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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."

 

Page 250

THERE IS NO ATTEMPT MADE 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 THE MIND AWAY FROM THE NORMAL

CONNOTATIONS OF WORDS

 

 

THE USBORNE BOOK OF

FACTS AND LISTS

Lynn Bressler (no date)

Page 82

10 most spoken languages
Chinese 700,000,000 English 400,000,000 Russian 265,000,000 Spanish 240,000,000 Hindustani 230,000,000 Arabic 146,000,000 Portuguese 145,000,000 Bengali 144,000,000 German 119,000,000 Japanese 116,000,000

The first alphabet
The Phoenicians, who once lived where Syria, Jordan and Lebanon are today, had an alphabet of 29 letters as early as 1,700 BC. It was adopted by the Greeks and the Romans. Through the Romans, who went on to conquer most of Europe, it became the alphabet of Western countries.

Sounds strange
One tribe of Mexican Indians hold entire conversations just by whistling. The different pitches provide meaning.

The Rosetta Stone
 The Rosetta Stone was found by Napoleon in the sands of Egypt. It dates to about 196 BC.
On it is an inscription in hieroglyphics and a translation in Greek. , Because scholars knew ancient Greek, they could work out what the Egyptian hieroglyphics meant. From this they learned the language of the ancient Egyptians.

Did You KnowMany Chinese cannot understand each other. They have different ways of speaking (called dialects) in different
parts of the country. But today in schools allover China, the children are being taught one dialect (Mandarin), so that one day all Chinese will understand each other.

Translating computers
Computers can be used to help people of different nationalities, who do not know each others' language, talk to each other. By giving a computer a message in one language it will translate it into another specified language.

Worldwide language
English is spoken either as a first or second language in at least 45 countries. This is more than any other language. It is the language of international business and scientific conferences and is used by airtraffic controllers worldwide. In all, about one third of the world speaks it.

Page 83

Earliest writing Chinese writing has been found on pottery, and even on a tortoise shell, going back 6,000 years. Pictures made the basis for their writing, each picture showing an object or idea. Probably the earliest form of writing came from the Middle East, where Iraq and Iran are now. This region was then ruled by the Sumerians.

The most words

English has more words in it than any other language. There are about1 million in all, a third of which are technical terms. Most
people only use about 1 per cent of the words available, that is, about 10,000. William Shakespeare is reputed to have made most use of the English vocabulary.

A scientific word describing a process in the human cell is 207,000 letters long. This makes this single word equal in length to a short novel or about 80 typed sheets of A4 paper.

Many tongues
A Frenchman, named Georges Henri Schmidt, is fluent (meaning he reads and writes well) in 31 different languages.

International language
Esperanto was invented in the 1880s by a Pole, Dr Zamenhof. It was hoped that it would become the international language of Europe. It took words from many European countries and has a very easy grammar that can be learned in an hour or two.
The same language

The languages of India and Europe may originally come from just one source. Many words in different languages sound similar. For example, the word for King in Latin is Rex, in Indian, Raj, in Italian Re, in French Roi and in Spanish Rey. The original language has been named Indo-European. Basque, spoken in the French and Spanish Pyrenees, is an exception. It seems to have a different source which is still unknown.

Number of alphabets
There are 65 alphabets in use in the world today. Here are some of them: Roman
ABCDEFGHUKLMNOPQRS Greek  Russian (Cyrillic) Hebrew  Chinese (examples omitted)

 

 

THE LIGHT IS RISING NOW RISING IS THE LIGHT

 

....

 

THE BULL OF MINOS

Leonard Cottrell 1953

Chapter VII

Page 90

THE QUEST CONTINUES

"OUT IN THE DARK BLUE SEA THERE LIES A LAND CALLED CRETE, A RICH AND LOVELY LAND,

WASHED BY THE WAVES ON EVERY SIDE, DENSELY PEOPLED AND BOASTING NINETY CITIES. . . 

ONE OF THE NINETY TOWNS IS A GREAT CITY CALLED KNOSSOS, AND THERE FOR NINE YEARS,

KING MINOS RULED AND ENJOYED THE FRIENDSHIP OF ALMIGHTY ZEUS

 

 

SUN 9 9 SUN

EARTH 7 7 EARTH

MOON 3 3 MOON

JUPITER 99 99 JUPITER

 

 

The Prophet

Kahil Gibran 1923

Page 85

" Forget not that I shall come back to you

A

little while, and my longing shall gather dust and foam for another body

A

little while, a moment of rest upon the wind,
and another woman shall bear me"

 

 

THE ELEMENTS OF THE GODDESS

Caitlin Mathews 1997

WE ARE ENTERING THE TIME OF THE NINE-POINTED STAR

THE STAR OF MAKING REAL UPON EARTH THE GOLDEN DREAM OF PEACE THAT LIVES WITHIN US

BROOKE MEDICINE EAGLE

Page 72

"THE WAY OF THE DELIVERER IS THAT OF BONDAGE-BREAKER WHATEVER IS TRAPPED DENIED FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT THE DELIVERER PERSONALLY SETS FREE HER METHOD OF LIBERATION IS TO GO TO THE ROOTS OF THE BLOCKAGE AND LITERALLY BLAST IT FREE IN THIS THE DELIVERER BEARS A STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO THE SHAPER OF ALL WHO IS WILLING TO BE BROKEN INTO PIECES

THE SYMBOLIC IMAGE OF THIS TRANSFORMATION IS THAT OF THE BUTTERFLY EMERGING FROM THE CHRYSALIS FROM APPARENT DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ARISES A NEW FORM OF LIFE SO ARE WE BORNE OF THE DELIVERER RESHAPED AND TRANSFORMED TO LIVE MORE EFFECTIVELY WITHIN OUR CHOSEN FIELD OF OPERATION

Page 38

THIS ENNEAD OF ASPECTS IS ENDLESSLY ADAPTABLE FOR IT IS MADE UP OF NINE THE MOST AJUSTABLE AND YET ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGING NUMBER HOWEVER ONE CHOOSES TO ADD UP MULTIPLES OF NINE FOR EXAMPLE 54 72 108 THEY ALWAYS ADD UP TO NINE"

 

"HOWEVER ONE CHOOSES TO ADD UP MULTIPLES OF NINE FOR EXAMPLE

54 72 108

THEY ALWAYS ADD UP TO NINE"

 

 

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

January 17, 2008

Chrysalis

Muriel Spark: introduced by Mick Imlah.

Muriel Spark (1918–2004) was one of the most admired and successful novelists in English in the second half of the twentieth century, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), based on her own experience of school in Edinburgh, The Girls of Slender Means (1963) and others. But it was in poetry that she first made her name. From 1947–49 she was editor of the journal Poetry Review and her collection The Fanfarlo (1952) preceded her first published fiction. One of the poems in that book, "Chrysalis" was published in the TLS in June 1951

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."

 

 

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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35
26
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
T
=
2
-
3
THE
33
15
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
S
=
1
-
6
SECOND
60
24
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
S
=
1
-
3
SUN
54
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
14
-
20
-
201
84
30
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
77
-
102
First Total
1131
474
123
-
5
4
6
8
5
18
21
16
36
-
-
7+7
-
1+0+2
Add to Reduce
1+7+1
4+7+4
1+2+3
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
2+1
1+6
3+6
-
-
14
-
3
Second Total
6
15
6
-
5
4
6
8
5
9
3
7
9
-
-
1+4
-
-
Reduce to Deduce
-
1+5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
3
Essence of Number
6
6
6
-
5
4
6
8
5
9
3
7
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
A
=
1
-
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
W
=
5
-
6
WINGED
62
35
8
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
8
-
A
=
1
-
3
AND
19
10
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
W
=
5
-
8
WONDROUS
129
39
3
-
-
-
3
-
5
-
-
-
-
C
=
3
-
5
CHILD
36
27
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
W
=
5
-
4
WILL
56
20
2
-
-
2
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
W
=
5
-
5
WHIRL
70
34
7
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
7
-
-
A
=
1
-
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
W
=
5
-
5
WHOLE
63
27
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
W
=
5
-
5
WORLD
72
27
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
I
=
9
-
4
INTO
58
22
4
-
-
-
-
4
5
-
-
-
-
B
=
2
-
5
BEING
37
28
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
T
=
2
-
4
THAT
49
13
4
-
-
-
-
4
5
-
-
-
-
C
=
3
-
5
CHILD
36
27
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
A
=
1
-
5
ALONE
47
20
2
-
-
2
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
S
=
1
-
5
SHALL
52
16
7
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
7
-
-
F
=
6
-
3
FLY
43
16
7
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
7
-
-
T
=
2
-
3
THE
33
15
6
-
-
-
-
-
5
6
-
-
-
A
=
1
-
5
ABYSS
66
12
3
-
-
-
3
-
5
-
-
-
-
=
1
-
3
AND
19
10
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
R
=
9
-
5
REACH
35
26
8
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
8
-
T
=
2
-
3
THE
33
15
6
-
-
-
-
-
5
6
-
-
-
S
=
1
-
6
SECOND
60
24
6
-
-
-
-
-
5
6
-
-
-
S
=
1
-
3
SUN
54
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
77
-
102
First Total
1131
474
123
-
5
4
6
8
5
18
21
16
36
-
-
7+7
-
1+0+2
Add to Reduce
1+7+1
4+7+4
1+2+3
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
2+1
1+6
3+6
-
-
14
-
3
Second Total
6
15
6
-
5
4
6
8
5
9
3
7
9
-
-
1+4
-
-
Reduce to Deduce
-
1+5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
3
Essence of Number
6
6
6
-
5
4
6
8
5
9
3
7
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
A
=
1
-
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
-
3
AND
19
10
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
-
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
-
3
AND
19
10
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
B
=
2
-
5
BEING
37
28
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
W
=
5
-
4
WILL
56
20
2
-
-
2
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
-
5
ALONE
47
20
2
-
-
2
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
W
=
5
-
8
WONDROUS
129
39
3
-
-
-
3
-
5
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
-
5
ABYSS
66
12
3
-
-
-
3
-
5
-
-
-
-
I
=
9
-
4
INTO
58
22
4
-
-
-
-
4
5
-
-
-
-
T
=
2
-
4
THAT
49
13
4
-
-
-
-
4
5
-
-
-
-
T
=
2
-
3
THE
33
15
6
-
-
-
-
-
5
6
-
-
-
T
=
2
-
3
THE
33
15
6
-
-
-
-
-
5
6
-
-
-
S
=
1
-
6
SECOND
60
24
6
-
-
-
-
-
5
6
-
-
-
W
=
5
-
5
WHIRL
70
34
7
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
7
-
-
S
=
1
-
5
SHALL
52
16
7
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
7
-
-
F
=
6
-
3
FLY
43
16
7
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
7
-
-
W
=
5
-
6
WINGED
62
35
8
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
8
-
R
=
9
-
5
REACH
35
26
8
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
8
-
C
=
3
-
5
CHILD
36
27
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
W
=
5
-
5
WHOLE
63
27
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
W
=
5
-
5
WORLD
72
27
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
C
=
3
-
5
CHILD
36
27
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
S
=
1
-
3
SUN
54
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
77
-
102
First Total
1131
474
123
-
5
4
6
8
5
18
21
16
36
-
-
7+7
-
1+0+2
Add to Reduce
1+7+1
4+7+4
1+2+3
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
2+1
1+6
3+6
-
-
14
-
3
Second Total
6
15
6
-
5
4
6
8
5
9
3
7
9
-
-
1+4
-
-
Reduce to Deduce
-
1+5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
3
Essence of Number
6
6
6
-
5
4
6
8
5
9
3
7
9

