"Tonight we have the distinct privilege of having Jonathan Gray, noted and respected archaeologist and anthropologist, who comes to us from Australia.  He will share with us his findings and studies.  As you will see, they strongly support the biblical account of the origin of man.  It is a witness that God is, and that the Biblical account of a fiat Creator, creating this world and man in His image is the only logical account of our origin.

         "As in other disciplines, it is sometimes difficult, if not impossible, to separate archaeology and anthropology, thus it is that Jonathan's work as an archaeologist overlaps and intermeshes the two disciplines.  This is a distinct advantage when it comes to questions about the flood of Noah and the history of the dispersion of man and the repopulation of the earth.

         "Jonathan Gray has traveled the world to gather data on ancient mysteries.  A serious student of prehistory, he has investigated numerous archaeological sites, and has penetrated some largely unexplored areas, including parts of the Amazon headwaters.

         "Between lecturing in Europe, North America and Australia, the author has hosted newspaper columns and contributed to various magazines.  If I am correct, he will be sharing with you parts of his book, "Dead Men's Secrets."

         "In this most interesting of books, Jonathan explores the depths of archeological findings to bring to light vast amounts of evidence about the true origin of man.  He shows how this evidence has been purposefully hidden and held back from public exposure because the evidence is so damaging that evolutionists dare not let these findings be brought out, for they would shatter and destroy their carefully crafted satanic theories, throwing them into complete disarray, showing evolution for the lie that it is.

         "This book, partly written in story form, presents evidence so compelling and fascinating that the honest seeker for truth will find what they are looking for.  This book contains a most fascinating compilation of over one thousand artifacts, written, verbal, and photographic, that support the fact that man  has not evolved from lower forms of life, but that he has steadily degenerated, scientifically, mentally, physically, and spiritually.

         "Now without any further delay, Welcome Jonathan to America and to Fairmont!  We appreciate your willingness to visit our little town and share with us what you have found.

         It is with the greatest of pleasure that I introduce to you Jonathan Gray."
 
         Thank you Devon for the invitation to come.  I want you to know that the pleasure is not all yours, for I greatly enjoy bringing the truths I feel the Lord has brought to my attention.  I often wonder why I was chosen for this task which I have made my life work.

         I am most anxious that this information get out to all who will listen.  To have a captive audience like you who is interested in things dear to my heart, makes all my years of effort and hardship worth it all.
 
THE TRUE ORIGIN OF MAN:

         On November 17, 3398 B.C., two billion people, with their astonishing technology, vanished from the face of the earth.  This lost super race beat us to the moon, computers, and nuclear war.  A cosmic disaster occurred which wiped out a super civilization and generated 6,000 foot tidal waves--the disaster known to early civilizations worldwide as the Great Flood (the Deluge mentioned in the Book of Genesis in the Bible, for which Noah constructed the Ark to save a remnant of mankind.)

         The descendants of this super race branched out from Ararat (Armenia) to create civilizations less advanced technologically, but still with some knowledge of their original civilization. The theory of evolution, which believes in the gradual progression of man, cannot stand up to the evidence governed by the laws of thermo-dynamics.  The evidence of  fully developed cities and an advanced, technology superior man at the start whose society deteriorated over time is irrefutable.

         Worldwide collapse a second time and a nuclear holocaust (c. 2000 B.C.) led us into recorded history as we know it today.  And modern-day prophecies from our past particularly in the Bible) indicate that mankind is on the verge of another cataclysmic disaster.  This is by way of introduction to Part One of the book.

         In Part Two of the book, I supply evidence collected from around the world which proves a lost super civilization and their descendants once lived on this earth.  Geography, astronomy, mathematics, metallurgy, glasswork, megalithic construction, building techniques, mechanical devices, clothing, art, health, electricity, flight, lost secrets, and weaponry are all catalogued in a list of over 1,000 items that overwhelmingly proves the existence of an earlier technology superior to today's.

         Did you know that there is evidence of human colonies having existed on the moon and Mars?  That early "cave men" wore clothes like ours?  That man knew the secret of flight before the twentieth century?  That early civilizations performed open-heart surgery and flouroscopy? That there were once shining cities illuminated by a means of electricity unknown to us today.  The list is endless and fascinating, pointing to a super civilization evidences of which can not longer be ignored.

         I have gathered over the years Archaeological and anthropological evidence that something very big happened on this planet in the past--something so big it wiped traces of just about everything from the face of the earth?  From around the world, 'impossible' ancient inventions have been surfacing of late, and some of them from a technology as advanced as our own?

         Nearly all writings of ancient people, worldwide tell the same story, that of decline from an original 'Golden Age.' That a cataclysmic disaster wiped out the advanced world.  Today's diggings worldwide show that these traditions tally with the facts.  Enormous stone masses or metal fragments are there; they cannot be argued away.

