There are a number of sculptures of Golden Spheres in prominent places around the world, such as those created by Italian sculptor Arnoldo Pomodoro, known as a Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con Sfera). Pomodoro originally created one for the Vatican Church in the 1960s, but later began building them for other organizations and they can now be found in prime locations all over the world, including: the U.N. Headquarters in New York, Trinity College in Dublin, The Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington,  the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the University of California, Berkeley, the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art  and the Tel Aviv University in Israel, to name a few.
            But the Italian artist was certainly not the first person in history to recognize the significance of the Golden Sphere, not only as it is impressed into the human collective consciousness, but as it exists in Cosmic reality.
            In Costa Rica there are over three hundred ‘petrospheres’ or stone orbs, ranging in size from a few centimetres to over 2 metres in diameter, and weighing up to 15 tons. They were made over 1,500 years ago by the now-extinct Diquís culture from basalt, limestone and sandstone, using unknown methods. The Diquis people polished them and originally coated them in gold. When they were first discovered in the 1930s, people extracted a lot of gold not only from the outside, but also from the inside of the spheres, thus destroying many of them in the process.
            In a forest near the Bosnian town Zavidovici, a ball has been unearthed with a radius of 1.5 metres, and Bosnian archaeologist Semir Osmanagic believes the sphere proves the existence of an advanced lost civilisation dating back more than 1,500 years ago. According to his fellow researcher Dr. Sam Osmanagich, the region used to have many more of the spheres well into the 20th century. Many were apparently destroyed in the 1970s by people trying to extract the gold from them. Dr Osmanagic, known as ‘the Bosnian Indiana Jones,’ hit headlines in 2005 when he claimed that a cluster of hills in Bosnia's Visoko Valley was in fact the site of ancient pyramids linked by a network of underground tunnels. I will write more later in this series about the connection between Spheres and Pyramids.
            There are much older spheres than that. In Utah, small stone spheres have been found that are about 2 million years old, and they are known as Moqui balls. Legend holds that the departed ancestors of the Hopi Native Americans would play games with the balls and leave them as messages to their relatives that they are happy and well. These days the only coating remaining on them is one of iron oxide. But there are some even more ancient: Spheres found in the gold mines of South Africa said to be 2.8 billion years old, suggesting intelligent life existed on Earth long before a conventional view of history places it here. Called Klerksdorp spheres, because they are kept in the Klerksdorp Museum, they are so balanced in shape and proportion, it seems unlikely they were naturally formed, say proponents of the theory that these spheres were made by intelligent beings. One of the spheres was tested at the California Space Institute, and scientists concluded that its balance “is so fine, it exceeded the limit of their measuring technology.” It was “within one-hundred thousandths of an inch from absolute perfection.”
            This series, which I will write in several parts, will look at the traditional of the Golden Sphere as it relates to our origins, and the connection between orbs and humanity. We will look at how the knowledge of the Sphere influenced the Ancient Egyptians, Hebrews (notably Solomon), Ancient Roman buildings and rituals, and Meso-American culture. And of course, the recent appearance of the “Orb phenomenon” in the 21st Century.

 
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            In recent times a number of new facts have been revealed about what lies beneath our feet, inside the Earth. Three months ago we found out that there is a huge reservoir of water, similar to the volume of water that exists in all our oceans, 1000 km below the planet’s surface[i]. (The Rosetta mission had already disproved the theory that water was brought to Earth by comets – but we already knew that theory didn’t hold water, didn’t we?)  A year ago we were told about a huge source of oxygen deep underground that even affects our weather[ii] and just this week scientists have mapped a huge reservoir of molten carbon spanning 695,000 square miles that is more than 200 miles underneath the western USA[iii]. The scientific community has, until now, led us to believe that they were quite sure what the inside of our planet looks like, but now that seems to not really be the case.
            This week, Ancient-Code.com leads with the headline: “Is there a slight possibility that there is an inner Sun, Inner World and lost civilization inside of Earth? In recent decades, a number of findings have been made that drastically alter the views on the Inner Earth theory.”[iv]
            They go on to cite the evidence recorded by Admiral Byrd, books like Worlds Beyond the Poles by Amadeo Giannini and the writings of Ray Palmer. To quote them further:
“The Macuxi Indians are indigenous people who live in the Amazon, in countries such as Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela. According to their legends, they are the descendants of the Sun’s children, the creator of Fire and disease and the protectors of the ‘inner Earth.’ Their oral legends speak of an entrance into Earth. Until the year 1907, the Macuxies would enter some sort of cavern, and travel from 13 to 15 days until they reached the interior. It is there, ‘at the other side of the world, in the inner Earth’ is where the Giants live, creatures that have (sic) around 3-4 meters in height.”[v]
            Ancient Code also points out that Plato wrote about the mythical inner world, and Pliny the Elder asserted that the Atlanteans had, after first fleeing to the Himalayas, later gone ‘underground.’ They neglect to mention the 1871 ‘novel’ The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which many believe to be based on fact, and in which we were introduced to the energy called Vril by a subterranean race – so highly coveted by the Nazis in WWII.
            My mentor on the higher planes is Empedocles, who lived from 495 to 435 BC, right after Pythagoras, and before Plato. For his perspective on the matter, I will quote from the foremost scholarly authority on him, Peter Kingsley:
“This ‘central fire’, as they sometimes called it, was considered by them the key to the alchemical transformation process. According to them it was the real source of light – so much so that they referred to it as the ‘Sun in the earth’, the ‘subterranean’ Sun. On the one hand this ‘earthly’ or ‘invisible Sun’ was the ‘fire of hell’, the ‘black Sun’, the ‘darkness of purgatory’. On the other, as the Sun that ‘rises out of the darkness of the earth’, it was the origin not only of the visible Sun but also the light of the stars. […] the idea is attributed, quite specifically, to Empedocles.”[vi] 
            Empedocles knew that on the higher vibrational plane, there is a Sun at the centre of the Earth, just as the Sun we see in the sky is at the centre of the cosmic bubble called the ‘Heliosphere,’ and at the centre of the force field of every human being is a “Solar Heart.’ Not everything is visible to the human eye.


