Did a Latvian immigrant rediscover the secrets to the building of the pyramids...
of levitation... of anti-gravity? His amazing "castle" may hold clues to
long-lost powers.
Coral Castle in Homestead, Florida, is one of the most amazing structures
ever built. In terms of accomplishment, it’s been compared to Stonehenge,
ancient Greek temples, and even the great pyramids of Egypt. It is amazing –
some even say miraculous – because it was quarried, fashioned, transported,
and constructed by one man: Edward
Leedskalnin, a 5-ft. tall, 100-lb. Latvian immigrant.
Many men have single-handedly built their own homes, but Leedskalnin’s choice
of building materials is what makes his undertaking so incredible. He used huge
blocks of coral rock, some weighing as much as 30 tons, and somehow was able to
move them and set them in place without assistance or the use of modern
machinery. And therein lies the mystery. How did he do it?
It’s estimated that 1,000 tons of coral rock were used in construction of the
walls and towers, and an additional 100 tons of it were carved into furniture
and art objects:
An obelisk he raised weighs 28 tons.
The wall surrounding Coral Castle stands 8 ft. tall and consists of large
blocks each weighing several tons.
Large stone crescents are perched atop 20-ft.-high walls.
A 9-ton swinging gate that moves at the touch of a finger guards the eastern wall.
The largest rock on the property weighs an estimated 35 tons.
Some stones are twice the weight of the largest blocks in the Great
Pyramid at Giza.
Leedskalnin on
Magnetic Current
Ed Leedskalnin wrote several booklets which he sold to tourists as they
marveled at his structure. One of them, called “Magnetic
Current” is available to read online at the above link. In it he
reveals the results of two years of experiments with magnets. Perhaps he
reveals his secrets of levitation when he writes: “The real magnet is the substance that is circulating in the metal.
Each particle in the substance is an individual magnet by itself, and both
North and South Pole individual magnets. They are so small that they can pass
through anything. In fact they can pass through metal easier than through the
air. They are in constant motion, they are running one kind of magnets against
the other kind, and if guided in the right channels they possess perpetual
power.”
Working alone, Leedskalnin labored for 20 years – from 1920 to 1940 – to
build the home he originally called “Rock Gate Park” in Florida City. The
story goes that he built it after being jilted by his fiancée, who changed her
mind about marrying him because he was too old and too poor. After wandering
around the U.S. and Canada for several years, Leedskalnin settled in Florida
City for health reasons; he had been diagnosed with tuberculosis. He began
building his coral home in 1920. Then in 1936, when a planned new subdivision of
homes threatened his privacy, Leedskalnin moved his entire home 10 miles to
Homestead, where he completed it, and where it still stands as a tourist
attraction.
How Leedskalnin managed this feat of engineering has remained a mystery all
these years because, incredibly, no one saw him do it. A secretive man,
Leedskalnin often worked at night by lantern light. And so there are no credible
witnesses to how the small, frail man was able to move the huge blocks of rock.
Even when he moved the entire structure to Homestead, neighbors saw the coral
blocks being transported on a borrowed truck, but no one seems to know how
Leedskalnin got them on and off the vehicle.
Lots of weird stories have been told and bizarre theories proposed to explain
Coral Castle. And since no witness can dispute any of them, they are all worthy
of consideration.
The Theories
One story
says that some curious neighbors did see how Leedskalnin moved the
stones. They say he placed his hands on the stone to be lifted... and sang.
Somehow this levitated the great rocks.
According to an article
in Fate magazine, “some teenagers spying on him one evening
claimed they saw him ‘float coral blocks through the air like hydrogen
balloons,’ but no one took them seriously.”
Frank Joseph, in the Fate magazine article, also writes,
“Alternative science investigators suggest that Leedskalnin somehow
learned the secret of the ‘world grid,’ an invisible pattern of energy
lines surrounding the Earth which concentrates points of telluric power
where they intersect. It was here, at one of these intersections of Earth
energy, that he was supposedly able to move his prodigious stone blocks
using the unseen power of our planet.” Yet that still does no explain how
Leedskalnin was able to tap this power, and others cannot.
Coral Castle
quotes J. Cathie, a captain flying with National Airways Corp. of New
Zealand, as saying: “Measurements from the Coral Castle position to the
zero-degree and 90-degree longitude lines, when they passed through the
equator, also yielded harmonics related to light and gravity. The final
check of the distance between Coral Castle and grid pole A in the north,
dispelled any doubt about the site being in an ideal position to allow
Leedskalnin to erect the huge blocks of coral with relative ease.
Measurements from all major points gave the geometric harmonics necessary
for the manipulation of anti-gravity.” Cathie also believes that this
energy grid is also responsible for many UFO sightings.
In an article by called "The
Coral Castle Mystery" in Atlantis Rising, author Christopher Dunn
asserts: “What if there’s no such thing as gravity? And the natural forces
we already know about are sufficient to explain the noted phenomena we have
labeled as gravity? Perhaps Leedskalnin’s means of working with the Earth’s
gravitational pull was nothing more complicated than devising a means by
which the alignment of magnetic elements within his coral blocks was
adjusted to face the streams of individual magnets he claims are issuing
forth from the Earth with a like repelling pole.”
When he was personally asked
how he managed the feat, Leedskalnin replied only that he understood the
laws of weight and leverage. He is quoted as saying, “I have discovered
the secrets of the pyramids. I have found out how the Egyptians and the
ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan, and Asia, with only primitive tools,
raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons.”
According the The
Enigma of Coral Castle, “Ed flatly disagreed with modern science, and
claimed that the scientists were wrong, ‘that nature is simple.’
He believed all matter consisted of individual magnets, and it is the
movement of these magnets within materials, and through space, that produce
measurable phenomena, magnetism, and electricity. These concepts ‘involved
the relationship of the Earth to celestial alignments.’ He claimed to see beads
of light which he believed to be the physical presence of nature’s
magnetism and life force, or what we term today, chi.”
Was Leedskalnin being deceptive when he talked about magnetism and
electricity, trying to make his accomplishment more mystical and mysterious than
it actually was? Had he merely found a very clever way to manipulate the great
stones with levers and pulleys? We may never know the answer. Leedskalnin took
his secrets with him to his grave in 1951... secrets that await to be
rediscovered.
Cosmic
Key – Brief information on Coral Castle and other megalithic stone
structures and how they may have been levitated
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Ed Leedskalnin wrote several booklets which he sold to tourists as they
marveled at his structure. One of them, called 
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