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WORK DAYS OF GOD Herbert W Morris D.D.circa 1883 Page 22
LIGHT AND LIFE Lars Olof Bjorn 1976 Page 197 "By writing the 26 letters of the alphabet in a certain order one may put down almost any message (this book 'is written with the same letters' as the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Winnie the Pooh, only the order of the letters differs). In the same way Nature is able to convey with her language how a cell and a whole organism is to be constructed and how it is to function. Nature has succeeded better than we humans; for the genetic code there is only one universal language which is the same in a man, a bean plant and a bacterium." "BY WRITING THE 26 LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET IN A CERTAIN ORDER ONE MAY PUT DOWN ALMOST ANY MESSAGE"
"BY WRITING THE 26 LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET IN A CERTAIN ORDER ONE MAY PUT DOWN ALMOST ANY MESSAGE"
A HISTORY OF GOD Karen Armstrong 1993 The God of the Mystics Page 250 "Perhaps the most famous of the early Jewish mystical texts is the fifth century Sefer Yezirah (The Book of Creation). There is no attempt to describe the creative process realistically; the account is unashamedly symbolic and shows God creating the world by means of language as though he were writing a book. But language has been entirely transformed and the message of creation is no longer clear. Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet is given a numerical value; by combining the letters with the sacred numbers, rearranging them in endless configurations, the mystic weaned his mind away from the normal connotations of words."
THIS IS THE SCENE OF THE SCENE UNSEEN THE UNSEEN SEEN OF THE SCENE UNSEEN THIS IS THE SCENE
THE FAR YONDER SCRIBE AND OFT TIMES SHADOWED SUBSTANCES WATCHED IN FINE AMAZE THE ZED ALIZ ZED IN SWIFT REPEAT SCATTER STAR DUST AMONGST THE LETTERS OF THEIR PROGRESS AT THE THROW OF THE NINTH RAM WHEN IN CONJUNCTION SET THE FAR YONDER SCRIBE MADE RECORD OF THEIR FALL
NUMBER 9 THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODE Cecil Balmond 1998 Cycles and Patterns Page 165 Patterns "The essence of mathematics is to look for patterns. Our minds seem to be organised to search for relationships and sequences. We look for hidden orders. These intuitions seem to be more important than the facts themselves, for there is always the thrill at finding something, a pattern, it is a discovery - what was unknown is now revealed. Imagine looking up at the stars and finding the zodiac! Searching out patterns is a pure delight. Suddenly the counters fall into place and a connection is found, not necessarily a geometric one, but a relationship between numbers, pictures of the mind, that were not obvious before. There is that excitement of finding order in something that was otherwise hidden. And there is the knowledge that a huge unseen world lurks behind the facades we see of the numbers themselves."
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS A QUEST FOR THE BEGINNING AND THE END Graham Hancock 1995 Chapter 32 Speaking to the Unborn Page 285 "It is understandable that a huge range of myths from all over the ancient world should describe geological catastrophes in graphic detail. Mankind survived the horror of the last Ice Age, and the most plausible source for our enduring traditions of flooding and freezing, massive volcanism and devastating earthquakes is in the tumultuous upheavals unleashed during the great meltdown of 15,000 to 8000 BC. The final retreat of the ice sheets, and the consequent 300-400 foot rise in global sea levels, took place only a few thousand years before the beginning of the historical period. It is therefore not surprising that all our early civilizations should have retained vivid memories of the vast cataclysms that had terrified their forefathers. A message in the bottle of time" 'Of all the other stupendous inventions,' Galileo once remarked, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the Indies, speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangements of two dozen little signs on paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of men.3 If the 'precessional message' identified by scholars like Santillana, von Dechend and Jane Sellers is indeed a deliberate attempt at communication by some lost civilization of antiquity, how come it wasn't just written down and left for us to find? Wouldn't that have been easier than encoding it in myths? Perhaps. "What one would look for, therefore, would be a universal language, the kind of language that would be comprehensible to any technologically advanced society in any epoch, even a thousand or ten thousand years into the future. Such languages are few and far between, but mathematics is one of them" "WRITTEN IN THE ETERNAL LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS"
