Millennium Stargate was written in 1999; tiny print indicates later revisions

Millennium Star Gate at the Change of Ages Evidence from Astronomy, Astrology, Spiritual Science, History & the Bible

AN EXCITING DISCOVERY
I believe I may have spotted a star phenomenon that has implications which are deep and far-reaching, very exact, and very unique. It appears to apply most exactly to 1999 and will not recur in this form for another 26,000-odd years. It appears to outshine the numerology of 1998 = 666 x 3, the August great solar eclipse, the millenium, and even 2012, in importance, and its felt presence may well be behind the significance ascribed to these, and more. There seems to be a link with the date 10,500 BC that figures with such prominence in "Heaven's Mirror" and other books. It concerns a way of dating a pretty exact period of change from one astrological age to another. This new dating fits all known facts and sheds much clearer light on the meaning of the ages of Aries and Pisces, and the significance of these times of change, called in Biblical apocalyptic writings, "End Times" or "the time of the End", often mistakenly thought to mean the end of the whole world.

Quite why this discovery should have come to me in preference to the many others who are searching the stars for wisdom with far more astrological wisdom and sophisticated astronomy, is a mystery. Perhaps it is because what I have found only attains its stature when taken without many of the preconceptions that exist in both astrology and astronomy - because it relates essentially to both. Perhaps because it fits with remarkable exactitude many otherwise obscure and apocalyptic Biblical passages. This "fit" stands head-and-shoulders above anything else I have found, and this is not for want of sensitive, intelligent and diligent looking.

But it is most of all because I have followed an unusual path with regard to Rudolf Steiner, whom I still regard, despite not practising H..., as one of the most important esotericists - spiritually advanced helpers - of our time. At the start of my spiritual journey, he taught me the basics of Spiritual Science, yet his methodology has proved its universality and objectivity by enabling me to pass beyond himself, to reach different conclusions, and also to rigorously challenge and steadily ascertain the validity of H....
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THE KEY GIVEN BY RUDOLF STEINER -
KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS
Steiner's first book, the "Philosophy of Freedom", led me through rigorous logic to the liberating experience of scientifically strict proof of knowledge of the spiritual worlds, through examining the act and nature of my own thinking process. Through this exercise, I became aware of the self-sustaining, truly objective nature and source of Thinking itself. This proof connects one with the Reality within Thinking which one realizes one is entitled to call Spirit - because there is nothing else. Thinking gives me the point within my total experience where I know the spiritual origin of everything else with scientifically-testable certainty. At first, this knowledge has no real content, but it has an energy and signature that is again and again my starting-point of exploration. From this point on I work with knowledge of the spiritual realms, not belief. I can then begin to deal with everything else. I learn above all to read the Book of Life.

Steiner next wrote "Knowledge of the Higher Worlds" - the next step of expansion of the Gnosis, once proof of knowledge has been grasped as the necessary foundation. The development of healthy direct spiritual perception is once again, after a low point during the last two millenia, possible for far greater numbers of people, and for many is now essential. Direct spiritual perception has never been completely lost, but much ancient wisdom had to be transmitted through the esoteric traditions by "word of mouth", in compressed form. The book outlines Steiner's method of development. He also gives two warnings: first, that spiritual perception can only develop in a healthy way if it comes in direct consequence to the endeavour for personal moral development - free from dogma of any kind; second, that if a healthy path such as this is not made available, people today will find unhealthy paths, such as exists in the taking of drugs.

The next logical step is to develop this heightened, awakened gnosis into a complete science of spiritual investigation. Steiner gave me an ABC to explore the Book of Life, with his firstfruits of "Anthroposophy" (meaning "Wisdom about Mankind"). This is a picture of holistic evolution, from Spirit into Matter, which has stood the test of time - thirty years for me - as a workable and beautiful framework from which to start. I will explain this picture in outline, as it is vital for understanding why I regard my starry research as so important.
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STEINER'S GREAT COSMIC PICTURE OF CREATION
Steiner next wrote "Occult Science". At that time, the word "occult" did not have the heavy pejorative sense that it has now for many Christians. "Occult" literally means "hidden". The book resulted from his deep meditation on Biblical, esoteric, and scientific accounts of creation, until he reached a picture that could embrace them all as parts of a greater truth. He presented a cosmic picture of evolution in which everything turns about the evolution of humankind, which he asked people not to believe, but to live with, observe, and test by their own observations, intuitions, research, commonsense, and improve on if they could. This is how I work.

