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2nd July 2015, 03:07
This is an approximately 2 hour and 23 minute video interview featuring Joseph P. Farrell, a scholar and author said to have studied at Oxford, interviewed by Dark Journalist.
The entire video can be found here: Akhenaten Prophecy: Mystery Schools & Giza Death Star - Joseph Farrell & Dark Journalist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Fq_sPvJLQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Fq_sPvJLQ
Otto Rahn is discussed first. Rahn was a German esoteric scholar and grail researcher who believed that the Medieval German romance Parzival was actually a history of the Languedoc region in France and pertained to the Albigensian Crusade and the Knights Templar. Rahn believed that the Albigensian Crusade was launched by the Vatican in order for them to acquire something from the Languedoc nobility.
It's noted that before the end of the siege of Montségur, the Cathars were allowed to remove an object from the fort.
Languedoc itself, which was the primary target of the Albigensian Crusade, is said to have been the center of activity for both the Knights Hospitallers and Knights Templar organizations. An earlier researcher in the Languedoc region was told by peasants there that the Vatican (apparently called the "armies of Satan" by the peasant) was looking for "the stones from Lucifer's crown" so that the Pope could put them in his tiara. Rahn believed that there was either an object or form of knowledge that the Vatican was either seeking to obtain or suppress.
The Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitallers are said to have both been created to drive the Muslims out of Iberia, and they were successful in this. The Catholic Church considered these two organizations to be directly under their authority, and not subject to any local laws. This allowed these organizations to avoid paying taxes and accumulate a large amount of money.
When the Vatican announced that it was going to launch a crusade against the Albigensians, both the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar refused to participate. This is described as a signal or confirmation to the Catholic Church that they had lost control of these organizations, as the Languedoc region of France was the economic center of the Knights Templar. The reason that the Langedoc region had developed into an important economic region for the Templar is because they had used it as a sort of "forward logistical area" to move supplies across the Pyrenees mountains into Spain when they were fighting the Muslims, and members of these orders had property in these areas.
After the Albigensian Crusade defeats the native Languedoc armies, the region becomes assimilated over into the French kingdom. Traditionally, historians regard the French king as being the one who then pushes the matter with the Templar, accusing them of numerous bizarre crimes before having his French pope order mass arrests and outlaw the organization. Farrell says that it's his view that it was the other way around, and that Pope Clement V was the real driving force behind this chain of events.
After the Knights Templar were outlawed by the Catholic Church, Venice is said to have taken many of them in as refugees and made them apart of a "council of ten." The Templar are described as having basically served as a banking cartel and this connection made them very useful allies to the Venetians.
The Copper Scroll
The legends of the Templar having obtained some treasure from the remains of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem are said to have been fueled with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. [Footnote: The Dead Sea Scrolls apparently indicate that Solomon's Temple contained a library of sacred scrolls that were being brought by Essenes out of Egypt around the first century.] Specifically the Copper Scroll is mentioned, also called the "Treasure Scroll," which is traditionally believed to relate to the contents of the temple in Jerusalem.
Farrell states that the amount of treasure inventoried by this scroll is enormous when Jewish standards of measure are used, including more gold than is supposed to have ever been mined by that point in history. However the copper construction of the scroll matches Egyptian techniques used to make the same kinds of scrolls, even to the rivets, and the scholar and metallurgist Robert Feather has argued that the scroll properly dates back to the reign of Akhenaten in Egypt, and relates to Jews living in Egypt at that time. Instead of pertaining to Solomon's Temple, the scroll is argued to be pertain to Akhenaten's Temple, and when Egyptian standards of measure are used the total amount of treasure inventoried becomes realistic.
Since Jesus has been connected to the Essenes in modern research (rather than the Pharisitic sect of Jews, for example), this idea of the Essenian Jews bringing scrolls out of Egypt of Akhenaten's reign, back to Jerusalem, suggests that Jesus' spiritual lineage may be more hermetic and related via the Essenes to Egyptian traditions.
The nine Templar who went to the Middle East, ostensibly to protect Christians in the Holy Land, appear instead to have been investigating something from Solomon's Temple, digging under the Temple Mount and searching other locations as well. They later return to Europe and appear to have shared whatever they learned with their European brethren.
Farrell believes that what the Templar discovered was the connection between the origins of Christianity and Egypt. Around the same time as the Templar are suppressed, the Medicis gain possession of hermetic texts and begin translating them, and they then spread across Europe and contribute to the Renaissance.
The hermeticism is Egyptian in origin and was believed to have predated much of the Old Testament. Jewish families were already understood to have migrated out of Palestine to come to prominence in Europe, but this new hermetic link with the Essenians would further suggest that the Jewish families coming out of Palestine may have originated from Egypt and so would be even older than supposed. The knowledge of the connections between the origins of Christianity and ancient Egypt may have been worrisome enough to the Catholic Church in itself to warrant the suppression of the Knights Templar.
