GLOBAL ESOTERICISM

©2013 Dorian Taddei

Many of the discoveries referred to within the pages of this web site, are based on wisdom known only to adepts and initiates of esoteric groups operating from secret Old World communities. They spread this knowledge across the world via transatlantic and transpacific voyages, which appear to have been somewhat regular, during certain ages of ecologic and geopolitical stability. However, our knowledge of the cycles of comet (asteroid) impact disasters, which punctuated several ages of Man's development, suggests these visits were interrupted from time to time. In the current era, the older peoples no longer came, and those that did make it to North America appear to have been from Asian ports of call, perhaps in southern China (terminus of the Hunlun Mountains, modern Chinese-Vietnamese border), or other Far Eastern ports. India apparently continued to cross the Pacific, but its interests were focused primarily upon Central America.

By the time of Christ, there were few hierophants from Asia Minor and Southern Europe who made it over the Cordillera of North American, penetrating into the interior of N America from the Pacific side. Asians from China, Vietnam (Champa) and the Kunlun Range, perhaps from as far away as Nepal, made regular visits to N America. Their interest appears most to the acquisition of minerals. The famous stories of an "Eldorado" (land of gold), the Egyptian land of Punt, and the lands of gold called — by King David and Solomon — Ophir, we now know consisted of an area stretching from the Sacramento River headwaters on the west, to the volcanic fields south of Mt Shasta, and from Northweastern Nevada (Walker River Basin) south to the valleys adjacent to Topas Lake, below the Yosemite Park area in Western Nevada.

Beginning with Marco Polo (who likely only touched the coast before returning to Europe), there is evidence of Gnostic presence at the North Mojave rock art site (the site mentioned a number of times in our articles) — this having been the first 2-3 centuries of the New Era. There also appears to have been some transcontinental contact established (intermittently) from the time of the Glastonbury exodus (570 CE) to the disappearance of large number of Knights Templars from Europe (ca. 1312 CE). Their unusual hybrid esoteric picture language (known in some circles as the Mystery Glyphs), appear in the Western and Southern Rockies, and in the Great Basin (from the Mojave Desert to the San Francisco Bay area, and date (we believe) from ca. 600 CE and 1350 CE, respectively.

Thanks to our decipherment of some esoteric petroglyphs, this sacred science is once more breaking forth from antiquity — as the sun breaks through the clouds on the dawn of a long dark night. Across the world, pecked into the darkened surfaces of ancient stone and bedrock, lies a mystery which has largely alluded the investigations of archaeologists and anthropologists for hundreds of years. Labeled aboriginal doodlings and primitive art by modern scientists, these hoary petroglyphs have a hidden story to tell, one which — when the truth is made known — will undoubtedly receive a lot of resistance from entrenched theories on the intelligence and dominance of modern Homo sapiens. The fact that there existed a corpus of deep science including a sophisticated understanding of astronomy, highly advanced knowledge of what we moderns call geology and mineralogy, as well as alchemical healing practices and surgery techniques, far back in antiquity, conflicts with our temporocentric scientific paradigm. As more and more evidence comes forth from the dust, all telling us that ancient Man, and in fact other species of hominids like the Homo floresiensis, the Denivison hominins, and even Homo erectus, had societies, and practiced religious ceremonies — and as we are demonstrating with field research — possessed a fairly advanced science. Such thinking flies in the face of currently held theories, especially the anthropological view of progress, asa projection of Darwinian evolutionary tenets.

Certainly not all ancient peoples understood much concerning what we call science. However, evidence supports the idea that there existed pockets of adepts scattered across the Old World, who were the exception to this rule. It is they who carried various hardened metal told capable of carving the older petroglyphs — often pounded into remarkably hard stone such as igneous basalt and andesite (cupules) and granite (abstract marks). Also cupules appear in metamorphic minerals at many sites including the so-called "spotted dolerite" of the Preseli Hills of Wales (which may have been used to build the Stonehenge monument on the Salisbury Plain, southern England) and quartzite (Auditorium Cave & Daraki-Chattan Petroglyphs, central India). Most of the truly ancient petroglyphs were a form known today as cupules, or simple small round holes. These holes were the result of mineral processing, not food grinding (such grinding bowls being known as metates), as our discoveries well reveal. Many such cupules were not only far too small for drinking seeds or grains, but also occur on the vertical sides of rock outcrops or large boulders, as well as on their more horizontal surfaces.

