CONSTRUCTION
SECRETS OF
ED LEEDSKALNIN
CORAL CASTLE FL

NATURAL PRINCIPALS

Ed Leedskalnin created the Coral Castle in Florida
over a period of 25 years without anyone ever seeing
how he constructed this magnificent Astronomical Castle.

He was a simple honest friendly man and I take him at his word.
He said it was first of all "Natural" and "Good". 
Which means he did not use any "Supernatural" or 
"Magical" techniques in his construction.

He said it was all right in front of us, all the simple hand tools,
the old car parts which were also hand tools, not parts for his
truck, which he didn't have anyway.

He lived a simple austere life right on the premises.
He was exceptionally protective of his amazing secret,
which he said was, "The secret of the Pyramids and Incas".
well its very apparent he did discover the secret!  This property
has approximately 11,000 tons of rock constructions of similar
magnitude to prove every word he said.

Now he also told us, although it seems no one has been listening,
that its all done with fundamental principals of natural leverage,
not levitation, which is unnatural, with fulcrums and other
applications of these principals 
such as wedges, screw jacks, and pulleys.

He had no power tools, nor even electricity, although he was a
dedicated student of electro-magnetism and wrote some interesting
manuscripts on those subjects.  They apparently had little to do
with constrution, not a word.  His lips were sealed on this subject
and he carried this incredible secret to the grave unfortunately.

The one report by kids spying on the old man can be simply explained
as "Eye Witness Synrome".  They saw him working late at night 
in poor light and mistook his efforts as levitation becasue 
they probably couldn't see the small dark metal hand tools at work, 
nor had the mindset to see reality, just their fantasy of 
levitation based on local rumors.

I believe very strongly that Ed used these tools in simple new ways,
with an open inquisitive mind, and lots of hard dedicated work over
a long period of time. Steady work does add up over 25 years and
averages out to a little more than a ton per day actually.
Certainly within old fashioned hand mining levels.

But his constructions not only mastered the science of Mining,
but also of Transportation and Erection to a degree that appears
far beyond the normal, but not beyond the natural.  Natural was the
cornerstone of Ed's life literally.  

First, leverage is well known but not often applied to large scale
projects.  We just "assume" that it won't work, or can't be applied
and other groundless negative preconceptions which simple block all
attempts to duplicate the great acheivements of the ages.

CULTURAL BLINDNESS: 

We have the perfect lazy excuse, "Its Supernatural"  or it requires,
"Thousands of Slaves" and other nonsense. Some of this nonsense
which permeates much of the popular media to the level of total
fantasy and hysteria, ie "The Bermuda Triangle" is just as Ed 
mentions, "Unnatural and no good", a scam by charletans, who never
did a days work, making a fast buck on the uninformed and naive.

Lets get real here, is a phrase I can imagine Ed saying to visitors
who speculated about his magic powers and levitations.  Ed never ever
resorted to any charlatanism, hype or any falsehoods ever. And yet,
for decades his creation has received almost no serious study at all.
Yet we hear countless recountings of total absurdities in weekly world 
tabloids.

We should be ashamed of our culture. We have become totally blind to
reality, nature and goodness.  Not a single person has published
any account, such as this attempt, to back Ed's presentations and 
creations as something honest, natural, scientific, simple, and good. 
Pathetic.

With NASA just up the road, still nothing.  With scientists and 
engineers and students of these skills from all over the world 
visiting, still nothing. Is everyone so blind to the truth?  
This is serious, for we claim to have the highest level of science 
ever acheived, but we have failed to uncover hardly any of the basic 
secrets of the universe, let alone life on this planet.

It is precisely this blindness that has kept mankind from not only 
this secret, but all the rest of the so called "Unsolvable mysteries" 
out there.  We are not as open minded, perceptive, scientific 
or as smart as we think.

Now, if we get back to basics here we can uncover exactly every 
inch of Ed's work, every measurement, every step, and also uncover 
the basics he used to manipulate these huge masses.  Since these 
secrets are obviously simple and natural forces, there is an answer 
staring us right in the face. He built this as proof. He was an 
honest and good man. I believe him and have faith that his work 
is decipherable in simple physical terms.

ASTRO PHILOSOPHY: 

Now his astronomy and and philosophies present many more 
challenges to the student of such things. His sundial just sits 
there unused, as if a perfect clock meant nothing!  No one even 
copies it in plastic for their garden!
This total disrespect for all these achievements is disgraceful.

Now as to Ed's Philosophy, well all such thoughts are certainly 
open to endless discussion and debate, but since they, like his 
creations, are not within the bounds of so called "Common Sense" 
they also are dismissed as excentric rantings.  I don't think 
they are so easily dismissed. They are defiantely excellent 
food for thought and add a whole new dimension to many modern 
debates in Philosophy, Politics and General Life.

