by David Icke

Contrary to conditioned belief, life on Earth has not evolved from a primitive past to the technological “cutting edge” of today. Many thousands of years ago, as detailed in streams of ancient accounts across the world, there was great technological knowledge on this planet and a global society controlled by races of beings, which humans came to know as “gods”. It is a minefield to decipher which of these gods were flesh and blood real, and which were symbolic of the Sun, Moon, planets, natural cycles, and so on. Most were the latter, but there is substantial evidence to confirm that some of them, particularly the further back you go, were walking, talking, entities, who had, by human standards at the time, amazing knowledge of the solar system, the stars, the universal cycles, the effect of the Sun, Moon and other planets and star systems on the Earth and its people, and technological understanding of such immensity that they were able to build the pyramids and other stunning structures all over the world that we would struggle to build even today.

Just consider the scale we are talking about here with the Giza Pyramids alone. The Great Pyramid, which is nearly 500 feet high, consists of six and a half million tons of stone and around two and a half million individual blocks. Some weigh 70 tons and in the other pyramids and walls are stones of 200, even 468 tons, and they are so perfectly cut and fitted together you could not get a piece of paper between them. There is enough stone in the Great Pyramid alone to build 30 Empire State Buildings and enough stone on the Giza site to build a wall around the entire border of France some three meters high and one meter thick. Some of these gigantic stones at Giza and numerous temple sites were apparently taken from quarries hundreds of miles away. And we are told that “primitive” people did this.

At Baalbeck in Lebanon are structures thousands of years old, which include three enormous chunks of stone known as the Trilithon, each weighing more than 800 tons. These had to be moved at least a third of a mile and one of them placed 20 feet up in a wall. Another piece of stone nearby is a thousand tons, which, apparently, is the weight of three Jumbo Jets. We are asked to believe again that a “primitive” people did this.

In Peru, you have ancient temples and other sites built with stones weighing 440 tons and at Tiahuanaco in Peru blocks weighing 100 tons are connected by metal clamps. This site is dated at some 11,000 years ago. On the Nazca Plain in Peru there are the massive and astonishing Nazca Lines. These are fantastic depictions of birds, insects, and animals, created by scoring away the top surface to reveal the white rock underneath. The images are made with one continuous line and some were only seen in their entirety after 1939 when people began to fly over the region because they can only be seen in full from 1,000 to 2,000 feet high! Rock carvings dating back more than 10,000 years were found during an expedition to the Marca Huasi plateau northeast of Lima, Peru, and these included sculptures representing people and animals, most of which are not native to Peru. They included a polar bear, walrus, African lion, penguin and the stegosaurus dinosaur. But dinosaurs were unknown to science until the 1880s, and the stegosauria was not identified until 1901!

As other books and television documentaries in recent years have shown, these amazing structures, temples, stone circles, and standing stones, were not only lined up precisely with certain star systems, they were aligned just as precisely in relationship to each other all over the planet, and the building techniques and designs were often the same on different sides of the world. Why? Because the official version of history must not be true. There were not isolated, unconnected, societies, which developed alone, if you go back far enough. There was a global society controlled by the “gods” and representatives of the “gods” – beings that were extremely advanced technologically compared with the mass of humanity at the time and, in many ways, ahead of our society today. Or, at least, ahead of the technology we are allowed to see in the current public arena.

A precisely machined and shaped cube of metal was found in the center of a block of coal in Austria in 1885 and, based on the age of that coal seem, it must have been made some 300,000 years ago! A piece of gold thread was found embedded in eight feet of rock in Rutherford Mills, England, in 1844, and that rock was estimated to go back 60 million years!! Electric batteries have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs and a massive slab of green glass weighing many tons was found in Israel. The pre-historic bones of animals have been discovered with bullets in them. As the brilliant author and researcher of far ancient history, Colonel James Churchward, wrote:

“Civilizations have been born and completed and then forgotten again and again. There is nothing new under the sun. What is, has been. All that we learn and discover has existed before; our inventions and discoveries are but reinventions, re-discoveries.”