         I believe that this original advanced world, gave impetus to all succeeding civilizations, and is well within the framework of scientific thinking.  What is more, I believe this to be such a credible reality that no longer can we evade it.

         The technology of this civilization is rich beyond our dreams, a civilization which was minced into atoms by a global flood.  Subsequent attempts were made to revive the lost glory, but there is hard evidence that a fiery holocaust intervened, driving most of the survivors became savages.  Which is the origin of what today is called the cave man.

         I believe that there is a historical parallel which shows how we have, late in the twentieth century, awakened to find ourselves in the 'super culture arena, having leapt to new, unimagined heights,' and now have suddenly come eyeball to eyeball with our past, awakening to the realization that we've been here before.  Last time as now, the world scene was overshadowed with violence and corruption, which ended in almost total annihilation.  Might something like this happen again?  Could a holocaust be looming of such proportions that it will parallel the first 'wipeout'?

         I would like you to be aware that legends are usually based on a core of fact.  Folklore, is a fossil of history, preserving history in the guise of colorful tales.  Far from being a collection of fables, it is a recital of actual past events, even though from generation to generation some facts have become distorted or forgotten.
 
OUR ANCESTRAL MEMORY OF GOLDEN ERA:

         If we are to credit the collective testimony of all ancient races, man's early history was truly an incredible one. It was a Golden Age of advanced civilization, of original giants who had superior intelligence and technology. This appears to have been a universal truth, known to everyone in ancient times.
 
PHYSICAL REMAINS ALSO:

         There are recently discovered artifacts that cannot be dismissed, namely, objects of metal sitting in museums, unquestionably made in the ancient world, that would have required very advanced technology to produce. A technology not to be repeated until our day.

         The weight of evidence grows daily-- evidence that all the major secrets of modern technology were known, and forgotten, long ago.  Evidence that early man did create a society that surpassed ours in all aspects of development.

         The entire world is really a 'dead man's tomb,' a treasure hunter's paradise.  As we pry open the coffin, suspense builds.  Slowly we're lifting the lid on a lost technology which almost smacks of science fiction.  We come face to face with such absurdities as brain transplants, colonies on Mars, and invisible men.  And we wonder, What next?
 
THE DELUGE:

         The  global Flood catastrophe is one of the key facts of all history. Not only is there a mass of geological evidence--it has left an indelible impression on the memory of the entire human race.  An analysis of some 600 individual Flood traditions reveals a widespread concurrence on essential points: the prior corruption of mankind, a Flood warning unheeded by the masses, a survival vessel, the preservation of up to eight people with representative animal life, the sending forth of a bird to determine the suitability of reemerging land, significance in the rainbow, descent from a mountain, and the repopulation of the whole earth from a single group of survivors.

         Especially remarkable is the persistence of that biblical name Noah.  And this is particularly so when you consider the ultimate language differences between peoples, and the extreme local distortions which developed in Flood legends.  Yet the name survived virtually unchanged in such isolated places as Hawaii (where he was called Nu-u), the Sudan (Nuh), China (Nu-Wah), the Amazon region (Noa), Phrygia (Noe) and among the Hottentots (Noh and Hiagnoh).

         The table of nations in Genesis 10 records the gradual dispersion of Noah's descendants and lists names, thus offering clues to their history and place.  It contends that all nations of the earth have sprung from the family of Noah....So, in a nutshell, there is good reason to believe that, after the Deluge, mankind sprang from a single group of people."
 
SUDDEN APPEARANCE:

         Are you aware that ALL CULTURES BEGAN SUDDENLY--and were fully developed? A long preliminary period is not supported by archaeology.  Before cities on earth, there was nothing.  There was no transition whatsoever between the ancient civilizations and any primitive forebearers.  They were at their peak from the beginning.

         Suddenly out of the aftermath of the flood five complete civilizations appeared worldwide on five different continents, all with nearly identical knowledge, for example Egypt.
 
         About 3000 B.C., Egypt sprang into existence suddenly, fully developed--that is, without transition from a primitive state, with a fantastic ready-made high society.

         Great cities, enormous temples, pyramids of overwhelming size. Colossal statues with tremendous expressive power. Luxurious tunnels and tombs. Splendid streets flanked by magnificent sculpture. A Perfect drainage system. A decimal system at the very start.  A ready-made writing, already perfected.  A well established naming system (in which each Pharaoh had as many as five names).  Society already divided into specialist classes.  An army, civil service and hierarchy minutely organized.  A court exhibiting all the indications of well-defined precedence and form. Egypt came from a clearly established civilization.

         It wasn't only Egypt.  The appearance around 3000 B.C. of the Sumerian civilization was likewise sudden, unexpected and out of nowhere. Then there is the evidence unearthed in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in India.  They were the key centers of the Indus Valley civilization.  These also appear to have suddenly sprung up with no clear-cut traces of having evolved from primitive beginnings.

