Dead Men's Secrets
Tantalising Hints of a Lost Super Race
By Jonathan Gray
Chapter 3
MYSTERIOUS MESSAGES IN THE CANYON
The year is 1799. The explorer Humboldt is paddling down the wild
waters of the upper Orinoco. Formidable cliffs press upon him from
both sides. Suddenly he glimpses, etched in the rock high above, an array of
strange messages.
Humboldt asks the natives what it means. Their reply is so startling, he
almost tips out of his canoe.
Exactly 130 years later, Halil Edhem, Director of the National Museums
of Turkey, is cleaning out debris in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. He
comes upon the dusty fragments of an old map. Examination shows that it
was compiled by an Admiral Piri Reis in 1513, from portions of much older
maps.
Not until 1956, however, is the map subjected to a serious analysis. The
Hydrographic Office of the U.S. Navy issues a statement. What it reveals is
almost unbelievable.
Just twelve years later, Richard Nixon arrives in China. A cultural
exchange is initiated with America. Interest is awakened in an ancient
Chinese document, the Shan Hai King. Something which this old
manuscript reveals is enough to rock you off your seat.
All these seemingly unrelated events would come together with
compelling force on October 17, 1984. On that day, I strolled into the foyer
of a I Hong Kong hotel for a rendezvous with the Jigsaw Team. Five men
and one woman were converging with results of separate investigations into
some very strange recent discoveries.
Phillip Corderoy was a cartographer; Denise Tagg a linguist of no mean
accomplishment; Paul Heron a mathematician; Jacob Wajsmann a keen
student of prehistory; and Charlie Perch a Scotland Yard-trained detective
who had turned to genealogy more from passion than from pecuniary
ambitions. His innate skepticism would render Perch all the more valuable
for critical analysis.
As it turned out, we would spend four days in a tight little suite,
advancing the pieces each of us held of the jigsaw puzzle, then slowly
keying them together until a clear picture developed—a picture which would
prove more startling than any of us ever expected.
…Corderoy snapped open his briefcase, withdrew a sheaf of papers and
squinted at us over his spectacles.
“I want you each to take a gander at these maps. There are fourteen of
them, all from the Medieval and Renaissance period.” Corderoy laid them
on the table.
“This one is the Zeno map, drawn in 1380. See how accurately it
outlines the coasts of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Scotland, as
well as the exact latitude and longitude of a certain number of islands.”
“Just a minute, Phil,” Heron cut in. “The chronometer, necessary to
determine longitude, was not invented until 1765.”
“He’s right,” said Perch. “That is why the readings of Columbus were
all inaccurate.”1
“Nevertheless, the Zeno map is most accurate,” insisted Corderoy.
“And notice, the topography of Greenland is shown free of glaciers as it was
prior to the Ice Age. Unknown rivers and mountains shown on this Zeno
map have since been located in probes of the French Polar Expedition of
1947-1949. What do you think of that?”
Silence.
“See this photograph? It shows a Chinese map on stone from 1137,
formed on a spherical grid.
“And this is the Camerio map of 1502, which uses the same spherical
grid.”
Miss Tagg looked agitated. “Listen, Phil, in the Middle Ages they
thought the earth was flat. Are you certain these are not modern fakes?”
“No chance of a mistake, I assure you. But just wait till you see this.”
Corderoy passed around another sheet.
“Now, here’s the Zauche map of 1737. It shows Antarctica free of—”
Wajsmann interjected. “Impossible, Phil. Antarctica’s existence was
not verified until 1819!”
Corderoy grinned. “I expected that. Nevertheless, this map does show
that continent—and completely free of ice to boot. Surprisingly, it is shown
not as one continent but two islands separated by a strait from the Ross to
the Weddell Seas (a fact which was not established until the Geophysical
Year, 1968). Also shown are islands of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, now known
to lie on the bottom of the ocean.
“Now here’s a map drawn in 1531 by Orontius Fineus, in which the
dimensions of the Antarctic land mass correspond very closely to those on
the best modern maps. The map indicates that the center of Antarctica was
beginning to fill with ice when its source maps were drawn. It shows rivers
and fjords in Antarctica where today mile-thick glaciers flow.
“Next, notice this Mercator chart of 1569; it depicts only the Antarctic
coast left uncovered by glaciers.
“I really don’t follow you,” said Heron. ‘The events you’re describing
are Ice Age, cave man era and all that. Yet you admitted these are
Renaissance maps.”
Corderoy burst into laughter. “That’s right. But I think you’ll agree
these particular maps are infinitely superior to the regular maps made at that
time. Now I’ll share a secret. You see, my friends, many of the Medieval
and Renaissance mapmakers admitted they were copying from sources
whose origins were unknown.
“These maps are a scientific achievement far surpassing the abilities of
the navigators and mapmakers of the Renaissance, Middle Ages, the Arab
world, or any ancient geographers. They are the product of an unknown
people antedating recognized history.
“Now, here’s a very exciting map, copied in 1559. The Hadji Ahmed
map shows Antarctica and the Pacific coast of the United States of America
with extreme accuracy. It also depicts the land bridge that once existed
between Siberia and Alaska.
“This Andrea Benincasa map (1508) indicates that Northern Europe was
being covered by the Ice Age glaciation’s furthest advance.
“Here is the Iehudi Ibn ben Zara map of 1487. Notice these remnants of
glaciers in Britain? And the detailed profiles of islands in the Mediterranean
and Aegean Seas? Those islands are still there—but now under water.
“The Hamy King chart (1502) indicates northern Siberian rivers
emptying into the Arctic Ocean (but which are now all under ice). It also
shows glacial actions in the Baltic countries. What are today huge islands in
Southeast Asia are shown on this map joined to land (which they once
were). And you know what? The map even shows an ancient Suez Canal!
‘Ptolemy’s map of the North depicts a glacial sheet advancing across
south-central Greenland; and at the same time it shows glaciers retreating
from northern Germany and southern Sweden.
“Do you see? This all could only have come from the findings of
surveying parties that tracked the areas before, during and after the Ice Age.
Fig. 3-1a. The Orontius Fineus map. Its greatest error is that Antarctica is drawn too large,
possibly a copyist’s mistake, although mountains and other details, not rediscovered until
1958, are accurately presented.
During the Ice Age, according to the evolutionary theory, humans were
grunting savages.
“The Gloreanus map (1510) shows not only the exact line of the
Atlantic coast of America from Canada to Tierra del Fuego, but also the
whole length of the Pacific coast.
“The King Jaime World Chart (1502) shows the Sahara Desert as a
fertile land with large lakes, rivers and cities (which, at a remote period, it
was).
“Then there’s this Dulcert map of 1339, tracing from Ireland to the Don
River of Eastern Europe; I tell you, this map shows precision beyond
understanding.
“But there’s one more. Its a beauty.”
With a teasing twinkle, Corderoy eyed us each in turn, arose from his
chair and ambled over to the window. He stood there gazing over the harbor
toward Victoria Peak with its skirt of skyscrapers. He just stood there and
said nothing. It was as though we were no longer with him.
“Come on, Phil. We’re waiting. What’s this trump of yours?”
Corderoy turned, still smirking, and rejoined us. He felt for something
in his briefcase and plopped it on the table.
“This is the Piri Reis chart of 1513,” he began. “After its discovery,
Captain Arlington H. Mallery, an American authority on cartography, asked
the U.S. Hydrographic Office to examine it. The U.S. Navy, through
Commander Larsen, subsequently issued this statement.” Corderoy took his
notes and read to us.
“‘The Hydrographic Office of the Navy has verified an ancient chart—
it’s called the Piri Reis map, that goes back more than 5,000 years. It’s so
accurate, only one thing could explain it, a worldwide survey. The
Hydrographic Office couldn’t believe it, either, at first. But they not only
proved the map genuine, it’s been used to correct errors in some present-day
maps.’”
Corderoy grew excited. “I say if ever there were a treasure map, this is
it. Just crammed with priceless gems. It tells the story of ancient coastlines,
as well as the surprising exploits of our ancestors five thousand years ago.
