In the above passage, quoted in Wachsmuth’s Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos Earth and Man, Kepler would seem to be suggesting that an image of the zodiac is in some sense bound up with the form of the earth. His deep intuition and contemplation of the cosmos permitted him to make this statement although it does not appear that he left the details of how such a zodiac might be identified. The Zodiac of Europe form, described in Part One, which has been assembled from indications provided by Professor Stecchini, J.Ralston Skinner and others would seem to answer to that which Kepler was intimating. As the visible evidence of the invisible"bond of sympathy between the heavens and the earth" this remarkable ancient map-form engraved into the very continental landmass of Europe itself urges us to consider the interplay of creative forces which brought it into being.

The early astrologers were aware that the human body itself presents a living tableau of the twelve zodiacal signs, beginning with the association of Aries with the head and concluding with the dual fish of Pisces as the feet. The presence of such an archetype of the zodiac in the form of the human body can alert us to a common unifying thread linking man and the cosmos. With the discovery that the same form is also to be found embossed into the shape of the European geography itself, the implication seems irresistable that some common creative impulse hovers over the design of cosmos, earth and man, and unlikely as it seems to the modern mindset, employs the symbology of the zodiac as a template in the molding of form.

Taken separately, it is perhaps not surprising that the heavens or the body of man or the earth could be understood and described without reference or recourse to the forms of Kepler's "animal circle". It does come as a surprise however, having absorbed the symbolism of the individual houses of the zodiac that have come down to us from the ancient astrologers and astronomers, to find that the same procession of metaphors, when applied to the body fit perfectly without alteration; and it is nothing short of astounding that they should also produce an exact match to the landscape of Europe, when the correct layout and orientation is discerned.

In Part One, several of these close matches were discussed, including the association of Taurus with Turkey, Leo with Italy and Virgo with France. However, an even more powerful and explicit relation may be found in the location of the sign of Scorpio on the esoteric map of Europe. To recover this however, it will be necessary to briefly review the traditional symbolism of the house of Scorpio in the zodiac, and then to examine this in the context of the position of this sign in the human body.

Scorpio has always been the house associated with the most intense realms of human experience: death, passion and sexuality. It was said to be ruled by the malefic planet Mars, God of war, until, with the discovery of the planet Pluto, Lord of the Underworld, its rulership was reassigned to this outermost planet. Nevertheless, such a transfer did not require a discontinuity in the symbolism but rather a deepening and intensifying, as Pluto represents, in one sense, a higher octave of the Mars symbolism rather than an entirely new principle. Indeed, at the very moment of the discovery of the ninth planet in 1930, Mars stood precisely in the square angle, or 90 degrees removed, from Pluto, handing over, as it were, some of its deeper aspects to its newly revealed closer relation.

Scorpio then, under the rulership of Pluto, relates to the most intense and emotional of human experiences: death, war, discord and sexuality. The sting in the tail of the Scorpion is the source of it's deadly power. In the picture-story of the night-sky, it is the slayer of Orion the Hunter.. When Taurus occupied the spring equinox, roughly speaking in the era of 4,000BC to 2,000BC, it was Scorpio which held the opposite position, the autumn equinox. Hence, while Taurus in that era came to be associated with the rising sun and thereby the imagery of birth and light and dawning, the influence of Scorpio was of the darkness, and the setting of the sun, and death. As Richard Hinckley Allen puts it in his Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning (1912): "…it was the symbol of darkness, showing the decline of the sun's power after the autumnal equinox then located in it."

Traditionally then, Scorpio came to be understood as the entrance place to the dark realms, or the underworld. As the location of the setting sun, it occupies the portal of transition to the night place; or, to put it more succintly, Scorpio holds the gates of death. With the discovery and naming of the new planet in 1930 after the Lord of the Underworld, it is perhaps no surprise that astrologers wasted little time in assigning the rulership of Pluto to Scorpio. Now the Lord of the Underworld presided over the portals to the realms of death and darkness, and a certain fitting cosmic order, long hidden from the gaze of man, was restored.

If we turn now to the allocation of the parts of the body to the zodiac, Scorpio is said to rule the sexual organs. If this sign is the place of entry to the lower worlds or the place of death then this can be understood on a purely physical level as suggesting the image of an underground cavern or a subterranean pit or chamber. Translated into terms of the human body, and in particular the female body, the correlation requires little elaboration: here indeed is the opening, the entrance into the hidden chamber in which the great mystery of human reproduction is located.

