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The Meaning of 2012 Prophecy:
A Galactic Meditation
Program for Whole Planet Synthesis — the Noosphere
Paper
presented by
José
Argüelles,
Valum Votan
at the World
Brotherhood Union Mevlana Supreme Foundation,
12th
Annual Conference,
"Call to World Peace from the
Universal Brotherhood"
Taken from:
http://www.lawoftime.org/archives/mastery.html
The problems that pervade the planet have a common root: The spiritual failure
of humanity – the inability of the human being to attain spiritual mastery.
Moral and emotional immaturity are the result. Now we must pay heed to the
message of all the great spiritual masters. They were all “only human,” yet they
attained spiritual mastery. If we do not implement wide scale programs to
emulate them, at least among a critical mass of humans dispersed equably around
the planet, we may miss the evolutionary opportunity that awaits us in 2012 —
and beyond.
“The people ask you about the Hour (end of the world). Say, ‘The knowledge
thereof is only with God. For all that you know, the Hour may be very close.’ ”
— Quran, 33:63
You may mention the year “2012” in many parts of the world and people will often
respond by asking, “Isn’t that the end of the Mayan calendar?” Twenty years ago
hardly anyone knew of that date. Today, if you search the Internet you will find
numerous 2012 web sites. If there was ever a date that seemed to correspond to
“the Hour,” or the “Last Day,” it is 2012.
The airwaves are rife with speculation about what will occur on this date, most
specifically the winter solstice (northern hemisphere),
Of course, many of you here may know very little of this date or of the Mayan
calendar, and why this particular date seems to have so much significance for
increasing numbers of people. It is important to shed some light on this date so
we can determine for ourselves what this date might mean and why spiritual
mastery is of such critical value at this time.
The Mayan Calendar and The End of History
The 2012 date is derived from the Mayan calendar long count, which defines a
very precise cycle of 1,872,000 days beginning on
But who were the Maya that they could have arrived at such a precise timing, and
what was the nature of their calendar that it could be used to foretell and
define events such as the beginning and end of history?
If we turn to the world map and find that place where
Foremost among the great artistic and scientific achievements of the Maya was
their unique calendar system. Utilizing a vigesimal system (count by 20s, as
distinct from decimal, count by 10s) with a positional zero, the mathematics
underlying the Mayan calendar was a totally unique world phenomenon. With this
mathematical program the Maya devised an elaborate calendrical system unequaled
by any other civilization on this planet. With this system, employing more than
seventeen calendars simultaneously, the Maya calculated innumerable cycles of
time, all recorded in a unique notational system on their fantastic stone
monuments. For the Maya, time is a fractal means of synchronizing events
occurring in different eras and even world-systems.
The mental imagination of the Maya was truly galactic in nature as was their
knowledge.
For the Maya, the 5125-year —1,872,000-day— cycle ending in 2012 is a perfect
fractal calibrator of cosmic time, whose two key indicators are 13 and 20 —
hence 13:20, the natural timing frequency. These two factors
—13 and 20—
also
create the Tzolkin or 260-unit permutation index, the basis of all their
calendars. Thus, the measure of 1,872,000 days divides perfectly into 13
subcycles of 144,000 days each, or 13 baktuns. Each of the baktuns divides
perfectly into 20 sub-cycles called katuns of 7200 days each, or 20 katuns per
baktun. This means that there are 260 (13 x 20) katuns per 13 baktuns, and that
we are currently in the last six years of the 260th katun of the entire cycle of
history!
The thirteenth and last baktun began in the year 1618. This is the year that
effectively marks the commencement of what is called in the West the “scientific
revolution.” This date, 1618, is also commemorated by the perfection of the
mechanical clock. Though we take it for granted, this clock, the basis of the
mechanization of time, is the foundation of modern civilization, without which
the industrial revolution would never have occurred. But the Mayan calendar also
says that the scientific revolution, begun in 1618, would end, along with all of
history, 144,000 days later, in the year 2012.
The Prophecy of 2012
You will note that the number of days in a baktun — 144,000 — is the same number
as that which appears so prominently in the 27th and last book of the New
Testament, the Book of Revelation.
