The number five and its
byproduct, the pentagram, have symbolic prominence and have been
attributed extraordinary qualities
The Pentagram and the Sun
(Ra)
by Robert Bruce Baird
The Pentagon-Dodecahedron
was a representation of earth's tectonic plates. The ancients built
a network of megalithic structures upon it for many purposes related
to enhancing their psycho-spiritual needs up to and possibly
including what led to the vitrified rocks. Mystery Schools say this
about it.
Masonic Symbolism of the
Arithmetical Number Five and Its Plane Geometric Construct the
Pentagram and Solid Geometric Construct the Dodecahedron Stanley J.
Bransgrove*
For presentation to the
California College of the Societas Rosicruciana in Civitatibus
Foederatis Introduction
The number five [1] and its
byproduct, the pentagram, have symbolic prominence and have been
attributed extraordinary qualities. Possibly before ancient Sumerian
astronomers observed the curious natural phenomena that of the seven
visible planets, only Venus traced a regular geometric pattern, a
pentagram in eight-year cycles, this number and figure may have
already achieved symbolic import. We can confirm at least that what
was observed above, was repeated by man here below. In examining
remaining monuments of this distant past we find evidence that in
fact the symmetry of the pentagram was utilized in mans most
important architectural edifices. We may also interpret the stone
work of this initiatic tradition in light of literary references to
such western traditions such as those of the Pythagoreans, Jews,
Christians, Druids, as well as the Lataif of Sufi tradition, and
Hindu Tattwas. The pentagram served the Pythagoreans as a salutation
and a symbol of health. Medieval masons considered it a symbol of
deep wisdom and integrated its proportions in ecclesiastical
edifices. In recent times, professor Matila Gyrka called the
pentagram the "gateway to absolute independence;" "symbol of deep
wisdom;" and an "ideal archetype of dynamic growth." It is not
surprising that we find such symbolism reoccurring in speculative
Masonry and Masonic Rosicrusianism.” (1)
A Shardana group of
Phoenicians as well as the Genoese or Legurian people going back to
2000 BC are involved. Recent finds have these Shardana in a Trojan
War era fortification reminiscent of the ‘nuraghi’ in Sardinia. That
site is near present day Syria or Mt. Carmel. They are also found in
the Hyksos reign over Egypt that is connected to Troy. There are
mines under the water off Marseilles and the region near the mouth
of the Rhone and the Pyrenees site of Rennes-le-Chateau is verdant
with legend and importance throughout history and pre-history.
Massalia was a focal point of transit and trade in a time before the
Straits of Gibraltar were formed.
Five churches or sacred
sites are all built on hilltops on the site of older structures and
form a perfect pentagon with its center near the megalithic sites
known locally as Balancing Rock and the Devil's Chair. Two of these
five sites are the churches in Rennes-le-Chateau and Bezu. Between
them is the ruin at Serre de Lauzet, with the chapel of Blanchefort
and the megalith at la Soulane as the other two points.” These words
are from Mary Sutherland. The megaliths tie in with the natural
pentagram of the Pentagon-dodecahedron, which an ancient Druidic
University in the region either designed or used long before Caesar
or other Roman Emperors proscribed and eliminated the Druids of the
region as best they could.
The Phocaeans are closely
associated with the ‘Sons of Mil’ of the Milesian ‘Bees’. They took
military ships across the Mediterranean to seal a deal with the king
of Tartessus. You can read about it inThe Rise of the Greeks
by Michael Grant. That ‘Bee’ is also found in 2200 BC on the island
of Crete in the Royal House of Mallia. It is important to remember
that most early languages were vowel less. So ‘ML’ and ‘MLL’ are
just one step removed from each other.
The natural pentagram formed
by the mountains of the area near Rennes-le-Chateau where
Nostradamus and Saunière were born is of paramount importance. The
pentagon-dodecahedron knowledge was so secret in the time of Plato
that anyone letting this secret be known to the uninitiated was put
to death. Pythagoras (taught by Abaris [Rabbi] the Druid) and the
Therapeutae used the pentagram instead and the Star of David, like
the Kabballah, is ‘twisted for a purpose I have dealt with in other
books. The Theosophists re-iterate much of what we have covered so
far.
