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NARRATOR: The Three Jewels of Buddhism...

JONATHAN YOUNG: Something's trying to get our attention,

try to tell us something.

NARRATOR: The Hindu Trimurti...

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN: We see it going back, very, very far

into the earliest aspects of human history.

NARRATOR: And the Holy Trinity of Christianity...

JEFFREY MISHLOVE: The number represents a portal, a gateway

into another realm.

NARRATOR: Throughout human history the number

three has always had a unique significance.

But why?

GIORGIO TSUOKALOS: No matter what ancient culture

you look at, the highest ones always came as threes.

NARRATOR: What is it about the number three,

that makes it play such a big role in religion, architecture,

and even the occult?

And could there be an extraterrestrial connection?

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DAVID CHILDRESS: Once we understand this power of three,

we ourselves will become like our creators, the gods.

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NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world

believe we have been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And if so, might the secrets of the universe

be revealed by examining the incredible power of three?

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Newgrange, Ireland... The walls of this 5,000 year old passage

tomb are decorated with mysterious designs made up

of three connected spirals.

Yunnan Province, China.

Three 1,100-year-old Buddhist temples known as the Three.

Pagodas form a triangle fought to protect the population from

natural disasters.

Ancient Greece... according to myth,

the destiny of gods and men is controlled

by all-powerful beings known as the Three Fates.

Various cultures across the world

have long shared a belief that the number three represents

something sacred, mystical, even divine.

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All human beings understand numbers.

All of us live in a physical universe

where things come in different numbers.

And so different cultures will highlight different numbers

as particularly important, ritualized them, and make

them culturally important.

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We see widespread use of the number three

in European traditions, but also, we

see it in selected traditions around the world too.

These number traditions can become very, very powerful

and connect cultures together.

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NARRATOR: The unique reverence for the number three

dates back thousands of years, and can still be found today

in art, architecture, mythology, literature, science,

and religion.

But why?

What is it about this number that has continued to hold

such significance for mankind?

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If you think of our lives, we have a past, a present,

and a future.

Our story falls neatly into three.

Throughout folklore and mythology,

we find the number three.

Something about three is trying to get our attention,

trying to tell us something.

The number three comes up many,

many times in Judeo-Christian scriptures.

Jonah is in the belly of the whale for three days.

In Genesis, the waters are separated from the earth

after three days.

And the New Testament, Jesus in the tomb for three days.

There's just a special significance there.

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KATHLEEN MCGOWAN: We see the number three in sacred texts.

And why is that?

Is there something within us that is hardwired to understand

that three is a sacred number.

And where does this come from?

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NARRATOR: The Giza Plateau, Egypt...

Three Great Pyramids line the desert just outside of Cairo.

Constructed more than 4,000 years ago,

this unique trio of monuments is arguably the most recognizable

in all the world.

The pyramids also employ the most magnificent use

of triangles in architecture.

JEFFREY MISHLOVE: You had in ancient Egypt

what we might think of as a Masonic tradition.

There were the builders themselves,

who embodied the knowledge of geometry, the knowledge of tool

making, and how to put buildings together.

And especially, how to create buildings

that were themselves, the vehicles

for initiating or inducing higher consciousness.

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ROBERT SCHOCH: The Giza pyramids are

very interesting in that you have three major pyramids.

Their sides are triangles.

Think of the triangle, the simplest most perfect geometric

form.

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NICK POPE: The ancients were certainly

intrigued by geometry, indeed sacred geometry.

And certainly, a triangle is one of those basic archetypal

shapes that it perhaps is hardwired

into the human consciousness, and this may find expression

in monuments, such as the pyramids.

MARIE D. JONES: You've got that progress towards perfection,

towards the top of the triangle.

It's a very upward-directed, higher-directed shape.

And I think we kind of get that on a subconscious level.

JEFFREY MISHLOVE: So there is a sense in which the number three

in the form of the triangle, in the form of the apex

of the pyramid represents a portal, a gateway

into another realm.

You might say it's a realm of the gods.

NARRATOR: Do the three pyramids of Giza

really represent some sort of portal to a divine realm?

Perhaps, more clues about the sacred nature of the triangle

can be found by examining the work of one of the most

celebrated mathematicians of all time.

Samos, Greece.

Sixth century, BC.

Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras

introduces his famous theorem.

A2+b2=c2.

The formula explains the mathematical relationship

between the three sides of right triangles.