“Then I heard the number of those that were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes
of
Is it mere coincidence that the number of the measure of time for counting the
days to the “Hour” of the last day at the “end of time”, and the number of the
elect redeemed from the earth are the same — 144,000? How could this be? The
answer to this lies in the 2012 prophecy sealed into the tomb of a wise man of
the Maya, Pacal Votan.
To learn more, Let us go back in time …
It is the year AD 631. In
In
the same year, AD 631, half way around the world, as Muhammad was making his way
into Mecca, in Palenque, a great Mayan king, Pacal Votan, noted the number of
days elapsed since the beginning of the Great Cycle, the cycle of man’s trial on
Earth: 1,366,560 days... He pondered the multiple factors of this number. This was
the number long foretold, the number which would mark his destiny, the reason
for his mission on earth.
From his knowledge of mathematical astronomy, Pacal knew this was the date of
maximum synchronization occurring between the first day of the first baktun and
the last day of the thirteenth baktun. He also knew this day commenced the 73rd
52-year cycle since the beginning of the count of days. 3744 years had now gone
by. This was the supreme harmonic sub-cycle of the Great Cycle. It was during
this 52-year cycle that Pacal was to determine how best to leave the prophecy of
the end of history — not the end of time, nor the end of the Mayan calendar, but
merely of the end of history.
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| Pacal's Sarcophagus |
By the wisdom granted him, Pacal knew that his term would end with the
conclusion of this 73rd 52-year cycle (AD 683), and so he conceived
of a great funerary monument to be built according to his instructions by his
son, Chan Balum. Everything about this monument would be coded with the prophecy
of the end of history, including its dates of commemoration and discovery.
So it was that having spent four katuns or 80 years on earth, that Pacal died in
683 AD. The great monolithic sarcophagus awaited him. Covered with jade his body
was laid to rest. Over the sarcophagus a magnificently sculpted stone was
placed. Then, for the next nine years, a great nine storied pyramid temple was
erected over the sarcophagus. The tomb was now firmly sealed behind a stone door
at the bottom of this pyramid. From the wall of the tomb, following a winding
staircase to the top level, was a tile psychoduct or speaking tube. Dirt and
debris was then used to fill the stairwell and hide the tomb. At the top of the
pyramid a temple had been erected. The floor of the middle chamber of this
temple was carefully laid with large slabs of stone, effectively sealing off the
stairway and speaking tube that ran down to the tomb. The walls of the three
temple chambers were covered with carefully incised inscriptions — 620 in all:
140 in the central chamber and 240 in each of the side chambers.
The temple was finally dedicated in the Mayan year 9.13.0.0.0 (AD 692). A
prophetically coded date. this Mayan year signaled that nine baktuns plus
thirteen katuns had passed since the beginning of the count of days, Another
seven katuns and Palenque was abandoned. This was the year AD 830, or 10.0.0.0.0
— ten baktuns or 1,440,000 days since the count of history began. Before too
long, the jungle reclaimed Palenque. When the Spaniards arrived seven centuries
later, no one had a clue that Palenque even existed. But there were myths,
legends and certain prophetic traditions telling of a great king named Votan who
built a dark house and left behind 22 (9 + 13) tablets telling of the future and
the coming of the cosmic religion of Hunab Ku — One Giver of Movement and
Measure.
By the early nineteenth century Palenque had come to light and certain intrepid
seekers and archeologists found their way to its mystic ruins. But until the
middle of the 20th century, no one had a clue that deep within the
marvelous Temple of the Inscriptions, as Pacal’s pyramid had come to be known,
lay a tomb and a prophecy. No tomb had ever been better hidden — but why? So it
was that one day in 1949, archeologist Alberto Ruz Lhuillier was sifting through
debris and dirt on the floor of the middle chamber of the Temple of the
Inscriptions. One of the stone slabs covering the floor attracted his attention
by its curious cup shaped markings. Could the stone be lifted up by these
shapes? Carefully raising the stone all that greeted Ruz was a lot more dirt and
debris. But a piece of tile caught his eye. He dusted it off and dug around it.
It was the top of a tile tube. Where did it lead? He had to find out.
June 15, 1952, three years later, after very careful digging, Ruz found himself
in a chamber at the bottom of the stair well. Six skeletons — sacrificial
victims? — lay in front of a large trapezoidal stone slab. Prying open that slab
— an ingeniously devised door — a great blast of cool air rushed out, air
charged with the thoughts left there over a thousand years before. Inside was
the stupendous carved sarcophagus lid of the great king of Palenque. Everything
was in perfect timing, precisely as foreseen by Pacal Votan.
