1 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,899 mysteries like me. It's something that really drives me. I'm somebody who's just obsessed 2 00:00:34,899 --> 00:00:38,740 with mysteries. As soon as I hear a mystery, I try to figure it out and figure out what 3 00:00:38,740 --> 00:00:44,939 it means. As a child, I really became intrigued by one particular mystery. And I... 4 00:00:44,939 --> 00:00:49,460 a small child, I had a mother who was interested in this type of mysteries as we... 5 00:00:49,460 --> 00:00:56,939 introduced me to something that I believe today to be the greatest archaeological... 6 00:00:56,939 --> 00:01:01,579 of our time. I really believe that this is the greatest archaeological mystery. And 7 00:01:01,579 --> 00:01:05,900 I'm sure you're all familiar with it, but I just want to go over it fairly quickly. 8 00:01:05,900 --> 00:01:15,340 Let's see if this thing is going to work. No. Is that the button? No. Okay. No, that's 9 00:01:15,340 --> 00:01:25,500 not it. Yeah, but that wasn't the next slide. Let's see here. Maybe if I touch that one. 10 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:30,379 Okay. Yeah. Boom. Got it. This thing doesn't work. All right. I call it the greatest... 11 00:01:30,379 --> 00:01:38,060 mystery of our time. It started in the 1800s when the Victorian era archaeologists began 12 00:01:38,060 --> 00:01:44,099 uncovering something strange in the ruins of the new world civilizations they were digging 13 00:01:44,099 --> 00:01:50,980 up. They noticed that cultures like the Maya and Aztecs in Mexico and the Inca and... 14 00:01:51,620 --> 00:01:59,859 cultures of Peru, of which there are numerous, shared profound parallels. The... 15 00:01:59,859 --> 00:02:04,980 were with the cultures like the Egyptians in the old world and the Babylonians and... 16 00:02:04,980 --> 00:02:09,780 in the old world. They noticed that they had the same art, the same architecture, the 17 00:02:09,780 --> 00:02:17,780 same symbolism, the same iconography. And so, for example, ancient cultures, as we know 18 00:02:17,860 --> 00:02:21,939 across the world, didn't just build pyramids, they built stepped pyramids. And a lot of ... 19 00:02:21,939 --> 00:02:26,580 they built pyramids without a top. They're called truncated pyramids. And beside that, 20 00:02:26,580 --> 00:02:32,099 they realized that all around the world there was mummification, both in the old world a... 21 00:02:32,099 --> 00:02:37,379 world, the two hemispheres across the Atlantic. Not only that, but they noticed... 22 00:02:37,379 --> 00:02:42,740 were given gold masks on their faces. And that's an interesting detail that was also... 23 00:02:43,540 --> 00:02:50,100 Instead of alphabets, they wrote in strange pictures that were called hieroglyphs.... 24 00:02:50,100 --> 00:02:56,820 called hieroglyphs in the new world and the old world as well. And they also used the... 25 00:02:56,820 --> 00:03:03,620 corbel vault arches. They're called corbel vault arches. And they use these in their... 26 00:03:03,620 --> 00:03:08,740 And so exactly what meaning it had, they weren't sure, but they believed that there... 27 00:03:08,820 --> 00:03:13,780 special there. There's a lot more parallels, but just to throw one more at you, and I know 28 00:03:13,780 --> 00:03:20,580 you've seen this one before, they all had the same elongated skull tradition. So the... 29 00:03:20,580 --> 00:03:27,140 era archaeologists wondered, how is this possible across the Atlantic Ocean thousan... 30 00:03:27,140 --> 00:03:34,740 Columbus? And so they theorized that there must have been a mother culture, a parent... 31 00:03:34,740 --> 00:03:41,060 to which these parallels can be traced. And they called it sort of an advanced... 32 00:03:41,060 --> 00:03:47,219 they believed it was so old that it had been forgotten by history. They identified this... 33 00:03:47,219 --> 00:03:54,980 culture with the legendary Atlantis. And the Greeks talked about how the Atlantis exist... 34 00:03:54,980 --> 00:04:03,060 middle of the Atlantic Ocean. As the story goes, the continent or the city of Atlanti... 35 00:04:03,060 --> 00:04:09,060 the waves, but survivors fled, forming new civilizations on both sides of the oceans. 36 00:04:09,699 --> 00:04:15,219 For many Victorians, this theory of Atlantis that sank beneath the sea and survivors fl... 37 00:04:15,219 --> 00:04:22,180 parts of the world, neatly explained the parallels that they were finding. So when ... 38 00:04:22,180 --> 00:04:27,060 college age, I really started, this really started to sink into me. And I felt like t... 39 00:04:27,060 --> 00:04:33,060 and interesting topic to pursue for a few years. I was actually interested in... 40 00:04:33,060 --> 00:04:38,259 wanted to pursue a career in Egyptology. So I started asking my professors and asking 41 00:04:38,259 --> 00:04:42,579 archaeologists and attending lectures and conferences, but I learned something very 42 00:04:42,579 --> 00:04:47,939 important. They all frowned on what I was interested in. They didn't really care about 43 00:04:47,939 --> 00:04:53,300 any of the parallels. They were very almost upset when I would bring them up at a... 44 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:58,579 whatever I seem to mention it, everybody kind of looked at me like, go away. And that ki... 45 00:04:58,579 --> 00:05:04,020 made me feel like I had to do something because I truly believed there was somethi... 46 00:05:04,740 --> 00:05:10,660 And so I figured, you know, maybe it's that we haven't really found the kind of smokin... 47 00:05:10,660 --> 00:05:16,340 Maybe we haven't found enough evidence to show what I believe was a probable connect... 48 00:05:16,899 --> 00:05:24,899 this old world and this new world. So the year was 1995. I was 23 years old. I was 49 00:05:24,899 --> 00:05:30,179 just graduating from college and I decided to travel. And so I got a job and I saved som... 50 00:05:30,179 --> 00:05:35,620 and I went to different parts of the world and I went to really good places. And one ... 51 00:05:35,620 --> 00:05:40,739 I went to was Egypt and I'd stayed for quite a while. This photo is really special for ... 52 00:05:40,739 --> 00:05:45,459 it reminds me of a great time in my life when I was discovering a lot of different thing... 53 00:05:45,459 --> 00:05:50,819 realizing who I was as a person. And so while I was away, I spoke with scholars. I spoke... 54 00:05:50,819 --> 00:05:57,459 Egyptologists, museum curators, people at the archaeological sites, people who grew up... 55 00:05:57,459 --> 00:06:05,060 their guides at the sites. And within a few years, I started to recognize new parallel... 56 00:06:05,060 --> 00:06:12,899 Victorian scholars hadn't recognized before. And I started to recognize one parallel in... 57 00:06:12,899 --> 00:06:17,779 that really just grabbed me. It just grabbed a hold of me like nothing else in my life. 58 00:06:18,579 --> 00:06:28,739 And you can see it here. I found an architectural parallel common to every sin... 59 00:06:28,739 --> 00:06:34,659 And I started to call it a triptych temple. Triptych is a word that was used by the... 60 00:06:35,300 --> 00:06:43,300 artists in order to explain a certain type of painting where the middle piece of the... 61 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:51,540 is larger than the two smaller pieces of the painting on either side. Now, notice here ... 