Sacred Places

By Ron McVan

Every race has its holy centers, places where the veil is thinnest. These places were developed by the wisdom of the past, until a powerful spiritual atmosphere was engendered there and consciousness could easily open to subtler planes where the messengers of God came to meet” …….Dion Fortune

The great sacred sites of the world are found in geophysical significant locations where strange lights and other highly unusual phenomenon are often reported. Even the latest scientific research cannot fully explain these particular mysteries that attracted the ancients so very, very long ago. Fortunately many of the early sacred sites have survived the attrition of time, and continue to fascinate, puzzle, and confront us with questions which have yet to be answered. It is no secret that the spiritual teachers of distant times possessed powers of mind and the abilities to use natural forces that we of the modern day world have long forgotten how to use.

Over 70 gigantic stones, each weighing between 30 and 50 tons, were used to construct the stone circle at Stonehenge in Northern Europe. Stonehenge is most celebrated of all sacred circles and its origins seem to be lost in time. We have come to learn that its construction dates back before the Great Pyramids and may even be as old or even older than the Sphinx in Egypt reaching back perhaps as far as the era of the Hyperborean civilization. Opposing theories purport that it was built as recently as 3,500 years ago. There are an estimated 900 standing stone circles in the British Isles alone.

Stone circles had four mutually compatible purposes:

(1) Astronomical calculators.
(2) Generators of terrestrial energy.
(3) Stone batteries for both cosmic and terrestrial energies
(4) Radiating devices to broadcast these energies across the land (possibly through the ley system.)

One of the more popular sacred Teutonic pagan sites up until 772 C.E. was the Great Irminsul Pillar (Cosmic Axis) which was located in a temple enclosure in Obermarsberg, Germany. It was zealously destroyed in that year by the ruthless Emperor Charlemagne in the effort to convert pagan Europe by the total domination of the Christian Church over indigenous Aryan tribes.

As sacred as Stonehenge has always been to the area of Britain, likewise, is the Externsteine to the land of the Teutonic tribes. In the heartland of Germany, located in the Teutoburger Wald near Detmold in lower Saxony, is a most dramatic geophysical configuration of rocks known as “Die Externsteine”. Since prehistoric times it has been a spiritual Mecca and sacred place of pilgrimage. To this day it continues to captivate and mystify its visitors.

At the summit of one of the Externsteine rocks is to be found the remains of a very old pre-Christian, rock-cut chapel with a holy staller and circular window carved out above. In 1923 it was discovered that the round window, seen from the center of a niche in the opposite wall, framed a view of the moon at its northern most extreme and, also, let in the light of the sun at the Summer Solstice. This added credence to the belief that the chapel was more than just a place of worship, but a solar observatory. It was later discovered that the Externsteine was connected with a whole system of astronomical lines, linking the sacred places of Teutoburger Wald and the whole of North Germany.

From earliest of times Die Externsteine has had an important influence on European history. Pagan ritual was often performed there, until Charles the Great in the 8th century cut down the ancient Holy Irminsul which donned the uppermost pinnacle of rock. In the first half of the 20th century, plans were made to restore the sacred pillar and to crown the remaining peaks with Teutonic Viking style hofs. Such inspired, monumental designs to enhance Aryan pagan spirituality and native Germanic genius would become abandoned, democratized and de-mystified. The Externsteine and its planned renovation fell victim to the degradation of all Aryan ideals following World War II. Since the close of the war the tourist guide books explaining the true history of the Externstein have been re-written to exclude any reference to pre-historic astronomy, spiritualness, ley lines or the ancient Aryan pagan culture.

Turf mazes are often found near sacred sites and are known to have ritual significance. Various theories exist as to the original purpose of turf mazes. The maze, unlike the Labyrinth, has more than one path leading toward its goal.

All geomantic schemes involve belief in an omphalos, or “world navel”, the sacred center of the world from which order was created out of chaos. Delphi in Greece was one such center. The Celts and Greeks believed that the landscape was the physical embodiment of spirits or gods.

Many ancient monuments are located where electrical storms are common and where strange unexplained lights reportedly appear. Some are located above fractures of faults in the earth’s crust, leading investigators to believe that at least some sacred places are situated at precise cross grid sectors where the earth, which acts like a giant motor, produces a concentrated amount of electricity. Throughout history UFO sightings have been common in such areas. Ancient runways and gigantic symbols carved in the earth, which can only be seen from on high, add to these age old enigmas.

Perhaps the oldest sacred site in Northern Europe is to be found in Ireland, and is called Tara. Christian intruders would later rename this ancient, pagan, holy shrine to New Grange. At this chambered mound people have reported that they had received a powerful electric shock when touching the stones there. The entire mound is faced with quartz stones. One peculiar feature of quartz crystal is its apparent ability to give off a significant electrical charge under certain conditions.

