a real location.

However, the name carries a double meaning.

The fertile plain referred to is a metaphor

of the island of wisdom that rises above the waters of chaos

like a belly pregnant with the sum of all information placed

there by the gods.

So in metaphysical terms, this paradise

illustrates an environment or dimension

where one is able to access knowledge at its purest level.

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A talking serpent should raise anybody's suspicion.

And, indeed, it is the key to understanding

the story of paradise.

The serpent was, in fact, a woman,

and her name was Taba'et.

She was the wife of a god man called Enki.

And they belong to a group of sages, keepers of knowledge.

And since they understood and controlled the laws of nature,

they became associated with the rhythm and flow of energy

which flows like an invisible serpent.

And hence they're given title, people of the serpent.

Ultimately, the story of Adamah and Havah in paradise

describes the self-empowerment of the individual

for the understanding of the laws of nature.

Much more so than a tale of chastisement and sin.

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So far, it appears that interacting with the state

or place called Paradise enables access

to specialized information, spiritual truths,

even the understanding of celestial mechanics.

Perhaps more because thousands of years

after the Sumerian account, the stories and rituals

associated with accessing a state of bliss

finally reached the ancient Greeks.

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After their personal involvement in the mystery schools,

scholars such as Pythagoras and Plato

provided insights into what was taking place.

How direct contact with this other world

involved and induced near-death experience

inside the secret chamber, or a box, or a cave,

followed by an uncomfortable return

back into the physical world.

And they described returning empowered, convinced

of the soul's immortality.

Even facing the prospect of physical death without any fear

because they said, we already experienced paradise

and are therefore free.

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However, they weren't free to talk

about the actual experience because every candidate

undertook a vow of silence.

And in Greece it was forbidden by law

to discuss the experience in public.

But they unanimously alluded to how the experience opened

their eyes to the mechanics of the universe,

and to the true nature of the soul.

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One rare account comes from Plato

himself who describes his experience

via fictional character in his book, "Phaedrus" in order

not to betray his vow.

He says, those who are initiated into the great mysteries

perceive a wondrous light.

Purer regions are reached and divine visions

inspire a holy awe.

Then the man perfected and initiated,

free and able to move super physically without constraint,

celebrates the mysterious.

He sees on Earth the many who have not

been initiated and purified, buried in the darkness.

And through fear of death clinging to their ills for

want of belief in the happiness of the beyond.

We beheld the beautiful visions and were

initiated into the mystery which may be truly called blessed.

Beyond the world of gods lies a reality with which

true knowledge is concerned.

A reality without color or shape,

intangible but utterly real.

Plato spent 13 years in Egypt, long enough

to be acquainted with the mystical practices

of its temples.

And he points out that the aim of the seeker

is to become conscious of the wisdom found only

in this out-of-body reality while still living.

And to quote Plato again, true philosophers

make dying their profession.

They are glad to set out for the place

where there is the prospect of attaining

the object of their lifelong desire, which is wisdom.

One will never find wisdom in all its purity

in any other place.

That's quite a claim.

Not surprisingly, Plato regarded metaphysics

as one of the highest stages of personal enlightenment.

To which he added, the shoe occupation of the philosopher

is to allow the soul to be released from the body

and run free.

Which apparently, he did.

Plato even admitted how his participation

in initiation and experience of a paradisial state

helped shape his philosophical doctrine.

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Another writer offering a candid description

of his experience in a paradisial dimension

is the second century writer, Lucius Apuleius.

He wrote, the high priest ordered all uninitiated persons

to depart.

Invested in me a new linen garments and let me by the hand

into the inner recesses of the sanctuary itself.

I approached the very gates of death

and set one foot on Persephone's threshold.

I journeyed through all of the elements

and yet was permitted to return.

At midnight I saw the sun shining as if it were noon.

I entered the presence of the gods of the other world,

stood near, and worshipped them.

Oh, Lucius sums up his experience

into the paradisial landscape as reborn

and brought back on the road of a new blessing.

And people have engaged in all kinds of strange things

to experience paradise and particularly in Egypt.

The Valley of the Kings may be the world's most famous

cemetery.

But one of its earliest chambers is out of place.

