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Uriel's Machine
What if science and writing developed from an advanced prehistoric civilisation in the British Isles?
What if written evidence in the Dead Sea Scrolls records megalithic history in Western Europe and provides the plans for a machine that could rebuild civilisation following a global catastrophe?
And what if Jesus and his brother James were practitioners of megalithic astronomy?
A new and totally unexpected explanation of the origins of civilisation has emerged from recent discoveries. Instead of the apparently sudden flowering some 10,000 years ago, evidence of an older civilisation is being unearthed.
In "Uriel's Machine" Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas offer powerful new evidence that our planet was hit by seven mountain-sized lumps of comet, creating a series of giant waves that ripped across the globe.
Putting together the latest findings of leading geologists with their own sensational new archaeological discoveries, they show how a civilisation emerged and was able to build an international network of sophisticated astronomical observatories which provided accurate calendars, could measure the diameter of the planet and accurately predict comet impact years in advance. They reveal that this is the true purpose of the great megalithic sites in Western Europe, build long before the Egyptian pyramids. Further, they show that the Book of Enoch, long a part of ancient tradition of Freemasonry but then rediscovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls, contains precise details on the building of a machine in the reconstruction of a shattered world.
Using hard science and their own reconstruction of an ancient technology in many ways more sophisticated than modern methods, Knight and Lomas put forward findings here that will change the way we view man's distant past - and may help us better understand our future.
What if written evidence in the Dead Sea Scrolls records megalithic history in Western Europe and provides the plans for a machine that could rebuild civilisation following a global catastrophe?
And what if Jesus and his brother James were practitioners of megalithic astronomy?
A new and totally unexpected explanation of the origins of civilisation has emerged from recent discoveries. Instead of the apparently sudden flowering some 10,000 years ago, evidence of an older civilisation is being unearthed.
In "Uriel's Machine" Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas offer powerful new evidence that our planet was hit by seven mountain-sized lumps of comet, creating a series of giant waves that ripped across the globe.
Putting together the latest findings of leading geologists with their own sensational new archaeological discoveries, they show how a civilisation emerged and was able to build an international network of sophisticated astronomical observatories which provided accurate calendars, could measure the diameter of the planet and accurately predict comet impact years in advance. They reveal that this is the true purpose of the great megalithic sites in Western Europe, build long before the Egyptian pyramids. Further, they show that the Book of Enoch, long a part of ancient tradition of Freemasonry but then rediscovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls, contains precise details on the building of a machine in the reconstruction of a shattered world.
Using hard science and their own reconstruction of an ancient technology in many ways more sophisticated than modern methods, Knight and Lomas put forward findings here that will change the way we view man's distant past - and may help us better understand our future.
480 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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Christopher Knight
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Christopher Knight is an author who has written several books dealing with pseudoscientific conspiracy theories such as 366-degree geometry and the origins of Freemasonry.
In an interview about the book Who Built the Moon?: 2005 Knight stated that the moon is an artificial construction probably built by humans with a message in "base ten arithmetic so it looks as though it is directed to a ten digit species that is living on Earth right now - which seems to mean humans." He believes that it was created to make life on Earth possible, including humans, and that the most likely builders were humans of the future using time travel.
Christopher Knight is an author who has written several books dealing with pseudoscientific conspiracy theories such as 366-degree geometry and the origins of Freemasonry.
In an interview about the book Who Built the Moon?: 2005 Knight stated that the moon is an artificial construction probably built by humans with a message in "base ten arithmetic so it looks as though it is directed to a ten digit species that is living on Earth right now - which seems to mean humans." He believes that it was created to make life on Earth possible, including humans, and that the most likely builders were humans of the future using time travel.
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May 7, 2012
Uriel’s Machine is the most iconoclastic book, perhaps, I’ve ever read. It’s sort of like The DaVinci Code (Yes, I read it. I admit it. You’ll probably claim you didn’t see the movie, either.) except with less plot and a lot more math. Knight and Lomas have been exploring ancient history and pre-history for some time. Two previous works, The Hiram Key and Second Messiah: Templars, the Turin Shroud, and the Great Secret of Freemasonry, neither which I have, read covered similar material. Here’s a short list of our hidden past they claim to have discovered:
1.The great flood was caused by earth’s simultaneous collision with 7 comets and occurred in 7640 B.C. Among other things, it wiped out many species of great mammals in one fell swoop.
2.Another cataclysmic comet struck the mediterranean around 3150 B.C. but with less enormous consequences.
3.The alphabet was invented not by Middle Easterners, but by Northern Europeans, who trucked it thither. These Northern Europeans may have been the original Sumerians of the city of Ur.
4.There was a race of giants who wandered from northern europe through the middle east and into China. Having developed astronomical techniques by which they detected an incoming comet, the brought receptive listeners from the middle east to places like Scotland and Ireland (these places not being islands yet since the 3150 comet hadn’t struck), to warn them about the impending collision.
5.Jesus not only had a brother (James), but his brother was really the first head of the early church (in Jerusalem) until control was wrested away by Paul and his Roman followers.
That’s just for starters. A lot of what the authors say sounds convincing. They draw from the Dead Sea Scrolls, from Archeological Records, from disparate scholars who don’t normally communicate with one another such as paleontologists and astronomers. They point to such phenomenae as the “Megalithic Yard,” a unit of measurement quite close to our three foot yard, which unit seems to have been used to construct everything from Stonehenge to the Egyptian Pyramids. Where did everyone get it? Why did they use it? The authors have a solid belief in their answers.
