Outside on the exterior of the domed roof are 6 steps: investigation of the 6 senses: eye, ear nose, tongue, body, mind. The interior was built as a perfect sphere with an oculus – the pupil – that allows a beam of light to walk through the building it resembles an eye, but not the bodily eye, the eye of the mind “to see the truth of existence as it is” – Vipassanā meditation.
The Pantheon in Rome was designed as a 3D meditation diagram following the system of Phaistos Disk numbers, the “mystic numbers of Pythagoras”. Built by Hadrian in 117-125 BC the concrete dome still has, after 1,900 years, the largest unsupported span in the world.
Design of the Pantheon as a 3D meditation diagram: were the Romans Buddhist meditators?
The foundations of the original building, donated by Marcus Agrippa, general and friend of Caesar Augustus when he was appointed Emperor of Rome in 27 BC, were reused after it burned down in AD110. Near the Pantheon at the Ara Pacis (Peace Pavilion) the Tabula Peutingeriana was engraved in marble: a map of the roads network that was maintained for centuries at the cost of the Roman Empire from Scotland in the West to the mouth of the Ganges on the East Coast of India.
Tabula Peutingeriana Wikipedia: Maintained Roman roads network from Scotland to India
Did Hadrian design the Pantheon to support dialectics of philosophy – the meditation system?
Hadrian meditation coin Petra, Gundestrup & Qataban Stele with T-shape: symbol 17 Phaistos Disk
After the Pantheon burnt down in AD110 Hadrian spent the year AD112 in Athens to study Greek philosophy. Was the Pantheon redesigned in Athens by a team of collaborators with in-depth knowledge of the meditation system as taught by the Buddha in India? Every aspect of the building was designed to represent meditation techniques and concepts.
Did Hadrian support the dialectics of philosophy to promote peace in the Roman Empire?
Plutarch: the forgotten link between Scotland and India
Plutarch, Neoplatonic philosopher and priest at Delphi was a collaborator of Hadrian. As historian he wrote popular essays, in “The Obsolescence of Oracles” he describes that two men “happened to meet at Delphi”. Was Demetrius of Tarsus, a grammarian, a spy or was he “sent by some emperor” to investigate the light beam of Maeshowe in Orkney, the island nearest to Britain where some holy men lived?
During his visit to Britain in AD122 did Hadrian build the Victory Temple at Fort Camelon to promote the dialectics of philosophy in the Roman Empire? Was the Temple at Stirling in Scotland a smaller copy of the Pantheon in Rome? Did Romans visit sites – from Maeshowe and Broch Midhowe in Orkney to Petra and Sanchi in India – in pursuit of liberation, originally taught by the Buddha?
Can Greeks with carnyx at the Sanchi Stupa in India 1st century BC be linked to the Roman brass Carnyx found at Deskford in Scotland dated to the 2nd century?
Mithras: manmade caves to practise meditation
Temples of Mithras are discovered by archaeologists from Inveresk in Scotland to Petra, spaces created as quiet “manmade meditation caves” used by Roman soldiers to meditate.
The “tauroctony” is an allegory: killing the bull (attachment to sensuality) with the sword of wisdom is the symbol of the end of suffering caused by ignorance (scorpio, dog). Mithras is the Stoic philosopher, eyes linked to Sol, the teacher with knowledge about the light of wisdom of the concentrated 6th sense. Luna, the moon: the meditator’s investigation to end the rebirth cycle (snake and ears of wheat).
The Mithras Altar of Inveresk c. 120 AD is hollow with space for light behind the image of a “crown of 6 thorns” as symbol for the 6th senses investigated with the light of wisdom. The first Buddha statues in India were made in Gandhāra in the same period by Greek sculptors. The stylistic similarity with symbol 16 (Sixteen Vipassanā Insight Knowledges) of the Phaistos Disk in Field 7 (Seven Stages of Purification) indicates the use of the same source.
Scholars assume that the visit of grammarian Demetrius was to support a violent invasion of Scotland by Agricola in AD83, but was his task to record the effect of the beam of light that shines on the rear wall in the mound of Maeshowe when Domitian restored the Pantheon?