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Source References:​
[i]https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23231014-700-deepest-water-found-1000km-down-a-third-of-way-to-earths-core/
[ii] http://forums.higherbalance.com/threads/huge-oxygen-source-discovered-below-planets-surface.264/
[iii] http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/02/16/vast-lake-molten-carbon-discovered-under-western-us.html
[iv] http://www.ancient-code.com/is-there-another-sun-inner-world-and-lost-civilization-inside-of-earth/
[v] Ibid.
[vi] Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic p.56, Peter Kingsley, 1995, Oxford University Press

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The question is raised as to how sometimes a practitioner of the Solar Sciences can produce negativity or darkness, rather than issuing forth words and deeds of Light. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of a young Roman Emperor called Elagabalus (203 to 222 AD). In his early youth he served as a priest of the god Elagabal in his homeland of Syria, where his high-ranking Roman parents held hereditary rights to the priesthood of this Solar deity. Through a series of events he wound up becoming Emperor at the age of fourteen. He was a member of the Severan dynasty, started by Septimius Severus a few years earlier, and under whose reign Sun worship had increased throughout the Empire. Elagabalus saw this as an opportunity to install Elagabal as the chief deity of the Roman pantheon and later renamed him Deus Sol Invictus. He built a lavish temple called the Elagabalium on the east face of the Palatine Hill and performed elaborate rituals to the Sun.

But something went wrong with Elagabalus: he developed an insatiable sexual appetite which he sought to satisfy with many partners of both genders, had five wives and one main husband above all his other minions, and then became a transsexual, while talking to his doctors about having a sex-change. Being highly sexed is not unknown among ancient leaders, but this young man’s real perversity expressed itself in having a number of his citizens killed for his amusement, perhaps even pleasure. Because of this, as well as increasingly eccentric behaviour, his soldiers eventually turned on him and he was brutally assassinated after five years’ reign, at the age of nineteen.

So, what went wrong? How did this handsome youth who started out as an appointed Priest of the Sun turn nasty? Human beings have both positive and negative polarity within them. Metaphysicians and mystics generally urge people to strive for balance between these two poles. As Tesla observed, the Sun’s positive polarity can form a circuit with the primarily negative polarity of the Earth. I believe that humans can consciously complete this circuit and we can train ourselves to incorporate an extra positive Solar particle within us, thus tipping the scales toward the Light. For analogy, there is an asymmetry between antimatter, so even the tiniest amount of matter – say, just one particle per billion – gives it (matter) the upper hand over antimatter in our physical universe[1]. Likewise, students of the Solar Sciences strive to acquire this extra particle of Light, based on Love. It could well be said that Love is what is missing in the search for a unified ‘field of everything.’ If practitioners absorb Sunlight and interact with the Solar Disc for self-centred reasons, or with the intention of controlling and/or harming others (in what is sometimes referred to as Black Arts) it can result in them forming a very dark and undesirable personality.

Elagabalus might have started out life with good intentions but, like so many who are given absolute power, especially at a young age, he was corrupted. And in his case, harnessing the energy of the Sun for all the wrong reasons had disastrous results. Remember to always build your Life and Light on a foundation of Love.


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Source Reference:
[1] https://home.cern/topics/antimatter/matter-antimatter-asymmetry-problem