The Mistery of Belicena Villca answer is simple : it remained in the Cave the entire time , that is to say , for about seventeen hundred years until then . Thus , it was carried out the oath that the Men of Stone made then : the Wise Sword would not be exposed again to daylight until the opportunity to leave arrived , until the future Men of Stone saw reflected on the Stone of Venus the Lithic Sign of K ' Taagar . For this , the Lords of Tharsis established that a Guard should remain perpetually alongside the Wise Sword , which was not always possible because only some Initiates were able to enter the Secret Cavern . As Dr . will recall , the secret entrance was sealed by the Vrunes of Navutan since the Time of the white Atlanteans and it was impossible to locate for anyone who was not a Hyperborean Initiate : the Vrunes were Uncreated Signs and could only be perceived and understood by those who had the Wisdom of the Uncreated Spirit , that is , by the Initiates in the Mystery of the Pure Blood , by the Men of Stone , by the Wise Warriors . However , except for some short and dark periods , the House of Tharsis never stopped producing Initiates fit to exercise the Guard of the Wise Sword .
But they were no longer as numerous as in the times of Tartessos , when the Cold Fire Cult was practiced in the Light of the Moon and there was a College of Hierophants ; In the centuries that followed , the Truth of the Cold Fire had to be hidden from the Romans , Visigoths , Arabs , and Catholics , reducing the celebration of the Cult to the strictly family environment : even , within that reserved family environment , only were to be convened those who demonstrated a suitable gnostic predisposition to face the Trial of the Cold Fire , which in no way had changed and was still as terrifying and deadly as before . Except those periods I mentioned , during which there was no member of the House of Tharsis capable of entering the Secret Cavern , the normal was the minimum formation of two Initiates per century , in the worst Epochs , and of five or six in the more prolific .
If the Initiate was a Lady of Tharsis , she was given the title of " Vraya ", in memory of the Iberian Guardians . If he was a Knight , he was called Noyo , which had been the name , according to the white Atlanteans , of the Hyperborean Pontiffs who in Atlantis guarded the Ark , that is , the Basal Stone , of the Infinite Stairway that They knew how to build and that led towards the Origin . It is obvious that , to fulfill the oath of the Men of Stone , the Noyos and the Vrayas had to become hermits , that is , they had to stay in the Secret Cavern and stay as long as possible next to the Wise Sword : and nobody could serve them because nobody , but them , could enter its abode . But that loneliness was of no importance to Initiates : the resignation and sacrifice demanded by the function of Guardian of the Wise Sword was considered a High Honor by the Lords of Tharsis .
According to what was reported by those who had entered and left the Cavern Secret , the work carried out for so many centuries by the Initiates who there remained had endowed the site with some comforts . Indeed , although from the beginning it was agreed not to introduce cultural objects , the truth is that the Noyos and Vrayas were patiently carving the stone of the Cave and modeling chairs , table , beds , altar , and a representation of the Goddess of the Cold Fire . And in front of Pyrene ' s Face , the Flame of the Perennial Lamp burned once more .
But the Face of the Goddess was now not emerging from a menhir but was sculpted on a gigantic green stalagmite . There was also no mechanism that would open the Eyes since they had been deeply excavated and were always open , ready to reveal to the Initiates the Infinite Blackness of Himself . In front of the Face , lay the altar , which consisted of a cubic column topped by two steps : the step surface top reached the level of the chin of the Goddess and , above it , was a vertical hole in which the hilt of the Wise Sword was inserted up to the edge , so that it remained standing and aligned with the Nose of the Goddess , as if it were an axis of symmetry of the Face ; thus , the Stone of Venus , which was set in the cross of the hilt , appeared in the center of the scene , arranged for contemplation . On the surface of the lower step , below the level of the hilt , the Perennial Lamp was deposited . That sector of the Secret Cavern was shaped
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