CORAL: 

A Note on Coral.  Ed loved coral, one of natures most marvelous 
materials and its a shame he didn't write about it for he no 
doubt knew coral in ways we may never appreciate.  This coral 
is known as Oolitic Coral, a porous intricate conglomerate of 
coral fossils barely lithified and of fairly recent geologic 
marine origin. It is readily cut, quarried, sculpted and then 
hardens up considerably with exposure to air. It has some 
similar properties to regular recent limestones, which were 
heavily quarried, sculpted and utilized in the Mediterranean 
region and other regions for countless centuries.  Limestone, 
CaCO3, is one of the fundamentals materials of life on this 
planet, the carbon cycle, and found throughout the geologic
ages.  Ed would have appreciated geology I'm sure, but he 
never went to school. He simply appreciated coral as a natural 
extention of his self, of his life.

THE SECRETS:

Ok, I know what you are thinking, "When am I going to reveil 
Ed's secrets?" All I can say is that I have and am already!  
Yes, it is simple just as he said, but I cannot prove them all 
just yet, but will someday.  Then, when all the skeptics gather 
around my constructions and treat them the same way as they 
did Ed, I will probably take the exact same stance and present 
it exactly the same! Charge a quarter and say nothing but the 
whole truth, nothing but the whole truth so help me God, 
and you will still be so blind you will never see nor believe 
it.   And with such a disrespectful, unbelieveing, closed 
minded un-natural evil culture, I'll probably take it with me 
to my grave too!

But, in the interest of all that is good, and to perhaps 
relieve some of the tremendous terrible continuing holocausts 
and horrors of the 20th century which made Ed so reclusive, 
secretive and fearful his knowledge would be put to only
unnatural evil purposes, I will take that risk and reveil 
some of what I know herein.

STONE DOOR: 

First a note on Ed's famous revolving stone door.  As you 
know, the door is nine tons and has a steel truck axle 
drilled into the center of the base. This axle rests on 
what is apparently a hard steel truck gear. It works so 
smoothly and effortlessly because it has low friction steels 
and perfect balance which he achieved by close hand contact 
during erection. He "felt" it into balance, and somehow 
placed that huge cap stone on. I find this cap stone and 
the incredible roof stones of his house even more incredible!
Its one thing to erect a stone, or balance it like a 
ballerina, but straight lifting of such huge masses and 
shapes is amazing.  The Lintels of Stonehenge, Granites 
of Pyramid Chamber Interiors, Incan Stones and others are 
truely incomprehensible at this time. More work and attempts 
to actually do this will be needed to clarify the simple 
technique Ed used.

QUARRYING:

Now a note on Quarrying.  Ed used simple hammers and 
chisels much as used throughout history to carve into rock. 
Nowadays we use compressed air driven rock drills, core 
drills, diamond wires and blades etc. These are fantastic 
but we passed right by the secret this way.  The secret 
is to cut only enough of a groove into the rock, dimensions 
varying with petrology, such that one of two extremly 
powerful methods can be applied.  No not explosives, 
although they work fine, are not what I am referring to.

CRYSTALIZATION:

The two powerful "Secret Forces" are forces of Crystalization. 

Ed's first secret was to use the crystalline forces contained 
in an ordinary automobile leaf spring steel to split coral.
He chisled the groove deep enough to hold the spring. But 
first he heated it red hot on his famous "Bar-b-que" until it 
temporarily lost its "spring" and blacksmithed it into the 
groove while hot. He then poured cold water on it quickly 
quenching it and restoring its "Spring", releasing the 
tremendous crystalline power of Spring Steel, instantly 
splitting the coral right down the marked groove!

The second secret, not used by Ed, but used widely by the Incans, 
is the harnessing of the power of another crystalline substance 
placed in a similar hand cut groove. The Incans, living high 
in the Andes, a zone of nightly freezing and daily thawing
of great magnitude, no doubt heared the tremendous rock bursts 
frequently and discovered what was going on, "Frost Wedging".  
They applied this natural phenomenom to spliting rocks right 
where they wanted.  They cut the groove on the mark, made a 
simple clay mini dam around the groove and filled it with water 
and went home to bed.  In the morning they returned to retrieve 
the perfectly split stones and continued on with the rest of
their magnificent construction techniques.  More about those, 
such as transcribing the angles of the previous rock to the 
next stone to mate them perfectly, another time.

APPLICATIONS:

As we see, Ed was not able to reproduce complex Incan Polygonal 
construction, and used a more traditional Egyptian scheme and 
hand finishing tools to square things up. Afterall, Florida is 
not known for its landslides, earthquakes and wars. There is 
no need to go to such engineering and geometric extremes. 

