Glastonbury Mystic and Earth Spirit Fayre
The Assembly Rooms – High Street
Saturday 28th November –4.00pm – 5.15pm
Edmund Marriage Lecture with Colour Images
Proof of an Advanced Civilisation
O Solon, you Greeks are all young in your minds which hold no store of old belief on along tradition, no knowledge hoary with age. The reason is this. There have been, and will be hereafter, many and divers destructions of mankind, the greatest by fire and water, though other lesser ones are due to countless other causes. And so you start again like children, knowing nothing of what existed in ancient times here or in your own country… To begin with, your people remember one deluge, though there were many earlier; and moreover you do not know that the noblest and bravest race in the world once lived in your country. From a small remnant of their seed you and all your citizens are derived; but you know nothing of it because the survivors for many generations died leaving no word in writing - From Plato’s Dialogue The Criteas - Senior Priest to Solon at the temple dedicated to Neith (Ninkharsag) at Sais, Nile Delta c. 560 BC.
Modern science led by astrophyicists and geologists have clarified the accuracy of these statements and identifed dates, details and causes of these diverse destructions, including the virtual wipe out of most species at the end of the ice age around 10,900 BC, and the destruction of the Bronze Age city states from the Mediterranean to China centering around the tree ring date of 2,345 BC.
Once upon a time, the Gods divided up the Earth between them - not in the course of a quarrel; for it would be quite wrong to think that the Gods do not know what is appropriate to them, or that, knowing it, they would want to annex what property belongs to others. Each gladly received his just allocation, and settled his territories; and having done so they proceeded to look after us, their creatures and children, as shepherds look after their flocks. They did not use physical means of control like shepherds who direct their flocks with blows, but brought their influence to bear on the creature's most sensitive part, using persuasion as a steersman uses the helm, to direct the mind as they saw fit and so guide the whole moral creature. For an interest in the past and historical research came only when communities had leisure and when men were already provided with the necessities of life. That is how the names but not the achievements of these early generations came to be preserved -From Plato’s Dialogue The Critias c. 355 BC
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