| One of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World is | | | | I won't delve into, again. Are there really 'Other |
| reported (many years after all but the Great Pyramid | | | | Worlds' as the quantum physics 'Many Worlds |
| had vanished) to be the Temple of Artemis in | | | | Interpretation' assures us and Wigner or |
| Ephesus. This great goddess has what many | | | | Schrödinger (Nobel Laureates) say the |
| archaeologists and historians have interpreted to be | | | | Mandukya Upanishads describe accurately? Have you |
| nearly a thousand breasts on her body. It is being | | | | read the Tao of Physics by the physicist Fritjof |
| commented on in this very manner as I type this. | | | | Capra and seen what he says about S-Matrix theory |
| The Discovery Channel is interviewing an esteemed | | | | of Math and the 'I Ching'? Believe me this author (Mr. |
| Cambridge scholar who looks to know his words are | | | | Crow) might have to turn into a raven if his 'whole |
| as wise as Solomon. The stupidity of such absurd | | | | lecture' would do the trick in explaining the cosmic |
| explanations is not unusual but still it draws a smile | | | | egg. |
| from those who know better. | | | | We have made it clear the Kelts believed in the |
| In the past few months I have read over two | | | | afterlife and spirit world or they wouldn't have made |
| hundred books in whole or in part and only the | | | | loans to be repaid after death. We have said they |
| authors of Carthage have an idea about the import | | | | didn't fear death and that they had no punitive |
| of these 'cosmic eggs'. They also wonder why the | | | | 'unmerciful God. But there are leprechauns and the |
| Berbers painted so many ostrich eggs and then | | | | Fianna of the great ancient Irish king Finn who the |
| threw them in garbage pits, near Cyrenaica. The | | | | Phoenicians liked and named themselves after. So we |
| Keltic serpent's eggs from the Druidic education might | | | | are caught in this quandary of making seeming |
| provide a little insight. This next quote mentions | | | | conflicting statements come together. We said the |
| 'Pelota' which we mentioned in reference to a game | | | | spirits might take a child or their energy if the parent |
| that took place at Chichen Itza to prevent | | | | let the spirits know the child's name. That doesn't |
| unnecessary tribal conflict. It has other meanings and | | | | sound like the work of a leprechaun! You have heard |
| depths relating to life and the passage of the soul | | | | about 'witches' and you know we've been defending |
| that are touched upon in this quote from 'The | | | | them, too. You probably wonder if this isn't all |
| Mistletoe Sacrament' by W. B. Crow in 'A Celtic | | | | 'hocus-pocus' and barbaric things anyway. |
| Reader' which has been a constant source of mine; | | | | There are good people that I know who deny and |
| for the last ten months as I have explored the | | | | avoid these facts like they are 'THE PLAGUE'! It isn't |
| origins of the 'Red-Heads' with an obsession some | | | | going to make your life easier when you open these |
| might call mania: | | | | doors and see the thousands more that await you |
| The Druids themselves were known to the Welsh | | | | beyond. Occultists are often 'sophists' or will engage |
| bards by a word that means adders, and Lewis | | | | in sophistry too. Who can say what things God might |
| Spence is of the opinion that the ridiculous | | | | be capable of? Who really believes in such a force |
| statements of Pliny really refer to the manner in | | | | anyway? Most people pay lip-service to it. The Kelts |
| which the Druids manufacture these eggs. Later | | | | we have said (and Admiral Morison ridiculed) were |
| bards also refer to a ceremony in which a ball was | | | | different. Clearly the Phoenicians demanded the |
| snatched and carried across the water. | | | | greatest personal commitment to their beliefs, at |
| The Druidic custom just mentioned, we cannot help | | | | least from their average person or citizen. When their |
| thinking, may have been the origin of the curious | | | | kings are seen having to give their first born to the |
| mediaeval rite of 'pelota', which took place in certain | | | | god Baal (Bel = BL) are they just babel-ing (BBL and |
| Catholic churches in France and Italy on Easter | | | | later the Bible)? Some of these kings were front men |
| Monday. The ceremony consisted in bringing a ball of | | | | or women and there is adequate proof they did |
