Theos-Talk Archives (August 2003 Message tt00139)

Thanks for clearing things up. Yes, with reference to the great war fought 
with weapons of light and flying machines, I did mean to refer to the Ramayana. 
In any event, my arguments were only speculations, since all the dates in 
those legends could be mistaken or intentionally distorted by the adepts who 
wrote or recorded those stories -- as HPB pointed out.

In a message dated 08/24/03 4:36:19 PM, stevestubbs@yahoo.com writes:

>--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, leonmaurer@a... wrote:
>> In a message dated 08/23/03 11:50:31 AM, stevestubbs@y... writes:
>> Since the Mahabarata legends spoke of great "flying machines" that 
>> used "weapons of light" that could destroy entire cities, if such a war 
>> took place 5000 years ago, archeological remnants of such weapons 
>> and machines should be still remaining.
>
>The problem with that argument is that you are confusing the 
>Mahabharata, Krishna, Arjuna, etc., with the Ramayana. It is in the 
>latter that the flying machines, etc., are referred to. This refers 
>to a war which was presumably fought on a land mass south of present 
>day India which is now submerged and which included the present 
>island of Sri Lanka (Ceylon.) As HPB says in the SD (I have 
>confirmed this from Indian sources) this land mass extended from 
>Madagascar to Australia and incorporated the southern tip of India. 
>I have a map here loaded with place names, names of rivers, etc. The 
>Indians say the war there was fought some 25,000 years ago and that 
>the area is now underwater except for Ceylon, along with its presumed 
>warplanes, scientific laboratories, etc. HPB claimed it had a name 
>which she refused to give but it is well known in India. It is 
>called Tamil Nadu and has at least one other name which escapes me at 
>the momentum.
>
>So if the flying machines were real (they are amazingly prophetic if 
>they were not) they are lying under water and silt in the Indian 
>ocean. It is not credible to me that a war fought with such advanced 
>weapons could have lasted 60,000 years. It is also unlikely that we 
>could pinpoint the date at which such an ancient event did occur with 
>any accuracy at all. It also should be pointed out that Brigitte 
>Muehlegger (aka Brian Muehlbach, etc.) claimed the whole story was a 
>fraud concocted by the British, although I am not at all familiar 
>with the evidence to support that view.
>
>It is entirely credible that an ancient atomic war could have been 
>followed by wars with more primitive weapons, just as WW4 will be 
>fought with sticks and stones after we fight WW3, or so said Einstein.
>
>Anyway, as for Mars, it is more practical to note the recurrence of 
>similar Martial events in the life of the same entity every 18 1/2 
>years (such as the three space disasters at NASA) than trying to work 
>out such a lengthy cycle with no facts, no reliable dates, and no 
>model for predicting what one would see. There does seem to be a 
>periodicity there, but establishing it beyond the historical period 
>is more speculation than anything else. It is fascinating, though.
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