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The
Holy Land of Scotland: Jesus in Scotland and the Gospel of the Grail by
Barry Dunford
Rosa Templum: The enigmatic
arcanum of Rosslyn Chapel and the Bride of Christ
The esoteric role of the Avesas - Spiritual Adepts of
Longevity
The
Atlantean Diaspora and the Noachian Grail Lineage
(Extracted from The Holy Land of Scotland: Jesus
in Scotland and the Gospel of the Grail)
The ancient Greek philosopher, Plato (429-347 B.C), wrote an account of an antedeluvian civilisation of high culture called Atlantis. Plato’s account was based on an earlier record written by the Greek sage, Solon (c.638-558 B.C), “the wisest of the seven sages” – Plato.
In his classic work entitled Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World (1882), the author, Ignatius Donnelly, comments: “Plato has preserved for us the history of Atlantis. If our views are correct, it is one of the most valuable records which have come down to us from antiquity. Plato lived 400 years before the birth of Christ. His ancestor, Solon, was the great law-giver of Athens 600 years before the Christian era. Solon visited Egypt. Plutarch says, ‘Solon attempted in verse a large description, or rather fabulous account of the Atlantic Island, which he had learned from the wise men of Sais….’ [Donnelly goes on to say] There can be no question that Solon visited Egypt….There he conversed upon points of philosophy and history with the most learned of the Egyptian priests. He was a man of extraordinary force and penetration of mind, as his laws and his sayings, which have been preserved to us, testify. There is no improbability in the statement that he commenced in verse a history and description of Atlantis, which he left unfinished at his death; and it requires no great stretch of the imagination to believe that this manuscript reached the hands of his successor and descendant, Plato; a scholar, thinker, and historian like himself, and, like himself, one of the profoundest minds of the ancient world. The Egyptian priest had said to Solon; ‘You have no antiquity of history, and no history of antiquity’; and Solon doubtless realized fully the vast importance of a record which carried human history back, not only thousands of years before the era of Greek civilization, but many thousands of years before even the establishment of the kingdom of Egypt; and he was anxious to preserve….this inestimable record of the past.”
The ‘wise men of Sais’ were no doubt directly connected with the ancient Egyptian mystery schools which would have acted as repositories for esoteric knowledge based on an ancient wisdom tradition of sacred spiritual science from the antedeluvian era. Such an Age was largely erased from the planet, and the general memory consciousness patterning of mankind, as a result of what may have been several global upheavals spanning thousands of years of human history. However, the mythos of worldwide floods of devastating magnitude, accompanied by both the dramatic sinking and raising of extensive land masses, is common to virtually all of the ancient racial and tribal traditions, to the point where it would seem highly probable that there was an underlying truth to this universal tradition. The story recorded in the Book of Genesis of the antedeluvian patriarch Noah, together with members of his family, escaping a global flood in an ‘Ark’, or large ship, would seem to reinforce a universal mythic tradition, bearing in mind that legends and traditions generally spring from a basis in truth.
In more recent times, geological and archaeological findings, together with deep sea surveys of the Atlantic ocean and elsewhere, appear to support sudden geological changes of land masses, accompanied by dramatic rises in sea levels, in the remote past. This modern data, together with the universal flood mythos, certainly suggests that the story of an Atlantean civilisation destroyed by a global deluge may not be without some foundation in truth. Furthermore, the akashic dimension is very consistent in recording the existence and history of both the Atlantean civilisation and its subsequent demise. For example, this has been recorded in considerable detail in many psychic readings given by the American seer, Edgar Cayce (1877-1945); and also in the extensive writings of the German mystic Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), much of which is based on akashic investigation.