“Piri Reis stated that his copy was a composite from twenty ancient
maps. So let’s explore it.”
I took a pad and noted the following features:
1. South America and Africa in correct relative longitude and latitude.
Not only were the Caribbean, Spanish, African and South American
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coasts in correct positions relative to each other, but even isolated
land areas, like Cape Verde Island, the Azores, the Canary Islands,
as well as topographies of the interiors—mountain ranges, peaks,
rivers, plateaus. All were accurately positioned by longitude and
latitude.
2. The coastline of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. The islands and
bays of the depicted coastline are the same as they appear below the
Antarctic ice sheet (as recently revealed by seismic echo soundings).
Pictured in great detail are regions scarcely explored today,
including a mountain range that remained undiscovered until 1952.
Interestingly, the map shows two bays where the modern seismic
map showed lands. However, when the experts were asked to check
their measurements, they found that the ancient map was correct,
after all. One thing was crystal clear. Either somebody had mapped
Antarctica before the ice cap covered the continent, or else the ice covered continent was mapped with very sophisticated instruments.
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3. The Isle of Pines, Andros Island, San Salvador, Jamaica, the mouth
of the Amazon and the island of Morajo are all correctly shaped and
perfectly located in latitude and longitude.
4. A major error appeared to be Greenland, shown as three islands.
But during the International Geophysical Year it was proved that
this correctly represented the state of affairs about 3000 B.C.
5. Every mountain range in northern Canada and Alaska was recorded
on this ancient map—including some ranges which the U.S. Army
Map Services did not have on their maps. But the U.S. Army has
since found them!
6. The ancient source-maps were drawn using a circular grid based on
spherical trigonometry, with the focal point situated in Egypt. The
copyist Piri Reis (unfamiliar with circular projection) shifted and
spliced the original grid to compensate for the curvature. Any
modern spheroid projection on a flat surface would cause the same
distortion. (Notice this in the accompanying comparison between
Piri Reis and a modern map.)
Corderoy pressed the point. Was this not compelling proof of the map’s
validity? Clearly it came from an advanced ancient technology and its grid
system is similar to air navigation maps.
Even so, we cannot know how many times it was imperfectly copied.
“Now listen to this,” said Corderoy. “The Piri Reis map projection was
based on an overestimate of 4 1/2 degrees in the circumference of the earth.
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Only one geographer in the ancient world had made that overestimation: the
Greek Eratosthenes.
“When the Piri Reis map is redrawn to correct the Eratosthenes error, all
existing longitude errors on the map are thereby reduced to almost zero.
“This can mean only one thing. Do you see? The Greeks who mapped
according to Eratosthenes’ circumference had before them source maps
which had been drawn without that error. Thus, the geographical
knowledge on which the Piri Reis map is based ultimately originated not
with the Greeks but with an earlier people who possessed a more advanced
science of mapmaking than even the Greeks!”
“That’s brilliant!” exclaimed Perch. “Couldn’t do better myself. What
you’re saying is that while Greece and Rome were developing new
civilizations, the vestiges of an older one, seemingly worldwide in scope,
was vanishing. It left these maps, which were partly incomprehensible. So
later cartographers altered them. Yes, I can see that.”
“There’s just one more thing,” said Corderoy. “The evidence indicates
that what we have here is only part of an original world map.”
He paused.
“Whew!” whistled Wajsmann.
So here it was—evidence of science in an early epoch, which is
considered to have had none. Here were physical fragments of the amazing
knowledge of a super culture long vanished.
We spread out six pieces of the jigsaw—facts which were now apparent
concerning those early explorers:
1. They possessed a knowledge of cartography comparable to our own.
2. They knew the correct shape and size of the earth.
3. They possessed a knowledge of cartography comparable to our own.
4. They knew the correct shape and size of the earth.
5. They used spherical trigonometry in their mathematical
measurements.
6. They utilized ultramodern methods of projection (exact
coordinates).
7. They must have had at their disposal advanced geodetic instruments
(and trained specialists to use them) to measure longitude and
latitude (totally lost and not developed in the modern world until the
end of the eighteenth century).3
8. They must have been organized and directed on a global scale.
The picture falling into place was this. Almost 5,000 years ago
somebody undertook a survey of the whole planet. The technology at their
disposal was very sophisticated.
Breakfast next morning was in a small restaurant off Nathan Road. Rice
congee and fried pastries. Different!
Wajsmann had uncovered some little-known data which quite rocked us.
Back in our room, he elaborated.
“Did you know that thousands of years ago people in India knew
faraway England as ‘the Island of the White Cliffs’? Their Vishnu Purana
reveals a close acquaintance with Europe. The geographical contours of the
Americas and the North Polar zone are also described in detail.”
“That interests me, Jacob.” All eyes turned to Denise Tagg. “My family
was Irish, so I’ve had a penchant for the most ancient Irish legends. And
you know what? They agree. They say that Ireland was visited by men
from India—the Dravidians—who came not as invaders but as surveyors.
Wajsmann nodded. “The Maya of Guatemala divided a spherical earth
into five major continents: Africa, Europe-Asia, North and South America
and Australia.
“And in second-century Greece, Flavius Philostratus wrote, ‘If the land
be considered in relation to the entire mass of water, we can show that the
earth is the lesser of the two.’ Now, I ask you, how could the ancients have
known this if they had not traversed and measured the earth’s surface?”
“Admittedly, you have a point there,” observed Heron.
“Of course, the earliest Egyptians were knowledgeable about land
measurements, too; and they practiced sophisticated surveying techniques.
In fact, they understood enough to influence many other nations, in locating
important cities and temples on meridians, all based on simple fractions of
the earth’s dimensions.
“It seems to me that this independent testimony from different races
does back up Phil’s evidence from the maps.”
Perch smoothed his moustache. “Over breakfast, Jacob, you spoke of an
ancient Chinese book.”
“That I did, Charlie. I find it quite an astonishing document. I’m
referring to the Fourth Book of Shan Hai King entitled ‘The Classic of
Eastern Mountains,’ from 2250 BC. In it there are four sections describing
mountains located ‘beyond the Eastern Sea’—on the other side of the
Pacific Ocean. Each section begins by describing the geographical features of a particular mountain: its height, shape, mineral deposits, surrounding
rivers and types of flora. Then it points the direction and distance to the
next mountain, and so on.4
“It’s like a road map. By following the clues, we’ve found that these
sections describe in detail the topography of western and central North
America.
‘Each mountain can be identified—and each river.
“I tell you, this document is a geographical survey. But that’s not all. It
even gives the experiences of the surveyors—from picking up black opals
and gold nuggets in Nevada, to watching seals frolic on the rocks in San
Francisco Bay. They recorded their fascination at a strange animal that
avoided danger by pretending to be dead (obviously the native opossum).
You can read about their wonder at the Grand Canyon, ‘a stream flowing in
a bottomless ravine,’ and a sunrise there. (That’s in the Ninth and
Fourteenth Books.)
‘By the third century B.C., when many Chinese records were
reevaluated and condensed, it was found that the geographical learning it
contained did not correspond to any lands known at that time. So it was
reclassified as a myth. Now we know better.”
“Well, what do you know!” exclaimed Perch. “A detailed Chinese
survey of North America 4,500 years ago!”
“Precisely. Part of the global survey, I dare say.”
Denise Tagg sprang into action. “This is where my piece of the jigsaw
comes in. I’ve done some detective work along many of the routes which
those surveyors of North America took. Would you believe, some rock
drawings still survive? Among these pictures on stone you can recognize
carvings of the Chinese dragon.
“Stone-writers left their traces on every continent. A single system of signs
was used.5
They used 241 special sequences of particular geometric signs
and symbols. The stone-writers were not barbaric hunters or nomads. They
were intelligent people who were systematic in what they did. In their
repetition and locations, the symbols had meaning and purpose.6
I am
certain the stone-writers left these guide signs to mark the way for others
who would follow them. These surveyors left their traces in the form of
maps, symbols and place names.”