The ancients across the world described a high-tech “Golden Age” of human society, although some of it, especially towards the end, was anything, but “golden”. These stories say that this age was ended by high-tech war and a series of geological catastrophes that caused colossal Earth changes through earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, magnetic pole shifts, and tidal waves on a scale we could not begin to imagine today. The biblical great flood is a symbolic story of one such event, but there appear from the biological and geological record to have been several from about 12000 BC up to around 5000 BC, perhaps even later. In The Day The Earth Nearly Died, by D.S. Allen and J.B. Delair (Gateway Books, Bath, 1995), the geological and biological evidence is supported by the ancient accounts with the most incredible synchronicity. Everywhere the ancients recorded the effects of these events.

Professor James DeMeo writes in his book, Saharasia (Hidden Mysteries, Texas, 2000) of vast changes in the Middle East in this same “window” of time:

“A massive climate change shook the ancient world, when approximately 6,000 years ago vast areas of lush grassland and forest in the Old World began to quickly dry out and convert into harsh desert. The vast Sahara Desert, Arabian Desert, and the giant deserts of the Middle East and Central Asia simply did not exist prior to (about) 4000 BC..”

The upheavals of the ancient world destroyed the advanced global society or “Golden Age” that existed before and this is recorded in the stories of Atlantis and Lemuria, or “Mu”. Humanity had to start all over again. If you believe that is far-fetched, think about today’s society. It may be advanced on one level with power grids and computer systems, and all the rest. Such technology can perform apparently miraculous feats, like typing a letter on to this computer and having it read by someone on the other side of the world seconds later. But what would happen to this technological society if we were faced now with a global catastrophe that devastated the planet? Within seconds, we would be sitting in the technological Stone Age. It would be a primitive, everyone-for-themselves, find-your-own-food, shelter and warmth, free-for-all. And as time and generations passed, the memory of the technological world we have today would fade, ever more rapidly, and only be preserved in stories and myths which would, more and more, be seen as wild tales and figments of the imagination. Most people would deny such a world ever existed because it would be so at odds with their daily experience. We would have the same we-can’t-do-it-so-it-can’t-be-done mentality that laughed at the very idea we could fly to the Moon. The history in that post-cataclysmic society would only begin with the records left by humanity once they had re-advanced to a certain level. Only then would they write or symbolize accounts of their history and this would be based on stories passed verbally through the earlier generations. Such a point could take hundreds, even thousands, of years after the global geological destruction. So it was after the cataclysms of our ancient past.

Conventional “history” says that the “cradle” of civilization was Sumer, in the land between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates in what we now call Iraq and once known as Mesopotamia (“Between Two Rivers”). The Sumerian period is estimated to have spanned the millennia between 4000 and 2000 BC. Historians say that other, independent, civilizations of great advancement also suddenly appeared in the same period in Egypt and the Indus Valley in what is now the Indian continent. But they are wrong on both counts. Sumer was not the start of what is called civilized society on this planet. It was the most significant one to emerge after the catastrophe that destroyed the global society of the “Golden Age” – Atlantis and Lemuria, or Mu. Sumer was not the beginning; it was the start-over-again which was to become the center of another virtually global empire. Indeed Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, and the Indus Valley civilizations had actually begun tens of thousands of years before history records them. After the cataclysms, these advanced cultures in Egypt and the Indus Valley, which “suddenly” and unexplainably manifested at a very high level of development, were not independent of Sumer, as the historians claim. They were part of the same Sumer Empire and ruled by the same leader. The structure of administration, the foundation of law, building techniques, and so many other features of what we call modern society, can be traced back to this ancient race that founded Sumer. Or more to the point, to those ruling bloodlines and “gods” that held the knowledge going back into pre-history. These advanced ancient post-deluge societies appeared with tremendous speed. Professor W.B. Emery writes in Archaic Egypt (Penguin Books, England, 1961):

“At a period approximately 3400 years BC, a great change took place in Egypt, and the country passed rapidly from a state of advanced Neolithic culture with a complex tribal character to two well-organized monarchies, one comprising the Delta area and the other the Nile Valley proper. At the same time the art of writing appears. Monumental architecture and the arts and crafts developed to an astonishing degree, and all the evidence points to the existence of a well-organized, even luxurious civilization. All this was achieved within a comparatively short period of time, for there appears to be little or no background to these fundamental developments in writing and architecture.”