 

LETTERS TRANSPOSED INTO NUMBER REARRANGED IN NUMERICAL ORDER

 

 

ZERO ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
-
Z
=
8
-
4
ZERO
64
28
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
O
=
6
-
3
ONE
34
16
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
2
-
T
=
2
-
3
TWO
58
13
4
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
T
=
2
-
5
THREE
56
29
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
F
=
6
-
4
FOUR
60
24
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
5
-
F
=
6
-
4
FIVE
42
24
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
6
-
S
=
1
-
3
SIX
52
16
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
7
-
S
=
1
-
5
SEVEN
65
20
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
E
=
5
-
5
EIGHT
49
31
4
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
N
=
5
-
4
NINE
42
24
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
45
-
-
-
42
-
40
Add
522
225
45
-
1
4
3
8
5
18
14
8
9
4+5
-
-
-
4+2
-
4+0
Reduce
5+2+2
2+2+5
4+5
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
1+4
-
-
9
-
-
-
6
-
4
Deduce
9
9
9
-
1
4
3
8
5
9
5
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
-
Z
=
8
1
4
ZERO
64
28
1
-
1
-
3
-
5
-
-
8
9
1
-
O
=
6
2
3
ONE
34
16
7
-
-
-
3
-
5
-
7
8
9
2
-
T
=
2
3
3
TWO
58
13
4
-
-
-
3
4
5
-
-
8
9
3
-
T
=
2
4
5
THREE
56
29
2
-
-
2
3
-
5
-
-
8
9
4
-
F
=
6
5
4
FOUR
60
24
6
-
-
-
3
-
5
6
-
8
9
5
-
F
=
6
6
4
FIVE
42
24
6
-
-
-
3
-
5
6
-
8
9
6
-
S
=
1
7
3
SIX
52
16
7
-
-
-
3
-
5
-
7
8
9
7
-
S
=
1
8
5
SEVEN
65
20
2
-
-
2
3
-
5
-
-
8
9
8
-
E
=
5
9
5
EIGHT
49
31
4
-
-
-
3
4
5
-
-
8
9
9
-
N
=
5
10
4
NINE
42
24
6
-
-
-
3
-
5
6
-
8
9
45
-
-
-
42
-
40
Add
522
225
45
-
1
4
3
8
5
18
14
8
9
4+5
-
-
-
4+2
-
4+0
Reduce
5+2+2
2+2+5
4+5
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
1+4
-
-
9
-
-
-
6
-
4
Deduce
9
9
9
-
1
4
3
8
5
9
5
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
4
6
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
-
Z
=
8
1
4
ZERO
64
28
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
3
-
T
=
2
4
5
THREE
56
29
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
7
-
S
=
1
8
5
SEVEN
65
20
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
2
-
T
=
2
3
3
TWO
58
13
4
-
-
-
4
-
-
8
-
E
=
5
9
5
EIGHT
49
31
4
-
-
-
4
-
-
4
-
F
=
6
5
4
FOUR
60
24
6
-
-
-
-
6
-
5
-
F
=
6
6
4
FIVE
42
24
6
-
-
-
-
6
-
9
-
N
=
5
10
4
NINE
42
24
6
-
-
-
-
6
-
1
-
O
=
6
2
3
ONE
34
16
7
-
-
-
-
-
7
6
-
S
=
1
7
3
SIX
52
16
7
-
-
-
-
-
7
45
-
-
-
42
-
40
Add
522
225
45
-
1
4
8
18
14
4+5
-
-
-
4+2
-
4+0
Reduce
5+2+2
2+2+5
4+5
-
-
-
-
1+8
1+4
9
-
-
-
6
-
4
Deduce
9
9
9
-
1
4
8
9
5

 

 

0
-
4
ZERO
8
5
9
6
-
=
28
2+8
=
10
1+0
1
1
-
3
ONE
6
5
5
-
-
=
16
1+6
=
7
-
7
2
-
3
TWO
2
5
6
-
-
=
13
1+3
=
4
-
4
3
-
5
THREE
2
8
9
5
5
=
29
2+9
=
11
1+1
2
4
-
4
FOUR
6
6
3
9
-
=
24
2+4
=
6
-
6
5
-
4
FIVE
6
9
4
5
-
=
24
2+4
=
6
-
6
6
-
3
SIX
1
9
6
-
-
=
16
1+6
=
7
-
7
7
-
5
SEVEN
1
5
4
5
5
=
20
2+0
=
2
-
2
8
-
5
EIGHT
5
9
7
8
2
=
31
3+1
=
4
-
4
9
-
4
NINE
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

 

ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE

 

O
=
6
-
3
ONE
34
16
7
T
=
2
-
3
TWO
56
29
2
T
=
2
-
5
THREE
52
16
7
F
=
6
-
4
FOUR
60
24
6
F
=
6
-
4
FIVE
65
20
2
S
=
1
-
3
SIX
42
24
6
S
=
1
-
5
SEVEN
58
13
4
E
=
5
-
5
EIGHT
49
31
4
N
=
5
-
4
NINE
42
24
6
-
-
34
-
36
-
458
197
44
-
-
3+4
-
3+6
-
4+5+8
1+9+7
4+4
-
-
7
4
9
-
17
17
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+7
1+7
-
-
-
7
-
9
-
8
8
8

 

ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE

 


One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › One,_Two,_Buckle_My_Shoe

"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" is a popular English language nursery rhyme and counting-out rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11284.

A common version is given in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes:

One, two, Buckle my shoe;

Three, four, Knock at the door;

Five, six, Pick up sticks;

Seven, eight, Lay them straight:

Nine, ten, A big fat hen;

Eleven, twelve, Dig and delve;

Thirteen, fourteen, Maids a-courting;

Fifteen, sixteen, Maids in the kitchen;

Seventeen, eighteen, Maids in waiting

Nineteen, twenty, My plate's empty.

Other sources give differing lyrics

 

 

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-
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-
-
-
-
-
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
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8
1
4
ZERO
64
28
1
-
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-
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=
6
2
5
FIRST
72
27
9
-
-
-
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9
2
-
S
=
1
3
6
SECOND
60
24
6
-
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-
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6
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3
-
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=
2
4
5
THIRD
59
32
5
-
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5
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4
-
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=
6
5
6
FOURTH
88
34
7
-
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-
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7
-
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5
-
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=
6
6
5
FIFTH
49
31
4
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
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=
1
7
5
SIXTH
80
26
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
7
-
S
=
1
8
7
SEVENTH
93
30
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
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8
-
E
=
5
9
6
EIGHTH
57
39
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
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9
-
N
=
5
10
5
NINTH
65
29
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
45
-
-
-
41
-
54
Add
687
300
48
-
1
2
6
4
5
6
7
8
9
4+5
-
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-
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-
5+4
Reduce
6+8+7
3+0+0
4+8
-
-
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-
-
-
-
-
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-
9
-
-
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5
-
9
Deduce
21
3
12
-
1
2
6
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Reduce
2+1
-
1+2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
5
-
9
Essence
3
3
3
-
1
2
6
4
5
6
7
8
9

 

 

-
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0
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8
1
4
ZERO
64
28
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
N
=
5
10
5
NINTH
65
29
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
S
=
1
8
7
SEVENTH
93
30
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
E
=
5
9
6
EIGHTH
57
39
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
F
=
6
6
5
FIFTH
49
31
4
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
T
=
2
4
5
THIRD
59
32
5
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
2
-
S
=
1
3
6
SECOND
60
24
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
4
-
F
=
6
5
6
FOURTH
88
34
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
6
-
S
=
1
7
5
SIXTH
80
26
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
1
-
F
=
6
2
5
FIRST
72
27
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
45
-
-
-
41
-
54
Add
687
300
48
-
1
2
6
4
5
6
7
8
9
4+5
-
-
-
4+1
-
5+4
Reduce
6+8+7
3+0+0
4+8
-
-
-
-
-
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-
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9
-
-
-
5
-
9
Deduce
21
3
12
-
1
2
6
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
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Reduce
2+1
-
1+2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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-
9
-
-
-
5
-
9
Essence
3
3
3
-
1
2
6
4
5
6
7
8
9

 

NUMBERS RE-ARRANGED IN NUMERICAL ORDER

 

 

ADVENT NINESQUARE ADVENT

 

3
THE
33
15
6
4
NINE
39
12
3
6
SQUARE
81
36
9
13
-
153
63
18
1+3
-
1+5+3
6+3
1+8
4
-
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
THE
33
15
6
7
ENGLISH
74
38
2
8
LANGUAGE
68
32
5
18
-
175
85
13
1+8
-
 1+7+5
8+5
 1+3
9
-
13
13
4

 

 

THE TIMES

Saturday December 3 2005

It's still beating the best brains, but can you crack world's most difficult puzzle?

