Chrysalis
We found it on a bunch of grapes and put it
In cotton wool, in a matchbox partly open,
In a room in London in wintertime, and in
A safe place, and then forgot it.
Early in the cold spring we said "See this!
Where on earth did the butterfly come from?"
It looked so unnatural whisking about the curtain:
Then we remembered the chrysalis.
There was the broken shell with what was once
The head askew; and what was once the worm
Was away out of the window, out of the warm,
Out of the scene of the small violence.
Not strange, that the pretty creature formalized
The virtue of its dark unconscious wait
For pincers of light to come and pick it out.
But it was a bad business, our being surprised.
Muriel Spark (1951)
DAILY MAIL
Thursday, April 6, 2006
Jonathan Cainer
GEMINI
May 22 -June 22
CATERPILLARS, when they form cocoons, do not succumb to any sudden doubts.They do not wonder why it is necessary to lock themselves away for a while. They do not consider that it might be unhealthy to retreat so far: Nor, when they finally emerge as blazing, beautiful butterflies, do they stop to-wonder whether life might have been better back in the-old days without wings. You are going through a profound transformation. Absolutely nothing is wrong with this."
DAILY MAIL
Friday, September 6. 2013
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Anyone for silkworms?
Page 66
"QUESTION Does anyone know if silkworms are edible?
ANYONE who has visited the Donghuamen night market or Wangfujing food street in Beijing will have seen all sorts of weird and wonderful foodstuffs:..."
"There are a wide variety of insects for sale, from deep-fried crickets (which taste slightly fishy) to golden centipede, and silkworms (Bombyx mori).
In fact they are the silkworm pupae, the intermediate stage between caterpillar and moth. During this stage, the caterpillar wraps itself inside the silk cocoon which is such a valuable commodity...."
MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY
Father Andrew 1934
MONDAY IN EASTER WEEK
RISEN INDEED
'The Lord is risen indeed.'-S. LUKE xxiv. 34
Page 136
SAINT JOHN tells us in his Gospel that, when he and Peter went speeding down to the sepulchre of our Lord and entered in, he ' saw and believed.' What was it that brought conviction to John? He saw something in the way the grave-clothes were disposed which brought absolute conviction to him of our Lord's Resurrection. If he had just seen the graveclothes put on one side, surely he would have thought, as the women thought, that the body of our Lord had been taken from the tomb, but there was something about them which he says brought conviction to him.
The Jewish method of burial was to wind linen round and round the body, sprinkling myrrh and spices upon the linen as they did so. The myrrh was sticky and made the bands of linen adhere closely together, so that the body was like a mummy or the chrysalis of a caterpillar. What S. John saw, when he entered the tomb, was that the linen which had been wound round the body still kept its shape, but it was clear that the body was not inside it. The linen lay there like an empty shell or a chrysalis from which the moth has risen. The napkin which had been laid over the face of Jesus had fallen back and lay in its own place by itself. He saw that, and it brought conviction to him, and he went away with a wholly different frame of mind from that with which he came. As Bishop Westcott says so well in his commentary, the feeling of the apostles is better expressed by their words, The Master lives,' than by the words, He is risen.' They realized that our Lord had never been defeated by death.
MAN'S UNKNOWN JOURNEY
Staveley Bulford 1941
An introduction and contribution to the study of subjects essential to a new revelation - The Evolution of the Mind and Consciousness - in the journey of Mankind towards Perfection on and beyond the Earth
Page 190/191
"Words are inadequate to express the multitude of patterns of both Harmony and Discord portrayed by Thought, and the reader who may be unfamiliar with such a possibility as Thought power, must feel somewhat like a cocoon being told that some day he will be a butterfly himself and fly around from / flower to to flower that even at the present moment he, the cocoon, possesses all the essentials for that almost inconceivable manifestation."
Encyclopedia Of Ancient And Forbidden Knowledge
Zolar 1988 Edition
Page 39
KABBALISTIC WISDOM
There is no death; there is no destruction. All is but change and transformation-first the caterpillar, then the chrysalis, then the mighty mind, and at last a noble Soul."
THE DEATH OF FOREVER
A NEW FUTURE FOR HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
1991
Page 266
"We should create new rites of passage to celebrate the phases of the human life cycle, rituals for birth, for the transit into adolescence, and above all, for dying.
Of these, the need for a ritual of dying is the most urgent. I know of no greater testament to the failure of our civilisation than the fact that so many people die alone, abandoned like discards on society's junk heap. Dying must again be united with a sense of the sacred, for it is here, if anywhere, that the psyche outgrows its human limitation. The most important message of this book is that consciousness cannot be extinguished by death, for consciousness transcends time. We should learn to approach death with gratitude, seeing it for what it is, the final elimination of ego, the end of the fallacies of time and self.
In the end it can all be said so simply.
Time and self are outgrown husks which consciousness will one day discard, just as a butterfly abandons its chrysalis to fly towards the sun.
IN THE END IT CAN ALL BE SAID SO SIMPLY TIME AND SELF
ARE OUTGROWN HUSKS WHICH CONSCIOUSNESS WILL ONE DAY DISCARD
JUST AS A BUTTERFLY ABANDONS ITS CHRYSALIS TO FLY TOWARDS THE SUN
THE LION PATH
YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU
A Manual of the Short Path to Regeneration for our times
by
Musaios
Page 33
It is time to examine the regenerative process - the way out of our limited state of body and awareness - a state that was thought of in this doctrine as "larval" to that which would ensue, just as the effectively one - dimensional or linear caterpillar has the hidden ability to spin a self - made cocoon - tomb and then turn into a pupal case, with future wings already outlined on it - a stage that can again metamorphose into the winged imago or mature form that emerges from the shell of the tomb - egg of the cocoon and flies aloft into the sky.
THE LION PATH
YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU
A Manual of the Short Path to Regeneration for our times
by
Musaios
Page 137
"A winged and wondrous child
will whirl a whole world into being . . .
That child alone shall fly the abyss
and reach the Second Sun. . . ."
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THE AGELESS WAY OF THE GODDESS
Charles Muses
Divine Pregnancy and Higher Birth in Ancient Egypt and China
Though both are related to it, the point of shamanism is really not ecstasy, "archaic" or otherwise, or even "healing," but rather the development of communication with a community of higher than human beings and a modus operandi for attaining an eventual transmutation to more exalted states and powers. Those whom that goal does not attract, authentic shamanism does not address.
The point is theurgy, literally a divine working (theo+urg). More specifically, the oldest preserved theurgic teachings of the Sacred Way Home (see the chart, fig. 1) — those of ancient Egypt and China — tell of a goddess-inspired, transcendent "pregnancy." One that takes place within our still mysterious brain and body (of either sex) (1) leading to the attainment, even during lifetime on earth, of a higher body concealed until the physical death of the former one and far more endowed with energy and capability than the bio-molecular body in which it forms, as within a womb or a chrysalid or pupal shell, symbolized in ancient Egypt as the enswathed mummy in its case.
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It is an embryology of metamorphosis that is here involved, stemming from the premise that we are larval forms — a premise very startling to a largely agnostic and indeed rather ignorant culture, knowledgeable really only in the technology of external manipulations upon matter. We know next to nothing of how living bodies organize themselves from within and have their ultimate controls in regions of more than what ordinary quinto-sensory awareness is capable of grasping.
Some Bad News
The current global technological civilization is increasingly showing itself to be inimical to all life-forms except perhaps the most hardy of sewer and wharf rats, other assorted parasites, and those few bacterial prodigies that can survive even in highly radioactive waste. Yet aside from its bio-phobic or life-destroying aspect, the prevalent world society is the first widespread culture in history to be committed to conditioning its members to accepting — without any rational basis, much less evidence — that there is (1) no scheme of things other than the molecular one in which we live on earth, and (2) no higher than human intelligence and ability, and hence (3) that individualized personality and living form cease with the physical dissolution of the molecular body. These unproven and, in fact, quite scientifically dubious dogmas are then made the basis of our educational system, leading at once to both a jungle-law society and, in other aspects, to an essentially hopeless and comfortless collectivism which ultimately reduces all individual suffering and learning to meaninglessness.
Since only love in some form gives meaning to life, the power of love is also finally denied in the shabby and shoddy creed of hopelessness being foisted upon us by patterns of paranoid power-seeking that, by and large, tend to seize control of world society in the dark ages of the latter twentieth century. It is no accident that, contrasted with a 2½ percent rise of general suicide in the United States over the last decade, there was a 44 percent rise in the suicide rate for the age group of fourteen to nineteen-year-olds, about eighteen times as many: our children are being systematically deprived of hope by a system fast losing the perennial ideals.
The voices of the comparatively few leaders of integrity left are voices mostly crying in a growing wilderness of poisoned ecology and psychopathological social systems motivated by tyranny or short-term greed and the increasing fear, panic, and aggression that inevitably accompany such a degraded set of values. To cite one of these voices: "There is a very real possibility that man —through ignorance or indifference or both — is irreversibly altering the ability of our atmosphere to support life." These are not the words of some minor prophet of doom, but the sober, considered conclusions of the chairman of the U.S. congressional committee on the environment, reporting in June 1986 and cited in Newsweek magazine.
The Good News
But most of us now no longer need to be convinced of these trends. We are aware of them only too acutely. We don't need to hear any more bad news. We do want to hear about hope and where we can look for it. This chapter is concerned with that hope. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, the last hope of mankind will contain some almost unimaginably good news, though based on ideas well-nigh unutterable in terms of ordinary ways of thinking. (2)
That hope stretches far back in recorded history and concerns what may be called higher transformation. In brief, the present life-forms, and notably human beings, must be regarded as larval forms whose destiny it is to transform themselves into higher ones capable of living under very different conditions and of exercising powers which would seem quite extraordinary to us in our present state. That is the message of the "Crucible" (fig. 1).(omitted)
FIG. 1. (omitted) The Crucible of World Religions and Their Convergence on the Way Home: Distillation of the Essential Central Sacredness. This mandalic-maze-circuit diagram is well-nigh self-explanatory — designed to show in one view the interrelations of the search for the Divine through the religions of human history, both in their institutionalized and more esoteric forms.
Depending on one's inherited cultural background and individual tendencies — and the two might not be in phase — one follows a path in the crucible. For some, whole lifetimes could be spent just on the fringes of the wheel. Others reach one of the spokes. Some again may even gain access to the first central area in which the particular cultural origin of a religion becomes irrelevant in that numinous nimbus. Beyond the door within that nimbus is the meaning of the whole crucible and its gestational process: the essential distillation at its core, where one begins to undertake the far journey home — the Lion Path in ancient Egypt.
The preparation and technique for that path, which transforms one as one treads it, exist in fragmentary form in the old human records. But those instructions, that operational method, are always available in great clarity to those who again reach that place of accessibility in awareness. Then one can start the heroic quest described in these lines from an obscure poet, Kyril Demys, three decades ago (who also wrote "Song of the Far Journey").
