1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Ladies and gentlemen, after that surprising, perhaps, unnecessary build-up, I'm sorry 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:16,000 you're going to have such a flop, but I believe you have had a galaxy of talented speakers 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:26,000 this year, so you oughtn't be finishing, perhaps, with a bad one. However, our moon of my delight, 4 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:37,000 who knows no way, the moon of heaven is rising once again. How often, hereafter, rising shall she 5 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:47,000 look through this same garden after me in vain? So sank the Persian astronomer poet, Omekaya, 6 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:59,000 in an old world Persian garden nearly eight hundred years ago. In the Middle Ages, the moon in the stars 7 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:10,000 in the heavens aroused a sense of beauty in mankind. Just imagine a magic Italian night in the Middle Ages. 8 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:21,000 The lovelorn Romeo gazes at the star-clad sky and sighs, Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, 9 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:28,000 the tips with silver, all these fruit-tree tops, but Juliet answers, 10 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:36,000 swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled awe, 11 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:47,000 lest that thy love prove likewise variable. And Marlowe, as well as Shakespeare, was thrilled 12 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:56,000 by the stars in the heavens. You all remember how Methistopheles conjured up to the inanimate 13 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:04,000 fowst division of Helen? Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burned the 14 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:15,000 cloughless towers of Elian? Thou art fairer than the evening air, clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. 15 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:26,000 When we gaze at the sky, do we not subconsciously feel the magic that thrilled the ancients? 16 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Don't we gaze up at the sky and see these mirrors of glowing stars, and don't we feel perhaps that on one of those 17 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:46,000 distant stars some fellow soul, too, is looking up into his sky, perhaps to a very faint star, 18 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:58,000 our own sun, and don't we feel some communion of soul with all the living beings and entities 19 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:07,000 throughout this wonderful universe? The early Greeks were really thrilled at the magic of the heavens. 20 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:21,000 They gazed at the star-club guys and thought they saw a wondrous ornament. The Greek ornament is cosmos. 21 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:35,000 And it is certainly very felicitous of you, Mr. Chairman, and Norman Oliver, to christen your society cosmos, 22 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:50,000 the love of beauty. And I must say, when I gaze around this audience, I feel like a fowst thrilled by a hundred heavens. 23 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:05,000 I'm afraid I feel really as if I'm here under false pretensives. I cannot claim to be an historian, nor a scientist, 24 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:14,000 perhaps in fact to be a head of the custom-made stars in Sunland, a seeker after truth, 25 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:26,000 and perhaps a more practical fashion. However, though, perhaps I have, well, I'm not going to have qualifications entirely, really. 26 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:43,000 One of my colleagues, Tim Sins, wrote a very well-known book on UFOs describing perhaps the most famous UFO in all history. 27 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:53,000 In Jesus' passing thence, saw Matthew sitting at the seat of custom, and he said unto him, 28 00:04:53,000 --> 00:05:11,000 follow me, and he followed him. So I, perhaps in my own, we in wonderful way, are trying to follow in the footsteps of no leper person than St. Matthew. 29 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Actually, I rather envy you people living in south of England, near London. In the Sunland, I really feel isolated, 30 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:32,000 completely from the world, and it may surprise you to learn that I never, at any time in Sunland, discuss space with anybody, 31 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:37,000 although I do, as it happens, give quite a lot of talk from the subject. 32 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Another, perhaps, qualification to which the linguists among you may construe, 33 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:55,000 my name, Drake, comes from the Latin draco, meaning dragon, and I have proved, for my own satisfaction, 34 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:01,000 but I regret to say to nobody else's, Marko, that the dragons of antiquity were spacemen. 35 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Ray, as you know, was the Egyptian sun god, and Mond is a German word for moon, so I suppose really, I could, 36 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:18,000 it would be rather difficult for me to claim to be a spaceman from the sun or moon, but however, for tonight, 37 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:27,000 just regard me as a spaceman from Sunderland, which to most of you will probably be more remote than Mars. 38 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Four hundred years ago, the discoveries of Trapeunicus and Kepler ushered in a new age, 39 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:46,000 their teachings, reviving some of the ancient Greek teachings, of course, that the earth went round the sun, 40 00:06:46,000 --> 00:07:00,000 and felted all that was taught in the Bible, and in 1600, that really marvellous man, Giordano Bruno, 41 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:09,000 who not only thought that the earth went round the sun, but thought of countless planets in infinite space, 42 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:20,000 with inhabitants, inhabited life all over the universe, he was imprisoned for eight years and burnt at the stake by the Inquisition. 43 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Galileo, as you know, got off somewhat lighter, he did, we can't, but he was allowed to some extent to expound his teachings. 44 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:52,000 As a matter of interest, although the Inquisition suppressed him to some extent, Cardinal Bellaminer did say that if Galileo's teachings were proved to be correct, 45 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,000 then the scriptures would have to be altered. 46 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Contrast those attitudes with the attitude today. Despite all the publicity given to spacemen in UFOs, 47 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:17,000 how's our own church changed its attitude? How's our church decided that the scripture and the church's teachings were half-binded? 48 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Galileo, as we know, discovered the wounds of Jupiter through the newly invented telescope. 49 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:35,000 He asked professors at Pisa University to look through the telescope as these satellites, none of them would, in case they saw it, though. 50 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Now, it doesn't matter exactly the attitude of science today, particularly of the Condon Committee. 51 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Well, the scientists in the church, for that matter, really take cognizance of this wonderful event of our century. 52 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:02,000 The discovery, really, of people from other planets, not only visiting Earth now, but have visited Earth in the past. 53 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:07,000 We have an awful lot to say about the Inquisition and the intolerance of the early church, 54 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:13,000 for which there appears to be very little excuse, but it is we well know. 55 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,000 The church and the scientists are not much different today. 