At the same timer the dual nature of Scorpio is revealed: the place of darkness is at the same time the place of birth. The tomb is simultaneously the womb. There is no discrepancy between the astronomical and the anatomical, for the daily and yearly death of the sun is of course, only the inevitable precursor to its rebirth each morning and each springtime. From the heavens, no less than our own biology we may learn the lesson that there is no rebirth without a descent into the darkness of death. As the Gospel of John puts it: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies it remains alone; but if it dies it bears much fruit" John 12:24

From both the stars and the body then a persistent theme may be identified: namely, that there is a type of an opening, or door, or portal which is an entrance to another realm of existence, the realm of death and also of re-birth, and that this place of darkness and mystery is to be found located in the sign of Scorpio. Such matters touch on profound currents of Western mysticism and esoteric thought; oblique clues to a deeper unravelling of these mysteries may be found in such diverse symbols as the skull and cross bones and in certain Masonic emblems.

The Gospels resonate with such themes; it would not be going to far to identify them at the core of the action of Jesus' life and death and resurrection from his internment in the tomb. For example, when asked for a sign, Christ replied that "no sign shall be given...except the sign of Jonah". He was referring of course to the Old Testament incident in which Jonah is swallowed by a giant fish, only to be regurgitated three days later. These three days and nights are but another example of the recurrent metaphor of entering into the pit of death and subsequently being reborn from it. Clearly Jesus chose this story to illustrate His own impending descent into death and re-birth.

Compare these strands of association with the following passage from Sir William Drummond’s Oedipus Judaicus published for the first time in 1811, in which he discusses the attitude of the Egyptian priests to the death of the God Osiris:

"When the sun in the sign of Scorpius descended to the lower hemisphere, they mourned his death and feigned that their God had gone down to Hades. It was then that Osiris, or his symbol Apis, was said to be inclosed in an Ark. On the seventeenth of the month the ceremony of his being inclosed in this Ark took place; and on the third day after, the Priests again opened the Ark and pretended to find the lost Osiris."

Here all the various elements which have been discussed come together in a single account: the sign of Scorpio, the descent to Hades, the tomb in the form of the Ark, and the rebirth after three days. Notice also that the ceremony is timed to take place with the arrival of the sun at this very region of the zodiac. Here then is a powerful series of motifs which reappear in almost identical form but in widely varying contexts.

These examples could be multiplied but enough has been presented to confirm that the metaphor of the opening into the other world of death and rebirth is written in the heavens and confirmed in exactly similar terms in the form of the body and amplified and made explicit in numerous writings which have come down to us from ancient times.

This metaphor is explored in considerable detail by one esoteric author in particular. In 1875, J. Ralston Skinner published an extraordinary book called The Source of Measures which has much of great interest to relate on the astronomical and sexual symbolism on display in the Scorpio glyph. This rare work is principally concerned with the numbers on display in the Great Pyramid, and attempts to show, not without success, that a "canon of sacred measure" may be identified in the architecture of temples of the ancient world, and, moreover, that the same key numbers recur in the Hebrew scriptures and in the relations of units of measure in the English systems of length and area. The book was very nearly lost to the world at inception: a warehouse fire destroyed the entire first edition bar three copies. Even within esoteric circles it has generally received little attention, though Madame Blavatsky makes several references to it in her monumental work The Secret Doctrine, and it was paid the honour of a facsimile reprint in 1975 by the Wizards Press, a publishing arm of the Theosophical Society.

One persistent theme of the book is Skinners discussion of what he terms the "preferred ancient form" of the zodiac, namely a depiction of the circle of the heavens in a square format. As discussed in Part One, this form is derived by inserting the twelve zodiac signs around the outer squares of a four-by-four matrix, in such a manner as to locate Aries and Taurus in the middle squares of the right hand side. This arrangement results in Libra and Scorpio occupying opposite squares on the left hand side, as shown in the diagram below.

In Skinners words: "and, indeed, this was the adjustment as made by the Hebrews, for 355 was their basic year value,and by their squared form, they followed the order of the actual months, so that the third quadrant of the year run: Leo, Virgo as the corner square, and then Libra. ...thus under this explanation, oneof these cross lines leads from Scorpio, and this was the place of piercing the dying sun, or rather ofimpregnating the depths with the new sun."

