Come to discover with our guide the esoteric secret history of Prague.
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Come to discover with our guide the esoteric secret history of Prague. The places
that influenced the famous people that lived in this magic city, rabbi Low,
Johannes Kepler, Tycho de Brahe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Kafka, Alfons
Mucha, Gustav Meyring, Albert Einstein. Listen to the legends about the
alchemists, Golem, Rosencrucians, the Black Madonna, Jack-in-the-Green, the
astronomical clock.
4 HOUR TOUR
GUIDE ONLY
Tickets to attractions are not included.
There are cities, which have witnessed centuries, cities that were the focus of
battles, joyful victories, sometimes cruel defeat, either shined on, or damned,
in history´s unfolding.
Cities that, nevertheless, retain their identitry, their unique place in the
world, their unconquerable character.
Metropolises where science complements art, where mystery molds with life, and
beauty marries form.
Places of magnificient energy, flowing from unknown sources, which have their own
enticing quality, inner rythms, and hidden harmonies.
In all probability, cities such as this can only ever come into being in chosen
areas where the earth and sky meet.
The great metropolises are sought out by bearers of the spirit, who understand
the past as well as the time they live, and set the course for generations to
come, bringing order to the places they inhabit, forever leaving their mark..."
A magical city, which reveals much, but veils even more.
The Black Madonna
"The underground chambers of churches in the early Middle Ages were used to store
statues of divine Isis, known to the Babylonians as Ishtar, to the Eleusins as
Demeter, and the Egyptians as Eset, the greatest Goddess of Daughters and Sons of
the Nile.
Other representations of the Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, are common,
but Black Madonnas are relatively rare, the most famous can be found in the
cathedrals at Chartres, Marseille and Vichy. Depictionsin altera paintings can be
seen in Censtochova, Poland, and Loreto in Italy. Prague´s Black Madonna with
child is the most famous of its kind in the Czech Republic, there are only about
five similar statues in the country and no more twenty paintings. The early-
Baroque Madonna comes from the 17th century, and was brought to the house on the
corner of Celetna street and Ovocny street much later.
Some researchers believe that its location at the present site is not accidental:
the Black Madonna, a talisman of protection in the widest possible sense, stands
across from the former headquarters of the Templar Knights, quarding an important
telluric site, where currents of energy cross together, flowing from
underground."
In The Secrets of the Cathedrals Fulcanelli wrote that it was possible attribute
Christian meaning to the Black Madonnas only in the esoteric sense. In the
beginnings of Christianity the Madonnas were interpreted as Virgo paritura, the
Earth before fertilisation, soon to the born in the rays of teh Sun. In hermetic
symbolism the Madonnas represented the original earth, which te Artist had to
choose as the subject for his Great Work, they represented the true prima materia
in the raw form if iron ore, a black substance, waiting to be ennobled and
refined. The Black Madonna is a universal archetype and phenomenon found in all
cultures of the world."
Jack-in-the-Green
"Experts in iconography, believe that Jack-in-the-Green represents something
other than human race, in the past he may have been a figure of Celtic mythology,
a god even, or he may have been a creature from a lower astral planet, with whom
the druids could communicate. With the smile of Mona Lisa, or the enlightened
Buddha, Jack-in-the-Green can be found across the European continent, in the high
corners of cathedral columns, at the feet of Christ and the Madonna, alone,
surrounded by flora and fauna, secretive, elusive, everywhere and nowhere at
once, appearing in moments of surprise.
He is always represented as a face without a body, a face with wide, staring, but
beautiful eyes, his mouth is usually slightly open, allowing branches and boughts
to sprout from the corners, untwine and tangle again. His cheeks are partially
hidden by leaves, often oak, sometimes wine. He is fascinating, and commands,
both respect and wonder. he is a creature different from the usual monsters that
flank cathedral walls, basilicas and gargoyles, and representations of
Lusifer....Jack-in-the-Green is a noble figure..........."