         The Maya of Central America are in it, too. The Mayan calendar goes back to approximately the same time (c. 3000 B.C.).  From the outset  their script was already perfect.

         The fifth culture which developed was the megalith builders of northwest Europe who appeared at precisely the same time.

         The achievements they demonstrated were identical, that is, the simultaneous discovery of Pythagorean triangles, a precise calendar, a true compass-bearing for north, knowledge of the movement of celestial bodies (possibly including knowledge that the world was round) and a minutely accurate system of measurement.

         I have discovered eight clues that emerged from these discoveries that indicate a possible link between these 5 instant worldwide civilizations.
 
Symbols and Hieroglyphics--Each were identical worldwide, bearing marks of a common heritage.  Everywhere the swastika, snake and sun combinations, as well as numerous specialized intricate glyphs were repeated with no chance of coincidence.

Systems of Writing--were in use, again all over the world, even on isolated islands.
Languages--The older these were, the more they resembled each other. Practically all languages have connections through both vocabulary and construction.  In almost every language are many words containing similar root words or combinations beyond what mere chance would allow.  For instance, the names of the constellations, are substantially the same whether in Mexico, Africa or Polynesia.

Calendars--Those of Egypt and faraway Peru both had eighteen months of twenty days, with a five-day holiday at year's end.

Buildings--There are great similarities in buildings, not only in construction but in astronomical alignment.  Sphinxes in Egypt and Yucatan; pyramids on every continent and on remote islands; monoliths and stone circles also worldwide and often quarried elsewhere in the world.  There also is seen similarity as to original purpose.  The tower of Babel was built according to Josephus, (the first century Jewish historian) to provide shelter should another Deluge destroy the earth.  Regarding the Toltec pyramids, an ancient Mexican chronicler said: "After men had multiplied, they erected a very high 'zacuali,' which is today a tower of great height, in order to take refuge in it should the second world be destroyed."  I ask the question,  "Without a common source, why should the purpose be identical in Babylon and Mexico?"
Customs--Burial, mummification, circumcision, and binding babies heads to produce an elongated skill was practiced by the Maya, Incas, Celts, Egyptians, and Basques.

Forms of Religious observance--bore striking similarities to one another.

Worldwide Traditions of Early History--Traditions of a Garden of Delight, a Golden Age, a global Flood, one original language, a tower where sudden language confusion resulted in a dispersal--clearly these bore the marks of a common source.
 
         The origins of cultures that were so different and so widely dispersed cannot wholly be explained by borrowing and imitation.

SOURCE OF THE FOOTPRINTS:

         Even after 5,000 years, the prints are still visible enough to read.  They are: "Language," "Anthropology," and "Archaeological" finds, which includes agriculture, botanical and genetic studies.  In every instance plants, shrubs and fruit-bearing trees basic to survival and advancement came out of the Middle East first.  These findings leave no doubt in mind that our beginnings were in the Middle East highlands.

         Archaeological finds from the Americas in the west to Thailand in the east, show that by 3000 B.C. there were settled communities.  Overlaying that is a proven pattern of high cultures from Sapin to Pakistan. And Armenia, the dispersion point, lay almost precisely in the middle.

         The only conclusion that can be draw from the evidence is that, 1) Each of the first civilizations appeared suddenly, already fully developed.  2) That a connection existed between them.  3) Their footprints led back to the Middle East mountains where Noah and his family left the Ark.

         Those nations got their heritage basically from the world that was wiped out in the Deluge.  They continued where the generations of the biblical Noah left off!  Those Flood survivors must have carried sufficient knowledge of the antediluvian era to give a rapid start to the new cultures that sprang up 'out of nowhere' soon after.  Four hundred years was all that was needed.  The oldest civilizations appear just long enough after he Deluge for a population density to support a culture.

         The sudden appearance of civilization is itself a memorial to history's one great catastrophe.  More importantly, the Flood is a historical event of tremendous testimonial importance to modern man.

         As in the days of Noah, the world has reached an unprecedented stage of material and technical progress. Then, as now, skepticism, corruption and violence abound.

         Ancient prophecies treat Noah and the Flood as a prototype of the coming sudden and fearful end of the present world.

         For example: 'As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the Flood came, and took them all away" so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.' (Matt. 24:37-39)

         Other prophecies project that as the first world perished by water, so the present world shall be destroyed by fire (2 Pet. 3:3-7).  And as the second world emerged from the Deluge stripped of its original glory, so shall emerge from the final fire, a new world cleansed of evil, misery and death, and restored to perfection which shall transcend even its original glory.
 
WORLD ORDER FROM THE RUINS:

         It goes without saying that the small group of bewildered survivors from the Deluge could hardly reproduce all of the aspects of the pre-Flood technology. Nevertheless they would have bequeathed to their migrating descendants the information of which they had personal or recorded knowledge.