If the right side of this diagram corresponds to the east, and the left to the west, then the horizontal line through the centre corresponds to the line of the equinox, whilst the vertical line represents the solstices. This arrangement gives a neat shorthand depiction of the heavens at the time of transition from the precessional age of Taurus to the age of Aries. That is, it shows the orientation of the zodiac as it would appear to an observer at sunrise on the spring equinox around the era of 2,000 BC. Hence, for the ancients of that era, this glyph was a suitable representative skymap calibrated appropriately for the age.

In our time, when the age of Pisces is giving way to the age of Aquarius, an equivalent diagram which reflected the current age would require the signs to be relocated by two steps counterclockwise, so that Pisces and Aquarius straddled the eastern equinox line, as shown.

There is however, a peculiar property of the "preferred ancient form" which makes it appealing from a metaphorical perspective.

As we have noted, both the general direction of the west, and the sign of Scorpio were separately considered to be the location of the "gates of death". When however Scorpio is actually situated in the west, then the two locations are co-incident. This clarifies and reinforces the symbolism, and makes it possible to assign a consistent place to the gates. We could summarise the situation by stipulating that they must be at the west and within Scorpio, and we could represent this on the diagram already derived as shown below:

Skinner has much to say in relation to these ideas, though he never explicitly diagrams the relation as has been done above. Nevertheless, he discusses at length the importance which the ancients would attach to this coincidence of the gates of death in the west and in Scorpio as depicted in the "preferred ancient form".

For example, in regard to the conditions of the west, he relates that in Egyptian mythology, Typhon (who is the Greek form of the "evil" Egyptian God Set) is "lord of the descendant, he who held the Gates of Death" and furthermore that "…the west signified the Typhonic portals into another condition ofexistence, from whence no gift could be brought."

In another place he speaks of Scorpio: "The sign Scorpio, being the gate of the woman, is opposite to the sign Taurus, and they meet at a point in the centre of a sphere. The place Scorpio was the pit, or the hebrew word Shiac, the placeof death, the door of Hades or of Sheol."

And again: "Under another form, Scorpio was the gate of the woman, for it was the door of the evening or darkness."

And also: "...the balanced signs were Aries, the lamb, and the balances, Libra, opposite. The border of the sign of the Lamb, then, was that of Taurus. Opposite to this the sun descended from the lower edge of Libra, or the balance, entered into Scorpio. The point of greatest anxiety, and of dread ofexpectancy, was of course in Scorpio, or of the death of the sun. Personified, the tribe to which this sign was appropriate was Dan; yet it was in Dan that we ‘await thy salvation O Lord’."

Here we encounter the tribe of Dan for the first time in our study. There was traditionally amongst the Hebrews an allocation of the twelve tribes of Israel to the twelve signs of the Zodiac, and it was Dan which was associated with Scorpio. Hence Skinner also says: "But Dan, as will be shown, is astronomically in Scorpio, the zodiac sign, the gateway to the descendant, the place of the crucifixion of the year."

The intention thus far has been to introduce the square form of the zodiac and show that, symbolically at least, there is such a concept as the "gates of death' which may be located specifically in the west and within the sign of Scorpio. At the very least, the concept may be found discussed in the works of J. Ralston Skinner, an obscure and esoteric author of over a century ago, which is sufficient to prove that these ideas have not been recently invented to fit what is to follow. There does appear to be a thread, tenuous though it may be, which connects the zodiac symbolism of the human body to the zodiac of the heavens, and which finds a point of direct contact in the concept of the gates of death.

Nevertheless it can be conceded based upon the evidence mustered so far that these are merely ingenious stories of human invention, a circular chain of of arbitrarily contrived associations. There is, of course, no physical opening in the earth giving access to an actual subterranean hell or Hades. It could very well be argued that these are mere metaphors made possible because there is no grounding of the myth in a concrete situation.

With this in mind, recall the examples from Part One which begin to suggest that indeed there once was knowledge of just such a scheme as the Zodiac of Europe. We shall now, without further delay, unveil the central and astonishing piece of evidence of this essay, by examining the form of the Zodiac of Egypt, derived, it will be recalled from the work of Professor Livio Stecchini, to determine if any physical characteristic might correspond to this elusive notion of the gates of death in Scorpio.