| considerable size into the church and after solemnly | | | | these things, but that doesn't mean they all did it. |
| presenting it before the altar, certain of the clergy | | | | Carthage had a democratic type of government |
| beginning to dance and throwing the ball about in a | | | | according to Aristotle and maybe this was the cross |
| special manner {It would be good to know if this | | | | kings had to bear like the Keltic practice of burning |
| originated in Mayan lands or if the Druids like | | | | the leader at the end of their term in office (25 year |
| Quetzalcoatl and the Toltecs took it there. They are | | | | term, and this made for less fraud and 'cronyism'). |
| the 'messengers' referred to in many Indian legends | | | | This can become pretty barbaric as we have seen |
| like those of Grey Owl.}. The ceremony symbolizes | | | | with the 'Devoted Ones' but it became a celebration |
| both the passage of the sun and the planets through | | | | and the forerunner of the 'wake'. That seems proof |
| the heavens and also the vicissitudes of the soul of | | | | enough that death was not feared anyMORE than |
| man (the causal body of the theosophists). In | | | | the North American warriors who 'counted coup' |
| Egyptian mythology the trial of the soul after death | | | | feared their 'maker'. So what if all these cultural |
| is associated with the passage of the sun through | | | | beliefs are shared across the oceans? What does it |
| the underworld. The whipping of a spinning top, | | | | matter to you now if you are 'getting yours'? Why |
| representing Alleluia on the Saturday before | | | | 'open a can of worms if you can't close it'? |
| Septuagesima, a ceremony not uncommon in this | | | | Maybe we should leave this kind of talk to another |
| country in former times, is related to this practice. | | | | book and just point fingers at the church that hides |
| Madame Blavatsky has some interesting remarks on | | | | these truths from us. Maybe our happiness and |
| the connection with the serpent cult {A serpent goes | | | | freedom are better under their ministrations. If there |
| up the side of the pyramid at Chichen Itza in specific | | | | are spiritual forces that can mess with us. There is a |
| ways as the sun and shadows create the effect that | | | | lot of merit in my concerns about this and there is a |
| the building was re-built to create by the Toltec | | | | law of the Magi that says 'Know, Will, Dare, Keep |
| designers after the original pyramid had been built by | | | | Silent'. We've already given a lot of places to look for |
| the Jaguar cult centuries earlier. Chichen Itza became | | | | the answers to esoteric questions like these and it |
| an international court of the whole of Central | | | | might be best to keep this book on the academic |
| America if not more.}, which was at one time | | | | level of ethnology or anthropological denial of the |
| widespread and which is still widely practiced in South | | | | reasons and realities that actually', are the nature of |
| India. The serpent is a symbol of regeneration {And | | | | everyday life. We could talk about laws and minstrels |
| the orobouros of the alchemists is a serpent holding | | | | and make cute poems to amuse the reader and still |
| its tail and making the infinity type of immortality | | | | have done a lot to help people see the culture was |
| symbol: or the Mayan mathematical concept of zero | | | | no more barbaric than we are. Why did the Druids |
| they are credited with discovering over a century | | | | follow this law and keep so much of their knowledge |
| before the people of the sub-continent of India.). Not | | | | in 'verbal traditions' such as the Qaballa was made |
| only does it lay eggs from which new life arises after | | | | from? Were they really so afraid of this knowledge |
| having been preserved in the dormant state, but the | | | | being abused by unethical or un-disciplined 'posers'? |
| reptile itself sloughs its skin at regular intervals. The | | | | Did they really think their soul would be judged as |
| initiate, in the ancient mystery religions, went through | | | | unworthy of progress if they broke this law? Surely |
| certain occult processes where his vehicles {Solar | | | | if they could sell the knowledge of shape-shifting and |
| body, soul, allies and 'doppelganger' to name a few.} | | | | the 'Lost Chord' they could have made life a lot |
| were actually renewed, and in the symbolism thereof | | | | better for a lot of people. |