And some believe it was originally based on the design

of the Egyptian pyramids.

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JEFFREY MISHLOVE: Pythagoras lived 2,500 years ago.

It is said that he studied with the great teachers of Egypt,

and he brought the wisdom of Egypt back to Greece.

That in effect was the birth of Greek philosophy.

RICHARD RADER: Pythagoras and for a lot

of ancient philosophers, mathematics

was a kind of more precise description

of the supernatural.

They're coming to terms with man's place

on this earth and one of the ways you

do that is by measurements, and measurements have to develop.

And when they develop, they develop more complex

mathematics.

And Pythagoras is one of the very early philosophers

to develop this stuff.

WILLIAM HENRY: Pythagoras taught that everything in the universe

has a three-part structure.

And every problem in the universe

can be reduced diagrammatically to a triangle.

To Pythagoras and his followers, the triangle

represented ascension, and the triangle itself,

and the number three was the key to all the hidden mysteries.

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DAVID CHILDRESS: In Carnac, France

there are thousands of megalithic standing stones

that are over 6,000 years old, and many of them

are in the form of a right triangle,

or a Pythagorean triangle.

And they were built many thousands of years

before Pythagoras.

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These same geometric relationships

of the right triangle have also been found

at Avebury and Stonehenge.

And you have to ask yourself, does the Pythagorean triangle

represent some kind of special extraterrestrial geometry?

A geometry of threes?

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GIORGIO A. TSOUKOLAS: The bottom line is that a2+b2=c2 applies

to the entire universe.

And so, for Pythagoras to come up with this, of course,

is extraordinary, but he was not the first.

PHILIP COPPENS: So, we know that Pythagoras got this information

from ancient Egypt, and the ancient Egyptians themselves

say that this was knowledge from the gods.

So, what we have is a situation whereby the ancient Egyptians

got this information from a non-human intelligence

from an extraterrestrial source, preserved it in secret

for thousands of years.

And Pythagoras is really the first one

to take it outside of Egypt, and basically

begin to speak to the world about what it is, what

the ancient Egyptians knew about this divine information.

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NARRATOR: Did Pythagoras really get his knowledge of geometry,

and its profound connection to the universe

from an otherworldly source?

Pythagorean triangle may contain wisdom that we still

haven't understood in terms of how

physical, terrestrial geometry connects

to extraterrestrial domains that may coexist with our own.

NARRATOR: Did extra terrestrial visitors provide early humans

with advanced mathematical information?

Information that would help them unlock the secrets

of the universe.

And if so, why?

And what is the secret of the number three?

Is it a code?

Or could it be a gateway to communication

with mankind's alien ancestors?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe further evidence can

be found by examining a mysterious artifact, one that

could very well change the world.

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Cambridge University, England... here,

in the library of this 800-year-old institution

are the research papers of Sir Isaac Newton.

One of the most influential scientists of the 17th century,

Newton introduced what became the basis

of all modern physics...

The Three Laws Of Motion.

MICHAEL DENNIN: One of the things

I think we often forget about people like Newton,

he was also very much into alchemy,

and he was very much a mystic himself.

In mystical circles and in alchemy,

three is considered a powerful number.

So it was natural for people to try and write things in threes,

and break it down into threes, and use that principle

to communicate information.

TOK THOMPSON: Alchemy was a hope of early magicians or chemists.

The idea was that maybe if they could just figure out

how to combine different materials, together

they could wind up with something precious.

There was a long-standing interest in it,

and a lot of the sort of early scientific developments.

And even ideas of chemistry came from this practice.

NARRATOR: Included among Newton's writings

on philosophy, astronomy, and mathematics

is a cryptic translation of an ancient document that

has fascinated alchemists for centuries.

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An emerald tablet, carved on green crystal.

The tablet is believed to be one of several that contained not

only information on the practice of alchemy,

but the secrets of the universe.

But although it is referenced by Newton

and written about in numerous other ancient texts,

the existence of the so-called emerald tablets

is largely thought to be a myth.

ROBERT SCHOCH: The emerald tablet or tablets

contained perhaps the most fundamental ancient wisdom.

The ancient wisdom of transmutation,

the secrets of longevity, the secrets of the cosmos.

And there are many different legends

about this tablet or tablets.

Some people say that they were found in the Great Pyramid

thousands of years ago.

