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Kafka’s Before the Law A Review This story is actually contained in a larger work, but it has been published alone as a work of fiction. In the segment entitled Before the Law, K, Kafka’s recurrent protagonist is talking with a priest. He relates a story about a man that comes to a great door seeking the Law. Before it is a gatekeeper that tells him he can’t be allowed to enter at that moment. The man seeking the Law is perplexed, but intentional, so he waits, and waits and waits for the entirety of his life to be permitted to access the Law. The gatekeeper also waits and allows the man to continue waiting, but not letting him pass through the gate. As the man is dying, he wonders why he was the only person seeking the Law. The gatekeeper tells him, that the gate he guards was only meant for him and since he is dying, he, the gatekeeper is going to close it. K then engages the priest that has related this tale to him, in an analytic argument about the meaning of the story. The arguments are piercing and full of moral implications. Kafka is showing us how an allegory can have profound meaning. It is unavoidable that the reader will not apply the experience of the man and gatekeeper to his personal life. Don’t we all seek some Law, some way to understand our existence? Are we not barred in this struggle to understand by a gatekeeper, in the form of fear, doubt and confusion? The gatekeeper as allegory goes even further. He explains that there are deeper realms, that even he (meaning the gatekeeper himself) can’t know, and the man will not be permitted to reach them. Again, the analytic portion of Before the Lawreflects upon this notion. The priest explains that the gatekeeper could be deceived. Are not we deceived about our life’s meaning and substance? Before the Lawis a clear narrative of human life. We come to a point in our lives in which we seek purpose and order, yet we are obstructed from this by own minds (our gatekeepers if you will). We want health, while declining in well being, we want youth, while growing ever aged, we need love, yet never finding it. We seek a reason, a Law if you will, that will help us, and thus we seek it, but discover our path is obscured by ourselves! Here is the allegory of the story. Kafka does this with such incredible power, you can’t stop reading it. Kafka makes a strange allegorical tale, in which we can see the senselessness of being in the human condition. K is seeking understanding of himself in the larger work.He has irrational fears. He fears high winds and feels a sense of forboding without cause. He actually enters the church for shelter before engaging the priest. In this work, you are K, and the priest is your alter ego. He provides you with many different interpretations of why the man sought the Law. Yet, none suffice, for you must understand yourself why you seek the Law. As a final word, Kafka has K declare that the Law is not real, it is a lie. He is razor-edge close to an existential conclusion with this declaration. It adds irony to allegory to have K, make this statement to a priest, whom is trying to explain the meaning of the tale.
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Daily Mail, Thursday, December 24, 2015 By Ben Wilkinson Page 124 Life-saving 999 call by girl of 3 after pregnant mother fell down stairs WHEN pregnant Catherine Bazzard fell downstairs and knocked herself out, she was lucky to have a cool-headed life-saver nearby-her three-year old daughter Emma. The youngster calmly told the emergency operator that Mrs Bazzard had a baby in her tummy and directed paramedics to her house. Yesterday, South Western Ambukance Service released the 11 minute transcript of her call as it gave her a bravery award. Emma found her mother slipping in and out of consciousness at the foot of the stairs after the 27-year old fell while rushing to get her son Harry, five from school. In the recording of the call on November 27, Emma tells the call handler: 'Mummy fell down a stairs and she has got a baby' After she was asked whether the baby is 'asleep' and how old it is. Emma reveals: It's in mummy's tummy. It's very very big. It's coming at Christmas.' Extracts of the call from Emma to 999 call handler Sara Morris: S:You are so clever to ring up E: Mummy said '999' and I did it. "Pre-school worker Mrs Bazzard said: 'I remember Emma bringing me the phone. She couldn't get the nine button to work so I pressed it." "...her mum spent three nights in hospital..." Mrs Bazzard who is married to Ben, 33, a teacher said that had Emma not responded so quickly her son George would have been born dangerously early ... "George was born healthy on December 4th four weeks early Ambulance call handler Sarah Morris said: 'I was amazed to discover that she was only three."
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Michael Drosnin 1997 CHAPTER FOUR THE SEALED BOOK Page 61 "The two great Biblical Apocalypses, the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation in the New Testament, are predictions of unprecedented horror, to be fully revealed when a secret book is opened at the 'End of Days.' In Revelation, it is the book sealed by 'seven seals' that can be opened only by the Messiah: 'And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with. seven seals. And no man in Heaven; nor in Earth, neither under the Earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.' In Daniel, which is the original version of the same story, an angel reveals the ultimate future to the Hebrew prophet, and then tells him, 'But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the End.' It was these two verses that caused Isaac Newton to look for a code in the Bible. The End is foretold four times in the original five books. I checked the first, where the patriarch Jacob tells his twelve sons 'what will befall you in the End of Days.' In the Bible code, '5756' appeared in the same place. 'In 5756' ran right across 'in the End of Days.' It is the year in the ancient Hebrew calendar that began in September 1995 and ended in September 1996. No other year in the next ten matched. The odds that the current year would be encoded with the 'End of Days' by chance were 100 to 1. I could not believe that the Apocalypse started now. I checked the second statement of the End Time in the Bible. Here Moses tells the people of Israel 'all the things that will come upon thee at the End of Days.' It was encoded with the Rabin assassination Page 62 .(Diagram omitted) I checked the third. Just before Moses died, in his final speech to the ancient Israelites, he again warned that 'evil will befall you in the End of Days.' That was also encoded with the Rabin assassination. I checked the fourth, where the mysterious sorcerer Balaam tells an ancient enemy of Israel 'what this people shall do to thy people in the End of Days.' His Apocalyptic vision had a frightening ring of reality. It foretold a great battle in the Middle East, a future war between Israel and the Arabs, a terrible conflict that would bring many nations 'everlasting ruin..' I see it, but not now,' said Balaam 3000 years ago. 'I behold it, but it is not near.' In the Bible code, that prediction of the 'End of Days' matched 'atomic holocaust' and 'World War.' There was one other way the 'End of Days' was foretold in the Bible. It was in the very last words of the Book of Daniel, right after the angel refuses to tell the prophet the details of an Apocalypse he says will last three and a half years. 'Go thy way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the End,' says the angel. 