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THE DEATH OF GODS IN ANCIENT EGYPT Jane B. Sellars 1992 Page 204 "The overwhelming awe that accompanies the realization, of the measurable orderliness of the universe strikes modern man as well. Admiral Weiland E. Byrd, alone In the Antarctic for five months of polar darkness, wrote these phrases of intense feeling: Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it! I could feel no doubt of oneness with the universe. The conviction came that the rhythm was too orderly. too harmonious, too perfect to be a product of blind chance - that, therefore there must be purpose in the whole and that man was part of that whole and not an accidental offshoot. It was a feeling that transcended reason; that went to the heart of man's despair and found it groundless. The universe was a cosmos, not a chaos; man was as rightfully a part of that cosmos as were the day and night.10 Returning to the account of the story of Osiris, son of Cronos god of' Measurable Time, Plutarch takes, pains to remind the reader of the original Egyptian year consisting of 360 days. Phrases are used that prompt simple mental. calculations and an attention to numbers, for example, the 360-day year is described as being '12 months of 30 days each'. Then we are told that, Osiris leaves on a long journey, during which Seth, his evil brother, plots with 72 companions to slay Osiris: He also secretly obtained the measure of Osiris and made ready a chest in which to entrap him. The, interesting thing about this part of the-account is that nowhere in the original texts of the Egyptians are we told that Seth, has 72 companions. We have already been encouraged to equate Osiris with the concept of measured time; his father being Cronos. It is also an observable fact that Cronos-Saturn has the longest sidereal period of the known planets at that time, an orbit. of 30 years. Saturn is absent from a specific constellation for that length of time. A simple mathematical fact has been revealed to any that are even remotely sensitive to numbers: if you multiply 72 by 30, the years of Saturn's absence (and the mention of Osiris's absence prompts one to recall this other), the resulting product is 2,160: the number of years required, for one 30° shift, or a shift: through one complete sign of the zodiac. This number multplied by the / Page205 / 12 signs also gives 25,920. (And Plutarch has reminded us of 12) If you multiply the unusual number 72 by 360, a number that Plutarch mentions several times, the product will be 25,920, again the number of years symbolizing the ultimate rebirth. This 'Eternal Return' is the return of, say, Taurus to the position of marking the vernal equinox by 'riding in the solar bark with. Re' after having relinquished this honoured position to Aries, and subsequently to the to other zodiacal constellations. Such a return after 25,920 years is indeed a revisit to a Golden Age, golden not only because of a remarkable symmetry In the heavens, but golden because it existed before the Egyptians experienced heaven's changeability. But now to inform the reader of a fact he or she may already know. Hipparaus did: not really have the exact figures: he was a trifle off in his observations and calculations. In his published work, On the Displacement of the Solstitial and Equinoctial Signs, he gave figures of 45" to 46" a year, while the truer precessional lag along the ecliptic is about 50 seconds. The exact measurement for the lag, based on the correct annual lag of 50'274" is 1° in 71.6 years, or 360° in 25,776 years, only 144 years less than the figure of 25,920. With Hipparchus's incorrect figures a 'Great Year' takes from 28,173.9 to 28,800 years, incorrect by a difference of from 2,397.9 years to 3,024. Since Nicholas Copernicus (AD 1473-1543) has always been credited with giving the correct numbers (although Arabic astronomer Nasir al-Din Tusi,11 born AD 1201, is known to have fixed the Precession at 50°), we may correctly ask, and with justifiable astonishment 'Just whose information was Plutarch transmitting' AN IMPORTANT POSTSCRIPT Of course, using our own notational system, all the important numbers have digits that reduce to that amazing number 9 a number that has always delighted budding mathematician. Page 206 Somewhere along the way, according to Robert Graves, 9 became the number of lunar wisdom.12 This number is found often in the mythologies of the world. the Viking god Odin hung for nine days and nights on the World Tree in order to acquire the secret of the runes, those magic symbols out of which writing and numbers grew. Only a terrible sacrifice would give away this secret, which conveyed upon its owner power and dominion over all, so Odin hung from his neck those long 9 days and nights over the 'bottomless abyss'. In the tree were 9 worlds, and another god was said to have been born of 9 mothers. Robert Graves, in his White Goddess, Is intrigued by the seemingly recurring quality of the number 72 in early myth and ritual. Graves tells his reader that 72 is always connected with the number 5, which reflects, among other things, the five Celtic dialects that he was investigating. Of course, 5 x 72= 360, 360 x 72= 25,920. Five is also the number of the planets known to the ancient world, that is, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus Mercury. Graves suggests a religious mystery bound up with two ancient Celtic 'Tree Alphabets' or cipher alphabets, which as genuine articles of Druidism were orally preserved and transmitted for centuries. He argues convincingly that the ancient poetry of Europe was ultimately based on what its composers believed to be magical principles, the rudiments of which formed a close religious secret for centuries. In time these were-garbled, discredited and forgotten. Among the many signs of the transmission of special numbers he points out that the aggregate number of letter strokes for the complete 22-letter Ogham alphabet that he is studying is 72 and that this number is the multiple of 9, 'the number of lunar wisdom'. . . . he then mentions something about 'the seventy day season during which Venus moves successively from. maximum eastern elongation 'to inferior conjunction and maximum western elongation'.13 Page 207 "...Feniusa Farsa, Graves equates this hero with Dionysus. Farsa has 72 assistants who helped him master the 72 languages created at the confusion of Babel, the tower of which is said to be built of 9 different materials We are also reminded of the miraculous translation into Greek of the Five Books of Moses that was done by 72 scholars working for 72 days, Although the symbol for the Septuagint is LXX, legend, according to the fictional letter of Aristeas, records 72. The translation was done for Ptolemy Philadelphus (c.250 BC), by Hellenistic Jews, possibly from Alexandra.14 Graves did not know why this number was necessary, but he points out that he understands Frazer's Golden Bough to be a book hinting that 'the secret involves the truth that the Christian dogma, and rituals, are the refinement of a great body of primitive beliefs, and that the only original element in Christianity- is the personality of Christ.15 Frances A. Yates, historian of Renaissance hermetisma tells, us the cabala had 72 angels through which the sephiroth (the powers of God) are believed to be approached, and further, she supplies the information that although the Cabala supplied a set of 48 conclusions purporting to confirm the Christian religion from the foundation of ancient wisdom, Pico Della Mirandola, a Renaissance magus, introduced instead 72, which were his 'own opinion' of the correct number. Yates writes, 'It is no accident there are seventy-two of Pico's Cabalist conclusions, for the conclusion shows that he knew something of the mystery of the Name of God with seventy-two letters.'16 In Hamlet's Mill de Santillana adds the facts that 432,000 is the number of syllables in the Rig-Veda, which when multiplied by the soss (60) gives 25,920" (The reader is forgiven for a bit of laughter at this point) The Bible has not escaped his pursuit. A prominent Assyriologist of the last century insisted that the total of the years recounted mounted in Genesis for the lifetimes of patriarchs from the Flood also contained the needed secret numbers. (He showed that in the 1,656 years recounted in the Bible there are 86,400 7 day weeks, and dividing this number yields / Page 208 / 43,200.) In Indian yogic schools it is held that all living beings exhale and inhale 21,600 times a day, multiply this by 2 and again we have the necessary 432 digits. Joseph Campbell discerns the secret in the date set for the coming of Patrick to Ireland. Myth-gives this date-as-the interesting number of AD.432.18 Whatever one may think-of some of these number coincidences, it becomes difficult to escape the suspicion that many signs (number and otherwise) - indicate that early man observed the results of the movement of Precession and that the - transmission of this information was considered of prime importance. With the awareness of the phenomenon, observers would certainly have tried for its measure, and such an endeavour would have constituted the construction-of a 'Unified Field Theory' for nothing less than Creation itself. Once determined, it would have been information worthy of secrecy and worthy of the passing on to future adepts. But one last word about mankind's romance with number coincidences.The antagonist in John Updike's novel, Roger's Version, is a computer hacker, who, convinced, that scientific evidence of God's existence is accumulating, endeavours to prove it by feeding -all the available scientific information. into a comuter. In his search for God 'breaking, through', he has become fascinated by certain numbers that have continually been cropping up. He explains them excitedly as 'the terms of Creation': "...after a while I noticed that all over the sheet there seemed to hit these twenty-fours Jumping out at me. Two four; two, four. Planck time, for instance, divided by the radiation constant yields a figure near eight times ten again to the negative twenty-fourth, and the permittivity of free space, or electric constant, into the Bohr radius ekla almost exactly six times ten to the negative twenty-fourth. On positive side, the electromagnetic line-structure constant times Hubble radius - that is, the size of the universe as we now perceive it gives us something quite close to ten to the twenty-fourth, and the strong-force constant times the charge on the proton produces two point four times ten to the negative eighteenth, for another I began to circle twenty-four wherever it appeared on the Printout here' - he held it up his piece of stripped and striped wallpaper, decorated / Page 209 /
with a number of scarlet circles - 'you can see it's more than random.'19 So much for any scorn directed to ancient man's fascination with number coincidences. That fascination is alive and well, Just a bit more incomprehensible"
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KEEPER OF GENESIS A QUEST FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF MANKIND Robert Bauval Graham Hancock 1996 Return to the Beginning Page 283 'I stand before the masters who witnessed the genesis, who were the authors of their own forms, who walked the dark, circuitous passages of their own becoming. . .
I stand before the masters who witnessed the transformation of the body of a man into the body in spirit, who were witnesses to resurrection when the corpse of Osiris entered the mountain and the soul of Osiris walked out shining. . . when he came forth from death, a shining thing, his face white with heat. . . I stand before the masters who know the histories of the dead, who decide which tales to hear again, who judge the books of lives as either full or empty, who are themselves authors of truth. And they are Isis and Osiris, the divine intelligences. And when the story is written and the end is good and the soul of a man is perfected, with a shout they lift him into heaven. . .' Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (Norrnandi Ellis translation)
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Shakespeare Quotes - Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on. The Tempest Act 4, scene 1, William Shakespeare
The Four Quartets Burnt Norton T. S. Eliot I "Time present and time past
TIME PRESENT AND TIME PAST ARE BOTH PERHAPS PRESENT IN TIME FUTURE AND TIME FUTURE CONTAINED IN TIME PAST
HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)
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PARADISE THE GARDEN OF EDEN PARADE EYES THE GARDEN OF NEED
Fingerprints Of The Gods Graham Hancock Galilei Galileo 1564-1642 Page 286 Quote " What sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the Indies, speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangements of two dozen little signs on paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of men."
Daily Mail Thursday, August 30, 2012 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS QUESTION Which of the two languages is more widely spoke: English or Spanish? ETHNOLOGUE is recognised as the most complete and authoritative survey of the world's languages. Now in its 16th edition, it lists all 6,909 languages with detailed statistical information on which countries a language is spoken in, the number of speakers, literacy and dialect names. According to Ethnologue, the number of people speaking English and Spanish as a first language is too close to call. It records 329 million Spanish speakers. And 328 million English. They are second and third on their list, after 1,213 million Chinese speakers. However, English has become the world's lingua franca and it is estimated that upwards of a billion people have it as a second language, in contrast to 100 million, who can also speak Spanish. G. W. Robbins, Loughborough, Leics.
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The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann. 1875 - 1955 Quote "I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh."
HOLY BIBLE Scofield References Page 1342 Chapter 13 A.D. 96 Verse 18 “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred three score and six ”
CITY OF REVELATION John Michell 1972 Chapter Thirteen Page 137 13: Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.' In the Greek text the number is spelt in letters,… " "…or 600, 60, 6, . ."
HOLY BIBLE Scofield References Page 401 Kings Chapter 10 B.C. 992. Verse14 six hundred threescore and six talents"
C. J. S. Thompson 1990 Page 26 "…There is further evidence given in the Bible of the richness of the country in the precious metal, for it is recorded that the Queen of Sheba brought much gold and precious stones and / Page 27 / gave to King Solomon 120 talents, a sum equivalent to £240,000. The navy of Hiram also brought gold from Ophir, and the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents," "Page 26 Note È 1 Kings x, 10, 14."
FLYING TO 3000 B.C. Pierre Jeannerat 1957 Page 124 six hundred and three score and six talents of gold;…"
Scofield References Page 380 Chapter 21 B.C. 1021 Verse 20 "And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant."
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS Graham Hancock.1995 Page 189 "Pyramid of the Sun Teotihuacan "Having climbed more than 200 feet up a series of flights of stone stairs I reached the summit and looked towards the Zenith. It was midday 19 May, and the sun was directly overhead, as it would again on 25 / Page 190 July. On these two dates, and not by accident, the west face of the pyramid was oriented precisely to the position of the setting sun 6 A more curious but equally deliberate effect could be observed on the equinoxes. 20 March and 22 September. Then the passage of the sun's rays from south to north resulted at noon in the progressive obliteration of a perfectly straight shadow that ran along one of the lower stages of the western facade. The whole process, from complete shadow to complete illumination, took exactly 66.6 seconds. It had done so without fail, year - in year - out, ever since the pyramid had been built and would continue to do so until the giant edifice crumbled into dust." "...The whole process, from complete shadow to complete illumination, took exactly 66.6 seconds."
CITY OF REVELATION John Michell 1972 Page 36 Distance between earth and moon = 6 x 60 x 660 miles = 237600 "
David Hatcher Childress 1988 Page 193 "What was most interesting to von Daniken, and to me, were the giant footprints of Tarawa. A book has even been written about them, entitled The Footprints of Tarawa (it is extracted from the Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol 58, No 4, December 1949, Wellington, New Zealand, and written by I.G. Turbot). This book mentions a number of places where these footprints can be found in the Kiribatis, but the main spot is the village of Banreaba at a spot called Te Aba-n-Anti, the "Place of the Spirits," or Te Kananrabo, "the Holy place." Here various footprints can clearly be seen in the volcanic stone, some of them so huge as to seem impossible. Most have six toes on each foot. The largest are about three feet long, easily twice as large as the foot of an especially tall person (though even short people can have big feet). The footprints are reported to be very clear, with the toes, heels and outline distinct: naturally rounded and curved like a normal footprint. They are certainly not natural rock formations coincidently formed into footprints. The only other explanation other than that they are the actual footprints of giants is that they were chiseled into the rock by the islanders themselves for some unknown purpose. Reverend Scarborough points out in his letter to von Daniken, "If you have some idea that perhaps the islanders themselves have carefully carved these prints in the rocks . . . then you must ask yourself. Why? For what purpose should the islanders on sixteen islands undertake to manufacture marks in the hard rock? Bearing in mind that they have little or no tools, that would be nonesense. The local verbal customs say that they are footprints of the gods who came from heaven." 85 If we discard the theory of the footprints being carved, we must now examine the possibility of the footprints having been created by actual men (?) walking on still-elastic lava just prior to cooling. These men aparently had six toes and were probably ten to twelve feet tall. When did this hypothetical walk take place? According to uni- / Page 194 / formitarian geology, millions of years ago. Such a fantastic date is usually applied to other anomalistic footprints such as those of men and dinosaurs walking together in river beds in Texas and other places. After all, since it is a "scientific fact" that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, then the tracks of a man with those of a dinosaur must be at least 65 million years old. "In light of cataclysmic geology, the footprints of a man with those of a dinosaur could be measured in thousands of years, rather than millions. In those terms, the giant footprints of Kiribati might be as young as 24,000 years old..." "...It is interesting to note that "lava walking" is still practised on Hawaii to this day. As to giants with six toes who are twelve feet tall, Frank Edwards reports in his book, Stranger Than Science,.." that in 1833 soldiers digging a pit for apowder magazine at Lompock Rancho, California (near San Luis Obispo)... ""...found the skeleton of a man about twelve feet tall..." Edwards goes on to say in his book:..." Near Crittenden, Arizona, in 1891, workmen excavating for a commercial building came upon a huge stone sarcophagus eight feet below the surface.The contractors called in expert help, and the sarcophagus was opened to reveal a granite mummy case which had once held the body of a human being more than twelve feet tall-a human with six toes, according to the carving of the case. But the body has been buried so many thousands of yers that it has long since turned to dust. "86 So we suddenly see a correlation with six-toed giants on the west coast of North America with six toed giants leaving footprints in ancient stata in the Kiribati Islands."
ALL SCRIPTURE IS INSPIRED Of GOD AND BENEFICIAL Watch Tower Bible And Tract Society Of Pennsylvania Page 11 " 29 In the following pages the sixty-six books of the Sacred Scriptures are examined in turn. "
HOLY BIBLE Scofield References Page v "...The Bible is a book of books. Sixty-six books make up the one Book. Considered with reference to the unity of the one book the separate books may be regarded as chapters. But that is but one side of the truth, for each of the sixty-six books is complete in itself, and has its own theme and analysis."
THE HOLY BIBLE Scofield Reference ISAIAH Page 713 - Page 771 66 BOOKS
CASSELL'S English dictionary 1974 Edition. Page 213 "cluster (klus ter) [A.-S. clyster (prob. From the same root as CLOT)], n A number of things of the same kind growing or joined together; a bunch; a number of persons or things gathered into or situated in a close body; a group, a crowd. v.i.To come or to grow into clusters. v.t. To bring or cause to come into a cluster or clusters..."
THE FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS Graham Hancock 1995 Page 273 "...The precessional numbers highlighted by Sellers in the Osiris myth are 360, 72, 30 and 12." "...These he joined to the 360 days of which the year then consisted [emphasis added]." "...Elsewhere the myth informs us that the 360 - day year consists of "12 months of 30 days each".6 And in general,as Sellers observes , "phrases are used which prompt simple mental calculations and an attention to numbers ".7 "Elsewhere the myth informs us that the 360-day year consists of '12 months of 30 days each'. Thus far we have been provided with three of Seller's precessional: 360, 12 and 30. The fourth number,which occurs later in the text, is by far the most important. As we saw in Chapter Nine, the evil deity known as Set led a group of conspirators in a plot to kill OSIRIS. The number of these conspirators was 72."
JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS Thomas Mann 1875 - 1975 Page 890 8 x 9 x 0 = 72 "In all there were two-and-seventy conspirators privy to the plot. It was a proper and a pregnant number, for there had been just seventy-two when red Set lured Usir into the chest. And these seventy- two in their turn had had good cosmic ground to be no more and no less than that number. For it is just that number of groups of five weeks which make up the three hundred and sixty days of the year, not counting the odd days; and there are just seventy-two days in the dry fifth of the year, when the gauge shows that the Nourisher has reached his lowest ebb, and the god sinks into his grave. So where there is conspiracy anywhere in the world it is requisite and custom-ary for the number of conspirators to be seventy-two. And if the plot fail, the failure shows that if this number had not been adhered to it would have failed even worse.
