An Introduction to Ley Lines

A brief history of Ley Lines

On June 30, 1921 the concept of ley lines was first introduced by Alfred Watkins. While
studying a map when out riding near some hills in the vicinity of Bredwardine in
Hertfordshire he noticed the footpaths appeared to connect one hilltop to another in a straight
line. He believed that in ancient times, when Britain had been far more densely forested, the
country had been covered by a network of straight-line travel routes, with prominent features
of the landscape being used as navigation points. Since then British dowsers have linked the
appearance of ley lines with underground streams and magnetic currents. After various
investigations there are claims that the crossing of negative water lines and positive aquastats
explain why certain sites were chosen as holy. These double lines were found on many sacred
sites and later became known as holy lines. Two German Nazi researchers Wilhelm Teudt
and Josef Heinsch claimed that ancient Teutonic’s constructed a network of astronomical
lines, called Holy lines (Heilige Linien), which could be mapped onto the geographical layout
of ancient or sacred sites. The Teutoburger Wald district in Lower Saxony centers around the
dramatic rock formation called Die Externsteine, centre of Germany. Evidence of this can
also be seen in China, where it is heavily landscaped in accordance with the laws of Feng
Shui Neolithic peoples recognised that the harmony of society depended on the harmony of
the earth force. And so in China, ancient Greece, Ireland and Scotland men built their temples
where the forces of the earth were most powerful. Rosslyn chapel is located on the Roseline
of which the Knights Templar were said to have had mystical knowledge of its significance.

These straight-line networks can be found throughout the world stretching for hundreds of
miles. Some incorporate elaborate spoked circles that include line systems within line
systems. Straight lined alignments go back thousands of years, the actual name Ley Lines
was first introduced in England. It was noticed that many sites and villages and other places
of interest names ended in ley were found along the same straight lines. Hundreds of separate
line systems have been uncovered proving there was nothing accidental in the way ancient
peoples built monuments in harmony with each another, even over distances of hundreds of
miles.

In France investigators uncovered many line networks linking the main Cathedrals with
places of interest. Some are placed to reflect several of the main constellations, with sites
separated over hundreds of miles. The village of Alaise in the foothills of the Jura Mountains
of eastern France was found to be at the centre of a line system that radiated out to include
dozens of sites, villages and towns of a similar name through many neighbouring countries
over distances that spanned an area of many thousands of square miles. Most astounding is
the realisation that this line system must have been initiated and planned thousands of years
ago. For many the geometric perfection of ley lines, the distances involved, in addition to the
very remote period of their development gives a totally different view of the ancient world. It
shows the ancients were capable of a masterful degree of geodetic knowledge enabling them
to accurately build sites in full alignment, even over hundreds of miles.

In many cases the evidence of ley lines is only apparent when charting them on a map. Visual
evidence for ancient line networks is most obvious in the desert markings of Nasca in Peru.
In the arid dry desert hundreds of line networks have baffled all attempts to successfully
explain them. These markings scratched on the desert surface are said to be thousands of
years old. They stretch in perfectly straight lines, traversing desert ravines and gullies for up
to 60 miles. Other line systems were found in the Inca capital Cusco with a focus on the
Temple of the Sun. It could be that the Nasca lines were to be viewed from the air, as this was
how they originally came to be discovered. Invisible or visible lines and harmonies
connecting ancient sites and cities have always focused on their connection with areas of
increased Earth energy. It is thought that the lines facilitated some aspect of ancient life so
that cities and sites built along the same lines shared a harmonic resonance. One explanation
is that this form of energy is now explainable by the String Theory. This concept allows for
the existence of extra dimensions as well as the idea of passage from one time to another.