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"This goes to the heart of the matter for the defining quality of the inner eye in its most highly evolved form is that it can 'see' the deepest hidden  structures of reality without impediment. If timeless-ness is an authentic feature of consciousness - and the evidence I have summarised in this book very bly suggests that it is - then consciousness may just as well 'exist' in what the mathematicians call 'imaginary time as in 'real time. Indeed it may be precisely because the ego-self lives in real time that it 'knows', death. While it may be precisely because consciousness lives in imaginary time that it 'knows' eternity."
 
Page 212

" The key feature of the Hawking metaphor is that time closes back upon itself to form a loop. This is why in this metaphor we cannot talk of a beginning or an end to time,for a circle has neither except for the arbitrary points we choose to mark on it. It may be no accident that the inner eye has for long sensed that reality is eternal, for in this higher-order understanding, foreverness is restored to its ancient position as the foundation stone of consciousness.  
The most fascinating consequence of the 'loop of time ' meta-phor is summed up in Figure 7.3. Here, we see evolution starting with the 'north pole'(the Big Bang) and progressing around the circle to 'now', represented by the 18 th line of latitude (say )"
 
At this point Alizzed said the '18^th line of latitude' occurs on the 18^th line down of page 212.  not including  title heading The Death of Forever
 

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Starts  18^th line up  and covers 7 lines.                                                                                                        Quote " What sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the Indies, speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years?  And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangements of two dozen little signs on paper?  Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of men."
 
1564-1642 = 78  as near az damn it, seventy seven thought the scribe. Noting the number of letters in the two galileoan names. Galilei Galileo

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Beyond the Styx
" Some years ago a young engineer and amateur archeologist named Kama el Malakh discovered not far from the Great Pyramid, the funeral barques of the first Pharaohs. These were some 180 feet long and 10 feet wide,

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                               "The Book of the Dead covers a period from 1580 - 1090 B.C"
1580 -                                                                                                        1 x 5 x 8 x 1 x 9
1090                                                                                                                   360
  490
 
These are just dates said the scribe, where's the relevence. The relevance iz in the moving numbers said Alizzed consuming a date. Is nothing sacred Zed Aliz said the scribe. Then turning to the right both looked in the same mirror, and in unison cried, nothing. The echo came echoing back, everything it said, with the bitter sweetness of true love.



The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Edited By W.Y. Evans-Wentz 1960
The number seven has long been a sacred number among Aryan and other races. Its use in the Revelation of John illustrates this, as does the conception of the seven day being regarded as holy. In Nature, the number seven governs the periodicity and phenomena of life,as, for example, in the series of chemical elements, in the physics of sound and colour, and it is upon the number forty-nine, or seven times seven, that the Bardo Thodol is thus scientifically based."  
" III. The Esoteric Significance Of the Forty-Nine Days Of The Bardo"

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" Turning now to our text itself, we find that structurally it is founded upon the symbolic number Forty-nine, the square of the sacred number Seven; for, according to occult teachings common to Northern Buddhism and to that Higher Hinduism which the Hindu-born Bodhisattva Who became the Buddha
Gautama, the Reformer of the Lower Hinduism and the codifier of the secret Lore, never repudiated,there
are seven worlds or seven degrees of Maya 2 within the sangsara, 3  con-stituted as seven globes of a
planetery chain. On each globe there are seven rounds of evolution, making the forty-nine (seven times seven)
stations of active existence. As in the