The doors are many
but the key is one . . .
that space has room
for a winged and wondrous child
and whirled a little world to being. . . .
That child alone
shall fly the abyss
and reach the Second Sun.
Anyone who has ever raised caterpillars of, say, the lovely giant moths like lo, Cecropia, Luna, or Prometheus knows that the caterpillar does not at all fear its ineluctable metamorphosis, when the larva sheds its skin and becomes the quasi-entombed, cocooned pupal form deprived of almost all exterior mobility except to twist and turn its abdomen. So when author Richard Bach wrote that the caterpillar looks on its pupation as "death," he wrote too superficially, without having well observed a forming or hatching chrysalis.
The truth is far more interesting. The caterpillar shows by all its behavior, so intense at the cocoon-spinning or chrysalis-forming time, that its entire being is focused and intent upon this change — life itself for the caterpillar and not death at all. From a ravenous and mobile feeder, it now becomes very quiet, fasting and renouncing all food. Then it commences a new and excited round of activity in weaving its cocoon around itself, ending with a hard-varnished core-shell in which it leaves an almost imperceptible air pore. Here it finally discards its caterpillar skin, and the pupal case with wings, tongue, and antennae outlined on it appears.
Although there is no outer activity, there is now intense activity within the pupa, called a chrysalis in the case of butterflies because of its often golden (Greek chrysos, "gold") appearance. Inside the pupal form, all the caterpillar's internal organs now become transformed. Reproductive organs and new digestive organs are formed, as well as new organs of locomotion, notably two pairs of gorgeously colored wings. Note well that there is an increase and not a decrease of individuation in this process, and each winged adult is a specifically individual creature of distinct color, pattern, and sex. The imago, as it is called, is more, not less, individually organically differentiated than the caterpillar. So this metamorphic transformation, an actually higher embryology, leads to both greater powers (for example, of sexuality and flight) and to greater individualization.
The Secret Within the Brain
The caterpillar is so intensely active about ensuring its own disappearance for the very good reason that it innately realizes it is preparing a greater and richer life for itself, made possible through a group of neuro-secretory glands connected with the caterpillar's central ganglion or tiny brain. This new life is an individual outcome for each caterpillar — the very opposite of merging into some engulfing collectivity. Tomb-transcending is nothing if not individual, and as I once wrote of tathagatahood in Mahayana Buddhism: "Salvation, though it have universal results, has by necessity particular achievement. (3)
Similarly, the ancient theurgic doctrine taught that in the dim and mysterious recesses of each human brain are lodged the control centers for transducing a higher metamorphic process in that individual, of which the butterfly, wonderful as it is, is but a crude and imperfect analogue. Those who do not come to activate this process during their physical lifetimes have no choice but to enter the postmortem or inter-incarnational state as the "caterpillars" they were here. That state is called the Duat in ancient Egyptian, corresponding to the Bardo of Tibetan shamanistic Buddhism and the intermediate states of ancient Chinese shamanism that came to be Taoism. For those who did not begin the metamorphic process before dissolution of their physical bodies, this intermediate state would be dreamlike: lovely or nightmarish depending on the person's development and stature as a human being.
But if the transformational process were initiated before molecular dissolution, then the intermediate state could continue the process and the "hatching" might take place in the Duat or Bardo state, thus avoiding the necessity for further entries of the individual into relatively crude molecular bodies such as we on earth have, wonderful as they are for this stage. The acquisition of a higher body by an individual meant also, by that very token, the possibility of communicating with beings already so endowed. (4) The entrance into this higher community and fellowship is one of the principal causes for celebration in the Ancient Egyptian liturgy of the sacred transformative process — sacred because it conferred so much beyond ordinary ken. (5)
Higher Rites of Passage
On folio 237 of the great Codex Manesso (dated about 1425) now at the university library of Heidelberg, there is a magnificent depiction of Liechtenstein's renowned thirteenth-century troubadour Ulrich bearing on his helmet an image of the Goddess in her form of Minne, who presided over chivalric love. Her name has a fascinating etymology, linked to the Indo-European root men — English, "mind") as the seat of consciousness — the same that the Ancient Egyptian and Old Chinese called "the heart." Her form, preserved by Ulrich's late medieval chronicler, wields a down-pointing arrow in the right hand, and the left arm holds aloft a flaming torch, (6) for she is Mistress of both death and life in that order. She is Mut, Great Mother of Death, and also Isis/Sothis, whose love makes possible the higher birth of Horus from the inert Osiris. As Ta-Urt, ruling the Great Dipper (in Egyptian called "the skin of Set" or the physical body destined for dissolution), she governs the dismemberment and recycling of that temporary vehicle until enough experience has been garnered to go on to a nondeath-interrupted mode of life. This is the deep reason why all great love, from Tristan and lseut (= Isolde) to the Central Asiatic Na-Khi love-death pacts reported by botanist-ethnographer Joseph E. Rock, is so deeply linked to death as a rite of passage.
In the old Celtic traditions preserved in the early Breton/Gaulish romances of the twelfth century, love characteristically triumphed through death itself. (7) The Goddess was always there, as that prince of troubadours, Dante Alighieri, (8) depicted in his too-soon departed and beloved Beatrice, who became his divine protectress during the cosmic shamanic journey he unforgettably describes in La Divina Commedia, culminating in her Universal Love: "But yet the Will rolls onward like a wheel in even motion, by the Love impelled that moves the Sun in heaven and all the Stars." The goal in this life was to balance heaven and earth (incidentally, a very Chinese function for man). As the Swabian troubadour Meister Vridank (fl. 1200) wrote in his Instruction in Discrimination (Bescheidenheit), "Who God and World can encompass, there is a blessed one indeed." In profound ways the society of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was the pinnacle of Western civilization, teaching, as it did, an apotheosis through love.
The present society, however, — forcing people more and more to think only of physical survival and material support, — naturally tends to block the perception of supra-biological fact and our participation in such a higher process. There is then the sheer dulling effect of leaving no time for such considerations in a person's daily life, whereas in the anciently taught theurgic societies such truths and participation in them were the central core and point of human life. The blocking tendency must be combated.
It is simply not true that our higher heritage will be just as active if we concern ourselves with our material existence alone. On the contrary, it will not be activated unless concern with it reflects consistently in a corresponding self-attunement with it in our behavior. Our actual creed is inescapably made manifest in how we behave, regardless of what anyone may verbally profess.
The Price & the Process
So the principal price to be paid for development leading to a higher body and life is the price every imminently pupating caterpillar pays: principal and regular dedication to that process and project. But if a caterpillar's metamorphic glands are tied off or blocked, it will simply live out its life as a caterpillar and never change. Thus, many human beings will not choose to activate themselves transformationally. But those who do and will, will inspire and help the rest, just as even our material, technological civilization rests upon the inventions, dedication, and genius of a comparative handful. The average Bardo experience is passionate and dreamlike, releasing the full force of a Freudian type of unconscious. In fact, never having read Sophocles' Oedipus Rex or Electra and also incredibly anticipating Freud, the great Tibetan commentator Drashi Namjal wrote that one who will be born as a man already begins in the Bardo realm to hate his future father and love his mother:(9) mutatis mutandi for one who will be born a woman. (10) The powerful unconscious drives released with full impact in the Bardo must sooner or later be dealt with and sublimed, there or here (in the alchemical sense).
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4+5 |
2+7 |
2+7 |
I |
= |
9 |
|
5 |
IMAGO |
|
9 |
9 |
THE LION PATH
YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU
A Manual of the Short Path to Regeneration for our times
by
Musaios
Page 33
6. THE PROCESS OF REGENERATION
It is time to examine the regenerative process—the way out of our limited state of body and awareness—a state that was thought of in this doctrine as "larval" to that which would ensue, just as the effectively one-dimensional or linear caterpillar has the hidden ability to spin a self-made cocoon-tomb and then turn into a pupal case, with future wings already outlined on it—a stage that can again metamorphose into the winged imago or mature form that emerges from the shell of the tomb-egg of the cocoon and flies aloft into the sky.
We thus have an `unawakened' larval or caterpillar form, which incidentally remains so if a certain gland connected to the seat of the central nervous system in the neighborhood of the hypothalamus is not functional.* Then we have the larval form in the stage of building its "tomb" which is really the birth place /Page 34/ of the higher form. When the cocoon is finished down to the hard-varnished inner shell, the caterpillar sheds its skin for the last time and the inert wing-marked pupa is born within the cocoon.
Then all the caterpillar's characteristic organs are dissolved * and changed into others and new organs are added over a course of remarkable transformations lasting several weeks. The Egyptian name for this transforming power is Khepera, the winged scarab.
Finally the pupal skin bursts within the cocoon, and the winged adult emerges from it, dissolving the hard walls with a special solvent from glands in its mouth needed only this once. Now, as soon as its still moist wings will expand, dry and become firm, it will fly off into its new existence after this rebirth.
Ancient peoples noted these remarkable changes (called "holometamorphic" by modern entomologists) and it is not without reason that the higher human entity (that was designed to survive the body's death much as the butterfly survives the caterpillar's disappearance) was symbolized by a butterfly among cultures as widely separated as Grecian and Aztec.
The ancient Egyptian doctrine of the possibilities of human metamorphosis used the same metaphor to explain it simply. The bandaged mummy was like the silk-enswathed larva and the folded wings depicted on sarcophagus or coffin lids were the indicated still folded wing-forms embossed on every lepidopteran pupa or chrysalis case. The outer cocoon was also symbolized by the Mes-khent or "birth-tent of skin" placed around the /Page 35/ mummy or in the funeral chamber which in Ancient Egyptian was called "the birth chamber." One of the very words for cemetery meant "Place of Births."
Words like regeneration and transformation have been too thinned down and so almost voided of any living meaning or feasible attainability as many words have been in overintellectualized, and hence all too frequently unintelligent circles. The context for regeneration in the ancient Egyptian teaching is biological and psychophysiological; little known processes within the brain and body trigger, when activated, a supra-biological, transformational and higher embryological development — our too rarely claimed birthright. See also Sections 11 and 12, pages 83 through 94.
Note Page 33 *Caterpillars have a similar gland without whose hormone, ecdysterone, their metamorphoses cannot take place. That remarkable fact of recondite biology was learned only in the latter twentieth century. Cf. Sections 12, 18.
Page 34 note* Technically termed histolysis.