These ancient examples of carved stones are the only remaining evidence of many ancient cultures. They are also the evidence of ancient alchemy, linked to the esoteric science of prehistoric Man. A recent PhD treatise published by Donna Gillette (UC Berkeley, CA) proves that the ethnographic evidence from ancient tribal records, supports only one explanation for these ancient holes, grooves and concentric ring carvings, namely, that these marks were all that remains of mineral processing for religious ceremonies. Furthermore, her work in collating enthnographic histories from dozens of East Coast “Native AMericnas” brought one fundamental fact to light concerning these cupules: these tribal peoples were taking the ground minerals into their bodies. Any records of why they did it, and how it was actually used in rituals, has heel lost to tribal memory. However, this knowledge still remains on the rocks for the world to see, for those who have learned to read the ancient alchemical ideograms.

Such stone would require basic chemical processing, if the goal was to make its quinta essentia available to the human body. If powdered rock was harvested only for ingestion, then the complexes of cupules, grooves, channels and petroglyphs describing various alchemical processes, would not have had to be placed in and on the rock being harvested; and it was.

In fact, the harvesting, processing and manufacture of simple hydroxides from these stones, constitutes the work of alchemy, the oldest applied science on earth, and a science found linked to astrology and archaeoastronomy wherever it is found on earth. Hence, we are not talking about primitive 'cave men' here, but ancient races of intelligent, rational hominids, engaged in sacred scientific rituals intended to extend human life, and linked directly to the very human act of religious worship tied intimately to the cycles and aetheric cosmology of the Creation.

Furthermore, the evidence we have been gathering for more than a decade, indicates that these 'sacred sciences' were systematically and deliberately spread across the planet, in conjunction with ceremonial magic and esoteric initiation. We will cover some of the aspects of these mystical religious practices (like the labyrinth dance phenomena) and the symbolic ideogrammatic rock art used to preserve and pass on this scientific knowledge, throughout this web site. One important thing to note is that the vast majority of all petroglyphic rock art is linked directly to mineral processing, and the preservation of this ancient knowledge. Carvings in rock (depending upon the mineral hardness of the facies) can survive weathering for tens, even hundreds of thousands of years. Such stone recording is usually the only thing that does survive the ravages of the second law of thermodynamics.

Cupules for mineral processing, carved into the vertical faces of a Daraki-Chattan rock shelter from Madhya Pradesh (central) India. These cupules date to 100,000 BCE or earlier. The reason that this vertically aligned surface was harvested, had nothing to do ritual, but was directly related to the cooling rate of the rock being harvested. This is a ubiquitous characteristic found at all of the world’s ancient rock art sites.

HIEROPHANTIC GLOBE-TROTTERS

From their centers of learning and worship, these ancient alchemist-astrologer-priests departed, often risking the hazards of transpacific and transatlantic crossings, to 'spread the word' to those peoples deemed wise and moral enough to be entrusted with it, at locations all over earth. This hierophantic tradition may extend back in time further than we can even imagine. The spread of man (traceable through new DNA and mtDNA genome mapping) shows us that one of the first thing early species of man did was to build vessels capable of transoceanic travel. The second thing he did was to explore the world. This is now becoming abundantly clear, as DNA from each of the ancient species of hominins can be found mixed with other hominins lying at long distances, separated by the major oceans from the centers of population of the other groups. This has been discovered only very recently, and so the claim that ALL human migrations were across land masses is last century
s science. However, this false idea is still taught in schools today. Discoveries like that of the Denisovan genes, found spread from Eurasia to far-flung locations across the seas, like the islands of Melanesia, well illustrated this new evidence: that mankind spread over the face of the earth using transoceanic travel.

Preliminary map of the ancient "Corridors of the Magi," ancient transpacific and transatlantic corridors used to traverse the globe both to and from the Americas. Our focus here is primarily the Pacific Ocean corridors. This map will be updated in due time to reflect other imports routes via the Atlantic. The routes are indicated by genetic traits (DNA), languages, technical knowledge and artifacts, food plant and other indicators, demonstrating contacts between more technological peoples from the Old World alone these travel/trade corridors.