         We know that the very earliest grains show genetic evidence of sophisticated manipulation, that is, they were already uniform and highly specialized immediately after the Flood.

         In an attempt to reconstruct the antediluvian technology, the semblance or an integrated global civilization emerged in various parts of the world.  Its achievements were astonishing; in some spheres, penetrating knowledge which our science has scarcely begun to nudge."
 
Ancient Maps:

         In chapter 3 of my book, I present hard evidence that shows the ancients knowledge of planet earth as seen through their cartographers eyes was far more sophisticated than we have previously supposed. Their maps are surprisingly accurate and reveal knowledge of parts of the earth that were not known until very recently.  They also show profound changes have taken place in man's lifetime since the flood, especially at the poles as you shall see.

         Maps drawn from the 11th to the 17th century were obviously copied from maps probably drawn thousands of years before.  Some maps show Greenland and Antarctica free of ice.

         There are fourteen of these maps, all from the Medieval and Renaissance period.  If we can have the lights out, we will show these to you on the screen.  Thank you.

         This first map you seen is called the 'Zeno map' and was drawn in 1380.  It is considered the most accurate.  It outlined the coasts of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Scotland, as well as the exact latitude and longitude of a certain number of islands. The irony of this is that the chronometer, necessary to determine longitude, was not invented until 1765.

         The topography of Greenland on this map is shown free of glaciers as it was prior to the Ice Age.  More amazing is that unknown rivers and mountains shown on this Zeno map have since been located in probes of the French Polar Expedition of 1947-1949.

         This next map is a Chinese map engraved on stone from 1137.  What is interesting about this map is that it formed a spherical grid, which was not used by cartographers until the "Camerio map" drawn in 1502.

         There is something very interesting about this map now on the screen.  It is called the 'Zauche map' made in 1737.  Notice how Antarctica is completely free of ice. Not only that, it is not shown as one continent, but two islands separated by a strait from the Ross to the Weddell Seas (a fact which was not established until the Geophysical Year, 1968).  Also shown are islands of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, now known to lie on the bottom of the ocean.

         This next map you see on the screen was drawn in 1531 by Orontius Fineus, and show the dimensions of the Antarctic land mass that corresponds very closely to those on the best modern maps. This map indicates that the center of Antarctica was beginning to fill with ice when the first source maps were drawn.  It shows rivers and fjords in Antarctica where today mile-thick glaciers flow.
 
HAD TO BE COPIES

         Obviously these maps I have just shown you had to have been copied from earlier sources.  They display a scientific achievement far surpassing the abilities of the navigators and mapmakers of the Renaissance, Middle Ages, the Arab world, or any ancient geographers.  They had to be the product of an unknown people antedating recognized history.  Many of the Medieval and Renaissance mapmakers admitted they were copying from sources whose origins were unknown.

         There is more.  This next map the "Hadji Ahmed map," copied in 1559 shows Antarctica and the Pacific coast of the United States of America with extreme accuracy.  It also depicts the land bridge that once existed between Siberia and Alaska.

         Please show the next slide. Thank you.  This map, the Andrea Benincasa map (1508), "indicates that Northern Europe was being covered by the Ice Age glaciation's furthest advance."

         Next!  This is the "Jehudi Ibn ben Zara map" of 1487 shows remnants of glaciers in Britain.  Notice the detailed profiles of islands in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas which are still there by now under water.

         This is the "Hamy King chart" of 1502.  It shows the northern Siberian rivers emptying into the Arctic Ocean, which is now all under ice.  Notice also that it shows glacial actions in the Baltic countries. What are today huge islands in Southeast Asia are shown on this map joined to land (which they once were). If you will look closely at where I am pointing, you will see that it even shows an ancient Suez Canal!

         Another map "Ptolemy's map" of the North (please change the slide) depicts a glacial sheet advancing across south-central Greenland; and at the same time, notice that it shows glaciers retreating from northern Germany and southern Sweden.

         All these maps showing glaciers and ice could have only come from the findings of surveying parties that tracked the areas before, during and after the Ice age, at which time, according to the evolutionary theory, humans were grunting savages.

         This map is called the "Gloreanus map" (1510).  As you can see, it shows not only the exact line of the Atlantic coast of America from Canada to Tierra del Fuego, but also the whole length of the Pacific coast.

         The "King Jaime World Chart" (1502) shows the Sahara Desert as a fertile land with large lakes, rivers and cities (which at a remote period, it was), while this map, the 'Dulcert map' of 1339 shows Ireland over to the Don River of Eastern Europe with a precision beyond understanding.

         Now this last map I am going to show you is to me very special.  This is the "Piri Reis chart" of 1513.

         After its discovery, Captain Arlington H. Mallery, an American authority on cartography, asked the U.S. Hydrographic Office to examine it.  The U.S Navy, through Commander Larsen, subsequently issued this statement.

