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METAGEUM '07
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Conference session: The Maltese Temples: A Different Perspective
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About Francis Xavier Aloisio
Francis was born in 1946. He spent half his life abroad. He was trained by the Jesuits and became a missionary priest in Peru. After he resigned from the Church, he settled in England, where he worked in child-care and eventually became Chief Executive of a Charity caring for people with learning disabilities.
He started painting late in his life as a way of self-expression. Later on he did the Certificate in Art at the University of Brighton. He draws his inspiration from his Maltese background and Peruvian experience of the Inca Culture.
While abroad he could appreciate more all that was Maltese, so when he returned home, he decided to start promoting the beautiful, rich and unique culture of his native country. He completed a collection of fifteen paintings depicting Malta’s journey from prehistory to history and contemporary society, as if looking out of a window; and another set of twelve paintings, this time depicting Malta’s Prehistoric Heritage of the Temples. This exhibition was shown at the magnificent Valletta Waterfront.
The author has always been interested in the Temples but after this exhibition he exchanged the brush to the pen and started doing his own research on the Temples. This has resulted in his first novel on the Maltese Temples entitled The Islands of Dream. He is at present writing an autobiography and the second novel The Children of the Temples.
About The Islands of Dream
The novel The Islands of Dream is based on the true purpose of the Prehistoric Temples of Malta. Hidden truths are expressed, exposed and discussed in the dialogue between the main protagonists of the novel. The intention is to challenge the conventional views and fixed theories of the experts, and by making people ready to listen to other points of view and theories.
General Statements we hear about the Prehistoric Temples of Malta:
- The first Free Standing Temples in the world
- Goddess Culture
- The Fat Lady: the Maltese Venus
- The Sleeping Lady
- Megalithic Stones
- Hypogeum
- Cart Ruts
- Solar and Lunar Calendars
- Links to Atlantis
And these are some of the themes, subjects, arguments, questions that the author Francis Xavier Aloisio takes us through in this novelogue about the Temples:
- Who actually built these majestic and mysterious structures?
- Were the farmers from Sicily the true builders of the Temples?
- Are we to believe their ‘official dating’ as professed by the experts and archaeologist?
- Where they really the first ‘Free Standing Temples’ in the world?
- Why are there so many sites on this small island in the middle of the Sea?
- How many Temples are there overall?
- What about the many Underwater Sites?
- What was the real purpose of the Stones Circles of Malta?
- Were these Temples built for religious rituals or for other purposes?
- Were the Underground Sites hued purposely for burial purposes?
- Is it true that their culture was based on the Goddess worship?
- Is there any evidence of the link with Atlantis?
- Do they even go further back to the pre-Atlantis Era?
- Were the temples the ‘Power Centre’ for the first inhabitants on Planet Earth?
- What do the many slabs with Proto-Sanskrit inscriptions say?
Finally the hidden secrets of the Temples are uncovered and revealed. Now they tell their whole tale as it is!
Excerpt from the Introduction to the novel: The Islands of Dream
"I was born in a country that has a great prehistoric civilisation with a culture that dates back to thousand of years. Since childhood I was always fascinated about our prehistoric culture, but we never had had any encouragement to search or to do further studies about this period. The emphasis then was on, what I term the Christian past, the shipwreck of St. Paul on these islands, and the arrival of the Knights of St. John, and the British Empire. Prehistory was the period of our pagan past.
"During my long years abroad I had started slowly to realize and appreciate more the history of my culture and the wealth of heritage found on the small island of Malta. Throughout these years, I realised that not many people knew about the temples of Malta. Everybody knew about the Pyramids, about Stonehenge, Nasca and MachuPicchu. But they drew a blank when it came to Malta’s temples. Yet these temples are far older than these well known sites. Later I found out that they were not only the oldest but they are actually the first and the most important of all existing prehistoric sites in the world because of their sole purpose in the scheme of things of life on this planet earth.