The question still to be answered is whether the incredible feats of building like the pyramids originate before the great cataclysms, which destroyed the legendary Golden Age (in other words, maybe upwards of 10,000 years ago and far longer), or were they built by the Sumer Empire which emerged when the world had again reached an advanced level of society after the upheavals. I have no doubt that it was a mixture of both. In the light of the rapidly emerging evidence, and the fundamental re-assessment of timescales in the wake of that evidence, at least some of the world’s greatest ancient wonders go back to the pre-cataclysmic global society known in legends and accounts as the Golden Age. They are far, far, older than previously imagined.

Inca accounts, compiled by Fernando Montesinos, one of the earliest Spanish chroniclers in South America, say there were two Inca Empires. The first established their headquarters at Cuzco in the Andes Mountains and, after they fled to a mountain-top sanctuary (Machu Picchu?) in the wake of devastating land upheavals, they returned to Cuzco to start a second culture. This would push back the original Inca Empire to the time of the Atlantean-Lemurian cataclysms and before, and lead us to the true builders of the fantastic structures that conventional history cannot explain.

All over the world in every native culture, you will find stories of a great flood and incredible geological upheavals. There is no doubt that an unimaginable catastrophe or, more likely, catastrophes were visited upon the Earth between approximately 11000 and 5000 BC. The geological and biological evidence is overwhelming in support of the countless stories and traditions that describe such events. They come from Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Africa, throughout the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, China, Japan, and the Middle East. Everywhere. Some speak of great heat that boiled the sea; of mountains breathing fire; the disappearance of the Sun and Moon and the darkness that followed; the raining down of blood, ice, and rock; the Earth flipping over; the sky falling; the rising and sinking of land; the loss of great continents; the coming of the ice; and virtually all of them describe a fantastic flood, a wall of water, which swept across the Earth. Old Chinese texts describe how the pillars supporting the sky crumbled; of how the Sun, Moon, and stars poured down in the north-west, where the sky became low; rivers, seas, and oceans, rushed to the south-east where the Earth sank and a great conflagration was quenched by a raging flood. In America, the Pawnee Indians tell the same story of a time when the north and south polar stars changed places and “went to visit each other”. North American traditions refer to great clouds appearing and a heat so powerful that the waters boiled. The Greenland Eskimos told early missionaries that long ago the Earth turned over. Peruvian legends say that the Andes Mountains were ripped apart when the sky made war with the Earth. Brazilian myth describes how the heavens burst and fragments fell down killing everything and everyone as heaven and Earth changed places. And the Hopi Indians of North America record that: “The Earth was rent in great chasms, and water covered everything except one narrow ridge of mud.”

Atlantis and Lemuria

All of this closely correlates with the legends of Atlantis and Lemuria, or Mu. These were two vast continents, one in the Atlantic and the other in the Pacific, which many people believe were ruled by highly advanced races that originated from other worlds. The continents are said to have disappeared under the sea in the circumstances described above, leaving only islands, like the Azores and Polynesia, as remnants of their former scale and glory. Atlantis is said by some to have emerged after the sinking of Lemuria. Others say they were simultaneous.

The most thorough and outstanding researcher of Lemuria-Mu was Colonel James Churchward, who wrote a series of books in the first half of the 20th century. Churchward visited remote monasteries in Asia and saw the ancient records of the “Motherland” of Mu or Lemuria going back between 12,000 and 70,000 years. He saw how it was the center of a global empire that included Atlantis. In his book, The Children Of Mu (BE Books, Albuquerque, New Mexico), first published in 1931, he shows how the various racial types on Mu, including blue-eyed blonds, peopled the world. These Lemurian races went east to become the Mayans of Central America and the other builders of the fantastic structures of the American continent. They went west to people Asia, China, India, and elsewhere, and created colonies in what became Egypt and Sumer. All genetic and cultural roads, he says, lead back to Lemuria-Mu, the “Motherland”, and the very advanced civilization that existed tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of years before today’s “modern” society. Churchward says that Lemuria was destroyed around 12,000 years ago. W.T. Samsel in his study of these ancient societies, The Atlantis Connection (Starfire Publishing, Sedona, Arizona, 1998), dates the end of Lemuria much earlier, but many of their basic themes are similar.

