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23.5 Degrees

In 2002, I made a new major discovery about the Great Pyramid of Giza; that the Polar or Celestial Axis of the Earth which is presently tilted at 23.43 degrees, (given as 23.5º in most text books on the subject) is clearly referenced in the geometrical structure of the Pyramid. Furthermore, it appears that the overall structure and certain internal features also reveals data about the Earth's geophysics or orbital dynamics. (Click here for a brief summary of these findings).

 

I discovered this information through studying and deciphering the hidden codes in two paintings by the 17th century French artist Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665).

  These initial discoveries and my own interpretation of the data will be revealed in my forthcoming book Axis of God.

  What I will reveal in this presentation is some of the additional data I have discovered during my research into these discoveries as to 'why' this information has been encoded - data which is very supportive of my initial findings.

  While in the process of uncovering this additional data I have also been helped along the way by others to whom I had divulged some of the key elements of my research. The fact that others could find what I had already predicted, proved that I was dealing with a real phenomenon - something that had been overlooked by us all, even though the clues had been "hiding in plain view" and in many different sources throughout our known history.

  That I should find important information about the Great Pyramid of Giza in Poussin's paintings and other artist's works would surprise a lot of us who have studied Poussin.

Poussin and the Rennes Mystery

The name ‘Poussin’ crops up constantly in conjunction with the mysteries surrounding a small church named Rennes-le-Château.

  Located in the Languedoc region in southern France, the Chateau is said to be connected with the Cathars, Gnosticism, the Knights Templar, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, the genealogies of the legendary Merovingian Kings of France and hidden treasure.

  The stories surrounding Rennes-le-Château, which has now become a “cottage industry” in France, was first brought to the public’s attention by the best-selling book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. First published in 1982, this book set a precedent for other books of its genre and spawned a whole new international media industry specialising in conspiracy theories, alternative history and the latest study known as ‘cryptohistory’.

  The central theme of this book is based on an “ancient” secret society, the Prieuré de Sion, (the ‘Order of Sion’ or ‘Priory of Sion’), whose supposed “members” claim strong links with the Knights Templar. There are claims that the Prieuré de Sion has guardianship over the Holy Grail (thought to be the sacred icon of the Merovingians) and that the Society has an agenda to restore the monarchy in France – the chosen monarch being a descendent of the Merovingian line of Frankish kings who were deposed by the Carolingians and who were themselves former court officials to the kings of the Merovingian dynasty. It is said that the Merovingians were the descendents of the ancient Hebrews – especially the ‘Tribe of Benjamin’ and the ‘House of David’ – and therefore Jesus and his “sister”, “wife”, or “lover”, Mary Magdalene.

 

Much has been written about the Rennes mystery with some claiming to have solved it, others presenting the story as fact, and others presenting the story as fiction.

  The associated themes are many and convoluted and so I won’t dwell too much on it here – suffice to say that the phenomenon is still going strong despite the fact that two unrelated investigative researchers into the Rennes mystery are now presenting clear evidence which could finally expose its more sensational aspects as nothing more than a cleverly orchestrated hoax. 

  However, as Philip Gardiner and I have already shown in our books, The Serpent Grail (2005) and The Shining Ones, (2006) what we actually find presented in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail is evidence of an ancient ‘system of knowledge’.

  Despite what people may like to believe, there is now mounting evidence to suggest that this knowledge once belonged to a scientifically advanced civilisation devastated by a global catastrophe – the knowledge having been preserved by those that survived. From these survivors there then developed a strong and influential nomadic culture known universally as the “Shining Ones”.

  The scientific knowledge of this culture was very different from ours, in that their simple but powerful science had evolved from early shamanic conceptions and principles based on internal experiences where the deeper connections that exist between one thing and another were duly perceived by the mind of the shaman, and so its no surprise to find that this knowledge was therefore based on magickal correspondences.

  Unlike our knowledge today which is divided, separated and compartmentalised between different disciplines, and segmented between A and Z, theirs was a ‘system of knowledge’ which had its own language, and which has been preserved through time and known and understood only by the few.

 

Like most things, the Rennes mystery has become a focus for what we believe or ‘want to believe’ – in that we tend to project our own ideas and beliefs onto this mystery which has now become a “broth” spoiled by the attendance of too many “chefs”.

  It’s possible that many of these theories bear some factual relevance to the whole mystery as everything in existence is closely connected at some ‘deeper level’. And its indeed possible that some theorists are pointing out certain ‘facts’ that even the “conspirators” of the mystery were/are unaware of, as there also exist the more ‘subjective connections’ which are no less meaningful as everything is intimately linked to the collective human psyche.

  I say this because there are some interesting themes associated with the mystery that indeed allude to the conclusions I am putting forward in this present work.

 

If much of the mystery surrounding Rennes-le-Château really is a hoax, then it’s possible that in their endeavour to falsify or fictionalise certain exoteric and esoteric connections – which on the surface are generally seen as “non-existent” – the “hoaxers” may have tapped into a rich vein of information known only to the ‘mystery schools’ and which had remained in secrecy for thousands of years. In this regard, my interest is in the paintings of Nicolas Poussin – one of the few artists who are cited in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail as having held the “key” to an important secret – at least this much is fact.

  As we will see in the course of this lecture I am certain I have now deciphered the codes in Poussin’s paintings, and in my opinion the secrets they convey point to one of the most important locations on the earth and point to something more incredible than any of the more sensational religious theories that have emerged from the Rennes mystery only to find their way into a recently published fictional novel to then be exploited as the truth. Of course, it’s possible that Poussin’s connections to the mystery have been falsified and that he had nothing to do with the so-called mysteries of Rennes-le-Château.

