The Twins, often identified with Castor
and Pollux, are also called the Dioscuri (from
Dios-kouroi, "the
Divine Boys (or Twins)"). The Dioscuri are copied, almost verbatim, from
their Vedic archetypes, the Ashvin Twins. But these two founders of the
world are no other than the archetypes of Krishna and Balarama and, hence,
of Atlas and Hercules. As we commented further above, these gods are also the Twins figured on the two jambs of the pylons of Egyptian temples and indifferently butchering the Atlantean residents of Paradise, at its destruction.
All Roads Lead to Paradise
As we see, no matter where we look, we
always end up with the myth of Atlantis. Hence, recapitulating what we
just adduced above. The two pylons (or stunted pyramids) of the Egyptian
temples correspond to the two pillars (Jachin and Boaz) that decorated
the Temple of Solomon. They also correspond to their two obelisks and their
two divine flagpoles (neters), and even to their twin guardians.
They also evoke the Phoenician twin pillars
dedicated to Baal Melkart (Hercules) and his twin and dual, Yam or Mot ("Death"). These two objects also stood for
the Dioscuri Twins (Castor and Pollux) and for their Hindu archetypes,
Krishna and Balarama. In Vedic terms, they refer to Gada and Agada, the
Ashvin Twins who stand for the two destroyed Paradises, Atlantis and Lemuria.22
To sum it all up: the two pillars (or "pylons")
correspond to the two Pillars of Hercules that demarked the entrance to
Atlantis or, yet, the Gateway of Eden. But these Pillars of Hercules were
not indeed the ones at Gibraltar (phony ones) but the ones that flank the
Strait of Sunda in Indonesia and which are the real Pillars of Hercules
that allowed the ingress to Paradise in antiquity, before Atlantis was
destroyed by the Flood.23
Christian Cathedrals Equivalent to
Egyptian Temples
 It
is interesting to note that the symbolism of the Christian cathedrals and
churches closely correspond to the one of Egyptian temples. In them, the
spires or towers substitute the twin pylons or pillars of Egyptian temples.
The towers of many cathedrals such as Notre Dame (see Fig. 9) are stunted
in just the way that the two pyramids of the pylons of Egyptian temples
also were. The idea is to represent the fact that their tops were destroyed
in a giant volcanic explosion, the one that destroyed Paradise.24
The flimsy third tower of Notre Dame represents
the regrowth of the destroyed Paradise. More exactly, since volcanoes are
eternal and start to grow back as soon as they explode, the flimsy third
tower of Notre Dame's cathedral represents the volcanic peak growing back
and starting a new era of mankind in the eternal succession of Cyclic Time.
Many authorities such as Hani whom we
already quoted at the opening of the present chapter recognize the fact
that Christian churches and cathedrals are a replica of Paradise. They
also recognize that their spires represent, just as do those of Hindu and
Egyptian temples, the lofty mountains of Eden. Thence flowed the River
of Life, branching out into four rivers, in perfect correspondence with
the Hindu myths on Mt. Meru, the Mountain of Paradise. In other words,
the three traditions Hindu and Christian, as well as the Egyptian one
agree not only in what concerns geometrical patterns, but also in the
symbolism intended.
As it is not conceivable that the far older
and extremely conservative Hindus cribbed their temple symbolism from that
of the Christians, or even from the Egyptians, we are compelled into accepting
that the diffusion took the opposite direction.
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