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MISSION STATEMENT: The winter of 1973 was marked by the passing of a comet around the sun on Christmas day, perceived by some as a portent of the Second Coming. The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 destabilized the Middle East after Egypt and Syria attacked Israel. The American presidency was caught in the Watergate scandal. I was in Athens that year and unexpectedly found myself at the Polytechnic University demonstrations that brought down the military dictatorship of the Greek Colonels. Troubled by the emotional shock of escaping tanks, teargas, and political violence in what often felt like being in the middle of a pirates game, I abstained from certain food and traveled in the spring to the Patmos group of islands, where I experienced the force of what is sometimes called a crisis apparition.

On the early morning of Saturday, April 20, 1974, as I sat near the port of the Aegean island of Mykonos, I met a man in black who telepathically revealed to me a metal seal, the cap of a well pipe in the flagstone near my feet, with the design of what he described as “the universe” engraved on it.

I noticed him standing alone near a small church when a dock worker looked briefly that way and then greeted me while rolling a noisy wooden cart past my chair, and into a narrow side street. I could feel the bluish-purple twilight mist of the bright morning star disappearing before sunrise. The man was well-dressed, like a bridegroom, or young business executive. I could hear his soft voice in my mind with remarkable clarity. He told me that his "Father" had claimed the judgment of Hitler's soul. 

Somewhat surprised, I tried to get up from my chair and walk on. But the stranger stopped me. Stepping forward, he stretched out both his arms with his fingers extended in my direction. Then he turned and looked across the distant sea. Dawn had arrived. But a thick black line (a dark rectangular aerial object) blocked out part of the orange sun, like the interlocked hands of a clock at 3:15. 

I heard him say "Peter, will you look at me?" When I did, the man set his balance, tightened his concentration, and asked me "Do you know what I must do?" 

He then broke the seal by melting its small central rod with an intense gaze, until I could see a cloud of steam or vapor swirling before his forehead.

I heard the loud trumpet-blast of a ship's horn, but I didn't see a large vessel in the dock. He walked towards me and said "Know the faith," as he passed by my chair. Then he vanished into the labyrinth of village footpaths behind me in the cool of the new day. The sun appeared as normal again.
 

Such experiences are generally referred to as "crisis apparitions" because they are associated with projections of the subconscious mind, usually due to stress or emotional shock. But in this case the psychological "illusion" had an effect on external matter - the center of the seal was broken - and I later photographed it to have a record.  My own feeling is that the resurrected Christ is in the world. The well seal was an ancient symbol of the hydrogen atom. Its broken nucleus signifies binary fission, the strongest force in nature.

Psychologist Carl Jung once mentioned a schizophrenic patient who claimed that he saw "the sun's penis." Jung referred to the sun-barge of the Alexandrian school of mysticism and a papyrus passage: "For you will see hanging down from the disc of the sun something that looks like a tube." There is evidence that other persons also saw a black line obstructing the Mykonos sun. The apparent atmospheric anomaly was recently photographed by a musician tourist in Mykonos.  http://one.revver.com/watch/38290/flv

A secret nuclear arms race began in the spring of 1974. Within days, India conducted its first atomic bomb test, code-named Smiling Buddha. Pakistan would eventually develop the Islamic Bomb and allegedly extend nuclear proliferation to suspected terrorist sponsors, such as Libya and Iran. A final confrontation named Armageddon was gloomily foreseen in the Middle East involving Israeli warheads produced in the Negev desert.

After weeks of study I learned that a very old seal design was the symbol of being marked or sealed in the forehead. So I returned to Mykonos that summer to photograph the strange metal plate. As soon as I arrived at the place of the well seal, another unusual thing happened. I felt someone behind me in the afternoon crowd push forward as if stumbling and lay their hands suddenly on my back. I pulled away and uttered a word of surprise. When I turned around, I saw a young woman in a white summer dress. She had a round birthmark on her forehead. Behind her stood two well-groomed young men. No one spoke, but I felt certain the impelling mark on her forehead was no coincidence. Did they also understand?  The broken seal was a stark souvenir of the strongest force in nature. I began to photograph it, thinking they would ask me what it was and I could explain what had occurred. But when I looked up from my camera, one of the strangers gently took the young woman by the hand and the three of them cheerfully walked away. Puzzled by what happened, I noted the time. It was 3:15. Three months had passed since my meeting with the mysterious man, at that very spot. The date was July 20, 1974, and Turkish warships were now gathering just beyond the sea's horizon for the full-scale invasion of Cyprus. An hour of darkness had arrived for the eastern Mediterranean. Sirens and distress signals wailed in the neighboring cities. Cyprus would become the last divided nation in the free world. - Peter Kapnistos

The White House (under the Carter administration) was informed of my 1974 meeting with the man in black and his striking disclosure of the metal seal. Since that occurrence, my story of the Mykonos seal has been published and retold (in more than one language) enough times to openly guess that over a hundred thousand people probably already know what this report is about.

