The Magic
Mountain
Thomas
Mann 1875-1955
Page 510
"The higher degrees of
Freemasonary were initiates of the
'physica et mystica ,'the
representatives of a magic natural science, they were in the
main great alchemists"
"
Alchemy :transmuting
into gold, the philosophers stone, aurum potabile
."
"In the popular mind, yes.
More informedly put, it was purifi-cation,
refinement,metamorphosis,
transubstantiation ,into a
higher state , of course; the lapis philosophorum,
the male female product
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of sulphur and
mercury,the res bina,the double-sexed prima
ma-teria was no more ,and no less, than the principle
of levitation, of the upward impulse due to the working of
influences from with-out. Instruction in magic if you like."
Page 511"
The primary symbol of
alchemic transmutation "
"was par exellence
the sepulchre." "The grave? " "Yes, the place of corruption
.It comprehends all hermetics, all alchemy, it is nothing
else than the receptacle, the well -
guarded crystal retort wherein the material is compressed to
its final trans-formation and purification."
The FULCANELLI
phenomenon
Kenneth Rayner Johnson
1980
Page
195
" As Prince Stanislas
Klossowski de Rola expresses it:
'It will thus be clear that
the alchemical process of creation, is a
microscopic reconstitution
of the process of creation, in
other words a re-creation.
It is effected by the interplay of forces symbolized by two
dragons, one black and one white, locked in an eternal
circular combat. The white one is
winged, or volatile, the
black one wingless, or fixed; they are
accompanied by the universal
alchemical formula solve et
/
Page
196
/
coagula. This
formula and this emblem symbolize the alternating role of
the two indespensible halves that compose the whole.
Solve et coagula is an injunction to alternate
dissolution, which is a spiritualization or sublimation of
solids, with coagulation, that is to say a re-matrialization
of the purified products of the first operation. Its cyclic
aspect is clearly expressed by Nicholas Valois: "
Solvite corpora et coagulate spiritum " ; "
Dissolve the body and coagulate the spirit." '
note 1
'But when we marry the
crowned king to our red
daughter, and in a gentle
fire, not hurtful she doth concieve
an exellent and supernatural
son, which permanent life she
doth also feed with a subtle
heat, so that he lives at length in
our fire
Then he is
transformed, and his tincture by help
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/
of the fire remains red,
as it were flesh. But our son the King
begotten, takes his tincture
from the fire, and death even,
and darkness, and the waters
flee away. The Dragon shuns
the sunbeams which dart
through the crevices and our dead
son lives; the king comes
from the fire and rejoins with
his spouse,the occult
treasures are laid open, and the
virgin's milk is whitened.'
- Tractacus aureus, or Golden Tracate of
Hermes.
Or again:
'
Take the serpent and place it in the chariot with four
wheels and let it be turned
about on the earth until it is
immersed in the depths of
the sea , and nothing more is
visible but the blackest
Dead sea
and when the vapour is
precipitated like rain
you should bring the chariot from
water to dry land, and then
you have placed the four wheels
on the chariot and will
obtain the result if you will advance
further to the Red
Sea,running without running, moving
without motion'
- The Tractate of Aristotle to Alexander the Great.
" Whatever their names
and however many processes might have been applied, the
important factor to remember is that the alchemists saw
their work as reflective and imitative of the
cyclic order of Nature ; of the formation, development and
eventual dissolution of the All - followed by its natural
and
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inevitable re-formation.
( This may be compared quite favour-ably with a cyclic
uni-verse, which begins as a primal atom containing
everything,explodes to form the cosmos, then ultimately
collapses back upon itself eventually to repeat the process
over again ad infinitum)This process similarly applied on a
lesser scale to all living entities including the earth,
which went through an obvious cycle of birth, growth, decay
death, and re-birth annually. Man himself also followed this
assumed pattern of birth, life death and
re-birth.
