While O'Neill saw the pole as the supreme Arcanum or secret, Arx being the celestial pole and Arcadia the secret of the polar sanctum, he wrote "Arkas... was the father of the Arkades or Arcadians, who claimed to be the first men. Hermes... was the (his italics) Arcadian.. .and the caduceus of Mercury was therefore called the Arcadian rod."49 The last image is synonymous with the earliest perpetuum mobile designs — material representations of an eternal cosmology — with their hollow rods filled with mercury. The first men are synonymous with Adam and Eve.
Analogous to Keely, O'Neill developed a polar interpretation for all triplets, trinities and triple figures. All fours and their multitudes, including 12's — and we have seen how from several novels the numbers 12 and 3 arise — are the symbols of the directions of space around the pole, the zodiac. In O'Neill's cosmoconception, all sevens — including 21's — refer to the twice-seven stars of the Great and Little Bears.
Between the Great and the Little Bear is Draco, which may be imagined as the dragon serpent guarding the apples of the Hesperides which grow on the axial tree. The serpent evokes images of Levi's Great Serpent or Great Dragon that he envisioned to be the carrier of cosmic life-force. The seasonal positions of the Little Bear around Draco formed a swastika around 4,000 BCE. The swastika is held as the prime symbol of the Pole in its aspect as center of the celestial or terrestrial circle; in the West, the caduceus is the prime symbol of the World axis that joins the two.50 While it is suggested that the Brotherhood of the Swastika was a possible influence on Bulwer-Lytton, it has been asserted that from this order the Brotherhood of Luxor originated.51
The highest grade of the Chevaliers bienfaisants de la Cite Sainte that was founded around 1770 on Knights Templar tradition, and to which possibly Bulwer-Lytton belonged, was named after the patron of the Merovingian Empire. The symbol of the Merovingian empire is the bear and also the bee, which in time would become the symbol of the fleur-de-lis. In the fleur-de-lis, O'Neill saw a polar interpretation as it is habitually drawn at the north point of the compass.52
The planet Mars in astrology corresponds with the human head, and it is asserted that Keely's liberator corresponded in its parts to the human head. In astrology Mars is also synonymous with the reproductive organs, which play an important part in Isis symbology. Isis symbology, the painting "Et in Arcadia Ego" by Nicolas Poussin with its reference to Arcadia or Areas, the supreme secret, and the symbology of the bear — which is held as the symbol of the Merovingian Empire — are considered of special importance in the riddle of Rennes-le-Chateau.53 "Et in Arcadia Ego, you know," writes Sand in a letter to Gustave Flaubert,54 and "...more like Bedlam than Arcadia."55 a protagonist in Cromie's novel is given to utter. Cheiro visited Keely in 1890, but aside from having met with Bloomfield-Moore at her London home, he also numbered amongst his clientele Emma Calve, the famous French singer. "Cheiro told me of things terribly true in the lines of my hand, through his advise he saved me from big misfortunes,"56 she commented. Calve had a very intimate relationship with Parisian occultist Jules Bois, who at one time lectured in Paris on the hidden Isis symbolism found in the geometry of that city. But it is also asserted that she had a relationship with abbe Sauniere.
In the history of Rennes-le-Chateau in which Sauniere was one of the pivotal characters and that started during Keely's lifetime, we find numerous connections of the strangest nature. There are those with the ancient Merovingian Empire and the Royal house of the Habsburgs, with secret services and societies, with the Vatican and with other highly placed clerical circles; there are rumors of occult orders such as the Prieure du Sion, of alchemists and Rosicrucians and it is asserted that the Knights Templar knew what the nature of the secret was. There are coded documents of uncertain origin and references to the bloodline of Christ, and the whole landscape surrounding Rennes-le-Chateau seems to have been carefully arranged in an immense sacred geometrical riddle forming a complex pentagram. At the heart of the riddle lies what possibly is an energy phenomenon of unknown nature.