(Of course, symbols left on rocks and tablets presuppose communication
by language. I recalled the biblical assertion that “the whole earth was of
one language, and of one speech.”7
The evidence seemed now to support it.)
It was my turn to submit a piece of the jigsaw; I passed around copies.
“This is a report by the explorer Humboldt. In 1799, while wandering in
Guiana and the upper Orinoco, Humboldt came across rock pictures and
hieroglyphic signs high up on the mountains.
“The natives told him that their ancestors, in the time of the great
waters, came to the tops of these mountains in canoes, and that the rocks
were still so soft that a man could trace marks on them with his bare
fingers.”8
I paused to let this sink in.
“Go on,” urged Heron.
“Can you see the significance?” I asked. “It tallies precisely with
conditions that prevailed after the global Deluge. Great inland seas
remained on all continents, often trapped at high levels, and not draining
back into the ocean for centuries.
“The Deluge, as it reshaped continents, thrust sedimentary rubble
mountain-high. This would have remained soft and impressionable for a
considerable time.”
Miss Tagg cut in. “That reminds me of picture writings elsewhere.
From the highlands of Colombia to the gorge of the Xingu, on the eastern
side of Brazil’s Matto Grosso, they all have one feature in common: they are
carved on high rocks, in gloomy canyons, impossible to climb. You know,
some are up to seventy feet tall. It’s the same in the Mexican mountain
ranges; in Siberia too. The signs are found on impossible cliffs.”
Perch cleared his throat. “So within centuries of the Flood, the new
population undertook a resources survey of the whole earth. And they
mapped every continent. Yeah, I see that.
“Now I think we can identify some of the men involved in this. Biblical
chronology throws some light on it.”
That was one out of the blue! Actual names?
“Yes, three, in fact. During the period 2800 to 2500 B.C.
“First there was a guy called Peleg. The Book of Genesis (10:25) states
that ‘in his day was the earth divided’ (as in ‘allotment,’ ‘marking off an
area’). I’ve looked into this. A more accurate translation would be: ‘In his
day was the earth measured’ (or ‘surveyed’).”
I noticed a murmur of surprise.
“Then there was Mizraim, according to the chronology a grandson of
Noah, who is credited with founding Egypt. His name means ‘to delineate,’
‘to draw up a plan,’ ‘to make a representation’ (especially in association
with measuring distances). And sure enough, at least two old maps linked
with the ancient past (the Piri Reis and Reinal) were based on a circular
projection with the focal point in Egypt.
“Perhaps it is no accident that the Great Pyramid records in its
dimensions the measurement of the earth on the scale of 1:43,200. Both the
earth’s circumference (including the equatorial bulge) and polar radius (with
the flattening at the poles) were known with an accuracy comparable to that
recorded by satellite surveys from space.”
Perch the detective was sparking now.
“There was also Almodad (‘measurer’), the inventor of geometry, ‘who
measured the earth to its extremities.’9
According to chronology, Almodad
is the progenitor of the Southern Arabians. Many of these maps we’ve been
studying reveal peculiarities of geography that were first noticed by the
Arabs.”
Wajsmann spoke now. “That’s really something, Charlie. When did
Almodad die?”
“About 2350 B.C. give or take a few.”
“What a clincher! That Chinese Shan Hai King book was written only a
century later!”
That evening the Jigsaw Team celebrated. Those isolated pieces—the
maps, the traditional reports, the building survey methods, the rock signs
and the chronology, all so different—were no longer a puzzle. They
dovetailed.
Chapter 4
OPERATION SPIDER WEB
A chill blast whipped under her coat, as Rebecca stepped out.
It was a horrendous shock: the mud, the utter desolation, the
floating bodies. But worse, an awful silence, the silence of universal death.
She turned with a heart-rending sob to her father-in-law. Here they
were, eight people, the only living human beings in all the world. How
indescribably lonely they must have felt and what a dread and fear must
have come upon them!
As Noah and his family stepped down from their survival vessel, they
gazed upon a world totally foreign to them. Gone was the enchanting,
subtropic environment they knew. All the familiar landmarks had been
swept away.
Instead, barren wastes, bleak and sterile hills and unbearable extremes
of cold and heat confronted them. Great mountain ranges—high,
forbidding, rocky walls—had been thrust up, destined to isolate areas into
harsh climatic pockets.
The first generations were born and grew up in the foothills of Ararat.
But in time their curiosity was to draw them out to stake new territories and
to search for valuable resources.
They soon found a world reduced considerably in land area. The
fertility of the soil and the natural resources necessary to human progress
were now unequally distributed.
One resource was of particular concern. Antediluvian scientists had
unlocked a secret. They had discovered our spinning planet to be a giant
generator, its land masses crisscrossed with energy lines.
These magnetic currents they had harnessed. But now all trace of the
power network was gone.
OBJECT OF THE GLOBAL SURVEY
Within centuries the rapidly increasing population sent out exploratory
expeditions. Soon almost every corner of the world was visited by a group
of men who came with a particular task to accomplish.1
They were charged with relocating those energy springs and
constructing a grid pattern to harness them. Today we might have called
it—one imagines—Operation Spider Web, or some such thing.
To facilitate this, they employed units of measurement based on simple
fractions of the earth’s dimensions. They measured distances, as we have
noticed, in degrees, minutes and seconds of latitude and longitude, just as
we do today. 2
Soon a “prehistoric” network of dead-straight alignments appeared. It
seems to have sprung up everywhere at once. Planning took place on an
almost unimaginably large scale.
Along these lines, (situated at terrestrial power points) arose temples,
pillars, rocking stones, circles, crosses, mounds, pyramids, tunnels and
platforms. Traces of these are dotted still throughout the world. You see
them on every continent and even on remote islands. 3
Sites had an exact geometric relationship to each other within a master
worldwide pattern. For example, all ancient temples in Greece arose in
relation to each other. Those in Greece were geometrically interlocked with
those in Egypt.
Planetwide, the system constituted ONE GIANT SCIENTIFIC
INSTRUMENT.
Today we all live within the ruins of this single vast ancient structure,
whose sheer size has so far rendered it invisible. In the words of John
Michell, “a great scientific instrument lies sprawled over the entire surface
of the globe.”4
It is marked by these megaliths of all types, all aligned in a
single geometric pattern—the remains of an ancient power network.
In order for it to operate, many sites were aligned to favor certain
astronomical phenomena. The planners were conversant with the
introduction of solar or atmospheric energy into the terrestrial energy
streams. They developed a technology to detect earth currents, and then to
manipulate them to a predictable result.
Thus, all over the world, thousands upon thousands of pillars (called
“menhirs”) arose in symmetrical formation, their purpose to realign earth
magnetism from its natural meandering paths to straight artificial lines.
At each pillar, the electric current of the atmosphere was attracted to
combine with the terrestrial current to produce a fusion of power. (A secret
we have not yet utilized.) Interestingly, the standing stones were all rich in
quartz, a crystal similar to that used with the cat’s whiskers in early radio
receivers.
It has been suggested that megaliths were connected below ground by
metal strips, although there is no conclusive proof for this position. Because
the standing stones worked as cathodes, the corrosive current over the
millennia would have most certainly dissolved the metal, leaving the
grooves into which they were set. Such grooves are found below ground
level in, for example, the Breton menhirs of France. That these grooves had
some such functional purpose is a distinct possibility.
And something else. Researchers have detected an energy rising in
spiral form from standing stones, gathering magnetic strength toward the top
of the stone. Interestingly, photographs of the stones are sometimes marred
by a mist of light surrounding their lower extremities.
The crucial factor was that from natural energy springs in the earth, the
currents were ultimately directed to mounds—which focalized the energy
fields.
There is overwhelming evidence for the reality of these forces, only
rediscovered in modern times by Wilhelm Reich. He described how this
energy could be trapped or accumulated by constructing a chamber lined
with inorganic material and covered on the outside with alternate layers of
organic and inorganic matter.
