REMEMBERING ALBERT PIKE

The article The Indians & the Masons was interesting; however, I think the author overlooked the most significant Indian/Freemasonic connection of all time: General Albert Pike, the preeminent Freemason of the nineteenth century. As well as being the author of Morals and Dogma (the definitive exposition of Freemasonic symbolism), a noted philosopher, and a 33 degree Freemason, Albert Pike had numerous ties to the American Indian community. Because of his close ties to the Indians and his knowledge of their languages, Pike was appointed Commissioner over the Indians for the Confederate States of America. During the war Pike led Indian troops against U.S. troops. (Though he served the Confederacy, he was pardoned after the war by President Andrew Johnson, a brother Freemason). He also conducted a successful ten-year legal battle on behalf of the Indians against the United States Government, for which the Indians received 4-million dollars, the largest settlement ever.

As for the possible significance of the sign with the number sequences 3.7.77, there are (aside from the date March 7th, 1877) several permutations that could suggest a Masonic-type association. To wit: Singularly, 3 has numerous mystic associations (The Holy Trinity being an obvious one), as does 7 (the number of Archangels).

The number 37 (a number associated with the Hebrew Messiah) has a unique relationship to all triplicities: for example, the 777 in the sequence can be totaled to give 21, while 21 x 37 = 777. (Add any three repeated digits, then multiply the answer by 37, and you will recreate the three digits: 6 + 6 + 6 = 18, 18 x 37 = 666.)

And finally, if you take the sequence as given, with multiplication indicated by the dots, then 3 x 7 x 77 = 1,617. This is of course (within 1/1000) the Golden Ratio, a numerical sequence immediately recognizable by mathematicians, geometers, philosophers, scientists, and Freemasons. Nothing more need be said.

Michael R. Warren

Union City, GA

THE SOURCE OF TRENDS

...the article on Charting the Coming Changes was fabulous!

Kindly send me the address where I may order the quarterly newsletter, The Trends Journal by Gerald Celente that was mentioned on pg. 61...

Michele Shallenberger

Cockeysville, MD

Write to The Trends Research Institute, Salisbury Turnpike, Rhinebeck, New York 12572.

Don't forget to tell them you heard about them through Atlantis Rising. ED

OBSERVATIONS FROM THE PATENT OFFICE

...As a librarian at the U.S. Patent Office I became interested in anticipations of various inventions. (Here is an) item of possible interest:

In 1872 Mahlon Loomis received a U.S. patent on wireless telegraphy. This was before Marconi was born. Marconi is usually given the credit.

About China's Pyramids: a psychic called Doc Anderson described pyramids he had seen in China during his wanderings. I heard nothing more of them until I saw your article. Thanks for the corroboration.

Christopher Dunn's article on Carbon 14 dating included a picture captioned: Dr William F. Libby. The text uses (correctly) Willard. Further: You might get someone to study the relation of his material to the suggested redating of events from Egyptian history: events from the 1500 B.C. through 900 B.C. (period) should be redated to 1100 B.C. through 500 B.C.

Robert L. Birch

Falls Church, VA

ANCIENT GRAVITY

Differences in gravity fields may have influenced the development and (then when gravity increased) the extinction of dinosaurs and evolution of smaller mammals to where we are now...

But, given the geological record, and other aspects, it may not have been a gravity wave of an exploding star, but a total cosmos field change (and or local field) in gravity that caused their extinction.

In a lower gravitational field, large (massive) body animals would form (and) naturally evolve. Having less gravity, more massive bodies could move, function easily as their weight per mass would be less than (with) today's present gravity.

Large body animals evolved once (and) it is likely they'd evolve again if (the right) conditions were present, but they aren't.

Smaller mass animals would weigh hardly anything in a lower gravity field and could easily soar. They'd naturally start to develop aerodynamic body aspects; wings, hollow bones, etc....

Animals with flight ability don't evolve today, possibly because gravity's increased since then.

When gravity increased the weight per mass of plants, animals (dinosaurs) would have increased to where large mass animals could not support their own weight, pump blood, breathe, etc.

The dimensions, shape structure of dinosaurs might have to be different (larger legs, etc.) than they (would) if gravity's not a variable. It's like increasing the size of an ant to our size. It can't support its own weight with the same proportions. The ant's legs have to be thicker, etc.... Dinosaurs in present gravity's field would likely have to have different body proportions to support their own weight to large mass. But in a lower gravity field, body mass to weight proportions could be different, more slim', as we see bones. The shape of bones, how muscles sat on bones, etc....tells a lot about mass ratios or proportions...

Michelle C. Keely

San Francisco, CA

ON DISCOVERING LOST ORIGINS

I'm weary of explaining, teaching and cajoling my friends about a new paradigm and I need help!

Send me a ten-pack of Lost Origins quick! (Now if I can only find ten friends who can read...)

Got a call from far off Modesto, CA last week, a long lost who happened to read my name on the back cover and was thrilled! In fact, several people locally have done the same thing, former viewers who wanted me to know they were with it and that Lost Origins was very enlightening. (I pitched the magazine and hope they're now all subscribers.)

It's fun being a missionary at age 70! What's more fun is knowing there are a host of young people out there doing the same thing. Energetic cats who TALK to people .. insightful, beautiful kids who are excited about the new knowledge and the remarkable revelation they are beginning to grasp. They're the future quicker than you and I realize... More, more.

Meanwhile, the politics of Science has suffered a set-back with the death of himself (Carl Sagan), the Venus Greenhouse Man. God rest his soul and God help him now understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics where heat rises.

You do good work (Atlantis Rising)... You're making the kind of history people need now, you're helping thinkers present their ideas to folks who can understand. .. CAN understand. You've become a great, big teacher with all kinds of visual aids and you're getting to folks.

Damn, that's good!

Don Riggs

Pittsburgh (PA) Radio Personality

BOUQUETS

We love your magazine and read it avidly front to back.

You must realize that there are people who snitch interesting mail when it's not in an envelope to keep it away from prying larcenous eyes. Thanks for sending me #11 after my two phone calls.

My husband is 91 in June. He is the bestselling author of We Are Not the First and On the Shores of Endless Worlds and others (Andrew P. Tomas).

We are both charter members of the Ancient Astronaut Society and know Eric von Daniken well.

Heather Tomas

Chico, CA

I don't know how I got on your mailing list, but last week I received issue #11 of Atlantis Rising and I was thrilled! Until then I didn't even know such a thing existed. Your articles are very informative, giving a lot of facts without a lot of hype. I was highly impressed by the professional nature of your magazine, not claiming to know it all', but instead presenting us with the information to make up our own minds...

Marcia M. Denardo

Watertown, N.Y.

Bought a movie, got a free issue, now a life long fan. I just wanted to drop a line applauding the righteous souls who put together Atlantis Rising. I believe that our society, and our world in general is approaching the beginning of a new age. The time is coming when we will have no choice but to keep an open mind and to respect nature and each other for survival. I eagerly await the day when we all realize that there is more to life than the pursuit of the almighty dollar and that enlightenment and wisdom should be the only goals of any truly civilized society. I know that for myself, you have opened my eyes to the possibility of the true wonders of our universe. I am more at peace with myself knowing that beyond our tiny corrupt realm there are places that are utopian. Please carry on and educate the doubters. Remain the voice of the enlightened, my friends, for you have done the world a great justice.

A true believer,

Eric M. Scott

Indianapolis

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