56 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:25,000 It seems to me, ladies and gentlemen, that we actually are the Galileo's of the 20th century. 57 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:36,000 However, I often wonder, really, whether students of UFOs are approaching the subjects from the right point of view. 58 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:45,000 Those of you who are interested in astrology in the offal, know that our world is passing into the age of Aquarius, 59 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:51,000 which means, really, that all our thinking should be reorientated. 60 00:09:52,000 --> 00:10:02,000 I myself, I'm not sorry to say, perhaps I'm glad to say, I'm one of the most ignorant of men. 61 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:07,000 I mean that, and I hope the time will come when I will be really ignorant, 62 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:15,000 because, ladies and gentlemen, I feel that ignorance is the beginning of wisdom. 63 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:20,000 What I have tried to do, admittedly not with very much success, 64 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:28,000 is to try to think cosmically, to try to view from a different viewpoint. 65 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:35,000 All of you will remember those marvelous photographs taken by the cosmonauts, 66 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000 which shows our earth is a tiny ball. 67 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:44,000 It seems rather odd when you look at those photographs of the earth, probably about as big as a tennis ball, 68 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:51,000 and realise that our earth is infested by 3,000 million people. 69 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:58,000 As a matter of fact, in ancient times, and I think to some extent some people today, 70 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:03,000 thought that our earth was actually alive, that our earth, oddly enough, 71 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:09,000 was a living being, in that we infest the earth just like microbes, 72 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,000 and that the character of the earth, and to some extent oddly enough the weather, 73 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,000 is affected by the thought patterns of the people on it. 74 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:25,000 However, I think really we should try to unlearn, try to forget our conditioned mode of thought 75 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:32,000 and thought pattern, and try to look at our earth and look at its evolution and its history 76 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:39,000 from a detached point of view, just as if we were a Martian, or a being from Sirius or beyond, 77 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:45,000 looking at our earth in perspective. 78 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Well, our universe, as far as we know, appears to be about 5,000 million years old. 79 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:01,000 The yogis believe, and yogas are subject, I should hesitate to discuss, 80 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000 it's perhaps more dear to my heart than flowing sources. 81 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:14,000 We think that God, or the deity or the absolute, is imagining our universe into existence, 82 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:22,000 and that our universe in we ourselves are creations, mental creations of God. 83 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:31,000 The ancient Hindus actually worked out that our universe lasts for 154 billion years. 84 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:38,000 It expands to 77 million from a primeval, really thought pattern, 85 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:45,000 supporting the big bang theory, and then expands to 77 million years, then contracts. 86 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Then the absolute goes to sleep, nothing happens. 87 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:57,000 For a similar period, there is nothing, and then the universe starts up all over again. 88 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:05,000 A succession of cyclic universes, which was taught by the ancient Hindus, and also by the Greeks. 89 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:14,000 And we ourselves, just as the universe lives life after life, so we live life after life too. 90 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Our earth is believed to be about 4,500 million years old. 91 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:25,000 These figures are rather important, as I should explain in a moment. 92 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Actually, a Russian, Paul Gurling, claims that our earth is not 4,500 million years old, 93 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,000 but actually is actually 12,000 million years old. 94 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Now, in this tremendous time, obviously wonderful things have happened. 95 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Civilisations have risen and fallen. 96 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:59,000 And our earth at times has been struck, so we believe, by huge comets. 97 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Herbger, the Austrian cosmologist, taught that four previous suns crashed into our earth, destroying civilisations. 98 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:16,000 And people all over the world generally believe that before our present civilisation, 99 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:21,000 there have been at least four previous civilisations. 100 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:26,000 You see, we know very, very little about ancient times. 101 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:35,000 One of the most desolate things to a student of ancient history is the fact, but odd as it might seem to you, 102 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,000 there seem to be very, very few records. 103 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Most of the records, of course, were destroyed by fire and flood. 104 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Many were destroyed by emperors. 105 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Nabernazir, the emperor of Babylon in the year 723, destroyed all written records. 106 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,000 He wanted history to start from that particular date. 107 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:08,000 In the year 213, the Chinese emperor, Huang Pee, destroyed all the records in China. 108 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:19,000 As you probably know, the Spaniards notably Bishop Lander in the 17th century destroyed all the records in Mexico. 109 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:28,000 And every time you try to delve back to history, you find that there are very, very few records left. 110 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:36,000 But I think, you know, that our archaeologists are wrong in many respects. 111 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Because, surely, it seems to me quite wrong to try to write history just based on archaeological finds. 112 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:57,000 For example, anybody excavating the hood of Homer, who lived about 800 BC, 113 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,000 would obviously find practically nothing. 114 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:07,000 And yet, the writings of Homer in Hesiod about the same date have not been surpassed. 115 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:16,000 The oldest literature, for example, appears to be probably Achanatans really marvellous hymn to the sun, 116 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:25,000 written about 1370, the Gilgamesh epic, which probably goes back to about 2500 BC. 117 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:35,000 And the Ramayana, which is dated about 1800, and the Maburata in India about 1400 BC. 118 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:45,000 But ladies and gentlemen, these marvellous writings show such wonderful language and such exquisite thought. 