Cassaro, Richard

Published August 5, 2011

Richard Cassaro (1972- ) is a journalist from New York City, now based in Madrid, with a passionate interest in ancient mysteries. His 2011 book, Written in Stone^[1207]is a study of parallel architectural features to be found in ancient structures on both sides of the Atlantic and further afield in Asia. He focuses on the ubiquity of what he calls a “triptych’ feature in sacred buildings around the world and ascribes their continued use to the influence of Freemasonry. In January 2013 he published^(f) a further selection of these triptych features found in China.

Up to this point, I find his work credible but I think that he pushes the boat out too far when he speculates that these structural similarities are the result of the influence of a much earlier mother culture – Atlantis.

His website^(a) includes excerpts from his book and interesting video clips.

Included there in January 2017 is an illustrated article on the ‘cyclopean’ wall that surrounds the ancient city of Tarragona situated southwest of Barcelona as well as a comparable wall at Orbetello in Italy. He maintains that this was a colony of the Cyclopes, a mythological race of one-eyed giants. Well, if they were giants, why does the height of the doorways in Cassaro’s images appear no greater than standard doorways today? Cassaro also implies that the Cyclopes were Atlanteans, which explains the title of the article – Atlantis Ruins in Europe? The Megalithic “Master Masonry” of a Cyclopean Colony in Tarraco (Tarragona), Spain.⁽ⁿ⁾

Cassaro also produced an article and video^(b) on the frequency with which a pagan concept of a sacred trinity is expressed in symbolism found across ancient pre-christian Europe. The Wikipedia entry for ‘triskelion’^(c) augments Cassaro’s case.

He has recently written an article^(d)claiming that the Egyptian god Osiris was the first Messiah and that Jesus was the second! However, I must advise readers that this is not an entirely new idea^(e).

October 2013 saw Cassaro publish^(g) a large series of images from around the world that various deities all posing in a comparable manner! His conclusion is that “the (god) icon is the chief symbol of a lost ancient universal religion.” He also endeavours to link this ancient symbology with later esoteric ideas and Freemasonry. He published a second series in January 2014⁽ⁱ⁾.

He has also examined the Egyptian ankh and tau symbols and identified counterparts in South America^(j). In 2015, Cassaro published images online that show the ‘third eye’ symbol as found in Asia and across the great ancient civilisations of the New World^(k)and expanded on this in a later article on Graham Hancock’s website^(l).

I should point out that Jim Allen has published an even more impressive collection of images of artefacts ^(h) that clearly demonstrate that the early civilisations of America were greatly influenced by cultures in both the east and west. The contributions of Allen and Cassaro offer a persuasive argument for cultural diffusion occurring at an early date in man’s development.

Cassaro has now delved further into what he refers to as the ‘godself’ icon and published his findings in a new, fully illustrated, book, The Missing Link^[1208] together with another promotional article on Graham Hancock’s website^(m). Coincidentally, on the same day that I read of Cassaro’s new book, I also read of one element in the iconography at Göbekli Tepe, which was also to be found at other sites around the world. Cassaro’s work on diffusion should now be given wider consideration, although in my view hyperdiffusion is still unproven.

In his latest book, Mayan Masonry ^[1659], Cassaro returns to familiar suspects in which he speculates on the possibility that the ancient Maya were an older branch of the Masonic family tree^(p)! He has also posted a lengthy excerpt^(o) from the new book.

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^(a) https://www.richardcassaro.com/

^(b)https://www.richardcassaro.com/pagan-trinity-discovered-shows-holy-trinity-a-cover-up

^(c) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion

^(d) https://www.richardcassaro.com/osiris-the-first-messiah-was-jesus-the-second-coming-of-egypts-christ

^(e)https://web.archive.org/web/20200223181545/http://www.egyptorigins.org/osirisandjesus.htm

^(f) Articles – Richard Cassaro (archive.org) *

^(g) https://www.richardcassaro.com/pagan-god-self-icon-found-worldwide-rewrites-history-reveals-lost-golden-age-religion

^(h)https://web.archive.org/web/20200629021253/http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/artefacts.htm

^(I)https://www.richardcassaro.com/pagan-god-self-icon-found-worldwide-rewrites-history-pt-2-of-2

^(j) https://web.archive.org/web/20200208144312if_/http://www.messagetoeagle.com/ankhcrossaztecs.php#.Xj7JCClxepo

^(k) https://www.richardcassaro.com/discovery-of-the-third-eye-in-the-ancient-Americas