OSIRIS = 89 89 = OSIRIS 8x9 = 72 72 =9x8 72 x 14 108 1+8 9
SHAMANIC WISDOM IN THE PYRAMID TEXTS THE MYSTICAL TRADITION OF ANCIENT EGYPT Jeremy Naydler 2005 The Sarcophagus Chamber Texts Page 195 "Part 4: Anointing with the Seven Holy Oils (Utts. 72-78, 79, 81) The fourth ceremony in the Unas liturgy begins at the west end of the second register (see fig. 7.1). It is the anointing with the seven holy oils (utts. 72-78), which have the effect on the mythological plane of "filling the Eye of Horus" (utt. 72). As we have seen, mythologically the Eye of Horus is torn out by Seth in their battle for supremacy over Egypt. This act plunges the night sky into darkness, for the Eye of Horus, cosmically understood, is the moon-the heavenly body that illumines the night. It is Thoth who finds the eye shattered into fragments and, having reassembled them, causes the moon to reappear after its short period of invisibility. In so doing, Thoth restores harmony and wholeness both macrocosmically and microcosmically.21 On the microcosmic level the restoration of the eye signifies the consolidation of spiritual power in the king. Figure 7.8.(Omitted) The seven holy oils. From right to left, setch-heb perfume (festival perfume); hekenu oil; sefetch oil (or sesefetch, in utt. 74); nekhenem oil; tua oil; hat-ash oil (cedar oil); and hat-tchehennu oil (Libyan oil). Tomb of Pet-Amen-Apet. Through the application of the seven holy oils, then, the Eye of Horns is filled. This is the mythic event that is activated by the application of the holy oils. In utterance 77, we read that through the anointing, the king becomes an akh ("shining spirit"), with sekhem ("power") in his body. The word for "body" here is tijet-the living body rather than the corpse. In this / Page 196 / utterance, the king is addressed as Horus, the living king, and the text is concerned with his attainment of both spiritual and physical power. In the other holy oil utterances (utts. 72-76 and utt. 78), the king is addressed as Osiris, but it is important to bear in mind that the king's identification with Osiris may have been only temporary. In the Sed festival "secret rites" of Niuserre, for instance, during which the living king underwent an Osiris identification, we know that sesefetch oil (referred to in utt. 74) was used.22 Figure 7.9. The offering of linen cloth. The "clothing" of the king symbolized his re-memberment after the Osirian dismemberment. Tomb of Pet-Amen-Apet. The oils that were offered were composed of many different substances mingled together.23 Their names are descriptive of their healing properties rather than indicative of their composition. Thus the sesefetch oil of utterance 74 could be translated as "soothing oil," and was offered with the words: Osiris Unas, accept the Eye of Horus on account of which he [i.e., Horus] suffered. The nekhenem oil of utterance 75 had protective properties. It could be translated as "keeping safe oil" and was offered with the words: Osiris Unas, accept the Eye of Horus that he [possibly Thoth] has kept safe. There is here a paronomasia, or play on words, between the verb used at the end of the sentence (khenem) and the name of the oil (nekhenem oil). This paronomasia is to be found in several other of the holy oil texts and we shall meet it again in later utterances, where it has the effect of magically enhancing the efficacy of the ritual act. Figure 7.10.(Omitted) Part of a procession of offering bearers: The one on the .left carries a tray of food; the one on the right carries a duck and some lotus Part 5: The Feast (Utts. 25 and 32, 82-96, 108-71) The transition from the fourth to the final part of the liturgy is marked by the repetition of the two purification rites involving fire and water (utts. 25 and 32). The final part of the liturgy has to do entirely with the great feast. In the Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus, a great feast was celebrated after the king had successfully undergone a most important "rite of passage" that concluded with his being symbolically reborn.27 Similarly, at the end of the Sed festival, an immense public feast traditionally was held. The reliefs in the sun temple of Niuserre, who, like Unas, reigned during the Fifth Dynasty, refer to 30,000 meals being provided at the Sed festival of the king.28 Surviving relief fragments from the pyramid temple of Unas that show Awake! Turn yourself about! So shout I. O king, stand up and sit down to a thousand of bread, a thousand of beer, roast meat of your rib-joints from the slaughter-house, and itehbread from the Broad Hall. The god is provided with a god's offering, the king is provided with this bread of his.31 Figure 7.11 shows a relief fragment from the pyramid temple of Unas depicting (in all probability) the king sitting in front of an offering table on which are arranged long slices of bread. In his left hand he holds the seshed cloth, which, as we have seen, was a symbol of the triumph of the human spirit over death.32 Figure 7.11. The king sits in front of an offering table on which are arranged long slices of bread. Relief fragment from the pyramid temple of Unas. Page 198 "The number fourteen has both lunar and Osirian significance, since it corresponds both to the cycle of the moon and to the mythological fact that Osiris was cut into fourteen pieces by Seth. It is as if in this first part of the great feast, the full cycle of the death and rebirth of both moon and Osiris is ritually enacted."
FOURTEEN 104 FOURTEEN FOURTEEN 401 FOURTEEN FOURTEEN 5 FOURTEEN
14 FOURTEEN 14
THE GOLDEN AGE OF MYTH AND LEGEND Thomas Bulfinch 1796 - 1867 THE AGE OF FABLE Page 360 Myth of Osiris and Isis "Osiris and Isis were at one time induced to descend to the earth to bestow gifts and blessings on its inhabitants. Isis showed them first the use of wheat and barley) and Osiris made the instruments of agri-culture and taught men the use of them, as well as how to harness the ox to the plough. He then gave men laws) the institution of marriage, a civil organiza-tion, and taught them how to worship the gods. After he had thus made the valley of the Nile a happy country) he assembled a host with which he went to bestow his blessings upon the rest of the world. He conquered the nations everywhere) but not with weapons) only with music and eloquence. His brother Typhon saw this) and filled with envy and malice sought during his absence to usurp his throne. But Isis) who held the reins of government) frustrated his plans. Still more embittered) he now resolved to kill his brother. This he did in the following manner: Having organized a conspiracy of seventy - two members) he went with them to the feast which was celebrated in honour of the king's return. He then caused a box or chest to be brought in) which had been made to fit exactly the size of Osiris) and declared.that he would give that chest of precious wood to whoso-ever could get into it. The rest tried in vain) but no sooner was Osiris in it than Typhon and his companions closed the lid and flung the chest into the Nile. When Isis heard of the cruel murder she wept and mourned, and then with her hair shorn) clothed in black and beating her breast, she sought diligently for the body of her husband. In this search she was materially assisted by Anubis) the son of Osiris and Nephthys. They sought in vain for some time; for / Page 361 / when the chest, carried by the waves to the shores of Byblos, had become entangled in the reeds that grew at the edge of the water, the divine power that dwelt in the body of Osiris imparted such strength to the shrub that it grew into a mighty tree, enclosing in its trunk the coffin of the god. This tree with its sacred deposit was shortly after felled, and erected as a column in the palace of the king of Phoenicia. But at length, by the aid of Anubis and the sacred birds, Isis ascertained these facts, and then went to the royal city. There she offered herself at the palace as a servant, and, being admitted, threw off her disguise and appeared as the goddess, surrounded with thunder and lightning. Striking the column with her wand, she caused it to split open and give up the sacred coffin. This she seized and returned with it, and concealed it .in the depth of a forest, but Typhon discovered it, and cutting the body into fourteen pieces scattered them hither and thither. After a tedious search Isis found thirteen pieces, the fishes of the Nile having eaten the other. This she replaced by an imitation of sycamore wood, and buried the body at Philoe, which became ever after the great burying-place of the nation, and the spot to which pilgrimages were made from all parts of the country. A temple of surpassing magnificence was also erected there in honour of the god, and at every place where one of his limbs had been found minor temples and tombs were built to commemorate the event. Osiris became after that the tutelar deity of the Egyptians. His soul was supposed always to inhabit the body of the bull Apis, and at his death to transfer itself to his successor . SYCAMORE 99 SYCAMORE SYCAMORE 36 SYCAMORE SYCAMORE 9 SYCAMORE
THE GOLDEN BOUGH J.G.Frazer 1922 Page 362 Chapter XXXVIII OF OSIRIS "IN ancient Egypt the god whose death and resurrection were annually celebrated with alternate sorrow and joy was Osiris, the most popular of all Egyptian deities; and there are good grounds for classing him in one of his aspects with Adonis and Attis as a personification of the great yearly vicissitudes of nature, especially of the corn. But the immense vogue which he enjoyed for many ages induced his devoted worshippers to heap upon him the attributes and powers of many other gods; so that it is not always easy to strip him, so to say, of his borrowed plumes and to restore them to their proper owners. The story of Osiris is told in a connected form only by Plutarch, whose narrative has been confirmed and to some extent amplified in modern times by the evidence of the monuments. Osiris was the offspring of an intrigue between the earth-god Seb (Keb or Geb, as the name is sometimes transliterated) and the sky- goddess Nut. The Greeks identified his parents with their own deities Cronus and Rhea. When the sun-god Ra perceived that his wife Nut had been unfaithful to him, he declared with a curse that she should be delivered of the child in no month and no year. But the goddess had another lover, the god Thoth or Hermes, as the Greeks called him, and he playing at draughts with the moon won from her a seventy-second part of every day, and having compounded five whole days out of these parts he added them to the Egyptian year / Page 363 / of three hundred and sixty days. This was the mythical origin of the five supplementary days which the Egyptians annually inserted at the end of every year in order to establish a harmony between lunar and solar time. On these five days, regarded as outside the year of twelve months, the curse of the sun-god did not rest, and accordingly Osiris was born on the first of them. At his nativity a voice rang out proclaiming that the Lord of All had come into the world. Some say that a certain Pamyles heard a voice from the temple at Thebes bidding him announce with a shout that a great king, the beneficent Osiris, was born. But Osiris was not the only child of his mother. On the second of the supplementary days she gave birth to the elder Horus, on the third to the god Set, whom the Greeks called Typhon, on the fourth to the goddess Isis, and on the fifth to the goddess Nephthys. Afterwards Set married his sister Nephthys, and Osiris married his sister Isis. Reigning as a king on earth, Osiris reclaimed the Egyptians from savagery, gave them laws, and taught them to worship the gods. Before his time the Egyptians had been cannibals. But Isis, the sister and wife of Osiris, discovered wheat and barley growing wild, and Osiris introduced the cultivation of these grains amongst his people, who forthwith abandoned cannibalism and took kindly to a corn diet. Moreover, Osiris is said to have been the first to gather fruit from trees, to train the vine to poles, and to tread the grapes. Eager to communicate these beneficent discoveries to all mankind, he committed the whole government of Egypt to his wife Isis, and travelled over the world, diffusing the blessings of civilisation and agriculture wherever he went. In countries where a harsh climate or niggardly soil forbade the cultivation of the vine, he taught the inhabitants to console themselves for the want of wine by brewing beer from barley. Loaded with the wealth that had been showered upon him by grateful nations, he returned to Egypt, and on account of the benefits he had conferred on mankind he was unanimously hailed and worshipped as a deity. But his brother Set (whom the Greeks called Typhon) with seventy-two others plotted against him. Having taken the measure of his good brother's body by stealth, the bad brother Typhon fashioned and highly decorated a coffer of the same size, and once when they were all drinking and making merry he brought in the coffer and jestingly promised to give it to the one whom it should fit exactly. Well, they all tried one after the other, but it fitted none of them. Last of all Osiris stepped into it-and lay down. On that the conspirators ran and slammed the lid down on him, nailed it fast, soldered it with molten lead, and flung the coffer into the Nile. This happened on the seventeenth day of the month Athyr, when the sun is in the sign of the Scorpion, and in the eight-and-twentieth year of the reign or the life of Osiris. When Isis heard of it she sheared off a lock of her hair, put on mourning attire, and wandered disconsolately up and down, seeking the body By the advice of the god of wisdom she took refuge in the papyrus / Page 364 / swamps of the Delta. Seven scorpions accompanied her in her flight. One evening when she was weary she came to the house of a woman, who, alarmed at the sight of the scorpions, shut the door in her face. Then one of the scorpions crept under the door and stung the child of the woman that he died. But when Isis heard the mother's lamentation, her heart was touched, and she laid her hands on the child and uttered her powerful spells; so the poison was driven out of the child and he lived. Afterwards Isis herself gave birth to a son in the swamps. She had conceived him while she fluttered in the form of a hawk over the corpse of her dead husband. The infant was the younger Horus, who in his youth bore the name of Harpocrates, that is, the child Horus. Him Buto, the goddess of the north, hid from the wrath of his wicked uncle Set. Yet she could not guard him from all mishap; for one day when Isis came to her little son's hiding-place she found him stretched lifeless and rigid on the ground: a scorpion had stung him. Then Isis prayed to the sun-god Ra for help. The god hearkened to her and staid his bark in the sky, and sent down Thoth to teach her the spell by which she might restore her son to life. She uttered the words of power, and straightway the poison flowed from the body of Horus, air passed into him, and he lived. Then Thoth ascended up into the sky and took his place once more in the bark of the sun, and the bright pomp passed onward jubilant. Meantime the coffer containing the body of Osiris had floated down the river and away out to sea, till at last it drifted ashore at Byblus, on the coast of Syria. Here a fine erica-tree shot up suddenly and enclosed the chest in its trunk. The king of the country, admiring the growth of the tree, had it cut down and made into a pillar of his house; but he did not know that the coffer with the dead Osiris was in it. Word of this came to Isis and she journeyed to Byblus, and sat down by the well, in humble guise, her face wet with tears. To none would she speak till the king's handmaidens came, and them she greeted kindly, and braided their hair, and breathed on them from her own divine body a wondrous perfume. But when the queen beheld the braids of her handmaidens' hair and smelt the sweet smell that emanated from them, she sent for the stranger woman and took her into her house and made her the nurse of her child. But Isis gave the babe her finger instead of her breast to suck, and at night she began to burn all that was mortal of him away, while she herself in the likeness of a swallow fluttered round the pillar that contained her dead brother, twittering mournfully. But the queen spied what she was doing and shrieked out when she saw her child in flames, and thereby she hindered him from becoming immortal. Then the goddess revealed herself and begged for the pillar of the roof, and they gave it her, and she cut the coffer out of it, and fell upon it and embraced it and lamented so loud that the younger of the king's children died of fright on the spot. But the trunk of the tree she wrapped in fine linen, and poured ointment on it, and gave it to the king and queen, and the wood stands in a. temple of Isis and is / Page 365 / worshipped by the people of Byblus to this day. And Isis put the coffer in a boat and took the eldest of the king's children with her and sailed away. As soon as they were alone, she opened the chest, and laying her face on the face of her brother she kissed him and wept. But the child came behind her softly and saw what she was about, and she turned and looked at him in anger, and the child could not bear her look and died; but some say that it was not so, but that he fell into the sea and was drowned. It is he whom the Egyptians sing of at their banquets under the name of Maneros. But Isis put the coffer by and went to see her son Horus at the city of Buto, and Typhon found the coffer as he was hunting a boar one night by the light of a full moon. And he knew the body, and rent it into fourteen pieces, and scattered them abroad. But Isis sailed up and down the marshes in a shallop made of papyrus, looking for the pieces; and that is why when people sail in shallops made of papyrus, the crocodiles do not hurt them, for they fear or respect the goddess. And that is the reason, too, why there are many graves of Osiris in Egypt, for she buried each limb as she found it. But others will have it that she buried an image of him in every city, pretending it was his body, in order that Osiris might be worshipped in many places, and that if Typhon searched for the real grave he might not be able to find it. However, the genital member of Osiris had been eaten by the fishes, .so Isis made an image of it instead, and the image is used by the Egyptians at their festivals to this day. .. Isis," writes the historian Diodorus Siculus, .. .recovered all the parts of the body except the genitals; and because she wished that her husband's grave should be unknown and honoured by all who dwell in the land of Egypt, she resorted to the following device. She moulded human images out of wax and spices, corresponding to the stature of Osiris, round each one of the parts of his body. Then she called in the priests according to their families and took an oath of them all that they would reveal to no man the trust she was about to repose in them. So to each of them privately she said that to them alone she entrusted the burial of the body, and reminding them of the benefits they had received she exhorted them to bury the body in their own land and to honour Osiris as a god. She also besought them to dedicate one of the animals of their country, whichever they chose, and to honour it in life as they had formerly honoured Osiris, and when it died to grant it obsequies like his. And because she \vould encourage the priests in their own interest to besto\v the aforesaid honours, she gave them a third part of the land to be used by them in the service and worship of the gods. Accordingly it is said that the priests, mindful of the benefits of Osiris, desirous of gratifying the queen, and moved by the prospect of gain, carried out all the injunctions of Isis. Wherefore to this day each of the priests imagines that Osiris is buried in his country, and they honour the beasts that were consecrated in the beginning, and when the animals die the priests renew at their burial the mourning for Osiris. But the sacred bulls, the one called Apis and the other / Page 366 / Mnevis, were dedicated to Osiris, and it. was ordained that they should be worshipped as gods in common by all the Egyptians, since these animals above all others had helped the discoverers of corn in sowing the seed and procuring the universal benefits of agriculture." Such is the myth or legend of Osiris, as told by Greek writers and eked out by more or less fragmentary notices or allusions in native Egyptian literature. A long inscription in the temple at Denderah has preserved a list of the god's graves, and other texts mention the parts of his body which were treasured as holy relics in each of the sanctuaries. Thus his heart was at Athribis, his backbone at Busiris, his neck at Letopolis, and his head at Memphis. As often happens in such cases, some of his divine limbs were miraculously multiplied. His head, for example, was at Abydos as. well as at Memphis, and his legs, which were remarkably numerous, would have sufficed for several ordinary mortals. In this respect, however, Osiris was nothing to St.. Denys, of whom no less than seven heads, all equally genuine, are extant. According to native Egyptian accounts, which supplement that of Plutarch, when Isis had found the corpse of her husband Osiris, she and her sister Nephthys sat down beside it and uttered a lament which in after ages became the type of all Egyptian lamentations for the dead O god On ! come to thy house, thou who hast no foes. O fair youth, come to thy house, that thou mayest see me. I am thy sister, whom thou lovest; thou shalt not part from me. O fair boy, come to thy house. . . . I see thee not, yet doth my heart yearn after thee and mine eyes desire thee. Come to her who loves thee, who loves thee, Unnefer, thou blessed one ! Come to thy sister, come to thy wife, to thy wife, thou whose heart stands still. Come to thy housewife. I am thy sister by the same mother, thou shalt not be far from me. Gods and men have turned their faces towards thee and weep for thee together. . . . I call after thee and weep, so that my cry is heard to heaven, but thou hearest not my voice; yet am I thy sister, whom thou didst love on earth; thou didst. love none but me, my brother ! my brother !" This lament for the fair youth cut off in his prime reminds us of the laments for Adonis. The title of Unnefer or " the Good Being" bestowed on him marks the beneficence which tradition universally acribed to Osiris; it was at once his commonest title and one of his names as king. The lamentations of the two sad sisters were not in vain. In pity for her sorrow the sun-god Ra sent down from heaven the jackal- headed god Anubis, who, with the aid of Isis and Nephthys, of Thoth and Horus, pieced together the broken body of the murdered god, swathed it in linen bandages, and observed all the other rites which the Egyptians were wont to perform over the bodies of the departed. Then Isis fanned the cold clay with her wings: Osiris revived, and thenceforth reigned as king over the dead in the other world. There he bore the titles of Lord of the Underworld, Lord of Eternity, Ruler / Page 367 / of the Dead. There, too, in the great Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt, he presided as judge at the trial of the souls of the departed, who made their solemn confession before him, and, their heart having been weighed in the balance of justice, received the reward of virtue in a life eternal or the appropriate punishment of their sins. In the resurrection of Osiris the Egyptians saw the pledge of a life everlasting for themselves beyond the grave. They believed that every man would live eternally in the other world if only his surviving friends did for his body what the gods had done for the body of Osiris. Hence the ceremonies observed by the Egyptians over the human dead were an exact copy of those which Anubis, Horus, and the rest had performed over the dead god."At every burial there was enacted a representation of the divine mystery which had been per-formed of old over Osiris, when his son, his sisters, his friends were gathered round his mangled remains and succeeded by their spells and manipulations in converting his broken body into the first mummy, which they afterwards reanimated and furnished with the means of entering on a new individual life beyond the grave. The mummy of the deceased was Osiris; the professional female mourners were his two sisters Isis and Nephthys; Anubis, Horus, all the gods of the Osirian legend gathered about the corpse." In this way every dead Egyptian was identified with Osiris and bore his name. . From the Middle Kingdom onwards it was the regular practice to address the deceased as "Osiris So-and-So," as if he were the god himself, and to add the standing epithet "true of speech," because true speech was characteristic of Osiris. The thousands of inscribed and pictured tombs that have been opened in the valley of the Nile prove that the mystery of the resurrection was performed for the benefit of every dead Egyptian; as Osiris died and rose again from the dead, so all men hoped to arise like him from death to life eternal. Thus according to what seems to have been the general native tradition Osiris was a good and beloved king of Egypt, who suffered a violent death but rose from the dead and was henceforth worshipped as a deity. In harmony with this tradition he was regularly repre-sented by sculptors and painters in human and regal form as a dead king, swathed in the wrappings of a mummy, but wearing on his head a kingly crown and grasping in one of his hands, which were left free from the bandages, a kingly sceptre. Two cities above all others were associated with his myth or memory. One of them was Busiris in Lower Egypt, which claimed to possess his backbone; the other was Abydos in Upper Egypt, which gloried in the possession of his head. Encircled by the nimbus of the dead yet living god, Abydos, originally an obscure place, became from the end of the Old Kingdom the holiest spot in Egypt; his tomb there would seem to have been to the Egyptians what the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem is to Christians. It was the wish of every pious man that his dead body should rest in hallowed earth near the grave of the glorified Osiris Page 368 Few indeed were rich enough to enjoy this inestimable privilege; for, apart from the cost of a tomb in the sacred city, the mere transport of mummies from great distances was both difficult and expensive. Yet so eager were many to absorb in death the blessed influence which radiated from the holy sepulchre that they caused their surviving friends to convey their mortal remains to Abydos, there to tarry for a short time, and then to be brought back by river and interred in the tombs which had been made ready for them in their native land. Others had cenotaphs built or memorial tablets erected for themselves near the tomb of their dead and risen Lord, that they might share with him the bliss of a joyful resurrection." Page 367 "Encircled by the nimbus of the dead yet living god,"
THE GARDEN OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER Longfield Beatty Page207 / 208 "And the next quotation is "relayed" from Budge (op. Cit., p. 521), having come from Papyrus No. 10188 (Brit. Mus.) There have been some omissions in order to reinforce as much as possible the particular aspect of it which is our immediate concern." "…from Papyrus No. 10188"
" THE LAMENT OF THE SISTERS " ( Isis and Nepthys over the dead Osiris) "Beautiful Youth, come to thy exalted house at once: we see thee not. "Hail, beautiful boy, come to thy house, draw nigh after thy separation from us "Hail Beautiful Youth, Pilot of Time, who groweth except at this hour. "Holy image of his Father, mysterious essence proceeding from Tem. "The Lord! How much more wonderful is he than his Father, the first-born son of the womb of his mother. "Come back to us in thy actual form; we will embrace thee. Depart not from us, thou Beautiful Face, dearly beloved one, the image of Tem, Master of Love. "Come thou in peace, our Lord, we would see thee. "Great Mighty One among the Gods, the road that thou travellest cannot be described. "The Babe, the Child at morn and at eve, except when thou encirclest the heavens and the earth with thy bodily form. "Come, thou Babe, growing young when setting, our Lord, we would see thee. "Come in peace, Great Babe of His Father, thou art established in thy house. "Whilst thou travellest thou art hymned by us, and life springeth up for us out of thy nothingness. O our Lord, come in peace, let us see thee. "Hail Beautiful Boy, come to thy exalted house.; let thy back be to thy house. The Gods are upon their thrones. Hail ! come in peace, King. "Babe! How lovely it is to see thee! Come, come to us, O Great One, glorify our love. "O ye gods who are in Heaven. O ye gods who are in the Tuat. O ye gods who are in the Abyss. O ye gods who are in the service of the Deep. We follow the Lord, the Lord, of Love!"