Is it not startling, then, to find that almost every ancient site has at least
one such buried chamber—purposely lined with the same alternating layers!
Often foreign stones and clay were used, selected for various magnetic
properties. These submerged chambers were energy accumulators.
Finally, from these mounds, the currents were dissipated to the
surrounding countryside.
Not only did standing stones, mounds and pyramids focus energy fields.
Across the whole world, the structures formed a gigantic power network.
This provided the population with a source of energy and inspiration to
which their whole civilization was tuned.
EARLY USES OF THE POWER NETWORK
It appears that a major effect of the energy lines was to increase soil
fertility and plant growth.
Fertility stones are no myth. (The phallic symbolism which later
developed was a degenerative response to an earlier scientific truth.)
Modern experiments have shown that cosmic influences do affect
magnetic currents at the earth’s surface and that at certain seasons rocks
become charged with energy which they release into the soil, stimulating
seed germination and vegetable growth. Lightning flashes also are known to
affect the nitrates of the earth, ensuring fertility.
Green tomatoes placed within a magnetic field have been shown to ripen
four to six times faster; seeds placed in a current grew many times faster.
Something new here?
The energy lines were also harnessed for propulsion and transport, if
we are to believe Druid reports.
When a line became animated by a sunrise directly down a path, the
currents were purposely directed so as to charge an object to such a degree
that it could be levitated and made to travel. British flying vehicles so
energized arc said to have flown to Greece.
Of course, an eclipse intervening could lead to disaster, by causing a
sudden drop in the power of magnetic activity. This would shut down all of
the society’s machinery, an event comparable to modern-day electrical
blackouts.
Thus, only by a constant computation of solar, lunar and planetary
movements could the waxing and waning of the currents be measured and
anticipated.
Here lies the answer to a riddle. We’ve long wondered why ancient
astronomers seemed so obsessed—almost insanely so—by the need to
predict eclipses with absolute certainty. Now you know.
Another use of the network was power production and communication.
A word here on pyramids. The pyramid shape is known to accumulate and
may even generate energy—provided that specific proportions and exact
alignments are followed.
So somebody’s told you that pyramids were tombs! In general,
pyramids were not built as tombs (more on that later). Significantly, they
were part of the worldwide network. For starters, eighty-five survive in
Egypt; at least four in France (one radioactive); hundreds along coastal Peru;
thousands in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras; while still more survive in
China, Tibet, Southern Russia, the Sudan, Brazil, Hawaii, Tahiti, the
Marianas, Caroline Islands, Marquesas islands and Bermuda (submerged);
as well as stone step-pyramids in Florida and pyramid-like temples in
Southern India. Now, that’s some list.
And there is evidence, quite considerable evidence, that the pyramids
focused energy fields; that is, they produced power.
Additionally, healing probably resulted from this energy system. It has
been observed that animals born over “springs” of favorable energy are
always healthier than those born elsewhere.
A connection has been noticed between the incidence of ailments such
as cancer and the location of dwellings over lines of earth current that have
become sour.
Such “black streams” have been purified successfully by driving metal
stakes into the earth above the cause. The effect, it seems, is to allow
atmospheric forces to enter the flow of the earth current.
LATER USES
We know that the Chinese sited every building, stone, and planted tree
to conform to the “dragon currents” that flowed along the lines.
The Incas utilized similar spirit lines with the Sun Temple at Cuzco as
their hub.
The Romans built their famous straight roads along these already
existing lines.
North African Bedouins use the line system marked out by standing
stones and cairns to aid their crossing of today’s desert wastes.
The Australian aborigines still use the “prehistoric” line system. At
certain times of the year these “turingas” (lines) become revitalized, they
say, by energies flowing through them, giving new life to the adjacent
countryside. The natives paint the story on rocks, but claim it is not the
pictures but the rocks themselves that release energy to fertilize plants and
animals. The aborigines actually receive messages over vast distances and
are forewarned of the approach of strangers—all through their system of
magic lines. It’s a residual legacy, you see, from a former global science.
THE BABEL CONNECTION
By its very nature, this network required that all terrestrial surface
currents be accounted for, if it were to operate to its full potential.
Thus the stone monuments were strewn across the world, located on the
crossings of the “ley lines.”
This implies that a single authority was directing a united world effort.
Perhaps the biblical Tower of Babel was the receiving station for earth’s
ley line currents. At any rate, it was constructed as the result of a concerted
effort on the part of the outspreading nations to remain together “lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”5
The tower was a center
of world communications, as well as of energy accumulation. The city of
Babel (later to become Babylon) was a political center for world
government.
By possessing such a global energy center, Babel effectively controlled
the world. Old chronicles record that Nimrod, the egotistic founder of
Babylon, “grew more and more wicked and mad until he thought in his heart
that he was himself God.” The arrogance of Babel became a scandal.
Then something happened—something significant enough to mark a
break in world conditions and to bring the line system to an end.
Today we are left with but shadows and remnants of the former
universal system.
Thanks to archaeological discoveries, much of what was classed as myth
in the biblical account of the rise of nations is now being found true. It is
becoming increasingly tenable to regard its “stories” as not religious fantasy
but rather apt reporting of phenomena that actually occurred. The story of a
former global unity which was broken into factions is now seen as real. [Then in that case, would it not be true, that the global unity, did not involve The Creator of First Source, if it had it could not have been broken to begin with. So there has to be a part of that unity which did not balance with the rest of the Universe, no? dc ]
It might be said that the sudden breakup of the totalitarian world
government was the catalyst. In the events which followed, most continents
and island groups were to become so isolated, they would all but forget each
other’s existence.
Thus began the next stage of man’s decline.
Chapter 5
SUDDEN FURY
The event was devastating. Shock waves from it are still being felt today.
Until that moment, the plan to contain the fast-growing population
under one central world authority, based at Babel, appeared to be working.
Then in one violent stroke, communications were destroyed.
In the resultant chaos, the world alliance collapsed.
A confused secondary migration began and many peoples lost contact
(see map of prehistoric era in Chapter 4).
So now the world order was gone, but one thing lingered on—the
memory of the technology they had once enjoyed.
SECONDARY CIVILIZATIONS ARISE
Traditions and biblical writings speak of a mass dispersion of peoples
from the early Babel civilization about a thousand years after the Deluge.
It is significant that a number of archaeologists take the Tower of Babel
record seriously and conjecture it to be in the period somewhat before 2000
B.C.
And sure enough, a surprising number of “new” civilizations that
suddenly appear are dated to approximately 2000 B.C.
I’m wondering, could this be more than coincidence?
PROGRESSIVE DECLINE
Soon communications were reestablished among the now separate
nations.
But all was not well.
Some of those who still retained the awesome knowledge, ultimately
used it in a highly destructive war. In a succession of nuclear—yes,
nuclear—holocausts, several advanced nations on three continents vanished.
(The chilling story awaits us in Chapter 29.)
From their wreckage, “primitive” and agricultural economies emerged.
Salvaging little but essentials, the survivors had to concentrate on bare
survival.
Without technological facilities to repair what remained of the
equipment and machinery, they soon fell into disuse. Only the vivid
memory survived.
Of course there were civilization centers untouched by these disasters.
These entered a period of decline.
Existing knowledge was fused with the cultures of later societies. But
these civilizations lasted not many centuries past 2000 B.C.
There is some evidence that a brief period of revival was, over the
centuries, experienced in each of the Middle Eastern countries, as remnants
of earlier advanced technology resurfaced, although on a greatly diminished
scale.
Sophisticated artifacts and records from their earlier past appear to have
enriched both Babylonia and Egypt in later times.
Indeed, isolated elements of the old technology continued to resurface
from time to time.
From about 250 B.C. to the time of Christ, there was a fragmentary
technological rekindling among Mediterranean peoples. This, I might add,
was brutally extinguished by the Roman invasion of the area.
