Cydonia: Chapter Ten: The New Atlantis

Seneca the tragedian hath these verses: Venuent annis Sæcula seris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos Detegat orbes; nec sit terries Ultima Thule. (There shall come a time when the bands of ocean shall be loosened, and the vast earth shall be laid open; another Tiphys shall disclose new worlds, and lands shall be seen beyond Thule.) --A prophecy of the discovery of America--Francis Bacon Throughout history, theurgists sought to call down the influences of the divine intelligences called gods or daimones. Theurgists used ritual and "mirroring" through "similarities" in order to motivate the daimones to bestow upon them political power, wisdom and vitality. These are attributes striven for by governments and initiated rulers even in this present age. The greatest tool available to the theurgist was the knowledge of the heavens mirrored upon the earth, anchored by Sirius at the Prime Meridian. Armed with this secret, the theurgist could then employ two of the most powerful techniques to influence the gods. The most common method, mystical toponomy (place arrangements) incorporated both symbolic names and geometrically significant areas on the earth. The second common theurgic tool is called onomatonomy, the use of names in ritual, as they are related to the mysteries of the goddess and the heaven-earth alignment. Occult adepts from the greatest antiquity have used these two theurgical practices. Modern mystery schools engage in theurgic practices to this day. One of the earliest "onomatonomous" languages of the theurgist was Egyptian hieroglyphics. Hieroglyph is a Greek word that means "sacred writing." Hieroglyphics were more than mere "sacred writing"--they were the means of communing with the gods. Like the Greek theurgists, those Egyptians who were taught the ancient mysteries believed words contained a primal substance. The act of speaking [854] was thought to mirror the event of original creation. The power of creation through speech was called Heku, magic, which was an aspect of the original creative power that formed the cosmos and was [855] perceived to be an intrinsic part of reality and the divine. The Egyptians believed that writing, medu netcher (the words of the gods) was given to them by Thoth, the keeper of records among the gods. To write hieroglyphs was to speak the divine language. The words of the gods were images of things; the entire world was spoken into creation by the gods. The Egyptians believed that images and symbols were words, and the universe, therefore, could be "read" and interpreted. The religion of the Egyptians as it was absorbed into the philosophy of the Greeks maintained the knowledge of the heavens mirrored upon the earth. Neo-Platonist Proclus Diadochus, (412-485 AD) wrote the most accurate description of theurgic principles, of the reasoning behind the practices, and of the methods based on the maxim "As above, so below" designed to procure benefits from the spiritual entities called "the gods." Proclus had access to books that are now lost, and his own handbook on theurgy, On the Sacred Art, was an extract from a lost work that was probably based on the Chaldean Oracles. He writes according to the continuation of Plato's philosophy and the design of the "Sacred Science": Just as lovers move on beyond the beauty perceived through the senses until they reach the Sole Cause of all beauty and all perception (noêtôn), so too, the experts in sacred matters (hoi hieratikoi), starting with the Sympathy connecting visible things both to one another and to the Invisible Powers, and having understood that all things are to be found in all things, they established the Sacred Science (tên epistêmên tên hieratikên). They marveled at seeing those things which come last in those which come first, and vice-versa; earthly things in the heavens in a causal and celestial manner, and heavenly things on the earth in a terrestrial way. Proclus realized that the celestial things were mirrored in the terrestrial. He continued with an explanation of theurgy, the bringing down of heavenly powers for the purpose of influencing literal intelligent beings called Daemonic Powers: Thus there are to be seen on the earth suns and moons in a terrestrial form, and in the heavens all the plants, stones and animals after a celestial manner, alive in a spiritual way (zônta noerôs). Having contemplated these things, the wise men of old (hoi palai sophoi) brought together various things down here with their heavenly counterparts, and brought down Divine Powers into this mortal place, having drawn them down through Similarity (homoiotêtos): for Similarity is powerful enough to attach beings to one another… Longing to go beyond these and similar things, they came to know the Daemonic Powers which are essentially linked to the activities of nature and physical bodies, and by this means they drew down (epêgagonto) these Powers in order to communicate (sunousian) with them. From the Daemonic Powers they moved straight up towards the actual Doings of the Gods (autas…tas tôn theôn…poiêseis), instructed in some matters by the Gods themselves, but in others moved by their own efforts to an accurate conception of the appropriate symbols. And so, leaving nature and physical operations below, they came to directly experience (echrêsanto) the Primordial [856] (prôtourgois) and Divine Powers. The modern theurgist, like Proclus and the Neo-Platonists, believes that words can produce magic if used in the right pattern. From at least as early as Aristotle, words and the patterns of letters within words, were seen to possess power. This concept was behind the popular word manipulation technique called anagrams. The study of anagrams has been called the "Great Art" or in Latin ARS MAGNA, which is itself a clever anagram of the letters in ANAGRAMS. The phenomenon of anagrams was said to have [857] been discovered by the Greek poet Lycophron, (wolf-soul) in 260 B.C. W. Camden (Remains, 7th ed., 1674) defined Anagrammatisme as: A dissolution of a name truly written into his letters, as his elements, and a new connection of it by artificial transposition, without addition, subtraction or change of any letter, into different words, making some perfect sense applicable to the person named. In the book The Ordinall of Alchemy, Thomas Norton of Bristoll 1499, wrote: Such like Francies were the results of the wisdome and humility of the Auncient Philosophers, (who when they intended not an absolute concealment of Persons, Names, Misteries, &c.) were wont to hide them by transpositions" (He might have added, like myself,--Ed.) "Acrostiques, Isogrammatiques, Symphoniaques, and the lyke (which the searching Sons of Arte might possibly [858] unridle, but) with designe to continue them to others, as concealed things. The creation of America was from the beginning a theurgic work, incorporating the ancient symbols and designs that conjured power from the gods. Through the use of onomotonomy and mystical toponomy, the knowledge of Isis was connected to the earth. Significantly the constellation Virgo overshadowed the first 13 colonies of the United States on the heaven--earth map. Thousands of years before Europeans settled the New World, America was aligned under heaven with Virgo. To the initiated, taking part in America's political formation was a demonstration of divine preordainment. This is also why the Elizabethan writer Francis Bacon designated America