'You will stand up for thy inheritance at the End of Days.' I checked this final Biblical expression of the End Time in the Bible code. It also matched the current year, 1996. The odds that 'in / (Page63 Diagram omitted) Page64 / 5756' and 'End of Days' would again appear together by chance were more than 200 to 1. I did a computer run of more than a hundred years. No other year in the next century matched both Biblical prophecies of the 'End of Days.' The Bible code clearly stated that the End started now - that the current year, the year that in the modern calendar began in late 1995 and ended in late 1996, was the beginning of the long-prophesied Apocalypse. But the code did not say when the 'End of Days' would end. I looked again at the last chapter of Daniel, where the secret book is sealed shut. There it is stated that the 'sealed book' will reveal the details of a greater horror than the world has ever seen: 'And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation.' The Bible code did appear to be a warning of the ultimate catastrophe. It was not clear when it would happen, but the code did seem to state that there would be a third 'World War,' an 'atomic holocaust,' the real Armageddon. For more than four years I had been investigating the Bible code, and from the beginning I had known that both of the two major predictions of the End Time said that it would be fully revealed when a secret book was opened. But until this moment I never realized that the Bible code might be the secret book. Yet, if the Bible code was real, it could have only one purpose- to warn the world of an unprecedented danger. Nothing short of that could explain a 3000-year-old code in the / Page 65 / one book most central to the world. And the danger must be right upon us, or we would not be finding the Bible code now. Some intelligence that could see the future encoded the Bible. It knew when the danger would exist. It designed the code to be found by a technology that would noexist until then. Could the Bible code be the 'sealed book'? It was sealed, with a kind of time-lock, that could not be opened until the computer was invented. Had we really opened the 'sealed book'? Could this really be the 'End of Days'? I remembered Eli Rips' caution that the Bible code was like a giant jigsaw puzzle with thousands of pieces, and we had only a handful. A picture was clearly emerging, but it was too large, and too horrifying to believe. I flew back to Israel, and met again with Rips at his home in Jerusalem. We looked together at the place in the Bible where the two Biblical statements of the 'End of Days' were encoded together, and where they both were encoded with the current year. 'Can you believe this is real?' I asked Rips. 'Yes,' he said quietly. 'Do you think that the Bible code might be the "sealed book"?' I asked. The mathematician who discovered the Bible code had also never realized that the code might be the prophesied 'sealed book,' the secret text that the Bible itself states will be opened as a final revelation in the 'End of Days.' 'Obviously, if the danger that is encoded is real, if there is an "atomic holocaust," it would fulfill the prophecy in Daniel,' said Rips. He opened his Bible, and read aloud the famous words: 'And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation.' The secret book, Rips agreed, had been designed to be opened now. 'That is why Isaac Newton could not do it,' said Rips. 'It was "sealed until the time of the End." It had to be opened with a computer.' Page 66 .(Diagram omitted) I told Rips that I did not really believe that there would be an 'End of Days,' much less that it would begin now. 'I am convinced that the ancient commentary is true,' said Rips. 'It states that there will be a terrible time before the coming of the Messiah.' I told Rips that I could not believe in a supernatural salvation. I was certain that the only help that we were going to get was the Bible code itself. I could hardly believe even that. I looked again at the place where the 'End of Days' was encoded with 'in 5756.' Two other words stood out in that code matrix. The name of Rabin's assassin, 'Amir.' And the word 'war.' 'Amir' was spelled out in the same skip sequence as 'End of Days,' right where it crossed the year Rabin was killed. And right below the year was the word 'war.' .(Diagram omitted) It was not clear when the predicted 'war' would begin, but it was clear that the code was intended for this moment in time. The 'End of Days' was no longer some mythical event in the distant future. According to the Bible code, it had already begun. This was the beginning of the long-prophesied Apocalypse. But both the danger and its prevention seemed to be encoded. 'Plague' was there, but also 'peace,' and a word that could be read either as a plea or a command - 'Save!' Page 67 .(Diagram omitted) Rips opened his Bible to Daniel again, and pointed to the words that immediately followed the prediction of an unprecedented 'time of trouble' - 'And at that time thy people shall be rescued, everyone who shall be found written in the book.' . Had the 'sealed book' been opened, perhaps just in time, to'warn us of the ultimate danger, the long-threatened 'End of Days'? I could not believe it. I never believed there would be an Apocalypse. I had always assumed that it was an empty threat, the club all religions used to keep people in line. All through history doomsayers thought they saw in the Bible predictions that the world would end in their own times. They read the words of Daniel and Revelation and were sure it was a picture of the present moment. The keepers of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the zealots who hid copies of nearly all the books of the Bible in caves above the Dead Sea more than 2000 years ago, were certain that the Final Battle was right upon them. The early Christians believed that the New Testament clearly stated that the End would come in their own lifetimes. Did not Christ warn, 'This generation shall not pass till all these things have happened'? In every succeeding age someone arose to say the End was now. At the first millennium, in the year 1000 AD. At every time of war / Page68 / and crisis. And they always quoted the Bible, and they were always certain that they had pierced the veil, seen through the symbolic language and knew exactly when the End was coming. And they were always wrong. But no serious scientist had ever before found a computerized code in the Bible, a mathematically proven fact that had been confirmed by every other scientist who actually examined it. And no one had ever found a code that accurately predicted real events in the real world. No one before had found names and dates in advance. No one before had found the name of a comet and the day it would strike Jupiter. No one before had found the name of a Prime Minister, and the name of his assassin, and the year he would be killed. No one before had found the exact day a war would begin. The Bible code was different. If the Bible code was a warning to this world, where did it come from? Who could look 3000 years ahead, and encode the future into the Bible? The Bible itself, of course, says that God is the author, that he dictated the original five books to Moses on Mount Sinai: 'And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me to the mountain, and I will give thee the tablets of stone, and the Torah.' It was, according to the Bible, a startling encounter. . In the pre-dawn stillness of the desert, there was suddenly a terrible thunder, and the black mountain towering above was illumi- nated by an explosive flash of lightning. Great flames shot out from the mountain top, as if the peak itself had been set afire, and in the growing light, the vast expanse of desert around it began to quake. Startled awake by the thunder and the lightning, and the shaking of the ground beneath them, 600,000 men, women, and children rushed out of their tents, and stared up in terror at the mountain that now shook violently and smoked like a furnace. A ram's horn sounded above the thunder, and one man stepped forward toward the mountain. Suddenly a voice called out to him from nowhere: 'Moses, come up to the top of the mountain.' It was 1200 BC. According to the Bible, on the top of Mount Sinai Moses heard the voice we call 'God.' And that voice gave him the / Page 69 / ten laws that defined Western civilization, the Ten Commandments, and it dictated to him the book that we call the Bible. But when God says, 'Behold, I make a covenant before all thy people I will work miracles,' the code says 'computer.' The word 'computer' appears six times in the plain text of the Bible, hidden within the Hebrew word for 'thought.' Four of the six anachronistic appearances of 'computer' are in the verses of Exodus that describe the building of the Ark of the Covenant, the famous 'Lost Ark' that carried the Ten Commandments. The code suggests that even the writing of the laws on the two stone tablets may have been computer-generated. 