They hypothesize that one of the early warners about the 3150 comet was the writer of The Book of Enoch, a biblical-era document from the Dead Sea Scrolls. He recounts being taken to certain observatories which Lomas and Knight calculate could only have been located in Scotland and Ireland so that he could deliver the astronomical goods back to his people and save them. These observatories were aligned not only to the equinoxes and the solstices, but to the cycles of Venus. The authors assert that all of this was needed to help predict the stars, control agriculture, arrange for women to be fertilized at the spring equinox so that babies could be born at the winter solstice so that there could be an orderly transmigration of souls to continue the priestly line.
Now, I’m reading all this, going along, skeptical, but entertained and still wondering how much could be true. They qualify a lot of what they say, but there’s a good deal of supposing that things could have happened in no other way than they describe. Or that at least they couldn’t possibly have happened as establishment archeologists/historians describe. I’m in no position to evaluate most of what I’m reading because I’m no student of archeology or astronomy or (much less) math. So I decided to see how the authors came out relative to stuff in which I do have some expertise. Starting with writing.
However good Lomas and Knight are with figures, they’re either lousy proofreaders or their copyreader failed them miserably. There are many sentences with missing words, Many words with gaps between letters. Furthermore, their attempts at etymology stretch the limits. For example, the title of the book comes from the name of an angel named Uriel who takes the aforementioned Enoch to the astronomical warning sites. In speculating about the source of this angel’s name, the authors say this:
...The Egyptian recorded that this. . .had come from a place called “Ta-Ur”. . ....The word “Ta” ...meant ”land” in ancient Egyptian. However, the word “Ur” is widely thought to mean “city”. So that the implication is that “Ta-Ur” was an ancient place where there is...a land of integrated communities...
This meaning of the word “Ur” caused us to reflect on the meaning of the name “Uriel”. Because an “El” ending of a Hebrew word meant “of God” , it seems reasonable to take this angel,s name as giving the meaning “city of God”.
Now I’ll tell you one on myself. There is, as most everyone knows, an Aegean Island called Rhodes. There is also a country in Africa formerly called Rhodesia. I knew that Cecil Rhodes was an English explorer/conquerer/diamond mogul and thought it “reasonable to take this Island’s name” as bequeathed by that nineteenth century Britisher. I recently visited said island and found to my ignorant embarrassment that the word “rhodes” means “rose” in Greek and has no connection to anything British whatsoever.
That’s not to say that Lomas and Knight aren’t right. It’s to say that their evidence is too slim to credit in this case without further substantiation and thus casts doubt on other conclusions. Another case in point, an assertion they make about America. Check these facts:
1.George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were Freemasons. So were many of the founding fathers. Much of Lomas and Knight’s “evidence” for their theses depends on analysis and application of the text of the rites of Freemasonry.
2.On the day preceding the spring equinox in 1990, George (H.W.) Bush...(A senior Freemason), signed into law the historic Joint Resolution of both Houses of Congress recognizing the seven Noachide laws as “the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization” and urged his country to “return the world to the moral and ethical values contained in those laws..” [I guess this happened. Congress does some weird stuff. I’m not going to take the trouble, though, to check.]
3. David Ovason, a researcher in arcane subjects...found no less than 20 zodiacs on public display in the center of [Washington D.C.]
From these facts, the authors conclude that “the Noachite Degree [part of the Freemason Ritual] continues to be “[very] important in American Law.” Which is probably news to anyone in the American legal profession and certainly news to the general citizenry.
Now, I might conclude from the fact that Bush the elder is a Mason and that many of the neo-conservatives who worked in his administration are also probably Freemasons and that thus the Iraq war is a conspiracy of Freemasons based on Noachite law.
I’m not sorry I read Uriel’s Machine. I learned quite a bit about astronomy, a lot about the book of Enoch, and got some insights into the Knights Templar and Freemasonry. Certainly, there are certainly huge holes in our knowledge of our own prehistory, let alone our planets. Assumptions need challenging and in many cases the evidence is so slim that one guess seems as good as another. However, to infer an “accurate” story of humankind largely from the rites of Freemasonry, asserting that these rites contain our racial memory of events from 10,000 years ago seems to me inductive reasoning at its most dubious, and in some cases ridiculous. It’s a great instance of what can be accomplished by those who go out looking for proof of conclusions they’re already formed. Scientific method, anyone?
1.The great flood was caused by earth’s simultaneous collision with 7 comets and occurred in 7640 B.C. Among other things, it wiped out many species of great mammals in one fell swoop.
2.Another cataclysmic comet struck the mediterranean around 3150 B.C. but with less enormous consequences.
3.The alphabet was invented not by Middle Easterners, but by Northern Europeans, who trucked it thither. These Northern Europeans may have been the original Sumerians of the city of Ur.
4.There was a race of giants who wandered from northern europe through the middle east and into China. Having developed astronomical techniques by which they detected an incoming comet, the brought receptive listeners from the middle east to places like Scotland and Ireland (these places not being islands yet since the 3150 comet hadn’t struck), to warn them about the impending collision.
5.Jesus not only had a brother (James), but his brother was really the first head of the early church (in Jerusalem) until control was wrested away by Paul and his Roman followers.
That’s just for starters. A lot of what the authors say sounds convincing. They draw from the Dead Sea Scrolls, from Archeological Records, from disparate scholars who don’t normally communicate with one another such as paleontologists and astronomers. They point to such phenomenae as the “Megalithic Yard,” a unit of measurement quite close to our three foot yard, which unit seems to have been used to construct everything from Stonehenge to the Egyptian Pyramids. Where did everyone get it? Why did they use it? The authors have a solid belief in their answers.
