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Examines the ancient cosmic science of the female megalithic
astronomers. Long before Pythagoras and Plato, before arithmetic
and Christianity, there existed matrilineal societies around the
Mediterranean, led by women with a sophisticated understanding of
astronomy and sacred science. In this detailed exploration, Richard
Heath decodes the cosmological secrets hidden by ancient
goddess-centered cultures on the island of Malta, at Gobekli Tepe
in Turkey, and on the Greek island of Crete. Heath reveals how the
female astronomers of Malta built megaliths to study the sun, moon,
and planets, counting time as lengths and comparing lengths using
geometry. He shows how they encoded their cosmological and
astronomical discoveries, their “astronomy of the goddesses,”
in the geometries of their temples and monuments. Examining Maltese
and Cretan artifacts, including secret calendars, he details how
the Minoans of Crete transformed Maltese astronomy into a
matriarchal religion based upon a Saturnian calendar of 364 days.
He also reveals evidence of the precursors of Maltese astronomical
knowledge in the monuments of Gobekli Tepe. Looking at the shift
from sacred geometry to arithmetic in ancient Mediterranean
cultures, the author parallels this change in mindset with the
transition from matriarchal to patriarchal cultures. He reveals how
Greek myths present a way to see the matriarchal past through
patriarchal eyes, detailing how Saturn’s replacement by
Jupiter-Zeus symbolizes the transition from matriarchy to
patriarchy. The author examines how the early Christians helped
preserve the ancient astronomy of the goddesses, due to its
connections to Christ’s cosmological teachings, by encoding it in
the artwork of the rock-cut churches and monasteries of the
Cappadocia region of Turkey. Revealing how our planet, with its
specific harmonics and geometries within our star system, is
uniquely designed to support intelligent life, the author shows how
this divine spiritual truth was known to the ancient astronomers.
King Henry VIII and Emperor Charles V both ruled for almost forty
years at a time when momentous changes in society, politics and
religion were taking place in England and across Europe. Richard
Heath takes a fresh look at these two individuals and the
importance of their relationship in determining both their
immediate policies and the future of their lands. Although always
rivals for status, Henry and Charles, despite their very different
temperaments, had much in common. Both had been brought up as
devout Christians and in the chivalric tradition. Ties between
their lands (by 1520 Charles was Holy Roman Emperor as well as
ruling Spain, the Low Countries and much of Italy) were close.
There were alliances against a common enemy, France, valuable
trading links and a personal connection - Henry was married to
Charles' aunt, Catherine of Aragon. The book provides a clear
account of their complex and ever-changing relationship, both
personal and political. It reveals the goodwill that existed
between them, particularly during Emperor Charles' lengthy state
visit to England in 1522. It also shows how this proved impossible
to maintain once Henry decided to end his marriage to Catherine and
his subsequent rejection of papal authority. On the occasions when
they planned military action together their alliance collapsed in
mutual recriminations. Yet they were officially at war for only a
few months and their armies never faced each other. The duplicitous
world of international diplomacy, with dynastic marriages, fine
words and broken promises, provides the backdrop to this
fascinating story. In their search for honour and dynastic
security, so important to both monarchs, the decisions of one could
rarely be ignored by the other.
Richard Heath, about whom very little is known, travelled around
England, and wrote a series of essays on agricultural workers,
towards the end of the nineteenth century, when rural life and
agriculture were undergoing great changes. The English Peasant was
published in book form in 1893. It begins with an outline history
of peasant life, which presents a very depressing picture.
Agricultural workers' housing may have been picturesque but was
primitive in the extreme, and enclosure of common land had worsened
their lot, especially in the south and west of England. Heath gives
graphic pictures of the conditions in which peasant families lived
and worked, dwelling especially on the high figures for infant
mortality. He was understandably shocked that a Christian country
could let its workers live like this, but hoped that the foundation
of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union in 1872 would result
in improvements in the workers' condition.
Reveals the ancient mathematical principles refuting the notion of
the solar system as an accidental creation
- Reveals how ancient civilizations encoded their secret knowledge
of the sky in mythology, music, and sacred measures
- Shows how modern culture can benefit from the ancient
astronomical and astrological worldview based on number
- Shows the role of ratio and harmonic proportions in the creation
of the material world
Humanity's understanding of number was deeper and richer when the
concept of creation was rooted in direct experience. But modern
sensibility favors knowledge based exclusively on physical laws. We
have forgotten what our ancestors once knew: that numbers and their
properties create the forms of the world. Ancient units of
measurement held within them the secrets of cosmic proportion and
alignment that are hidden by the arbitrary decimal units of modern
mathematical thinking.