BRAHMA "If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain They know not well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again." R.W. Emerson
THE TRUE AND INVISIBLE ROSICRUCIAN ORDER Paul Foster Case 1981 Page 108 9th and 10th line up 36 th and 37 th line down 45 lines in page " Concerning the Invisible, Magical Mountain and the Treasure therein Contained."
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875-1955 Page 466 "Had not the normal, since time was, lived on the achievements of the abnormal? Men consciously and voluntarily descended into disease and madness, in search of knowledge which, acquired by fanaticism, would lead back to health; after the possession and use of it had ceased to be conditioned by that heroic and abnormal act of sacrifice. That was the true death on the cross, the true Atonement."
JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS Thomas Mann 1875 - 1955 JOSEPH THE PROVIDER Page 955 "But let your majesty be / Page 956 / ware of laying hands on the people's belief in Usir, King of the lower regions, to which it clings more obstinately than to any other deity, because all are equal before hIm, and each one hopes to go unto him with his name. Bear in mind the prejudice of the many, for what you give to Aton by diminishing Amun, you take away again by offending Usir." "Ah, I assure you, Mama, the people only imagine that they cling so to Usir," cried Amenhotep. "How could it really cling to a belief that the soul which goes up to the judge's seat must pass through seven times seven regions of terror, inhabited by demons who cross-examine it as it passes in some three hundred and sixty several magiic formulas, each harder to remember than the last, yet the poor soul must have them all by heart and be able to repeat each one in th right place, otherwise it does not pass and will be devoured befor ever it reaches the judgment seat. And if it does get there, it ha every prospect of being devoured if its heart weighs too light in the scale; for then it is delivered over to the monstrous dog of Amente I ask you, where is there anything in all that to cling to? - it is against all the love and goodness of my Father above. Before Usir of the lower regions all are equal - yes, equal in terror. Whereas before my Father all shall be equal in joy. With Amun and Aton it is the same Amun too, with the help of Re, will be universal and will unite the world in worship of him. There they are of one mind. But Amun would make the world one in the rigid service of fear, a false and sinister unity, which my Father would not, for he would unite his children in joy and tenderness." "Meni," said the mother again, in her low voice, "it would be better for you to spare yourself and not speak so much of joy and tenderness. You know from experience that the words are dangerous to you and put you beside yourself." "I am speaking, Mama, of belief and unbelief," answered Amen-hotep; once more he worked himself out of the cushions and stood on his feet. "Of these I speak, and my own good mind tells me that disbelief is almost more important than belief. In belief there must be a sizable element of disbelief; for how can a man believe what is true so long as he also believes what is false? If I want to teach the people what is true, I must first take from them certaIn beliefs to which they cling. perhaps that. is cruel, but it is the. cruelty of love and my Father In the sky will forgive me. Yes, which is more glorious, belief or disbelief, and which should come before the other? Believing is a great rapture for the soul. But not believing is almost more joyous than belief - I have found it so, My Majesty has experienced it, and I do not believe in the realms of fear and the demons and Usiri with his frightfully named ones and the devourer down there below."
JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS Thomas Mann 1875 - 1955 JOSEPH THE PROVIDER Page 964 "But / Page 965 /now," he added, "let us speak seriously of serious matters. Your God, who and what is He? You have neglected or avoided giving me a clear understanding. The forefather of your father, you say, discov-ered Him? That sounds as though he had found the true and only God. Is it possible that so remote from me in space and time a man divined that the true and only God is the sun's disk, the creator of sight and seen, my eternal Father above?" "No, Pharaoh," Joseph answered smiling. "He did not stop at the sun disk. He was a wanderer, and even the sun was but a way-station on his painful wandering. Restless was he and unsatisfied - call it pride if you will; for thereby you seal your censure with the sign of honour and necessity. For it was the pride of the man, that the hu-man being should serve only the Highest. Therefore his thoughts went out beyond the sun." Amenhotep had flushed. He sat bent forward, his head in the blue wig stretched out on its neck; with the tips of his fingers he squeezed and kneaded his chin. "Mama, pay attention! By all you hold dear, pay strict attention," he breathed, without turning the fixed gaze of his grey eyes away from Joseph. His suspense was so great that it seemed he would tear away the veil which dimmed them. "Go on, you!" said he. "Wait! Stop, 'no, go on! He did not stop? He went out beyond the sun? Speak! Or I will speak myself, though I know not what I should say." "He made things hard for himself, in his unavoidable pride," Joseph said. "For this he was anointed. He overcame many temptations to worship and adore, for he longed to do so, but to worship the Highest one alone, for only this seemed right to him. Earth, the mother, tempted 'him; she who preserves life and brings forth fruit. But he saw her neediness, which only heaven can supply, and so he turned his face upwards. Him tempted the turmoil of the clouds, the uproar of the storm, the pelting rain, the blue lightning-flash driving down, the thunder's rattling roar. But he shook his head at their claims, for his soul instructed him they were all of the second rank. They were no better, so his soul spake to him, than he himself- perhaps lesser indeed, although so mighty; and though they were above him it was simply in space, but not in spirit. To pray to them, so he felt, was to pray too near and too low; and better not at all, he said to himself, than too near or low, for that was an abomination." "Good," said Amenhotep, almost soundlessly, and kneaded his chin. "Good! Wait! No, go on! Mama, pay attention!" "Yes, how many great manifestations did not tempt my forefather!" Joseph went on. "The whole host of the stars was among them, the shepherd and his sheep.Theywere indeed far and high, and very great in their courses. But he saw them scattered before the beams / Page 966 / of the morning star - and she indeed was surpassing lovely, of two- fold nature and rich in tales, yet weak, too weak for that which she heralded; she paled before it and vanished away poor morning star!" "Spare your regrets!" ordered the King. "Here is matter for tri- umph. For tell me what it was she paled before, and who appeared, whom she had heralded?" he asked, making his voice sound as proud and threatening as it could. "Of course, the sun," Joseph replied. "What a temptation for him who so longed to worship! Before its cruelty and its benignity all peoples of the earth bowed down. But my ancestor's caution was un-limited, his reservations endless. Peace and satisfaction, he said, are not the point. The all-important thing is to avoid the great peril to the honour of humanity, that man should bow down before a lower than the highest. 'Mighty art thou,' he said to Shamash-Marduk;'Bel, 'and mighty is thy power of blessing and cursing. But something there is above thee, in me a worm, and it warns me not to take the witness for that which it witnesses. The greater the witness, the greater the fault in me if I let myself be misled to worship it instead of that to which it bears witness. Godlike is the witness, but yet not God. I too am a witness arid a testimony: I and my doing and dreaming, which mount up above the sun towards that to which it more mightily bears witness than even itself, and whose heat is greater than the heat of the sun.' " "Mother," Amenhotep whispered, without turning his eyes from Joseph, "what did I say? No, no, I did not say it, I only knew it, it was said to me. When of late I had my seizure, and revelation was vouchsafed me for the improvement of the teaching - for it is not complete, never have I asserted that it was complete - then I heard my Father's voice and it spoke to me saying: 'I am the heat of the Aton, which is in Him. But millions of suns could I feed from my fires. Callest thou me Aton, then know that the name itself stands in need of improvement. When you call me so, you are not calling me by my last and final name. For my last name is: the Lord of the Aton." Thus Pharaoh heard it, the Father's beloved child, and brought It back with him out of his attack. But he kept silent, and even the silence made him forget. Pharaoh has set truth in his heart, for the Father is the truth. But he is responsible for the triumph of the teaching, that all men may receive It; and he is concerned lest the improvement and purification, until at last it consist only of the pure truth, might mean to make it unteachable. This is a sore concern which no one can understand save one on whom as much responsibility rests as on Pharaoh. For others it is easy to say: 'You have not set truth in your heart, but rather the teaching.' Yet the teaching is the sole means of bringing men nearer the truth. It should be im- / Page 967 / proved; but if one improve it to the extent that it becomes unavail-able as a medium of truth - I ask the Father and you: will not only then the reproach be justified that I have shut up the teaching in my heart to the disadvantage of the truth? Pharaoh shows mankind the image of the revered Father, made by his artists: the golden disk from which rays go down upon his creatures, ending in tender hands, which caress all creation. 'Adore!' he commands. 'This is the Aton, my Father, whose blood runs in me, who revealed himself to me, but will be Father to you all, that you may become good and lovely in him.' And he adds: 'Pardon, dear human beings, that I am so strict with your thoughts. Gladly would I spare your simplicity. But it must be: Therefore I say to you: Not the image shall you worship when you worship, not to it sing your hymns when you sing; but rather to him whose image it is, you understand, the true disk of the sun, my Father in the sky, who is the Aton, for the image is not yet he.' That is hard enough; it is a challenge to men; out of a hundred, twelve understand it. But if now the teacher says: 'Still another and further effort must I urge upon you for the sake of truth, however much it pains me for your simplicity. For the image is but the image of the image and witness to a witness. Not the actual round sun up there in the sky are you to think of when you burn incense to his image and sing his praise - not this, but the Lord of Aton, who is the heat in it and who guides its course.' That goes too far, it is too much teaching, and not twelve, not even one understands. Only Pharaoh himself understands, who is outside of all count, and yet he is supposed to teach the many. Your forefather, soothsayer, had an easy task, although he made it hard for himself. He might make it as hard as he liked, striving after truth for his own sake and the sake of his pride, for he was only a wanderer. But I am King, and teacher; I may not think what I cannot teach. Whereas such a one very soon learns not even to think the unteachable. / Page 968 / eternal ages be held in honour. put we are speaking of two different things. My Majesty speaks of the fetters which the teaching puts upon the thoughts of God; yours refers to priestly statecraft, which divides teaching and knowledge. But Pharaoh would not be arro- gant, and there is no greater arrogance than such a division. No, there is no arrogance in the world greater than that of dividing the chil- dren of our Father into initiate and uninitiate and teaching double words: all-knowingly for the masses, knowingly in the inner circle. No, we must speak what we know, and witness what we have seen. Pharaoh wants to do nothing but improve the teaching, even though it be made hard for him by the teaching. And still it has been said to me: 'Call me not Aton, for that is in need of improvement. Call me the Lord of the Aton!' But I, through keeping silent, forgot. See now what the Father does for his beloved son! He sends him a mes- senger and dream-interpreter, who shows him his dreams, dreams from below and dreams from above, dreams important for the realm and for heaven; that he should awake in him what he already knows, and interpret what was already said to him. Yes, how loveth the Father his child the King who came forth out of him, that he sends down a soothsayer to him, to whom from long ages has been handed down the teaching that it profits man to press on towards the last and highest! " "To my knowledge," Tiy coldly remarked, "your soothsayer came up from below, out of a dungeon, and not from above." "Ah, in my opinion that is sheer mischief, that he came from be-low," cried Amenhotep. "And besides, above and below mean not much to the Father, who when he goes down makes the lower the upper, for where he shines, there is the upper world. From which it comes that his messengers interpret dreams from above and below with equal skill. Go on, soothsayer! Did I say stop? If I did, I meant go on! That wanderer out of the East, from whom you spring, did not stop at the sun, but pressed on above it?" "Yes, in spirit," answered Joseph smiling. "For in the flesh he was but a worm on this earth, weaker than most of those above and below him. And still he refused to bow and to worship, even before one of these phenomena, for they were but witness and work, as he himself was. All being, he said, is a work of the highest, and before the being is the spirit of whom it bears witness. How could I commit so great a folly and bum incense to a witness, be it never so weighty - I, who am consciously a witness, whereas the others simply are and know it not? Is there not something in me of Him, for which all being is but evidence of the being of the Being which is greater than His works and is outside them? It is outside the world, and though it is the compass of the world, yet is the world not its compass. Far is the sun, surely three hundred and sixty thousand miles away, and yet / Page969 / his rays are here. But He who shows the sun the way hither is further than far, yet near in the same measure, nearer than near. Near or far is all the same to Him, for He has no space nor any time; and though the world is in Him, He is not in the world at all, but in heaven." "Did you hear that, Mama?" asked Amenhotep in a small voice, tears in his eyes. "Did you hear the message which my heavenly Father sends me through this young man, in whom I straightway saw something, as he came in, and who interprets to me my dreams? I will only say that I have not said all that was said to me in my seizure, and, keeping silent, forgot it. But when I heard: 'Call me not Aton, but rather the Lord of the Aton,' then I heard also this: 'Call on me not as "my Father above," for that is of the sun in the sky; it must needs be changed, to say: "My Father who art in heaven" !' So heard I and shut it up within me, because I was anxious over the truth for the sake of the teaching. But he whom I took out of the prison, he opens the prison of truth that she may come forth in beauty and light; and teaching and truth shall embrace each other, even as I embrace him." And with wet eyelashes he worked himself up out of his sunken seat, embraced Joseph, and kissed him. "Yes, yes!" he cried: He began to hurry once more up and down the Cretan loggia, to the bee-portieres, to the windows and back, his hands pressed to his heart. "Yes, yes, who art in heaven, fur-ther than far and nearer than near, the Being of beings, that looks not into death, that does not become and die but is, the abiding light, that neither rises nor sets, the unchanging source, out of which stream all life, light, beauty, and truth-that is the Father, so reveals He Himself to Pharaoh His son, who lies in His bosom and to whom He shows all that He has made. For He has made all, and His love is in the world, and the world knows Him not. But Pharaoh is His witness and bears witness to His light and His love, that through Him all men may become blessed and may believe, even though now they still love the darkness more than the light that shines in it. For they under- stand it not, therefore are their deeds evil. But the son, who came from the Father, will teach it to them. Golden spirit is the light, father-spirit; out of the mother-depths below power strives upward to it, to be purified in its flame and become spirit in the Father. Im-material is God, like His sunshine, spirit is He, and Pharaoh teaches you to worship Him in spirit and in truth. For the son knoweth the Father as the Father knoweth him, and will royally reward all those who love Him and keep His commandments - he will make them great and gilded at court because they love the Father in the son who came out of Him. For my words are not mine, but the words of my Father who sent me, that all might become one in light and love, even as I and the Father are one. . . ."
