Caledonia / Alba / Scotland c. 122 CE?
Newton Pict Stones
Pict stone with Ogham and 6 lines of “unknown script” Scotland
Newton Pict Stones
The symbols on the Newton stone in Scotland are unique and cannot be translated.
The 6 lines of the “unknown script” was described as “debased Latin”, as Greek, Phoenician, Sinaitic or even Hebrew-Bactrian.
Is the script evidence of a transition phase from Linear A and B clay tablets in Greece to the simple abstract shapes of the Scandinavian runes?
Were drawings made by teachers on soft clay tablets at learning centres in Greece used to teach meditation? Did the ideas gradually develop into the mysterious scripts, well known and used to describe the network of knowledge well known all over Europe?
What did the Romans have to do with it?
In his famous poem Divine Comedy
Italian poet Dante described the history of Athens in Paradise Canto 6;
“When Pallas died … it made in Alba its abode”
and in Paradise Canto 19
“…his record in contracted letters
Which shall make note of much in little space”
To write his poem in the 14th century, Dante strictly followed the series of numbers already in use for 1,800 years as “shorthand” to create formulas that explained how to practice the dialectics of philosophy, the “unwritten doctrines” of Plato.
Dante’s comment in a letter to his patron Cangrande about Plato’s knowledge:
“For we see many things with our mind for which vocal signs are lacking, as Plato tells us well in his books by taking on metaphors, for he saw many things with the light of his mind which he was not able to express in his own words.”
Mysterious objects were made in Europe during 1,800 years to explain concentration – the Ramsund stone (c. 950 CE), Gundestrup Cauldron (93-144 CE) and Newton stone – illustrated by coded numbers on the Phaistos Disk, the master key (c. 550 BC).
Newton stone as metaphor for life
Teacher (left 22) and prisoner of craving (right 13)
Newton stone: a transition phase
before Elder Futhark runes were designed
The “unwritten doctrines” were well known and practiced at many sites in Europe, often illustrated on monumental stones such as the Newton stone in Scotland. The Newton stone is an early prototype, a transition phase from very cryptic annotations to the simplified glyphs designed for Scandinavian runes. With the use of the series of numbers illustrated by images the 6 lines of script can still be deciphered.
The long history of concentration practices in Europe was deliberately obscured and gradually forgotten – never intended to be a secret hidden from the public.
Phaistos Disk animated text video (no sound) to illustrate the different combinations of layers with coded meditation methods and instructions.
Pict image stones examples
Pict image stones are easier to understand than the Newton glyphs, several image stones were placed at regular intervals between sites from Aberdeen to Newton and Rhynie, where a large community settled in the Tap o’Noth Hiillfort in the 4-5th century, an event described by Dante in Paradise Canto 6:
“… when Pallas died… it made in Alba its abode …”.
Mysterious scripts: from Scotland to India
Pict stones may be much older than thought. Images on stones were influenced by objects along trade routes from Scotland to India, from the earliest Linear A and B clay tablets in Greece until the 13th century hand signs used to teach meditation were illustrated by abstract symbols: crosses were already used since the 4th century BC.
After an envoy of 5 monks were sent to Europe by Ashoka c. 250 BC there is a long trail of evidence that suggests an active exchange of knowledge between learning centres and universities at Taxila and Nalanda in India.
Glyphs from the Ancient South Arabian script used in Yemen from 100 BC – 200 AD were copied and engraved on a monumental scale to create Pict image stones.
Camels on Pict and rune stones
Coded camels on the Meigle 1 Pict stone and Gök runestone in Sweden (c.950 CE) are evidence of routes that linked Scotland and Sweden to sites in the Middle East and with Buddhist universities in India at Taxila and Nalanda (destroyed in 1195).
Roman influence: corrupted histories of Agricola and Hadrian
Agricola as a youth had “an unhealthy interest in philosophy”, described by his son-in-law, historian Tacitus. Did he violently invade as described in the heavily corrupted texts, or did he visit the Decantae, a branch of the Deciates tribe from southern France located at Portmahomack?
Did Hadrian “build the wall” described in a single sentence of a spurious text written hundreds of years later, the Historia Augusta, or did he build the Victory Temple and brochs in Scotland to support local philosophers and as a token of friendship with Roman soldiers who practiced Mysteries of Mithras?
Hadrian’s collaborators
The Victory Temple and Portmahomack, site of a Pictish monastery where the most impressive Pict stones are located already appeared on the map published by Ptolemy of Alexandria in c. 140 CE, shortly after Hadrian’s death in 138 CE.
Plutarch, the Neoplatonic philosopher from Delphi described in a text that Demetrius (a grammarian from Tarsus) was sent by “some emperor” for investigation at the island nearest to Britain where holy men lived, Cleombrotus the Spartan traveled via Petra “the city of cave-dwellers” to India to collect knowledge.
Did they collect information from Maeshowe and India to redesign the Pantheon?
Gundestrup Cauldron teacher panel
Similar to the 28 square recesses in 5 rows of the Pantheon’s dome 28 Bodhi leaves on the Gundestrup Cauldron teacher’s panel are a summary of the meditation system.
Was the Cauldron made by Hadrian’s team in 94-144 CE from votive Celtic horse coins donated by countries from Scotland to Arabia to collaborate in a peace project?
Rosemarkie stone: eyes and 28 circles
Similar to the Pantheon and the Rök runestone the 28 circles on the Rosemarkie stone represent “28 named Buddhas”, they all teach the same information.
Infinity symbols and kamma symbols were used to illustrate how to investigate 6 senses to be liberated, illustrated in detail on the stone. The two large eyes were illustrated on helmets – at Vendel and Uppsala in Sweden and at Sutton Hoo.
Hilton of Cadboll and Shandwick stones
On the Hilton of Cadboll and Shandwick stones images contain information from advanced meditation techniques that are still taught unchanged. The numbers of spirals and dots are arranged in complex patterns that are too complex to be a coincidence, but are evidence of in-depth local knowledge: they still practiced formal Buddhist meditation as recorded in Pali texts (Abhidhamma).
Sketch of an Excellent Man
DOCUMENTARY: 1h43 minutes
In the Pa Auk Forest Monastery in Myanmar over a thousand people from all over the world are first taught 40 concentration techniques to be able to analyse the ultimate realities of Mind and Matter (Nāma and Rūpa) at subatomic particle level by “their own direct experience”.
They then proceed to practise Dependent Origination (Paticca-samuppāda) and Insight Meditation (Vipassanā) as described in the “Path of Purification” (Visuddhi Magga), a 1,500 year old summary of the Pāli texts: the legacy of the profound practical knowledge as originally taught by Gotama the Buddha.
For people in search of the truth it can be a life changing experience to learn about “the wisdom light” produced by a concentrated mind found in the heart base – the sixth sense – described in detail.
Rare footage of the Most Venerable Pa Auk Tawya Sayadaw explaining Vipassanā and Dependent Origination in English, illustrated by an artist/architect (watercolour, animation) make this subtle and profound knowledge enjoyable to watch even by non practitioners.