the "New Atlantis" in his work of the same name. The virgin mother, Isis, was the distributor of secret knowledge to the Old World and her premier heavenly symbol (Virgo) reigned over the New World. The old Atlantis was the bastion of knowledge, a place that preserved and nurtured wisdom. Bacon also knew that Poseidon's kingdom of Atlantis, like America, was surrounded by ocean, a "water hill." The capitol of the new Atlantis--America became Washington, meaning, "water hill" reminiscent of the English mound and surmounting ditch, and of the Ouroboros encircling the earth. The name America was supposedly invented by a cartographer named Amerigo Vesspuci. This story of the origin of the name America is highly suspect for a number of reasons. Botticelli, the illuminated painter and brother-in-law of Amerigo used Amerigo's sister, Simonetta Vespucci as the model for his "Birth of Venus," as well as other paintings. The alleged namesake of America, the cartographer Amerigo, with his sister as the image of Venus/Isis, is too conspicuously "mystery school" to be ignored. The metaphor within the name America is too evocative, belying the true meaning intended by the mystery schools. The theurgic meaning behind the name "America" can be found in the French-Greek phrase "La Mere ica." La is the feminine form of (the), mere is (mother), and ica comes from the Greek icha meaning [859] "desire" or "yearn." The Greek mythological character Icarus, Ikaros in Greek, means literally, the "follower." With these clues the real intention behind the appellation of the New World becomes more clearly resolved: Americans or La Mere Icans are "Followers of the Mother." In October 1884, at the request of the 21st President of the United States of America, Chester Alan Arthur, 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, DC, USA for the International Meridian Conference. At the Conference the following principles were established: 1.A single world meridian to replace the numerous ones in existence at the time. 2.The Meridian passing through the principal Transit Instrument at the Observatory at Greenwich was to become the "initial meridian." 3.All longitude would be calculated both east and west from this meridian up to 180°. 4.All countries would adopt a universal day. 5.The universal day would be a Mean Solar Day, beginning at the Mean Midnight at Greenwich and counted on a 24-hour clock. 6.Nautical and astronomical days everywhere would begin at mean midnight. Though the Prime Meridian conference has been described in contemporary history books as ground breaking in its unity for establishing a world standard for location and time, historically Britain and the United States had used a Prime Meridian founded in Greenwich England since 1675. In 1675 the British astronomer John Flamsteed, first Astronomer Royal to King Charles, directed the construction of the royal observatory of Greenwich built for the sole purpose of determining longitude for the earth for the kingdom of Britain. From the Greenwich observatory, the sun and stars were cataloged according to the exact time they passed overhead for every day of the year. Navigators possessing these catalogues could chart their location east or west from Greenwich according to the relative position of the stars or sun as long as an accurate clock set to Greenwich time was on board. It has long been known that the most efficient star with which to determine latitude is the brightest, Sirius. Evidence that the zodiacal sign of Sirius, the twins of Gemini, were the patrons and guides of seafarers of the Mediterranean was recorded in Homer's Odyssey. Castor and Pollux were implored by their magical speaking ship the Argo, as the only passengers sufficiently initiated into the mysteries to [860] guide it out of a blinding storm. In the writings of Paul in his voyage to Rome, the Dioscori or Gemini was the masthead of the ship that had wintered in Crete. Crete, an island named for the "ruling goddess," was the center of the Cydonian mystery schools where Castor and Pollux had gained their [861] guiding power. Every day at 1 o'clock, a bright orange ball slides down the top of a spire on the Flamsteed tower in Greenwich overlooking the Thames River, coupled with a report from a cannon. Ships on the Thames have set the time by this standard since 1675 in order to calculate while at sea their location relative to the Prime Meridian at Greenwich. Because Greenwich counts the day in 24 hours, and because there are only 12 hours on a clock face, 1 o'clock in the afternoon is also 13:00 hours (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time. Unknown to the casual observer, the Greenwich one o'clock ritual discloses a deeper meaning of the relationship of heaven to earth, and Sirius to the Prime Meridian. The Sphinx, meaning, "bind together," is depicted with a female head and a lion's body, functioning as a bench mark for "reading" the twelve signs of the zodiac. Virgo, like Sirius, also represents Isis and the zodiacal sign Leo is another symbol for Osiris. In the Temple of Esneh in Egypt, there is a great sky painting in the portico on the ceiling that shows the whole picture of the zodiac with all its constellations. Between the figures of Virgo and Leo, there is carved the figure of the sphinx with the head of a woman and the body of a lion. The woman's face is looking at Leo and the lion's tail is pointing at Virgo, demonstrating where the zodiac begins and ends. Beginning at 1 o'clock on a dial of a clock, the first sign Virgo is designated. The sign Leo the lion occupies the 12 o'clock position. In a 24-hour day the 13 hour th is 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The mystery schools that set up the ritual at Greenwich understood the significance of Leo and Virgo, and of Isis and Osiris. By dropping a bright orange Sirius ball from the apex of a tower every day at 13:00 hours at the spot on earth designated as the Prime Meridian, the ancient knowledge of time, space and earth's connection to the heavens is esoterically displayed. At the time of this writing, a continual worship of Isis Osiris and Horus has been accomplished with the Flamsteed ball through faithful ritual every day for the last three hundred and seventy seven years. The number 13 has other distinctions with respect to the worship of Isis. The letter M is the 13 th letter of English, Greek and Hebrew alphabets. M is also the astrological symbol for Virgo. In Ptolemaic Egyptian Hieroglyphs, the letter M was represented by an owl--a creature that can see in darkness. The owl was also the companion of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, an incarnation of Isis. In Egyptian hieroglyphs of the Owl, the letter M is clearly depicted on the top of its head. The Salii priests of Mars had as part of their costume a tall obelisk-like point surmounting the top of their egg-shaped cap, reminiscent of the Egyptian cartouche for Sirius--a semi-circle with an obelisk and 5-pointed star. The ball and obelisk ceremony performed daily from the Flamsteed Tower preserved the mystery school wisdom of Isis and Osiris. Isis set up an obelisk in a pattern around the earth, where, it was said, pieces of the scattered body (of knowledge) had been located. The symbol represented many ideas, all connected. The obelisk was both the symbol of the reproductive portion of Osiris, "the progenitor of civilization," and the oboloi arrow pointing to the entryway of the duat, the