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ZERO ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE 9+8+9+5+5+6+3+9+9+4+5+9+5+4+9+9 9+8+9+5+5+6+3+9+9+4+5+9+5+4+9+9 ZERO ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE
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ZERO ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE 8596 655 256 28955 6639 6945 196 15455 59782 5955 R HREE OUR IVE I EV I I R+H+R+E+E+O+U+R+I+V+E+I+E+V+I+I 9+8+9+5+5+6+3+9+9+4+5+9+5+4+9+9 R+H+R+E+E+O+U+R+I+V+E+I+E+V+I+I R HREE OUR IVE I EV I I 8596 655 256 28955 6639 6945 196 15455 59782 5955 ZERO ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE
THE LIGHT IS RISING RISING IS THE LIGHT
THE LIGHT IS RISING NOW RISING IS THE LIGHT
THE DEATH OF GODS IN ANCIENT EGYPT Jane B. Sellars 1992 Page 204 "The overwhelming awe that accompanies the realization, of the measurable orderliness of the universe strikes modern man as well. Admiral Weiland E. Byrd, alone In the Antarctic for five months of polar darkness, wrote these phrases of intense feeling: Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it! I could feel no doubt of oneness with the universe. The conviction came that the rhythm was too orderly. too harmonious, too perfect to be a product of blind chance - that, therefore there must be purpose in the whole and that man was part of that whole and not an accidental offshoot. It was a feeling that transcended reason; that went to the heart of man's despair and found it groundless. The universe was a cosmos, not a chaos; man was as rightfully a part of that cosmos as were the day and night.10 Returning to the account of the story of Osiris, son of Cronos god of' Measurable Time, Plutarch takes, pains to remind the reader of the original Egyptian year consisting of 360 days. Phrases are used that prompt simple mental. calculations and an attention to numbers, for example, the 360-day year is described as being '12 months of 30 days each'. Then we are told that, Osiris leaves on a long journey, during which Seth, his evil brother, plots with 72 companions to slay Osiris: He also secretly obtained the measure of Osiris and made ready a chest in which to entrap him. The, interesting thing about this part of the-account is that nowhere in the original texts of the Egyptians are we told that Seth, has 72 companions. We have already been encouraged to equate Osiris with the concept of measured time; his father being Cronos. It is also an observable fact that Cronos-Saturn has the longest sidereal period of the known planets at that time, an orbit. of 30 years. Saturn is absent from a specific constellation for that length of time. A simple mathematical fact has been revealed to any that are even remotely sensitive to numbers: if you multiply 72 by 30, the years of Saturn's absence (and the mention of Osiris's absence prompts one to recall this other), the resulting product is 2,160: the number of years required, for one 30° shift, or a shift: through one complete sign of the zodiac. This number multplied by the /Page205 / 12 signs also gives 25,920. (And Plutarch has reminded us of 12) If you multiply the unusual number 72 by 360, a number that Plutarch mentions several times, the product will be 25,920, again the number of years symbolizing the ultimate rebirth. This 'Eternal Return' is the return of, say, Taurus to the position of marking the vernal equinox by 'riding in the solar bark with. Re' after having relinquished this honoured position to Aries, and subsequently to the to other zodiacal constellations. Such a return after 25,920 years is indeed a revisit to a Golden Age, golden not only because of a remarkable symmetry In the heavens, but golden because it existed before the Egyptians experienced heaven's changeability. But now to inform the reader of a fact he or she may already know. Hipparaus did: not really have the exact figures: he was a trifle off in his observations and calculations. In his published work, On the Displacement of the Solstitial and Equinoctial Signs, he gave figures of 45" to 46" a year, while the truer precessional lag along the ecliptic is about 50 seconds. The exact measurement for the lag, based on the correct annual lag of 50'274" is 1° in 71.6 years, or 360° in 25,776 years, only 144 years less than the figure of 25,920. With Hipparchus's incorrect figures a 'Great Year' takes from 28,173.9 to 28,800 years, Incorrect by a difference of from 2,397.9 years to 3,024. Since