L |
= |
3 |
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12 |
LEPIDOPTERAN |
135 |
63 |
9 |
P |
= |
7 |
- |
4 |
PUPA |
54 |
18 |
9 |
- |
- |
10 |
|
16 |
First Total |
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|
|
- |
- |
1+0 |
|
1+6 |
Add to Reduce |
1+8+9 |
8+1 |
4+5 |
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|
|
|
Second Total |
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|
- |
- |
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|
Reduce to Deduce |
1+8 |
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|
- |
- |
1 |
|
|
Essence of Number |
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R |
= |
9 |
- |
- |
REGENERATION |
- |
- |
- |
|
|
|
|
|
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|
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
G |
7 |
7 |
7 |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
N |
14 |
5 |
5 |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
O |
15 |
6 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
N |
14 |
5 |
5 |
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R |
= |
9 |
|
|
REGENERATION |
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|
- |
- |
- |
- |
1+2 |
- |
1+3+1 |
6+8 |
6+8 |
|
|
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|
2+5 |
|
|
|
2+7 |
R |
= |
9 |
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1+4 |
1+4 |
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= |
9 |
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R |
= |
9 |
- |
- |
REGENERATION |
- |
- |
- |
|
|
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|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
G |
7 |
7 |
7 |
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
N |
14 |
5 |
5 |
|
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
|
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
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|
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|
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
|
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
|
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
O |
15 |
6 |
6 |
|
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
N |
14 |
5 |
5 |
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R |
= |
9 |
|
|
REGENERATION |
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1+2 |
- |
1+3+1 |
6+8 |
6+8 |
|
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2+5 |
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2+7 |
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= |
9 |
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1+4 |
1+4 |
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= |
9 |
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Page 34
The Egyptian name for this transforming power is Khepera, the winged scarab.
Finally the pupal skin bursts within the cocoon, and the winged adult emerges from it, dissolving the hard walls with a special solvent from glands in its mouth needed only this once. Now, as soon as its still moist wings will expand, dry and become firm, it will fly off into its new existence after this rebirth.
Ancient peoples noted these remarkable changes (called "holometamorphic" by modern entomologists) and it is not without reason that the higher human entity (that was designed to survive the body's death much as the butterfly survives the caterpillar's disappearance) was symbolized by a butterfly among cultures as widely separated as Grecian and Aztec.
HOLOMETAMORPHIC
171-81-9
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= |
8 |
- |
- |
HOLOMETAMORPHIC |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
4 |
H+O+L+O |
50 |
23 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
4 |
M+E+T+A |
39 |
12 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
6 |
M+O+R+P+I+C |
82 |
46 |
1 |
H |
= |
8 |
|
|
HOLOMETAMORPHIC |
|
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- |
- |
- |
- |
1+5 |
- |
1+7+1 |
8+1 |
8+1 |
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8 |
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HOLOMETAMORPHIC |
- |
- |
- |
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- |
- |
- |
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1 |
H |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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- |
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1 |
O |
15 |
6 |
6 |
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1 |
L |
12 |
3 |
3 |
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1 |
O |
15 |
6 |
6 |
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1 |
M |
13 |
4 |
4 |
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5 |
5 |
5 |
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1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
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1 |
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1 |
1 |
1 |
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1 |
M |
13 |
4 |
4 |
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1 |
O |
15 |
6 |
6 |
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1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
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1 |
P |
16 |
7 |
7 |
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1 |
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8 |
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9 |
9 |
9 |
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1 |
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3 |
3 |
3 |
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HOLOMETAMORPHIC |
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- |
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1+5 |
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1+7+1 |
8+1 |
8+1 |
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1+8 |
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1+6 |
1+8 |
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HOLOMETAMORPHIC |
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- |
- |
- |
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1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
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- |
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1 |
L |
12 |
3 |
3 |
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1 |
C |
3 |
3 |
3 |
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M |
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4 |
4 |
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HOLOMETAMORPHIC |
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HOLOMETAMORPHIC |
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MES KHENT |
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2 |
M+E |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
S |
19 |
10 |
1 |
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1 |
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11 |
2 |
2 |
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2 |
H+E+N |
27 |
9 |
9 |
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1 |
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2 |
2 |
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MES KHENT |
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MES KHENT |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
M |
= |
4 |
- |
|
MES KHENT |
|
|
|
M |
= |
4 |
- |
- |
MES KHENT |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
M |
13 |
4 |
4 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
S |
19 |
10 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
K |
11 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
H |
8 |
8 |
8 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
N |
14 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
M |
= |
4 |
|
9 |
MES KHENT |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
9+5 |
3+2 |
2+3 |
M |
= |
4 |
- |
|
MES KHENT |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
M |
= |
4 |
- |
|
MES KHENT |
|
|
|
METEMPSYCHOSIS
14 |
|
- |
- |
|
- |
M+E |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
E+M |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
P+S+Y+C |
63 |
27 |
9 |
- |
H+O+S |
42 |
24 |
6 |
- |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
S |
19 |
10 |
1 |
14 |
METEMPSYCHOSIS |
|
|
|
1+4 |
- |
1+8+9 |
9+0 |
4+5 |
- |
- |
|
|
|
- |
- |
|
|
|
5 |
METEMPSYCHOSIS |
|
|
|
14 |
|
|
|
|
- |
M+E+T+E+M+P |
72 |
27 |
9 |
- |
S+Y+C+H+O+S |
89 |
44 |
8 |
- |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
S |
19 |
10 |
1 |
1+4 |
METEMPSYCHOSIS |
189 |
90 |
27 |
- |
- |
1+8+9 |
9+0 |
2+7 |
- |
- |
|
9 |
9 |
- |
|
|
- |
- |
5 |
METEMPSYCHOSIS |
|
9 |
9 |
- |
|
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
|
M+E |
18 |
9 |
|
- |
- |
- |
|
- |
- |
|
|
- |
- |
- |
|
|
|
|
|
M+E |
18 |
9 |
|
|
T+E+M |
38 |
11 |
|
|
P+S+Y+C+H+O+S+I+S |
133 |
70 |
|
14 |
|
|
|
|
1+4 |
|
1+8+9 |
9+0 |
1+8 |
- |
|
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
|
|
TRANSUBSTANTIATION
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
N+S+U |
54 |
18 |
9 |
1 |
B |
2 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
S+T+A+N |
54 |
18 |
9 |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
2 |
A+T |
21 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
2 |
O+N |
29 |
11 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2+3+7 |
8+4 |
5+7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1+2 |
1+2 |
1+2 |
|
|
|
|
|
TRANSUBSTANTIATION
REACTION CREATION REACTION
C |
= |
3 |
- |
- |
CREATION |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
C |
3 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
O |
15 |
6 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
N |
14 |
5 |
5 |
C |
= |
3 |
|
8 |
CREATION |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
5+8 |
4+0 |
4+0 |
C |
= |
3 |
- |
|
CREATION |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
4+0 |
- |
- |
C |
= |
3 |
- |
|
CREATION |
|
|
|
CREATION REACTION CREATION
R |
= |
9 |
- |
- |
REACTION |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
C |
3 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
O |
15 |
6 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
N |
14 |
5 |
5 |
R |
= |
9 |
|
8 |
REACTION |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
5+8 |
4+0 |
4+0 |
R |
= |
9 |
- |
|
REACTION |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
4+0 |
- |
- |
R |
= |
9 |
- |
|
REACTION |
|
|
|
C |
= |
3 |
- |
- |
CREATOR |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
C |
3 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
O |
15 |
6 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
C |
= |
3 |
|
7 |
CREATOR |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
8+0 |
4+0 |
4+0 |
C |
= |
3 |
- |
|
CREATOR |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
C |
= |
3 |
- |
|
CREATOR |
|
|
|
R |
= |
9 |
- |
- |
REACTOR |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
C |
3 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
O |
15 |
6 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
R |
= |
9 |
|
7 |
REACTOR |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
8+0 |
3+5 |
3+5 |
R |
= |
9 |
- |
|
REACTOR |
|
|
|
C |
= |
3 |
- |
- |
CREATORS |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
C |
3 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
O |
15 |
6 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
S |
19 |
10 |
1 |
C |
= |
3 |
|
8 |
CREATORS |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
9+9 |
4+0 |
3+6 |
C |
= |
3 |
- |
|
CREATORS |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1+8 |
- |
- |
C |
= |
3 |
- |
|
CREATORS |
|
|
|
R |
= |
9 |
- |
- |
REACTORS |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
C |
3 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
O |
15 |
6 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
S |
19 |
10 |
1 |
R |
= |
9 |
|
8 |
REACTORS |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
9+9 |
4+0 |
3+6 |
R |
= |
9 |
- |
|
REACTORS |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1+8 |
- |
- |
R |
= |
9 |
- |
|
REACTORS |
|
|
|
C |
= |
3 |
- |
- |
CREATING |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
C |
3 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
N |
14 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
G |
7 |
7 |
7 |
C |
= |
3 |
|
8 |
CREATING |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
7+7 |
4+1 |
4+1 |
C |
= |
3 |
- |
|
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|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1+4 |
- |
- |
C |
= |
3 |
- |
|
CREATING |
|
|
|
R |
= |
9 |
- |
- |
REACTING |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
C |
3 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
N |
14 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
G |
7 |
7 |
7 |
R |
= |
9 |
|
8 |
REACTING |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
7+7 |
4+1 |
4+1 |
R |
= |
9 |
- |
|
REACTING |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1+4 |
- |
- |
R |
= |
9 |
- |
|
REACTING |
|
|
|
C |
= |
3 |
- |
- |
CREATIVITY |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
C |
3 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
V |
22 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
Y |
25 |
7 |
7 |
C |
= |
3 |
|
|
CREATIVITY |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
1+0 |
- |
1+3+2 |
5+1 |
5+1 |
C |
= |
3 |
- |
|
CREATIVITY |
|
|
|
R |
= |
9 |
- |
- |
REACTIVITY |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
C |
3 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
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- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
V |
22 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
T |
20 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
Y |
25 |
7 |
7 |
R |
= |
9 |
|
|
REACTIVITY |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
1+0 |
- |
1+3+2 |
5+1 |
5+1 |
R |
= |
9 |
- |
|
REACTIVITY |
|
|
|
C |
= |
3 |
|
8 |
CREATION |
|
|
|
R |
= |
9 |
|
8 |
REACTION |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
C |
= |
3 |
|
7 |
CREATOR |
|
|
|
R |
= |
9 |
|
7 |
REACTOR |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
C |
= |
3 |
|
8 |
CREATORS |
|
|
|
R |
= |
9 |
|
8 |
REACTORS |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
C |
= |
3 |
|
8 |
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|
|
|
R |
= |
9 |
|
8 |
REACTING |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
C |
= |
3 |
|
|
CREATIVITY |
|
|
|
R |
= |
9 |
|
|
REACTIVITY |
|
|
|
R |
= |
9 |
- |
- |
RENEWED |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
N |
14 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
W |
23 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
E |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
D |
4 |
4 |
4 |
R |
= |
9 |
|
|
RENEWED |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
7+4 |
3+8 |
3+8 |
R |
= |
9 |
- |
|
RENEWED |
|
|
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1+1 |
1+1 |
1+1 |
R |
= |
9 |
- |
|
RENEWED |
|
|
|
MAN AND THE STARS
CONTACT AND COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER INTELLIGENCE
THE MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS FROM OUTER SPACE
Duncan Lunan 1974
'A. The ''Foreseedble'' Mission
1; Will There Be Suitable Planets?
