Caledonia / Alba 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 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.”
Many mysterious objects in Europe, made during 1,800 years to explain concentration – the Ramsund stone (c. 950 CE), Gundestrup Cauldron (93-144 CE) and Newton stone – were illustrated by the numbers on the Phaistos Disk, the master key (c. 550 BC).
Newton stones as metaphor for life
Teacher (left 22) and prisoner of craving (right 13)
Newton stones Scotland
Newton stone Ogham inscription
Newton 6 lines of “unknown script”
Newton Pict image stone: snake
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 codes: the master key
Different styles were used to make objects, but one main source was used since the 6th century BC: the “mystic numbers of Pythagoras”, illustrated by 47 images on the Phaistos Disk, a meditation diagram( c. 550 BC).
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 the 5th century.
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 local 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.
Mithras altar Scotland with rays of light c.122 CE
Hand of Irulegi Spain Roquepertuse France
Hand of Irulegi 80-72 BC
Analysis Hand of Zafar Yemen c. 200 CE
Knossos Linear B tablet
Comparison table scripts
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).
Gök and Meigle Scotland
Roman influence: corrupted histories of Agricola and Hadrian in Scotland
Agricola as a youth had “an unhealthy interest in philosophy”, described by his son-in-law, historian Tacitus. Hadrian spent a year studying philosophy in Athens.
Did Hadrian “build the wall” described in a single sentence of the spurious Historia Augusta written hundreds of years later, 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?
In corrupted texts Agricola violently invaded Wales and Scotland and planned to invade Ireland, but in Roman capital named Deva Victrix (“victorious Celestial Being”) he funded an “eye temple” comparable to the Pantheon: to “see the truth of existence”. Did Agricola visit Newgrange in Ireland and Portmahomack where the Decantae, a branch of the Deciates tribe from from the philosophers colony of southern France, were settled? Do the names from Greek “deka, ten” refer to study of Buddhist “Ten Dhammas”?
White Horse, Deva Victrix, Roman mines: distribution map Pict and Ogham stones
Agricola’s “eye temple” Deva Victrix, Crosby Garrett helmet: Deva
Ireland Knowth broken flint and pebbles: illustration of the 6th sense as experienced
6th sense illustration of the meditation practice as experienced: documentary
3D map: were Newton stones located at a learning centre?
Volcae coin France with axe, Pict stone Meigle axe: to cut roots of defilements
Hadrian’s team of collaborators
The Victory Temple at Stirling and Portmahomack, site of a Pictish monastery already appeared on the map published by Ptolemy of Alexandria in c. 140 CE, shortly after Hadrian’s death in 138 CE.
Ptolemy map: Victoria and Decantae tribe
Stirling hoard: linked to Tolosa and Volcae coins
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, burned down110 CE?
Hadrian meditation coin Petra, hippika gymnasia
Delphi: Plutarch’s texts promoted philosophy
Stirling hoard: linked to Tolosa and Volcae coins
Parade helmet Fort Newstead at Trimontium
Camelon: Victory Temple and Mysteries of Mithras
Parade helmet Syria with Bodhi leaves
Gundestrup Cauldron teacher panel: 28 leaves
Was the Cauldron (94-144 CE ) made by Hadrian’s team from votive Celtic horse coins donated by countries from Scotland to Arabia to collaborate in a peace project?
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.
Gundestrup Cauldron Video (no sound) with illustrations of the different combinations of layers with coded meditation methods and instructions.
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”. Infinity symbols and kamma symbols were used to illustrate how to investigate 6 senses to be liberated. The two large eyes were illustrated on helmets – at Vendel and Uppsala in Sweden and at Sutton Hoo, 28 runes were engraved on the Seax of Beagnoth London.
Hilton of Cadboll and Shandwick stones
The Hilton of Cadboll and Shandwick stones contain information of advanced meditation techniques (Vipassanā) that are still taught unchanged. The numbers of 10 and 40 and 52 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). The “oghams” in the Book of Leinster (c. 1160) and Ballymote (14th century) of Ireland can be used to analyse the Hilton of Cadboll stone, an indication of the close relationship with Ireland.
Hilton of Cadboll: 10 and 40: study of Ten Dhammas to attain liberation
Pictish beast absorption concentration and Vipassanā meditation: 6th sense
To analyse: Ogham no. 66 and 68 in the Book of Ballymote: Auraicept Na N-Éces
Book of Ballymote Fionn’s window; diagram of 25 ogham/rune symbols
Shandwick: 52 dots Abhidhamma codes
Shandwick: absorption concentration 52 spirals investigation of mentality, nāma
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