119 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:54,000 The truly men must have evolved for thousands, tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, 120 00:16:54,000 --> 00:17:02,000 to produce such wonderful modes of thought and such marvellous language. 121 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Also, in chemistry, the ancient Chinese had absolutely marvellous pharmaceutical preparations. 122 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:22,000 The Chinese, the Aztecs, the Babylonians and the Egyptians, as far as we know, for over 3,000 or 4,000 BC, 123 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:28,000 did the most wonderful gold work and had the most wonderful metallurgy, 124 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:36,000 which surely they must have inherited from civilizations many generations ago. 125 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:48,000 I think one useful byproduct of the interest in UFOs and the spacemen in antiquity is that it is resurrecting 126 00:17:48,000 --> 00:18:01,000 the lost continents of the past with perhaps more enthusiasm and more proof than before. 127 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:08,000 Some years ago, I wrote a series of articles for the Flying Source Review, 128 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:16,000 which on the advice of Brinsley Le Porte-Trench were published in God's or Spacemen, 129 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,000 published by Ray Palmer in 1964. 130 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:29,000 And I tried to give a picture of what I thought was God's or Spacemen in the past. 131 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Unfortunately, Palmer published only 1,000 copies and they were restricted to private sale. 132 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:46,000 And actually, believe it or not, I myself advertised 2 or 3 times in Flying Source Reviews for copies, 133 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,000 and it could not get any. 134 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Palmer reprinted 1,000 copies last year. 135 00:18:54,000 --> 00:19:04,000 In God's or Spacemen, I do try to give some idea from the ancient record of these lost, 136 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:09,000 not only of the lost continents, but of lost civilizations. 137 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,000 I should deal with most of the countries of the world shortly, 138 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:18,000 but just to give you an idea of the principal dates. 139 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,000 I should just mention a few to you. 140 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:34,000 It is my belief that for about 2,000 years, its Spacemen were active on our own earth. 141 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:44,000 For example, in an ancient Chinese record, the Xu Qing, in the year 2,400 BC, 142 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:55,000 the Lord on high was very displeased with the Chinese and the wickedness in China. 143 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:01,000 There was a tribe with the perhaps rather sign of the name Mao, the Mao Tse, 144 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,000 whether they were just an ancestors of Mao Tse, we don't know. 145 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:10,000 God took away from them the power to fly. 146 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:18,000 And that China at that time was troubled by stupendous wars. 147 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:32,000 The Japanese record states that in the year 2346 BC, ten suns appeared in the sky all at once. 148 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:41,000 And nine of them were shot down by a character called Su Yu, the divine archer. 149 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:46,000 We perhaps might look upon the ten suns in the sky, 150 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,000 send it to all those suns seeing the sky in wrong time, perhaps as you thought. 151 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:58,000 A very little-known Japanese work called the Sei Ki Tu mentioned 152 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:10,000 that in the year 2300 BC, a man descended in Korea from the sky under a sandal tree, actually, 153 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,000 and that he lived in Korea for a thousand years, 154 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:20,000 recalling that marvelous character of, I'll put my alt-right in God's place, 155 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,000 and that was the name of the man called San Jume. 156 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:33,000 In the year 2000 BC, according to Dionysius of Halechianassus in his writings, 157 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:38,000 and Mark, you, we are a bit uncertain about the date, 158 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:46,000 minus of Crete was presented with the laws by Zeus, 159 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:51,000 Moses receiving the Ten Commandments from God. 160 00:21:51,000 --> 00:22:04,000 Also, about 2000 BC, a chip San Jume in Japan depicts seven suns over Kyoto, 161 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:14,000 and it shows a drawing of the Emperor of Japan making an airplane, 162 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:20,000 and kneeling to these seven, of course, we would call them UFOs in the sky. 163 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:27,000 And about the year 1800 BC, there was the famous Indian Ramayana. 164 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:34,000 This is a really marvelous story about Rama's quest for his wife, Sita, 165 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:42,000 who had been abducted to Ceylon by the evil genius Ravan. 166 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:52,000 And the writer, Balmiki, described battles in the air between Rama and Ravan. 167 00:22:52,000 --> 00:23:00,000 He described marvelous celestial spaceships, and if one read it with modern eyes, 168 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:06,000 one would be absolutely certain, I think, that you were reading about 169 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:13,000 celestials from the sky in wonderful UFOs. 170 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:29,000 In 1785, the Babylonians, King Hammurabi, also received laws from the Babylonian sun god, 171 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Shemash evoking again Moses and Minos. 172 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:44,000 In 1500 BC, of course, you have those circles of fire alleged to have been seen 173 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,000 over the court of Tutmose's III. 174 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000 I know in most of your four books you will have read about that 175 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:56,000 and the translation of the Papyrus by Count Rackervils. 176 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Actually, I wrote to the British Museum about that, trying to verify it, 177 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,000 and the Department of Egyptology wrote back the rather vague, 178 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,000 I think it is the Tullio Papyrus, but there are rather vague about it, 179 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:13,000 so I don't think that Egyptologists themselves believe it. 180 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Now, in 1400 BC, Klosos, the capital of Crete, was destructed. 181 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:28,000 Now, I know perfectly well that almost all historians and geologists 182 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:33,000 attribute the destruction of Klosos to earthquakes. 183 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:39,000 I think the latest theory is that Klosos was destroyed by the explosion of Santorin Island 184 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000 in the Mediterranean not far away. 185 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:46,000 It is probably what the truth was, but it probably was destroyed by earthquakes. 186 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,000 But then, on the other hand, as I shall mention later, 187 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:57,000 cities do appear to have been destroyed by extraterrestrial action. 