By Simon de Bruxelles

"COMPUTERS and the inter­net have transformed the world of word puzzles, turning a previously solitary pastime into a communal brainstorming activity.
But computers were no use to Ted Clarke, a retired engineer from Cornwall, whose ten-square acrostic word puzzle, published in The Times on Thursday, took seven years to compile using pencil and paper. Described as the world's most fiendish puzzle, as addictive as the most cryptic crossword, it is the ideal companion for the numerical Su Doku.
Since Mr Clarke's word square, the largest in any language, was published he has been inundated with e-mails of congratulations from around the world. Although some experts dispute at least one of the words, most agree that it is the "best attempt" yet at a ten­letter word square.
One expert in word' games has estimated that 900 nine-letter word squares have been compiled, but Mr Clarke's is the first with ten that does not include proper names or for­eign words. Mr Clarke, 79, said: "For me getting it published in the The Times was better than winning the lottery."
Readers who enjoyed the challenge of trying to fill in the blanks now have the chance to have another go. We have gathered a selection of word squares ranging in size from three by three to eight by eight against which to test your wits.
To give you a helping hand we have left some of the letters in situ. On Monday we will be publishing a nine-letter square. For the largest square we have also provided some crossword clues."
Samurai Su Doku, Books, page 28

 

 

THE TIMES

Monday December 5 2005

Page 12

Isoscelar: Having two equal sides

Sartorite: A rare suphide mineral

Organette: A form of musical keyboard with fewer keys

Stamached: A Scottish version of stomached Conactors: Joint agents

Erectable: Able to be put up

Lithobiid: A centipede that lives close to dead logs

Atterllng: A shrew

Reed-sedge: A form of reed

 

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1
I
=
9
9
ISOSCELAR
101
38
2
2
S
=
1
9
SARTORITE
125
44
8
3
O
=
6
9
ORGANETTE
105
42
6
4
S
=
1
9
STAMACHED
74
29
2
5
C
=
3
9
CONACTORS
108
36
9
6
E
=
5
9
ERECTABLE
71
35
8
7
L
=
3
9
LITHOBIILD
88
52
7
8
A
=
1
9
ATTERLING
106
43
7
9
R
=
9
9
REEDSEDGE
72
45
9
45
-
-
38
81
First Total
850
364
58
4+5
-
-
3+8
8+1
Add to Reduce
8+5+0
3+6+4
5+8
9
-
-
11
9
Second Total
13
13
13
-
-
-
1+1
-
Reduce to Deduce
1+3
1+3
1+3
9
-
-
2
9
Essence of Number
4
4
4

 

 

THIRTEEN 99 THIRTEEN

99 NAMES OF GOD GOD OF NAMES 99


NUMBERS OF LETTERS LETTERS OF NUMBERS

 

 

THE TIMES

Thursday December 1 2005

NEWS

Page 3

'Su Doku' word game that baffled Ancient Greeks took an expert 7 years to crack - you've got 10 minutes (and a little help}

A Cornish engineer claims to have completed the 10-letter acrostic that foxed a computer

A BRITISH engineer claims to have solved a puzzle that has counfounded some of the world's best brains since the time of the Ancient. Greeks.
Ted Clarke, 79, believes that he has devised the largest acros­tic square - ten letters by ten, spelling out the same words
horizontally and vertically ­in the English language.
However, his claim to have come up with the "best yet" solution to the conundrum of the ten-square puzzle does not satis­fy some experts. They say that because one of his words does not appear in any dictionary it should be disallowed.
Like the immensely popular numbers puzzle, Su Doku, which The Times introduced to Britain, the. acrostic word square is based on a grid. The words must read the same hori­zontally and vertically and there must be no misspellings or leftover letters.

One of the most famous acrostics was found scratched on a wall in the ruins of Pompeii: It reads:

ROTAS

OPERA

TENET

AREPO

SATOR

" It is unique in that it not only reads the same up .and down and left to right, it also spells out a passable Latin sentence translated as "the sower Arepo holds the wheels at work".
Mr Clarke, a retired aircraft engineer from Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, has been fascinated by word puzzles since he was a boy. He made.thec::laim to have completed the ten-word acros­tic in Word'sWorth, the puzzle magazine that he publishes.
He said: "Over the years people have been trying to con­struct bigger and bigger squares. People have made them from fantastic words that no one could find. Some have done it using names of cities and people names. These have been eschewed."
Mr Clarke is still seeking the "perfect" solution using non­compound words, but says that may be impossible. "Most ex­perts agree that it can't be done, but this is the closest we' ve got to it so far."
The challenge proved too much for a crossword-solving computer program, so he com­pleted his square "by hand". He said: "1' d leave it running all night looking for ten-letter words that would fit, but 1'd come down in the morning and it wouldn't have one."
His claim to have constructed the world's first ten-letter square is supported by Tony Augarde, author of the Oxford Guide toWord Games. Mr Augarde said; "It's not perfect but it's the best I've seen. Previous attempts used words that no one one had heard of or tautonyms, words that repeat the same sound like orang-utan, which made it easier.
"Some of the words in Ted Clarke's square are not well known and he has pushed the boundaries of language, but who is to say what is a word and what isn't?"
Other experts believe that Mr Clarke has "pushed the boundaries" too far with the word nonesevent. According to Mr Clarke the word, perhaps more correctly nones-event, is an event that takes place during a period of the month known as the nones by the Ancient Romans, rather like the Ides of March.
Ross Eckler, an expert from New Jersey, and Jeff Grant, an Australian who has spent the past 30 years trying to crack the problem, say that the puzzle is still waiting to be solved.
Roger Millington, author of The Strange World of Cross­words, who has traced the origins of the acrostic to Ancient Greece, wrote that the creator of the first accepted ten-letter square would achieve "a lifetime of immortality". Mr Clarke said: "I am not claiming immortality yet, but this is the closest we've got to solving this puzzle."

Page 3

Example of the previous best - a nine letter puzzle

Source; Oxford Guide to Word Games

 

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1905049,00.html

THE TIMES

December 5, 2005

Acrostic challenge tests up to the nines
By Sam Coates

READERS of The Times are finding that it’s impossible to be agnostic about the acrostic, as Britain’s sharpest brains race to solve the latest round of fiendish word puzzles.

Today we challenge you to complete a nine-letter word square, a linguistic Samurai Su Doku that will stimulate your powers of logic, wit and language. Our crossword experts have even compiled some cryptic clues to help you along.

Tony Augarde, author of the Oxford Guide to Word Games, said: “This is one of the word games that has amused people for centuries. Five and six-letter word squares are comparatively easy.” But he recognises that this puzzle pushes the English language to its limit. “I don’t think there are any of eight letters or more that don’t include disputed words,” he said.

Peter Taylor, from Cambridge, has written his own puzzle-solving computer program, but acknowledges its limitations: “If Ted Clarke’s [the retired engineer from Cornwall who came up with a ten-square puzzle] dictionary contains about 45,000 words, I estimate that it would take my program between 7½ months and seven years to conduct a search to crack the problem.”

The Times Killer Su Doku

Killer Su Doku takes the puzzle to the next level. Using the same 9x9 grid there is a double challenge - complete it so that every row, column and cube contains the digits 1-9 but there are now outlined cubes on the grid that also need to add up to the same number

Format: Paperback

 

6
SUDOKU
91
19
1
9
CROSSWORD
134
44
8
10
CROSSWORDS
153
45
9

 

 

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/13495041.htm

Posted on Wed, Dec. 28, 2005

Sure, Sudoku looks simple

By Joan Morris
CONTRA COSTA TIMES

THE CASHIER at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Pleasant Hill scoops up the familiar yellow-and-black "For Dummies" book and thumbs through it while the customer rummages in her bag for a twenty.

"I just started doing these," she says, holding up the self-help guide for solving Sudoku puzzles. "I can do Monday and Tuesday in the paper, but I'm lost after that."

She is not alone. The puzzle phenomenon that has swept the nation has legions of fans. In addition to books, there are now computer games, Web sites and a television show in the works. Just imagine how popular it would be if we could just figure out how to solve the darn things.

Every week phone calls, letters and e-mail come into the newsroom from people asking the same question: "Where do I start?"

We've often wondered that ourselves. The Times began publishing the daily puzzles in August. The easiest puzzles are at the beginning of the week, the hardest at the end. Monday and Tuesday puzzles are considered beginner level (one to two stars). Wednesday and Thursday are intermediate (three and four stars).

Friday is expert level, carrying a five-star designation. And Saturday - oh, Saturday - is six-star (actually, 12-star because there are small stars inside the larger stars). The stars translate roughly to "Put out the dog, turn up the heat and restock the refrigerator. You're going to be working on this one a long, long time."

That's an awful lot of angst for a puzzle that requires neither inane trivia knowledge or math skills. The only way to get good at solving Sudoku puzzles is to do them, those who are good at solving them say. But borrowing liberally from "Sudoku for Dummies" (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., $9.99) and "Teach Yourself Sudoku" (Teach Yourself books, $9.95), we'll give you some tips for understanding how the puzzle works and how to get started.

Basic rules

The rules are very simple. Each column, row and block must contain the numbers one through nine. Therefore, no column, row or block can contain two or more of the same number.

This is easier to understand what that means by looking at the puzzle. See the rows going across? Each row has nine squares, and you fill in the numbers, one through nine. Look at the columns that go up and down on the grid. They also have nine squares that will contain the numbers one through nine. Now look at the boxes. In the Times puzzle, some are shaded to help you identify them. The boxes also consist of nine squares and, you guessed it, they will contain the numbers one through nine.

There is only one solution to each puzzle, and we aren't sure whether that's good or bad news when it comes to solving the thing.

Getting started

Every puzzle will contain a few numbers already in their proper places. The easier puzzles have more numbers filled in.

There is no set starting place. It may be easier to start in an area that has the most numbers filled in.

As you work the puzzle, ask yourself this question, over and over: "If this square contains such-and-such number, will so-and-so number go into this other box?" The question has only three answers: Yes, no or maybe.

If it's a yes, write it in. If it's no, move along. If it's maybe, pencil in the possible numbers in the upper or lower corners of the squares.

The key is to consider the puzzle as a whole, even as you're working small sections of it. Just because you can fill in all the numbers in a block, doesn't mean those numbers are correct for the row or column.

When working a block, check the rows and columns that intersect it. Are you about to write a "2" into a square that already has a "2" in that row? Is the "5" you just wrote down in conflict with a "5" somewhere else in the column?

Experts recommend looking for pairs located in the stacks and bands. Let's say you have a band (a horizontal line of three blocks) that contains two eights. There is an eight in the top row of the first box, and an eight in the middle row of the third box. That means the center box is missing its eight.

Now you have to figure out what row and what column the eight will go into. You know it can't go in the first or second row because there already are eights in those rows. So now you know it goes in the third row. Check the columns for other eights. With a little luck, you should be able to figure it out.

When you run into a roadblock of "maybe" answers, move to another portion of the grid and work on completing blocks, rows and columns. Often, by solving a portion of the puzzle, you'll find that you've cleared up questions in another part."