62 00:06:51,540 --> 00:06:58,100 in these images how the door in the middle is slightly larger than the two doors flankin... 63 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:04,980 on either side. I first noticed these triptych temples among the pyramid buildin... 64 00:07:04,980 --> 00:07:12,020 which as we know are the world's oldest cultures. But triptych temples are visible... 65 00:07:12,020 --> 00:07:17,860 of practically every ancient culture. And the thing that really got me was when I starte... 66 00:07:17,860 --> 00:07:23,460 show people this, they said, well, that's just a coincidence. And I said, no, becaus... 67 00:07:23,459 --> 00:07:29,539 looked into this. And I noticed that they occur multiple times in each culture. And... 68 00:07:29,539 --> 00:07:36,740 example. This is a collage of triptych temples that I found built by the ancient... 69 00:07:36,740 --> 00:07:42,819 of Mexico. And as you can see, it's not just one, it's several of them. And this is jus... 70 00:07:42,819 --> 00:07:48,659 handful. I could put probably about 30 or 40 more triptych temples built by the Maya th... 71 00:07:48,660 --> 00:07:55,780 about on the screen. So I started to really realize that something big was behind this... 72 00:07:55,780 --> 00:08:01,540 and one door temple or three door temple. I intensified my study of ancient religions 73 00:08:01,540 --> 00:08:08,180 and spiritual traditions. And I started to realize that the triptych is not just a... 74 00:08:08,180 --> 00:08:16,980 similarity. Ancient peoples everywhere built the same triptych temples to symbolize and... 75 00:08:16,980 --> 00:08:23,460 the same, what I started to call universal religion. I began to call this teaching 76 00:08:24,980 --> 00:08:29,060 this universal religion as a kind of perennial philosophy or as a kind of 77 00:08:29,939 --> 00:08:35,139 a wisdom tradition. And slowly I started to understand the universal religion. It's a 78 00:08:35,139 --> 00:08:41,460 self-empowering spiritual doctrine. And as we'll see today, it's based on the number... 79 00:08:42,180 --> 00:08:49,060 matching up to the three doors of the triptych. In a nutshell, just a quick idea... 80 00:08:49,060 --> 00:08:56,259 the universal religion of the triptych temple teaches what in Latin is called the... 81 00:08:56,259 --> 00:09:05,300 oppositorum. And that means the union of opposites or harmony of opposites. This id... 82 00:09:05,299 --> 00:09:13,699 to realize, forms the foundation of every ancient civilization, bar none. On the left, 83 00:09:13,699 --> 00:09:18,500 describing the Maya religion, I don't know if you could see from back there, but the... 84 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:25,620 scholar Mercedes de la Garza wrote, the basic concept of the Mayan religion is that, and... 85 00:09:25,620 --> 00:09:31,779 of Mesoamerica in general, is the harmony of opposites. That's a profound statement. He's 86 00:09:31,779 --> 00:09:37,299 labeling what I found as the triptych as the actual basis of all of Mesoamerican and Mayan 87 00:09:37,299 --> 00:09:43,620 religion. In the middle, describing the Egyptian worldview, the Dutch Egyptologist... 88 00:09:43,620 --> 00:09:49,699 said the same thing. He said, the deeply rooted Egyptian tendency to understand the... 89 00:09:49,699 --> 00:09:56,819 a series of pairs of contrasts balanced in unchanging equilibrium. That's the same... 90 00:09:56,820 --> 00:10:02,340 It's the same exact concept, the balance of the opposites. And on the right, regarding... 91 00:10:02,900 --> 00:10:09,620 the Hindu scholar Stephen Rosen said, the ability to see the harmony is nowhere more... 92 00:10:09,620 --> 00:10:18,420 in Indian theology. Transcending of all pairs of opposites is central to Hindu thought.... 93 00:10:18,420 --> 00:10:24,260 That means there's nothing really more important than that. So this evidence show... 94 00:10:24,340 --> 00:10:32,580 in ancient Africa, Asia, and America were linked by the same, the very same balance ... 95 00:10:32,580 --> 00:10:38,019 idea, religion, concept, whatever you want to call it. So I really felt like I had... 96 00:10:38,019 --> 00:10:44,259 at this point. When I returned to New York City from my travels, I was still in my 20s, 97 00:10:44,740 --> 00:10:52,659 and I started to see triptych temples everywhere, but not in the ruins of ancien... 98 00:10:53,620 --> 00:10:59,620 was seeing them in more modern buildings, not in thousand year old buildings, but in 100... 99 00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:08,500 old buildings. So I started to wonder, are these modern triptychs in some way memoria... 100 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:15,059 ancient triptych temple that I'd found? And I began to suspect that I wasn't the only... 101 00:11:15,059 --> 00:11:21,539 in the modern era to understand what the triptych temple was or to discover the... 102 00:11:21,620 --> 00:11:28,500 phenomenon or the universal religion that it symbolizes. I couldn't, though, find any... 103 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:33,860 on it. I spoke to professors, archaeologists, historians, and nobody had heard of it, and 104 00:11:33,860 --> 00:11:38,740 nobody could tell me where I could find more information. So I continued looking for the 105 00:11:38,740 --> 00:11:43,779 triptych in architecture. And then one day I was in Manhattan in New York City. I was... 106 00:11:43,779 --> 00:11:50,819 front of Rockefeller Center, which I think you're all familiar with. And I kind of ha... 107 00:11:50,820 --> 00:11:58,340 in my life. I noticed that the building's facade had a massive triptych entrance. It... 108 00:11:58,340 --> 00:12:08,420 doors are decorated with male and female figures, while the center door depicts an... 109 00:12:08,420 --> 00:12:15,700 deity. Now think about this, a male on the right, a female on the left, and a god in ... 110 00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:21,700 This matched my research. I was starting to realize that the twin outer doors of the... 111 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:29,460 symbolize the doors of opposites, and the center door symbolizes the unity of the tw... 112 00:12:29,460 --> 00:12:34,500 balance. You know, when they say center yourself, you're off center, you're on one... 113 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:39,780 to one side, don't go to the other. Stay balanced in the center. And that's where I... 114 00:12:40,019 --> 00:12:47,939 like this was all about. So if you look closely now at the god in the triptych cen... 115 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:54,980 he's holding a compass. He's holding a gold compass. I didn't know it then, but in time I 116 00:12:54,980 --> 00:13:02,419 learned that the compass is one of the chief symbols of an age-old fraternity of builders. 117 00:13:02,980 --> 00:13:09,139 It's called the Masonic fraternity. I learned that the Freemasons have a history reputed to 118 00:13:09,139 --> 00:13:15,620 stem from antiquity, that the Brotherhood is not really a religious group but more of a... 119 00:13:15,620 --> 00:13:22,259 order. I learned that Freemasonry contains allusions to a variety of ancient... 120 00:13:22,259 --> 00:13:27,139 not just one culture but many different cultures. And in my mind I thought, wow,... 