AS ABOVE . . . SO BELOW
(Esoteric Axioms)

Tetraskele is part of a small organization dedicated to the on-going re-discovery of sacred occult science, and the hidden history of esoteric practitioners. As we uncover this other history — interwoven into what we currently accept as history — the past takes on a completely new aspect. These discoveries are truly ground-breaking, and will force historians, anthropologists and archaeologists (not to mention theologians, philosophers and the rest of us), to question some of the basic foundational premises upon which conventional understanding rests. Not only will history never be the same again, but almost every field of the sciences is affected.

This is a bold claim. And yet, the hard evidence of advanced sciences in the far distant past presented in these pages, should give the most ardent 'skeptic' a wake-up call. Such claims will certainly infuriate some, who will ask the obvious question: "If such advanced knowledge was once extant among ancient societies, then where is it now, where did it go?" We will suggest some answers to this riddle as we unravel this esoteric past within the pages of this website.

This is a commercial website, but our goals are far from materialistic. Our intent is to both educate, and to make available tools for on-going personal exploration and enlightenment, based on our many discoveries. A documentary is also in the works. For those of modern generations for whom the term 'bottom line' has become a mantra, the bottom line here is, if you appreciate what we're giving away, then you'll appreciate what we're selling even more.

As a note, all proceeds from sales of our various sacred science products goes to fund our research. A percentage of our alchemical products are also donated to those who cannot afford them, but who need them and will use them in wisdom. We believe that this is the intent of the Creator, as all of nature is freely available to mankind. We truly own nothing, except a debt to all of Creation. Hence, we believe in consecration.

Our goal here is to demonstrate that the legends of the ancients, of lands of peace and prosperity, were not only a reality, but were only made possible when human beings put aside their differences, and consecrated their time and efforts to helping one another, and to improving the world around them. We see ourselves as stewards, and as servants, not as owners of proprietary knowledge, or as movers and shakers. As such we are anachronistic, eccentric, and proud of it.

We present for your entertainment and illumination, our discoveries and theories, our intuitive hunches and tangible hard scientific evidences, all tossed together with a measure of humility and topped with just a hint sarcasm. Mostly, we are tired of lies being passed off as truth, and for the modern scientific community which protects its own interests at the expense of mankind's physical — and more importantly — spiritual evolution. We are aether cosmologists who stand in opposition to the BS (bad science) of Relativity and the reject the mathematical maze of the Quantum Mechanists. We are gnostic in our spiritual orientation, and decry materialism as the illusion which traps mankind in the labyrinth of rebirth, rather than freeing him to follow a spiritual path of light and truth.

This iconoclastic stand may not sit with everyone. So be it.

We stand in opposition to the drug-addiction and reactive medicine of allopathic medicine, in favor of a holistic, and integrated health-promoting lifestyle. We believe that we have, in our laboratory, a piece of the alchemical puzzle to which the famous Renaissance alchemist, physician, astrologer and natural philosopher, Paracelsus, spoke of when he referred to the use of mineral-based alchemical medicines. He understood that the “Philosopher’s Stone” (or Universal Elixir) was an alchemical preparation made from the mineral kingdom. The first stage — of a two-stage process — which lead to the realization of the Philosopher's Stone, was known as the Green Dragon. In Asia and Asia Minor, the Green Dragon elixir was known by many names, but among the most famous was Amrita — the Nectar of Life – remembered in the myths of the "Churning of the Ocean of Milk," or, Samudra Manthan. We offer this Green Dragon elixir in our store, as Amrita•Soma®.

Paracelsus was not alone in believing that when properly prepared, the mineral stone, in minute dilutions, could end sickness and retard aging indefinitely, transmuting the human organism, setting mankind on the pat to immortality. And yet, this evolution of mankind was driven by the spiritual quest for increased consciousness, as well the intellectual pursuits of the mind. However, the lapis philosophorum is merely a vehicle which prepares the human body for its spiritual progression, by transmuting it and freeing it from the cumulative effects of sickness and imbalances which accelerate the early demise of the body. Those whose search for immortality lead them to the stone, increased their chances of reaching the spiritual and intellectual goals which might require centuries to attain, and which most cannot attain due to their shortened lifetimes. In other words, the "Philosopher's Stone" is a means to an end: that end being the transmutation of the body and spirit of man into a form compared by the ancients to that of the brilliance of the Sun, allegorically. Hence, it was said that the alchemists' goal was the transmutation of the crude matter into gold. The foolish sought the riches of this earth, but the wise knew that the greatest treasures were those of immortality and eternal life, and also knew one was not gained without the other. Alchemy, is the personal, holistic art of ascension.