188 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:02,000 And although it seems a bit improbable, it isn't beyond the bounds of possibility 189 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:08,000 that Klosos itself might have been destroyed by spacemen, 190 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:13,000 especially as one or two geologists or somebody who disagrees with the experts 191 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:22,000 say that from the evidence at Klosos itself, the fires and whatnot that were started 192 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000 don't have been started by earthquakes. 193 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:33,000 And in the year 1400, in India, we get now to the Marbarata. 194 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:40,000 This is the nine days war in northern India, a war waged by Prince Arjuna, 195 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:48,000 aided by the god Krishna, who were fighting another, 196 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,000 claimed to be the kingdom actually in northern India. 197 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Now, this war is described in the Marbarata in absolutely fantastic detail, 198 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:08,000 not only with flying ships, but also these, what we would call hydrogen bombs, 199 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:13,000 nuclear bombs, stupendous bombs that wipe out whole armies, 200 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:18,000 destroy herds of elephants, and actually not only shattered cities, 201 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,000 but make the very universe quick. 202 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,000 If you read these accounts in the Marbarata, written as far as we know, 203 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:31,000 about 1400 years ago, you would swear, ladies and gentlemen, 204 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:39,000 that you were reading an account similar to the destruction of Hiroshima. 205 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:46,000 And following year 1400, you notice I'm switching from country to country 206 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,000 because I want to get this particular data in chronological order. 207 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:56,000 These are the few records we have from that time. 208 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:05,000 In 1375, in Egypt, ruled this marvelous, really marvelous king, Ashnatham. 209 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:11,000 I know some people think he was not a great king, that he was a pacifist, 210 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:20,000 and while he reigned, he tried to usher in a kingdom of peace and enlightenment. 211 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:25,000 And finally, he was overthrown and the rule of Armon restored. 212 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:30,000 But when he became king, he was only about 14 or 15, 213 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:36,000 and he showed such immense wisdom that frankly, I, at least, would not be surprised 214 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:43,000 if he were inspired by the spacemen who I believed were visiting Armon of Armon. 215 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,000 And then, as I made this cross later, if I have time, 216 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:52,000 about the year 1200 BC, there was the Trojan War. 217 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,000 I'm sure you will have read at least some of the marvelous accounts 218 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:04,000 out of any Iliad or later on in the Odyssey, that the gods took sides in the siege of Troy. 219 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:15,000 Well, the gods, in goddesses, were such vivid detail that I prefer to think that they were spacemen. 220 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:22,000 For example, suppose the Russians and the Americans, suppose they are visiting Mars or one of the planets, 221 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:27,000 and just suppose there is a local war on Mars or on one of the planets they visit. 222 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Well, it's quite possible that the Americans and the Russians may give advice to different sides, 223 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,000 even if they don't actually interfere in the fighting. 224 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:46,000 Well, I prefer to believe that the gods or the spacemen were actually present during the siege of Troy. 225 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:53,000 Now, the Bible says that in about 915, Solomon's temple was built. 226 00:28:53,000 --> 00:29:03,000 Well, Solomon's temple, so it says in Kings, was built by angels and by caroben, 227 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:09,000 which, who are now, I said which, there's some confusion really. 228 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:16,000 It's the way the word caroben refers to a fiery wheel, perhaps to a spaceship itself, 229 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,000 or actually to the people manning it. 230 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:29,000 I think Solomon's temple in 950 was probably constructed with the help of an extraterrestrial. 231 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:42,000 Now, Babylonian and Assyrian reliefs and statues show, for the year 880 BC, 232 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:51,000 the king Charmonesa II, accompanied by weird beings. 233 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,000 I think that there were spacemen who were advising him, 234 00:29:55,000 --> 00:30:00,000 and they were given wings just to denote if they came from space. 235 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:09,000 Similarly, about 20 years later, in the year 860, the Babylonian king, as a Nardi Palna III, 236 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:14,000 he was depicted accompanied by beings with wings. 237 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,000 I know this probably sounds a bit fatuous, but just suppose, just suppose for the sake of argument, 238 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:24,000 that beings did land from one of the planets on our earth, you see, 239 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:31,000 and after we had sort of got used to them, they appeared with our own loyalty. 240 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:37,000 Well, I guess they read it, perhaps they might be drawn, perhaps with wings, 241 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:44,000 just to denote that they were not earthlings like ourselves, but had come from other planets. 242 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:52,000 And in the year 850, according to most chronology, lived Elijah. 243 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,000 We know, according to the Bible, that Elijah used to call up praetorus heaven 244 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:03,000 and called down fire on his enemies, and that Elijah was translated, 245 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:10,000 or he used to be translated to the skies, about the age of 50. 246 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:18,000 In the year 800, lived a marvellous queen of Babylon, Queen Smelemus. 247 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:25,000 You may remember some reference to her by Shakespeare, 248 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,000 it was someone I'd screened by praetorus antisperi, 249 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,000 going to make love by old Nini's tomb. 250 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,000 Nini, or Nina's, was her husband, too, said by the minister, 251 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,000 and she raised a tomb sort of Babylonian wreck, about a mile long, 252 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,000 and about a mile high, and a mile wide, which seems to be an important possible thing, 253 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,000 but she was an absolutely fabulous queen, 254 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:55,000 and she led the Babylonian into Syrian armies to Egypt, and right through India. 