by Jonathan Gray

TAKING FLIGHT

Flight Powered By Mercury

The ancient document, the Samarangana Sutradhara, offers a description of the fuel power source for ancient flight:

“Within it must be placed the mercury engine, with its heating apparatus made of iron underneath.

“In the larger craft, because it is built heavier, four strong containers of mercury must be built into the interior. When these are heated by controlled fire from the iron containers, the vimana possesses thunder power through the mercury. The iron engine must have properly welded joints to be filled with mercury, and when fire is conducted to the upper part, it develops power with the roar of a lion. By means of the energy latent in mercury, the driving whirlwind is set in motion, and the traveller sitting inside the vimana may travel in the air, to such a distance as to look like a pearl in the sky.”

The intricate knowledge of aircraft and flying was deliberately controlled by a select few.

Precautions were taken against industrial espionage and unlicensed manufacture.

The mercury was heated by “a special flame capable of being directed.” A laser?

This is not the only ancient Indian document to refer to mercury as a fuel for flight. The Mahabharata likewise states that the vimana was borne along at great speed on a mighty wind generated by mercury.

Sir Isaac Newton wrote: “Because the way by which mercury may be impregnated, it has been thought fit to be concealed by others that have known it, and therefore may possibly be an inlet to something more noble, not to be communicated without immense danger to the world.” (from a speech delivered at Cambridge in July 1946 by the British nuclear physicist Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, citing Newton)

What it is about mercury that could be of “immense danger” to the world we do not know. Yet it seems apparent that the ancients were well aware of the practical application of mercury.

The secret is still beyond our present technology. Nevertheless, at an international space congress in Paris, in 1959, there was talk of producing an “iono-mercurial engine”; and in 1966 the French looked into launching a satellite powered by a “mercury solar furnace”.

Some years ago, in Turkestan, Russian excavators discovered in caves what may be age-old instruments used in aircraft flight. These are hemispherical objects of glass or porcelain, ending in a cone, each carefully sealed and each containing a single drop of mercury.

A description and illustrations of the pots appeared in the Soviet periodical, The Modern Technologist.

Flight Powered By Sound Waves

Indians of the La Paz region of Bolivia say that thousands of years ago their ancestors travelled in great golden disks which were kept airborne by means of sound vibrations at a certain pitch, produced by continual hammer blows.

Similarly, ancient Sanskrit books state plainly that aircraft could be driven solely by the power of sound, tunes and rhythms.

Mention of the relationship between sound waves and antigravity, comes to us also from ancient Babylon, Egypt, India, Finland, from the Bantu of Malawi and the Algonkin of North America.

“Soon after the Spaniards discovered the city [Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia], a Jesuit wrote that ‘the great stones one sees at Tiahuanaco were carried through the air to the sound of a trumpet.’” (The World’s Last Mysteries, p.138)

Tablets indicate that by means of sounds, into the air heavy rocks were raised, which a thousand men could not have lifted. (Francois Lenormant, Chaldean Magic)

Certain Arab sources contain curious tales about the manner in which the earlier pyramids were erected. One says that the huge stones were wrapped in papyrus, then struck with a rod. They became weightless and moved through the air. Coptic writings indicate that the blocks were levitated by the sound of chanting.

We detect here traces of an ancient power technology more advanced than our own.

Interestingly, in modern automobile tests, an ultrasonic reactor attached to a carburetor almost doubled petrol mileage with very little exhaust gas. This simple gadget was based on a system of harmonic resonance within the atomic structure of liquids.

Some years ago, NASA scientists were experimenting with moving small particles by a procedure called acoustic levitation. They succeeded in using sound waves to levitate pellets of glass or metal. (OMNI magazine, November 1980)

Electromagnetic Energy From The Atmosphere

Various ancient writings hint at propulsion achieved by some form of anti-gravity, such as electromagnetic energy, obtained directly from the atmosphere. (See Dead Men’s Secrets, Chapter 26, item 29; Chapter 27, item 1; and Chapter 28, item 25).

A number of scientists believe that electromagnetic energy supersedes the orthodox laws of gravity. The fundamental characteristics of gravity still elude analysis by modern physics.

Were you aware that magnetic currents can be used not only to neutralize gravity but as motive power?