'And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets,' states Exodus 32:16. But encoded in that same verse is a hidden message: 'it was made by computer.' (diagram omitted) The code must be describing a device far beyond any we have yet developed. The New York Times recently reported that mankind may be ready to take the next leap, to harness the world inside atoms and create 'an information-processing method so powerful that it would be to ordinary computing what nuclear energy is to fire.' This 'quantum computer,' said the Times, could perform in minutes calculations that would take the fastest super computers we now have hundreds of millions of years to complete. Page 70 The astronomer Carl Sagan once noted that if there was other intelligent life in the universe some of it would have certainly evolved far earlier than we did, and had thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions, or hundreds of millions of years to develop the advanced technology that we are only now beginning to develop. 'After billions of years of biological evolution - on their planet and ours - an alien civilization cannot be in technological lockstep with us,' wrote Sagan. 'There 'have been humans for more than twenty thousand centuries, but we've had radio only for about one century,' wrote Sagan. 'If alien civilizations are behind us, they're likely to be too far behind us to have radio. And if they're ahead of us, they're likely to be far ahead of us. Think of the technical advances on our world over just the last few centuries. What is for us technologically difficult or impossible, what might seem to us like magic, might for them be trivially easy.' The author of 2001, Arthur C. Clarke - who envisioned a mysterious black monolith that reappears at successive stages of human evolution, each time we are ready to be taken to a higher level - made a similar observation: 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' What the Bible code suggests is that behind the 'miracles' of the Old Testament there was an advanced technology. The code calls it a 'computer.' But it may only be using the language we can understand. 'History suggests that each age appeals to its most impressive technology as a metaphor for the cosmos, or even God,' states the Australian physicist Paul Davies in his book The Mind of God
Since the root of the same word that means 'computer' in Hebrew also means 'thought,' when the Bible code reveals a 'computer' behind the 'miracles' it may actually be revealing a 'mind.' But not a mind like ours, anymore than a computer like ours. The one basic shared belief of all major religions is the existence of an outside, non-human intelligence, God. If the Bible code proves one thing, it is that a non-human intelligence really does exist, or at least did exist at the time the Bible was written. No human could have looked thousands of years ahead, / Page 71 / and encoded in that ancient book the details of today's world. We have forgotten that the Bible is our best known story of a close encounter. The long-awaited contact from another intelligence actually took place long ago. According to the Bible, it happened when a voice spoke out of nowhere to Abraham, and again when it spoke to Moses from a burning bush. The Bible code is, in fact, an alternative form of contact scientists searching for intelligent life beyond this planet have suggested: 'the discovery of an alien artifact or message on or near Earth.' Physicist Davies theorized that the 'alien artifact' might be 'programmed to manifest itself only when civilization on Earth crossed a certain threshold of advancement.' That perfectly describes the Bible code. It had a time-lock. It could only be opened once computers had been invented. The rest of Davies' vision is again a precise description of the Bible code: 'The artifact could then be interrogated directly, as with a modern interactive computer terminal, and a type of dialogue immediately established. Such a device- in effect, an extraterresttial time capsule - could store vast amounts of important information for us.' Davies, winner of the Templeton prize for science and religion, imagines 'coming across the artifact on the Moon or on Mars' or 'discovering it suddenly on the Earth's surface when the time is right.' In fact, we have always had it. It is the best known book in the world. We have just never recognized what it really was. What Moses actually received on Mt Sinai was an interactive data base, which until now we could not fully access. The Bible that 'God' dictated to Moses was really a computer program. First it was carved in stone and written on parchment scrolls. Then it was bound into a book. But in the code it is called 'the ancient computer program.' Now the computer program can be played back, and reveal the hidden truth about our past and our future. The 'Bible code' itselfis encoded in the Bible, and the same words also mean, 'He hid, concealed the Bible.' The suggestion is that /Page72/ there is another Bible encoded within the story that is openly told in the Old Testament. The computerized code clearly confirms that it is the 'seal,' the time-lock that until now has protected the hidden secrets. 'Sealed before God' actually crosses 'Bible code.' (diagram omitted) And 'computer' is encoded in the last chapter of Daniel, starting in the very verse that commands the prophet to 'shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the End.' (diagram omitted) The Bible code is the secret 'sealed book.' Prophecy, of course, is not unique to the code. It happens all through the Bible. The patriarch Jacob tells his twelve sons what will happen in the distant future. Moses reveals two possible futures to the ancient Israelites. In fact, Jack Miles in his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of God states, 'It is the miracle of prediction - fortune-telling at / Page 73 / the international level - rather than any battlefield miracle that is expected to bring everyone to the worship of the true God.' But the Bible code for the first time gives us a direct line to the future. Instead of relying on prophets who see visions and interpret dreams, we can now access by computer an ancient code hidden in the Bible. The code's existence is actually revealed in two well-known stories of ancient prophecy. The best known fortune-teller in the Bible is Joseph. Sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, he rose to become the virtual ruler of Egypt, by telling the Pharaoh the future. Joseph alone knew that the Pharaoh's dream of seven fat cows and seven lean cows foretold a great famine. His prediction saved all of Egypt from starvation. 'Can there be another person who has God's spirit in him as this man does?' the Pharaoh asks his court. And he says to Joseph, 'Since God has shown you all this there is none so wise; according to thy word shall all my people be ruled.' The Pharaoh makes Joseph his regent and gives him a new name: 'Zaphenath-Paneah.' It is always written that way, in every translation of the Bible, and, even in the original Hebrew, always treated as a name. Over the millennia, there have been many learned speculations on its meaning. Some say it is the Hebrew translation of an Egyptian name originally written in hieroglyphics. Scholars have guessed that it means 'revealer of secrets.' Others say it means, 'the god speaks, and lives.' But, in fact, the supposed name has a very clear meaning in Hebrew: 'decoder of the code.' Perhaps no one has seen it before, because no one knew there was a code in the Bible. So, the Bible calls Joseph 'decoder of the code.' An alternate translation suggests that he created the code for us to find now: 'Joseph encoded, you will decode.' But Joseph cannot be the encoder. The Bible did not even exist until 'God' dictated it to Moses on Mount Sinai hundreds of years after Joseph was dead. Joseph's name in Hebrew means 'it will be added.' The full hidden text in Genesis 41:45 therefore really reads, 'The code will be added, you will decode it.' Page 74 Again in the Book of Daniel, what seems to be a story of ancient prophecy is really a revelation of the Bible code. There, too, God awes the greatest ruler on Earth, the King of Babylon, by revealing the future. He foretells the rise and fall of ancient kingdoms. 'Truly your God must be the God of gods and the Lord of kings, and the revealer of secrets, to have enabled you to reveal this secret,' the King tells Daniel. But the same words that in Hebrew mean 'revealer of secrets' also mean 'secret scroll.' And the full hidden text states: 'He revealed the secrets enough that you were able to reveal this secret scroll.' The Bible code is the 'secret scroll.' Is the same 'God' who revealed the future to Joseph, who revealed the future to Daniel, now through the Bible code also revealing the future to us? It seemed to be once more, as Miles put it, 'fortune-telling at the international level.' The Rabin assassination, and the year it would happen, were revealed in advance. The Gulf War, and the date it would start, were precisely foretold. But I did not yet know if the predictions of a third 'World War,' of an 'atomic holocaust,' of the 'End of Days' were also accurate. And I wondered why 'God' would reveal the danger, rather than simply prevent it. 