| GEOPOLYMERIZATION: | | | | century BCE.} and Memphis, the products of Memphis |
| 'Rock-making' in Peru or Giza has much to offer the | | | | being reputedly inferior. It is a fact that in |
| engineer who will see how these otherwise | | | | accumulation of materials it (natron) petrifies |
| undescribable marvels were achieved. Indeed the | | | | (minerals). In this way occurs a multitude of heaps |
| whole situation is almost hard to believe when you | | | | (of minerals) which became transformed into real |
| see how much evidence of great things done in the | | | | rocks. The Egyptians made rocks of it. |
| past and how the cosmology of all peoples on earth | | | | This particular passage is simple and straitforward, so |
| is so similar. For example, I just watched a show | | | | there is no error of translation." (12) |
| dealing with the Incan Andean cosmology that said | | | | The next quote from him should be read in light of |
| they believed in 'As Above, So Below'. This is one of | | | | the recent archaeological finds that show agriculture |
| the three laws of the Magi and the Dictum of | | | | and an alphabet (Flinders Petrie knew of a much |
| Hermes that our secret agent of British Intelligence | | | | more ancient alphabet of a non-hieroglyphic nature in |
| has on the back cover of his book 'Secret Societies'. | | | | Egypt in the early 20th century as did MacDari. Grant |
| It makes sense when you know Quetzacoatl | | | | notes a pre-existing Canaanite alphabet. Gimbutas has |
| Kukulcan/Xolotl and at times Verachocha is a white | | | | shown a lot that relates to this as well as to the |
| man who brings astronomers with him throughout | | | | Tartessus written history Strabo said recorded 7,000 |
| many centuries as quoted by many in the words of | | | | years before Christ, etc. etc.) from a thousand years |
| Monteczuma and others. | | | | before the Nile had these things. There is evidence of |
| Dr. Davidovits is the modern patent holder of many | | | | an advanced agriculture in the Nile that existed while |
| geopolymeric rock-making or concrete processes and | | | | the Sphinx was built and then left the area during the |
| I talked at length with his co-author Marjorie Morris in | | | | wet phases of the last Ice Age around 7,000 BC as |
| 1993-4 about a variety of things related to their | | | | well. |
| book 'The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved'. In the | | | | "The Great Pyramid in front of Khafra's pyramid has |
| interest of brevity I'll leave out how they were | | | | become more controversial than ever in light of |
| back-stabbed in a media hatchet-job by WGBH | | | | recent geological studies. Based on the severe |
| Boston who produced what the BBC takes to | | | | manner in which blocks covering the lower layers |
| schools all around the world. It is a video called 'This | | | | {Clearly not naturally occurring as the 'Archaeology |
| Old Pyramid' and it was shown on U.S. National TV as | | | | Magazine' presentation of this month (April 2001) |
| well as 'The Nature of Things' with David Suzuki. I | | | | would have its readers think might be true.} of the |
| saw his letter saying he didn't know they had used | | | | body and paws are eroded, the age of the Sphinx |
| fork-lift trucks and modern tools to build this small | | | | has, once again, come into serious question. |
| pyramid that shifted in the sand after a few weeks | | | | Today, the Sphinx is attributed to Khafra (Chephre in |
| and didn't have the 'fit' anyway. Many people think | | | | another language). Earlier Egyptologists believed it |
| Hermes Trismegistus was a compiler of the | | | | was erected a great deal earlier than his reign, |
| knowledge of Thoth or Ptah whose T-square is on a | | | | perhaps at the end of the archaic period. The Sphinx |
| stele I found at Chichen Itza. This is the same | | | | looks much older than the Pyramids. |
| T-square the Masons used for years and now you | | | | No inscriptions connect the sacred monument to |
| see on their temples everywhere with the quarter | | | | Khafra (except reconstruction gangs graffiti), but in |
| circle addition to give the degrees so important to | | | | the Valley Temple, a dozen statues of Khafra, one in |
| them (It may have 33 degrees like our vertebrae, | | | | the form of a Sphinx, were uncovered in the 1950's. |
| but there are other layers of meaning in degrees.). | | | | Some Egyptologists claim a resemblance between |
| Part of the ancient attunement arts included a | | | | these statues and the face of the Sphinx. |