         "The Hydrographic Office of the Navy has verified an ancient chart--it's called the Piri Reis map, that goes back more than 5,000 years.  It's so accurate, only one thing could explain it--a worldwide survey. The Hydrographic Office couldn't believe it, either, at first.  But they not only proved the map genuine, it's been used to correct errors in some present-day maps."

         It tells the story of ancient coastlines, as well as the surprising exploits of our ancestors five thousand years ago.  Piri Reis stated that his copy was a composite from twenty ancient maps. 6 points are made about this amazing map.
 
        South America and Africa in correct relative longitude and latitude. Not only were the Caribbean, Spanish, African and South American coasts in correct positions relative to each other, but even isolated land areas, like Cape Verde Island, the Azores, the Canary Islands, as well as topographies of the interiors--mountain ranges, peaks, rivers, plateaus.  All Were accurately positioned by longitude and latitude.

        The coastline of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.  The islands and bays of the depicted coastline are the same as they appear below the Antarctic ice sheet (as recently revealed by seismic echo soundings). Pictured in great detail are regions scarcely explored today, including a mountain range that remained undiscovered until 1952. Interestingly, the map shows two bays where the modern seismic map showed lands.  However, when the experts were asked to check their measurements, they found that the ancient map was correct, after all.  One thing was crystal clear.  Either somebody had mapped Antarctica before the ice cap covered the continent, or else the ice-covered continent was mapped with very sophisticated instruments.

        The Isle of Pines, Andros Island, San Salvador, Jamaica, the mouth of the Amazon and the island of Morajo are all correctly shaped and perfectly located in latitude and longitude.
A major error appeared to be Greenland, shown as three islands. But during the International Geophysical Year it was proved that this correctly represented the state of affairs about 3000 B.C.

        Every mountain range in northern Canada and Alaska was recorded on this ancient map--including some ranges which the I.S. Army Map Services did not have on their maps.  But the U.S. Army has since found them!

        The ancient source-maps were drawn using a circular grid based on spherical trigonometry, with the focal point situated in Egypt.  The copiest Piri Reis (unfamiliar with circular projection) shifted and spliced the original grid to compensate for the curvature.  Any modern spheroid projection on a flat surface would cause the same distortion.
 
         The conclusions are obvious--This map came from an advanced ancient technology and its grid system is similar to air navigation maps. Here is evidence of science in an early epoch which is considered to have had none.  Here is physical fragments of the amazing knowledge of a super culture long vanished. The facts about these early explorers is:
 
        They possessed a knowledge of cartography comparable to our own.

        They knew the correct shape and size of the earth.

        They used spherical trigonometry in their mathematical measurements.

        They used ultramodern methods of projection (exact coordinates).

        They must have had at their disposal advanced geodetic instruments (and trained specialists to use them) to measure longitude and latitude (totally lost and not developed in the modern world until the end of the eighteenth century).

        They must have been organized and directed on a global scale.
 
         My Friends, this meant that almost 5,000 years ago somebody undertook a survey of the whole planet.  The technology at their disposal was very sophisticated.  It is a fact that the ancients could not have known about the earth unless they had traversed and measured the earth's surface.  More than this, some of these maps indicate that they were drawn from the vantage point of space.

         The earliest Egyptians were know- legible about land measurements and used sophisticated surveying techniques. They understood enough to influence many other nations in locating important cities and temples on meridians, all based on simple fractions of the earth's dimensions.

         In the Fourth Book of Shan Hai King entitled "The Classic of Eastern Mountains," written in 2250 B.C. contains four sections describing mountains located "beyond the Eastern Sea"--on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.  Each section begins by describing the geographical features of a particular mountain: its height, shape, mineral deposits, surrounding rivers and types of flora.  Then it points the direction and distance to the next mountain, and so on.

         It's  like a road map.  By following the clues, we've found that these sections describe in detail the topography of western and central North America.  Each mountain can be identified --and each river.

         ...This document is a geographical survey....It even gives the experiences of the surveyors--from picking up black opals and nuggets in Nevada, to watching seals frolic on the rock in San Francisco Bay.  They recorded their fascination at a strange animal that avoided danger by pretending to be dead (obviously the native opossum).  You can read about their wonder at the Grand Canyon, 'a stream flowing in a bottomless ravine,' and a sunrise there.  (that's in the Ninth and Fourteenth Books.)

         By the third century B. C., when many Chinese records were reevaluated and condensed, it was found that the geographical learning it contained did not correspond to any lands known at that time.  So it was reclassified as a myth.  Now we know better.  Thus it is that we have a detailed Chinese survey of North America 4,500 years ago.
 
JUST AFTER THE FLOOD:

         In 1799 explorer Humboldt, while wandering in Buiana and the upper Orinoco, came across rock pictures and hieroglyphic signs high up on the mountains.