Milky Way as the river of souls. Isis, who had searched for the missing pieces of the body of Osiris so that she might resurrect him, instituted the symbol of the obelisk as a reminder to her followers to continue to seek the lost piece of knowledge. In keeping with the mysteries of Isis, it is no coincidence that on the grounds of the Royal Observatory--which simultaneously discerns the heavens and aids ships in their navigation--obelisks mark the location where the Prime Meridian lies in Greenwich. The obelisk shaped Chingford Pillar, was erected on the edge of Epping Forest on the Meridian line established by Astronomer Royal Sir James [862] Bradley in 1824. Later in 1851 the Astronomer Royal, Sir George Airy established a new Meridian marker alongside Bradley's original just 5.79 meters to the east--a point also marked by an obelisk. Plaques on each obelisk indicate this difference. In fitting with the dualistic themes of Sirius worship, the source for international time is based on Airy's line but Bradley's line continues as the basis for map-making in Britain today. The Prime Meridian as defined by Airy, is a copper strip at the Observatory site where people are often photographed straddling the eastern and western hemispheres. Due to the convergence of meridians of longitude towards the poles, these two Meridians are spaced 5.5m apart where they cross the East Coast and 5.9m apart where they cross the South Coast of England. A quick conversion from meters to feet explains the purpose of the mystery schools in maintaining two apparently randomly spaced Prime Meridians. The average distance between Airy's and Bradley's line as it extends across the English channel to France is 19.5 feet. The twin Prime Meridians must suit the Greenwhich intiates's sense of appropriateness, or the two would be unified using modern equipment. Events, names, dates and places can be analyzed according to theurgic principles to discern their degree of significance. Consistent with the dualistic aspects of the mystery religion, the name Bradley means "wide expanse of land" from Old English "broad lay," and Airy means "of the sky," the dueling meridians signify heaven and earth. In addition to the obelisks marking the Prime Meridian in England, 20 obelisks taken from Egypt at great expense and deliberation were placed strategically around the world in accordance with key locations on the earth/heaven grid. Out of 26 standing obelisks in the world today, 6 still remain in Egypt, and 13 are in Rome, Italy. The other 7 reside in Paris, London, New York, Istanbul, Florence, Urbino (a [863] small town in Italy) and Wimborne (a small town in Southern England). Cleopatra's Needle was erected in London in 1877 on the Thames River. Another obelisk from Egypt was set in the Place de la Concorde in Paris 36 years after Napoleon's failed Egyptian campaign. These two seem to signify the duality of Gemini, straddling the Prime Meridian. Saint Peter's Square in Rome is the resting-place for an obelisk from Heliopolis, a city named after the Greek version of the Egyptian sun gods Osiris and Horus, at 12 degrees east of the Prime Meridian. Lieutenant Commander Henry Gorringe imported Cleopatra's obelisk to New York City's Central Park in 1881. Gorringe took a large ship to Alexandria and put it in dry dock there. He cut a huge hole in the hull near the bow and loaded the obelisk estimated to weigh 193 tons. It took him a year to transport [864] the obelisk and set into place. This obelisk does not, at first, seem to identify a key point on the earth/heaven grid. As is usually the case, however, Mars points us in the right direction. New York is situated on the same latitude on earth as Cydonia is located on Mars, 41 degrees north. It was much more than a coincidence that the same American president who called the world Prime Meridian conference of 1884 officiated the dedication of the tallest obelisk ever constructed in history of the world. Four months after the world agreement of the measurement of time and space according to Sirius on earth, President Chester Alan Arthur addressed a gathering in Washington D.C. dedicating a 555 foot, 5 1/8 inch tall 55 foot thick obelisk, the largest masonry structure on earth, to the memory of George Washington (water hill). The monument is built to illumined classical proportions with the height exactly [865] 10 times the width of its base. Robert Mills, architect and engineer appointed for the federal government in 1836, designed the Washington Monument. Construction began in 1838 but was abandoned supposedly due to a lack in funding. A difference in the shading of the marble (visible approximately 150 feet up) clearly delineates the initial construction from its resumption in 1876. In Robert Mills original design, there was to be an enormous five pointed star near the top of the obelisk. This plan was abandoned in favor of a distinct [866] pyramid at its apex. The motivation behind the Washington Monument was from the beginning the same secret knowledge preserved by the mystery schools since the time of the Pelasgians. Much has been written on the features of Washington D.C., both in its individual architectural constructs and in its overall design. The geometric and architectural secrets of the city display modern Isis Osiris worship. The product of Isis and Osiris, the "Face of Osiris" called Hardetcher or Horus, is most prominently venerated in his incarnation as the god of war and of Mars. The greatest symbol of the war god Mars, the Pentagon--a geometric figure which symbolized Isis/Venus and Osiris/Mars, and was also discovered on Mars itself--was implemented by American initiates to house the technology which brought war to the rest of the world. The 5-sided building in Arlington, Virginia near Washington, D.C. serves as headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, including all three services--Army, Navy, and Air Force. The Pentagon itself is related to the world grid of "holy places" indicated by the goddess. The architectural layout of Washington D.C. displays a message remarkably similar to that found in the Cydonian city on Mars. Central to the geometry of the Pentagon is the repetition of the number 5. The building consists of five concentric pentagons, or "rings," with 10 spoke-like corridors connecting the whole. Built of structural steel and reinforced concrete with limestone facing, the structure has 5 floors and an inner court that encompasses 5 acres. In addition to the redundant fives in the Pentagon, there is a significant tenet of the mystery schools preserved in its longitude. The Pentagon is located 77 degrees west of Greenwich. The height of the building in feet is 77' 3.5." The content in cubic feet is 77,015,000. The gross floor area incorporates the [867] numbers of degrees in a circle, 6,636,360 square feet. The significance of the number 77 with respect to theurgy is evident in its reoccurrence in the building's layout. By adding the number of longitude of the Pentagon, 77 degrees west, with the longitude of the Great Pyramid (mound of Mars) at Giza, 31 degrees east, the result discloses the mystery of the strategic monument's placement. It is the familiar Pentagonal Martian number, 77+31=108. The number 77 also has Biblical significance. In the story of Genesis, Cain the first son of Adam and Eve was banished from Eden for killing his brother Abel. In order to prevent Cain from being killed from those he encountered during his wanderings, God gave Cain a mark. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, [that] every one that findeth me shall slay me. And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. Gen 4:14,15 The fifth descendant of Cain, Lamech expanded the number of "vengeance": And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. Gen 4: 23-24. From the text the number seventy and seven places emphasis on the theme of "revenge," but there is a more esoteric understanding found in the pseudepigraphic Book of Adam & Eve, considered by scholars to have been put together in stages during the first half of the second century B.C. The embellished version [868] of the story indicates that Lamech killed Cain his own ancestor. (Gen. 4:18-24) Because Lamech was also the father of the first metal smith Tubalcain, "an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron" (Gen 4:22) bible scholars refer to his declaration of 77-fold vengeance as the "Sword son of [869] Lamech." The hidden Gnostic meaning behind the number 77 is then not just as a symbol of rebellion, but of revenge with the technology of weapons against the God of the Old Testament who would avenge Cain. This revenge is also against those who trust and follow the God who "marked" Cain. The Pentagon was designed by George Edwin Bergstrom and built in 1941-43 to bring under one roof the U.S. War Department offices then housed in widely scattered buildings. The man responsible for the Pentagon project was General Brehon B. Sommervell, Chief of the Construction Division of the Office of the Quartermaster General. Significantly, Sommervell was also head of the Manhattan Project that produced the first atomic bomb. Manhattan is from the Algonquian Indian phrase Man-a-hat-ta, or "Place [870] of Mounds." General Sommervell's involvement with the technology of war at the Pentagon, and with the technology of the Manhattan Project--which produced "transmutation of matter"--illustrates the continuity maintained by the mystery schools between science and alchemy. The ultimate goal of the alchemist was to achieve power of elemental transformation--exoterically to "change lead into gold." The means by which substances were transformed or transmuted was the power embodied within the "Philosopher's Stone." With this stone the alchemist believed he could change or transmute elements at will, producing not only mere wealth, but also power, light, wisdom and ever lasting life. Chaos and synergy, breaking apart and joining together are the first principles of alchemy. The first fission reaction produced by the Manhattan project was a literal realization of this ancient goal. In alchemical terminology, the explosion of an atomic bomb broke apart the positive and negative (male and female) elements that compose primordial matter. The site of the first fission detonation--transmutation of matter--was designated "Trinity," located in New Mexico whose state motto is "The Land of Enchantment." This name implied not only the idea of man taking on god like status, but also a relationship to the symbology of alchemical thought. J. Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-1967) a theoretical physicist and the supervising scientist for the Manhattan Project, the developer of the atomic bomb wrote: The general notions about human understanding…which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of or new. Even in our own culture they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom. [871] Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. Oppenheimer supposedly quoted a verse in the Hindu Baghavad Ghita when he witnessed the first atomic explosion of the Manhattan Project. Recalling the scene, Oppenheimer said: A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. There floated through my mind a line from the Bhagavad-Gita in which Krishna is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do [872] his duty: "I am become death: the destroyer of worlds." The Bhagavad Gita means in Sanskrit, "Song of Worlds" and is a dialogue between the third being of the Hindu trinity, Krishna, and his devotee Arjuna. The title "Song of Worlds" is reminiscent of the Pythagorean and Platonic theory of the solar system and the harmony of the spheres. The god Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu, can be compared to the Egyptian god Horus, who is also a manifestation of his father deity, Osiris. In addition to the redundant pentagonal and precessional numbers incorporated in the Pentagon itself, significant theurgic dates found on the ancient Roman and Egyptian calendars were set during key phases of construction. The groundbreaking ceremony and construction of the Pentagon commenced on September 11, 1941. In Egypt, September 11 was known as "The Day of Queens," representing different th [873] aspects of the same mother goddess Isis. After exactly 16 months of building, the Pentagon was dedicated on January 15, 1943. On this night at about 10 PM, the constellation of Osiris, Orion, culminates, or reaches its highest point in the north skies for the year. The number 16 is significant to the mystery schools. P or Pi is the 16 Greek letter. The th Greek letter is the ideogram for the mathematical constant 3.14, a number which has been used for centuries to calculate the circumference of a circle. Dedication of the edifice of the Pentagon was significantly held in the month of Janus, the dualistic god of beginnings and endings. The Romans had numerous temples in the form of great arches and architectural pillars dedicated to their god Janus, whom January is named after. Whenever war was declared, the chief magistrate would lead a ceremony in which the doors of the main temple of Janus were opened. In time of peace they were normally shut. Janus was a synthesis of the constellation above Sirius, the two twins of Gemini. The first occupants of the Pentagon moved in on April 29th 1942, a time corresponding to the first day of the 5-day Roman festival called Florifertum, centered on the Kalends of May (May Day) as the time of the war god Mars's conception. Florifertum (Flora) was the goddess of the flowering of plants in Roman religion, and she was the goddess who lightly touched Hera, causing her to conceive the god Mars. Titus Tatius (according to tradition, the Sabine king who ruled with Romulus) is said to have [874] introduced her cult to Rome. Close examination of the geometric layout of the 10-mile square piece of federal land that comprises Washington D.C. demonstrates that the knowledge of the teachings of Pythagoras and the mystery schools has been passed down to American architects, from the Egyptian priests of Isis. The Belgian initiate of the mystery school of Freemasonry, Jean-Marie Ragon, writing in the years when America became independent, explained the traditional passing of the torch of hidden knowledge: The Franc Mason… knew well when being initiated into the ancient Mysteries veiled under the name of Francmaconnerie (Freemasonry); that his work was only to be the continuation or the renovation of the ancient mysteries, and that he was to become a mason after the manner of Apollo or Amphion. [875] Washington, D.C. was designed by French Freemason Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant around 1791. The 10 square miles of Washington D.C. land at its most northern point touches the 39 parallel. The th number 39 is the sum of 6+6+6 and also the sum of 19.5 plus itself. 