Witness this new-made World, another Heaven
From Heaven-gate not far, founded in view
On the clear hyaline, the glassy sea:
Of amplitude almost immense,with stars
Numerous, and every star perhap's a world
Of destined habitation...
Milton Paradise Lost Book 7, II. 617 - 62
LIFE OUT THEIR
THE TRUTH OF - AND SEARCH FOR - EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
Michael White 1998
Page 97
"The first venue for Phoenix was / Page 98 / Australia, where astronomers used the Parkes 64-metre antenna and the Mopra 22-metre antenna, both in New South Wales. Because Australia was the first site, a very high proportion of the stars in the targeted group were those seen only in the Southern Hemisphere, including 650 G-Dwarf stars. In 1996, the system was taken back to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia, where a 40-metre dish was used to follow through the next stage of the search. The project is currently established at the largest radio telescope in the world - the 305-metre Arcibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.
At the time of going to press, the interstellar 'airwaves' remain silent, but no one involved in the Phoenix project thought there would be much chance of immediate success. And indeed, there are some astronomers who suggest that the official SETI teams are going about things the wrong way. They argue that radio telescopes should be turned towards the centre of the Milky Way, where the stars are far more densely packed and where, they say, there is a far greater chance of finding something interesting. But this has associated problems, not least of which is the fact that it would be very difficult to'separate the multitude of natural signals constantly emitted from so many stellar objects. As the British astronomer Michael Rowan-Robinson says: 'Looking along the plane of the galaxy, like looking at car headlights in a traffic jam, makes it very difficult to detect one source of radio emission from another. And, if such radio emissions would also fade away over distance, we would probably detect nothing.'
An alternative argument is that we should not be looking for radio signals at all. Some researchers suggest that an advanced alien race would have dispensed with radio long ago, and may be . sending information using lasers. Others assume that the majority of surviving civilisations in the Universe would be far in advance of us and might be located by searching for the heat they generate as a by-product of their energy-production systems.
The eminent American physicist, and one-time associate of Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, who works at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, has proposed a scheme by which a very advanced technology could produce an almost limitless fuel / Page 99 / supply. He speculates that a sufficiently developed civilisation could harness the total energy output of their home sun by building a sphere of receivers and energy converters around it. These 'Dyson spheres', as they have become known, would of course provide tremendous amounts of energy but would also radiate commensurate amounts of heat, which could be detected lightyears away in the infrared region of the spectrum. Others have taken this idea even further by suggesting that civilisations perhaps millions of years in advance of our own could utilise the energy output of an entire galaxy, or even a cluster of galaxies, and that some of the many types of energy source we see in distant parts of the Universe are the waste products from such processes." This has led those involved with SETI to categorise potential civilisations into three distinct classes.
Type-I cultures (which include us) are those which have developed to the point where they can exploit the natural resources of a single, home world. A Type-II civilisation would be capable of building something like Dyson spheres and processing the entire energy output of their sun. This level of development would almost certainly be associated with the ability to travel interstellar distances. Such cultures may also have developed means by which they could circumnavigate the hurdles presented by the light-speed restriction. A culture that had reached this stage of development would be thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of years in advance of us.
A Type-III civilisation would be millions of years ahead of us, / Page 100 / and would have developed the technology to utilise the entire resources of their galaxy, an ability which to us appears God-like but is actually possible within the laws of physics. It is nothing more supernatural than a consequence of a life-form starting their evolutionary development a little before us in relative, universal terms. To us, such beings would demonstrate God-like powers, but they too would have originated in a slurry of single-celled organisms on some far-distant planet. They would simply have had a longer time in which to develop.
This classification was first postulated in the 1960s, quickly becoming an internationally accepted standard. This was also the most active period of Soviet work on the search for alien civilisations, and on one occasion scientists in the USSR actually thought for a while that they had encountered a Type-III civilisation.
It was 1965, the Russians were leading the world in efforts to detect messages from ETs, and their top researcher was a man named Nikolai Kardashev (who was also the first to discuss seriously the idea of super-civilisations and civilisation types). One morning at the Crimea Deep Space Station, Kardashev's team detected an incredibly strong signal that was certainly of extraterrestrial origin. The interesting thing about it was not simply its power, but the fact that the signal seemed to slowly change frequency over time, sweeping through a broad band. This type of signal was quite unprecedented, and to the Soviet team almost certainly the fingerprint of a civilisation attempting to make contact.
Against his better judgement, but bowing to pressure from his colleagues, Kardashev decided to announce the finding publicly, declaring to the world's press that the source was almost certainly an extraterrestrial civilisation. Sadly, it was not to be. Within hours, scientists at Caltech in the US contacted their Russian colleagues to inform them that what they had observed fitted exactly the description of an object they too had detected a few months earlier and had been studying ever since. They called the source a 'quasar', or quasi-stellar object, and it was definitely not a signal from an advanced civilisation of any description.
Quasars are still only partially understood. Scientists know that they are tremendously powerful sources of electromagnetic radi-/ Page 101 / ation and that they are moving away from us at high speeds. They are believed to be extremely turbulent galaxies - a seething mass of matter and energy very different from our own stable Milky Way. It is suspected that at the heart of each quasar lies a black hole which traps within its intense gravitational field anything that approaches it. As matter and energy are sucked in, but before they disappear behind what physicists call the 'event horizon' (from which there is no return), they collide with other forms of matter already trapped there and emit energy that may just escape the gravitational clutches of the nearby black hole.
Quasars are fascinating and exotic stellar objects, and their close study has provided new insights into the nature of the Universe; but they are not the only strange objects to be discovered by accident and mistaken for the hallmarks of extraterrestrial intelligence.
In 1967, a Ph.D. student at Cambridge University named Jocelyn Bell detected a strong, regular signal coming from deep space in the waterhole region of the spectrum. After reporting the findings to her supervisor, Anthony Hewish, they agreed they would not go public until they had investigated the signal fully. Gradually they eliminated all possible conventional sources until they realised that the signal was actually an emission from a strange object in deep space that was sending out an almost p.erfectly regular pulse. The object was then found to be a neutron star, or 'pulsar', the remains of a dead star that had collapsed under its own gravitational field so much that the electrons orbiting the nucleus of the atoms making up the star had been jammed into the nuclei and fused with protons to form neutrons. This super-dense matter emits pulses with such regularity that pulsars are thought to be'the most accurate clocks in th'e Universe.
Since Bell and Hewish's discovery, other regular signals have been detected which have not originated from pulsars or any terrestrial source, but have appeared only once. A team led by Professor Michael Horowitz at Harvard University has reported thirty-seven such signals during the past ten years, all within twenty-five light-years of Earth, but because they have not been repeated they do not qualify as genuine candidates for signals from a race trying to contact us. They could, of course, be one-off / Page 102 / leakages from specific events, but we might never know, and for scientists to analyse a signal properly, they need a repeated, strong, regular pulse.
So far, the most important find was a signal detected at the Ohio State University 'Big Ear' radio telescope in August 1977. Known by SETI researchers and enthusiasts as the 'Wow' signal, after the monosyllabic exclamation written on the computer print-out by an astonished astronomer at the station, it lasted exactly thirty-seven seconds and appears to have come from the direction of Sagittarius. Although, most strikingly, the signal was a narrow-band signal precisely at the hydrogen frequency of 1420 MHz, it has not been detected even a second time, in Sagittarius or anywhere else.
So, what of the future? Is the continuing search for intelligent life in the Universe a total waste of money, as its opponents insist, or are we perhaps on the threshold of a great discovery?
In commercial terms, SETI is potentially the greatest scientific bargain ever. The cost of the project to the US government was a tenth of 1 per cent of NASA's annual budget and is now financed privately, so even the die-hard sceptics cannot claim that it is drain on the tax-payer. Furthermore, the potential gains from the success of the project would be unparalleled in human history. Quite simply, there is absolutely nothing to lose in trying.
More problematic will be maintaining the momentum of a project which, year after year, fails to deliver the goods. The argument against this is that both pulsars and quasars were discovered indirectly through the efforts of SETI researchers, and it is also true that improvements in techniques. and development of new types of equipment used in the search will filter down into other areas of research and then on to everyday use.
However, one difficulty for future researchers will be the growing level of terrestrial interference. Some enthusiasts argue that we are currently living through a window of opportunity in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and that the embryonic communications revolution will soon work against our chances of detecting a pure signal from another world."
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• For more than twenty-five years, astronomers have been observing sudden bursts of energy from a variety of different locations in the cosmos. They detect these bursts, which are thought to be the result of the most powerful explosions ever witnessed, by following a left-over trace of gamma rays (a form of electromagnetic radiation) that reach the Earth. There are literally hundreds of theories that attempt to explain these bursts, including the notion that they could be the result of the activities of some super-civilisation. Recently, one such burst was carefully monitored and found to have come from an explosion so powerful that in ten minutes the source produced more energy than the total output of our Sun during its lifetime. Astronomers are actively chasing the source and the cause of this phenomenon and hope to solve the mystery after one more sustained observation of the effect. The trouble is, no one knows when or where the next one will be.
REALITY FORBIDDEN
Phillip E. High 1967
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" IN THE bright light where he had been resting, Welt sprang to his feet.
You betrayed me."
"I did not contract to conceal you. You asked to stay here and I permitted you to do so."
Welt swore but there was sweat on his face.
Far away, Gilliad said, "You supplied the dream machines."
"Not precisely; they were adapted from information I supplied for a less comprehensive purpose."
"But you knew it could be adapted?"
"Technical information is neutral. It creates or destroys not of itself but according to the requirements of those who possess it."
Gilliad scowled at the mike in his hand, becoming slowly aware that he was dealing with an intelligence far greater than his own. "Am I to understand you dispense technical information irrespective of who asks for it?"
"Correct."
"But, good God, you could have provided the Immunes with a weapon which could have destroyed humanity."
"That offer was made but rejected since they, themselves, would have perished with it."
Gilliad swore under his breath. "What exactly is your purpose-what do you do?" / Page 181 /
I do nothing. My purpose is to dispense technical information, irrespective of who asks it and, again, irrespective of the ends to which that information is put."
Gilliad resisted an inclination to. scratch his head; he was out af his depth and knew it. Finally he said almost to himself, "There must be a reason."