Nicholas Copernicus (AD 1473-1543) has always been credited with giving the correct numbers (although Arabic astronomer Nasir al-Din Tusi,11 born AD 1201, is known to have fixed the Precession at 50°), we may correctly ask, and with justifiable astonishment 'Just whose information was Plutarch transmitting' AN IMPORTANT POSTSCRIPT Of course, using our own notational system, all the important numbers have digits that reduce to that amazing number 9 a number that has always delighted budding mathematician. Page 206 Somewhere along the way, according to Robert Graves, 9 became the number of lunar wisdom.12 This number is found often in the mythologies of the world. the Viking god Odin hung for nine days and nights on the World Tree in order to acquire the secret of the runes, those magic symbols out of which writing and numbers grew. Only a terrible sacrifice would give away this secret, which conveyed upon its owner power and dominion over all, so Odin hung from his neck those long 9 days and nights over the 'bottomless abyss'. In the tree were 9 worlds, and another god was said to have been born of 9 mothers. Robert Graves, in his White Goddess, Is intrigued by the seemingly recurring quality of the number 72 in early myth and ritual. Graves tells his reader that 72 is always connected with the number 5, which reflects, among other things, the five Celtic dialects that he was investigating. Of course, 5 x 72= 360, 360 x 72= 25,920. Five is also the number of the planets known to the ancient world, that is, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus Mercury. Graves suggests a religious mystery bound up with two ancient Celtic 'Tree Alphabets' or cipher alphabets, which as genuine articles of Druidism were orally preserved and transmitted for centuries. He argues convincingly that the ancient poetry of Europe was ultimately based on what its composers believed to be magical principles, the rudiments of which formed a close religious secret for centuries. In time these were-garbled, discredited and forgotten. Among the many signs of the transmission of special numbers he points out that the aggregate number of letter strokes for the complete 22-letter Ogham alphabet that he is studying is 72 and that this number is the multiple of 9, 'the number of lunar wisdom'. . . . he then mentions something about 'the seventy day season during which Venus moves successively from. maximum eastern elongation 'to inferior conjunction and maximum western elongation'.13 Page 207 "...Feniusa Farsa, Graves equates this hero with Dionysus Farsa has 72 assistants who helped him master the 72 languages created at the confusion of Babel, the tower of which is said to be built of 9 different materials We are also reminded of the miraculous translation into Greek of the Five Books of Moses that was done by 72 scholars working for 72 days, Although the symbol for the Septuagint is LXX, legend, according to the fictional letter of Aristeas, records 72. The translation was done for Ptolemy Philadelphus (c.250 BC), by Hellenistic Jews, possibly from Alexandra.14 Graves did not know why this number was necessary, but he points out that he understands Frazer's Golden Bough to be a a book hinting that 'the secret involves the truth that the Christian dogma, and rituals, are the refinement of a great body of primitive beliefs, and that the only original element in Christianity- is the personality of Christ.15 Frances A. Yates, historian of Renaissance hermetisma tells, us the cabala had 72 angels through which the sephiroth (the powers of God) are believed to be approached, and further, she supplies the information that although the Cabala supplied a set of 48 conclusions purporting to confirm the Christian religion from the foundation of ancient wisdom, Pico Della Mirandola, a Renaissance magus, introduced instead 72, which were his 'own opinion' of the correct number. Yates writes, 'It is no accident there are seventy-two of Pico's Cabalist conclusions, for the conclusion shows that he knew something of the mystery of the Name of God with seventy-two letters.'16 In Hamlet's Mill de Santillarta adds the facts that 432,000 is the number of syllables in the Rig-Veda, which when multiplied by the soss (60) gives 25,920" (The reader is forgiven for a bit of laughter at this point) Thee Bible has not escaped his pursuit. A prominent Assyriologist of the last century insisted that the total of the years recounted Joseph Campbell discerns the secret in the date set for the coming of Patrick to Ireland. Myth-gives this date-as.