121 00:13:27,139 --> 00:13:34,340 storehouse for an ancient universal religion. I also learned that many famous men were... 122 00:13:34,340 --> 00:13:39,220 but what struck me probably as the most important thing was that I realized that 123 00:13:39,220 --> 00:13:44,740 Freemasonry holds some sort of strange fascination with the number three. And 124 00:13:46,340 --> 00:13:53,060 there's the Masonic square and compass. It's very similar to the gold compass that's be... 125 00:13:53,060 --> 00:13:58,500 by the deity and the center door of the triptych. And here with the number three w... 126 00:13:58,500 --> 00:14:04,580 author Jeremiah Howe's book, in Freemasonry the number three is the most important and... 127 00:14:04,580 --> 00:14:09,299 in its application of all the mystic numbers and we find it pervading our whole ritual. 128 00:14:10,179 --> 00:14:15,539 On top of this I discovered that U.S. government buildings convey triptych... 129 00:14:16,419 --> 00:14:22,019 including but not limited to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., which is... 130 00:14:22,019 --> 00:14:28,259 the most important building in the United States. As Freemasonry came to America fro... 131 00:14:28,740 --> 00:14:36,580 I found many British examples of the triptych also. Again, you can see we have the cente... 132 00:14:36,580 --> 00:14:41,379 a little bit, the triangle in the center is a little bit bigger than the two twin triangles 133 00:14:41,379 --> 00:14:46,659 flanking it. So I started to realize that there was something important that... 134 00:14:46,659 --> 00:14:53,620 do with the triptych and I became fascinated by secret societies in general. The... 135 00:14:53,620 --> 00:14:59,779 the Skull and Bones, the Shriners, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pithius and others. 136 00:14:59,779 --> 00:15:06,340 And I soon realized that the triptych is a common denominator that all of the secret... 137 00:15:06,340 --> 00:15:13,220 share. It indicates to me that they were founded for a common purpose, namely to... 138 00:15:13,220 --> 00:15:19,220 universal religion of antiquity and to teach it to new initiates. And just to give you ... 139 00:15:20,180 --> 00:15:26,500 preview here of some of the triptychs that I found, here are some Masonic lodges with a... 140 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:34,019 on the facade. And as you can see, it's a purposeful triptych. It's a symbolic... 141 00:15:34,019 --> 00:15:40,580 to be there. It was put there purposely for a reason. Here are some Knights of Pithius... 142 00:15:40,580 --> 00:15:45,139 the Knights of Pithius being a secret society as well like the Freemasons. Here are some... 143 00:15:45,220 --> 00:15:50,899 Pithius lodges with a triptych façade. And again, the same thing. It seems as though 144 00:15:50,899 --> 00:15:58,179 the triptych was put there on purpose for a reason to symbolize something. Here are some 145 00:15:58,179 --> 00:16:03,779 Shriner buildings with triptych façades. The Shriners were a spin-off organization of the 146 00:16:03,779 --> 00:16:11,779 Freemasons. And here are some Odd Fellows lodges. Again, the Odd Fellows and other... 147 00:16:11,779 --> 00:16:18,500 Odd Fellows lodges with triptych façades. And I don't know if you've heard of the Skull ... 148 00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:24,100 Secret Society at Yale University, but boom, right there. There's a triptych on the facade 149 00:16:24,100 --> 00:16:28,819 with Skull and Bones headquarters at Yale University up in New Haven, Connecticut. 150 00:16:29,620 --> 00:16:33,699 No scholar has, like I said before, has ever noticed this triptych repetition. There's... 151 00:16:33,699 --> 00:16:39,620 no books about it, no lectures, no papers. But here's something interesting. Some... 152 00:16:39,620 --> 00:16:44,100 unconsciously picked up on it. Now, I don't know, do you guys have the Simpsons here? 153 00:16:44,899 --> 00:16:50,899 You do, right? Or no? I don't know. It's been a crazy few days and I forgot to ask... 154 00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:58,019 Matt Groening is the creator of the Simpsons. And in one episode, the fictional... 155 00:16:58,019 --> 00:17:04,500 a parody of the Freemasons. And if you look at Groening's triptych, it forms the... 156 00:17:04,579 --> 00:17:09,460 here. As you can see, the center door is wider and taller than the two doors flanki... 157 00:17:09,460 --> 00:17:15,299 Notice there's a giant eye in the middle door of the triptych. We're going to talk about... 158 00:17:15,299 --> 00:17:22,339 a bit. But a lot of Masonic lodges also have that same exact pattern, that same triptych, 159 00:17:22,339 --> 00:17:29,380 even made with triangles. And the eye in the center is prominent. The way you can see... 160 00:17:29,380 --> 00:17:33,940 it's a little hard to see, but if you look closely, there's a giant eye inside that... 161 00:17:34,579 --> 00:17:38,420 So when I was a kid, again, another one, what about the Flintstones? Did you guys have the 162 00:17:38,420 --> 00:17:44,980 Flintstones? Yeah, the Loyal Lord of dinosaurs, you know, triptych secret socie... 163 00:17:45,779 --> 00:17:49,700 And the reason I think people was, oh, you know, they knew everybody knew, you know, ... 164 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:56,099 about that. I think maybe as an artist, the artist had to was tasked with drawing a... 165 00:17:56,099 --> 00:18:00,900 And he probably looked at some buildings of secret societies and as an artist, 166 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:05,220 he probably recognized the pattern, didn't think much of it, but included it here. 167 00:18:06,420 --> 00:18:12,420 So I was really enthralled by all this. I really felt like I was onto something very... 168 00:18:12,420 --> 00:18:17,220 So I went down to I grew up in New York City, and I went down to visit the 169 00:18:18,820 --> 00:18:27,300 23rd Street Masonic Temple. I expected to find these master occultists, master esote... 170 00:18:27,299 --> 00:18:32,419 but instead to my great surprise and to my great dismay, I learned that most 171 00:18:32,419 --> 00:18:39,059 Masons had very little interest in esoteric subjects. I soon realized that for the pas... 172 00:18:39,059 --> 00:18:45,779 years, Freemasonry has been suffering from a kind of amnesia. The true wisdom of the... 173 00:18:45,779 --> 00:18:50,980 seems to have disappeared from the from the consciousness of its members. In their book, 174 00:18:50,980 --> 00:18:57,059 the Hiram Key, Freemasons Chris Knight and Robert Lomas say, a compelling reason for... 175 00:18:57,059 --> 00:19:03,460 among Masons is not so much a fear of Macaad retribution. It's more that they don't... 176 00:19:03,460 --> 00:19:10,500 a word of the ceremonies they participate in. Our biggest criticism of Freemasonry is it... 177 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:15,299 pointlessness. It doesn't know where it came from, and no one knows what it's trying to... 178 00:19:15,940 --> 00:19:20,579 According to the website of the Grand Lodge of England, the honest answer to the... 179 00:19:21,220 --> 00:19:25,220 where and why Freemasonry originated are that we simply don't know. 180 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:39,220 This is a challenge. Why don't the Freemasons understand their own origins? This gave me a 181 00:19:40,339 --> 00:19:48,579 newfound enthusiasm. One thing very quickly is that I learned from the Grand Lodge of... 182 00:19:48,579 --> 00:19:53,299 I spoke to them and they said, the only thing that we can tell you is that we believe that 183 00:19:53,299 --> 00:19:59,699 Freemasonry has arisen from the cathedral builders of medieval times. That really... 