ANDREW COLLINS: The so-called emerald tablets had the secrets

of alchemy, and alchemy itself wasn't

just about the transmutation of vise matter, into a pure state,

into gold.

But it was about the knowledge of the secrets of the universe.

About how we, ourselves, could transform ourself,

and become at one with the universe as a whole.

DAVID WILCOCK: The emerald tablet has a very interesting

phrase.

Three is the great mystery come from the great one.

It says that three is the great mystery that

unifies the universe.

It says that power, wisdom, awareness all arises

from this interplay of three.

PHILIP COPPENS: What we're being confronted

within the emerald tablets is basically this notion

that if we take two substances, we can make a third substance

out of this.

Three as such is always the power of transformation.

It is the end result for the alchemists.

Basically saying, I took certain things

and I created something new.

And that is represented by the third element.

The information was written down, which basically details

that if anybody were to possess this knowledge,

he would become a master of life, a master over death,

an almost supernatural being who could do anything at will.

NARRATOR: Were early scientists, like Isaac Newton seeking

extraterrestrial knowledge?

And wants that knowledge based, in part, on a unique power

inherent in the number three.

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Perhaps answers can be found by taking a closer look at the man

many believed to be the author of the emerald tablets, Hermes.

Trismegistus.

RICHARD RADER: Starting in the 4th-century BC,

a character develops called Hermes Trismegistus.

His name just means Hermes thrice great.

So, Hermes Trismegistus is the Hellenistic Egyptian version

of the Greek Hermes, and he is associated

with the Egyptian god, Thoth.

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And so, for that reason, primarily, he

becomes associated with his magical practices of theurgy,

which is doing the works of the gods, influencing the world.

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JEFFREY MISHLOVE: At some point as the Greeks moved into Egypt,

and the Romans moved into Egypt there was an endeavor

to correlate the Egyptian traditions

with the Greek and Roman traditions.

So, you had this connection between Thoth and Hermes.

And the idea in both cases is this

is the deity that is the messenger

or the link between our human realm,

and the higher realm of the gods.

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ROBERT SCHOCH: According to some legends,

he was a reincarnation of Thoth, the ancient scribe of Egypt.

The scribe of the gods.

He was an individual who brought knowledge, who brought wisdom,

he would consider thrice great, three times great.

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Hermes descended from the sky in what was considered

to be a flying ship.

And we have the exact same story in ancient Egypt with Thoth.

Also having descended from the sky and his whole premise

was to teach the people in scientific disciplines.

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NARRATOR: Was Hermes Trismegistus

really the reincarnation of the Egyptian god Thoth?

And if so, did he serve as a messenger between man

and the gods, as the ancient Greeks believed?

Or might he have been, as ancient astronaut theorists

contend, an extraterrestrial being.

One who brought mankind the knowledge of the universe

in the form of emerald tablets.

DAVID WILCOCK: The emerald tablets are a fascinating body

of knowledge.

It gives rise to the idea that many different systems,

whether we're dealing with physics systems,

or systems of consciousness, systems of philosophy,

systems of religion will always be underlined

by this prevalence of the number three.

DAVID CHILDRESS: You have to ask yourself is the emerald tablet

some kind of extraterrestrial knowledge

that's been handed down to us?

So maybe the key to immortality is

written in the emerald tablet in a code of threes.

NARRATOR: Did extra terrestrial messengers really give mankind

the secrets of the universe as ancient astronaut theorists

suggest?

And is one of the keys to rediscovering that knowledge

related to the number three?

Perhaps another clue can be found

by examining a mysterious gland, inside the human brain.

Washington DC April 2013.

We have a chance to improve the lives of not just millions

but billions of people on this planet,

through the research that's done.

NARRATOR: US President Barack Obama,

unveils an ambitious government-funded research

project designed to map the human brain.

Titled, The Brain Initiative, the program

promises to shed new light on how human beings learn,

think, remember, and create.

So there are many things that science still does not

understand about how the human brain works.

There is 100 billion neurons in the brain

and then there's about 100,000 trillion connections possible.

If we can understand it, we can crack the neural code.

It'll unlock a lot of answers to understanding things

like disease and how to cure them

and it really is the final frontier of human anatomy.

NARRATOR: Just how the human brain functions has remained

a mystery that has puzzled mankind for thousands of years.

But according to many ancient cultures and religions,

the workings of the brain are not the mere workings

of a human organ, but are linked to something much more

profound, something of extraterrestrial origin.