The goal of Tetraskele is to rediscover and promote the truths encoded into ancient mythos, and to assist in the spiritual evolution of the soul (body<=>mind) of men and women everywhere. All of our products assist — in one way or another — in the attainment of that goal. Whether we offer the elixir of life, mineral supplements rich in the Quinta Essentia, books and studies rife with eternal truth and principles, or the best sacred science toys' and games — which encourage in the young, or the young at heart new insights — the same purpose is served. Whether of the spirit, the mind, or of the body, it is the same: "As Above . . . So Below."

Standing stones of Prima Materia, bathed by the radiance of Luna, stand as they have for millennia on the Isle of Man (Fig. 1)

As part of an 13 year-long, privately funded research project (and documentary), the discoveries of petroglyphic evidence supporting the diffusion of ancient wisdom from the Old World to the New World is nothing less than the proverbial 'smoking gun.' This website is part of a system of sites dedicated to aspects of these discoveries. Our sister site www.SpagyricArts.com focuses on the alchemical side of these discoveries, while the website www.HiddenInLight.com is a presentation of evidence and discussions centered on the occult truths embodied in the esoteric practices of ancient times, and stresses the secret knowledge of the existence of the New World, and associated sacred sciences, as traditions passed from one age of man to the next. (Such traditions are exemplified in the myth of the "Churning of the Ocean of Milk," as well as many others stories, some dating from antiquity).

We pause in our own dialog at this point, to offer a couple pearls from a Theosophist overview of Masonry, as it was understood by a founder of this movement, Madame Blavatsky. The article highlighted was available for your online perusal at the time of this writing, and comes highly recommended. The title of the document is: "THE RIGHT ANGLE – MASONRY." (From the Theosophical Writings of H.P. Blavatsky, compiled by Geoffrey Farthing). Although www.Tetraskele.com is not affiliated with Theosophy, Mormonism, Gnostic or other religions of any sort, we seek truth where it is found, and religions based in cosmological fundamentals have long been established by the greatest of mankind, in order that fundamental cosmological truths can be seeded into the minds of men and women down through the ages. Although H.P. Blavatsky was not the first to understand these great truths, she did manage to publish many books and treatises on this topic, calling attention to these truths dismissed as Asian fairytales by the beginning of the 19th century, to become accepted as legitimate (albeit esoteric) history by an international audience.

As with any great thinker, some of her ideas were her own interpretation of fundamental truths. Other concepts came from purer streams of historic knowledge. But whatever the case, the basic ideas expressed in the following excerpts have been verified though our own research. We now have evidence which Blavatsky did not. We dedicate these groundbreaking discoveries to her memory. Throughout these pages we will attempt to present this ancient illumination in a new light of understanding.

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The following extracts from H.P. Blavatsky's (H.P.B.'s) voluminous works are intended to give some information about Masonry and the flavour of her thinking on the subject as she dealt with it over the period of her writing from 1875 to 1891.