184 00:20:01,859 --> 00:20:08,179 With newfound enthusiasm, I went to Europe and I started to study the cathedrals. Rig... 185 00:20:08,179 --> 00:20:15,059 I noticed that they were all packed with incredible symbolism and symbolism that 186 00:20:15,059 --> 00:20:22,179 not necessarily Christian. I found that different symbols that we call pagan were... 187 00:20:22,179 --> 00:20:26,899 upon them. But I started to notice something really important, and this is what really... 188 00:20:26,899 --> 00:20:32,980 my life at this point. I started to notice a repeating architectural pattern, the same... 189 00:20:32,980 --> 00:20:40,579 over and over again on different cathedrals. Scholars have not recognized this pattern.... 190 00:20:41,379 --> 00:20:45,220 probably over a hundred of them and nobody had heard of anything. They could never po... 191 00:20:45,220 --> 00:20:52,659 a book that showed me this pattern. I described this pattern in my 2011 book... 192 00:20:53,220 --> 00:21:00,339 where I refer to it as the Cathedral Code. It's formed by the following three... 193 00:21:00,339 --> 00:21:09,779 features. First, two tall twin towers on top. Second, a giant rose window in the center.... 194 00:21:09,779 --> 00:21:16,740 a triptych three-door entrance on the bottom. And this same pattern repeats on literally... 195 00:21:16,740 --> 00:21:22,740 and perhaps even thousands of gothic cathedral facades in Europe. So why do we... 196 00:21:23,460 --> 00:21:30,740 repeating pattern? Why? Is it possible that there's a message encoded in this design? ... 197 00:21:31,379 --> 00:21:36,819 So I was traveling from cathedral to cathedral trying to figure it out. During ... 198 00:21:36,819 --> 00:21:43,059 a book, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, written by Victor Hugo, 1829. And in it, Hugo called 199 00:21:43,059 --> 00:21:48,500 architecture the handwriting of the human race. He also said something even more... 200 00:21:50,579 --> 00:21:56,179 excuse me, from remotest antiquity, the human race has employed architecture as its chie... 201 00:21:56,179 --> 00:22:02,899 of writing. Sometimes an entrance, a front, or even an entire church presents a symbol... 202 00:22:02,980 --> 00:22:10,580 wholly foreign to religion or even hostile to the church. Only the initiated can decipher 203 00:22:10,580 --> 00:22:16,900 these mysterious books. I was also reading a book called The Beautiful Necessity writte... 204 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:23,540 in 1910, by an American author named Claude Bragdon. He wrote, in medieval Europe,... 205 00:22:23,540 --> 00:22:29,700 secret doctrine transmitted in the symbols and secrets of the cathedral builders... 206 00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:37,220 of Gothic architecture. In his 18, in his 1989 book, The Occult Conspiracy, author... 207 00:22:37,220 --> 00:22:42,819 agreed with this saying, it's generally believed in occult circles, that these... 208 00:22:42,819 --> 00:22:48,580 inherited esoteric knowledge from their pagan antecedents, and that this knowledge was 209 00:22:48,580 --> 00:22:56,980 incorporated into the sacred architecture of the cathedrals. So I slowly became convinc... 210 00:22:56,980 --> 00:23:04,019 looking at these Gothic cathedrals, that in fact, what they really are, are triptych... 211 00:23:04,019 --> 00:23:10,660 something akin to it. I also began to think that the entire Gothic cathedral facade... 212 00:23:10,660 --> 00:23:17,700 the triptych, including the twin towers and the rose window, is a message in stone tha... 213 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:24,180 the triptych's true meaning. Of course, this would be heresy, and this would be conside... 214 00:23:24,180 --> 00:23:32,019 threat by the church. And so I started to learn that at some point in the 1700s, the... 215 00:23:32,019 --> 00:23:39,940 suddenly and inexplicably broke away from the Freemasons. The church did a 360 degree 216 00:23:39,940 --> 00:23:46,340 about face, and instead of commissioning the Freemasons to build more cathedrals, they... 217 00:23:46,899 --> 00:23:55,139 to stop, stomp out, and destroy Freemasonry forever. In the 1700s, Pope Leo XIII accus... 218 00:23:55,139 --> 00:24:01,299 masons of practicing paganism. Imagine that you had these builders of your churches fo... 219 00:24:01,299 --> 00:24:05,619 and then all of a sudden something happens, and you accuse them of being pagans. He... 220 00:24:05,619 --> 00:24:10,980 the purpose and aim of the Masonic sect, having been discovered from plain evidence, 221 00:24:10,980 --> 00:24:18,579 is easy to understand, to try to revive after 18 centuries the manners and institutions ... 222 00:24:19,220 --> 00:24:24,019 We intend to turn our attention to the Masonic fraternity to illustrate more and... 223 00:24:24,019 --> 00:24:31,700 wicked force, and stop the spread of this contagious disease. Wow, that's big.... 224 00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:38,900 What did they find? So we can find the answers to what they found, I believe, by... 225 00:24:39,860 --> 00:24:45,860 Gothic cathedral architecture, and in order to do that we need a key, and I think I fo... 226 00:24:45,860 --> 00:24:52,420 The key is what's called a tracing board, and it's present in every Masonic lodge around... 227 00:24:53,060 --> 00:24:59,620 The tracing board, in my opinion, is a blueprint of the Gothic cathedral façade.... 228 00:24:59,620 --> 00:25:05,780 of the cathedral code. It might not look like a blueprint to you, but that's exactly wha... 229 00:25:06,339 --> 00:25:13,539 Look at the twin pillars on the tracing board. Masons call these the Jacon and Boa... 230 00:25:14,899 --> 00:25:20,980 These are the cathedral's twin towers, I believe. Writing in the early 1900s, other... 231 00:25:20,980 --> 00:25:26,180 it as well, including Masonic author Walter Wilmshurst, who wrote, the twin pillars have 232 00:25:26,180 --> 00:25:31,619 been incorporated into Christian architecture. If you recall the constructi... 233 00:25:31,619 --> 00:25:38,739 or Westminster Abbey, you'll recognize the pillars and the two great towers flanking ... 234 00:25:38,739 --> 00:25:46,179 entrance. Is this true? Are the twin pillars called by Freemasons Jacon and Boas really... 235 00:25:46,179 --> 00:25:53,219 into all the twin pillars of cathedral architecture? If so, why? What exactly do ... 236 00:25:53,219 --> 00:26:00,659 pillars symbolize? Masons are told that they symbolize the, that they once decorated th... 237 00:26:00,660 --> 00:26:06,259 entrance to King Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, but I believe that this is just... 238 00:26:06,259 --> 00:26:11,779 It doesn't lead anywhere. It doesn't teach you anything. In truth, the Masonic twin... 239 00:26:11,779 --> 00:26:17,380 what I believe are the very foundations of the ancient universal religion that I talk... 240 00:26:17,380 --> 00:26:24,019 How? Well, look at the tracing board. Notice how the pillar on the right-hand side, whi... 241 00:26:24,180 --> 00:26:33,619 the left-hand pillar on the left side, obviously called Boas, is capped by the mo... 242 00:26:33,619 --> 00:26:39,299 of the sun and moon tell us something critically important. All the world's... 243 00:26:39,299 --> 00:26:46,339 sun and moon as perfect opposites, as I'm sure many of you know. In every culture, a... 244 00:26:46,419 --> 00:26:53,939 was used to symbolize this idea. Every culture, same concept. A swastika has two... 245 00:26:53,939 --> 00:27:00,819 a symbol of the sun and the other S is a symbol of the moon. The sun and moon are... 246 00:27:00,819 --> 00:27:06,500 according to a law in nature that we can all understand. The sun rules the day, the moo... 247 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:13,939 the night. The day brings light, the night brings dark. The light brings hot, the dar... 248 00:27:13,940 --> 00:27:21,299 the hot brings dry, the cold brings moist. The day symbolizes life, the night symboli... 