19.5 in that regard is both Pythagorian and Cydonian. According to the Pythagoreans, all things are ultimately numbers. This means that all bodies consist of points or units in space, which, when taken together, constitute a number. This can be well illustrated by the Pythagorean ho tetraktys (the 4 things). one (= unity) is the point, two is the line, three is the surface, four is the solid. Ten, the sum of 1+2+3+4 these are the '5' numbers. It is this figure that the Pythagorean considered as sacred. The number 10 was considered by the Pythagoreans to be the most perfect number. They believed that there must be 10 planets in the makeup of [876] the solar system. They maintained that each of these 10 planets made its own sound in harmony with the others so perfectly as to maintain the balance and orbit of each. The geometric symbol of the "Harmony of the Spheres" is a tetrahedron, the only 4-sided shape that can exist inside a sphere--and the point where the tetrahedron intersects this sphere is at 19.5 degrees. Greek historians record that Pythagoras, when having discovered what is called both the Pythagorean theorem and the 47 proposition of Euclid--the 3-4-5 triangle--sacrificed 100 bulls to th Zeus. This particular sacrifice was an illuminated statement of the origin and nature of the knowledge Pythagoras received. Historians debate that Pythagoras would ever cause the death of any creature due to his great belief in reincarnation. It may be more likely that the "100 bull sacrifice" was a later illustrative addition to the story. A sacrifice of 100 is in Greek a hecatomb. Similarly in Latin 100 bulls is centa- taurus. The centaur represents Sagittarius, the marker of Ouroboros as well as the line of priests of [877] Canaan, the Cydonians. This sacrifice is a clue to understanding the secret teaching of Pythagoras. There are 10 major megalithic locations on the globe, all touching the points where the earth's equator circumscribes 2 imaginary pentagrams. The first pentagram is anchored at 0 degrees longitude and the other pentagram at Giza in Egypt, the earthly abode of Orion/Osiris. In heaven these two pentagrams are anchored at the star Sirius under Gemini and the other at the center star of the belt of Orion under Taurus, the bull. 10 points on the globe connected 10 points in heaven, or ten times ten. One hundred points anchored on the bull Taurus. Pythagoras actually called the pentagram the pentalpha or "5 A's" because the geometric symbol was in fact a combination of 5 Alphas, the first letter of the Greek alphabet. The earliest letter A was originally written to symbolize the head of a bull by the Caananites who taught the Greek the concept of a phonetic alphabet. The Caananite A was drawn with the horns of [878] the bull pointing upward. The Greek letters also represented numbers, "five alphas" equal the number 5. The number 5 is found in nature with particular significance to certain plants and their fruit. Structurally the earth itself is configured much like a fruit with a core, a stem (the axis of rotation) and an equator. The five-fold nature of many flowers and fruit of plants translates directly to Roman myth to the birth of Mars himself. The great megalithic sites of the earth, as well the modern edifices built by "those who know" reflect the same pentagraphic pattern found in an apple. In a passage of Ovid, the goddess Flora possessed a magic flower that would make any woman who touched it conceive. It was said that a daughter of Jupiter, Minerva came directly from the head of Jupiter, not needing the aid of Juno for her birth. Knowing this the goddess Juno wished to have a child of her own without Jupiter's aid, and asked for Flora's help. Flora obtained the flower for Juno and she conceived Mars. Mars was the son of the queen of heaven alone, a parthenogenetic god (born without a human [879] father) a flower child. According to the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri, born in Florence Italy (1265-1321AD) Mars was the patron god of Florence, which emphasized the god's floral origin. Florence took its name from the Roman flower goddess Flora, subject of one of a pair of famous paintings by the initiated painter Botticelli. The most famous of his works, the Birth of Venus, has as its partner painting Primavera, the Birth of Spring, presided over by the enigmatic goddess Flora. However, the mysterious meaning is not merely the season of Spring, but the origins of the god Mars. Botticelli depicted the "births" of the quintessential mystery school deities Venus/Aphrodite/Isis and Mars/Ares/Osiris. A highly venerated statue of Mars stood in Flora's temple until its destruction in the [880] great flood of 1333. In this light the discovery of a Pentagon on Mars suggests that the Romans knew something profound about Mars from a very early point in time. The Roman historian Plutarch wrote that Pythagoras was an acquaintance of the second king of [881] Rome who succeeded Romulus, king Numa who is credited with the creation of the Salii priests. Although this relationship with Pythagoras was known even in the Roman Republic to be chronologically impossible, Plutarch, who lived during the traditional century of the founding of Rome in the 8 Century th B.C documented in his work "Ad Numa Pompilius" that king Numa made the philosopher an honorary citizen of Rome. Pythagoras and Numa supposedly shared many philosophical tenets, such as reincarnation and that fire was the primary principle of the universe. Plutarch wrote: Other external proofs, too, are urged to show the connection Numa had with Pythagoras. The comic writer Epicharmus, an ancient author, and of the school of Pythagoras, in a book of his dedicated to Antenor, records that Pythagoras was made a freeman of Rome. Again, Numa gave to one of his four sons the name of Mamercus, which was the name of one of the sons of Pythagoras; from whence, as they say, sprang that ancient patrician family of the Aemilli, for that the king gave him in sport the surname of Aemilius, for his engaging and graceful manner in speaking. I remember, too, that when I was at Rome, I heard many say, that, when the oracle directed two statues to be raised, one to the wisest and another to the most valiant man in Greece, they erected two of brass, one representing [882] Alcibiades, and the other Pythagoras. Plutarch is considered one the most comprehensive sources from antiquity for the Isis and Osiris myth. It is interesting that he connected the philosophy of Pythagoras so closely to the founding of Rome. It may have been Plutarch's intention that the religious foundations of Rome shared the same source as the ideology of Pythagoras. As Rome learned the wisdom of the Greeks and patterned their civilization, so America imitated the Romans. The symbol that connects Pythagoras, Greece, Rome and America together in shared philosophy is the pentagram. The five-pointed star of Isis has been incorporated into American culture as a symbol for the military. It is found on the United States flag and represents state capitols on every map. In fact the 50 States represented by 50 pentagrams on the U.S. flag demonstrates an unusual number. 50 times the number of a pentagram '72' equals 3600. 