A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross [Paperback]

Jay Weidner (Author), Vincent Bridges (Author)

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Publication Date: September 21, 2000

A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross reveals the deepest secret of western occultism – that the alchemical transformation of base metal into gold is also the transformation of Iron Age into Golden Age. The secret of alchemy is also the secret of the apocalypse, the catastrophic unveiling of the cosmic mystery. Beginning with the work of Fulcanneli, the 20th century’s most enigmatic alchemist and his intriguing message of this approaching apocalypse, the book ranges from the small Basque resort town of Hendaye, where the Cross still stands a few feet from the village square, to the western front of Notre Dame de Paris, the Pyrenees, ancient Egypt, the origin of Atlantis in South America and beyond, to the center of our galaxy and the secret of time. With its wealth of multi-disciplinary scholarship, A Monument to the End of Time provides a completely new insight on the ancient wisdom of alchemy. Decoding the message held by the Cyclic Cross of Hendaye, provided for posterity by a secretive group of initiates hidden in the Pyrenees, this loose thread on the tapestry of history points to a "fatal season" when a "double catastrophe" will try the northern hemisphere with fire – Judgment Day, in other words.

Exploring in depth the history of alchemy’s involvement with eschatology and illuminated astronomy, A Monument to the End of Time follows the secret from Alexandria to the façade of the Gothic cathedrals, where Fulcanelli demonstrates that the secret has always been hidden in plain sight. The Cross at Henadaye’s message reveals that we are now living in that "fatal season." It also reveals that this season is intimately connected to our solar system’s alignment with the center of the galaxy. Drawing upon the work of John Major Jenkins, Wilhelm Reich and Paul La Violette, A Monument to the End of Time suggests that these periodic alignments may in fact be the harbinger or origin of the earth’s precessionally timed, cyclic catastrophes. Part of the Cross’ message points to Peru, where evidence exists that the ancient culture of the Altiplano was actually that of Atlantis, and in a small valley near Cuzco an indigenous culture still lives in a mythical galactic Cross. From "Atlantis" the book returns to ancient Egypt, and places the fragments of astro-alchemy back into its original context as part of the ancient sacred science, before the concluding chapter ties up the loose ends by returning to the riddle of Fulcanelli and the mysterious alchemists in the Pyrenees with their message of approaching catastrophe.

Editorial Reviews

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"Fascinating detail. . . a wealth of research applied to an obscure subject produces a truly groundbreaking work.' -- Moira Timms, author of Beyond Prophecies and Predictions

"The authors, by their brilliantly contrived mix of alchemy with astrophysics, have breathed new life intot he Fulcanelli enigma." -- Josecelyn Godwin, author of Cosmic Music

About the Author

Jay Weidner is an author and filmmaker. Besides co-authoring 'A Monument to the End of Time' (with Vincent Bridges) Jay has two new books due for release in 2003, one is 'Alchemical Kubrick': An Examination of the Esoteric in the films of Stanley Kubrick' and his memoirs 'Season of the Apocalypse'. He has also Produced and Directed the documentary films 'Earth Under Fire' (shown on national television), 'ArtMind' with noted sacred artist Alex Grey, 'Healing Sounds' with best selling writer Jonathan Goldman, ‘Path of the Priestess: Awakening the Divine Feminine' by author and sacred dancer Sharron Rose, and 'Healer, Shaman, Sage' with Shaman/author Dr. Alberto Villoldo.

In 1980, at the age of 26 he directed the feature film cult classic 'The Legend Of Johnny Kill'.

He was also the Public Affairs Director at KCMU-FM in Seattle. From 1992 to 1995 he produced and hosted the weekly radio show 'Mind Over Matters' where he interviewed a who's-who of dynamic and important personalities such as Noam Chomsky, Terence McKenna and Peter Dale Scott.

He is currently in production as Writer/Director of a major motion picture titled 'The Bird People', due out in 2003.