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In 1470 BC, Thutmose III allegedly

had this beautiful underground chamber made for his burial.

But there are problems with the story.

First, the tomb contains a well.

Now a dead pharaoh would hardly have stepped out

of his sarcophagus and walked upstairs

to take a sip of water.

Secondly, his chamber faces the Northeast,

which is traditionally the direction associated

with the acquisition of ancient wisdom.

Again, redundant because if you are

dead you already have access to all the knowledge you want.

And finally, and most suspicious of all,

Thutmose was buried on the other side

of the mountain in the Temple of Hatshepsut,

where he had already built himself a mortuary temple.

So we have to ask ourselves, why does

one man need two places in which to bury himself?

None of this makes any sense, and we

need a better explanation.

Look carefully and the answer is all around you.

The so-called tomb is wrapped with a text

called "The Book of the Hidden Chamber"

which describes in intimate detail

the Egyptian underworld, the Amduat,

how to get there, and more importantly,

the techniques to help your soul concentrate

and then return to your living body.

And it's exemplified in the following passage:

it is good for the dead to have this knowledge,

but also for the person on Earth.

Whoever understands these mysterious images

is a well-provided light being.

Always this person can enter and leave

the Amduat, proven to be true a million times.

Such an experience of paradise wasn't only reserved

for the privilege.

A servant in the household of Pharaoh Teti,

wrote about his experience on his spirit door

after he was favored to join the pharaoh's inner circle

via a secret ritual.

And the servant describes his surprise

upon being admitted to master's secret things of the pharaoh.

And this humble man writes, "today in the presence of Teti,

son of Ra, more honored by the pharaoh than any servant

as master of secret things of every work which

his majesty does.

When his majesty favored me he caused it.

I entered the chamber of restricted access."

And of course this man stays silent about the actual event.

But at the end the grateful servant joyfully proclaims,

"I found the way."

So here we have a lowly Egyptian servant

in 2400 BC revealing he has been privy to the same teaching

found 6,000 years earlier in prehistoric Japan.

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It's odd how people who embark on a journey

to a paradisial world, people such as Odysseus or Osiris

are always chopped up or they're seriously

inconvenienced or dismembered.

And such tales are intended as allegories.

The defleshing of the self is essential for the transition

from physical to ethereal.

Because by shedding the old self the body

becomes lighter, allowing the soul

to escape its physical vessel with greater ease.

And free from material entrapment,

it wanders at will in paradise acquiring

the knowledge of the gods before returning

into a new and improved vessel.

This concept is embodied at a temple of Ek Balam in Yucatan.

The entrance to the restricted chamber

is guarded by the mouth of a monster whose

33 teeth greet the approaching candidate

and metaphorically devours them.

If you look very carefully around the mouth

and you'll see seven sages, each bearing wings.

And these are the teachers.

These are the spirit guides and they

are called anhel, which may be a precursor to the word angel.

And the surrounding panels and their spirals

offer a very vivid picture of the realm of clouds

into which the candidate is about to step into.

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In Persia the celestial paradise was imitated on the landscape

by paradise gardens.

The essential plan of these green enclosures

consists of a rectilinear area based on the golden ratio,

the spiral of life.

16 green spaces surround the central 17th, a fountain

or pond representing the source of creation in full flow,

while the water channels that formed the principle

axes of the garden feed all points of manifested creation.

These luscious gardens were planted with fruit bearing

trees, symbolizing the cosmically inspired wisdom

that any earthly person is able to pluck.

So these retreats were allegorical mirrors.

They were created to feed the thirst of the individual

and assist their emergence from ignorance, which

was represented by the sterile desert

beyond the perimeter of the garden.

The Persians also provided an understanding

of what paradise really means.

And it lies in the root of the word itself.

Now in the Middle East, altering your resonance

was the preferred method by which consciousness accessed

a place called, Pairi Daeza, which means a walled enclosure.

Well, if paradise is a walled enclosure, how does one get in?

In eastern tradition, an initiate

who raises their state of godliness

and mastered discipline over the material world

is called a Jina, and the root of which means hidden.

Now Jina is also the root of Jannah, the Islamic concept

of paradise.

And it means a hidden place beyond the physical.

And its derivative, Janela, originally meant an opening

into another country.