"Of course there is a reason"
"Then I would like to know it"
"Very well, but please give your imagination rein. I represent Intelligences so highly evolved to attempt to explain it is impossible. Their life span is by your standards infinite; to them a million years tick past like seconds; they observe the birth and death of suns and passing of galaxies as you note the changing of seasons. Above all else, hnwever, their compassion for all living intelligences is absolute."
The voice paused, then went on: "The universe is, again by your standards, infinite. Let me assure you that from this planet, even with instruments, you observe a fraction so small as to be almost non-existent when set against the true immensity of things as they are.
"Bear this in mind when I tell you that uncountable intelligences come into being every second and, every second, intelligences such as yours reach the most critical period in their development.
"This critical period may be likened to the transition from pupa to butterfly but is many, many tirnes more dangerous. When a culture reaches this stage it is poised between maturity and eternity. When I tell you that out of every twenty million cultures to reach this stage only two achieve maturity you will perceive some of the true hazards.
"You, yourselves, were tottering on the brink of chaos, threatened with war, devastating weapons and undoubted financial collapse. So many like you have perished from / Page 183 / the universe forever in this critical stage of transition.
"Something had to be done, therefore, without actively interfering with the free growth of the culture involved and, after many experiments, this one was found to be the most successful. Since its inception the appalling figure of two in twenty-million has risen to a ninety per cent survival figure." The voice stopped.
Gilliad swallowed and looked helplessly at his two companions. Then he said, "But how?" numbly.
"The introduction of advanced technologies provide a guide line for the ascending culture. It is irrelevant, how those technologies are used; the culture is, at this stage, psychotically introvert and its attention must be diverted from itself"
"But, good God, we were enslaved for nearly three centuries; millions perished."
"True, but it might have been the entire race of man. Absolute compassion must, to succeed, resort to absolute ruthlessness or at least manifest itself as apparent ruthlessness. It cannot afford to concern itself with individual tragedies or intransient persecutions when the survival of an entire culture is at stake."
Osterly craned forward to the mike. "Apart from that we don't seem to benefit very much, do we?"
"You are speaking from your emotions and not your intelligence. Already you have opened up entirely new fields in psychiatry and stepped into an entirely new conception of the human mind. You have, without my help, devised a telepathic device which will wipe away forever all misunderstandings between races and individuals. Again, you have a mechanism you call the 'subjo' the workings of which I am fully prepared to explain. This mechanism, when exploited, will not only provide nearly costless transport, it will give you the stars."
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"We also have over a million Imnunes," said Gilliad angrily "A million enemies af the people"
"Correction. You have one million, two hundred and eighty thousand, six hundred and five."
"What difference daes it make? They are enemies."
"Again, correction. You have one million, two hundred and eighty thousand, six hundred and five mentally sick patients far whom you are responsible."
Gilliad was shaken. It was an entirely fresh view af an immediate prablem and he was sensitive enough, despite his anger, to see its truth. Somehow the implied rebuke heightened the obvious truth af the statement.
"Can they be cured?"
"Yes, they can be cured but, in view af your state of development, it is, perhaps, fortunate to add that the cure is not pleasant. Treatment, therefore, can be reconciled both with justice and with punishment. Your patients, in order to effect a lasting cure, will have to be beamed into the belief that they are Susceptibles. They will have to be convinced that they are addicts and that all these centuries of power have been subjective. Only then will they respond to the treatments already in your possession and emerge as sane and responsible people."
Gilliad stared unseeingly across the apparently empty landscape, awed and not a little shocked. "Are you ane of these demigods?"
"No', I am an instrument-one of many, many more.
We follow a routine practice which scarcely varies no matter what life form has reached its critical stage af development. We land unobserved and unnoticed-naturally we have advanced techniques far circumventing detection instruments. Having landed, we link with the culture's communication systems, break down and learn all the languages. We familiarise ourselves with politics, history, / Page 184 / local and general; customs, traditions, mores and, of course, draw up a comprehensive psychological graph in respect of the entire culture.
"We are then ready for the first contact and we adapt our outward appearances to the psychological development of the particular native as he or she approaches."
"It sounds very pretty." Grimm's voice was harsh. " But as I see it, in view of the fact that you hand out any information gratis, you could be providing the instruments of a planet's destruction. You could be handing an atom bomb to an imbecile."
"Let me assure you that our percentages are precise beyond reasonable doubt. If a culture does destroy itself with the information we provide them, I assure you it would have destroyed itself in any case and without our intervention."
JOURNEY = 108 36 9 36 108 = JOURNEY
JUST SIX NUMBERS
Martin Rees
1
999
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'
THE
QUESTION
HAS BEEN ASKED AGAIN AND AGAIN
IS THERE SOME MEANS OF KNOWING WHEN THE MOMENT HAS COME TO TAKE
THE TIDE AT THE
FLOOD
EIGHTEEN+THIRTYSIX = 9 9 = EIGHTEEN+THIRTYSIX
GOD WITH US 1836 US WITH GOD
CHEIRO'S BOOK OF NUMBERS
Circa 1926
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"Shakespeare, that Prince of Philosophers, whose thoughts will adorn English literature for all time, laid down the well-known axiom: There is a tide in the affairs of men which if taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." The question has been asked again and again, Is there some means of knowing when the moment has come to take the tide at the flood?
My answer to this question is that the Great Architect of the Universe in His Infinite Wisdom so created all things in such harmony of design that He endowed the human mind with some part of that omnipotent knowledge which is the attribute of the Divine Mind as the Creator of all.
The question has been asked again and again, Is there some means of knowing when the moment has come to take the tide at the flood?
THE
QUESTION
HAS BEEN ASKED AGAIN AND AGAIN
IS THERE SOME MEANS OF KNOWING WHEN THE MOMENT HAS COME TO TAKE
THE TIDE AT THE
FLOOD
T |
= |
2 |
- |
3 |
THE |
33 |
15 |
6 |
Q |
= |
8 |
- |
8 |
QUESTION |
120 |
39 |
3 |
H |
= |
8 |
- |
3 |
HAS |
28 |
10 |
1 |
B |
= |
2 |
- |
4 |
BEEN |
26 |
17 |
8 |
A |
= |
1 |
- |
5 |
ASKED |
40 |
13 |
4 |
A |
= |
1 |
- |
5 |
AGAIN |
32 |
23 |
5 |
A |
= |
1 |
- |
3 |
AND |
19 |
10 |
1 |
A |
= |
1 |
- |
5 |
AGAIN |
32 |
23 |
5 |
I |
= |
9 |
- |
2 |
IS |
28 |
10 |
1 |
T |
= |
2 |
- |
5 |
THERE |
56 |
29 |
2 |
S |
= |
1 |
- |
4 |
SOME |
52 |
16 |
7 |
M |
= |
4 |
- |
5 |
MEANS |
52 |
16 |
7 |
O |
= |
6 |
- |
2 |
OF |
21 |
12 |
3 |
K |
= |
2 |
- |
7 |
KNOWING |
93 |
39 |
3 |
W |
= |
5 |
- |
4 |
WHEN |
50 |
23 |
5 |
T |
= |
2 |
- |
3 |
THE |
33 |
15 |
6 |
M |
= |
4 |
- |
6 |
MOMENT |
80 |
26 |
8 |
H |
= |
8 |
- |
3 |
HAS |
28 |
10 |
1 |
C |
= |
3 |
- |
4 |
COME |
36 |
18 |
9 |
T |
= |
2 |
- |
2 |
TO |
35 |
8 |
8 |
T |
= |
2 |
- |
4 |
TAKE |
37 |
10 |
1 |
T |
= |
2 |
- |
3 |
THE |
33 |
15 |
6 |
T |
= |
2 |
- |
4 |
TIDE |
38 |
20 |
2 |
A |
= |
1 |
- |
2 |
AT |
21 |
3 |
3 |
T |
= |
2 |
- |
3 |
THE |
33 |
15 |
6 |
F |
= |
6 |
- |
5 |
FLOOD |
52 |
25 |
7 |
B |
- |
87 |
|
104 |
First Total |
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|
|
- |
- |
8+7 |
- |
1+0+4 |
Add to Reduce |
1+1+0+8 |
4+6+0 |
1+1+8 |
- |
- |
15 |
- |
5 |
Second Total |
|
|
|
- |
- |
1+5 |
- |
- |
Reduce to Deduce |
1+0 |
1+0 |
1+0 |
- |
- |
6 |
- |
|
Essence of Number |
|
|
|
YOU ARE GOING ON A JOURNEY A VERY SPECIAL JOURNEY DO HAVE A PLEASANT JOURNEY DO
Q |
= |
8 |
- |
- |
QUO VADIS |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
Q |
17 |
8 |
8 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
U |
21 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
O |
15 |
6 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
V |
22 |
4 |
4 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
A |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
D |
4 |
4 |
4 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
S |
19 |
1 |
1 |
Q |
= |
8 |
|
8 |
QUO VADIS |
108 |
36 |
36 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1+0+8 |
3+6 |
3+6 |
Q |
= |
8 |
- |
8 |
QUO VADIS |
|
|
|
WHITHER GOEST THOU
221-86-14-5
5-14-86-221
THOU GOEST WHITHER
Q |
= |
8 |
- |
- |
QUO VADIS |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
Q |
17 |
8 |
8 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
U+O |
36 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
3 |
V+A+D |
27 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
S |
19 |
1 |
1 |
Q |
= |
8 |
|
8 |
QUO VADIS |
108 |
36 |
36 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1+0+8 |
3+6 |
3+6 |
Q |
= |
8 |
- |
8 |
QUO VADIS |
|
|
|
8 |
QUO VADIS |
108 |
36 |
9 |
6 |
VOX POP |
108 |
36 |
9 |
11 |
SORROW |
108 |
36 |
9 |
8 |
INSTINCT |
108 |
36 |
9 |
11 |
DESCENDANTS |
108 |
36 |
9 |
8 |
STARTING |
108 |
36 |
9 |
9 |
NARRATIVE |
108 |
36 |
9 |
9 |
SEQUENCES |
108 |
36 |
9 |
9 |
COMPLETES |
108 |
36 |
9 |
9 |
AMBIGUOUS |
108 |
36 |
9 |
7 |
JOURNEY |
108 |
36 |
9 |
FIRST CONTACT
11 |
|
102 |
48 |
|
2 |
|
21 |
12 |
|
10 |
|
121 |
58 |
|
10 |
|
102 |
57 |
|
10 |
|
117 |
45 |
|
9 |
|
113 |
50 |
|
3 |
|
33 |
15 |
|
9 |
|
95 |
41 |
|
2 |
|
21 |
12 |
|
16 |
|
213 |
78 |
|
12 |
|
115 |
61 |
|
|
First Total |
|
|
|
9+4 |
Add to Reduce |
1+0+5+3 |
4+7+7 |
5+4 |
|
Second Total |
|
|
|
1+3 |
Reduce to Deduce |
- |
1+8 |
- |
|
Essence of Number |
|
|
|
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and the Consequences:. Futurological Reflections on the Confrontation of Mankind with an. Extraterrestrial ...
