The Source Field Investigations (17 page)

Our next set of prophecies come from the Mahabharata, a Hindu sacred scripture. They sound remarkably relevant to our own recent history, including Earth Changes, widespread corruption and moral decline—despite the fact that they may have been written some five thousand years ago. The numbers and symbolism in these legends fit Santillana’s theory perfectly—the writers did seem to be aware of the twenty-five-thousand-year precession cycle. The Mahabharata describes humanity’s entrance into the final age of hell on earth, or Kali Yuga, before we again return to the Golden Age that will follow. Again, bear in mind what the Cayce Readings said about prophecies of physical catastrophes—they are metaphors of the changes we are all going through. The Cayce Readings also said the Book of Revelation frequently described objects in groups of seven to symbolize the seven “chakras” or energy systems in the body. Here in this Hindu text, we apparently see the same symbolism being used—in the form of “seven blazing suns” that appear at the end of the age.

I do not think these prophecies of a final destruction are literal—the “seven blazing suns” appear to symbolize a sudden spiritual awakening that occurs throughout humanity. Right after everything on earth is allegedly “destroyed in a moment” by this incredible fire, the story mysteriously continues—and everyone is still alive. A savior figure now arrives, with supernatural abilities, who defeats the bad guys and helps the planet transform. Symbolism again appears to be at work here. There are dreamlike myths like this all over the world, and the Hindu prophecy seems surprisingly similar to how our world appears today. The fiery catastrophe we just read about appears to be another metaphorical symbol of worldwide changes that sweep through our society at lightning speed—toppling our castles of sand, which we built in ignorance, and eliminating the old ways of doing things. Cayce described a very similar set of metaphors in his decoding of the Book of Revelation.

One could argue that things in society have always been this challenging, and the authors are just pining away for a spiritual ideal that was never reached. Nonetheless, the Hindu myths begin with the Golden Age, which is literally Paradise on earth, and then gradually work their way down to the Kali Yuga—over many thousands of years. All Santillana’s myths, worldwide, indicate that things get worse and worse, and then we get major Earth Changes—which we are now seeing. Some of the myths end in a flood. The Hindu myths end in a fire. The rules of logic suggest that if “all things were destroyed in a moment” at the end of every 25,000-year cycle, then no life on earth could ever have survived for very long—so obviously we can’t take this prophecy literally. Similarly, the Bible begins with Adam and Eve, in the book of Genesis—allegedly the first people to live on earth—and ends with a major catastrophe in the Book of Revelation. That’s not the end in the Bible either—the Tribulation leads directly to a New Heaven and New Earth; a resplendent, glorious Golden Age.

Just as we see in the Bible, the Hindu prophecy doesn’t end with destruction. The awesome Samvartaka fire leads to a new creation—the Krita, or Golden, Age:

In the Hindu prophecy, the Golden Age starts to restore the balance of nature and the Cosmos—creating greater prosperity, abundance, health and peace—before all the hard work is finally over. Then, Hinduism’s own version of a messiah—namely, Kalki—comes on the scene, ready to finish the job. Kalki clearly has “Ascended” abilities, similar to what we can all do in our lucid dreams. He can manifest vehicles, weapons and warriors just by thinking of them.

According to Edgar Cayce’s readings about this major change, the “Second Coming of Christ” is what happens to all of us as we go through this process: “To him, to her that is faithful, there shall be given a CROWN of light . . . ye become as rivers of light, as fountains of knowledge, as mountains of strength, as the pastures for the hungry, as the rest for the weary, as the strength for the weak.”
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Therefore, the wars and violent acts you are about to read, where corrupt people are murdered, are most likely part of the dream symbolism. Rather than literally involving people being killed, it may be a symbolic story of the journey we all make within ourselves, to purify the ego—that part of us that has been addicted to manipulation, power and control:

If you read Helena Blavatsky’s controversial work
The Secret Doctrine,
more information about this Hindu prophecy appears—complete with excerpts from the original text. We find out that there are “eight superhuman faculties” Kalki develops, associated with this prophecy—obviously far beyond what most of us have now:

Edgar Cayce went into detail about what he called the “fifth root race” in his own readings. John Van Auken discussed this prophecy in the March–April 2009 issue of the Association for Research and Enlightenment’s
Venture Inward
magazine.

When we go back to our excerpt from the Mahabharata in
The Secret Doctrine,
we come across a tantalizing clue: The ancient Hindu scriptures gave us a precise time window for when the Golden Age would arrive. They associated this with a rare conjunction of planets in the solar system, thus allowing us to calculate an exact date.

No calculation is presented in Blavatsky’s book for when this may occur, but Geoff Stray presents an informed opinion in his book
Beyond 2012.

That’s barely over a year and a half after December 21, 2012—the end of the Maya calendar. Until Graham Hancock peer-reviewed an early draft of this book, I was under the impression that most astronomers believed the shift from the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius, in the Western system, also occurred around the year 2011 or 2012. According to Peter Lemesurier in
Great Pyramid Decoded,
the French Institut Géographique National fixed the Age of Aquarius as arriving in 2011.
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Obviously if there is a serious debate about the start time of the Age of Aquarius, we need to roll up our sleeves and dig for the answer. Most astronomers feel the Age of Aquarius begins whenever the sunrise moves into the constellation of Aquarius during the spring equinox—but no one can agree on when that is. When you go to NASA’s Get a Straight Answer Web site, and ask David P. Stern when the Age of Aquarius begins, his straight answer is “I don’t know.”
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In modern times, the precession was rediscovered by Hipparchus, who began his work somewhere around the spring equinox of March 24, 146 B.C. That is an important date, as we will soon see. Shirley Burchill, an astronomy historian, suggested Hipparchus was working from much older records.

David Andrew D’Zmura created a method to calculate when the shift into the Age of Aquarius would occur, partly by going back to the original data. He sought after and was ultimately awarded a U.S. Patent—number 676618—so his findings would not be stolen. In his patent, D’Zmura implies that Hipparchus was inspired to begin all his groundbreaking astronomy studies in 146 B.C. because he was tipped off. As we just read, Hipparchus had access to ancient Babylonian records. We already have seen the Babylonians displaying the pineal gland/pinecone/ axis mundi/winged angel symbols in their sacred artwork. These records may very well have revealed that 146 B.C., or thereabouts, was the year we shifted into the Age of Pisces. If various traditions kept this knowledge secret all along, there would have been a great deal of interest in the coming of a new Age of the Zodiac. No one could be sure what might happen as this pivotal moment arrived. Everyone would be looking at the stars to try to understand the greater cycle that was driving these Ages—and Hipparchus’s method for classifying the brightness of the stars in the night sky is still used today.
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