You see, from the time of the dedication of the Temple and tomb in AD 692 to the
time of its discovery in 1952, is an interval of exactly 1260 years. Nothing
about the tomb of Pacal was left to chance, not even its discovery. The number
1260 is yet another number to be found twice in the Book of Revelation — it is
the number of the two witnesses of prophecy and of the pregnant woman clothed
with the 12 stars and her feet on the moon.
“And I will give power to my two witnesses and they will prophesy for 1260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” 11:4 These two witnesses could well be Pacal Votan and Muhammad, whose prophecies are for the end of historical time.
And of the pregnant woman driven into exile by the red dragon with seven heads,
it is written, “And the woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her
by God, where she might be taken care of for 1260 days.” 12:6 This woman
represents the cosmic spirit of humanity driven into exile by the forces of
materialism. She gives birth to a son who becomes the king to wage the final
battle of the heavens on earth.
It is obvious that Pacal intended his tomb to be so carefully concealed that
only a miracle at the right moment in time could bring it to light. That this
precise interval of time was exactly 1260 years, correlating it with the Book of
Revelation is a matter for profound consideration. The message of the tomb is
simple: 1260 is the number of exile of humanity. This is the message of the two
witnesses of prophecy. The 12 stars are the first twelve baktuns, and the moon
is the thirteenth. The 1260 means that when the tomb is discovered the world
will be in the exile of materialism. This world of materialism is governed by
the 12-month Gregorian calendar and the 60 minute hour of the mechanical clock,
hence 12:60, the frequency of mechanized time and the number of exile.
But the dedication and discovery of the tomb were also precisely timed to the end of the cycle. From 1952 to 2012 is just 60 years — 60 +1260 = 1320. This means that from the dedication of the tomb in 692 to the closing of the great cycle in 2012 is 1320 years. This is the number encoded in the mathematics of the Mayan calendar 13:20 — 13 baktuns, 20 katuns each, the number of the cycle completed in 2012. In essence Pacal Votan is saying,
“When my tomb is discovered, 1260 years will have elapsed, at which time
humanity will find itself exiled in the tomb of materialism. There will be 60
years remaining before the end of the cycle in 2012 — 1320 years since the
dedication of my tomb. To survive the end times portended by the closing of the
cycle —the war of the heavens on earth— humanity must leave the exile of the
12:60 frequency of materialism and mechanized time, and return to living in
synchronization with the universal cycles of nature, 13:20. This is the meaning
of the numbers 13 and 20, for together they create the universal frequency of
synchronization. If mankind can make the shift from 12:60 to 13:20, then it will
be the start of the second creation. This is the meaning of the 2012 prophecy.”
It Is the Mind that Makes It So
From the point of view of the 2012 prophecy, humanity has but six years to
attain spiritual mastery, to raise itself from the 12:60 frequency of
materialism to the 13:20 frequency of synchronization with the divine laws of
nature. How can this be done? What will happen?
Prophecy is given so that we may take heed. Whatever it is that occurs, it is
the mind that makes it so. The 2012 prophecy is meant to alert us to a momentous
history-shattering change that is about to occur. Like all true prophecy, it is
also meant to raise our spiritual awareness. Since the 2012 prophecy is about
the “hour”, a moment through which all humanity must pass, it is also a prophecy
of universal spirituality.
“The immortal destiny of each and all of us is to attain the consciousness of
the higher self, and subsequently, of the Divine Spirit.
— Alice A. Bailey, Initiation Human and Solar, p. 64.
Today, humanity represents a single global organism but in a virtual state. It
is hooked up on the Internet and can access itself in Internet cafes in even the
most remote parts of the world. But it has not yet truly realized its oneness,
its unitary nature as a single planetary organism. 2012 signals that moment when
the human organism experiences a radical change of its condition Through some
profound mind and soul altering event it will experience an evolutionary shift
from atomized individual human consciousness to that of a unified planetary
organism.
Though we speak of a cosmic shift in consciousness and evolutionary status, this
is not a matter of passively waiting for it to happen. The quality of what is
about to occur depends on our response to the 2012 prophecy. This is why we also
speak of spiritual mastery. Surely there are as many spiritual masters on the
planet today as there are armed terrorists, and certainly there are as many
people on this earth who have attained sufficient spiritual mastery as to exceed
the number of humans actively enlisted in the world’s armies.