3600 is the number of seconds in an hour. The number of the contiguous United States, 48 is 4 x 12 or four times around the face of a clock. These numbers represent illuminated Pythagorean concepts. The tetrakis, the 4 things, and a circle represented by 12 were essential symbols of the heaven-earth alignment. From antiquity the number 4 has represented the earth's four directions, and 12 has been associated with the twelve zodiacal signs in the heavens. By rendering the number of United States at 12 x 4, heaven and earth were shown to be aligned in some significant way on the North American continent. If 48 is multiplied by the number of degrees between the points of a pentagram the number is 3456… 48 x 72 = 3456. At first glance 3456 does not seem significant, but if multiplied in sequence it demonstrates the number of the degrees in a circle 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 = 360. A reference to a circle implies a relationship to the circuit of heavens, the zodiac and the cycle of the aions. America's east coast begins at the place corresponding to Leo in the heavens. America's capitol lies where Leo and Virgo intersect, just as the sphinx connects the beginning and ending of the zodiac. Virgo dominates the eastern half of America and Libra "The Scales" overlays the western half. America is the only body of land that occupies these three zodiacal figures--representing Isis, Osiris and Horus --simultaneously. Libra represents the same esoteric aspect of Horus as the sign Gemini. They are both symbols used in the monolateral Egyptian religion as the balance of male and female powers. As the offspring of the twins Isis and Osiris, the Horus symbols Gemini and Libra also demonstrate the union of above and below. In the temple to Isis/Hathor in Dendera Egypt, Napoleon's general Desaix discovered an eight-foot wide, circular stone zodiac. It was removed from the ceiling by a French art collector Sebastien Saulnier and his engineer friend Jean Lelorrain. Gunpowder was used to blow holes in the temple roof and after 20 days of cutting by a force of local workmen, the masterpiece was dragged on special wooden rollers towards a waiting boat. Immediately upon its arrival in France it was sold to King Louis XVIII for 150,000 francs and put [883] on display in Paris's Louvre. The Dendera zodiac depicts each of the 12 signs of the ecliptic in the same form recognizable today, with the notable exception of Libra. Sitting on the constellation Libra "the scales" is a small child with his finger to his lips. This is the symbol of the young Horus, which was called Heru-pa-khart, Horus the Younger, Harpocrates in the Greek, the god of silence and secrets. The portrayal of this symbol on the Dendera zodiac from 700B.C demonstrates the understanding shared by the initiates of Isis, that Libra was a sign of Horus himself. Libra is situated on the 14 Greenwich hour, or 2 th O'clock GMT. 14 is the number of pieces Osiris body was divided into by his brother and enemy Set. The significance of Libra for the mystery schools is apparent in the short-hand glyph for the sign. The "rising sun" of Libra, called Hardetcher "Horus on the Horizon" indicates that those initiated into the mysteries understand Libra as representing both dualism and an esoteric symbol for "the son of Mars." This is further illustrated in many astrological images of Virgo combined with Libra. The archetypical blindfolded female of "Justice," an incarnation of Isis, holds the scales in one hand and the sword in the other. The placement of Washington, District of Columbia under the heavens supremely demonstrates America's geographical dedication to Isis/Virgo. The Federal Capitol is sandwiched between the States "Mary-land" to the north and "Virgin-ia" to the south. Maryland's capitol is Annapolis. Anna was the mother of the Mary, who was herself the virgin mother of Jesus Christ. The Federal land encompassing the town Anna-costia means "the promised rib" and refers to the first woman Eve. The name Columbia is from the Latin columb, a dove. The most ancient of the mystery schools of Sumeria worshipped Semiramis as an incarnation of Isis. In fitting with the ancient triad of deities, Semiramis was married to Nimrod, and her son--born supernaturally with out the aid of a man--was the reincarnated Nimrod, Tammuz. Semiramis or Z'emir-amit means "The branch-bearer" from Ze (the), emir (branch) and amit [884] (bearer). Juno, the name of the Roman "queen of heaven" also meant, "The Dove." When portrayed [885] as a Dove, Juno was commonly represented with an olive branch in her mouth. "A branch" is seen in the hand of every zodiacal representation of Virgo. The mystery school meaning behind the branch symbol is the mystical connection between Isis and her son, the branch, Horus. The goddess was represented as the Dove with the olive branch, the symbol found in the story of global cataclysm, the Flood of Noah. America was supposedly founded by Columbus "man of the dove," on his voyage in the 3 ships the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria; or the father, the son and the sainted Mary; or in the mysteries, Osiris, Horus and Isis. In the same way, Noah's dove "sailed over the waters of the flood" in search of land where the survivors of the earthly cataclysm could begin anew. The etymology of the name "Washington, District of Columbia" expresses its purpose as the District [886] of the Dove, the branch bearer, Virgo. A "washing-ton" is an old English word for "water-hill." Mounds or islands among the bogs of Britain had been long used for the worship by the Druids of Belgian, sister of Bell, goddess of light…or in other words, Sirius, the star of Isis. Anagrams were popularized by the French, especially King Louis XVI (17 C) the owner of the th "Louisiana-Mississippi Territory," who was said to be fascinated by these word puzzles. He studied and searched for them, presenting interesting anagrams to various members of his court as a form of entertainment. His predecessor Louis XIII, even went so far as to appoint a Royal Anagrammatist, [887] Thomas Billon to carry out the full-time work of composing strange and amusing anagrams. The origin of the name Mississippi seems to be an anagram which would have been meaningful to the initiated within King Louis's courts. The text-book account of the name Mississippi relates that French fur traders encountered the local Ojibwa Indians of the northern Mississippi basin and heard the name which meant "the mother of rivers." The word "Mississippi," however, yielded an anagram that was too meaningful to be coincidental. M, the 13 letter of the Hebrew and English alphabets, is also the zodiacal th symbol for Virgo. The word "Isis" can be spelled twice within the word "Mississippi" using the 4 "I"s and the 4 "S"s. Mississippi is an anagram meaning the middle of Isis. The meaning of the 2 "P"s is the Greek symbol p , 3.1415 which signifies two circuits of heaven. In other words, the number of Virgo "13" is achieved with two revolutions of the earth under the zodiac. The constellation Virgo, symbol of Isis on the ecliptic, is exactly divided at the point the Mississippi delta flows into the Gulf of Mexico when the heavens are properly mirrored upon the earth and connected at Sirius and the Prime Meridian. M=cVirgo, P= ??Isis P= Isis Though the Avebury circle and Silbury hill of England seem to duplicate the Cydonia complex, they only represent Cydonia's eastern half. The western features of Cydonia find their closest earthly analogue in the arrangement of buildings in Washington DC. The most obvious similarity between Cydonia and Washington is the pentagonal D&M pyramid and the U.S. Pentagon. If a scaled map of Cydonia is superimposed over Washington