They hypothesize that one of the early warners about the 3150 comet was the writer of The Book of Enoch, a biblical-era document from the Dead Sea Scrolls. He recounts being taken to certain observatories which Lomas and Knight calculate could only have been located in Scotland and Ireland so that he could deliver the astronomical goods back to his people and save them. These observatories were aligned not only to the equinoxes and the solstices, but to the cycles of Venus. The authors assert that all of this was needed to help predict the stars, control agriculture, arrange for women to be fertilized at the spring equinox so that babies could be born at the winter solstice so that there could be an orderly transmigration of souls to continue the priestly line.
Now, I’m reading all this, going along, skeptical, but entertained and still wondering how much could be true. They qualify a lot of what they say, but there’s a good deal of supposing that things could have happened in no other way than they describe. Or that at least they couldn’t possibly have happened as establishment archeologists/historians describe. I’m in no position to evaluate most of what I’m reading because I’m no student of archeology or astronomy or (much less) math. So I decided to see how the authors came out relative to stuff in which I do have some expertise. Starting with writing.
However good Lomas and Knight are with figures, they’re either lousy proofreaders or their copyreader failed them miserably. There are many sentences with missing words, Many words with gaps between letters. Furthermore, their attempts at etymology stretch the limits. For example, the title of the book comes from the name of an angel named Uriel who takes the aforementioned Enoch to the astronomical warning sites. In speculating about the source of this angel’s name, the authors say this:
...The Egyptian recorded that this. . .had come from a place called “Ta-Ur”. . ....The word “Ta” ...meant ”land” in ancient Egyptian. However, the word “Ur” is widely thought to mean “city”. So that the implication is that “Ta-Ur” was an ancient place where there is...a land of integrated communities...
This meaning of the word “Ur” caused us to reflect on the meaning of the name “Uriel”. Because an “El” ending of a Hebrew word meant “of God” , it seems reasonable to take this angel,s name as giving the meaning “city of God”.
Now I’ll tell you one on myself. There is, as most everyone knows, an Aegean Island called Rhodes. There is also a country in Africa formerly called Rhodesia. I knew that Cecil Rhodes was an English explorer/conquerer/diamond mogul and thought it “reasonable to take this Island’s name” as bequeathed by that nineteenth century Britisher. I recently visited said island and found to my ignorant embarrassment that the word “rhodes” means “rose” in Greek and has no connection to anything British whatsoever.
That’s not to say that Lomas and Knight aren’t right. It’s to say that their evidence is too slim to credit in this case without further substantiation and thus casts doubt on other conclusions. Another case in point, an assertion they make about America. Check these facts:
1.George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were Freemasons. So were many of the founding fathers. Much of Lomas and Knight’s “evidence” for their theses depends on analysis and application of the text of the rites of Freemasonry.
2.On the day preceding the spring equinox in 1990, George (H.W.) Bush...(A senior Freemason), signed into law the historic Joint Resolution of both Houses of Congress recognizing the seven Noachide laws as “the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization” and urged his country to “return the world to the moral and ethical values contained in those laws..” [I guess this happened. Congress does some weird stuff. I’m not going to take the trouble, though, to check.]
3. David Ovason, a researcher in arcane subjects...found no less than 20 zodiacs on public display in the center of [Washington D.C.]
From these facts, the authors conclude that “the Noachite Degree [part of the Freemason Ritual] continues to be “[very] important in American Law.” Which is probably news to anyone in the American legal profession and certainly news to the general citizenry.
Now, I might conclude from the fact that Bush the elder is a Mason and that many of the neo-conservatives who worked in his administration are also probably Freemasons and that thus the Iraq war is a conspiracy of Freemasons based on Noachite law.
I’m not sorry I read Uriel’s Machine. I learned quite a bit about astronomy, a lot about the book of Enoch, and got some insights into the Knights Templar and Freemasonry. Certainly, there are certainly huge holes in our knowledge of our own prehistory, let alone our planets. Assumptions need challenging and in many cases the evidence is so slim that one guess seems as good as another. However, to infer an “accurate” story of humankind largely from the rites of Freemasonry, asserting that these rites contain our racial memory of events from 10,000 years ago seems to me inductive reasoning at its most dubious, and in some cases ridiculous. It’s a great instance of what can be accomplished by those who go out looking for proof of conclusions they’re already formed. Scientific method, anyone?
August 21, 2013
Stone circles, megalithic mysteries, prehistoric planetary catastrophes and a 'lost' history of the world - with that kind of colourful and compelling content, it's hard to understand why the authors went with such a sales-murdering title. But this is a worthy book for anyone interested in those things. Knight and Lomas are not only knowledgable fellows, they're freemasons with access to the restricted library of freemasonry.
They also delve into areas of academic study that have failed to break the surface of public consciousness and which is, in its own way, quite astounding. More than that, Knight and Lomas delve into the spaces among the currently accepted research and create a powerful what-if that may point the way to future research. If this was only based upon other people's studies and ancient texts, all well and good, but the two authors have carried out their own research at ancient megalithic sites which has uncovered potentially ground-breaking new information. Here you will be able to consider the 'science' of prehistory - the astronomical alignments of megalithic sites - and the reasons for it, the links between druidic and Jewish traditions, freemasonry, arcane Royal practices and how all these things are linked.