  However, I am now convinced that Poussin was privy to certain secrets which he also encoded in his paintings, and so my purpose is to bring attention to the broader connections his paintings have with certain core-themes belonging to the indigenous wisdom associated with the shamanic tradition from which the ‘sacred feminine’ concept was originally derived, along with a worldwide cataclysm which may have resulted in the earth’s axis being tilted from an almost upright position, almost wiping out an advanced civilisation or culture and the rest of the human race – something that is clearly being referred to in some of the encoded clues I have discovered but hasn’t been uncovered until now.

Shamanic Connections

When writing on the subject of Shamanism we have to tread carefully as it’s possible that many of the principles of knowledge attributed to Shamanism is by no means ancient or universal. However, “nothing is new under the sun”.

  It has been said recently that the conventional wisdom about Shamanism, which comes mostly from the work of ‘history of religions’ scholar, Mircea Eliade, is not always reliable or impermeable and that many writers who use Eliade as a source will often present the material as fact. This really stems from the recent ‘backlash’ against our western view of Shamanism in response to the new-age interpretations which many see as having corrupted the tradition. Ronald Hutton’s book, Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination (2002), gives a fairly critical view of what we think we know about Shamanism. Hutton’s view is that other cultures which we regard as “shamanic” often reflect our wish for a universal ancient religion.

  I would agree with this to a certain extent. However, in my view Eliade remains a reliable source, and we must remember that anyone with psychic abilities of one kind or another (for instance, an ‘out of body’ experiencer or ‘remote viewer’) could easily be considered a “shaman” (as a psychic healer, would be compared to a “witch doctor”) and so any and all cultures – both now and in the past – has had its fair share of shamans.

  Moreover, there is good evidence to suggest that the information and knowledge that these people were/are able to access through their own experiences and which has led to the development of a worldwide tradition, may have resulted in a ruling ‘priesthood’ in the distant past, as much of our esoteric knowledge which includes many of the principle themes found in Shamanism, seems to have come from a single, influential source, as evidence suggests in my previous books and as already outlined.

 

In this regard there are certain core-themes which remain consistent in the folklore of different peoples all around the world and are therefore very ancient whether we call them “shamanic” or not.

  These core-themes are associated with man’s concept of the “Primordial Centre”, the so-called “World Pillar”, the “World Tree” and the “Cosmic Mountain” or “World Mountain”. These terms have indeed been referred to as “shamanic” in origin and amongst other things, are related to the earth’s axis, the polestar, the ‘pole of the ecliptic’ and the ‘ecliptic centre’ in the heavens. And as we will see later, these themes and more besides, are incorporated within the Great Pyramid of Giza – a splendid example of the ‘World Mountain’ of Shamanic lore. See here:

  Yet again, these conceptions really stem from man’s internal, psychic experiences – in that they are metaphorical descriptions that reflect early man’s attempts at trying to describe the ‘indescribable’ – but still many of us tend to interpret them too literally, also partially or wrongly and miss the original meaning.

  Most importantly, all these conceptions have their origin in the internal enlightenment experience – an ‘energy phenomenon’ – in which the subject experiences his or her consciousness having “imploded” or “collapsed-in-on-itself” and much like a dying star; gathering in everything together and becoming as ‘One’ with the centre of all creation – the same source that is within everyone of us.

 

This experience reveals how the deeper connections that exist between one thing and another was actually perceived and then conceptualised and further developed and applied to become a ‘system of knowledge’, which still remains virtually unknown in our societies as a whole, but is the source of all our ancient esoteric wisdom.

  This experience is ‘central’ to the whole theme of this, my present work – being the ‘enlightenment experience’, as described by Hindu mystics – a rare but very real phenomenon that does happen to some people and spontaneously.

  This experience is said to be the real aim of Tantric Yoga and has been the cause of the religious impulse of man throughout history, and so again, it’s something I will touch on as we go along and will look at in more depth when it becomes appropriate.

  It is for this specific reason also, that the powerful Catholic Church needed to ‘hush’ things up, as the only true way to God in their eyes was through the Church and ultimately the Pope. The reality of this experience however proves to the individual that the ‘true God’ could be found within and did not require the input of a paid priest.

 

For now, and in this presentation, I am going to show that amongst other things, the Great Pyramid is what the information, as used in the Rennes mystery hoax (especially in regard to Poussin’s paintings) has been pointing to all along; in that everything associated with ‘the mysteries’ has its apotheosis in the Great Pyramid which was constructed as a means to bring on this ‘enlightenment experience’ in which man feels he is at the centre of everything.

  Looking at the circumstantial evidence which will be presented throughout the following pages and the other presentations in this section, it is indeed possible that the powerful energy behind this awesome, life-changing experience was also sought as a means to correct man’s present situation – possibly the result of a worldwide catastrophe, and perhaps to prevent it happening again.

  As we sift through the evidence, we will find, and much to our surprise, that it could also have been the very cause of it.

  Although the thematic clues we are given are consistent, they are also very complex – interwoven as they are with the intricacies of myth and arcane symbolism which are multifaceted and often non-conclusive. Therefore our task to sort out the “wheat from the chaff” is never an easy one as demonstrated in my previous books co-authored with Philip Gardiner, but again there are certain consistent themes which I encountered while co-writing those books which now need addressing and which only make sense when we bring Giza and the Great Pyramid into the picture.

As we will see, the Rennes mystery, the Holy Grail and what has become known as 'The Da Vinci Code', really have their source in this mystery which I am now going to introduce to the reader in the following pages. What I am going to show is not the whole story and is just the tip of the proverbial "Iceburg" - but its enough to show and convince the reader that we are dealing with a real phenomenon here that has been overlooked all this time by our attention on other things which are really peripheral to it.

Gary Osborn January, 2006.