The Library of Alexandria

Ptolemaios Soter, (ruler of Egypt 323-283 BCE)accumulated knowledge of the time in the name of
started the building of the library of Alexandria. ItYahweh. The remains of the library that survived the
was destined to be the greatest library ever forChristian mobs have been destroyed in the name of
several hundred years. He also built the temple of theAllah.
Muses from which the word 'museum' derives. HisAccording to other sources, the great library, or the
intention was to gather the world's most importantremains of it, was destroyed in 640 CE by Amr, the
scrolls under the same roof, and translate them toleader of the Islamic forces that attacked and took
Greek.Egypt, after the command of Caliph Omar.
The Library deserves some thoughts by any oneOn the question of Amr, on what to do with the
who appreciates any kind of written records, but alsobooks of the great library, Caliph Omar is supposed
because it has been the greatest lost of knowledge,to have answered that the books should be
ever. It was under the protection of all the Kings anddestroyed because: They will either contradict the
Queens of the Ptolemaic dynasty, and wasKoran, in which case they are heresy, or they will
continually expanding.agree with it, so they are superfluous. Then the
The library is believed to have stored 400,000 todocuments are supposed to have been used as
700,000 parchment scrolls. Beside the head librarytinder in the bathhouse for several months! Among
building, the temple Serapis, located in another part ofthe treasury books lost during the burning of the
the city, was used as a library too, housing aboutroyal library, were most of the 42 books of
some 10% of the total holdings. There is no realInstructions, or the 42 Books of Thoth (Hermes
agreement about the time of the destruction of theTrismegistos), as they are better known. Some of
library, although all references agree that it wasthem described how to attain "immortality", among
burnt, probably at several occasions. According toother themes.
Plutarchos, (47-127 CE), the library was destroyed inIn order to establish the great importance of the
47-48 BCE by Julius Caesar. If this is true, it mightlibrary and its contribution to human development, we
have been only partly destroyed since there ispresent a list of some of the philosophers and
evidence of the library's existence after that.scientists who had been working at, or represented
The destruction has probably taken place at severalin the great library. Without doubt, the great lost of
occasions during the fanatic sweep ordered byknowledge has neutralized human development
Christian emperors and executed by Christian bishopsenormously.
and mobs. The destruction was later completed byAnaximander (ca 610-547 BCE) said that "the Earth is
the Moslems. The library's motto, The place of thelike a globe and it is orbiting the Sun." While
cure of the soul, was not approved by the Bible,Anaximander could freely express his opinion, the
neither by the Koran.Catholic Church imprisoned and burned at the stake
381 CE. Emperor Flavius Theodosius (378-395 CE)the philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
outlawed visits to the old temples. Public talks onGiordano Bruno, some two thousand years later! He
religious matters were no longer allowed. He orderedtoo believed that Earth was orbiting the Sun.
the destruction of all pagan temples and theAccording to the Catholic Church, he had also
extermination of thousands of non-Christians in theerroneous opinions about the Trinity and about
whole Roman Empire. In Egypt the task wasChrist's divinity and Incarnation. How could Earth orbit
assigned to the Patriarch of Alexandria Theophilusthe Sun? Wasn't it against the will of the Catholic
(385-412 CE) and in Cyprus to bishop of Salamis,Church?
Epiphanius (315 - 403 CE). Both launched a programPythagoras (580-520 BCE), not only accepted the
of heavy persecutions against non-Christians. No placeteachings of Anaximander, he was also teaching
of worship remained, no stone upon another, noabout the discoveries of this great man.
philosophers opposing the new religion.Plato (427-347) BCE (several dates exist) was a
At that time, around 391 CE, the temple of Serapisphilosopher who founded the Academy, the first
was converted to a Christian church and theuniversity in Athens (388 BCE) that flourished for
parchments therein were probably destroyed.over 900 years. The Academy was closed after
Laurence Gardner says about Theophilus in The Lostorder from the Christian Roman Emperor Justinian in
Secrets of the Sacred Ark, p. 89: Led by the529 CE. Plato was, like Socrates and Aristoteles,
Roman-appointed Bishop Theophilus, they marcheddevoted to philosophy and science and ideas about
upon the Serapeum, where the collection was held inmoral. The reasons for closing down were that the
the great Library of Alexandria, and razed it to theideas of the Academy were in conflict with the
ground in order to clear the field for the doctrines ofdogmas of Yahweh!
new Church-approved literature. In this regard, RomeEmpedokles (494-434 BCE) said that the moon is
was said to have crucified the serpent of wisdom,orbiting the Earth and the moon "had no light of its
just as Jesus (a purveyor of that wisdom) had beenown" but it is "borrowed."
crucified by the same establishment. Theodosius hasDemokretos (460-370 BCE) about the dark marks on
secured a place in the history books as one of thethe moon: "They are the shadows of great
most iniquitous, equally most manipulated, Emperors.mountains and valleys." Also that "in space, there are
Perhaps the chief messenger Michael was still inmuch more planets than we can see." He is also
Constantinople! Theodosius edict concerningconsidered to be the father of the atomic theory.