249 00:27:21,299 --> 00:27:27,220 Life is embraced as good, but death is feared as evil. Now, this is a naturally occurring 250 00:27:27,779 --> 00:27:34,019 pairs of opposites that are happening here. And by this chain of associations, the sun... 251 00:27:34,019 --> 00:27:39,860 engender and denote all the pairs of opposites in our world, in our universe. N... 252 00:27:39,859 --> 00:27:47,939 interesting. The sun and moon shine on average 12 hours out of 24 each daily. Tha... 253 00:27:47,939 --> 00:27:55,859 That's exactly half each, right? And here's something that I honestly changed my life.... 254 00:27:55,859 --> 00:28:04,019 next little bit of information. When viewed from earth, the sun and full moon appear t... 255 00:28:04,019 --> 00:28:13,859 identically sized in our sky, as if these twin heavenly bodies are perfect opposites... 256 00:28:13,859 --> 00:28:20,180 much bigger, obviously, but the moon is much closer. So when viewed from earth, they're... 257 00:28:20,180 --> 00:28:26,740 size. So if you put this all together, this is not a marvelous coincidence the way... 258 00:28:27,299 --> 00:28:32,660 but really what it is, it's evidence of the mystical nature, in my opinion, the mystic... 259 00:28:32,660 --> 00:28:39,779 human existence. Ancient Chinese philosophers knew this well. Their Taijitu symbol, sorry, 260 00:28:41,220 --> 00:28:47,220 their Taijitu symbol, which we call the yin yang, depicts the sun and full moon togeth... 261 00:28:47,220 --> 00:28:53,940 circle. The yin or full moon covers half the circle. The yang or sun covers the other... 262 00:28:53,940 --> 00:29:00,420 And now think of this in terms of the tracing board. The sun crowns the jaykin pillar,... 263 00:29:00,420 --> 00:29:06,420 The moon crowns the boas pillar, that's yin. Thus the jaykin and boas pillars of... 264 00:29:06,420 --> 00:29:12,340 like the yin yang symbol, stand for the doctrine of duality, the pairs of opposite... 265 00:29:12,340 --> 00:29:17,539 something that Wilmshurst, the author I quoted before, also knew. He said, many... 266 00:29:17,539 --> 00:29:22,580 our Bible was written, the two pillars were used in temples. They stand for what is kn... 267 00:29:22,580 --> 00:29:30,180 pairs of opposites. Everything in nature is dual and can only be known in contrast wit... 268 00:29:30,740 --> 00:29:35,620 And here's a quote from an interesting author named Warren Kenton, whose work is often... 269 00:29:35,620 --> 00:29:41,860 by Prince Charles. He said, erected by the masons, the west front of each church had ... 270 00:29:41,860 --> 00:29:47,940 representing the twin columns, the masculine and feminine aspects flowing down from... 271 00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:55,220 called in Charles Cathedral the sun and moon towers. Now this is interesting because here 272 00:29:55,860 --> 00:30:00,100 Kenton points out something that's a little bit more tangible for us to look at. 273 00:30:05,059 --> 00:30:10,900 We have the two towers on Charles Cathedral. The right hand tower is capped by an image... 274 00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:17,220 and the left hand by an image of the moon. And this is referring to what Kenton calls... 275 00:30:17,220 --> 00:30:23,539 the masculine and feminine aspects. That's because man and woman, like every other pa... 276 00:30:23,539 --> 00:30:29,299 is encapsulated by this doctrine. We're told by the early 20th century author Claude... 277 00:30:29,299 --> 00:30:36,099 man like the sun is lord of the day. Woman is subject to the lunar rhythm. The Masonic 278 00:30:36,099 --> 00:30:42,819 guilds of the Middle Ages were custodians of the esoteric. The north or right hand towe... 279 00:30:42,819 --> 00:30:50,420 side was called the sacred male pillar, jacquan. And the south or left hand tower,... 280 00:30:50,420 --> 00:30:58,820 the sacred female pillar, boas. And we see this on the grand master certificate of th... 281 00:30:58,820 --> 00:31:06,820 heretic Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake in the year 1600 for heresy. We have... 282 00:31:06,820 --> 00:31:13,140 pillar crowned by the sun on the right side facing us and a female pillar crowned by t... 283 00:31:13,140 --> 00:31:20,980 left side facing us. Again, this matches the twin towers of Gothic cathedrals. But why ... 284 00:31:20,980 --> 00:31:26,420 of opposites teaching so important? Why is it important that we have duality? What does it 285 00:31:26,420 --> 00:31:33,460 exactly mean? What does this wisdom mean to you and me? And the answer is we live insi... 286 00:31:33,460 --> 00:31:41,460 universe, not separated from it. Thus, we too are formed by opposites. Our bodies are ma... 287 00:31:41,460 --> 00:31:46,819 same pairs of opposites as the universe, the light and the dark, the good and the evil,... 288 00:31:46,819 --> 00:31:53,380 the wrong, etc. Shakespeare said, our life is a mingled yarn, good and evil together. An... 289 00:31:53,380 --> 00:31:59,059 ancients believed this wholeheartedly. They believed the right side of our body was ma... 290 00:31:59,059 --> 00:32:04,500 and the left side was female and lunar. And again, Claude Bragdon says, though... 291 00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:11,539 there's a well-marked division into right and left. We have two arms, two legs, two ears... 292 00:32:14,660 --> 00:32:19,140 Moreover, the terms of such pairs are masculine and feminine with respect to eac... 293 00:32:19,140 --> 00:32:26,339 one being active and the other passive. So no human, of course, is completely one gender or 294 00:32:26,339 --> 00:32:32,180 the other. Despite our physical characteristics, we all possess both... 295 00:32:32,980 --> 00:32:38,820 Manly Hall was a Masonic author and he noticed this and he said, in ancient times... 296 00:32:38,820 --> 00:32:44,100 with their right arms and they defended with their left arms. The right side of the bod... 297 00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:52,019 considered masculine and the left side feminine. So this portrait appeared in an... 298 00:32:52,019 --> 00:32:59,060 in the 1400s. It's a two-headed human, a male on the right holding the sun and a female ... 299 00:32:59,059 --> 00:33:05,139 holding the moon. This is an esoteric portrait of you. It reveals the true makeu... 300 00:33:05,139 --> 00:33:11,779 half male, half female. And this explains the angel on our right shoulder telling us to ... 301 00:33:11,779 --> 00:33:18,339 and the demon on our left shoulder telling us to do evil. And that's something that we f... 302 00:33:18,339 --> 00:33:24,099 lot of different cultures till today. There's good and evil in the world and that means... 