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204 .OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
tional systems of the ancient seafarers did not give me much
trouble. I found the solutions by accident while trying to solve
other problems. As for the signs of the zodiac, the polar rounds,
and the universal calendar, I was greatly helped by the research
work done by others before me. I have Hsted their publications
in the bibHography at the end of this book.
The last three puzzles—those of the four moons, of Atlantis,
and of the extraterrestrial visitors—really fascinated me, because
they were at the outer limits between science and complete mystery,
and I needed more than numbers and computers to solve
them. I needed intuition, just as I needed intuition in discovering
the Nineveh Constant, the secrets of the Mayan calendar,
and the mystery of the Great Pyramid of Cheops. I am convinced
that to resolve all this in a few weeks' time would not
have been possible without the help of some occult power source
that is unknown to me now and will probably remain unknown
to me forever.
I have been helped in my research just as
our ancestors were
aided tens of thousands of years ago. Can anyone really think
that all the fantastic knowledge in astronomy, mathematics,
geodesy, and many other sciences was acquired by mankind
without outside help? Frankly, is
it not much more logical to accept
the idea that all this knowledge was brought by astronauts
who came from another world, just as many legends and the
Bible tell us, or that the advancement of mankind was stimulated
by some very highly developed cultures located in the Land of
Mu or Atlantis, which were visited even earlier by outside civilizations
from v^dthin the solar system or even from distant
galaxies?
As recently as twenty years ago it was permissible to question
and dismiss such theories as incredible. But in the last two decades
we ourselves walked on the moon and drove a jeep on its
surface, and our space probes have flown at low altitudes over
Venus, Mars, and Mercmy and have taken magnificent photographs
of the latter two planets. We have a space probe under
way that will make a tour of the solar system beyond Saturn.
And the possibility and hypothesis that our ancestors were
visited from space by extraterrestrial beings does no longer seem
so impossible. Indeed, such thoughts began to seem very logical.