Already for some time a privileged few had been the sole custodians of
what knowledge remained. They had kept the secrets “safe” from abuse by
the “unqualified.”
Now, as the world began to slip into the Dark Ages, the few records that
survived were jealously guarded by secret societies. Gradually these too
passed into oblivion. And the world forgot its past.
Only in the last 300 years have we witnessed a cultural revival. And
only now are we rediscovering that which used to be.
Doesn’t it shake you up just a little to realize that basically the way of
history has been cultural regression?
FROM SUPERIOR TO INFERIOR
Wherever we look, regression is evident. If there be any doubt, take
these twenty-three examples. Skim through, if you wish. There’s quite
enough to prove it.
1. Digging to the lowest depths, archaeologists repeatedly come upon a
city complex architecturally superior to later cities on the same site.
2. The medicine of ancient Egypt was, generally speaking, far superior to
that practiced in Europe during the Middle Ages. Pre-Incan medical
surgery was superior to that of the Peruvian Inca.
3. The oceangoing vessels employed by the ancient explorers were large,
strong and immensely superior to the craft possessed by medieval
Europeans.
4. The earliest ancient maps were drawn with the greatest precision—and
superior to later navigational charts.
5. The old Maya calendar is superior to our own.
6. It can be demonstrated that many languages have suffered degeneration.
7. Ancient set building stones are much larger and more difficult to
transport than those of subsequent cultures.
8. In dynamic realism, the masterpieces of the Cro-Magnon cave artists of
Altamira (Spain) and Lascaux (France) were superior to the paintings
and sculptures of later civilizations.
9. Roads: Britain’s prehistoric Icknield Way (running 200 miles, in places
as wide as a four-lane highway) is superior to any road constructed by
the later Romans.
10. Mathematics: Whereas very ancient cultures knew about zero (the secret
ingredient in advanced mathematics), frequently, as decadence occurred,
they forgot it. The Babylonians, for example, wrote it as a blank
space—a practice which eventually disappeared. The same retrograde
process occurred in China.
11. Astronomy: Originally, constellations took the form of animals, making
it easier to remember and identify them; however, as civilization
retrogressed, they actually became animals, heroes or gods.
12. Scientific compasses, which pointed due north and south, were later
preserved as magic, through which Chinese necromancers told fortunes.
13. Crete: The earliest Cretan empire was more culturally advanced than the
empire which followed it (featuring running water, the most modem
bathroom facilities, tinted-glass goblets, glazed dinnerware and
elaborate dress styles).
14. Canary Islands: Considerable cultural deterioration operated until (by
the time the Spaniards discovered them in the fourteenth century)
warfare was being waged with stones and wooden weapons. They
preserved the memory of a great civilization of cities, but were no
longer capable of constructing anything more than simple huts.
15. The Pacific: On most islands of Polynesia and Micronesia are remains
of cities, temples, harbors and statues, whose size and elaborate
architecture indicate a civilization incomparably more advanced than
exists there today.
16. Pakistan: The lowest strata of the remains of Mohenjo-Daro show a
more developed art than the upper layers. Later the quality of the
commercial seals fell off sadly. The soapstone was replaced by
common clay; and crude geometric shapes replaced the lifelike
engravings. Highly glazed ceramics were supplanted by plain clumsy
pots. The city’s systematic plan gave way to shabby structures and mere
hovels at the topmost stratum. From a high early peak of technology, it
then progressed no further. Everything, was done in imitation of the old
techniques. Even the bricks were inferior.
17. Central America: The present-day descendants of what was once the
greatest empire in the Americas (the Maya) are mere jungle savages,
unable to read or write their ancestors’ hieroglyphics; unable to
construct large buildings, much less whole cities.
18. Egypt declined from technical sophistication to a vague shadow of its
former glory. Earliest pyramid construction was superior to later
pyramid construction; succeeding pyramids are clumsy imitations. Even
construction methods changed (from levitation science to build the
Great Pyramid in the Fourth Dynasty, to a balance of levers and pulleys
a thousand years later in the Twelfth Dynasty). The workmanship level
of jewelry as well as architecture was higher in earlier periods
(everything being more perfectly made and more beautiful). On top of
that, later generations suffered a decline in lifestyle.
19. Sumeria, extensive and all-encompassing, was in many respects more
advanced than the cultures which followed it.
20. Greece: A city of the third millennium B.C. now at the bottom of Lake
Copias (the legendary Copae destroyed by Hercules?) possesses a titanic
complex of rock-hewn passages said to be beyond the capabilities of
either classical or modern Greece.
21. Bulgaria: Grave excavations at Karanova have revealed an
extraordinarily rich and complex technology of 3000 B.C. far in
advance of later achievements in Europe.
22. Peru: Pre-Inca buildings and art were of a much higher level than those
of the Incas. Furthermore, while more recent Spanish buildings collapse
today in earthquakes, both the Inca and pre-Inca constructions survive
them intact.
23. Easter Island statues of more recent times appear to be imperfect copies
of the first creations. (And they have suffered most from erosion,
whereas those from the archaic period have remained intact.) Again, the
earliest settlement on the island was more remarkably developed than its
two later successors.
Do you see? it is not at all obvious that mankind is progressing;
historically, degeneration has been the trend.
PHYSICAL DEGENERATION ALSO
On the third day of our deliberations, the Jigsaw Team turned its
attention to this question.
Perch set the pace. “I’ll grant that culturally and morally we tend to
retrogress,” he said. “But let’s look at the physical side. Surely in this sense
we’re improving, right?”
“Sorry, Charlie.” It was Wajsmann speaking. “Here again, according to
demonstrated science, the opposite appears to be true.
“For what it’s worth, the skull capacity (with its inferred brain size) of
Cro-Magnon man was at least equal to and sometimes superior to our own.
“Neanderthal (‘Stone Age’) man had an appreciably larger cranium
(1,600 cubic centimeters) than that of modern man.
“The cranial capacity of ancient man in Morocco (called ‘Mouillans’ by
anthropologists) measured an average 2,000 cubic centimeters, compared to
modern man’s cranial size of about 1,400 cubic centimeters.
“I suggest to you that the downward spiral of intellectual capacity began
soon after the Deluge.
“Mankind today is no more intelligent than he was a thousand years ago,
hut we have accumulated more technology. We have the accumulated
knowledge of the past upon which we can draw and make improvements.”
(I had to agree with Wajsmann. Most people would be shocked if they
knew that a general regression is likewise evident in a good many species,
both in the vegetable and animal kingdoms.)
“Ok, out with it,” demanded Perch. “Where’s the evidence?”
I proceeded. “Agassiz was one of the first to observe that in many
instances the fish of extinct species were better developed and appeared ‘more advanced’ than later species, the modern included. Agassiz spoke as
an authority in his field. Many better developed mammals likewise became
extinct.1
Similar observations have been made regarding practically all of
today’s life-forms.
“But there’s more. While the fossil record presents better developed
specimens than those now living, another feature—larger size—has been
observed in association. Do you see what we have here?
“This is a blow to the evolutionary concept. ‘Cope’s Law’ presumed
that the evolutionary series would show increase in improvement and size as
time went on. [none of this means that divine beings can not or do not create evolutionary beings d.c ]
“Darwin found himself at a loss to explain how ‘now we find mere
pygmies compared with the antecedent allied races.’”2
Perch leaned forward. “So you’re saying that today’s animals were
once larger? Like sheep as big as horses?”
“Yes, Charlie. That’s the evidence.”
“What about man?”
At that moment, Corderoy shuffled a newspaper noisily, eliciting a
frown from Denise. “How about this?” he crooned. “Just yesterday,
October 19, in Nairobi, museum director Richard Leakey showed off an
ancient skeleton of a twelve-year-old boy. Commenting on widely held
scientific beliefs that man’s ancestors were smaller than modern man,
Leakey said: ‘This specimen confirms early hints that Homo erectus
individuals were fully as tall as modern people. We can now ask if many
modern populations are smaller than their early ancestors and if so why.’”3
I thanked Corderoy and continued. “We can go further and say with Dr.