D.C. with an equilateral triangle--such as can be inscribed between the face, city and D&M pyramid on Mars--inscribed over Washington, significant landmarks appear at its points. The triangle touches the Pentagon, White House and the town of Roslyn. Roslyn is Latin for "Beautiful Rose" or, derived from Ros-Linde, "Rose of the Snake." The serpent signifies wisdom in ancient legends, and was source for the name of the greatest [888] European philosopher, Pythagoras, "Man of the Python." In the mysteries roses were sacred to Isis as the flower of her son Harpocrates, the god of silence. In Greek and Roman mythology, Harpocrates was commonly represented as a small boy with a finger held to his lips. To ensure discretion on the part of Harpocrates, Eros, (the son of Venus and Mars) gave him a rose as a reminder to keep silent and the rose became emblematic of mysticism and secret societies. Cupid was the Roman version of Eros, who if one rearranges the letters of his name is the source for the word rose. Centuries ago, a Greek word for "arrow" was erroizêsa which has the dual meaning of "a [889] snake's hiss." Out of this knowledge came the tradition used in the mystery schools who met in halls of enlightened discourse, strung with garlands of roses symbolizing that the ideas and private revelations spoken within would remain in confidence. America is linked to the Isis worship occurring daily at Greenwich England. The White House designed to house the president in Washington D.D. is a copy of the "Queen's House" in Greenwich England. The Queen's House was designed after the Villa di Castello in Florence Italy designed by [890] Lorenzo di Medici, reflecting Renaissance ideas of mathematical and classical proportion. The Medici family, among the richest in 15 century Europe, spent a considerable part of their wealth amassing th the largest library in the world, with many Greek sources, including the works of Plato, from Constantinople. The Medici family founded the Platonic Academy and patronized Marsilio Ficino, who [891] later issued the first Latin edition of the collected works of Plato. The rose, symbol of Harpocrates, "the god of silence"--or more properly "the god of secrets"--has been allotted a whole garden to itself on grounds of the White House. There is also a rose garden, reminding initiates to be silent, at the United Nations. The emblem of Washington D. C. is the American Beauty rose. It is the flower of England and is worn on St. George's Day. The rose is the state flower of Georgia, Iowa, New York, North Dakota and the District of Columbia. The rose is the official National Floral Emblem of the United States signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 20, 1986. Red and white roses represent alchemical Sulphur and Mercury, respectively. On October 11, 1492,Columbus's crew of the Nina saw "a branch covered with thorns and [892] flowers" which heralded the closeness of the New World. The Santa Maria was formally listed as La Gallicia and the Nina as Santa Clara. The name Gallicia comes from the Gaelic mother goddess Caillaech. Cailliaech is related to the Hindu mother god Kali. The Romans transliterated into Latin the Gaelic mother goddess name as, Cal-leac- ia, and the name of the people who worshipped her the Cal- [893] laec-i. Galiza means "the sons of the mother goddess," or "land of the mother goddess." In Arthurian legend Caelia was a fairy queen. She enchanted Tom O'Lincoln, an illegitimate son of Arthur, and they [894] had an adulterous affair. She bore him a son--a fairy knight called Red Rose Knight. The Nina as Santa Clara refers to the divine offspring of the Isis mother and Osiris father, the son of the sun. In Latin Clara is from clarus (clear, bright). In ancient Hindu legend, the gods Vishnu, protector of the world, and Brahma, creator of the world, argued as to which was the most beautiful flower. Vishnu praised the rose, while Brahma, who had not seen a rose sided with the lotus. When Brahma saw the rose he agreed at once that the rose was supreme and rewarded Vishnu's devotion by creating for him, his wife, the Goddess Lakshmi from 108 large and [895] 1,008 small rose petals. One hundred and eight beads make up the Buddhist prayer necklace. The term for the prayer beads used by Buddhists is Sanskrit, mala, meaning "garland" or "roses." It may be no coincidence that the prayer beads used by Roman Catholics and Anglicans, among other religious groups, are called rosaries. Renaissance art often depicted two types of roses, the Apothecary's Rose, botanically known as Rosa gallica, and the Rosa alba. The petals of the Apothecary's rose were dried and rolled into beads; then strung into what became the rosary and from which the rosary received its name. The early Roman Catholic rosary incorporated 108 prayer beads. It is theorized that the rosary was first used by hermits to celebrate the mysteries of the mother of god. These hermits were influenced by the Gnostic writings attributed to the Greek god Hermes. Hermes is the Greek version of Thoth, Egyptian god [896] of magic, science, medicine, writing and geography. In Catholic litanies, the Virgin Mary is called Rosa Mystica and in many hymns she is invoked as the rose without thorns. However the early Christians scorned the rose because of its connection with their persecutors the Romans. Knowing the pagan source of these occult traditions, Clement forbade Christians to adorn themselves with roses. Tertullian (202 [897] A.D.) wrote an entire volume against the rose. Herodotus claims that the mythical King Midas of Crete introduced the rose to Greece. Homer's Illiad tells how Hector's body was anointed with rose oil after his death at Achilles' hand, and that the [898] shield of Achilles was decorated with roses. During feasts in Athens, young people of both sexes, crowned with roses, danced naked in the shadow of the temple of Hymen to symbolize the innocence of the Golden Age. During the public games in Rome the streets would be covered with rose petals. The Romans believed that by decorating their tombs with roses they would appease the Manes (spirits of the dead) and the rich specified in their wills that entire rose gardens should be maintained to provide flowers for their graves. Spirits of Roman ancestors were honored at the festival of Parentalia in February, the last month of the old Roman calendar, sacred to the god Mars. The bloody festival Lupercalia held to honor the wolf associated with Romulus and Remus, was also celebrated in February. The symbols associated with Lupercalia have been incorporated [899] into modern Valentines Day. Ovid says the Lupercalia is a rite of the Pelasgians, a people "older than the Moon," dating from the Golden Age before the ascendancy of Jove. In numerology, the rose represents the number 5, because the wild rose has 5 petals, and other roses have petals arranged in multiples of five. Geometrically, the rose corresponds with the pentagram and pentagon. Myth records a link between Mars, his pentagon, and the mythical mother of the bloodline said to guard the Holy Grail. The legendary Merovingian kings were said to be of the lineage of Mary Magdalene from scripture. Magdalene comes from Hebrew migdal (tower), and Mary comes from the same root as Mars. Mary Magdalene (literally "Mars tower"), was said to have lived for 72 years, the [900] same number as degrees between the points of a pentagram. In Gnostic mystery schools, Mary was substituted for Isis and