Advanced Civilizations & Ancient Mysteries

Author Christopher Knight talked about how knowledge from a highly advanced civilization can be seen in the henges in Britain, the Pyramids of Giza, and even in the design of Washington, DC. According to Knight, a civilization dating back 8,000 to 12,000 years ago had developed precise units of measurement based on an intricate understanding of the solar system. One of their units, known as a megalithic yard, was passed down to the henge builders and is clearly reflected in the layout of their Neolithic structures, he explained.

The henges themselves were scientific instruments built to measure the heavens with absolute accuracy, Knight said. They were used to calculate everything from the movement of Venus to the timing of eclipses, he continued. The henges were built at key points of longitude and latitude by an international community of scientists, and laid out in such a way to represent the stars in Orion’s belt, Knight added. Curiously, the Giza pyramids were arranged in exactly the same way in relation to the constellation and constructed using the same ancient measuring systems, he said.

Knight claims to have found the same measurements utilized throughout the U.S. Capitol. The Naval Observatory Building is essentially a modern henge constructed to honor the important things that happen in the heavens, he pointed out. Knight suggested the planners of DC used ancient principles of measurement to somehow link to heaven and God’s power, and this knowledge had been preserved through the ages by Freemasons.

Biography:

Christopher Knight has worked in advertising and marketing for over thirty years. Until recently he was the Chairman of an English advertising agency called ‘Paradigm,’ which was named the country’s advertising agency of the year in the year 2000. He now divides his time between marketing consultancy and historical research.

Christopher has written four books to date, several co-authored with Robert Lomas. He has invested seven years conducting research into the origins of Freemasonic rituals. His interest in Freemasonry began in 1976 when he joined a local lodge simply to find out what these men did behind their closed doors. Over the next couple of years he realized that nobody understood what the rituals were about or where they had come from. Over a quarter of a century later he has tracked the origins of these rituals down to prehistoric stonemasons in the British Isles.

Christopher Knight is an author who has written several pseudoarchaeological and pseudohistorical books dealing with theories such as 366-degree geometry and the origins of Freemasonry. Knight appears in the two-part History Channel documentary “Decoding the Past — Mysteries of the Freemasons”.
Books
Cover image for Civilization One by Knight

Co-authored with Robert Lomas: The Book Of Hiram: Freemasonry, Venus and the Secret Key to the Life of Jesus, April 2003 Uriel’s Machine: The Ancient Origins of Science, March 1999 The Holy Grail, part of Mysteries Of The Ancient World: The Mysteries of the Ancient World Explored and Explained, June 1998 The Second Messiah: Templars, The Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of Freemasonry, April 1997 The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus, March 1996

Co-authored with Alan Butler Civilization One: The World is not as you thought it was. 2004 Who Built the Moon?: 2005 The Hiram Key Revisited: 2007 Solomon’s Power Brokers: The Secrets of Freemasonry, the Church and the Illuminati. 2007 Before the Pyramids. Cracking archaeology’s greatest mystery. 2009