If I have one criticism, it's that Knight and Lomas haven't completely tied together all their many and varied strands. I presume they consider much of this implicit, but there is such a wealth of information here - covering archaeology, history, religion, science and cultures as disparate as 'the curved ware people' of northern Europe and the Zadokites of the Holy Land, that it needs to be made explicit to gain solidity.
And it's worth mentioning that I have never read a book from a major publisher littered with so many errors. The publishers and their proof-reading team have really let down their authors.
Recommended.
They also delve into areas of academic study that have failed to break the surface of public consciousness and which is, in its own way, quite astounding. More than that, Knight and Lomas delve into the spaces among the currently accepted research and create a powerful what-if that may point the way to future research. If this was only based upon other people's studies and ancient texts, all well and good, but the two authors have carried out their own research at ancient megalithic sites which has uncovered potentially ground-breaking new information. Here you will be able to consider the 'science' of prehistory - the astronomical alignments of megalithic sites - and the reasons for it, the links between druidic and Jewish traditions, freemasonry, arcane Royal practices and how all these things are linked.
If I have one criticism, it's that Knight and Lomas haven't completely tied together all their many and varied strands. I presume they consider much of this implicit, but there is such a wealth of information here - covering archaeology, history, religion, science and cultures as disparate as 'the curved ware people' of northern Europe and the Zadokites of the Holy Land, that it needs to be made explicit to gain solidity.
And it's worth mentioning that I have never read a book from a major publisher littered with so many errors. The publishers and their proof-reading team have really let down their authors.
Recommended.
October 31, 2012
Another powerful and iconoclastic tome from Messrs Knight and Lomas in the same style as The Hiram Key. Sections were hard going but the recaps and chapter conclusions were helpful in keeping it all in perspective. Marvelously reasoned and fascinating about the sources of our culture and civilization and the connection with astronomy and religion. Great that these self motivated individuals have managed to research and reasonably conclude where a lot of 'experts' have not achieved.
July 6, 2008
This was a very interesting read, unfortunatly it's hard to determine how good the science behind it is.
August 9, 2013
A rather long but fascinating journey that primarily explores Earth's Megalithic culture, a forgotten civilizaton perhaps, named the Grooved Ware People after their pottery design. Could these shapes, including some complex geometric decorations, be a type of lost pictography? The book includes logical analysis of ancient sites, such as Newgrange, Stone Henge, Maeshowe and others, looking at their solar, lunar and astronomical alignments, particularly to Venus. It explores ideas of ancient rebirth rituals using these sites and the movement of heavenly bodies. The author goes on to include Freemasonary, Rosslyn Chapel, the Druids and the Book of Enoch, looking at how all of this might be reasonably connected across time. There is also mention of cometary impacts in Earth's past, including a significant event whereby seven comets impacted each of the Earth's oceans creating the global flood scenario described by many ancient cultures. Were the megalithic sites of our ancestors created to plot the path of asteroids in our solar system in an attempt to predict potential impacts? This and many more theories are considered and certainly generate interest to research further.
July 28, 2011
Metaliths, Enoch, astronomy, comets, floods, and all sorts of goodies. Fun and insightful!
February 10, 2015
I've read a couple of other books by these authors and have been impressed with their ability to accumulate evidence from an incredibly diverse sources. It is satisfying that such a wealth of information has emerged. I truly attempted to read some of the theories, application of evidence and proposed conclusion without a confirmation bias attitude. But it was difficult when I am already per-disposed toward certain presumptions. I thoroughly enjoyed this book in its presentation of such topics as: an alternate view of prehistory; rise of civilization; megalithic yard; Book of Enoch; ancient astronomy; biblical flood was a historical event(comet impact results), etc.
March 25, 2018
I'm writing this review 2 years after having read the book. I have yet to reference other sources dealing with the relationships between The Long Man of Wilmington and exiled Jews yet found this book to be very convincing in describing the real origins of the Free Masons. Reading about "Watchers" and the "Book of Enoch" when taking everything with a grain of salt of course is always a fun time and despite my doubts about some of the things this book claims to be true I nevertheless learned many fabulous things and give this book 5 stars for its effort and quality. One major thing this book DID convince me one was understanding the mystery of the Great Flood, knowledge I will never forget.
November 14, 2012
Very interesting indeed I. Really want to go and see Newforge in Ireland. What's the best preserved holding is ( though rebuilt I understand for the tourists) .that the planet Venus shines exactly through the port every 8 years shows how brilliantly it was designed many many years ago That is just one small piece of information from this book
January 26, 2013
Basic esoterica, linking ancient Judaism with Freemasonry, with an in-depth study of the Book of Enoch, attempting to uncover the mystical mythical origins of the world and implications for the future.
A minor complaint: editing is sloppy - spelling and grammatical errors everywhere, but, still very informative.
A minor complaint: editing is sloppy - spelling and grammatical errors everywhere, but, still very informative.
February 9, 2015
Christopher Knight delves into the origins of the Groove Ware people of the British Isles and discovers a connection to their unit of measurement, the Megalithic Yard, and other units of measurement throughout the world. He also examines the possibility that Enoch in the Book of Enoch is describing a visit to these prehistoric scientists to learn how to tell the times and seasons.
February 23, 2015
This is a must read for anyone wanting to sort through all the hype that's written about extraterrestrials, the distant history of mankind, the pyramids and other ancient mysteries. This is really down to earth. The author is very credible and does not stretch conclusions. It's the best book I've read on these subjects.
April 24, 2010
OMG! Now I know who the angels will be in my new novel! This is a fascinting book that connects the megalithic stone builders of Stonehenge and La Grange to the Jewish people and the Middle East. Lots of daVinci Code stuff in here too.