Farrell explains Akhenaten's reign as an effort to suppress the old priesthood that was at least partially political. The Egyptians had always recognized one supreme god, but had many other gods along side of that one simultaneously, with which the priesthood would interact ritually for various purposes. By removing this priesthood and implementing a new one that focuses on one supreme deity who is superior to all of the others and to mankind, Akhenaten was in effect taking away the power of the people to practice what would equate to an ancient form of technology.
Akhenaten's efforts also led to what Farrell calls Yahwism, by trying to separate the Egyptians from the view that there is sacredness in everything, to the view that sacredness is separated from mankind, that all the previous traditions were wrong, and now the main source of spiritual learning will be from scriptures.
Once this mindset takes hold in society, all knowledge must be compared to a selected holy text by priests in order to determine if it is accepted or heretical. Though this would severely cripple critical thinking in Europe for hundreds of years under the Vatican, there was still enough ancient wisdom left in these scriptures to allow, upon later inspection by a growing body of literate laity, the idea that everything in the universe follows a divine order. This in turn eventually gave birth to the scientific movement.
Islam is noted to have introduced dualistic ways of thinking into their theology which complicated their approach to scientific reasoning.
The myths related to Osiris contain themes familiar to Christianity such as resurrection from the dead and judgment. There are said to be almost word-for-word parallels between the Pyramid Texts and the Gospel of John.
Farrel says that the Egyptians and Mesopotamians both seem to have understood that they were "legacy" civilizations that had been in decline from their ancient predecessors. Babylonian astronomical data was claimed to have been recorded for "thousands of years" in order for the Babylonians to draw correspondences between the movements of planets and human behavior. Regardless of whether astrology has merit or not, not only would the "thousands of years" of observations mentioned be problematic for such an early civilization to have already gathered, but correlating the data would also be a very scientific endeavor that would require knowledge and resources.
Mystery schools preserved much of the original line of knowledge. This knowledge often included resurrection or the transmigration of souls. In Egypt mummification was done very meticulously, even saving the organs separately in jars. Farrell notes that in the Middle Ages the Franks suddenly began to also separate the organs of the deceased in jars until the Catholic Church forbade them from intentionally burying people in dismembered pieces.
Farrell suggests that mummification in Egypt may have been related to their ideas about sympathetic magic, and how information is preserved in a small amount of something, so that for example what remains from the body (DNA, for example) can be preserved indefinitely. Farrell also suggests that this could also be a legacy of the more advanced culture that preceded the ancient Egyptians in even more ancient times.
A king of Aragon is said to have willed his entire kingdom to the Templars upon his death.
Piri Reis, the Turkish admiral, is said to have claimed that Columbus had access to ancient maps and had showed them to Ferdinand and Isabella before gaining their support for his voyage. Columbus is suggested to have gained his maps and knowledge from Byzantine sources, who in turn had accumulated them from across their empire, which had included Egypt. Farrell suggests that the Byzantine Empire had access to the maps and knowledge remaining from the Library of Alexandria, from which Columbus gained his knowledge.
During discourses between Columbus and Ferdinand and Isabella, Isabella is said to have pointed out that Columbus talked as if he had already been to the Americas, raising the question of whether Columbus had already traveled to the Americas before his voyage in 1492. Piri Reis seems to have claimed that Columbus first sailed in 1485.
After the Templar were suppressed, France punished any display of Templar symbolism with instant excommunication from the Catholic Church. Nonetheless, when Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas, he sailed under flags displaying Templar symbolism.
Columbus's son apparently wrote that his father was descended of King David, and thus from a Jewish line. Farrell later ties this in with the fact that Columbus's "esoteric" signature appears on a Pope Innocent's grave. This pope was himself descended of both Jews and Muslims and may have had ties to the Templar order, being referred to as a knight, but also was apparently very promiscuous before becoming pope and may have actually been Columbus's own father.
Farrell also implies that the Venetians had began bringing in gold bullion from the Americas at some point, which was at least partially responsible for their large economic influence in Europe at that time. Venice later spread its economic influence into Amsterdam and then across the English Channel.
Prince Henry Sinclair of Scotland (who was also a Norwegian noble) is referenced, as there are ancient writings that indicate that he participated in voyages to America about a hundred years before Columbus. He is thought to have landed in Greenland and/or Canada.
The Zeno family who claims to have went to America with Sinclair also gained authority in Constantinople after that city was sacked by the Venetians.
Marco Polo talks about traveling a year across the ocean with the Chinese, and Farrell argues that this was a voyage to America that was later covered up. The Genoans intercepted Marco Polo at some point.
Later in the episode Farrell talks about his work relating to the Great Pyramid in Giza as a multi-purpose machine that could be used as an interplanetary weapon. He notes that the information leading him to this conclusion could take up an entire interview in itself, and he has written books specific to this topic.