Sacred mound building is not new to Aryan man, and certainly not a custom exclusive to American Indians, as many today have been misled to believe. In fact, in America literally thousands of European burial mounds that predate the Viking age have been discovered throughout the East coast and as far inland as Wisconsin, Illinois, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Many of these mounds have yielded a treasure trove of Celtic and Phoenician armor, weapons and various artifacts dating back to 500 B.C.E. Also, in the northeastern region of America have been found underground stone temples of worship dedicated to the Celtic god Bel, megalithic stones and dolmens with runic and ogamic inscriptions. Remnants of standing stone circles, highly characteristic of European paganism, have been found in various areas of America’s eastern states.

Most recently a standing stone circle was discovered in Miami, Florida beneath an old, derelict motel that was demolished. It is strongly believed that this particular circle may date back to Atlantean times. Atlantis had many sister islands and seaports scattered about the Atlantic Ocean. Edgar Cayce predicted that Atlantean remnants could be located in the waters of the Florida Keys and were indeed discovered in just the very area that Cayce predicted. Most recently more such evidence of civilization of the Atlantean era were discovered off the coast of Cuba.

Caves have long been used as sanctuaries and for ritual use. Man has created artificial caves for spiritual use as well. Rameses II, of Egypt in the 13th century B.C.E., designed a cave in which the sun shines through the entrance to illumine the divine figures within its inner sanctuary. Ancient Crete had many cave sanctuaries as well. This custom was widely spread by the early Indo-Europeans. Suggested as the womb of the Mother Earth, caves have traditionally held a great mystique and at times have been associated with the birth of Gods and Heroes.

Nature itself provides a variety of sacred places such as mountain tops, valleys and special trees, rock formations and springs, Water is often associated with sacred sleep. Among the Celts of Britain, Seers would wrap themselves in animal skins and lie near holy pools or waterfalls in order to have visionary dreams. In ancient Greece there were 320 documented ‘dream temples’, or Asuleions, all of which had sacred springs. Water played an important part in the purification procedures that were followed at these ancient dream temples.

The deeper we probe into the roots of our civilizations we come to find that we are left with even more mysteries than when we started. Long held theories in science, history and religions can wash away seemingly overnight with a single, irrefutable discovery. Recently in 1996, a 9,000 year old Aryan corpse, coined “The Kennewick Man”, was found buried on the banks of the Columbia River near Yakima, Washington.

In London Texas, an iron hammer was found encased in solid rock. Rock formations in that area where the hammer was found have been reliably dated to the Ordovician geological epoch of nearly a half-billion years ago!

In 1961 in the Coso Mountains of California, rock collectors had split a stone in half and were surprised to find a most unusual geode. Within the stone geode was discovered a metal core wire surrounded by some ceramic material, somewhat similar to a spark plug. Stone is dated in segments of not less than fifty thousand years. Many similar findings continue to reveal that Aryan man has a far much older past than has been assumed by so many unenlightened scholars, historians and short-sighted theologians. The age of the Earth is now estimated to be approximately three and one half billion years old. Our ten thousand years of written history is hardly a blink in comparison.

It is to man’s greater advantage to put aside the long-held, narrow conception of human beginnings on this planet and accept the reality that higher civilizations have existed eons before the dawn of our own written history. Even with our very short ten thousand years of civilization we already stand at the brink of total destruction. How soon we forget that life is fragile and quick. The Gods of our folk still serve as a bridge to our distant origins, and as archetypes, provide the strength and assurance of our being that is necessary to meet the uncertainties of the future. Here on this tiny planet that spins in the quiet corner of an infinite universe, man, in his brief whisp of tic-toc life, still prides himself in thinking he has it all figured out and that he must certainly be on the center stage of all that is.

When we understand that we are born into the physical world from the astral and to the non-physical realms we return whence we came, how real, then, is this fleeting instant that we call life? Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb. Our sacred places may be more sacred than you may ever have imagined.

(The following Stonehenge verse by Thomas Stokes Salmon, won the L20Newdigate Poetry Prize at Oxford University in 1823.)

Wrap’t in the veil of time’s unspoken gloom, Obscure as death, and silent as the tomb, Where cold oblivion holds her dusky reign, Frowns the dark pile on Sarum’s lonely plain. Yet think not here with classic eye to trace, Corinthian beauty, or Ionian grace: No pillar’d hues with sculptur’d foliage crown’d, No fluted remnants deck the hallow’d ground; Firm as implanted by some Titan’s might, Each rugged stone appears its giant height, Whence poised fragment seems to throw, A tumbling shadow on the plain below. Here oft, when evening sheds her twilight ray, And gilds with fainter beam departing day, With breathless gaze, and cheek with terror pale, The lingering shepherd startles at the tale, How at deep midnight, by the moon’s chill glance, Unearthly forms prolong the viewless dance; While on each whisp’ring breeze that murmurs by, His busied fancy hears the hollow sigh, Rise, from thy haunt, dread genius of the clime, Rise, magic spirit of forgotten time! Tis thine to burst the mantling clouds of age, And fling new radiance on traditions page: See at thy call, from fables’ varied store, In shadowy train the mingled visions pour….”

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