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“Anyone who's ever significantly changed thecourse of humanity has either been a

crackpot, a heretic, or a dissident.In the case of Albert Einstein,

he was all three . . .”– Carl Sagan



I AM FASCINATED BY GÖBEKLI Tepe, thearchaeological site in south-eastern Turkey that showsincredible sophistication, to the point that there is no doubtin my mind that the builders were truly civilised, some12,000 years ago – that is, 6,000 years before civilisation issupposed to have arisen, according to conventional

historians. Indeed, just this past weekend I could not helpbut think about Göbekli Tepe, even as I attended the 25- year anniversary Broadway performance of Andrew LloydWebber’s musical, The Phantom of the Opera. (My wife,Catherine Ulissey, was a member of the original Broadwaycast.) Watching the elaborate staging for Phantom, Iwondered what sorts of preparations and performances

Located in modern Turkey, not far northof the border with Syria, a short drive

from the city of Urfa (alternativelyŞanlıurfa), atop a hill overlooking the

northern Harran Plain, sits Göbekli Tepe

The author at Göbekli Tepe Photo: R. Schoch & C. Ulissey © 2013



might have been carried out among the stone circles atGöbekli Tepe. Of course, this is assuming that theseancient structures were used as a backdrop for religious andsocial ritual practices and feasts, as many status quo archaeologists have assumed. Is Göbekli Tepe essentially a

huge temple complex, or is it something else, or more?What is Göbekli Tepe? But before we consider thesequestions, let me first introduce you to Göbekli Tepe.

Rings of Megaliths

Located in modern Turkey, not far north of the border

with Syria, a short drive from the city of Urfa (alternativelyŞanlıurfa), atop a hill overlooking the northern HarranPlain, sits Göbekli Tepe. Since 1995 Prof. Dr KlausSchmidt of the German Archaeological Institute has beenexcavating the site (Klaus Schmidt, Sie bauten die ersten Tempel:

Das rätselhafte Heiligtum der Steinzeitjäger. Die archäologische

Entdeckung am Göbekli Tepe, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag,

2006-2008).At Göbekli Tepe immense, finely-carved anddecorated T-shaped limestone pillars, many in the range of 2 to 5.5 metres tall and weighing up to an estimated 10 to15 tons, stand in Stonehenge-like circles. Major portions of four of the circles (also referred to as enclosures) have beenuncovered so far, and portions of many more are known

from either partial excavations or geophysical techniques.There may be 20 or more stone circles in all. The site isimmense and, unlike many European megaliths, which arerough-hewn, the workmanship at Göbekli Tepe is

extraordinary, with clear, sharp edges and smooth surfaces.Various pillars at Göbekli Tepe are decorated withbas-reliefs of animals, including foxes, boars, snakes,aurochs (wild cattle), Asiatic wild asses, wild sheep, birds(cranes, waterfowl, a vulture, and other bird forms), agazelle, and arthropods (scorpion, ants, and/or spiders).The carvings are refined, sophisticated and beautifully

The view from Göbekli Tepe, looking south Photo: R. Schoch & C. Ulissey © 2013



executed. Not only are there bas-reliefs, but also carvings inthe round, including a carnivorous beast, possibly a lion orother feline, working its way down a column, apparently inpursuit of a boar carved in relief below. Some of the pillarsare anthropomorphic, with arms, hands, belts, and

loincloths that appear to be made of fox pelts.All in all, carvings of apparent carnivores, boars,

humans and other figures – including a strange sculpturethat looks rather like a stone totem pole – have beenuncovered and are now housed in the Museum of Şanlıurfa, as is a life-sized statue of a man, which, though

from Urfa, apparently dates to the Göbekli Tepe era. Alsofrom Göbekli Tepe are perfectly drilled stone beads. And,according to Prof. Schmidt, while some of the stonepillars were set in the local bedrock, others were set into aconcrete- or terrazzo-like floor. Looking only at style and

the quality of workmanship, one might incorrectly suggestthat Göbekli Tepe dates between 3000 and 1000 BCE.Based on radiocarbon analyses, the site goes back to theperiod of 9000 to 10000 BCE and was intentionallyburied by circa 8000 BCE. That is, the site dates back anastounding 10,000 to 12,000 years ago!

