That Old Blood Track
In
occultic rituals special emphasis is paid to numerology, onomatology
(the study of names), and toponomy (the study of places). These
disciplines are part of a broader field known as 'twilight language'. Anthropologist
and zoologist Loren Coleman describes it thusly: "'Twilight language'
concerns, from psychology, the hidden significance of locations, dates,
and other signs; from religious studies, the hidden symbolism that lies
in the texture of the incidents; and, from criminology, the profiling
insights that have revealed the ritualistic nature of certain crimes and violent incidents...
"...
Buddhism's tantras are thousands of years old and yet never publically
revealed, never written down. Gradually it became necessary to write the
secrets down so they would not be completely lost. But when they were
written, they were written in a 'twilight language', that is, in
allegory, symbolism, code, so they could not be misinterpreted and
misused by unworthy seekers." (The Copycat Effect, pg. 237)
The
Buddhist tantras are but one example of this ancient twilight language
that has been handed down to us through names, dates, locations, etc
from time immortal. Some believe that these sacred numbers and geography
even predated the existence of man all together and were merely
discovered by humans after having evolved to the point that they could
recognize repeating patterns engraved upon the Earth. One noted believer
that aspects of this twilight language predated human beings,
especially the numerical components, was the Swiss psychologist Carl
Jung who incorporated a proto concept of twilight language into his
theory of synchronicity:
"But it is equally possible that numbers were found or discovered. In that case they are not only concepts
but something more -autonomous entities which somehow contain more than
just quantities. Unlike concepts, they are based not on any psychic
condition but on the quality of being themselves, on a 'so-ness' that
cannot be expressed by an intellectual concept. Under these conditions
they might easily be endowed with qualities that have still to be
discovered. I must confess that I incline to the view that numbers were
as much found as invented, and that in consequence they possess a
relatively autonomy analogous to that of archetypes. They would then
have, in common with the later, the quality of being pre-existent to
consciousness, and hence, on occasion, of conditioning it rather than
being conditioned by it. The archetypes too, as a priori forms of
representation, are as much found as invented: they are discovered
inasmuch as one did not know of their unconscious autonomous existence,
and invented inasmuch as their presence was inferred from analogous
representational structures. Accordingly it would seem that natural
numbers have an archetypal character. If this is so, then not only would
certain numbers and combinations of numbers have a relation to and an
effect on certain archetypes, but the reverse would also be true. The
first case is equivalent to number magic, but the second is equivalent
to inquiring whether numbers, in conjunction with combination of
archetypes found in astrology, would show a tendency to behave in a special way." (Synchronicity, pgs. 41-2).
Note:
Jung's concept of archetypes, and the collective unconsciousness in
general, is deeply relevant to twilight language, though we will not
delve to deeply into his theories here. Briefly, the collective
unconsciousness was "In addition to our immediate consciousness, which
is of a thoroughly personal nature... there exists a second psychic
system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is
identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited.
It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only
become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain
psychic contents." (The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious,
pg. 43). In other words, a universal consciousness exists in all human
beings and is handed down genetically generation to generation. Within
this consciousness there exists beings Jung refers to as archetypes,
figures that have appeared over and over again in the world's major
religions and myths. To this very day modern man is still haunted by
them in his sleep. The five main archetypes include the Self, the
Shadow, the Anima or Animus depending upon whether an individual is man
or woman, and the Persona. Other noted archetypes include the Great
Mother, the Father and Child, the Trickster or Devil, the Hero, the Wise
Old Man, etc. Archetypes may also include motifs such as the Creation,
the Apocalypse, and the Deluge, or Great Flood. Some believe that
twilight language, the language of symbolism, is what is used by the
Collective Unconsciousness to communicate to man in his unconsciousness,
especially in dreams. But I digress.
In
theory as human beings appeared and evolved they noticed certain
numerical formulas appearing over and over again in nature and that
certain places (usually marked by a specific kind of name) generated a
kind of unique energy, or magnetism. It was at these spots that they
built the first temples, measured to the exact specifics of the sacred
geometry they had observed in nature. From there it was determined the
optimum time to perform magick rituals would be on numerically
significant dates and magnetically significant locations. This magnetic
energy occurred along paths or tracks that ran across the Earth and
overlapping at various crossroads, which were the preferred locations of
holy centers. In modern times this phenomenon was first recognized by
an Englishman named Alfred Watkins in the early 20th century.
"Watkins
marked out the churches and ancient sites on a 1-inch Ordnance Survey
map... Often he found eight and nine and even more sites aligned across
quite short stretches of country. Extended onto neighboring maps, the
lines could sometimes be traced for many miles, often ending on a
mountain peak or high hill.