GNOSTICISM AND ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY

Masonry was, in its origin, simply archaic Gnosticism, or early esoteric Christianity; Church Ritualism was, and is, exoteric paganism, pure and simple - remodelled, we do not say reformed. Read the works of Ragon, a Mason who forgot more than the Masons of today know. Study, collating them together, the casual but numerous statements made by Greek and Latin writers, many of whom were Initiates, most learned Neophytes and partakers of the Mysteries. Read finally the elaborate and venomous slanders of the Church Fathers against the Gnostics, the Mysteries and their Initiates - and you may end by unravelling the truth. It is a few philosophers who, driven by the political evens of the day, tracked and persecuted by the fanatical Bishops of early Christianity - who had yet neither fixed ritual nor dogmas nor Church - it is these Pagans who founded the latter. Blending most ingeniously the truths of the Wisdom-religion with the exoteric fictions so dear to the ignorant mobs, it is they who laid the first foundations of ritualistic Churches and of the Lodges of modern Masonry. The latter fact was demonstrated by Ragon in his ANTE-OMNIAE of the modern Liturgy compared with the ancient Mysteries, and showing the rituals conducted by the early Masons; the former may be ascertained by a like comparison of the Church canonicals, the sacred vessels, and the festivals of the Latin and other Churches and Masonry have widely diverged since the days when both were one. If asked how a profane can know it, the answer comes: ancient and modern Freemasonry are an obligatory study with every Eastern Occultist. [C.W.XI, 71]

KABALA

... Ten ciphers, 22 alphabetical letters, one triangle, a square and a circle. Such are the elements of the Cabala, from whose mysterious bosom sprang all the religions of the past and present; which endowed all the Free Masonic associations with their symbols and secrets, which alone can reconcile human reason with God and Faith, Power with Freedom, Science with Mystery, and which has alone the keys of the present, past and future.[C.W.I, 130-1]

GUARDIANS, PRIMITIVE DIVINE REVELATION

Yet, if the students of the dead languages know anything, they ought to know that the method of extreme necessitarianism was practised in ancient as well as in modern Philosophy: that from the first ages of man, the fundamental truths of all that we are permitted to know on earth were in the safe keeping of the Adepts of the sanctuary; that the difference in creeds and religious practice was only external; and that those guardians of the primitive divine revelation, who had solved every problem that is within the grasp of human intellect, were bound together by a universal freemasonry of science and philosophy, which formed one unbroken chain around the globe. It is for philology and the Orientalists to endeavour to find the end of the thread. But if they will persist in seeking it in one direction only, and that the wrong one, truth and fact will never be discovered. It thus remains the duty of psychology and Theosophy to help the world to arrive at them. [C.W.XIII, 264]

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For clarification, when we refer to 'occult,' or 'esoteric' practices, persons or religions, we refer to a long held traditions which maintained that knowledge of a true science of eternal certainty was a dangerous thing in the wrong hands. Therefore this knowledge was hidden from the profane. This was sacred, secret. The cosmology and science behind these principles were taught only to those who swore oaths (to death) not to reveal them to anyone not initiated. Yet, such traditions, and strictly oral transmission of the deeper core science, meant that, if the oral transmission of adept-initiate training was interrupted for more than one or two generations, all knowledge would be lost. This, sadly, was the case far more often than it was not. This is especially truth here in North America. This, and a reluctance to share any of their sacred religious knowledge with the (false) White Brother, ensured that most of the deeper knowledge once extant here in America, was lost over time.

(For a classic example of this sort of lost knowledge, see our "Kokopelli = Magi" article)

ARMENIAN HAI PRIESTS LEAVE EVIDENCE OF WORSHIP IN THE MOJAVE DESERT

The following shots were taken at what is arguably one of the most important rock art sites in North America. Its actual location is a secret, but we will share with our readers that it is located on the edge of the Mojave Desert in Eastern California. Based on two years of prior research, a once-in-nineteen-year lunar alignment is documented in the photographs below. Predicted by the author to be recorded by a specific set of stone alignments, as indicated by various symbols, this alignment occurred at the precise moment of the local full moon rise, on Imbolc (the ancient Celtic cross-quarter day). These were recorded on film as they occurred, at the moment predicted, showing that the ancient secret calendars can now be read, and their meanings determined with great accuracy.

