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Astronomy and Messages from Ancient Times Journal of Earth Science and Engineering 4 (2014) 749-756 doi: 10.17265/2159-581X/2014. 12. 004 D DAVID PUBLISHING Astronomy and Messages from Ancient Times Amal F. Farhat The Lebanese Canadian Trading Company, Beauty Devices Store, & Luxe Nail Bar Salon, Saida, Lebanon. Received: November 06, 2014 / Accepted: November 28, 2014 / Published: December 25, 2014. Abstract: Our solar system’s cyclic order explains the sudden appearance of the Advanced Sumerians and Pharaohs around the time of the Atlantean and Mayan destruction. Certainly past advanced civilizations do point to the cyclic rise and fall of human cultures extending much farther back into “prehistory” than currently accepted. Ancients believed the universe was concentric heavens, there is evidence of the ancient knowledge of the sun’s processional cycle of almost 26,000 years, leading to the coup of north and south poles. Edmund Halley wrote about the photon belt that periodically encases the Pleiades constellation’s eight suns. Halley proposed planet Earth was composed of five concentric earths. In 1950s Doctors Watson and Crick discovered a third separated strand in the double helix. Now energies from the Photon Belt are recalibrating dormant DNA strands, where originally humanity was endowed with 12 DNA strands. Every culture developed their legend of the perfect Human who emerges at the end of human evolution, these prophecies also met with the Abrahamic religions concerning the end’s signs and the return of paradise on Earth. Christ and the Quran spoke of a light consciousness that succeeds in the earth and the succession of angel like humans before the end. Key words: Ancient cosmos maps, multilayered heavens, cyclic solar order, axes coupe, photon belt, 12 DNA strands, cosmic consciousness. 1. Ancient Maps of the Heavens substance). Hell was at the center of the earth (Fig. 1). Babylonians believed in the seven earths and seven The ancients believed in the multiple layers of the heavens, the lower human world and the upper world, heavens and earth, and likened the world to a giant and believed that below our sky and earth existed six tree embracing many worlds. To the Greek skies and six Earth one above another. Ancient philosophers the map of the universe was divided into Babylonian history documented tablets stressed the the “heavens” where there lived some aspects of the multiplicity of earth layers from the bottom of the universe. It was believed that the seven heavens earth and the underworld. We read in the sixth board revolve within the outer heavens in regular movement of the inscription of the Babylonian creation epic in a clockwise direction at a constant speed. The tenth Enuma Elish: “They set up rituals in the majestic heaven was the dwelling of God and the elite, and the Ezagela and laid the foundations of worship and then initial engine that controls the movements of the other dispersed among them the heavens and earths.” (Fig 2) heavens. The ninth Heaven was referred to as [1]. “spherical crystal, the eighth the Planetarium.” The The Pharaohs also believed in the seven heavens, near seven heavens all rotated in the opposite direction seven earths, and the lower human world. They had of the outer heavens in a clockwise direction. Earth knowledge of the six earths inside the earth and was considered the center of the universe being believed that the lower world had a guard, Anubis, a composed of four elements: earth, water, air and fire. man who has a wolf head. And that the lower world The sky was one element, ether or essence (the fifth had courts with forty-two judges. The king of the underworld is Osiris [2]. Corresponding author: Amal F. Farhat, private researcher, research fields: cosmology, history, religion. E-mail: Doctor Edmund Halley also demonstrated through [email protected]. his study on the atmosphere and the Earth’s magnetic 750 Astronomy and Messages from Ancient Times Proposal is that each of those balls or planets which are inside our earth may contain life within. Halley also proposed that likely there were small illuminating stars inside the earth that light that unknown world. “Charting the Heavens and the Seas”, Dr. Halley [3] presented his theory to the Royal Society in 1692. For the Mayan culture, the cosmos consisted of cosmic poles omitting energies from the heart of the cosmic tree that accompanied by the evolution of consciousness in a hierarchical nine degrees that constitute a record of the development of awareness since the beginning of time. For each of these degrees of their own frequency, they print an example of awareness on human beings. These energies condense Fig. 1 The Medieval Universe map. with each layer twenty times and they accelerate in decreasing in lengths according