Dwapara Yuga: Sacred Sites

Martin Gray's wonderful book on his 20 years of pilgrimages to the world's sacred sites, Sacred Earth, underlines two great unifying truths revealed in Dwapara Yuga: the great astronomical knowledege built into the designs of the sites and their syncrenistic nature: each new wave of religion taking over the sites and holy dates of the previous one, literally building on the old foundations of pre-existing holy/high energy locations.

To the sensitive, the sites can be felt without the need to even see the various structures and relics amassed over millenia there, or note how they unfailingly relate to solstices, equinoxes, precession, the galactic center or other astronomical/holy fixtures, knowledge that mocks the theory of past primitive man but resonant with the truths that Sri Yukteswar brought forth in his works. Much as for the symbolism in the world's holy books, the sites often have myths associated with them of serpents and dragons, the energy in the spine and the defeat of mayic or satanic forces.

England's patron saint is Saint George, famed for slaying the dragon. In WWII, Churchill named his plane for Ascalon, Saint George's sword, another reminder of the esoteric undercurrents in WWII and the recurring battle of good and evil it represented.