Everything in nature moves in cycles.
From the cycling of the earth around the sun
to the life cycle of a plant, an animal, and human being.
Everything rotates on nature's wheel.
Even civilizations rise and fall.
But many ancient peoples spoke of even greater cycles than these.
They recorded how entire epochs of humanity
go through periods of light and darkness
and are periodically destroyed by global catastrophes,
so that they disappear almost without a trace,
and the cycle begins again.
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Many ancient sources preserve memories,
passed down over generations,
that describe different ages of human civilization.
They state that these ages were each brought to an end by global cataclysms
which forced people to start civilization over again.
And there is evidence
in the archeological record,
in artifacts, oral histories
and in ruins of immense antiquity across the world
that supports this.
Legends of the Maya of Central America state that there have been three
previous world ages
and similarly the Aztecs say there have been four which they call "suns,"
each having been destroyed by a catastrophe.
According to their traditions
which were inherited from even earlier civilizations
the last age was destroyed by a great flood
and we are now living in the age of the fifth and final sun.
Like the Maya, the oral histories of the Hopi people of North America
record a series of three world ages,
that were each destroyed by global cataclysms.
They state the first world was destroyed by fire,
the second by ice,
which may correspond to the onset of the period
known as the Younger Dryas at around 10,800 BC,
when possible comet impacts caused global temperatures to plummet
for over a thousand years.
The third world is described as having been occupied by a global, seafaring civilization
in possession of advanced technology that even included flying machines.
However, Hopi legends state that this civilization became morally corrupt
and was wiped out by a global flood as a result.
Remarkably, this description shares many similarities
with the account of the lost civilization of Atlantis,
as retold by the famous Greek philosopher Plato.
His account also states
that Atlantis had degenerated
and was destroyed by flood as a form of divine retribution,
giving the date of its destruction as 9,600 BC.
Similar stories of a global deluge are attested
in hundreds of legends around the world
and may correspond to the sudden rise in sea levels
around 9,600 BC.
Many state that only those who had a high enough spiritual level were forewarned
and thus survived to later repopulate the following world.
Ancient Greek poets also repeated legends of a series of world ages,
which they had inherited from the Thracians.
These were assigned to metals, starting with gold to indicate greater spiritual purity,
descending to our current age of iron
which was predicted would experience times of great evil
and suffering before being destroyed.
The ancient legends of the Norse of Northern Europe
also view human ages as cyclical
and predict a coming catastrophe called Ragnarok,
when humanity will perish by flood and flames,
rectifying evil and making way for the start of a golden age
when the gods, righteous rulers,
and the knowledge of the runes will return to Earth.
The histories preserved in the ancient Vedic and Hindu texts of India
also describe cyclical ages of human civilization
that span tens to hundreds of thousands of years.
Throughout these ages Earth is periodically cleansed of evil
and is spiritually renewed.
Not only are these ages cyclical,
but within them they state there are periods of light,
or greater spirituality,
and of darkness, or greater degeneration.
These periods of light and darkness are likened
to the light and dark halves of the year
as the sun and Earth cycle from autumn to spring equinox and back again.
Ages of human life are said to begin in a golden age
in which people and their rulers are virtuous
and dedicated to the practice of the eternal religion, and erect temples to it.
In ancient Egypt this golden age was called Zep Tepi,
meaning when the gods manifested as humans at the first time.
In one of their most ancient texts it says that at this time
the first temple, the temple of the sun,
was built in homage to the divine creative sun.
Echoes of this golden age can be found across the world
when the ancient Religion of the Sun was established
and practiced throughout it.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of similarly designed
megalithic sacred sites were built to align to the cosmos,
particularly to the sun at the solstices and equinoxes.
And a now lost civilization of the sun arose,
which spread over the earth
even aligning sites to one another over continents and oceans.
The ancient remnants of this once great global Religion of the Sun
that have survived in the most ancient texts in the world
such as the Vedas, the texts of ancient Egypt
and in the oral histories of people such as the Hopi,
record a time when many people had a greater sense of the spiritual,
were more principled and far less materialistic.
Vedic, Egyptian and Sumerian king lists
stretch back to its possible beginnings
tens of thousands of years ago.
However, Egyptian oral traditions state that people began to lose their spiritual senses
and ancient texts record how they departed from spiritual principles.
Many ancient sites were decimated,
practitioners of the Religion of the Sun were persecuted
and much of their knowledge was lost
— a process that continues even to this day.
According to some Vedic timelines the world entered what they call the Kali Yuga,
or the dark age, around 3,000 BC.
In this age it is said that virtue diminishes greatly
and that practitioners of true spirituality are driven out into remote places,
that gurus are harmed by their own students
while pretenders charge money to teach and are lauded,
describing it as a time of great difficulty for those with principles and values.
The ancient Norse texts describe it as a time of harshness in the world
when whoredom is rife and is, I quote:
"an axe age, a sword age—shields are riven—
a wind age, a wolf age—before the world goes headlong.
No man will have mercy on another."
Hindu, Norse and Hopi accounts all state in some form
that global catastrophes have come
and will come again,
not as random events,
but as the only way to cleanse the earth of evil
when humanity degenerates to an extremely destructive level
and doesn't wish to correct itself.