[This draft of a revised article is made available courtesy of Dr. Michael Schetsche for the
members, supporters, and site visitors of Astrosociology.com – posted 01/07/2005]
[Translated from the original German version]
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and the Consequences:
Futurological Reflections on the Confrontation of Mankind with an
Extraterrestrial Civilization
by
Dr. Michael Schetsche
In March 2003 the SETI@home-Project [Link1] which had become known worldwide not least
because of its innovative use of the internet, entered into its second phase: For two days researchers
could use the largest radio telescope in the world in Arecibo (Puerto Rico) to further investigate 150
radio sources which had shown ”anomalies” during the evaluation of data of the last four years. But
even the participating researchers consider it highly unlikely to discover in this way a signal of
unmistakably intelligent origin. And it is good that way. Because SETI-research is, from the
viewpoint of socio-psychology, High-Risk-Research. However, nobody has realized it yet – not even
the participating scientists. This essay investigates with futurological methods the possible
consequences of contact with an extraterrestrial civilization for the culture on earth.
In the four decades of SETI-research committed debates were held concerning promising search
strategies, suitable listening techniques and possible communication codes (current: Lesch/Müller
2004). However, the following question was almost always cut out: What would be the social consequences in case a SETI -project would actually be successful or mankind would be confronted
in another way with the existence of an Extraterrestrial civilization? Until today this question has
hardly been systematically investigated – apart from the works of the American psychologist Albert
A. Harrison. For this abstinence of the SETI-researchers and the scientific community there are at
first glance a number of good reasons: Refraining from the apparent wastefulness of scientific
resources by concerning oneself with hypothetical questions, a lack of interest in such questions by
2
governmental sponsors and the unsettled competences between natural science and social science
concerning problems at the intersection between mankind and cosmos. But there is another reason for this apparent disinterest: The fear to really contemplate the terrestrial
consequences of a confrontation with extraterrestrials. What should be of concern is especially the
question where we will meet the aliens if indeed the ‘day x’ has arrived sometime. Until now the vast
majority of SETI-researchers has attempted to ban the aliens, at least intellectually, into as far a
distance as possible, almost into a fictitious quarantine, out of which they may communicate with
us. ”It is further assumed that the ETIs are located in or near their own solar system, at immense
distances form Earth...” (Billingham 2002: 668 – emphasis by M. Sch). That the aliens will stay
where they come from (i.e. in their own solar system) is less a scientifically founded assumption than
wishful thinking which is also fed by the fear of the possibility that everything could also happen
very differently.
Until today researchers vehemently attempt to give the impression that the ‘first contact’ is only
conceivable as a long-distance-contact with the help of radio waves or laser light. The possibility
of a direct meeting however is categorically dismissed by almost all involved. The central argument
that is proposed for this pre-assumption is the extremely long travel time resulting from the great
distances between planetary systems (here one speaks of centuries if not millennia). However, this
only makes sense on the basis of several anthropocentric pre-assumptions: a travel technology and
temporality of the traveler similar to those of mankind, subject-oriented travel planning and the ‘biological quality’ of the potential visitors. No doubt all this is assumed in the debates about the
contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. In view of the lack of any knowledge regarding the forms
of extraterrestrial life, such pre-assumptions are indeed everything but self-evident. Aliens could
have a life expectancy a hundredfold higher than that of humans, they could use generations space
ships, they could send highly developed robots, they could use completely different travel
technologies etc. We simply don’t know that. And thus we also can’t say anything about whether the
first contact, if it should happen at all, would indeed be established through a radio signal.
In spite of all exobiological play of thoughts (Fuchs 1972; Heidmann 1995; Clark 2000) prior to the
actual contact we simply don’t know anything about the physical outfitting, the technological
possibilities or the motives of the strangers. Thus it hardly makes any sense to include their
hypothetical qualities in the reflections on the consequences of such a contact. Nevertheless, we can
think about such questions on the basis of our knowledge of the circumstances on earth itself, such
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as the psychic constitution of mankind and its forms of social organizations. If we take the preassumptions
of the SETI-research about the existence of an enormous number of extraterrestrial
civilizations seriously, there would be four factors, completely independent of the hypothetical
qualities of the aliens, which will determine the reaction of mankind to a first contact: (1) the kind
of contact, (2) the place where it occurs, (3) our collective psychological projections as well as (4)
the possibility to keep the event secret.
(1) The kind of contact
The hopes of almost all SETI-researchers today concentrate on a long-distance-contact through radio
waves – perhaps also because that would have quite likely less far-reaching consequences for
mankind than a close contact. The further away we know the aliens to be, the less threatening their
existence appears to be. If, based on the already mentioned anthropocentric basic assumptions, we
wouldn’t have to be prepared for a physical visit of extraterrestrials, the dramatic variant of another
contact scenario would also loose its probability: the idea of a physical colonization by a superior
civilization of extraterrestrials (as can be found in movies such as ”Independence Day”). A distance
of several thousand light years would – regrettably for terrestrial scientists – de facto exclude a short
term communication, however within the mentioned framework of prior assumptions it would also
largely render superfluous the fear of a real meeting.
Something similar would apply regarding the question of temporal distance, if we consider the case
of a ‘contact’ with the help of a technological artifact (cf. Brookings-Report 1960: 42, 182;
Harrison/Johnson 2002: 113; Zaun 2004). In contrast to initiating contact with the help of
electromagnetic waves, where the spatial distance automatically determines the temporal distance
as well, in this case we deal with a temporal difference between sending and receiving of a message
which is independent of the spatial distance between the civilizations. As a classical fictitious case
one can consider the novel / movie ”2001 – A Space Odyssey”: While exploring the moon, humans
discover the artifact of a foreign civilization which was left there several millions of years ago
apparently for establishing contact in the future (cf. Hurst 2004).
(2) The Space of Contact
Compared to such a long-distance-contact, every kind of immediate contact, whether with aliens
themselves or with representatives they created, would have extremely dramatic cultural impacts.
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It is my thesis that in this case too the spatial distances are of great importance: the closer to earth
such a physical contact occurs, the more negative will be the psychological and social consequences.
One can substantiate this thesis first with our sociological and psychological knowledge about the
short-term consequences of unexpected meetings with strangers and secondly with the historical
experiences of long-term consequences of symmetrical cultural contacts here on earth.
Let’s begin with the short-term consequences. As sociological research shows, the felt notion of a
threat amongst humans increases the closer to one’s own social habitat the meeting with a potentially
dangerous opponent occurs. Reports of crimes in ones own town are more disturbing than those in
other cities, violence in ones own part of town induces more fear than that in other parts of the town
etc. By far the strongest worry however is felt by humans if that which is felt as threatening appears
in ‘ones own four walls’.
We can conclude from this that the eruption of mass panics is most likely when the contact occurs
on earth itself, in the ‘living room’ of mankind so to speak. Here again the geographical distance will
play an important role. If contact occurs at a singular place (in the sense of classical science-fiction
scenarios through the landing of a single flying object), the fierceness of the reaction of individuals
depends on the felt distance of one’s own life center from the place of the event. For his kind of
reaction we even have a direct empirical proof: the reaction of the population to the broadcast of the
radio play ”The War of the Worlds” according to the novel of H. G. Wells in 1938 (cf.
Harrison/Elms 1990; Harrison/Johnson 2002; Bartholomew/Evans 2004: 40-55). Erroneously many
people considered the landing of ‘Martians” as real and tens of thousands tried in great panic to bring
as far a distance between them and the assumed place of the event as possible. In view of this one
can barely contemplate the possibility of several landings at the same time at various places.
Individually and collectively this would be considered an ‘invasion of extraterrestrials’ and would
almost certainly lead to a global panic reaction.
Slightly less dramatic would be an initiation of contact in earth orbit. From the point of managing
a catastrophe this would also have the advantage that panic escape reactions (including the collapse
of local traffic, mass accidents etc.) would largely fail to occur simply because changing one’s place
would not make any sense in this case. The other side of that picture however would be that panic
reactions could not find their physical expression in a collective move to escape and thus could not
get discharged. (As we know from panic research, the impossibility of a spatial escape from a
perceived threat can lead to a psychological-emotional ‘escape’ into lethargy or denial of reality.)
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The further from earth the first contact would occur, the more marginal would be the visible
reactions of the people. A meeting beyond the orbit of earth would probably visibly diminish the
intensity of the immediate emotional reactions as compared to the two scenarios above. But what
about medium-term consequences? Based on our experiences with contacts between human cultures
in the past centuries, a contact on earth itself or in earth orbit would hardly make any difference.
During contacts between different human cultures in the past it didn’t matter whether the ‘discoverers’ met the ‘discovered’ close inshore or on land. In both cases the roles mentioned were
the same. For the ‘discoverers’ the discovery far from their home proved their superiority,
correspondingly for the ‘discovered’ the fact, to be confronted with strangers on their own territory,
proved their inferiority. In all historic cases the discrepancy regarding the technical level of transport
was interpreted by both sides as a sign of superiority and inferiority respectively.
The systematic investigation (Bitterli 1986, 1991) into such asymmetric cultural contacts on earth
shows that they not only threaten the cultural survival of the inferior people but invariably also their
physical existence. And this was the case not only when the ‘intruder’ (like the Spanish in America)
from the very beginning behaved as conquerors but also when the first contacts were primarily
marked by mutual curiosity (cf. Rausch 1922: 19). In all these cases the destruction of the culture
which considered itself inferior was not the result of a real military or technological superiority of
the ‘conquerors’ but a consequence of mass psychological effects to ‘being discovered’ (cf. Rausch
1002, Michaud 1999: 272). Thus many nations of America and Oceania suffered a collective
existential shock after the arrival of the whites. It led to the collapse of their religious and cultural
belief systems which resulted in a medium-term disintegration of the economical and social systems.
In some cases moreover it led to a collective suicide of an entire population (cf. Müller 2004: 196).
In summary one can say that at the first contact between human cultures the one on the territory
of which the contact occurred was regularly existentially endangered. Translated into a contact
with an extraterrestrial civilization this means: at least earth itself and the technically used earth orbit
form - in mass psychological respect - the territory of mankind. Any meeting in this region would
mean: we are the ‘discovered’ and the others the ‘discoverers’. All experiences we made on earth
with such asymmetric cultural contacts speak against the ‘millennium scenario’ which all scientists
implore again and again (Ashkenaszi et al 1992; Michaud 1999) which promises mankind through
an encounter with extraterrestrials an immense scientific, ethical or spiritual developmental thrust.