ACCORDING TO THE EVIDENCE Erich Von Daniken 1977 Page 28 "In 1960, Hans Freudenthal, a mathematician at the University of Utrecht, Holland, presented a mathematical language worked out to the last detail. (4) It is transmitted on radio impulses, but unlike many previous brainwaves coud not possibly be misunderstood by any technically informed living being. Freudenthal's starting point is quite simple. Whatever the aliens may look like as highly advanced intelligences they will be able to build radio-telescopes, because they, like ourselves, want interstellar communication. Anyone who has know-ledge necessary to build a radio-telescope, will be familiar with electronics and that is not conceivable without a mastery of the rules and formulae of mathematics. In other words mathematics is the multiplication table of an intercosmic language. We use the decimal system. It is not unreasonable to assume that our ten fingers supplied a natural calculating machine / Page 29 / machine for it. We imported this system about 600 B.C. from India where it had developed from the Brahman method of writing numerals. Egyptian hieroglyphs stood for 1, 10, 100, 1000 etc." "…So we can guarantee that the binary system is practicable. It works with the basic figure 2. The advantage of the binary system is that every number can be formed from the product of the numbers 0 and 1: and so on (Table omitted) The binary system became the language for all computers, which can claim to be faultless because there are never more than two possibilities: 1 or 0, good or not good, right or not right, yes or no." "In other words mathematics is the multiplication table of an intercosmic language."
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THE STONE OF THE PLOUGH The Search For The Secret of Giza Ann Walker 1997 Page 250 "A number of ONE HUNDRED and ONE and that symbolises the character that plays the CREED, the COLOUR, and all pointing to the WHITE ARROW, and if we decrease the First Word and the Last Word so that it comes to NINETY NINE, and this is a number that can easily be divided by THREE, and that is the Pyramid form, and the Triads of the Ancient: PTAH, SEKHEM and NEFERTUM ISIS, OSIRIS, HORUS AMUN, UTKHUNS The FATHER and SON and HOLY GHOST Translated into English by Abbel Hakim Awayan " Figure 26.5 omitted ' The 99 titles of God' "
WHY SMASH ATOMS A. K. Solomon 1940 VAN DE GRAAFF GENERATOR Page 77 "Once the fairy tale hero has penetrated the ring of fire round the magic mountain he is free to woo the heroine in her castle on the mountain top."
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OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke 1972 FOREWORD "'Into the Comet' and 'The Nine Billion Names of God' both involve computers and the troubles they may cause us. While writing this preface, I had occasion to call upon my own HP 9100A computer, Hal Junior, to answer an interesting question. Looking at my records, I find that I have now written just about one hundred short stories. This volume contains eighteen of them: therefore, how many possible 18-story collections will I be able to put together? The answer as I am sure will be instantly obvious to you - is 100 x 99. . . x 84 x 83 divided by 18 x 17 x 16 ... x .2 x 1. This is an impressive number - Hal Junior tells me that it is approximately 20,772,733,124,605,000,000. Page 15 The Nine Billion Names of God 'This is a slightly unusual request,' said Dr Wagner, with what he hoped was commendable restraint. 'As far as I know, it's the first time anyone's been asked to supply a Tibetan monastery with an Automatic Sequence Computer. I don't wish to be inquisitive, but I should hardly have thought that your - ah - establishment had much use for such a machine. Could you explain just what you intend to do with it?' Page16 'We have reason to believe,' continued the lama imperturbably, 'that all such names can be written with not more than nine letters in an alphabet we have devised.'
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OF T9ME AND STA9S A9thu9 C. Cla9ke,1972 Page 15 'Th9s 9s a sl9ghtly unusual 9equest,'sa9d D9 Wagne9, w9th what he hoped was commendable 9est9a9nt.' As fa9 as 9 know, 9t's the f99st t9me anyone's been asked to supply a T9betan monaste9y with an Automat9c Sequence Compute9. 9 don't w9sh to be 9nqu9s9t9ve, but 9 should ha9dly have thought that you9- ah - establ9shment had much use for such a mach9ne.Could you expla9n just what you 9ntend to do w9th 9t?' 'Gladly,' 9epl9ed the lama, 9eadjust9ng h9s s9lk 9obes and ca9efully putting away the sl9de 9ule he had been us9ng fo9 cu99ency conve9s9ons. 'You9 Ma9k V Compute9 can ca99y out any 9out9ne mathemat9cal ope9at9on 9nvolv9ng up to ten d9g9ts. Howeve9, for ou9 work we are 9nte9ested 9n lette9s, not numbe9s. As we w9sh you to mod9fy the output c9rcu9ts,the mach9ne w9ll be p99nt9ng wo9ds not columns of f9gu9es.' '9 dont qu9te unde9stand…' 'Th9s 9s a p9oject on wh9ch we have been work9ng fo9 the last th9ee centu99es - s9nce the lamase9y was founded, 9n fact.9t 9s somewhat al9en to you9 way of thought, so9 hope you w9ll l9sten with an open m9nd wh9le 9 expla9n 9t 'Natu9ally.' '9t 9s 9eally qu9te s9mple.We have been comp9l9ng a l9st wh9ch shall conta9n all the poss9ble names of God' '9 beg you9 pa9don?' / Page16 / 'We have 9eason to bel9eve' cont9nued the lama 9mpe9tu9bably, ' that all such names can be w99tten with not mo9e than n9ne lette9s 9n an alphabet we have dev9sed,' 'And you have been do9ng th9s for three centu99es? 'Yes: we expected9t would take us about f9fteen thousand years to complete the task.' 'Oh, Dr Wagne9 looked a l9ttle dazed. 'Now9 see why you wanted to h99e one of ou9 mach9nes. But what exactly9s the pu9pose of th9s p9oject ? 'The lama hes9tated fo9 a f9act9on of a second, and Wagne9 wonde9ed9f he had offended h9m.9f so the9e was no t9ace of annoyance9n the 9eply. 'Call9t 99tual, 9f you l9ke, but 9t's a fundamental pa9t of ou9 bel9ef. All the many names of the Sup9eme Be9ng - God , Jehova , Allah , and so on - they a9e only man made labels. The9e 9s a ph9losoph9cal p9oblem of some d9ff9culty he9e, wh9ch9 do not p9opose to d9scuss, but somewhe9e among all the poss9ble comb9nat9ons of lette9s that can occu9 a9e what one may call the 9eal names of God. By systemat9c pe9mutat9on of lette9s, we have been t9y9ng to l9st them all' 9 see. You've been sta9t9ng at AAAAAAA… and wo9k-9ng up to ZZZZZZZZ …' 'Exactly - though we use a spec9al alphabet of ou9 own. Mod9fy9ng the elect9omat9c typew99te9s to deal w9th th9s 9s of cou9se t99v9al. A 9athe9 mo9e 9nte9est9ng p9oblem 9s that of dev9s9ng su9table c99cu9ts to el9m9nate 9 9d9culous comb9nat9ons. Fo9 example, no lette9 must occu9 mo9e than th9ee t9mes 9n sucess9on.' 'Th9ee? Su9ely you mean two.' 'Th9ee 9s co99ect; 9 am af9a9d 9t would take too long to expla9n why , even 9f you unde9stood ou9 language.'/ Page 17 / '9'm su9e 9t would,' sa9d Wagne9 hast9ly. 'Go on.' 'Luck9ly, 9t w9ll be a s9mple matte9 to adapt you9 Automat9c Sequence Compute9 fo9 th9s wo9k, s9nce once 9t has been p9og9ammed p9ope9ly 9t w9ll pe9mute each lette9 9n tu9n and p99nt the 9esult. What would have taken us f9fteen thousand years 9t w9ll be able to do 9n a hund9ed days.' 'Dr Wagne9 was sca9cely consc9ous of the fa9nt sounds f9om the Manhatten st9eets fa9 below. He was 9n a d9ffe9ent wo9ld, a wo9ld of natu9al, not man-made mounta9ns. H9gh up 9n the99 9emote ae99es these monks had been pat9ently at wo9k gene9at9on afte9 gene9at9on, comp9l9ng the99 l9sts of mean9ngless wo9ds. Was the9e any l9m9ts to the foll9es of mank9nd ? St9ll, he must g9ve no h9nt of h9s 9nne9 thoughts. The custome9 was always 99ght…"
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke 1972 Page 68 Into the Comet "Pickett's fingers danced over the beads, sliding them up and down the wires with lightning speed. There were twelve wires in all, so that the abacus could handle numbers up to 999,999,999,999 - or could be divided into separate sections where several independent calculations could be carried out simultaneously.
DECIPHER MANKIND HAD 1200 YEARS YEARS TO CRACK THE CODE WE HAVE ONE WEEK LEFT Stel Pavlou Page 357 24 hours "We live in a universe of patterns. Every night the stars move in circles across the sky. The seasons cycle at yearly intervals. No two snowflakes are ever exactly the same, but the all have sixfold symmetry. Tigers and zebras are covered in patterns of stripes; leopards and hyenas are covered in pat terns of spots. Intricate trains of waves march across the oceans; very similar trains of sand dunes march across the desert . . . By using mathematics... we have discovered great secret: nature's patterns are not just there to be admired, they are vital clues to the rules that govern natural processes." Ian Stewart, Nature's Numbers, 1995
2061 ODYSSEY THREE Arthur C. Clarke 1987 Page 13 (number 0mitted) "THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN"
THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001 Arthur C.Clarke 1972 "Sorry to interrupt the festivities, but we have a problem."
Zarathustra theme to his TV audience, aboard Apollo 13 Command Module Odyssey)
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1924 Page 706 THE THUNDERBOLT
THE DIE IS NOW CAST NOW CAST IS THE DIE
THERE IS NO ATTEMPT MADE TO DESCRIBE THE CREATIVE PROCESS REALISTICALLY THE ACCOUNT IS SYMBOLIC AND SHOWS GOD CREATING THE WORLD BY MEANS OF LANGUAGE AS THOUGH WRITING A BOOK BUT LANGUAGE ENTIRELY TRANSFORMED THE MESSAGE OF CREATION IS CLEAR EACH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET IS GIVEN A NUMERICAL VALUE BY COMBINING THE LETTERS WITH THE SACRED NUMBERS REARRANGING THEM IN ENDLESS CONFIGURATIONS THE MYSTIC WEANED THE MIND AWAY FROM THE NORMAL CONNOTATIONS OF WORDS
THE LIGHT IS RISING NOW RISING IS THE LIGHT
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke,1972 'The Nine Billion Names of God' 'The Nine Billion Names of God' both involve computers Page 20 " Well, they believe that when they have listed all His names - and they reckon that there are about nine billion of them - Page15 'This is a slightly unusual request,'said Dr Wagner, with what he hoped was commendable restraints.' As far as I know,it's the first time anyone's been asked to supply a Tibetan monastery with an Automatic Sequence Computer. 'Gladly,' replied the lama, readjusting his silk robes and carefully putting away the slide rule he had been using for currency conversions. 'Your Mark V Computer can carry out any routine mathematical operation involving up to ten digits. However, for our work we are interested in letters, not numbers. As we wish you to modify the output circuits,the machine will be printing words not columns of figures.' 'I dont quite understand…' This is a project on which we have been working for the last three centuries - since the lamasery was founded, in fact. It is somewhat alien to your way of thought, so I hope you will listen with an open mind while I explain it. 'Naturally.' 'It is really quite simple.We have been compiling a list which shall contain all the possible names of God' 'I beg your pardon?' 'We have reason to believe' continued the lama imper-turbably, ' that all such names can be written Page16 / 'We have reason to believe' continued the lama imper-turbably, ' that all such names can be written with not more than nine letters in an alphabet we have devised,' 'And you have been doing this for three centuries? 'Yes: we expected it would take us about fifteen thousand years to complete the task.' 'Oh, Dr Wagner looked a little dazed. 'Now I see why you wanted to hire one of our machines. But what exactly is the purpose of this project ? 'The lama hesitated for a fraction of a second, and Wagner wondered if he had offended him. If so there was no trace of annoyance in the reply. 'Call it ritual, if you like, but it's a fundamental part of our belief. All the many names of the Supreme Being - God , Jehova , Allah , and so on - they are only man made labels. There is a philosophical problem of some difficulty here, which I do not propose to discuss, but somewhere among all the possible combinations of letters that can occur are what one may calL the real names of God. By systematic per-mutation of letters, we have been trying to list them all' 'I see. You've been starting at AAAAAAA… and work-ing up to ZZZZZZZZ …' 'Exactly - though we use a special alphabet of our own. Modifying the electromatic typewriters to deal with this is of course trivial. A rather more interesting problem is that of devising suitable circuits to eliminate ridiculous com-binations. For example, no letter must occur more than three times in sucession.' 'Three? Surely you mean two.' 'Three is correct; I am afraid it would take too long to explain why , even if you understood our language.' Page 17 'I'm sure it would,' said Wagner hastily. 'Go on.' 'Luckily, it will be a simple matter to adapt your Automatic Sequence Computer for this work, since once it has been programmed properly it will permute each letter in turn and print the result. What would have taken us fifteen thousand years it will be able to do in a hundred days.' 'Dr Wagner was scarcely conscious of the faint sounds from the Manhatten streets far below. He was in a different world, a world of natural, not man-made , mountains. High up in their remote aeries these monks had been patiently at work generation after generation, compiling their lists of meaningless words. Was there any limits to the follies of mankind ? Still, he must give no hint of his inner thoughts. The customer was always right… 'There's no doubt,' replied the doctor, that we can modify the Mark V Im much more worried about theproblem of installation and maintainance. Getting out to Tibet, in these days, is not going to be easy.' 'We can arrange that. The components are small enough to travel by air - that is one reason why we chose your machine. If you can get them to India we will provide transport from there.' 'And you want to hire two of our engineers ? 'Yes, for the three months that the project should occupy.' 'I've no doubt that personnel can manage that.' Dr Wagner scribbled a note on his desk pad. 'There are just two other points -' 'Before he could finish the sentence the lama had produced a small slip of paper. 'This is my certified credit balance at the Asiatic Bank.' /Page 18 / 'Thank you. It appears to be - ah - adequate. The second matter is so trivial that I hesitate to mention it - but it's surprising how often the obvious gets overlooked. What source of electrical energy have you?' 'A diesel generator providing fifty kilowatts at a hundred and ten vaults .It was installed about five years ago and is quite reliable. It's made life at the lamasery much more comfortable, but of course it was really installed to provide power for the motors driving the prayer wheels.' 'Of course,' echoed Dr Wagner. ' I should have thought of that.' The view from the parapet was vertiginous, but in time one gets used to anything. After three months, George Hanley was not impressed by the two-thousand-foot swoop into the abyss or the remote checkerboard of fields in the valley below. He was leaning against the wind-smoothed stones and staring morosely at the distant mountains whose names he had never bothered to discover. 'This, thought George, was the craziest thing that had ever happened to him. Project Shangri-La, some wit back at the labs had christened it. For weeks now the Mark V had been churning out acres of sheets covered with gibberish. Patiently, inexorably, the computer had been rearranging letters in all their possible combinations, exhausting each class before going on to the next. As the sheets had emerged from the electromatic typewriters, the monks had carefully cut them up and pasted them into enormous books. In another week, heaven be praised, they would have finished. Just what ob-scure calculations had convinced the monks that they needn't go on to words of ten, twenty or a hundred letters, /Page 19/ George didn't know. One of his recurring nightmares was that there would be some change of plan, and that the high lama (whom they'd naturally called Sam Jaffe, though he didn't look a bit like him) would suddenly announce that the project would be extended to approximately A.D. 2060. They were quite capable of it. 'George heard the heavy door slam in the wind as Chuck came out on to the parapet beside him . As usual, Chuck was smoking one of the cigars that made him so popular with the monks - who, it seemed, were quite willing to embrace all the minor and most of the major pleasures of life: That was one thing in their favour they weren't bluenoses. Those frequent trips they took down to the village for instance… 'Listen George' said Chuck urgently.'I've learned some-thing that means trouble.' 'Whats's wrong? Isn't the machine behaving?' That was the worst contigency George could imagine. It might delay his return, and nothing could be more horrible. The way he felt now even the sight of a TV commercial would seem like manner from heaven. At least it would be some link with home. 'No - it's nothing like that.' Chuck settled himself on the parapet, which was unusual because normally he was scared of the drop. 'I've just found out what all this is about.' 'What d'ya mean I thought we knew .' 'Sure - we know what the monks are trying to do. But we didn't know why, It's the craziest thing -' 'Tell me something new,' growled George. '- but old Sam's just come clean with me. You know the way he drops in every afternoon to watch the sheets roll out. /Page 20/ Well, this time he seemed rather exited, or at least as near as he'll ever get to it. When I told him that we were on the last cycle he asked me, in that cute English accent of his, if I'd ever wondered what they were trying to do I said, "Sure" - and he told me.' 'Go on : I'll buy it'. 'Well, they believe that when they have listed all His names - and they reckon that there are about nine billion of them - Gods purpose will be achieved. The human race will have finished what it was created to do, and there won't be any point in carrying on. Indeed, the very idea is something like blasphemy.' 'Then what do they expect us to do ? Commit suicide?' 'There's no need for that. When the list's completed, God steps in and simply winds things up…bingo!' 'Oh, I get it. When we finish our job, it will be the end of the world.' 'Chuck gave a nervous little laugh. 'That's just what I said to Sam. And do you know what happened? He looked at me in a very queer way, like I'd been stupid in class, and said, "It's nothing as trivial as that" ' George thought this over for a moment. 'That's what I call taking the Wide View,' he said presently . 'But what do you suppose we should do about it? I don't see that it makes the slightest difference to us. After all we already knew they were crazy.' 'Yes - but don't you see what may happen? When the list's complete and the Last Trump doesn't blow - or whatever it is they expect - we may get the blame. It's our machine they've been using. I dont like the situation one little bit.' 'I see, said George slowly. You've a point there. But this /Page 21 / sort of things happened before you know. When I was a kid down in Louisiana we had a crackpot preacher who once said the world was going to end next Sunday. Hundreds of people believed him - even sold their homes. Yet when nothing happened, they didn't turn nasty , as you'd expect. They just decided that he'd made a mistake in his calculations and went right on believing. I guess some of them still do.' 'Well, this isn't Loisiana, in case you hadn't noticed. There are just two of us and hundreds of these monks. I like them, and I'll be sorry for old Sam when his life backfires on him. But all the same, I wish I was somewhere else.' 'I've been wishing that for weeks . But there's nothing we can do until the contract's finished and the transport arrives to fly us out.' 'Of course,' said Chuck thoughtfully, 'we could always try a bit of sabotage.' 'Like hell we could! That would make things worse.' 'Not the way I meant. Look at it like this. The machine will finish its run four days from now, on the present twenty-hours-a-day basis. The transport calls in a week. O.K. - then all we need to do is to find something that needs replacing during one of the overhaul periods - something that will hold up the works for a couple of days. We'll fix it of course, but not too quickly. If we time matters properly, we can be down at the airfield when the last name pops out of the register.They won't be able to catch us then.' 'I dont like it,' said George.' 'It will be the first time I ever walked out on a job. Besides, it would make them suspicious. No I'll sit tight and takes what comes.' 'I still don't like it,'he said, seven days later, as the tough /Page 22 / little mountain ponies carried them down the winding road. 'And don't you think I'm running away because Im afraid. I'm just sorry for those poor old guys up there, and I don't want to be around when they find what suckers they've been. Wonder how Sam will take it?' 'It's funny,' replied Chuck, 'but when I said good-bye I got the idea he knew we were walking out on him - and that he didn't care because he knew the machine was running smoothly and that the job would soon be finished.After That…' George turned in his saddle and stared back up the mountain road. This was the last place from which one could get a clear view of the lamasery. The squat, angular buildings were silhouetted against the afterglow of the sunset: here and there, lights gleamed like portholes in the side of an ocean liner. Electric lights, of course, sharing the same circuit as the Mark V. How much longer would they share it? wondered George. Would the monks smash up the computer in their rage and disappointment? Or would they just sit down quietly and begin their calculations all over again? 'He knew exactly what was happening up on the mountain at this very moment. The high lama and his assistants would be sitting in their silk robes, inspecting the sheets as the junior monks carried them away from the typewriters and pasted them into the great volumes. . No one would be saying anything. The only sound would be the incessant patter, the never-ending rainstorm of the keys hitting the paper, for the MarkV itself was utterly silent as it flashed through its tho-usands of calculations a second. Three months of this, thought George, was enough to start anyone climbing up the wall. /Page / 23 'There she is!' Called Chuck, pointing down into the valley. 'Aint she beautiful!' 'She certainly was, thought George. The battered old DC3 lay at the end of the runway like a tiny silver cross. In two hours she would be bearing them away to freedom and sanity. It was a thought worth savouring like a fine liqueur. George let it roll round his mind as the pony trudged patiently down the slope. 'The swift night of the high Himalayas was now almost upon them. Fortunately, the road was very good, as roads went in that region, and they were both carrying torches. There was not the slightest danger, only a certain discomfort from the bitter cold. The sky overhead was perfectly clear, and ablaze with the familiar friendly stars. At least there would be no risk, thought George, of the pilot being unable to take off because of weather conditions. That had been his only remaining worry 'He began to sing ,but gave it up after a while. This vast arena of mountains, gleaming like whitely hooded ghosts on every side, did not encourage such ebullience. Presently George glanced at his watch. 'Should be there in an hour', he called back over his shoul-der to Chuck. Then he added in an afterthought: 'Wonder if the computer's finished its run. It was due about now.' 'Chuck didn't reply, so George swung around in his saddle. He could just see Chuck's face, a white oval turned towards the sky. 'Look,' whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead without any fuss, the stars were going out.