303 00:33:24,179 --> 00:33:29,379 and evil in all of us. Now here's the question, is that our fate? To be ruled by... 304 00:33:29,379 --> 00:33:35,219 to be tossed about left and right, to be so off balance that we don't know who we are ... 305 00:33:35,219 --> 00:33:42,579 find our center? No. The answer that the ancient philosophers said was no. We can... 306 00:33:42,579 --> 00:33:46,819 duality. How do we do that? Well, we do that according to the Freemasons and according to 307 00:33:46,819 --> 00:33:52,740 the people who preserved this ancient wisdom. We do that using the Masonic number three.... 308 00:33:52,740 --> 00:33:58,980 remember I said before three is the key number in Freemasonry. The Masonic three... 309 00:33:58,980 --> 00:34:06,500 we're more than just the twin opposing halves of an animal body. There's a, these twin... 310 00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:12,579 don't constitute the whole human being, only the physical part, the material part, the... 311 00:34:12,579 --> 00:34:19,539 lives and dies on earth. The Masonic three teaches that deep down there's a spiritual... 312 00:34:19,539 --> 00:34:27,539 third part, this spiritual part encompasses both sides of the duality. And it can be... 313 00:34:28,099 --> 00:34:34,340 through the union of the twin opposing halves. And this is again what I said befo... 314 00:34:34,340 --> 00:34:40,980 term coincidentia oppositorum or the pairs of opposites, the balance point of the... 315 00:34:40,980 --> 00:34:46,259 as I mentioned before. And I'll explain now how the ancients knew this. They knew it... 316 00:34:46,260 --> 00:34:50,340 could see it in their symbols. Look at the tae jitu. You have yin and yang and they... 317 00:34:50,340 --> 00:34:55,300 the physical sides of the human body. But now look, yin and yang are both encapsulated... 318 00:34:55,300 --> 00:35:00,660 of a giant circle. Okay. A lot of people miss that circle. They just see, oh, it's yin a... 319 00:35:00,660 --> 00:35:07,220 But what about the third part? The most important part of this is the circle. The... 320 00:35:07,220 --> 00:35:14,900 both yin and yang. And the circle symbolizes eternity because with no beginning and no... 321 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:20,980 a circle has always symbolized eternity to all ancient civilizations. The circle,... 322 00:35:20,980 --> 00:35:28,340 Freemasons, is a symbol of your soul. It's called tau in Chinese thought. And the cir... 323 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:36,260 part of you out of which all existence arises and inside of which the pairs of opposites... 324 00:35:36,260 --> 00:35:42,500 and move and have their being. The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu says, he who... 325 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:48,340 is one with the tau. Being at one with the tau is eternal. Though the body dies, the ... 326 00:35:48,340 --> 00:35:54,820 never pass away. The yin yang is in fact a three-part symbol, as I just was mentionin... 327 00:35:54,820 --> 00:36:01,139 three parts. It's made of twin dualities, yin and yang, with the circle being the third... 328 00:36:01,139 --> 00:36:08,099 tau being the third part. And this is the higher unity that yin and yang are... 329 00:36:08,099 --> 00:36:13,779 Lao Tzu tells us that as well. He says the Chinese trinity, being the duality of yin ... 330 00:36:13,779 --> 00:36:20,259 organized into a higher unity, is regarded as the source of all existence. And its symbo... 331 00:36:20,259 --> 00:36:26,659 yang, possesses special significance for the Chinese thought, for the Chinese heart. An... 332 00:36:26,659 --> 00:36:35,380 that a third force of unity ties together twin opposites is central in Freemasonry. ... 333 00:36:35,460 --> 00:36:41,860 in Masonic thought and in Masonic architecture too. In Freemasonry though, i... 334 00:36:41,860 --> 00:36:48,340 circle like it is in Taoism, encompassing the yin yang. In Freemasonry, its symbol is th... 335 00:36:50,180 --> 00:36:56,820 The triangle that unites the twin pillars, jaken, on one side and boas on the other. In 336 00:36:56,820 --> 00:37:03,220 precisely the same way, the circle unites yin and yang. And we could say that in another... 337 00:37:03,219 --> 00:37:11,539 triangle's apex transcends its two lower points, just as your soul transcends the t... 338 00:37:11,539 --> 00:37:17,619 halves of your body. And this is because your soul is older than and higher than your bo... 339 00:37:17,619 --> 00:37:23,619 is the source of your body. Think of the story of the Garden of Eden, the fall. We'... 340 00:37:23,619 --> 00:37:29,059 after eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. We've fallen down into the... 341 00:37:29,059 --> 00:37:34,980 of duality. We've fallen from our higher spiritual home in the heavens and we've... 342 00:37:34,980 --> 00:37:42,739 opposites. And this concept is rampant in the Masonic writers of the 19th and early 20th... 343 00:37:42,739 --> 00:37:49,139 including John Yarger, who said, according to this mystic doctrine, all souls have... 344 00:37:49,139 --> 00:37:56,420 and have descended from the spiritual world into the earthly prison of the body. In ot... 345 00:37:56,420 --> 00:38:03,619 you are divine already. You existed before your body's birth and you'll survive your... 346 00:38:04,180 --> 00:38:11,539 You are more than just a physical body. You are a soul. And in authentic Freemasonry a... 347 00:38:11,539 --> 00:38:19,460 teachings, in this hermetic wisdom, being a soul means being a God. A soul is a God. Y... 348 00:38:19,460 --> 00:38:26,820 a fallen God, but a God just the same. Having fallen, you are now in a sense, imprisoned... 349 00:38:26,820 --> 00:38:32,900 body, which mimics the duality of the universe, which your body temporarily live... 350 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:38,740 esoteric scholar Alvin Boyd-Kuhn said that. He said, man is a God in the body of an... 351 00:38:38,740 --> 00:38:42,820 according to the pronouncement of ancient philosophy. He's absolutely right, because... 352 00:38:42,820 --> 00:38:47,619 ancient philosophers talked about this. They all did. You find the same concepts that y... 353 00:38:47,619 --> 00:38:53,619 Greek philosophy and Hinduism. You find it in Taoism. You find it in religions essential... 354 00:38:53,619 --> 00:39:00,739 over the world. The famous 19th century essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who's one of... 355 00:39:00,739 --> 00:39:08,900 said, a man is a God in ruins. And the famous 19th century French poet Alphonse de la... 356 00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:16,819 limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen God who remembers... 357 00:39:16,820 --> 00:39:21,940 that was a profound quote when I first came across it. Man is fallen because, in a sense, 358 00:39:21,940 --> 00:39:28,500 your body is not your true home. It's an imperfect and transitory vehicle. It's tau... 359 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:33,140 philosophy that your body imprisons your soul, because think about it. Your body ha... 360 00:39:33,140 --> 00:39:41,300 for. In order to survive, your body has to constantly breathe, eat, drink, maintain a... 361 00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:47,620 temperature, fight disease. Even if your body can endure for decades, death will eventua... 362 00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:53,380 it. So for the ancients, your fall into a body was somewhat perceived as a tragedy. ... 