"His
suggestion was, that in the days when great forests and wilderness lay
between scattered communities, travelers navigated by natural landmarks,
sighting from mountain to mountain and taking the straightest routes
across the country. Where one peak was invisible from another, stone
pillars or mounds of earth were placed clearly marked against the
skyline along the path. Cairns were raised on mountain slopes, and
notches were cut into the ridge to guide the traveler below...
"A
peculiar feature of the old alignments is that certain names appear
with remarkable frequency along their routes. Names with Red, White and
Black are common; so are Cold or Cole, Dod, Merry and Ley. The last gave
Watkins the name of the lines, which he called leys. " (The New View Over Atlantis, John Michell, pgs. 23-4)
Watkins would go on to write a book on these 'ley lines' which he called The Old Straight Track.
Watkins, a practical man to the end, chalked up these massive stretches
of ancient road ways he discovered across Great Britain as
simple trade routes. However numerous traditions of the straight paths
exist in cultures all over the world and attaching far more mystical
significance to them:
"The
earliest memories of the Aboriginal race are expressed in terms of
their native country. Its natural features, hills, streams and rocks,
were shaped by elemental beings of the Dream Time, an endless age which
preceded our own, and which still continues to flow in a dimension
normally beyond our perception. The creative gods once traversed the
country along paths whose lines are still remembered; for a certain
seasons of the year these become animated by a vital force which
fertilizes the earth and gives new life to plants and animals. To ensure
the seasonal return of this force the Aborigines perform certain rites.
They carve tjuringas, arrangements of interlinked dots and circles
exactly like those found on cup and ring stones in Europe. These lines
and circles represent the sacred paths and centres of the Australian
landscape, and those who travel the paths find their way by consulting
the tjuringa's pattern. ..
"In
several other parts of the world, lines linking holy centres are not
only mythological paths down which the gods representing the various
heavenly bodies pass at regular seasons, but have some further quality
known only to native magicians. American Indians, particularly the Hopi
of the Southwest, appear to use them as cables of mental communications. In China they are known as lung-mei, the paths of the dragon, and run between astronomical mounds and high mountains...
"...In
several parts of Ireland he [J.D. Evans Wentz, in the early 20th
century] heard about the fairy paths. These paths, sometimes visible as
old roads, sometimes preserved only in local memory, were said to be the
routes of seasonal processions. On certain days the fairies passed
through the land, and anyone who stood in their way might be struck dead
or taken off, never to return... Evans Wentz tells how he asked an
Irish seer for an explanation of the fairy paths, and he was told that
they were lines of some kind of magnetic current...
"The Chinese believed that lung-mei
extended all over the world, and this belief is everywhere supported by
the evidence of local tradition. In Australia and North America the
dragon lines are creation paths, haunted by the gods and by the great primeval serpent, the ancestral guardian of all living things. In Ireland they are the roads of the fairies." (The New View Over Atlantis, John Michell, pgs. 36-38)
Fortean researcher and journalist John Keel, most famously known for his cult classic The Mothman Prophecies, made similar conclusions concerning the 'magical' properties of certain locations from his own investigations:
"The
activities of these parahumans are largely confined to specific areas
of this planet, where they appear and reappear century after century.
'The angels keep their ancient places,' poet Francis Thompson wrote.
Thus there are many 'haunted' places all over the world, shunned by
ancient man or made sacred by him. These are precise geographical
locations, and anyone digging into the history and lore of such
locations will find thousands of accounts of ghosts, demons, monsters,
and flying saucers pinpointed within a few square miles and covering a
thousand years or more of time. To UFO cultists such places are Windows:
entry points for spaceships from some distant planet. Occultists teach
that these are Gateways, weak spots in the earth's etheric envelope
through which beings from other space-time continuums seep through into
our reality.
"Sussex
County in England is one Gateway, as are the Mississippi Valley, the
Ohio Valley, and parts of our Western states, such as the area around
Prescott, Arizona. There are litterally thousands of these weak spots
all over our planet. Paranormal and supernatural activities in these
areas seem to be controlled by complicated cyclic factors. Periodically,
all hell breaks loose in all these places simultaneously, and then we
have a flap, or wave, of UFO sightings, apparitions, poltergeists,
sudden inexplicable disappearances of animals and human beings,
mysterious fires, and even a form of mass madness." (Our Haunted Planet, pg. 81)
Interestingly,
Keel was also favorably disposed toward Alfred Watkins work on leys, in
no small part due to the name of the legendary cryptid, nationally
known as the Mothman, that he would encounter in West Virginia in the
late 60s. This entity told Keel It's name was Indrid Cold. Watkins found
that the last name 'Cold', or some variation such as Cole, was commonly
found amongst families living along ley lines.