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embryonic state in the human species the foetus passes through every form of organic structure
from the amoeba to man, the highest mammal, so in the after-death state, the embryonic
state of the psychic world, the Knower or principle of con-sciousness, anterior to its re-emergence in gross matter, ana-logously experiences purely psychic conditions. In other words, in both these interdependent embryonic processes - the one physical , the other psychical - the evolutionary and the involutionary attainments, corresponding to the forty-nine stations of existence, are passed through.
      Similarly, the forty-nine days of the Bardo may also be Symbolical of the Forty and Nine Powers of the Mystery of the Seven Vowels. In Hindu mythology, whence much of the Bardo symbolism originated, these Vowels were the Mystery of the Seven Fires and their forty-nine subdivisional
fires or aspects. They are also represented by the Svastika signs upon the crowns of the seven heads of the Serpent of Eternity of the Northern Buddhist Mysteries, originating in ancient India. In Hermetic writings they are the seven zones of after-death, or Bardo , experiences, each symbolizing the eruption in the Intermediate State of a particular seven-fold element of the complex principle of consciousness, thus giving the consciousness-principle forty-nine aspects, or fires, or fields of manifestation 1.
      The number seven has long been a sacred number among Aryan and other races. Its use in the Revelation of John illustrates this, as does the conception of the seven day being regarded as holy. In Nature, the number seven governs the periodicity and phenomena of life,as, for example, in the series of chemical elements, in the physics of sound and colour, and it is upon the number forty-nine, or seven times seven, that the Bardo Thodol is thus scientifically based."  



On page 6, said Alizzed   seven  occurs   seven  times  7 x 7 which iz  49
                                  and,        
on page 7,  speaks to us  ten  times       10 x 7           10 + 7
                                                                   70                 17
                                                                 7 + 0             1 x 7                                                                                                                                           7                   7
Don't look like that scribe, said ZedAliz, our path is littered with sevens. Seven iz our guide and at this particular moment in the now of our time seven iz our nine.
 
The scribe writ, as required, and then writ    forty-nine.
and then out of interest further writ           40 x 9 iz  360

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Chapter 1

The Zed AlizZed out of curiosity just, began to count the first seven un-numbered pages of the Magic Mountain,
counting the front cover as page one, two sides to each page. The Foreword starts on the front of page
seven, with the words  
                "The story of Hans Castorp, which we would here set forth,"



and  continues on the rear of page seven as follows
                      
                "We shall tell it at length, thoroughly, in detail - for when did
              a narrative seem too long or too short by reason of the actual time
              or space it took up? We do not fear being called meticulous,in-
              clining as we do to  the view that only the exhaustive can be truly
              interesting
                  Not all in a minute, then, will the narrator be finished with the
              story of our Hans. The seven days of a week will not suffice, no,
              nor seven months either. Best not too soon make too plain how
              much mortal time must pass over his head while he sits spun round
              in his spell. Heaven forbid it should be seven years!
                 And now we begin.!"  

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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 - ormation and purification."


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, it is her-metically sealed from time, time passes it by, it stand there on its shelf shut away from time."  
Brahma

                                                             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

Page 97

"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

/ Page 98  9 x 8 = 72  7 + 2 = 9   /  

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
 
Schrodinger's Cat

Page 98   9 x 8 = 72

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.
In Search of the Miraculous
                                                        Fragments of an Unknown Teaching
                                                                     P.D.Oupensky 1878- 1947    
Page 217

" 'A man may be born ,but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.' "
" 'When a man awakes he can die; when he dies he can be born' "
Thus spake the prophet Gurdjieff.
                                                    
                                                  "Jesus answered and  said unto him, Verily, verily,
                                                      I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,
                                                              He cannot see the kingdom of God."
                                                                        St John Chapter 3 verse 3
                                                                           3    +    3       3    x     3
                                                                                 6        x        9
                                                                                          54
                                                                                        5 + 4
                                                                                            9
 
 
The Prophet
Kahil Gibran 1923

Page 85    
                                                               " Forget not that I shall come back to you
                                                                  A little while, and my longing shall gather dust and form                                                                    for another body
                                                                   A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind,
                                                                   and another woman shall bear me"
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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.

                                                                    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."



 

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..." 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.
          

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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 more magic.
 

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

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.  
 

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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."
"... 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 foundhere: 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."

