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| Blombos Cave, South-Africa artifacts, around 100,000 BCE |
Early symbolic activity. (475,000 years ago).
Long before people first engraved and painted on stones and rock faces, they invested the rituals and objects of their existence with symbolic meaning. We can see indications of care and thought that goes beyond mere functionality in the deftly reworked flaked stone tools from Middle and Late Stone Age sites. Ochre tablets bearing cross-hatchings found at Blombos Cave in the southern Cape (South Africa) and dated to around 75,000 years ago are thought to be some of the earliest examples of abstract representation.
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| Enki's or Adam's Calendar, around 73,000 BCE |
Archaeologists excavating the Blombos Cave in South Africa, have stumbled upon a hoard of art materials which include everything an ancient artist might have required to be creative. Including Paint pots used by humans more than 100,000 years ago.
Red and yellow pigments, shell containers and grinding cobbles and bone spatulas - to mix up a paste - were all present in the discovery that, researchers say, is proof that our early ancestors' were more modern than once thought. The oldest man-made structure on earth is in South Africa, it is known as Adams Calendar, and more recently as Enki's or Adam's Calendar.
Adams Calendar is south-west of Kruger Park. The site is estimated to be around 75,000 years old, as dated by rock art in the area. This Red Ochre Stone is engraved with what must be “tally” marks. It is one of two such stones recently found in the Blombos Cave in South Africa is 77,000 years old, making them the oldest form of recorded counting ever found. These Aboriginal Africans would later become the ancestors of the so-called Grimaldis of Europe.
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| Red-Ochre Stone around 75,000 BCE |
Lion Cavern, Ngwenya, Mountain, Swaziland.
The Lion Cavern at Ngwenya Mountain, just north of the Swaziland Capital Mbabane, is thought to be the oldest evidence of human mining in the world. Carbon-dating has shown mining activity for red ochre (haematite) within this cavity dating back to a period between 41000 and 43000BC. The site is preserved as an open-air museum of visitors and is a popular tourist attraction. In the case of this mine, it is even known where the ancient miners "mined" their tools.
Dart and Beaumont (1967, p. 408) wrote: "Quartz, white quartzite’s, grey and white dappled quartzite, black indurates shale and greenish cherts were the principal materials used by the miners. These rock types occur mostly on a ridge overlooked by, and about 0.25 miles from, the cavern. Below, inside Ngwenya Mine and beneath, outside Ngwenya Mine.
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| Inside Ngwenya ancient Mine Swaziland, around 43,000 BCE |
The exposures there are patently flaked. Dappled grey and white quartzite exposures occur about a mile and more northwest of the site." The interesting thing about this mine is what was being mined. The ancient peoples were not mining flint, which would be considered useful for obtaining food.
Lion cave is a pigment mine. They were mining red ochre, a pigment used by primitive peoples as body paint for their rituals. The amount of material moved is quite impressive. In the literature, I have heard estimates of 50-100 tons. But if the entire cavern carved out by the miners was hematite, I calculate that nearly 2700 tons of material were removed from this site.
This is an incredible amount of material for Paleolithic man to have removed from the site. Obviously, red ochre was an important item. What was it used for? In addition to body painting, they also use it to wax their garments in order to make them waterproofed. Field Researcher: Mr. Adrian Boshier, Museum of Man and Science, Johannesburg, South African.
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| Outside Ngwenya ancient Mine Swaziland |
THE EMERALD TABLET OF THOTH
We start to find that the things that once gave us pleasure and joy, become monotonous, and stale. The glimpse of Nirvana that we once derived from sensual pleasures, is no longer enough.
We want more, and we know we can have it. This is why some of what society would call the most successful people, who have all the fame and fortune in the world, are not satisfied.
The great he is that the more material wealth you have, the happier you will be. As we can say from countless examples, this is not the case. True happiness comes from within, and it comes from a clear conscious. When we are in harmony with nature, including our brothers and sisters, we will be at peace. This is why the alchemist seeks to understand nature because he sees how nature is always working in harmony.
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| Sample Quartzite Rock |
This is the crossroads that we all come to, where we must make a choice between good and evil. To seek truth for the betterment of humanity, or to fall victim to sins of the flesh. Eventually good always triumphs over evil, because our nature is essentially good, no matter how dark your shadow is, you are always a child of light.
Everyone can change themselves at any moment. Each new day is an opportunity to do anything you want, no matter how entangled your life is, it is just an illusion you have created with your mind. Even if you have no legs, you can transcend your physical body and experience a place where anything is possible. The truth is that we are not our physical bodies.
They are just a manifestation of our spiritual bodies, and a vehicle to experience the physical world. When we dream, our bodies are motionless, yet we still exist and have the opportunity to experience the infinite landscape of higher dimensions and receive messages from the deepest recesses of our subconscious.