         The natives told him that their ancestors, In the time of the great waters came to the tops of these mountains in canoes, and that the rocks were still so soft that a man could trace marks on them with his bare fingers....This tallies precisely with conditions that prevailed after the global Deluge.  Great inland seas remained on all continents, often trapped at high levels, and not draining back into the ocean for centuries.

         The Deluge, as it reshaped continents, thrust sedimentary rubble mountain-high.  This would have remained soft and impressionable for a considerable time.

         From the highlands of Colombia to the gorge of the Zingu, on the eastern side of Brazil's Matto Grosso, they all have one feature in common: they are carved on high rocks, in gloomy canyons, impossible to climb.  Some are up to seventy feet tall.  It's the same in the Mexican mountain ranges; in Siberia too.  The signs are found on impossible cliffs.

         As related to maps and measurements, did you know that the Bible mentions in three places about measuring and dividing.  The first is in Genesis 10:25 which talks about Peleg and states, that in his day the earth was divided.  A more accurate translation would be that the earth was measured or surveyed.

         Then there was Misraim, who, according  the chronology, is a grandson of Noah, and who was credited with founding Egypt. His name means 'to delineate,' 'to draw up a plan,' 'to make a representation' (especially in association with measuring distances).  And sure enough, at least two old maps linked with the ancient past (the Piri Reis and Reinal) were based on a circular projection with the focal point in Egypt.

         Perhaps it is no accident that the Great Pyramid records in its dimensions the measurement of the earth on the scale of 1:43,200.  Both the earth's circumference (including the equatorial bulge) and polar radius (with the flattening at the poles) were known with and accuracy comparable to that recorded by satellite surveys from space.

         The Bible also mentions Almodad ('measurer'), the inventor of geometry, who measured the earth to its extremities. According to chronology, Almodad is the progenitor of the Southern Arabians.  Many of these maps I've shown you reveal peculiarities of geography that were first noticed by the Arabs.  Consider that Almodad died about 2350 B.C.

         Can you not see how everything dovetails perfectly together? The maps, the traditional reports, the building survey methods, the rock signs and the chronology, all so different, yet they tell the same story.
 
POPULATING THE EARTH:

          It did not take many years after Noah and his family came out of the ark to repopulate the earth.  The population growth was such that, as soon as the earth was dry enough they were sending out exploratory expeditions to see what damage the flood had done to the earth and how it was changed.  Soon almost every corner of the world was visited by groups of men who came with a particular task to accomplish.

         What I am going to share with you now is perhaps the most astounding evidence gathered so far, because it shows that the technology of the ancients far exceeded what we know today.

         According to the ancient accounts, before the flood, the earth was covered with orderly energy and spring grid patterns which supplied them with unlimited free electric and magnetic power to construct and build, and provide light.  They knew the secret of unlocking that power, something we do not know how to do today. The purpose for their exploration then was to rediscover these lines of energy and magnetic forces to once again harness that power.

         This massive worldwide operation involving teams of cartographers and surveyors covered the globe and relocated those power grids and their lines of intersection. To facilitate this, they employed units of measurement based on simple fractions of the earth's dimensions.  They measured distances in degrees, minutes and seconds of latitude and longitude, just as we do today.

         Soon a 'prehistoric' network of dead- straight alignments appeared.   It seems to have sprung up everywhere at once.  Planning took place on an almost unimaginably large scale.
        Along these lines, (situated at terrestrial power points) arose temples, pillars, rocking stones, circles, crosses, mounds, pyramids, tunnels and platforms. Traces of these are dotted still throughout the world. You see them on every continent and even on remote islands.

         Sites had an exact geometric relationship to each other within a master worldwide pattern.  For example, all ancient temples in Greece arose in relation to each other. Those in Greece were geometrically interlocked with those in Egypt.

         Planetwide, the system constituted ONE GIANT SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT.

         Today we live within the ruins of this single vast ancient structure, whose sheer size has so far rendered it invisible.  In the words of John Mitchell, 'a great scientific instrument lies sprawled over the entire surface of the globe.'  It is marked by these megaliths of all types, all aligned in a single geometric pattern--the remains of an ancient power network.

         In order for it to operate, many sites were aligned to favor certain astronomical phenomena.  The planners were conversant with the introduction of solar or atmospheric energy into the terrestrial energy streams. They developed a technology to detect earth currents, and then to manipulate them to a predictable result.

         Thus, all over the world, thousands upon thousands of pillars (called 'Menhirs') arose in symmetrical formations their purpose to realign earth magnetism from its natural meandering paths to straight artifical lines.

         At each pillar, the electric current of the atmosphere was attracted to combine with the terrestrial current to produce a fusion of power.  (A secret we have not yet utilized.)  Interestingly, the standing stones were all rich in quartz, a crystal similar to that used with the cat's whiskers in early radio receivers.