- the interest- Whatever one may think-of some of these number coincidences, it becomes. difficult to escape the suspicion that many signs (number and otherwise) -indicate that early man observed the results.. of the movement of Precession . and that the-.transmission of this information was .considered of prime importance. 'With the awareness of the phenomenon, observers would certainly have tried for its measure, and such an endeavour would But one last word about mankind's romance with number coincidences.The antagonist in John Updike's novel, Roger's Version, is a computer hacker, who, convinced.,that scientific evidence of God's existence is accumulating, endeavours to prove it by feeding -all the available scientific information. into a comuter. In his search for God 'breaking, through', he has become fascinated by certain numbers that have continually been cropping up. He explains them excitedly as 'the terms of Creation': "...after a while I noticed that all over the sheet there seemed to hit these twenty-fours Jumping out at me. Two four; two,four.Planck time, for instance, divided by the radiation constant yields a figure near eight times ten again to the negative twenty-fourth, and the permittivity of free space, or electric constant, into the Bohr radiusekla almost exactly six times ten to the negative twenty-fourth. On positive side, the electromagnetic line-structure constant times Hubble radius - that is, the size of the universe as we now perceive it gives us something quite close to ten to the twenty-fourth, and the
strong-force constant times the charge on the proton produces two point four times ten to the negative eighteenth, for another I began to circle twenty-four wherever it appeared on the Printout here' - he held it up. his piece of striped and striped wallpaper, decorated / Page 209 /
with a number of scarlet circles - 'you can see it's more than random.'19 So much for any scorn directed to ancient man's fascination with number coincidences. That fascination is alive and well, Just a bit more incomprehensible"
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke 1972 FOREWORD "'Into the Comet' and 'The Nine Billion Names of God' both involve computers and the troubles they may cause us. While writing this preface, I had occasion to call upon my own HP 9100A computer, Hal Junior, to answer an interesting question. Looking at my records, I find that I have now written just about one hundred short stories. This volume contains eighteen of them: therefore, how many possible 18-story collections will I be able to put together? The answer as I am sure will be instantly obvious to you - is 100 x 99. . . x 84 x 83 divided by 18 x 17 x 16 ... x .2 x 1. This is an impressive number - Hal Junior tells me that it is approximately 20,772,733,124,605,000,000.
Page 15 The Nine Billion Names of God 'This is a slightly unusual request,' said Dr Wagner, with what he hoped was commendable restraint. 'As far as I know, it's the first time anyone's been asked to supply a Tibetan monastery with an Automatic Sequence Computer. I don't wish to be inquisitive, but I should hardly have thought that your - ah - establishment had much use for such a machine. Could you explain just what you intend to do with it?' Page16 'We have reason to believe,' continued the lama imperturbably, 'that all such names can be written with not more than nine letters in an alphabet we have devised.' Page 68 Into the Comet
I SAY THREAD THAT THREAD THREAD READ DEATH DEATH READ THREAD THREAD R DEATH DEATH R THREAD THREAD READ DEAR THREAD
THE NEW ELIZABETHAN REFERENCE DICTIONARY An up-to-date vocabulary of the living English language Circa 1900 FOURTH EDITION Page 1472 thread (thred) [A.-S. thraed, from thrawan, to THROW (cp. Dut. draad, G. draht, Icel. thrathr)], n. A slender cord consisting of two or more yarns doubled or twisted ; a single filament of cotton, silk, wool, etc., esp. Lisle thread ; anything resembling this ; a fine line of colour etc. ; a thin seam or vein ; the spiral on a screw ; (fig.) a continuous course (of life etc.). v.t. To pass a thread through the eye or aperture of ; to string (beads etc.) on a thread ; (fig.) to pick (one's way) or to go through an intricate or crowded place, etc. ; to streak (the hair) with grey etc. ; to cut a thread on (a screw). thread and thrum : Good and bad together, all alike. threadbare, a. Worn so that the thread is visible, having the nap worn off ; (fig.) worn, trite, hackneyed. threadbareness, n. thread-mark, n. A mark produced by coloured silk fibres in banknotes to prevent counterfeiting. thread-paper, n. Soft paper for wrapping up thread, thread-worm, n. A thread-like nematode worm, esp. one infesting the rectum of children. threader, n. threadlike, a. and adv. thready, a. threadiness, n.