Peter Fotis Kapnistos webmaster http://www.blackraiser.com/

brittle drawings, faint charts
 

A few pages of the "Bruce Codex" (also called the Codex Brucianus) from the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford are available on the Internet. It contains 2nd century AD Coptic, Arabic, and Ethiopic manuscripts found in 1769 in upper Egypt by James Bruce, a Scottish traveler who explored the source of the Nile. The Bruce Codex manuscript was acquired by the British Museum and translated into English by Carl Schmidt (editor) and Violet Macdermot (translator) in 1892. It consists of the first and second Books of Jeu  (comprising The Book of the Great Logos according to the Mystery) and three fragments - an untitled text, an untitled hymn, and the text On the Passage of the Soul Through the Archons of the Midst. The Two Books of Jeu are also mentioned in the  Pistis Sophia (Askew Codex), an important Gnostic text acquired by the British Museum in 1795. Historians trace parts of the Bruce Codex to Valentinus, a theologian born in upper Egypt about 100 AD. He became a disciple of the Christian teacher Theudas who supposedly was a follower of St. Paul. Valentinus is often associated with "Saint Valentine" but the Catholic Church no longer lists the saint.

One of the remarkable aspects of the Books of Jeu (also called Books of Ieou) is that they consist of mystic and esoteric diagrams. Each is related to either a "treasury of light" permeated with projections (probolh) of entombed archetypes, or a sacred well ("it welled up in him") central to a series of apostolic baptismal rites. As such, the diagrams are not "magic spells" but early Christian motifs of liturgical art, its spirituality and theology. The main character is the resurrected Christ, who transfers "seals" to his disciples. The brittle drawings exhibit faint charts of concentric circles and rectangles. Much of the original papyrus detail has been "injured by time."

In the Books of Jeu the Saviour gave various seals to ascend to heaven. 
 

Joseph of Arimathea, according to the Gospels, was a member of the Sanhedrin who donated his tomb for the burial of Jesus. A series of legends during the Middle Ages tied him to Britain and the Holy Grail. The long lists of "Watchers" in the Books of Jeu may represent centurions, soldiers, elders, and scribes (also mentioned in scriptures) who locked the sepulcher with seals and pitched a tent to "watch it." Papyrus lists of the names of locksmith engineers, together with schematic drawings of their sepulcher devices, may have been required by Pontius Pilate for Rome's bureaucratic records, especially those concerning the sudden disappearance of Jesus Christ's body, and the seals of his tomb.

This is his type when he brings forth

Popular conspiracy theories such as Hugh Schonfield's Passover Plot (1965) suggest that some fanatical friends of Jesus secretly "rolled open" the door of his sepulcher and removed his body, or that of someone else who had been crucified in his place. These theories assume that the disciples (who warned us against wrongdoing) contrived to invent a lie and jump-start the Christian religion.

Such theories seriously lack any technical knowledge of the internal loculi seals used in Jewish tombs.

Once shut, the stone doors were as impregnable as modern-day bank vaults, because the tombs of ancient nobles contained relics of great value. The idea that Christ's sepulcher could be easily rolled opened without the centurion's exactly-fitted spanner wrenches (keys for gripping and moving the bolts of locks or turning valves) is unwary and misleading.

A straightforward, literary description of various manuscripts indicates that unique keys were used to seal the tomb of Jesus Christ.

It welled up in him...

abyss: a bottomless well or pit.

abba: father, a title of respect.

On one hand, the Jeu seal was a symbol of a bottomless pit, as the King James Bible calls it,  emitting the smoke of a furnace for the second death. Beneath a fog of mystery, the seal was moved from a tomb to a bottomless void where its chasm draws the unwise like an Apocalyptic black hole. The abyssos of Greek mythology was envisaged as something unfathomably deep, a primitive ocean, the realm of the dead, or a prison for spirits.

Diagrams in the Books of Jeu present two primary themes: (1) The rectangular Place of Jesus (in the red highlighted area) is also called the Treasury of Light. A plane surface door, burial bench, or sealed sarcophagus (stone coffin), associated with the tomb of Christ, is shown directly below it, with a list of "watchers" to the right. Typical tombs of that period had rectangular, almost square low entrances with steps that led down to a rectangular standing pit lined on three sides with benches.

(2) The small diagram on the far right (blue highlighted area) shows a concave "well" or receptacle, curved like the interior of a sphere. A second list of names is directly below it. The text says: "For these watchers do not belong to the ranks of the treasuries of the light." Instead, they "stand within the gates." The circular bowl may represent the sealed mouth of a well (abyssos), which at the End Times will give up its dead, in the same manner as Christ's tomb. 

The moving of seals from the holy sepulcher to an abysmal pit involves two phenomena in psychology: transference, a subconscious redirection of feelings, and enantiodromia, the process by which something becomes its opposite. But Christianity was not a special deal or Gnostic truce of dualism between the forces of good and evil. Instead, ultimate opposites become equal by the imposed victory of mutual annihilation or the harrowing of hell repressed in the seat of the world's collective consciousness.