Lidder valley, Northern India.

Here, on a snow covered mountain in the heart of the Himalayas

lies the Amarnath cave.

Every summer, thousands of Hindus

make the treacherous journey through the steep terrain

to witness the formation of a massive vertical ice

stalagmite, thought to represent Lord Shiva, one of the most

powerful gods of Hinduism.

According to mythology, it was in this cave

that Shiva revealed the secrets of creation

to his goddess wife Parvati.

There are three great divine energies

in the Hindu imagination involved in the creation story.

Brahma actually creates things.

This is the great god Brahma brings things into being.

Vishnu maintains reality, and Shiva destroys.

Now Shiva, is just as important as the other two

divine energies.

In fact, the Trinity would not exist without the destruction.

You cannot have renewal, you cannot have continued growth

without the destructive energy.

NARRATOR: In Hinduism, Shiva is often pictured with a trident

the prongs representing his three fundamental powers; Will,

action, and knowledge.

He is also often illustrated as having a third eye

in the middle of his forehead.

But why?

In the iconography, he is clearly

depicted with a vertical third eye right

in the middle of his forehead.

With that eye, he can see things, he has a clairvoyance.

When his eye opens, it also radiates a lot of energy

through that eye.

And then when that is opened up and then

everything becomes clear.

And then of course the universe is yours, because then you

are able to communicate with with everyone else

because then you are in part with the cosmic frequency.

In the spiritual beliefs of many cultures, including

ancient India, including many parts of Asia

there is a third eye that is located

in the middle of the forehead, generally, right

between the two eyes and that is a center of spiritual power.

And in some cases, it is thought to have supernatural powers.

NARRATOR: In the principles of Freemasonry,

there is a consistent and recurring notion

that two sides or pillars can only

find a balance by the addition of a third center structure.

This center structure is often represented

as a mystical or third eye.

But why?

Is it meant to represent that of an all-seeing god,

or does it suggest something quite different,

something perhaps that can even be

found within the human brain?

TOK THOMPSON: This is represented

in many mystical traditions that this is somehow

the mystical eye.

There have been many different theories about this.

But one of the more interesting ones

is that some people said it referred to the pineal gland,

which is a light sensitive organ that is actually somewhere

in here.

NARRATOR: Part of the endocrine system, the pineal gland

is no larger than a grain of rice

and is shaped like a pine cone.

Though it is located deep in the center of the brain,

between the two hemispheres, it appears

to share some characteristics with the human eye.

The function of the pineal gland

is mainly to release a hormone called melatonin, which

controls the sleep wake cycles.

So because it's light sensitive it's

sometimes called the third eye.

And it's had some mystical implications as well

because it's this asymmetrical structure that's

right in the center of the brain.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that ancient man

was aware of the existence of the pineal gland?

And if so, were they also aware of its special function

within the brain?

From the earliest stages in human history

across a broad spectrum of cultures,

this idea of the pineal gland, being a mystery, gland that

is somehow related to enlightenment,

or a mystical experience is something that we see widely.

Our two eyes are bodily eyes allow us to see around us.

The third eye allows us to see beyond that.

It allows us to see things that we would not normally see.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that a so-called third eye really

exists?

A part of the human brain that allows human beings to connect

directly to something beyond themselves?

Even beyond this planet.

Throughout history the third eye

has also been attributed for allowing you to travel

to different dimensions, or astral traveling, and all

those different things.

So now my question is, how did these stories begin?

Is it possible to astral travel?

Is it possible to go places with your mind alone?

MIKE BARA: The concept of the third eye

is supposedly our doorway to connecting with

not only our higher selves, but other higher

spirits and possibly even to otherworldly entities.

Like extraterrestrial entities.

The pineal gland acts as a hyper-dimensional gateway.

It is a functioning stargate within your brain.

The pineal gland appears to create some type of bridge

or wormhole inside your head.

Extraterrestrials may already understand this.

It's a basic aspect of human physiology.

We have a stargate built in.

DAVID CHILDRESS: And you have to wonder then if we were created

possibly by extraterrestrials.

And they know that we have this third eye.

That part of their mission is to influence us and cultivate us

to the point where we are able to utilize this third eye

that we've been given.

NARRATOR: Could an actual part of the human brain

really help to explain why mankind functions so

differently from other lifeforms on our planet?

Could this tiny gland offer a key

to understanding why human beings create art, music,

and literature?