Keel and John Michell also agree that what makes these places attractive to the Macrobes is their unique magnetic qualities. As
to this magnetic current, Michell states: "The practice of locating
sacred centres in accordance with the flow of terrestrial magnetic
current was not confined to prehistoric times, for it appears that every
Christian church was similarly sited. The orientation of a church, even
its dimensions and architectural plan, was determined by the lines of
current, of which the strongest spring is frequently located directly
beneath the tower. At this spot the celestial influences, attracted by
the spire, combine with the terrestrial force to produce the fusion.
"It
becomes apparent that the prehistoric leys and dragon paths of Britain
are indeed lines of the earth current. And the most remarkable feature
of the whole system is that the paths of underground streams or magnetic
flow are not naturally straight; they spiral and undulate like surface
rivers or currents of air; yet the currents that follow prehistoric
alignments are as direct and regular below ground as are the leys on the
surface. The magnetic centres lie in straight rows across the country
with a precision that characterizes human construction rather than the
work of nature.” (The New View Over Atlantis, pg. 93)
Keel echoes these sentiments, writing: "One
significant factor, which is hardly a secret to the occultists, is that
the Window areas tend to be places where peculiar magnetic faults
exist. Our haunted planet is covered with magnetic faults, and
increasingly enough, many of them are grouped around the ancient mounds,
temple sites, and spots where flying saucers are seen most frequently.
Psychically oriented people living in these regions tend to have
extraordinary experiences with elementals, angels, MIB, and spacemen...
"Back
in the Middle Ages the Vatican pointedly ordered that new churches
should be constructed on the sites of old temples whenever possible. The
tradition of sacred places runs deep and seems to be largely based upon
the continuous observations of paranormal manifestations. The entities
who allegedly approached human beings in miraculous events frequently
ordered a church or temple built on the spot...
"A
magnetic survey of the United States was carried out by the government
in the 1950s. Maps detailing magnetic variations in nearly every state
can be obtained from the Office of Geological Survey in Washington.
Comparisons of the concentrations of paranormal manifestations with
these maps show unique clusters around the magnetic aberrations. Could
it be that periodic sweeps of those rays from outer space set up some
kind of physical or psychic reactions in these fault areas? " (Our Haunted Planet, pg. 84)
Michell
even goes so far as to suggest that some ancient megalithic sites were
used to store the magnetic energy generated along these ley lines: "The
caverns within artificial mounds could certainly have been used for the
accumulation of energy and for this purpose they may have been designed.
They would have been used in conjunction with standing stones, for the
geological selection is similar in each case. Welsh circles often
include a single foreign stone quartz, which is also a feature of
Boscawen-un circle in Cornwall. It is hard to think why this should be,
other than that they were chosen, like the foreign bluestones of
Stonehenge, to attract a particular form of current." (The New View Over Atlantis, pg. 209)
As
far out as this might sound the megaliths-as-power-plants idea has
gained some currency. Master craftsman and engineer Christopher Dunn
published an excellent explanation of the Great Pyramid at Giza in his
book The Giza Power Plant
adding some hard evidence to this theory. A professor of theology,
Joseph P Farrell, also published a trilogy of books, commonly referred
to as the 'Giza Death Star' trilogy, elaborating upon Dunn's work. Some
even believe that the secret of Nikolas Tesla's mysterious magnetic
batteries lied in their ability to draw upon the earth's natural
magnetic currents.
However,
it's likely that these techniques for harnessing earth energy were
handed down by the Macrobes, nonhuman entities commonly thought of as
demons, 'evil aliens' and the like and which will be explored in much
greater depth in a later essay. John Keel was noted for his skepticism
regarding messages and rituals handed down by the Macrobes. He was also
weary of their attraction to all different kinds of energy:
"Electromagnetic
energy plays a key role in these manifestations. We are still learning
about it. Our planet may be constantly interchanging energy with some
outside force. This exchange of energy is an important part of occult
belief. It occurs, we are told, on every level. Chinese philosophers of
long ago contended that man was moon food (i.e., the energy of
individual souls was drained off and absorbed by some extraterrestrial
force that needed such energy to replenish itself). Later, theologians
extended this to form the classic explanation that we were the subjects
of a war between God and the devil... a war to win the souls of man and
thereby control the planet. Thus, the demons and MIB who appeared in
earlier times were supposed to have been after souls. They made lavish
promises, according to the records, and offered fanciful philosophies
and cosmologies, but as Swedenborg figured out, they always proved to be
nothing but splendid liars." (Our Haunted Planet, pg. 85)
Despite his new age slant John Michell at lest addresses the dark side of these rituals to be performed along and at intersects of the ley lines: "The
appearance of an organized spiritual technology, controlled by the
priests, was attended in every country by a massive increase in human
sacrifice. The Aztec massacres are notorious; the Druids in Ireland are
said to have decimated the population. The innumerable sacrificial
stones, carved with basins and channels for the flow of blood, and the
traditional violent and bloody associations of so many ancient sites
confirms what is recorded of the slaughter carried out by priests in the
interests of necromancy.
