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"But there are other difficulties with the Ark of the Covenant that have to do with the possibility that it could have been part of the treasure of Rome brought by Visigoths to Rennes-le-Château. According to the Old Testament, Exodus, the Ark of the Covenant was constructed soon after the Israelites had escaped across the Red Sea from bondage in Egypt.

Modern engineers have been intrigued by the specification of the Ark because, if the directions are followed precisely, one ends up making a fairly powerful electrical condenser. It was a box of very specific dimensions made of acacia wood (an insulator). It was covered, inside and out, with gold (an excellent conductor). If the two surfaces of the gold were separated from each other, then a very powerful condenser of electricity is the result. In the dry air of the Middle East, it would accumulate a very powerful charge. (15)

But the Ark was more than just a condenser, it was a 'spark transmitter' roughly tuned to a specific frequency by the very precise dimensions given to Moses for the basic acacia-wood box. In this matter, the Ark was similar ...
... to early 'cavity tubes' in 1930s radar research where the desired radar frequency was obtained by actually machining cavities of various volumes into metal blocks. {So we can see how electricity aided the gold merchants who were plating silver or lead from archaeology, perhaps. We know there are other galvanic and electrical sources for such power as well.} The Ark was a 'cavity' of precise dimensions, and one in a gold-sheathed box.

The Ark also had a top, of the same general construction as the basic box. This lid of the box had golden 'cherubim' at each end {Imagine if they were able to induce separate polar charges in the 'high- spin' atomic state per the writings of Gardner from 'science'; into each of these 'cherubim'.} and a 'Mercy Seat.' {Mercy might then be like 'devoted ones' or a form of capital punishment to be used in conjunction with energizing the soul be ritual into the tubes we hear were receptacles for souls and which may tie in with the jade tubes on the head of the Prince of Palenque from the 'science' segment.} The Bible doesn't tell" us exactly how these components were arranged, or how they were attached to the Ark's top. It is well to remember that although Moses is supposed to be the author of Exodus, according to Hebrew tradition, the earliest known written account dates from almost one thousand years later {And there is uncertainty about who Moses was and when he was around as we have shown. But, his sister was one of the most adept alchemists, I think.}. Moses might not have described everything about the Ark in the first place, but even if he had, it seems probable that some details would have become fuzzy in the one thousand years of oral transmission before the story was written down.

Without assuming any 'secret' or 'unknown' components at all, but working only with the Ark as described, only two assumptions are necessary in order to construct a fairly powerful spark transmitter. One assumption is that an ancient, pliable insulating material was available so that the parts of the Ark could be attached in ways that both insulated them from, and conducted them to, the basic box condenser-cavity-frequency- modulator in order to produce a 'circuit'. Such an insulating material was widely available to the ancient Israelites and Egyptians--bitumen, tar. {For example Sodom and Gomorrah and what is now Iraq is populated with tar pits. Pitch fires of a continual nature existed in places like the La Brea Tar Pits for eons and would have provided early man with fire, too.} And we don't need to assume that artisans and priests in the ancient Middle East used bitumen to insulate and to seal simple electrical devices.

Wet-cell electric batteries, using acidic citrus juice as an electrolyte, were discovered in a Baghdad museum. (16) They were sealed with bitumen, and the internal electrodes were insulated from each other with bitumen. These primitive batteries have been dated to about A.D. 700. But fundamental electric devices were used much earlier than that. Tiny golden beads from XVIII Dynasty Egypt (c.1550 B.C.) were found to have only a thin coating of gold over some base metal {We showed Ashkelon had a calf of Ba'al with silver plating from Phoenicians and the National Geographic in 'science'. The Phocaeans had mass produced electrum plated coinage first according to Michael Grant, etc., etc.}. The beads are so small, and also without any sort of seam or hammered edge to the gold layer, that the gold could have been applied only by electroplating. (17) Given a citrus-juice battery like those of Baghdad {Where a printed circuit in a museum was thought to be embroidery by archaeologists until a computer expert saw it.}, electroplating of gold would not have been difficult. So we don't have to assume an electrical insulating material, and we don't have to assume basic knowledge of electricity in Middle Eastern antiquity. We know it.

The second assumption is that there were instructions, or a model, indicating what was to be insulated with bitumen, and what was to be solidly attached with the ubiquitous gold. {They had superconductive knowledge according to Gardner and calcium is useful in these regards.}

Let us consider one 'cherub' at one end of the Ark. These 'cherubim' seem to have been the Egyptian idea of a 'griffon'--an animal with claws and long pointed wings {Important in the gargoyle genre of gothic architecture and alchemy.}, a sort of cross between a lion and a hawk. Let us suppose that our cherub at one end of the box had one gold claw connected to the inner sheet of gold on the acacia-wood box, and the other claw attached to the gold sheath on the exterior of the acacia box. Further, suppose that this separation was maintained up to the long wings, which were of gold. Suppose that the wings were hinged or pivoted to be able to 'flap' like a proper cherub. Maybe they were just mounted in a glob of bitumen with bars, wires, or much more flexible leather-sheathed chain-links {Or ultra strong human hair.} of gold maintaining the required connections.

Assembled like this, there would be a very formidable spark between the cherub's pointed gold wings each time they were pushed close together. The Ark would arc--because of the electric charge that had accumulated in the condenser. And it would arc according to a rough frequency dictated by the dimensions of the Ark's basic cavity. Touching the wings at once with bare hands would have resulted in instant death or burn depending on the strength of the charge that had been accumulated. Operating the Ark, or even touching it, would have been a potentially fatal business for anyone not thoroughly initiated into necessary procedures. The Bible mentions at least one instance in which a non-priest fell dead trying to save the Ark--the man grabbed it when it was in danger of falling off a wagon. This was in the early days of Israelite struggles in Canaan.