Let's see what happens when we connect these dots.

If Pairi Daeza is a walled enclosure,

a demarcated place beyond the normal world and Jannah

is paradise, a hidden place beyond the physical,

then it can be reached through a window into another country.

Where do we find such windows?

This is where ancient temples enter the equation.

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Sacred texts from Teotihuacan to Southern India

describes sacred places as navels of the Earth.

And when you traverse such navels,

you bring back knowledge from a paradisial world.

So a place or person who bridges this meeting between spirit

and matter in turn becomes a repository of that knowledge.

We have help on this topic from the Gnostic Gospels

who go a step further.

They describe how an organization built temples

as a representation of the spiritual places

in the landscape.

And in doing so, created an antidote

against forces of darkness that steered people who follow them

into great trouble, leading them astray with many deceptions.

And they died not having found the truth,

and thus they became enslaved forever

from the foundations of the world.

Now that's some benefit and hardly surprising

considering the ancients knew they

inhabited a universe where everything is alive,

even the rocks.

So consequently the temples that they built

consist of the numbers, the proportions,

that form the very fabric of the cosmos.

So the number and proportion in every stone, pillar, entrance,

staircase, or room are designed to reflect celestial mechanics.

And the point was to open a gap in the fabric of space

and time, and allow a person to engage

with the heart of the universe.

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A practical example of this is Stonehenge.

The megaliths not only defined the boundary

between profane and sacred space, but the gaps in between

act as windows into paradise.

How?

Because they mark the flow into the Temple of water

below the ground, that is by nature already electrically

charged, in addition to telluric currents that are attracted

to the center of the site.

Crossing these windows, the human body's

electromagnetic field is stimulated,

and it's state of awareness altered.

In a manner of speaking, they are entering paradise.

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This relationship between strategically guided

energy and temples as passageways

into a parallel reality is described

in the temples themselves.

One temple in Edfu describes how a protective zone

was established around the perimeter

of the mansions of the gods.

So what would the architects referring to?

Were they employing bouncers to keep the undeserving away?

Well, it turns out that the recent study

shows how it is known that the Earth is

encircled with an electromagnetic net called

the Hartmann grid.

And readings taken at sacred sites from Europe

all the way to Tibet found this net

to be stretched into bands of 18 geomagnetic lines

around the temples, in effect behaving

like a protective membrane.

And places like Saqqara, and Karnak, Luxor,

even the stupas of Tibet enjoy an immense neutral zone

that allows energy inside the perimeter

of these domains of the gods to facilitate

a higher state of awareness.

In another study, a magnetometer survey

of the Rollright stone circle in England

shows how one telluric current is drawn like a spiral

into the circle of stones.

And the intensity of the geomagnetic field

within the circle was also found to be significantly lower

than the outside.

So the stones behave like a shield.

In fact, it has been discovered that the ditches

around the stone circles conduct telluric ground current.

They concentrate it and then release it via the entrance

and often at double the rate the surrounding land.

Inside the world's largest stone circle at Avebury,

magnetic readings drop at night to a far greater level

that can be accounted for under normal circumstances.

And at sunrise they charge back with the ground current

from the surrounding land attracted to the ditch

just as magnetic fluctuations inside the stone circle

begin to reach their maximum.

The Sioux of North America refer to this energy as skan.

And where it concentrates it leads to spiritual attuning.

So that contact with many places of power

builds up a numinous state of mind.

Such anomalies in the local electromagnetic grid

reveal why temples were seen as living beings that sleep

at night and awaken at dawn.

Another example of a temple forming a boundary

into paradise is Saqqara.

Inside one of its adjacent pyramids

there exist a set of explicit instructions

for accessing the other world.

And includes the following passage,

seven degrees of perfection enable passage

from Earth to heaven.

It's as though the phrase alludes to a threshold that

needs to be crossed from the physical into the non-physical,

which of course, is an apt description

of the purpose of the temple.

But why should this require seven degrees of perfection?

Does the visitor undergo a kind of purification

before entering this site?

Well, in Egyptian mythology, the passage into paradise

is made through Sekhet-Aaru, the field of reeds.

And to reach this much desired land one

must first pass through a series of gates.