 

 

Q
=
8
7
QUANTUM
107
26
8
E
=
5
13
ENTANGLEMENTS
149
50
5
-
-
13
20
First Total
256
76
13
-
-
1+3
2+0
Add to Reduce
2+5+6
7+6
1+3
-
-
4
2
Second Totall
13
13
4
-
-
-
-
Reduce to Deduce
1+3
1+3
-
-
-
4
2
Essence of Number
4
4
4

 

THIRTEEN = 99 99 = THIRTEEN

 

A
=
1
-
10
ALGORITHMS
122
59
5
A
=
1
-
9
ALGORITHM
103
49
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ALGORITHM
-
-
-
A
=
1
-
1
A
1
1
1
L
=
3
-
1
L
12
3
3
G
=
7
-
1
G
7
7
7
O
=
6
-
1
O
15
6
6
R
=
9
-
1
R
18
9
9
I
=
9
-
1
I
9
9
9
T
=
2
-
1
T
20
2
2
H
=
8
-
1
H
8
8
8
M
=
4
-
1
M
13
4
4
-
-
49
-
9
ALGORITHM
103
49
49
-
-
4+9
-
-
-
1+0+3
4+9
4+9
-
-
13
-
9
ALGORITHM
103
13
13
-
-
1+3
-
-
-
-
1+3
1+3
-
-
4
-
9
ALGORITHM
103
4
4

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
ALGORITHMS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
1
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
L
=
3
2
1
L
12
3
3
-
-
-
3
-
5
-
-
-
-
G
=
7
3
1
G
7
7
7
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
7
-
-
O
=
6
4
1
O
15
6
6
-
-
-
-
-
5
6
-
-
-
R
=
9
5
1
R
18
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
I
=
9
6
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
T
=
2
7
1
T
20
2
2
-
-
2
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
H
=
8
8
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
8
-
M
=
4
9
1
M
13
4
4
-
-
-
-
4
5
-
-
-
-
S
=
1
10
1
S
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
50
-
10
ALGORITHMS
122
50
50
-
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
18
-
-
5+0
-
1+0
-
1+2+2
5+5
5+0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
-
-
5
-
1
ALGORITHMS
5
5
5
-
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
ALGORITHMS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
1
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L
=
3
2
1
L
12
3
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
G
=
7
3
1
G
7
7
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
O
=
6
4
1
O
15
6
6
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
R
=
9
5
1
R
18
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
I
=
9
6
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
T
=
2
7
1
T
20
2
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
H
=
8
8
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
M
=
4
9
1
M
13
4
4
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
S
=
1
10
1
S
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
50
-
10
ALGORITHMS
122
50
50
-
2
2
3
4
6
7
8
18
-
-
5+0
-
1+0
-
1+2+2
5+5
5+0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
-
-
5
-
1
ALGORITHMS
5
5
5
-
2
2
3
4
6
7
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
ALGORITHMS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
1
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
S
=
1
10
1
S
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
T
=
2
7
1
T
20
2
2
-
-
2
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
L
=
3
2
1
L
12
3
3
-
-
-
3
-
5
-
-
-
-
M
=
4
9
1
M
13
4
4
-
-
-
-
4
5
-
-
-
-
O
=
6
4
1
O
15
6
6
-
-
-
-
-
5
6
-
-
-
G
=
7
3
1
G
7
7
7
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
7
-
-
H
=
8
8
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
8
-
R
=
9
5
1
R
18
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
I
=
9
6
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
9
-
-
50
-
10
ALGORITHMS
122
50
50
-
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
18
-
-
5+0
-
1+0
-
1+2+2
5+5
5+0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
-
-
5
-
1
ALGORITHMS
5
5
5
-
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
ALGORITHMS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
1
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
S
=
1
10
1
S
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
T
=
2
7
1
T
20
2
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
L
=
3
2
1
L
12
3
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
M
=
4
9
1
M
13
4
4
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
O
=
6
4
1
O
15
6
6
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
G
=
7
3
1
G
7
7
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
H
=
8
8
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
R
=
9
5
1
R
18
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
I
=
9
6
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
50
-
10
ALGORITHMS
122
50
50
-
2
2
3
4
6
7
8
18
-
-
5+0
-
1+0
-
1+2+2
5+5
5+0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
-
-
5
-
1
ALGORITHMS
5
5
5
-
2
2
3
4
6
7
8
9

 

 

F
=
6
-
3
FOR
39
21
3
E
=
5
-
5
EVERY
75
30
3
A
=
1
-
6
ACTION
62
26
8
T
=
2
-
5
THERE
56
29
2
I
=
9
-
2
IS
28
19
1
A
=
1
-
2
AN
15
6
6
E
=
5
-
5
EQUAL
56
20
2
A
=
1
-
3
AND
19
10
1
O
=
6
-
8
OPPOSITE
115
43
7
R
=
9
-
8
REACTION
85
40
4
-
-
45
4
46
First Total
550
244
37
-
-
4+5
-
4+6
Add to Reduce
5+5+0
2+4+4
3+7
Q
-
9
-
10
Second Total
10
10
10
-
-
-
4
1+0
Reduce to Deduce
1+0
1+0
1+0
-
-
9
5
1
Essence of Number
1
1
1

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
A
=
1
-
5
ADDED
18
18
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
T
=
2
-
2
TO
35
8
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
A
=
1
-
3
ALL
25
7
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
M
=
4
-
5
MINUS
76
22
4
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
N
=
5
-
4
NONE
48
21
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
S
=
1
-
6
SHARED
55
28
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
B
=
2
-
2
BY
27
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
E
=
5
-
10
EVERYTHING
133
61
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
M
=
4
-
10
MULTIPLIED
121
49
4
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
I
=
9
-
2
IN
23
14
5
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
-
9
ABUNDANCE
65
29
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
35
-
58
First Total
995
266
59
-
1
2
3
8
5
6
14
8
18
-
-
3+5
-
5+8
Add to Reduce
9+9+5
2+6+6
5+9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+4
-
1+8
-
-
8
-
13
Second Total
23
14
14
-
1
2
3
8
5
6
5
8
9
-
-
-
-
1+3
Reduce to Deduce
2+3
1+4
1+4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
4
Essence of Number
5
5
5
-
1
2
3
8
5
6
5
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
ARCHETYPES
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
1
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
4
-
6
-
-
-
R
=
9
2
1
R
18
9
9
-
-
-
-
4
-
6
-
-
9
C
=
3
3
1
C
3
3
3
-
-
-
3
4
-
6
-
-
-
H
=
8
4
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
-
4
-
6
-
8
-
E
=
5
5
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
-
-
4
5
6
-
-
-
T
=
2
6
1
T
20
2
2
-
-
2
-
4
-
6
-
-
-
Y
=
7
7
1
Y
25
7
7
-
-
-
-
4
-
6
7
-
-
P
=
7
8
1
P
16
7
7
-
-
-
-
4
-
6
7
-
-
E
=
5
9
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
-
-
4
5
6
-
-
-
S
=
1
10
1
S
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
4
-
6
-
-
-
-
-
50
-
10
ARCHETYPES
120
57
48
-
2
2
3
4
10
6
14
8
9
-
-
5+0
-
1+0
-
1+2+0
5+7
4+8
-
-
-
-
-
1+0
-
1+4
-
-
-
-
5
-
1
ARCHETYPES
3
12
12
-
2
2
3
4
1
6
5
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+2
1+2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
1
ARCHETYPES
3
3
3
-
2
2
3
4
1
6
5
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
ARCHETYPES
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
1
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
4
-
6
-
-
-
S
=
1
10
1
S
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
4
-
6
-
-
-
T
=
2
6
1
T
20
2
2
-
-
2
-
4
-
6
-
-
-
C
=
3
3
1
C
3
3
3
-
-
-
3
4
-
6
-
-
-
E
=
5
9
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
-
-
4
5
6
-
-
-
E
=
5
5
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
-
-
4
5
6
-
-
-
Y
=
7
7
1
Y
25
7
7
-
-
-
-
4
-
6
7
-
-
P
=
7
8
1
P
16
7
7
-
-
-
-
4
-
6
7
-
-
H
=
8
4
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
-
4
-
6
-
8
-
R
=
9
2
1
R
18
9
9
-
-
-
-
4
-
6
-
-
9
-
-
50
-
10
ARCHETYPES
120
57
48
-
2
2
3
4
10
6
14
8
9
-
-
5+0
-
1+0
-
1+2+0
5+7
4+8
-
-
-
-
-
1+0
-
1+4
-
-
-
-
5
-
1
ARCHETYPES
3
12
12
-
2
2
3
4
1
6
5
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+2
1+2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
1
ARCHETYPES
3
3
3
-
2
2
3
4
1
6
5
8
9

 

 

NUMBERS REARRANGED IN NUMERICAL ORDER

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
5
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
ARCHETYPES
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
1
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
S
=
1
10
1
S
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
T
=
2
6
1
T
20
2
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
C
=
3
3
1
C
3
3
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
E
=
5
9
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
E
=
5
5
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
Y
=
7
7
1
Y
25
7
7
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
P
=
7
8
1
P
16
7
7
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
H
=
8
4
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
R
=
9
2
1
R
18
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
50
-
10
ARCHETYPES
120
57
48
-
2
2
3
10
14
8
9
-
-
5+0
-
1+0
-
1+2+0
5+7
4+8
-
-
-
-
1+0
1+4
-
-
-
-
5
-
1
ARCHETYPES
3
12
12
-
2
2
3
1
5
8
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+2
1+2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
1
ARCHETYPES
3
3
3
-
2
2
3
1
5
8
9

 

LETTERS RE ARRANGED NUMERICALLY

 

-
-
-
-
6
SHRINE
-
-
-
S
=
1
-
-
S
19
10
1
H
=
8
-
-
H
8
8
8
R
=
9
-
-
R
18
9
9
I
=
9
-
-
I
9
9
9
N
=
5
-
-
N
14
5
5
E
=
5
-
-
E
5
5
5
-
-
37
-
6
SHRINE
73
46
37
-
-
3+7
-
-
-
7+3
4+6
3+7
-
-
10
-
6
SHRINE
10
10
10
-
-
1+0
-
-
-
1+0
1+0
1+0
-
-
1
-
6
SHRINE
1
1
1

 

 

6
SHRINE
-
-
-
-
S+H
27
18
9
-
R
18
9
9
-
I
9
9
9
-
N
14
5
5
-
E
5
5
5
6
SHRINE
73
46
37
-
-
7+3
4+6
3+7
6
SHRINE
10
10
10
-
-
1+0
1+0
1+0
6
SHRINE
1
1
1

 

 

-
-
-
-
9
ENSHRINED
-
-
-
E
=
5
-
-
E
5
5
5
N
=
5
-
-
N
14
5
5
S
=
1
-
-
S
19
10
1
H
=
8
-
-
H
8
8
8
R
=
9
-
-
R
18
9
9
I
=
9
-
-
I
9
9
9
N
=
5
-
-
N
14
5
5
E
=
5
-
-
E
5
5
5
D
=
4
-
-
D
4
4
4
-
-
51
-
9
ENSHRINED
96
60
51
-
-
5+1
-
-
-
9+6
6+0
5+1
-
-
6
-
9
ENSHRINED
15
6
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+5
-
-
-
-
6
-
9
ENSHRINED
6
6
6

 

RISH = 999 SHIR

 

9
ENSHRINED
-
-
-
-
E
5
5
5
-
N
14
5
5
-
S+H
27
18
9
-
R
18
9
9
-
I
9
9
9
-
N
14
5
5
-
E+D
9
9
9
9
ENSHRINED
96
60
51
-
-
9+6
6+0
5+1
9
ENSHRINED
15
6
6
-
-
1+5
-
-
9
ENSHRINED
6
6
6

 

SHRI KRISHNA

RISH = 999 SHIR

 

 

AMENOPHIS

 

9
AMENOPHIS
-
-
-
-
A+M
14
5
5
-
H+I+S
36
18
9
-
O+P+E+N
50
23
5
9
AMENOPHIS
100
46
19
-
-
1+0+0
4+6
1+9
9
AMENOPHIS
1
10
10
-
-
-
1+0
1+0
9
AMENOPHIS
1
1
1

 

 