THE NEW ELIZABETHAN REFERENCE DICTIONARY An up-to-date vocabulary of the living English language FOURTH EDITION Circa 1900 Page 1472 thread (thred) [A.-S. thraed, from thrawan, to THROW (cp. Dut. draad, G. draht, Icel. thrathr)], n. A slender cord consisting of two or more yarns doubled or twisted ; a single filament of cotton, silk, wool, etc., esp. Lisle thread ; anything resembling this ; a fine line of colour etc. ; a thin seam or vein ; the spiral on a screw ; (fig.) a continuous course (of life etc.). v.t. To pass a thread through the eye or aperture of ; to string (beads etc.) on a thread ; (fig.) to pick (one's way) or to go through an intricate or crowded place, etc. ; to streak (the hair) with grey etc. ; to cut a thread on (a screw). thread and thrum : Good and bad together, all alike. threadbare, a. Worn so that the thread is visible, having the nap worn off ; (fig.) worn, trite, hackneyed. threadbareness, n. thread-mark, n. A mark produced by coloured silk fibres in banknotes to prevent counterfeiting. thread-paper, n. Soft paper for wrapping up thread, thread-worm, n. A thread-like nematode worm, esp. one infesting the rectum of children. threader, n. threadlike, a. and adv. thready, a. threadiness, n.
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Definition - of Lisle from Dictionary.net Lisle thread, a hard twisted cotton thread, originally produced at Lisle. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) ... www.dictionary.net/lisle - 9k
CASSELL'S ENGLISH DICTIONARY 1974 Lisle thread (lil thred) [ town in France, now Lille], n, A fine, hard thread orig. made at Lille.
LIFE HANGING BY A THREAD
THE LIGHT IS RISING RISING IS THE LIGHT
I ME YOU ME CREATORS GODS CREATORS THOU ART THAT THAT ART THOU GOD SPIRIT ART THOU THOU ART GOD SPIRIT MIND MATTER SPIRIT GOD SPIRIT MATTER MIND THOU ART UNIVERSAL MIND GODS UNIVERSAL MIND ART THOU
DAILY MAIL Wednesday, November, 12, 2008 Coffee Break and Brain Training ODD STREAK Page 37 "E=MC2 E=MC2 THAT'S HIS ANSWER TO EVERYTHING!"
... How Einstein Arrived at E=MC Squared ... a constant--as he had intuitively guessed--then energy and matter must be one and the same (energy equals matter times the speed of light squared). ... www.stresscure.com/hrn/einstein.html
E=mc squared mass to energy calculator, matter to energy calculator, Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, e equals mc squared, e=mc2, e=mc².
E=mc2 is a version of Einstein's famous Relativity equation. Specifically, it means that Energy is equal to Mass times the speed of light squared. ... imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers
ELEPHANT = 81 = ELEPHANT ELEPHANT = 36 = ELEPHANT ELEPHANT = 9 = ELEPHANT Ganesha Bhajan - Speaking Tree https://www.amazon.com/kalpeshvyas-Shree-Ganesh-Bhajan/
Daily Mail 12, December 2017 Why eminent scientists by John Naish Shaped like a cigar and a quarter of a mile long, it's hurtling through the solar system at 196,000mph... Close but no cigar: Artists impression of Oumuamua speeding through space COULD this finally be our first close encounter, the visit from ET we have waited our whole lives for? Scientists led by Stephen Hawking are today using high-tech scanners to discover if a huge, cigar-shaped space object currently hurtling through our solar system was sent by an alien civilisation. THE fact that it doesn't seem to have engines or show signs of propulsion may wreck the interplanetary-spacecraft theory. But Professor Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist from Harvard University, suggests it might just be coasting. Oumuamua is a Hawaiian term meaning `a messenger from afar arriving first'.
Oumuamua is a Hawaiian term meaning `a messenger from afar arriving first'.
Oumuamua is now due to pass Jupiter in May 2018, and Saturn in January 2019. Oumuamua is a Hawaiian term meaning `a messenger from afar arriving first'.