And at Saqqara, one has to do just that before entering

the mansion of the gods.

It is a unique passageway.

A column made of reeds, each bundle

separated by narrow alcoves.

And each alcove discharges an alternating field of positive

and negatively charged energy that

serves as an invisible gate while at the same time

influencing the electromagnetic circuits of a person walking

into the main compound.

So in other words, it is a preparatory hallway.

But to what end?

Well, since the temple is a perfect mirror of creation,

anyone who enters the site with negative thoughts or emotions

is considered a liability to this perfect environment.

So to protect the temple, one must

be mindful before entering the sacred domain.

And the pyramid texts refer to this

as mastering the self before crossing

the threshold of each gate.

It seems that each alternating charge along the passageway

is helping you dispel negative emotions.

And the fact that there exists seven positive charges

appears to explain those seven degrees of perfection mentioned

in the text.

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The idea of seven protective gates is not unique to Saqqara.

In Ireland, the upright stones forming the passageway

of Newgrange are arranged so that their magnetic poles

generate exactly seven positive charges either side

of the passage.

This practice of protecting the energetic core

of a sacred space continued into the 12th century,

when the Cistercian monks and the Templars

built the present cathedral of Chartres.

Well, the town of Chartres itself

had already been the site of mystery schools dating back

to at least the time of the druids who

used to hold their ecumenical council

around a Neolithic stone circle or a mound.

And this has since been incorporated

into the foundation of successive churches.

So the present cathedral actually

betrays the true age of the site because the summer solstice now

rises several degrees off axis.

But back in 4000 BC the shaft of sunlight

would have shone through.

The cathedral's location, its dimensions,

its architectural features also referenced underground water

courses which generate a natural electrical current

as they percolate through the limestone.

And then it goes there's the main telluric current flowing

down the nave.

And all of these forces congregate

above the original mound.

But to access the area protecting the present altar,

one must first cross seven bands of energy.

Those seven gates that allow passage from the physical

into a state of bliss.

So it's not by accident that this spot is called, the altar.

No doubt ancient people discern places

on the land that are energetically different.

Aboriginal people refer to them as increase centers.

And correct use of ritual enables an interaction

with a life force that propels the soul

towards a state of ecstasy.

It allows a person to be free of limitations imposed

by the material world, and constant interaction

with sacred places provides insights.

So the more apples you pick the easier one reaches paradise.

People often travel great distances

expecting to see exceptional buildings at such locations.

But often there are none because in remote times,

people sensed the invisible much more readily.

And so man-made structures were unnecessary.

The energy was what it was all about.

So in a matter of speaking, the people

who sought these hot spots were following the advice

given in ancient texts such as the "Vedas" which

refer to a specialized knowledge being accessible

at carefully chosen locations throughout the planet.

Each one protected by a deity to whom was entrusted

a specific aspect of nature.

But as we began to forget how to see or feel these hot spots,

these invisible libraries were marked,

sometimes by a humble standing stone.

And around the Mediterranean this

was called a Betil, which means a house of god.

Now clearly one upright stone does not resemble a residence,

so the term must be referring to the monolith

as a repository of a creative life

force which of course, is the original meaning behind a god.

Despite its simple appearance, a humble standing stone

can be deceptively powerful.

Hundreds of documented cases tell

of people, doubters in particular,

receiving an electrical shock after touching

a monolith whose energy has not been grounded in some time.

Because of the amount of quartz and other conductive minerals

in the stone, the piezo-electric properties of these monoliths

enables them to accumulate ground current which is then

stored like a giant battery.

Which brings us to a larger inquiry,

are these access points into paradise haphazard or were they

planned?

Were they part of a bigger picture?

Because surviving Tamil texts also pointed

temples and other sacred sites being deliberately built

as a kind of insurance policy.

Or as one Egyptian text puts it and I quote,

whosoever shall make a copy of a natural temple

and make it so upon the Earth, it

shall act as a magical protector for them

in heaven and in Earth, unfailingly,

and regularly, and eternally.

Ancient architects recognized how easily ordinary people are

seduced by self-defeating impulses

and lose direction in their earthly life.

These sages understood the relationship

between subtle energy, the temple, and the balanced

outlook of the individual.