As for the mystery of how they were moved from a tomb to a well, the Books of Jeu  signify that it was done by holy "watchers," under the superintendence of the resurrected Christ himself. It is an inexplicable matter of his anastash (anastasi) or rising from the dead. Festive village customs for the saints venerated in Patmos, Mykonos, Tinos, and other nearby fisherman islands have maintained a traditional, almost mystical, reception for XENO, the alien, stranger, traveler, or guest ("Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." Hebrews 13:1-2). The sacred cave of Patmos, known as the Grotto of the Revelation, is where St. John conversed with holy strangers and messengers when he composed the biblical Apocalypse and the Fourth Gospel. At Easter, the island of Tinos is a major pilgrimage destination for thousands who come to be blessed, healed, or baptized. 

emanation

 probolh: projection, exposure.

The Bruce Codex manuscript functions on two levels, intricately bound together. Its practical aspect is as a ceremonial guide (soteriology). It contains illustrated directions for fastening seals to the locking devices of an ancient tomb or well concerning Jesus Christ's resurrection. But its theoretical aspect is one of intelligent design (cosmology). The seal is also a map of empirical reality or the kingdom of God; an accurate representation of space, describing the structure of the indivisible, and the totality of what exists. 

Text in the Bruce Codex calls the Father "the indivisible one."

In the nucleus: "The three lines which are thus,"

Three parallel lines of force make a rotating center (kernel or nucleus): a alpha (the first),  w omega (the last), beta b (the middle).

The Greek word ATOMO means: indivisible, the smallest monad or particle. It also means a single being, an individual or person. "This is he who has never divided."

Near the top: "The three lines which are thus,"
 

  u

Notice above how the ancient tryblion (plate measure) symbol looks like the Latin word Ju. The most important  Bruce Codex manuscripts are called (by all means) the Books of Jeu. But to those who recognize the meaning of TU in the middle of the disc diagram, a coiled serif base is compelling because the esoteric names may now be interpreted as Books of  (the Tryblion) or Books of the Grail. Most historians agree that the diagrams in the Bruce Codex manuscripts are approximately two thousand years old. The original seal drawings probably predated the supplementary Coptic text.
 

To suggest that the well seals found near the monastery of Patmos and its nearby island churches were put there by "Gnostic magicians" is nonsense, because Patmos is the spiritual base of St. John's Revelation (Apocalypse).

The early Church Fathers never set restrictions to seeking Christ as "Lord of the atom." After all,  atom means person  in Greek, and atomic means personal. Democritus and Leucippus were known in the days of  Jesus.

Inquisitors of the Middle Ages objected to pompous talk of Jesus as "Son of the atom." Defenseless offenders were persecuted and the atomistic ideas of Pythagoras, Democritus, Plato, and other philosophers were prohibited.

The ancient Greek language had the vocabulary to infer that God is a person (ATOMO) whose primal atom is not a spiritless being, but a living word that creates and gives reason to our universe. The "Atomic Christ," is God's Personal Saviour, not the persona of an inanimate, material thing.
 

Jewish tombs for the wealthy were prepared beforehand. Their sepulchres were sometimes marked by pillars or cherubim and were often "closed by a very curious and elaborate contrivance." This elaborate contrivance, essentially Jewish, but hardly known elsewhere, consisted of loculi (small cavities) around the inside of the burial apartment. Like hollow columns, the enclosing walls of the loculi were high enough to support the stone door that covered the tomb. The stone door was fitted to the end, luted into a groove which existed there, and sealed with locking devices through its internal loculi keyholes.

One of the Book of Jeu diagrams depicts the edgewise or side view of a seal (in the blue highlighted area), revealing a shell collar or metal jacket around it. The plate disc seal is a cap, encased in a shell at the top of the loculus (small cavity), which extends down like a hollow tube or pipe. Loculi, or kochim, were cut vertically into the rock some 6½ feet deep, and 1½ feet wide.

   The text says: 

His name:
...
Jeu

His Character is this:

One of the Book of Jeu diagrams looks like the schematic plan of a beveled, flat piece of solid material, sliding into a hollow track. It may represent the door of Christ's tomb as it was luted [Latin lutum mud] into a groove with a substance for sealing joints. The vertical lines at the bottom may indicate the position of a loculus seal.

The door was a flat, even-surfaced lid with sloping edges, which opened and closed by sliding in and out of a groove at the entrance of the sepulcher. According to the Book of Jeu text, three watchers were assigned as guards over the object depicted in the diagram, with various ranks below them. Following the example of the cherubim of God's throne, it apparently took 12 men to move or slide the object, with "six heads on this side and six on that, turned towards each other." 

The text says: I will take for myself twelve out of those ranks and place them so that they serve me.

"Did the tomb of Jesus have a circular stone that blocked its entrance, as is so often imagined? The odds are against it. Professor Amos Kloner of Israel's Bar-Ilan University thinks that the Greek word kulio used in Mark, Matthew and Luke and usually translated as “rolled,” can be also translated simply as “moved,” [in fact, kulio actually means "slid" in Greek] bringing it in line with John’s Gospel that says the stone was taken away." -  http://www.innerexplorations.com/ 
Kloner’s suggestion that the blocking stone was rectangular has received support from other scholars such as Biddle, Gibson, and Taylor.
  