Great spiritual Beings, known to the Hebrew and Christian esoteric tradition (and others) and to some of the writers of the Bible, sacrifice themselves to bring the work or Evolution about. The sacrifice of the Christ Being is central to the whole process of evolution and can be recognized at work in times and places vastly removed from the historical focus of Jesus the Nazarene.
Through these great sacrificial Deeds, each of us is given the freedom to evolve through successive earth lives. This work we humans participate in as we evolve and learn to handle our freedom creatively and wisely.
Our physical forms proceed from, and are witness to, the work of higher spiritual Beings. All physical reality proceeds from higher spiritual levels, planes, dimensions, in every detail of existence. This is how the Book of Life can start to be read by us, starting from the evidence of the physical, paying close attention to ever more subtle results, and using, observing, disciplining by appropriate scientific method, training our imagination as an exact organ of perception.

Steiner described great cycles of planetary evolution. Three cycles precede our present one on Earth, which are called, in accordance with traditional Rosicrucian (esoteric Christian) teachings, "Old Saturn", "Old Sun" and "Old Moon". Full physical solidity and the laws of physics as we know them are not reached until the present Earth, and even then not straight away.
This picture opens up real possibilities to make sense of otherwise inexplicable geological anomalies, which traditional science often prefers to gloss over - so that one may not even be aware of such unyielding-to-conventional-science anomalies unless one has encountered them highlighted in the work of deeper, more truly open-minded and esoterically-sensitive scientists and investigators such as Steiner - many of whom are condemned by orthodox science, often lumped together with obviously disreputable eccentrics and with those who sell themselves for profit. But this is not the place to explore, merely to indicate that if one looks carefully, very interesting research has been done, and readable books written, in this area.
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EPOCHS OF EARTH EVOLUTION
Steadily the evolutionary process gains sharper focus. On Earth, we have reached the fifth stage of planetary evolution, in a pattern that looks set fair to extend to seven such stages. The first stage is called the Polarian; the second is the Hyperborean (literally "at the back of the North Wind", it refers classically to Norway/Scandinavia, and suggests the first processes of greening and life-forms).

The third stage is Lemuria, and it is here that human beings, already existing in the more subtle spiritual dimensions, begin to incarnate on earth in physical bodies. Dinosaurs are at large in other parts of the earth, being the quasi-demonic shadow forms first engendered by the terrible and dangerous process of human incarnation, only hinted at when it goes wrong in the Biblical story of "the Fall". According to Steiner and various esoteric traditions, Lemuria was situated where the Indian Ocean now exists, reaching out eastwards to present-day Malaysia, Australia, and even the Pacific.

Michael Cremo in "Hidden History of the Human Race" and "Human Devolution" has systematically collected copious scientific evidence of humans on Earth alongside, and even preceding, dinosaurs - and describes why the evidence isn't known generally to Science today but has been covered up, although "Creationists" know about it; see also our booklist - section on Evolution

One needs to put aside very firmly the present-day pride and prejudice existing in academic Science, which while claiming objectivity and impartiality and thoroughness in researching Truth, so often displays the exact opposite, with vituperative alacrity and venomous content, whenever phenomena with metaphysical components are presented for examination. One has to venerate Truth far more than most so-called scientists do, if one is to bring appropriately sensitive scientific method to bear on such assertions.

Read the beautiful classic, "Mutant Message Down Under", in which a group of Australian Aborigines, who have kept their primeval purity of spiritual connection, describe how they still know their origin in the stars. Hence surely the use of dots in their art forms. It seems to me that these people have Lemurian roots, and can be best understood in the great work of evolution, if this is borne in mind. So too the Kalahari Bushmen in Africa, about whom Laurens van der Post has written with such sensitive perception. The "Book of Life" speaks eloquently about the spirituality of Bali, another island adjacent to the Indian Ocean where other Lemurian powers have been preserved . And so on.

The next stage of Earth evolution is Atlantis. Here civilization first appears. But in time a science was developed that was more subtle and more powerful than most of what is openly known to present-day science. Powers were developed that could powerfully affect the magnetic field, neutralize gravity and cause matter to vanish into non-physical dimensions, which eventually turned on their abusers in a kind of chain-reaction, destroying a whole continent and turning it into vapour and muddy rain in a way inconceivable to modern Science. But traditions of this Flood exist across the whole world, especially on both sides of the Atlantic.