Supernature
Lyall Watson
1974
Edition
Page
97/
98
"Sound, of course, is a
vibration that can be conducted only through an elastic
medium; it cannot travel through a vac-uum. Electromagnetic
waves do travel through free space, and we know far less
about factors governing their resonance. There is however,
one quite extraordinary piece of evidence
which suggests that shape could be important in
receiving even cosmic stimuli. It comes from those
favourites of mystics throughout the ages-the pyramids of
Egypt.
'The most celebrated are
those at Giza built during the fourth.dynasty of which the
largest is the one that housed the pharaoh Khufu, better
known as Cheops. This is now called the Great Pyramid Some
years ago it was visited by a
French-man named
Bovis, who took refuge from the midday sun in the pharaoh's
chamber, which is situated at the center of the pyramid,
exactly one third of the way up from the base He found it
unusually humid there,but what really surprised / him were
the garbage cans that contained, among the
usual tourist litter,the bodies of a dead cat and
some small desert animals that had wandered into the pyramid
and died there. Despite the humidity none of them had
decayed but just dried out like mummies. He began to wonder
whether the pharaohs had really been so carefully embalmed
by their subjects after all, or whether there was something
about the pyramids themselves that preserved bodies in a
mummified condition. Bovis made an accurate scale model of
the Cheops pyramid and placed it like the original with the
base lines,facing precisely north-south east-west. Inside
the model one third of the way up, he put a dead cat. It
became mummified and he concluded that the pyramid promoted
rapid dehy-dration.
Reports of this discovery
attracted the attention of Karel Drbal, a radio engineer in
Prague, who repeated the experiment with several dead
animals and concluded, " There is a relation between the
shape of the space inside the pyramid and the physical and
biological processes going on inside that space. By using
suitable forms and shapes,
We should be able to make
processes occur faster or delay them." Note
233
Page
99
"
We can only guess
that the Great Pyramid and its little imitations acts as
lenses that focus en-ergy or as resonaters that collect
energy,
"
Have you seen my stick
scribe, said Zed Aliz Zed wishing to
practice a little magic.
The Magic
Mountain
Thomas
Mann 1875-1955
Page
511
"Hermetics - what a
lovely word "
"
It sounds like
magiking,and has all sorts of vague and extended
associations .You must excuse my speaking of such a thing
but it reminds me of the conserve jars that our housekeeper
"
"
keeps in her
larder. She has rows of them on her shelves, air-tight
glasses full of fruit and meat and all sorts of
things.They stand there maybe a whole year-you open them as
you need them and the contents are as fresh as on the day
they were put up, you can eat them just as they are.To be
sure, that isn't alchemy or purification, it is simply
conserving , hence the word
conserve.The
magic part of it lies in the fact that the stuff that is
conserved is withdrawn from the effects of time,t is
her-metically sealed from time, time passes it by, it stand
there on its shelf shut away from
time."
Brahma
If the red slayer think
he slays,
Or if the slain
think he is slain
They know not
well the subtle ways
I keep and pass
and turn again.
R.W.Emerson
After leaving
Brother Thomas,The Zed AlizZed and yonder scribe set off,
once or twice again the journey of a lifetime.Finding
themselves, as if by magic will intended within the august
presence of Brother Kolosimo. After they were rested they
joined other sat around ye old camp fire,around the time of
a blood red dawn Brother Kolosimo started to speak and spake
thus.
TIMELESS
EARTH
Peter
Kolosimo
Chapter
NINETEEN
Page 190
" The territory known
to scholars as ancient Peru is not coter-minous with that
country as it exists today, but extends to the headwaters of
the Amazon, the Andean zones of Equador and Bolivia, and
parts of northern Chile and north-western Argentina.
Throughout this large area, day to day life showed a
considerably higher level of civilization than in Central
America and the contrasts between culture and barbarism were
less marked.