Entering the rectangular Place of Jesus (Treasury of Light) from the unsealed door, one encounters a low entranceway supported by a structure of flat steps leading down to a standing pit lined with burial benches "from one side after another of each treasury." The entrance passages of elaborate Jewish tomb complexes of the second temple period were probably designed with certain dead-ends as a puzzle for tomb raiders. The hidden passageway to the inner sarcophagus or burial chamber may be the small hint of a line concealed within the red highlighted area.

The text says: 

It radiated within him through this small idea (thought) ' which came forth from the treasuries of my Father.

In some books, the seals from the tomb of Christ are found on a well which represents the bottomless pit, for the harrowing of hell or the last judgment. They are no longer in Jerusalem, but somewhere to the west ("the way of the sun setting"),  mysteriously transplanted to a place or island beyond "the ocean that beareth the foundation of the heaven." (i.e. the keys of the kingdom shall be given to another nation). The seals are attached to the water shaft of abyssos, symbolic of the unconscious mind. The Seal of God is connected with the initiation of baptism or holy water from a sacred well.

Until the 1960s, a well was the main water supply for the Monastery of St. John the Theologian, on Patmos.

Drawings in the Books of Jeu exhibit two basic forms: (1) The rectangular Place of Jesus (in the red highlighted area) is also called the Treasury of Light, a familiar denotation for the tomb of Christ. The projection of divine light corresponds to his rising from the dead. According to tradition, a spark from the Holy Sepulchre lights the flame of the Orthodox Easter ceremony of worship.

(2) The circular diagram (blue highlighted area) is identified in the text with "springing up," as from a well or fountain. The round well basin is divided into sectors, like the designs sometimes found on Passover seder plates (kaarah or tryblion). The small dots in the circle correspond to the six points of a double-triangle, known in Hebrew as the star or shield of David (Magen David). The medieval Sigil of Ameth (Sigillum Dei Aemeth) was a circular symbol with six-pointed figures and the names of God and various angels inscribed thereon. Alchemists of Elizabethan England called it the "Seal of God's Truth."

The text says:

For this reason he gave voice when the power welled up within him.

Like the common skeleton key, well seals and their spanner wrenches are still in use and have changed little since Roman times. Internal loculi spaces beneath the seals are keyholes for shutoff valves and outlets. The oldest known lock is estimated to be 4,000 years old. It was a forerunner to a pin tumbler type of lock. On the islands of Patmos and Mykonos, subterranean wells were the main sources of drinking water until the 1960s. 

The seals from Christ's tomb being moved to a well shaft may seem odd at first. But in Jewish tombs, hollow cavities were like stone tubes. Sealing the door of the tomb was like capping water well pipes. Christ's stay in the tomb was symbolic of the descent to hell,  manifest in the last days as going through an ancient well named abyssos. 

"And he smote his teeth together, gnashing them, and there came up out of the bottomless pit a wheel having a sword flashing with fire, and in the sword were pipes. And I (he) asked him saying; What is this sword? And he said: This sword is the sword of the gluttonous: for into this pipe are sent they that through their gluttony devise all manner of sin; into the second pipe are sent the backbiters which backbite their neighbour secretly; into the third pipe are sent the hypocrites and the rest whom I overthrow by my contrivance. (Lat. And Antichrist said: I will tell thee. And a wheel came up out of the abyss, having seven fiery knives. The first knife hath twelve pipes (canales)... Antichrist answered: The pipe of fire in the first knife, in it are put the casters of lots and diviners and enchanters, and they that believe in them or have sought them, because in the iniquity of their heart they have invented false divinations. In the second pipe of fire are first the blasphemers... suicides... idolators... In the rest are first perjurers... (long enumeration)."
Nuclear reactors require pipes of many different sizes made of many different kinds of materials; pipelines buried in the ground, a vast network, a maze of pipes.

Notice that the seal set over the bottomless pit (Rev. 20:3) was placed there by an angel of God, and should not be confused with the mark of the beast. Infamous signs of iniquity, wickedness, and gross injustice are the Skull and Crossbones and the Nazi Swastika. The death's head symbol was displayed as the poison warning of "Jolly Roger" on the flags of pirate fleets. It was probably originally known to crusaders as Bloody John or Mato-Gianni, representing the severed head (baphomet) of John the Baptist, after some of the Templars (Knights of St. John) abandoned sanctimony and took to piracy. In the 20th century, a death's head became the official hat insignia (mark of beast on the forehead) of the Nazi SS. Traces of the baphomet sign are found in death's head signet rings (mark of beast on the hand) and pugnacious arm bands or tattoos. As a modern benchmark of who can "buy and sell" global power, it is also reflected in the name of Yale's Skull and Bones fraternal crypt society. Shocking videos from the Middle East showing masked men beheading their hostages have invoked public concern. Skull and Bones allegedly keeps a gruesome skull collection, including the head of the Apache Indian chief Geronimo.