In my present thinking, I believe that Atlantis' demise was basically due to natural catastrophe, and was a part of a very long-term "celestial Plan" for Earth. I now believe that H... was the prevalent spirituality in Atlantis, and that, because it came "from the Heavens" as an already "mature" path to souls who were already spiritually advanced , it had to go "underground" for six whole star ages, ie 12,000-odd years, in order to allow young Humankind to experience a full measure of the spirit of Freedom. I believe now that though there WAS negative interference that accelerated the demise, the core spirituality of Atlantis was not to blame although it has been blamed, even by sensitive, well-meaning people who have had genuine powerful spiritual experiences. I believe now, that as we've seen so often in History, not least with the Crucifixion of Christ, the real culprits can use negative energy to shift the blame elsewhere and to incriminate the very same positive powers whose righteousness they most fear.

At the very least, "the jury is out" and examining all evidence carefully, upholding the importance of "Witness to Truth" through painstaking methodology and self-examination for unconscious prejudices and motives. See elsewhere on this website re. Atlantis etc.

Memories are re-surfacing, collectively and in the planet itself as much as individually. Over the last century various individuals, on the fringe of what is scientifically openly accepted, have done scientific work that could either heal or destroy at new heights or depths of effectiveness. Nikolai Tesla died a year after retiring from the Philadelphia project, concerning a large steel ship that was made invisible (and most of its seamen went mad or died) after being surrounded by a powerful magnetic field . Ruth Drown invented the healing science of Psionic medicine and was condemned to the State Penitentiary for "fraudulent claims" where she died. Wilhelm Reich discovered "Orgone energy" and was also condemned to the State Penitentiary where he died. UFO sightings are increasing steadily, especially in Mexico which, more that most places in the world, retains Atlantean memories. Crop Circles are increasing in complexity and beauty, with magnetic anomalies and the like recorded in their vicinity.

Some say the whole story of the Philadephia Experiment is untrue; others report meeting survivors,
including two who reappeared in a different location in an altogether different year of the century.
For a detailed rebuttal of the claims that Crop Circles are hoaxes, see "Vital Signs" by Andy Thomas

I, and other sensitives, and some of the "unacceptable" evidence of Science, have clear pictures of the Atlantean matrix of reality involving a physical world and reality that was permanently a fraction softer than today, and was also more open to being made even softer (or harder), and lighter (or heavier), a world where a number of Earth-dwellers also possessed capacities, now long-since lost, to alter such physical attributes. It seems as if a veil was drawn over the collective memory of these disasters, perhaps similar to the way this can happen after a severe personal trauma, perhaps to prevent loss of nerve in further evolution, as well as to prevent access to the old technologies until such time as humanity had a chance to learn enough inner righteousness, and compassion from suffering, to handle such powers constructively. The Biblical hint of this veil appear to be in the story of Noah's drunkenness; as so often, the story seems to be only the tip of a mega-iceberg.
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SIGNIFICANCE AND DEFINITION OF ASTROLOGICAL AGES
The focus of evolution sharpens again, and we enter on a succession of ages, each about 2000 years long, whose inner significance for human evolution is deeply related to the astronomical phenomenon called the "Precession of the Equinox" which describes the slow rotation of the Earth's polar axis about itself over a period of about 26,000 years. The "sacred" numerical archetype is 25,920 or 2160 x 12 years, which is pretty close to the measured astronomical figure.

The scientific significance of the cosmic, stellar and planetary geometry, mathematics, and beauty of appearance to the naked eye, in terms of powerful and exact correspondences with unfolding human evolution, has been all but lost to modern science; the idea of any such correspondence, let alone a science of beauty and correspondences, is today despised and rejected by Science. Little do most scientists today realize that Newton, the so-called "father of modern science" was first and last an astrologer and Hermeticist. He is reported to have said to a scoffer "Sir, I have studied these matters - you have not". One can say exactly the same today. The few real scientists who have dared to look properly (and face the collective ignorance, insensitivity and wrath of their benighted contemporaries), have found - and will continue to find - good evidence in support of the traditional astrological wisdom. Even the idea of correspondences "as above, so below" is frequently misunderstood as compulsion - whereas star wisdom is better likened to reading a road map.

For the sheer beauty and magical exactitude of the mathematics of the heavens, read "A Little Book of Coincidence" by John Martineau.