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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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Page 201

"... Chan signifies 'snake' and the reptile-god was adored here in the same way as the goddess of Buto was in ancient Egypt..."

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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' "
"...Some authorities date the origin of the empire back to A.D.494 and 565, others to 1130."

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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,..."
"... H. Velarde speaks of a 'country crystallized into geometrical shapes"
"The Incas were devout sun worshippers"
 
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"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.
 
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"Garcilaso Inca de la Vega. Garcilaso, who lived from 1539 to 1616"
                                                                                        1539 -  1616  = 77
  
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"...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.
 
"...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."

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"... 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
220 continued
"The Greek historian Plutarch (c. A.D.50-120 ) refers to the people of the Canaries as Atlanteans. Homer may have identi-fied the islands, as later writers did, with Elysium, the mythical winterless home of the happy dead. This may not have been due merely to their position in the far west, beyond the Pillars of Hercules, but the discovery by ancient navigators of the natives' cult of the dead and their belief in immortality. They used to embalm dead bodies, reducing them by some means  to a weight of only 7 or 8 pounds, and, like many American peoples, they believed that the dead gave their advice to their descendants. When Peruvian Indians had to appear in a court of law they brought with them all their mummified ancestors: while among the Guanches a dead ruler was never buried until his successor died, so that the living king was, so to speak , assisted at all times by his predecessor.      
Some believe that the Guanches learnt the technique of mummification from the Egyptians, but in fact the methods were completely different. The Egyptians may have taught the Guanches their writing system and the custom of brother-sister marriage, but in other respects the Guanche civilization remains a mystery. It is only known to us only from ruins that call to mind those of Sardinia, Jerico and Zimbabwe and from the underground structures on the island of Grand Canary,which have much in common with the relics of other ancient Mediterranean cultures."

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Beyond the Styx
" Some years ago a young engineer and amateur archeologist named Kama el Malakh discovered not far from the Great Pyramid, the funeral barques of the first Pharaohs. These were some 180 feet long and 10 feet wide, and contained everything the dead monarch might need on a long voyage. They were not destined to put to sea, however, but to convey the sovereign until such time as he should be reincarnated , following the journey round the earth of the Sun, his father."
"...This custom may or may not derive from ancient memories of space-travel. Until recent times it was thought to be of purely Egyptian origin, the Greeks having borrowed the myth in a modified form - that of Charon's barque transporting the souls of the dead across the Styx. However, it appears that