In early sources and in some later ones, the Holy Grail is something very different from the cup of the Last Supper. The term "grail" comes from the Latin gradale, which meant a dish. The corresponding Greek diskopothro (diskopotiro) is a disc-vessel. Another name for the Holy Grail is the Sacred Tryblion or Ieron Trublion (as in the Latin tribulum "threshing sledge," from terere "to rub, turn or throw"). The common household or "megista" tryblion was a flat disc-shaped receptacle with a small, concave bowl or "well" in its middle, curved like the interior of a sphere, often used by doctors to measure out small quantities ("spoonfuls") for prescriptions. 

The "sacred" tryblion was probably a smaller stone or cast-iron mortar plate in which minuscule quantities of ingredients were pounded with a pestle and measured out as "ink-well" units similar to our modern table spoons (or jigger shots of about an ounce). A tiny slender rod, fixed like a line through the concave middle, was probably used as a visual aid to roughly divide quantities, and as a "scraper tool" to rub off small particles of caked powder from the bottom of the pestle (or brush, if used as a cosmetic palette). Archaeological evidence suggests that too much rubbing against a scraper tool would cut pronounced grooves on either side of the pestle shank. Concentric rings were sometimes engraved on tryblion discs to allow them to be stacked up without sliding off. If placed on a potter's wheel, a tryblion would have been a small grindstone, or revolving disc for grinding scanty quantities. A similar phonetic sound, tribh (trivi) means rub or grind. The bowl of Hygeia, or kylix, is a modern emblem for pharmacy. The practice of compounding with metal mortars and pestles is no longer used by doctors.

If placed with a spindle on the mouth of a well, a metal tryblion would have been a serviceable loculus seal,  ready to handle with its slender rod, because it was also a common weight and measure used at ancient water springs to determine small fluid volumes. The tryblion was a multifarious utensil having a variety of uses, including the serving of food. The verse, "He that dippeth his hand with me in the [grail] dish, the same shall betray me," (Matt 28:23) directs our attention to a household or "megista" tryblion. In his Weights and Measures, Epiphanius of Salamis (c.315-403) lists the tryblion among the weights, measures, and numbers in the divine Scriptures: "The tryblion is a saucer in form, that is, a dish, but it has the capacity of half a xestes. The Alexandrian xestes holds 2 librae of oil by weight." 

The tryblion also functioned as a weight representing six drachmas. Epiphanius wrote that the chus was 8 xestai, but the one called "sacred" was 6 xestai. Likewise, the great hin was 18 xestai, but the "sacred" hin was 9 xestai. The "Sacred Tryblion" (or Holy Grail) was therefore probably smaller than the standard "megista" tryblion disc (about half its size), "not in simple fashion or by chance, but from great exactness," to allow more accuracy in measurement. "For the sacred measure is nothing else than the twenty-two works that God did in the six days of the hebdomad." The ancient symbol or number used to indicate a tryblion was the capital letter Tau T with a coiled serif base, and a small Upsilon U  next to it (), resembling the Latin word "Ju." Today the tryblion base symbol is a special character code (Unicode) used by computers for the digital processing of text data. 

Chrιtien, for example, speaks of "un graal," or platter. During the Middle Ages, a kaarah disc with multiple wells (or several inner bowls) was often used in Kabbalah procedures dealing with alchemy. It was probably the forerunner of our modern Petri dish or microplate, used by biologists to culture cells. Through a remarkable concurrence of events, petri dish actually means "stone plate." Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival presents the grail as a mystic stone plate. Here, the similarities between the Seal of God and the Holy Grail are more apparent.

A rather unusual pastime we have inherited from ancient days is discus throwing. It's a part of the original Olympic Games that has a "feel" for velocity and aerodynamics. Athletes execute a full rotation of the body, using centrifugal force to help launch the discus. The competitor who throws the discus the farthest is the winner. In the 5th century BC the sculptor Myron produced the famous statue of a discus thrower (Discobolus). The discuses excavated at various ancient sites are made of metal, usually cast bronze, or stone and weigh between four and nine pounds. The ancient game may have originated from weights or measures in the Bronze Age that were flattened stone or metal cylinders, inscribed with a formula or a symbol denoting their weight, like the Sacred Tryblion.

Perhaps throwing a kaarah disc into the sky commemorated God's "passing over" the houses of the Israelites during their Exodus from Egypt. The primary symbol of Passover is the mat-zah (or matzo-ball sphere), an unleavened "pitta bread" usually in the shape of a flattened tryblion disc, as the food that endures for eternal life. To add to the cheerful "feel" for games and riddles of long ago, please recall that a tryblion measured out small quantities similar to "spoonfuls." Because our subconscious insight of the Archangel Uriel opening God's seal with his mind also abruptly breaks the world's most celebrated spoon for us. Indeed, the Sacred Tryblion seems to be the ancient mother of spoonfuls, and to "break the plaque" (spazw plaka) is a colloquialism from an early date meaning to have fun. Moses threw and broke the slates inscribed with the Ten Commandments while surrounded by an umbrage of wild merrymaking.