The five-pointed star, or
the star polygon of the number five, is made by marking five
equidistant points on a circle and joining each to the next but one;
the lines and angles are equal, the angles being 36 degrees, 72
degrees, and 108 degrees. The sections of the lines exhibit the
golden ratio, by which a line is divided into extreme and mean
ratio, that ratio being .618 or 1.618, which plays so important and
interesting a part in geometry. In symbolism this figure is often
taken as synonymous with the number five, the pentad. The
Pythagoreans called it the pentalpha, because it was like five
alphas (A). It combines the two and the three, the first even and
the first odd numbers after unity, representing therefore among many
other things, on the universal plane, the union of cosmic substance
with cosmic intellect. If the three is combined with the four
(another symbol of matter) we get the seven. As a union of five
elements it stands for the heavenly or macrocosmic man and its five
points correspond to the head and limbs of a man's body; the same
idea lies behind the five wounds of Christ. When the star has its
point down, it signifies the polar opposite of the preceding, that
is, the nether or material pole of cosmic life; and so can be used
as a black magical symbol -- the horns of evil are said to be up.
The combination of these two produces the decad, in a similar way to
that by which the two triangles are combined in Solomon's Seal; and
thus we get another symbol of man's dual nature, and of the dual
aspect of cosmic forces. In connection with this, astrologers will
remember that each of five planets has two houses, a day house and a
night house; while sun and moon have each one house, so that we have
here the five, the ten, and the twelve, harmonized together. Five is
specially important in our times because we are in the fifth
root-race, and five elements have so far been manifested (the fifth,
ether, only partially as yet). We have five digits on each limb;
five is the most frequent number for the petals of a flower, we use
the denary scale (twice five), and the number five plays a leading
part in the geometry of the dodecahedron and icosahedron. In The
Secret Doctrine we find the pentagon used for the number five in the
formula 31415, the other figures likewise being denoted by
geometrical signs.” (2)
The linguistic connection
between the Basque, Vietnamese, Mayan, and Denhe of the Pacific
Northwest is mirrored in the RH blood factor that also shows up in
Casiberia. The Pacific Northwest brings us the Kennewick Man and the
Aleut mummies on the westward Copper Route from Lake Superior.
At the time of Cätäl Hüyük a
couple of millennia before the Black Sea became something other than
an inland freshwater lake, there appears to be a ‘precocious’ cell
of advanced people there according to Jacquetta Hawkes. Are these
Anatolians connected with the Smyrna Milesians or ‘Bees’ of the
Onassis Merovingians? Are they the people who became the Shardana on
Sardinia along with the nearby Legurian (Genoese Phoenician Pirates)
group who treated Druids as priests according to one author I have
quoted? There is so much to piece together, and correct. Here are a
couple of time line dates to consider in recent days about the
Merovingian/Milesians. 1932: Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek
drug pusher and ship owner who made his first million selling
"Turkish tobacco" (Opium) in Argentina, worked out a profitable deal
with Joseph Kennedy, Eugene Meyer, and Meyer Lansky (Nixon was the
keynote speaker at the opening of his Bahamas casinos. The Mafia
later gave Nixon money to get his San Clemente estate). Onassis was
to ship booze directly into Boston for Joseph Kennedy (who also had
no money in stocks when the crash came but made huge money in stock
rumour mongering but then was appointed to head the SEC). Also
involved was a heroin deal with Franklin and Elliott Roosevelt. No
doubt these things I say require your further research but do not
accept just one or two ‘official’ denials. 1934: Onassis,
Rockefeller and the Seven Sisters (major oil companies) signed an
agreement, outlined an oil cartel memo: Beat the Arabs out of their
oil, ship it on Onassis's ships; Rockefeller and the Seven Sisters
to get rich. All this was done. It is just part of a very serious
situation that also involves the pharmacological abuse of humanity
under the guise of psychiatry and medicine.
A web of drug traders who
may have built the over 7000 nuraghi’ (medieval looking castles) on
Sardinia starts to appear. The potions of Anatolian Blue Lotus
hallucinogens when joined with Peruvian cocaine allowed an ancient
culture to control many of their colonies. Perhaps this kind of
control was the true beginning of the end of Brotherhood but gender
issues were involved as well. I think James Joyce as quoted by
Joseph Campbell in Gimbutas’s <i>Language of the Goddess</i>
brings it all together for us. He calls it a 5000 year ‘nightmare’.
