No comments The great pyramids of the world are masterpieces of architecture, engineering and construction. In fact, these colossal monuments cannot be replicated, let alone duplicated, by our modern technology. It therefore seems incredible that members of ancient civilizations, using no mechanical or electrical equipment, were able to create these unique structures. Yet this is precisely what we are asked to believe by archaeologists and historians who, because they have found only crude implements, on the sites where these structures were built, refuse to accept even the possibility that other, more highly advanced tools might have been used.
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It seems to us that to refuse to accept anything but the evidence of our eyes in so paradoxical a situation is to close our minds and possibly preclude our ever finding a solution to a mystery that has plagued and intrigued humankind for centuries. We believe that there is a strong possibility that at one time a race inhabited the earth which had a technology so advanced that it is impossible for us to imagine it. We derive this belief from these several facts: 1. Pyramids have been built on different sites all around the world which are virtually identical in ‘terms of architecture, engineering, masonry and astronomical orientation. 2. None of these pyramids could have been built with the implements found at their sites. 3. On the Plain of Nazca in Peru, a country noted for its pyramids, are a series of markings which, according to Erich Von Daniken in Chariots of the Gods?, are “very reminiscent of the aircraft parking areas in a modern airport.” 4. A large number of drawings and sculptures have been unearthed at excavation sites in the same general areas as the pyramids, which depict people clothed and helmeted in a fashion very similar to modem flyers and astronauts. 5. Statues have been uncovered in South America depicting a variety of racial types, most of whom should have been unknown to the people who ostensibly created these figures. 6. Mummification was practiced by all of the pyramid-building peoples. 7. In ancient Peru, skulls have been uncovered which show positive evidence of extraordinarily skillful and successful brain surgery. Also found at the sites were over twenty impliments used by the ancient surgeons. According to a highly respectable Peruvian neurosurgeon, better than 85 percent of the operations performed were successful. By today’s standards this is a phenomenal percentage. 8. As far as can be ascertained, the religious practices of all the pyramidal civilizations show a remarkable number of similarities. All of these facts indicate to us that there were, in what is known as prehistoric time, people capable not only of constructing inimitable edifices and of making the most precise astronomical calculations, but also of executing highly complex surgical techniques, of traveling around an ostensibly unnavigable world, and of creating the impression, through the use of a highly developed technology, that they were gods. In both the Old and New Testaments, there are references to “gods” and implications that those who received the words of God as originally spoken, and later written down in the Bible, were also gods. I have said, ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. Psalms, 82;6. Jesus answered: “It is written in your own law that God said, ‘You are gods.’ We know that what the scripture says is true for ever; and God called them gods, those people to whom his message was given.” John, 10;35 (as quoted in Good News for Modern Man) Jesus, who called himself “the son of God,” has been imbued by his worshippers with godlike qualities. Similarly, other great spiritual leaders, such as Buddha and Mohammed, were considered to be gods by their followers. It is interesting to note that the disciples of each of these men built a religion centering around him to the point where the name of the man and the theology were merged, e.g. Christianity; Buddhism. Equally interesting is the fact that these men, or “gods,” lived rather similar lives and preached the same basic doctrines. It was only as the religions grew that the worshippers began to obscure the basic techniques and teachings with rites, rituals, philosophies and traditions of their own, so that today, religions founded on virtually the same ethics have such vastly different outward trappings that their similarities are extremely difficult to discern.
In Pagan and Christian Creeds, Edward Carpenter lists ten basic characteristics which all of the gods who walked the earth had in common:
1. They were born on or very near the 25th of December. 2. They were born of a virgin mother. 3. They led a life of toil for humankind. 4. They were born in a nave or underground chamber. 5. They were called by such names as “The Light- bringer,” “Healer,” “Meditator,” “Savior,” “Deliverer.” 6. They were vanquished by the so-called powers of darkness. 7. They descended into an underworld. 8. They rose again from the dead, and became the champions of humankind in the heavenly world. 9. Communions of saints were founded around them, and churches were begun into which disciples were received by baptism. 10. They were commemorated by eucharistic meals. One example of a deity who, like Christ, incorporated the above-described characteristics was the Egyptian god Osiris.
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