CORRIDORS OF THE MAGI

Around the world rock art sites can be regularly found spread along what we have come to call the "corridors of the Magi." The Magi in particular — famous ancient alchemist-astrologer-priests whose wanderings were recorded by many cultures — provided gifts suited to the specific peoples with home they taught and traded with. This tradition of trade and the spreading of civilization appears to have been a hoary tradition. We find highly advanced reciprocal and reflective wave charting technology (Marshall Islands). in fact, across the Pacific, early explorers recorded the existence of stone working and temple (pyramid) building on remote island groups. The use of advanced principles of organic chemistry was used in the preparation of entheogenic sacraments (all over the world) and vulcanization of rubber (Aztecs). And who can ignore the massive architectural projects at numerous sites including many remote Pacific Islands (like the Caroline Islands and Easter Island), Central America (Teotihuacan, Pelanque, etc), South America (Tiwanaku, Caral), the Levant (Baalbek), Egypt (pyramids), and so on. These monumental sites, and often rock working and quarrying techniques which we still have not understood, bear testimony to high civilization in the world's archaic past. And, contrary to the pseudo-science of those promoting space-alien theories, it seems that ancient man himself invented these sciences and developed the technologies that made these artifacts of advanced civilization possible.

Crops brought from the Old World flourished in the New World, and evidence of the knowledge of pineapples, corn, and drugs such as cocaine, collected by the ancient maritime traders of antiquity, show up at sites in the Old World. The evidence for the connections between the Old World (referred to as "middle earth') and the New World — referred to as the Underworld — can be found across the Old World, and also in the New World. Numerous researchers have compiled irrefutable evidence of the origins of many plants (and some animals) as having had their origins in the Old World, and having been transported across the oceans, to the New, and visa versa.

Aztec and Mayan mythology tells of the origin of these Mesoamerican peoples as having been in the Upperworld, and that they followed the Serpent across the Milky Way to the Underworld. The Amerindians of North America speak of the other side of the world from whence they came using symbolic myths of gopher holes and coyotes, speaking of their current homeland as "Turtle Island." One look at a turtle shell — a half a sphere or hemisphere — and the symbol is abundantly clear. Some Amerindians from the east and southern regions of North America speak directly of coming to their new homes via boats via the great eastern sea.

In the Old World this Underworld had man names including: Atlan, Atlantis, Avalon, Dilmun, Elysion, Hel, Lanka, Ophir, Punt, Zion, and so forth.

Our own team has documented, for the first time, many such artifacts, created by peoples who had hardened steel tools, advanced astrological (astronomical) knowledge, knowledge of mineral processing (part of their advanced alchemical and chemical knowledge), sophisticated understanding of petrological processes, navigational prowess, ship-building experience, and so on. In fact, those who insist that the only peoples who made it to America must have crossed a land bridge, and could never have built boats able to carry them thousands of miles — let alone developed the navigational skills and knowledge of geometry required to circumnavigate — will someday be seen in the same light as those who insisted (and for the better part of 1,000 years) that the Earth was flat!

Many ancient petroglyphs and pictographs were little more than primitive attempts at recording ideas among people who lacked written languages, and knew little concerning the deeper laws of nature. However, a remarkably large percentage of the older glyphs at sites across the world encode a truly ancient, esoteric knowledge. Our new Tetraskele seminars unveil the science(s) behind the Great Arcanum, and demonstrate that both high technology, as well as advanced spiritual principles, was spread across the planet from centers of Old World knowledge. These ancient hierophants spread the knowledge of the true nature of human consciousness, to the entire planet.

Not merely an ancient endeavor, the passing of the baton of truth reaches though the millennia from antiquity through India and Egypt, from Persia and Ancient Israel, through into the current era, as this knowledge was Rediscovered in Jerusalem by the Knights Templar, passed to the renaissance Rosicrucians, and then entrusted to the Masons. As we show, the knowledge of the existence of the Americas was no secret to any of these more contemporary esoteric orders, and they taught that North America (specifically) would someday become the ideal of Plato's Great Republic. It was to this end that the establishment of the United States of America was begun under the scrutiny of the Founders, who can all trace their esoteric knowlege back to Francis Bacon.

Tetraskele also owes an acknowledgement to early pioneers of racial and cultural diffusion theory. The seminal theories of Henrietta Mertz, Barry Fell, Cyclone Covey, Martin Brennan, and a host of others, laid the groundwork for later epigraphers of the Western Epigraphic Society. Their documentation of pre-Columbian esoteric archaeoastronomy and petroglyphs in caves in eastern Colorado and Oklahoma, would spark new discoveries by Dorian Taddei, and with the help of family, friends and associates, a new set of breakthroughs was possible.