"The
practice of human sacrifice flourished in the ruins of the universal
civilization. The secrets of spiritual invocation, once common property,
had become exclusive to those appointed by the community to produce the
seasonal renewal of fertility and interpret the will of God through the
heavenly potents. The priests, thus established in a position of power,
began, as do the members of all professions similarly placed, to extend
their influence and activities and to make demands on the population
for sacrificial offerings. It was recognized throughout the ancient
world that the spirit at physical death re-enters the life essence from
which it came and, unless released onto a higher plane of existence,
merges with the terrestrial current, seeking the occasion of rebirth." (The New View Over Atlantis, pgs. 95-96)
Our
own nation, these United States, have seen more than their fare share
of ritual killings along the old straight track to be certain. For the
rest of the present essay we will focus on a particularly nasty ley that
runs along the 33rd degree North Latitude in the USA. I choice this one
for both the character of the events that have occurred along it, and
for the number's significance in occultic practices. In Robert Temple's
book The Sirius Mystery he
notes that many holy sites in the ancient Mideast and Mediterranean were
located between nine bands of latitude, stretching from north 31
degrees to 39 degrees. Further, 33 is the highest number rank in the
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, the final degree being a purely honorary
one to boot.
Of
course the best sources specifically for the 33rd degree north latitude
and it's occult significance are the late James Shelby Downard and
Michael Hoffman. Their King Kill 33 essay as well as Hoffman's book Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare
are both highly recommended for a more in-depth look at the alchemical
rites performed along this trek. Here I will briefly recount some of the
significant events and other oddities that have occurred along this
northern latitude and offer some closing thoughts.
-In
1670 Charleston, South Carolina was founded 15 miles from the 33d
degree north latitude; it was the first port where African slaves were
sold in the US and the founding site of Scottish Rite Freemasonry; In
1861 the first battle of the Civil War occurred at Fort Sumter in
Charleston harbor and led to the bloodiest war in US history
-In
1945 the first atomic bomb was exploded at Trinity Test Site in White
Sands, NM, just below the 33rd north latitude at the 32 degree, possibly
so that bomb would be exploded at a crossroads that also included the
ancient Jornada del Muerto trial; crossroads were a preferred location for occultic rites as the legend of bluesman Robert Johnson implies
-In
1947 a UFO allegedly crashed at Roswell, NM, which is located exactly
on the 33rd; from here the modern era of ufology was ushered in
-In
1963 JFK was assassinated within the triangle shaped Dealey Plaza along
Elm Street in Dallas, Texas, which is slightly south of the 33rd
-In 1968 RFK was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, slightly north of the 33rd
-Towns
with death row prisons located along the 33rd: Florence, AZ; Parchman,
Mississippi; Jackson, GA; Atlanta, GA (for women); Ridgeville, SC
-At
least five key nuclear facilities are located along the 33rd across the
USA; The states they appear in are: GA, CA, SC, TX, AZ; Two located on
opposite sides of the country, one at Goose Creek, SC, the other at San
Clemente, CA, are key spots for nuclear subs; bizarrely Los
Alamos National Laboratory, responsible for much of the original
nuclear research, is located in New Mexico a little north of the 33rd
degree.
Nuclear
energy and the occultic significance behind it will be examined in much
greater depth in a later piece. For now I will state only that some
schools of thought believe that the splitting of the atom was an
alchemical work and that areas with any kind of nuclear related
facilities tend to be lightening rods for Fortean events. That the 33rd
degree North Latitude would be chosen for so many major nuclear works is
very significant in my opinion. Besides nuclear energy, the American
slavery movement, the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and the modern UFO
movement were largely born along the 33rd. All of these things had a
profound effect on the course of American history, to say nothing of the
national consciousness.
Death,
the obligatory bloodletting, is of course also a major factor along the
33rd. Aside from the Kennedy assassinations and the death row
facilities the specter of war also hangs heavily through this ley line.
Slavery was of course a prime factor in eventually leading America into
Civil War, which spurred a remarkable degree of bloodletting all across
the nation in addition to major changes in the legal and political
structure of the nation that are still barely understood by the
population at large today. The atomic bomb was used to both end the
Second World War, but also to ensure a half century long Cold War that
dragged countless other countries into actual hot wars along the way. Of
course the assassinations of both Kennedy brothers were key to
prolonging the US involvement in the Viet Nam War. And then there's the
specter of nuclear holocaust that has forever hung over the world since a
false sun exploded over Trinity.
We
may tentatively conclude that, if in fact rituals were preformed along
the 33rd degree North Latitude for advanced technology or worldly power,
the payment that was asked in return for these services was
extraordinarily high.
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