Spinning objects made of selected materials have been shown to generate an electromagnetic energy field when placed in rapid relative motion. If this force field is made to undulate, a secondary gravitational field is produced, which can “neutralize” earth’s gravity.

Disk airfoils three feet in diameter and incorporating an electrical condenser charged with 150 kilovolts have been made to fly under their own power. The disks moved under the influence of interaction between electrical and gravitational fields, in a fifty-foot-diameter course.

An electromagnetic force field would cause the vibratory frequency of an object to be altered in such a way that it opposes the frequency of the gravitational field. It would act upon all parts of the craft simultaneously. A vehicle thus propelled would be able to change direction, accelerate to thousands of miles an hour, or stop.

Do you see, man now uses the sledge-hammer approach to high-altitude, high-speed flight. He has to increase power in the form of brute thrust many times over in order to achieve just twice the speed.

By his present methods, man actually fights against the forces that resist his efforts.

But in using a gravitic field to provide the basic propulsive force, he would make his adversary work for him. If the coupling effect between gravity and electricity can actually be harnessed and used for propulsion purposes, then we would have a free and inexhaustible power supply.

If we could thus conquer gravity, the headaches of transmission of power from the engine to wheels or propellers would cease to exist. The oil-consuming car engine and hydroelectric generators would become obsolete. The work of the world could be done with tiny amounts of energy. Construction of large buildings and bridges would be revolutionized by temporary induced weightlessness.

I think you’ll agree, we seem to have lost something.

Vehicles Adapted To Travel Both In The Sky As Well As On Or Under The Sea

The Vymanika Shastra from India (a 3,000 year old document) contains eight chapters of plans for craft that could travel in the air, on water or under the sea.

A similar account comes to us from China. It is reported that more than 2,000 years ago a ship appeared on the sea at night with brilliant lights which were extinguished during the day. It could also sail to the moon and the stars, hence its name, “a ship hanging among the stars” or “the boat to the moon”.

This giant ship which could travel in the sky or sail the seas was seen for 12 years.

ELECTRICITY

Perpetual Lamp, Able To Burn For 2,000 Years

When the sepulchre of Pallis was opened in Rome, in 1401, the tomb was found to be illuminated by a perpetual lamp which had been alight for more than 2,000 years. (Nothing could put it out, until it was broken to pieces by desecrators.)

Kedrenus, the eleventh century Byzantium historian, records having seen a perpetual lamp at Edessa, Syria, which had been burning for 500 years.

We now cross to the Via Appia, Rome. A sealed mausoleum (with a sarcophagus containing the body of a shapely and beautiful patrician girl), opened in April 1485, contained at her feet a lighted lamp which had been burning for 1,500 years! The body was that of Cicero’s daughter, Tullia. She lay in an unknown, transparent, all preserving fluid. When the preserver was removed, her lifelike form with red lips and dark hair was seen by 20,000 people. The lamp continued to burn for some time.

Such lamps functioned indefinitely without oil or any product that was burned or consumed. Touching them was prohibited under pain of provoking an explosion capable of destroying an entire town.

There is no doubt that the ancients knew of energies other than electric power, if they could construct perpetual lamps that burned for hundreds of years. Probably they had more sources of light than we can imagine. Did they utilize chemical power or some form of radiology?

Here’s another thought: Lighting by means of the use of hydrogen can be accomplished by a phenomenon called condoluminescence, a cold process. A phosphor is spread on the inside of a tube, similar to the conventional fluorescent lamp. Upon coming in contact with the phosphor, small amounts of hydrogen combine with the oxygen in the air to excite bright luminescence in the phosphor.

That’s an interesting fact, but we have to admit that the perpetual lamps of the ancient races are still a mystery.

More Known About Matter, Light, And Ether Properties Than We Know

It seems that our ancient forbears knew more about matter and light, about the ether and its properties, than the scientists of the twenty-first century can ever know or imagine.

We know how to generate electricity from coal, from water power and from nuclear reactors. These scientists went much further. They were very likely able to extract free energy from the atmosphere for lighting, heating, moving great weights and for instruments used in household chores—not to mention defense.

I am not unmindful of the inventor Tesla. He showed that free energy once used by those ancient civilizations, was indeed possible for us to enjoy today – if we would let it happen. Of course, that would require permission from our gracious benefactors who supply power to us by other means.

