Esoteric World

St. Teresa of Avila (March 28, 1515 – October 4, 1582) was a famous Christian mystic nun.

All of these quotes are from her fascinating book, The Interior Castle. The entire book is available for a listen on YouTube, here.

“I thought of the soul as resembling a castle…”

“All our interest is centered in the rough setting of the diamond, and in the outer wall of the castle - that is to say, in these bodies of ours.”

“So accustomed have they grown to living all the time with the reptiles and other creatures… they have almost become like them.”

“Although this is only the first mansion, it contains riches of great price, and any who can elude the reptiles which are to be found in it will not fail to go further.”

“We suffer terrible trials because we do not understand ourselves… we fail to realize that there is an interior world close at hand.”

“How great are Thy secrets, and how different are spiritual things from any that can be seen or understood here below.”

“But we shall never succeed in knowing ourselves unless we seek to know God.”

“The soul is still absorbed in wordly affairs, engulfed in worldly pleasure and puffed up with worldly honors and ambitions.”

“Reason tells the soul how mistaken it is in thinking that all these earthly things are of the slightest value by comparison with what it is seeking.”

“When [the soul] is cleansed, God unites it with Himself, in a way which none can understand save it and He, and even the should itself does not understand this in such a way as to be ablel to speak of it afterwards.”

The excellent documentary, Antikythera Mechanism, The Two Thousand Year Old Computer tells the detailed story of the history, skepticism and investigation involved in unlocking the mysteries of this ancient device.

History has repeatedly shown us that ancient peoples were far more wise in almost every aspect from what our school teachings and history books have led us to believe.

Some of my favorite, somewhat recent discoveries that challenge and even debunk popular modern theories on human history include:

• Gobekli Tepe

• Sanxingdui

• Cro Magnon man’s brain size

• The Anglo Saxon DNA of the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs

Watch Ancient Aliens Debunked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9w-i5oZqaQ

Ancient Aliens Debunked makes some great explanations for Puma Punka that has more reliable source information than Ancient Aliens.

One thing that “Debunked” & Ancient Aliens agree on is that some kind of strange event occurred in the past that giants, “sky beings” and a great flood were all a part of. Most people are familiar with this story from Genesis 6 in the Torah and similar stories are mentioned in ancient cultures all over the world. Tiwanaka is the closest city to Puma Punka and is one of these ancient cultures that tells of the great flood and giants.

Ancient astronaut points:

• The stones at Puma Punku are made from the hardest on earth; granite and diorite (The only stone harder is diamond.)

• The only non-synthetic substance that can cut diorite is diamond. This means whoever built this place had diamond tools or another technology that we still do not know about.

• The precision of the cuts and drill holes are astonishingly acurate. It is difficult to explain how this was done without electrical power tools and sophisticated measuring. Whatever tools were used are not in the archeological record. 

• It is said that the Aymaras built this site, but these people lacked a writing system to plan and measure these structures. This seems to be a contradiction.

• The largest stones weigh up to 400 tons and the rock quarry they were cut from is approx. 10 miles away.

• A common theory of how ancient peoples transported megalithic stones is by using tree trunks as rollers. This theory seems impossible at Puma Punku since it is located above the tree line. No trees have ever grown in this area. 

• The dating of this site is widely debated. It was originally dated at 12 - 14,000-years-old, but mainstream archeologists re-evaluated it and decided it was 1,500-years-old.

Note: Much older dating of structures that change our current view of evolution and the history of mankind are only now becoming widely accepted. (See Gobekli Tepe and water erosion on the Sphinx.)

• The destruction of Puma Punku looks like some kind of explosion must have happened. Theories range from earthquakes to meteorites. 

• Tiwanaku is another very mysterious location nearby. The locals tell myths of giants; stories similar to Genesis 6 in the Bible and also ancient Sumerian texts. The beautiful structures and cultural history of this neighboring site is equally as fascinating.

Melchizedek is without a doubt, one of the most mysterious figures in the Bible. He is mentioned in both the Old Testament and New Testament.

The Bible scriptures alone that mention Melchizedek can often challenge mainstream ideas of traditional Christian thought. According to the Bible he was an immortal king and priest “without beginning of days…” Where could he have come from?

