A long time ago, there is said to have been a war. A war responsible for the fall of gods, (note small “g”) the fall of angels, the fall of Lucifer and the fall of man, the fall of basically–everything.
According to late Brother, Dr. Manly Palmer Hall D.Litt, in his “Secret Teachings of all Ages”, the War in Heaven referred to the destruction of the planet called “Ragnarök”. He may have wanted to tie the exploded planet event to the Nordic saga of Ragnarök, the “Twilight of the Gods”, for specific reasons of his own or perhaps for the preservation, or formulation, of a particular esoteric narrative. There have only been a couple of other ties of Ragnarök to the exploded planet idea that I could find prior to Hall, namely, Donnelly and Burgoyne. Although there are books that contain rumors of Templar knowledge of the exploded planet published all the way back to the 1830’s and although many books of the 19th century that link Lucifer, Osiris, Phaeton etc to the exploded planet were published long before those links were made in the 20th century, I suspect that Hall, in the “Secret Teachings”, was not only attempting to draw our attention to the Nordic mythos but also Ignatius Donnelly’s book “Ragnarök: The Age of Fire and Gravel”. Donnelly’s model of extraterrestrial debris inducing an axial tilt of the Earth, obscuration of the sun by the darkness of cataclysmic debris; cometary and asteroidal, and the ideas of the re-birth of the sun from its re-emergence from behind the clouds of dust and destruction are common themes in esoteric cataclysmic narratives both literal and symbolic. Donnelly, who was not a scientist, argued, from scientific viewpoints of the time, that comets were fragments of exploded planets. This is essentially Tom Van Flandern’s theoretical model of the “EPH”, or, “Exploded Planet Hypothesis”. Of this, we shall explore the historicity of the exploded planet idea in science, religion, myth, and mysticism in a separate published series and focus on Manly Hall’s take on Ragnarök, Lucifer and the “War in Heaven” in the present series.
There are weird stories about the Nordic legend of Ragnarök in what is called the “Bock Family Saga.” A saga I put less credence to, than the information about Ragnarök we glean from Hall, both in his literature and audio lectures. Nevertheless, I mention the “Bock Saga” for comprehensiveness, but it does not mention a planet exploding. It seems to basically tie things to catastrophic shifts in the pole of the Earth and ice ages and it is Ignatius Donnelly who is basically saying that the exploded planet caused debris to hit the Earth to cause pole shifts. To be clear, pole shift ideas had been out there for some time independent of an exploded planet as causal agency long before Donnelly.
Richard C. Hoagland first mentioned the Bock Saga in relation to the exploded planet in the Spring of 1997 on Art Bell’s “Coast to Coast am” radio program.
I had the opportunity to invite Richard Hoagland to speak in Utah in 1998 and at that time I asked him about the Bock Saga. He informed me that it was something he had seen on a University of Colorado Boulder website. As early as 1997, Hoagland was tying the timeline of 50~ million years for the “Saga” to the exploded planet time-line effectively putting it close to the exploded planet timeframe of Van Flandern’s first planetary explosion event and the “Great Dying” of the Dinosaurs.
There are many sites and videos dedicated to the saga which you only have to Google for. For a start, I suggest the following:
To be honest with you, I find far more interesting possibilities with the “super-menhir” of the so-called “Lemminkäinen Temple” than I do of Ior Bock’s story, which essentially says that underneath the temple is a “Museum…said to contain artifacts dating back to the beginning of human knowledge.”
Maybe his family did have information about someone closing up the cave underneath the huge monolith back in 1050 AD. But did they really have traditions going back to the ice age–and before? Or did they only have a family tradition going back to that time, only about a cave or a rumored cave?
In any event, the monolithic stones are huge. The one apparently being held up the size of a building!
Perhaps, from a skeptical point of view, one could know there was a “space” below the monolith because you could hear rainwater dripping somewhere beneath (because it does fill up with water even now underneath) and given the fact that the stone in the middle is above the other two stones, you could make a reasonable assumption that there must be a space beneath. This is why I put more interest in the stones themselves than Ior Bock’s story–even though there is enough to what he said to merit further research. But, you could easily make up a story about the ice age AD HOC. I don’t think that should distract from the monoliths.
If they were put in place by some culture, they might date back a long time, and who knows form the basis for the menhirs and monoliths we see elsewhere in Europe etc. Or perhaps placed at a similar time period. You could also place these after a huge catastrophe that destroyed an original opening to the underworld as a sort of “this-is-the-spot” marker. A sort of ultra-cromlech or dolmen-like marker eh?
But the Saga includes mythology of Ragnarök that merits its inclusion here.
The Fall of Lucifer is another very intriguing part of this whole war in heaven theme, with the fall of the “Lapis Exilis” said to have formed part of the Holy Grail, to the Lucifer in Dante’s cosmology. Another take on the Dante Cosmology occurs in both “Geheime Figuren” and the Von Welling Diagrams that occur in chapter 33 of the “Secret Teachings.” Of all this, we shall explore as we proceed.