Louis Burkhatter that the ‘existence of gigantic human beings (in the past)
must be considered as a scientifically assured fact.’”4
“Did you know that on every continent are uncovered not only artifacts,
but footprints, skulls and skeletons of humans who far exceeded us in
stature?”
“Wasn’t aware of that,” said Perch.
“These are well documented. In fact, a fresh look at the fossils led
Weidenreich, of Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History, to the
belief that ‘gigantism and massiveness may have been a general or at least a
widespread character of early mankind.’”5
“That’s staggering,” gasped Perch. “But it does support the Genesis line
that ‘there were giants in the earth in those days.’6 Yet surely, wouldn’t large
size be inefficient due to gravitational factors?”
“Not necessarily, Charlie. You see, the basic characteristics of gravity
still elude analysis by modern physics. A number of scientists now believe
that electromagnetic energy supersedes the orthodox laws of gravity.
“Larger size may have been to man’s best advantage. There is scientific
reason to believe that gigantic size and long life go together. The body cells
become lighter, the blood moves more freely, there is less fatigue and the
body wears out more slowly.”7
Wajsmann broke in. “Let’s not forget, the concept of an era when
mankind lived longer does persist in the memory of most races. And
scientific research in several countries suggests that life spans of several
centuries are possible under certain conditions.”8
“A combination of factors such as apparently obtained before the
Deluge?” asked Heron. “Well, it appears settled then. Man was once a
higher, superior being—certainly not a species of the monkey family. We
are only a shade of the original man.”
Denise had been scribbling madly. Just then her stomach rumbled and
she glanced hastily at her Cartier. “Goodness, it’s lunchtime!” she
exclaimed. “Shall I sum up?”
We nodded.
“I suppose we must face it,” she sighed. “We live today in a
zoologically impoverished world. The fossil remains show that in the past
plants and animals alike were
(1) more widely distributed;
(2) of greater
variety; and
(3) greater in both size and quality.
Humans likewise were
superior, even to living longer.
“That’s it, guys. Physical degeneration, and not evolutionary
improvement, is the story of life on this planet. You might say, like a clock
once wound up, but now running down.”
THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS
We adjourned. “It’s in the first two laws of thermodynamics,” mused
Wajsmann aloud as he pressed the elevator button.
“I beg your pardon, Jacob?” asked Perch.
“You must have heard of them. They’re the two most basic and certain
of all laws of modem physical science.”
Perch looked blank.
“Well, the first is the law of energy conservation. You see, although
energy can be converted from one form to another, the total amount remains
unchanged—that is, energy is being neither created nor destroyed at
present.”
“The second is the law of decay. It affirms that although the total
amount remains unchanged, there is always a tendency for it to become less
available for useful work.”
Just then the elevator door opened, and we filed in.
Something flicked on in my cortex just then and I began to see what he
was getting at. I recalled a statement by Harvard physicist, P.W. Bridgman.
He had stressed the importance and universality of these laws:
“The two laws of thermodynamics are…accepted by physicists as
perhaps the most secure generalisations from experience that we have,” he
had said. “The physicist does not hesitate to apply the two laws to any
concrete physical situation in the confidence that nature will not let him
down.”9
(Significantly, these laws of thermodynamics applied not only in
physics and chemistry but also in biology and geology. They had always
proved valid wherever tested.)
Again the elevator door slid open. “Look,” asked Perch, “would you
care to explain the significance of this?”
“Very well, back in the room. Let’s eat first.”
“Better still,” chirped Denise, “suppose we ride the cable car to the Peak
and discuss it up there.”
“Fine,” beamed Heron.
An hour later, the heart-stopping vista of Hong Kong harbor sprawled
far below us. A few nostalgic moments elapsed conversing on our favorite
beauty spots. Then we settled with a dessert and resumed the subject of the
morning.
Perch asked Wajsmann about the second law.
“Well,” said Jacob, “it’s quite simple. The second law of
thermodynamics affirms that there is a universal tendency toward
deterioration; a transition from a more orderly state, to a less orderly state, to
deenergization.
“Left to themselves, things tend to fall apart and reach a state of chaos.
Consequently, where chromosome and gene mutations occur, they are
almost always detrimental, rather than beneficial.
“I rather like the way Isaac Asimov puts it: ‘As far as we know, all
changes are in the direction of increasing entropy, of increasing disorder, of
increasing randomness, of running down.’”10
Perch snapped his fingers. “I see! It predicts our research. Beginning
at the top—culturally, intellectually and physically, the race has
degenerated. But, is this not in conflict with the overall theory of
evolution?”
“Yes, it is,” Wajsmann responded. Let’s not kid ourselves. Broadly
speaking, evolution implies increasing organization and complexity in the
universe and is in effect a doctrine of continuous creation. The first law of
thermodynamics affirms, however, that creation is no longer occurring, while the second law states that the original creation is decreasing in
organization and complexity.”
I was almost rendered immobile when I realized what Jacob was saying.
Evolution is an absolute denial of the second law of thermodynamics.
Denise shuffled. “You mean, Jacob, that evolution requires a universal
principle of upward change, whereas the second law is a universal principle
of downward change?”
“Yes, put simply, Denise, evolution and the second law cannot both be
true. As for the second law of thermodynamics, it has been confirmed by
numerous and varied scientific tests, while evolution is—and always has
been—a theoretical model not even capable of scientific test.”
Corderoy nodded. “If one must choose, it would seem more rational to
go with science.”
“But don’t all scientists believe in evolution?” queried Perch.
“No,” said Wajsmann. “By no means is evolution universally accepted
by scientists. Yet it is often mistaken for science. You’ll be surprised, for
example, how many people have accepted the myth that ‘science has shown
there is no God.’”
“Of course,” Perch admitted. “Evolution is the kingpin of modern
atheism and world communism.”
“I’m telling you, however,” said Wajsmann, “evolution is in trouble.
No matter how enthusiastically it tries to sell its speculations, something in
nature keeps standing up and saying No! The two great universal principles
of thermodynamics—energy conservation and deterioration—bear witness
to the scientific necessity of an original creation.
“Charlie, deep down you’re still a detective. Pick the flaws in it!”
So the afternoon sped…as some cherished theories crumbled under a
growing weight of evidence. All considered, it suggested the following
conclusion:
Biblical statements as to the destiny of man throughout history appear to
have more relevance than they have been given credit for.
For example: the Genesis assertion that God ‘finished” creating and
“rested” (i.e., ceased) from all His work of creation,11 is a simple statement
that the processes of creation no longer operate, a fact which is thoroughly
verified by the two universal laws of thermodynamics.
And when the Bible claims that since man’s severance of
communication with the Infinite, this earth has become “subjected” to the
“bondage of decay” for the present age,12 it is telling us that creative
processes have been replaced by deteriorative processes implicit in the
second law of thermodynamics.
In short, the biblical record, once dismissed in favor of evolution, is now
seen to rest upon scientific foundations.
At least since the time of Sir Isaac Newton, we have known that the
universe is running down. British research scientist Dr. Alan Hayward, in
his book God Is, put it this way:13
So the universe is rather like a ship in mid-ocean, with its fuel
tanks half full and its stores half consumed. In the case of the ship
we know that somebody must have fuelled and provisioned it at the
start of the voyage. But who originally filled up the ‘fuel tanks’ of
the universe with hydrogen fuel, and provided all the necessary
conditions for that fuel to be turned into heat at an appropriate rate?
There are still a great many scientists who answer that question the same
way as Newton did: the Creator.
Chapter 6
LOST SURVIVORS
Say, would you repeat that?” sniffled the clerk. “It’s this darned hay
fever.” The transmitter crackled: “Enemy eagle, approaching from
the west.”
The attendant reached for his Strategic Alert button…and paused. “A
single aircraft? It’s just a reconnaissance,” he shrugged. It was 7:55 AM.