Wild Animals and Phallocentrism

How do we interpret Göbekli Tepe? Or, to put it in otherterms, what exactly is it? Klaus Schmidt has identified itas a temple or, more accurately, as a large temple complex – a series of temples, shrines and ritual spaces. Thisinterpretation is based on the grandeur, size and

monumentality of the stonework, and the images, whichSchmidt considers to be religious symbols and emblems.Both the popular media and many mainstreamarchaeologists and historians have latched on to thisconcept of ‘the world’s oldest temple’. Reinforcing thisinterpretation is the argument that no permanentsettlements or habitation sites, such as houses, have been

The smooth surfaces and sharp edges of Göbekli Tepe Photo: R. Schoch & C. Ulissey © 2013



lions and other felines, and apparent foxes, as well assnakes, scorpions and carnivorous birds, such as vultures.Furthermore, some of these animals have prominent, andapparently erect, penises – such as certain animalsgenerally interpreted as foxes. On one pillar a headless

human is depicted with a prominent erection, and anithyphallic stone figure (30 centimetres tall) was found atGöbekli Tepe (Ayhan Verit, Cihat Kurkcuoglu, FatmaFerda Verit, Hasan Kafali and Ercan Yeni.‘Paleoandrologic Genital and Reproductive Depictions inEarliest Religious Architecture: Ninth to Tenth MillenniumBC’, Urology 65, pp. 208-210, 2005).

A naked woman lying on her back was crudelyincised on a stone slab that was either part of a bench orthe floor in one of the Göbekli Tepe structures (seeHodder and Maskell, 2011; Verit et al ., 2005). She hasthin arms and her breasts dangle on each side of herbody. Her misshapen legs are spread to either side,exposing her genital region. Something appears to be

either protruding from or inserted into her vagina. Somehave speculated that she represents a woman who has justgiven birth, and the umbilical cord is depicted protruding from her vagina. Others have suggested that intercourse isbeing depicted, but the male is represented only by apenis (and possibly the testes are crudely shown as well – it is difficult to interpret) entering the vagina of the

Göbekli Tepe sexual symbolism Photo: R. Schoch & C. Ulissey © 2013

A naked woman lying on her back wascrudely incised on a stone slab. Shehas thin arms and her breasts dangle

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JOSEPH STALIN’S LEGACY IS ONE of a dictator, notan initiate with a deep understanding of Russianmysticism. Closer inspection reveals that the self-proclaimed ‘Premier of the Soviet Union’ was familiarwith esoteric principles and maintained an occult-based

master plan for his rule and afterlife.On 12 September 1947, at 1pm, Stalin presided overthe laying of the corner stones for eight of the mostaustere skyscrapers the world has ever known. It isbelieved that the buildings were planned to commemoratethe 800th anniversary of Moscow, yet their locationappeared haphazard. However, Stalin took drastic

measures to ensure that they were anything but arbitrarilypositioned. In one instance Stalin diverted the flow of theMoscow River to create a marginally different vantagepoint for the skyscraper. In another, he razed a cherishedheritage district to the ground. In still another, he even

demolished the most sacred cathedral in Moscow, inorder to build the skyscraper he intended to be buried in.His behaviour was peculiar, especially given that therewere many vacant building plots in the vicinity of the siteshe had chosen. Those who questioned him would havebeen subjected to surveillance, purged of their position, oreven sentenced to death. The message was clear: Stalin’s

‘Occultism in late Imperial Russia (1890-1917) was not simply a passing fad; it had a profound and enduring impact on Russian and

Soviet thought and culture . . . The occult ideas that circulated in the early twentieth century in Russia contributed massively to the

politics of myth and cult that culminated in Stalinism.’(Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal)



positioning of the Moscow skyscrapers was top secret.From Luxor to London, cities have been designed in

accordance with the principles of sacred geometry.Some designs orientated avenues and buildings in linewith the summer or winter solstices. Washington DC

employed Masonic principles, while others built theirmonuments in the manner of ‘as above so below’. MightStalin have had a similar objective when he designed theMoscow skyscrapers?

Russia and the Occult

In her book, The Occult In Russia and The Soviet Union,historian, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, states:

Occultism in late Imperial Russia (1890-1917)was not simply a passing fad; it had a profoundand enduring impact on Russian and Sovietthought and culture . . . The occult ideas that

circulated in the early twentieth century in A view of two of Stalin’s Seven Sisters (far left back and middle right), as depicted on a mural inside Hotel Ukraina(also one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters) © Andrew Gough



Russia contributed massively to the politics of myth and cult that culminated in Stalinism.

So, what exactly were these ‘occult ideas’?

Russia has been fascinated by mysticism for centuries,including disciplines such as magic, divination, Jewishmysticism, geomancy, alchemy, dreams, sacred stones, andothers. The celebrated Tsar, Ivan the Terrible (1530 – 1584), consulted Finnish magicians, as had his father andgrandfather, and understood the esoteric significance of the gem stones in his staff. A few years later, in 1586, Tsar

Boris Godunov (1551 – 1605) attempted to recruit theservices of the English alchemist, John Dee, who hadsuccessfully advised Queen Elizabeth I during a decisiveperiod in British history. Although Dee cordially refused,his son Arthur, an alchemist like his father, accepted theposition and served as a Moscow court physician formany years.