9
AMENOPHIS
-
-
-
-
A+M+E+N
33
15
6
-
O+P
31
13
4
-
H+I+S
36
18
9
9
AMENOPHIS
100
55
19
-
-
1+0+0
5+5
1+9
9
AMENOPHIS
1
10
10
-
-
-
1+0
1+0
9
AMENOPHIS
1
1
1

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
9
AMENOPHIS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
1
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
2
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
M
=
4
2
1
M
13
4
4
-
-
2
3
4
-
-
-
-
-
E
=
5
3
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
2
3
-
5
-
-
-
-
N
=
5
4
1
N
14
5
5
-
-
2
3
-
5
-
-
-
-
O
=
6
5
1
O
15
6
6
-
-
2
3
-
-
6
-
-
-
P
=
7
6
1
P
16
7
7
-
-
2
3
-
-
-
7
-
-
H
=
8
7
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
2
3
-
-
-
-
8
-
I
=
9
8
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
2
3
-
-
-
-
-
9
S
=
1
9
1
S
19
10
1
-
1
2
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
19
-
9
AMENOPHIS
100
55
46
-
1
2
3
-
-
-
-
8
18
-
-
1+9
-
-
-
1+0+0
5+5
4+6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
-
-
10
-
9
AMENOPHIS
1
10
10
-
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
1+0
-
-
-
-
1+0
1+0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
9
AMENOPHIS
1
1
1
-
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
9
AMENOPHIS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
1
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
2
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
S
=
1
9
1
S
19
10
1
-
1
2
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
M
=
4
2
1
M
13
4
4
-
-
2
3
4
-
-
-
-
-
E
=
5
3
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
2
3
-
5
-
-
-
-
N
=
5
4
1
N
14
5
5
-
-
2
3
-
5
-
-
-
-
O
=
6
5
1
O
15
6
6
-
-
2
3
-
-
6
-
-
-
P
=
7
6
1
P
16
7
7
-
-
2
3
-
-
-
7
-
-
H
=
8
7
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
2
3
-
-
-
-
8
-
I
=
9
8
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
2
3
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
19
-
9
AMENOPHIS
100
55
46
-
1
2
3
-
-
-
-
8
18
-
-
1+9
-
-
-
1+0+0
5+5
4+6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
-
-
10
-
9
AMENOPHIS
1
10
10
-
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
1+0
-
-
-
-
1+0
1+0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
9
AMENOPHIS
1
1
1
-
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
9
AMENOPHIS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
1
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
S
=
1
9
1
S
19
10
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
M
=
4
2
1
M
13
4
4
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
E
=
5
3
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
N
=
5
4
1
N
14
5
5
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
O
=
6
5
1
O
15
6
6
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
P
=
7
6
1
P
16
7
7
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
H
=
8
7
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
I
=
9
8
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
19
-
9
AMENOPHIS
100
55
46
-
1
-
-
-
-
8
18
-
-
1+9
-
-
-
1+0+0
5+5
4+6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
-
-
10
-
9
AMENOPHIS
1
10
10
-
2
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
1+0
-
-
-
-
1+0
1+0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
9
AMENOPHIS
1
1
1
-
2
4
5
6
7
8
9

 

LETTERS RE ARRANGED NUMERICALLY

 

KAMEPHIS AND THE DARK MYSTERY

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
8
KAMEPHIS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
K
=
2
1
1
K
11
2
2
-
-
2
3
-
-
6
-
-
-
A
=
1
2
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
3
-
-
6
-
-
-
M
=
4
3
1
M
13
4
4
-
-
-
3
4
-
6
-
-
-
E
=
5
4
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
-
3
-
5
6
-
-
-
P
=
7
5
1
P
16
7
7
-
-
-
3
-
-
6
7
-
-
H
=
8
6
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
3
-
-
6
-
8
-
I
=
9
7
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
3
-
-
6
-
-
9
S
=
1
8
1
S
19
10
1
-
1
-
3
-
-
6
-
-
-
-
-
19
-
8
KAMEPHIS
82
46
37
-
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
1+9
-
-
-
8+2
4+6
3+7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
10
-
8
KAMEPHIS
10
10
10
-
2
2
5
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
1+0
-
-
-
1+0
1+0
1+0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
8
KAMEPHIS
1
1
1
-
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
8
KAMEPHIS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
2
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
3
-
-
6
-
-
-
S
=
1
8
1
S
19
10
1
-
1
-
3
-
-
6
-
-
-
K
=
2
1
1
K
11
2
2
-
-
2
3
-
-
6
-
-
-
M
=
4
3
1
M
13
4
4
-
-
-
3
4
-
6
-
-
-
E
=
5
4
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
-
3
-
5
6
-
-
-
P
=
7
5
1
P
16
7
7
-
-
-
3
-
-
6
7
-
-
H
=
8
6
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
3
-
-
6
-
8
-
I
=
9
7
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
3
-
-
6
-
-
9
-
-
19
-
8
KAMEPHIS
82
46
37
-
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
1+9
-
-
-
8+2
4+6
3+7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
10
-
8
KAMEPHIS
10
10
10
-
2
2
5
4
5
6
7
8
9
-
-
1+0
-
-
-
1+0
1+0
1+0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
8
KAMEPHIS
1
1
1
-
2
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
4
5
7
8
9
-
-
-
-
8
KAMEPHIS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
2
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
S
=
1
8
1
S
19
10
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
K
=
2
1
1
K
11
2
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
M
=
4
3
1
M
13
4
4
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
E
=
5
4
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
P
=
7
5
1
P
16
7
7
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
H
=
8
6
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
I
=
9
7
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
19
-
8
KAMEPHIS
82
46
37
-
2
2
4
5
7
8
9
-
-
1+9
-
-
-
8+2
4+6
3+7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
10
-
8
KAMEPHIS
10
10
10
-
2
2
4
5
7
8
9
-
-
1+0
-
-
-
1+0
1+0
1+0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
8
KAMEPHIS
1
1
1
-
2
2
4
5
7
8
9

 

LETTERS RE ARRANGED NUMERICALLY

 

 

E
=
5
7
EUCLID'S
73
28
1
T
=
2
3
THE
33
15
6
E
=
5
8
ELEMENTS
93
30
3
-
-
12
18
First Total
199
73
10
-
-
1+2
1+8
Add to Reduce
1+9+9
7+3
1+0
Q
-
3
9
Second Total
19
10
1
-
-
-
-
Reduce to Deduce
1+9
1+0
-
Q
-
3
9
Third Total
10
1
1
-
-
-
-
Reduce to Deduce
1+0
1+0
-
Q
-
3
9
Essence of Number
1
1
1

 

 

INCLUDE EUCLID INCLUDE

 

E
=
5
-
-
EUCLID
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
E+D
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
U+C+L
36
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
I
9
9
9
E
=
5
-
6
EUCLID
54
27
27
-
-
-
-
-
-
5+4
2+7
2+7
E
=
5
-
6
EUCLID
9
9
9

 

 

Euclid's Elements - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid's_Elements

 

Euclid's Elements is a mathematical and geometric treatise consisting of 13 books written by the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria c. 300 BC.

Euclid's Elements (Ancient Greek: Στοιχεῖα Stoicheia) is a mathematical and geometric treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt c. 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulates (axioms), propositions (theorems and constructions), and mathematical proofs of the propositions. The thirteen books cover Euclidean geometry and the ancient Greek version of elementary number theory. The work also includes an algebraic system that has become known as geometric algebra, which is powerful enough to solve many algebraic problems,[1] including the problem of finding the square root of a number.[2] The Elements is the second oldest extant Greek mathematical treatise after Autolycus' On the Moving Sphere,[3] and it is the oldest extant axiomatic deductive treatment of mathematics. It has proven instrumental in the development of logic and modern science. According to Proclus the term "element" was used to describe a theorem that is all-pervading and helps furnishing proofs of many other theorems. The word 'element' is in the Greek language the same as 'letter'. This suggests that theorems in the Elements should be seen as standing in the same relation to geometry as letters to language. Later commentators give a slightly different meaning to the term 'element', emphasizing how the propositions have progressed in small steps, and continued to build on previous propositions in a well-defined order.[4]

Euclid's Elements has been referred to as the most successful[5][6] and influential[7] textbook ever written. Being first set in type in Venice in 1482, it is one of the very earliest mathematical works to be printed after the invention of the printing press and was estimated by Carl Benjamin Boyer to be second only to the Bible in the number of editions published,[7] with the number reaching well over one thousand.[8] For centuries, when the quadrivium was included in the curriculum of all university students, knowledge of at least part of Euclid's Elements was required of all students. Not until the 20th century, by which time its content was universally taught through other school textbooks, did it cease to be considered something all educated people had read.[

Basis in earlier work
Scholars believe that the Elements is largely a collection of theorems proven by other mathematicians, supplemented by some original work.

Proclus (412 – 485 AD), a Greek mathematician who lived around seven centuries after Euclid, wrote in his commentary on the Elements: "Euclid, who put together the Elements, collecting many of Eudoxus' theorems, perfecting many of Theaetetus', and also bringing to irrefragable demonstration the things which were only somewhat loosely proved by his predecessors".

Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BCE) was probably the source for most of books I and II, Hippocrates of Chios (c. 470 – c. 410 BCE, not the better known Hippocrates of Kos) for book III, and Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 408 – c. 355 BC) for book V, while books IV, VI, XI, and XII probably came from other Pythagorean or Athenian mathematicians.[11] The Elements may have been based on an earlier textbook by Hippocrates of Chios, who also may have originated the use of letters to refer to figures.[12]

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
EUCLID
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
E
5
5
5
-
E
-
-
5
-
E
5
E
-
-
-
-
-
U
21
3
3
-
U
3
-
-
-
U
3
U
-
-
-
-
-
C
3
3
3
-
C
3
-
-
-
C
3
C
-
-
-
-
-
L
12
3
3
-
L
3
-
-
-
L
3
L
-
-
-
-
-
I
9
9
9
-
I
-
-
-
9
I
9
I
-
-
-
-
-
D
4
4
4
-
D
-
4
-
-
D
4
D
E
=
5
-
6
EUCLID
54
27
27
-
-
9
4
5
9
-
27
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5+4
2+7
2+7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2+7
-
-
-
5
-
6
EUCLID
9
9
9
-
-
9
4
5
9
-
9
-

 

 

-
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
+
=
9
-
=
9
-
9
-
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
5
3
3
3
-
4
+
=
18
1+8
=
9
-
9
-
-
5
21
3
12
-
4
+
=
45
4+5
=
9
-
9
-
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
5
21
3
12
9
4
+
=
54
5+4
=
9
-
9
-
-
5
3
3
3
9
4
+
=
27
2+7
=
9
-
9
-
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
--
1
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
3
3
-
-
-
-
3
occurs
x
3
=
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
4
occurs
x
1
=
4
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
--
5
occurs
x
1
=
5
6
-
-
--
-
--
--
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
-
--
7
-
-
--
-
--
--
-
-
--
7
-
-
-
-
--
8
-
-
--
-
--
--
-
-
-
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
9
occurs
x
1
=
9
24
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
21
-
-
6
-
27
2+4
-
-
3
3
3
-
-
-
-
2+1
-
-
-
-
2+7
6
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
3
-
-
6
-
9
-
-
5
3
3
3
9
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
3
-
-
6
-
9