The Peruvians had an
impressive system of cultivation by terraces, with advanced
methods of irrigation and fertiliza-tion, and had discovered
the art of
preserving
meat and
potatoes. Imposing ruins tell of the Mochica
civilization
( named after Moche,
where the first excavations took place), which flourished
along the northern part of the coast from Pacasmayo to
Casma. In the Mochica tombs there have been found remains of
two different races: skeletons belonging to what we would
call a white race, and also Indian
ones
"
"
The ancient
Peruvian scene was dominated by pyramids, of
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which hundreds are to
be found along the coast. Those of Mochica were built with
clay bricks. From this civilization we possess also the
majestic ruins of the temples of the sun and moon ( Huaca
del Sol and Huaca de la Luna ).
Huge irrigation works were
constructed in the Chincha Valley near the coast, where
other ancient ruins include a fortress called La Centinela (
the sentinel ) This area was the scene of the cultures of
Nazca ( Nasca ), Ica and Paracas. Tombs hollowed out of the
rock contain hundreds of mum-mified corpses in the foetal
position: these were probably prepared by a smoking process
after the intestines were removed. Magnificent textiles have
been found
here: veils brocades and
'gobelins', made by the same methods as the famous French
product which dates from the fifteenth cen-tury, and fabrics
covered with a mosaic of feathers. These masterpieces
display no less than
190
different shades
of colour.
Near Nazca, on a plateau
1,200 feet high which is sheltered from sea-winds but
parched by the sun, there is a thick network of
'canals'recalling those on Mars, together with enormous
figures of known and unknown animals, in-cluding the spider
and the legendary fire-bird.
There are said to be many
other sites of this kind in Peru and parts of Chile, but the
Indians who know of them cannot explain their purpose,
though they relate stories which suggest that the figures
were intended to guide the course of navigators from outer
space who established bases here on earth. Without venturing
to say whether there actually were space-
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192 /
ports on Andean heights
we may quote the following as we received it from La
Paz:
' The Indians say that
thousands of years ago their an-cestors travelled on great
golden discs which were kept airborne by means of sound
vibrations at a certain pitch, produced by continual
hammer-blows. This is not so absurd as it may seem.
Vibrations of a set frequency may have had the effect of
increasing the atomic energy of gold, thus re-ducing the
weight of the disc and enabling it to overcome
gravity.'
Page
193
'
To quote Pauwels
and Bergier (op. Cit.,p. 197: ' The U.S. archaeologist Hyatt
Verrill spent thirty years investigating the lost
civilizations of Central and South America. . . In his fine
novel, The Bridge of Light, he described a pre-Incaic city
protected by a rocky defile which could only be crossed by a
bridge con-structed of ionized matter which could be made to
appear and diappear at will. Verrill,who died at the age of
eighty, insisted to the last that this was much more than a
legend, and his wife who survives him, is of the same
opinion.'
Page
195
"A message from the
Infinite"
"In the Mediterranean world
as we have already seen, pyramids were used as mausolea and
also (in the step-pyramid form as temples: the second
category includes the Mesopotamian pyramids and the
legendary Tower of Babel. In ancient America we also meet
with both sites and at Tiahuanaco they are found side by
side. The terraced pyramid known as the Acapana contains the
ruins of what is thought to have been a sovereign's burial
chamber ,with an
underground passage leading
to it .Can its occupant have been the
first 'white' lord in America ?. . . At Puma
Puncu,
about half a mile to the
south-west, there was an even larger pyramid of three or
four steps or stories with a build-ing
comprising several chambers
on each."

CHAPTER
TWENTY
Page
200
"
Children of the Sun"
" The Chimu empire, with
Chanchan as its capital, extended along the northern coast
of Peru from north of Lima to the present border with
Ecuador.The Chimu people must have descended from
inhabitants of Mexico who sailed southward about the
beginning of the Christian era founding the cultures of
Salinar,Gallinazo and Mochica. As time went on, these
settlements united with others along the Moche river
creating an empire which lasted from about A.D. 500 to 1400;
it was then conquered by the Incas, who borrowed much from
it in the field of art, customs and mythology."
"The reliefs at Chanchan are
reminiscent of almost every civilization in the world from
Grecian friezes to those of central Asia, from the art of
Egypt to that of Mesopotamia and China.
