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LG: Yes, I think so. And when you look at the cathedral's Templars, became known as architecture, from which we also get original construction, the set-up could have been right for this. arch, architrave, etc. Masonic lore was based on arcane architec- Seventeenth-century documents from the Académie Francaise and tural geometry, and the term Royal Arch or Ark stemmed from the Royal Society in London relate that there was a great golden this. plate in the middle of the famous Chartres labyrinth. Today there In Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark, I've included a colour plate of are just the cut brass studs which held it in place. Also, there was Templars in 1147, twenty years after they returned from a magical stone of some sort in the roof space above it. This was Jerusalem. The painting, from the Chateau de Versailles, depicts lost in the debris of the roof fire in 1836, but was originally placed them with the Ark of the Covenant at the Paris Chapter House. there for some specific purpose by the Templars. If it were per- AM: An idea that goes round a lot is that the world is really haps a stone of monatomic iridium crystal or some other energetic ruled by secret societies. What do you think of that? superconductive device, it could well have been triggered to the LG: I don't really see that as being the case. There are transition-group metal below in order to create a flux-tube portal societies, fraternities and establishments which are secretive, and between them. many of our prominent leaders belong to them, but I don't see the We know that the Ark was a very powerful capacitor and, in groups themselves as running anything. They just provide venues conjunction with monatomic elements (the manna placed in the of mutual interest at which to meet. For example, one might say Ark), it could become a superconductor with its own Meissner that numerous of our governors are Freemasons. By implication, field. Hence, as detailed in the Torah and Talmud, it would levi- therefore, we are governed by Freemasons—but that does not tate above the ground. We also know from recent experiments mean their individual or combined lodges control the world. with monatomic elements that they can be heat-triggered to move They do not. I know many politicians who are members of the out of our space-time. Bringing these things all together, there- British Library and indeed often meet there. But that does not fore, it is possible that the Ark is still at Chartres, but simply not mean we are ruled by a cabal of book readers. I have been a in our space-time—maybe "yielded", for want of a better term, Freemason and a British Library member, but I've never into another parallel dimension. controlled anyone. AM: Things can actually be sent into other dimensions? AM: So, are you a Freemason? LG: Yes, and brought back. Hal LG: Not any more. For many Puthoff, the director of the Institute years I was affiliated with the City of ¥ ¢ 7 jes] tT w nancial sec: q j aS for Advanced Studies in Austin, We know, therefore, that London financial sector, and it was Texas, wrote in a report some years part of the scene to belong to a City back that when particles begin to it's possible to transport matier lodge. It was just the same as being reat te gimension. 2 | into other dimensions, fewest Feri nhs oh [see "Gravity as a Zero-point What we don't know is the do much the same at a provincial Fluctuation Force", Physical Review key to unlocking the Ark— level, belonging to the local Rotary A 39(5), 1 March 1989]. ra oa Club, Round Table or whatever. ubsequent tests with monatomic ey all provide venues for those Subseq ith i if indeed it is there to be They all provid For th elements revealed that they, too, unlocked " with common interests, but these associations do not run the world— during thermo-gravimetric analysis. even if some of their individual mem- With increased heating, the weight bers have a hand in that regard. If a would reduce to absolute zero—at which point they disappeared Scout leader happens to run someone down in his car, it doesn't altogether. On subsequent cooling, however, they would return to mean that the Scouts are training terrorists! It simply doesn't would lose 4/9ths of their weight a visible state. work that way. We know, therefore, that it's possible to transport matter into Anyway, after some twenty years in Freemasonry, I resigned in other dimensions. What we don't know is the key to unlocking 1984—mainly because I got thoroughly bored with it all. I had the Ark—if indeed it is there to be unlocked. Maybe it was trig- expected to learn such a lot, but actually learned nothing of much gered by a sound wave, maybe a light wave; but either way we consequence except how to perform ceremonial ritual. I suppose would need to know the resonance frequency. As I said, it's just if one wants somewhere to be every Monday night and a group of an hypothesis, but it is a possibility. In a way, it's the sort of thing _ people to be with, then it provides a suitably fraternal environ- that NASA and others are now working on with regard to the tele- ment. But, in the end, I found better things to do. portation of matter, as we discussed earlier. All I really discovered in terms of "secrets" was that their Interestingly, Royal Arch Freemasonry—or Royal Ark, as it biggest secret is that they've forgotten what their secrets are! used to be—is firmly centred on the traditional mystery of a Even the ritual maintains that the true secrets of the Craft were sacred keystone and a golden plate. lost long ago. What I never experienced was anything covert in the way that one imagines a secret society. So, either it wasn't ARCANE KNOWLEDGE AND SECRET SOCIETIES there, or it was very cleverly concealed from me for twenty years. AM: Is Arch the same as Ark, then? There are, however, secretive aspects of government that I really LG: Ina certain context, yes. The Greek word ark, meaning don't like. Elected politicians are supposed to represent and report "gathering box", is arc in English and arche in French. The to their electorate, not keep secrets from them. Oxford Word Library defines the word ark as an obsolete form of Take the Bilderberg Group, for example. Industrialists, bankers the modern English word arc. It was equivalent to the Latin arca, and whoever are perfectly entitled to meet and discuss things a "chest", "box" or "coffer". Archaeology was about a quest for which they are not required to disclose publicly afterwards. We the Ark. Storage places are called archives. Ancient mysteries all have such meetings in our daily lives, but don't feel the need to are called arcane. Ark-based construction, as used by the broadcast everything we've discussed with our colleagues. "We know, therefore, that it's possible to transport matter __ into other dimensions. key to unlocking the Ark— if indeed it is there to be unlocked." ARCANE KNOWLEDGE AND SECRET SOCIETIES AM: Is Arch the same as Ark, then? LG: Ina certain context, yes. The Greek word ark, meaning "gathering box", is arc in English and arche in French. The Oxford Word Library defines the word ark as an obsolete form of the modern English word arc. It was equivalent to the Latin arca, a "chest", "box" or "coffer". Archaeology was about a quest for the Ark. Storage places are called archives. Ancient mysteries are called arcane. Ark-based construction, as used by the 58 = NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2004 What we don't know is the www.nexusmagazine.com