 

 

6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
+
=
9
-
=
9
-
9
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
5
3
3
3
-
4
+
=
18
1+8
=
9
-
9
-
5
21
3
12
-
4
+
=
45
4+5
=
9
-
9
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-
5
21
3
12
9
4
+
=
54
5+4
=
9
-
9
-
5
3
3
3
9
4
+
=
27
2+7
=
9
-
9
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
3
3
-
-
-
-
3
occurs
x
3
=
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
4
occurs
x
1
=
4
-
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
occurs
x
1
=
5
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
9
occurs
x
1
=
9
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
21
-
-
6
-
27
-
-
3
3
3
-
-
-
-
2+1
-
-
-
-
2+7
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
3
-
-
6
-
9
-
5
3
3
3
9
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
E
U
C
L
I
D
-
-
3
-
-
6
-
9

 

 

E
=
5
6
EUCLID
54
27
9
T
=
2
3
THE
33
15
6
E
=
5
8
ELEMENTS
93
30
3
-
-
12
17
Add to Reduce
180
72
18
-
-
1+2
1+7
Reduce to Deduce
1+8+0
7+2
1+8
Q
-
3
8
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

 

T
=
2
3
THE
33
15
6
E
=
5
8
ELEMENTS
93
30
3
-
-
7
11
Add to Reduce
126
45
9
-
-
-
1+1
Reduce to Deduce
1+2+6
4+5
-
Q
-
7
2
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

 

THRICE-GREATEST HERMES

Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis

G. R. S. Mead 1906

THE VIRGIN OF THE WORLD


KAMEPHIS AND THE DARK MYSTERY

Page 149 (All notes omitted)
"In apparent contradiction to all this we have the following statement: "Now give good heed, son Horus, for thou art being told the mystic spectacle which Kamephis, our forefather, was privileged to hear from Hermes, the record-writer of all deeds, and I from Kamephis when he did honour me with the Black [Rite] that gives perfection" (19).1
Here Reitzenstein (p. 137) professes to discover the conflation of two absolutely distinct traditions of (i) Kamephis, a later god and pupil of Hermes, and (ii) Kamephis, an older god and teacher of Isis; but in this I cannot follow him. It all depends on the meaning assigned to the words (text omitted), which Reitzenstein regards as signifying "the most ancient of all [gods]," but which I translate as " the most ancient of [us] all."
I take it to mean simply that, according to the general Isis-tradition, the founder of its mysteries was stated to be Kamephis, but that the Isis-Hermes circles claimed that this Kamephis, though truly the most ancient figure in the Isis tradition proper, was nevertheless in his turn the pupil of the still more ancient Hermes.
The grade of Kamephis was presumably represented in the mystery-cult by the arch-hierophant who presided at the degree called the "Dark Mystery" or "Black Rite" It was a rite performed only for those / Page 150 / who were judged worthy of it (text omitted) after long probation in lower degrees, something of a far more sacred character, apparently, than the instruction in the mysteries enacted in the light.
I would suggest, therefore, that we have here a reference to the most esoteric institution of the Isiac tradition, the more precise nature of which we will consider later on; it is enough for the moment to connect it with certain objects or shows that were apparently made to appear in the dark. As Clement of Alexandria says in his famous commonplace book, called the Stromateis1:

"It is not without reason that in the mysteries of the Greeks, lustrations hold the first place, analogous to ablutions among the Barbarians [that is, non-Greeks]. After these come the lesser mysteries, which have some foundation of instruction and of preliminary preparation for what is to follow; and then the great mysteries, in which nothing remains to be learned of the universe, but only to contemplate and comprehend nature [herself] and the things [which are mystically shown to the initiated]." 2 (note omitted)

Page151

KNEPH - KAMEPHIS

But who was Kamephis in the theology of the Egyptians? According to Reitzenstein, Kamephis or Kmephis, that is Kmeph, is equated by Egyptologists with Kneph, who, according to Plutarch,l (note omitted) was worshipped in the Thebaid as the ingenerable and immortal God. Kneph, however, as Sethe has shown,2 is one of the aliases of Ammon, who is the" bull [or husband] of his mother," the "creator who has created himself." Kneph is, moreover, the Good Daimon, as Philo of Byblus says.3
He is the Sun-god and Heaven-god Ammon

"If he open his eyes, he filleth all with light in his primaeval 4 land; and if he close them all is dark." 5
Here we have Kneph-Ammon as the giver of light in darkness, and the opener of the eyes.
Moreover, Porphyry 6 (note omitted) tells us that the Egyptians regarded Kneph as the demiurge or creator, and represented him in the form of a man, with skin of a blue-black tint, girt with a girdle, and holding / Page152 / a sceptre, and wearing a crown of regal wings. This symbolism, says Porphyry, signified that he was the representative of the Logos or Reason, difficult to discover, hidden,l not manifest 2; it is he who gives light and also life 3; he is the King. The winged crown upon his head, he adds, signifies that he moves or energizes intellectually.
Kamephis, then, stands in the Isis-tradition for the representative of Agathodaimon, the Logos-creator. He is, however, a later holder of this office, and has had it handed on to him by Hermes, or at any rate he is instructed in the Logos-wisdom by Hermes."

 

 

7
THEBAID
49
31
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
KAMEPHIS
82
37
1
5
KMEPH
53
26
8
7
KMEPHIS
81
36
9
20
First Total
216
99
18
2+0
Add to Reduce
2+1+6
9+9
1+8
2
Second Total
9
18
9
-
Reduce to Deduce
-
1+8
-
2
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

 

SHAMANIC WISDOM IN THE PYRAMID TEXTS

THE MYSTICAL TRADITION OF ANCIENT EGYPT

Jeremy Naydler 2005

Page 201

"The Sarcophagus Chamber Texts
In the Unas text, it would seem that the king's identification with Ra at this juncture is to empower him as he descends into the dark netherworld (the Dwat). He prays that he may be remembered by Nephthys, whom he addresses as "She who remembers the kas," for he is himself about to be enveloped by the Underworld. Unas's entry into the Dwat is in the south­western sky, where he follows the decanal constellations of Orion and Sirius as they are swallowed up or "encircled" by the Dwat. The southern constellations were thought to be governed by Osiris because they disap­pear for seventy days, going through a symbolic death followed by a rebirth when they reappear again. The leader of the southern constellations was regarded as Orion, with which Osiris was identified (fig. 7.17). Just as the / Page 208 / southern constellations enter the Dwat when they disappear from view, so Unas will be "encircled" by the Dwat. But this experience of being encom­passed by the Dwat involves at the same time a process of purification in a mysterious region called the Akhet.

Orion is encircled by the Dwat, When, living, he purifies himself in the Akhet. Sothis [Sirius] is encircled by the Dwat, When, living, she purifies herself in the Akhet. Unas is encircled by the Dwat, When, living, he purifies himself in the Akhet.54"

"Now, Akhet is usually translated as "horizon," but it should be understood as the place in which the king undergoes transformation into an akh, or "shining spirit."55 And this is the crucial expe(ience that is undergone here. It is the inward realization that one's essential nature is beyond the oppos­ing principles of Horus and Seth and stems from a higher transcendent source. Thus at the end of utterance 216, the king commits himself "to the arms of my father, to the arms of Atum."56
The experience of spiritual transformation in the Akhet is usually interpreted as belonging to ancient Egyptian beliefs about what occurs after death, but we know from New Kingdom sources that the Akhet was also regarded as a place where the living king was initiated. In his coronation inscription at Karnak, Thutmose In describes transforming himself into a falcon and then being taken up into the Akhet, where he communes with the sun god Ra, becoming infused with Ra's "akh power."57 This event was connected with the validation of the king's status as "son of Ra" (a tide that he bore from the Fourth Dynasty onward) and the accompanying role of the king as "priest of the sun."58 It is not hard to see the close parallel between what is described in the Thutmose inscription and the experiences detailed in the pyramid of Unas. In the case of Thutmose, however, there is no question as to the fact that the king is alive, for it is a coronation text. If such experiences as are described in the Pyramid Texts are also found in a coronation text and attributed to a living king, it follows that the Pyramid Texts are not necessarily simply funerary, and that what Unas is said to have undergone he may have undergone while still alive."

 

 

UNAS OSIRIS OSIRIS UNAS

ENTERS

A

SUN

(5) UTTERANCE 217: SOLARIZATION

"In the utterance that follows (utt. 217) it is affirmed: "You [Atum-Ra and the king] shall traverse the sky being united in the darkness; you shall rise / Page 209 / from the Akhet, from the place in which you have become akh."59 This statement is made four times in order to emphasize its importance. How are we to understand this "union in darkness" of the king and Atum-Ra? The union is occurring on the solar night bark in the depths of the Underwor!d, or Dwat. Here in these netherwotld depths, the king comes to the place of renewal, the Akhet, where he is infused with the powers of spiritual regeneration that the sun god taps each night. That which ensures the rebirth of the sun also ensures the rebirth of the king, for the king has become conjoined with the sun god. The king has become consciously con­nected with the self-regenerating energy of the sun god: He has become "solarized." Now, having incorporated into himself the solar energy of the sun god, he rises up from the Akhet as a "shining spirit"-an akh.60
The utterance describes how this event of the solarized king traversing the night sky with Atum-Ra is solemnly announced by Seth and Nephthys to the gods of the south, by Osiris and Horns to the gods of the north, by Thoth to the gods of the West, and by Horns to the gods of the east. Unas
has achieved the condition of "shining spirit," with power over life and, death.

(6) UTTERANCE 218: EMPOWERMENT

Utterance 218 amplifies the same point: The power of the solarized Unas is greater than that of Osiris, to whom the utterance is addressed. It is cosmic, it extends over the four directions, over the heavens, over the Underworld (referred to as the Lower Sky), and over the earth.61 Once again the repeated references to the king's power extending over those who are on earth militates against a funerary interpretation of this utterance. It is concerned, on the contrary, with an exaltation of his power while still . alive, as the next utterance unequivocally affirms.