363 00:39:53,380 --> 00:39:58,820 century author, Olympus Gregory, wrote, the Platonists in general believed in a... 364 00:39:58,820 --> 00:40:04,180 state in which all souls had sinned and lost their wings. And so they sank into these... 365 00:40:04,180 --> 00:40:10,019 partly as a punishment for former follies. It means you've descended so deeply into the... 366 00:40:10,019 --> 00:40:16,420 world that you've lost sight of your God-Self, of your spiritual self. You're s... 367 00:40:16,420 --> 00:40:23,699 matter that you have amnesia of who you really are. And that's the God within you.... 368 00:40:23,699 --> 00:40:28,340 part of the Masonic teachings that really touched me the most was that despite all... 369 00:40:28,340 --> 00:40:35,619 use the number three to sort of take back who you really are, remember who you really ar... 370 00:40:35,619 --> 00:40:42,019 do this by turning on the soul. You know that your soul is being covered over by your body, 371 00:40:42,019 --> 00:40:47,699 but if you balance the opposites, if you transcend the opposites, you can actually... 372 00:40:47,699 --> 00:40:53,940 between them. And that's the third force. That's the coincidentia oppositorum. And y... 373 00:40:53,940 --> 00:40:58,420 again, all the traditions, and especially in the magical traditions, we're told by Israel 374 00:40:58,420 --> 00:41:03,460 Ragardi, who was a student of the magician, Aleister Crowley, only in the reconciliation 375 00:41:03,539 --> 00:41:09,860 of opposing forces is the pathway made to true occult knowledge and practical power. 376 00:41:12,980 --> 00:41:22,420 In other words, you have to join your right and left sides. You have to join your male... 377 00:41:22,420 --> 00:41:28,260 halves, and you'll find what you're seeking. And this is what we're told in the aphoris... 378 00:41:29,220 --> 00:41:34,420 when you join the opposites, a mystical awakening occurs, it involves our suddenly... 379 00:41:34,420 --> 00:41:41,700 of an organ and human faculty that we didn't know we really had. And we can see that... 380 00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:47,060 this Masonic tracing board. It's very similar to the Masonic tracing board I showed you... 381 00:41:47,060 --> 00:41:52,340 It depicts what seems to be an ancient pagan temple, and that's because it reveals an... 382 00:41:52,340 --> 00:41:58,420 pagan teaching. First, look at the twin pillars, Jacob and Boaz. They're aligned w... 383 00:41:58,420 --> 00:42:04,340 moon directly above them. Now, look at the tops of the twin pillars. They both form t... 384 00:42:04,340 --> 00:42:10,660 two halves of a triangle. Third, look at the apex of that triangle and notice the lumin... 385 00:42:10,660 --> 00:42:17,140 directly above it. Why an eye? The answer is when you unite the opposites, you suddenly... 386 00:42:17,139 --> 00:42:23,460 illuminated, awakened, you suddenly become whole again. And when this happens, a... 387 00:42:23,460 --> 00:42:29,059 eye opens within you. Plato called it the eye of the soul, and the soul is who you reall... 388 00:42:29,059 --> 00:42:35,460 And we see this here in an old Masonic temple in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Many Freemasons... 389 00:42:35,460 --> 00:42:42,739 incorrectly that this is the eye of the God of the Bible. But according to Plato, in... 390 00:42:42,739 --> 00:42:48,819 there's an eye of the soul, which is far more precious than 10,000 bodily eyes, for by i... 391 00:42:48,819 --> 00:42:56,659 is truth seen. The eye of the soul is naturally adapted to be resuscitated and... 392 00:42:56,659 --> 00:43:04,179 mathematical discipline. Excuse me. Located in the center of our brains, Plato's eye o... 393 00:43:04,179 --> 00:43:09,939 historically been called the divine's eye, the mind's eye, the cyclopean eye, and tha... 394 00:43:09,940 --> 00:43:14,019 another lecture where we could talk about the cyclopean ruins. They're very advanced.... 395 00:43:14,019 --> 00:43:20,019 very powerful. I think it has something to do with the third eye. The real name of it is... 396 00:43:20,019 --> 00:43:25,059 eye, and the awakened third eye endows its possessor with higher consciousness. And... 397 00:43:25,059 --> 00:43:29,780 the third eye is not even mentioned in Western medicine. Our history books carry ... 398 00:43:29,780 --> 00:43:35,139 description of it. They call it the pineal gland, and Webster's dictionary only has a... 399 00:43:35,139 --> 00:43:40,980 sentences devoted to it, calling it an appendage of the brain. It has the structu... 400 00:43:40,980 --> 00:43:47,219 and it's variously postulated to be a vestigial third eye, or even a seat of the... 401 00:43:47,219 --> 00:43:52,500 you have a remnant of the of the teaching. They're calling it a seat of the soul.... 402 00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:58,339 eye is a custom in Asia to this day in the Hindu religions, Buddhism. Here the third ... 403 00:43:58,339 --> 00:44:03,940 Erna and Trinetra. It's marked by a dot on the forehead. It's called the Ajna Chakra.... 404 00:44:03,940 --> 00:44:11,700 the seven chakras that are aligned in our spinal column, going from the pelvis to th... 405 00:44:11,700 --> 00:44:16,740 head. I'm sure you've all heard of them before. All the chakras are connected from... 406 00:44:16,740 --> 00:44:22,900 the highest through a central channel called the Sushumna, and two opposing channels, t... 407 00:44:22,900 --> 00:44:29,300 and Pengala, run to the left and right of the Sushumna. Negatively charged Ida is our left 408 00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:34,820 channel. That's the lunar and feminine channel. Positively charged Pengala is our... 409 00:44:34,820 --> 00:44:40,740 That's our solar and masculine channel. Here you can see that the Ida and Pengala chann... 410 00:44:40,740 --> 00:44:46,340 Hinduism, of Kundalini Yoga, match up perfectly with the Jain and Boas columns a... 411 00:44:46,340 --> 00:44:50,660 Yang of Taoism. And so you're starting to see that they're all the same. It's teaching t... 412 00:44:50,660 --> 00:44:56,500 concepts everywhere. The art of Kundalini Yoga is personified on this ancient... 413 00:44:56,500 --> 00:45:01,460 statue. It depicts a male on one side, a female on the other, both balanced in the... 414 00:45:01,460 --> 00:45:07,780 god Shiva. And the awakened third eye is visible. The late Dr. Lee Semela, who was ... 415 00:45:07,780 --> 00:45:14,099 the Kundalini Clinic in California, says that Kundalini is the real cause of all the... 416 00:45:14,099 --> 00:45:20,099 spiritual and psychic phenomena. The secret origin of all esoteric and occult doctrines, 417 00:45:20,099 --> 00:45:25,300 the master key to the unsolved mystery of creation, the inexhaustible source of... 418 00:45:25,300 --> 00:45:30,340 art and science, and the fountainhead of all religious faiths, past, present and future. 419 00:45:30,900 --> 00:45:36,660 And so during my studies, I came to believe that Kundalini Yoga, this awakening of the... 420 00:45:36,660 --> 00:45:43,940 by balancing the jaykin and boas, sun and moon, played a key role in the great work ... 421 00:45:43,940 --> 00:45:49,620 secret societies, not just Freemasonry. And here are some images of what I believe is ... 