The entire video can be found here: Akhenaten Prophecy: Mystery Schools & Giza Death Star - Joseph Farrell & Dark Journalist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Fq_sPvJLQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Fq_sPvJLQ
Otto Rahn is discussed first. Rahn was a German esoteric scholar and grail researcher who believed that the Medieval German romance Parzival was actually a history of the Languedoc region in France and pertained to the Albigensian Crusade and the Knights Templar. Rahn believed that the Albigensian Crusade was launched by the Vatican in order for them to acquire something from the Languedoc nobility.
It's noted that before the end of the siege of Montségur, the Cathars were allowed to remove an object from the fort.
Languedoc itself, which was the primary target of the Albigensian Crusade, is said to have been the center of activity for both the Knights Hospitallers and Knights Templar organizations. An earlier researcher in the Languedoc region was told by peasants there that the Vatican (apparently called the "armies of Satan" by the peasant) was looking for "the stones from Lucifer's crown" so that the Pope could put them in his tiara. Rahn believed that there was either an object or form of knowledge that the Vatican was either seeking to obtain or suppress.
The Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitallers are said to have both been created to drive the Muslims out of Iberia, and they were successful in this. The Catholic Church considered these two organizations to be directly under their authority, and not subject to any local laws. This allowed these organizations to avoid paying taxes and accumulate a large amount of money.
When the Vatican announced that it was going to launch a crusade against the Albigensians, both the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar refused to participate. This is described as a signal or confirmation to the Catholic Church that they had lost control of these organizations, as the Languedoc region of France was the economic center of the Knights Templar. The reason that the Langedoc region had developed into an important economic region for the Templar is because they had used it as a sort of "forward logistical area" to move supplies across the Pyrenees mountains into Spain when they were fighting the Muslims, and members of these orders had property in these areas.
After the Albigensian Crusade defeats the native Languedoc armies, the region becomes assimilated over into the French kingdom. Traditionally, historians regard the French king as being the one who then pushes the matter with the Templar, accusing them of numerous bizarre crimes before having his French pope order mass arrests and outlaw the organization. Farrell says that it's his view that it was the other way around, and that Pope Clement V was the real driving force behind this chain of events.
After the Knights Templar were outlawed by the Catholic Church, Venice is said to have taken many of them in as refugees and made them apart of a "council of ten." The Templar are described as having basically served as a banking cartel and this connection made them very useful allies to the Venetians.
The Copper Scroll
The legends of the Templar having obtained some treasure from the remains of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem are said to have been fueled with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. [Footnote: The Dead Sea Scrolls apparently indicate that Solomon's Temple contained a library of sacred scrolls that were being brought by Essenes out of Egypt around the first century.] Specifically the Copper Scroll is mentioned, also called the "Treasure Scroll," which is traditionally believed to relate to the contents of the temple in Jerusalem.
Farrell states that the amount of treasure inventoried by this scroll is enormous when Jewish standards of measure are used, including more gold than is supposed to have ever been mined by that point in history. However the copper construction of the scroll matches Egyptian techniques used to make the same kinds of scrolls, even to the rivets, and the scholar and metallurgist Robert Feather has argued that the scroll properly dates back to the reign of Akhenaten in Egypt, and relates to Jews living in Egypt at that time. Instead of pertaining to Solomon's Temple, the scroll is argued to be pertain to Akhenaten's Temple, and when Egyptian standards of measure are used the total amount of treasure inventoried becomes realistic.
Since Jesus has been connected to the Essenes in modern research (rather than the Pharisitic sect of Jews, for example), this idea of the Essenian Jews bringing scrolls out of Egypt of Akhenaten's reign, back to Jerusalem, suggests that Jesus' spiritual lineage may be more hermetic and related via the Essenes to Egyptian traditions.
The nine Templar who went to the Middle East, ostensibly to protect Christians in the Holy Land, appear instead to have been investigating something from Solomon's Temple, digging under the Temple Mount and searching other locations as well. They later return to Europe and appear to have shared whatever they learned with their European brethren.
Farrell believes that what the Templar discovered was the connection between the origins of Christianity and Egypt. Around the same time as the Templar are suppressed, the Medicis gain possession of hermetic texts and begin translating them, and they then spread across Europe and contribute to the Renaissance.
The hermeticism is Egyptian in origin and was believed to have predated much of the Old Testament. Jewish families were already understood to have migrated out of Palestine to come to prominence in Europe, but this new hermetic link with the Essenians would further suggest that the Jewish families coming out of Palestine may have originated from Egypt and so would be even older than supposed. The knowledge of the connections between the origins of Christianity and ancient Egypt may have been worrisome enough to the Catholic Church in itself to warrant the suppression of the Knights Templar.