'The God who is assisting Joseph,' notes Miles, 'was great enough to know what was going on, but not great enough to determine what would go on.' The same might be true of whoever encoded the Bible. He could see the future, but he could not change it. He could only hide in the Bible a warning. The Book of Daniel, suggests Miles, presents human history as 'a vast reel of film whose contents can be known before it is projected.' God can 'provide a preview.' The question was whether we by seeing the movie could change it, whether we by opening the 'sealed book' could only know the horror of the 'End of Days,' or also prevent it. Page 75 'Even within a world created by an all-powerful and benevolent God, there can be a struggle between good and evil, whose outcome is uncertain,' says Eli Rips. The Bible code may be a set of probabilities. The sealed book might hold all our possible futures. Each predicted event appears to be encoded with at least two possible outcomes. Rips agrees that the Bible code might have a positive and a negative strand, two opposing statements of reality intertwined: 'As in court, an Advocate, and an Accuser.' 'Possibly there are two opposing statements always encoded to preserve our free will, and it may be that the Bible code is written as a debate,' said Rips. 'According to the Midrash, the world was created twice - it was first conceived from the point of view of absolute judgement, right and wrong. Then God saw that the world could not exist this way, that there was no room for human imperfection, and he added mercy. 'But it's not like mixing hot and cold water and getting lukewarm, it's like mixing fire and snow and each preserves its separate. existence. That may be the two strands in the Bible code.' Rips, however, does not believe that there are two encoders. 'The Bible must have been encoded all at once by one mind,' he insisted. 'But it may encode two different points of view.' He opened the Bible to Isaiah 45:7, and read it to me: 'I am the Lord and there is none else, I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace and create evil; I, the Lord, do all these things.' For Rips, as a mathematician and as a devout Jew, there is no need to ask the question, Who is the encoder? The answer is obvious. The encoder, the Advocate and the Accuser are all one. It is God. For me, it was not that simple. I had proof there was a code, but not proof there was a God. If the Bible code came from an all-powerful God, he would not need to tell us the future. He could change it himself. The code seemed, instead, to be from someone good, but not all- powerful, who wanted to warn us of a terrible danger so we could prevent it ourselves. The Book of Revelation states that the Final Battle will come by / Page76 / surprise, like a thief in the night. In fact, the words that come right before Armageddon are, 'Behold, I come as a thief.' The Bible is a warning of sudden and inevitable doom. But the real message of the Bible code is just the opposite. A warning is encoded in the Bible so that we can prevent the threatened Apocalypse. The truth is hidden in the last chapter of Daniel, the verses that describe the 'sealed book.' They reveal that the secret book was designed to be found now. This year, 1997, in the ancient Hebrew calendar 5757, is encoded with the words, 'He sealed the book until the time of the End.' Right above that the hidden text states, 'for you, the hidden secrets.' And crossing '5757,' again those same words, which also mean 'for you, it was encoded.' But who was the encoder? The last words spoken to Daniel - 'Go thy way till the end be, for thou shalt rest, and stand up for thy inheritance at the End of Days' - have a second meaning. They also tell the story of someone who has been struggling all through time to prevent a foreseen disaster, and bring history to a good end: . 'You will persevere for the fate of everyone to the End of Days.' Someone hid in the Bible a warning - the information we need to prevent the destruction of this world."
Michael Drosnin 1997 CHAPTER FOUR THE SEALED BOOK Page 133 " 'It is what is stated in the Midrash,' said Rips, referring to the ancient commentary on the Bible. 'It is perhaps the "exile under Ishmael" just before the "End of Days." Some of the Midrash say that at a time of Arab domination, 80% of the Israeli population will be killed.' We were both silent for a moment. 'This may be what you are finding in the code,' said Rips. I had not known of the ancient prophecy. Ishmael was the first son of the patriarch Abraham, the one he sent away. According to the Bible, he is the forebear of all Arabs. Abraham's second son, Isaac, was the chosen inheritor. He is the forebear of all Jews. The family feud had been going on for 4000 years, and was predicted to come to a terrible end. In January 1997 Netanyahu and Arafat did shake hands on shared control of Hebron, the city where Abraham is said to be buried, and set a timetable for a broader settlement. But the most difficult issue, the final status of Jerusalem, which both the Israelis and the Palestinians claim as their capital, remained unresolved. And there was no way to know if the stiff handshake at 3 AM on 15 January would lead to a real peace, or a new outbreak of violence. In March 1997 the peace began to unravel. Arafat rejected the first step in Israel's planned withdrawal from the occupied territories. Netanyahu announced that he would build a Jewish neighborhood in the heart of East Jerusalem, seen by the Palestinians as the capital of their future homeland. 'The saddest reality that has been dawning on me,' Jordan's King Hussein wrote Netanyahu as the tensions began to build, 'is that I do not find you by my side in working to fulfill God's will for the final / Page 134 / reconciliation of all the descendants of the children of Abraham.' And on 21 March, violence did erupt in Tel Aviv,Jerusalem, and Hebron. A Palestinian suicide bomber killed three and wounded forty at a Tel Aviv cafe, the first terrorist attack since Netanyahu was elected. On the same day, riots broke out in Hebron, and in Arab East Jerusalem at the site of the Jewish housing project, Har Homa. 'Har Homa' is encoded in the most sacred text of the Bible. It appears with no skips in the Mezuzah, the fifteen verses that were preserved in a separate scroll and posted on the door of every home in Israel. And encoded with 'Har Homa' are the ominous words, 'All his people to war.' 'All his people to war,' the words in the Bible code originally found with the Rabin assassination, and found again with the wave of bombings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv that shattered the peace Rabin had forged with Arafat, had once more in September 1996 and March 1997 become a reality. And those same words also appeared with the ultimate danger, 'atomic holocaust.' Each spark that might set off the holocaust was foreseen, but until each crisis came to an end there was no way to know if it was just another skirmish in a 4000-year-old feud, or the beginning of Armageddon. It may be impossible to know both what and when. 'Physics has given up,' said Richard P. Feynman, the Nobel laureate many consider the greatest scientist since Einstein. 'We do not know how to predict what will happen in a given circumstance. The only thing that can be predicted is the probability of different events. We can only predict the odds.' And yet quantum physics is a highly successful branch of science. It works. Perhaps because it recognizes uncertainty as part of reality." "In the same way, the Bible code works. Again, because it recognizes uncertainty as part of reality. 'Our world is clearly reflected in it,' said Rips. 'It is as if we were looking into a mirror. Our efforts to see the future and to do something about it both probably play a role. I think that it is a very complicated, interactive event.' Page 135 Rips said that when he was working at his computer, searching for information in the code, he sometimes felt like he was on-line with another intelligence. 'The Bible code is not really responding now,' he explained, 'it just foresaw everything all at once, in advance.' According to Rips, the whole Bible code had to be written at once, in a single flash. 