(7) UTTERANCE 219: A LIVING OSIRIS

The texts of the south wall conclude at the east end with utterance 219. This consists of an affirmation that we have already had cause to discuss in chapter 3, both in relation to problems in the funerary interpretation of the Pyramid Texts and in relation to the episode in the Sed festival "secret rites" in which the king has a visionary encounter with twelve deities. Unas, now identified once more with Osiris, is said to "live." The affirmation is made twelve times to major deities such as Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, and so on, nearly all of whom appear before Osorkon during his Sed festival in the "secret rites" (fig. 3.4). It is then repeated twelve more times to twelve different manifestations of Osiris, beginning with Nunet, who / Page 210 / should possibly be understood as the the tomb personified.62 The same affirmation is thus repeated twenty-four times altogether. This drives home its message, which mirrors that of utterance 213 at the west end of the wall, where it is said that Unas has departed alive, not dead. Now, addressing each god in turn, it is reiterated that Unas is an Osiris, he is not dead, he lives, and furthermore he is not judged. The utterance begins by addressing Atum

:

O Atum, this one here is your son Osiris,
whom you have caused to be restored that he may live. He lives-this Unas lives!
He is not dead-this Unas is not dead!
He is not destroyed-this Unas is not destroyed!
He has not been judged-this Unas has not been judged! He judges-this Unas judges!63

Each god is then addressed in exactly the same way, and the same formula is repeated word for word twenty-four times.
From a mystical or initiatory point of view, the text may be interpreted as stating that Unas, rather than coming before Osiris in his role of judge of the dead, escapes the fate of being judged altogether. In other words, it is just because his soul is not judged that he can be said still to be alive, with power over his own heart. 64 The utterance thus fulfills the promise of utter­ance 215, where we read,
Ra-Atum will not give you to Osiris, and he [Osiris] shall not claim your heart nor have power over your heart.65
It bears comparison with a similar statement in the pyramid of Teti, on the south wall of the passage between the sarcophagus chamber and the antechamber, where the king claims to "give judgment as a god" and says of Ra that
he [Ra] will never give me to Osiris, for I have not died the death.
I have become an akh in the Akhet.66

 

SHAMANIC WISDOM IN THE PYRAMID TEXTS

THE MYSTICAL TRADITION OF ANCIENT EGYPT

Jeremy Naydler 2005

Eliade has pointed out that one of the characteristics of shamans is that they "are able, here on earth and as often as they wish, to accomplish 'coming out of the body,' that is, the death that alone has power to transform the rest of mankind into 'birds'; shamans and sorcerers can enjoy the condition of 'souls,' of 'discarnate beings,' which is accessible to the profane only when they die."39

THE COSMIC SERPENT

James Narby

Page 54 / 55

"After multiple episodes, which would be too long to describehere, Harner became convinced he was dying. He tried call/ing out to his Conibo friends for an antidote without managing to pronounce a word"

Page 71

"At this point I remembered Michael Harner's story.

Had he not said that this information was reserved for the dead and dying"

 

 

THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN

Thomas Mann 1875-1955

Page 466

"Had not the normal, since time was, lived on the achievements of the abnormal? Men consciously and
voluntarily descended into disease and madness, in search of knowledge which, acquired by fanaticism, would lead back to health; after the possession and use of it had ceased to be conditioned by that heroic and abnormal act of sacrifice. That was the true death on the cross, the true Atonement."



REMEMBERING

OSIRIS

Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems

Tom Hare

1

999

THREE, TWO, ONE, ZERO

Page185 /6

Among the Coffin Texts of the Middle Kingdom, for example, is a majestic and terrible spell for "Becoming Magic";

O noble ones in the presence of Lord Atum,
Here am I, come before you,
Fear me, in accordance with what you know.
It is I whom the Sole Lord created before there were yet two things in this land,
When he sent forth his sole eye,
When he was alone, going forth from his own mouth,

When his million ka were there, protection for his retinue,
When he spoke with one who comes to being with him, over whom he rules,
When he took Hu upon his speech.
It is I who am the very son of Who-Bore-All, born before he had a mother,

And I am under the protection of the command of the Sole Lord,
It is I who give life to the Ennead,
It is I who act howsoever I like, father of gods, lofty of standard,
who make the gods effective in accordance with the charge of Who-Bore- All,
August god who eats and speaks with his mouth.
I am fallen silent,
I have bowed down,
I am come shod, a Bulls of the Sky,
I am seated, a Bulls of Nut, in this my dignity, Greatest of Lord of Kas, Heritor of Atum,
I have come.
I take my throne.
I gather unto me my dignity.
All is mine, since before you came to being, Gods.
Go down upon your haunches.
I am Magic.

"O noble ones in the presence of Lord Atum, Here am I, come before you,"

"O noble ones in the presence of Lord 1234, Here am 9, come before 7,"

Page185 /6 Chapter 4

 

NINE EIGHT SEVEN SIX FIVE FOUR THREE TWO ONE ZERO

 

O noble ones in the presence of Lord 1234,
Here am 9, come before you,
Fear me, in accordance with what you know.
It is 9 whom the Sole Lord created before there were yet two things in this land,
When he sent forth his sole eye,
When he was alone, going forth from his own mouth,

When his million ka were there, protection for his retinue,
When he spoke with one who comes to being with him, over whom he rules,
When he took Hu upon his speech.
It is 9 who am the very son of Who-Bore-All, born before he had a mother,

And 9 am under the protection of the command of the Sole Lord,
It is 9 who give life to the Ennead,
It is 9 who act howsoever 9 like, father of gods, lofty of standard,
who make the gods effective in accordance with the charge of Who-Bore- All,
August god who eats and speaks with his mouth.
9 am fallen silent,
9 have bowed down,
9 am come shod, a Bulls of the Sky,
9 am seated, a Bulls of Nut, in this my dignity, Greatest of Lord of Kas, Heritor of 1234,
9 have come.
9 take my throne.
9 gather unto me my dignity.
All is mine, since before you came to being, Gods.
Go down upon your haunches.
9 am Magic.

 

 

NUMBER 9

THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODE

 

N
=
5
1
6
NUMBER
55
28
1
-
-
-
2
1
9
9
9
9
T
=
2
3
3
THE
33
15
6
S
=
1
4
6
SEARCH
54
36
9
F
=
6
5
3
FOR
39
21
3
T
=
2
6
3
THE
33
15
6
S
=
1
7
5
SIGMA
49
31
4
C
=
3
8
4
CODE
27
18
9
-
-
20
-
31
First Total
299
173
47
-
-
2+0
-
3+1
Add to Reduce
2+9+9
1+7+3
4+7
Q
-
2
-
4
Second Total
20
11
11
-
-
-
-
Reduce to Deduce
2+0
1+1
1+1
-
-
2
-
4
Essence of Number
2
2
2

 

 

NUMBER

NINE

THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODE

 

N
=
5
1
6
NUMBER
55
28
1
N
=
5
2
4
NINE
42
24
6
T
=
2
3
3
THE
33
15
6
S
=
1
4
6
SEARCH
54
36
9
F
=
6
5
3
FOR
39
21
3
T
=
2
6
3
THE
33
15
6
S
=
1
7
5
SIGMA
49
31
4
C
=
3
8
4
CODE
27
18
9
-
-
25
-
34
First Total
332
188
44
-
-
2+5
-
3+4
Add to Reduce
3+3+2
1+8+8
4+4
Q
-
7
-
7
Second Total
8
17
8
-
-
-
-
Reduce to Deduce
1+7
-
-
7
-
7
Essence of Number
8
8
8

 

 

NUMBER

NINE

THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODES

 

N
=
5
1
6
NUMBER
55
28
1
N
=
5
2
4
NINE
42
24
6
T
=
2
3
3
THE
33
15
6
S
=
1
4
6
SEARCH
54
36
9
F
=
6
5
3
FOR
39
21
3
T
=
2
6
3
THE
33
15
6
S
=
1
7
5
SIGMA
49
31
4
C
=
3
8
5
CODES
46
28
1
-
-
25
-
35
First Total
351
198
36
-
-
2+5
-
3+5
Add to Reduce
3+5+1
1+9+8
3+6
Q
-
7
-
8
Second Total
9
18
9
-
-
-
-
Reduce to Deduce
1+8
-
-
7
-
8
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

NUMBER NINE THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODES

 

26
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
+
=
351
3+5+1
=
9
-
9
-
9
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
+
=
126
1+2+6
=
9
-
9
-
9
26
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

 

 

 

 

THE

FAR YONDER SCRIBE

AND OFT TIMES SHADOWED SUBSTANCES WATCHED IN FINE AMAZE

THE

ZED ALIZ ZED

IN SWIFT REPEAT SCATTER THE NINE NUMBERS AMONGST THE LETTERS OF THEIR PROGRESS

AT THE THROW OF THE NINTH RAM WHEN IN CONJUNCTION SET

THE

FAR YONDER SCRIBE

MADE RECORD OF THE FALL

 

 

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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
9
-
-
-
-
5
6
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
6
-
8
+
=
43
4+3
=
7
-
7
-
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
9
-
-
-
-
14
15
-
-
-
19
-
-
-
-
24
-
26
+
=
115
1+1+5
=
7
-
7
-
7
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-
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-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
-
-
1
2
3
4
-
-
7
8
9
-
2
3
4
5
-
7
-
+
=
83
8+3
=
11
1+1
2
-
2
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
-
-
10
11
12
13
-
-
16
17
18
-
20
21
22
23
-
25
-
+
=
236
2+3+6
=
11
1+1
2
-
2
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
+
=
351
3+5+1
=
9
-
9
-
9
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
+
=
126
1+2+6
=
9
-
9
-
9
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1
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-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
+
=
1
occurs
x
3
=
3
-
3
-
-
2
-
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-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
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-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
+
=
2
occurs
x
3
=
6
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6
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-
3
-
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3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
+
=
3
occurs
x
3
=
9
-
9
-
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-
-
4
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-
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-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
+
=
4
occurs
x
3
=
12
1+2
3
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
+
=
5
occurs
x
3
=
15
1+5
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
+
=
6
occurs
x
3
=
18
1+8
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
+
=
7
occurs
x
3
=
21
2+1
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
+
=
8
occurs
x
3
=
24
2+4
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
+
=
9
occurs
x
2
=
18
1+8
9
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126
-
54
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-
-
-
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9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4+5
-
-
2+6
-
1+2+6
-
5+4
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-
1
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6
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9
1
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1
2
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4
5
6
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8
-
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8
-
9
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9

 

 

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

 

8
ABCDEFGH
36
36
9
1
I
9
9
9
8
JKLMNOPQ
108
36
9
1
R
18
18
9
8
STUVWXYZ
180
36
9
26
Add to Reduce
351
126
72
2+6
Reduce to Deduce
3+5+1
1+2+6
7+2
8
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

ABRACADABRA

ARBADACARBA

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

 

3
ABC
6
6
6
2
DE
9
9
9
2
FG
13
13
4
3
HIJ
27
18
9
2
KL
23
5
5
2
MN
27
9
9
2
OP
31
13
4
3
QRS
54
18
9
2
TU
41
5
5
2
VW
45
9
9
3
XYZ
75
21
3
26
-
351
126
72
2+6
-
3+5+1
1+2+6
7+2
8
-
9
9
9

 

 

ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

ARBADACARBA

ABRACADABRA

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

 

 

 

 