Four miles from town, a young hairdresser was serving scrambled eggs
to her three-year-old. Mindful of an appointment, she glanced at the time—
8:20 AM.
That moment was to leave her shocked for life. Suddenly, a brilliant
white flash lit up the room; seconds later a searing blast knocked her flat.
As it subsided, she struggled, stunned, to the window.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame “as bright as ten thousand
suns” rose in all its splendor. Transfixed, she watched as blood-colored
clouds swept down onto the earth. Fierce winds began to blow.
Nearer the city, eyewitnesses wandered dazed. “Thousands of corpses
burnt to ashes”…“in a few hours, all foodstuffs infected”…and shortly the
nightmare symptoms of radiation sickness.
“Never before have we seen such an awful weapon, and never before
have we heard of such a weapon.”
The essence of this account I have drawn from an ancient document, a
document that couldn’t possibly exist…but does. I shall render details of it
in Chapter 29. In pages now brown with time, the cold terror of the
survivors still lives on.
The mutual collapse of the high civilization centers through nuclear
warfare in the third millennium B.C. had come swiftly and without warning
(see prehistoric era map in Chapter 4), leaving little time to salvage anything
but essentials.
Small groups of survivors set out to begin life once more in the jungles
and mountains that were untouched by radiation and ruin. Without industry,
they were compelled to concentrate on producing their own essentials. The
emphasis reverted to agricultural self-sufficiency.
Although their members had skills, there were too few of them to create
a new civilization within the void they were forced to face. Every culture
requires a certain density of population. This was no longer available, so
they were forced into a more basic existence.
It happened all over the world at once. (And will historians please
explain it?) All the world’s major agricultural centers suddenly appeared in
different places about the same time.
These new agricultural centers appeared in northeastern China,
southeastern Asia, northeastern Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.
What is more, they all sprang up in close proximity to areas which had
been destroyed by some fiery holocaust (that is, the Gobi and Indian
civilization centers, the Death Valley ruins, the melted facade of
Sacsahuaman and the vitrified ruins in the Brazilian jungle).
Were some of these new “primitive” communities survivors of man made catastrophe?
In a downstairs lounge the next morning, we were approached by
Reginald Stokes, a Canadian doctor who had overheard our conversation.
He tossed up some lively questions to us.
“I saw this movie,” said Stokes. “20,000 B.C. it was called. The film
showed early humans as pitiful ‘ape men’ who devoured big chunks of
rotten meat with savage grunts and dragged their women around by the hair.
“That’s one piece of your jigsaw picture that doesn’t fit. Just where do
you slot cavemen and primitive societies? They were our ancestors, weren’t
they?”
Wajsmann flashed a reply. “I tell you, Reg. they were educated people
just like us.”
“What do you mean? Civilized?” His eyes narrowed.
Wajsmann continued. “Archaeologists who have gone out to uncover
facts know nothing of uncivilized cavemen.
“The point is, many of today’s so-called primitives are not relics of a
Stone Age. Rather, they are the wreckage of more highly developed
societies, forced by various circumstances such as natural disasters to lead a
much simpler, less developed way of life.”
And who reached that conclusion?”
None other than a recent conference of anthropologists.”
“Urrrh,” grunted the doctor. “Look here, mind if I join you in your
apartment this afternoon? There seems more to this caveman stunt than
meets the eye.”
We invited him to be there at three o’clock.
“Hurry, Jay. How much longer will you be? Breakfast will spoil.” The
refugee wife was well seasoned to this routine since settling into their
makeshift hut in the hills. Her city life was now just a distant dream. This
morning, you could hardly say the same for her husband. He had just cut his
chin on an improvised razor.
“Ah, that’s better. Nothing like a daub of clay to stop the bleeding.” Jay
dropped the offending razor onto a bench in the work cave and stumbled
over the mossy rocks to join his family.
Now, did you notice something about this caveman? That’s right. He
felt a compulsive need to shave!
The telltale sign of his habit was left behind in the Lazzaretto Grottoes,
near Nice, in France. A small deer-bone handle has since been found within
the cave complex. The handle is skillfully split with scapula bones
inserted—a prehistoric razor.
Here is evidence of men conscious of their civilized background,
compelled to use all their technical skill in a savage and hostile
environment; men able to make contact with other civilized people once, but
afterwards isolated and forced to make use of crude implements for survival.
The story is the same on the other side of the world. In the Subis
Mountains of West Borneo, a network of caves hollowed out on a cathedral like scale contained fabrics of extreme fineness and delicacy. Here is further
proof of a civilized background.
Charles Berlitz notes that many artifacts now found suggest a concern
with ceremony, art and adornment, “as if they were trying to combine an art
that was natural to them with a survival technique that had become
necessary.”1
…True to his word, at three sharp the doctor was rapping on our door.
We seated Stokes with a tomato juice. He couldn’t wait to begin.
“Now, how can you possibly know,” asked Stokes, “that cavemen were
anything but evolving savages?”
Wajsmann tossed a teaser. “They have told us, themselves.”
“You’re kidding, of course.
Wajsmann smiled. “For one thing, their art. It shows that their
background was as developed as ours.” Then taking a chalk to his portable
blackboard, Wajsmann wrote:
QUALITY OF CAVEMAN ART
“There are six things I’d like you to note,” he began.
1. The rock paintings of animals in the caves of Altamira, Lascaux,
Ribadasella and others, I tell you, are masterpieces of art in any
period. The realism and beauty of these cave paintings show artistic
talent immensely superior to that of the animal paintings of Egypt,
Babylon or Greece.
2. Paintings in the cave of Altamira (near Santander, Spain) are, from
the aesthetic viewpoint, just as good as modern paintings!
3. Cave paintings in Algeria, Libya and Lascaux bear witness to a
developed culture which used perspective and freeness of form—an
amazingly sophisticated art. You realize that perspective was not
used until the fifteenth century!
4. And do you know that cave drawings followed a planned pattern of
figurative arrangement that is remarkably constant throughout
western Europe? In each case the decorated cave was divided up
according to some unknown metaphysical system.
5. Not only that, but cave paintings (as to motifs and themes) have a
common style worldwide. It’s as though they came from a common
school.
6. The original caves of Montignac-Lascaux (now closed to the public)
have been called “the Sistine Chapel of prehistory” for the beauty of
their paintings. The artists achieved a remarkable three-dimensional
effect by using the natural contours of rock. This is what they did:
small holes became the glaring eyes of a bison; cracks became the
wounds of a stricken deer; odd-shaped bulges were incorporated
into the painting as a head or back hump. Even today, light and
shadow contrasts using the natural rock shapes make the animals appear to be alive and breathing. Here is a technique and effect
unique in the history of art.
“I tell you, these cavemen scaled heights not reached again until late in
our era.
Stokes stared at the six points. “Incredible!” he gasped. “Simply
incredible!” Wajsmann continued. “We probably have to admit that our
artistic capabilities are no higher today than they were in the ‘caveman’
period. One thing is sure. Their painting culture was more advanced than
that of the average European country dweller today.”
(Robert Charroux had pointed out that even to manufacture the ferric
oxide or manganese sticks to paint with required a complex, sophisticated
technique.)2
Wajsmann summed up. “Are we to believe that these were dim-witted
savages, incapable of putting two stones together to build a wall?”
Stokes sat silent.
Paul Heron rose, sidled to the blackboard, and wrote:
CAVEMEN LIVED IN HOUSES
“This is my special interest,” said Heron. “Looks like a paradox,
doesn’t it? But note this:
1. The Lascaux artists did not live in their caves but fashioned them
into an art gallery. Listen. Do you know how they managed to
paint those pictures up to twelve feet above the floor? The answer
is, they used scaffolds—and the holes in the rock, where they put in
crossbeams for planks, are still there. Now scaffolding cannot
precede the knowledge of masonry; it follows from the development
of masonry. Therefore we can he sure that ‘cavemen’ knew how to
construct houses.
2. And what shall we do about the “Stone Age” oven found at
Noailles, France? It was built by using stones shaped like bricks
and mortared with cement.