to an accurate chronological order. While deep in the bottom began a wave of evolution that stretched for 16 billion years, the ninth and final wave’s length is of 234 days. And the last wave will move our understanding of the world returning us to unity awareness and commitment to the cosmic plan; recognizing the highest significance of our lives and what was behind the process of evolution. It should be noted here that the Mayan civilization had knowledge of the cycles of our solar system, and left a warning of a certain alignment in the dome of the sky that brings with it Fig. 2 Babylonian creation epic tablets. massive destruction to the Earth [4]; Their texts left us field and gravity, that planet Earth is composed of five a warning that the earth and the sun will line up in a earths inside each other, affecting the atmosphere of straight line with the heart of the galaxy at the end of our outer planet. They are like concentric globes, the cycle, and that we will be able to see the heart of globe smaller than a globe all of which are inside the galaxy through the Split in the dark that will open planet Earth, each layer has its own atmosphere. for three days. According to their sacred texts, the Halley said in a speech before members of the British dark rift that opens during the solar alignment with the Royal Society in London that the earth is hollow and center of the galaxy is an entrance to hell, a all the celestial bodies have hollow cavities like the headquarters of evil. But this alignment which was sports ball. That planet Earth has a thick crust of repeated approximately every 26,000 years with what approximately 400 miles or less, and then a hollow resembles the earth’s cyclic dooms hour, this time will Earth with another smaller earth, such as the Chinese coincide with the completion of the Cosmic plan of puzzle box (box inside a box) to five layers of the creation and the coming together of the layers of the planet in each other. The most surprising of the universe. Astronomy and Messages from Ancient Times 751 In the Quran the universe is a horn or trumpet containing seven heavens and of the earth like them, Fig. 3, they are worlds in degrees of light, all spinning with our physical world around a central axis. Trumpet Universe [4] and to our Earth there is a strange centrality, not in the solar system or in the Milky Way or the visual material universe, but as a gateway to an etheric world in the higher heavens and bottom worlds of lesser light. “Allah Who created seven skies and of the earth like them He descends the order between them so that you know that Allah is Fig. 3 Trumpet of layered heavens and earths. well capable of everything and that Allah has encompassed everything in knowledge”. Quran, Chapter 65, Verse 12. “To Him belong what is in the heavens and what is in the earth and what is between them and what is beneath the soil.” Quran, Chapter 20, Verse 6. Fig. 4 A Hieroglyphic writing in ancient Egyptian “Abu 2. Earth History Dis.”, that shows airplanes. There is no doubt that the human race is ancient in the appearance of the Pharaohs among the Egyptians the Earth, Anthropologists admit that the last Adam after the sinking of Atlantis of superior evolution. The appeared before 450 thousand years after a far less Atlantis Dialogue, Plato [5]. developed chain. Only recently the depth of the earth's In his “Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings” Prof. history is being revealed, that periodic destruction Charles H. Hapgood [6] provides pointers to the repeated re-creation (Noah’s Ark) many times. There existence of a former civilization of high are records of disappearing civilizations in mass technological achievement and considerable destruction and the rise and fall of continents. There is intellectual development, called by some “Atlantis”. no doubt that the previous civilizations reached stages The Mayans reported that an alien race (whom they of development that may surpass what we have called “gods”) came from over the seas and taught become today. In the records of the Pharaohs there are them symbolic writing and how to build pyramids. pictures of flying saucers, a proof that ancient Some modern researchers speculate that these were civilizations communicated with others in the universe the Egyptians. It is possible, however, that the (Fig. 4). Egyptians and ancient Americans shared a common The Sumerian civilization appeared suddenly as a heritage, and that in the Western Hemisphere there are (civilization of gods), as scientists are not able to remains of colonies established as parts of a global justify its sudden rise and great development. It could empire or by survivors of disasters that destroyed the have been part of a sophisticated civilization on Earth motherland.
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