THE ATLANTIS BLUEPRINT
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The Atlantis Blueprint is now available, an attractive volume of over 400 pages, the blurb of which states: "In 1982, the American Scholar Charles Hapgood made an astonishing claim to a young librarian, Rand Flem-Ath - that civilisations was almost a hundred thousand years old, and that he had evidence to prove it. But before he could substantiate those remarkable assertions, Hapgood was tragically killed in a car crash. Together with his fellow author Colin Wilson, Flem-Ath set out to track down the truth behind the scholar's statements. Their study of the world's most sacret sites - Stonehenge, The Great Pyramid, Machu Piccu and many others - led them to an amazing discovery. Far from being built by local people for local reasons, these monuments formed a powerful and undeniable geometrical pattern. This in turn implied the existence of an ancient advanced civilisation, one that existed before the flood that destroyed Atlantis, and whose knowledge of the world was far wider than had previously been thought possible. The Atlantis Blueprint deciphers this remarkable code and the reasons behind it: the attempt by scientists from Atlantis to preserve a legacy of their civilisation. It shows how this knowledge was periodically lost and re-discovered: first by an unknown people who might have been centred in Lebanon and then by the Knights Templar. A study that stretches from Tiahuanaco to Ancient Egypt to China, taking in such mysteries as the Libyan desert glass and the extraordinary Nineveh number, The Atlantis Blueprint challenges our perceptions of humanity and presents its argument with enormous persuasiveness - namely that our civilisation is not the first to occupy the planet, nor is it likely to be the last."
Another synopsis of Atlantis Blueprint:
"In June 1990, Egyptologist John West accompanied geologist Robert Schoch to Cairo, to take a closer look at the Sphinx. For almost two decades, West had been arguing that the erosion of the Sphinx revealed that it had been weathered by rain rather than windblown sand. If that was true, then the Sphinx had to be thousands of years older than Egyptologists believe - after all, Egypt has had no rain in thousands of years. They concluded that the Sphinx dates back to 7000 BC - a time when in fact there was not supposed to be any civilization anywhere in the world - and has been built by the survivors of the vanished civilization which Plato called Atlantis. Rand Flem-Ath and Colin Wilson's book crosses continents, arguing that this earlier civilization did exist but was destroyed around 9600 BC."
From the Author:
Every summer solstice
thousands of pilgrims gather at sacred sites -
Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid, Machu Picchu and many others to pay respect to
the past, hoping perhaps, to merge in some way with the mysterious power
represented by the great megaliths. It seems that a long lost truth lies
just beyond our grasp, hidden within the lines and crevices of these
massive stones. Many feel certain that we might recapture that elusive
past if only we could find the key.
If an advanced civilisation was trying to leave a message for future generations they could never be sure that their units of measurement would be the same as the ones that evolved after they perished. Two things, however, would never change: the dimensions of the Earth and the science of geometry. The distance from the Equator to the pole will always be the same no matter what number system is used. And this distance can always be divided geometrically.
When it comes to latitude, the Earth's dimensions are fixed by the Equator, all latitudes defined as being north or south of it. Longitude is a different problem. In her bestselling book Longitude Dava Sobel explains how "The thorniest problem of the 18th century was how to determine longitude. Many thousands of lives had been lost at sea over the centuries due to the inability to determine an east-west position".
The decision of what line of longitude should be zero (known as the Prime Meridian) was based upon commercial rather than geographic considerations - the British Empire was at its height in the 1880s and many British ships dropped anchor in Greenwich harbour. But what instead if the line of longitude that runs through the Great Pyramid at Giza had been declared the Prime Meridian? The Great Pyramid is arguably the best-built surveying station and monument that has ever been erected. More land lies directly east, west, north and south of Giza than any other location on the Earth's surface. The Atlantis Blueprint argues that there was an ancient global grid and that a long-lost civilisation was aware of the exact dimensions of the Earth. The Great Pyramid, by rights, should have had the honour of the designation "longitude zero" - not Greenwich.
In The Atlantis
Blueprint we will show how these ancient structures are ultimately
linked to a vast geographic survey. We have deciphered the code which
ties these mysterious sites together as part of an ambitious enterprise
undertaken by scientists from Atlantis. The Atlantis Blueprint can
be 'back-engineered' to locate 'lost' sacred sites in the jungles of Brazil,
beneath the sands of the Sahara Desert and under the ice of
Antarctica."
(Available from Abraxas booklist, signed or
personally inscribed by Colin Wilson, £18.99)