The oriel of the Carolinum is a chapel joined to the famous assembly hall, and is
one of the oldest parts of this Gothic building, it is an excellent example of
Parler´s Gothic style in the late 14th century. At the base, under the decorative
rings one can find a few chiselled faces which include a wild man and Jack-in-
the-Green.
It is possible to find Jack-in-the-Green in other parts of Prague as well, there
is one high on the vaulted ceiling of the ground floor of the Carolinum, which is
unfortunately closed to the public.
Another Jack-in-the-Green can be found in the decorative kingpin of the vaulted
ceiling of the so-called Tyn school on the Old Town Square, it dates from the
13th century.
The representation is partucularly interesting because of the numerical symbolism
applied. Seven branches wrap around the green man´s face, three sprout directly
fom his mouth. He can be found in the short passageway leading to the Cathedral
of Our Lady before the Tyn, look for him up on the left side.
Other Jack-in-the-Greens can be seen at The Stone Bell house, where only a torso
remains and the Powder Tower, where there are two. Both are found at about the
height of three metres.
There is supposedly yet anothr Jack hidden among the stone garlands on the outer
wall of Saint Vitus Cathedral. Finelly, there is a green man at the Old Town
Hall, chiselled into a twist of branches and brambles."
Astronomical clock
"Many books have studied the Prague astronomical clock and the symbols on its
face, the golden hand points to Roman numerals revealing Central European Time,
two times twelve hours, as well as the Old Bohemian time, in Gothic numerals,
which counts twenty-four hours beginning at sunset. The Gothic number 24 is
always countered by a Roman numeral, which shows the time of the sun´s setting.
The complex clock also reveals astrological data, the rise, both culminations and
waning of individual astrological Houses, the Sun, the Moon, star-time, the
geocentric position of the Sun in the zodiac and its current position during the
day, as well as the planetary hour at a certain moment. The disc face is divided
into three dominant parts, revealing a part of night sky that is dark-brown, from
sunset to sunrise that is light-brown and the sky during daytime that is blue.
The only thing the astronomical clock is unable to calculate is Daylight Savings
Time."
"Legends of the wise tell a story from the ancient times, which took place just
after the creation of the World, a time when the most beautiful of angels,
Lucifer, longed to be greater than God. The Archangel Gabriel used his lance to
strike down the rebelious "Angel of Light", and hit Lucifer on the head, knocking
a shining jewl from his crown: the Jewel of Light flew through the heavens,
annealing the stars, and creating the Milky Way. Lucifer fell also, losing the
right to his name, no longer the Carrier of the Light. Dark and threatening, arms
sweeping aside the stars of the northern sky, he fell. In a terrible rage he hit
the Earth, creating a wide basin which today is home to the Czechs.
A splinter of the Jewel buried itslef in a hill which would later become the
famous Vysehrad: the sewtting where the princess Libuse prophesied a city so
great its fame would reach the stars.
The second most sacred pace in Prague, found across from the Prague Castle,
separated by the river Vltava. Where the Castle stands today, the heralds once
found a person hewing the first treshold - prah - and everyone knows what the
rich and poor alike bow before a threshold.
Prah, the root of Praha, Prague, the name Libuse envisioned for the great city
she foresaw. Ever sinmce, it has stood on the banks of the Vltava, weathering
many an historical storm, it has weathered them all, remaining beautiful, regal,
and above all, mysterious.
Prague remains, with its hundred spirtes, and its winding cobblestone streets,
and its secret passageways. It is the nagic metropolis of Europe, the city of
alchemists and necromancers, a city for those who would discover the Truth.
Prague observant and full of observers, a city continually experienced and open
to everything new issuing from the Light.
text - Jiri Kuchar - "Praha esotericka"
"Although it has been proven that the legend about the Golem and his scholarly
creator did not emerge until the 19th century and the alleged "historical"
writings about the Golem are fake, we are still waiting for an explanation why to
this day Psalm 92 is sung twice in the Old-New Synagogue during the Friday
service. According to legend, rabbi Loew was interrupted during his reading with
a plea to stop his clay-made servant from running amok around ghetto."