July 21, 2010
This is an excellent book which greatly expanded my understanding of the world's megalithic sites and the likely motivations the builders had for building them.
Re-reading it a second time as research for a book I'm writing.
Re-reading it a second time as research for a book I'm writing.
August 31, 2011
Another book full of history and paradigm changing information about the long-ago past. Well researched and written, one of many by this author worth adding to a history buff's library, if you like reading about the stone megaliths and the people who built them.
December 23, 2014
Loved this book - the idea of using pendulums as a means of obtaining an universal and repeatable metric is both interesting and accessible to the amateur wishing to repeat the activity for themselfes.
March 6, 2014
I was there jigging from foot to foot waiting for the book shop to open up for this one.
Searching for that which James Bruce was searching for.
Searching for that which James Bruce was searching for.
February 9, 2011
Very interesting look at history and prehistory
March 10, 2018
Só é bom pra quem ja está habituado com as baixarias do gênero e sabe diferenciar as coisas, o autor aparenta não ter conhecimento esotérico e pelo que encontrei em outros livros ele da muita corda pra assuntos batidos e sensacionalistas, e aparenta querer complicar as coisas quando se trata da maçonaria e quando adiciona uma narrativa muito pendante e com detalhes totalmente desnecessários.
O livro tem um grande leque quando se trata da questão das estruturas e de suas atribuições nas sociedades antigas, eu recomendo a leitura pra quem tem tempo sobrando, mas não voltarei a ler material do autor.
O livro tem um grande leque quando se trata da questão das estruturas e de suas atribuições nas sociedades antigas, eu recomendo a leitura pra quem tem tempo sobrando, mas não voltarei a ler material do autor.
July 30, 2008
I really wanted a new book, but I refuse to pay hardcover prices and everything that I wanted to read doesn't come out in paperback for at least another month. So, I'm re-reading this one. If you're into theoretical history and a lot of math and science, this book is for you. It isn't a light read, but i'm all into that kind of thing. It does make me wonder whether our current view of "pre-history" is accurate or not. I'm not convinced that our forefathers forfathers weren't a lot more technically advanced than we might have otherwise thought.
September 11, 2017
Ma ... ci prendiamo per il culo ?
Allora, cosa succede quando un Knight (scrittore di pseudoarcheologia) e un Lomas che dovrebbe essere un accademico, si spalleggiano a vicenda assieme ad altri pseudo-qualcosa ? Accade che scrivono libri come questo che fondano sostanzialmente sulla teoria che una cometa ha spazzato via civiltà antichissime nel 7000 avanti Cristo. Le prove? Beh ma le prove le hanno naturalmente pseudoscienziati con pseudoteorie su campi magnetici eccetera. Basta misurare campi magnetici e trak ne esce la data. L'inizio di questo volume poteva anche essere decente, anche se sono completamente scettico sul fatto che pseudobiologi sono riusciti a rintracciare TUTTO il DNA mitocondriale degli umani del pianeta, riuscendo a stabilire ESATTAMENTE che il genere Homo sapiens non ha una minchia a che vedere con il Neanderthaliano, principalmente perché: il DNA mitocondriale è contenuto nei mitocondri (risultato di una antica simbiosi) e chiunque saprebbe che nelle ossa o qualunque genere di reperto a meno che non sia veramente ben conservato, non presenta DNA; che mi risulti, non è stata mai trovato un corpo mummificato e integro della specie Neanderthal. Quindi dire che Homo sapiens e Neanderthal sono specie differenti nate da riprogrammazione genetica, è blaterare senza altra cognizione di causa se non quella di produrre letteratura pseudoscientifica a fine di lucro. Oltre queste pagine mi sono semplicemente rifiutato di leggere considerazioni sulla mitologia e sugli scritti, e sulle tradizioni della "massoneria" (la massoneria ...). Non c'è prova tangibile su questo pianeta (e quand'anche fosse stata trovata, come nel caso di Ubar, l'antico insediamento ritrovato anche grazie a riferimenti nel Corano, la semantica delle parole va legata al contesto - dire che Enoch con i suoi angeli ha insegnato le arti e la scienza o riprogrammato gli umani perché nei libri "sacri" così sta scritto, è creduloneria e faciloneria). Si parla di diluvio. Ok, ma quanto può risultare oggettiva la cronaca di chi ha visto uno tsunami e pensa che il mondo o sia piatto, o si estenda grossomodo al solo Medioriente? Un antico abitante dell'Iraq che vede la sua terra inondata (non escludo a priori che inondazioni e onde anomale possano essere accadute, assolutamente, meteoriti o comete precipitate, o maremoti, accadono), riporterà che l'intero pianeta è stato distrutto dalle acque, e che pochi sapienti hanno riportato la civiltà: devo credere per faciloneria che TUTTO il pianeta è stato ricostruito e prima c'era una civiltà avanzatissima? Secondo gli autori, abbiamo sotto agli occhi le prove! Le prove! I mari salati! Il Mar Morto! Una massa d'acqua che finisce in un avvallamento o una depressione, non ci rimane per 10 mila anni senza affluenti da falde o da fiumi, il che, anche se non sono un geologo, per semplice logica deduttiva, siccome l'acqua