by Bethe Hagens
1984
from Montalk Website
‘The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically
for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural
existence within the finite.”
Attributed to Pythagoras
Introduction
We’ve entitled our current exercise in planetary grid research "A New Synthesis” — and
indeed we hope it is. All that may be new about our work is that we have simply found a
unique blend of the previously “unblended” ideas of others.
Planetary Grid Researchers: Prehistoric to Present
The oldest evidence of possible planetary grid research rests within the Ashmolean Museum
of Oxford, England. On exhibit are several hand-sized stones of such true geometric
proportion and precise carving that they startle the casual viewer.
Keith Critchlow, in his book Time Stands Still, gives convincing evidence linking these
leather-thonged stone models (see illustration #1) to the Neolithic peoples of Britain — with a
conservative date of construction at least 1000 years (ca. 1400 B.C.) before Plato described
his five Platonic solids in the Timaeus.
Illustration #1
These stones on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England
suggest a life of creative intellectual synthesis for the Neolithic craftsmen
who crafted and “wrapped” them with leather thongs.
And yet, here they are — the octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, tetrahedron, and cube
all arrayed for comparison and analysis. Other multi-disciplined archaeological researchers
like Jeffrey Goodman 3 and A.M. Davie 4 have dated the stone polyhedra to as early as 20,000
B.C. and believe they were used as projectiles or “bolas” in hunting and warfare.
Davie has seen similar stones in northern Scotland which he attributes to the early art of
“finishing the form” of crystalline volcanic rocks which exhibit natural geometry. He dates these
artifacts to at least 12,000 years before Plato (ca. 12,400 B.C.).
Critchlow writes,
“What we have are objects clearly indicative of a degree of mathematical
ability so far denied to Neolithic man by any archaeologist or mathematical
historian.”
In reference to the stones’ possible use in designing Neolithic Britain’s great stone circles he
says,
“The study of the heavens is, after all, a spherical activity, needing an
understanding of spherical coordinates. If the Neolithic inhabitants of Scotland
had constructed Maes Howe (stone circle) before the pyramids were built by
ancient Egyptians, why could they not be studying the laws of threedimensional coordinates? Is it not more than a coincidence that Plato as well
as Ptolemy, Kepler, and Al-Kindi attributed cosmic significance to these
figures.”
Yet another historian, Lucie Lamy, in her new book on the Egyptian system of measure gives
proof of the knowledge of these basic geometric solids as early as the Egyptian Old Kingdom,
2500 B.C. We agree, in general, with all the above researchers that the crafting of
sophisticated three-dimensional geometries was well within the capabilities of Pre-Egyptian
civilizations.
With the concept that knowledge of these geometries was necessary to the building of stone
circles and astronomical “henges” — we also agree — and would add that we have evidence
that suggests that these hand-held stones were ‘ ‘planning models,” not only for charting the
heavens and building calendrical monuments, but were also used for meteorological study; to
develop and refine terrestrial maps for predicting major ley lines of telluric energy; and, in
conjunction with stone circles, were used to construct charts and maps for worldwide travel
long before the appearance of the pyramids.
We also hold that a major reason why Megalithic groups were so interested in astronomy and
the precise calculation of solar and lunar phases was that within these calculations rested the
predicted “pulses” of energy through the grid at different times of the year.
A New Synthesis: Predictions and Speculations
Christopher Bird, in an article which appeared in the New Age Journal of May 1975,
wrote about three Russian researchers (Nikolai Goncharov, a Muscovite historian; Vyacheslav
Morozov, a construction engineer; and Valery Makarov, an electronics specialist) who had
published an article entitled “Is the Earth a Large Crystal?” Their work had outlined (likewise) a
worldwide grid of points
The tradition established by the Russians with the overlapping icosa/dodecahedron grid has
been adopted by almost all grid researchers
We propose that the planetary grid map outlined by the Russian team Goncharov, Morozov
and Makarov is essentially correct, with its overall organization anchored to the north and
south axial poles and the Great Pyramid at Gizeh. The Russian map, however, lacks
completeness, in our opinion, which can be accomplished by the overlaying of a complex,
icosahedrally-derived, spherical polyhedron developed by R. Buckminster Fuller.
In his book Synergetics 2, he called it the “Composite of Primary and
Secondary Icosahedron Great Circle Sets.” We have shortened that to Unified
Vector Geometry (UVG) 120 Sphere, because of the form’s elegant
organization of 121 “great circles” running through its 4,862 points.
We use the number 120 due to its easy comprehension as a spherical polyhedron
with 120 identical triangles — all approximately 30’, 60 and 90 in composition.