Why we bury our dead?

And devote time to contemplating our own existence.

Perhaps the answers can be found in the stories

of divine figures appearing across the ancient world,

in powerful groups of three.

Henan province, Central China.

Here, along the shores of the Yi River,

a 1,352 ancient caves known as the Longmen Grottoes.

Dating back to for 493 AD, they contain the most spectacular

collection of Buddhist cave art in the world.

One of the largest of the over 100,000 stone statues

at the site is at the Amitabha Buddha, or the Buddha

of infinite light.

He is flanked on either side by his two assistants

and collectively they are known as the Three Saints

of the West.

For some reason, the sacred mysteries

are often presented as threefold.

In Mahayana Buddhism, the three guides

are Amitabha the Buddha of infinite light

and his two companions, one representing wisdom and one

compassion.

It is significant that throughout the ancient world

gods and leaders would often appear in threesomes.

For some reason, the triad shows up

as a divine powerful principle.

Something about three is telling us some important information

about wholeness.

NARRATOR: Triads, trios, trinities, why have cultures

all over the world envision their divine leaders

and mythic heroes in power structures of three?

Perhaps an answer can be found by examining

the stories of the three Saints and the celestial realm

of the Amitabha Buddha known as the Western Pure Land.

DOMINIC STEAVU: In a former life Amitabha Buddha

was believed to have been a king, who renounced his kingdom

through a series of vows.

And these vows were vows to create a pure Buddha land.

The Western Pure Land was thought to be actually real.

And to exist outside of the normal confines of time

and space.

Amitabha Buddha will come to your deathbed

and personally escort you to this Western paradise.

The Buddha Amitabha have two assistants, two Bodhisattvas.

The idea is that if you see three

it gives you a feeling that there's plenty of help coming.

JONATHAN YOUNG: The last moments of life

are very important in this form of Buddhism.

These guiding figures are prime examples of the power of three

manifesting a sacred teaching, helping one to a greater

level of consciousness.

NARRATOR: Is the Western Pure Land really

a state of enlightenment as mainstream scholars believe?

Or might these three saints be guiding

the deceased to a divine, perhaps even

extraterrestrial realm?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

the answers can be found in the descriptions

of this spiritual paradise.

DAVID WILCOCK: The Amitabha Buddha

believed that this was a literal place peopled with gods

and goddesses that would give you knowledge and information.

And in this place, every one appears to be golden

and you have the ability to see anything

in the universe, the ability to travel anywhere on Earth

that you want.

Is this really just a myth, or is the Amitabha Buddha

an example of an extraterrestrial

who visited earth and was able to achieve some higher

grade of evolution while he was here,

and then help others achieve that as well.

NARRATOR: Might the Amitabha Buddha actually have

been an otherworldly visitor.

And if so, might the three saints of Pure Land Buddhism

not just guide the dead to an afterlife.

But physically change them into higher functioning beings,

beings with extraterrestrial capabilities.

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

And believe further proof can be found in the story

of another mythic trio.

One that undertook an epic journey,

not to a divine land after death but towards a divine life

here on planet Earth.

Cologne Germany, for centuries a steady stream of visitors

have gathered inside this Gothic cathedral

to view a golden sarcophagus thought to contain

the bones of the biblical magi, also known as the three

wise men.

While the journey of the three wise men

is one of the most popular and best known of the stories,

concerning the birth of Jesus Christ,

little is actually known about these mysterious figures.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: According to the gospels,

the three kings or the three wise men came from the east.

At the time that the gospels were being written

that was an area of the world which for Westerners was

considered to be the source of all magic and mysticism.

ADRIAN GILBERT: Magi were the ancient priesthood

of Persia or Iran as we tend to call it now.

And they go way back to 3,000 BC probably or even more.

The Magi were particularly interested in the stars.

They were looking at the different influences

that these different stars and planets had at given times.

And that was part and parcel of their tradition.

JONATHAN YOUNG: The three wise men traveled thousands of miles

to what we call the Holy land.

And then they found Bethlehem apparently without a map.

They were astronomers, it says they followed a star.

NARRATOR: But did the three wise men actually exist?

Or did the story of their journey to

visit the infant Jesus have other even more otherworldly

origins?

REV. MICHAEL J.S. CARTER: The star we are told leads them,

so the star is moving and it's flying

and it's intelligently guided because it's leading them

to a destination.