As a result of a global deluge creating a worldwide human diaspora, it would seem that the subsequent evolving streams of racial consciousness, largely incarnated in a tribal format, had their roots in the post-Atlantean colonies, which arose out of the remnant of Atlanteans who managed to escape the deluge, some of whom may have intermingled with other racial and tribal groups who had similarly survived the cataclysmic Flood. One of the primary post-Atlantean lineages would appear to revolve around the family of Noah, the antedeluvian patriarch, some of whose forebears and descendants are recorded in the Book of Genesis. It may be that the source material for this opening text of the literary corpus known as the ‘Old Testament’ were actual records preserved within the Noachian family which apparently survived the Flood along with the Atlantean family itself. There is a tradition that certain ‘Books of Noah’ were found by St. Jacob and kept for safe keeping at St. Jacob’s monastery, on Mt. Ararat, where tradition records Noah’s Ark having come to rest after the global flood subsided. According to the akashic Records of Thoth: “Beneath the Etchmiadzin Monastery [in Armenia] were sequested texts of information written by the second and third generations of Noah; and beneath St. Jacob’s monastery, were texts actually transported by Noah.”
The Rev. Edward Davies in his Celtic Researches, on the Origin, Traditions & Language, of the Ancient Britons (1804) comments: “It is evident that Noah and his sons preserved, not only the general history of the primitive world, but as much of its acquired knowledge as could be useful to themselves and their posterity. This they had ample opportunity of doing; for the flood, in regard to Noah, was no sudden and unforeseen event. And it was done; for Moses records the antedeluvian inventors of many arts which had been preserved to his own time. The book of Job delineates an age long prior to that of Moses ….the interlocutors, in this most ancient book, either expressly mention or clearly allude to every science and every laudible art which has usually been placed to the account of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Phoenicians or Indians. And it is remarkable that Job and his friends ascribe their whole stock of knowledge, whether of religion and morality, of the works of nature, or of civil arts—not to the exertion of their own genius, or to the successful inquiry of any particular society, which had recently emerged from barbarism; but purely to the tradition of the patriarchs of the first age after the flood.”
In their book In Search of Noah’s Ark (1976, USA) the authors, Dave Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier Jr., inform us that: “The Persians call Mt. Ararat Kok-I-Nouh, meaning ‘mountain of Noah’….At the base of Ararat lies the rebuilt part of the ancient town of Ahora, which had been completely destroyed by earthquake in 1840. Arghuri, another name of Ahora, means ‘the planting of vine.’ Historians say European wine growing originated from this area where Noah, according to the Bible, ‘planted a vineyard.’ At the nearby Monastery of Echmiadzin, Armenian priests venerate the memory of Noah and his family as the progenitors of the human race. They also have a sacred cross, which they say is made from wood brought from the Ark.”
Ancient Chinese tradition records a global deluge as having occurred around 2300 B.C. This is consistent with ancient Hebrew records which give a date of 2348 B.C. Interestingly, the akashic Records of Thoth give the date as 2345 B.C. In the light of this the following information provided by Balsiger and Sellier Jr. may be pertinent: “George F. Dodwell, retired government historical astronomer of south Australia and past director of the Adelaide Observatory, wrote the following letter in the early 1960’s to Dr. Arthur J. Brandenberger, presently a professor of photogrammetry at Laval University in Quebec, Canada: ‘I have been making during the last 26 years an extensive investigation of what we know in astronomy as the secular variation of the obliquity of the ecliptic. From a study of the available ancient observations of the position of the sun at the solstices during the last three thousand years, I find a curve which, after allowing for all known changes, shows a typical exponential curve of recovery of the Earth’s axis after a sudden change from a former nearly vertical position to an inclination of 26½ degrees, from which it was returned to an equilibrium at the present inclination of 23½ degrees during the interval of the succeeding 3,194 years to A.D. 1850. The date of the change in the Earth’s axis, 2345 B.C., is none other than that of the flood recorded in the Bible, and the resulting conclusion is that the Biblical account of the flood as a universal one, together with its story of Noah’s Ark, is historically true’.”[1]