Venus, and the "vine" was the analogy for the rose. The Merovingian dynasty of Frankish kings which flourished from the 5 century to 751 A.D. traced their descent from the legendary th Merovech, or Meroveus, chief of the Salian Franks, (Salian from the same root as the Roman Salii). The race of Franks claimed their name meant "free men," and the brotherhood of "free men" continued under the Carolingian rulership of Charles the Great, commonly known as Charlemagne. This king of the Franks came to rule over most of Europe. Several Holy Roman Emperors bore this name as well as kings of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, and Hungary. Carolina is the Latin feminine [901] form of Charles, namesake of two American states: North and South Carolina. The first lesson the disciples of Pythagoras learned was silence; for a time they were required to be only hearers. "He [Pythagoras] said so" (Ipse dixit), was to be held by them as sufficient, without any proof. It was only the advanced pupils, after 5 years of patient submission, who were allowed to ask questions and to state objections. The Egyptian Harpocrates, "Horus as a child," was the son of Osiris. [902] He is represented seated on a Lotus flower, with his finger on his lips, as the god of Silence. Hermes or Harmachis was the incarnation of Horus illustrated by the Great Sphinx stationed before the second pyramid (Khafre) at modern-day Giza, "Horus-in-the-Horizon." The Egyptians as well as the Greeks [903] regarded the sphinx as emblematic of a great secret. There is a legend that the second king of Rome after Romulus, named Numa, was a friend of Pythagoras. Numa often said that he was advised by a goddess whom he called Tacita, "the Silent One," who may have been the original matron goddess of Rome, Angerona. In statue, Angerona was depicted, [904] according to Pliny, with her lips sealed by a bandage. Plutarch wrote in his work Numa Pompilius: In like manner Numa spoke of a certain goddess or mountain nymph that was in love with him, and met him in secret, as before related; and professed that he entertained familiar conversation with the Muses, to whose teaching he ascribed the greatest part of his revelations; and amongst them, above all, he recommended to the veneration of the Romans one in particular, whom he named Tacita, the [905] silent; which he did perhaps in imitation and honour of the Pythagorean silence. There can be no doubt that the mystery teachings of Pythagoras, reputedly the teacher of Socrates, were collected and preserved during the Renaissance. This information was in turn imparted to Western Europe through an unbroken chain of initiates and adepts of the mystery schools from Greece, to Rome, and to the founding of the New World. Additionally, the Arabs who had invaded Persia, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, the whole North Africa, Gibraltar and Spain accomplished much of the work of maintaining the vast stores of writings from the Greeks. On 8 June, A.D. 632, the Prophet Mohammed died having accomplished the task of uniting the tribes of Arabia into a homogeneous nation. The Arabs quickly assimilated the culture and knowledge of the peoples they ruled. Schools, colleges, libraries, and observatories were built and at the same time, scholars were invited to Damascus and Baghdad. Greek manuscripts were acquired in large numbers and were studied, translated and provided with scholarly and illuminating commentaries. [906] These documents were translated into Arabic and later Latin. The aristocracy of the Renaissance traded extensively with the Islamic State buying copies of ancient and rare Greek works. The writings of the classical poets of Greece and Rome condensed the knowledge and philosophy of the earliest times; the times referred to by the Egyptian Edfu texts as the "Zep Tepi." The continuing thread of knowledge known to be associated with the school of Pythagoras focused on the Egyptian religious and cosmological system. This system, which Pythagoras transferred to the Greeks, preserves the symbol of the five pointed star of Isis/Sirius, whose meaning was transferred to the rose. Pythagoras and the ancients before him who inherited the knowledge that descended from heaven during the Zep Tepi, as recorded in the Edfu texts, knew how the heavens were connected to earth. Pythagoras believed himself to be a reincarnated son of Hermes. According to Heraclides Ponticus, Pythagoras claimed that he had been permitted to bring into his earthly life the memory of all his previous [907] existences. Pythagoras recounts how he heard Helenus tell Aeneas a prophecy of the ascendancy of Rome as Euphorbus, a warrior in the Trojan War. The Greek historian Diogenes writes: He was once born as Aethalides and was considered to be the son of Hermes. Hermes invited him to choose whatever he wanted, except immortality; so he asked that, alive and dead, he should remember what happened to him. Thus in life he remembered everything, and when he died he retained the same memories. [… ] He remembered everything--how he first had been Aethalides, then Euphorbus, then Hermotimus, then Pyrrhus, the Delian fisherman. When Pyrrhus died, he became Pythagoras. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Philosophers, VIII 4-5) A belief in reincarnation is shared among the mystery schools; this belief is often called the Hermetic Chain. This expression, first found in ancient Greek texts such as the writings of Homer, signified the chain of beings from divinities reaching down to inferior gods, heroes, and sages, to ordinary human men. Each link in this aggregate of hierarchies, of which each link is itself a hierarchy, transmitted its wisdom and power to the next below it; and it is thus that knowledge was originally communicated to early mankind. Every Mystery school or esoteric college of ancient times had its regular and uninterrupted series of teacher succeeding teacher, each one passing on to his successor the mystical [908] authority and headship he himself had received from his predecessor. America was, from its inception, a theurgic undertaking embodying the multi- layered symbolism of the mystery schools of Isis and Osiris. Brotherhoods of initiates are still at work--in "secret" societies and fraternal bodies--preserving the mysteries of the ancients within the most influential institutions in the modern age. The esoteric symbols have a common pattern that becomes clearer as each symbol's occurrence is examined. The symbols of Mars are the common pattern, the thread or "clue" by which one can navigate the labyrinthine circuits of myth. The most learned men of their time, poets and philosophers of Greece, believed in literal intelligent beings who controlled this world from behind the scenes. These beings came from a place of origin that was associated with fire "ur" and the color red "phoenike." This place of the origin of the gods, according to the Edfu text, was destroyed, but might be resurrected through building. The initiates of the mystery schools who worshipped the builder-gods of myth had at the heart of their purpose the resurrection of the lost age of the gods. Virgo's glyph, "M" is the 13th letter of the Greek, Hebrew, and English alphabet. Sirius and Virgo are the dual representation of the knowledge of Eve brought down from heaven by the serpent. Virgo points to her location on the heaven-earth map. Ptolemaic M sound heiroglyph. Note the "M" incorporated into the owl's head.