Vincent Bridges is an historian, author and a self-proclaimed "anthropologist of the weird." He is also the co-author of A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross (by Jay Weidner and Vincent Bridges, Aethyrea Books, 1999, 2000), and Interlude with Sally Hemings: Diary of a Spiritual Healing (by R.J. Gabriel, with Vincent Bridges. His shorter work is well represented on various websites. His book length works available on the internet include The Gnostic Science of Alchemy, The UFO Enigma: spirits of the dead, phantom airships and flying discs, The Apocalyptic Secrets of Rennes-le-Chateau, Arthur and the Fall of Britain, and High Weirdness, a collection of articles by Vincent Bridges and his co-author, Jay Weidner.

In addition, his widely published and reprinted articles include "Innocent Murder: The Real Story of JonBenet’s Death" (with Jay Weidner) which was described by former Boulder police detective Steve Thomas on the Larry King Live Show as the best article, and the most likely solution, ever published on the JBR case ("Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?" Larry King Live, CNN, 31 May 2000), and "Death of the Feminine," his 1997 article about the death of Princess Diana, Mother Teresa and JonBenet Ramsey, which was one of the most widely circulated articles on the subject on the web for almost two years after the event.

Vincent Bridges is also a pioneer researcher in the field of psycho-acoustic therapy, a trauma abreaction technique using light and sound entrainment of brain frequencies, a pagan political activist and a world traveler, having organized and led tour groups to southern France, Egypt and India. He has produced his own translation of the I-Ching, and his Egyptology work is widely respected and quoted by scholars as diverse as John Major Jenkins, Moira Timms, and Daniel Colianus.

He has been instrumental in the creation of three schools or educational organizations, The Fifth Way Mystery School, The Newport Earth Institute in Newport, New Hampshire and Pendragon College, and has been a featured speaker at venues such as The International Fortean Organization’s (INFO) FortFest and the Subtle Technologies Conference, sponsored by InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Center of Toronto, Canada, as well as a guest on the Laura Lee and Jeff Rense radio shows. He was also featured in the Discovery Channel’s documentary Atlantis in the Andes (June 2001). The title for the documentary in fact came from Chapter Nine - section three of A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanel

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Aethyrea Books LLC (September 21, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 0970273908
• ISBN-13: 978-0970273901
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,022,869 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DiaGnosis: Fascinating!, February 17, 2007

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In 1926, an enigmatic alchemist called Fulcanelli published a book called "Le Mystere des Cathedrales", or Mystery of the Cathedrals, which explains how Gothic cathedrals have hermetic and alchemical secrets encoded into their architecture and sculptures. In 1957, a second edition appeared, and included an extra chapter on the significance of a monument in the town of Hendaye in the Pyrenees. The monument - an engraved pedestal with a pillar and engraved cross - was built around 1680, and you can find pictures of it at item 37. Monument to the End of Time, is a thorough exposition of the hidden meaning encoded into this Hendaye Cross.

The authors have traced the alchemical thread back to Egypt; to the first Gnostic groups, and re-exposed the fact that behind alchemy lies a triple transmutation - inner, outer and time. The inner transmutation is the refining of the psycho-sexual energies and fluids; the outer is using the inner change to transmute physical states; the third is the same transmutation applied to the whole Earth, changing the Age of Iron to the Age of Gold. The 4 ages - Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron relate to the 26,000-year cycle of precession, with the Fall occurring when the Tree (the celestial axis, or earth's rotational axis), points away from the centre of the galaxy. "Resurrection"or "redemption", occurs when the Tree points towards the centre of the galaxy. This is the point when the "sparks of light" - our souls as fragments of God - return to the source.

The thread is traced from ancient Egypt to the Coptic Church, the Gnostics, the Hebrews, Islaam (the Sufis), the Order of Sion, and the Knights Templar, the grail romances, the tarot, and, with increasing persecution of heretics, the engraving of cathedrals, and finally, the Rosicrucian movement.

The 4 engravings on the pedestal are found to refer to the 4 tarot trumps; The Star; The Moon; The Sun, and Judgement. The pillar is the Djed, or Earth's rotational axis ( Moira Timms has already pointed this out see Raising the Djed). The two "x" engravings refer to the winding of the ecliptic and the equinoctial points, plus trump 20, judgement. The "ocruxaves pesunica" engraving means "the secret concerns a cross and a snake which somehow measures the 12th part". When combined, these clues (along with clues from the kabbalistic Tree of Life, whose 22 paths correlate to the 22 tarot trumps), the authors conclude that half a precessional cycle ago, the spring equinox fell on the cusp of Leo/Virgo; 12,960 years later, in 2002, the autumn (fall) equinox will be in the same position. The planetary attributions of the tarot trumps, combined with the orientation of the faces of the monument confirms that 22 September 2002 is the date in question. Trump 14, temperance (Alchemy), correlates to the direction of Galactic centre, while trump 21, the World, correlates to the opposing Galactic edge.