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke,1972 Foreword "These stories were written during the quarter century that saw space flight be transformed from a fantastic dream to an almost humdrum reality. Already it is very hard for me to realize that when I wrote 'The Sentinel' in 1948 I never really believed that I would see a moon-landing in my own lifetime". "…. The idea behind " "… 'Into the Comet' and 'The Nine Billion Names of God' both involve computers and the troubles they may cause us. While writing this preface, I had occasion to call upon my own HP 9100 A computer, Hal Junior, to answer an interesting ques-tion.Looking at my records, I find that I have now written just about one hundred short stories. This volume contains eighteen of them: therefore, how many possible 18 storey collections will I be able to put together? The answer - as I am sure will be instantly obvious to you - is 100 x 99… x 84 x 83 divided by 18 x 17 x 16…x 2 x 1. This is an impressive number - Hal Junior tells me that it is approximately 20,772,733,124,605,000,000."
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke,1972 'The Nine Billion Names of God' 'The Nine Billion Names of God' both involve computers Page 20 " Well, they believe that when they have listed all His names - and they reckon that there are about nine billion of them - Gods purpose will be achieved" The Nine Billion names of God " 'Call it ritual, if you like, but it's a fundamental part of our belief. All the many names of the Supreme Being - God , Jehova , Allah , and so on - they are only man made labels. There is a philosophical problem of some difficulty here, which I do not propose to discuss, but somewhere among all the possible combinations of letters that can occur are what one may call the real names of God. By systematic permutation of letters, we have been trying to list them all' 'I see. You've been starting at AAAAAAA… and work-ing up to ZZZZZZZZ…" GOD JEHOVA ALLAH
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke,1972 Page 15 The Nine Billion names of God 'This is a slightly unusual request,'said Dr Wagner, with what he hoped was commendable restraints.' As far as I know,it's the first time anyone's been asked to supply a Tibetan monastery with an Automatic Sequence Computer. 'Gladly,' replied the lama, readjusting his silk robes and carefully putting away the slide rule he had been using for currency conversions. 'Your Mark V Computer can carry out any routine mathematical operation involving up to ten digits. However, for our work we are interested in letters, not numbers. As we wish you to modify the output circuits,the machine will be printing words not columns of figures.' 'I dont quite understand…' This is a project on which we have been working for the last three centuries - since the lamasery was founded, in fact. It is somewhat alien to your way of thought, so I hope you will listen with an open mind while I explain it 'Naturally.' 'It is really quite simple.We have been compiling a list which shall contain all the possible names of God' "letters, not numbers"
LETTERS AND NUMBERS A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke,1972 The Nine Billion names of God Page 17 'Luckily, it will be a simple matter to adapt your Automatic Sequence Computer for this work, since once it has been programmed properly it will permute each letter in turn and print the result'
STARSEEKERS Colin Wilson 1980 THE AGE OF ABSTRACTION chapter 3 Page 63 "There is a simple trick involving numbers that can be guaranteed to produce astonishment at any party. You ask someone to write down his telephone number, then to write it a second time with the figures jumbled up. Next, tell him to subtract the smaller from the larger number, and keep on adding up the figures in the answer until he has reduced it to one figure. (5019 becomes 10, which in turn becomes 1 plus 0 - that is, 1.) When he has finished, you may tell him authoritatively: 'The answer is nine.' 9. I have no idea why this is so, and have never come across a mathematician who could explain it. It is just one of those peculiar properties of numbers.
THE MAGIKALALPHABET A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z The far yonder scribe again watched in some amaze the Zed Ali Zed, in swift repeat scatter the nine numbers amongst the letters of their progress. At the throw of the ninth arm when in conjunction set, the far yonder scribe made record of the fall
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MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN G.I Gurdjieff 1877-1949 Page 210 "'Did they not have map or compass?' every reader will doubtless ask .How not? We had them and even more than necessary, but in fact, it would be fortunate for travellers if these so-called maps of uninhabited regions did not exist. A map,'as my friend Yelov used to say, is called in a certain language by the word khormanoupka, which means 'wisdom', and 'wisdom' in that language is characterized as follows: 'Mental proof that. twice two makes seven and a half, minus three and a little bit of something'
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THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS 1964 Page 74 "16. On the Rampage. Pip. and off the Rampage. Pip; such is Life! 27 'Yes, I have a pair of eyes,' replied Sam, 'and that's just it, If they wos a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door; but bein' only eyes, you see my wision's limited,' Charles Dickens 1812-1870
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS Graham Hancock.1995 A Computer for Calculating the End of the World Page 169 (number omitted) Chapter 21 "The Maya knew where their advanced learning originated. It was handed down to them, they said, from the First Men, the creatures of Quetzalcoatl, whose names had been Balam-Quitze Oaguar with the Sweet Smile), Balam-Acab Oaguar of the Night), Mahucutah (The Distinguished Name) and Iqui-Balam Oaguar of the Moon).! According to the Popol Vuh, these forefathers: were endowed with intelligence; they saw and instantly they could see is in the world. The things hidden in the distance they saw without first having to move. . . Great was their wisdom; their sight reached to the forests, the rocks,. the lakes, the seas, the mountains, and the valleys. In truth, they were admirable men. . . They were able to know all, and they examined the four comers, the four points of the arch of the sky, and the round face of the earth.2 The achievements of this race aroused the envy of several of the most powerful deities. 'It is not well that our creatures should know all,' opined these gods, 'Must they perchance be the equals of ourselves, their Makers, who can see afar, who know all and see all? . . . Must they also be gods?,3 Obviously such a state of affairs could not be allowed to continue. After some deliberation an order was given and appropriate action taken: Page 170 Let their sight reach only to that which is near; let them see only a little of the face of the earth . . . Then the Heart of Heaven blew mist into their eyes which clouded their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. Their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close, only that was clear to them. . . In this way the wisdom and all the knowledge of the First Men were destroyed:4 Anyone familiar with the Old Testament will remember that the reason for the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden had to do with similar divine concerns. After the First Man had eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
ADAM AND EVE AND HEAVEN EVEN
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS Graham Hancock.1995 A Computer for Calculating the End of the World Page 170 "The Lord God said, 'Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever, [let us] send him forth from the Garden of Eden . . .'5 "
"Moreover, like so many of the other Old World" / "New World links we have identified, the character of the similarities is not suggestive of any kind of direct influence of one region on the other but of two different interpretations of the same set of events. Thus, for example: The biblical Garden of Eden looks like a metaphor for the state of blissful, almost 'godlike', knowledge that the 'First Men' of the Popol Vuh enjoyed. The essence of this knowledge was the ability to 'see all' and to 'know all'. Was this not precisely the ability Adam and Eve acquired after eating the forbidden fruit, which grew on the branches of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil'?" "Finally, just as Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden, so were the four First Men of the Popol V uh deprived of their ability to 'see far'. Thereafter 'their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close. . .' Both the Popol Vuh and Genesis therefore tell the story of mankind's fall from grace. In both cases, this state of grace was closely associated with knowledge, and the reader is left in no doubt that the knowledge / Page 171 /in question was so remarkable that it conferred goodlike powers on those who possessed it. The Bible, adopting a dark and muttering tone of voice, calls it 'the knowledge of good and evil' and has nothing further to add. The Popol Vuh is much more informative. It tells us that the knowledge of the First Men consisted of the ability to see 'things hidden in the distance', that they were astronomers who 'examined the four comers, the four points of the arch of the sky', and that they were geographers who succeeded in measuring 'the round face of the earth'! Geography is about maps. In Part I we saw evidence suggesting that the cartographers of an as yet unidentified civilization might have mapped the planet with great thoroughness at an early date. Could the Popol Vuh be transmitting some garbled memory of that same civilization when it speaks nostalgically of the First Men and of the miraculous geographical knowledge they possessed? Geography is about maps and astronomy is about stars. Very often the two disciplines go hand in hand because stars are essential for navigation on long sea-going voyages of discovery (and long sea-going voyages of discovery are essential for the production of accurate maps). Is it accidental that the First Men of the Popol Vuh were remembered not only for studying 'the round face of the earth' but for their contemplation of 'the arch of heaven'?8 And is it a coincidence that the outstanding achievement of Mayan society was its observational astronomy, upon which, through the medium of advanced mathematical calculations, was based a clever, complex, sophisticated and very accurate calendar?" Knowledge out of place In 1954 J. Eric Thompson, a leading authority on the archaeology of Central America, confessed to a deep sense of puzzlement at a number of glaring disparities he had identified between the generally unremarkable achievements of the Mayas, as a whole and the advanced state of their astro-calendrical knowledge, 'What mental quirks,' he asked, 'led the Maya intelligentsia to chart the heavens, yet / Page 172 / fail to grasp the principle of the wheel; to visualize eternity, as no other semi-civilized people has ever done, yet ignore the short step from corbelled to true arch; to count in millions, yet never to learn to weigh a sack of corn?'9 Perhaps the answer to these questions is much simpler than Thompson realized. Perhaps the astronomy, the deep understanding of time, and the long-tertn mathematical calculations, were not 'quirks' at all. Perhaps they were the constituent parts of a coherent but very specific body of knowledge that the Maya had inherited, more orless intact, from an older and wiser civilization. Such an inheritance would explain the contradictions observed by Thompson, and there is no need for any dispute on the point. We already know that the Maya received their calendar as a legacy from the 01mecs (a thousand years earlier, the Olmecs were using exactly the same system). The real question, should be, where did the Olmecs get it? What kind of level of technological and scientific development was required for a civilization to devise a calendar as good as this? Take the case of the solar year. In modem Western society we stilI make use of a solar calendar which was introduced in Europe in 1582 and is based on the best scientific knowledge then available: the famous Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar, which it replaced, computed the period of the earth's orbit around the sun at 365.25 days. Pope Gregory XIII's refortn substituted a finer and more accurate calculation: 365.2425 days. Thanks to scientific advances since 1582 we now know that the exact length of the solar year is 365.2422 days. The Gregorian calendar therefore incorporates a very small plus error, just 0.0003 of a day - pretty impressive accuracy for the sixteenth century. Strangely enough, though its origins are wrapped in the mists of antiquity far deeper than the sixteenth century, the Mayan calendar achieved even greater accuracy. It calculated the solar year at 365.2420 days, a minus error of only 0.0002 of a day.10 Similarly, the Maya knew the time taken by the moon to orbit the earth. Their estimate of this period was 29.528395 days - extremely close to the true figure of 29.530588 days computed by the finest modem methods. II The Mayan priests also had in their possession very accurate tables for the prediction of solar and lunar eclipses and / Page 173 / were aware that these could occur only within plus or minus eighteen days of tdays of the node (when the moon's path crosses the apparent path of the sun).12 Finally, the Maya were remarkably accomplished mathe-maticians. They possessed an advanced technique of metrical calculation by means of a chequerboard device we ourselves have only discovered (or rediscovered?) in the last century. 13 They also understood perfectly and used the abstract concept of zero14 and were acquainted with place numerations. These are esoteric fields. As Thompson observed, The cipher (nought) and place numerations are so much parts of our cultural heritage and seem such obvious conveniences that it is difficult to comprehend how their invention could have been long delayed. Yet neither ancient Greece with its great mathematicians, nor ancient Rome, had any inkling of either nought or place numeration." To write 1848 in Roman numerals requires eleven letters: MDCCCXLVIII. Yet the Maya had a system of place-value notation very much like our own at a time when the Romans were still using their clumsy method.15 Isn't it a bit odd that this otherwise unremarkable Central American tribe should, at such an early date, have stumbled upon an innovation which Otto Neugebauer, the historian of science, has described as 'one of the most fertile inventions of humanity'.16 Someone else's science? Let us now consider the question of Venus, a planet that was of immense symbolic importance to all the ancient peoples of Central America,. who identified it strongly with Quetzalcoatl (or Gucumatz or Kukulkan, as the Plumed Serpent was known in the Mayadialects). 17 Unlike the Ancient Greeks, but like the Ancient Egyptians, the Maya understood that Venus was both 'the morning star' and 'the evening star'.18 They understood other things about it as well. The 'synodical revolution' of a planet is the period of time it takes to return to any given point in the sky - as viewed from earth. Venus revolves around the sun every 224.7 days, while the earth follows its own slightly wider orbit. The composite result of these two motions is that / Page 174 / Venus rises in exactly the same place in the earth's sky approximately every 584 days. Whoever invented the sophisticated calendrical system inherited by the Maya had been aware of this and had found ingenious ways to integrate it with other interlocking cycles. Moreover, it is cleanrom the mathematics which brought these cycles together that the ancieat calendar masters had understood that 584 days was only an approximation and that the movements of Venus are by no means - regular. They had therefore worked out the exact figure established by today's science for the average synodical revolution of Venus over very long periods of time.19 That figure is 583.92 days and it was knitted into the fabric of the Mayan calendar in numerous intricate and complex ways.20 For example, to reconcile it with the so-called 'sacred year' (the tzolkin of 260 days, which was divided into 13 months of 20 days each) the calendar called for a correction of four days to be made every 61 Venus years. In addition, during every fifth cycle, a correction of eight days was made at the end of the 57th revolution. Once these steps were taken, the tzolkin and the synodical revolution of Venus were intermeshed so tightly that the degree. of error to which the equation was subject was staggeringly small - one day in 6000 years21 And what made this all the more remarkable .was that a further series of precisely calculated adjustments kept. the Venus cycle and the tzolkin not only in harmony with each other but in exact relationship with the solar year; Again this was achieved in a manner which ensured that the calendar was capable of doing its job, virtually error-free, over vast expanses of time.22 Why did the 'semi-civilized' Maya need this kind of high-tech precision? Or did they inherit, in good working order, a calendar engineered to fit the needs of a much earlier and far more advanced civilization? Consider the crowning jewel of Maya calendrics, the so-called 'Long Count'. This system of calculating dates also expressed beliefs about the past.