Russia’s obsession with the occult gave rise to a trulyfascinating period of Stalinist history. The remarkableTunguska event of 1908, believed to have been anexploding comet, created a powerful explosion that burntan estimated 80 million trees in the Russian wilderness

and seemed to stimulate what was already an esotericallyfanatical country. There were three primary movementsof the day, the most popular being Spiritualism, or thebelief that the spirit lives on after death and can becommunicated with in the astral state. Spiritualism hadan international appeal and acquired millions of followers. Another movement was Theosophy, the study

and practice of comparative religions, made popular bythe Russian expatriate, Elena Blavatsky, who founded theTheosophical Society in New York in 1875. The third wasFreemasonry, which is thought to have been introducedinto Russia in 1731 by members of the Grand Lodge of England. By 1917 Russia had over 2,500 Freemasons, inaddition to many Rosicrucians and Martinists, similar

orders also popular at the time.In the same year, on 13 May 1917, at the height of the Russian Revolution, three young children were visitedby the Blessed Virgin in Portugal. The holy entityconfided three secrets, known as the ‘Three Secrets of Fátima’. Not surprisingly, uncensored accounts reportedthat the children had seen a white light in the sky, not an

Russia has been fascinated bymysticism for centuries, includingdisciplines such as magic,divination, Jewish mysticism,geomancy, alchemy, dreams,sacred stones, and others



apparition of a woman, a conclusion that appears to havebeen a manipulation by the Church. The first secret dealtwith visions of Hell, and the second, which was onlyrevealed in 1941, spoke of Russia:

When you see a night illumined by an unknownlight, know that this is the great sign given you byGod that he is about to punish the world for itscrimes, by means of war, famine and persecutionsof the Church and of the Holy Father. To preventthis, I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the

Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays.If my requests are heeded, Russia will beconverted, and there will be peace; if not, she willspread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The goodwill be martyred; the Holy Father will have muchto suffer; various nations will be annihilated. In

the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. TheHoly Father will consecrate Russia to me, and sheshall be converted, and a period of peace will begranted to the world.

Sadly, the prophecy was only revealed after the start of World War II.

The question remains, with all the insight that theBlessed Virgin could have bestowed, why would she havesingled out Russia, and why would she have communicatedsuch a complex message to three young children? Half acentury later, in 1990, the church revealed the third secret,

which proved to be anticlimactic and appears to be pureinvention. Could politics have been the reason Russia wasfeatured in the legendary prophecies, or were occult forcesat work?

The influx of Spiritualism, Theosophy andFreemasonry would have had a profound effect on a young,impressionable and ambitious Stalin. But there were other

influences, too. In St Petersburg, Grigori YefimovichRasputin, the Russian mystic and advisor to the Romanovs,was assassinated in 1916 amidst considerable controversy, butnot before he had left a lasting impression on Russian highsociety. There was also an underground stream of esotericthought leaders, such as the remarkable Rudolph Steiner(1861 – 1925), who maintained his independence from other

factions and yet kept his finger on the pulse of Russianmysticism. Steiner felt that Russia was the country that bestcaptured the spirit of the age, and whose people kept theirsouls open to the ‘continuous influx of the Christ-impulse’.He suggested that the ‘female’ east (Russia) should beimpregnated by the ‘male’ west, although he later criticisedBolshevism, or the Marxist faction that developed into the



Soviet Union, as an unhealthy hybrid of eastern mysticismwith western abstract thinking. Steiner was well thought of and had credibility in influential circles. Generally speaking,one either followed his school of thought or Blavatsky’s, butnot both.

Then there was the controversial work of NikolaiFedorovich Fedorov (1828 – 1903), a free-thinking writerwho, although not well known during his lifetime, becameinfluential after this death. This was ironic, for resurrectionwas the focus of his work. Fedorov was adamant thatresurrection was not only scientifically feasible, it was themoral obligation of society. After his death the Fedorov

movement, known as Fedorovtsy, became the ‘new black’.Led by the poet, Alexander Gorsky (1886 – 1943),Fedorovtsy championed the notion of the ‘common task’,or the obligation of all living things to resurrect the deadand, ultimately, to overcome death altogether. NikolaiSetnitsky (1888 – 1937), an advocate of Fedorov’s ideas,lobbied for the abolition of cremation and a return to moretraditional burials, so that preservation of the body, andhence physical resurrection, would be possible.