255 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,000 Her father was deemed to be O'Ani's, the Babylonian god, 256 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:06,000 and her mother was a teary artist, who was a fish goddess. 257 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:12,000 And then, in the year 716, Romulus, I'll have more to say about this later on if I have time, 258 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:17,000 Romulus was whisked to heaven in a cloud, 259 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,000 he was given judgment on the Palatine hill. 260 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,000 When the cloud came down from the sky, so were you told it anyway, 261 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:31,000 and Romulus was whisked off to heaven. 262 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:38,000 In the year 660 BC, 263 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:45,000 the Japanese emperor, Gimo, was helped, according to the Kujiki in the Nihongi, 264 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,000 the Japanese ancient record, 265 00:32:47,000 --> 00:33:02,000 he was aided by Celestials in his war against the Aeol of northern Japan. 266 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:10,000 In the year 640, the one of the early Roman emperors, Tullus Hostilius, 267 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:16,000 he and all his family were destroyed by fire from heaven. 268 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:22,000 In the year 630, as far as we know it anyway, 269 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:30,000 Zoroaster received the laws of Persia from Ahura Mazda, 270 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:41,000 the great Persian god, Sky god whom many of us think was the Persian name for denoting Spaceman. 271 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:51,000 And in 593, we had Ezekiel by the river Chobal in Babylon, saw his famous wheel. 272 00:33:51,000 --> 00:34:01,000 In 536, according to the Bible, Daniel met an angel or a being who is described very much, 273 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:07,000 and almost the same words practically, is Adamski's description of autumn from Venus. 274 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,000 That is if you care to believe Adamski. 275 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:21,000 In 508 BC, the city of Bonsano in Italy, so it was told by a plenie, 276 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000 was destroyed by fire from heaven. 277 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Last Portná was besieging Rome, the Romans were fighting the, I think it was the Samnites or the Etruscans. 278 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,000 In last Portná, we believe, enlisted the help of the space people, 279 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:47,000 and according to Plenie Dennerit, Bonsano was practically annihilated by a blast from heaven. 280 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:55,000 In 498 BC, the Romans say that wondrous beings came to the aid of the Romans 281 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,000 who had pressed at the battle of Lake Regulus. 282 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:10,000 In 490 BC, the Greeks alleged that wonderful beings aided Leonidas in marathon. 283 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:17,000 And in 480 BC, a wonderful light, or approximation, what we would call a UFO, 284 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,000 was seen at the battle of Salamis. 285 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:25,000 These, in a few, I think that happened most of the days, between 2400 and about 400, 286 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:37,000 which I, at any rate, prefer to believe were at least some evidence of extraterrestrial visitation. 287 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:48,000 In my book, Ancient East, I, at very great length, deal with the spacemen in ancient India, 288 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:56,000 Tibet, China, Japan, Egypt and Babylon. 289 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:01,000 I have very much doubts, seeing as I wanted to discuss the ancient west with you, 290 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:07,000 I very much doubt really whether I'll have a great deal of time to mention those. 291 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:15,000 But I should be glad, I think, to answer any questions about those countries later on. 292 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,000 Ancient West. 293 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:27,000 Well, after writing Ancient East, I decided to write about the rest of the world. 294 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:36,000 Incidentally, I finished Ancient East in 1966, and the book was not published until 1968. 295 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,000 As soon as I had finished Ancient East, I started Ancient West. 296 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:51,000 That took about three years, and in January of last year, I deposited with the publisher 297 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:59,000 a 465 page volume, Spacemen in the Ancient West. 298 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,000 Perhaps, well, I thought quite sure, really well, I'll just say something about this. 299 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:12,000 The bibliography to Ancient West lists 510 items in nine languages. 300 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:22,000 So you will see that whatever shortcomings may be, I have at least tried to resurrect as much data as possible 301 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,000 for far better brains than my own to interpret. 302 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:32,000 Unfortunately, for me, the publisher kept the manuscript 12 months. 303 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:39,000 And although at the beginning, I think he was keen on publishing it, unfortunately, 304 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,000 it was supplanted by chariot of the gods. 305 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:50,000 Now, I don't think for one moment that I'm criticizing Eric von Denikin at all. 306 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:56,000 Good luck to him. The more publicity we can get, the more books which are published on Spacemen 307 00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:00,000 both today and yesterday, the more good for the cause. 308 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:09,000 But I personally found it somewhat embarrassing because I'd heard articles publicizing the book 309 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:19,000 appeared in the Sunday Mirror, and many people in Sandsman came up to me in June of last year 310 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:24,000 thinking that I myself was writing them because I had given many talks in the Northeast 311 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:29,000 and mentioned almost everything that appeared in chariot. 312 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:38,000 My own book, called for Spacemen, in 1964, written five years before Chariot of the God, 313 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:44,000 has anticipated Denikin to a considerable extent. 314 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:52,000 Well, unfortunately, from my point of view, at any rate, although my publisher had the manuscript 315 00:38:52,000 --> 00:39:02,000 last, the January of last year, he did not really, whether he considered it or not, 316 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:10,000 it's really not for me to say, but the point is that Chariot came out in the English translation in October. 317 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:15,000 So the publisher returned the manuscript to me after having it 12 months, 318 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,000 and I honestly thought he had accepted it, of course now I'm looking for him in the publisher. 319 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:32,000 Well, Spacemen in the Ancient West is a fairly lengthy analysis of Spacemen in Lemuria, 320 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:40,000 Atlantis, Ancient Greece, the Etruscans, Rome, Scandinavia, 321 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:48,000 North and South America, Mexico, and Peru, and also ancient Africa. 