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In view of this, it is of particular interest to note that Tolkien, Silver pipes, bells and drums, along with beautifully ornamented when asked about the Middle Earth environment of his book, The harps and lyres, have all been unearthed in ancient Sumer from Lord of the Rings, answered that he perceived its setting to relate graves dating back five or six thousand years, and it is known that to somewhere around 4000 BC. "The cauldron has always been lutes were also used. boiling," he said. "We simply add new ingredients to the soup." Buried along with kings and queens of the Dragon succession, In this respect, his popular tale, although enthralling, was not these finely produced instruments were clearly ceremonial and actually new in concept. From the earliest of European times, the | would appear to have been used in ancient Star Fire and Fire- Saxon god, Wotan (or Odin, the equivalent of the Sumerian Anu), stone rituals, as described in Genesis of the Grail Kings. The was said to have ruled the world with eight rings, having one Fire-stone ritual (the ritual of the goddess Antu, or Barat An-na) more, the ninth ring (the One Ring), to govern the others. was largely a levitation ceremony conducted with the monatomic, During the mediaeval days of the Church's persecution of superconductive element of the Highward Fire-stone (the white heretics and, indeed, through the Middle Ages and beyond, all powder of gold). manner of Grail-related subject matter fell prey to the wrath of the Even in modern times, music has been used to perform levita- bishops and friars. Unsuspecting victims were accused of any tional feats—notably in Tibet, where prohibitively large stone number of apparently unsavoury practices, and any association blocks have been lifted and positioned high in the mountains by with the Ring culture was proscribed. using anti-gravitational sound frequencies. Indeed, when Joan of Arc was accused of The ritual involves nineteen musicians and, witchcraft, one of the charges laid against behind them, 200 monks, radiating outwards in her by the bishops was that she used magical lines (in groups of five) at five-degree inter- rings for enchantment and curative purposes. vals, facing towards a mountain cave. The As a result, she was burnt at the stake in 3 o musicians use thirteen barrel-drums of variant 1431. But, in 1920, the Church reconsidere Even In modern times, sizes (weighing up to 150 kilograms apiece), her case and she was pardoned and canon- music has been used to | suspended from wooden frames and directed ised! Per towards a bowl-shaped cavity in which the As detailed in Bloodline of the Holy Grail, perform levitational required boulder is placed, between the musi- the writings of Merin--witha good deal of | €AtS—Notably in Tibet, | verses positioned at intervals between the other literature confined to the supposedly where prohibitively drummers. On command, the trumpets and "lost" coffers of the Dark Ages—but pictori- drums begin, with the monks at the rear pro- al art also came under close scrutiny and large stone blocks have viding a baffle whilst chanting. The time span many new rules were made. One of been lifted and before levitation of the stone occurs is these was that the Virgin Mary could iti i i four minutes and, in this manner, stones only be portrayed wearing blue and positioned high in the have been lifted some 400 metres, to be white (just as she is commonly depict- mountains by using lowered into their necessary mountain anti-gravitational sound frequencies. ed today). The reason for this was that temple positions. other colours, especially the red of the Having made an intensive study of the cardinals, might have implied that she intricacies of this ancient procedure, held some form of ecclesiastical office Adrian Wagner has recreated a musical within a Church that afforded no cleri- enactment in "The Phoenix and the Fire- cal status to women. stone" track of the Genesis of the Grail Kings album—strategically breaking the \ ), That is not so commonly sequence with a Golden Mean partition known is that the Church's and concluding immediately before the regulations also applied to four-minute deadline. Locked within this music—in particular, ancient music are frequencies that are so low as to be which could be traced to cultures other than that of Rome, Greece inaudible to conscious awareness, but which resonate directly or Lydia. It is by virtue of these implemented regulations that so _ with the frequency of the pineal gland. This, as many of you will many of today's reference books determine that, for the most part, know, is the gland responsible for heightened states of awareness music evolved either from Greece or from various parts of the and perception. Roman Empire. Also included within the Genesis album are aspects of musical It is precisely the same with the English language, which is harmonics which were banned by the Vatican in the Middle Ages, largely, but quite erroneously, said to derive from Greek and subsequent to their use by the Knights Templars and Cistercian Latin. To cement this notion very firmly into our culture, we are monks in the construction of their Magdalene-dedicated Notre taught from the classical literature of Homer and Virgil; but what | Dame cathedrals, which are noted for their architectural defiance is always forgotten is that both the Greek and Roman languages of gravitational theory. The knights of this particular branch of themselves evolved from other, far older, sources. Much of the the Templars (constituted by King Baldwin of Jerusalem in 1118) language of Europe, including the English language, can be traced were called the Guardian Princes of the Royal Secret. back into Phoenicia, Syria, Egypt, India and Mesopotamia, with One of these musical sequences is the most famous of all: a tri- many of the word stems being thousands of years old. tone dubbed by the Church as "the Devil's interval". This is a In the world of music, we have the very same scenario and, by direct extraction from the discovered harmonic scales of ancient virtue of discoveries made in the past few decades, there is no Mesopotamian deities, which include the Enki scale, Enlil scale, doubt that structured and sequenced music played a major role Anu scale, Marduk scale, Kingu scale, Inanna scale and others. way back in the days of the Babylonian kingdoms and beyond. No composer has done so much to preserve the legacy of Ring positioned high in the mountains by using anti-gravitational sound frequencies. 46 - NEXUS OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 1999