Fulcanelli implies that the cross at Hendaye signifies a "fatal period" of a "double catastrophe". If autumn equinox 2002 is the mid-point of a 20-year period (the XX engraving implies this), this may imply the last katun of the Mayan "Great Cycle"(13-Baktun cycle), since this is the nearest autumn equinox to the katun mid-point (12 Feb 2003, Long Count date 12.19.10.0.0)*. The authors were stunned to discover that Paul LaViolette has been warning the world of just such a double catastrophe, in the form of a galactic core explosion, which he already tentatively linked to the 2012 end-point (see item 48). The first effects would be "electromagnetic shifts...crustal torque, pole shifts, tidal waves and high winds", the second catastrophe would be "an explosion of the sun's corona caused by the influx of cosmic dust pushed by the galactic superwave".

Fulcanelli also said that the inscription "ocruxaves pesunica" revealed a place of refuge. By clues from Fulcanelli, the authors arrived at 2 anagrams: Inca cave, Cusco, Peru, and Hail to the Cross at Urcos. The authors were again amazed to find not only caves at Cusco, but a nearby town called Urcos with a cross. Sadly, the original cross had been destroyed, but they concluded that the place of refuge may be either the caves at Cusco, or the legendary tunnels under the Andes, if someone finds an entrance.

The authors suggest that we should learn to "weave" our "Bardo or transitional body into nicely fractal flows of self-awareness" simply by meditating on compassion, as suggested by the work of Itzhak Bentov (Bentov explains in Stalking the wild Pendulum p.33-36 & 54-56 that in meditative states, the breathing is so gentle that it no longer interferes with the feedback of the aorta, allowing the system to become resonant, allowing the whole body to resonate at the same frequency as the earth - 7.8 Hz. How this is affected by the increasing rate of Schumann resonance (item 32) remains to be researched). We shall thus be ready to be "harvested", to become a soul inhabiting a star, like the pharaohs of Egypt (see Star Birth Bardo in the Body of Orion). The Paris Papyrus gives some clues that the transformational process may be triggered by the light from the glow of the exploding galactic centre, triggering a cerebro-chemical outpouring which fuels an internal light that externalizes as "the shining light or star body of imperishable quality". The authors suggest that we need to prepare by performing a ceremony every equinox, in which the kabbalistic tree of life is "projected onto the Celestial sphere", a technique developed by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A monumental book, June 26, 2001

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This review is from: A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross (Paperback)

A great book! The authors take the reader back into the mists of time and show us the beginnings of the great ancient religions. Then onto alchemy and Fucanelli's work on the great cathedrals of Europe. All this to decipher the Great Cross at Hendaye. The last couple of chapters deal with what the Great Cross means to our future. They are informative if a little reaching. All in all a great book. It will definitely make you think about our ancient past and what our future holds for us.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Exciting Read, January 26, 2006

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Great detective work deciphering a puzzling cross headstone in France and for shedding some light on the confusing world of Alchemy. The cross predicts some kind of change to the world either catastrophic or transformational. The authors, using astronomy, the Sphinx and many other sources, concluded the date for the change would either be 2003(if I remember correctly) or 2012. Nothing obvious seems to have changed in 2003, so we'll have to wait for 2012.
One other thing, the path of investigation took the authors to Cuzco, Peru, where they were told by the locals that a similar mysterious cross monument with cryptic markings stood in the town square for as long as anyone could remember. That cross disappeared and was replaced by a plain, regular cross a few decades ago. If anyone reading this knows anything about the previous missing cross (where it went, who took it, what did it say, drawings, photos, etc.), please contact the authors of the book. With the clues from the missing cross, it's possible the mystery could be solved completely.