The mystery of perpetual lamps

Throughout history we find several quotes that make a reference to «perpetual lights». There are many classic authors who left occasional testimony about a type of lamps that gave the entrance to temples , with a light so bright, that neither time nor the elements could extinguish its brightness.

Were they magic? Was it alchemy? Perhaps it is just one more legend, like so many others that are inscribed in our past and rarely can we unravel, however, we invite you once again to enter with us in a very attractive mystery, in an enigma that has the most varied documentation.

Were there everlasting lamps?

Have several historical texts that there was a time in that there was a kind of lamps of fireproof light .That many graves and burials had those little lights that lit the coffin for life, and they did so for many years until the first desecrators arrived.

If you know the always hermetic and mysterious Rosicrucian Brotherhood, you will find references to lamps that served to illuminate sacred rooms of temples and religious images. Another curious fact is found in the book "Isis without veils" , of the founder of the Teos Society office, and who also told us about perpetual lamps, which, according to Madame Blavatsky herself, fed on amber, asbestos, ciprio and other mysterious essential oils.

If they were inextinguishable... Why didn't we inherit their secret? Why don't we have these secret elements that would allow us to have a light that doesn't go out? We do not know, and from there we are left with only the thick veil of the legend.

Let's see more references to the curious imperishable lamps:

• Plutarch commented in some of his texts that the priests told him about the existence of a lamp whose light was not exitinguia and that illuminated a temple dedicated to Jupiter-Amon.
• San Agustin He also made a curious description about a wonderful lamp that was in a temple dedicated to Isis, in Egypt.Neither the wind nor the rain could extinguish it.
• During the reign of Justiniano de Byzantium in 527 , when carrying out reconstruction work on a building in Syria, they found some underground corridors that led to a tomb.Next to it was a crucifix and a lamp that would have burned, according to speculations of the era , for 500 years.
• In 1300, Marcus Grecus wrote "Liber Ignium" (book on fire ) where he spoke of a lamp that did not go out and was made of...Luciernagas!
• The French father, explorer and missionary, Evariste Regis Huc ( 1813-1860), he tells in one of his texts that in one of his trips to Tibet he saw a lamp that the wind could never extinguish.The monks explained that it was a "perpetual light."

If you are interested in the subject you will find multiple references to the inextinguishable lamps in multiple history books.Moreover, it is sometimes said that when graves and burials of the Roman or medieval era have been discovered, warm lights on lamps have also been found that when touched, fade to instant.

They may be simple legends, for others, would actually be lamps that already used modern elements such as phosphorus that most saw as "forbidden or supernatural things" , hence that magical significance.Although in some Jewish text they are spoken of as the "lamps of the watchers of the sky"

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