The imposing ruins of
Chanchan cover an area of 6 or 7
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square miles "
"
Chan
signifies 'snake' and the reptile-god was adored here in the
same way as the goddess of Buto was in ancient Egypt.
But-to
revert to the beginning of our
chapter-a
Spanish pilot named Pedro Corzo who sailed up and down the
Peruvian coast at the time of the conquista tells
us that everywhere in the temples he found wooden or stone
statues of a god named Guatan or 'whirlwind'. This reminds
us irresistibly of the Germanic storm-god Wotan.
And in fact we find that
Wotan was the original name of the Chimu divinity among the
Mayas, who 'exported' him to South America. In Guatemala he
was the lord of night and darkness, and the Mayas, Aztecs
and Zapotecs all associated him with divination."
Page
203
" This brings our story
as far as the Incas. We shall use this name for them, as do
most archaeologists and historians, but it should be born in
mind that 'Inca'was a title originally confined to the ruler
and the aristocracy, while the common folk were called
Quechua Indians (as they still are today)."
" Mummies, past and
present"
"According to Inca legend,
Manco Capac -
the founder of
the race and of its ancient dynasty
-
came to earth and dwelt on the Island of the Sun in Lake
Titicaca, together with his sister and escort Mama Ocllo.
They wandered northwards until they came to the land
designated as their home by the Sun-god, and there founded
the Quechua empire with its capital at Cuzco that signifies
'navel'or'centre of the earth' "
"The Inca empire,known as
the 'land of the four quarters ' (Tahuantinsuyu ), extended
from the south of what is now Colombia to the north of
Argentina"
Some authorities date the
origin of the empire back to A.D.494 and 565, others to
1130."
Page 204
The first ruler who
emerges from myth into a shadowy form of history is Sinchi
Roca, who reigned about 1150.
Our chief concern here,
however, is with the
eighth
of the series (counting from Manco Capac), whose name or
title was Vira-cocha Inca. The original
Viracocha
,as we have seen,
was the white god of the Quechuas, and the Spaniards were
given this name by reason of their fair skin.The
historical Vira-cocha, Inca was of fair
complexion and bearded, as we know from his
portrait.
The nobles were known as
'long-ears' since as we have seen, they pierced their ears
and hung heavy ornaments from them. They and the priests
were responsible for the wonders of architecture of which
E.Fergusson wrote: 'Neither the Greeks nor the Romans nor
the middle ages achieved such perfection,' while H. Velarde
speaks of a 'country
crystallized
into
geometrical
shapes"
"The Incas were devout sun
worshippers"
As fast as Alizzed could
weave a tapestry, the far yonder scribe had stiched it into
the patchwork quilt.
Page 205
"The ancient American
sovereigns were called 'sons of the Sun'as were those of
Egypt, Assyria and Crete and also the Chinese emperors,
especially the Chou dynasty"
"As regards links between
the Quechuas and Egyptians in August 1953 Dr. Bird
discovered near Lima the tombs of a prince named Capac who
died in the fourth or fifth millen-nium B.C. and was buried
in a sarcophagus of Egyptian type. Another such sarcophagus,
together with statues in Mexican style, was excavated in the
'Egyptian valley' in the southern part of the Amazon
basin,half-way between the rivers Xingu and Tocantins. On 13
November 1954 the Rio de Janeiro newspaper O
Cruzeiro reported the discovery, in the village of
Durados on the Pira-Veve river of an 'Egyptian' cameo
representing a queen with an inscription in hiero-glyphics
signifying that after her death her soul mounted to heaven
and her virtues were rewarded by celestial peace.
In 1531, when
Pizarro's Spaniards eager for gain as usual,
burst into the great temple at Cuzco, they found some
strange bundles that proved to contain mummified bodies in a
foetal position, wrapped in precious cloths, their faces
covered by masks of gold, silver, wood or clay. Unlike the
Egyptians, who used natron and resin packs and
anointing
with oil, the Incas relied
for mummification on the dry climate and saliferous soil of
Peru. However excavators at Ganchavita in Columbia found a
group of mummies each wearing a small gold crown and
surrounded by funeral
offerings-cloth,
gold figures ornaments and emeralds. As Honore remarks 'it
was suprising that mummies should have been found here, a
country with a climate most unfavourable for conservation by
natural processes. But chemical analysis has established
that resins and oils were
used-so
the
methods of
mummi-fication were almost exactly the same as in ancient
Egypt.'