We are able , under the form described above, to sensibly assign a specific locale for the Gates of Death on our symbolic map, so as to be able to depict them on the Zodiac of Europe. We can do this by ensuring that the conditions describing the position of the Opening are faithfully reproduced in the map geometry. Recall that the Gates are described as being both at the western equinox and in the house of Scorpio. This implies that the upper extent of the Opening or Gates should fall on the western equinox line, and the lower limit should fall some distance south, but within the Scorpio zone. It is enough to note here that there is a unique sensible manner in which the Gates of Death may be interpreted geometrically on the grid-map we have reconstructed.

We now turn our attention to the zodiac of Europe, and specifically to the line which represents the western equinox, the 36° N parallel of latitude. There is a very curious relationship between this line and the Straitsof Gibraltar, which are, of course, the opening of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean. Specifically, the 36^th parallel passes precisely through the end of the tip of the peninsula of land at the most southerly extent of Spain; that is to say, the 36^th parallel itself is the most northerly extent of the opening of the Straits of Gibraltar.

Therefore we can say that the Western Equinox line on the Zodiac of Europe passes precisely through the upper limit of the Opening of the Mediterranean Sea. It follows therefore that the Straits of Gibraltar themselves satisfy exactly the requirements we set for the Gates of Death. They are located at the Western Equinox, and they extend some distance south from here, but wholly within the house of Scorpio.

If this is true, and a glance at an atlas, or the map linked below will convince: then it follows that the symbolic Gates of Death in Scorpio correspond exactly to the Straits of Gibraltar on the mind-map of the Chessboard/Zodiac of Europe.

Latitude 36º North

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This has the astonishing implication that the expanded glyph of Mt Meru which has been developed happens in this detail to correspond in the most precise manner imaginable to the facts of the physical geography of Europe. The Straits of Gibraltar are, by equivalence under the zodiac of Europe form, identical to the Gates of Scorpio. The opening of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic fulfills therefore to the most minute particular the typology of J.Ralston Skinner in The Source of Measures, in that it has it's most northern extension precisely on the equinox line dividing the zodiac horizontally in two, and is also wholly contained within that direction specifically assigned to Scorpio by the identification of Pisces with Egypt.

From the text itself, Skinner betrays no apparent knowledge of this extraordinary physical-earth confirmation of his wonderful glyph. Yet, the passages in which he discusses this are so filled with additional material as to open up extraordinary possibilities for the further elucidation of the esoteric geography of the Mediterranean.

We can find at least one independent source which corroborates this identification of the Straits of Gibraltar with the Gates of Scorpio. Before we introduce it, we note that the ancient name of the opening of the Mediterranean was the Pillars of Hercules, and that the Tribe of Dan was allocated the sign of Scorpio in the amphictyony of Israel. The term "Gates of Dan" is frequently used interchangeably for "Gates of Scorpio". The author, Joe E. MacAfree, in his book Bible and I Ching Relations (South Sky Book Co, Seattle, 1976) in a passage discussing the symbolism of Hercules, states that:

" The two lions over the gateway at Mycenae probably represent the Judah-Dan relation. The lions are probably representative of Zerah and Perez, while the pillar signifies Zion-Jerusalem as world axis. With the gateway for Dan, "turnstile" implications appear. The "Pillars of Hercules" at the western portal of the Mediterranean Sea probably convey the same relationship, with the two "pillars" signifying the Judaic guardian-guiding lions."

We see here displayed the same link of association between gates and portals, the opening of theMediterranean and Dan/Scorpio. If then, as seems reasonable, we can now allow these correspondences to stand, and admit that ancient initiates understood them to be true, we are confronted with a host of implications. Before we move on to examine some of them, it will be worthwhile to summarise the features of the map whose existence we have inferred, and confirmed through positive evidence.

A study of the Zodiac of Europe in fact reveals an abundance of such meaningful correlations. A detailed examination of this is reserved for later in this document. For now attention is focussed on the western equinox line, the 36th parallel of latitude. It may be observed that this line precisely defines the northern extent of the opening of the Straits of Gibraltar. This implies that the zone in which the Mediterranean Sea joins the Atlantic Ocean exactly matches the symbolism dictated by the requirements of the zodiac. Specifically, the Straits are wholly within the realm of Scorpio but also are located at the western equinox position. This identification would fail if there was any discrepancy either way between the 36th parallel and the northern limit of the Straits. If part of the opening fell north of this line then that section would fall within the jurisdiction of Libra; alternatively if the 36th degree of latitude crossed land so that the Straits did not commence uintil some distance south of the line, then the opening would not fall at the western equinox, Both situations would fail to provide a perfect match to the dictates of the symbolism.The sole acceptable format in which the gates of Scorpio could truly be said to be reflected in the shape of the landscape is for the 36th parallel to define the limit of the sea at this point.That it does do so with a margin of error on the scale of tens of metres, if that, is a stunning result.