The Bible talks about Melchizedek in three different books; Genesis, Psalms & Hebrews. Here is the most insightful passage:

Hebrews Chapter 6

20 Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews Chapter 7 

1 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him,
2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness”; then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.”
3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.
4 Just think how great he was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder!

An obscure dead sea scroll refers to Melchizedek as, “Elohim”, which is the same name the Hebrews use for God.

The image above is by Dieric Bouts the Elder and depicts the meeting between Abraham & Melchizedek, mentioned in Genesis and Hebrews. 

Rasputin was known as a saint to some and as a sinner to many. Apparently, from an early age he displayed signs of his two most notable characteristics; an insatiable obsession with sex and various mystical abilities.

Born as a peasant in Siberia, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin eventually made his way to Russia’s capital, St. Petersburg where he became associated with royalty. His entire life is filled with fascinating stories of supernatural powers and lewd tales of drunken adulteries.

Some of Rasputin’s most interesting tidbits include:

• Rasputin systematically healed the Czar’s son of hemophilia bleedings through spiritual healing. Obviously, controversy surrounds this and some speculate that he used some other method. Although royal doctors where both amazed and jealous of his abilities.  

• The Czar’s son once had a canoeing accident that was so bad, papers had been prepared to announce his death. The Queen sent an urgent telegram to Rasputin who responded with a prophetic statement, “God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Fear not, the child will not die.” The boy lived.

• Russia’s Queen Alexandria considered Rasputin a Saint and wouldn’t believe the stories of his drunken, sexual escapades. She even fired some of her staff who were against him. Yet, there are many accounts of Rasputin’s devious ways.

• Rasputin gave a prophetic warning to the Czar Nicholas about World War I. “A terrible storm cloud lies over Russia. Disaster, grief, and darkness. A whole ocean of tears, there is no counting them, and so much bloodshed. Disaster is great, the misery infinite. The Czar ignored his warning and Russia has never been the same.

• A prophecy by Rasputin to the Czar Nicholas stated, “Czar, if you hear the sound of the bells, it signals I am dead. If I am killed by my brothers, the Russian peasants, you have nothing to fear. If it is your relations who have brought about my death, then none of your family will remain alive for more than two years. They will all be killed by the Russian people.” Rasputin was killed by the Czar’s people and the entire royal family was executed by the russian people 18 months after this prophecy.

• When the Czars daughter’s bodies were examined after their death, they were all wearing religious necklaces with pictures on Rasputin on them.

See The History Channel’s, The True Story of Rasputin: http://movies.netflix.com/movie/History-s-Mysteries-True-Story-of…/70108150

At over 3,000-years-old and discovered as recently as 1987, Sanxingdui is perhaps the most enigmatic culture revealed from ancient China.

There are no writings, historical records, or even myths of this unique civilization. The only information archeologists have is what they can gather from the visually striking artifacts that have been found.

An entire museum has been dedicated to the findings at Sanxingdui. The jade, bronze and gold statues and masks are created in a style unlike anything else seen from that time or region. 

A passage from the book, The Cambridge History of Ancient China states, “The discovery at Sanxingdui, as well as other discoveries such as the Xingan tombs in Jiangxi, challenges the traditional narrative of [The origin of] Chinese civilization…”

History is a mystery.

Gobekli Tepe Udpate:

Only recently discovered in 1994 and at 12,000-years-old, Gobekli Tepe changes the game on just how long ago civilization may have began (according to mainstream science / history). Currently in history books, ancient Sumer / Mesopotamia is considered the oldest human civilization which existed approx. 6-8,000 years ago. But, whoever built Gobekli Tepe in what is now modern day Turkey was around at least 4,000 years before that. That is a very long time ago!

The architecture at this site is arranged in a circular fashion similar to Stonehenge. It features many large limestone columns, up to 18 feet tall and weighing up to 16 tons.

The artifacts shown above are currently being displayed at the Urfa Museum in Turkey.

• Poster by Emrah Yucel (top left)
• “Urfa Man” with black obsidian crystal eyes (top right)
• Stone totem of a strange creature holding or morphing into a human-like creature. Around the totem are small animals that resemble wart hogs and other unfamiliar creatures.
• Also see the “H” icon belt on one of the stone columns.

Many questions surround this mysterious site.
Who were they and what can we learn from what we’ve found?
What do these objects represent or what were they used for?
Why was Gobekli Tepe mysteriously buried?

I need a time machine.