We call this figure the Unified Vector Geometry (UVG) 120 Polyhedron, and hope that
the new planetary grid terminology we introduce will be both clear as well as reflective
of the ancient and modem contributors to its development. In one of his first letters.
A.M. Davie wrote: “I came on one word yesterday which has been adopted by modem
mathematics, and causes me considerable problems. Where two lines intersect, the
word to describe this intersection is now termed “Vector.”
The grid in Europe:
Illustration #23
Map of the WORLD UVG Grid
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/zoomifyer/esp_gridsystem.htm
NOTE: The Planetary Grid System shown in the above map and link was inspired by an
original article by Christopher Bird, "Planetary Grid," published in New Age Journal #5, May
1975, pp. 36-41. The hexakis icosahedron grid, coordinate calculations, and point
classification system are the original research of Bethe Hagens and William S. Becker.
These materials are distributed with permission of the authors by Conservative Technology
Intl. in cooperation with Governors State University, Division of Intercultural Studies, University
Park, Illinois 60466 312/534-5000 x2455.
This map may be reproduced if they are distributed without charge and if acknowledgement is
given to Governors State University (address included) and Mr. Bird.
SETTING UP THE UVG GRID ON GOOGLE EARTH
The basic Google Earth program is available for PC and Mac—free!—at
http://earth.google.com.
SETTING UP THE UVG “UVG-grid-compiled-by-B-Hagens.kmz” FILE
In the upper left corner of the Google Earth screen, click File. Then click Open. You will
be able to browse to where you have downloaded “UVG-grid-compiled-by-BHagens.kmz.” Click on it, and it will appear in the “Places” menu on the left.
VIEWING AND HIDING LINES
You can view the UVG Grid in many ways. If you click on the little triangle next to a
file or folder name, and a dropdown menu appears. Click on the check mark by the title
of any folder or file, and everything in that it disappears from the screen. Click the same
spot, and it reappears.
If you go into the folder titled “Regular Geometric Solids,’ you can see subfolders and
can look at (or hide) all of the different geometric figures and great circles that make up
the UVG Grid. The edges of many of the figures overlap each other, and sometimes
meet up to create “great circles.’
Every line of the UVG is part of a great circle (equator) that divides the sphere of Earth
in half. This is the major change that Bill Becker and I made to the “planetary grid’
model (shown here) proposed in the 1970s by three Russian men Makarov (an
engineer), Morozov (a linguist), and Goncharov (a historian). I visited Makarov in
Moscow in 1994, and he told me that they believed the dodecahedron was fundamental.
It aligned very closely with the mid-Atlantic ridge. That was their beginning orientation.
Archaeological alignments (such as Pt. 1 being so close to the Great Pyramid) became
visible later.
Bill Becker, with whom I worked closely on this project for 12 years from 1981 until
1993, was a colleague of Buckminster Fuller. Bill´s first impression of the Russian grid
was that it was an incomplete synergetic structure. He realized that the red arrows of
“force’ coincided with a figure relatively unknown at the time—the rhombic tetrahedron.
This figure is now a staple of the new carbon 3 geometries and quasicrystal research.
The Basic UVG Grid—conceptualized as a “crystal,’ each of the triangles having a flat
surface—would be called a hexakis icosahedron. We believe the synergetic structural
principles of this geometry are system characteristics of Earth.
COLOR CODING
The vertices (corners) of all five Platonic Solids—and two other diamond-faced regular
figures, the rhombic triacontahedron and rhombic dodecahedron—align with the 62 grid
points (“corners’) of the Basic UVG Grid (a “spherical’ hexakis icosahedron).
Several of the figures can be positioned within the 62 points of the Grid in more than
one way. A tetradhedron, for example, will align in 10 different positions.
The UVG Grid maps all of these different possibilities.
In the list below, the number in parentheses after the name of a figure indicates the
number of placements that are possible.
Line Color
Geometric Association
Red Tetrahedron edges
(10)
Yellow Cube edges
(5)
White Octahedron edges
(5)
Black Icosahedron edges
(1)
Green Dodecahedron edges
(1)
Esoteric Meaning
Fire
Earth
White
Water
Aether
Dark Blue Rhombic Dodecahedron (5)
Violet Rhombic Triacontahedron (1)
Buckminster Fuller´s Icosahedral Great Circle Set:
Orange “Yang’ great circles
Each circle connects antipodal vertices of the Dodecahedron through two octahedra
vertices
Light Blue “Yin’ great circles
Each circles connects antipodal vertices of the Icosahedron through two octahedra
vertices
Lime Green “Balance’ great circles
Each circle connects antipodal octahedron vertices through eight octahedra vertices
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