3. At Charroux (a large prehistoric tool centre where you can still pick
up stone axes) there are caves within three miles, but excavations
have found so sign that these were ever inhabited by men.
4. In Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, “Stone Age” houses have
actually been unearthed. These reveal sophisticated construction techniques which called for a knowledge of mathematics and
geometry.
“So we can conclude that all ‘cave men’ did not live in caves (except in
rare cases as still occur today). Most stone tool sites (including the largest
in the world of ten thousand acres) were nowhere near caves. ‘Cave men
lived in houses.
“All right, Paul, that’s enough,” said Denise. “Give me a chance.”
Stokes eyed this smartly dressed lady with curiosity. “What do you
know about all this?” he queried.
“What do I know? I know what they wore, that’s what!” she exclaimed.
“Yes, they wore clothes—and how! Here, let me show you.” She started
writing:
CAVEMAN’S SOPHISTICATED CLOTHING
1. Prehistoric cave paintings in the Kalahari Desert of southwest Africa
depict light-skinned men in elaborate garments. Men with blond beards
and well-styled hair are wearing boots, tight-fitting pants, multicolored
shirts, coats and gloves. A woman is wearing a short-sleeved pullover,
closely-fitting breeches, and gloves, garters and slippers.
2. Engraved stones of the Magdalenian period unearthed in a cave at
Lussac, France, show modern-looking people in casual poses wearing
robes, belts, boots, coats and hats. A seated young lady wears a pantsuit
with a short-sleeved jacket, a pair of small boots, and a decorated hat
that flops down over her right ear to her shoulder. On her lap is a
square, flat object with a flap that folds down the front, like a modern
purse. Men wear well-tailored pants, broad belts with clasps, and
clipped beards and moustaches.
“Why, that’s sensational!” exclaimed Stokes.
“But I’ll tell you something,” said Miss Tagg, almost in a whisper. “It’s
highly significant that when I went to photograph these engraved drawings, I
was blocked. Just as others before me. This is very embarrassing material.
And it’s decidedly not open to public inspection.”3
“Understandably,” said Stokes. “It refutes all that we’ve been told to
believe.”
Perch cut in. “There’s a vested interest at stake, here. So many people’s
careers are bound up in it now. Lifetime reputations. It’s not just big
business; many of the theorists are totally sincere. They believe they have found the answer, and they don’t want someone to come along and tell them
it’s all made up.”
“I haven’t finished yet,” cried Denise.
“We’re all ears,” sighed Corderoy.
“There’re a couple of points remaining.”
3. Ancient cave paintings in the Honan Mountains of China show hunters
in modern jackets and long trousers.
4. In Vladimir, Russia, actual remains of a “Stone Age” man were dug up.
He was wearing trousers made of fur, an embroidered shirt, mind you,
and a very practical jacket, with ivory badges and clasps. How about
that?
“Great Scott!” exclaimed the doctor. “This is dynamite!” Corderoy
arose. “There’s more yet. Just catch this.” He took the chalk and wrote for
all to see.
THEIR CIVILIZED ORIGIN
OTHER EVIDENCE
1. Community cooperation was highly developed. We see this in (a) their
clusters of habitations; (b) the specialization of both labor and sites of
labor; and (c) in the sharing of construction and design ideas over a wide
area.
2. Another thing. They were familiar with sea travel. At Montgaudier,
France, and Nerja, Spain, ‘caveman’ discoveries comprise (a)
engravings of a spouting sperm whale and two seals so detailed they can
be recognized as male and female; and (b) cavern paintings of three
dolphins (two males and a female) in a face-to-face encounter. Their
creators, from caves up to a hundred miles inland, would have had to
journey far out on the open sea in order to witness and record their story.
3. As further evidence of ocean travel, tools have been found from the
same “Stone Age” people on both sides of the Atlantic, together with
skeletal remains.
4. Then there is the remarkable coincidence of writing symbols between
the “primitive” American Indian and the cave cultures of Europe.
5. “Stone Age” peoples and those of the ancient civilizations must have
directly inherited a lunar calendar system from a civilization older than
them both. Thousands of notational sequences—such as vertical
markings, lines and dots, painted and engraved on stone or bone—are
scattered from Spain to the Ukraine. These are now known to be
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records of observations of the moon, made for calendric purposes—a
complex memoranda of lunar studies.
Stokes interrupted. “Excuse me, Phil. But isn’t it generally conceded
that prehistoric men had only stone with which to work? If, as you say, they
came from a highly civilized background, why could they only work with
stone?”
“Very good, Reg, murmured Corderoy. “I was getting to that.” He
scratched across the blackboard the following words:
“STONE AGE” MEN MINED METALS
1. The truth is, many prehistoric mines have been located throughout the
world. The same form of iron ore mined in Swaziland—hematite—has
been found among remains in France, Tasmania and Tierra del Fuego—
always in coastal areas. It is possible that the use of hematite
(bloodstone), used in cosmetics, may have been exported worldwide.
2. They certainly had methods of transporting ore a thousand miles from
Michigan, U.S.A., for not one ounce of the ore was ever uncovered for
use within 1,000 miles of the mine sites.
3. As to their intelligence, the prehistoric miners used mathematics and
kept records of what they produced (witness bone etchings, Border
Cave, South Africa). They had writing (witness engraved tablets,
Glozel).
4. At a depth of eighteen feet within one prehistoric mine (actually, near
the Ontonagon River, Michigan), there was discovered a detached mass
of copper weighing six tons. The mass had been raised on timbers and
wedges to about five feet above its break-off point and pounded smooth
to facilitate easier transportation. In the shaft lay a stone hammer
weighing thirty-six pounds.
5. Another mine at Isle Royal, Lake Superior, had been worked to a depth
of nine feet through solid rock before a copper vein eighteen inches
thick was uncovered at the bottom. Excavations are connected
underground and drainage cut. At one point, a tunnel extends for two
miles in an almost straight line.
“Just a moment, Phil.” It was Stokes again. “If these people were
refugees from a high technology, then why have no metal tools been found
among Stone Age relics?”
WHY ONLY STONE TOOLS?
Corderoy smiled. “The truth is, metal will barely survive when exposed
to the weathering processes of time. Most objects will decay, rust, scatter
and become unrecognizable in time. Only stone survives.
“However we know that prehistoric man worked metals from the
discovery of these gigantic mines.
“Now notice this. In caves near Odessa. U.S.S.R., were found
prehistoric animal bones skillfully cut with perfectly circular holes and
regular grooves. Experts declare that these bones were cut with a metal tool,
then polished.
“It is significant that in regions particularly rich in iron ore, such as
Alsace-Lorraine, there is no trace of a culture using stone tools! Yet those
regions certainly were inhabited.”
Stokes sighed. “Well, that does make sense.”
That reminded me of a statement by Robert Charroux. He argued that
our ancestors never used flint knives, axes and other tools, except for a few
outcasts who lived at a more primitive level. If the use of flint tools had
been the general rule, we ought to find billions and billions of them. The
fact is that, relatively speaking, practically none have been found: only a few
hundred thousand axes (the main tool). not enough to justify the assumption
of more than twenty inhabitants of the globe per generation.4
He added: “The Paleolithic and the Neolithic have never existed except
in the imagination of the prehistorians.”5
Surely, he reasoned, it is erroneous to define a whole period by the
insignificant percentage of the total population.
By the same logic, we could say that the twentieth century is part of the
Stone Age, since people in New Guinea and Borneo still use flint tools; or
the Caviar Age or the Chewing Gum Age, since a few people eat caviar or
chew gum.6
Indeed, you might well ask, was there ever a Stone Age? The answer is,
NO! Have there been stone cultures? Yes.
But, I hear you say, are not some of these stone cultures tens of
thousands of years old? Yet the Great Flood wiped the whole earth clean
5,400 years ago. How can this be?
Now you’re talking. Let’s investigate.
next Chapter 7-79s
SOMEBODY’S MISREADING THE TIME
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