Sacred numbers arose from ancient man's observations of the
heavens. Just as base ten numbers relate to the fingers and toes in
terms of counting, each celestial period divides into the others
like fingers revealing the base numbers of planetary creation. This
ancient system made the art of counting a sacramental art, its
units being given spiritual meanings beyond just measurement. The
imperial yard, for example, retains a direct relationship to the
Equator, the length of a day and a year, and the angular values of
Earth, Moon, and Jupiter.
The ancients encoded their secret knowledge of the skies within
mythology, music, monuments, and units of sacred measurement. They
understood that the ripeness of the natural world is the perfection
of ratio and realized that the planetary environment--and time
itself--is a creation of number.
A profound exploration of the simple numerical ratios that underlie
our solar system, its musical harmony, and our earliest religious
beliefs. As modern humans first walked the Earth roughly 70,000
years ago, the Moon's orbit came into harmonic resonance with the
outer planets of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. The common
denominators underlying these harmonic relationships are the
earliest prime numbers of the Fibonacci series--two, three, and
five--the same numbers that interact to give us the harmonic
relationships of music. Exploring the simple mathematical
relationships that underlie the cycles of the solar system and the
music of Earth, Richard Heath reveals how Neolithic astronomers
discovered these ratios using megalithic monuments like Stonehenge
and the Carnac stones. He explains how this harmonic planetary
knowledge formed the basis of the earliest religious systems, in
which planets were seen as gods, and shows how they spread through
Sumer, Egypt, and India into Babylon, Judea, Mexico, and archaic
Greece. Revealing the mysteries of the octave and of our musical
scales, Heath shows how the orbits of the outer and inner planets
gave a structure to time, which our Moon's orbit could then turn
into a harmonic matrix. He explains how planetary time came to
function as a finely tuned musical instrument, leading to the rise
of intelligent life on our planet. Heath seeks to reawaken
humanity's understanding of how sacred numbers structure reality,
offering an opportunity to recover this lost harmonic doctrine and
reclaim our intended role in the outer life of our planet.
Reveals how the number science found in ancient sacred monuments
reflects wisdom transmitted from the angelic orders * Explains how
the angels transmitted megalithic science to early humans to
further our conscious development * Decodes the angelic science
hidden in a wide range of monuments, including Carnac in Brittany,
the Great Pyramid in Egypt, early Christian pavements, the Hagia
Sophia in Istanbul, Stonehenge in England, and the Kaaba in Mecca *
Explores how the number science behind ancient monuments gave rise
to religions and spiritual practices The angelic mind is founded on
a deep understanding of number and the patterns they produce. These
patterns provided a constructive framework for all manifested life
on Earth. The beauty and elegance we see in sacred geometry and in
structures built according to those proportions are the language of
the angels still speaking to us. Examining the angelic science of
number first manifested on Earth in the Stone Age, Richard Heath
reveals how the resulting development of human consciousness was no
accident: just as the angels helped create the Earth's environment,
humans were then evolved to make the planet self-aware. To develop
human minds, the angels transmitted their own wisdom to humanity
through a numerical astronomy that counted planetary and lunar time
periods. Heath explores how this early humanity developed an expert
understanding of sacred number through astronomical geometries,
leading to the unified range of measures employed in their
observatories and later in cosmological monuments such as the Giza
Pyramids and Stonehenge. The ancient Near East transformed
megalithic science into our own mathematics of notational
arithmetic and trigonometry, further developing the human mind
within the early civilizations. Heath decodes the angelic science
hidden within a wide range of monuments and sites, including Carnac
in Brittany, the Great Pyramid in Egypt, Teotihuacan in Mexico,
early Christian pavements, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, and the
Kaaba in Mecca. Exploring the techniques used to design these
monuments, he explains how the number science behind them gave rise
to ancient religions and spiritual practices. He also explores the
importance of lunar astronomy, first in defining a world suitable
for life and then in providing a subject accessible to
pre-arithmetic humans, for whom the Moon was a constant companion.
Our Stone Age ancestors discovered that the geometry of the Earth
provided a sacred connection between human experience and the
spiritual worlds. Exploring the numerical patterns of time and then
the size and shape of the Earth, they created an exact science of
measures and preserved their discoveries within sacred structures,
spiritualized landscapes, and mythologies, which interpreted the
religious ideas associated with their science. In this way, the
ancient measures of space and time reached our present age and
still embody the direct but forgotten truths of our sacred planet.