And it hovers over the manger where Jesus is laid.

It shines a light down to illuminate the manger where

Jesus is laid.

So you have to wonder whether possibly the three magi

themselves were extraterrestrial gods or perhaps

the star of Bethlehem itself was some kind

of extraterrestrial spaceship that was guiding the three

magi.

NARRATOR: Were the three wise men astral travelers guided

by otherworldly technology, or is their presence in the story

of Jesus really some sort of code, one intended to connect

Jesus with other mythic stories and religions

in which the number three has profound significance?

There are those who believe that an answer can be found

by examining the three gifts that each of the Magi

reportedly brought to the Son of God.

Gold, representing the physical and material needs of the child

during his lifetime.

Frankincense, an ancient aromatic resin,

which when burned is thought to be effective in mind expansion

and enlightenment.

And myrrh, an oil often associated with death

and embalming representing the afterlife.

But why three gifts and why only those three?

Perhaps the answers can be found written

into the ancient biological language that is as old as life

itself.

A language containing a code of threes.

There is a theory that the key to unlocking

the power of the number three lies in the mystery

of the holy trinity.

That the notion of three divine persons in one god

refers to the three states of being.

God the father, the intellectual or ethical self.

God the son, the physical and actual self and God

the Holy Spirit the emotional or aspirational self.

Past, present, and future.

God and man as one.

Qasr El Yahud, Israel.

Here, tens of thousands of Christians

make their way to what is believed

to be the site of Christ baptism in the river Jordan.

It was also here that according to scripture,

God revealed himself as being made up

of three divine persons.

God the father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit.

Otherwise known as the Holy trinity.

In the story of Jesus' baptism,

Jesus is standing in the Jordan River

and we're told that the heavens open up.

And the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descends upon Jesus.

And the voice of God booms out of heaven and says,

this is my son whom I love and in whom I am well pleased.

So in that scene all three parts of the Trinity

are represented there... Father, son and Holy Spirit.

What makes it a mathematical conundrum

is how can you be one in three?

So it is a mystery.

And some people don't even question it because it

is a matter of faith.

And so, maybe in that image, we could make the argument

that there is a trinity within each and every one of us.

NARRATOR: Could the trium nature of God,

as described in the New Testament

also exist in all of mankind?

And if so, does this suggest that the power of three

might somehow connect humanity with divine,

or as some would believe extra terrestrial forces?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

the answers can be found not only in the Bible

but encoded within the genetic blueprint of the human body.

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Huntington New York, 1966.

Scientists announced one of the greatest breakthroughs

of modern science.

They have successfully deciphered the genetic code.

After years of research, they discover

that the universal structure of DNA

consists of a series of three molecule combinations known

as codons or triplets.

You had this DNA sequence and it codes for ultimately

the proteins in your body.

And the question was, how does it code for that?

Does each individual base pair represent something?

Is it two at a time that represents something?

Is it a sequence of 10?

And it turns out that is very clear it comes in clusters

of three.

Essentially the number three is the key to our DNA language.

And this was revolutionary for its time

because the ancient alien theory has always suggested

that the ultimate proof of extraterrestrial tampering

in our past will not come in the form of a crashed spaceship

or some type of tools, but the actual proof will

come from within our own DNA.

This may in fact be a universal manifestation

of the power of three.

In time, I believe, we will find out

that DNA is written into the background of the universe

itself.

It is assembled by the basic laws of quantum physics.

And the underlying power of three

is an essential tool in seeing the hand

of the divine architect at work and making us who we are today.

WILLIAM HENRY: The number three is the key to unlocking

the ancient mysteries.

We see threes everywhere, and it's a possible pointer

to the idea that the three is the guiding

principle of the universe and manifests even in our DNA.

DAVID CHILDRESS: So we can see here how this power of three

is pervasive all through the universe,

including in our own DNA.

And is it possible that its extraterrestrials who've

encoded this within us?

And that once we understand, this power of three,

we ourselves will become like our creators the gods.

NARRATOR: Does the physical expression of a power of three

found within our own DNA really prove

an extraterrestrial design for mankind?

A design whose meaning we are only just beginning

to comprehend.

Or could the answer lie in a combination of all the trios

and trinities embedded throughout the mythical and

religious world?

Perhaps the answer will lead us back

to mankind's place of origin.

And the ultimate proof that our origins lie not on Earth

but out of this world.

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