Lost Technology Of The Ancients: The Crystal Sun, a book by Robert Temple
Lost Technology Of The Ancients: The Crystal Sun Posted on March 7, 2013 by Gillian Zen-Haven March 6 2013 The ancient Greek Pythagoreans of the 5th century BC believed that the sun was a gigantic crystal ball larger than the earth, which gathered the ambient light of the surrounding cosmos and refracted it to earth, acting as a giant lens. A giant lens? In the 5th century BC? Perhaps it was because nobody until now has been willing to recognise that lenses existed in antiquity, and that…
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Most excellent video; worth checking out!
The most spectacular archaeological find of the 21st century -- billions in gold and jewels uncovered in the secret sanctums of a centuries-old Indian shrine -- will soon be revealed to the public.
Last summer, archaeologists opened the underground chambers of the 16th century Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, located in Kerala province in southern India. They discovered six chambers, labeling the vaults A through F, with the help of temple priests. What they found was startling, according to initial reports
: Sacks of diamonds and gold, coins dating back hundreds of years, crowns and other antique jewelry, precious gemstones wrapped in silk, and so on.
Vault B, which is guarded by serpents according to local legend, has yet to be opened. But those sepulchers that have been explored do contain gold statues, gems and other items valued anywhere from a few billion to as much as $40 billion.
I am much impressed with what you two have said. I did not know that the Egyptians, or whatever they actually called themselves back then, were in essence much like any other Vedic civilization in most ways. Amazing ! HK !
Tricia, I am especially intrigued with the living passion you bring to your spiritual life. I admire this quallity very much. You can write in such a way as to move women and men's hearts, because you yourself have heart. I also believe strongly in the power of love and ecstasy, and righteousness in the face of adversity. Thank you. More, please. >; ) HK
Seems to me we can appreciate some of the mideastern remnants of culture, but there is no disciplic sucession for actual engagement in spiritual processes via this civilization. We take hints from them, but no surety. I assume then, that you Tricia are pursuing spiritual life via the Vedas because we are blessed with a detailed and living process?
There have been one or two videos out comparing specifics of Egyptian and Vedic culture, but they have been misleading as they have misrepresented the facts about Krishna. They try to say it is all an artifact of sun worship from primitive times, and in this way they try to establish themselves as some kind of authorities, when their thesis is mostly lies and extrapolations, not according to the historians of the time period, nor in accordance with evidence from sastra etc.
Often Gods of one culture are turned into the demons of another. For example, Lords Siva's name is also Saitan, he casts fire from his third eye, carries a trident, has the partial moon as a head ornamant looking like two pointy horns, is frequent visitor to graveyards, and is merciful to ghosts, demons, etc of all kinds, and is associated with devastating fire weapons, and has a reddish body color. Sounds like Christianity's Satan, no?
What are the Names ad attributes of Godhead from Egyptian histories?
Have you heard of this? Do you have any thoughts on this?
Vedic sastra such as Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam tell that civilizaton goes through cycles, but that the earth has been inhabitted countless times with advanced cultures, literally millions of years and more.
They have uncovered steel bracing,hinges as it were, in a fortress in southern South America, one of the oldest stone fortresses known to modern anthropology. This unnatural hardened steel requires a heat that is so great to make it, that it has only just recently become even possible by our own culture, yet it is manufactured, and dated tens of thousands of years old. They are stumped to explain how the so-called ancients could have had such a technology. Yet the Vedas speak of airplanes with stealth technology, space-faring civilizations, and an elaborate system of planets and levels of the universe; and they are very ancient books.
There are many such artifacts. See Cremo's "Forbidden Archeology" Or Human Devolution ( we have a video onsite main page etc,)
Other curiosities are the artifacts revealed on the Moon and Mars, as yet not admitted by NASA, but admitted by the Russian space program people, as well as ex-military and "beans spillers" aplenty from within disaffected ex NASA etc. etc. circles.
It is the two-armed form of Godhead from Goloka who establishes the unversal similarities and values.
As above, so below. Sri Isopanisad elaborates that we are complete like sparks of the Source, hence we have similar qualities as Godhead. It follows that other civilizations within this universe, say from other panetary systems, will also have a male / female dichotomy and a Goddess and God as the Divine Couple, as expressions of religion and spirituality.
Seeing as Godhead is infinite, and as we are also told within sastra that Godhead incarnates in all forms of the various species, will we not find a giant ant Avatara ? Is there a Goloka planet in which Lord Vishnu Ant rules over a spiritual planet of Ants? Actually, no, in that although we cannot limit Godhead's infinite manifestations and possibilities, yet His two-armed form dominates. There is a preponderance of worship of the Divine Couple not because we are human, but because we are duplicate sparks of the original Divines
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Lord Krsna is is a two-armed form. He displayed His universal form to Arjuna, then his two-armed form, as his freind preferred that relationship. The Supreme remains the Supreme in all cases, but He assumes these various expressive forms as expansions of His original two-armed form, the dominant theme, Lord Krsna.
Thus, similar themes will appear frequently wherever His parts and parcels engage in worship and sharing of concepts of religion, which themes then create many cultural similarities between advanced human civilizations. The expression in which maximal benefit is derived by the souls and the Supreme is that of devotional service, not aloofness nor escapism/voidism, impersonalism, nor seperatism.
There was actually considerable communication and an exchange of ideas in ancient times, moreso than many modern Western-based historians commonly give them credit. Still, powerful and attractive theistic and cultural themes arose by divine will, and were spread among the peoples. The transcendental truths remain unchanging, not being temporary due to linear time, and so amongst honest and truthful people, God consiousness is held in esteem pretty much universally and becomes a dominant theme in cultural expression.