evapora, e anche in tempi molto brevi (basta vedere il lago Aral, che in pochi decenni senza i fiumi dalla Cina deviati per le coltivazioni di cotone, è letteralmente scomparso), mi fa pensare che il sistema geologico che crea questi laghi ha tempi molto più lunghi e meno subitanei di una semplice inondazione. Così come trovo abominevole la pratica di citare Graham Hancock e il suo Impronte degli dèi, in cui ormai nel corso degli anni si sa che anch'esso abbia blaterato a caso fondando principalmente sulle profezie di Cayce (il solito 10 mila avanti Cristo) e su una teoria dello slittamento delle placche tettoniche confutata negli anni '60. In particolare gli autori citano la sfinge: "non abbiamo motivo di dubitare che nel 7 mila avanti Cristo la sfinge esistesse". Mi spiace contraddirvi, pseudoaccademici, ma come tutto il pianeta avete molti motivi per dubitarne. Dal momento che non c'è prova geologica che la corrosione data dal dilavamento (come Hancock e i suoi sostengono) sul dorso della sfinge sia data dal fatto che è rimasta scoperta per secoli (non coperta dalla sabbia) sotto le piogge. Anzi, il danno fisico che presenta è dovuto all'azione chimica della sabbia impregnata d'acqua della falda acquifera della piana di Giza, visto che è rimasta sommersa per secoli nella sabbia bagnata. Il testo prosegue analizzando siti paleolitici. Stonehenge e altri osservatori astronomici. E' così strano che l'uomo antico come hobby osservasse le stelle? No. Anzi, forse non proprio per hobby e passatempo, probabilmente è la prima vera forma di religione antica. Le stelle sono lontane e misteriose, tutt'oggi guardiamo alle stelle con fascino e mistero. E' molto verosimile che l'uomo antico guardasse al cielo stellato notturno cercando una scienza. Ex astris scientia. E poi naturalmente lo sport preferito degli pseudoarcheologi: guardano ai testi mitologici e cercano riferimenti sugli oggetti antichi. Quello che magari era un sasso per levigare i calli, o un giocattolo in pietra, o un monile, o quant'altro presenti scritture, diventa per loro oggetto che prova in modo incontrovertibile che una civiltà a 3000 km di distanza avesse contatti con l'altra civiltà. Un esempio tra i tanti? Il gigante di Wilmington tiene due Asherah. Il che sarebbe dire tutto, ma aggiungerei che il gigante in questione potrebbe tenere in mano semplicemente due bastoni per fungere da gnomoni. Oppure potrebbe essere un antico "geometra". Ma del resto se non consideriamo quei due bastoni privi di caratteristiche che li rendano univocamente identificabili come asherah, delle vere e proprie asherah, come lo vendono altrimenti il libro?
Allora, cosa succede quando un Knight (scrittore di pseudoarcheologia) e un Lomas che dovrebbe essere un accademico, si spalleggiano a vicenda assieme ad altri pseudo-qualcosa ? Accade che scrivono libri come questo che fondano sostanzialmente sulla teoria che una cometa ha spazzato via civiltà antichissime nel 7000 avanti Cristo. Le prove? Beh ma le prove le hanno naturalmente pseudoscienziati con pseudoteorie su campi magnetici eccetera. Basta misurare campi magnetici e trak ne esce la data. L'inizio di questo volume poteva anche essere decente, anche se sono completamente scettico sul fatto che pseudobiologi sono riusciti a rintracciare TUTTO il DNA mitocondriale degli umani del pianeta, riuscendo a stabilire ESATTAMENTE che il genere Homo sapiens non ha una minchia a che vedere con il Neanderthaliano, principalmente perché: il DNA mitocondriale è contenuto nei mitocondri (risultato di una antica simbiosi) e chiunque saprebbe che nelle ossa o qualunque genere di reperto a meno che non sia veramente ben conservato, non presenta DNA; che mi risulti, non è stata mai trovato un corpo mummificato e integro della specie Neanderthal. Quindi dire che Homo sapiens e Neanderthal sono specie differenti nate da riprogrammazione genetica, è blaterare senza altra cognizione di causa se non quella di produrre letteratura pseudoscientifica a fine di lucro. Oltre queste pagine mi sono semplicemente rifiutato di leggere considerazioni sulla mitologia e sugli scritti, e sulle tradizioni della "massoneria" (la massoneria ...). Non c'è prova tangibile su questo pianeta (e quand'anche fosse stata trovata, come nel caso di Ubar, l'antico insediamento ritrovato anche grazie a riferimenti nel Corano, la semantica delle parole va legata al contesto - dire che Enoch con i suoi angeli ha insegnato le arti e la scienza o riprogrammato gli umani perché nei libri "sacri" così sta scritto, è creduloneria e faciloneria). Si parla di diluvio. Ok, ma quanto può risultare oggettiva la cronaca di chi ha visto uno tsunami e pensa che il mondo o sia piatto, o si estenda grossomodo al solo Medioriente? Un antico abitante dell'Iraq che vede la sua terra inondata (non escludo a priori che inondazioni e onde anomale possano essere accadute, assolutamente, meteoriti o comete precipitate, o maremoti, accadono), riporterà che l'intero pianeta è stato distrutto dalle acque, e che pochi sapienti hanno riportato la civiltà: devo credere per faciloneria che TUTTO il pianeta è stato ricostruito e prima c'era una civiltà avanzatissima? Secondo gli autori, abbiamo sotto agli occhi le prove! Le prove! I mari salati! Il Mar Morto! Una massa d'acqua che finisce in un avvallamento o una depressione, non ci rimane per 10 mila anni senza affluenti da