The duration of the light shining onto the rear wall during the winter solstice for 22 1/2 days, 1/16th of a solar year that marks the Sixteen Vipassanā Insight Knowledges, was applied when the Pantheon was rebuilt in Rome by Hadrian in AD117-125.
Eventually over 30 complex rune inscriptions in the chamber were made in the 10th century to celebrate 1,500 years after the Buddha, concrete evidence that Maeshowe was linked to systems of annotation to describe the meditation system.
A simple question turned into a series of discoveries: with basic knowledge of the meditation system taught by the Buddha in his lifetime there is overwhelming evidence that meditation was practiced in Europe for up to 1,700 years. The most impressive evidence is how the light beam inside the Maeshowe tomb was first “studied by a grammarian from Tarsus” and then applied by emperor Hadrian in the Pantheon of Rome: a 3-D meditation diagram: an “eye of the mind”. His collaborator, Plutarch (Neoplatonic priest in Delphi), wrote an essay that describes in exact chronological detail a definition for each of the rune symbols of Scandinavia, the definitions are recognisable despite the corruption of the text: “On the ‘E’ at Delphi”. By implication the information reveals knowledge of early European history thought to be lost: “mystic numbers of Pythagoras” and the unwritten doctrines of Plato. After Delphi was destroyed the golden collars of Sweden and massive silver chains in Scotland were made as a celebration 1,000 after the lifetime of the Buddha by communities who protected the meditation practices, they continued to use the definitions of Plutarch. Again, 1,500 years after the Buddha, impressive rune stones were made in Sweden with evidence that they were familiar with formal Buddhist teachings in India. The video is a visual introduction of illustrated text that describes the history in detail: “Golden Collars of Sweden and the ‘E’ at Delphi”.
On the outer porch of the Pantheon are 16 massive pillars from Egypt to illustrate the Sixteen Vipassanā Insight Knowledges, touched by the beam of light from the oculus after it passed through a perforated brass grill with 6 panels above the entrance door to imitate observing the body in dissolution as particles (kalāpas) in space. Every detail of the building was used to illustrate concepts or techniques of the meditation system as observed by the concentrated 6th sense.
Artist’s meditation notes of analysis of 6 senses as particles in space, kalāpas, for detail see documentary “Sketch of an Excellent Man” www.settiwessels.com
Spartan Cleombrotus travels to the Land of Cave-dwellers (Petra) and crosses Persian Gulf to India to gather a history for Philosophy
The second conversationist described by Plutarch, the wealthy Spartan Cleombrotus, traveled via the “Land of Cave-dwellers” Petra to cross the Persian Gulf to study philosophy in India. Caves in Petra are identical to famous Buddhist meditation caves in India where names of donors are concrete evidence that Greek traders supported the construction.
PLUTARCH ( c.46– c.120) Moralis (The Obsolescence of Oracles): “…it happened that two revered men coming from opposite ends of the inhabited earth met together at Delphi, Demetrius4 the grammarian journeying homeward from Britain to Tarsus, and Cleombrotus of Sparta, who had made many excursions in Egypt and about the land of the Cave-dwellers, and had sailed beyond the Persian Gulf; his journeyings were not for business, but he was fond of seeing things and of acquiring knowledge; he had wealth enough, and felt that it was not of any great moment to have more than enough, and so he employed his leisure for such purposes; he was getting together a history to serve as a basis for a philosophy that had as its end and aim theology, as he himself named it.“
Layouts of Roman Mithras caves in Petra are identical to Buddhist Caves in India
A soldier who served Hadrian while traveling in Britain AD122 and continued to France was appointed as governor of Gallia Narbonensis and then in Arabia. The message on a cave in Petra is interpreted as his tomb, but it also reads as an aspiration of a meditator in pursuit of liberation.