Holy Bible For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: ...TICK TOCK TICK TOCK TICK... THE TIME THAT IS COMING NOW IS.
The last words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe www.phrases.org.uk/quotes/last-words/goethe.html The German poet, novelist, playwright, courtier, and scientist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) is widely accepted as being one of the key figures in ... The last words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The last words of Goethe The German poet, novelist, playwright, courtier, and scientist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethee (1749 – 1832) is widely accepted as being one of the key figures in Western culture. His masterwork, Faust, has had an influence in many fields, notably drama and psychology. His last request was: More light! Background to Goethe's last words Throughout his life, Goethe had a deep fascination for the physical and metaphorical effects of light on humans. Whilst being best remembered now for his literary works, he himself believed the scientific treatise The Theory of Colours, which he published in 1810, to be his most important work. Although a confirmed non-believer for almost all of his life, a year before dying Goethe sided with the eclectic Hypsistarian sect, writing in a letter to a friend that: "A joyous light thus beamed at me suddenly out of a dark age, for I had the feeling that all my life I had been aspiring to qualify as a Hypsistarian." He spent the evening before his death discussing optical phenomena with his daughter-in-law. All of the above might lead us to believe that his celebrated deathbed cry of Mehr Licht! (More light!) was a plea for increased enlightenment before dying. The truth appears to be more prosaic. What he actually said (in German) was: "Do open the shutter of the bedroom so that more light may enter".
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT Dylan Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) Do not go gentle into that good night, Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. "A Red, Red Rose" is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title "Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose", "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" or "Red, Red Rose" and is often published as a poem. O my Luve's like a red, red rose As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And fare thee weel, my only Luve
INVICTUS = 117-36-9 "Invictus" is a short Victorian poem by the English poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). It was written in 1875 and published in 1888 in his first volume of poems, Book of Verses, in the section Life and Death (Echoes).[1]
Winter Solstice at Stonehenge 2017 | English Heritage English Heritage will once again welcome people to Stonehenge to celebrate the Winter Solstice. Sunrise is just after 8am on Friday 22 December www.english-heritage.org.uk/.../stonehenge/.../winter-solstice.../conditions-entry-wint... Stonehenge is an ancient prehistoric site which is likely to have been a place of worship and celebration at the time of Winter Solstice for thousands of years and is seen by many as a sacred site.
DECEMBER /12/ 21 /2017 WINTER = 89 - 35 - 8 SOLSTICE =102 - 30 - 3
WINTER = 89 - 35 - 8 SOLSTICE =102 - 30 - 3
SUMMER = 89 - 26 - 8 SOLSTICE =102 - 30 - 3
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Bhagavad-Gita "MANY LIVES ARJUNA, YOU AND I HAVE LIVED, I REMEMBER THEM ALL, BUT THOU DOST NOT
BHAGAVAD GITA As it is. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Translation Chapter 2 Page 99/100 "NEITHER HE WHO THINKS THE LIVING ENTITY THE SLAYER NOR HE WHO THINKS IT SLAIN IS IN KNOWLEDGE, FOR THE SELF SLAYS NOT NOR IS SLAIN"
If the red slayer think he slays,. Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways. I keep, and pass, and turn again. "Brahma" is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson, written in 1856. It is named for Brahman, the universal principle of the Vedas. About[edit]. BRAHMA is one of the poems composed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American transcendentalist of the nineteenth century.
