WE HAVE COME TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS

by Tamás Nánási-Kézdy Photos: Orsolya Egressy

ATTILA GRANDPIERRE, PHYSICIST, ASTRONOMER, PHD, CANDIDATE OF SCIENCES, MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC BODY OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND RESEARCH PRESIDENT AT THE BUDAPEST CENTRE FOR LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY SPOKE TO EURASIA ABOUT THE ESSENCE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE ANCIENT SILK ROAD AND THE MISSION OF THE HUNGARIAN NATION.

– How did you get from studying the Universe to ancient history?

– The first significant turning point came when I learned what the essence of the Universe was. Ervin Bauer ignited the spark: my father handed me his book on theoretical biology when I was 17 years old. In this volume, far ahead of his time, the renowned scientist presents his discovery of the universal principle governing the energetic side of life. After having developed this proposition further, I came to the conclusion that the driving force of the Universe is founded on three principles: the principle of matter, the principle of reason, and, most significantly, the principle of life, which encompasses the other two and without which they would be meaningless. The three principles are essentially one: the principle of life unites them into a Trinity. As I was approaching the concept of the trinity of body, soul and spirit – the principle of life that creates unity from these three horizontally imagined parallels, and becomes prominent and unifying as it rises from the central position, becoming vertical – unexpectedly and to my enormous surprise, a double cross appeared in front of me. This was the sign that connected the symbol of the essence of the Universe to ancient history.

– What sort of ancient knowledge does the double cross reveal?

– It led me, for instance, to Hungarian runic writing, in which the symbol for ‘one’ is a double cross. It seems inconceivable that the most appropriate sign for 1 would be 3 signs! There must be a weighty reason for this. To represent the cosmic ‘One’, our ancestors picked the symbol of the unity of the cosmic trinity. The symbolic system of the

‘One’ has been with us since ancient history through to the people of Árpád, to our current national coat of arms and flag. The trinity of the ‘One’ and the unity of the trinity: the knowledge of the essence of the living Universe is the spiritual foundation of the Hungarian people.

– What signs indicate this?

– There are many examples, but I would highlight the realisation of the Russian archaeologist Igor Manzura, which is in line with my own endeavours to understand ancient history. During his research, Manzura concluded that the unified symbol system found in ancient artifacts invariably reflects the world view that determined the civilisation and social life of the people of a given age. As the symbol system of the essence of the Universe is no longer known, the symbol system of the Trinity and the triple trinity, has, of course, escaped the attention of archaeologists. The symbolism discovered on archaeological artifacts unearthed along the Silk Road is most prevalent among the Hungarians and Székelys, the Scythians, the Avars, and the Huns, as well as in Mesopotamia, which is no coincidence. There, for instance, three trinity symbols are depicted on the trunk of the cosmic Tree of Life. The unity of the triple trinity exists precisely where life force flows upwards. The symbols of the Tree of Life, the triple trinity and the double cross are found among the peoples of the Silk Road, the Scythian-Hun-Hungarians, as well as in Mesopotamia and in China.

The author is a journalist