- notably, the widely held belief that time operated in Great Cycles which witnessed recurrent creations and destructions of the world. According to the Maya, the current Great Cycle be in darkness on 4 Ahau8 Cumku, a date corresponding to 13 August 3114 BC in our own calendar.23 As we have seen, it was also believed that the / Page 175 / cycle will come to an end, amid global destruction, on 4 Ahau 3 Kankin: 23 December AD 2012 in our calendar. The function of the Long Count was to record the elapse of time since the beginning of the current Great Cycle, literally to count off, one by one, the 5125 years allotted to our present creation.24 The Long Count is perhaps best envisaged as a sort of celestial adding machine, constantly calculating and recalculating the scale of our growing debt to the universe. Every last penny of that debt is going to be called in when the figure on the meter reads 5125 So at any rate thought the Maya "Calculations on the Long Count computer were not, of course, done in our numbers. The Maya used their own notation, which they had derived from the Olmecs, who had derived it from . . . nobody knows. This notation was a combination of dots (signifyingones or units or multiples of twenty), bars (signifying fives or multiples of five times twenty), and a shell glyph signifying zero. Spans of time were counted by days (kin), periods of twenty days (uinal), 'computing years' of 360 days (tun), periods of 20 tuns (known as katun), and periods of 20 katuns (known as bactun). There were also 8000-tun periods (pictun) and 160,000 tun periods (calabtun) to mop up even larger calculations.25 All this should make clear that although the Maya believed themselves to be living in one Great Cycle that would surely come to a violent end they also knew that time was infinite and that it proceeded with its mysterious revolutions regardless of individual lives or civilizations. As Thompson summed up in his great study on the subject: In. the Maya scheme the road over which time had marched stretched into a past so distant that the mind of man cannot comprehend its remoteness. Yet the Maya undauntedly retrod that road seeking its starting point. A fresh view, leading further backward, unfolded at every stage; the mellowed centuries blended into millennia, and they into tens of thousands of years, as those tireless inquirers explored deeper and still deeper into the eternity of the past. On a stela at Quiriga in Guatemala a date over 90 million years ago is computed; on another a date over 300 million years before that is given. These are actual computations, stating correctly day and month positions, and are comparable to calculations in our calendar giving the month / Page 176 / positions on which Easter would have fallen at equivalent distances in the past. The brain reels at such astronomical figures. . .26 Isn't all this a bit avant-garde for a civilization that didn't otherwise distinguish itself in many ways? It's true that Mayan architecture was good within its limits. But there was precious little else that these jungle-dwelling Indians did which suggested they might have had the capacity (or the need) to conceive of really long periods of time. It's been a good deal less than two centuries since the majority of Western intellectuals abandoned Bishop Usher's opinion that the world was created in 4004 BC and accepted that it must be infinitely older that that27 In plain English this means that the ancient Maya had a far more accurate understanding of the true immensity of geological time, and of the vast antiquity of our planet, than did anyone in Britain, Europe or North America until Darwin pro-pounded the theory of evolution. So how come the Maya got handy with big periods like hundreds of millions of years? Was it a freak of cultural development? Or did they inherit the calendrical and mathematical tools which facilitated, and enabled them to develop, this sophisticated understanding? If an inheritance was involved, it is legimate to ask what the original inventors of the Mayan calendar's computerlike circuitry had intended it to do. What had they designed it for? Had they simply conceived of all its complexities to concoct 'a challenge to the intellect, a sort of tremendous anagram', as one authority claimed?28 Or could they have had a more pragmatic and important objective in mind? We have seen that the obsessive concern of Mayan society, and ndeed of all the ancient cultures of Central America, was with calculating - and if possible postponing - the end of the world. Could this be the purpose the mysterious calendar was designed to fulfil? Could it have been a mechanism for predicting some terrible cosmic or geological catastrophe?" Page 176 "Had they simply conceived of all its complexities to concoct 'a challenge to the intellect, a sort of tremendous anagram', as one authority claimed?28 Or could they have had a more pragmatic and important objective in mind?" "This system of calculating dates also expressed the belief that time operated in Great Cycles which witnessed recurrent creations and destructions of the world" Page177 Chapter 22 City of the Gods "The overwhelming message of a large number of Central American legends is that the Fourth Age of the world ended very badly. A catastrophic deluge was followed by a long period during which the light of the sun vanished from the sky and the air was filled with a tenebrous darkness. Then: The gods gathered together at Teotihuacan ['the place of the gods'] and wondered anxiously who was to be the next Sun. Only the sacred fire [the material representation of Huehueteotl, the god who gave life its beginning] could be seen in the darkness, still quaking following the recent chaos. 'Someone will have to sacrifice himself, throw himself into the fire,' they cried, 'only then will there be a Sun.'1 A drama ensued in which two deities (Nanahuatzin and Tecciztecatl) immolated themselves for the common good. One burned quickly in the centre of the sacred fire; the other roasted slowly on the embers at its edge 'The gods waited for a long time until eventually the sky started to glow red as at dawn. In the east appeared the great sphere of the sun, life-giving and incandescent. . .'2 It was at this moment of cosmic rebirth that Quetzalcoatl manifested himself. His mission was with humanity of the Fifth Age. He therefore took the form of a human being - a bearded white man, just like Viracocha. In the Andes, Viracocha's capital was Tiahuanaco. In Central / Page 178 / America, Quetzalcoatl's was the supposed birth-place of the Fifth Sun Teotihuacan.the city of the gods3 "
RAINBOW COVENANT
+ = 351 = + 9 + = 126 = + 9 ADD TO REDUCE REDUCE TO DEDUCE ESSENCE OF NUMBER
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FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS Graham Hancock.1995 Chapter 44 Page 411 Gods of the First Time According to Heliopolitan theology, the nine original gods who appeared in Egypt in the First Time were Ra, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Nepthys and Set. The offspring of these deities included well-known figures such as Horus and Anubis. In addition, other companies of gods were recognized, notably at Memphis and Hermopolis, where there were important and very ancient cults dedicated to Ptah and to Thoth.1 These First Time deities were all in one sense or another gods of creation who had given shape to chaos through their divine will. Out of that chaos they formed and populated the sacred land of Egypt,2 wherein, for many thousands of years, they ruled among men as divine pharaohs! What was 'chaos'? The Heliopolitan priests who spoke to the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus in the first century DC put forward the thought-provoking suggestion that 'chaos' was a flood - identified by Diodorus with the earth-destroying flood of Deucalion, the Greek Noah figure:4 In general, they say that if in the flood which occurred in the time of Deucalion most living things were destroyed, it is probable that the inhabitants of southern Egypt survived rather than any others. . . Or if, as some maintain, the destruction of living things was complete and the earth then brought forth again new forms of animals, nevertheless, even on such a supposition, the first genesis of living things fittingly attaches to this country. . . 5"
ILLUMINATUS THE EYE IN THE PYRAMID Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson 1975 "It is the Sacred Chao, symbol of Mummu, God of Chaos" "Now, O nobly born, as you prepare for Total Awakening, turn your eyes to the left, yang side of the Sacred Chao" Let their sight reach only to that which is near; let them see only a little of the face of the earth . . . Then the Heart of Heaven blew mist into their eyes which clouded their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. Their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close, only that was clear to them. . . In this way the wisdom and all the knowledge of the First Men were destroyed: Anyone familiar with the Old Testament will remember that the reason for the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden !tad to do with similar divine concerns. After the First Man had eaten :If the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, The Lord God said, 'Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever, [let us] send him forth from the Garden of Eden . . .'5 The Popol Vuh is accepted by scholars as a great reservoir of uncontaminated, pre-Colombian tradition.6 It is therefore puzzling to find such similarities between these traditions and those recorded in the Genesis story. Moreover, like so many of the other Old World / New World links we have identified, the character of the similarities is not suggestive of any kind of direct influence of one region on the other but of two different interpretations of the same set of events. Thus, for example: The biblical Garden of Eden looks like a metaphor for the state of blissful, almost 'godlike', knowledge that the 'First Men' of the Popol Vuh enjoyed. The essence of this knowledge was the ability to 'see all' and to 'know all'. Was this not precisely the ability Adam and Eve acquired after eating the forbidden fruit, which grew on the branches of' the tree of the knowledge of good and evil'? Finally, just as Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden, so were the four First Men of the Popol Vuh deprived of their ability to see far. Thereafter 'their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close. . .' Both the Popol Vuh and Genesis therefore tell the story of mankind's fall from grace. In both cases, this state of grace was closely associated with knowledge, and the reader is left in no doubt that the knowledge . . .
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS Graham Hancock 1995 Page 170 "The Lord God said, 'Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil"
GOD SAID GO DO GOOD AND LIVE
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS Graham Hancock 1995 Page174 "Consider the crowning jewel of Maya calendrics, the so - called 'Long Count'.
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke,1972 Page15 'This is a slightly unusual request,'said Dr Wagner, with what he hoped was commendable restraints.' As far as I know,it's the first time anyone's been asked to supply a Tibetan monastery with an Automatic Sequence Computer. 'Gladly,' replied the lama, readjusting his silk robes and carefully putting away the slide rule he had been using for currency conversions. 'Your Mark V Computer can carry out any routine mathematical operation involving up to ten digits. However, for our work we are interested in letters, not numbers. As we wish you to modify the output circuits,the machine will be printing words not columns of figures.' 'I dont quite understand…' This is a project on which we have been working for the last three centuries - since the lamasery was founded, in fact. It is somewhat alien to your way of thought, so I hope you will listen with an open mind while I explain it 'Naturally.' 'It is really quite simple.We have been compiling a list which shall contain all the possible names of God' 'We have reason to believe' continued the lama imper-turbably, ' that all such names can be written with not more than nine letters in an alphabet we have devised,' Page16 'We have reason to believe' continued the lama imper-turbably, nine letters in an alphabet we have devised,' This is a project on which we have been working for the last three centuries - since the lamasery was founded, in fact. It is somewhat alien to your way of thought, so I hope you will listen with an open mind while I explain it 'Naturally.' 'It is really quite simple.We have been compiling a list which shall contain all the possible names of God'
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke,1972 Page 16 'Call it ritual, if you like, but it's a fundamental part of our belief. All the many names of Supreme Being - God , Jehova , Allah, and so on - they are only man made labels. There is a philosophical problem of some difficulty here, which I do not propose to discuss, but somewhere among all the possible combinations of letters that can occur are what one may calL the real names of God. By systematic per-mutation of letters, we have been trying to list them all' 'I see. You've been starting at AAAAAAA… and work-ing up to ZZZZZZZZ …' 'Exactly - though we use a special alphabet of our own
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THE HOLY BIBLE Scofield Reference ISAIAH Chapter 2. "The promise for the last days." THE word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to .pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the GOD of JACOB and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of ZION shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from JERUSALEM. 4. And he shall judge among the inations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninig hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. O house of JACOB come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Jacob - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob Before the birth of Benjamin, Jacob is renamed "Israel" by an angel (Genesis 32:28-29 and 35:10). The name "Israel" can be translated as "God contended", but ... Historicity - Jacob in Genesis - Religious perspectives - References Jacob From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Honored in Major shrine Influences Influenced Jacob ( /ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב Standard Yaʿakov, Tiberian Yaʿăqōḇ (help·info); Septuagint Greek: Ἰακώβ Iakōb; Arabic: يَعْقُوب Yaʿqūb; "heel" or "leg-puller"), also later known as Israel (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל, Standard Yisraʾel, Tiberian Yiśrāʾēl, "persevere with God"[1]; Septuagint Greek: Ἰσραήλ Israēl; Arabic: إِسْرَائِيل Isrāʼīl), as described in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the New Testament and the Qur'an was the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants.
What is the difference between Jacob and Israel? - Liberty Gospel ... www.libertygospeltracts.com/question/prequest/jacbname.htm This answer explains the change of Jacob's name to Israel. In Gen. 32:28 the name Jacob was changed to Israel. Why is it that from time to time in the scripture there is reference to both names, e.g. Num 23:23. What is therefore the difference between Jacob and Israel? Genesis 32:28 says, "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." Numbers 23:23 says, "Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!" The name Jacob means "supplanter." Supplanter means, "to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery" (Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary). Genesis 27:33-36 is a good example of that, and even brings up the meaning of Jacob's name: "And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed. And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. And he said, Thy brother came with subtlety, and hath taken away thy blessing. And he said, IS NOT HE RIGHTLY NAMED JACOB? FOR HE HATH SUPPLANTED ME THESE TWO TIMES: HE TOOK AWAY MY BIRTHRIGHT; AND, BEHOLD, NOW HE HATH TAKEN AWAY MY BLESSING. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?" The name Israel means "prince with God, or, power with God." Once again, Genesis 32:28 says, "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." Why are the two names used in Numbers 23:23? ("Surely there is no enchantment against JACOB, neither is there any divination against ISRAEL: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!"). The two different names of Jacob are used here, because of the words used in respect to each name. Look at the verse again: "Surely there is no ENCHANTMENT AGAINST JACOB, neither is there any DIVINATION AGAINST ISRAEL…” The word enchantment is used with the name Jacob, and it means, "the act of producing certain wonderful effects by the invocation or aid of demons" (Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary). That would be something evil or wrong in nature — which is fitting with the word Jacob, which means, "to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery" (Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary). But that word would not be fitting at all with the meaning of the name Israel, which means, "prince with God or power with God." So the word divination was used in regard to that name, which means, "the art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge (usually by the aid of supernatural powers)" (Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary). That meaning could be applied to seeking wisdom from God.
..... Search Results Islamic Research Foundation - Meaning of ALIF LAAM MEEM www.irf.net/index.php?option=com_content... Surah Al-Shura chapter 42 has a double combination of abbreviated letters ... 4. Miraculous quality of Qur'an mentioned immediately after these broken letters ...
The External form of the Quran: Chapter 4, Bell's Introduction to the ... www.truthnet.org/islam/Watt/Chapter4.html Chapter 3. The History of the Text Chapter 4. The external form of the Quran .... At the beginning of 29 suras following the bismillah bismillåh stands a letter, or a ...
Why do certain Surahs in the Qur'an begin with Alif Laam Meem ... www.tamilislam.com/ENGLISH/misunderstand/faq7.htm Surah Al-Shura chapter 42 has a double combination of abbreviated letters ... 4. Miraculous quality of Qur'an mentioned immediately after these broken letters ...
Rules for Recitating the Quran www.islamicstudent.net/recite.htm Most audio examples below are from the last ten chapters of the Qur'an (Chapters .... The rule of Idgham, meaning to merge, states that if one of the four letters ...
The Mathematical Miracle of the Quran www.ya-hussain.com/int_col1/int_coll_net/math_quran.html The first revelation of the Quran was the first five verses of chapter 96, Al-'Alaq. These five verses consist of 19 words and 76 letters. 76 = 19 x 4 Chapter 96 is the ...
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Muqatta'at - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqatta'at Muqatta'at (Arabic: مقطعات) are unique letter combinations that appear in the beginning of 29 suras (chapters) of the Qur'an. ... alphabet, exactly one half appear as muqatta'at, either singly or in combinations of two, three, four or five letters.
Dal nurmuhammad.com/IlmHuroof/.../Dalilmhuroofabjad.html Ilm Huroof |Muqataat Letters of Quran | Abjad Table | Sufi Letters & Numbers ..... at Chapter 8 in the Quran and pick verse 4 for the numerical value of the letter ...
