WEBVTT 00:00.560 --> 00:06.320 This island is the centre of the universe. It is the heart of our Mother Earth. 00:13.220 --> 00:18.440 In school, we were all indoctrinated with this map, the Mercator projection. 00:19.460 --> 00:27.280 But this is an updated version. Here is the original map, drawn by Gerardus Mercator in 1569. 00:28.460 --> 00:34.240 On this map, Mercator drew the North Pole in a very different way than we are used to seeing. 00:34.240 --> 00:43.480 He drew it as an almost circular continent, divided into four large rivers and with an island in the centre. 00:44.500 --> 00:50.460 This representation of the North Pole was influenced by the book Inventio Fortunata, 00:51.100 --> 00:56.180 a book that was suspiciously lost, dating from the 14th century. 00:56.180 --> 01:02.380 This is how Mercator describes this curious island in a letter to John D., 01:02.380 --> 01:10.520 a notorious mathematician, astrologer, a cultist and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I of England. 01:11.560 --> 01:19.940 In the midst of the four countries is a whirlpool into which they are empty these four enduring seas which divide the North. 01:19.940 --> 01:27.460 And the water rushes round and descends into the Earth, just as if one were pouring it through a filter funnel. 01:27.860 --> 01:33.880 It is four degrees wide on every side of the pole, that is to say, eight degrees altogether. 01:34.380 --> 01:39.240 Except that right under the pole, there lies a bare rock in the midst of the sea. 01:40.080 --> 01:46.040 Its circumference is around 33 French miles, and it's all of magnetic stone. 01:46.040 --> 01:57.720 This mountain, located in the North, Mercator calls it Rupees Nigra, 01:58.420 --> 02:01.380 and he was not the only one to represent it on maps. 02:22.760 --> 02:28.920 From the 17th century onwards, this traditional depiction of the North Pole began to disappear, 02:29.500 --> 02:32.820 which coincides with the expansion of heliocentrism. 02:34.360 --> 02:35.660 We have lost the North. 02:37.240 --> 02:40.460 This famous expression now makes complete sense. 02:41.820 --> 02:47.980 If we look at ancient cultures, we see that they also spoke of a similar place, 02:48.580 --> 02:53.800 a sacred land with a tree, a mountain, or a central pillar. 03:02.740 --> 03:08.140 In the Vedic texts, a great mountain of gold is described in the centre of the Earth. 03:09.120 --> 03:10.680 They call it Mount Meru. 03:11.500 --> 03:15.580 It is said that this mountain is narrower at the bottom than at the top, 03:15.580 --> 03:21.520 and that a trickle of water falls above it and divides into four large rivers. 03:22.520 --> 03:28.740 One of these rivers is the Ganges River, which is why its water is sacred and miraculous. 03:30.080 --> 03:35.380 After purifying the seven planets near Dhruvaluka, the Pole Star, 03:36.220 --> 03:39.920 the Ganges water is carried through the spaceways of the demigods, 03:40.480 --> 03:43.560 in billions of celestial aeroplanes. 03:44.500 --> 03:51.880 Then, it inundates the moon and finally reaches Lord Brahma's abode, a top Mount Meru. 03:52.940 --> 03:57.600 On top of Mount Meru, the Ganges divides into four branches, 03:58.440 --> 04:01.400 each of which gushes in a different direction. 04:02.760 --> 04:07.360 In Norse mythology, there is talk of the great tree Hygdrasil, 04:09.000 --> 04:13.420 and just below there is a whirlpool from which all the rivers flow. 04:14.460 --> 04:18.220 In Celtic mythology, they refer to it as Avalon, 04:20.200 --> 04:23.400 and to the Greeks it is known as Hyperborea. 04:25.520 --> 04:29.700 In the Bible, this place is referred to as the Garden of Eden, 04:30.300 --> 04:32.320 where the Tree of Life is located, 04:33.360 --> 04:37.900 and out of the ground, the Lord God made to spring up every tree 04:37.900 --> 04:40.820 that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. 04:41.460 --> 04:43.700 The Tree of Life was in the midst of the Garden, 04:44.280 --> 04:46.720 and the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. 04:47.440 --> 04:50.460 A river flowed out of Eden to water the Garden, 04:51.140 --> 04:54.100 and there it divided and became four rivers. 04:55.220 --> 05:00.080 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion. 05:00.740 --> 05:04.420 On the sides of the north, the city of the Great King, 05:05.440 --> 05:08.420 and I went from thence to the middle of the earth, 05:09.160 --> 05:14.400 and I saw a blessed place in which there were trees with branches abiding and blooming, 05:15.120 --> 05:17.320 and there I saw a holy mountain, 05:17.900 --> 05:21.360 and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream, 05:21.680 --> 05:23.240 and it flowed towards the south. 05:24.880 --> 05:27.900 This centre has been talked about for many centuries, 05:27.900 --> 05:30.100 and has received multiple names. 05:32.280 --> 05:36.520 Rupi's Nigra, Mount Maru, the Tree of Life, 05:37.380 --> 05:42.660 the Cosmic Axis, or Axis Mundi, are all significant examples. 05:43.900 --> 05:46.580 This centre is the Axis of Creation. 05:47.700 --> 05:50.300 It's located just below Polaris, 05:50.740 --> 05:56.140 and it is the physical representation of the Source from which everything is created. 05:56.140 --> 06:01.340 It is the magnetic north pole to which all compasses point. 06:02.720 --> 06:06.460 All of the ancient civilizations were describing the same thing, 06:07.680 --> 06:11.000 the electromagnetic toroidal field of the universe, 06:11.880 --> 06:18.480 which rotates the entire sky, including the sun, the moon, and the stars.