Wikipedia Lucius Aninius Sextius Florentinus: First Florentinus was commissioned legatus or commander of Legio IX Hispana, which presumably was still stationed in Roman Britain at the time, … Birley dates his command of this legion “to the first few years of the reign of Hadrian.”[4] Next the sortition rewarded him with the governorship of the public province of Gallia Narbonensis. … Werner Eck dates it to the term 123/124,[7] while Birley dates it to 124/125.[4] His final posting was in Roman Arabia, where the above-mentioned papyrus attests he was in office on 2 December 127. The next known governor of Roman Arabia, Titus Haterius Nepos, is attested as being in office 17 November 130,[8] so Florentinus died of unknown causes between those two dates.
Was Petra a Buddhist Monastic site en route to India visited by Romans to meditate?
Pantheon and the 3rd century BC Sanchi Stupa India built by Ashoka
The Pantheon shape is similar to the Sanchi Stupa built by Ashoka c. 250 BC. On a panel Greek visitors are portrayed playing instruments including the Celtic carnyx. At an amphitheatre in Tintignac France the snake and wild boar accompanied by a helmet with 3 rings is evidence of performances to portray the meditation system.
A brass carnyx discovered at a sacred site near Deskford in Scotland matches the reign of Hadrian when he visited Britain in AD122 when the Victory Temple at Fort Camelon was built, a smaller copy of the Pantheon in Rome, under construction and completed in AD125.
A Roman coin dated to c. 48 BC was minted 500 years after the Buddha, with the carnyx in an X shape and seed of kamma the coin is a coded meditation diagram that can be translated with the use of the number system of symbols on the Phaistos Disk, the master key, evidence that the Romans were familiar with the meditation system as taught by Pythagoras in the 6th century BC. Porphyry (c. 232–303) described in the biography, Life of Pythagoras: “22. According to Aristoxenus, some Lucanians, Messapians, Picentinians and Romans came to him.”
Pantheon designed with Mystic Number of Pythagoras described by Plutarch: “On the ‘E’ at Delphi”
The Pantheon was designed with Mystic Number of Pythagoras. Plutarch described in a second essay, “On the ‘E’ at Delphi”, 21 paragraphs that follow the exact meaning and order of the first 21 symbols of the Phaistos Disk, recognisable despite translations that are not accurate and lacunae, such as number 13, the reference to liberation. Some paragraphs were deliberately adjusted in Christian Monasteries when copied to include references to a creator God.
Various scripts to describe the meditation system: Linear A and B, Ogham Hand signs, Runes
The meditation system was described by various scripts such as the Linear A and Linear B on clay tablets in Greece used at learning centres. There were too many variations to be standard phonetic glyphs as interpreted by linguists, the drawings described the process of concentration and meditation step-by-step. The “glyphs” had many variations, a selection were later simplified and used as rune symbols, for example the “Victorious man ᛘ” & “hanging man ᛦ ” runes.
The mystic numbers of Pythagoras as illustrated on the Phaistos Disk, the “master key”, were used to design the Ogham Hand Signs of Ireland and Elder Futhark rune alphabet that was used until the 14th century as complex meditation formulas to describe the meditation system.
Poet Dante: following the numbers and meaning of the Phaistos Disk to compose the Divine Comedy
Western scholars deny that there is any evidence of Buddhist meditation practices in Europe, the Phaistos Disk was wrongly classified to the Bronze Age and cannot be translated. convincingly. The most spectacular guide anybody could have wished for appeared in the 14th century. Poet Dante Alighieri meticulously followed the system of numbers to write the Divine Comedy, basically a Commentary on 1,800 years of Buddhist meditation as practiced in Europe.
Dante left Florence, he started writing the Divine Comedy in Rome in AD1308 under protection of the Roman Catholic Pope. The text was completed in Norther Italy in AD1320, his patron Cangrande I della Scala ruler of Verona.
Pantheon source of knowledge about numbers until the 14th century
The Pantheon (AD117-125), the oldest and most famous Roman building still standing in Rome, was designed by Hadrian and a team of collaborators as a 3D meditation diagram to illustrate the meditation system originally taught by the Buddha. The Pantheon was used as a source of knowledge until the 14th century.
Modern meditation chart used at a monastery with list comparable to the Pantheon in Rome
The meditation system is still taught unchanged after 2,500 years.