In November 1982, Professor Charles Hapgood wrote to a young correspondent, Rand Flem-Ath, adding an amazing postscript to his life’s work on ancient civilizations: “There is evidence that the last displacement of the crust moved both American continents southward about 30 degrees, and absolutely devastated life and civilization on them…. “Furthermore, in recent exciting discoveries I believe I have convincing evidence of a whole cycle of civilization in America and Antarctica, suggesting advanced levels of science that may go back 100,000 years….” Hapgood was, admittedly, a maverick, but he would not have placed his whole reputation in jeopardy with some crank theory. He evidently felt that he had found evidence of science dating back 100,000 years, at a time when, according to paleontology, the most advanced human being on earth was Neanderthal man. Rand Flem-Ath replied immediately, asking for some hint of Hapgood’s reasons for this amazing assertion. For weeks there was no reply, then his letter was returned, stamped “deceased.” Hapgood’s last letter led Flem-Ath to his own quest for the origin of science and civilization, of which this book tells the story…. Also by Rand Flem-Ath WHEN THE SKY FELL: IN SEARCH OF ATLANTIS (with Rose Flem-Ath) Also by Colin Wilson MYSTERIES: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE OCCULT, THE PARANORMAL AND THE SUPERNATURAL STARSEEKERS UNSOLVED MYSTERIES PAST AND PRESENT (with Damon Wilson) FROM ATLANTIS TO THE SPHINX: RECOVERING THE LOST WISDOM OF THE ANCIENT WORLD THE ATLAS OF HOLY PLACES AND SACRED Sites ALIEN DAWN For Rose, for ever… Rand Flem-Ath For my wife, Joy Colin Wilson Contents Analytical Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface 1 H S Q A APGOOD S ECRET UEST FOR TLANTIS 2 T B HE LUEPRINT 3 T G P M HE IZA RIME ERIDIAN 4 T H C HOTH'S OLY HAMBER 5 6,000 D C EGREES ELSIUS 6 A V NCIENT OYAGERS 7 F A ALLEN NGELS 8 G S S OLDEN ECTION ITES 9 W T F HAT THE EMPLARS OUND 10 T L HE EGACY Appendix 1 B A LUEPRINTS FROM TLANTIS Appendix 2 L R F A C H H O ETTER TO AND LEM- TH FROM HARLES . APGOOD, 16 CTOBER 1982 Appendix 3 S S L H B P ACRED ITES INKED TO THE UDSON AY OLE Appendix 4 S S L Y P ACRED ITES INKED TO THE UKON OLE Appendix 5 T L S RACING OST ITES Appendix 6 S T W S H I C D W W PENDING IME AND ASTING PACE: OW CE ORE ATING ENT RONG Appendix 7 T M M D HE ECHANICS OF ANTLE ISPLACEMENT Notes Bibliography Analytical Table of Contents Preface Coins in a fountain – earth dragons – Feng shui – geomancy – cording the temple – from priest-craft to science – the blueprint – Rand and Colin’s collaboration. Chapter 1: Hapgood’s Secret Quest for Atlantis Hapgood’s death – his work – Mu and Plato’s Atlantis – earth crust displacement – collaboration with Albert Einstein – Einstein’s death – Professor Ma – Captain Arlington Mallery – Piri Reis – Hapgood approaches President Kennedy – Hapgood writes to Rand – a civilisation 100,000 years old? Chapter 2: The Blueprint Rand writes a screenplay – Donovan’s ‘Hail Atlantis’ – Athanasius Kircher’s map of Atlantis – ice-free Antarctica – Plato’s ‘true ocean’ and oceanographers’ ‘world ocean’ – the Hudson Bay Pole – Rand and Rose begin correspondence with Hapgood – William Fairfield Warren – Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Atlantis at Last! – Thomas Kuhn – John Anthony West and the Sphinx – the golden section – When the Sky Fell – other books – misaligned Mesoamerican and Middle East sacred sites – linkage by latitude to the Hudson Bay Pole. Chapter 3: Giza Prime Meridian 1884 Washington DC conference on the prime meridian – Charles Piazzi Smyth opts for Giza – conference settles on Greenwich – Tiahuanaco 100 degrees west of Giza – 10 phi sacred sites – Lubaantum and the crystal skull – Portuguese bandeiristas in the Amazon – Percy Fawcett’s Amazon quest for Atlantean cities – Easter Island, Teotihuacan, Tula, Copan, Quirgua, Lubaantum and Quito on the Giza prime meridian – locating Fawcett’s Atlantean cities using the blueprint – Canterbury Cathedral on a sacred site. Chapter 4: Thoth’s Holy Chamber Herodotus and the Great Pyramid – Al-Mamum’s break and entry – Christopher Dunn and the pyramid – a magical spell cast upon Thoth’s Holy Chamber – The Secrets of Alkazar – misdirection – David Furlong and phi at Giza – a Fibonacci spiral running through the tips of the pyramids – red granite in front of the Sphinx – 28 degrees at Giza – breaking the spell that hides Thoth’s Holy Chamber. Chapter 5: 6,000 Degrees Celsius Nine skeletons in the Libyan Desert – the mystery of tektites – bore holes and high temperatures – Lord Rennell contacts Hapgood – 6,000 degrees Celsius – powdered metallurgy – Shawn Montgomery introduces Rand to Brown’s Gas – alchemy and glass – Jules Verne’s prediction – Yull Brown escapes the Iron Curtain – Shawn interviews Brown – gold mining in the Americas – portable forges – Dr Oswaldo Rivera and the age of Tiahuanaco. Chapter 6: Ancient Voyagers Stone balls of Costa Rica – ley lines – ancient Japanese pottery in America – David Kelley and the Mayan calendar – trans-Pacific voyagers – James Bailey and ancient mining operations – Chatelain and the amazing Ninevah number – Jane Sellers on Egyptian precession – John Lash on the Dendera zodiac – Homo erectus crosses the sea – when did civilisation begin? Chapter 7: Fallen Angels Enoch is abducted – James Bruce seeks the source of the Nile – the Ark of the Covenant – the Book of Enoch – Watchers – Angels with measuring cords – the O’Briens write The Genius of the Few – ancient geological survey – the Shining Ones – the Kharsag Saga – Uriel’s machine as a seismic device – From the Ashes of Angels – Seven Sages – Baalbek at 7N during Yukon Pole. Chapter 8: Golden Section Sites Rennes-le-Chateâu – Lincoln’s Key to the Sacred Pattern – Berenger Saunière’s fabulous wealth – the Knights Templar excavate King Solomon’s Temple – Gothic architecture – King Philip destroys the Order – Lincoln’s quests – Priory of Sion – the pentagram – Cornford and Poussin’s painting – German miners near Rennes-le-Chateâu in 1156 – the orbit of Venus – Nanking and Rennes at a golden section division – The mummies of Urumchi – Bruce Cathie locates the Chinese pyramids – Geneset – aligned churches on Bornholm – the underwater ‘pyramid’ at Yonaguni – Berriman’s ancient measures. Chapter 9: What the Templars Found Rosslyn Chapel and the Hiram Key – Critchlow’s Time Stands Still – origins of Freemasonry – Tintagel, Glastonbury, Stonehenge, Avebury and ancient latitudes – Korean pyramids at Pyongyang – the Yukon Pole – Jacques De Molay – Jesus in France? – Carthage at 30N during the Hudson Bay Pole – the golden wand and Cuzco – Viracocha involved in measurements – links between Cuzco and Quito – links between Baalbek and Ollantaytambu – Rosslyn as a 50/50 sacred site – Templars in America? Chapter 10: The Legacy Bill Denevan over the jungles of Bolivia – Thor Heyerdahl and the Canary Island pyramids – tomb robbers of the Sipan pyramid – the cocaine mummies – Robert Temple and the Hadji Ahmad map – the Yukon Pole – the X event – anatomically modern humans in South Africa – ocean currents of 100,000 years ago – the Atlantis Channel – Uriel’s machine in the south – satellite over Antarctica – the location of the city of Atlantis. Appendix 1: Blueprints from Atlantis A fax from John Anthony West – 10,500 versus 9,600 BC– friendly debate with Bauval – Dr Anthony Aveni and the misaligned Mesoamerican sites – sacred sites linked to former poles – geological markers and time capsules. Appendix 2: Letter to Rand Flem-Ath from Charles Hapgood, 16 October 1982 Role of earth crust displacement in evolution – catastrophe myths – origins of agriculture article – elevation not a safe bet – 100,000-year-old civilisations – a new edition of Earth’s Shifting Crust – timescale for displacements – regions of maximum displacement. Appendix 3: Sacred Sites Linked to the Hudson Bay Pole (60N 83W) The half a degree (30 nautical miles) margin of error – sacred sites by latitude – sacred sites by distance to the Hudson Bay Pole. Appendix 4: Sacred Sites Linked to the Yukon Pole (63N 135W) Sacred sites by latitude – sacred sites by distance to the Yukon Pole. Appendix 5: Tracing Lost Sites Back-engineering the Atlantis Blueprint – Fawcett’s lost Atlantean city – Ojai in California – The Lost Horizon and Shangri-La – potential lost sacred sites in Mongolia, Saudi Arabia and the Sahara Desert. Appendix 6: Spending Time and Wasting Space: How Ice Core Dating Went Wrong A lottery at Disney World – conflicting ice core dates for the Lesser Antarctic ice sheet – Pythagoras and the antipodes – antipodal regions to Lesser Antarctica in Siberia, Alaska and Beringia – origins of ice age theory – Gould’s ‘Is uniformitar-ianism necessary?’ – a new tool called ‘the cross-polar point’ – thickest ice and former ice-free regions of Lesser Antarctica. Appendix 7: The Mechanics of Mantle Displacement Rotation of the inner core – the Hawaiian hot spot – astronomical factors in displacements – Donald Tim Seitz (Sr) and the earth-moon gravitational well – a terrestrial alternative – mantle displacements and earth’s tilt cycle – safe for another