         It has been suggested that megaliths were connected below ground by metal strips, although there is no conclusive proof for this position.  Because the standing stones worked as cathodes, the corrosive current over the millennia would have most certainly dissolved the metal, leaving the grooves into which they were set.  Such grooves are found below ground level in, for example, the Breton menhirs of France.  That these grooves had some such functional purpose is a distinct possibility.

         And something else. Researchers have detected an energy rising in spiral from standing stones, gathering magnetic strength toward the top of the stone.  Interestingly, photographs of the stones are sometimes marred by a mist of light surrounding their lower extremities.

         The crucial factor was that from natural energy springs in the earth, the currents were ultimately directed to mounds--which focalized the energy fields.

         There is overwhelming evidence for the reality of these forces, only rediscovered in modern times by Wilhelm Reich.  He described how this energy could be trapped or accumulated by constructing a chamber lined with inorganic material and covered on the outside with alternate layers of organic and inorganic matter.

         Is it not starling, then, to find that almost every ancient site has at least one such buried chamber--purposely lined with the same alternating layers! Often foreign stones and clay were used, selected for various magnetic properties.

         These submerged chambers were energy accumulators.  Finally, from these mounds, the currents were dissipated to the surrounding countryside.

         "Not only did standing stones, mounds and pyramids focus energy fields.  Across the whole world, the structures formed a gigantic power network.  This provided the population with a source of energy and inspiration to which their whole civilization was tuned.
 
THE BABEL CONNECTION:

         BY ITS VERY NATURE, THIS NETWORK REQUIRED THAT ALL TERRESTRIAL SURFACE CURRENTS BE ACCOUNTED FOR, IF IT WERE TO OPERATE TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL.

         Thus the stone monuments were strewn across the world, located on crossings of the 'ley lines.'  The pyramids were not tombs for their kings, but rather power collecting stations.
 
EARLY USES OF THE POWER NETWORK:

         The question is asked, why did the ancients want or need this power and what did it do for them?  My colleagues and I have identified 4 basic reasons 1) to increase soil fertility and plant growth.  2) FOR PROPULSION AND TRANSPORT  3) POWER PRODUCTION AND COMMUNICATION.  4) HEALING

         If the first post-flood people had the ability to generate and use power, what then caused the disruption of that power grid?  I believe the answer has to do with the tower of Babel.  This tower was perhaps the central point to which all the grids around the earth sent their power.  When God destroyed the tower of Babel the whole power structure collapsed.

         Also at that time there seems to have been nuclear holocausts around the world as evidenced by many ruins which were burned with intense heat and whose skeletons and artifacts are still very radioactive.  This subject we do not have time to cover at this time.

         But when these things happened, those who survived were forced to live a very primitive existence, which was accompanied by cultural degeneration.  This then is the period of the so called ape man.  Because their societies were very small causing inbreeding, and perhaps because of radiation, mutating of genes took place and thus what few remains of these humans have been found they do not represent the immediate post flood people or their advanced society.

         I stand here today to assure you that man has not evolved from inferior to superior.  Every shred of archaeological and anthropological evidence says that it is just the opposite.  "Archaeologists who have gone out to uncover facts know nothing of uncivilized cavemen.

         Many of today's so-called primitives are not relics of a Stone Age.  Rather, they are the wreckage of more highly developed societies, forced by various circumstances such as natural disasters to lead a much simpler, less developed way of life.

         As far as time is concerned, how far back with absolute certainty can we go, based upon all the findings? The answer is, ABOUT 3,000 B.C. The oldest cultures on earth all go back to about the same time--3,000 B.C.

         Everything found to date in Archaeology and Anthropology without one exception supports the Biblical account. I have presented to you tonight just a few highlights of the evidence that is out there.  I believe the Lord is allowing this material to be known to counter the work of our archenemy.

         In my book "DEAD MEN'S SECRETS" there is much more revealed which time did not permit me to share with you tonight.  Thank you for your patience and time.  I greatly appreciate your asking me to come.  I will close by reading the Epilogue of the book, as it sums up my feelings very well.
 
Epilogue:

         The wisdom and technical splendor of the antediluvian civilization was so astounding that it has never been equaled.

         Even after the Deluge, the reconstituted world system was conceived by races with an intelligence far superior to our own; there is evidence, literally by the ton that says so.

         In many ways their civilization was comparable to ours.  They had air travel and underwater devices.  They were very 'modern.'

         I don't think you can construct that super civilization and find exactly another United States.  They traveled on a different orientation. Whether in lighting or transport, they reached the same results by a different method.

         Because of the fragmentary and incomplete nature of our knowledge concerning them, any attempt at exposition is necessarily imperfect.

         However, the evidence points to scientific knowledge that was worldwide at the same time.  And it appears that work stopped on a global scale, more or less overnight.

         Genius perverted by a materialistic philosophy culminated in corruption and violence.  You know the sequel.

         Striking parallels exist between that period and our own.

