Tonight, for no apparent reason, I pulled The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe off my closet shelf and opened it to a short story titled, MS. Found in a Bottle.
After reading the story, which is about a man who’s on a ship that almost sinks after water washes over the deck and floods the lower half, (the flooding kills everyone onboard except two people, and at the end of the story, the ship is whirling around getting sucked into the main drain of the ocean) I saw a short paragraph written by Poe himself.
In the picture above, Poe talks about how he wrote this story long before he found the Mercator maps. Yes, he was a visionary, ahead of his time, and probably a prophet. But, the words black rock caught my attention because I saw them somewhere before where they were included in a mystery.
Mystery solved!
The picture above is from Robert Howells book, Inside the Priory of Sion. The paragraph about Pisces talks about the commander of an imperishable ark. In Poe’s story, he was on a ship. At then end of this paragraph, it says, “Perhaps, as the commander of the imperishable ark, impassive as a column on his white rock, scrutinizing the the south, beyond the black rock.
When I first read Howell’s book, I had no idea what this meant, but now I do. There must be a humongous black rock at the North Pole, and a humongous white rock at the south pole. Whoever this commander is or was must’ve stood on the black rock at the top of the world gazing towards the south pole.
Nooz Buffet 