| cast off his old clothing and was clad in new | | | | The truth is they could have done anything or had |
| vestures. What better symbolism than the serpent | | | | anything they wanted at the point they rose to the |
| could be chosen to represent this change in the | | | | highest level. In fact the moral strength to have such |
| personality? Besides this, the regeneration by | | | | knowledge is more important than the mental or |
| sloughing refers to the regeneration of the physical | | | | chemical knowledge in reference to the 'Stone'. I am |
| body by reincarnation and the regeneration of races | | | | sure money and power is a pursuit that blinds people |
| and worlds of the theosophic cosmogony. | | | | through their ego. This 'blindness' that closes the soul |
| Some primitive peoples, after a death has occurred, | | | | to 'what is' or as Jesus said 'the living father within', |
| perform a ritual in which the performers are divided | | | | will prevent any politico from getting their hands on |
| into two groups and a struggle for the body takes | | | | anything really harmful you might say. That might be |
| place between the parties. This refers to the struggle | | | | true, too. There were some things that they knew |
| between the powers of light and darkness for the | | | | which could be abused though, and it was (and is) |
| spirit o£ the deceased, an eschatological myth | | | | important to do what is RIGHT. That is another law |
| of many ancient peoples. In the course of the | | | | of the three laws of the Magi. RIGHT |
| evolution of this ritual it became a game in which the | | | | THOUGHT=RIGHT ACTION! |
| skull alone was the object of combat or had to be | | | | He's dodging and waffling, you might say. What |
| kicked into the goal. The various forms of the game | | | | about the things this guy said about the battle over |
| of football and polo, and perhaps other ball games, | | | | the soul when we die? What kind of authority do I |
| are supposed to have originated from this, the | | | | have to disagree with occultists like Madame |
| original religious significance having become lost. The | | | | Blavatsky who heralded my favorite teacher Jiddhu |
| Druidic ritual of snatching an egg and running away | | | | Krishnamurti and helped Annie Besant teach him? In |
| until one got over a stream (which acts as the goal) | | | | the final analysis you might say I'm a person engaging |
| suggests a similar game and connects up with funeral | | | | in 'sophistry' and ego too. We know that no one |
| games. The egg or ball is an excellent symbol of the | | | | person can really know God or all these things so |
| causal body, if one can believe clairvoyants, who see | | | | why read what I have to say? For now I choose to |
| it as a kind of rounded or egg-shaped structure, in | | | | say that we are going to cover the religion of the |
| fine matter {Similar to ectoplasm as seen in ghosts.} | | | | Druids who were the dominant force in thousands of |
| of the higher mental {I would definitely NOT use this | | | | years of human culture in a later chapter. But I don't |
| word.} plane. After death, according to accounts of | | | | want the reader to think the Druids or Kelts were so |
| occultists, there is a kind of play of forces, good and | | | | ego driven or fearful as to worry about spirits |
| evil, which do seem to struggle for the possession of | | | | capturing their souls once they had grown enough to |
| the causal body and to determine whether it goes to | | | | know their name; they also were 'protected' from |
| a good or bad incarnation when next it descends to | | | | the lesser obsessive forces of the limbo or |
| clothe itself with coarser matter. | | | | interstitiary state of the spirit world which may |
| The Druid's egg, says Pliny, was unknown to the | | | | possess a soul. |
| Greeks {They certainly knew about the Temple of | | | | Yes, they had a lot of scary legends and tales about |
| Artemis with all the eggs some current Cambridge | | | | evil acts of mischievous and other forces. Sometimes |
| scholar thinks is breasts, and Pliny the Roman is not | | | | these tales are like the accounts of war on the |
| an initiate in the Eleusinian or Cabiri, mysteries, to my | | | | friezes or frescoes of the Mayan, who wanted |
| knowledge.}. But other kinds of eggs are mentioned | | | | people to know the stupidity of war. Sometimes |
| in Greek and Hindu mythology, and the consecration | | | | there were people who needed this motivation to |