OUR LORD THE FLAYED ONE
www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/gods/god-of-the-month-xipe-totec The great god Xipe Totec, otherwise known as Our Lord the Flayed One, was another of the oldest Aztec deities. Also known as Red Tezcatlipoca, guardian of the east, Xipe Totec was often depicted as a man wearing the flayed skin of another. Sculpted images of Xipe Totec, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City 20 day solar calendar period or “month” It was in Xipe Totec’s temple that young warriors presented their first victims for sacrifice. This is when they came of age and were allowed to don the regalia of the Aztec military. Clay incense burner with the effigy of Xipe Totec, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City A clay representation of Xipe Totec. In archaeological terms, the earliest evidence of Xipe Totec’s existence has been found in the Mexican Gulf Coast and dates back to the preclassic period (1800BC-150AD). It is thought that he was integrated into Aztec mythology during the 15th century, when this belicose tribe came to dominate areas of Tabasco and Veracruz. Symbol of the renewal of vegetation with the onset of the rainy season, Xipe was among the few Aztec gods represented in Teotihuacan during the classic period (150AD-950AD). He is depicted in ‘remojada’ style ceramics from the epiclassic period (950AD-1050) in El Zapotal, Veracruz. In them, he was represented as an old priest wearing a flayed captive’s skin. Representations of Xipe Totec... Clay depiction of flayed human skin, associated with Xipe Totec, National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City Xipe Totec’s finery presented in the Codex Tudela The Sacred Precinct of Tenochtitlan, from Michael Coe’s “Mexico from the Olmecs to the Aztecs” This over, the sacrificed man would have his blood poured into a container that was given to his owner and his body thrown over the temple steps and collected by a team of old men called ‘quaquacuiltin’. Later on, the corpse would be skinned for participation in the following ritual. The face of Xipe Totec in clay, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City The springtime month of Tlacaxipeualiztli in the Nahua text, Primeros Memoriales. Gladiatorial Sacrifice in the Codex Tudela
Daily Mail, Friday, December 22, 2017 Checkmate HUMANITY In four hours a robot taught itself chess, then beat a grandmaster with moves never before devised in the game's 15,00-year history. The implications are terryfying WILL robots one day destroy us? It's a question that increasingly preoccupies many of our most brilliant scientists and tech entrepreneurs. For developments in artificial intelligence (AI) — machines programmed to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence — are poised to reshape our workplace and leisure time dramatically. This year, a leading Oxford academic, Professor Michael Wooldridge, warned MPs - that AI could go 'rogue', that machines might become so complex that the engineers who create them will no longer understand them or be able to predict how they function. Yes, it's a concern, but a 'historic' new development makes unpredictable decisions by AI machines the least of our worries. And it all started with a game of chess. AlphaZero, an AI computer program, this month proved itself to be the world's greatest ever chess champion, thrashing a previous title-holder, another AI system called Stockfish 8, in a 100-game marathon. So far, so nerdy, and possibly something only chess devotees or computer geeks might get excited about. But what's so frighteningly clever about AlphaZero is that it taught itself chess in just four hours. It was simply given the rules and crucially — instructed to learn how to win by playing against itself. In doing so, it assimilated hundreds of years of chess knowledge and tactics — but then went on to surpass all previous human invention in the game. In those 240 minutes of practice, the program not only taught itself how to play but developed tactics that are unbeatably innovative and revealed its startling ability to trounce human intelligence. Some of its winning moves had never been recorded in the 1,500 years that human brains have pitted wits across the chequered board. Employing your King as an attacking piece? Unprecedented. But AlphaZero wielded it with merciless self-taught logic. Garry Kasparov, the grandmaster who was famously defeated by IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue in1997 when it was pre-grammed with the best moves, said: 'The ability of a machine to In1 surpass centuries of human knowledge... is a world-changing tool.' SIMON WILLIAMS, the English grandmaster, claimed this was 'one for the history books' and joked: 'on December 6, 2017, AlphaZero took over the chess world... eventually solving the game and finally enslaving the human race as pets.' But the real purpose of such artificial intelligence goes far beyond playing board games against other boxes of silicon chips. It is already starting to make life-or-death decisions in the high-tech world of cancer diagnosis. It is being trialled at NHS hospitals in London, including University College London Hospital (UCLH) and Moorfields Eye Hospital. At UCLH, a system is being developed in which an AI developed by DeepMind will analyse scans of patients with cancers of the head and neck, which afflict more than 11,000 people a year in the UK. Google experts say the AI should be able to teach