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Chapter 8: The Culture of Stones 263
place, at the right time, doing the right thing, can accomplish the work”, we begin
to realize that we are moving in the correct direction. Most particularly when we
recall that curious story about Fulcanelli and Jacques Bergier:
Certain geometrical arrangements of highly purified materials are enough to release
atomic forces without having recourse to either electricity or vacuum techniques. 174
This will become even more significant further on.
Are there any clues about stones themselves being part of an ancient
technology? At present, there are many people who claim that the megaliths are
arranged around the world on a grid, the structure of which is, according to them,
36 degrees of longitude apart. The assumption is that all of the megaliths belong to
a single, pre-flood civilization. The assumption being made from this hypothesis is
that the strange locations of these complexes implies that the purpose of the
megaliths was not to derive power from a grid for local use, but rather, to do
something to the earth grid by coordinating local actions on a global basis. In other
words, the claim is that the megaliths appear to have been used to put energy into a
global grid rather than to extract energy from it.
There are problems with this blanket assumption. First of all, while we do not
think that the present scientific dating is reliable, we do think that some ball-park
figures can be established if enough care is taken in observing individual situations
and taking all the evidence into account. The undersea structures off Japan,
Bimini, and Malta, as well as Tiahuanaco in South America, all suggest a
civilization that belonged to a pre-cataclysmic environment. But many other
megalithic structures clearly belong to an “eruption” of civilization in a postcataclysmic
environment, including the pyramids in Egypt, Central America,
Stonehenge, and so on. What is striking is the difference between the pyramidal
groups and the “circle making” groups, though many current researchers are trying
to connect them to the same basic philosophical context. I think that may be a
mistake.
It has been proposed by the advocates of so-called Sacred Geometry that the
placing of the megaliths was a function of “Grid Engineering”, and that this is
mankind’s oldest science. Such people further claim that precise geometrical
spherical versions of the cube, such as the tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron,
dodecahedron, and other compound and semi-regular solids, such as the
cuboctahedron, are now recognized as evidence of Neolithic man’s familiarity
with the concepts of this putative sacred geometry. These folks then go on to
propose that this was a “mystical” sort of practice that includes visualizing the
earth’s energy grid in certain ritualistic ways that will bring the individual in
“tune” with the superior intelligence of the Earth by producing “resonance”.
174 Pauwels, L, and Bergier, J., The Morning of the Magicians, (New York: Stein and Day. 1964) p. 77.