A priest could move the wings with sticks of wood as insulation, {Thales invented (?) a small steam engine.} or perhaps some fancier arrangement of moving the cherub's wings was contrived. Maybe there was a simple lever system insulated appropriately with wood, leather and bitumen--pull the cherub's tail (or head) and the wings would approach each other to make an arc, for example. Simple 'wooden' linkages.

Making such an electric arc in a dark place like a tent or a central Temple crypt without windows (i.e., the 'Holy of Holies') would have been hard on the priest's eyes {and impressive to the great unwashed}. If the 'stones' in the Urim and Thummim were sheets of mica, common in the Middle East, then The Bible's 'silver bows' in which they were mounted would have resulted in granny-style welder's glasses. These would have saved the High Priest's eyesight when communicating with the 'Lord'.

This sort of 'arc-spark' transmitter would have sent bursts of what we call static out into the atmosphere. {And for uninitiated artists or journalistic historians they might describe it as forces such as waft and whirl in the Spielberg movie.}

What about the 'receiver'? Let's consider the other cherub at the other end of the arc. It would need to be completely separated from the structure of the Ark by a layer of bitumen. Its wings were supposedly golden, too, and if they were balanced and supported well, an 'electroscope' results. When this cherub was engulfed in a burst of electromagnetic radiation, its wings would repel each other and flap apart. This would naturally happen whenever the cherub at the other end of the Ark was manipulated to produce a spark-arc. If the receiving cherub's wings were delicately counterbalanced, they would close again as the charge on the open wings dissipated.

There would be a charming and satisfying symmetry to the antics of these cherubim wings--a spark made by moving the transmitting cherub's wings closer together would cause the receiving cherub's wings to open.

{Do you think anyone sought to identify one as male and the other female and justify why men are entitled to 'spark' females who must 'open' to them'?}

But the receiving cherub's wings would sometimes open when the spark-cherub was not being operated. This electroscope would also respond to natural bursts of electromagnetic energy--lightning. A nearby storm would cause very definite wing movements indeed {If you can refer to the entry under divining-rod you will see they may have been able to track such natural energy as the Nazca lines which are over tectonic rifts deep in the earth.}, while a lightning strike hundreds of miles away might cause barely a twitch of the wings.

But if a one time there were a number of Arks, all made the same way, the receiving cherub would also respond to electromagnetic energy purpose full caused by a High Priest operating some distant Ark. If the transmitting Ark was many miles distant, the repelling movement of the receiving cherub's wings might be very small--too minute to be detected, {There could be specified times to transmit and re-transmit back to a central area where a person was involved in the king's chamber that accentuated their psychic sensitivity.} with certainty, by a priestly observer. But this problem could be easily solved. With a small light source, like a candle or an oil lamp {Or the pendulums covered in the Divining-rod entry with the psychic.}, 'religiously' positioned at specific places near the receiving cherub, even tiny wing movements could be greatly amplified by jewels on the wings. The jewels would reflect the light onto some surface--a wall of a Temple sanctum or the dark cloth of a bedouin canopy--so that, in a dark chamber, the reception could be clearly perceived.

The technology described above was well within the resources and capabilities of the Ancient Egyptian and Israelite artisans. The idea for it is the problem {He wrote this before the Mungo Man discovery.}.

More than one modern radio engineer has noted that the Ark of the Covenant was a primitive sort of 'spark transmitter' that could send, and receive, strong electromagnetic impulses--in fact, the Ark seems quite similar to the transmitter with which Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-94) was able to demonstrate the existence of 'Hertzian' (radio) waves in 1888. With his slightly more evolved spark transmitter, Guglielmo Marchese Marconi (1874-1937) first sent long-distance electromagnetic waves in 1895 {He did not invent the radio and 25 years after Tesla died the U. S. Patent Office awarded the patent to Tesla, or at least acknowledged he discovered it. For those who know the origin of Tesla's knowledge and 'vision' you will understand my suggestions about sensitive people or the akashic are mild in comparison.}, and then sent them across the Atlantic in 1901.

The Ark of the Covenant could have been used, and at one time must have been used, to send and receive messages over long distances. If the spark-arc could be generated in a sequence by manipulating the wings effectively {It should also be clear the codes and symbols used to send info would be important alphabet or language ingredients.}, then the bursts of static would radiate into the atmosphere in the same purposeful sequence. In the Marconi 'wireless' system, Morse code was mostly used. In the Morse system, for example, three short bursts 'dot-dot-dot', {Perhaps I should add this to my support for Ogham as an original language because Ogham adapts to this as well as sign language quite well.) represent the letter 'S', three longer arcs 'dash-dash-dash' represent the letter 'O'. Therefore S-O-S could be sparked into the air. This is the international code for 'Help!'

But every letter and every number can be represented by some combination of dots and dashes {The Mayan numerical system is a combination of these.}. That's Morse code. If you have enough electricity to generate a lot of sparks, and if you have a lot of patience, {If they had chemicals in the cavity of the Ark such as phosphorus would this add to the spooky effects as well as the usefulness?} messages of any desired length and complexity can be sent. And much patience would have been required because, with a transmitter-receiver as primitive as the Ark, purposeful messages would frequently have been confused or completely drowned out by static from distant electrical storms. {Clearly the technology would be less useful if others were on the air at the same time, and the need for secrecy would be immense.} Our own early 'wireless' had the same problem, frustration, and inefficiency."
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