'We experience it like we experience a hologram - it looks different when we look at it from a new angle - but the image, of course, is pre-recorded.' It is the history of the human race recorded more than 3000 years ahead of time. It does not tell the story sequentially, but all at once. Modern events overlap ancient events, the future is encoded in verses that tell of the Biblical past. One verse might contain within it the stories of then and now and a hundred years from now. 'The problem is how we decipher it all,' said Rips. 'It is very clearly non-random, but it is as if we had an intelligence report in which we can read only one of every twenty words.' Rips was, as always, cautious. 'This is the product of a higher intelligence,' he said. 'It may want us to understand, but it may not want us to understand. The code may not reveal the future to us unless we are worthy.' I didn't agree. If the world was really in danger, it hardly mattered whether we were worthy. The encoder, if he was good, would surely warn us. At the end, there was an unbridgeable gap. Rips was religious. I was not. For me there was always a question - who encoded the Bible, what was his motive, where was he now? For Rips there was always an answer - God. At the end of my five year investigation I did find final proof that the Bible code itself is real. And chilling evidence that the world may have come closer to disaster in 1996 than we will ever know. Our narrow escape in 1996 was clearly stated in the plain text of Isaiah, the first Apocalypse, the one book of the Bible found intact among the Dead Sea Scrolls, the one that seemed to predict an atomic attack on Jerusalem. It was not hidden in a code. It was openly stated in the plain words of the 2500-year-old scroll. Page 136 The year was revealed in a unique verse, one that told the future backwards. The foremost translator of ancient Hebrew texts, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, the man Time magazine called 'a once-in-a-millennium scholar,' pointed that verse out to me. I went to see Steinsaltz when I first heard about the Bible code. The rabbi is also a scientist, and I wanted to see what he thought about a code in the Bible that predicted the future, foretold events that happened thousands of years after the Bible was written, reported in detail a future that did not yet exist. 'In the Bible time is reversed,' said Steinsaltz, noting an odd quirk in the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament. 'The future is always written in the past tense, and the past is always written in the future tense.' 'Why?' I asked. 'No one knows,' he said. 'We may be moving against the stream of time,' said Steinsaltz, noting that the laws of physics are 'time-symmetric,' that they run just as well backwards as forwards in time. He opened his Bible, looking for a passage from the first of the prophets, Isaiah. 'Here, in Isaiah, it says that you need to look backwards to see the future,' he said. 'Where Isaiah says, "Tell the things that are to come hereafter," you can translate the same words to read, "They told the future backwards." 'In fact, you can translate the same words to read, "Tell the letters in reverse." It's like mirror writing.' I looked at the letters backwards, but found no startling revelation. Only years later, after I discovered that Isaiah seemed to foretell an atomic attack, did I look at that same verse again. Isaiah 41:23 states, 'Tell the things that are to come hereafter, and we will be dismayed, and behold it together.' And now when I looked at the letters in reverse, the future told backwards, I saw that the mirror writing spelled out a year - '5756.' It was not in a code. It was just there. In the 2500-year-old verse that 'told the future backwards,' 1996, the year of the threatened 'atomic holocaust,' was plainly stated. And so was the delay Page 137 (diagram omitted) The question asked by the same Hebrew letters that spell the year 5756 - 'Will you change it?' - had been answered decisively in the most ancient vision of the Apocalypse. The answer was openly stated in the verse we are told to read backwards - 'You will change it.' More than 2000 years ago, in the first Apocalypse, the first prophet, Isaiah, foretold the year of the real Armageddon, 1996, and also the delay. One question remained unanswered - until when? I saw Eli Rips one last time on New Year's Eve 1996. We looked again at the statistics for the two years most strongly linked to all the events of the Apocalypse. The years 2000 and 2006, in the ancient calendar 5760 and 5766, were the only two years in the next hundred that matched both 'atomic holocaust' and 'World War.' All the dangers stated in the code - 'the End of Days,' 'holocaust of Israel,' even 'great earth- quake' - also matched 'in 5766.' Rips calculated the odds. They were at least a thousand to one. Page 138 'It is something exceptional, really remarkable,' said Rips. 'Someone intentionally put this information into the Torah.' That much was clear. But neither of us knew if the danger was real. I told Rips that I could not fully believe it because I still could not accept the open prophecy of the Bible, I still could not accept that there really would be an End of Days. 'If you accept the hidden statement in the Torah,' said Rips, 'then you should also accept the open statement.' There was a logic to what he said. There was no doubt that the computerized code appeared to support the long-known prophecy of the Bible, and yet for me there was a difference. I had seen one come true, and not the other. 'I believed the Bible code was real the day Rabin was killed,' I explained, recalling the moment. 'I was at a train station, leaning against a wall, talking to a friend on a pay phone. Suddenly he interrupted and said, "Wait a minute, I want to hear the news about Rabin." I had been out all day, I hadn't heard anything, but I instantly knew that the prediction had come true, that Rabin was dead. 'I slid down the wall, all the way to the floor. And I said, to myself but out loud, "Oh my God, it's real.'" Rips said he understood. 'It was my own feeling, exactly, when the Scud missiles were fired at Israel on the second day of the Gulf War, on the date we found three weeks in advance in the Bible code,' he said. 'I was in a sealed room with my whole family. My wife, my five young children, and I were all wearing gas masks. We could hear the air-raid sirens outside. It was 2 AM on the 3rd of Shevat,]anuary 18th 1991. That was the day that had been encoded. 'I knew the missiles were flying at us, we heard that Tel Aviv had already been hit, and all I could think was, "It works! The code works!" , Rips had been investigating the Bible code for six years by the time the Gulf War started, as predicted, when predicted. But it was not until the night the Scuds hit Israel that he fully believed it was real, just as I had not fully believed it until Rabin was assassinated, as predicted, when predicted. 'I believed it before as a mathematician,' said Rips. 'But this was / Page 139 / quite another perspective. It was an odd moment of joy in that sealed room, waiting for the missile to strike.' Another scientist had once told me of similar mixed feelings, how he had felt when he discovered that all life on Earth might be doomed. I wrote the first cover story about that Apocalyptic warning, Sherry Rowland's discovery that the ozone was being destroyed by man-made chemicals, at a time when he was dismissed as a crackpot, when everyone was calling him 'Chicken Little.' And now I remembered what he told me when he was proven right, and won the Nobel prize."
'There was no moment of Eureka! really,' said Rowland. 'I just came home one night and told my wife, "The work is going very well, but it looks like the end of the world." ' Now, on New Year's Eve in Jerusalem, in the city that the Bible code warned would be the target of an atomic attack that might trigger the real Armageddon, I told Eli Rips that story, and we both laughed. But I could not forget that, according to the Bible code, within ten years an 'atomic holocaust' in Israel might trigger a third 'World War,' that we might already be in the real 'End of Days.' There is no way to ignore the clear fact that a computerized code in the Bible, confirmed by some of the most famous mathematicians in the world, a code that accurately predicted the Gulf War, the collision of a comet with Jupiter, and the assassination of Rabin, also seems to state that the Apocalypse starts now, that within a decade we may face the real Armageddon, a nuclear World War."