falde o da fiumi, il che, anche se non sono un geologo, per semplice logica deduttiva, siccome l'acqua evapora, e anche in tempi molto brevi (basta vedere il lago Aral, che in pochi decenni senza i fiumi dalla Cina deviati per le coltivazioni di cotone, è letteralmente scomparso), mi fa pensare che il sistema geologico che crea questi laghi ha tempi molto più lunghi e meno subitanei di una semplice inondazione. Così come trovo abominevole la pratica di citare Graham Hancock e il suo Impronte degli dèi, in cui ormai nel corso degli anni si sa che anch'esso abbia blaterato a caso fondando principalmente sulle profezie di Cayce (il solito 10 mila avanti Cristo) e su una teoria dello slittamento delle placche tettoniche confutata negli anni '60. In particolare gli autori citano la sfinge: "non abbiamo motivo di dubitare che nel 7 mila avanti Cristo la sfinge esistesse". Mi spiace contraddirvi, pseudoaccademici, ma come tutto il pianeta avete molti motivi per dubitarne. Dal momento che non c'è prova geologica che la corrosione data dal dilavamento (come Hancock e i suoi sostengono) sul dorso della sfinge sia data dal fatto che è rimasta scoperta per secoli (non coperta dalla sabbia) sotto le piogge. Anzi, il danno fisico che presenta è dovuto all'azione chimica della sabbia impregnata d'acqua della falda acquifera della piana di Giza, visto che è rimasta sommersa per secoli nella sabbia bagnata. Il testo prosegue analizzando siti paleolitici. Stonehenge e altri osservatori astronomici. E' così strano che l'uomo antico come hobby osservasse le stelle? No. Anzi, forse non proprio per hobby e passatempo, probabilmente è la prima vera forma di religione antica. Le stelle sono lontane e misteriose, tutt'oggi guardiamo alle stelle con fascino e mistero. E' molto verosimile che l'uomo antico guardasse al cielo stellato notturno cercando una scienza. Ex astris scientia. E poi naturalmente lo sport preferito degli pseudoarcheologi: guardano ai testi mitologici e cercano riferimenti sugli oggetti antichi. Quello che magari era un sasso per levigare i calli, o un giocattolo in pietra, o un monile, o quant'altro presenti scritture, diventa per loro oggetto che prova in modo incontrovertibile che una civiltà a 3000 km di distanza avesse contatti con l'altra civiltà. Un esempio tra i tanti? Il gigante di Wilmington tiene due Asherah. Il che sarebbe dire tutto, ma aggiungerei che il gigante in questione potrebbe tenere in mano semplicemente due bastoni per fungere da gnomoni. Oppure potrebbe essere un antico "geometra". Ma del resto se non consideriamo quei due bastoni privi di caratteristiche che li rendano univocamente identificabili come asherah, delle vere e proprie asherah, come lo vendono altrimenti il libro?
March 21, 2017
Theories and hypotheses abound, and these two guys have many and are usually fun to read. It's been a while since I first opened this book and consumed it, so I will withhold judgment on it's "scientific findings". Anyone can read the synopsis here, so I won't touch it.
June 21, 2008
Simply stunning!
July 7, 2008
Great book for those who are into reading about real history. Some things have been proven incorrect but overall a good book.
September 9, 2008
fantastic
December 23, 2008
entertaining....a bit of a stretch, methinks
March 28, 2009
Signed by Chris Knight
October 12, 2021
Când ceasurile marcau prima secundă a zilei de întâi ianuarie 2000, oamenii de pe micuţa insulă Kiribati au întâmpinat zorii celui de-al treilea mileniu. Timp de 24 de ore după aceea, oamenii de pe tot globul au sărbătorit acest moment deosebit prin cea mai mare petrecere din istorie.
Sydney Harbour Bridge s-a transformat într-o vâlvătaie de jocuri de artificii, Marele Zid Chinezesc a fost luminat de la un capăt la altul, iar în Ierusalim au fost eliberaţi 2. 000 de porumbei.
Totuşi, a existat o mică problemă: al doilea mileniu mai avea încă 366 de zile până să se împlinească.
Deoarece sistemul nostru calendaristic nu prevede anul 0 d. Hr., trecuseră doar 1999 de ani de la presupusa naştere a lui Iisus Hristos, iar al treilea mileniu nu va începe înainte de începutul lui ianuarie 2001.
Dar puterile în exerciţiu hotărâseră că nu vor permite ca acest inconvenient matematic să le împiedice să declare oficial începutul anului 2000, ca fiind începutul mileniului.
Acesta este un exemplu banal al felului în care anumite idei sunt luate drept adevăruri, pe când ele nu sunt decât convenţii populare, fără nicio legătură cu realitatea. Iar cei ce avansează informaţii ce contrazic astfel de convenţii tribale sunt adesea priviţi cu reticenţă.
Când câteva exemplare din cartea Aparatul lui Uriel ce urmau să fie publicate au fost date presei britanice, multe ziare britanice, ca de exemplu Daily Express şi mai ales Daily Mail, au relatat în mod obiectiv despre descoperirile noastre. Până şi Sunday Times, adesea sceptic, a descris Aparatul lui Uriel ca aducând o explicaţie plauzibilă pentru felul în care societăţile preistorice au putut realiza observatoare astronomice cum este cel de la Stonehenge, construit din motive practice.
The Guardian a desconsiderat întreaga carte în câteva propoziţii, considerând că nu poate fi decât o prostie pentru că se folosea de surse pe care jurnalistul în cauză le considera ca neavând, evident, nicio legătură.
Ziarul Daily Telegraph a fost cel care a oferit cel mai interesant răspuns.