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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
9
-
-
-
-
5
6
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
6
-
8
+
=
43
4+3
=
7
-
7
-
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
9
-
-
-
-
14
15
-
-
-
19
-
-
-
-
24
-
26
+
=
115
1+1+5
=
7
-
7
-
7
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
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K
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O
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Z
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
-
-
1
2
3
4
-
-
7
8
9
-
2
3
4
5
-
7
-
+
=
83
8+3
=
11
1+1
2
-
2
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
-
-
10
11
12
13
-
-
16
17
18
-
20
21
22
23
-
25
-
+
=
236
2+3+6
=
11
1+1
2
-
2
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
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T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
+
=
351
3+5+1
=
9
-
9
-
9
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
+
=
126
1+2+6
=
9
-
9
-
9
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Y
Z
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
+
=
1
occurs
x
3
=
3
-
3
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
+
=
2
occurs
x
3
=
6
-
6
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
+
=
3
occurs
x
3
=
9
-
9
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
+
=
4
occurs
x
3
=
12
1+2
3
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
+
=
5
occurs
x
3
=
15
1+5
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
+
=
6
occurs
x
3
=
18
1+8
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
+
=
7
occurs
x
3
=
21
2+1
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
+
=
8
occurs
x
3
=
24
2+4
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
+
=
9
occurs
x
2
=
18
1+8
9
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-
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26
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126
-
54
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4+5
-
-
2+6
-
1+2+6
-
5+4
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8
-
9
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9
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
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8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
-
-
-
-
-
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-
-
-
-
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9
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Z
                                                   
 
B
                                            
Y
  
                                                   
   
C
                                        
X
    
                                                   
     
D
                                    
W
      
                                                   
       
E
                                
V
        
                                                   
         
F
                            
U
          
                                                   
           
G
                        
T
            
                                                   
             
H
                    
S
              
                                                   
               
I
                
R
                
                                                   
                 
J
            
Q
                  
                                                   
                   
K
        
P
                    
                                                   
                     
L
    
O
                      
                                                   
                       
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Z
1
                                                
8
 
B
                                            
Y
  
 
2
                                            
7
  
   
C
                                        
X
    
   
3
                                        
6
    
     
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W
      
     
4
                                    
5
      
       
E
                                
V
        
       
5
                                
4
        
         
F
                            
U
          
         
6
                            
3
          
           
G
                        
T
            
           
7
                        
2
            
             
H
                    
S
              
             
8
                    
1
              
               
I
                
R
                
               
9
                
9
                
                 
J
            
Q
                  
                 
1
            
8
                  
                   
K
        
P
                    
                   
2
        
7
                    
                     
L
    
O
                      
                     
3
    
6
                      
                       
M
N
                        
                       
4
5
                        
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

 

 

 

 

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
A
                      
M
N
                      
Z
1
                      
4
5
                      
8
 
B
                  
L
    
O
                  
Y
  
 
2
                  
3
    
6
                  
7
  
   
C
              
K
        
P
              
X
    
   
3
              
2
        
7
              
6
    
     
D
          
J
            
Q
          
W
      
     
4
          
1
            
8
          
5
      
       
E
      
I
                
R
      
V
        
       
5
      
9
                
9
      
4
        
         
F
  
H
                    
S
  
U
          
         
6
  
8
                    
1
  
3
          
           
G
                        
T
            
           
7
                        
2
            
         
F
  
H
                    
S
  
U
          
         
6
  
8
                    
1
  
3
          
       
E
      
I
                
R
      
V
        
       
5
      
9
                
9
      
4
        
     
D
          
J
            
Q
          
W
      
     
4
          
1
            
8
          
5
      
   
C
              
K
        
P
              
X
    
   
3
              
2
        
7
              
6
    
 
B
                  
L
    
O
                  
Y
  
 
2
                  
3
    
6
                  
7
  
A
                      
M
N
                      
Z
1
                      
4
5
                      
9
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

 

 

 

 

26
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
-
-
-
-
-
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
+
=
351
3+5+1
9
 
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
-
-
-
-
-
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
+
=
126
1+2+6
9
26
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
-
-
-
-
-
 
A
                                                
Z
-
-
-
-
-
 
1
8
+
=
9
-
9
   
B
                                            
Y
  
-
-
-
-
-
   
2
7
  
+
=
9
-
9
     
C
                                        
X
    
-
-
-
-
-
     
3
6
    
+
=
9
-
9
       
D
                                    
W
      
-
-
-
-
-
       
4
5
      
+
=
9
-
9
         
E
                                
V
        
-
-
-
-
-
         
5
4
        
+
=
9
-
9
           
F
                            
U
          
-
-
-
-
-
           
6
3
          
+
=
9
-
9
             
G
                        
T
            
-
-
-
-
-
             
7
2
            
+
=
9
-
9
               
H
                    
S
              
-
-
-
-
-
               
8
1
              
+
=
9
-
9
                 
I
                
R
                
-
-
-
-
-
                 
9
9
                
+
=
18
1+8
9
                   
J
            
Q
                  
-
-
-
-
-
                   
1
8
                  
+
=
9
-
9
                     
K
        
P
                    
-
-
-
-
-
                     
2
7
                    
+
=
9
-
9
                       
L
    
O
                      
-
-
-
-
-
                       
3
6
                      
+
=
9
-
9
                         
M
N
                        
-
-
-
-
-
                         
4
5
                        
+
=
9
-
9
26
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
-
-
126
-
117
2+6
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
-
-
1+2+6
-
1+1+7
8
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
-
-
9
-
9
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
-
-
-
-
-
8
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
-
-
9
-
9

 

 

 

 

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
           
M
N
            
           
4
5
            
         
L
    
O
          
         
3
    
6
          
       
K
        
P
        
       
2
        
7
        
     
J
            
Q
      
     
1
            
8
      
   
I
                
R
    
   
9
                
9
    
 
H
                    
S
  
 
8
                    
1
  
G
                        
T
7
                        
2
         
F
U
          
         
6
3
          
       
E
  
 
V
        
       
5
  
 
4
        
     
D
    
   
W
      
     
4
    
   
5
      
   
C
      
     
X
    
   
3
      
     
6
    
 
B
        
       
Y
  
 
2
        
       
7
  
A
          
         
Z
1
          
         
9
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

 

 

 

 

 

NUMBER 9

THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODE

Cecil Balmond 1998

Page 12

" I will speak to you, I will help. My spirit will be with you. But now I must go for I have to set another day. And this is the question I leave you with:

What is the fixed point in the wind?"

 

AND THIS IS THE QUESTION I LEAVE YOU WITH

WHAT IS THE FIXED POINT IN THE WIND

 

Page 18

"But what was the fixed point in the wind?

The question intrigued and teased him. How can something be unmoving in the swirling wind; what was its fix, if indeed there was such a point?

 

the honour I now seek, /Page 19/ and pronounce as the title of my learned subject:

 

'The Fixed Points in the Wind'."

 

NINE FIXED POINTS OF THE WIND

 

"Nine Fixed Points in the Wind"

 

 

NUMBER 9

THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODE

Cecil Balmond 1998

Page73

Armed with the code we go on to look into the precious mirrors of arithmetic, the four infinite planes of adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying, that manipulate all numbers.

The sigma code lays down a trace of how numbers work in secret, we can peer into their basic patterns. But it is only when these patterns are seen as a whole that the beauty of the code is revealed and the astonishing truth of number nine at the heart of our number system.

(And here we must thank zero for even allowing the sigma code to exist. For without zero the process of reduction would not work. Adding digits to pare down to a single digit is dependent on our unique placement value system of units, tens, hundreds, etc. Zero allows the code to be bound within the range 1-9)."

 

 

 

GNOSIS

GODS SON IS IS SON GODS

 

 

SECRET CHAMBERS

Robert Bauval

1

999

Page 46

"The point that is being made here is that there existed a sacred science in Egypt that could only be imparted to gifted individuals with a strong predisposition for intuitive learning - the type of learning that is done with the human apparatus of perception, with the fine tuning of the five senses such that they functioned jointly as super receivers and transmitters of messages. Thus the initiation or training of natural magicians was to fine-tune the sensory perception. Anyone can fine-tune his sense to 'read' the messages of nature. However, to be a magician is to be able to reverse the process, i.e. to transmit the messages to others by using the 'language of the gods'. This is the arcana arcanorum, the ultimate secret of the magician. Thoth, the inventor of this magic, was supreme in its application. Equipped with such a cognition of Thoth, we can now examine the purpose of his divine mission as 'messenger' of the gods."

�

 

KEEPER OF GENESIS  
Robert Bauval Graham Hancock 1996

Page 254

Professor Sagan then offers a comparison that is highly apposite to our present inquiry. 'Today,' he says:
we are again seeking messages from an ancient and exotic civilization, this time hidden from us not only in time, but in space. If we should receive a radio message from an extraterrestrial civilization, how could it possibly be understood? Extraterrestrial intelligence will be elegant, complex, internally consistent and utterly alien. Extraterrestrials would, of course, wish to make a message sent to us as comprehensible as possible. But how could they? Is there in any sense an interstellar Rosetta Stone? We believe there is a common language that all technical civilizations, no matter how different, must have. That common language is science and mathematics. The laws of Nature are the same everywhere.3

Extraterrestrial intelligence will be elegant, complex, internally consistent and utterly alien.

 
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
E
=
5
1
16
EXTRATERRESTRIAL
213
78
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
I
=
9
2
12
INTELLIGENCE
115
61
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
W
=
5
3
4
WILL
56
20
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
B
=
2
4
2
BE
7
7
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
E
=
5
5
7
ELEGANT
64
28
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
C
=
3
6
7
COMPLEX
88
34
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
I
=
9
7
10
INTERNALLY
130
49
4
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
C
=
3
8
10
CONSISTENT
138
57
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
9
3
AND
19
10
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
U
=
3
10
7
UTTERLY
121
31
4
-
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
-
O
=
6
11
5
ALIEN
41
23
5
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
51
-
83
First Total
992
398
47
-
2
2
3
8
5
6
21
8
9
-
-
4+3
-
8+3
Add to Reduce
9+9+2
3+9+8
4+7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2+1
-
-
-
-
7
-
11
Second Total
20
20
11
-
2
2
3
8
5
6
3
8
9
-
-
-
-
1+1
Reduce to Deduce
2+0
2+0
1+1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
2
Essence of Number
2
2
2
-
2
2
3
8
5
6
3
8
9

 

 

KEEPER OF GENESIS

A QUEST FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF MANKIND

Robert Bauval Graham Hancock 1996

Page 254

"...Is there in any sense an interstellar Rosetta Stone?

We believe there is a common language that all technical civilizations, no matter how different, must have.

That common language is science and mathematics.

The laws of Nature are the same everywhere:..."

 

 

R
=
9
-
7
ROSETTA
98
26
8
S
=
1
-
5
STONE
73
19
1
-
-
10
-
12
Add to Reduce
171
45
9
-
-
1+0
-
1+2
Reduce to Deduce
1+7+1
4+5
-
Q
-
1
-
3
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

 

 
 
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