“ARABIAN NIGHTS” (1914) by Edmund Dulac

Virgil Finlay (1914 – 1971)

Virgil Finlay is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest illustrators of science fiction and fantasy. Born on July 23, 1914 in Rochester, New York, Finlay took to art early in life, selling his first illustration at the age of 21 to Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright for the magazine’s December 1935 issue. Over the next 35 years he completed more than 2,500 drawings and paintings, an achievement made even more impressive by the time required to execute his painstaking and labor-intensive pieces. To give his black and white drawings a photorealistic look, Finlay developed a unique style that combined stippling with scratchboard techniques (scratchboard being a type of art board manufactured with a white clay coating that accepts ink and can be cut away, allowing artists to “scratch” white lines into black areas). The result was an image so detailed that pulp editors were initially hesitant to accept his work, fearing that the tiny dots would not reproduce on their coarse paper stock. Fortunately they did, and the mesmerizing visions that Finlay brought to the page proved to be tremendously popular with readers across the decades, from the heyday of the pulps in the late 1930s to the opening of the Space Age. Working to the end, Finlay died of cancer in January of 1971, just before Donald M. Grant published Virgil Finlay, the first of many books celebrating his unique talent.

Liber Serpentium et Draconum by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1640).

Samastha Lokaha Sukhino Bhavantu

Great is the recital, the history of the time when all the corners of the sky and earth were completed, and the quadrangulation, its measure, the four points, the measuring of the corners, the measuring of the lines, in heaven, in earth, at the four corners’ 

From the Mayan text of The Popul Vuh

I have grasped the stake… I take the measuring cord in the company of Seshat. I consider the progressive movements of the stars. My eye is fixed upon the Bull’s Thigh [Ursa Major]. I count off time ….. and establish the corners of the Temple’.

Inscription from the Temple of Horus at Edfu

Siddhartha also saw an ascetic, a monk who had renounced all the pleasures of the flesh.  The peaceful look on the monks face would stay with Siddhartha for a long time to come.  Later, he would say this about that time:

When ignorant people see someone who is old, they are disgusted and horrified, even though they too will be old some day.  I thought to myself:  I don’t want to be like the ignorant people.  After that, I couldn’t feel the usual intoxication with youth anymore.

When ignorant people see someone who is sick, they are disgusted and horrified, even though they too will be sick some day.  I thought to myself:  I don’t want to be like the ignorant people.  After that, I couldn’t feel the usual intoxication with health anymore.

When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even though they too will be dead some day.  I thought to myself:  I don’t want to be like the ignorant people.  After than, I couldn’t feel the usual intoxication with life anymore.

The ancient city of Baalbek is one of the greatest archaeological mysteries of all time. Located east of the Litani River in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, Baalbek is world famous for its exquisitely detailed yet monumentally scaled Roman temple ruins. In Roman times, Baalbek was known as Heliopolis (after the sun god) and it contained some of the largest and most notable Roman temples ever built. In fact, the Romans had constructed an extraordinary temple complex in Baalbek consisting of three separate temples - one for Jupiter, one for Bacchus and one for Venus. But what these Roman temples were built on top of is much more important. These Roman temples were actually built on top of an ancient 5 million square foot platform that was made from some of the largest stones ever used in any construction project in the history of the earth.  In fact, the largest stone found near the Baalbek ruins weighs approximately 1200 tons and is about 64 feet long.  To put that in perspective, that is the equivalent of approximately 156 full size African elephants. 

How people in ancient times were able to move such massive stones is a complete mystery.  In fact, these giant construction stones were stacked so closely together that you can’t even fit a piece of paper between many of them.  Many of the architectural feats found at Baalbek cannot even be duplicated with 21st century technology. 

So how did they do it?

How did they move such massive stones to create a structure of such intricate precision?

Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה‎, lit. “receiving”) is a discipline and school of thought discussing the mystical aspect of Judaism. It is a set of esoteric teachings that is meant to explain the relationship between an infinite, eternal and essentially unknowable Creator with the finite and mortal universe of His creation. In solving this paradox, Kabbalah seeks to define the nature of the universe and the human being, the nature and purpose of existence, and various other ontological questions.

It also presents methods to aid understanding of these concepts and to thereby attain spiritual realization. Kabbalah originally developed entirely within the milieu of Jewish thought and constantly uses classical Jewish sources to explain, demonstrate, or prove its esoteric teachings. These teachings are thus held by kabbalists to define the inner meaning of both the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and traditional Rabbinic literature, as well as to explain the significance of Jewish religious observances.

KUNDALINI ANCIENT MANTRA:

ADI SHAKTI, ADI SHAKTI, ADI SHAKTI, NAMO NAMO,
SARAB SHAKTI, SARAB SHAKTI, SARAB SHAKTI, NAMO NAMO,
PRITHUM BHAGAWATI, PRITHUM BHAGAWATI, PRITHUM BHAGAWATI,
NAMO NAMO,
KUNDALINI, MATA SHAKTI, MATA SHAKTI, NAMO, NAMO.

The First Shakti Mantra tunes into the frequency of the Divine Mother, and to primal protective, generating energy. Chanting it eliminates fears and fulfils desires. Adi Shakti means the “Primal Power,” Sarab Shakti means “All Power”, and Prithum Bhagawati means “which creates through God.”

1. First governments of the world
2. Cities of Men, Cities of God (lst to 12th century)
3. First mercantile governments of the world (1300-1600)
4. First Alt antic government of the world (1600-1815)
5. First governments of the whole world (1815-1914)
6. Grandeur and decadence of the the American government of the world (1914-2011)
7. the conscience of the human species
8. the values of the world
9. the world government: the third G2 (namely the USA and China)
10. the world rule of law
11. world multilateral bodies
12. international treaties without corresponding bodies
13. informal intergovernmental bodies
14. private formal bodies (including the Vatican)
15. world informal bodies (NGOs)
16. belief in a secret world government (by conspiracy theorists)
17. world government of the market
18. serial financial disorder
19. unchecked population growth
20. serial regional wars
21. shortage of basic commodities
22. destruction of nature
23. potential destruction of life by an asteroid
24. nature of life in 2030
25. “double green”: namely a convergence of fundamentalist religion and ecology
26. Develop the federal integrative process
27. Recognize the raison d’être of humanity
28. Develop great vigilance to potential threats
29. Ensure respect for existing international law
30. Progress project by project: “mini-lateralism”
31. Merger of the UN Security Council and the G20
32. Institute a Chamber of Sustainable Development
33. Institute an Alliance for Democracy
34. Ensure availability of resources for governance of the world
35. Institute a global forum as an Estates General of the World

Oṃ Maṇi Padme Hūṃ (ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ,)

"Without recognizing the ordinances of Heaven, it
is impossible to be a superior man.
  "Without an acquaintance with the rules of Propriety, it is
impossible for the character to be established.
  "Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men."

CONFUCIUS 551-479 b.C.