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' 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.'
'… 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.  
 

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" The laws of physics have no inbuilt time asymmetery.They work just as well in the future-to-past sense as the past-to-future sense. We see this clearly when we look at the quantum wave .The wave is a ripple of possibility, not a real thing It has neither past nor future;it can be described as travelling forwards in time and backward in time with equal validity. This is true not just of the quantum wave. Subatomic particles exhibit the same disregard for time. "
 
When the thats away the  how's will play said Zed Aliz to the scribe .
The scribe writ simply A cat is said to have nine lives.
 

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" The most famous, important and influential of Arab alchem-ists
Jabir ibn Hayyam was also a Sufi "
 
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"It was in Jabir's books that the earliest extant text of the Emerald Tablet appeared, though it is ascribed to much older sources. At the same time ,Jabir and his circle wrote on a multitude of other subjects-on mathematics, on magic ,on  astrology and astronomy, on medicine, on mirrors,…"  
 
 

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note 1 Julius Ruska ,Tabula Smaragdini 1926
"A translation from an  Arab collection of commentaries of the early twelth century  known as "
 
"The Emerald Table of Hermes:"

Hence will there be marvellous adaptations achieved of which the manner is this.
For this reason I am called Hermes Trismegistus because I hold three parts of the wisdom of the whole world.       That which I had to say about the operation of Sol is completed."
 

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" In the account of the emerald tablet given by Roger Bacon in the Secretum Secretorum it is stated that
These precious sentences of Hermes were found by Galienus Alfachim the physican, on a plaque of emerald in a cave,clasped in the hands of the corpse of that mysterious legendary figure
Hermes Trismegistus, The Thrice Great" The reader is exhorted  "to preserve the strictest secrecy from
all except men of good will, this treasured text,even as Hermes himself had hidden it within the cave."
 
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"It may be well to quote another and freer translation of this historic text;"
 
I speak not fictious things, but that which is most certain and most
True. What is below is like that which is above , and what is above
is like that which is below to accomplish the miracles of One
Thing. And as all things were produced by the One Word of
One Being , so all things were produced from the One Thing by
adaptation, Its father is the Sun , its mother the Moon , the wind
carries it in its belly, its nurse is the earth. It is the father of all
perfection throughout the world. The power is vigorous if it be
changed into earth. Separate the earth from the the fire , the subtle
from the gross, acting prudently and with judgement.Ascend with
the sagacity from  the earth to heaven , and then again descend to
the earth and unite together the power of things superior and
things inferior. Thus you will obtain the glory of the whole world
and obscurity will fly far from you.This has more fortitude than
fortitude itself,because it conquers every solid thing and can
penetrate every solid . Thus was the world formed . Hence pro-
ceed wonders which are here established .Therefore I am called
Hermes Trismegistus, having three parts of the philosophy of the
whole world.That which I had to say concerning the operation
of the sun is completed.  
 
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"As above, so below," is an expression which refers to cosmoses.
Thus spake the prophet Gurdjieff.

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"Now you have some idea of the laws governing the life of the macrocosmos and have returned to the earth. Recall to yourself: "as above, so below" I think that already, without any further explanation, you will not dispute the statement that the life of individual man - the microcosmos - is governed by the same laws - "Glimpses of Truth."
Thus spake the prophet Gurdjieff.
 

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"…initiates of the 'physica  et mystica ,' 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
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."

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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."

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"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  

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"…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.
 

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"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."  



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.  

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" 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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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.'

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'… 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.'

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"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."

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                                                                     " 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.
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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."

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" 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."