Adding to the mystery, above the entrance of the church of Rennes-le-Chateau the following description is placed: "terribilis est locus iste," meaning, "this place is terrible." In the introduction to Cromie's book, Verne wrote: "Certainly, it is a terrible venture, but they need not fear; their guide is skillful and bold."57 Verne is considered an important factor in the riddle of Rennes-le-Chateau.58
In a coded manuscript of uncertain origin that is said to have been found inside the church of Rennes-le-Chateau but which may also be a modern forgery, mention is made of "blue apples," which may be synonymous to the apples guarded by the dragon seated between the Great and the Little Bears.
Verne also writes in the foreword about the Steel Globe, the spaceship that Cromie fantasized and that was the first of its kind to be globular in shape,59 and "almost a perfect sphere, with only a certain flattening at the top and the bottom — like the polar depressions of the Earth."60 which echoes Wronski's Prognometer, Keely's Globe Motor, Schappeller's primal force machine constructed as a miniature earth and the strange ball-shaped devices of the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft which they called "World Globes" and their depiction of the world as an apple, "vertically sliced in halves" to demonstrate the magnetic currents and the magnetic axis. This in turn echoes the major theme in Astor's A Journey In Other Worlds.
There is an abundance of references in the writings of Albert Ross Parsons to the world-axis, the zodiac, the Pleiades, and the two lost planets called Quan and Habel from whose collision and disruption the asteroid belt was formed. We find Parsons' lost worlds-idea coupled with Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race, in Engel's strange novel Mallona.
According to Parsons, the center of the universe is a star in the Pleaides, and one of the galleries in the great pyramid is aligned to that star. Parsons then travels to "a remote and unknown period of prehistoric time," where he finds a humanoid race, superior to us, as in the writings of Blavatsky, ariosophist Lanz von Liebenfels and forgotten Grail seeker Rensburg. But in the fashion of Cheiro's later tale, a giant cataclysm has swept that ancient civilization away; the fall of Lucifer or Satan is to Parsons the symbol of the collision and destruction of two planets, forming the asteroid belt, inflicting the earth and tilting the axis.61 And after having pondered over an experiment of wireless transmission of sound, he writes: "there is a possibility of interplanetary communication."62 In all this, Parsons delivers a cryptic message: the zodiac is our only means of salvation.63
While it is asserted that Verne was a member of a secret society, an intellectual underground of avant-garde occultists, scientists and writers, called The Brouillards, or the Angelic Society, it is also claimed that he was closely associated with such occult orders as the O.T.O., The Theosophical Society and The Golden Dawn.64 The Golden Dawn founded the Ahatoor Temple in Paris in 189465 in the year that Astor's and Colville's books were printed.
Verne had also read Luis P. Senarens' stories. The two corresponded irregularly and Senares and Verne both used each other's ideas in their stories.66 Verne wrote about airships and his imagery is often held responsible for being highly influential in respect to the 19th century airship wave.
Verne's message appeared only in the second edition of Cromie's book that was published the same year as the book The Vril Staff was published. The main theme of this book is the strange magic wand-like device operating on vril-force that Bulwer-Lytton so aptly described in The Coming Race, the book that was one of the inspirations of the Reichsarbeitsgemienschaft. More codings: The Vril Staff was written by somebody who chose to make himself known only as XYZ,67 which is reminiscent of the legendary and secret NYZMA group that oversaw the equally legendary Sonora Aero Club.