Each predict that another catastrophe is approaching
due to the level of humanity today.
A precise date is not usually given.
Instead what are listed are the many signs said to precede it,
all of which share remarkable similarities.
The Prophecy Rock of the Hopi predicts the coming of a great catastrophe
they call Purification Day,
which will destroy what they see as the fourth and current age.
The rock is aligned to the summer solstice sunrise
and shows two paths:
one leading to complete destruction
and the other to sunrise and continued life.
It's said that this path can only be followed by those
who adhere to the creator's plan
right to the end of humanity when it will be judged,
and that these people will be met by a savior
who will lead them away from destruction
to the next level or world.
Like the ancient Egyptians and Hindus,
the Hopi saw their creator as the divine sun whom they called Tawa,
the great sun spirit.
They say that it is because humanity has failed to live by his laws
that its time will inevitably come to an end.
The prophecy is said to have been given to them
by their ancient wisdom bringer Masaaw,
who shares many similarities with the descriptions of other wisdom bringers
such as Osiris of Egypt,
Svarog of the Slavs, Odin of the Norse,
and Kukulcan, Quetzalcoatl and Viracocha of Central and South America.
Some of these saviors and wisdom bringers are recorded as leading
those worthy from the previous world age into our current one,
many thousands of years ago
and traveling the world with the Religion of the Sun
to reseed spiritual knowledge amongst the survivors
of the last global catastrophe that ended Atlantis.
Jesus, who essentially also taught the Religion of the Sun,
likewise predicted the coming end of this age.
As in Hindu texts, he predicts that spiritual practitioners will be persecuted,
many false prophets will appear and people will
turn away from the true religion,
and like the Hopi, the Norse and the Hindus, that vice will increase greatly.
As in Norse texts, he says the sun will darken
and the stars will appear to fall from the sky
in a devastating global disaster,
far worse than those that have come before.
My husband Mark has also seen the coming end of this age
in out-of-body experiences he's had,
and many ancient prophecies about coming catastrophes
have likewise been informed by premonitions of the future
in dreams and out-of-body experiences.
These traditions also state that a great spiritual figure,
the spiritual son, will return at the end.
The Hindus predict the return of the god Vishnu,
Jesus the return of the Son of Man,
the Norse the return of the summer sun god Balder
and the Hopi the return of Pahana
with the sign of the swastika in the sun, and the red Templar cross,
both symbols of the Religion of the Sun.
For example, Hindu texts predict the birth of Kalki,
the final incarnation of the god Vishnu
at the end of the dark age of Kali Yuga.
It is written he will ride across the sky on a white horse
slaying the masses of people who have given themselves over to evil
in order to reestablish dharma, or universal truth, on Earth.
Kalki is described as the Destroyer,
a term also used in the ancient texts of Egypt and Britain called the Kolbrin.
These texts, that preserve stories many thousands
and possibly even tens of thousands of years old,
describe how an interplanetary body they refer to as the Destroyer
comes to Earth on a reoccurring cycle
causing mass devastation when it does.
Each of these sources retains the knowledge of the cycle of ages,
as they were either influenced by
or descended from the Religion of the Sun,
which had been the religion of the golden age,
and thus whose spiritual knowledge survived
in some of the oldest traditions on Earth.
They preserve accounts of what happens to people and civilizations
when they fail to abide by the underlying principles of the cosmos.
Ancient teachings say that earthly life is a school and testing ground
and not a place to be used up and abused for the selfish pursuit
of material and sensory pleasure
at the cost of the suffering of fellow beings
and the future generations we share this planet with.
While all life moves through cycles and seasons
ancient teachings state that so too does consciousness.
Like the earth's journey through the light and dark halves of the year,
it's said to rotate through realms of light and darkness
through its various lifetimes
upon the Wheel of Life found depicted in the Himalayan region of Tibet.
This ancient illustration shows the cyclical nature of existence
and the different regions consciousness travels through over its many lives.
All of nature's seasons come to an end.
Summer doesn't last forever.
Ancient prophecies and teachings state
that those who fail to use life for its purpose,
will face cataclysm and judgement after death,
cycling down into the dark phase of the Wheel of Life,
while those with a high enough spiritual level
will be led away from danger,
and after death to the next higher world to be reborn
once Earth has been renewed and is again given over
to those who will use it for its purpose, in a new golden age.
Today, our capacity for destruction has increased to such an enormous degree
that we are now capable of destroying much of life on Earth,
and yet our capacity to live together in harmony with each other
and with our environment has not.
Those who survived the last cataclysm
and whose warnings have been so carefully preserved
over so many thousands of years,
tell us that humanity has arrived to this point before.
Everything in nature has its season;
crops are sown in the earth and are harvested in preparation for the next.
Likewise, ancient keepers of wisdom understood
that there exist greater seasons and cycles throughout the universe
that incorporate all forms of life.
And so these cycles repeat, as they have so many times,
allowing new generations of life to use the opportunities
Earth provides as those who haven't make way.
Given the great antiquity, seriousness and experience behind them
it seems prudent to heed the warnings of our ancient forebears,
to understand our place in the greater cycles of nature,
to make use of what opportunities we have,
to use life as they say was intended when we were sown here on Earth
as a seed of spiritual potential,
while our time still remains
in the sun.
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