Alien Space Gods Of Ancient Greece and Rome (25 page)

Diodorus Siculus commenting on the fall of
Sparta
in 372 BC wrote:

'A divine portent foretold the loss of their Empire for there was seen in the heavens during the course of many nights a great blazing torch which was named from its shape a "flaming beam", and a little later to the surprise of all the Spartans were defeated in a great battle and irretrievably lost their supremacy.’

Callisthenesm recorded that a similar appearance of a trail of fire was observed before the sea swallowed up Buris and Helice, cities in Achaia in. 373 BC. Diodorus Siculus also referred to a celestial torch appearing when earthquakes and floods destroyed cities in the
Peloponnese
. Aristotle, then only eleven years old, swore it was a comet.

In far Antiquity the Ancients honoured the stars as homes of the Gods, those Divine Kings who brought civilization down to Earth. The psycho-science of the Celestial Teachers taught that the stars radiated potent vibrations influencing the minds of men, a discovery made by our radio astronomers who monitor radiations which may subtly affect the human brain. Astrology may be glimmerings from some wondrous wisdom which viewed the Universe as the Supreme Thought of the Creator, where each heavenly body had occult influence on all intelligent life. The Greeks like their Indo-European ancestors had superstitious reverence for the stars, scorned by the astronomers devising their intricate epicycles. The constellations moved across the heavenly vault in serene beauty; this perfection convinced Plato of the existence of the Gods, such stately perpetual motion signified divine direction.

The Stoic Philosophy propounded by Zeno about 310 BC preached that everything came from God, at the end of a Great Year all returned to God conforming to the Divine Plan. The Stoics believed that God wrote across the heavens the destinies of men in the celestial language of the stars, resurrecting a doctrine thousands of years old. Astrology encouraging determinism, submission to fate, was sternly challenged by Christianity yet superstition is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the Greeks, echoes of the ancient cosmic religion, race-memories of the Spacemen.

With fantastic erudition, Madame H. P. Blavatsky traces the symbolism of the Zodiac or Celestial Belt from
India
to
Babylon
,
Egypt
,
Israel
and
Greece
. Originally, there were only ten Signs known to the public plus two mystical Signs comprehended by Initiates, one of these became Scorpio.  Later the Sign of Libra was added by the Greeks. Libra, the Balance, has great occult significance typifying the balance of opposite forces to sustain a universe of harmony. Esoteric lore claims that Libra was invented by the Greeks before the Book of Genesis was written, suggesting a wisdom in ancient
Greece
of immense antiquity.

The significance of astrology to the Ancient Greeks is illumined in an intriguing thesis by the French mycologist, Jean Richter; in
'Geographie sacree du mond grece
,’ published by Hachette, Paris, M. Richter after erudite research into ancient Greek religious symbolism has apparently elucidated that on the circumference of a circle, radius a thousand stadii (about 110 miles) centred on the sacred shrine of Delphi, centre of the Hellenic world, navel of the whole Earth, are found twelve famous places, each associated with the corresponding Sign of the Zodiac. Cephalonia-Arics, Olympus-Taurus, Sparta-Gemini, Cy-thera-Cancer, Hermione-Leo, Athens-Virgo, Thebes-Libra, Chalcis-Scorpio, Pelion-Sagittarius, Edessa-Capricorn, Klea-Aquarius, Kassope-Pisces.
Temples
and coins in each of these districts honour the appropriate zodiacal symbol, an unlikely sequence of coincidence calling for explanation.

Our incomprehension becomes completely confounded when M. Richter reveals a similar sacred circle centred on Sardis in Asia Minor, where its circumference intersects the coastline are found the towns of Patra, Xanthus, Side and other notable sites of Antiquity. Such astonishing correspondence between famous, cities and Signs of the Zodiac suggests that these cities were not founded to suit local geography and population needs but to conform with the zodiacal Plan of the Divine Powers, a bizarre explanation more outrageous than the apparent facts. Prehistoric earthworks between
Glastonbury
and Somerton are interpreted by Mrs K. E. Maltwoodus to signify the Somerset Zodiac symbolising most ancient esoteric wisdom associated with Teachers from Space.

In remote times there were apparently surprisingly close links between
Greece
and
Britain
. M. Richter's impressive evidence implies the existence in far Antiquity of accurate maps detailing the
Eastern Mediterranean
necessary for fixing precise sites on the sacred circle, an assumption ridiculed by scholars who believe the Greeks of prehistory to have been a primitive people. Most precise maps actually did exist in ages past The Piri Reis map depicts an ice-free
Antarctica
; Ancient Egyptian records from 5000 BC show
Norway
,
Switzerland
, the
Congo
and
Indonesia
; about 240 BC Eratosthenes, Chief Librarian at the
Museum
of
Alexandria
measured the circumference of the Earth at 24,670 miles, which is only about 200 miles short, proving he probably had access to ancient knowledge. The Zodiacal circles centered at Delphi and Sardis, irrational though they seem to our conditioned thought-pattern, possibly copy similar circles elsewhere, the knowledge needed to determine them suggests an advanced civilisation in ancient times and the mapping of our Earth by Spacemen.