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many peoples of the remote past buried their dead in boat-shaped coffins, and some South American tribes do so to this day.As Homet writes,... "
...We find examples still current in Oceania, in central Africa and in the region of the Amazon. These barques served as transitional vessels from one point to another, and most cultures combine the migration of the soul with the crowning of its rebirth. And always - as we have found in numerous documents in Africa-the soul travelled towards the Sun God. But it always travelled in "something" which could also accommodate the body before it was resurrected, hence a "death barque"
'The facts suggest,' Homet continues, that their may have been a place of common origin, an earlier culture that was the primordial home of the death barque and the fountain-head uniting all the ancient cultures: Celtic, ancient Egyptian, north-west European and South American. This we call Atlantis, the mother civilization of all
"children of the sun"
In Greek mythology the entrance to Hades was guarded by the three-headed dog  Cerberus. Among the Aztecs the abode  of the dead was surrounded by a sevenfold river, and the god who presided over  the departed spirits was the dog-headed Xolotl (like Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead ). A thin leaf of copper has been found in the mouth of certain mummies, apparently to pay for their passage to the shades below, in the same way as the obol which was Charon's fee.
In the roof of the funeral crypt at Tiahuanaco there is a round hole exactly like the one found in Egyptian tombs, where its purpose is to allow the 'bird of death' to escape."
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ancient America, and this is why mummies and skeletons are often found in the foetal position: the bodies were bound in this fashion with ropes, even while there owners were still alive, so that they might be ready for rebirth. A similar custom prevailed in ancient Gaul, Mecklemburg, Britain, Sweden and southern Russia,and also the Tonga islands. It is still in force in the Amazon region, and so is the practice of 'double burial'which was also once known in Ireland, Crete and various parts of Europe. The bodies were first buried in damp ground to accelerate decomposition (the Indians of Brazil have a different method-they suspend them in nets in running water, where the piranhas soon pick them dry ); then the skeleton is removed, cleaned and painted red-the colour of blood or placenta,  as Homet remarks-after which it is re-interred. We have already mentioned symbols of life after death, such as yokes (among the Olmecs and Egyptians), knots and butterflies,which are common to ancient America and the Mediterranean peoples. The lotus which in India is the symbol of birth , is common in pre-Columbian temples and burial-places, especially in the Mayan capital of Chichen Itza. Here it is represented complete with flowers, leaves and root-stock, in motifs similar to those of India, Cambodia and Indonesia, and with the same accompanment of dragons, sea-monsters and fierce animals of the cat tribe.    
We do not know the age of the lotus as a symbol, but in Europe it is found amongst the Celts who brought it from Asia as long ago as 2000B.C.,and whose rulers later trans-formed it into the fleur de lys. It is usually thought to have spread from India to south east Asia, but Homet believes it to be of much earlier, Atlantean origin. His view finds some support in the enigmatic 'Phaistos disc'- a round terracotta tablet, six inches in diameter and about an inch thick, discovered in 1908 in a Cretan palace in a stratum belonging to the sixteenth century B.C. "
"...The disc is inscribed on both sides with ideograms, quite different from Cretan writing in a left hand spiral.
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of one side is a lotus flower, and of the signs which follow it 15 are identical to those found in Brazilian inscriptions, while 19 resemble them closely. Also depicted on the disc are heads adorned with feathers, constellations - the Plaides, Serpens and Pisces - a kind of fire bird and the quaz, the Egyptian symbol of physical strength. The disc remains undeciphered "
 
Around and about this time both the scribe and Zed Ali Zed  remembered their visit to the there and back of the  blessed  "...half-mythical  land of  ultima Thule..."
 
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" Ptolemy's map of the world (second century A.D. ) shows Thule as an island to the north-east of britain, but by the late middle ages it had disappeared from the ken of geographers. Ultima Thule - our last hope, perhaps, of gazing beyond the point where ferocious savages block the extension of our knowledge and prevent us from journeying back through time' following a trail more fascinating and less obscure than we have been able to indicate in these pages.
But the past is not wholly lost. As Ivar Lissner puts it:  'History is imperishable. Unseen and unrecognized, the past lives on in its quiet, imperceptible way. Whether lying dormant in the unfathomable sea of the millennia or buried beneath the ground and swathed in a vast winding sheet of earth and stone, "past civilizations" are still with us even though their tangible remains lie hidden and still un-discovered. All civilizations that have ever been live on in us, and our lives are rooted deep in the remote, mysterious and ancient civilizations of the past. It is our task again and again to rediscover these civilizations, which have a strange way of falling silent as if they no longer lived in us and

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we in them. But once a civilization has existed on earth, its effects are permanent. A memory, a new discovery, a visit to an exibition - any one of these may suddenly alert us to their mute presence. And when this happens we feel a strange desire to weep for something that is near us, yet cannot be recalled
 
The ZedAlizZed thanked the venerable brother Kolosimo for his most invaluable past, present, and future gifts, then after entering into a three way goodbye, along with the poor sad blind ass of serendip, they continued on their not too weary way.  
  
 
Alizzed cast around, and although not seeking, nevertheless  finding, other  hidden pieces of the jigsaw that never was, These, the, well, would you believe it scribe, used to make corkwool soup for the evening repast.
 
They said their goodbyes to Brother Kolosimo thanking him with just the right amount of humble pi for all that he had so freely given and promised to return at just the right time.