Once a year the North Pole points directly towards the Sun; this point is called the Summer Solstice.
Once a year the North Pole points directly away from the Sun; this point is called the Winter Solstice (Solstice = point of standstill for the sun). Once a year the North Pole is exactly at right angles towards the Sun, moving through Spring from Winter to Summer; this point is called the Spring Equinox (equinox = night and day are the same length). This is, by definition, the point of transition from the sign of Pisces to the sign of Aries. The astrological signs are each, by definition, one twelfth of the circle, 30 degrees, being defined by their position in relation to the solstices and equinoxes. Two thousand years ago, these astrological signs were aligned with the astronomical constellations of the same names, which are defined by twelve picturesque named groups of stars (none of which are self-evidently 30 degrees) through which the Sun appears to pass in the course of the year. But due to the slow rotation of the polar axis about itself, over the course of 2160-odd years, the direction in which the North Pole points slips "backwards" or "precesses" through another 30 degrees into the preceding constellation. Thus the word "Precession" arises.

At present the Sun crosses from the constellation of Aquarius to the constellation of Pisces at approximately the time of the spring equinox. Now it is around the spring equinox that change and fertility are most important and powerful - as seen for instance in the high tides around the full/new moons following this equinox. The more ancient festivals of the ever-dying-and-resurrecting God of Harvest were transmuted into the Christian festival of Easter, dedicated to the goddess of fertility Eostre, and fixed according to both Sun (male) and Moon (female) rhythms. Thus we see it is quite logical to name the astrological age after the constellation into which the Sun passes at the time of the Spring Equinox. Thus the phrase "Precession of the Equinox" arises.
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AGES FOLLOWING ATLANTIS
Evidence is accumulating today of a possible series of cataclysms, cosmic in origin, that coincided with the gradual ending of the last Ice Age and the raising of the sea level some 100 metres. These would have started around 10,500 BC, probably, as far as I can see, around the start of the age of Leo, at the time when the Sphinx was carved from the bedrock, and when the foundations of the later monuments of the Pyramids and Angkor Wat were apparently laid, corresponding with the star alignments at that time. I would welcome correction from astrophysical data, concerning the exact length of each of the last 6 ages ie 30-degree shifts of the polar axis!

See "Earth Under Fire" by Paul La Violette, for full scientific evidence of this. And though Paul La Violette himself doesn't "believe" in Atlantis, his very disbelief lends credence to the objective validity of his evidence.

The traditional time of the Flood, of the destruction of Atlantis, seems to coincide with the change to the age of Cancer, c.8500 BC.

Steiner maintains that the first truly post-Atlantean age was the age of Cancer, which he names "Ancient India"; the second, the age of Gemini, "Ancient Persia"; the third, the age of Taurus, "Ancient Egypt". Now I decided that if there were a degree of truth here, I would expect to find a major esoteric spiritual tradition or group of traditions directly traceable to each period of development. And this seems to be the case. From India come the many facets of the spiritual science of Yoga, whose name means "Yoke". What would be the prime task of the first age after the Flood? after the settling down into the laws of physics as we know them today? Surely, the stabilization of the new more physical, less magical, body, "yoking" the physical to the spiritual with strength and beauty, so that evolution could continue? You only have to remember sensitively what your own frame of mind and kind of survival plans may have been, immediately following some personal escape from disaster you may have had in the past, to begin to enter into the spirit of "Ancient India", or so it seems ot me.

The spirit of the Age of Gemini, "Ancient Persia", can be deducted from remembering the next steps in healing personal trauma. Beginning to reach out again, to travel as sensitives and wanderers across the Earth. Beginning to build up one's skills, to build up "civilizations" again. Specialization is needed in order to develop high skills. This brings, of necessity, isolation/separation before reintegration in a "civilized" differentiated/organized society. And this brings a new, strong need to communicate, to spin stories, to overcome the growing separations. And as people taste freedom, they naturally experiment - tricking others, getting power over others - thus arises the need for a code of law, to face the evolutionary challenges posed by unscrupulous people trying to gain power. Hammurabi's Laws, Nebuchadnezzar's madness, and Belshazzar's Writing on the Wall, are faint echoes of what really belongs far more anciently to the Age of Gemini. This fits Steiner's description, and archaeological evidence in the Middle East, of the beginning of modern agriculture during this period, breeding domestic animals and cultivating crop plants; also the ancient original of the "Tower of Babel" and loss of the primeval language, and the present-day survival of the Sufi spiritual paths with their renown for story-telling.