322 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:58,000 I should try to give you a brief resume, but I should be very glad to try to answer any questions later on. 323 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:03,000 The first three chapters deal with the antiquity of our Earth. 324 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:14,000 I explained very briefly how originally, perhaps about 2,000 million years ago, 325 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:23,000 all the land on our Earth was grouped into one continent called Pangea, surrounded by a sea called Pantalacia. 326 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:32,000 And then after billions of years, the continent split into two, into Laurasia and Gondwana land. 327 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:43,000 Gondwana land later split up into Lemuria, and I describe as far as I can from various records and so forth, 328 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:48,000 and I'm talking about the Lemurians, who we think lived, of course it's very difficult to guess it, 329 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:56,000 an exact chronology I know, probably 10 or even 20 million years ago. 330 00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:05,000 And many of us believe that there was a very great civilization in the Pacific known as Lemuria, 331 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:13,000 and the Lemurians were inspired by beings from the planet, notably Venus, 332 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:19,000 or on the Middle, our astronomers have very doubtful whether life could exist on Venus. 333 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:26,000 Lemuria was finally destroyed by earthquakes, which students of the occult allege, 334 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:32,000 of course, believe it or say, as you may, was really promoted by the black magicians 335 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:37,000 who were using the Lemurian occult forces for evil purposes. 336 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:43,000 Those of you who are familiar with Churchwood's works may recall that, I think it's the children of Moe, 337 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:49,000 I describe this spaceship, the Lemurians. 338 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:59,000 The Lemurians, before their continent disappeared, migrated to India and began the earliest Indian civilizations, 339 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:08,000 and also to South America and over to the new continent of Atlantis. 340 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:14,000 In those days, according to the Austrian herpiger, there was no moon in the sky, 341 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:24,000 and the Atlantis existed as far as we know, I should think for about a quarter million years. 342 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:29,000 We have three fairly long chapters dealing with Atlantis. 343 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:37,000 There are two schools of thought regarding the credibility of the information for Atlantis. 344 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:45,000 We have a lot of information by psychics, such as Rudolf Steiner and Edgar Cayce, 345 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,000 and you may have read the book, Phyllis the Tibetan. 346 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:57,000 The information from the scum entities and from people who under hypnosis have regressed the previous lives. 347 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,000 They have regressed the previous lives and returned back to present life. 348 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:10,000 All under hypnosis give us wonderful details alleging that Atlantis had a really brilliant civilization, 349 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:14,000 a civilization probably a couple of hundred years in advance of ours. 350 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:23,000 And then you have perhaps the semi or the quasi historical side of ancient histories, 351 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:31,000 such as Dionysius of Hadesanases, Plutarch to some extent, and Deocasius, 352 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:36,000 who gave it very hints of this marvellous continent in the West. 353 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:43,000 It is generally believed now, I think, that probably about 12,000 years ago 354 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:51,000 that the Atlantans invaded the West, just as they made them, invaded the West on D-Day. 355 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:58,000 In fact, Greek legend states that the Atlantan forces were led by Hercules, 356 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:03,000 after whom the pillars of Hercules were named, and that the Atlantans, 357 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:08,000 Conqueror, Libya, Spain, Southern France, 358 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:17,000 were finally smashed by a coalition of the Athenians and the Egyptians. 359 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:22,000 Many of us think, at least we perhaps would prefer to think, 360 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:29,000 that before Atlantis was finally destroyed, that initiates for Atlantis 361 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:34,000 were rescued by spaceships from Venus. 362 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:38,000 Many of us think that, well, before very long, 363 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:42,000 that our own civilization would probably be destroyed, 364 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:49,000 and that spacemen will land and rescue the initiates among us. 365 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:54,000 And there are garbled references in the Bible that are more or less supporting that. 366 00:44:54,000 --> 00:45:02,000 What I think is interesting is that about 10,000 BC, Athens seems to have had 367 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:06,000 quite a brilliant civilization. 368 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:10,000 This does conflict with the archaeologists. 369 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:19,000 I think at the present time, the archaeologists say that probably before about 2,500 BC, 370 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,000 Greece was not even inhabited. 371 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:28,000 Although discoveries that come from the Kütök in Turkey seem to suggest 372 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:33,000 civilizations not far away, about as far back as 9,000. 373 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:41,000 According to Plato, this is very strange for almost 2,000 years. 374 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:48,000 Western civilization is from unto practically every word that Plato wrote. 375 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:53,000 As a matter of fact, Plato and Aristotle between them really hypnotized men 376 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,000 for about at least 1,500 years. 377 00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:00,000 There was really no progress at all because the church and scholars 378 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:05,000 didn't thought, as Aristotle and Plato said they should. 379 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:13,000 But Plato's really marvelous account of Atlantis is generally dismissed as science fiction. 380 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:24,000 But actually, I really don't think it can be, because Plato says that he was relating 381 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:33,000 the words of Solon, his great ancestor who lived about 550 BC. 382 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,000 He had had this story from the Egyptian priests. 383 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:44,000 It's noteworthy that Preetius, Homocrates and Socrates present at these discussions 384 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:50,000 in Socrates who would argue about anything, never disputed the Atlantis story at all. 385 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:56,000 However, I should be very glad to address him later on about ancient Athens. 