Paired TV Screen Transmission

All descriptions of scientific development in China in the first millennium B.C. refer to “magic mirrors”. They are mirrors which have extremely complicated high reliefs on the back of the looking-glass. When direct sunlight falls on the mirror, the high reliefs which are separated from the surface by a reflecting glass, become visible. This does not happen in artificial light. If they are set up in pairs, they transmit images, like television. The phenomenon is scientifically inexplicable, by present knowledge.

Some of these mirrors are still supposed to exist in private collections. We do not understand how they were made or what they were used for.

Book TV With Vanishing Pictures

Early this century, Maxim Gorky, the celebrated Russian writer, met a Hindu yogi in the Caucasus, who asked Gorky if he wanted to see something in his album. Gorky said he wished to see pictures of India. The Hindu put the album on the writer’s knees and asked him to turn the pages. These polished copper sheets depicted beautiful cities, temples and landscapes of India, which Gorky thoroughly enjoyed. When he finished looking at the pictures, Gorky returned the album to the Hindu. The yogi blew on it and smilingly said: “Now will you have another look?” Gorky recalls: “I opened the album and found nothing but blank copper plates without a trace of any pictures! Remarkable people, these Hindus!” (Andrew Tomas, We Are Not the First, pp.166-167)

ASTRONOMY

Knowledge Of Planet Beyond Pluto

Ancient Sumerian scientists held that there was one more planet beyond Pluto. (An old map showed the sun and eleven planets, counting the moon, all by size.)

There is now good reason to believe that this “secret” planet does exist. The outer planets Uranus and Neptune have been seen to wriggle slightly in their orbits around the sun. Pluto has been eliminated as an influence. Scientists now speculate that the culprit may be an undiscovered planet’s gravitational pull.

On December 31, 1983, scientists announced their belief that they had located a body in orbit beyond Pluto.

Calendars More Accurate Than Ours

Ancient Maya employed calendars more accurate than ours: The Maya calculated 365.2420 days to a year; our Gregorian calendar calculates 365.2425 days to a year; according to present-day astronomy, the actual figure for the duration of the year is 365.2422 days to a year.

In other words, the Mayan calculation was closer to the sidereal figure than is our present calendar. These ancient Central American Indians had a more precise calendar than we in this “age of science”! The Mayan year was accurate to nearly 1/10,000 of a day. Their surviving calendars are absolute proof that they fixed the duration of the day correctly to three places of decimals.

MEDICAL/HEALTH

Currently Incurable Diseases Cured With Medicines Today Unknown

Many of today’s “incurable” diseases were, in ancient India, actually cured with medicines that to us are unknown. At present, research is being undertaken in Indian texts, in the hope of recovering some of this lost science.

Obsidian Instruments 1,000 Times Sharper Than Today’s Conventional Surgical Blades

Sharp surgical instruments made of obsidian and dated to 500 B.C., have been discovered in Peru. Obsidian (volcanic glass), if you didn’t know, is a thousand times sharper than the platinum-plus blades used in other surgical instruments. The cutting surface of obsidian is so sharp that it does not bruise the cells.

In October, 1975, an American doctor performed successful major surgery with obsidian tools. Don Crabtree of Kimberly, Idaho, one of the world’s top authorities on lithic technology, allowed a local surgeon to remove a tumor from his lung – entailing the cutting of an incision threefourths of the way around his trunk.

Obsidian surfaces may eventually revolutionize surgery and could be of special value in cosmetic and plastic surgery.

Skull Operations Technically Superior To Our Own

We now go to Lake Sevan in Soviet Armenia, where thousands of years ago some splinters were removed from the brain of a woman. This lady had received a head blow, in which a blunt object of 1-inch diameter punctured the skull and splintered the inner layers of cranial bone. Surgeons carefully cut a larger hole around the puncture to remove the splinters that had penetrated the brain. Evidence shows that she survived surgery for 15 years.

The discovery was made at Ishtikunny, near Lake Sevan. The examinations were performed by Professor Andronik Jagharian, anthropologist, and director of operative surgery at the Erivan Medical Institute in Soviet Armenia. (William Dick and Henry Gris, “Delicate Head Surgery Was Performed 3500 Years Ago”, National Enquirer, September 10, 1972, p.30)

Even by modern standards, such operations would be considered extremely difficult. Some of these operations are seen to be technically superior to modern-day surgery.

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