Toin The Arabic Letter www.meem40.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Toin.html
Miracle of the Quran - Quran-Islam.org - True Islam www.quran-islam.org/main.../miracle_of_the_quran_(P1313).html Quran Miracle of the Quran The Miracle of the Quran This is a reminder for the people. Absolutely, (I swear) by the moon. And the night as it passes. And the morning as it shines. This is one of the great miracles. A warning to the human race. For those among you who wish to advance, or regress." 74:30-37 It was found out that the verses, words, letters and all parameters of the original scripture were coded by means of the prime number 19. The complexity and amazing intricacy of this deliberate structure made it apparent that the phenomenon was superhuman. The discovery of the miracle established two prime matters: 1- The mathematical structure of the book cannot be duplicated today with the aid of a computer, let alone by a man living in the desert 1400 years ago. This confirms that the book was not written by any human, but is the true word of God. The miracle of the Quran was discovered by Dr. Rashad Khalifa in fulfilment of the prophecy contained in the Quran: "God took a covenant from the prophets, saying, "I will give you the scripture and wisdom. Afterwards, a messenger will come to confirm existing scriptures. You shall believe in him and support him. He said, "Do you agree with this, and pledge to fulfill this covenant?" They said, "We agree." He said, "You have thus borne witness, and I bear witness along with you." 3:81 Note that all the above numbers are multiples of 19. Consequently, and being given such conditions, you will then try to write this hypothetical book, carefully counting and keeping track of those letters and the number of sentences in order to conform with the specifications given to you. As you conform to these specifications, you must also write down words and sentences that make sense. If you spend sufficient time, you should be able to come up with a book which satisfies the above conditions. The Discovery For many centuries, Muslim scholars have been trying to understand the significance of 14 letters that are placed at the beginning of 29 chapters (called Sura's in Arabic) of the Quran. These letters of the Arabic alphabet which are placed in two's, three's and larger combinations baffled the scholars. Many came up with some explanation or another, but no one had any concrete or verified explanation. Finally, an Egyptian scientist and computer expert named Dr. Rashad Khalifa entered the Quran into a computer in an attempt to search for any design that could account for these letters. The result of his extensive research was the discovery of an intricate mathematical system which pervades the whole Quran and governs all its parameters. This design is so extensive that Dr. Khalifa only discovered the tip of the iceberg. Till this our very day, new discoveries are being unveiled all the time. Some of the features of the pattern are simple and easy for any person without any mathematical skills to see. Equally, some of the aspects of this design require a higher degree of mathematical skills. The Design 1- There are 114 chapters in the Quran, 114 = 19 x 6. 2- The total number of verses in the Quran is 6346 = 19 x 334. 3- There are 30 different numbers mentioned in the Quran (i.e. 1 God, 2 brothers, 7 heavens ... etc.), If we add the 30 numbers we get a total of 162146 = 19 x 8534. 4- The first statement in Quran, "In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful" consists of 19 Arabic letters. Known as the `Basmalah', it prefaces every chapter except Chapter 9. 5- Though missing from Chapter 9, exactly 19 chapters later the Basmalah occurs twice. Chapter 27 has this statement at its beginning and also in verse 30. This makes the total number of times the Basmalah occurs in the Quran 114 = 19 x 6. 6- Since there are 19 chapters between the missing Basmalah and the extra one, the sum of those chapter numbers is a multiple of 19. (The sum of any 19 consecutive numbers is a multiple of 19.) But the total, 342, is also the exact number of words between the two occurrences of the Basmalah in Chapter 27, 342 = 19 x 18. 7- If we look at the four words of the Basmalah separately, and they are 1- Ism 2- Allah 3- Al-Rahman 4- Al-Raheem, we find that each word occurs in the whole Quran in a number that is a multiple of 19. 8- The very first revelation that was given to prophet Muhammed consisted of 19 words. 9- The total number of letters making up the 19 words of the first revelation is 76 = 19 x 4. 10- Though they were the first revelation, these verses are placed at the beginning of Chapter 96. This chapter is atop the last 19 chapters. 11- Chapter 96 consists of 304 Arabic letters = 19 x 16. 12- The last chapter revealed (Chapter 110) has 19 words, and its first verse is 19 letters. 13- God's name in Arabic, `Allah,' occurs in the Quran 2698 times = 19 x 142. 14- If you add the numbers of the verses where `Allah' occurs, the total is 118123 = 19 x 6217. 15- The main message in the Quran is that there is only 'One' God. The number of times the word 'One' is used to refer to this concept of One God is 19. 16- The word `Quran' occurs in 38 different chapters = 19 x 2. 17- The word "Quran" occurs in the Quran 58 times, with one of them, in 10:15, referring to "another quran". This particular occurrence, therefore, must be excluded. Thus, the frequency of the occurrence of God's "Quran" is 57 = 19 x 3. 19- In this same group of chapters, from Chapter 2 to Chapter 68, there are 19 alternating sets of initialed and non-initialed chapters. 20- The total number of verses making up this group of chapters is 5263 = 19 x 277. 21- Within this group of chapters there are also 2641 occurrences of the word `Allah' = 19 x 139. Of course, that leaves 57 = 19 x 4, occurrences of that word outside of this group. 22- If you add the chapter and verse numbers of the 57 occurrences of `Allah' outside the initialed section, the total is 2432 = 19 x 128. 23- There has been a large number of discoveries related to the numbers of the chapters and verses. Many of them are very complex and interrelated. One of the simpler examples is: If we add the numbers assigned to all the chapters, plus the numbers assigned to all of the verses, plus the number of verses in the Quran, the total is 346199 = 19 x 19 x 959. 24- If we look at the initialed chapters separately and add the chapter numbers, verse numbers and number of verses, the total is 190133 = 19 x 10007. Of course it follows that the total for the uninitialed chapters, 156066, is also divisible by 19. These are only a few features of the pattern of the Quran. As said before, there are a great many more features, most of them more complex than the ones presented above. Additional discoveries continue to be made as Dr. Khalifa's work is continued by the believers. The following extract is taken form Dr. Khalifa's appendix 1 in his translation of the Quran: Historical Background "When God alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter shrink with aversion. But when others are mentioned beside Him, they rejoice." 39:45 Yusuf Ali omitted the crucial word "alone" from his translation, and altered the rest of the verse by inserting the word "(gods)." Thus, he utterly destroyed this most important Quranic criterion. He translated 39:45 as follows: "When God, the One and Only, is mentioned, the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter are filled with disgust and horror; but when (gods) other than He are mentioned, behold, they are filled with joy." [39:45] (according to A. Yusuf Ali) The expression "When God, the One and Only, is mentioned" is not the same as saying, "When God alone is mentioned." One can mention "God, the One and Only," and also mention Muhammad or Jesus, and no one will be upset. But if "God alone is mentioned" you cannot mention anyone else, and a lot of people - those who idolize Muhammad or Jesus - will be upset. Thus, Yusuf Ali could not bring himself to present the truth of the Quran, if it exposed his corrupted belief. Marmaduke Pickthall translated "alone" correctly, but destroyed the criterion by inserting his personal belief in parentheses; he translated 39:45 as follows: "And when Allah alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter are repelled, and when those (whom they worship) beside Him are mentioned, behold! they are glad." [39:45] (according to Marmaduke Pickthal) When I saw the truth of God's word thus distorted, I decided to translate the Quran, at least for the benefit of my own children. Since I was a chemist by profession, and despite my extensive religious background - my father was a renowned Sufi leader in Egypt - I vowed to God that I would not move from one verse to the next unless I fully understood it. I purchased all the available books of Quranic translations and exegeses (Tafseer) I could find, placed them on a large table, and began my translation. The first sura, The Key, was completed in a few days. The first verse in Sura 2 is "A.L.M." The translation of this verse took four years, and coincided with the divine unveiling of "the secret," the great mathematical Miracle of the Quran. The books of Quranic exegeses unanimously agreed that "no one knows the meaning or significance of the Quranic Initials A.L.M., or any other initials." I decided to write the Quran into the computer, analyze the whole text, and see if there were any mathematical correlations among these Quranic initials. I used a time-share terminal, connected by telephone to a giant computer. To test my hypothesis, I decided to look at the single - lettered Quranic Initials -"Q" (Qaaf) of Suras 42 and 50, "S" (Saad) of Suras 7, 19, and 38, and "N" (Noon) of Sura 68. As detailed in my first book "Miracle of the Quran: Significance of the mysterious alphabets" (Islamic Productions, 1973), many previous attempts to unravel the mystery had failed. Quranic Initials As mentioned before, and despite the numerous efforts to find the significance of the Quran Initials, the secret remained hidden till the year 1974 when the discovery occurred. Now, and looking back, it is plain to see that these initials contained some signs from God. After all, and in many Sura's that start with initialed letters, we read the following words immediately after the initials "These (letters) are the proof of the book". The first initial to be examined by Dr. Khlalifa was the letter 'Q' (Qaaf). The Initial `Q.' (Qaaf) The fact that both Q-initialed chapters contain exactly 57 Q's is quite remarkable because the first of them (Chapter 42) is more than twice as long as the second (Chapter 50). There is another remarkable phenomenon in the sum of the number of each chapter with the number of verses in that chapter. Chapter 42 has 53 verses; 42 plus 53 = 95 = 19 x 5. If we look at the other Q-initialed chapter, 50, it has 45 verses; 50 plus 45 is also 95. The Initial `N.' (Noon) (Noon) This initial prefixes only one chapter, number 68. The total number of occurrences of N in this chapter is 133 = 19 x 7. The Initial `Š.' (Saad) Š prefixes three different chapters, 7, 19 and 38. The total occurrences of Š in these three chapters taken together is 152 = 19 x 8. Most of the time the initials occur together in sets. The Initials `Y.S.' (Ya Seen) These two initials are found at the beginning of Chapter 36. The number of times that these two letters appear in this chapter is 285 = 19 x 15. The Initials `H.M.' (Haa Meem) This set of initials is found initializing the seven consecutive chapters 40 through 46. The total occurrence of these two in all of these chapters is 2147 = 19 x 113. The Initials `Á.S.Q.' (Ayn Seen Qaf) Chapter 42 is the only chapter with a set of initials (H.M.) in the first verse and another (Á.S.Q.) in verse two. The number of times the letters of this second set of initials are in Chapter 42 is 209 = 19 x 11. The Initials `Á.L.M.' (Alef Lam Meem) This set of initials is found in six Sura's. The Sura numbers are 2-3-29-30-31-32. The total occurrances of the three initials in each of the six Suras is a multiple of 19. Sura 2, total of A + L + M = 9899 (19x521) Sura 3 = 5662 (19x298) Sura 29 = 1672 (19x88) Sura 30 = 1254 (19x66) Sura 31 = 817 (19x43) Sura 32 = 570 (19x30) The Initials `Á.L.R.' (Alef Lam Ra) This set of initials is found in five Sura's. The Sura numbers are 10-11-12-14-15. The total occurrances of the three initials in each of the six Suras is a multiple of 19. Sura 10, total of A + L + R = 2489 (19 x 131) Sura 11 = 2489 (19 x 131) Sura 12 = 2375 (19 x 125) Sura 14 = 1197 (19 x 63) Sura 15 = 912 (19 x 48) --------------------- From this short presentation, it is easy to see that the substitution or removal of any word containing one of the initials in an initialed chapter would break the code in that chapter. As the initials become more complex, the difficulty of writing readable and meaningful sentences increases. In some cases the only way that the code could have been written into the Quran was for the language to have been invented around it! The patterns exhibited in the initialed chapters, in addition to the simpler parameters discussed earlier, make an awesome network of coding which pervades the very fabric of the Quran. All this clearly required divine control. Why 19! [2] It encompasses the first numeral (1) and the last numeral (9), and thus proclaims God's attribute in 57:3 as the "Alpha and the Omega." [4] It possesses many peculiar mathematical properties. For example, 19 is the sum of the first powers of 9 and 10, and the difference between the second powers of 9 and 10. Historical Note The momentous discovery that "19" is the Quran's common denominator became a reality in January 1974, coinciding with Zul-Hijjah 1393 A.H. The Quran was revealed in 13 B.H. (Before Hijrah). This makes the number of years from the revelation of the Quran to the unveiling of its miracle 1393 + 13 = 1406 = 19 x 74. As noted above, the unveiling of the Miracle took place in January 1974. The correlation between 19 x 74 lunar years and 1974 solar years could not escape notice. This is especially uncanny in view of the fact that "19" is mentioned in Sura 74. _ _ _ _ _ These are the simple features of the miracle as unveiled with God's Will through Dr. Rashad Khalifa. In his 'appendix 1', Dr. Khalifa presented many more features of this awesome miracle. It must also be said that the miracle of the Quran is so intricate and comprehensive that new discoveries are being unveiled every day. The complete 'appendix 1' can be seen at: Appendix One
WHY SMASH ATOMS A.K.SOLOMON 1940 page 74 Chapter 9 ATOM SMASHERS 2 - VAN DE GRAF GENERATOR "THE DEMONSTRATION WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE ACTION OF THE GENERATOR DEPENDED ON A PRICIPLE SUPPOSEDLY FAMILIAR TO THE FRESHMAN CLASS. IT IS POSSIBLE TO SPRAY ELECTRIC CHARGE ONTO A MOVING BELT AND LATER TO REMOVE THAT CHARGE FROM THE BELT AT SOME FURTHER POINT IN ITS TRAVEL"
WHY SMASH ATOMS A.K.SOLOMON 1940 page 77 Chapter 9 "Once the fairy tale hero has penetrated the ring of fire round THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN he is free to woo the heroine in her castle on the mountain top."
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875 - 1955 Page 724 !Now what is there that I can say about the book itself, and the best way to read it? I shall begin with a very arrogant request that it be read not once but twice. A request not to be heeded, of course, if one has been bored at the first reading. A work of art must not be a task or an effort; it must not be undertaken against one's will. It is meant to give pleasure, to entertain and enliven. If it does not have this effect on a reader, he must put it down and tum to something else. But if you have read The Magic Mountain once, I recommend that you read it twice. The way in which the book is composed results in the reader's getting a deeper enjoyment from the second reading. Just as in music one needs to know a piece to enjoy it properly, I intentionally used the word "composed" in referring to the writing of a book. I mean it in the sense we more commonly apply to the writing of music. For music has always had a strong formative influence upon the style of my writing. Writers are very often "really" / Page 725 / something else; they are transplanted painters or sculptors or architects or what not. To me the novel was always like a sym- phony, a work in counterpoint, a thematic fabric; the idea of dle musical motif plays a great role in it. People have pointed out the influence of Wagner's music on my work. Certainly I do not disclaim this influence. In particular, I followed Wagner in the use of the leitmotiv, which I carried over into the work of language. Not as Tolstoy and Zola use it, or as I used it myself in Buddenbrooks, naturalistically and as a means of characterization - so to speak, mechanically. I sought to employ it in its musical sense. My first attempts were in Tanio Kroger. But the technique I there employed is in The Magic Mountain greatly expanded; it is used in a very much more com - plicated and all-pervasive way. That is why I. make my presump- tuous plea to my readers to read the book tWIce. Only so can one really penetrate and enjoy its musical association of ideas. The first time, the reader learns the thematic material; he is then in a position to read the symbolic and allusive formulas both forwards and backwards. I return to something I spoke of before: the mystery of the time element, dealt with in various ways in the book. It is in a double sense a time-romance. First in a historical sense, in that it seeks to present the inner significance of an epoch, the pre-war period of European history. And secondly, because time is one of its themes: time, dealt with not only as a part of the hero's experience, but also in and through itself. The book itself is the substance of that which it relates: it depicts the hermetic enchant- ment of its young hero within the timeless, and thus seeks to abrogate time itself by means of the technical device that attempts to give complete pr::sentness at any given moment to the entire world of ideas that it comprises. It tries, in other words, to estab- lish a magical nunc stans, to use a formula of the scholastics. It pretends to give perfect consistency to content and form, to the apparent and the essential; its aim is always and consistently to be that of which it speaks. But its pretensions are even more far-reaching, for the book deals with yet another fundamental theme, that of .. heightening," enhancement (Steigerung). This Steigerung is always referred to as.alchemistic. You will rel1~ember that my Hans is rea~ly a simpleple- minded hero, the young scion of good Hamburg society, and an indifferent engineer. But in the hermetic, feverish atmosphere of the enchanted mountain, the ordinary stuff of which he is made undergoes a heightening process that makes him capable of ad- / Page 726 / ventures in sensual, moral, intellectual spheres he would never have dreamed of in the "flatland." His story is the story of a heightening process, but also as a narrative it is the heightening process itself. It employs the methods of the realistic novel, but actually it is not one. It passes beyond realism by means of sym- bolism and makes realism a vehicle for intellectual and ideal ele-ments. All the characters suffer this same process; they appear to the reader as something more than themselves - in effect they are nothing but exponents, representatives, emissaries from worlds, principalities, domains of the spirit. I hope this does not mean that they are mere shadow figures and walking parables. And I have been reassured on this score; for many readers have told me that they have found Joachim, Claudia Chauchat, Peeperkorn, Settembrini, very real people indeed. THE book, then, both spatially and intellectually, outgrew the limits its author had set. The short story became a thumping two- volume novcl- a misfortune that would not have happened if The Magic Mountain had remained, as many people even today still see it, a satire on life in a sanatorium for tubercular patients. When it appeared, it made a stir in professional circles, partly of approval, partly of the opposite, and there was a little tempest in the medical journals. But the critique of sanatorium therapeutic methods is only the foreground of the novel. Its actuality lies in the quality of its backgrounds. Settembrini, the rhetorical ration-alist and humanist, remains the protagonist of the protest against the moral perils of the Liegekur and the entire unwholesome milieu. He is but one figure among many, however - a sympa- thetic figure, indeed, with a humorous side; sometimes a mouth- piece for the author, but by no means the author himself. For the author, sickness and death, and all the macabre adventures his hero passes through, are just the pedagogic instrument used to accomplish the enormous heightening and enhancement of the simple hero to a point far beyond his original competence. And precisely as a pedagogic method they are extensively justified; for even Hans Castorp in the course of his experiences, overcomes his inborn attraction to death and arrives at an understanding of a humanity that does not, indeed, rationalistically ignore death, nor scorn the dark, mysterious side of life, but takes account of it, without letting it get control over his mind. What he comes to understand is that one must go through the deep experience of sickness and death to arrive at a higher sanity / Page 727 / and health; in just the same way that one must have a knowledge of sin in order to find redemption. "There are," Hans Castorp once says, "two ways to life: one is the regular, direct and good way; the other is bad, it leads through death, and that is the way of genius." It is this notion of disease and death as a necessary route to knowledge, health, and life that makes The Magic Moun- tain a novel of initiation. That description is not original with me. I got it recently from a critic and make use of it in discussing The Magic Mountain be- cause I have been much helped by foreign criticism and I consider it a mistake to think that the author himself is the best judge of his work. He may be that while he is still at work on it and living in it. But once done, it tends to be something he has got rid of, something foreign to him; others, as time goes on, will know more and better about it than he. They can often remind him of things in it he has forgotten or indeed never quite knew. One always needs to be reminded; one is by no means always in pos- session of one's whole self. Our consciousness is feeble; only in moments of unusual clarity and vision do we really know about ourselves. As for me, I am glad to be instructed by critics about myself, to learn from them about my past works a?d go back to them in my mind. My regular formula of thanks for such refresh- ment of my consciousness is: "I am most gratYul to you for hav- ing so kindly recalled me to myself." I am sure I wrote that to Professor Hermann Weigand of Yale University when he sent me his book on The Magic Mountain, the most fundamental and com- prehensive critical treatment the work has received. I read a manuscript by a young scholar of Harvard University, Howard Nemerov, called "The Quester Hero. Myth as Universal Symbol in the Works of Thomas Mann," and it considerably re- freshed my memory and my consciousness of myself. The author places The Magic Mountam and its simple hero in the line of a great tradition that is not only German but universal. He classifies it as an art that he calls ,. The Quester Legend," which reaches very far back in tradition and folklore. Faust is of course the most famous German representative of the form, but behind Faust, the eternal seeker, is a grou tof compositions generally known as the Sangraal or Holy Grai romances. Their hero, be it Gawain or Galahad or Perceval, is the seeker, the quester, who ranges heaven and hell, makes terms with them, and strikes a pact with the un- known, with sickness and evil, with death and the other world, with the supernatural, the world that in The Magic Mountain is called ., questionable." He is forever searching for the Grail- / Page 728 / that is to say, the Highest: knowledge, wisdom, consecration, the philosophers' stone, the aurum potabile, the elixir of life. The writer declares that Hans Castorp is one of these seekers. Perhaps he is right. The Quester of the Grail legend, at the be- ginning of his wanderings, is often called a fool, a great fool, a guileless fool. That corresponds to the naivete and simplicity of my hero. It is as though a dim awareness of the traditional had made me insist on this quality of his. Goethe's Wilhelm Meister- is he too not a guileless fool? To a great extent he is identified with his creator; but even so, he is always the object of his irony. Here we see Goethe's great novel, too, falling within the Quester category. And after all, what else is the German Bildungsroman (educational novel) - a classification to which both The Magic Mountain and Wilhelm Meister belong - than the sublimation and spiritualization of the novel of adventure? The seeker of the Grail, before he arrives at the Sacred Castle, has to undergo various frightful and mysterious ordeals in a wayside chapel called the Atre Perilleux. Probably these ordeals were originally rites of initiation, conditions of the permission to approach the esoteric mystery; the idea of knowledge, wisdom, is always bound up with the " other world," with night and death. In The Magic Mountain there is a great deal said of an alche-mistic, hermetic pedagogy, of transubstantiation. And I, myself a guileless fool, was guided by a mysterious tradition, for it is those very words that are always used In connection with the mysteries of the Grail. Not for nothing do Freemasonry and its rites play a role in The Magic Mountain, for Freemasonry is the direct de- scendant of initiatory rites. In a word, the magic mountain is a variant of the shrine of the initiatory rites, a place of adventurous investigation into the mystery of life. And my Hans Castorp, the Bildungsreisende, has a very distinguished knightly and mystical ancestry: he is the typical curious neophyte - curious in a high sense of the word - who voluntarily, all too voluntarily, embraces disease and death, because his very first contact with them gives promise of extraordinary enlightenment and adventurous dvance- ment, bound up, of course, with correspondingly great risks. Young Nemerov's is a most able and charming commentary. I have us.ed it to help .me instruct you - and myself - a?out my novel, this late, complicated, conscious and yet unconscious link in a great tradition. Hans Castorp is a searcher after the Holy Grail. You would never have thought it when you read his story - if I did myself, it was both more and less than thinking. Perhaps you will read my book again from this point of view. And perhaps / Page 729 / you will find out what the Grail is: the knowledge and the wis- dom, the consecration, the highest reward, for which not only the foolish hero but the book itself is seeking. You will find it in the chapter called/" Snow," where Hans Castorp, lost on the perilous heights, dreams his dream of humanity. If he does not find the Grail, yet he divines it, in his deathly dream, before he is matched downwards from his heishts into the European catastrophe. It is the idea of the human beIng, the conception of a future humanity that has passed through and survived the profoundest knowledge of disease and death.
THE GRAIL is a mystery, but humanity is a mystery too. For man himself is a mystery, and all humanity rests upon reverence before the mystery that is man.