To view the alignment the hierophant would sit on a rock seat with his feet in a triple target petroglyph (symbol of lunar syzygies), and look along a path that passes over a libation bowl ground into the dolomite of the site (used for the religious preparation and sacramental ingestion of amrita-soma). By sighting through the 'V' shaped slot carved in a testicle-shaped stone, and aligning it with a large shiva linga (this unique structure is clearly identifiable as an ancient Armenian-style 'shiva linga'), the full moon alignment occurs when the moon intersects the established line-of-sight, and the point where the observer's eye, sighting along this double-stone 'target,' crosses the local horizon — established by the mountain range lying to the east of the site. (Figs. 2-3)

Shot of the Armenian-style shiva linga stone set (like a rifle site) at an esoteric petroglyph site in the Mojave Desert [Fig. 2]



Predicted full-moon alignment (which occurs only once every 19 years) is captured by digital camera, on the evening of the Imbolc 'cross-quarter' day, February 2nd, 2007 [Fig. 3]



An ancient Armenian (gold) medallion with both male and female genitalia (See www.armenianhighland.com) [Fig. 4]

The logic is unescapable. These ancient occult scientists not only used astronomy for religious reasons, but also for navigation required for transoceanic travel.

Throughout the Great Basin of North America, and astrology of the Old World is plainly manifest at thousands of petroglyph sites. There are numerous sites at other locations across the North America, however, it is in the arid deserts of the western coasts of both North as well as South America, where both the mineralogy (driven by plate tectonics) and the omnipresent open vistas (absolutely necessary for serious, and extended astrological measurements), made the practice of astrologically-timed alchemy highly practical.

These esoteric traditions were brought to the Americas from the Old World as part of an on-going practice of trade and evangelism. Although esoteric communities came and went, and shifted their centers of operation many times over millennia, the pure cosmological religion they taught endured. It is for this reason that, despite the fact that almost 100 'native american' languages were extant in United States alone (during the beginning of the twentieth century), in a land encompassing 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2), there was only one core religion: a religion based in the worship of the once true God, or Great Spirit. What are the odds of that?

Now, we can learn to read the rocks in both lands (the Old World and the New World or "Underworld" as the ancients called it). As we roll out the www.Tetraskele.com web site, we are finally taking this research — and the technologies developed in the aftermath of these groundbreaking discoveries — to the public. Our newly re-gained knowledge of this secret, sacred science on the desert rocks of America's Great Basin, may well lead to a New Renaissance of ancient alchemy; from the same spiritual alchemical and astrological crucible from which the majority of the world's myths were once forged. This is truly a land of the firebird, or phoenix.

AMRITA•SOMA

The single most important product developed as a result of our research is nothing less the fabled "Elixir of Life," also known as Amrit(a) in the historical writings and myths of greater India. Following the Medieval occupation of Andalusia by the Arabs, through to the Renaissance, this elixir would become known as the fabled Green Dragon or Green Lion.

It is fairly clear that the now famous stone henge in the highlands of Armenia, a site known as Karahunj, was used for the sort of long term astronomical observations required for the establishment of such astrological cycles as we see in the Great Basin. There is no evidence that Amerindians worked these out in the basin, for there are no 'stone henges' anywhere in the west which could have been used for such accurate observations. Although some sites do exist in the East which might have been used for making the proper observations, these existed some 6,000 years after the older sites in Nevada were established.

This leaves the obvious question unanswered: “Where did the Amerindians of the Great Basin (and in fact, this goes for almost all known American “Indian Nations” who, at one time or another, were learned in astrology) gain their sophisticated knowledge of astronomy? The answer is two-fold. First, some who came here from the Old World (Navajo, Hopis, Chumash, Tohono O’odham, and others) or intermingled their cultures and genetics with those visiting the New World (like the Yuchi and Zuni). These Old World peoples brought the knowledge with them. Secondly, it was brought from the Old World by ancient esoteric brotherhoods who frequented this hemisphere for many millennia. They taught spiritual truths, as well as the esoteric use of mineral “elixirs” to the New World, establishing esoteric orders here in North, Central and South America. Along with this esoteric knowledge, they taught Amerindian peoples how to recognize, and count lunisolar cycles in order to predict many of the syzygies which were easily observable with the naked-eye. With these counts they could predict eclipses.

Energetic electrical phenomena stimulating the Earth's Ionosphere. This is analogous to what Amrita•Soma does for the human body.