Study of the stars in the remote past by priests all over the world may have been prompted by memories of Celestial Visitants and worship of the Sky Gods, such prolonged observations did record data for practical astronomy as well as for the more popular, fanciful astrology. The Great Pyramid built in far Antiquity incorporates surprising astronomical knowledge; about 4000 BC the Babylonians are said to have discovered the difference between the solar and lunar years, in 4241 BC the Egyptians instituted their Sothic Cycle of 1460 years based on the risings of Sirius or Sothis, the 'Dog Star'; in 4236 BC they produced the first practical calendar and by 4000 BC they had named and noted the positions of all the bright stars in the sky.

About 3000 BC the Assyrians recorded eclipses of the sun and moon, by 2650 BC the Chinese had mapped the sky and distinguished the twelve Signs of the Zodiac, noted by Hindu astronomers centuries before. Chaldean astronomers by 2000 BC had charted the constellations and discovered the Saros period of eclipses. In 1800 BC the Britons erected
Stonehenge
as an astronomical observatory of extraordinary complexity; by 1400 BC Hindu astronomers were recording the motions of the moon with extreme accuracy and in 1250 BC the Chinese correctly measured the duration of the year. By 747 BC the Babylonians recorded the ephemeredes of the sun, moon and planets and fixed the calendar. There is reason to believe that some of the Ancients used telescopes, about 2000 BC the Assyrians depicted Saturn with a ring invisible to the naked eye but easily seen with optical lenses found in
Babylon
.

Many of the religious and philosophical beliefs of Ancient Greece originated in
India
, it seems likely that the Greeks were acquainted with much of the astronomical knowledge of the East. By 600 BC visitations by Spacemen were reduced to rare surveillance, the Gods appeared content to watch men on Earth evolve by their own efforts without interference; soon eclipsed by new, exciting philosophies the Celestials receded to vague myths. Thales of Miletus (656-546) broke with ancient traditions and, rejecting the old mythological explanations, he introduced into
Greece
the new astronomy and mathematics he had acquired in
Egypt
and
Babylon
, which enabled him to predict the eclipse of the sun in 585 BC. Some of the Greek ideas were astonishingly modern. Anaximander (610-547) propounded an endless cycle of universes, worlds created from immense rotations of matter, as suggested centuries later by
Laplace
, he studied fossils in the rocks and anticipated
Darwin
teaching that all creatures including Man had evolved from primitive life in the sea. Pythagoras (570-500) stated that the Earth was round, confirmed by Aristarchus (310-230) who anticipated Copernicus and declared that the Earth revolving on its own axis moved around the Sun.

Meton about 430 BC established the Metonic Cycle, the relative positions of the Sun and Moon repeated themselves every nineteen years. About 320 BC Aratus of Soli composed his wonderful poem 'Phacnomena' giving the astronomical description of the heavens according to Eudoxus based on Egyptian theories of the celestial sphere, he accomplished this undertaking with such skill and ingenuity in animated verse that critics extolled the epic as equal to Homer or Sophocles; it was popular for centuries and later translated into Latin by Cicero. The detailed knowledge of the constellations revealed by Aratus astonishes us by proving that the Greeks knew much more astronomy than we generally imagine. Hipparchus (190-120), regarded as the greatest astronomer in Antiquity, rejected the heliocentric theory of Aristarchus; he believed our Earth to be the centre of the universe, compiled a catalogue of 850 stars, rediscovered the precession of the Equinoxes and explained the motion of the planets by assuming they moved in epicycles while at the same time circling the Earth.

Pliny in his erudite 'Natural History', Book II, XXIV, wrote:

'Hipparchus, before mentioned, who can never be sufficiently praised, no one having done more to prove that Man is related to the stars and that our souls are parts of heaven, detected a new star that came into existence in his life-time, the movement of this star in its line of radiance led him to wonder whether this was a fixed occurrence, whether the stars we think to be fixed are also in motion.'

The 'greatest astronomer in Antiquity' would surely not confuse this bright object with the planet, Venus. The favourite explanation of our own Air Ministry that such aerial lights were due to aeroplanes refuelling at night would have astonished the learned Hipparchus even more than it astonishes us.

About AD 1580 Tycho Brahe, the great Danish astronomer, related:

'One evening, as according to my usual habit, I was considering the celestial vault, to my indescribable amazement, I saw, close to the zenith in Cassiopea, a radiant star of extraordinary size. Struck with astonishment, I knew not whether I could believe my eyes.'

The Russian astrophysicist, Robert Vitolniek, disclosed:

'As we were watching the ionosphere and luminous clouds at the observation station in
Ogre
,
Latvia
, on
July 26, 1965
, we noticed at
9:35 pm
an extremely bright star which seemed to be slowly moving westwards. Through our 8-power binoculars, we could discern a small flat spot.  The telescope disclosed that it was a lens-like disc about 350 feet in diameter with a small spherical bulge clearly visible in its centre. Around the disc, at a distance of two diameters three balls were slowly describing a circumference. All the four bodies were lustreless pearly-green.'