In The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain (1946), the author Comyns Beaumont remarks on “Some attempt to argue away the Atlantis legend, among whom I may cite Professor A.E. Taylor of Edinburgh University…. Professor Taylor admits that the fate of Atlantis is sometimes thought to be a ‘distorted echo of the Bible traditions of the antediluvians’, but there is nothing distorted. It agrees in main particulars with the Book of Enoch and Genesis. The Professor agrees that classic scholars recognize the historical truth of Atlantis, including the philosopher, Crantor, of the Athenian Academy, Ammianus, Marcellimus, the eminent historian, and Neo-Platonists like Proclus, Iamblicus, and Syrianus, to whom may surely be added Plato himself, and probably Socrates. Timaeus, the Sicilian historian, was doubtless another, and we may certainly add Solon to the distinguished list.” Moreover, the Rev. George Stanley Faber in his Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri (1803) refers to “an ancient tradition, preserved by Cosmas Indico-Pleustes, that Noah formerly inhabited the island Atlantis.” Cosmas Indico-Pleustes was a merchant of Alexander who travelled to Ceylon, India and Ethiopia, and became a monk c.525 A.D. Faber goes on to say: “The Noetic family also, considered in the light of antediluvians, bore the very same appellations of Atlanteans and Titans; and the great patriarch himself was called, by way of eminence, Atlas and Titan. Accordingly, as the deluge was universal, so the legends respecting the Atlanteans and the Titans were universal likewise. Hence we find an Atlas in Phenicia, and Atlas in Arcadia, and an Atlas in the island Atlantis.”
Furthermore, in his monumental work The Origin of Pagan Idolatry (1816), vol.II, the Rev. George Stanley Faber also notes: “The number of generations from Adam to Noah is represented in Scripture as being ten, each of those patriarchs being included in the series; so that Noah stands in the ninth place of descent from Adam….A recollection of the ten antedeluvian generations was equally preserved among the ancient Atlanteans. Plato informs us, that the marine hero-god, to whom he gives the Greek appellation of Posidon or Neptune, divided the island Atlantis among his ten sons; just as Brahma or Adima similarly divided the earth among his children. The first inhabitants of that island were remarkable for their piety: but, afterwards degenerating and becoming guilty of all sorts of violence and impurity, they were overwhelmed, together with their country, by the waves of the ocean. Atlantis then, like the earth which Adima divided among his offspring, must have been the antedeluvian world: and, if so, the ten sons of Neptune, who inhabited it previous to its submersion, must be viewed as shadowing out the ten antedeluvian generations. The opinion is confirmed, both by the gradual deterioration of manners ascribed to its inhabitants, and by an old tradition preserved by Cosmas Indico-Pleustes, that it was formerly tenanted by Noah, and that, when it sank, he sailed in an ark to the continent. A very distinct remembrance of the same ten antedeluvian generations prevailed also among the ancient Chaldeans: for Berosus, Abydenus, and Alexander Polyhistor, all agree in reckoning ten inclusive descents from the first man Alorus to the pious Xisuthrus, who was saved with his family in an ark when the earth was inundated by the waters of an universal flood.”
According to an 18th century antiquary, Jacob Bryant, the name Ararat signifies “the Mountain of Descent”. In his New System of Ancient Mythology Bryant further states: “The Atlanteans settled in Phrygia [Asia Minor] and….were of the family of Ham,” one of the sons of Noah. He further states: “….the Atlanteans seem to have instructed their brethren Herculeans.” Bryant then goes on to quote the Greek ecclesiastical historian Eusebius (c.264-340 A.D) as saying: “The Herculeans were a people much given to divination, and to the study of nature. Great part of their knowledge they are thought to have had transmitted to them from those Atlanteans, who settled in Phrygia, especially the history of the earth and heavens; for all such knowledge the Atlanteans had of old consigned to pillars and obelisks in that country: and from them it was derived to the Herculeans, or Heraclidae, of Greece.”[2]
In a chapter entitled “The mystery of old man Noah and the Arks” from the book Secret Cities of old South America (1950), the author, Harold T. Wilkins, provides supportive information concerning the case for the ancient mythos of Noah and his ‘Ark’: “An American missionary, Frederich Coan, tells in a book published privately at Claremont, California, in 1939, how a Nestorian archbishop, Nourri had, some years before, after three attempts, managed to scale Ararat and saw the old Ark wedged in the rocks and half-filled with ice and snow. He got inside and measured the Ark. He does not say if it had three stories, but says (very oddly!) it was exactly 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad, and 30 cubits high (see Genesis, chap. 6). (Taking the Asiatic cubit at an average of 20 inches, these measurements would be 500 feet long, 83 feet broad, and 50 feet high, or about the average dimensions of a modern Transatlantic liner!) …. Mount Ararat is located on the plateau of the Armenian Highlands, which are from 4,000 to 7,000 feet above sea level. Around the region lies the cradle of a very ancient civilization.”