Stature of the Farnese Atlas. Notice the prow of an ancient sip depicted sporting an "A" frame mast. These masts were typical of those used on
pre-historic transoceanic vessels of the ancient world. To the right us an ancient model of an Egyptian ship displaying the same "A" frame style spars,
ideal for supporting gaff hung sails with winds abeam (as experienced in the trade winds during transoceanic voyaging.

Color transcription of the Farnese Atlas (©Califorina Map Society)

In the Old World this Underworld had man names including: Atlan, Atlantis, Avalon, Dilmun, Elysion, Hel, Lanka, Ophir, Punt, Zion, and so forth.

Our own team has documented, for the first time, many such artifacts, created by peoples who had hardened steel tools, advanced astrological (astronomical) knowledge, knowledge of mineral processing (part of their advanced alchemical and chemical knowledge), sophisticated understanding of petrological processes, navigational prowess, ship-building experience, and so on. In fact, those who insist that the only peoples who made it to America must have crossed a land bridge, and could never have built boats able to carry them thousands of miles — let alone developed the navigational skills and knowledge of geometry required to circumnavigate — will someday be seen in the same light as those who insisted (and for the better part of 1,000 years) that the Earth was flat!

Many ancient petroglyphs and pictographs were little more than primitive attempts at recording ideas among people who lacked written languages, and knew little concerning the deeper laws of nature. However, a remarkably large percentage of the older glyphs at sites across the world encode a truly ancient, esoteric knowledge. Our new Tetraskele seminars unveil the science(s) behind the Great Arcanum, and demonstrate that both high technology, as well as advanced spiritual principles, was spread across the planet from centers of Old World knowledge. These ancient hierophants spread the knowledge of the true nature of human consciousness, to the entire planet.

Not merely an ancient endeavor, the passing of the baton of truth reaches though the millennia from antiquity through India and Egypt, from Persia and Ancient Israel, through into the current era, as this knowledge was Rediscovered in Jerusalem by the Knights Templar, passed to the renaissance Rosicrucians, and then entrusted to the Masons. As we show, the knowledge of the existence of the Americas was no secret to any of these more contemporary esoteric orders, and they taught that North America (specifically) would someday become the ideal of Plato's Great Republic. It was to this end that the establishment of the United States of America was begun under the scrutiny of the Founders, who can all trace their esoteric knowledge back to Francis Bacon.

Tetraskele also owes an acknowledgement to early pioneers of racial and cultural diffusion theory. The seminal theories of Henrietta Mertz, Barry Fell, Cyclone Covey, Martin Brennan, and a host of others, laid the groundwork for later epigraphers of the Western Epigraphic Society. Their documentation of pre-Columbian esoteric archaeoastronomy and petroglyphs in caves in eastern Colorado and Oklahoma, would spark new discoveries by Dorian Taddei, and with the help of family, friends and associates, a new set of breakthroughs was possible.

The "Tree of Knowledge" and the "Tree of Life" sit side-by-side pecked into darkly patinated basalt in eastern Nevada

During documentary recording of the findings of the Western Epigraphic Society, at the "Crack" and "Anubis" Caves in 2003 and 2004, inspiration to seek for additional evidence of transoceanic visits on the west of the cordillera, lead to those discoveries and technologies now offered to the public through Tetraskele Inc (and Spagyric Arts, LLC).

The end result of decades of research and work by our founder, resulted in a series of major breakthroughs in decipherment of many of the globally distributed esoteric petroglyphs used to communicate and record the principles of the Arcanum. Even the most remote rock art discoveries revealed the pattern of occult initiation, and the advanced alchemy and astrology recorded there, lead us to be able to understand some of the world's greatest secrets. One in particular was the aetheric principle at the heart of the global legends of the legendary ‘Elixir of Life.' Known by a thousand different monikers (the Philosopher's Stone, the dancing waters, the fountain of youth, and so on), we have proved that these legends based in fact. The science behind this secret to the extension of human life and vitality, is the basis of our work.

The result of our on-going 13-year-long investigation into the hidden history and spread of esoteric cosmology, is presented in the pages of this web site as an offering to all who wish a coherent understanding of ancient history and spiritual evolution of mankind.

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