386 00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:02,000 Now, a study of the Greek legends is very revealing. 387 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:09,000 Hesiod, principally, although his tales were garbled to some extent by Orbeez 388 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:17,000 about 800 years later, Hesiod writes of the golden age of the gods, 389 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:23,000 the silver age, the bronze age and the iron age. 390 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,000 The golden age was under Cronus. 391 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:33,000 Now, Cronus actually, he supplanted Uranus. 392 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:38,000 Very little is known about Uranus, but a lot of us attempted to believe 393 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:44,000 that the Uranus were most ancient stellar civilizations 394 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:49,000 who perhaps landed on our Earth very, very long ago. 395 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:53,000 Our Earth might have been used as a transit base, 396 00:47:53,000 --> 00:48:02,000 really for expeditions from other solar systems, through our solar system, 397 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,000 onto further systems. 398 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:09,000 The Uranus were a very ancient civilization. 399 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:19,000 It was landed by Cronus or Saturn who was emperor of a marvellous golden age. 400 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:26,000 Actually, you'll think about these golden ages in the Greek golden age 401 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:33,000 and also in the golden age the Populvul, it was mentioned in the Populvul in Guatemala, 402 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,000 that there were no women. 403 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,000 Well, it was a golden age because there were no women, 404 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,000 it is a matter of speculation. 405 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:49,000 But I think really during the golden age, Earth was ruled by Saturn, 406 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:58,000 possibly by space being from the planet Saturn, or the Saturn moon. 407 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:06,000 They were followed by Jupiter, who is identified with the planet Jupiter. 408 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:15,000 And that age, a silver age, Earth was not quite as present as it was under the previous age. 409 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:20,000 The giants rebelled, there was war between heaven and Earth, 410 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:24,000 evidence for what we say all over the world of space wars. 411 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:31,000 There were cataclysms, Berlikowsky mentions that comets struck our Earth. 412 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:35,000 In fact, apart from possible interplanetary war, 413 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:43,000 civilizations on our Earth were disrupted, if not destroyed, by cataclysms. 414 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:49,000 Which are mentioned in a garble form, not only in the Greek legends, but in other legends too. 415 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:56,000 Now, Greek literature is very fascinating. 416 00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:02,000 We have really some marvellous characters. 417 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:09,000 Crete, for example, we have marvellous tales about the Minotaur in Invergillus, 418 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,000 who appeared to have been Leonardo da Vinci. 419 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:21,000 A deadless to escape from the famous Labyrinth on Crete, invented, so we told, invented wings. 420 00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:25,000 He escaped with his son Icarus. 421 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:31,000 Unfortunately, he hadn't invented the law of gravity. 422 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:38,000 Unfortunately for Icarus, who went too high in the sky and his wings fell off, and Icarus was killed. 423 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:54,000 In a lot of the Greek heroes seem to me to bear a market resemblance to the prophets of the Old Testament. 424 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,000 You have one of the great poets, Italides. 425 00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:04,000 He claimed to have gone on a trip to the planets. 426 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:12,000 He had epimenities, who were without looking for sheep, and ended a cave. 427 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:18,000 When he came out, about 45 years had elapsed. 428 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:23,000 In our present UFO context, we would probably might construe that, 429 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:27,000 it's a being whisked away through another planet. 430 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:33,000 He returned and was noted as a wonderful teacher. 431 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:40,000 Aristides, in the third century, was famed for astral travelling, 432 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:47,000 and also what called as astral journeys. 433 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:54,000 Pythagoras was taught, as far as we know, by the druid Aboris. 434 00:51:54,000 --> 00:52:05,000 He is credited with journeying to various countries too. 435 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:14,000 The Greek playwrights also wrote about the gods, as if the gods actually existed. 436 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:19,000 The Greek playwrights introduced into Greek tragedy, 437 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:24,000 the deus ex machina, which is that really from God, from the machine. 438 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:28,000 We think that the deus e fer to the machine is the universe, 439 00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:35,000 but it could possibly have been a being from a spaceship. 440 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:41,000 Actually, if you're rather an unfortunate business-speaking Greek playwright, 441 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:49,000 Aeskiles, for example, he was killed by a falcon, 442 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:55,000 dropped a tortoise on Aeskiles' bald head, mistaking it for a rock. 443 00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:00,000 Sophocles was choked to death by a grape, co-euripides, 444 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,000 who was taken shelter over the king of Thrace, 445 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:09,000 but actually was thrown to pieces by wild dogs. 446 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:19,000 The Greeks too, I'll have one or two rather scanty references to spaceships. 447 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:27,000 For example, in 392 BC, during the fall of Sparta, 448 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:32,000 a spaceship was alleged to have been seen overhead. 449 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:40,000 In 327 BC, Alexander the Great was besieging Tyre, 450 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:47,000 and it is alleged that a fleet of fiery shields descended from the sky 451 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:53,000 and aided Alexander by destroying the walls of Tyre. 452 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,000 I'd be glad to answer any questions on Greece, 453 00:53:56,000 --> 00:54:02,000 but I would really like to turn to ancient Rome. 454 00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:06,000 The Romans, perhaps more than antitrustians, 455 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:13,000 more than any other people of antiquity, worshipped sky gods, 456 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:21,000 and they devoted, their priests devoted most of their time to studying the sky. 457 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:31,000 The Romans and the Etruscans before them ruled their very lives by prodigies seen in the sky. 458 00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:41,000 In about 950 BC, one of the Etruscan kings, Tiberinas, 459 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,000 fell into the river Albula in the ground. 