| relationship with minerals as attested to in almost all | | | | A document which indicates greater antiquity, |
| shamanic cultures. The recent April issue of Scientific | | | | however, was found on the Giza Plateau by French |
| American deals with this in a somewhat tangential | | | | Egyptologists during the nineteenth century |
| manner as it mentions the Miller-Urey Chicago | | | | {Napoleon got to collect the Maltese island and great |
| creation of life experiment that was taught as | | | | wealth on his way to the desert in an expedition of |
| creation of animate from inanimate for many years | | | | no military value. The Britannica even acknowledges |
| although it actually isn't creation, of much more than | | | | this mysterious circumstance}. The text, called the |
| a few basic proteins. However, that start which | | | | 'Inventory Stele', bears inscriptions relating events |
| became a dead end in some people's minds has | | | | during the reign of Khafra's father, Khufu. The text |
| continued to produce valuable insights. This particular | | | | says that Khufu instructed that a temple be erected |
| article helps one see how the attunement may have | | | | alongside the Sphinx, meaning that the Sphinx already |
| been initiated by the collective consciousnesses within | | | | existed before Khafra's time. The accuracy of the |
| inanimate matter or mountains that the natives of | | | | stele has been questioned because it dates from the |
| the world revere. It may be a bit of a stretch but | | | | Twenty-first Dynasty (1070-945 BC.), long after the |
| the nanotube article and other science from solid | | | | Pyramid Age, but because the Egyptians took great |
| state chemistry as well as the work of Drs. Robins | | | | pride in precise record keeping {Well, let's say they |
| and Tiller would support it as well. | | | | were well aware of glory and posterity; they would |
| "Carbon-based molecules needed protection and | | | | also have known what happened in a time closer to |
| assistance to enact this drama {The beginning of life, | | | | their period of history, than Egyptologists today.} and |
| which NASA now knows is everywhere.}. It turns | | | | the careful copying of documents, no authoritative |
| out that minerals could have served at least five | | | | reason exists to discount the text as inaccurate. |
| significant functions, from passive props to active | | | | Fragments of early papyruses and tablets, as well as |
| players, in life-inducing chemical reactions. Tiny | | | | the later writings of the third century B.C. |
| compartments {What Robins calls 'energy wells'.} in | | | | Greco-Egyptian historian {A priest} Manetho, claim |
| mineral structures can shelter simple molecules, while | | | | that Egypt was ruled for thousands of years before |
| mineral surfaces can provide the scaffolding on which | | | | the First Dynasty, some texts claim as much as |
| those molecules assemble and grow. Beyond these | | | | 36,000 years earlier. {A deep mine in Egypt is |
| sheltering and supportive functions, crystal faces of | | | | reported to have been dated to 35,000 BC. that |
| certain minerals can actually select particular molecules | | | | came to light in the last year or so.} This history is |
| resembling those that were destined to become | | | | dismissed by Egyptologists as legend {Even though |
| biologically important. The metallic ions in other | | | | they use Manetho's kings list extensively in their own |
| minerals can jump-start meaningful reactions like | | | | fabrication.}. However, ancient Egyptian history is |
| those that must have converted simple molecules | | | | viewed by scholars mostly from a New Kingdom |
| into self-replicating entities. Most surprisingly, perhaps, | | | | perspective {To dovetail with the Bible Narrative.} |
| are the recent indications that elements of dissolved | | | | because numerous documents have survived from |
| minerals can be incorporated into biological molecules. | | | | Thebes. The capital of Memphis, founded during |
| In other words, minerals may not have merely helped | | | | prehistoric times, was a vitally important religious, |
| biological molecules come together, they might have | | | | commercial, cultural and administrative center with a |
| become part of life itself!" (11) | | | | life span of thousands of years, but unfortunately, it |
| Before moving into the thoughts (briefly presented) | | | | has not been effectively excavated. |
| of Davidovits and Morris (who has become a shrill | | | | {Britannica tells us: "the excavations of Thomas W. |
| advocate without scholarly aplomb for good reason) | | | | Jacobsen at the Franchithi Cave on the Bay of |