Epiphanius says:...the one that won't obey paterAristarchos from Samos (310-230 BCE) stated that
Epiphanius have no right to keep living on the island.not only the Earth was orbiting the Sun but also all
The non-Cypriot Epiphanius threatened to deportthe other planets in the solar system were doing the
people from their birthplace unless they converted tosame. Earth was also rotating across its own axel,
Christianity!and that the distance between Earth and other stars,
Bishop Cyril of Alexandria (378-444 CE), who was awas great behind imagination.
cousin of Theophilus and succeeded him after hisEuclid of Alexandria (323-283 BCE) wrote the
death, led Christian mobs against both Jews andelements of geometry.
pagans. (The Pagans were all people with religionsArchimedes (287-212 BCE) was a mathematician
other than Judaism or Christianity). The Jewishastronomer, engineer, philosopher, and physicist. It
synagogues were leveled to the ground and thewas probably in the library of Alexandria he invented
Jews driven from the city. Another Christian mob,the screw-shaped water pump, one of the very few
probably ordered by Cyril too, attacked andinventions that survived the destruction by the
murdered the great philosopher and mathematicianorganized criminality of the Christian mobs.
Hypatia of Alexandria (ca 370-414 CE).Heron of Alexandria (1st century around 62 CE,
We have the cruel details about her death passedseveral dates exist) was a mathematician with great
down by Sokrates Scholasticus in The Ecclesiasticalinterests in engineering and mechanics. He
History from cosmopolis-website says:... and draggingconstructed several kinds of "machines" for both civil
her from the carriage, they took her to the churchand military use, of which the most known is the
called Caesareum, where they completely strippedsteam turbine called "aeolipile." His most famous work
her, and then murdered her with tiles. After tearingin mathematics was the Proposition 1.8 of his work
her body in pieces, they took her mangled limbs to a"Metrica" known today as the Heron Formula.
place called Cinaron, and there burnt them.Even if we now know that the persecution of people
The year was 414 CE in the fourth year of Cyril'sand the destruction of knowledge was ordered by
episcopate. Using a well-known building, theChristian Emperors and executed by Christian Fathers
Caesareum as church, witnesses that the Christiansand Christian mobs, it is not quite true. The Christian
of those times were so unorganized they didn't evenEmperors acted according to instructions given to
have churches of the kind we have today.them by the Yahweh family, much in the same way
Wisdomworld-website says about Cyril: Cyril hasthe Sumerian kings acted according to the will of the
come down in Christian history as one of the "Saints"same family. The alien high commander of Earth Enlil
of the Church, despite the well known fact that heYahweh is still ruling the world through scientific
was tried for stealing the gold and silver Churchapplied mind control!
vessels and spending the money gained from theirIt's not difficult to imagine the great amount of lost
sale. But petty thievery has not earned for the nameknowledge destroyed by religious fanaticism, and
of Cyril of Alexandria its dark immortality in the annalshow that lost has been delaying human development.
of religious history. His real crime was much moreOld Sumerian, Babylonian and Greek documents, as
serious-the crime of murder, deliberately perpetratedwell as several prominent authors support the
against one of the noblest characters in history:connection between the Sumerian god Enlil
Hypatia, the last of the Neoplatonists.(human-alien) and the god Yahweh of the Christian
That was also the end of the Neoplatonic school ofBible. The message is quite clear: Yahweh is a god
Alexandria. Plato, who founded the academy inamong many other gods, but not God!
Athens, some thousand years earlier, would neverMany scholars claim that the important thing was not
dream that his philosophical ideas would threaten thewhom we should blame for the destruction of the
most powerful man on Earth, the ruler Enlil/Yahweh.library but the fact that the accumulated knowledge
In fact, not only Plato and the Neoplatonists wereof the time was forever lost. I am not so certain
threatening his plans for dominion over the humanabout that. The destroyers were probably both
race, but also every freethinking person.Christians and Moslems. It's equally important to
Paulus Orosius (385-420 CE), a historian andestablish their responsibility because they acted under
theologian stated in his 'History against the pagans'the influence of scientific mind control exercised by
the following concerning the Serapeum: Today therethe same God! The history records concerning the
exist in temples books chest, which we ourselvesdestruction of the accumulated knowledge of the
have seen, and, when these temples were plundered,time, the library of Alexandria, must include Enlil
these, we are told, were emptied by our own men inYahweh as the real instigator and responsible for the
our time, which, indeed, is a true statement. Thedestruction.
destroyers were proud by destroying the