When I say the ‘web of drug traders’, I am talking about Phoenicians
or Northern Semites and their ‘brothers’.The Sun.
The Tepaphone used by
Hitler's Freemasonic Order of the Golden Centurion is based on The
Lost Chord of Druidry. The knowledge begins in understanding the
Harmonic of Light and the sun. The sun is best observed through the
transit of Venus which was a major part of Captain Cook's research
when he first was sent out to explore the Pacific.
From: Eternum1 Sent:
25/10/2004 11:15 PM Dear Robert:
I too find the mummery tarot
readers and astrologers often use ridiculous.
I do think the ancient
Egyptians and Mesoamericans had an understanding of the suns
influence on the earth that we are just beginning to confirm. There
remains little doubt the charlatans who disguised themselves as
priests over the past millennia had much to do with this repression
of knowledge.
Genetic changes through
variation of local magnetic field strengths does affect mitosis
(cell division) and since the sun goes through 28 day cycles
relative to the earths orbiting of it, may affect certain
personality traits at conception. Hence my tie-in with sun signs and
real electromagnetic changes affecting developing embryos.
It's also theorized that
equatorial climes like those of the Maya were most severely affected
by a period of sunspot activity that resulted in a severe decline in
fertility hence a reason for the abandonment of cities like Chichen
Itza because the cycle coincided with the return of Quetzalcoatl (a
role Cortes usurped to his own advantage). Also the climate would
change during a period of solar polar flips which would tilt the
earth’s axis and electromagnetic fields as well.
Since the sun itself
couldn't be directly observed for sunspot activity during those
times it was the cycles of Venus that were used to herald the
changes that would repeat themselves over millennia. I believe this
information was widely spread among the Meso-Americans and their
Celtic trading partners prior to the total destruction of Carthage
and its wealth of knowledge.
The sun as you know causes
nuclear reactions in the atmosphere that can transform nitrogen
atoms into a heavy form (isotope) of carbon that has an atomic
weight of 14 instead of the usual 12.
C14 as you know is used for
carbon dating but while archaeologists have found it reliable in
most cases there are anomalies that can only be attributed to the
amount of c14 in the atmosphere over different periods of time.
C14 is now linked to solar
activity and the advance and retreat of alpine glaciers and it shows
that high levels of c14 correspond with decreases in solar activity.
The explanation as I
understand it, is that an active sun generates a large number of
sunspots, and these in turn cause a large number of charged
particles to be thrown into space resulting in a thickening of the
Van Allen belts. As a result the lower atmosphere is shielded from
cosmic radiation and less c14 is produced. Conversely at times of
low solar activity, when there are few if any sunspots, there are
fewer ions between the atmosphere and the sun to shield out cosmic
rays. More nitrogen is thus converted to c14.
Scientists are now comparing
the graphs for solar activity (sunspot numbers) temperatures, wind
severity, and glaciation against the rise and fall of civilizations.
It seems the high levels of solar activity correlate with the growth
of sophisticated civilizations while low activity links up with
periodic 'dark ages'.
Is this what is indicated in
the Maya long count calendar? I don't know but it seems reasonable
to speculate that a period of increased seismic activity along with
increased severe weather (hurricanes churning towards the Mayan gulf
cities) which also led to a disruption of the wet season for crops
and possibly a decline in human fertility would have led them to
abandon their homes, especially if the events were prophesied as we
believe they were.
With the forecast year of
2012 as the end of this fifth age we might also wonder about the
climactic and electromagnetic changes we are witnessing today.
I noted your aside that
Cayce was a Mason. While I too have some doubts about his ability to
actually prophesize I wonder if you think he had access to esoteric
knowledge that contravened his religious piety? Certainly his
predictions about finding Atlantean outcroppings off the coast of
Belize and Bimini seem accurate as well as his earlier beliefs in
the earths axis (from magnetic forces) tilting, causing widespread
tidal and weather related destruction in a cyclical fashion.
Robert Bruce Baird is the
author of Diverse Druids, World-Mysteries.com guest 'expert' and
columnist for The ES Press Magazine. His
Collective Works on CD (20 books including an encyclopedia) are
now available from Amazon.com.
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