Plumbers also kept busy maintaining the public baths in Rome. One of their duties was to carve the elaborate water spouts from which the water flowed into the pools.

During the Middle Ages, interest in sanitation declined. Only castles, monasteries, and houses of the wealthy had any system for sewage and drainage. In these places plumbers were called upon to fashion ornate washbowls and tubs, and to make elaborate water spouts of fish or imp like creatures. These early plumbers established drainage systems so that waste water ran through pipes into the moats surrounding the buildings. 

People made pipe of clay thousands of years ago to carry water. The Romans used lead pipe to connect their public fountains to aqueducts. American pioneers made water systems from logs with holes bored through their centers. Later, they made pipes from hoops and wooden staves in much the same way barrels are made.

In Roman times, water was carried to houses through lead pipes. The Latin word for lead is plumbum, and from this comes our word plumbing.

UNKNOWN LOCATION?

Abyssos (bottomless, abyss, pit): "There was a temple of Kore or Persephone, which guarded much gold from all ages and kept it sacred. In this temple there was a certain pit of gold, unseen by the many because hidden under ground."  -Suidas

Suidas was a Byzantine lexicographer who in the 10th century AD wrote that he had reason to believe the ancient myth of Abyssos was based on an actual place. The name Suidas may in fact stem from an error made by Eustathius, who mistook the title of the lexicon Suda, meaning fortress or stronghold, for the proper name of the author. According to the lexicon, the abyssos was not just an idiom for the bottom of the sea, but  a certain pit of gold hidden underground in an unknown location where "much gold from all ages" was guarded by the followers of Kore or Persephone.

Today, historians know exactly where the most important treasury of the ancient Greek world was located. It was on the small rocky islet of Delos, almost touching the western tip of Mykonos. First called Ortygia (Quail Island), the islet rose from the sea according to myths and later received its new name Delos, which means revealed or brought to light. It is part of a small group of Aegean islands that took the name Cyclades, from the Greek "cyclos" (circle) because the islands form a circle around Delos, observed as the jewel in the crown of the archipelago. 

Delos was regarded as the birthplace of Apollo, the god of light, and his twin sister Artemis, and provided with the most magnificent Panhellenic sanctuaries. It became the most important commercial and maritime center in the Mediterranean. Amazing temples and statues graced Delos, also called the “Sacred Island.” Among its wonders were the Minoan Fountain, a public well hewn in the rock and identified by a relief bearing a dedication to "Minoan Nymphs." Delos also had a marble theatre that could accommodate over 5,000 spectators, and many other imposing structures, including the House of Cleopatra and Dioscourides. At the end of the 7th century BC a great terrace of marble lions was set up on Delos. 

The Ionians managed to develop the island into a powerful commercial and spiritual center (7th century BC). The Delian League was inaugurated in 477 BC as an alliance against Persia. At its founding, the treasury was located on Delos, the ancient equivalent of Fort Knox with "much gold from all ages." During the 5th century BC, the Athenians organized what they called a purification law for the island, forbidding the burials of the dead on it. 

In 1912 archeologists discovered the ruins of a Jewish synagogue on Delos thought to date from the first century BC. Found in the ruins was a stone chair (mentioned in Matt 23:2). This seat, sometimes referred to as the Seat of Moses, was probably used by the leader of the synagogue. With this institution, the lion of Delos also acquired a biblical meaning: "The Lion of the tribe of Judah" (Rev 5:5). It represented the union of two religious trends: the Indo-European Zeus-Dias and the Semitic Jeu-Daea, converging into a subconscious archetype. The seder plate of David would soon become the tryblion seal of a Hellenic abyss.

The transplanted tombs of Rhenia, where the gravesites from Delos were moved, must have kindled deep emotions for the Underworld, giving way to new local respects for Persephone and Hades (the "unseen") based on the Eleusian Mysteries, while evoking a recognition of Shoel ("abode of the dead") from the Jewish community of Delos. The so-called Tanit, or goddess symbol found in the ruins of Delos was perhaps another perception of Persephone (Kore), the maiden daughter abducted by Hades. The classical Perse (or Preswa) was the daughter of Oceanus, inspiring remembrances of Persephone, unable to escape the ocean-depth character of a bottomless void. 

Near the harbour of Mykonos is a prehistoric cave with a sunken spring (freshwater fountain) over an ancient well that - based on old traditions - can restore health. This artesian well-cave is now the basement exhibit of the Folklore Museum of Mykonos, which was founded directly above it on May 1958. The cave had apparently been forgotten for over a century and was rediscovered when construction of the museum began. Perhaps the fountain grotto was known some 10,000 years ago, according to archaeological discoveries, by the seafarers who began to explore the Aegean. It's now called the "Well of Mermelechas," named after Manolis Mermelechas, an early 19th century Mediterranean pirate with an uncertain past. According to poet Giannis Ritsos,  Mermelechas was a formidable Turkish corsair who turned against the Ottoman navy and fought for Greece during the war of independence. 