| allow me to include an illustration of some shamanic | | | | Argos... by 13,000 - 11,000 B.C. and that the cultivation |
| and Taoist thought. The forces which exist in nature | | | | of hybrid grains, the domestication of animals, and |
| and orient in movement along grid lines in the whole | | | | organized community tuna hunts had already begun." |
| of the earth are similarly present in each crystal and | | | | (13) This is in Crete where another major Keltic |
| the reason why the nanotubes add to their structure | | | | administrative colony existed, to go along with Malta |
| in the forms they do. The four primary forces on this | | | | and probably Byblos if not what is known as |
| illustration are vital elements of the adepthoods in all | | | | Harappa, and also Finias.} |
| nature-focused science. The secondary and other | | | | The recent geological studies of the Sphinx have |
| forces are numerous and part of the glue that | | | | kindled more than debate over the attribution and |
| makes the whole of life meaningful. Needless to say | | | | age. The established history of the evolution of |
| there are many knowledge trees that more | | | | civilization is being challenged. |
| completely reflect these anciently understood realities. | | | | A study of the severe body erosion of the Sphinx |
| The Sephirah or spheres in the Judaic tradition are | | | | and the hollow in which it is situated indicates that |
| quite akin to the North America Indian Tree of | | | | the damaging agent was water. A slow erosion |
| Yggdrasil (aligned with the Norse) and some people | | | | occurs in limestone when water is absorbed and |
| spend a whole lifetime getting to know just one | | | | reacts with salts in the stone. The controversy arises |
| sphere or sephirah. | | | | over the vast amounts of water responsible. |
| "Geopolymers are revolutionary for the concrete | | | | Two theories are popular. One is that groundwater |
| industry {He is a member of the Board of Portland | | | | slowly rose into the body of the Sphinx. This theory |
| Cement and a Director of a French concrete | | | | produces irreconcilable problems: A recent survey |
| development consortium or research entity. His | | | | carried out by the American Research Center in |
| Doctorate in chemistry began his journey.}. Any type | | | | Egypt (ARCE) determined that three distinctly |
| of rock aggregate can be used, and concrete made | | | | separate repair operations were completed on the |
| with the geopolymeric binder is practically | | | | Sphinx between the New Kingdom and the Ptolemaic |
| indistinguishable from natural stone. Geologists | | | | rule, that is, during a period of roughly 700 to 1,000 |
| unfamiliar with the technical possibilities afforded by | | | | years. The study also indicates that the Sphinx was |
| geopolymerization have scrutinized geopolymeric | | | | already in its current state of erosion when the early |
| concrete and have mistaken it for natural stone. This | | | | repairs were made. No appreciable erosion has |
| is unprecedented technology; no tremendous heat or | | | | occurred since the original damage, nor is there |
| pressure is required... sets rapidly at room | | | | further damage on the bedrock of the surrounding |
| temperatures to form synthetic stone... | | | | hollow, an area that never underwent repair. |
| To develop a new branch of chemistry is one thing, | | | | Knowing this, one must consider that the inundating |
| but to apply that chemistry to ancient history is quite | | | | Nile slowly built up levels of silt over millenia, and this |
| another. How did I learn that the pyramid stone is | | | | was accompanied by a gradual rise in the water. |
| also geopolymeric? Any theory must be feasible; | | | | During Khafra's time the water table was about thirty |
| then, there must be evidence; and ultimately, hard | | | | feet lower than it is today. For the rising |
| scientific proof is required. All mysteries associated | | | | groundwater theory to hold, an unbelievable |
| with pyramid construction must be resolved. {The | | | | geological scenario would have to have taken place. |
| pyramid rock weighs 20-25% less than quarried stone | | | | It would mean that from thirty feet lower than |
| and the same as geopolymeric rock. This does not | | | | today's water table, water rose to about two feet |
| mean that Christopher Dunn's finishing engineering | | | | into the body of the Sphinx and the surrounding |
| doesn't apply and that moulds were used when | | | | hollow, where it caused erosion for roughly 600 |
