Contents: preface

Chapter Five

The Afterlife.

People who have a near-death experience and return to tell the tale, usually describe seeing 'a light at the end of a tunnel' (vortice) which they travel through. They arrive in a landscaped garden of unsurpassed beauty. Madame Blavatsky says, “Tis like a sunny glade in the dark forest depths, a spot on earth mirrored from Amitabha's paradise. There, nightingales of hope and birds of radiant plumage sing perched in green bowers, chanting success to fearless Pilgrims.”

Montezuma's sister, Princess Papan was roused from the dead to tell her brother of his forthcoming doom and the end of the Aztec Empire. Papan said that after death she found herself in a great valley with mountains all around, and followed a path which led to a raging river. There she saw a youth in a long robe, fastened by a shining diamond. He had long fair hair, golden wings and a mark, like a cross on his forehead.

This Unas is not dead: this Unas has not been judged. He judges! The text reads; 'thou art gone alive to sit on the throne of Osiris. Re-Atum does not give thee to Osiris'. The text is adamant that Unas is not dead... but alive in the underworld. Unas takes his seat on the horizon: 'The doors of the horizon open themselves, it's bolts slide… He comest to thee, O his father… Mayest thou grant that this Unas seize the Cool Region… standest over the places of the primeval ocean… thou risest with the father Atum. Thou goest up and openest thy way through the bones of Shu, [the air] the embrace of thy mother Nut [the sky] enfolds thee.'

Nut the sky goddess was spangled with stars, she had two suns, one near her mouth and one at her womb. The Valley of Duat was in the body of Nut. In a union with her brother Geb, the earth god, she produced Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys. Together with Nut and Geb's parents, Shu and Tefnut, and their father, Ra, they made up the nine original deities of the Ennead; and the gods wrapped in their white garments were always waiting to welcome the King at the lakeside,''Our heart was not glad till thy coming,'' they say.

The father Atum, assigned Unas to the circumpolar stars which hold him aloft. The main shafts of the rejuvenation chambers or 'judgement rooms' in the pyramids (which spiral stellar energy) were aligned to Eltanin the eye in the constellation of the dragon, the pole star in 10,500 BC. Draco is associated with a time of spiritual darkness, coinciding with the fall of Atlantis.

The underworld is identified as the course of the sun through the twelve hours of the night. In the Book of Pylons souls hoped to journey in the merjet boat ('the barque of millions of years') of Ra, or Khephri, whose sacred emblem is the scarab beetle, placed over the heart of a mummy and inscribed with a phoenix and verse from the Book of the Dead to guide the deceased in the Afterlife... as they sailed on the river Duat. Spells from the Book of Pylons (gates) allowed the soul to go through the portals of Osiris and there, with his protection they could pass the guardian monsters on the path.

Belief in an Afterlife, which is an extension of previous lives and goes on and on ad infinitum... was the crux of Egyptian ideology and permeated the traditions of the living. Even animals were deemed sacred and honoured with embalming and mummification after death. The Apis-bull, inhabited by the soul of Osiris, was deified and entombed eternally in subterranean catacombs at Saqqara, where millions of preserved animals were found in niches along passages which extended for several kilometres below ground. Cats, birds and baboons (sacred to Osiris) were thought to convey messages to the gods and provide company in the Hereafter.

Arab folklore tells of a similar network of passageways beneath the Great Pyramid, infested with multitudes of bats as big as black eagles, where people were known to have been lost for days! An Arab chronicler called Al Masoudi, told the story of twenty men of Fayum who went to examine the Great Pyramid and found within it a well: 'One of them was accordingly lowered down the well by means of a rope, which broke at a depth of one hundred fathoms, and the man fell to the bottom; he was three hours falling. His companions heard his horrible cries.'

Al Masoudi professed to relate the Coptic tradition when he claimed that two of the pyramids were built by an Egyptian King, after having a vision of the flood. His chief priests, interpreting his dream, spoke of a great catastrophe overtaking the Earth, after which it would again become fruitful. The King ordered the pyramids to be erected and deposited within, all the written accounts of the knowledge and wisdom of the priests.

Subterraneous channels to convey the waters of the Nile were constructed and labyrinths containing wonderful things, precious gemstones, talismans, idols and all manner of records for the benefit of those who came after, who could comprehend them. The arts and sciences, arithmetic and geometry and also the names and properties of medicinal plants were included. The polished limestone casing-blocks of the pyramids, were inscribed with inscriptions so numerous, they would occupy over ten thousand pages.

to Amenti.” Thoth raised the mighty pyramid using power that overcomes gravity and there was a ‘force-house’ or chamber (‘relieving chambers’) from which a circular passage reached almost to the summit. A golden capstone, with a crystal at the apex drew power from the ether which opened the vortice…

No facet of Egyptian religion was more important than the underworld and it is unlikely that their entire ethos was pertaining to a purely imaginary concept. Eminent scientists and antiquarians, the most notable being the 17^th.Century astronomer, Sir Edmund Halley, the first person to link auroras to magnetic polar disturbances, postulated that the Earth's core is composed of concentric circles. In the Papyrus of Nu, the underworld is divided into seven circles or mansions, and Jesus said, 'In my Father's house are many mansions:' (St.John,14,2.) The Quran states that God created seven ‘skies’ in layers.