         More to the point, there are some ancient biblical prophecies that foretell the appearance in the sky of blood, fire and mushroom pillars of smoke, to occur in that final age when men acquire the ability to destroy the earth.  It is stated plainly that the world's cities will be devastated, that 'the elements shall melt with fervent heat.'

         According to this, we are heading toward the day when everything stops--toward the moment when Earth's pendulum will shudder and stop in midswing!

         There is something unique about Bible prophecy.  Indeed, this Book makes audacious claims for itself, actually challenging the world to prove whether it is a divine message to us, by testing its prophecies. Were you aware that one-third of the Bible comprises prophecy?  And something else.  It informs us that an unseen Overlord has been quietly shaping human history; that He will reveal His intentions before causing certain events to occur.

         Come to think of it, the prophecies to date have been uncannily accurate.  Events leading to the twentieth century have been outlined step by step in correct sequence.  Then there is the current scenario--our explosion of knowledge, the awakening to strength of weak Asian nations, a militarily aggressive Russia, the 1967 return of Israel to Jerusalem, a coming economic-political union of ten nations, or groups of nations, in Europe.  The list goes on.  All these are to occur against a background of increasing earthquakes, famines, war and unprecedented social breakdown.

         Then come predictions more startling than fiction! Soon uncontrollable panic grips the nations; they see no way out.  A charismatic leader (already clearly identified) arises with 'the solution.' For the first time since ancient Babylon, all nations are drawn into one world government.  (An electronic network already in place makes this easy.) The world leader cancels the existing currencies and establishes a worldwide number system.  Every person on earth is required to receive an imprint.  Dissidents are not tolerated.  For a short season, the planet is 'at peace.'  The world dictator is popular.

         The utter wickedness of this man is not exposed to the world until too late.  Suddenly all hell breaks loose.  World trade collapses, religious extremism mounts, and we are plunged into 'times of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time.'  The Bible predicts that so great will be the devastation that unless the conflict is halted, no life will be left on earth.  It will be stopped--just in time, but only because of the supernatural intervention of the Creator.

         Undoubtedly, human history is racing toward some appalling catastrophe.

         The good news is that the Bible has clearly foreseen the events.  It does offer evidence that the Creator is still in control--and will do what man cannot do--act decisively to save the human race from total destruction.

         So, who is to blame?  Human perversity is the main reason for the mess the world is in. But, you ask, Is it likely that an all-powerful, caring Creator would allow any of His creatures to go wrong?  The answer is, Of course!--if He decided to give man free will.  Tell me, would it be a better world if He had not given us free will, but instead controlled our every move, where we were just robots?  Think about that.

         As it is, we have freedom of choice.  We can demonstrate hatred or love, as we wish.  Let's face it, if we did not have free will, then love, generosity and other qualities would be unsatisfying, even meaningless, and life would not be worth while.

         As stated earlier, man was created noble.  He has perverted his own character by misusing the free will that God gave him. No, you not in a process of evolution which will enable you to create your own paradise here on earth. Such a philosophy is dangerous; it will lull millions into being unprepared for the climactic events ahead.

         As the prophecies lead us unerringly along the trail toward Armageddon, the Flood of Noah sounds a warning. The information we have dug up concerning our past suddenly becomes relevant, like a time bomb ready to explode.

         But after D-Day--what then? For those who choose it and qualify, there is a new world...a world in which eternal youth, loving concern and security are the norm; where transformed individuals are able to live in harmony.

         If all this be true, then I suppose people aplenty are going to miss out.  And wouldn't some of them just love to be there! Think of it--a whole new world to mess up!  I leave you with these thoughts.  Thank you for your time."
 
         "Thank you Jonathan for your thought provoking and inspiring presentation. We have certainly been blest.  Before we dismiss, I want to say a few words about the scheduled programs to follow during the next few weeks to let you know what to expect.

         "To briefly review, you remember that in the first meeting we introduced Roger Morneau who shared what he heard about the enemy's plans while being groomed to work in the Church of Satan. You learned how in the 1700's the enemy planned to introduce Evolution to the world to counter the Bible. I purposefully planned Roger's presentation first to show the true origin of the theory of evolution.  This laid the foundation for the rest of the meeting, putting all the evidence in perspective.

         "Tonight we have heard from Jonathan who had added the second piece to the puzzle.  In the following weeks we will build upon this foundation presenting more and more information in our quest to know the truth about God and His creation.

         "Next week I will present information from a true prophet of God (E.G. White), a godly lady for whom I have the highest regard.  She lived in the 1800's and wrote what was shown to her for over 60 years. She died in 1915.  We will look at her account of what she saw in vision about the creation of earth and Adam and Eve, supported by Scripture and anthropology. Don't miss this truly supernatural account.  Bring a friend with you.  Until then, I bid you all a good night.  On behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, who sponsors these meetings, I thank you all for coming and supporting your community."

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