An ongoing project to study sites of remote antiquity

has discovered how an interconnected group of gods

once established a global network of sacred sites

where anyone can access paradise while still on Earth.

If lines of longitude are drawn on the world map

based on numbers unique to the pentagram which

is the geometry of living things,

and technically includes the Earth,

then plot the location of some of the oldest sacred places,

a grid of power places becomes quite apparent.

And certainly this plan was known among esoteric schools

right up to the medieval era.

It was even referred to as the great work

and it's an ongoing project that has been maintained

and promulgated by successive groups of initiates.

And it's still a play to this very day.

To demonstrate this theory, let's start

in a suburb of Cairo called Heliopolis.

There are few reminders of this location

having once been the oldest academy in Egypt in 10400 BC.

And it was originally called Iunu.

The sacred mound on the Nile represented

the original primordial mound into which

was deposited the sum of all the knowledge

for the elevation of humanity.

So if we take the pentagonal angle 108 degrees

and travel west from Iunu, we arrive

at the capital of a new republic founded by a group of Scottish

Rite Freemasons.

And their aim was to further the principles of enlightenment

and liberty of the individual as practiced

by their predecessors, the Knights Templar.

And 12,000 years before them at Iunu, a group of divine people

called the Shining Ones, followers of Horus.

The exact spot of this modern correspondence

is marked by the Dome of the Capitol in Washington DC.

This may be the last place one would expect

to experience paradise and yet this

was according to Thomas Jefferson, one of its founders,

to be the first temple dedicated to the sovereignty

of the people.

And certainly it was a noble ideal but stripped down

to its basics, these architects of this new Republic

were working with nothing more than energy.

And energy doesn't care about right or wrong,

it is simply energy.

But it's the intent that defines whether this energy is directed

to right action or not.

And just like the ancient temples,

the Capitol building is not a lone entity.

It is part of a larger mechanism that strategically

links various locations to create

an influential energetic environment.

So in essence, the blueprint behind Washington DC

enabled the site to function as a landscape temple.

Just like Paris before it, which itself

is based on the blueprint of Thebes in Egypt.

And by way of demonstration, the obelisk,

that is the Washington Monument forms

a right angled triangle with the White House

and the Dome of the Capitol.

An ancient teachings refer to this relationship

as a triple step of Vishnu.

A technique used thousands of years

ago to link like sighted minds across the land

by the power inherent in the geometry of the triangle,

the geometry that binds together every atom and molecule.

And then there's the relationship

between true North, the Lincoln Memorial and the White House

which generates the Great Pyramid angle of 51.49 degrees.

In metaphysics, this is the creative process

behind the conscious universe.

But to top it all, the center of the Pentagon

relative to the White House and the Capitol

forms the angle 32.72, known to structural engineers

as the angle of repose.

And in esoterica as the angle of gravity.

At this highest of teachings involves

the understanding and control of gravity so as

to allow the soul to leave the body consciously and access

paradise at will.

It was the ultimate teaching during initiation

and its practitioners were prepared

to protect this information with their lives

rather than reveal it to the unsavory.

Something that the Knights Templar demonstrated quite well

when they were burnt alive.

So if 32.72 became enshrined in that well-known masonic ritual,

the 33rd degree.

Whether you were a Templar Knight vowing

to discover the joys of paradise,

or an Essene following the way, or an initiate

at Chichen Itza picking the fruit

from the tree of knowledge so elegantly carved

at the entrance to its ball court,

the journey into paradise was marked by a marriage

to a divine bride.

Why?

Because the sum of all universal wisdom

and the expansive qualities it develops

in the self was embodied in the regenerative

and fertilizing qualities inherent in a divine woman.

Such qualities were portrayed in Seshat,

the goddess of sacred buildings, the woman

with a seven-petal flower rising from her soul;

its geometry synonymous with the Great Pyramid

and the fundamental forces of creation.

So when Freemasons in the 19th century Paris

gifted an emerging Republic across the Atlantic

with another divine woman with seven rays beaming

from her soul, it was a reminder to follow the path of wisdom.

Which as Plato reminds us can only be found in all its purity

in paradise.

Only then can we hope to attain liberty from ignorance.

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