THE
SHINING ONES
by
Christian and Barbara Joy O'Brien
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The
Shining Ones brings together a lifetime of research and scholarship
in presenting evidence of the activities of a group of culturally
and technically advanced people, who dominated human progress
for several thousand years.
Establishing
agriculture in a mountain valley in the Near East around 8,500
BC, these sages founded the Garden of Eden, and set the stage
for the diffusion of the Indo-European peoples throughout the
world. They were deified and are still remembered as gods.
We can follow
their story within the recently translated Sumerian Kharsag
Epics and the deliberately concealed Chronicles of Enoch, with
added support from an alternative translation of the later compilation
of the Book of Genesis. This book follows their footsteps and
influence throughout the world.
We now realise
that they surveyed and mapped the stars and the earth with great
precision. Their brilliant mixed and balanced farming and wildlife
management methods still survive in some areas today. Their
megalithic and sophisticated building skills still astonish
and puzzle experts. Their arts, crafts and sciences, preserved
in areas such as China, excel modern equivalents in many ways.
Their administrative
excellence, through kingship and self-contained city states,
provides many surprising solutions for today's troubled world.
Their common laws, customs and practical philosophies, corrupted,
if not destroyed, by priests and politicians, still offer hope
for all of us, to crate a better world.
Their ordered
and efficient role-societies survived for thousands of years,
but were unable to cope with the often predicted episodic catastrophes,
inflicted by cosmic radiation, cometary debris and volcanic
activity, which brought in their wake fire, flood, drought or
climate change.
In their
previous book The Genius of the Few
the authors promised to address the question - From where did
these Shining Ones come? They have therefore woven into the
text a wealth of additional evidence from the ancient records,
to support the popular concept of a spiritual dimension and
a spiritual influence.
As an outstanding
exploration geologist, Christian O'Brien presents his thesis
and survey of the ocean floor to support the former existence
of the Island of Atlantis in the region
of the Azores.
This book,
along with other past scholarship on the activities and technology
of our ancestor gods, provides the links to establish their
full story. Ancient myths are now shown to be realities. The
re-discovery of a Golden Age is within reach.
Edmund
Marriage - The Golden Age Project
Quotations
on the back cover
Once
upon a time the Gods divided up the Earth between them - mot
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. The various Gods,
then, administered the various regions which had been allotted
to them. But Hephaestos and Athene, who shared as brother and
sister a common character, and pursued the same ends in their
love of knowledge and skill, were allotted this land of ours
as their joint sphere and as a suitable and natural home for
excellence and wisdom. They produced a native race of good men
and gave them suitable political arrangements. Their names have
been preserved but what they did has been forgotten because
of the destruction of their successors and the long lapse of
time. For as we said before, the survivors of this destruction
were an unlettered mountain race who had just heard the names
of the rulers of the land but knew little of their achievements.
They were glad enough to give their names to their own children,
but they knew nothing of the virtues and institutions of their
predecessors, except for a few hazy reports; for many generations
they and their children were short of bare necessities, and
their minds and thoughts were occupied with providing for them,
to the neglect of their earlier history and tradition. 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
The Ancient
Masters were subtle,
mysterious, profound, responsive.
The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable.
Because it is unfathomable,
all we do is so describe their appearance.
Watchful, like men crossing a winter stream.
Alert, like men aware of danger.
Courteous, like visiting guests.
Yielding like ice about to melt.
Simple, like uncarved blocks of wood.
From Lao
Tzu's Tao Te Ching (Chapter 15) c. 540 BC.
