Grid of the Gods (46 page)

In other words, unlike most of the constants of physics, mathematics, and geometry, the Fine Structure Constant’s relationship to geometrical functions was obscure. It explained a lot, but its own
basis remained obscure, unless one remembers the musical context in which it occurs in Plato.

The presence of this decimal basis of the coefficient of a constant of physics only discovered in the early twentieth century in writings that antedate it by over two thousand years suggests that its presence in those writings might be a legacy from High Antiquity, and a very sophisticated civilization.

One lone coefficient squatting otherwise anachronistically in an ancient text does not, however, constitute a case. If one were to encounter similar coefficients of quantum mechanics in decidedly ancient contexts, the case would become more solid, and the indicators that at least some of the structures of the world grid constituted parts or “gears” in a vast global hyper-dimensional machine, would become stronger.

Not surprisingly, one can find precisely such things at the center of the machine, at Giza, and in even older structures buried and only recently rediscovered in the deserts of Egypt.

Notes

1
Ernest G. McClain,
The Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from the Rg Veda to Plato
(York Beach, Maine: Nicholas Hays, Inc., 1984), p. 14.

2
See for example David Frawley,
Gods, Sages and Kings: Vedic Secrets of Ancient Civilization
(Salt Lake City: Passage Press, 1991), and L. Austin Waddell,
Makers of Civilization in Race and History
(Kessinger Publishing. No date). Waddell is a good overview of the links between Sumer and the Vedic civilization but should be approached with some caution.

3
See my
The Giza Death Star Destroyed
(Adventures Unlimited Press, 2005), pp. 49–52;
The Cosmic War
(Adventures Unlimited Press, 2007), pp. 75–81.

4
Ernest G. McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 2.

5
Ernest G. McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. xi

6
Ibid., p. 1.

7
Ibid., p. 3.

8
Ibid., p. 4, boldface emphasis original, italicized emphasis added.

9
Farrell,
The Giza Death Star Destroyed
, pp. 33–37.

10
For a discussion of this formula, see my
The Cosmic War
, pp. 74–75, 83, 233

11
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 4, emphasis original.

12
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 11.

13
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 7.

14
Farrell,
The Cosmic War
, pp. 170–181.

15
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 14.

16
Rig Veda
, 1.164.11and 48, cited in McClain, op. cit., p. 9.

17
McClain, op. cit, p. 15.

18
Rig Veda
, 10.129.6, cited in McClain, op. cit., p. 9.

19
McClain
, The Myth of Invariance
, pp. 10–11, references are to the
Rig Veda.

20
It should be noted that organ stops use the
imperial
and not the
metric
system of measurement!

21
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, pp. 19–20.

22
Ibid., p. 21.

23
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 21.

24
Ibid., p. 24.

25
Ibid., p. 25.

26
Ibid.

27
Ibid., pp. 25, 13.

28
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 24.

29
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 22.

30
Ibid., p. 49.

31
Ibid., p. 53,

32
Ibid., p. 129.

33
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 130, citing Otto Neugebauer,
The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
, (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1969), p. 48, and Samuel Noah Kramer,
The Sumerians
, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1963), p. 291, and Neugebauer, op. cit., p. 36, respectively.

34
Ibid., p. 130.

35
Ibid., p. 131.

36
Farrell,
Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men
(Feral House, 2011), ch. 2, pp. 55–89.

37
McClain
, The Myth of Invariance
, p. 131. It should be pointed out that we are, of course, massively compressing a great deal of numerical argumentation, and that, strictly speaking, the use of our modern chromatic scale is made for the ease of illustration, and that it is not, strictly speaking, an accurate representation of the subtlety of McClain’s analysis of the ancient musical system, especially in the case of Mesopotamia. It nonetheless follows from McClain’s argument that Mesopotamia was at least familiar
in theory
with our modern system of equal tempering of musical instruments.

38
Ibid., p. 132.

39
Ibid., p. 133.

40
McClain
, The Myth of Invariance
, p. 138.

41
Ibid., p. 143.

42
Ibid.

43
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 51.

44
McClain, The Myth of Invariance, p. 141.

45
McClain, The Myth of Invariance, p. 144.

46
McClain
, The Myth of Invariance
, p. 143.

47
Ibid., p. 142.

48
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 145.

49
Ernest G. McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 163

50
Ibid., p. 150, emphasis in the original.

51
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 147.

52
Ibid.

53
The modern name for such notations is Schläfli numbers, and their appearance in notation is identical, with each number representing a particular type of geometric function. This will be explored further in chapter 13.

54
McClain also observes that the Egyptian god of wisdom, Thoth, is also a sigil for various musical-numerical scales and harmonics; q.v. McClain,
The Myth of Invariance,
pp. 184–185.

