Astral travel, Abaris the Hyperborean an ...

Astral travel, Abaris the Hyperborean and King Bladud of Bath - Part 1 (updated)

Nov 19, 2021

Antiquitech – Ancient highly advanced technology which was lost for an extended period of time.

Could Antiquitech have had a part in creating an energy grid to be used by individuals such as priests, adepts, alchemists or magicians to travel to faraway countries ? What were the Roman's trying to hide? Read on for part one of my investigation . . .

Prince Bladud

One such individual, referred to in historic texts is Prince Bladud, who, so the story goes built wings and was able to fly until he met his demise after crashing into the Temple of Apollo.  Legend tells us that Bladud had to leave his father after contracting leprosy and he then became a swineherd.

Swainswick, Bath, Somerset

It is said that he cured himself after he discovered or created hot healing springs at the very place where the tiny village of Swainswick now stands.  Then Bladud was able to return to his role as Prince and after founding the City of Bath in Somerset, England he became King.

Bath and the Cult of Sulis Minerva

This depiction of Bladud was found at the Roman Baths Complex in the Centre of Bath

"The Roman City of Bath, also known as Aqua Sulis, lies in the modern British county of Somerset in the south-east of England. During the Roman occupation of ancient Britain, Bath became a significant Roman town centred on a large religious complex. .This thesis discusses features of Sulis’ cult and what this may tell us about the goddess’s attributes as well as how her cult functioned. . Sulis is a Celtic deity who was worshipped by the Celts before the Romans arrived in Britain. . Through Roman religious sensibilities, Sulis was conflated with the Roman goddess Minerva"

Source The Cult of Sulis-Minerva at Bath: The Religious Ritual of the Patron Goddess at Bath - McBurney, James

Geoffrey of Monmouth

The first mention of King Bladud was by Geoffrey of Monmouth (1100-1155) a famous clergyman and a major figure in the development of British history. 

It was Geoffrey who popularised the legends of King Arthur and the Grail. Many contemporary academic accounts dismiss his writing as fanciful, but there are indications that this dismissal is influenced by the Romans’ attempts to obliterate pagan traditions and deny the presence of Druids in England before it was invaded by Angles and Saxons. However, Druidic history cannot be dismissed easily because they kept their history alive through what is called the Bardic system which ensured their history was passed down the generations orally.  Additionally, author and Historian Ralph Ellis has demonstrated that the Arthurian legends are far closer to the truth than was first thought.

Bladud - father of Shakespeare's King Leir

Bladud is said to have been contemporaneous with the biblical prophet Elijah (9th century BC). When first mentioned by the historian Geoffrey of Monmouth* he's described as the son of King Rud Hud Hudibras, and the tenth ruler in line from the first king, Brutus. Bladud is shown above with his father Lud Hurdibras, Bladud and his son King Leir (Lear – as popularised by Shakespeare) from: 'Genealogy and Race of all the Kings of England' 1562 by Giles Godet.

*' History of the Kings of Britain’ (Historia Regum Brittaniae')  ( c. 1136),and ‘The Life of Merlin’ in 1136,

King Bladud as Abaris the Hyperborean

Things become interesting when considering that King Bladud has been conflated with Abaris the Hyperborian by John Wood the Elder who describes how Bladud founded the first university at Stamford

 “As Wood saw it Bath was but the core of an earlier city the size of Babylon built originally by Bladud, descendant of a Trojan prince, about 480 B.C.  Bladud, under the name of Abaris, High Priest of Apollo, had spent eleven years in Greece as ‘a Disciple, a Colleague, and even the Master of Pythagoras. . .” (1)

John Wood the Elder, freemason architect of the City of Bath, assisted by his son John Wood the Younger also proposed that Bladud founded the first university, a Druidic University at Stamford.

Abaris The Hyperborean

The conflation of King Bladud with Abaris immediately brings us into a very interesting area because both the legends of Abaris and Bladud tell us that they were able to magically travel to far away places. In some cases the tales indicate they travelled physically and others that it was the soul that was able to leave the body and travel independently.  This is clearly akin to what we now call astral travel and it is something that well-known figures and philosophers from ancient Greece and antiquity, discussed and considered to be real.

(for example J.D. Bolton, Aristeas of Proconnesus 1962 esp 157-8  “Apollo is an archer, hence the arrow; Abaris’s travels may be an image for the flight of the soul apart from the body” )

(Bolton ch 7). In Translated Texts for Historians - On the Pythagorean Life Translated with notes and introduction by GILLIAN CLARK Liverpool University Press) (internet archive) (1)

Not just figures from antiquity - the CIA made a prolonged study of this very subject whereby human consciousness can travel unimpeded and gather data from faraway places, as this recently declassified document makes clear.

Pythagoras

My interest was captured as I read more about Abaris because his astral travels have been widely remarked upon in the context of his friendship and travels to visit with Pythagoras, who himself is also sometimes described as a mythical figure. (1) There are many accounts of the time they spent together which in itself is an interesting story but to get to my point here, King Bladud it is said, fell to his death when he was using a magical method of transport, travelling along energy lines to get to different parts of the earth. It sounds like a high tech endeavour which involved a piece of equipment sometimes described as a magic arrow. This picture of King Bladud shows a building labelled the temple of Apollo.

Hyperborea

To return to Abaris for a moment, he's often referred to as Abaris the Hyperborean and Hyperborea has also been conflated with the Astral realms. This points to a very plausible use of the Antiquitech noted and discussed in relation to cathedrals and domes. Hyperborea is described below by Gordon Strachan in the book - Jesus the Master Builder: Druid Mysteries and the Dawn of Christianity

 “The Greeks also knew of a legendary people who lived in northern europe.  They spoke of the Hyperboreans.  The name means beyond the north (the north wind.)  This far northern people lived like those inhabitants of the auroral world described by the Indians and Eskimos in a mild, sunny and fertile land, free from the weight of earthly destiny ... When the winter came in Greece, the sun- god Apollo moved to the land of the northern inhabitants in the land of Hyperborea”

Below: Arctic continent on the Gerardus Mercator map of 1595. Wikicommons

In his book Shamanism and the mystery lines : ley lines, spirit paths, shape-shifting & out-of-body travel Paul Devereux also mentions the magic arrow and notes how Abaris is said to have been linked to Apollo in Greek legend.

Episode two will consider some interesting links between Bladud and the healing springs that became the Roman Baths in the City of Bath, associated with fires that never went out and left balls of stone instead of ashes.  There will be more on Pythagoras and the Druidic university at Stamford, counter-arguments and what the druids say.

Further Investigation

If you would like to look further into the subject of Antiquitech I will mention that some of the people whose research I have been listening to via youtube include the channels of Jon Levi, Paul Cook, Howdie Mickowski and Autodidactic.

Refs 1.Translated texts for historians, liverpool university press

Background

https://youtu.be/gvRmzp8AZDw

https://youtu.be/CIavUFlrEqA

https://youtu.be/ZQajMPQmIrA

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