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THOMAS MANN THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Page 712 "And in this attitude Herr Settembrini found him - figuratively and most figuratively spoken, for full well we know our hero's traditional reserve would render such theatricality im- possible. Herr Settembrini, in fact, found him packing his trunk. For since the moment of his sudden awakening, Hans Castorp had been caught up in the hurry and scurry of a "wild" de- parture, brought about by the thunder-peal. .. Home " - the Berghof - was the picture of an ant-hill in a panic: its little population was flinging itself, heels over head, five thousand feet down- wards to the catastrophe-smitten flat-land. They stormed the little trains, they crowded them to the footboard -luggageless, if needs must, and the stacks of luggage piled high the station platform, the seething platform, to the height of which the scorching breath from the flat-land seemed to mount - and Hans Castorp stormed with them. In the heart of the tumult Ludovico embraced him, quite literally enfolded him in his arms and kissed him, like a southerner - but like a Russian too - on both his cheeks; and this, despite his own emotion, took our wild traveller no little aback. But he nearly lost his composure when, at the very last, Herr Settembrini called him .. Giovanni" and, laying aside the form of address common to the cultured West,. spoke to him with the thou! "E coli in giu," he said. "Cosi vai in giu finalmente - ad- dio, Giovanni mio! Quite otherwise had I thought to see thee to. But be it so, the gods have willed it thus and not otherwise. hoped to discharge you to go down to your work, and now you go to fight among your kindred. My God, it was given to you and not to your cousin, our Tenente! What tricks life plays! Go, then, it is your blood that calls, go and fight bravely. More than that can no man. But forgive me if I devote the remnant of my powers to incite my country to fight where the Spirit and sacro egoismo point the way. Addio! " Hans Castorp thrust out his head among ten others, filling the little open window-frame. He waved. And Herr Settembrini waved back, with his right hand, while with the ring-finger of his left he delicately touched the comer of his eye. What is it? Where are we? Whither has the dream snatched us? Twilight, rain, filth. Fiery glow of the overcast sky, ceaseless booming of heavy thunder; the moist air rent by a sharp singing whine, a raging, swelling howl as of some hound of hell, that ends its course in a splitting, a splintering and sprinkling, a crackling, a coruscation; by groans and shrieks. by trumpets blowing fit to / Page 713 / burst, by the beat of a drum coming faster, faster - There is a wood, discharging drab hordes, that come on, fall, spring up again, come on. - Beyond, a line of hill stands out against the fiery sky, whose glow turns now and again to blowing flames. About us is rolling plough-land, all upheaved and trodden into mud; athwart it a bemired high road, disguised with broken branches and from it again a deeply furrowed, boggy field-path leading off in curves toward the distant hills. Nuc1e, branchless trunks of trees meet the eye, a cold rain falls. Ah, a signpost! Useless, though, to question it, even despite the half-dark, for it is shattered, illegible. East, west? It is the flat-land, it is the war. And we are shrinking shadows by the way-side, shamed by the security of our shadowdom, and nowavs minded to indulge in any rodomontade; merely led hither by the spirit of our nar- rative, merely to see again, among those running, stumbling. drum~ mustered grey comrades that swarm out of yonder wood, one we know; merely to look once more in the simple face of our one-time fello,,:: of so many years, the genial sinner whose voice we know so well, before we lose him from our sight. They have been brought forward, these comrades, for a final thrust in a fight that has already lasted all day long, whose ob- jective is the retaking of the hill position and the burning villages beyond, lost two days since to the enemy. It is a volunteer regi- ment, fresh young blood and mostly Students, not long in the field. They were roused in the night, brought up in trains to morning, then marched in the rain on \vretched roads - on no roads at all, for the roads were blocked, and they went over moor and ploughed land with full ~it for seven hours, their coats sodden. It was no pleasure excursion. If one did not care to lose one's boots, one stooped at every second step, clutched with one's fingers into the straps and pulled them out of the quaking mire. It took an hour of such work to cover one meadow. But at last they have reached the appointed spot, exhausted, on edge, yet the reserve strength of their youthful bodies has kept them tense, they crave neither the sleep nor the food they have been denied. Their wet, mud-bespattered faces, framed between strap and grey-covered helmet, are flushed with exenion - perhaps too with the sight of the losses they suffered on their march through that boggy \vood. For the enemy, a\vare of their advance, have concentrated a barrage of shrapnel and large-calibre grenades upon the way they must come; it crashed among them in the wood, and howling, flaming, splashing, lashed the wide ploughed land. They must get through, these three thousand ardent youths; / Page 714 /they must reinforce with their bayonets the attack on the burning villages, and the trenches in front of and behind the line of hills; they must help to advance their line to a point indicated in the dispatch their leader has in his pocket. They are three thou- sand, that they may be two thousand when the hills, the villages are reached; that IS the meaning of their number. They are a body of troops calculated as sufficient, even after great losses, to attack and carry a position and greet their triumph witll a thou- sand-voiced huzza - not counting the stragglers that fall 011t by the way. Many a one has thus fallen out on the forced march, for which he proved too young and weak; paler he grew, stag- gered, set his teeth, drove himself on - and after all he could do fell out notwithstanding. Awhile he dragged rulnself in the rear of the marching column, overtaken and passed by company after company; at length he remained on the ground, lying where it was not good to lie. Then came the shattering wood. But there are so many of them, swarming on - they can survive a blood- letting and still come on in hosts. They have already overflowed the level, rain-lashed land; the high road, the field road, the boggy ploughed land; we shadows stand amid and among them. At the edge of the wood they fix their bayonets, with the practised grips; the horns enforce them, the drums roll deepest bass, and forward they stumble, as best they can, with shrill cries; night- marishly, for clods of earth cling to their heavy boots and fetter them. They fling themselves down before the projectiles that come howling on, then they leap up again and hurry forward; they exult, in their young, breaking voices as they run, to discover themselves still unhit. Or they are hit, they fall, fighting the air with their arms, shot through the forehead, the heart, the belly. They lie, their faces in the mire, and are motionless. They lie, their backs elevated by the knapsack, the crowns of their heads pressed into the mud, and clutch and claw in the air. But the wood emits new swarms, who fling themselves down, who spring up, who, shrieking or silent, blunder forward over the fallen. Ah, this young blood, with its knapsacks and bayonets, its mud-befouled boots and clothing! We look at it, our humanistic- a:sthetic eye pictures it among scenes far other than these: we see these youths watering horses on a sunny arm of the sea; roving with the beloved one along the strand, the lover's lips to the ear of the yielding bride; in happiest rivalry bending the bow. Alas, no, here they lie, their noses in fiery filth. They are glad to be here - albeit with boundless anguish, with unspeakable / Page 715 / sickness for home; and this, of itself, is a noble and a shaming thing - but no good reason for bringing them to such a pass. There is our friend, there is We recognize him at a distance, by the little beard he assumed while sitting at the .. bad " Russian table. Like all the others, he is wet through and glowing. He is running, his feet heavy with mould, die bayonet swinging in his hand. Look! He treads on the hand of . fallen comrade; with his hobnailed boot he treads the hand deep into the slimy, branch-strewn ground. But it is he. What, singing? As one sings, unaware, staring stark ahead, yes, thus he spends his hurrying breath, to sing half soundlessly: And loving words I've carven Upon its branches fair - " He stumbles, No, he has flung himself down. a hell-hound is coming howling, a huge explosive shell, a disgusting sugar-loaf from the infernal regions. He lies with his face in the cool mire, legs sprawled out, feet twisted, heels turned down. The product of a pervened science, laden with death, slopes earthward thitty paces in front of him and buries its nose in the ground; explodes Inside there, with hideous expense of power, and raises up a fountain high as a house, of mud, fire, iron, molten metal, scattered fragments of humanity. Where it fell, two youths had lain, friends who in their need flung themselves down together - now they are scattered, commingled and gone. Shame of our shadow-safety! Away! No more! - But our friend? Was he hit? He thought so for the moment. A great clod of eanh struck him on the shin, it hun, but he smiles at it. Up he gets, and staggers on, limping on his earth-bound feet, all unconsciously singing: Its waving branches whi-ispered . . .
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THE DIVINE INVASION Philip K. Dick 1981 Page 85 'What's wrong?' Elias put his arm around the boy and lifted him up to hold him. 'I've never seen you so upset.' 'He listened to that while my mother was dying!' Emmanuel stared into Elias's bearded face. I remember, Emmanuel said to himself. I am beginning to remember who I am. Elias said, 'What is it?' He held the boy tight. It is happening, Emmanuel realized. At last. That was the first of the signal that I — I myself — prepared. Knowing it would eventually fire. 'Elijah,' Emmanuel said. 'You are Elijah who comes first. Before, the great and terrible day.' Elias, holding the boy and rocking him gently, said, 'You have nothing to fear on that day.' 'But he does,' Emmanuel said. 'The Adversary whom we hate. His time has come. I fear for him, knowing as I do, now, what is ahead.' 'Listen,' Elias said quietly. How you have fallen from heaven, bright morning star, Page 86 You see?' Elias said. 'He is here. This is his place, this little world. He made it his fortress two thousand years ago, and set up a prison for the people as he did in Egypt. For two thousand years the people have been crying and there was no response, no aid. He has them all. All thinks he is safe.'
THE DIVINE INVASION Philip K. Dick 1981 8 Page 106 'The Torah is the Law?' Herb said. It is more than the Law. the word "Law is inadequate. Even though the new testament of the Christians always uses the word "Law" for Torah. Torah is the /Page 107/ totality of divine disclosure by God; it is alive; it existed before creation. It is a mystic, almost cosmic, entity. The Torah is the Creator's instrument. With it he created the universe and for it he created the universe. It is the highest idea and the living soul of the world. Without it the world could not exist and would have no right to exist. I am quoting the great Hebrew poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik who lived from the latter part of the nineteenth century into the mid-twentieth century. You should read him sometime.'
THE DIVINE INVASION Philip K. Dick 1981 10 Page 139 About the two of them the wind rustled, as if speaking. He could hear the wind as words. And the wind said; BEWARE! He wondered if she heard it, too.
THE DIVINE INVASION Philip K. Dick 1981 14 Page 194 Oh my God, he said to himself; he shook violently. Blood and living words, and something intelligent close by, simulating the world, or the world simulating it; something camouflaged, an entity that was aware of him. FEAR NOT `Okay,' he said, and still trembled. Words inside his head, knowledge inside his head. But he remained blind, and the pain also remained. 'Who are you?' he said. 'Tell me your name.' VALIS `Who is "Valis"?' he said THE LORD YOUR GOD
THE DIVINE INVASION Philip K. Dick 1981 Page 54 "I do remember some things, then, "Emamanuel said. "You'll remember more. You see, you set up a disinhibiting stimulus that would remind you before-well, when the right time came. You're the only one who knows what the stimulus is. Even Elias doesn't know it. I don't know it; you hid it from me, back when you were what you were." HAYAH Gazing down at the word, Emmanuel felt memory come to him, but only for a nanosecond; at once-almost at once-it departed. But he forgot again. By the time he and the girl had gone outside into the yard he no longer knew. And yet-strange!-he knew that he had known, known and forgotten again almost at once. As if, he thought, I have two minds inside me, one on the surface and the other in the depths. The surface one has been injured but the deep one has not. And yet the deep one can't speak; it is closed up. Forever? No; there would be the stimulus, one day. His own device. HAYAH The world returned.
I AM THE OPPOSITE OF THE OPPOSITE I AM THE OPPOSITE OF OPPOSITE IS THE AM I ALWAYS AM
THE DIVINE INVASION Philip K. Dick 1981 15 Page 210 "To Zina Pallas, the boy said, you have lost.' 'Yes, I have lost.' She nodded. 'You made her real and he still cares for her. The dream for him is no longer a dream; it is true down to the level of disappointments.' 'Which is the stamp of authenticity.' 'Yes,' she said. 'Congratulations.' Zina extended her hand to Emmanuel and they shook. 'And now,' the boy said, 'you will tell me who you are.'
16 Page 211 "Zina said, 'Yes, I will tell you who I am, Emmanuel, but I will not let your world return. Mine is better. Herb Asher leads a much happier life; Rybys is alive . . . Linda Fox is real - ' 'But you did not make her real,' he said. I did.' 'Do you want back again the world you gave them? With the winter, its ice and snow and everything? It is I who burst the prison; I brought in the springtime. I deposed the procurator maximus and the chief prelate. Let it stay as it is.' 'I will transmute your world into the real,' he said. 'I have already began. I manifested myself to Herb Asher when you kissed him; I penetrate your world in my true form. I am making it my world, step by step. What the people must do, however is remember. They may live in your world but they must know that a worse one existed and they were forced to live in it. I restored Herb Asher's memories, and the other dream dreams.' 'That's fine with me.' 'Tell me, now,' he said, 'who you are.' 'Let us go,' she said, 'hand in hand. Like Beethoven and Goethe: two friends. Take us to Stanley Park in British Columbia and we will observe the animals there, the bwolves, the great white wolves. It is a beautiful park, and LionsgatebBridge is beautiful; Vancouver, British Columbia is the most beautiful city on Earth.' 'That is true,' he said, 'I had forgotten.' 'And after you view it Iwant you to ask yourself if you /Page 212/ would destroy it or change it in any way. I want you to inquire of yourself if you would, upon seeing such earthly beauty, bring into existence your great and terrible day in which all the arrogant and evil-doers shall be chaff, set ablaze, leaving them neither root nor branch. OK?' 'OK,' Emmanuel said. Zina said We are spirits of the air Who of human beings take care. 'Are you?' he said. Because, he thought, if that is so then you are an atmospheric spirit, which is to say - an angel. Zina said: Come, all ye songsters of the sky, Wake and assemble in this wood: But no ill-boding bird be nigh, None but the harmless and the good. 'What are you saying?' Emmanuel said, 'Take us to Stanley Park first,' Zina said. 'Because if you take us there, we shall actually be there; it will be no dream.' 'He did so. Together they walked across the verdant ground, among the vast trees. These stands, he knew, had never been logged; this was the primeval forest. 'It is exceedingly beautiful,' he said to her. 'It is the world,' she said. 'Tell me who you are.' Zina said I am the Torah.' Page 213 After a moment Emmanuel said, 'Then I can do nothing regarding the universe without consulting you.' 'And you can do nothing regarding the universe that is contrary to what I say.' Zina said, 'as you yourself decided, in the beginning, when you created me. You made me alive; I am a living being that thinks. I am the plan of the universe , its blueprint. That is the way you intended it and that is the way it is.' 'Hence the slate you gave me,' he said. 'Look at me Zina said. He looked at her - and saw a young woman, wearing a crown, and sitting on a throne. Malkuth,' he said. 'The lowest of the ten sefiroth.' 'And you are the Eternal Infinite En Sof,' Malkuth said. 'The first and highest of the sefiroth of theTree of Life.' 'But you said that you are the Torah.' 'In the Zohar,' Malkuth said, 'the Torah is depicted as a beautiful maiden living alone, secluded in a great castle. Her secret lover comes to the castle to see her, but all he can do is wait futilely outside hoping for a glimpse of her. Finally she appears at the window and he is able to catch sight of her, but only for an instant. Later on she lingers at the window and he is able, therefore, to speak with her: yet, still, she hides her face behind a veil . . . and her answers to his questions are evasive. Finally, after a long time, when her lover has become despairing that he will ever get to know her, she permits him to see her face at last.' Emmanuel said, 'Thus revealing to her lover all the secrets which she has up to now, throughout the long courtship, kept buried in her heart. I know the Zohar. You are right.' Page 214 'So you know me now, En Sof,' Malkuth said. Does it please you?' 'It does not,' he said ' 'because although what you say is true, there is one more veil to be removed from your face. There is one more step.' 'True,' Malkuth, the lovely young woman seated on the throne, wearing a crown, said, 'but you will have to find it.' 'I will,' he said. I am so close now; only a step, one single step away.' 'You have guessed,' she said. But you must know.' 'How beautiful you are, Malkuth,' he said. 'And of course you are here in the world and love the world; you are the sefira that represents the Earth. You are the womb containing everything, all the other sefiroth that constitute the Tree itself; those other forces, nine of them, are generated by you.' 'Even Kether,' Malkuth said, calmly. 'Who is highest.' 'You are Diana,the fairy queen, he said. 'You are Pallas Athena, the spirit of righteous war; you are the spring queen, you are Hagia Sophia, Holy Wisdom; you are the Torah which is the formula and blueprint of the universe; you are Malkuth of the Kabala, the lowest of the ten sefiroth of the tree of life; and you are my companion and friend, my guide. But what are you actually? Under all the disguises? I know what you are and - He put his hand on hers. 'I am beginning to remember. The Fall, when the Godhead was torn apart.' 'Yes,' she said, nodding. 'You are remembering back to that, now. To the beginning.' 'Give me time.' he said. 'Just a little more time. It is hard. It hurts.' She said, 'I will wait.' Seated on her throne she waited. Page 215 She had waited for thousands of years, and, in her face, he could see the patient and placid willingness to wait longer, as long as was necessary. both of them had known from the beginning that this moment would come, when they would be back together. They were together now, again, as it had been originally. All he had to do was name her. To name is to know, he thought. To know and to summon; to call. 'Shall I tell you your name?' he said to her. She smiled, the lovely dancing smile, but no mischief shone in her eyes; instead, love glimmered at him, vast extents of love.
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Mayday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications. It derives from the French venez ... Mayday calls - History - Other urgent calls - See also Mayday From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications. It derives from the French venez m'aider, meaning "come help me".[1]
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JUST SIX NUMBERS Martin Rees 1 OUR COSMIC HABITAT PLANETS STARS AND LIFE Page 24 A proton is 1,836 times heavier than an electron, and the number 1,836 would have the same connotations to any 'intelligence'
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THE ART OF MEMORY FRANCIS A. YATES 1979 THE OCCULT PHILOSOPHY IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE JOHN DEE AND THE FAERIE QUEENE Page 120 "Aristotle in his Ethics defines justice of proportion, an idea which suggests proportion as an ethical quality.As John Dee noted in his Preface to Euclid of 1570: 'Aristotle in his Ethikes ... was fayne to fly to the perfection and power of numbers for proportions / Page 121 / arithmeticall and geometricall.26" Page 222 EPILOGUE IF I SAY PERADVENTURE THE DARKNESS SHALL COVER ME: THEN SHALL MY NIGHT BE TURNED TO DAY. YEA THE DARKNESS IS NO DARKNESS WITH THEE, BUT THE NIGHT IS AS CLEAR AS THE DAY: THE DARKNESS AND LIGHT TO THEE ARE BOTH ALIKE.
THE DIVINE INVASION Phillip K. Dick 1981 Page 5 THE TIME YOU HAVE WAITED FOR HAS COME. THE WORK IS COMPLETE; THE FINAL WORLD IS HERE. HE HAS BEEN TRANSPLANTED AND IS ALIVE. - Mysterious voice in the night
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