Washington, D.C. & the
Ancient Temple of Newgrange, Ireland
People
have always felt a desire to be in contact with their Creator God. They looked
toward the heavens and recognized cycles and numbers which were identical to
numbers and laws associated with the creation of life here on Earth. For example
the 5 pointed star that Venus describes in the sky during her 13 revolutions
around the Sun during 8 Earth years –manifests the Fibonacci series of number 1,
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55...
These numbers came to be called “holy numbers” because they expressed the
proportions of most of the life forms on our planet. Fibonacci numbers
themselves strive to express the Golden Mean (34
÷ 55 = 0.618) while
the Golden Spiral which defines mollusk shells and how nature unfolds is based
upon these numbers.
Ireland is abundantly blessed with holy sites so old that they were reused by
conquering races. During my 13 years stay in the Holy Isle these sites were
investigated under the guidance of The
Pattern of the Past (1969) by Guy
Underwood. His contention is that all ancient temples and holy sites around the
globe are founded above special underground water spirals and their track lines.
During my researches from Tikal to Sardinia, Egypt, Cuzco, Tiwanaku, and
countless other places, Underwood’s theories have been verified beyond question.
But my contribution to knowledge is that there is another element necessary to
the establishment of a major holy precinct –and that is that the major attendant
water lines be also aligned to astronomical phenomena, such as one of the
equinoxes or solstices.
On an
investigation of Newgrange (Bru na Boinne)
I discovered that the main underground water line of the sacred chamber also
passed out of the mound and to the left of the major standing stone (upon the
halo of standing stones that surround the mound. These are also located upon an
underground ring of water). The water line passed onward through a field to
another large standing stone and further to a low tumulus in the distance. The
direction of the path of this water-trackline phenomena coincided with the
winter solstice sunrise –consecrating this place as “On Earth as it is in
Heaven”.
The measurement of the diameter of the halo ring of stones proved that the
sacred chamber of water spirals was located at .618 (φ)
of the total diameter. I have known this fact for some time, and when my
daughter visited Washington, D.C., I once re-read
The Sacred Geometry of Washington, D.C.
(2006) by Nicholas R. Mann. As I read and researched I could not believe my
eyes as the city of Washington, D.C. began to evolve as a holy temple site
founded upon the identical principles as Bru na Boinne –astronomy, sacred
number, geometry, and subterranean water lines. Could it be possible that these
two places shared a common ancient heritage separated in time by about 5,000
years?
Their
similarities are astounding:
The
Boyne Valley astronomical complex includes Knowth, Dowth, and Bru na Boinne
which defines the winter solstice sunrise. Maryland Ave. NE in Washington, D.C.
accurately marks the summer solstice
sunrise. East Capitol Street shows the spring and autumn equinox sunrise. While,
Pennsylvania Ave. SE delineates the
winter solstice sunrise –just as Bru na Boinne. We said that the sacred
chamber and the diameter of the halo circle of stones at Bru na Boinne were in
phi
φ relationship.
Coincidentally, the main construction circles around the Capitol building are
arranged in the proportion of
φ .618 of a mile, and
1 mile, and further at
Φ 1.618 mile.
Bru na
Boinne is purposely founded and set above underground water spirals below the
holy chamber which leads out of the passage and onward toward the winter
solstice sunrise. The Capitol building (still called “The Hill”) in WDC is
centered upon Jenkins Hill, an ancient social, commercial, and ritual gathering
place where the ancient trail lines approaching the hill are directly under the
present Maryland and Pennsylvania Avenues which align to the solstices.
Underwood’s book specifically states that animals and humans instinctively
follow the underground water courses which then become marked by continual usage
as trails above ground.
Sacred Geometry
Nicholas R. Mann, The Sacred Geometry of
Washington, D.C., mentions some of the holy numbers used in the creation of
the Capital:
L’Enfant defined East Capitol Street as “160 feet in breadth, and a mile long
(5280
÷ 160 = 33). The
number 33 is the highest level in the hierarchy of Masonry. The Scottish Rite
Temple of Freemasonry in WDC has 33 Ionic columns each of which is 33 feet tall.
33 is of course half of 66 leading to the infamous but holy number 6 x 6 x 6 =
216 –the root of the Vedic astronomical cycles and a fraction of the diameter of
the Moon, 2160 miles. The Washington Monument was built 555.5 feet tall, which
equals 6666 inches; thereby combining the sacred number five and the pentagram
with the number six and the holy hexagram. Also coincidental is the fact that in
1810 Congress paid L’Enfant the sum of $666.66 for the design of the city of
Washington, D.C.. This, above all things, shows that the Senate and the
Representatives of the people were well acquainted with the mystery of geometry
and the holy numbers –and by this little joke over the amount of L’Enfant’s bill
proclaimed to the world that such a master geometer should be satisfied with
this holy number sum. Again the Fibonacci numbers express the infamous holy
number 666, because 2
÷ 3 = .66666. A
further coincidence is that Er Grah,
the Great Menhir and main foresight of the entire astronomical complex of Carnac
on the Bay of Quiberon in Brittany stood 66.6 feet tall.
