Ancient Aliens

The Three Jewels of Buddhism...

Something is trying to get our attention,

trying to tell us something.

the Hindu Trimurti...

KATHLEEN McGOWAN: We see it going back very, very far

into the earliest aspects of human history.

and the Holy Trinity of Christianity.

The number

represents a portal, a gateway, into another realm.

Throughout human history, the number three has

always had a unique significance.

But why?

No matter

what ancient culture you look at, the highest ones always

came as threes.

What is it about the number three

that makes it play such a big role in

religion, architecture and even the occult?

And could there be an extraterrestrial connection?

Once we understand this power of three,

we ourselves will become like our creators, the gods.

Millions of people around the world believe we

have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true? Did ancient aliens really help

to shape our history? And if so, might the secrets of

the universe be revealed by examining the incredible power

of three?

Newgrange, Ireland.

The walls of this 5,000-year-old

passage tomb are decorated with mysterious designs made up of

three connected spirals.

Yunnan Province, China.

Three 1,100-year-old Buddhist temples known as the Three

Pagodas form a triangle thought to protect the population from

natural disasters.

Ancient Greece.

According to myth, the destiny of gods and men is controlled by

all-powerful beings known as the Three Fates.

Various cultures across the world have long shared a belief

that the number three represents something sacred, mystical,

even divine.

All human beings understand numbers.

All of us live in a physical universe where things come in

different numbers, and so different cultures will

highlight different numbers as particularly important,

ritualize them and make them culturally important.

We see widespread use of the number three in European

traditions, but also we see it in selected traditions around

the world, too. These number traditions can

become very, very powerful and connect cultures together.

The unique reverence for the number three

dates back thousands of years, and can still be found today

in art, architecture, mythology, literature, science, and religion.

But why?

What is it about this number that has continued to hold such

significance for mankind?

If you think of our

lives, we have a past, a present, and a future.

Our story falls neatly into three.

Throughout folklore and mythology, we find the number three.

Something about three is trying

to get our attention, trying to tell us something.

The number three comes up many, many times

in Judeo-Christian scriptures. Jonah is in the belly of the

whale for three days. In Genesis, the waters are

separated from the earth after three days.

In the New Testament, Jesus in the tomb for three days.

There's just a special significance there.

McGOWAN: We see the number three in sacred texts.

And why is that? Is there something within us

that is hardwired to understand that three is a sacred number?

And where does this come from?

The Giza Plateau, Egypt.

Three Great Pyramids line the desert just outside of Cairo.

Constructed more than 4,000 years ago, this unique trio of

monuments is arguably the most recognizable in all the world.

The pyramids also employ the most magnificent use of

triangles in architecture.

You had in ancient Egypt what we might think of

as a masonic tradition. There were the builders

themselves, who embodied the knowledge of geometry, the

knowledge of tool-making, and how to put buildings together,

and especially how to create buildings that were themselves

vehicles for initiating or inducing higher consciousness.

The Giza pyramids are very interesting in

that you have three major pyramids.

Their sides are triangles. Think of the triangle.

The simplest, most perfect geometric form.

The ancients were certainly intrigued by geometry,

indeed sacred geometry. And certainly a triangle is one

of those basic archetypal shapes that perhaps is hardwired into

the human consciousness, and this may find expression in

monuments such as the pyramids.

You've got

that progress towards perfection, towards the top of

the triangle. It's a very upward-directed,

higher-directed shape, and I think we kind of get that on

a subconscious level.

So there is a sense in which the number

three... in the form of the triangle, in the form of the

apex of the pyramid... represents a portal, a gateway into

another realm. You might say it's a "realm of the gods."

Do the three

pyramids of Giza really represent some sort of portal

to a divine realm? Perhaps more clues about the

sacred nature of the triangle can be found by examining the

work of one of the most celebrated mathematicians of all time.

Samos, Greece.

Sixth century BC. Greek mathematician and

philosopher Pythagoras introduces his famous theorem:

A squared + B squared = C squared.

The formula explains the mathematical relationship

between the three sides of right triangles, and some believe it

was originally based on the design of the Egyptian pyramids.

Pythagoras lived 2,500 years ago.

It is said that he studied with the great teachers of Egypt.

And he brought the wisdom of Egypt back to Greece.

That, in effect, was the birth of Greek philosophy.

For Pythagoras, and for a lot of

ancient philosophers, mathematics was a kind of more

precise description of the supernatural.

They're coming to terms with man's place on this earth and

one of the ways you do that is by measurements, and

measurements have to develop, and when they develop, they

develop more complex mathematics.

And Pythagoras is one of the very early philosophers

to really develop this stuff.

Pythagoras taught that everything in the universe

has a three-part structure.

And every problem in the universe can be reduced

diagrammatically to a triangle. To Pythagoras and his followers,

the triangle represented ascension, and the triangle

itself, and number three, was the key to all hidden mysteries.

In Carnac, France

there are thousands of megalithic standing stones that

are over 6,000 years old, and many of them are in the form of

a right triangle, or a Pythagorean triangle.

And they were built many thousands of years before Pythagoras.

These same geometric

relationships of the right triangle have also been found

at Avebury and Stonehenge, and you have to ask yourself, does

the Pythagorean triangle represent some kind of special

extraterrestrial geometry? A geometry of threes?

The bottom line is that "A" squared plus "B"

squared equals "C" squared" applies to the entire universe.

And so, for Pythagoras to come up with this, of course, is

extraordinary, but he was not the first.

We know that Pythagoras got this information

from ancient Egypt. And the ancient Egyptians

themselves say that this was knowledge from the gods.

So what we have is a situation whereby the ancient Egyptians

got this information from a non-human intelligence, from an

extraterrestrial source, preserved it in secret for

thousands of years. And Pythagoras is really the

first one to take it outside of Egypt, and, basically, begin to

speak to the world about what it is, what the ancient Egyptians

knew about this divine information.

Did Pythagoras really get his knowledge of

geometry and its profound connection to the universe

from an otherworldly source?

Pythagorean

triangle may contain wisdom that we still haven't understood in

terms of how physical, terrestrial geometry connects to

extraterrestrial domains that may coexist with our own.

Did extraterrestrial visitors

provide early humans with advanced mathematical

information? Information that would help them

unlock the secrets of the universe?

And if so, why? And what is the secret of the

number three? Is it a code?

Or could it be a gateway to communication with mankind's

alien ancestors? Ancient astronaut theorists

believe further evidence can be found by examining a mysterious

artifact, one that could very well change the world.

Cambridge University, England.

Here in the library of this 800-year-old institution are the

research papers of Sir Isaac Newton.

One of the most influential scientists of the 17th century,

Newton introduced what became the basis of all modern physics:

the three laws of motion.

One of the things I think we often forget

about people like Newton... he was also very much into alchemy,

and he was very much a mystic himself.

In mystical circles and in alchemy, three is considered a

powerful number. So, it was natural for people

to try and write things in threes and break it down into

threes and use that principal to communicate information.

Alchemy was a hope of early magicians or chemists.

The idea was that maybe if they

could just figure out how to combine different materials

together, they could wind up with something precious.

There was a longstanding interest in it, and a lot of

sort of early scientific developments and even ideas of

chemistry came from this practice.

Included among Newton's writings on philosophy,

astronomy and mathematics is a cryptic translation of an

ancient document that has fascinated alchemists for

centuries... an emerald tablet. Carved on green crystal, the

tablet is believed to be one of several that contained, not

only information on the practice of alchemy, but the secrets of