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There was superstition that a magical stone was said to be shaped like a human

tongue, and was believed to fall from the sky during Lunar Eclipse. This

superstition may sound foolish now, yet there lies behind it an arcane meaning.

It was believed that during the time of eclipse mankind had an opportunity to

communicate with the Gods: the tongue-like stone was a sign that such

communication was possible.

 

Many of the old rituals connected with the recognition of the new Moon are

survivals of a time when priests signalled that the pathway to the Gods had been

closed- a closure announced cosmically by the emergence of the new crescent.

Some occultists have insisted that eclipses are cosmic safety valves, which

periodically allow evil forces to escape into the cosmos, where they will be no

harm to mankind. According to certain occult theories, the shadow lane of the

solar eclipses permitted initiated priests to communicate with higher Gods, and

put to them questions of profound importance.

 

Some scholars maintain that this was underlying reason why the

ancients built the mysterious stone circles which are still scattered through

parts of northern Europe. By means of these circles, the priests were able to

predict with great accuracy the coming of eclipses, and at the august times

communicate with Gods.

 

It is only in modern times that astronomers have begun to realise

that the ancient stone circles and megaliths are found in such abundance in

Europe are astronomical observatories. It has been suggested that the more

complex circles, such as Stonehenge, Avebury and Callanish are megalithic

computers.

 

The esotericist Rudolf Steiner indicated that the ancient Northern

Mystery Schools made use of the stone circles to study cosmic phenomena.

 

By means of advanced mathematics it is possible to calculate the times of

eclipses, there is no simple eclipse cycle by which astronomers can predict

total solar eclipses for a given place, or locality. It is now recognised that

the solar temple of the megalithic complex of Mnajdra was designed to measure

the extreme solstitial positions.

 

The idea of eclipses provide ‘tunneling into the spiritual world’

is expressed very graphically in hermitic literature. Lunar Eclipse is viewed as

the equivalent of the God orisis being laid in his coffin according to the

Priest of Delphi, Plutarch. The shadow of the earth into which they think the

Moon has fallen and is eclipsed is called Typhon. It seems that even the ancient

snake-the Old Serpent-that dwelt in the garden of Eden was linked originally

with the lunar eclipse, and with the shadowy lightless tunnels in which such

eclipse take place.

 

There was a solar eclipse occurred at the time of crucifixion of

Christ. Hermit literature mentions that just as the star which led the Magi to

tehnew born Jesus was not an ordinary star so the darkness which shrouded the

Earth at the death of Christ was casued by no ordinary eclipse.

 

An English astrologer A. J. Pearce mentions that the length of an

eclipse was a direct index of the length of time its effect would operate on the

life of the native. Total eclipse of the Sun which was visible at Cairo on 17th

May 1882, it lasted for three hours and twenty five minutes. This eclipse

influenced for three years and five months by giving the effect of wars and

plague.

 

Lunar eclipse brings earth quakes whereas solar eclipses bring

volcanic activity, especially when the eclipses occur on earth signs.

 

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Yours sincerely

 

A. Ramani.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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