Nicholas Mann explains that L’Enfant expressed his internal design for the new
city through pentagonal forms which of themselves express Golden Mean
relationships and form –because every line of the pentagram is in
phi,
φ relationship to the
length of the other lines. This special
phi relationship is of extreme antiquity and has been found at Abydos in
Egypt in a design called the Flower of
Life. When visualized in three dimensions, twelve spheres will fit around a
central thirteenth sphere. Mann says
that the Flower of Life provides the basics of measurement, and has proscribed
our use of standards such as 360 degrees, 60 minutes, 60 seconds, and the
duodecimal system. The Masonic fascination with Venus and Fibonacci numbers
explains the widespread use of the number 13 as an enduring symbol for the
original 13 colonies of the United States of America, and the perpetuity of this
number upon its paper currency.
Mann
summarizes that the Congress House, the President’s House, the Mile Column, and
L’Enfant’s intended locations
for City Hall, the District Court, and the Washington Monument –are all placed
according to the Golden Section Ratio of
phi,
φ.
Mount Vernon
George
Washington was the lead decision-maker in the layout and design of the new
capital city. Much of the site was upon his ancestral estate of Mount Vernon
which had originally been founded upon a prominent sacred Native American site
dedicated to trade, alliances, judgments, and social gatherings (Mann p.177).
This Native American site functioned exactly like the Viking
“Thing” and the Druid meeting places
throughout Europe and the ancient world. Just as Bru na Boinne was taken over by
conquering races of Ireland –the new Americans appropriated the Native holy
sites such as Treaty Oak and Jenkins Hill, the magical place of water spirals
linked with astronomy.
Mann
writes (p.33):
Several roads already existed in the area that took advantage of ridges of
higher ground. The Bladensburg-Ferry road, which approximates to Maryland Avenue
today [summer solstice sunrise], and the Georgetown-Ferry road that approximates
to Pennsylvania Avenue [winter solstice sunrise], formed a diagonal cross
through Jenkins Hill. Apart from the hills to the north, the densely wooded
Jenkins Hill was the highest point in the center of the territory of the future
city.
Mann
says (p.33) that Jefferson requested the astronomer Ellicott to carefully
ascertain “a true Meridian and the latitude of the place”. Ellicott chose the
well-known landmark Jones Point on the Potomac near Alexandria as the southern
point of his 10 mile square diamond whose points marked the cardinal directions
NSEW. Mann cites (p.74) L’Enfant, “Mr. Ellicott drew a true Meridian line by
celestial observation which passes through the area intended for the Congress
house; this line crossed by another due East and West...These lines were
accurately measured and made on bases on which the whole plan was executed.”
Ellicott and his assistant the talented Benjamin Banneker conducted their
astronomical survey upon Jenkins Hill which they defined as the new Global Prime
Meridian of zero/360 degrees. This astronomical act defined the exact center of
power from which the so-called New World was to grow and progress. It signified
a new union between Heaven and Earth during a New Age. Benjamin Banneker
(African American –Irish) was an adept astronomer and calculator who for the
rest of his life published a successful farmer’s almanac like that of Benjamin
Franklin.
(#97:archive.org/stream/andrewellicotthi00math 1-12-2012):
The
personal notebook of Ellicott says that he discovered the olden native name, Annakostia, for the
eastern branch of the Potomac from “some old surveys” of the locality. Ellicott
further reports (#95) that he had set up squared stones engraved with the number
of miles from Jones Point, as well as the variation of the magnetic needle at
the position that the stone was set. One may imagine that surveyors used
magnetic compass and that true North was achieved by astronomical observation.
Ellicott writes (#83-87) that Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant was to design the
city upon a site of ten miles square, and that Washington suggested the distance
of a mile between the Executive Mansion and the Legislative Department. Mr.
Jefferson wished to have a straight grid of streets like Philadelphia, and gave
L’Enfant numerous street maps of Versailles and prominent European cities.
However, the enthusiastic L’Enfant was born to the Age of Enlightenment and
envisioned a “heavenly city and temple” laid out in divine proportion and cosmic
geometry which would convey heavenly harmony, justice, and balance upon the new
city. L’Enfant decided that Congress, as
the meeting house of the representatives of the states and people should be
the center of this powerful cosmic design. L’Enfant was proposing a wondrous
experiment creating a sacred geometry between Heaven and Earth. He was the son
of an architect who had worked on the Sun King’s domain at Versailles.
The Temple
Throughout the world at the Temple of Solomon, Angkor Wat, the Coricancha at
Cuzco, the Parthenon, Giza, and many other centers; priest-scientists sanctified
centers of creative power, temples and
judicial and social meeting places directed to the three primary axis:
East-West, North-South, Above-Below. The last axis was a bond between
subterranean water forces and astronomical alignments. The combination of all
these forces created something magical and powerful –a sublime unity, an
axis mundi, the
omphalos or
navel of the world –a point of
connection between the terrestrial, the heavens, and the underworld. This
vertical axis was often represented by a world tree, a mound, a pyramid, a
spring, a ladder, or a pillar stone.