By the mid 1970s, the antiquated well canales of Mykonos were finally "unsealed" for renovations.

Until 1956, Chora, the main town of Mykonos, was getting most of its drinking water from three local wells, called Tria Pigadia. Legend has it that should a maiden drink from all three wells she is bound to find a husband. The romanticized Sibylline Oracles once whispered of a spiritual path to immortality with "three fountains, of wine and honey and milk." The natives of Patmos and other nearby islands also relied heavily on village wellsprings for their drinking water. The Monastery of St. John the Theologian did not begin using public water-supply utilities or modern water-rate meters until the 1960s. An aqueduct tunnel on the isle of Samos, one of the most significant technical achievements of the ancient world, was not fully uncovered until 1973.

The atomic theories of Democritus, the geometries of Pythagoras, and the heliocentric hypothesis of Copernicus brilliantly joined up with the travels of St. Paul and the Ju seals of Valentinus.

The main church of the Mykonos castle is from the 15th century (construction begun in 1475) and its Italian name, Paraportiani (Postern Gate), means small inner door (or beyond the small door), perhaps because it was next to the gate of the medieval castle, which was completely destroyed by invading pirates in the mid 1500s. The assault was a lead up to the Council of Trent (1545), and the decision to reject classical art as a detested thing.

Early churches were often constructed over the ruins of pre-Christian temples. Perhaps this was also the site of an ancient mystery school of Kore or Persephone, symbolized by the so-called Tanit sign, with "a certain pit of gold" hidden under ground. The ill or injured (those near death) from Delos were probably brought to the curative spring of Mykonos situated in a grotto beneath the shore, which served as a sick-quarters, enforced by the Delian purification laws. 

Asclepius represented the healing aspect of the medical arts. A famous "asclepieion" (hospice) was on the nearby island of Cos, where Hippocrates, the legendary doctor, may have begun his career. During antiquity the neighboring island of Tinos was called Ophiousa because of its many snakes as well as Ydrousa because of its plentiful water. According to local myths, Poseidon was the island's protector who sent a flock of storks to rid it of the snakes. A temple was then dedicated there to him as the great doctor. The name, "serpent-bearer," refers to the Rod of Asclepius, which was entwined with a single serpent, and became a universal symbol for physicians. In the Bible (Numbers 21:8-9), the brazen likeness of a healing serpent was lifted with a rod upon the desert by Moses (as the serpent was lifted up on the pole, so was Christ lifted up on the cross.  - John 3:14-16). In honor of Asclepius, snakes were often used in healing rituals. Non-poisonous snakes were left to crawl on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept. Our unfathomable well may have been an asclepieion for diagnosis and treatment before it became known as a snake-pit of suffering. Pilgrims able to travel past Delos could sail beyond the Furnace Islands, across the Icarian Sea to Therma, the ancient city of thermal baths with therapeutic sulphur (brimstone) and radioactive mineral springs. But those pilgrims already certain of death would receive religious counseling, cast their personal treasures (Pluto, a word for riches) into the Mykonos "prayer well" as final offerings of gold to their deities, and prepare for the end of life. The bodies of the deceased were sent to the necropolis for burial, on the island of Rhenia. 

A sunken prayer fountain was famously rumored to be the pit of gold called "abyssos," reported by the Byzantine lexicographer Suidas in the 10th century. His most likely source was Hesychius of Miletus, who flourished about 540 AD. Our formidable well-cave may have been an ancient clearing-house for the emergency treatment of secondary shock and sepsis: the trauma of physical injury and infectious disease. Psychological distress after trauma was reported in 1900 BC by an Egyptian physician who described hysterical reactions to trauma. Today it is seen as a chemical imbalance of neurotransmitters, according to modern stress theory. Its symptoms include recurring nightmares or daytime flashbacks, with feelings of endless loops or deja vu, while re-experiencing the traumatic hallucinations of a damaged psyche. Secondary shock is the worst aspect of what we call fear or phobia and sometimes requires the need of blood transfusions. 

Hemorrhagic shock can cause respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, and death. It can be brought on by rapid blood loss, organ failure, or rapid fluid loss. The experience of clinical death (near-death experience or NDE) is common and frequently includes an out-of-body experience. In 1992, approximately eight million Americans claimed to have had a near-death experience. The reversal of clinical death is sometimes possible through resuscitation and other treatments. The fabled cause of sudden fear, inspiring panic and pandemonium, was the satyr Pan, a forerunner of the devil, born with the horns of a goat. 

Pan, from Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652-54).