Wilkins continues: “What we do know, is that the Mountains of Ararat formed the old Highlands of the Assyrians, and that around Lake Van, in this region, there lived a mysterious race called the Ur-artu, or Ur-yaldu of the Bible. They seem to have been linked with the mysterious Etruscans and with the Basques, both of whom were probably of the races of old Atlantis, subjected to and ruled by the great kings of this old empire of the west…. The name Ur-artu, once meaning the highlands of the Assyrians, became localized in the mountains of Ararat which lay in its centre. These people were neither Semites, nor Indo-Europeans. They appeared suddenly in the Near East, and apparently had come over the mountains from the west….. Often, some clue to the mysteries of the origin of a race can be found in the name by which they call themselves. The Ur-artu called themselves the Chaldians, and their god was Chaldis. The name has a curious likeness to Caledonia, and as the Chaldians came from the west it may well be that they were a branch of the ancient Caledonian stock forced to flee from that region of Acheron, Hades, Charon and the Styx – all believed by Homer and the Greeks to be located in the north of the British Isles.”
Wilkins also states: “Scraps of long lost Hellenic and Roman classic writers, often citing vanished Punic and Egyptian sources, join to traditions and codices in old Toltec Mexico, Quiche, Yucatan and American Indian traditions, lore and ritual in North America, make it crystal-clear that this Great Deluge was no mere Mesopotamian Flood. They show that it ranged from right across the Pacific to the shores of South, Central, and North and far North America, within what is now the Arctic circle, and past eastwards across the south Atlantic to the proto-Mediterranean and the old Levant. Old Egypt escaped, so did old Africa, south of the Sahara, which was then an inland sea. It was global.” According to Harold Wilkins, Jerome, an Egyptian author of an ancient history of the Phoenicians, had said that the remains of Argo, the Ark, were on the mountains of Armenia, and that a considerable part of this ark on Ararat remained in the time of Josephus (died A.D.93). Wilkins goes on to say: “The Kings and sages of the antedeluvian world, over which the shadow of Atlantis loomed large, engraved records of events and astronomical and astrological data upon stone pillars, Josephus says that a pillar of stone was still standing in his day, and that he had seen it. On it were recorded the revolutions and courses of the stars and planets, prior to the Great Deluge.”
At the time of the antedeluvian flood it would appear that there may have been a number of ‘Arks’, or giant ships, which were deployed in order to survive the world cataclysm. Harold T. Wilkins remarks: “Men landed in these ark ships, not only on the shores of old Europe, or the mountains of Asia, but on the shores of North and South America … These antedeluvian ships have been found by old Spanish miners at the time of the conquest. One was found in a mine in old Panama. It was a buried ship or galley of very ancient type. A Roman coin of Augustus Caesar was also found in old Panama, and no explanations have ever been given of such finds.” Moreover, Philip Johan Strahlenberg in his Description of Northern and Eastern parts of Europe and Asia, originally published at Stockholm, in 1730, says that in or about 1720, he saw: “The whole lower hull of an ancient ship with a keel at Barabinsk, in Tartary, where is no ocean and 700 miles from the sea.” Furthermore, the learned Latin father, Jerome, (346-420 A.D.) provides some interesting details in his Liber de Sitie et Nominibus Locorum Hebraicorum. Jerome states: “….To-day, they say vestiges of the Ark of Noah still remain on the mountains of Ararat, and Jeremiah makes mention of those mountains in his vision against Babylon…. Berosus, the Chaldean says: ‘This great ship rests near by a certain part of the mountains of the Carduenorum, in Armenia’.”
