The Architect of Znojmo

6.11.1998

Autor: D. Harald Alke

A standpoint, not a lexicon entry. A personal experiential account by D. Harald Alke. Background knowledge: the lexicon entries Reincarnation and Feng Shui.

For more than 1,000 years there were repeated attempts to bring light – new knowledge – into the Occident. It is not for nothing that it is said: Ex Oriente Lux – from the Orient comes the light. The alchemists had a hard time of it: in an age in which the Inquisition controlled Europe, they tried to bring light into the consciousness of people. Many were persecuted – one thinks of Giordano Bruno, Galileo, Kepler or Paracelsus.

A journey to Znojmo

In May 1999 I visited the Czech town of Znojmo, where we had ordered the first 9-metre-high energy pyramid. Shortly before the town I was drawn, as if by magic, into a side street in a suburb. We drove only a few hundred metres and immediately found a small, clean guest house. I felt at home, as though I had already been here once before. The house seemed peaceful and energetically clear; it was called “Pension Blanca”, the White One.

In the evening I received a message from Horus (18 May 1999, 6.25 p.m.):

“Alghimista is the path that leads out of the I into the nature of things and, through the activation of the inner healing forces, connects the soul with God – that is, the becoming-one of nature within us and outside us, the restoration of the wholeness of the human being.” – Horus

My earlier life as a master builder

The landmark of Znojmo is an unusual town-hall tower. We stayed the night close to the house in which, around 500 years ago, the builder of this tower lived. In a nocturnal vision Horus showed me my earlier life: what I practise today is the continuation of my alchemical building activity from the 15th century. At that time I was an architect and alchemist; we sought ways to bring the divine energy down to Earth. That is what all master builders did who constructed high towers: high buildings attract certain magnetic fields and lead them down – that is why every church had its tower, not only for the bells.

The next day we came to know the engineer who was to build our energy pyramid. He told us that in the 16th century there had been a master builder named Nikolaus who wanted to build pyramid-like houses and belonged to the local alchemists. His house stood where the Pension Blanca stands today. And Nikolaus is said to have said almost the same thing: “I would rather sleep outside the town in a house amid greenery and fresh air than here in the stinking town.”

The number nine

Already Nikolaus – that is, I – used the idea of rotating the middle part by 90° and setting nine pointed pyramid-turrets over two storeys. In the teaching of Horus and in Feng Shui the number nine appears again and again: every energy pyramid has twice four corners and a centre, exactly like this tower. Rudolf Steiner too emphasised the significance of the nine and pointed out that the three planes of our being – body, soul, spirit – mirror themselves in all three (3 × 3 = 9).

One more word on “Alghimista”: the symbol is a white camel striding through a golden eye of a needle, beside it a green palm. Al stands for the all-encompassing, the divine; Ghimel is a Hebrew letter and means camel and wealth; Ista is a star goddess. The alchemist must accomplish the seemingly insoluble task – to bring the camel through the eye of the needle – in order to find the true elixir of life, the green palm.

What remains

It is thus possible to establish connections to earlier earthly lives. When we trace something of them, it helps us to grasp events in the present life better. It also shows me that spiritually disposed people have life plans that reach across many lives. It is worth, then, leading a good, attentive life here and now – for that will be the foundation for the next. We live, the body wears itself out, we die and return, in order to continue the way.