"I have been interested in Metaphysics since my early years of study for the priesthood. Both during my Philosophical and Theological studies, I learned all about dogma, scripture, morals, sacraments and rituals. I had many doubts and questions about many things, so my inquisitive spirit took me on a journey of a personal search for the truth. I read about the Dead Sea Scrolls, Gnostic Gospels, Mesopotamian writings, Prophet Enoch, Essene Gospel and the pre-Christian Eastern writings like the Upanishads and Bhagavat Gita. I was hooked on them and fascinated by their content. When I was in Peru I had the opportunity to learn about the great Inca culture. I quickly dropped any preconceived ideas I held about their beliefs or so called superstitions, learnt to keep an open heart in order to listen to what they had to say and an open mind to understand their spiritual expression. I started to appreciate then their great wisdom and profound mysticism. I realized that these humble and profound people had a deeper interconnectedness with the cosmos and the Divine energy than I ever had or ever experienced in Catholic Europe! Their ‘belief system’ was based on a great respect to supernatural forces and to Mother Nature. But my ancestors must have had also this connection with Mother Gaia through their Goddess culture and their temple structures! So I embarked on a personal search into the mysterious ‘prehistoric heritage’ of my country and to find out the real meaning of the Temple Culture.
"After returning home, I felt the need to study, to read and to research more in depth this culture of mine. I felt a strong urge running through my bones to express and release this energy that had been trapped for all these years without any possible outlet. Suddenly there was an urgency and need to express myself in the only form that I knew then, namely to put on canvas the wealth of heritage of my land and my people. Thus I painted Malta’s unique culture in the tapestry of world history. I expressed its journey from prehistory to history and contemporary society. The outcome was a combination of visual art, poetry and prose that provided a comprehensive and holistic appreciation of all that is Maltese. As I was painting these icons of Malta’s journey in time and space, I could see the influence of my South American experience have had on my paintings, through the use of vibrant colour and distinctive symbols.
"We, Maltese, have a moral and legal liability to take care of the temples, as we are entrusted with these priceless treasures to be their guardians and keepers. So it is important that we know more about the temples, appreciation their architectural and historic importance, realise their role in the scheme of things, and acknowledge their value in our history and culture. They are God’s given gifts to all humanity."
-- Francis X. Aloisio
Energizing the Energies of the Temples: What we are asked to do today!
"Malta lies on some major pathways of highly charged electromagnetic energy. They have been dormant now for centuries and they are waiting to be re-energised. The temples were built on energy or ley lines; the earth’s equivalent of our nervous and meridian systems. These points throb to the rhythms of the universe, and they are very much alive and pulsing.
"So what do we need to do at this present time vis-à-vis the Temples! We are asked to go and energise the power points of our temples. Each temple has an energy point that vibrates stronger than in other areas. But other areas around the island have similar energy points. It’s up to us now to re-energies these power points, vortexes and energy centres.
"How? By simply visiting these sites; acknowledging the temple’s energy points and by connecting with them in silence! The temples will respond in a pure simple manner and will establish a communication link with us. The rest will take care of itself.
"The vortex of each temple will get stronger each time we acknowledge and connect with these power points. It is similar to winding a clock, and every time we visit these sacred places we are nurtured and inspired by the energetic imprint left in our beings by the innate power of each place. We will then be nurtured, inspired and energised by them, and they will provide the extra energy each of us needs to make the next most important transformational change at this Shift of the Ages.
"There is something compelling about these structures; something mysterious in the stones; that should fill you with Awe and Inspiration; and humble Reverence. The Temples of Malta survived the passage of time hiding within them a great secret waiting to be revealed and explained."
-- Francis X. Aloisio
At Metageum '07
Francis will be exhibiting his series of fourteen paintings of the Megalithic temples of Malta, which have been exhibited at Valletta Waterfront in 2005. He will exhibit for the first time the new paintings on how the temples were built and what happened inside these structures. They are painted in the vibrant colours, redolent of Peruvian art, that we have seen and enjoyed in his paintings of the history of Malta. Francis will also be talking about the temples as centres of 'energy' or 'consciousness', as if they were the conduits through which some world-consciousness finds expression.