The Quechuas in fact used
different techniques,as the discovery of mummified bodies as
shown.
In 1560Garcilaso
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de la Vega witnessed the
removal of the mummies of five Inca sovereigns identified as
Viracocha Inca of the long
white hair, Capac Yupanqui, Huayana Capac, Mama Runto and
Mama Ocllo. In a sitting position,with downcast eyes and
arms crossed over their breasts, the bodies in royal robes
were an impressive sight.
According to Jose de Acosta
'they were so intact and well preserved with a
certain kind of pitch that they seemed as though alive'
Garcilaso added : 'I believe that the Indians'
secret consists in burying the bodies in snow
and
afterwards using the bitumen of which Father de Acosta
speaks. When I saw them thus, I felt like touching one of
Huayana Capac 's fingers as though it were that of a living
man.'
The Spaniards removed these
mummies to Lima, where they rapidly de composed in the heat
and damp and had to be buried. We may recall that in March
1963 the mummy of the Egyptian princess Mene, who died in
322
B.C.,
began to decompose and had
to be moved to a cold storage chamber at Oklahoma
University, where biologists were astonished to find that
the epithelial cells were still intact.
Mummies in a perfect state
of preservation have also been found in America in recent
times. In 1953 a Chilean muleteer discovered, in an Andean
glacier, a small sarcophagus contain-ing the mummified body
of an Inca girl
Who had lived about 730
years ago, surrounded by figurines of solid gold includ-ing
one with a toad's head.
In 1959
chance
led to the
discovery, in a cave in Sonara province in Mexico, of thirty
well preserved mummies dating from about 10,000 years ago
and belonging to an unknown civilization.
These facts are remarkable
enough in themselves, but Sr. Beltran Garcia embroiders them
after his own
fashion
'The mummies of the five
Inca sovereigns,' he tells us, were removed from the temple
before Garcilaso was born, and their discovery was due to an
error.From the scientific point of view they were bodies in
a state of hibernation, with all their organs inert but
living. The Incas were skilled at producing this condition,
and they did so in the expectation that scientists would one
day be able to re-suscitate the bodies. The technique of
embalming was used at
the Vatican too, and the
"pitch" used by the Incas was in fact a solid transperent
cream consisting of three ingrediants, one of which was
quinine.'
We report these singular
ideas merely as a curiosity, though some people have been
taken in by them. Garcilaso's
account makes it clear that
he is talking of dead bodies, but his decendant, referring
to the Chilean discovery,writes as follows : '
Garcilaso de la
Vega states that
the method of the "frozen toad" ( sapo helado ) was
an Inca secret.
It seems that the child was
meant to be the
bearer of a message to scientists of the
future, but that
the body's sudden exhumation deprived it of life. The gold
figurines, especially that with the toad's head, contained a
secret explanation of the
experiment.'
If and when Sr Garcia and
those who share his views are privelidged to hold telepathic
converse with some half-
immortal Inca scientist
whose hiding place is unknown to the rest of us, it is to be
hoped that they can give a fuller ex-planation of the gold
figurines. Meanwhile, we are assured 'other live mummies are
hidden in the creators of volcanoes and in Andean glaciers.
Those in craters are in a state of lethergy induced by the
curare process, while those in glaciers are in artificial
hibernation due to the "toad
method"
The Zed AlizZed
cracked open the any stone and gooddayed the
toad
The scribe carefully
noted the comments made by Brother Kolosimo with regard to
Senor Beltran Garcia.
ZedAlizZed meanwhile
calculated the odds.