itself to read these scans ever quicker and more accurately than any human, so radiation can be more precisely targeted at tumours while minimising damage to healthy tissues in the brain and neck. What currently takes doctors and radiologists four hours could be done in less than an hour. Meanwhile, at Moorfields, a DeepMind AI will analyse the 3,000 or so high-tech eye scans carried out each week. Currently, only a handful of experts can interpret the results, which may cause delays in treatment. It is believed that AI will be able to identify problem scans faster. On the surface, it looks like a win-win for patients and the NHS. But there are major issues. The first is privacy — the London hospital trials have involved handing over the scans of more than a million NHS patients to Google. This is causing alarm among privacy campaigners and academics. Dr Julia Powles, who works on technology law and policy at Cambridge University, says `Google is getting a free pass for swift and broad access into the NHS, on the back of unproven promises of efficiency and innovation'. Dr Powles adds: 'We do not know — and have no power to find out — what Google and DeepMind are really doing with NHS patient data.' GOOGLE has tried to address the criticisms of its project by declaring that all data access will be subject to NHS monitoring, but this is an organisation that has long had to contend with allegations of prying into people's data for commercial advantage. It faces court action in the UK over claims it unlawfully harvested information from 5.4 million UK users by bypassing privacy settings on their iPhones. The group taking action, called Google You Owe Us, alleges Google placed 'cookies' (used to collect information from devices to deliver tailored adverts) on users' phones without their knowledge or permission. Google has responded: 'This is not new We don't believe it has any merit and we will contest it.' But the insertion of a super-intelligent AI into NHS decision-making procedures brings an infinitely more worrying concern. It is an open secret that the NHS effectively rations access to care — through waiting lists, bed numbers and limiting availability of drugs and treatments — as it will never have enough funds to give everyone the service they need. The harsh reality is that some deserving people lose out. The harsher alternativeis to be coldly rational by deciding who and who not to treat. It would be most cost-effective to exterminate terminally ill or even chronically ill patients, or sickly children. Those funds would be better spent on patients who might be returned to health — and to productive, taxpaying lives. This is, of course, an approach too repugnant for civilised societies to contemplate. But decision-making AIs such as AlphaZero don't use compassionate human logic because it gets in the way. (The `Zero' in that program's name indicates it needs no human input.) The same sort of computer mind that can conjure up new chess moves might easily decide that the most efficient way to streamline the health service would be to get rid of the vulnerable and needy. How we keep control of deep learning machines that will Soon be employed in every area of our lives is a challenge that may well prove insurmountable. Already top IT experts warn that deep-learning algorithms can run riotously out of control because we don't know what they're teaching themselves. And the programs can develop distinctly worrying ideas. A system developed in America for probation services to predict the risk of parole-seekers reoffending was recently discovered to have quickly become unfairly racially biased. DeepMind certainly acknowledges the potential for problems. In October it launched a research team to investigate the ethics of AI decision-making. The team has eight full-time staff at the moment, but DeepMind wants to have around 25 in a year's time. But, one wonders, are 25 human minds enough to take on the super-intelligent, constantly learning and strategising powers of a monstrously developed AI? The genie is out of the bottle. In building a machine that may revolutionise healthcare, we have created a system that can out-think us in a trice. It's a marvel of human ingenuity. But we must somehow ensure that we stay in charge — or it may be checkmate for humanity.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIAL
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Daily Mail, Wednesday, December 27, 2017 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Compiled by Charles Legge Page 47 QUESTION Is Israel named after three gods — Isis + Ra + EL? And is Abraham an old name for Saturn? IS RA EL ? EL RA IS IS RA IS IS EL IS RA IS EL EL IS RA IS REAL ? REAL IS
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Daily Mail, Wednesday, December 27, 2017 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Compiled by Charles Legge Page 47 QUESTION The song Green Fields of France PRIVATE Willie McBride served with the Inniskilling Fusiliers April 22, 1916. He was 21 when he was killed, one of so many Irish men to have lost their lives in the Great War, but in song his memory is preserved.
THE tune penned by folk singer Eric Bogle is actually called No Man's Land but is more commonly known as The Green Fields Of France. For many, it is simply Willie McBride.
OH WE DID LAUGH AMIDST ALL THAT SLAUGHTER BUT TO TELL THE TRUTH YOU WOULD HAVE HAD TO HAVE BEEN THERE
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