It has been suggested that the ultimate secret of Rennes-le-Chateau may be a technical device with awesome abilities, fanatically guarded by secret societies and orders as the Knights Templar, the Rosicrucians and the Priory Of Sion. While we have seen how some of the most prominent 19th century occultists c
lustered around Keely, it is also alleged that Keely himself was a member of a secret society — if so, possibly the Brouillards — and that his devices are hidden in a church in France.68
Levi tells of a secret object that the Knights Templar possessed which is met here and there in the world of dreams, but after the manner of bare allusions only.69 There is an interesting fictional tale about the alliance of Knights Templar with a crashed extraterrestrial named Baphomet, who supplies them with fantastic technology.70
While it is said that the Knights Templar were deeply involved in the riddle of Rennes-le-Chateau, an early 19th century Templar order was involved in the protection of the secret of Wronski's Prognometer. It is also claimed that in 1984 a group of commandos, all members of a secret society, excavated a grave from the cemetery at Millau in France and retrieved a device called a Planetary Talisman or the Talisman of Set, whose immense power is said to be solar.71
This reminds us of Keely's planetary system engine, the whereabouts of which are not known, Philipp's alleged solar-power-motor and the primal machine of the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft, being a configuration of seven ball-shaped devices. Seven is also the number of the stars of the Pleaides, and AXIS can be recognized as a sigil of Set,72 Set being Satan or Lucifer, according to Parsons the symbol of the destruction of two worlds and the tilting of the earth's axis. The Talisman of Set or the Planetary Talisman was then brought to Bear Island off the coast of Norway. Mention is made of Psychic Capacitators in the Rennes area, and the members of a secret society move around by levitation, UFOs and the manipulation of time.73 While it is claimed that members of the secret society involved in retrieving the planetary talisman travel around in UFOs, it is well to remember that Sweden, the country to which Keely's secrets were sent, set up the world's first UFO bureau in 1910, following a UFO wave in 1909.74
The title of the book of alleged Golden Dawn initiate Bram Stoker that was published in 1903, The Jewel of the Seven Stars, is analogous to Hockley's Crowned Angel of the Seventh Sphere, a work that unfortunately was never printed, and to the seven stars that form the Pleaides or the Great or the Little Bear, another seven-star group that once formed a swastika. As in Griffiths' book Three Hundred Years Hence that involved Philadelphia, Stoker's novel, which is burdened with occult doctrine, involves suspended animation in which an Egyptian princess, adept in an ancient science, rests.75 We have already seen that the oldest depiction of the zodiac was in Egypt. Stoker visited Philadelphia in 189676 and Lamy asserts that Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars — according to Lamy its title refers to the seven stars in the Great Bear — is analogous to Verne's 1882 novel The Green Ray. Not only that: Bulwer-Lytton's vril is nothing else than the Green Ray, Lamy concludes.77
At Verne's funeral in 1905, the year that Steiner started his lectures about Keely, an incident occurred during the ceremony that has never been properly explained. It may have a special significance, considering Verne's alleged involvement with the earlier mentioned secret societies. Among the mourners was a strange, immaculately dressed Englishman who silently approached each member of Verne's family, shook their hands, and solemnly declared in French: "Be brave, be brave in your heavy hour of trial." As soon as he passed all those along the line and gave his symbolic allusion to a terrible venture, the mysterious figure disappeared into the crowds.78
There is a curious analogy with the mysterious incident at Verne's funeral. Levi too was visited by an unknown young man, somewhere in 1865. An account of this strange visit, written by Levi in a letter to the cabalist baron Spedalieri is as follows: "Between three and four in the afternoon, I heard seven short knocks on my door, in this fashion: oo-o-oo-oo. I opened the door, and a young man, very distinguished and immaculately dressed with a sarcastic air, entered." Levi told how the young man said that he knew all of Levi's past, present and future life, that it was ruled by the number five, and went on to relate several little-known facts of Levi's private life, including details of his visit to Bulwer-Lytton. The mysterious man even predicted the year of Levi's death, 1875, accurately, something that was unknown at that time.
The stranger identified himself as Juliano Capella, of Italian parentage, and went on to discuss the laws of nature, and how these could be influenced by the powers of the mind. Not a very original concept, as we have already tasted something of a deep stratum of occultists, obsessed with mind-driven or telepathic technology.
Capella offered to visit Levi another time, but Levi refused, having obtained a strange disliking for the person. Capella then left, while stating that he would "go on a perilous journey," to never return. Chacornac complained that, although he encountered numerous persons who visited Levi, he never was able to trace the mysterious Capella: "I even knew that one of the last original Rosicrucians still living in Paris, sometimes visited Levi, but of Capella, nothing."79 Capella's perilous journey is synonymous to a terrible venture or a heavy hour of trial, the number five is associated with the pentagram, the sign of Baphomet and the giant configuration of the Rennes area,80 the number seven, the times that Capella knocked on Levi's door, is also the number of the stars in the Pleaides and the Great and the Little Bears. Capella is the name of a particular star, also briefly mentioned in Cromie's novel, and stars and constellations are strewn all over: Arcturus, Aldebaran, Orion, the Pleaides, The Great and Little Bears, and Sirius. Interestingly, the ether-driven ship — the "Sirius" of Surya's account — holds a smaller vessel, thus symbolically mimicking the twin-star system of Sirius.