The
Temple was always a place to help people “to feel connected; to feel the
unifying or archetypal patterns within everything: to become aware...of a
unifying order behind the seeming chaos of ordinary existence (Mann, p.71).”
Ancient people believed in cosmic order –that government, economy, society, and
belief in God needed to function together as one organism for any and all its
parts to succeed. Perhaps L’Enfant believed in these principles and wished to
create a stage upon which everything could play out harmoniously. Mann remarks,
“Government, it was thought, had the role of defining and harmonizing the many
parts of the whole, but should intervene as little and as lightly as possible,
and most especially should not tax the people too highly. Protected, directed,
led, but sovereign and unencumbered, the American people were seen as the
driving force of the economy and the wealth of the new nation (p.82),”
Cosmic
Order should not be confused with fate. This order is the benevolent insurance
of harmony and balance allowing all things to be free to grow and develop –and
not trespass upon other members of the system. Order defends the whole against
the parts, and each part against all other parts.
Was
the Capitol intended to be a magical temple like those described above? The
Masonic Grandmaster Joseph Clarke certainly thought so during the ceremony of
laying the cornerstone of the Capitol building; when he proclaimed, “I
have...every hope that the grand work we have done today will be handed
down...as the like work of that ever memorable temple to our order erected by
our ancient Grand Master Solomon.” Seven years later President Adams again
referred to the Capitol as “this solemn Temple.”
Geodetic Energy
Our
entire planet is crisscrossed by beneficial underground water channels like the
veins and arteries of blood that bring life to our bodies. Water under the earth
as well as the blood and water content of the human body are all weak conductors
of electro-magnetic impulses –heightened when humans place themselves above
water spirals –and both are acted upon by the Sun, Moon, and planets.
Guy
Underwood’s The Pattern of the Past
documents the interplay of underground water and ancient monuments. He calls
these forces Geodetic phenomena which
he divides into Water Lines, Aquastats, and Track Lines. Underwood cites
Reginald Allender Smith of the British Museum and the Society of Antiquaries,
and noted water-diviner as writing, “At the center of every prehistoric temple
there would be found a spot from which a number of underground streams formed a
radiating pattern [spirals].” He called these spots “blind springs”, and said
that they existed at Stonehenge, Avebury, Stanton Drew, and at all similar
sites, and wrote, “The constant presence of underground water at the exact
center of these circles and earthworks is a significant feature easily verified
by others...the selection of sites for consecration by the Druids and their
predecessors no longer appears arbitrary, but dictated largely by geological
conditions.” Guy Underwood’s book describes how insects and animals react to
these sites, using them as regular paths through the landscape, and holistic
birthing-places. He goes on to describe that specific underground water patterns
create cures for headaches –while some spiral arrangements have a calming,
penitent, or deleterious psychological effect. Sometimes the special places
provide supernatural side-effects such as clarity and power of speech and good
decision making.
Because of L’Enfant’s use of exponential larger pentagrams the cosmic forces are
expanded to physically allow the future decrees of the new Congress to
illuminate the larger territories of the United States as a whole. This is magic
based upon cosmic physics interacting with the
geodetic physics of the land.
Charles Westbrook wrote The Talisman of
the United States, The Mysterious Street Lines of Washington DC (1990) and
The Kabalyon Key (2004-9) in which he
records (p.33-5) that the Holy of Holies
in the Temple of Solomon is where Heaven and Earth meet; and sometimes the
visible Presence appears as a brilliant beam of white light called the
Shekinah Glory. Thomas Jefferson
wished to have this symbol for the power of God to have appeared upon the first
Seal of the United States to symbolize their settlement in the New Promised
Land, the New Jerusalem; or the New Atlantis according to Sir Francis Bacon.
Geometry assists the
feng-shui of the Universe
Mann
says that L’Enfant used his new interpretation of the pentagram to create a plan
of harmony among Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary creating an open,
balanced, and constantly self-referencing system where sovereignty lies with the
American people.
The central plan of Washington, D.C. is based upon three circles with a common
radius of 1 mile in conjunction with an off-center circle (focused upon the
Capitol) of .618 mile around which another circle of 1.618 mile is drawn. The
intersection of these circles forms a perfect pentagram star. The use of
phi,
φ and
Φ, was regarded by
Plato to be the mathematical key to the physics of the cosmos. The Egyptians
considered it the means to the whole process of creation, producing numbers,
measures, and proportions –as the gateway to all knowledge.
Image
from
Nicholas Mann, The Sacred Geometry of
Washington, D.C.
However, the “feng-shui” of combining
subterranean water-lines and spirals with sacred geometry and astronomical
alignments does not function without conscientious and humble human
participation. Men and women must offer up prayers for guidance to the God of
All Nations and Peoples, the Creator of the Universe –so that the “temple” is
communicated to each citizen, and is created in their will and hearts.
Bibliography
Nicholas R. Mann.
The Sacred Geometry of Washington, D.C.
2006. Green Magic, Sutton Mallet, England
Guy Underwood.
The Pattern of the Past. 1969-71.
Pitman House, London
Charles Westbrook.
The Kabalyon Key. 2004-09. Cathedrall
Press, Greenville, North Carolina
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