460 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:48,000 The name of the Albula was changed to the river Tiber. 461 00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:56,000 Well, Deocasius tells us that his grandson Amulius, who lived about age 50, 462 00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:01,000 had inherited a wonderful, apparently inherited, 463 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,000 this wonderful electrical science, 464 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:11,000 and he mastered absolutely marvelous power and could create stupendous damage. 465 00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:17,000 Unfortunately, according to Deocasius, he raised an earthquake and destroyed his palace. 466 00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,000 And himself, when his lake overflowed. 467 00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:29,000 Now Romulus, I think, is an absolutely marvelous character. 468 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:36,000 You may recall that the mother of Romulus, Reis Silvia, 469 00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:40,000 was a vestal virgin who was not supposed to marry. 470 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:45,000 Well, she had twins, Romulus and Remus, 471 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:51,000 and she said that her father was the god Mars. 472 00:55:51,000 --> 00:56:00,000 Now, Romulus found it wrong, actually, on the 21st of April, 753 BC, 473 00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:04,000 although he didn't know that it was 753 BC 474 00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:10,000 and he didn't know that he was found, I believe, on Shakespeare's birthday. 475 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,000 However, be that as it may. 476 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:20,000 Romulus was a very good thing indeed. 477 00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:27,000 As I mentioned to you earlier, in the year 716, he was whisked to heaven on a cloud. 478 00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:33,000 Classical histories say the same thing happened to Hercules, to Escalapius, 479 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,000 and to a few other heroes too. 480 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:41,000 Now, this seemed a very tall tiered force, of course, to accept. 481 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:45,000 Although, I believe, in the humanoid states that, 482 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:54,000 what, on the 21st of November 1952, in D'Amantina, in Brazil, 483 00:56:54,000 --> 00:57:02,000 a Brazilian peasant was actually disappeared in a cloud, 484 00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:10,000 which was emanated from two balls that were left nearby him, 485 00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:14,000 by two humanoids, about 18 inches high. 486 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:20,000 Now, it seems a bit difficult for us to believe that people actually disappeared in the cloud. 487 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:26,000 Both this case in Brazil and, I think, one or two others that have happened in the last few years 488 00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,000 seemed to support that. 489 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:32,000 There was no evidence that Romulus was there or was murdered. 490 00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:40,000 Now, a couple of days afterwards, Julius Proculus, a well-known Roman senator, 491 00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:50,000 swore on the most holy of oaths that he had seen Romulus on the road to Rome, 492 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:56,000 and then Romulus said that Rome would develop into a great city. 493 00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:02,000 Now, it seems, I must say, it seems very trite, and perhaps you just believe it, 494 00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:06,000 friends of mine say, fancy you, fancy you, Roman, believing, 495 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,000 what do you think you believe? 496 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:09,000 What do you say? 497 00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:15,000 That this man ascended to heaven, and then his mother was a virgin, his father was a god. 498 00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:19,000 He went to heaven, and then he came back from the dead. 499 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:25,000 But fancy a man of you, a leg, question mark, a leg of intelligence believing it's there like that. 500 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:26,000 You say? 501 00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:36,000 And I say, yes, but 700 years later, didn't the same thing supposed to have happened to a man called Jesus? 502 00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,000 All that was different, that was different. 503 00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:43,000 No, the Romans were just plagiarising the Christians. 504 00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:52,000 Well, and then you say, well, how was it that Livy and other historians wrote about this before the birth of Jesus? 505 00:58:52,000 --> 00:59:01,000 So, this to me, I've written rather a tendentious chapter on Jesus, I should be glad to answer questions later on. 506 00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:09,000 But you say, we ascribe to Jesus almost the very things that we really known about Romulus. 507 00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:16,000 Now, the successor of Romulus, Pneumocompeius, was a remarkable fellow. 508 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:21,000 He was probably about the best emperor that Rome ever had. 509 00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:26,000 He was a philosopher king. 510 00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:31,000 The one thing I'd like to mention too before we play for profit, 511 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:35,000 that he was an absolute marvellous man. 512 00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:44,000 He said to have married a nymph called Echegria, and he tried to pass a law which would have changed human history. 513 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:48,000 If only he could have passed this law, all our lives would have been different. 514 00:59:48,000 --> 01:00:03,000 This wonderful man was a philosopher, and he brought before the Romans sense a law against women who gossip and who meddle in other people's business. 515 01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:12,000 And, believe it or not, according to Livy, it is very best to get this law passed, which will change human history. 516 01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,000 But, unfortunately, he couldn't. 517 01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:22,000 So after that, he concentrated on the comparatively simple jobs of controlling light. 518 01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:35,000 He had a very high reputation in Roman times as a practitioner of this marvellous electrical science. 519 01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,000 But somehow we seem to have lost. 520 01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:48,000 Well, ladies and gentlemen, I was hoping to also cover Scandinavia and the ancient dimensions, 521 01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:58,000 and also Rome to deal with Hannibal and events of the first century and due to the season. 522 01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:07,000 However, I can see that there's hardly time for that, but I should be glad to answer any questions any of you may have cleared to ask. 523 01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:13,000 Not only on what I have mentioned tonight, but as I say, my studies have covered the whole world, 524 01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:19,000 so I should be glad to try, perhaps with Scandinavia's success, to answer any questions about any country. 525 01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:20,000 Thank you.