The year 1912 was strange and significant in the parallel history of Keely's inventions. The never-explained UFO wave, named "scareships," that would haunt England, France, Germany, and Holland, was but a year away. The terrible First World War was but two years away, and one cannot help thinking of Steiner's exclamation: "What would have become of this war when this Keely-ideal had become a reality in those days!" 1912 was a year of revelation; Steiner made his first statement meant for the general public concerning a future technology in his Huter an der Schwelle, performed in Munich. It was a year of loss; John Jacob Astor and William Thomas Stead would both perish during the terrible Titanic disaster,81 and Franz Hartmann and Bram Stoker died.
It was a year of hiding as well. The encoded name "NYZMA" was also featured prominently on every page of Dellschau's strange manuscripts, until 1912. After that year, Dellschau's coded references to NYZMA suddenly ceased. In 1912, Count Von Rosen sent Keely's secrets via Scotland to Stockholm, Sweden. Several members of Von Rosen's family were employed by the Swedish navy. It is alleged that when the Titanic sank, a ship was in the direct vicinity, but dimmed its lights and silently sailed away. The ship has never been identified.
In that strange year of 1912, inventor Otto Witt (1875-1923) chose to go to Sweden. Witt is considered the Swedish Hugo Gernsback, but with 10 times the ego. Witt wrote dozens of novels, all bursting with new and unusual technical ideas.82
Witt was originally a mining engineer and through his profession would almost certainly have met that other Austrian mining engineer, Hans Horbiger, who was called the Prophet of the Welteis Lehre or, Sacred Ice. Horbigers cosmogony became the official pseudoreligion in Nazi Germany. His book was published in 1913, a year after Witt's travel to Sweden. Horbiger supposedly was once involved in a project of the tilting of the axis; allegedly there was a secret Nazi project to tilt the axis with a device not unlike Verne's "neutral helicoidal ray," called a "reflector of telluric waves," controllable at will and the invention of Dutch scientist Willibrod. Willibrod collaborated with Horbiger. Hitler even asked Horbiger at one time if it would be possible to displace the north magnetic pole, to which Horbiger replied positively.83 Adherents to Horbiger's philosophy are still to be found today, and in one of their books Keely is mentioned alongside vril.84
Witt studied at the Technicum in Bingen in Germany. At the same time Karl Hans Strobl (1877-1946), the Austrian writer of unusual, dark tales, who launched Der Orchideengarten, the first magazine devoted to the fa
ntastic in Austria, as well as Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967) studied there.85
Gernsback, who is called "a would-be inventor" and "a prophet of the new technology," was a close friend of Tesla. He would often publish articles by or about Tesla in his magazines. When Tesla died, it was Gernsback who organized a death mask to be made. It is suggested that in 1924 Gernsback probably met with Harry Grindell-Mathews, inventor of a death ray who, through Gernsback, may have also met with Tesla.86 Grindell-Mathews had at one time been in South Africa, as had Robert Pape, Dutch inventor of the Life Wave generator.
Gernsback emigrated to the United States in 1904. Intensely interested in electricity and radio, he designed batteries and by 1906 was marketing a home radio set. He would coin the phrase "science fiction" and launched his first magazine in 1908,87 the same year that Verne's story The Hunt for the Golden Meteor was published posthumously. Gernsback's magazine was called Modern Electric, subsequently called Electrical Experimenteer and Science and Invention.88 Among others, Gernsback proposed the idea in 1917 to equip Mars with an artificial atmosphere in order to make it habitable.89 He too employed codings of some sort; his most important character, which he featured in several of his tales published in his magazine between 1911-1912 to promote unusual and avant-garde scientific ideas, was called Ralph 124C41, which is pronounced as "one to foresee for one."90 When the numbers are added, we once again obtain the number 12, the number of the houses of the zodiac, and again 3, which amongst others is of special significance in freemasonry.
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