In the Book of Genesis a genealogical list of some members of the Noachian family is given, the primary descent issuing from the three sons of Noah, that is, Japhet, Shem, and Ham. According to the akashic Records of Thoth, Noah also had a daughter whose subsequent lineage developed in Ethiopia or Abyssinia. The primary racial stream with which this thesis is concerned is the Celto-Hebraic, with both the Celts (Keltoi) and Hebrew (Hibiru) apparently carrying Grail genetic light codes inherited from the Atlantean Noachian Grail lineage. Other major racial streams which may have resulted from the Atlantean diaspora include the Hebrew-speaking Phoenicians, the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians and the Greeks, all of whom were located in the eastern hemisphere of planet Earth. Concurrently, the proto-Maya and proto-Inca races, for example, appear to have developed in the western hemisphere.
Some of the amazing ancient technology which some of these racial groups used may have had its origins in the Atlantean civilisation. For example, the construction of the ancient Inca city at Machu Pichu, in Peru. There is no way that this extraordinary city was built, atop an Andean mountain, using pulleys, ropes and manpower, as is ludicrously suggested for a similar engineering feat which underlies the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. One way such gigantic edifices may perhaps have been constructed, using blocks of granite and stone weighing many tonnes, is by a technique of levitation. This may have been achieved by a sophisticated and very knowledgeable use of sonics and vibrational harmonics, which could have set up some kind of resonance field, thus on a temporary basis effectively changing the molecular structure of the huge blocks of granite and stone so as to make them weightless, and consequently very malleable for setting them into place. It has been said that by chanting a mantra or sacred sound at a certain pitch, some eastern yogis can move huge boulders by making them ‘weightless’. So where did such knowledge come from? And why are mainstream modern ‘scientists’ apparently unable to mirror such effects?
Following the theme of this book regarding a Christic Grail lineage, two of the primary racial streams which have evolved from the Noachian Atlantean lineage appear to be the Keltoi (Celts) and the Hibiru (Hebrews) through the Japhet and Shem descent respectively. At some later point these two genetic streams appear to have come together forming a specific Grail lineage which constituted the origin of the tribe of Gaels. It was into this genetic stream of consciousness that the Christ impulse was incarnated in the human personage of Yeshua/Isa, popularly known as Jesus. A branch of the Gael/Grail lineage may well have derived from Fingal, the ancient Celtic warrior king. There are very definite links connecting the Fingalians to the Keltneyburn, Fortingall and Glenlyon region in central Scotland, to the extent that this was very probably their central stronghold and perhaps point of origin. Indeed, close by the Keltney Burn (stream) was to be found the placename ‘Port-nan-Gael’ which translates from the Gaelic language as ‘the issue place of the Gael’,[3] thus suggesting their point of origin. It may be that it was here in the geographical Heartland of ancient Caledonia (now Scotland) that a cross-fertilisation between two primary Noachian genetic streams of consciousness took place, i.e. between the Celts (Keltoi) and the Hebrews (Hibiru) with the resultant Gael lineage. The akashic Records of Thoth reveal that this event took place circa 1500 B.C.
Notes:
[1] Dave Balsiger and
Charles E. Sellier Jr., In Search of Noah’s Ark, 1976, USA, pp. 44-46.
[2]
Jacob Bryant, New System of Ancient Mythology, 1807, 3rd edtn vol. II, pp..90-92.
[3]
Duncan Campbell, The Book of Garth and Fortingall, 1888, p.91.
© copyright 1996-2002 Barry Dunford.
The
Holy Land of Scotland: Jesus in Scotland and the Gospel of the Grail by
Barry Dunford
Rosa Templum: The enigmatic
arcanum of Rosslyn Chapel and the Bride of Christ