"Ancient Egypt" fits for me, as I have direct memory from around 5000 BC. The beginning of the real Egyptian civilization and spiritual power and awareness certainly precedes the generally accepted historical Egypt from the First Dynasty onwards. But new vistas in Egyptology are opening up - like dating the Sphinx back to 10,500 BC which is around the start of the age of Leo. The pyramids were actually completed shortly before the end of the true Ancient Egypt, by my dating; they seem to be the real "record of achievement" of the Age of Taurus. Later on, in the Age of Aries, Egypt is like a fossilized echo of the Age of Taurus, eventually imprisoning the upcoming Aries people, the Hebrews, and preserving their own slowly but inexorably declining spiritual heritage through material form: massive temples, inbred pharaonic line, mummification, and so on.

The star-alignments of the Sphinx and Pyramids, as described in Graham Hancock "Heaven's Mirror" and Mark Vidler "The Star Mirror", all amplifies the significance of the present times and the ancient Egyptian star knowledge of the Atlantean past and the future - now.

The planetary picture confirms Steiner's picture quite well up to this point, at least pro tem. There is room for much sensitive imaginative research here. I spell the following out in greater detail, because now I part company somewhat with Steiner, in a way directly connected with my starting-point, the astronomical discovery, but now supported by other evidence.
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AGE OF ARIES - ANCIENT ISRAEL
The age of Aries can for me be nothing other than the history of the planet centred, by the peculiar pioneering, driving, egotistical nature of Aries itself (in both good and bad ways), in the history of the ancient Hebrew people, the children of Israel, up until the time of Jesus the Nazarene. Yet this is perhaps what Steiner points to by the phrase he coins to describe the central mystery of Christ's work - "Mystery of Golgotha". "Golgotha" means "Skull"; this suggests the part of the body, the head, which is ruled by the sign of Aries. The ending of the Age of Aries is well symbolized by a skull. And as we see elsewhere, the skull has further significance.

The story of Adam and Eve is a "speaking picture" that echoes the memory of Lemuria; Noah touches the memory of Atlantis. With Abram came a significant new start. In Ur (meaning "Archetype", or "City of light", or perhaps "Ancient Beginnings in Light"), recent excavations have shown that when the king died, his whole court was killed. Is this a picture of the court as female "circle" around the king? Remember the female connotations of "courtesan", "courtesy", "curtsey", "courting"... Is this a record of the growing ascendancy of the masculine? Abram quitted Ur to set off on an unknown journey, his hand in the hand of God. It is as if this rising masculinity, first harmfully interpreted in Ur, was celebrated in a transformed way by instituting the rite of circumcision.

Any significant new beginning can take an inordinate time to get visible results - in the case of Abram and Sarai, producing a son. Visible success followed receiving a new name, not a complete change of name but a development into which the elements of fertility and royalty come. Abram, "Exalted Father", became Abraham, "Father of Multitudes"; Sarai, "Bitter, contentious, dominative", became Sarah, "Princess". What energy does the "H"-sound carry? It's the breath, it's spirit; it's an orgasmic release! Aha! I've finally intuited something real! (real is related to royal)

Gradually the Hebrew people, the ever-expanding children of Abraham, took control of the sense of History, and the sense of being "God's own people", thus reflecting the externalizing male "Aries" principle of "only one leader".

Aries is the pioneer, the "I AM". "I AM THAT I AM" said God to Moses, at a critical point in the Hebrew sacred history. "Before Moses was, I AM" said Jesus at the culmination of this age. Aries the "man with a mission", the warrior, the warmonger - is this not fairly descriptive of the Hebrew people? The precessing Vernal Equinox Sun moves towards the beginning of Aries, the "young" Aries, symbolized by the lamb. Aries the Ram - Abraham sacrificing Isaac - becomes Aries the Lamb as the age progresses. Moses, sacrificing rams at the first Passover to protect the Hebrew nation, metamorphoses into the New Testament image of Jesus as the Lamb who is slain as sacrifice, not just for the Hebrew people (the male I AM image of Aries), but embracing the whole of humanity (the reappearing "cosmic" female imagery of the newly-emerging sign of Pisces).

It is as if the whole of humanity was inspired invisibly to evolve the male principle as a single visible Ego, "I AM", concentrating all its energy for the continuous record of development into a single nation, whose energy then devolved to a single individual. Israel is at the geographical centre of gravity of the great Euro-Africo-Asian planetary land mass, and at a place where the planetary geology inscribes a great sunken letter "I" from Israel in the North to Cape Town in the South (and the Americas reveal an embossed "I" from the Rocky Mountains to the Andes). The most curious symbolic feature of this geological "I" is in Israel, where the "I" is not only the "dot" on the planetary "I" but is also inscribed vertically in the descent from the springtime heights of Galilee to the hot desert and briny, asphalt-pit Tartaros depths of the Dead Sea.
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