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KEEPER OF GENESIS A QUEST FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF MANKIND Robert Bauval Graham Hancock 1996 The Sphinx itself - Hor-em-Akhet - stands partially sunk, or 'buried' in that enclosure (and thus in the 'Horizon of Giza') with only its massive head and shoulders protruding out of the groundline. Once ag-ain the images of sky and ground match perfectly at 10,500 BC and in no other epoch. . . Treasure map I We said earlier that in the architectural-astronomical system of the Pyramid builders the position of the vernal point along the ecliptic which denoted the 'Splendid Place of the "First Time'" was considered to be 'controlled' by the position of Osiris-Orion at the meridian: 'slide' Orion's belt up from its location at 2500 BC and the vernal point is 'pushed' westwards around the ecliptic (and forward in time) in the direction Taurus - Aries - Pisces - Aquarius; 'slide' it down and the vernal point is pushed 'east', i.e. back in time, in the direction Taurus - Gemini - Cancer - Leo. So in 10,500 BC, with the belt stars fully 'slid down' to their lowest possible altitude above the horizon, how far around the ecliptic has the vernal point been 'pushed? We know it is in Leo. But where in Leo? Computer simulations show that it lay exactly 111.111 degrees east of the station that it had occupied at 2500 BC. Then it had been at the head of the Hyades-Taurus close to the right bank of the Milky Way; 8000 years earlier it lay directly under the rear paws of the constellation of Leo. As we have hinted, this is a location that is likely to have a terrestrial 'double'. The three stars of Orion's belt have their terrestrial doubles in the form of the three Great Pyramids. The constellation of Leo- Horakhti has its terrestrial double in the form of Hor-em-Akhet, .e. the Great Sphinx. The 'Horizon of the Sky' has its terrestrial double in the form of the 'Horizon of Giza'. And the Great Sphinx crouches literally within this 'Horizon'./ Page 279 / It was to the breast of the Great Sphinx, at the summer solstice in the Pyramid Age, that the quest of the Horus-King led. There he encountered the Akhus: the Akhus with their mouths equipped, 'that you have come to this place more noble than any place?' 'I have come. . . because the reed floats of the sky were set down for Re [ the sun-disc and cosmic 'double' of the Horus-King] that Re might cross [the Milky Way] on them to Horakhti at the Horizon' . . .1' In other words, the Horus-King has successfully understood and used the clues provided in the ritual. He has noted and followed the path of the sun during the solar year from its starting point - designated in the texts as being beside the Hyades-Taurus, i.e. the 'Bull of the Sky' - and thence across the Milky Way until the moment of its conjunction with Regulus, the heart-star of Leo. He has then taken this celestial treasure map, transposed its co-ordinates to the ground, made his way across the River Nile and ascended to the Giza plateau, coming eventually to the breast of the Sphinx. We think that he received there the necessary clues or instructions to find the entrance to the terrestrial Duat, to the 'Kingdom of Osiris , on the ground - in short to the 'Splendid Place of the "First Time" , where he would have to go in order to complete his quest. And we suggest that these clues were designed to encourage him to track the vernal point, just as we have done, to the location that it would have occupied in 10,500 BC when Orion's belt had reached the lowest point in its precessional cycle. In other words it is our hypothesis that the Giza monuments, the past, present and future skies that lie above them, and the ancient funerary texts that interlink them, convey the lineaments of a message. In attempting to read this message we have done no more than follow the initiation 'journey' of the Horus-Kings of Egypt. And like the ancient Horus-Kings we, too, have arrived at a most intriguing crossroad. The trail of initiation has guided us, directed us and finally lured us to stand in front of the Great Sphinx and, like Oedipus, to confront the ultimate riddles: 'Where did we come from?' 'Where are we to go to?'
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KEEPER OF GENESIS A QUEST FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF MANKIND Robert Bauval Graham Hancock 1997 Page 223 Chapter 13 Legacy The notion that some fonn of invisible college could have established itself at Heliopolis thousands of years before the Pharaohs, and could have been the initiating force behind the creation and unfolding of ancient Egyptian civilization, helps to explain one of the greatest mysteries confronted by Egyptology - namely the extremely sudden, indeed dramatic, manner in which Pharaonic culture 'took off in the early third millennium BC. The independent researcher John Anthony West, whose breakthrough work on the geology of the Sphinx we reported in Part I, formulates the problem especially well: Every aspect of Egyptian knowledge seems to have been complete at the very beginning. The sciences, artistic and architectural techniques and the hieroglyphic system show virtually no signs of a period of 'development'; indeed, many of the achievements of the earliest dynasties were never surpassed or even equalled later on. This astonishing fact is readily admitted by orthodox Egyptologists, but the magnitude of the mystery it poses is skilfully understated, while its many implications go unmentioned. How does a complex civilization spring full-blown into being? Look at a 1905 automobile and compare it to a modem one. There is no mistaking the process of 'development'. But in Egypt there are no parallels. Everything is right there at the start. The answer to the mystery is of course obvious, but because it is repellent to the prevailing cast of modem thinking, it is seldom seriously considered. Egyptian civilization was not a 'development', it was a legacy. I' Might not the preservers of that legacy, who eventually bequeathed it to the Pharaohs at the beginning of the Dynastic Period, have been those revered and secretive individuals - the 'Followers of Horus', the Sages, the Senior Ones - whose memory haunts the most archaic traditions of Egypt like a persistent ghost? Page 232 / 233 Becoming equipped The Utterances conventionally numbered 471, 472 and 473 in the ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts contain information of an extraordi-nary nature. In view of the importance of this information, we set it out in full below: I am the essence of a god, the son of a god, the messenger of a god, [says the Horus-King]. The Followers of Horus cleanse me, they bathe me, they dry me, they recite for me the Spell [formula] for Him who is on the Right Way, they recite for me the Spell of Him who Ascends, and I ascend to the sky. I will go aboard this Bark of Re [the Solar Bark] . . . Every god will / Page 233 / rejoice at meeting me as they rejoice at meeting Re [the sun] when he ascends from the eastern side of the sky in peace, in peace. The sky quivers,the earth quakes before me, for I am a magician, I possess magic. . . I have come that I may glorify Orion, that I may set Osiris at the head, that I may set the gods upon their thrones. O Mahaf, Bull of the gods [Taurus-Hyades], bring me this [solar bark] and set me on yonder side. . . The reed-floats of the sky are set down for me by the day-bark that I [the solar Horus-King] may go up on them to Re at the Horizon. The reed floats of the sky are brought down to me by the night bark that I may go up on them to Horakhti at the horizon. I go up on the eastern side of the sky where the gods are born, and I am born as Horus, as Him of the Horizon. . . I have found the Akhus with their mouths equipped. . . 'Who are you?' say they [the Akhus], with their mouths equipped. 'I am an Akhu with my mouth equipped.' 'How has this happened to you,' say they, the Akhus with their mouths equipped, 'that you have come to this place more noble than any place?' 'I have come to this place more noble than any place because: The reed-floats of the sky were set down for Re [the sun disc and thee emblem of the Horus-King] that Re might cross [the Milky Way] on them to Horakhti at the Horizon. . .,8 These Utterances appear to describe an important part of the Horus- King's initiatory journey - an ordeal of questions and answers based on astronomical science wrapped up in esoteric symbols. The inquisitors are the 'Followers of Horus', also known as the Akhus (the 'Venerables', the 'Shining Ones', the 'Transfigured Spirits', etc., etc.). Moreover, as we would expect, the Horus-King's cosmic journey begins in the Taurus-Hyades region of the sky, on the right bank of the Milky Way. and proceeds along the ecliptic path to end at Leo i.e. 'Horakhti', at the horizon. Here, at 'this place more noble than any place', the Akhus greet him - indeed he claims to have become an Akhu himself - and give him the final instructions or directions that he will need to complete his quest. What we have to consider is the possibility that these final instructions might somehow have 'equipped' the Horus-King to make the necessary journey back in time, to the 'First Time', and into the cosmic Kingdom of Osiris when sky and ground were united' in perfect harmony.
KEEPER OF GENESIS A QUEST FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF MANKIND Robert Bauval Graham Hancock 1997 Page 284 Conclusions Return to the Beginning "the Book of What is in the Duat"
KEEPER OF GENESIS A QUEST FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF MANKIND Robert Bauval Graham Hancock 1997 Page247 Special numbers We suspect that the phrase to 'go down to any sky' suggests an awareness - and recording - of precessionally induced changes in the positions of the stars over long periods of time. And we also note its implication that if the chosen initiate was equipped with the correct numerical spell then he would be able to work out - and visualize - the correct positions of the stars in any epoch of his choosing, past or future. Once again Sellers stands out amongst Egyptologists for being the first to have entertained such apparently outlandish notions. 'It is possible', she writes, 'that early man encoded in his myths special numbers; numbers that seemed to reveal to initiates an amazing knowledge of the movement of the celestial spheres.' 27 Such numbers, she argues, appear to have been derived from a sustained, scientific study of the cycle of precession and a measure- ment of its rate and, puzzlingly, turn out to be extremely 'close to the calculations made with today's sophisticated procedures'. Intrigu-ingly, too, there is evidence not only 'that these calculations were made, and conclusions drawn', but also that 'they were transmitted to others by secret encoding that was accessible only to an elite few':28 In short, Sellers concludes, 'ancient man calculated a special number that he believed would bring this threatening cycle [of precession] back to its starting point. . .' 29 The 'special number' to which Sellers is referring to is 25,920 (and multiples and divisions of it) and thus represents the duration, in solar years, of a full precessional cycle or 'Great Year'.30 She shows how it can be derived from a variety of simple combinations of other numbers - 5, 12,36,72,360,432,2100, etc., etc. - all of which are in turn derived from precise observations of precession. Most crucially of all, she shows that this peculiar sequence of numbers occurs in the ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris where, notably '72 consipirators' are said to have been involved with Seth in the murder of the God-King.31 2 x 5 x 9 x 2 = 180 1 + 8 = 9 "The 'special number' to which Sellers is referring to is 25,920 (and multiples and divisions of it)" 2592 x 36 = 93312 ÷ 9 = 10368 1 x 3 x 6 x 8 = 144 1 + 4 + 4 = 9
Page 382 for 3226 years - by the Ibis-headed wisdom god Thoth.8 Who were these people - or creatures, or beings, or gods? Were they figments of the priestly imagination, or symbols, or ciphers?"
3 x 2 x 2 x 6 = 72 '72 consipirators' are said to have been involved with Seth in the murder of the God-King.31
KEEPER OF GENESIS A QUEST FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF MANKIND Robert Bauval Graham Hancock 1997 "Although in most cases the durations of these reigns are now illegible or completely broken away, it is possible to read the figure of 3126 years ascribed to the rule of the wisdom-god Thoth 3 x 1 x 2 x 6 = 36 and the figure of 300 years ascribed to Horus, the last fully 'divine' king of Egypt! 300 x 360 = 108000 HORUS the last fully 'divine' king of Egypt
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JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS Thomas Mann 1875 - 1955 JOSEPH THE PROVIDER Page 967 ALL TOO BLISSFUL "But I am King, and teacher; I may not think what I cannot teach. Whereas such a one very soon learns not even to think the unteachable."
THE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN BOOK II THE EARTH CHRONICLES Zecharia Sitchin 1980 Page166 The Stairway to Heaven
THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE Prose And Verse From The Bible A. G. Prys-Jones 1979 Page 123 HOW ART THOU FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING!
"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"
HOLY BIBLE Scofield References ISAIAH C 14 V 12 "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"
CATCHING THE LIGHT Arthur Zajonc 1993 Page 44 ANGELIC LIGHT - HUMAN LIGHT "HOW YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, BRIGHT SON OF THE MORNING FELLED TO THE EARTH!" Isaiah 14:12-15
THE DIVINE INVASION Phillip Dick 1981 "The time you have waited for has come. The work is complete: the final world is here. He has been transplanted and is alive." -Mysterious voice in the night Page 85 'What's wrong?' Elias put his arm around the boy and lifted him up to hold him. 'I've never seen you so upset.' 'He listened to that while my mother was dying!' Emmanuel stared into Elias's bearded face. I remember, Emmanuel said to himself. I am beginning to remember who I am. Elias said, 'What is it?' He held the boy tight. It is happening, Emmanuel realized. At last. That was the first of the signal that I - I myself - prepared. Knowing it would eventually fire. The two of them gazed into each other's faces. Neither the boy nor the man spoke. Trembling, Emmanuel clung to the old bearded man; he did not let himself fall. 'Do not fear,' Elias said. 'Elijah,' Emmanuel said. 'You are Elijah who comes first. Before the great and terrible day.' Elias, holding the boy and rocking him gently, said, 'You have nothing to fear on that day.' 'But he does,' Emmanuel said. 'The Adversary whom' we hate. His time has come. I fear for him, knowing as I do, now, what is ahead.' 'Listen,' Elias said quietly. How you have fallen from heaven, bright morning star, felled to the earth, sprawling helpless across the nations! You thought in your own mind, I will scale the heavens; I will set my throne high above the stars of God, I will sit on the mountain where the gods meet in the far recesses of the north. I will rise high above the cloud-banks and make myself like the Most High. Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the abyss. Those who see you will stare at you, they will look at you and ponder. . .