Much more probable would be a global existential shock which would lead to the collapse of many
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social, religious and political institutions on earth. And this is independent of the motives, goals and
technological capabilities of the extraterrestrials.
(3) Collective Projections
In any case, the ‘sure knowledge’ of the others would remain extremely limited even after the
contact. At the reception of a radio signal there would be only very few – but in the context of the
above considerations absolutely consequential – ‘hard’ facts: Source coordinates of the broadcast,
distance and relative speed of the sender, technical potential of the sender (cf. Harrison 1997: 199-
200. Harrison/Johnson 2002: 100). What kind of information can be extract from such a broadcast
over and above such technical data is controversial within the SETI-research (cf. the overview at
Schmitz 1997). In such debates however it is regularly overlooked, that understanding strangers even
amongst people is already dependant on quite a number of pre-assumptions. Mutual understanding
between cultural strangers on earth is based on anthropocentric constants, which enable us to
insinuate that the opposite person has similar physical needs, sensory possibilities, modes of
perceiving the world, motivations etc. All these are preconditions which are not given at a contact
with extraterrestrials. They rather face us as maximal strangers where even the most general preassumptions
have to remain uncertain (Schetsche 2004; cf. Bach 2004).
In case of the radio-contact-scenario we have no possibility to come to know anything about the
physical constitution let alone the psycho-social, ethical or spiritual disposition of the other. Thus
it seems to me doubtful whether the optimism that is being displayed by the SETI-researchers (e.g.
McConnell 2001) regarding a meaningful interpretation of extraterrestrial messages in indeed
appropriate. (A comprehensive critique of the pre-assumptions of this research can be found at
Schmitz 1997).
But even if we were standing directly across from the extraterrestrials, the situation wouldn’t be
much different. Whatever ‘look’ the other may have, we will observe their outer appearance (if it is
visible for humans at all) in a way that enables us a comparison with human life, however far fetched
it may be. And this will not only necessarily lead to assigning them (pre-consciously) corresponding
stereotypical behavior, but this could also quite likely trigger atavistic escape- and fight-reflexes. In
this respect one could (following a formulation of the German social scientist Heinrich Popitz) speak
of a ”pre-emptive effect of not knowing”: The less we know about the physical form of the
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extraterrestrial the less visual stereotypes or inherited schemata of behavior will influence what we
do. Knowledge about the ‘look’ of the aliens will therefore not lead us to understanding them better
but merely to misunderstanding them faster.
Thus Albert A. Harrison rightly assumes that our impressions of the extraterrestrials will be based
less on their ‘objective qualities’ than on our own pre-assumptions, prejudice and stereotype
allocations (Harrison 1997: 198; Harrison/Johnson 2002: 103-104). This means that we interpret the
observed actions of extraterrestrials completely independent of their motives and interests according
to our assignment of motives and interests. Thus the strangers will be humanized to a large degree
(cf. Michaud 1999: 266-267). While attempting to understand the aliens, we will transform them into
grotesque parodies of ourselves – with all the consequences as far as our reactions to their alleged
motives are concerned.
(4) Possibilities of secrecy
Collective psychological projections are also very significant because most people will not hear
anything from the aliens but only about them (Harrison 1997: 199, 206; Harrison/Johnson 2002:
101-102). Even if a space ship would land on earth, only very few people would be able to directly
observe it. All others would be dependant on the reports in the media, which would be necessarily
problematic already because of the typical mode of operation of the mass media – preparation of
information under time pressure, mixture of facts and fiction, strategies of dramatization and
scandalization etc. The decisive factor for the comprehensive social impact of a first contact would
ultimately be the information which the population would receive.
It has been discussed again and again whether, when and in which form such a contact should be
made public at all. A few years ago a ”Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following
the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence” [Link2] was agreed upon amongst scientific societies.
According to this, once the reception of signals by an extraterrestrial civilization was technologically
and scientifically verified, first the general secretary of the United Nations and various international organizations would be informed. Following this, the public should be informed” immediately, openly and comprehensively”. Since quite a few research institutions and a number of individuals
will be involved in the required process of verifying the data, it certainly seems questionable how realistic the course of events suggested in the declaration really is (cf. Harrison 1997: 207). It is
uncontroversial that such a signal or even a direct contact will belong to the most serious discoveries in the entire human history (cf. Heidmann 1995: 195). The ‘news value’ of such information would 8 be correspondingly high. Therefore one should ask how much time the discoverers have for
verification until the first information reaches the public. I think, not too much.
However, this is valid only in case that the ‘discoverers’ or contact persons are scientists at all who
feel bound by such points. It looks totally different if an artifact, the reception of a signal or a close
contact is under governmental control especially under the authority of the military or the secret
service. In case of restraining corresponding information by governmental offices, one can
theoretically distinguish two motivations. First, the attempts of the ‘welfare state’ to protect the
citizens and social institutions from the negative effects of such an announcement and secondly, the
efforts of the ‘power state’ to secure the exclusive access to certain information and thereby gain a
political and/or military advantage over other nations (for the last cf. Harrison 1997: 202).
In practice both motivations are hardly separable because actions based on the second motive – at
least in democratic states – go along with legitimate justifications in accordance with the first
motive. And as various examples of the 20 century th show (for example the ‘Manhattan Project’ in
the fortieth), it is quite possible to preserve serious state secrets over many years.
In contrast to the declaration of intention of many SETI-researchers it is thus quite possible that the
public - for a shorter or longer time - will not at all be informed of a first contact. And ultimately that
may even be a good thing. For in spite of all the skepticism regarding a success by the SETI researchers
themselves, their projects are, at least if one considers the potential social consequences,
nothing but an extreme example of high-risk-research.
Conclusion
For dealing with the above drafted risks, I see three alternative scenarios:
1. Protective isolationism: Ending or at least concealing all SETI-research and developing
techniques which could avoid an accidental discovery of our civilization by extraterrestrials.
2. Concerted global preparations: Systematic research into the expected psychological and social,
religious and economical effects, development of global and governmental emergency plans as well
as a massive education of the public regarding what they could be facing.
3. Enlargement of the ‘coastal strip’: A massive push to develop further the manned and
unmanned space travel with the goal to be permanently present even far beyond the earth orbit so
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that a physical contact with another civilization looses as much of its asymmetry as possible – at least
in view of a mass psychologically important first impression.
Since at the present state of the public and scientific discourse (let alone the political situation of the
world) none of the above alternatives will have any significant chance for realization in the coming
years and decades, we are left, depending on our nature, with hoping or praying, that the event of
a ‘first contact’, which is being longed for by some truly fearless ones, may be as slow as possible
in coming.
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About the author: Dr. Michael Schetsche, political scientist and sociologist, leads the department
of ”Cultural Studies and Social Research” at the Institute for ”Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und
Psychohygiene e.V.” in Freiburg (Germany). His fields of study: knowledge and media sociology,