55
Ibid., p. 158.

56
Ibid., p. 161.

57
McClain,
The Myth of Invariance
, p. 171.

58
Ibid.

59
For further speculations involving the fine structure constant, see
The Giza Death Star Deployed
, pp. 259–262.

60
“This number,” i.e., 137.

61
Richard Feynmann, cited Peter Varlacki, Laszlo Nadai, Jozsef Bokor, “Number Archetypes and ‘Background’ Control Theory Concerning the Fine Structure Constant,”
Acta Polytechnica Hungarica
, Vol. 5, No 2, 2008, 71–104, pp. 74–75.

P
ART
F
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:
T
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P
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“P
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P
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”: T
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E
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“How does a complex civilization spring full-blown into being? Look at a 1905 automobile and compare it to a modern one. There is no mistaking the process of ‘development’. But in Egypt there are no parallels. Everything is there right at the start. The answer to the mystery is of course obvious, but because it is repellent to the prevailing cast of modern thinking, it is seldom seriously considered.
Egyptian civilization was not a ‘ development ’ , it was a legacy . ”

“The implications of this alternative are obvious. If the coherent, complete and interrelated system of science, religion, art and philosophy of Egypt was not developed by the Egyptians but inherited (and perhaps reformulated and redesigned to suit their needs), that system came from a prior civilisation possessing a high order of knowledge. In other words, this alternative brings up the old question of ‘Atlantis’.”
John Anthony West,

The Serpent in the Sky,
pp. 13, 197, emphasis added.

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A
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C
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Q
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M
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S
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:

T
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M
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M
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N
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P
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“…the history of science, like all other forms of history, is written by the winners. Thus, very few know that in the 17th century, an intellectual battle between supporters of the Hermetic Tradition and those of the school that would eventually produce our rationalistic, materialistic philosophy very nearly fell to the Hermeticists. Had they prevailed, we would most certainly still have an advanced science today, but it would look and ‘feel’ very different.”
John Anthony West
¹

A
pproximately one hundred miles to the west of the great Nile River dam at Aswan, in the middle of nowhere in the Egyptian desert, one finds an “Egyptian Stonehenge” at a remote location called Nabta Playa. Discovered in 1973 by Fred Wendorf and his archaeological team, the site was soon excavated,
²
and with it, an almost inconceivable mystery was unearthed, for according to the astronomer Thomas G. Brophy, who undertook the most extensive examination of the structure’s encoded physics, “a people living over seven thousand years ago may have possessed technical knowledge in astronomy and physics more advanced than our current understandings of the same subjects.”
³

As of this juncture, though it is difficult to say whether or not this site lies on a significant “grid” point, the site nonetheless commands our attention precisely because of the knowledge it demonstrates concerning advanced physics and astronomical knowledge it displays. There are, according to Brophy, at least three levels of sophistication involved in this ancient megalithic structure, the last two of which comprise the most serious difficulties for the standard academic models of history:

1)  Maps and markers denoting objects, alignments, and events that can be observed in the sky with the unaided (naked) eye.

2)  Markers indicating celestial phenomena and events that cannot be observed (apparently) with the unaided eye.

3)  Detailed astronomical and cosmological information, such as distances to stars, speeds at which stars are moving away from us, the structure of our galaxy (The Milky Way), and information on the origin of the universe, which we have either only just discovered in modern times, or possibly information (for example, concerning planetary systems around stars) that we do not even have available to us at the moment.
⁴

Even worse for the standard academic models of history, all of this is positioned within a site whose astronomical alignments last occurred ca. 16,500 BC!
⁵

This is a significant point, for it corroborates ancient Egypt’s own legends and historical records — Manetho among them — that its civilization is of much greater antiquity than standard academic historiography will allow, and it also corroborates the ancient Egyptians’ view that theirs was a
legacy
civilization.

But this is not the only problem posed by the Nabta Playa megaliths, for they are intimately tied to that most famous site associated with Egypt: Giza, for
both
Nabta Playa, and Giza, have alignments pointing to the Galactic center, and in Giza’s case, this alignment to the Galactic center occurred in 10,909 BC.
⁶
In Nabta Playa’s case, argues Brophy, we are looking at a literal, and very sophisticated, “cosmology in stone.”
⁷

A. Celestial Alignments at Nabta Playa

One need only look at the celestial alignments Brophy detected at Nabta Playa to see how intricate and complex the megaliths there really are.

In its basic form, the Nabta Playa site is a circle of stone slabs — a “calendar” circle — similar to many other such sites in Europe and South America, and is of obvious antiquity. This “calendar circle”