Page 182
"Garcilaso Inca de la
Vega. Garcilaso, who lived from
1539 to
1616"
1539
- 1616 = 77
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182 /
183
"
We may also quote
from Beltran Garcia, a Spaniard who wishes to revive the sun
worship of the Incas and claims to be a descendant of
Garcilaso Inca de la Vega. Garcilaso, who lived
from 1539 to
1616, was the son
of a conquistador and an Inca princess; he wrote a
history of the Incas and is said by / his descendant to have
left important documents that remain unpublished. One of the
most bizzare of Beltran Garcia's stories, allegedly based on
these documents, is as follows;
'According to the pictograph
writings of Tiahuanaco,
"
Leaving out parts of
that particular story the scribe moved on
apace.
" During their passage
through space they cast their excrement out of the
space-ship and turned the lake into the shape of a man lying
on his back, with his navel at the spot where our first
mother is said to have reclined, impregnated with the seed
of human knowledge."
"As for the "excrement"
which they jettisoned from the ship to alter the context of
the lake, may it perhaps have been an atomic bomb? It is a
curious fact that, in order to rob Lake Titicaca of the
symbolic character which the Indians ascribed to it, it was
represented on maps up to 1912 as almost circular shape. Its
true name was Titi - lake of mystery and of the sun - but to
this was added a suffix which in many languages conveys the
notion of "excrement".'
We are entitled to treat the
story and the gloss with a good deal of scepticism, and this
applies even more to the continuation of Sr. Garcia's
account in which science fiction is spiced with a touch of
pornography."
This part of the story
recalls the Inca nobles' custom of
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deforming their ear lobes
by hanging costly ornaments from them in order to draw
attention to their wealth. For this reason the Spaniards
called them Orejones ('Big - ears'
)
"
" This farrago is only worth
quoting as an illustration of how elements of information
which deserve to be judged on their merits are blended with
pure fantasy and served up in a manner which shows no regard
for probability or for the reader's intelligence. Nobody, as
far as we are aware, has ever seen, much less examined, the
' secret manuscripts' of
Garcilaso Inca de
la
Vega.
The writers who base
eccentric theories on fables of this
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kind are usually careful
not to refer to them in too much detail but to select the
parts that best fit their purpose. This method has the
unfortunate effect of discrediting genuine scholars whose
minds are open to new ideas,
While it strengthens the
position of hidebound traditionalists and en-courages public
opinion to be sceptical of theories which, however fantastic
in appearance, may in fact be basically sound. It is not
necessary to resort to distortion and ex-travagant imagery
in order to frame hypotheses of much greater interest and
verisimilitude than that of Orejona. It is in fact quite
possible to suppose that the blood of voyagers from outer
space flows in our own veins, and if we do so we shall be
less sceptical of attempts by some Soviet scholars to place
the story of Atlantis in its cosmic setting.
Blue men
Plato tells us that the
first Atlanteans were of different race and blood from the
other inhabitants of earth, and in 1960 a group of Soviet
scholars suggested that they may have been men of a bluish
colour. This theory was based in part on Herodotus and the
Egyptian historian Manetho, who lived in the third century
B.C. and wrote a work which we possess in part only,
describing his country,s past on the basis of the
inscriptions on ancient monuments. Other sources are the
Palermo Stone and the Turin Papyrus which gives lists of the
Pharaohs and date respectively from about
2400
and 1250
B.C."
At this juncture in the
quintessential moment of the now The Zed Aliz Zed asked the
scribe to make a note of how many days there were in todays
year.
The far yonder scribe
writ
365.
Then did the Alizzed take a further moment to do a spell of
simple arithmetic, this the scribe duly
recorded
2400
+
1250 =
3650
2400
-
1250 =
1150
2400 x
1250
= 3000000
2400 x 360 =
864000
1250 x 360 =
450000
And then writ
864
less the zeroes +
45
less the zeroes of which there are three and four azin
7
864 + 45
= 909
and 9
x 9 =
81
and 9
+ 9 =
18
and 8
+
1 iz 9
and 1
+ 8 = 9
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