Samsel’s book is based on “channelled” information. Creation consists of an infinite number of wavelengths or frequencies and the world we perceive with our physical senses is merely one tiny fraction of the frequencies that exist. Just as we cannot see the radio and television frequencies sharing the same space as our bodies at this moment, so we cannot see with our limited physical senses the other frequencies and wavelengths of Creation that also occupy the same space that we do. To “channel” is to “tune” our consciousness to some of these other wavelengths and access the knowledge and information that exists there. Samsel claims to be in contact with an entity formerly incarnate in Atlantis that now communicates from one of these other frequencies.

Many of Samsel’s themes are supported by geological and biological record. He believes that it was about 100,000 years ago that the first examples of modern human forms appeared on the island of Lemuria in what is now the Pacific Ocean. These were intended to be “perfected vehicles”, he says. As they began to explore the Earth, they seeded the land that is known as Atlantis, which is said to have been in the Atlantic on the geologically unstable mid-Atlantic Ridge. Samsel says that early Atlanteans were a red-skinned people, not unlike the Native Americans. He believes the Native American people are directly descended from Lemurians and Atlanteans who settled in the Americas before the first great cataclysm some 48,000 years ago and Native American legends support this theme. His view is that in those earlier days of Atlantis and Lemuria the people lived under the “Law of One”, the understanding that everything is the same energy expressing itself in different forms. The Law of One is the knowledge that everything is connected to everything else and ultimately all is an expression of the same whole or energy. Scientists call this the unified field theory. This is a common theme of Atlantean myths and legends – a civilization that began with positive intent and in harmony with the natural laws, but was taken over by forces that transformed it into a very dark place indeed.

Samsel suggests that the “war between the gods” in ancient mythology, was a war between extraterrestrial races over the question of intervention or non-intervention in Earth affairs. He says that midway through the early Atlantian age, extraterrestrials with a human-like appearance – “very tall, light haired, light skinned, albino-like people” – made contact with the Atlanteans. They began to manipulate Atlantean society, he says, and interbreed with humans to change the DNA and create hybrid bloodlines that became the royal lineage of kings and queens. I would include Lemuria in this same story also. The technology and physical appearance of these extraterrestrials led the Atlanteans/Lemurians to see them as gods. Intermarrying with these beings to produce light-skinned offspring with “god-like features” became the goal of many Atlanteans, Samsel writes, and these crossbreeds became the dominant force. They took over the government, economics, education, religion, and communications. Samsel says that the kings of the royal lineage ruled Atlantis and what he calls the “Sons of Belial” controlled the Temple of the Sun, their religious hierarchy and ritual network. During this period, many Atlanteans of the red race migrated west to the Americas, which were then geographically different to what we see today. Samsel goes on to say:

“The age of the Atlantic Empire would prove to be a free-for-all for the Sons of Belial and the followers of the Temple of the Sun. This dominant tribe came to rule all aspects of Atlantean society. They disregarded the Law of One, placed their faith in technology and were driven by greed and the lust for power. The arms of the Atlantic Empire came to stretch nearly worldwide. The Americas and Africa, the European countries, the Middle East, India and Tibet came under the control of the Empire. The One Temple was divided and ineffective, the Sun Temple flourished and the Sons of Belial prospered. During that time, One Law priests were leading migrations of the red race west to the Americas and east to Africa. They sought to preserve the Law of One and so they built new circles in the far lands.”

Samsel says that the second great cataclysm brought an end to Atlantis. He believes that they used their “super weapons” against what we now call China and they tried to “utilize the Earth as a great conductor through which to direct at their adversaries” using the vast crystal, which is a common theme in Atlantean stories.

The themes of Samsel’s research are supported by my own, although we differ in detail. In the end, however, it’s the theme that really matters in understanding the basic background to the world today. The tussle between the Atlantean advocates of the Law of One and the opposing Temple of the Sun is highly significant. In fact, today’s world is the new Atlantis, a mirror of the obsession with technological dominance that led to the destruction of the first Atlantean civilization. Put simply, the Law of One sees everything as connected, part of the same unified whole, and the Temple of the Sun represents the desire to present everything as unconnected and isolated from everything else. One seeks to unite, the other to divide and, therefore, rule. You will see this theme throughout this book as I tell the story of how the original Atlantean “Sons of Belial” have sought to build the new Atlantis ever since the cataclysmic events that destroyed the original version.

Excerpt from Children Of The Matrix