Russian intellectuals were obsessed with immortality,and the preservation of Stalin’s predecessor, the belovedCommunist revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924),in Red Square underpinned Fedorovtsy principles andreinforced Russia’s defiant belief that resurrection will be

achieved. And so Lenin lies in wait for his resurrection, histriumphant return reliant on technological advances. Inaccordance with this belief, Lenin’s body is preserved in acube, a shape that represents the fourth dimension andwhich allows the body to survive disintegration, according to Theosophists, such as the artist, Kazimir Malevich(1879 – 1935), who was adamant that Lenin’s tomb beshaped in a cube, thus ensuring immortality. Lenin’s tombarchitect, Alexey Shchusev (1873 – 1949), agreed anddesigned three cubes for the Russian leader, representing eternity and the holy trinity.

Stalin died on 9 March 1953 and was buried inLenin’s tomb. He remained there until 1961, when a

Lenin’s tomb in the foreg round, Red Square, Moscow © Andrew Gough



party member, a woman by the name of D.A. Lazurkina,reported at the 22nd Party Congress that Lenin hadappeared to her in a dream and communicated that he nolonger wanted to lie next to Stalin. Amazingly, nobodycontested her claim and Stalin was promptly moved to an

outside plot near the Kremlin wall.The resurgence of Fedorov’s work may have led tothe development of Cosmism, a philosophical andcultural movement which attempted to establish harmonyand order in a new age of technologically determined

evolution. In this construct technology was not only thenew alchemy, it was the surest path to immortality. In fact,many writers of the day, such as Andrei Platonov (1899 – 1951), believed that the engineer was the new prophet,magus and high priest who utilised technology to channel

supernatural forces.Invariably, Moscow’s esoteric revolution resulted inmany conflicts, and in 1913 two groups, known as theSymbolists and Futurists, clashed. They disagreed on mostthings, except for their belief in the need for a ‘newlanguage’. As the Bolshevik coup took hold, suchmovements were abolished. Nevertheless, the quest for a

new language continued and would appear to havemanifested itself in the dialect of technology.

The Cult of Stalin

Stalin shared many traits with Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945),including the belief that the world was a battlefield, andin 1939 he signed a secret pact with the Nazis, consisting of a ten-year, non-aggression agreement. Although Hitlerwould later double cross him, the two dictators hadbonded over many subjects, including their completedisregard for the dignity of those whose political or ethnicorigins were different to theirs. They also shared anobsession in the occult.

Stalin's tomb, near the Kremlin Wall,but separate from Lenin's mausoleum



CANONISED BY THE VATICAN IN 1920, following the First World War, Saint Joan of Arc, the famous Maidof Orléans, remains an enigma five centuries after shewas burned at the stake.

Her date of birth is still unknown. Although in 2012the French celebrated the 600-year anniversary of her

birth, no document exists to confirm that she was born in1412 in Domrémy.

Who Was She?

Was she really, as legend recounts, a shepherdess from asmall village, Domrémy, in Lorraine, where she heard

‘voices’? Or was she a true princess, born of theadulterous relationship between Louis, Duke of Orléans(brother of King Charles VI, ‘the Mad’) and his sister-in-law, Queen Isabeau de Bavière? This hypothesis wouldexplain why, long before she led the French army tovictory at Orléans, she was known as the Maid of Orléans

– it was her father’s name. Nobody had called her Joan‘of Arc’ prior to her re-trial in 1456, 25 years after hersupposed death at the stake in Rouen in 1431.

Many authors have attempted to lift the veilsurrounding her identity, without ever finding proof of this noble ancestry. However, if we look hard enough, wecan find signs; numerous indications that this girl was not

Many authors have attempted to lift the veil surrounding Joan of Arc’s identity, without ever finding proof of her noble ancestry.

However, if we look hard enough, we can find signs; numerousindications that this girl was not just anybody. And there is more:she was so extraordinary that this is precisely why her trueidentity was such an embarrassment to the Establishment



just anybody. And there is more: she was so extraordinarythat this is precisely why her true identity was such anembarrassment to the Establishment, both secular andreligious, of the time.

But her ‘real’ identity is not the only strange thing about the Maid of Orléans. The term ‘real’ is completelyappropriate in this case, as we are, in fact, entering therealms of the mystery of the Saint-Graal or the Sang-Réal .

But wait a minute. I am sure you are thinking, ‘He’smad! Yet again, I’m reading the wild imaginings of aninternational conspiracy theorist…’

However, sit back and ask yourself:

Why did Joan have to reach the Dauphin,Charles, at Chinon before Lent?

Why, as a priority, did she have to save Orléansbefore any of the other cities already under the

But her ‘real’ identity is not the onlystrange thing about the Maid of Orléans. The term ‘real’ is completelyappropriate in this case, as we are, infact, entering the realms of the mystery

of the Saint-Graal or the Sang-Réal

Joan of Arc's Death at the Stake by Hermann Anton Stilke (1843)

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