So there you have two fundamental applications of natural 
phenomena which should be enough to prove my hypothesis about 
Ed's use of natural forces, not supernatural unknown mysterious 
constructs. There are many more techniques which Ed put into 
practice. I'm sure that with this new awareness of his methods, 
we can attempt to duplicate his work and achieve a detailed 
scientific engineering tutorial. This can be used to solve 
many of man's historic difficulties with construction, housing, 
resource development such a water, and many more.  I trust 
these will be put to good use, but know that all tools have at 
some time been put to evil uses. The overall benefits
over time will outweigh such evil intentions and lead to 
increased goodness and harmony.

FULCRUM:

Here is another clue for you.  Take a closer look at the 
"altar" behind Ed's "Moon Pool" and you will see a huge altar 
block, with a small tri-lithon with a perfect fulcrum on top!  
Yes, Ed finished up his work, and placed his favorite tool 
right on top of his "Altar to Leverage". A lever is powerless 
without a fulcrum!  See? Ed placed everything right in plain 
view knowing full well that we would have the greatest 
difficulty "seeing" it in such a hiding place!  Ed had a 
special sense of humor too!  This is not some sort of abstract 
art, its his favorite tool and treasure!

LEVERAGE:

So what about Leverage? From my 30 years of mining, 
construction and ranching experience, levers are only 
partially useful since most objects far outweigh them.  
I believe Ed used another approach. If one tries to use a 
small "External Lever" to move a huge object, it usually 
doesn't work, breaks, bends etc. But by using the long 
dimension of the object as an "Internal Lever", one can 
usually rest assured at least it won't break or bend! 

I believe that the huge "Telescope" Obelisk is just such a 
piece which illustrates this principal of an "Internal Lever". 
By balancing this piece on the proper fulcrum it could have 
been used as its own lever and raised and droped into its 
hole right on the mark. The hole making a convienient 
attachment for guide chains and stops. Yes, quite a shot! 
Then the pyramid apex was constructed to line up with the 
North Star, voila! Ed must have really jumped for joy at 
this accomplishment like an Irish Leprechaun.

ANCHORS:

Still not convinced?  My oh my! What will it take? Ok, 
here is another secret in plain view! See the Crescent Moons 
of the so called "Moon Pool"?  Well they are not at all like
the realistic Crescent Moon behind along with the Saturn. 
They are truncated and attached differently deep into the 
ground at right angles to each other.  Still don't see?
Ok, they are simple ground hook anchors Ed used to attach 
his chains and pulleys too!

If you have ever tried to use a pulley or 'come-along', 
the main problem is finding an appropriate place to hook onto!  
I have tried using various anchors such as telephone poles 
burried deep and steels driven in deep, but their narrow 
guage and other frailities makes them fall far short of Ed's 
huge pwoerful coral hooks!  Look close and you will see a 
lighter color in the middle where chains were attached, 
than up on the hook. The darker "Patina" is worn off in 
the middle.  Now do you believe Ed was as natural as Popeye?

PLANTS:

Not that Ed was a Natural Spinach eater like Popeye. 
Unfortunately, Ed was not in good health his whole life 
and was very underweight.  But he made up for that weakness 
by his extermely strong character.  He was also an excellent 
gardener and horticulturist, and the Castle is wonderfully 
landscaped with a fine collection of plants and flowers. 
Too bad he didn't have an organic vegetable garden, he would 
have lived much longer.  There is a lot more to living and 
working naturally far beyond Ed's approach, but that is 
beyond the scope of this paper.

PLAIN VIEW:

I hope I have impressed and inspired you to see things 
through Ed's eyes, in a natural simple and powerful way. 
We can learn and utilize all these secrets for tremendous 
natural good if we just open our minds and hearts to them.  
Ed left all his secrets for us in plain view and all we 
have to do is open our real "eyes" to see them and use 
them in the pursuit of harmony with nature and peace.

FINAL NOTE, THE SECRET FORMULA!:

"ED. L."   
This stencil plack from his pictures is Ed's other famous "Clue"! 
It is so very similiar to the other great secret of 
the 20th Century.  One is constructive, the other is destructive.

Einstein's E=MC2 is somthing that no doubt made Ed reclusive!  
He knew that such a secret would be used for destructive 
purposes and it was, and feared his would be also.  
He left his unexplained, but I believe is is something simple:
E stands for Energy, I think we can all agree on this.  
L stands for Leverage, Ed's passion and fundamental truth.  
D probably stands for "Derives From" or some other "Connective Verb". 
This is Ed's most powerful constructive secret!

ED.L.="Energy Derives From Leverage"!  
Simple Pure Leedskalnin Truth.
Thanks Ed, God Bless You!
© Mustang Springs Ranch, Sept. 21, 2000

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