Surely between now and 2012, all of these spiritually minded beings, undoubtedly
representing every living faith on Earth and then some, could create a type of
spiritual battery to
charge the
human mental environment with such an overwhelmingly powerful vibration that
the effect would be noticed by all of those guardian entities ever watchful over
the doings of our until-now most errant humanity. And out of their compassion
for our planet, these angelic orders with an exertion of spiritual mastery of
their own, might at last respond in kind. What an event that would be!
But to attain such an effect, there must be an unprecedented unity of purpose
cutting across language, culture and belief. This is precisely what is called
for by the 2012 prophecy —a harmonic convergence of the spiritually adept of
all faiths and traditions.
Spiritual Mastery and the Coming of the Noosphere
The creation of a spiritual battery consisting of a unified network of the most
spiritually advanced brotherhood ever gathered on earth, engaged in a galactic
meditation program on behalf of a whole planetary synthesis would in itself
constitute a noospheric act — the true fulfillment of the 2012 prophecy. The noosphere, according to V.I. Vernadsky, is “a new evolutionary condition of the
biosphere in which the geological role of humanity is dominant.” This new
evolutionary condition is the result of an unprecedented crisis of the earthly
biosphere. Such a crisis we are currently experiencing. This is an evolutionary
crisis and a noospheric emergency. As the mental sheathe of the planet, the
noosphere is the human being’s responsibility. Presently the humans are creating
a noospheric pollution, a mental fog of egotism, terrorism and war. To dissolve
this fog a higher consciousness cleansing agent is required —the action of the
spiritual battery of which we have already spoken.
If, say, 144 million humans by 2012 were engaged in a common meditation on a
daily basis, humanity would begin to experience a spiritual mastery greater in
its cumulative effect than all the atomic bombs in the world. There have been
great epochs of human creativity in which a spiritually-inspired mass lifted the
level of civilization to new heights — Sung dynasty China, Islamic civilization
at its peak in the thirteenth century, or the great era of the cathedral
building in Medieval Europe, to name but a few. But consider the inspired effect
of a unified global spiritual force responding to the noospheric emergency,
creating a network of unified mental energy —a luminous noospheric sheathe
thrown around the planet for its own protection?
To be effective, everyone participating in this meditation must agree on
practicing the same method, with the same intention, and the same understanding.
The method is to enter into a thought-free state where the ego is transcended
altogether. The point is to remain in that state, and whenever a thought arises
to just dissolve it, giving it no power. In this way experience the condition of
dhikr’ullah — the Remembrance of God, or the nirvakalapa samadhi or the state of
rigpa, the unconditioned, self-existing non-dual empty state of primordial
awareness which is the nature of the true self.
In this primordially pure state one should have the underlying intention of
creating a mental network with all the others practicing this meditation — for
how can there be other than the single state of mind that knows without knowing?
One must imagine this network covering the planet as a sheathe of non-conceptual
light suffused with a profound and wordless compassion for all beings without
exception, knowing that the suffering of humanity is due to its having fallen
out of this sublime state.
Further, there should be the knowledge that this state of ego-free mind has
always existed, that it is the deathless state of the immortal great ones. As
such it extends throughout the galaxy, dispersing itself through the entire
cosmos. In its galactic interconnectedness this state of mind is participating
with other intelligences on this plane of reality as well as in other dimensions
of existence. It is the universal cosmic consciousness, experienced by numerous
beings, simultaneously synchronized by the perception of the coming of the Hour,
December 21, 2012.
We shall not say what creative acts will stem from the cumulative effects of
such an endeavor, acts unpredictable from our present vantage point. But if one
devotes an hour each day to this practice, anonymously and without seeking any
personal benefit on behalf of the betterment of the whole and the salvation of
the Earth, there is no question that the arrival of the Hour in 2012 will be but
one of total illumination and a rebirth of imaginal wonder. Let us begin now,
and proceed, one day at a time, until the arrival of the exalted moment — that
the world may begin anew.
Punakaiki, South Island, New Zealand, Magnetic Moon 18, Kin 226, Red Magnetic
Moon year (Gregorian:
