A MAZE IN ZAZAZA ENTER ZAZAZA ZAZAZAZAZAZAZAAZAZAZAZAZAZAZ ZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZ THE MAGIKALALPHABET ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262625242322212019181716151413121110987654321
THE KEY TO THE MAGIKALALPHABET
THE UPSIDE DOWN OF THE DOWNSIDE UP AS ABOVE SO BELOW ADD TO REDUCE REDUCE TO DEDUCE
BLESSED PEOPLES OF EARTH CHILDREN OF THE RAINBOW LIGHT
GREETINGS
PEACE
UPON EARTH GOODWILL TO ALL SENTIENT BEINGS
THE NUCLEAR FAMILY
1969
THE
HUMAN
1973
THE SCULPTURE OF VIBRATIONS
1970
AFRICAN NIGHTMARE SPECTRE OF FAMINE
1973
THE JOURNEYMAN
1977
FIRST CONTACT
1980
GREETINGS
O
NAMUH
9 7 3 3 7 9
I AM THAT I THAT I THAT AM I
ISISISTHATITHATITHATISISIS
BELOVED LOVE EVOLVE EVOLVE LOVE BELOVED LOVE EVOLVE EVOLVE LOVE BELOVED
HOLY BIBLE Scofield References Jeremiah B.C. 590 Page 809 8 x 9 = 72 7 + 2 = 9 Chapter 33 Verse 3 x 33 = 99
THE MAGIKALALPHABET
ISISIS
FORMED FROM THE ENGLISH ALPHABET OF CAPITAL LETTERS
THE MAGIKALALPHABET
THE
ZEDALIZZED
A
SERPENT PRESENTS
TO
FIND THE ROOT NUMBER OF A LETTER OR WORD
ADD
TO
REDUCE REDUCE
TO
DEDUCE
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 root value of each word is arrived by adding together its numerical placing within the English Alphabet
For example the letter A is 1 and the letter Z is 26, and 2+6 is 8
Distilled to its essence of number A + Z transposes into number is 9
THE TOTAL NUMERICAL ROOT VALUE OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET
ISISIS
9
First Total = 351and 3 + 5 + 1 = 9
Second Total = 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
Second total 126 and 1 + 2 + 6 = 9
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875-1955 Page 417 "I preach mathematics."
LIGHT AND LIFE Lars Olof Bjorn 1976 Page197 BY WRITING THE 26 LETTERS OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET IN A CERTAIN ORDER ONE MAY PUT DOWN ALMOST ANY MESSAGE
THE I INVITES ANOTHER LUCK LUCK ANOTHER INVITES
THE MAGIKALALPHABET
THE MAGIKALALPHABET ROOT VALUE OF THE WORDS I = 9 9 = I ME = 9 9 = ME EGO = 9 9= EGO CONSCIENCE = 9 9 = CONSCIENCE DIVINE = 9 9 = DIVINE THOUGHT = 9 9 = THOUGHT OUR = 9 9 = OUR LOVE = 9 9 = LOVE REAL = 9 9 = REAL REALITY = 9 9 = REALITY SUN = 9 9 = SUN EARTH = 7 7 = EARTH MOON = 3 3 = MOON JUPITER = 9 9 = JUPITER MAGNETIC = 9 9 = MAGNETIC FIELD = 9 9 = FIELD PHYSICS = 9 9 = PHYSICS ORIONIS = 9 9 = ORIONIS NAMES OF GOD = 9 9 = NAMES OF GOD ASCENSION = 99 AND 9 + 9 = 18 AND 1 + 8 = 9 AND 9 = ASCENSION
THE NUMBERS I = 9 9 = I ME = 9 9 = ME BRAIN + BODY = 9 9 = BODY + BRAIN LIGHT + DARK = 9 9 = DARK + LIGHT ENERGY + MASS = 9 9 = MASS + ENERGY MIND + MATTER = 9 9 = MATTER + MIND MAGNETIC + FIELD = 9 9 = FIELD + MAGNETIC POSITIVE + NEGATIVE = 9 9 = NEGATIVE + POSITIVE MYTHS MATHS MATHS MYTHS ANUBIS A NUMBER IS MIN DOTH DREAM WHAT DOTH MIN MEAN
THE 99 NAMES OF GOD GOD OF NAMES 99
I MASS ENERGY ME LIGHT + DARK 9 9 DARK + LIGHT POSITIVE + NEGATIVE 9 9 NEGATIVE + POSITIVE
"I PLAY PLATO CHESS" ISISIS
I PLAY PLATO CHESS
I = 9 PLAY = 9 PLATO =1 CHESS = 9 9 + 9 + 1 + 9 = 28 2 + 8 = 10 1 + 0 = 1
FRIDAY = 63 6 + 3 = 9 LUCKY = 54 5 + 4 = 9 THIRTEEN = 99 = 9 + 9 = 18 1+ 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:..."
KING SOLOMONS TEMPLE = 234 AND 81 AND 18 1+8 = 9 KING SOLOMON = 144 AND 54 AND 9 ACACIA 1+3+1+3+9+1 ACACIA = 9 9 = ACACIA
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
"ALL IS NUMBER" PYTHAGORAS 3 x 4 x 5
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875-1955 Page 417 "I preach mathematics." THE
BLESSED
9
CONSIDER
The reference to self as expressed in the letter I is a constant reiteration of the holy symbol indicating the 9th position occupied by this letter within The English Alphabet.
The English language transmuted into number is one of the main conduits through which appear, a clearer understanding of those refracted patterns, apparently random, describing the energies which intermingled within the great here and now are considered the living experience of reality.