What would happen in ancient Delos if someone felt the sudden need to die in the middle of the night? By the time you step into the taxi-boat that takes you with a lantern to the grotto of abyssos, you already know the ferryman's nickname. The old man with a long beard and a hooded cloak is called Charos, (fierce brightness) and as the proverb says: "Don't pay him until he takes you to the other side." If you can't afford the passage you're doomed to wander. Because he knows that the river to the wellspring you seek is the very mouth of Hades, a place of grief and pain, where the ghost is given up. (The prophet Elijah or John the Baptist conveys souls across the fiery Dinar River to Amente, according to some Jewish and Christian traditions.)

As you enter the dim cave on the other shore and cross its bars of iron, you lose your identity among the groans of men in agony, the tears of women and children, and the hissing of snakes. They echo the sufferings of a dying spirit. On the ground are pomegranate seeds, which sprang from drops of the blood of the vine. A tarnished brass doorway shuts forcefully behind you, trembling with the sounds of an engine door. A curtain of vapor unfolds its misty fluorescent veil. To the sides of the pit are the keepers of the demented and aged, compounding medicines and steering dying dreams. On another side are nested stork's eggs, incubating swans, and the ranks of the midwives, assisting at childbirth. A company of shadows blocks your way; weary minds leaving, newborn souls arriving. 

Yet, what confuses you most in this feverish realm of trauma and out-of-body experiences is how your wishing well is a jackpot of solid gold. A dazzling funnel of brilliance reflects from the pit of gold to the upper ceiling of the cave. You feel joined to an umbilicus of consciousness, like a silver cord of light. To disturb it would bring on yourself the wrath of the asclepieion and its spirits of the underworld.

The aura of a human face lingers within the narrow way, comely, like a garment of light in the dark tunnel. Is it the joy of your defender or the displeasure of your accuser? Convicted souls full of resentment, as well as those wrongly-blamed, endure hardship in this place. Sons of perdition and the angels of death also await their judgment here. 
"There is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust." - (John 5:45)
 

When the Delian purification law became known in the East, through the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and the distant lands of the Silk Road, a new legend finally spread after 500 BC. It matched with that of the Fortunate Isles "beyond the west," the Dhamma as an island of the blessed, where no one is ever born, and no one ever dies. Was it not the quest of every soul, to find the pure land of a birthless and deathless state? The destruction of defilements was likened to a sacred island called nirvana. But to reach Maitreya's nibbana, a "Stream Winner" must cross the path of an unfathomable abyss, the realm of the dead, a prison for spirits. 

While the "island of the blessed" was a picture of Elysian fields or a heavenly garden, the asclepieion "pit of gold" sank into a river of hades for the soul's passage to the underworld. No doubt, the inhabitants of Delos lived mostly without malady and probably believed they were spiritually close to paradise. In fact, the very word "paradeisos" did not enter the Greek language until the glory days of Delos, when a historian named Xenophon used the Persian term pairidaeza to describe a walled garden. The residents of Delos enjoyed the most intense period, the Golden Age of Hellenism. The liberties and privileges provided for them were extraordinary. 

Pangea ("all earth") is a name given to the supercontinent that is believed to have existed 200 million years ago. The process of plate tectonics separated each of the component continents into their current arrangement. The continental drift theory was proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1920. But Pangea was not the first supercontinent believed to have existed. Another (Rodinia) is believed to have divided as long as 750 million years ago. In the Old Testament, four rivers of Eden once cut through the primordial supercontinent:

"And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah (Arabia), where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia (Africa). And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria (north of Babylonia). And the fourth river is Euphrates." - Genesis 2:10-14. 

“But my God, they’re in a torrent of fire!” Paul cried out, ready to throw down the field glasses. “How could you?” He looked intently into the tall man’s face.  

A jeweled chariot drew humanity to remote sections of the heavens, silently gliding near the vicinity of a black hole’s singularity. Passing vast stores of water in the firmaments, it crossed the starry threshold of ringed systems, and navigated towards new levels of civilization. A purpose of the venture was to make known the truth concerning diverse “maltreatments” allegedly committed in stations of ABYSSOS, that dimension of space where offshoots of life had withdrawn in strangely overlooked colonies from long ago.

The possibility of torture was the only thing on Paul’s mind before drifting into a deep sleep trance of floating imagery. Were the disturbing visions real or illusions of subconscious fantasies? Back home, Paul was once accused of making bold statements that his critics interpreted as endorsements of the “cruel conditions” reported in ABYSSOS. Now he was going to see what the situation there was really like, with his own eyes.

The seal also symbolizes a galaxy with a high degree of precision, to scale. And it offers a fresh picture of the Unified Field, or the nuclear structure of space-time in all orders of magnitude, from particles within living cells to systems of planets and stars. The seal is a map of empirical reality or the kingdom of God; an accurate representation of space, describing the structure of the indivisible, and the totality of what exists.

This custom of sealing pipes with emblematic plates or tryblion plaques was handed down to posterity by a group of Aegean monks and temple builders who were the custodians of well shafts in the Holy Land. When the Near East came under Muslim control, Mohammed became known as the Seal of the Prophets.  In an incidental way, modern astronomers are not yet able to explain how ancient Egyptians were able to draw pictures of  the rings of Saturn before the invention of the telescope.