sociology of social problems and anomalies, futurology, qualitative prognostic.
Contact: schetsche@igpp.de
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T |
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2 |
- |
5 |
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56 |
29 |
2 |
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4 |
- |
F |
= |
6 |
- |
4 |
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60 |
24 |
6 |
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5 |
- |
F |
= |
6 |
- |
4 |
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42 |
24 |
6 |
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6 |
- |
S |
= |
1 |
- |
3 |
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52 |
16 |
7 |
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7 |
- |
S |
= |
1 |
- |
5 |
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65 |
20 |
2 |
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8 |
- |
E |
= |
5 |
- |
5 |
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49 |
31 |
4 |
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4 |
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9 |
- |
N |
= |
5 |
- |
4 |
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42 |
24 |
6 |
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45 |
|
- |
- |
34 |
- |
36 |
Add |
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4+5 |
|
- |
|
3+4 |
|
3+6 |
Reduce |
4+5+8 |
1+9+7 |
4+4 |
|
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|
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1+8 |
1+4 |
|
|
9 |
- |
- |
|
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|
Deduce |
|
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- |
|
- |
|
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Produce |
1+7 |
1+7 |
- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
9 |
- |
- |
- |
7 |
- |
9 |
Essence |
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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0 |
- |
4 |
|
8 |
5 |
9 |
6 |
- |
= |
28 |
2+8 |
= |
10 |
1+0 |
1 |
1 |
- |
3 |
|
6 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
= |
16 |
1+6 |
= |
7 |
- |
7 |
2 |
- |
3 |
|
2 |
5 |
6 |
- |
- |
= |
13 |
1+3 |
= |
4 |
- |
4 |
3 |
- |
5 |
|
2 |
8 |
9 |
5 |
5 |
= |
29 |
2+9 |
= |
11 |
1+1 |
2 |
4 |
- |
4 |
|
6 |
6 |
3 |
9 |
- |
= |
24 |
2+4 |
= |
6 |
- |
6 |
5 |
- |
4 |
|
6 |
9 |
4 |
5 |
- |
= |
24 |
2+4 |
= |
6 |
- |
6 |
6 |
- |
3 |
|
1 |
9 |
6 |
- |
- |
= |
16 |
1+6 |
= |
7 |
- |
7 |
7 |
- |
5 |
|
1 |
5 |
4 |
5 |
5 |
= |
20 |
2+0 |
= |
2 |
- |
2 |
8 |
- |
5 |
|
5 |
9 |
7 |
8 |
2 |
= |
31 |
3+1 |
= |
4 |
- |
4 |
9 |
- |
4 |
|
5 |
9 |
5 |
5 |
- |
= |
24 |
2+4 |
= |
6 |
- |
6 |
45 |
- |
40 |
Add |
42 |
70 |
58 |
43 |
12 |
- |
225 |
- |
- |
63 |
- |
45 |
4+5 |
- |
4+0 |
- |
4+2 |
7+0 |
5+8 |
4+3 |
1+2 |
- |
2+2+5 |
- |
- |
6+3 |
- |
4+5 |
9 |
- |
4 |
Reduce |
6 |
7 |
13 |
7 |
3 |
- |
9 |
- |
- |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1+3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
9 |
- |
4 |
Deduce |
6 |
7 |
4 |
7 |
3 |
- |
9 |
- |
- |
9 |
- |
9 |
4 |
ZERO |
64 |
|
28 |
|
1 |
3
|
ONE |
34
|
|
16
|
|
7
|
3
|
TWO |
58
|
|
13
|
|
4
|
5
|
THREE |
56
|
|
29
|
|
2
|
4
|
FOUR |
60
|
|
24
|
|
6
|
4
|
FIVE |
42
|
|
24
|
|
6
|
3
|
SIX |
52
|
|
16
|
|
7
|
5
|
SEVEN |
65
|
|
20
|
|
2
|
5
|
EIGHT |
49
|
|
31
|
|
4
|
4
|
NINE |
42
|
|
24
|
|
6
|
3
|
TEN |
39
|
|
12
|
|
3
|
6
|
ELEVEN |
63
|
|
27
|
|
9
|
6
|
TWELVE |
87
|
|
24
|
|
6
|
8
|
THIRTEEN |
99
|
|
45
|
|
9
|
8
|
FOURTEEN |
104
|
|
41
|
|
5
|
7
|
FIFTEEN |
65
|
|
38
|
|
2
|
7
|
SIXTEEN |
96
|
|
33
|
|
6
|
9
|
SEVENTEEN |
109
|
|
37
|
|
1
|
8
|
EIGHTEEN |
73
|
|
46
|
|
1
|
8
|
NINETEEN |
86
|
|
41
|
|
5
|
6
|
TWENTY |
107
|
|
26
|
|
8
|
9
|
TWENTYONE |
141
|
|
42
|
|
6
|
9
|
TWENTYTWO |
165
|
|
39
|
|
3
|
11
|
TWENTYTHREE |
163
|
|
55
|
|
1
|
10
|
TWENTYFOUR |
167
|
|
50
|
|
5
|
10
|
TWENTYFIVE |
149
|
|
50
|
|
5
|
9
|
TWENTYSIX |
159
|
|
42
|
|
6
|
11
|
TWENTYSEVEN |
172
|
|
46
|
|
1
|
11
|
TWENTYEIGHT |
156
|
|
57
|
|
3
|
10
|
TWENTYNINE |
149
|
|
50
|
|
5
|
6
|
THIRTY |
100
|
|
37
|
|
1
|
9
|
THIRTYONE |
134
|
|
53
|
|
8
|
9
|
THIRTYTWO |
158
|
|
50
|
|
5
|
11
|
THIRTYTHREE |
156
|
|
66
|
|
3
|
10
|
THIRTYFOUR |
160
|
|
61
|
|
7
|
10
|
THIRTYFIVE |
142
|
|
61
|
|
7
|
9
|
THIRTYSIX |
152
|
|
53
|
|
8
|
11
|
THIRTYSEVEN |
165
|
|
57
|
|
3
|
11
|
THIRTYEIGHT |
149
|
|
68
|
|
5
|
10
|
THIRTYNINE |
142
|
|
61
|
|
7
|
5
|
FORTY |
84
|
|
30
|
|
3
|
8
|
FORTYONE |
118
|
|
46
|
|
1
|
8
|
FORTYTWO |
142
|
|
43
|
|
7
|
10
|
FORTYTHREE |
140
|
|
59
|
|
5
|
9
|
FORTYFOUR |
144
|
|
54
|
|
9
|
9
|
FORTYFIVE |
126
|
|
54
|
|
9
|
8
|
FORTYSIX |
136
|
|
46
|
|
1
|
10
|
FORTYSEVEN |
149
|
|
50
|
|
5
|
10
|
FORTYEIGHT |
133
|
|
61
|
|
7
|
9
|
FORTYNINE |
126
|
|
54
|
|
9
|
5
|
FIFTY |
66
|
|
30
|
|
3
|
8
|
FIFTYONE |
100
|
|
46
|
|
1
|
8
|
FIFTYTWO |
124
|
|
43
|
|
7
|
10
|
FIFTYTHREE |
122
|
|
59
|
|
5
|
9
|
FIFTYFOUR |
126
|
|
54
|
|
9
|
9
|
FIFTYFIVE |
108
|
|
54
|
|
9
|
8
|
FIFTYSIX |
118
|
|
46
|
|
1
|
10
|
FIFTYSEVEN |
131
|
|
50
|
|
5
|
10
|
FIFTYEIGHT |
115
|
|
61
|
|
7
|
9
|
FIFTYNINE |
108
|
|
54
|
|
9
|
5
|
SIXTY |
97
|
|
25
|
|
7
|
8
|
SIXTYONE |
131
|
|
41
|
|
5
|
8
|
SIXTYTWO |
155
|
|
38
|
|
2
|
10
|
SIXTYTHREE |
153
|
|
54
|
|
9
|
9
|
SIXTYFOUR |
157
|
|
49
|
|
4
|
9
|
SIXTYFIVE |
139
|
|
49
|
|
4
|
8
|
SIXTYSIX |
149
|
|
41
|
|
5
|
10
|
SIXTYSEVEN |
162
|
|
45
|
|
9
|
10
|
SIXTYEIGHT |
146
|
|
56
|
|
2
|
9
|
SIXTYNINE |
139
|
|
49
|
|
4
|
7
|
SEVENTY |
110
|
|
29
|
|
2
|
10
|
SEVENTYONE |
144
|
|
45
|
|
9
|
10
|
SEVENTYTWO |
168
|
|
42
|
|
6
|
12
|
SEVENTYTHREE |
166
|
|
58
|
|
4
|
11
|
SEVENTYFOUR |
170
|
|
53
|
|
8
|
11
|
SEVENTYFIVE |
152
|
|
53
|
|
8
|
10
|
SEVENTYSIX |
162
|
|
45
|
|
9
|
12
|
SEVENTYSEVEN |
175
|
|
49
|
|
4
|
12
|
SEVENTYEIGHT |
159
|
|
60
|
|
6
|
11
|
SEVENTYNINE |
152
|
|
53
|
|
8
|
6
|
EIGHTY |
74
|
|
38
|
|
2
|
9
|
EIGHTYONE |
108
|
|
54
|
|
9
|
9
|
EIGHTYTWO |
132
|
|
51
|
|
6
|
11
|
EIGHTYTHREE |
130
|
|
67
|
|
4
|
10
|
EIGHTYFOUR |
134
|
|
62
|
|
8
|
10
|
EIGHTYFIVE |
116
|
|
62
|
|
8
|
9
|
EIGHTYSIX |
126
|
|
54
|
|
9
|
11
|
EIGHTYSEVEN |
139
|
|
58
|
|
4
|
11
|
EIGHTYEIGHT |
123
|
|
69
|
|
6
|
10
|
EIGHTYNINE |
116
|
|
62
|
|
8
|
6
|
NINETY |
87
|
|
33
|
|
6
|
9
|
NINETYONE |
121
|
|
49
|
|
4
|
9
|
NINETYTWO |
145
|
|
46
|
|
1
|
11
|
NINETYTHREE |
143
|
|
62
|
|
8
|
10
|
NINETYFOUR |
147
|
|
57
|
|
3
|
10
|
NINETYFIVE |
129
|
|
57
|
|
3
|
9
|
NINETYSIX |
139
|
|
49
|
|
4
|
11
|
NINETYSEVEN |
152
|
|
53
|
|
8
|
11
|
NINETYEIGHT |
136
|
|
64
|
|
1
|
10
|
NINETYNINE |
129
|
|
57
|
|
3
|
LOOK AT THE FIVES LOOK AT THE FIVES LOOK AT THE FIVES THE FIVES THE FIVES
LOOK AT TH5 FIV5S LOOK AT THE FIV5S LOOK AT TH5 FIV5S TH5 FIV5S TH5 FIV5S
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ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE
O55 T5O THR55 FOUR FIV5 SIX S5V55 5IGHT 5I55
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
TEN ELEVEN TWELVE THIRTEEN FOURTEEN FIFTEEN SIXTEEN SEVENTEEN EIGHTEEN
T55 5L5V55 T55LV5 THIRT555 FOURT555 FIFT555 SIXT555 S5V55T555 5IGHT555
19 20 21 22V 23 24 25 26 27
NINETEEN TWENTY TWENTYONE TWENTYTWO TWENTYTHREE TWENTYFOUR TWENTYFIVE TWENTYSIX TWENTYSEVEN
5I55T555 T555TY T555TYO55 T555TYT5O T555TYTHR55 T555TYFOUR T555TYFIVE T555TYSIX T555TYS5V55
28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
TWENTYEIGHT TWENTYNINE THIRTY THIRTYONE THIRTYTWO THIRTYTHREE THIRTYFOUR THIRTYFIVE THIRTYSIX
T555TY5IGHT T555TY5I55 THIRTY THIRTYONE THIRTYTWO THIRTYTHREE THIRTYFOUR THIRTYFIV5 THIRTYSIX
37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45
THIRTYSEVEN THIRTYEIGHT THIRTYNINE FORTY FORTYONE FORTYTWO FORTYTHREE FORTY FOUR FOURTY FIVE
THIRTYS5V55 THIRTY5IGHT THIRTY5I55 FORTY FORTYO55 FORTYT5O FORTYTHR55 FORTY FOUR FORTY FIV5
46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54
FORTYSIX FORTYSEVEN FORTYEIGHT FORTYNINE FIFTY FIFTYONE FIFTYTWO FIFTYTHREE FIFTYFOUR
FORTYSIX FORTYS5VE5 FORTY5IGHT FORTY5I55 FIFTY FIFTYO55 FIFTYT5O FIFTYTHR55 FIFTYFOUR
55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63
FIFTYFIVE FIFTYSIX FIFTYSEVEN FIFTYEIGHT FIFTYNINE SIXTY SIXTYONE SIXTYTWO SIXTYTHREE
FIFTYFIV5 FIFTYSIX FIFTYS5V55 FIFTY5IGHT FIFTY5I55 SIXTY SIXTYO55 SIXTYT5O SIXTYTHR55
64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72
SIXTYFOUR SIXTYFIVE SIXTYSIX SIXTYSEVEN SIXTYEIGHT SIXTYNINE SEVENTY SEVENTYONE SEVENTYTWO
SIXTYFOUR SIXTYFIV5SIXTYSIX SIXTYS5V55 SIXTY5IGHT SIXTY5I55 S5V55TY S5V55TYO55 S5V55TYT5O
73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81
SEVENTYTHREE SEVENTYFOUR SEVENTYFIVE SEVENTYSIX SEVENTYSEVEN SEVENTYEIGHT SEVENTYNINE EIGHTY
EIGHTYONE
5IGHTYO55
S5V55TYTHR55 S5V55TYFOUR S5V55TYFIV5 S5V55TYSIX S5V55TYS5V55 S5V55TY5IGHT S5V55TY5I55 5IGHTY
82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
EIGHTYTWO EIGHTYTHREE EIGHTYFOUR EIGHTYFIVE EIGHTY SIX EIGHTY SEVEN EIGHTYNINE NINETY
5IGHTYT5O 5IGHTYTHR55 5IGHTYFOUR 5IGHTYFIV5 5IGHTY SIX 5IGHTY S5V55 5IGHTY5I55 5I55TY
90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
NINETY NINETYONE NINETYTHREE NINETYFOUR NINETYFIVE NINETYSIX NINETYSEVEN NINETYEIGHT NINETYNINE
5I55TY 5I55TYO55 5I55TYTHR55 5I55TYFOUR 5I55TYFIV5 5I55TYSIX 5I55TYS5V55 5I55TY5IGHT 5I55TY5I55
THE LIGHT IS RISING NOW RISING IS THE LIGHT
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