Alternatively, if the idea of the Gates of Scorpio arose after the establishment of the zodiac of Europe form,as a kind of mythic response to the physical fact of the Opening of the Sea, then we shall have found an extraordinary basis for the emergence of such esoteric material. If this were so, then we should ask in whatother ways might the particular form of the physical landscape have influenced the contents of myth?

There is a third possibility: that both have emerged from some common principle at work, governing the form both of continental landscapes and the contents of the human mythic landscape. If the fact of theOpening at 360 reflects the ordered basis of some principal of organization at work within the earth, then,the effects of that operational principal being observed in the workings of the universe by the initiated priesthood, it could be incorporated into the religious signs and stories which communicated their wisdom.This possibility will be explored in the section titled Etheric Formative Forces and the Earth Grid.

The Symbolism of the Gates in Cosmos Earth and Man:

The glyph of the gates of death in Scorpio can now be seen to run through the astronomical the anatomical and the geographical with a consistency that is truly remarkable. Each of the threerealms provides its own confirmation of validity. The symbolism finds its origin in the notion of the death of the sun in its daily and yearly route through the heavens; it is deepened and confirmed as to its specific association with rebirth in the physical design of the human body; but it is brought to a precise geometricformulation in the location of the Straits of Gibraltar which translates the metaphorical into the mathematical.

Taken together, the three realms of cosmos earth and man illuminate the archetype as a formative organising principle which would appear to be bound up inextricably with the bringing into being of these elements, rather than any kind of external projection or arbitrary imposition after the fact of a pattern which happens to fit. It would be difficult to overstate the implications of this conclusionr if it is justified. It means that it will be insufficient to consider the forces which have shaped the continents, for exampler as mere random interplay of physical interactions. Not only will it be necessary to admit symbolic aspects to such processes, but such archetypes of metaphor will underly what have been seen as quite separate divisions of reality and providing a common basis for the evolution of their forms.

There is also a fourth area in which the symbolism may be recognised and that is the sphere of consciousness of the human mind which grasps the archetype. If we can admit that in some, as yet unexplored sense, a template of the gates of scorpio hovers behind the formationof the heavenly zodiac, the human body and the geography of Europe,then it is just a small additional step to finding the same operative archetype in the formation of human thinking. Such an approach might help to explain how it is that the recognition of such metaphors could occur in the first place.

Nevertheless, it is hard to imagine which could possibly have come first: the idea or the reality of such zodiacal archetypes. One can well imagine the astonishment of early mariners making their way to the Straits of Gibraltar for the first time, taking position measurements, and realising that the opening of the Great Sea coincided perfectly with the position required to conform with the symbolism of the Zodiac of Europe, assuming that theidea of the gates of scorpio was already familiar to them through its heavenly and anatomical associations. The alternative is to imagine that the symbolism was developped out of the observation of the position of the Straits; in which case the astonishment would follow from its application to the form of the body, andto the motion of the sun through the zodiac. Neither alternative seems satisfactory. Perhaps the astonishment belongs not to them but to us in finding these isomorphisms for the first time, at least in modern times ,and that it was always thus for the ancients.

The solution to the riddle is surely to be found in the realisation that the same formative forces which give rise to the shape of·the human body are active also in the moulding of the continental landmasses, and in the configuration of the stars and planetary bodies, and to close the loop in the thoughtforms of humanconsciousness. As the same symbolic and even geometric structureshave now been identified linking these apparently diverse spheres, such a conclusion is strongly suggested. Clearly however, the usual physical forces which are creditted with determining thearrangement and shaping of substance do not act in such a manner.

To locate the subtle influences operating behind the veill it will be necessary to penetrate beyond the sense-bound interpretations of the day, and to perceive the spiritual underpinnings of material phenomena. The task of pursuing such observation, and of entering into the mobile fluid realms of thought which a full understanding will require, is a program for a fully developed science of the future.However, the foundations for such a manner of grasping the world have been laid in this century by the work of Dr Rudolf Steiner, whose contribution to such a science must await another era for its full recognition. Nevertheless, there are those who have carried out investigations along the directions which he indicated, and it is to some of these authors works that we can turn in our investigation for clues and signposts to resolve the dilemma we are faced with namely, the nature and character of such formative forces as could give rise to such a feature as the gates of scorpio in the diverse representations in which it has so far been identified.