| obelisks or special rocks were required either. He | | | | years, and then stopped its damaging effects. |
| doesn't deal with the healing or other energy in some | | | | Historians find the second theory that is offered |
| of these surrounding structures either.} A description | | | | more unthinkable. It suggests that the source of |
| is found in the ancient science encyclopedia written | | | | water stemmed from the wet phases of the last ice |
| by Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23-79), the Roman naturalist. | | | | age--c.15,000 to 10,000 B.C.- {Schoch has it at this |
| Pliny's account is not legendary or written esoterically; | | | | time according to West and Graham Hancock or |
| it clearly describes the salient features of the | | | | other alien theorists; but his actual first choice is |
| technology. But Pliny's description has not been | | | | 7,000 BC era.} when Egypt underwent periods of |
| understood by modern science, because to recognize | | | | severe flooding. This hypothesis advocates that the |
| what is written, one must have the appropriate | | | | Sphinx necessarily existed before the floods. If it |
| knowledge... {Or at least enough to actually hear | | | | could be proven, well-established theories about |
| what is being said.} | | | | prehistory would be radically shaken. The world's |
| To date, the passages related to alchemical | | | | most mysterious sculpture would date to a time |
| stonemaking confuse scholars, resulting in gross | | | | when historians place humanity in a neolithic setting, |
| errors of translation on Pliny's work. Worse, the | | | | living in open camps and depending largely on hunting |
| salient principles and characteristics of the ancient | | | | and foraging." (14) |
| science being unknown, the translators dismissed | | | | Thus the Egyptians would have to give up their claim |
| Pliny's account as erroneous. De Roziere commented | | | | to having built it. This is their pride and joy and it is |
| on the problems of translation: | | | | difficult to admit such a lie. The truth when one looks |
| 'M. Grosse, author of a German translation of Pliny, | | | | at all the facts; is that there is no way the Egyptians |
| highly esteemed by learned people, points out that in | | | | built the Great Pyramid. If it was not the Phoenicians |
| the whole of this description the Roman naturalist | | | | then it was African cultures such as Timbuktu, who |
| seems to have done his best to make himself | | | | we know even less about. It is likely they and other |
| obscure. 'Despite my familiarity,' he said, 'both with | | | | people around the world merely imitated it and its |
| Pliny's style and the meaning he gives to terms, it has | | | | capstone which is older than its base (ARCE carbon, |
| been difficult, sometimes even impossible, to | | | | AMS, dating). The capstone may have been used as |
| translate the passages clearly and exactly.' The | | | | a model to demonstrate the effects of two perfect |
| reason was certainly that he was unfamiliar with the | | | | tetrahedra in a perfect pyramid that generates 'phi' |
| substance that Pliny was describing... | | | | and the kind of design that the nautilus deep sea shell |
| A passage from Book 31 of Pliny's encyclopedia | | | | contains. These are not co-incidences and reflect on |
| made no sense to the French scholars. But the | | | | knowledge gained through attunements with spiritual |
| passage is compelling in its support of the existence | | | | things or 'direct cognition'. The only other possible |
| of alchemical stonemaking. The passage appears in | | | | explanation is the alien theory or an advanced hominid |
| Latin as follows: | | | | that rose to our current level of technical |
| Nitrariae Aegypti circa Naucratim et Memphim tantum | | | | understanding that went into space or somehow |
| solebant esse, circa Memphim deteriores. Nam et | | | | disappeared. Would they have gone to space like we |
| lapidescit ibi in ascervis: multique sunt cumuli ea de | | | | can, and return for appropriate or unique resources |
| causa saxei. Faciunt ex his vasa | | | | needed from their evolutionary home? We must |
| Translated into English this passage reads: | | | | keep an open mind and not try to make facts |
| In previous times, Egypt had no outcrops of natron | | | | force-fit easy theories. That approach is common in |
| except for those near Naucratus {Where the Milesian | | | | science and goes by names like 'reductivism', |
| consortium set up their trading city around the 6th | | | | 'gradualism', and 'direct inference'. |