422 00:45:49,619 --> 00:45:55,940 third eye on some odd fellows regalia. The Masonic Triangle thus denotes more than just 423 00:45:55,940 --> 00:46:01,940 balancing life's dualities. It stands for the awakened third eye that occurs when life's... 424 00:46:01,940 --> 00:46:07,619 are balanced. And I want to show you a cool quote from Carl Jung. He says, Unfortunately, 425 00:46:07,619 --> 00:46:13,139 our Western mind, lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept or 426 00:46:13,139 --> 00:46:18,900 even a name for the union of opposites through the middle path, that most... 427 00:46:18,900 --> 00:46:23,380 inward experience. It's at once the most individual fact and the most universal, 428 00:46:23,380 --> 00:46:29,380 the most legitimate fulfillment of the meaning of an individual's life. 1918, Dr.... 429 00:46:29,380 --> 00:46:35,059 Carey, the all seeing eye, this is the eye of Freemasonry, the third eye, while incredibly 430 00:46:35,059 --> 00:46:39,300 formed that few Masons understand their own symbols, the fact remains that they use them. 431 00:46:40,180 --> 00:46:44,579 And let's return now to the Gothic cathedrals. And we'll be finishing the... 432 00:46:44,579 --> 00:46:52,659 this. You can see if you follow the twin towers down, they end in what I call the... 433 00:46:55,299 --> 00:47:02,420 A third larger door is centered between the doors of opposites. And this third larger... 434 00:47:02,420 --> 00:47:08,259 unites the doors of opposites into a kind of three in one symbol, just as the apex of a 435 00:47:08,260 --> 00:47:15,060 triangle unites its two lower halves, and just as the circle unites the twins in a... 436 00:47:15,060 --> 00:47:21,140 triptych's center door thus signifies this center point, this balance of the two... 437 00:47:22,580 --> 00:47:28,100 between them. And therefore it represents the soul between the soul within us in our... 438 00:47:28,100 --> 00:47:36,420 and the God within us. In this way, the entire triptych itself represents Carl Jung's 439 00:47:37,059 --> 00:47:42,820 union of opposites through the middle path. When we do this, when we unite the opposites, 440 00:47:42,820 --> 00:47:49,460 when we balance ourselves in our center, we awaken to a different path, we find our in... 441 00:47:49,460 --> 00:47:55,460 we find our inner peace. And I think that's what this triptych tradition says all arou... 442 00:47:55,460 --> 00:48:01,860 I've only just given you a very small piece of what I've found because of the only 45... 443 00:48:01,860 --> 00:48:06,180 ability to tell you, I don't want to go into every ancient culture and show proof of th... 444 00:48:06,179 --> 00:48:12,980 in my book. But the idea here is we find the inner God in the middle between us, this God 445 00:48:12,980 --> 00:48:18,339 symbol on Rockefeller Center Triptych, when we do balance these opposites. Now, very... 446 00:48:18,339 --> 00:48:24,339 the if you follow the middle door upward, you see the rose window, and the rose window i... 447 00:48:24,339 --> 00:48:28,500 Okay, remember we said the circle is always a symbol of eternity and the eternal soul. 448 00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:35,619 It's a perfect symbol of the God within us and the soul within us between the twin... 449 00:48:35,619 --> 00:48:43,380 of duality. And we have author Michael Rose, who says in his book, Ugliest Sin, the ros... 450 00:48:43,380 --> 00:48:48,739 representation of perfection, balance, and the harmony of the purified soul. Got a gr... 451 00:48:48,739 --> 00:48:54,819 here from Prince Charles, who really has a lot of esoteric wisdom in him. And he says... 452 00:48:54,819 --> 00:48:59,460 into the building, he's talking about Charles Cathedral, which I showed before, the... 453 00:48:59,460 --> 00:49:04,500 into the building is through a west front, which comprises two soaring towers, one wi... 454 00:49:04,500 --> 00:49:09,300 the moon upon it, one bearing the symbol of the sun, and beneath them sits one of the... 455 00:49:09,300 --> 00:49:15,539 spectacular of all rose windows, symbolizing the uniting of the apparent duality... 456 00:49:15,539 --> 00:49:20,019 symbols of the sun and moon. When I read that, it was a kind of confirmation that I... 457 00:49:20,019 --> 00:49:26,659 cathedrals correctly, and that really blew me away. The rose window is a descendant of... 458 00:49:26,659 --> 00:49:33,300 called the oculus. It actually stands for eye, what Plato called the eye of the soul... 459 00:49:33,300 --> 00:49:39,539 rose window is both a symbol of the eye and the soul, and it's depicted just above the... 460 00:49:39,539 --> 00:49:45,460 door of the triptych. It's aligned perfectly in the center between the twin opposites. 461 00:49:47,220 --> 00:49:52,180 So the last quote I'll show today is this one from the Hunchback of Notre Dame, where 462 00:49:52,740 --> 00:49:58,820 Victor Hugo likens that center rose window with the eye of a cyclops. He says, there'... 463 00:49:59,220 --> 00:50:03,700 hour above all others when the façade of Notre Dame should be admired. It's the mom... 464 00:50:03,700 --> 00:50:08,660 sun, already declining towards the west, looks the cathedral almost full in the fac... 465 00:50:08,660 --> 00:50:15,700 growing more strongly, while the central rose window flames like the eye of a cyclops. I... 466 00:50:15,700 --> 00:50:21,780 that's an esoteric reference right there. In the U.S., we have something called the Ku... 467 00:50:21,780 --> 00:50:28,019 That's Ku Klose, the word circle, the circle clan. That evolved into a racist... 468 00:50:28,019 --> 00:50:35,380 originally it was an esoteric community. If you think about a rose window, really what... 469 00:50:35,380 --> 00:50:41,539 window is, it's a circle with a dot in the center. That we know in symbology is a sym... 470 00:50:43,380 --> 00:50:50,659 Tomorrow, what I'll do is I'll present the conclusion of this lecture. We'll see how ... 471 00:50:50,659 --> 00:50:56,340 symbol is depicted above the triptych center door. It's a common feature in Europe and ... 472 00:50:56,340 --> 00:51:03,780 parts of the world. Unless somebody points it out to you, like I'm doing here, it's hard... 473 00:51:03,780 --> 00:51:09,460 But here you can see this is the Bank of France. This building is from the late 180... 474 00:51:09,460 --> 00:51:16,900 It's a triptych, it's a three-in-one pattern, and there's a third awakened eye above the... 475 00:51:16,900 --> 00:51:22,260 This is the whole concept of the triptych that we see in all the ancient civilizatio... 476 00:51:22,260 --> 00:51:26,980 the same thing everywhere. Ida on one side, Pingala on the other, that's the jacquin a... 477 00:51:26,980 --> 00:51:35,060 The Sushumna in the middle with the awakened third eye to signify the higher self. This... 478 00:51:35,060 --> 00:51:40,740 in New York City that has the same three-door triptych, two pillar jacquin and boas. If you 479 00:51:40,740 --> 00:51:48,020 look at the light coming from the third eye above the top, you could see a parallel. T... 480 00:51:48,019 --> 00:51:53,699 I presented here is just a small amount of the information I've gathered. There was a... 481 00:51:53,699 --> 00:51:59,219 religion of antiquity. It was based on the balance of opposites. The main architectur... 482 00:51:59,219 --> 00:52:04,420 the triptych temple, and it was encoded in architecture by the Freemasons, who I believe 483 00:52:04,420 --> 00:52:09,780 inherited this wisdom from their pagan antecedents. And that's it. We'll talk abo... 484 00:52:09,780 --> 00:52:13,540 on part two. Thanks, everybody. I appreciate you listening.