Sadly, the modern world view, dominated as it is by Western materialist science, and still embracing many of the false beliefs concerning 'occult' practices which resulted from of centuries of post-Inquisitional Christian propaganda, still largely ignores the reality of a sophisticated science which remained extant in the world. Even as a thousand years of spiritual and intellectual darkness descended upon Europe and beliefs in a 'flat earth' predominated, such patently false ideas have not been abandoned by our society. Ironically, a belief had by many (in total ignorance) is that the ancient esoteric (occult) religions and orders which thrived in Asia and Asian Minor, for millennia, were somehow evil, and based in superstitions. The opposite is the truth. It is we, in the western world, who have forgotten who, and what we are. We have also lost touch with the true cosmology.

However, not ALL scientists are ignorant of the truth . . . but that's another story.

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This Website

This web site is the retail outlet for a number of products inspired by these remarkable discoveries. However, in an unusual approach to marketing, we are not focused on selling our visitors widgets, but on educating our readers so that the products we are selling are understood in the greater context of the human experience. If you have come here to learn, then you are in the right place. If you have come here to have a good time, well then — as luck would have it — you are also in the right place.

These products fall into two categories: gifts for the Mind, and gifts for the Body. We might say that the goal here is to illuminate the mind, and to tune the body, so that the soul's potential may be realized. We should perhaps add that both mind and body must be healed as one, for true health to exist. Health — as has been stated by great minds, long before our time — is about balance. It is with this ideal in mind, that Tetraskele, Inc. was conceived.

Our website is meant to educate, and not merely to sell. This is why there are no blinking banners, heavy metal jingles or ostentatious neon "BUY NOW AND SAVE" buttons. We hope that you, the reader, will even find some serenity here, and a place to learn at your own pace. Purchasing our products supports this work — as well as that displayed on our associated web sites — dedicated to various aspects of these discoveries. These sites are:

SpagyricArts.com
(official website for the alchemical manufacturing and research arm of this 'great work')

HiddenInLight.com
(a website dedicated to illuminating the esoteric "Secret of the Ages, and the unification of true cosmology and sacred science)

. . . for the Mind

ARIES & FIRE
(Cauldrons in Two Worlds)

One of the greatest blunders of modern science may one day prove to be the eurocentrism of western scientists who decided that ancient man was stupid, couldn't figure out how to sail in boats, and that the hundreds of millions of petroglyphs around the planet were ALL made by ignorant aboriginal primitives doodling on rocks because they had nothing better to do between big bellied sheep hunting expeditions!

Quite the contrary, the science encoded in these simple looking glyphs, are very sophisticated, and echo from the past as evidence that highly advanced astronomical and alchemical knowledge existed – albeit among an esoteric elite only – in ancient times. One of the most blatant examples of mistaken identity are the millions of petroglyphs allegedly depicting what appear to be distorted (badly drawn) and disfigured mountain sheep, from sites around the world. These 'sheep' often have tiny short legs, or three legs, two heads, are square or double-ended, flipped upside down, and some even have been found with Egyptian Ankh symbols for heads . . . in Baja Mexico!

These are not sheep, silly scientists, these are symbolizing one of the oldest symbols of the alchemists tool set, his steel (or ceremonial silver and bronze) cauldrons! No, not 'big-bellied sheep,' but the tools of the trade of alchemist-astrologer-sailor priests who never left home . . . without them!

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SECRET UNDERWORLD
(Two Worlds, Oceans Apart)

America was Atlantis, to the early Egyptians, and was called Atala by the East Indians. In the oldest epic tale in the world, the Ramayana, the Americas were known as Lanka, and is recorded in the mythic tales linked to the magical Glastonbury Tor, as Arthur's Isle of Avalon. In fact, the famous apples of Avalon have their direct parallel in the Greek apples of the Hebrides. Earlier Roman mythology refers to the 'underworld,' as Elysium. Yet this was only a variation on the earlier Greek myths of El-Y-Sion, meaning God's Land. New Kingdom Egyptians would adopt this same term – god's land – which in Egyptian was expressed in the compound word Punt (p-Unt). Queen Hapshetsut's voyages to Punt are legendary.

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TRANSOCEANIC MAGI
(Corridors of the Magi)









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ELIXIR OF LIFE
(Primer on Prima Materia)



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SACRED SCIENCE
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