Farrell explains Akhenaten's reign as an effort to suppress the old priesthood that was at least partially political. The Egyptians had always recognized one supreme god, but had many other gods along side of that one simultaneously, with which the priesthood would interact ritually for various purposes. By removing this priesthood and implementing a new one that focuses on one supreme deity who is superior to all of the others and to mankind, Akhenaten was in effect taking away the power of the people to practice what would equate to an ancient form of technology.
Akhenaten's efforts also led to what Farrell calls Yahwism, by trying to separate the Egyptians from the view that there is sacredness in everything, to the view that sacredness is separated from mankind, that all the previous traditions were wrong, and now the main source of spiritual learning will be from scriptures.
Once this mindset takes hold in society, all knowledge must be compared to a selected holy text by priests in order to determine if it is accepted or heretical. Though this would severely cripple critical thinking in Europe for hundreds of years under the Vatican, there was still enough ancient wisdom left in these scriptures to allow, upon later inspection by a growing body of literate laity, the idea that everything in the universe follows a divine order. This in turn eventually gave birth to the scientific movement.
Islam is noted to have introduced dualistic ways of thinking into their theology which complicated their approach to scientific reasoning.
The myths related to Osiris contain themes familiar to Christianity such as resurrection from the dead and judgment. There are said to be almost word-for-word parallels between the Pyramid Texts and the Gospel of John.
Farrel says that the Egyptians and Mesopotamians both seem to have understood that they were "legacy" civilizations that had been in decline from their ancient predecessors. Babylonian astronomical data was claimed to have been recorded for "thousands of years" in order for the Babylonians to draw correspondences between the movements of planets and human behavior. Regardless of whether astrology has merit or not, not only would the "thousands of years" of observations mentioned be problematic for such an early civilization to have already gathered, but correlating the data would also be a very scientific endeavor that would require knowledge and resources.
Mystery schools preserved much of the original line of knowledge. This knowledge often included resurrection or the transmigration of souls. In Egypt mummification was done very meticulously, even saving the organs separately in jars. Farrell notes that in the Middle Ages the Franks suddenly began to also separate the organs of the deceased in jars until the Catholic Church forbade them from intentionally burying people in dismembered pieces.
Farrell suggests that mummification in Egypt may have been related to their ideas about sympathetic magic, and how information is preserved in a small amount of something, so that for example what remains from the body (DNA, for example) can be preserved indefinitely. Farrell also suggests that this could also be a legacy of the more advanced culture that preceded the ancient Egyptians in even more ancient times.
A king of Aragon is said to have willed his entire kingdom to the Templars upon his death.
Piri Reis, the Turkish admiral, is said to have claimed that Columbus had access to ancient maps and had showed them to Ferdinand and Isabella before gaining their support for his voyage. Columbus is suggested to have gained his maps and knowledge from Byzantine sources, who in turn had accumulated them from across their empire, which had included Egypt. Farrell suggests that the Byzantine Empire had access to the maps and knowledge remaining from the Library of Alexandria, from which Columbus gained his knowledge.
During discourses between Columbus and Ferdinand and Isabella, Isabella is said to have pointed out that Columbus talked as if he had already been to the Americas, raising the question of whether Columbus had already traveled to the Americas before his voyage in 1492. Piri Reis seems to have claimed that Columbus first sailed in 1485.
After the Templar were suppressed, France punished any display of Templar symbolism with instant excommunication from the Catholic Church. Nonetheless, when Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas, he sailed under flags displaying Templar symbolism.
Columbus's son apparently wrote that his father was descended of King David, and thus from a Jewish line. Farrell later ties this in with the fact that Columbus's "esoteric" signature appears on a Pope Innocent's grave. This pope was himself descended of both Jews and Muslims and may have had ties to the Templar order, being referred to as a knight, but also was apparently very promiscuous before becoming pope and may have actually been Columbus's own father.
Farrell also implies that the Venetians had began bringing in gold bullion from the Americas at some point, which was at least partially responsible for their large economic influence in Europe at that time. Venice later spread its economic influence into Amsterdam and then across the English Channel.
Prince Henry Sinclair of Scotland (who was also a Norwegian noble) is referenced, as there are ancient writings that indicate that he participated in voyages to America about a hundred years before Columbus. He is thought to have landed in Greenland and/or Canada.
The Zeno family who claims to have went to America with Sinclair also gained authority in Constantinople after that city was sacked by the Venetians.
Marco Polo talks about traveling a year across the ocean with the Chinese, and Farrell argues that this was a voyage to America that was later covered up. The Genoans intercepted Marco Polo at some point.
Later in the episode Farrell talks about his work relating to the Great Pyramid in Giza as a multi-purpose machine that could be used as an interplanetary weapon. He notes that the information leading him to this conclusion could take up an entire interview in itself, and he has written books specific to this topic.