By recovering the megalithic secrets of space and time, carefully
preserved in megalithic stone structures, Richard Heath tells an
untold story of four megalithic ages. He identifies a first age of
astronomical discovery in the French sites around Carnac, where,
using only counted lengths and simple geometries, the ancients
created a sophisticated cosmic clockwork. A second age centered in
Britain, and including Stonehenge, successfully measured the Earth
and revealed a simple pattern held within the Earth's shape, using
metrological ratios. A third age, centered in Egypt and Greece, saw
a perfecting of the monumental arts, associated metrology, and
religious ideas, revealing the Earth and the heavens as the work of
a numerical genius. The fourth age saw pyramids and other
metrological buildings spread to the New World, at Teotihuacan in
Mexico, and also to the Far East. Examining Earth's harmonic
relevance to the Universe as a whole, Heath shows how we can
recognize the long-forgotten foundations of our own civilization
and revive the sacred teaching preserved by the four great
megalithic ages.
ANCIENT MYSTERIES / NEW SCIENCE "Richard Heath sweeps away the
mechanistic and relativistic paradigm to reveal an earth-centered,
celestial system founded upon the beauty of musical harmony and
geometric symmetry." --Robert Lawlor, author of Sacred Geometry and
Voices of the First Day "Richard Heath effectively rewrites the
book on the mysterious but accomplished megalithic cultures
preceding ancient Egypt, Sumer, China, and India." --John Anthony
West, author of Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient
Egypt ." . . well-expressed, with a deep insight into the ancient
science." --John Michell, author of The Dimensions of Paradise The
ubiquitous use of certain sacred numbers and ratios can be found
throughout history, influencing everything from art and
architecture to the development of religion and secret societies.
In Sacred Number and the Origins of Civilization, Richard Heath
reveals the origins, widespread influences, and deeper meaning of
these synchronous numerical occurrences and how they were left
within our planetary environment during the creation of the earth,
the moon, and our solar system. Exploring astronomy, harmony,
geomancy, sacred centers, and myth, Heath reveals the secret use of
sacred number knowledge in the building of Gothic cathedrals and
the important influence of sacred numbers in the founding of modern
Western culture. He explains how the Templar design of Washington,
D.C., represents the New Jerusalem, and he identifies the role
secret societies play as a repository for sacred numerical
information. Those who attempt to decode its meaning without
understanding the planetary origins of this knowledge are left with
contradictory, cryptic, and oftendeceptive information. By
examining prehistoric and monumental cultures through the Dark Ages
and later recorded history, Sacred Number and the Origins of
Civilization provides a key to understanding the true role and
meaning of number. Richard Heath is a Web developer with degrees in
electrical and computer engineering. The author of The Matrix of
Creation: Sacred Geometry in the Realm of the Planets, he lives in
Scotland.
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++++ The Reformation In France, Volume 1; Volumes 2-3 Of Church
History; The Reformation In France; Richard Heath Richard Heath
Religious Tract Society, 1886 History; Europe; France; France;
History / Europe / France; Huguenots; Reformation; Religion /
Christianity / History
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CHAPTER I. BOURG, WESEL. 1803-1807. " Nerer, perhaps, waa a child
surrounded by persons of a more opposite character."?Ma Idia. Edgae
Quinet was born February the l7th, 1803, at Bourg, the chief town
of Ain in France, a department bordering on Switzerland. When he
came into the world the Temple of Janus was closed. But the very
next day, the second of his life, it was re-opened, and the fiends
of war came hurrying out to desolate Europe for more than twelve
years. The babe who thus made its appearance at so unpro- pitious
an hour was a pale-faced little creature, and it was doubtful
whether its exit would not be almost coeval with its entry. The
Quinets were an old Catholic family established in Brcsse for three
centuries. Edgar's grandfather, Phili- bert Quinet, was Maire of
Bourg, his grandmother being the daughter of a lawyer in the
Dauphiny. She was a character. A conventual life of some years had
made her terribly hard. Her domestic discipline was more than
monastic; once a week she employed a garde- de-ville to whip her
three children (one was a girl) naughty or not. When her son was
only three she shut him up in a drawer. When he was a young man she
had all the flowers he loved torn up; and when he was fifty years
old she rebuked him as unceremoniously as if he were still a boy.
This awful old lady had a strangeadmiration for beauty. She
surrounded herself with engravings and works of art, and would have
no domestic in her employ who had not regular features. There must
have been something beautiful in the face of her new-born grandson,
since, at the sight of him, she relaxed her sternness and said, "
He will have mind." The son who was treated so severely was the
father of Edgar Quinet, and his early experiences ought not to be
forgotten in estimating hi...
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