The Book of Enoch tells how the patriarch was carried by angels over mountains and seas to the seven heavens. There he saw divine beings observing the stars, while others tended gardens and orchards. This heaven was Eden, from which Adam and Eve were expelled. Enoch was the first mortal to enter paradise after the fall in mankind's vibration.
Enoch said, “And I went from thence to the ‘middle of the earth,’ and I saw a blessed place in which there were trees with branches abiding and blooming [of a dismembered tree]. And there I saw a holy mountain, and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards the south.” (Enoch spoke of four streams, and the four pillars which support the heavens.) And all the ravines were deep rand narrow, (being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon them. And I marvelled at the rocks, and I marvelled at the ravine, yea, I marvelled very much.”
The prophet Muhammad, during his ascension at the Rock of Foundation, passed through seven heavens, a recurring manifestation in mythology. "The seven heavens the earth, and all who dwell in them praise Him" (Al-Israa :44). He was taken to the seventh heaven by Gabriel, on a flying white steed called Al Burak. The mythical white winged-horse of the Muses was Pegasus, tamed by Bellerophon who slew the half-goat, half-snake, fire-breathing Chimera with a lions head, as a test of his strength. Hellenistic philosophy states that upon death the soul ascends various spheres of existence, (the higher spheres are merited) and the Florentine poet, Dante was of the opinion that there are nine realms in heaven and hell, divided by rivers.
The Navajo creation myth, which is chanted at a nine day ceremony called the Blessing Way, also defines several layers within the Earth. The first is the under world from which life emerged. They evolved through four more worlds until the Navajo surfaced from the labyrinth in this world, the fifth, as humans. A sixth and perfect world was thought to be above this one. This belief was shared by the Hopi, Zuni, Toltecs and Aztecs, whose precursor was the lost Anasazi tribe, (meaning ancient ones) and their paradise possessed a palm grove, watered by four converging rivers.

The Mother Earth symbol of the Hopi Indians is a series of squares inside one another, and is identical to the Minoan (Atlantean) labyrinth design found on coins at Knossos in Crete, when it was excavated in 1900, by Sir Arthur Evans. The throne room of King Minos, a judge of the dead, was decorated with reclining griffins and he fed seven Athenian maidens and youths every year to the Minotaur, which was the half-human, half-bull, offspring of his wife, Pasiphae and was trapped in the inescapable maze designed by Daedalus. Theseus killed the brute by throttling it with his bare hands!

Other budding geophysicists of the 19^th.Century, like the Scottish mathematician John Leslie, drew the Earth as a skin with two internal suns, Pluto and Proserpina, while an American, Cyrus Reed Teed, claimed it is we who are inside the Hollow Earth, a concave World whose sun is half light and half dark, of which we can only see a reflection. Teed was born in 1839 and studied alchemy, he received these revelations from a beautiful 'ultraterrestrial' who materialized in his laboratory. She gave him instructions on Cellular Cosmogony, and told him that the rotation of the real sun creates the effect of night and day, inside the Hollow Earth.

While spinning and cooling, planets should have thrown their dense particles to the periphery due to centrifugal force. The Cosmic Egg, whose crust Jen Jansen estimated to be about three hundred miles thick, (with the centre of gravity in the middle) in creation myths had a bottomless deep on the outside, Nun, where the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters and a land of mist in the inside. 'And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so' (Genesis,1,7.) He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it'. (Job)
An opposing centripetal force may have concentrated matter at the core, creating the star of the Lower Sky, ‘never-setting, never-dying’ suspended in the vacuum of the body of Nut by the gravitational pull of the circumpolar stars. But the ‘smoky god’ may simply be a mock sun, with night and day created by Re-Atum, as he traverses Duat on the evening barge. Cyrus R. Teed said, to know of the Earth's concavity... is to know God, those who oppose it, are Antichrist and deny Him and all his works.
It has also been said that our moon is hollow and when space junk is ejected onto the surface, it 'rings' like a bell and the sound wave reverberates for hours. An attempt to detonate a nuclear device on the lunar surface by Apollo 13, was allegedly thwarted by extraterrestrials who disabled the module and sent it limping home!
All planets must be formed in the same way, in which case, the late George Adamski's claim to have met Venusians and travelled on their 'beam-ships' may not be so absurd after all. If planets are habitable in the interior (if not the exterior) then our entire Solar System could be populated with beings more ancient and advanced than us... our intergalactic relatives.

Sumerians and Babylonians from Mesopotamia, who received their knowledge from the Anunnaki (seven gods of the underworld) believed the Earth to be a sphere filled with celestial air, embedded in a crystal fortress which swims in the celestial water. Below, the city of the dead was surrounded by seven walls, with seven gates and contained the dwellings of the inhabitants of the nether region, Aralu, the 'Land of no Return,' ruled by Ereshkigal and Nergal (whose symbol was a griffin.)

Gilgamesh went on an epic voyage into the bowels of the Earth to find him and ask about the mysteries of death and life. When he reached the mountain at the Earth's end and passed over the waters of death, he met the far one, Utnapishtim, who gave him the gift of a briary plant, which Gilgamesh left unattended and a serpent smelling it's sweetness, carried it off. It was the plant of rejuvenation and metamorphosis which Gilgamesh had hoped would resurrect his friend Enkidu.

In the Bardo Thodol it is written that upon meeting Yama, the King of the Dead, your soul judges itself by looking in the Mirror of Karma. The reflection is your own memory of thoughts, dreams, words and deeds and their consequences (this is the weighing of the heart.) By this you shall choose your next incarnation. 'Some to the womb return,-embodied souls, to receive another body; others pass into a lifeless stone. In accordance with their works. In accordance with (the tradition) they had heard.'