| of an egg was one of the most important acts in the | | | | take the time to learn enough to protect themself. In |
| secret ritual of the Eleusinian mysteries. The Christian | | | | all cases as long as the Druids were still around |
| Church continued the use of the same symbol, as | | | | (before the Roman 'bounties') they had recourse to |
| we see in the so-called Easter eggs, and in the | | | | protection if something really bad occurred. At the |
| ostrich eggs which are still to be seen hanging in | | | | same time there was a greater element of 'fate' and |
| Orthodox Catholic Churches in the East. In fact a | | | | 'destiny' in this religion than I think is real. I cannot say |
| whole lecture might be devoted to the symbolism of | | | | for sure that there were people at the highest level |
| the cosmic egg." | | | | who knew better the import of 'free will'. I cannot |
| We must delve into many things this quote engages. | | | | even be sure what degree or level of free will or |
| In some ways I am squeamish about doing so in this | | | | 'world mind' existed in their collective unconscious |
| book. I have written about my experiences and | | | | (Jung). There are lots of Celts and people from post |
| research on the stele I found behind the Pelota at | | | | Druidic times who write about Druids as if they know |
| Chichen Itza in other books and that makes re-telling | | | | them. Some of these people are definitely 'far gone' |
| the story something redundant. The matter of good | | | | when it comes to the inevitability of the cyclical |
| and evil and 'Some primitive peoples' this author is | | | | nature of the 'forces'. The Etruscans are good |
| talking about is most troublesome. How can I do | | | | examples of this and the Carthaginians who allied with |
| what millions of philosophers throughout history have | | | | them or were their 'brothers' surely had a lot of that |
| been unable to fully explain? It is clear that the | | | | in them too. But that is a time when the macho |
| Christian church borrowed almost all the supposedly | | | | power-trippers had already made great inroads into |
| pagan rituals. The communion is admitted by de Vere | | | | the original nature-worshipping culture, too. |
| and Gardner (Genesis of the Grail Kings and the | | | | The historians have little to go with in the records of |
| Sarkeny Rend Rosicrucians) to be similar to their | | | | history. We often are left with the words of Caesar |
| earlier adept Count Dracul or 'Vlad the Impaler' and | | | | in the first century BC. to confirm that there were |
| the vampire practices. My experience with exorcisms | | | | numerous schools of Druidry as the best recorded |
| is extensive enough to know that the Catholic | | | | insight to earlier times. In Gaul the best knowledge |
| Church takes advantage of some pretty easy | | | | seems to go back no further than the fifth century |
| situations and makes them a big issue for the | | | | BC. and ornamentation is the hardest proof. Gimbutas |
| purpose of self-promotion. I recommend reading The | | | | has the Old European alphabet that takes us back a |
| Devils of Loudon by Aldous Huxley for a | | | | long way but many scholars aren't convinced because |
| documentary trip down that road. The matter of the | | | | they don't understand the esoteric symbology. There |
| fight over the soul that sounds like some of Dante | | | | are those who laugh and point to Stonehenge or |
| Aligheri's "HELL" is not the matter of Druidic | | | | Carnac in Brittany, and of course the Pyramid they |
| cosmogony. It is the tactic of FEAR-mongering by | | | | know it's the work of the Red-Headed League of |
| Christianity such as the 'sins and demons' we touched | | | | Megalith Builders. But they can't prove a definite |
| upon in the issue of medical ailments and Paracelsus. | | | | connection to the Druids. At least not in the eyes of |
| Mr. Sharkey spoke about 'representing each world | | | | those who establish the required standards of proof |
| within the other', as he described the Druids. There | | | | in the halls of academia. They note that the term |
| was a guided spiritual ritual part to some of what | | | | 'goddess-worship' or Wicca may not even have |
| went on at the Pelota in Chichen Itza with the big | | | | existed until the 18th century. We can say the term |
| ball, that goes into the realm of the time-space | | | | isn't the point and the records of historians are |
| continuum, and free choice that students of the | | | | propaganda. |
| Nagual's Way from Castaneda might understand that | | | | |