These higher states of consciousness are the new frontier that we embark upon when we've experienced all that the physical world has to offer. This inherent desire to alter our state of consciousness is what drives us to seek the unknown. Some people do this by experimenting with drugs and alcohol, and this can lead to problems like addiction and death. But for all the years of humanities experimentation with altered states, we see undoubtedly evidence that there is far more out there than meets the eye.
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| Taoist Symbols |
For centuries, this knowledge of the spirit world, and how to reach it, has been hidden. If this knowledge was known to all, the entire structure of materialist society would fall apart. We would not need any technology whatsoever.
The earth naturally has everything to support and nurture human life. This is why it was worshipped as the great mother by all the indigenous tribes. These people lived in harmony with nature and received everything in abundance from her.
They had the practical knowledge to live in accordance with her, and the freedom to develop their higher faculties. This knowledge of the secrets of nature is what gave these early alchemists the ability to create a golden age on earth.
The Emerald tablet states that all things arose from the “mediation of one”. This mediation is a precise sacred geometry that can be found all throughout nature.
This is the great secret that proves the existence of higher intelligence that creates a unified field encompassing the entire universe.
It is known as the divine proportion, the golden section, or as most of us know it, Phi. It is an irrational number with infinite digits after the decimal point, beginning with 1.618. This number is found by dividing a line at the only point where the ratio of the whole line to the larger line, is equal to the ratio of the larger line to the smaller line. A is to B as B is to C. It creates unity in the division, and this is why it was held sacred since ancient times.
Spiraling out from the center of the universe, like a celestial rose, this divine geometry maps the fabric of the universe. Energy emanates from the source creating a counter-rotating field displaying the mathematics of phi throughout creation.
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| Taoist Yin and Yang Symbol |
It is the only way that perfection can be retained in expansion. We can see this in the seeds in the center of the sunflower. The cells in the seeds grow in spirals, following Phi for the most proficient use of space.
This creates no gaps between the seeds, resulting in more seeds for the continuation of life. If we look at this beautiful mandala created by nature, we can visualize the way to perfection.
Truly, all of nature is unfolding in this way. Everything that is a result of natural laws displays this harmonious pattern. It can easily be found in the patterns of seashells, flowers, plants, and animals, extending farther into DNA, the human body, galaxies, and solar systems. The ancient builders of sacred monuments like the pyramids and the Taj Mahal encoded it into their architecture. The famous painters of the renaissance like Leonardo Da Vinci used it as the template for their paintings.
The musical notes are created by this structure. The perfect fifth, being the most harmonious relationship in music is Phi, and the chord is a continuation of it. This pattern creates the rose of life, called by the Indian Yogis the Sahasrara yantra, the thousand-petaled lotus, and golden flower by the Taoists. It is this vortex of spiritual energy that the mystic sees as he opens his crown chakra and gazes out of the top of his energy field.
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| The Orisha Chakras |
Surrounding all life is a doughnut-shaped energy field known as the tube torus. It is created by counter-rotating fields spiraling in from the top and out from the bottom returning again to the top in a never-ending circulation.
This is what Hermes means when he says “It ascends from the earth to the heaven, and again it descends to the earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior.
This spiraling vortex is the only way that nature can retain proportion in growth, and is known as the phi spiral. Our bodies have this toroidal energy field around them, known as the Aura. The entire universe is a giant toroidal field, and every living thing inside of it has their own toroidal field, down to the smallest atom.
What does this mean? This means that there is a divine plan. Everything is expanding and contracting in perfect harmony from the central sun. The galaxies and planets are rotating in perfect harmony, and reflecting them below, is every living thing, down to the smallest life form.
This means in the sense that we have no free will and no control. All of humanities actions are performed as reactions to our environment, which is a result of sacred geometry. It may seem like we have a choice, but our decisions are based on the influence of nature. We begin as one and are always returning to one. Lao Tzu speaks of this way known as Tao when he says,
"Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight. Not knowing constancy leads to disaster. Knowing constancy, the mind is open.
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| Yin and Yang |
With an open mind, you will be openhearted. Being openhearted, you will act royally. Being royal, you will attain the divine. Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao. Being at one with the Tao is eternal.
And though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away" This great universal pattern, underlying everything is the knowledge that frees us. We realize that everything is happening for a reason. When we start to notice this we can see messages from the universe everywhere.
This is known as synchronicity. Whenever we are on the right path, we will be shown signs of reassurance, whether these be in recurring numbers when we look at the time, or symbols and words that keep appearing in books. We are always in a process of ongoing learning, to remember what we already know. There is no reason to have doubt or fear when we recognize that every experience is a learning experience. There would be no light without darkness.
Negativity is used as a catalyst for our growth. This is symbolized by the Yin-Yang. Darkness flows into the light, surrounded by a uniting circle. The realm of duality is temporary, the realm of divinity is eternal. This is the goal of the alchemist, to reconcile the polarities, reuniting them into one, and return to the source. End of Part 5 of 10. The next blog 17/06/19. We will examine Tablet III in its entirety.
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