What did the Straits of Gibraltar represent to the ancient mariner? There was potential danger enough within the confines of the Mediterranean Sea, but to venture forth into the Atlantic Ocean represented a further escalation of the possibilities for disaster. In termsof the prevailing consiousness of the day, the region beyond the Straits was truly the great unknown. While we will have data in abundance to show that the coastlines of America were reached by peoples from this era, they were nevertheless a long dangerous journey away,and no easy or guaranteed voyage could expect to land on those distant shores. The Atlantic was an infinite unknown, an endless horizon of treacherous possibility. It was the boundless blackness of universal space which would confront the astronaut of today who set his controls for the endless emptiness of interstellar space. It is the realm of no return, certain death by any reasonableaccount, even if some fabled lands might perhaps be reached bypassing through its terrors. In short it was the physical embodimentof everything symbolically portrayed in the glyph of Hades and the Underworld.

The sea itself was considered, under one reading, as the a typeof the heavenly realms. The boats which traversed it were akin to craft plying between the stars. The ship which carried St Paul in the Book of Acts was named after the stars of Gemini, Castor and Pollux, which shows, in this one example at least, the link between boats and stars. If this is so, then the Mediterranean surely stood for the heavenly regions which were at least known and recognisable, in which man could navigate with confidence.

There need be nothing symbolic about a passage through the Straitsof Gibraltar to induce a feeling of dread in the sailor leaving the relative safety of the Mediterranean Sea for the first time. In purely physical terms, he will be encountering the forces of the great unknown, and setting forth from a zone of comparative safety into a place of unimagined terrors. How apt then will the metaphor apply when the navigator determines that the opening into the Atlantic Ocean corresponds with the symbolic Gates of Death located in the sign of Scorpio as positioned within the Zodiac of Europe. What astonishment must have greeted ths revelationof the latitude through which the vessel passed as it passed throughthe Straits.

This presupposed, of course, that the form of the Zodiac of Europe was known before the fact of the specific location of the southern latitude of Spain. For the sake of argument thoughl let us imagine that it was not known: that rather ships were familiar with the nature and location of the Straits of Gibraltar without any inkling as to the Zodiac of Europe grip-map. At what point was the realisation made that the Straits did in fact answer to the type of the gates of death and rebirth in Scorpio. As late as this essay? Or earlier? If the astonishment has been reserved for the author, and his readers, then it is all the more extraordinary; and we can only marvel at the unanimity of symbolism on display and how it remained hidden throughout history.

However, I cannot believe that it was not known in previous times. The evidence of the Black Madonna cult of southern France seems to mitigate too strongly in favourof the Virgo/Provence connection at least, and if this be admitted, it can be only a very small step to the Scorpio identification also being allowed. So let us imagine a time when, with the Straitsof Gibraltar already proven navigable, that the symbolic association with the gates of death in Scorpio, a concept already developed through the astronomical glyph of the daily and annual death of the sun, and the anatomical metaphor of the womb, becomes apparent.What a moment of wonder this must have been for the initiated men of the time: to find that the very location on the extrapolated grid of ToMera where the gates of death in Scorpio were to be identified should also be, without the merest alteration, theexact location of the opening of the Mediterranean into the unknownand feared expanse of the Atlantic, must have induced in the ancient savants an awe of the chain of correlations which we can scarcely imagine.

The reason we can scarcely imagine it is because, with all of our scientific knowledge and insight into the workings of the cosmos, we have no room at all in a modern cosmology for such an equivalence between heaven and earth and man. To re-admit it into our understandingof the universe will entail more than just a revision at the edges of who and where we are; nothing short of a complete re-appraisalof the forces in operation in creating and maintaining the shape and appearance of the world will suffice. This leads to the stunning conclusion that the reflected map of the heavens was somehow used as a template in the shaping of the landmasses of Europe themselves. The uranograph is then the blueprint of creation of the earth.

Related Pages:

The Chessboard of Europe

The 12th Century Beatus World Map with concealed grid

The King is the Land: Geosiris, or To-Mera Man

© Simon Miles 1999