The temple of Ramses III one of the
most
 beautiful
and best preserved ancient Egyptian temples will serve as the base of
our discussion. It is shown below, in the magnificent reconstruction of
Fig.2.
 At the faces of the pylons can be seen
one of the most constant features of Egyptian temples: the engraved image
of the god or the pharaoh impassively smashing the heads of prisoners. Indeed,
the images are dual, and represent the twin gods wielding their maces with
a solemn detachment. These twin gods are the aliases of Hercules and Atlas,
the Primordial Twins of Atlantis. In other words, what the impressive engraving
shows is the destruction of Atlantis by its two patron deities, Hercules
and Atlas.
The icon also corresponds to a similar
motif which is extremely popular in the Far East and which shows Yama and
Yamantaka (or their many aliases) killing the Bull or some other enemy
that represents Atlantis. It is strange to see the god who is the patron
and founder of a nation to wipe it out so recklessly. But such is invariably
the case, for the hand that creates is the same one that destroys, when
the right time comes. And this great god is Shiva. In the Far East, Shiva
is deemed, like Jahveh, to be both the Creator and the Destroyer of all
things, which are infallibly doomed to die.
The Triple Wall and the Crenelated
Tower
As can be seen in Fig.2, the Egyptian temple
was surrounded by a triple wall. The admission was from the south side,
by means of a pier or dock on which the sacred barque landed on
the occasion of the festivals, bringing in the pharaoh and the visiting
gods from the other temples along the Nile. The two outermost walls were
crenelated. The outer one was lower than the inner one, which posed a formidable
barrier against thieves and invaders.
The main gate was garnished with a lofty
crenelated tower well stocked with soldiers, who had the range of its thick
wall, turning the temple into a virtually inexpugnable fortress. The third,
innermost one, was entered through the first pylon, again an impressive structure
that we will discuss further below. The triple wall is a characteristic
Atlantean feature, one that was extensively discussed by Plato. So is also
the crenelated tower which, again, rendered Atlantis virtually inexpugnable.4
The Garden and the Sacred Pools
The common folks and the profane visitors
only had access to the outer court and the gardens of the temple. In Fig.1
and 2 one can see that these gardens were decorated with palm trees (date
palms), trees (sycamores) and flower plants.
They were well watered, and had two sacred
pools fed automatically from the underground with water from the Nile by
means of a sophisticate hydraulic device. This can be seen in Fig. 1(c),
a reconstruction made by Papus (ABC Illustré d'Occultisme,
Paris, 1892). These two pools serving as artificial springs closely recall
those of Atlantis as described by Plato, and which were one hot and the
other cool, according to him.
The sacred pools (or springs) of the Egyptian
temples served for the baptism of the initiants, a ritual that is intimately
connected with the Flood and the sinking of Atlantis, as we explain elsewhere
in detail (See: The Atlantean Origin of the Seven Sacraments: Baptism). These were also connected, by means of subterranean waterworks, with
the underground crypt, where initiatic rituals of a more occult nature
were performed. The luxuriant, artificially irrigated garden of the Egyptian
temples is another feature that can be traced back directly to Atlantis
and, indeed, to the Garden of Eden and to that of the Hesperides (or Atlantides),
the daughters of Atlas.
Plato describes the beautiful gardens of
Atlantis in detail in his
Critias. And the Garden of the Hesperides
so often associated with Atlantis lay not indeed in Morocco or in Libya,
as some affirm, but in Atlantis itself. These gardens are the same as the
legendary Gardens of Avalon, or as the Garden of Eden, the true site of
Man's origin that is no other than Atlantis. It is hardly likely that the
jealous Atlas would keep the Hesperides both his daughters and lovers,
according to tradition very far from his palace in the Orient, confining
them in Mauritania (Marocco), on the other side of the world.
The Pylons, Banners and Obelisks
As illustrated in Fig.1, most Egyptians
temples had a pair of monolithic obelisks planted just in front of the
pylons of the inner gateway. These obelisks were a sort of free standing
pillars, and closely correspond to Jachin and Boaz, their famous counterparts
posted in front of Solomon's Temple by Hiram of Tyre. More exactly, they
also corresponded to the Pillars of Hercules Melkart posted in front of
the temples the Phoenicians constructed every where a strategic strait
separated two seas or two different regions.
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