ANCIENT MESSAGES:   Readers of all backgrounds will discover ideas that reach beyond cultural limitations and find inspiration in their further pursuit of the gifts of humanity. Lang meticulously annotates each entry with its source of origin, providing an extraordinary list of resources so that readers can further their own research. Lang Publishing Company, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, 817-939-0095 voicemail, contact Nell Lang at nell@langpublishing.com. www.barnesandnoble.com www.amazon.com Ancient Messages: Timeless Fragments of Ancient Wisdom, Great Knowledge and Mystical Experiences NELL LANG, AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER OF ANCIENT MESSAGES Timeless Fragments of Ancient Wisdom, Great Knowledge & Mystical Experiences Ancient Wisdom For Modern Times. Ancient Messages is a beautifully stirring, thought-provoking reservoir of enlightenment and opinions of our forefathers. In its tales of ancient Atlantis, Egypt and Mesopotamia, Ancient Messages explores our sacred literature in an attempt to bring those wisdoms and lessons of the past back to the future. From prehistory, ancient, classical, and modern history's most valuable gift to humanity; our ancient literature, and the traditions contained within, to ancient Atlantis and Egypt and Mesopotamia, Ancient Messages brings forth a new light of wisdom, the wisdom of the ancients. This book was written so that "the wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation." -Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) "The study of ancient texts brings contact with a different mind and feeling, freeing us from a conditioning of which we are rarely aware." -Ross Fuller, On Listening and the Word How Mankind lost the ancient knowledge? "Thereupon one of the priests, who was of a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you. In mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why..." -Plato, Timaeus Find out more about how mankind lost the ancient wisdom, great knowledge and connect with the mystical experiences of old... EXCERPTS FROM ANCIENT MESSAGES CHAPTER 4 - THE CLAIMING OF HUMANITY “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.”1  —Albert Einstein “The Science of Will, the principle of all wisdom and the source of all power, is contained in twenty-two Arcana or symbolic hieroglyphs, each of whose attributes conceals a certain meaning and which, taken as a whole, compose an absolute doctrine memorized by its correspondence with the Letters of the sacred language and with the Numbers that are connected with these Letters. Each Letter and each Number, contemplated by the eye or uttered by the mouth, expresses a reality of the divine world, the intellectual world, and the physical world.”3 —Antoine Court de Gebelin “The value of life is not measured by the weight of its accumulated baubles of glass….Knowledge is an accumulation of vision. If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”4 —Sir Isaac Newton “It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation – of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things, the thought of God comes to one’s mind.”5 —Vincent Van Gogh “Inhumanity has a great future.”6 —Paul Valery, Collected Works		ANCIENT MESSAGES: BUY THE BOOK Artephius (AD 200-1119). This is no typographical error. It was written that Artephius lived almost one-thousand years. Artephius was also known as Apollonius of Tyana and possibly the Arabic poet and alchemist Al “Toghari” who died around AD 1119. He wrote "The Secret Book." A well known supporter of Hermetic philosophy who is said to have died in the early 12th century, and declared to have lived a thousand years by means of alchemical secrets. Francois Pic mentioned that in opinions of certain servant Artephius was identical with Apollonius of Tyana, who was born in the first century by that name and died in the 12th as Artephius. Many extravagant and curious works are said to have been written by Artephius: "De Vita Propaganda (The Art of Prolonging Life)" which he comments in the preface that he is writing it when 125 years old; "The Key to Supreme Wisdom"; a book on the character of the planets; a book on the significance of the songs of birds; on things of past and future; and on the Philosopher’s Stone. A neo-Pythagorean of Greece who acquired a reputation for his magical powers. He is considered a contemporary of Christ. Francis Barrett claimed him to be ‘one of the most extraordinary persons that ever appeared in the world.’ Born at Tyana, in Asia Minor, he was educated at Tarsus, and at the Temple of Aesculapius at Aegae, where at sixteen he became an adherent of Pythagoras whose discipline he ascribed to all of his life. He died during the second century AD. In his desire for knowledge he traveled many Eastern countries and according to legend he performed miracles where ever he went. One legend has it that an Indian magician made seven rings representing the seven planets and presented them to Apollonius who wore a different one each day. It is said this enabled him to maintain his youthful vigor well into old age. He is reputed to have lived to be one thousand years old. Apollonius’ death is a mystery. According to some he fell out of favor with Emperor Severu, who put him on trial and had his hair cut off to eliminate his magical powers. Apollonius simply disappeared from the courtroom never to be seen again.” See the website The Alchemy Web Site at http://www.Levity.com.  "Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it to the children of Israel..."-Deuteronomy, Chapter 31, Verse 19 SONG OF MOSHE - SONG OF THE LAMB 1 Give ear, O heavens, let me speak; Let the earth hear the words I utter! 2 May my discourse come down as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, Like showers on young growth, Like droplets on the grass. 3 For the name of the Lord I proclaim; Give glory to our God!...... 48 That very day the Lord spoke to Moses: 49 Ascend these heights of Abarim to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab facing Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving the Israelites as their holding. 50 You shall die on the mountain that you are about to ascend, and shall be gathered to your kin, as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his kin; 51 for you both broke faith with Me among the Israelite people, at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, by failing to uphold My sanctity among the Israelite people. 52 You may view the land from a distance, but you shall not enter it — the land that I am giving to the Israelite people.-Deuteronomy 32 - This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh - All Rights Reserved. http://www.jtsa.edu/community/parashah/jpstext/haazinu.shtml