Page 86 'You see?' Elias said. 'He is here. This is his place, this little world. He made it his fortress two thousand years ago, and set up a prison for the people as he did in Egypt. For two thousand years the people have been crying and there was no response, no aid. He has them all. He thinks he is safe.' Emmanuel, clutching the old man, began to cry. 'Still afraid?' Elias said. Emmanuel said, 'I cry with them. I cry with my mother. I cry with the dying dog who did not cry. I cry for them. And for Belial who fell, the bright morning star. Fell from heaven and began it all.' And, he thought, I cry for myself. I am my mother; I am the dying dog and the suffering people, and I, he thought, am that bright morning star, too. . . even Belial; I am that and what it has become.
THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1972 Page179 "A long time ago," said Kaminski, "I came across a remark that I've never forgotten-though I can't remember who made it. 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' That's what we're up against here. Our lasers and mesotrons and nuclear reactors and neutrino telescopes would have seemed pure magic to the best scientists of the nineteenth century. But they could have understood how they worked-more or less-if we were around to explain the theory to them." Page 189 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
"ANY SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MAGIC"
GODS OF THE DAWN Peter Lemesurier 1997 "As Arthur C. Clarke's perceptive Third Law puts it: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ANCIENT EGYPT Herbie Brennan 2000 (Oppositte) Page 1 "any sufficiently high technology is indistinguishable from magic" Page 124 SCIENCE OR MAGIC? "The British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke is said to have commented that any sufficiently high technology is indistinguishable from magic"
THE BIBLE CODE Michael Drosnin 1997 Chapter Four THE SEALED BOOK Page 70 "The astronomer Carl Sagan once noted that if there was other intelligent life in the universe some of it would have certainly evolved far earlier than we did, and had thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions, or hundreds of millions of years to develop the advanced technology that we are only now beginning to develop. 'After billions of years of biological evolution - on their planet and ours - an alien civilization cannot be in technological lockstep with us,' wrote Sagan. 'There 'have been humans for more than twenty thousand centuries, but we've had radio only for about one century,' wrote Sagan. 'If alien civilizations are behind us, they're likely to be too far behind us to have radio. And if they're ahead of us, they're likely to be far ahead of us. Think of the technical advances on our world over just the last few centuries. What is for us technologically difficult or impossible, what might seem to us like magic, might for them be trivially easy.' The author of 2001, Arthur C. Clarke - who envisioned a mysterious black monolith that reappears at successive stages of human evolution, each time we are ready to be taken to a higher level - made a similar observation:
'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' Page 163 pages 69-75 "The astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that an advanced alien technology 'might seem to us like magic' in Pale Blue Dot (Random House, 1994), p. 352. The author of 2001, Arthur C. Clarke, made a similar observation: 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' (Profiles of the Future, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984). Paul Davies' imagined 'alien artifact' is described in his book Are We Alone? (Basic Books, 1995), p. 42. Stanley Kubrick, in his famous movie version of Clarke's 2001, showed a mysterious black monolith that seemed to reappear at successive stages of human evolution, each time we were ready to be taken to a higher level. When I told him about the Bible code, Kubrick's immediate reaction was, 'It's like the monolith in 2001.' " REACTION CREATION
FIRST CONTACT THE SEARCH FOR EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE Edited By Ben Bova and Byron Preiss 1990 SEIZING THE MOMENT A UNIQUE MOMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY Michael Michaud ANTHROPOCENTRISM GOOD-BYE Page 311 The most profound message from the aliens may never be spoken: We are not alone or unique. Contact would tell us that life and intelligence have evolved elsewhere in the Universe, and that they may be common by-products of cosmic evolution. Contact would tend to confirm the theory that life evolves chemically from inanimate matter, through universal processes, implying that there are other alien civilizations in addition to the one we had detected. We might see ourselves as just one example of biocosmic processes, one facet of the Universe becoming aware of itself. We would undergo a revolution in the way that we conceive our own position in the Universe; any remaining pretense of centrality or a special role, any belief that we are a chosen species would be dashed forever, completing the process begun by Copernicus four centuries ago. The revelation that we are not the most technologically advanced intelligent species could lead to a humbling deflation of our sense of self-importance. We might reclassify ourselves to a lower level of ability and worth. This leveling of our pretensions, this anti-hubris, could be intensified if we were confronted with alien technology beyond our understanding. "ANY SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MAGIC"
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JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS Thomas Mann 1875 - 1955 MINERVA 1997 Page 968 "But we are speaking of two different things. My Majesty speaks of the fetters which the teaching puts upon the thoughts of God; yours refers to priestly statecraft, which divides teaching and knowledge. But Pharaoh would not be arrogant, and there is no greater arrogance than such a division. No, there is no arrogance in the world greater than that of dividing the children of our Father into initiate and uninitiate and teaching double words: all-knowingly for the masses, knowingly in the inner circle. No, we must speak what we know, and witness what we have seen. Pharaoh wants to do nothing but improve the teaching, even though it be made hard for him by the teaching."
JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS Thomas Mann 1875 - 1955 MINERVA 1997 Page 890 8 x 9 = 72 "In all there were two-and-seventy conspirators privy to the plot. It was a proper and a pregnant number, for there had been just seventy-two when red Set lured Usir into the chest. And these seventy-two in their turn had had good cosmic ground to be no more and no less than that number. For it is just that number of groups of five weeks which make up the three hundred and sixty days of the year, not counting the odd days; and there are just seventy-two days in the dry fifth of the year, when the gauge shows that the Nourisher has reached his lowest ebb, and the god sinks into his grave. So where there is conspiracy anywhere in the world it is requisite and customary for the number of conspirators to be seventy-two. And if the plot fail, the failure shows that if this number had not been adhered to it would have failed even worse."
Page 890 8 x 9 = 72 "In all there were two-and-seventy conspirators privy to the plot.
OSIRIS = 89 = OSIRIS OSIRIS = 35 = OSIRIS OSIRIS = 8 = OSIRIS 8 x 9 = 72 = 9 x 8
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS G Hancock 1995 Page 287 "What one would look for, therefore, would be a universal language, the kind of language that would be comprehensible to any technologically advanced society in any epoch, even a thousand or ten thousand years into the future. Such languages are few and far between, but mathematics is one of them - and the city of Teotihuacan may be the calling-card of a lost civilization written in the eternal language of mathematics." "Of all the other stupendous inventions,' Galileo once remarked, "what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the Indies, speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangements of two dozen little signs on paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of men.3"
WHAT ONE WOULD LOOK FOR THEREFORE WOULD BE A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE THE KIND OF LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIBLE TO ANY TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED SOCIETY IN ANY EPOCH SUCH LANGUAGES ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN BUT MATHEMATICS IS ONE OF THEM
FRATERNAL GREETINGS CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF NINE GATES FRATERNAL GREETINGS CITIZENS OF PLANET EARTH FRATERNAL GREETINGS CITIZENS OF THE UNIVERSE FRATERNAL GREETINGS UNIVERSAL CITIZEN
THOUGHTS OF LOVE OF LIGHT AND OF PEACE UNTO ALL SENTIENT BEINGS
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