Omuleţul ce semăna cu o pasăre stătuse în faţa noastră aproape două ore şi jumătate. A spus că citise Aparatul lui Uriel şi a făcut o serie de afirmaţii, concluzionând cu ideea că această carte ce urma să o vedem publicată era complet eronată.
Sydney Harbour Bridge s-a transformat într-o vâlvătaie de jocuri de artificii, Marele Zid Chinezesc a fost luminat de la un capăt la altul, iar în Ierusalim au fost eliberaţi 2. 000 de porumbei.
Totuşi, a existat o mică problemă: al doilea mileniu mai avea încă 366 de zile până să se împlinească.
Deoarece sistemul nostru calendaristic nu prevede anul 0 d. Hr., trecuseră doar 1999 de ani de la presupusa naştere a lui Iisus Hristos, iar al treilea mileniu nu va începe înainte de începutul lui ianuarie 2001.
Dar puterile în exerciţiu hotărâseră că nu vor permite ca acest inconvenient matematic să le împiedice să declare oficial începutul anului 2000, ca fiind începutul mileniului.
Acesta este un exemplu banal al felului în care anumite idei sunt luate drept adevăruri, pe când ele nu sunt decât convenţii populare, fără nicio legătură cu realitatea. Iar cei ce avansează informaţii ce contrazic astfel de convenţii tribale sunt adesea priviţi cu reticenţă.
Când câteva exemplare din cartea Aparatul lui Uriel ce urmau să fie publicate au fost date presei britanice, multe ziare britanice, ca de exemplu Daily Express şi mai ales Daily Mail, au relatat în mod obiectiv despre descoperirile noastre. Până şi Sunday Times, adesea sceptic, a descris Aparatul lui Uriel ca aducând o explicaţie plauzibilă pentru felul în care societăţile preistorice au putut realiza observatoare astronomice cum este cel de la Stonehenge, construit din motive practice.
The Guardian a desconsiderat întreaga carte în câteva propoziţii, considerând că nu poate fi decât o prostie pentru că se folosea de surse pe care jurnalistul în cauză le considera ca neavând, evident, nicio legătură.
Ziarul Daily Telegraph a fost cel care a oferit cel mai interesant răspuns.
Omuleţul ce semăna cu o pasăre stătuse în faţa noastră aproape două ore şi jumătate. A spus că citise Aparatul lui Uriel şi a făcut o serie de afirmaţii, concluzionând cu ideea că această carte ce urma să o vedem publicată era complet eronată.
March 24, 2025
Eek. This bounces around a lot but does not provide some of the research or pictures you will need from locations and times. This book had me missing history channel days with ancient aliens before 2012. Saying sun worship is correlated with the archangel uriel who hides gods face behind the firmament is so incredibly farfetched. I heard from a dolores cannon regression that an alien used the sun as a portal (ufo more like it). At the same time, the astrology here on this planet is incredibly unreliable for character, and if you study angels or the way staying with god requires an utmost detachment from this earth, then you are aware there IS INDEED WORK TO DO… not just traveling to stone henge. Don’t be too worried, because ghosts on this earth have been recorded doing drugs and listening to messages. So this book may have influenced tourism, but I think aryeh kaplan did the time line of creation better, and once you see gods face, they say, you do not become reborn, and I know few people who would not want to eat with family or friends again. Religious and spiritual practices are meant to detach us from greed and capitalism. This book was just ok. I also think freemasons by nature are secretive, and there were past crimes in that society (some say jack the ripper in honor of a wealthy patron), so I am a skeptic… of the intention.
June 3, 2022
Interesting book but should be taken with a grain of salt.
I found the ties between the Druids and the Jews to be very interesting. Especially Zedekiah’s daughter who was taken North (Jeremiah 46:24)- the author claims she was taken to Ireland and married a prince. The author tied this as one of the reasons the Roman’s were focused on destroying both the Jews and the Druids. I also found the recreation of Uriel’s machine based on the text in The Book of Enoch to be fascinating.
Other areas were hard for me to swallow. I looked all over YouTube trying to find videos of Venus lighting up megalithic sites and couldn’t find anything. Some of the ties and explanations were also hard to follow. The figures in the book were not usually very helpful- more diagrams and maps would have helped make the story clear. Also- the images in the middle of the book were not in any kind of order and often times they were not even referenced. The bibliography was also incredibly vague- no page number or anything.
Overall- I really enjoyed the premise of tying together myths and legends with Biblical text. However, many of the findings seemed to be a bit of a leap and the constant tie back to Masonic teachings made me skeptical.
I found the ties between the Druids and the Jews to be very interesting. Especially Zedekiah’s daughter who was taken North (Jeremiah 46:24)- the author claims she was taken to Ireland and married a prince. The author tied this as one of the reasons the Roman’s were focused on destroying both the Jews and the Druids. I also found the recreation of Uriel’s machine based on the text in The Book of Enoch to be fascinating.
Other areas were hard for me to swallow. I looked all over YouTube trying to find videos of Venus lighting up megalithic sites and couldn’t find anything. Some of the ties and explanations were also hard to follow. The figures in the book were not usually very helpful- more diagrams and maps would have helped make the story clear. Also- the images in the middle of the book were not in any kind of order and often times they were not even referenced. The bibliography was also incredibly vague- no page number or anything.
Overall- I really enjoyed the premise of tying together myths and legends with Biblical text. However, many of the findings seemed to be a bit of a leap and the constant tie back to Masonic teachings made me skeptical.
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