I = 9
Me = 18 and 1 + 8 = 9
Ego = 27 and 18 finally 1 + 8 = 9
Conscience = 90 and 45 finally 4 + 5 = 9
Self = 42 = 15 = 6
Soul = 67 = 13 = 4
ISIS as number is 9-19-9-19 which reduces via 9-1-9-1 to 20 and finally 2 + 0 = 2
OSIRIS as number is 15-19-9-18-9-19 which reduces via 6-1-9-9-9-1 to 89 and finally 8 + 9 =17
Finally 1+7 the root number for OSIRIS Lord of the underworld is revealed as number 8
EYES = 9 9 = EYES
ISIS = 9 - 19 - 9 - 19 becomes 9 - 1 - 9 - 1 = ISIS
IRIS = 9 - 18 - 9 - 19 becomes 9 - 9 - 9 - 1 = IRIS
SIRIUS 19 - 9 - 18 - 9 - 21 - 19 becomes 1 - 9 - 9 - 9 - 3 - 1 - SIRIUS
SIRIUS = 5 5 = SIRIUS
SOTHIS = 9 9 = SOTHIS
ORIONIS = 9 9 = ORIONIS
I AM THAT I THAT AM I
9 AM THAT 9 THAT 9 AM 9
CONSIDER
HAFNIUM has the atomic number 72.
If this word is transcribed into number via the position each letter occupies within the context of the English Alphabet.
A=1 to Z =26
Then the word HAFNIUM (Atomic number 72) transposes initially to 72, (coincidence?)
H =8
A = 1
F = 6
N =14 (1+ 4 = 5)
I = 9
U =21 (2+1=3)
M =13 (1+3=4)
First Total 72
Second Total
8+1+6+5+9+3+4 = 36
Finally 3 + 6 are added together, unlocking the numerical root essence of the word HAFNIUM
HAFNIUM = 9
If the same criteria is applied to the Greek word IOTA the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
The final distillation of the transposed letters arrived at is number 9.
ADD TO REDUCE REDUCE TO DEDUCE
CONSIDER
the word
JUPITER - the 9th and largest of the planets relative to size, this word reduces as follows.
J =10 and 1+ 0 is 1
U = 21and 2 + 1 is 3
P =16 and 1 + 6 is 7
I = 9 and 9 ISISIS 9
T= 20 and 2 + 0 is 2
E = 5
R = 18 and 1 + 8 is 9
Thus
Jupiter = 99
Jupiter = 36
Jupiter = 9
JUPITER WHEN STOOD IN LINE WEIGHS IN AT NUMBER
99
9 + 9
18
1+8
9
PYTHAGORAS
3 x 4 x 5
The root number of the 3 lettered word SUN is also 9
The root number of the 4 lettered word MOON is 57 reducing initially to 21 and then to 3
The root number of the 5 lettered word EARTH is 52 reducing via 25 to 7
ADD TO REDUCE REDUCE TO DEDUCE
This is the key to revealing the magnetically drawn numerical language links contained within a hidden reality
REALITY = 90 and 36 finally 3 + 6 = 9
OUR = 54 and 18 finally 9
LOVE = 54 and 18 finally 1+ 8 = 9
Platos number
FIFTYFOUR = 126 and 54 finally 5 + 4 = 9
OUR LOVE
ISISIS
9
The number of DIVINE is 63 (first change) then 36 (second change) and finally 3 + 6 is 9
The number of THOUGHT is 99 (first change) then 36 (second change) and finally 3 + 6 is 9
DIVINELOVE
ISISIS
9
Think of the binary system, the numerical sequencing used in computer communications. Note the curious juxtaposition of certain transposed words like
LIVEEVIL, LIVEDDEVIL, or EARTH, HEART, THERA,
and Abrahams fathers name TERAH.
THIS
SERPENT I PRESENT
SPINE PENIS
NILE LINE
IOTA
THE NINTH LETTER OF THE GREEK ALPHABET
IOTA
45
4+5
9
Another way of looking at language and number is the arithmetical arrangements and formulae secretly resident within inverted capital letters. For example
HINOSXZ
the upside down of the downside up
ZXSONIH
H = 8
I = 9
N = 14 and 1+ 4 = 5
O = 15 and 1+ 5 = 6
S = 19 and 1+ 9 = 10 then 1+0 = 1
X = 24 and 2 + 4 = 6
Z = 26 and 2 + 6 = 8
First total 8 + 9 +14 + 15 + 19 + 24 + 26 = 115 and 1 + 1 + 5 = a root value of 7
Second Total 8 + 9 + 5 + 6 + 1 + 6 + 8 = 43 finally 4 + 3 = 7
THE MAGIC
7
SPHINXZION
1 and 8 and 8 and 1
the downside up of the upside down
It can be seen that these letters and numbers inverted remain visually the same. Examples affecting the whole word are,
ONION, SIN, ZION, NIXON.
Words like God, Phoenix and Sphinx, or Magician Magic and Magi also contain the revolving symbols, and hereuponin distinct patterns begin to appear.
CONSIDER
There are 9 planets
There are seven openings in the human head and two in the body 9 in all.
(Ignoring design appendages)
There are seven capital letters and two numbers which remain the same when inverted. 9 in total
Creative patterns can be observed which tell a different story about the nature of realities intelligent living formations other than those which are generally available unto our obscured inner vision.
I
I PI WITH MY LITTLE I
IF THINE I OFFEND THEE
I SAID THE FLY WITH MY LITTLE I
i
I SAW HIM DIE
TWO EYES YOU ARE, TWO EYES YOU BE
I
SEE YOU ARE TWO EYES FOR
ME
I WILL KEEP AN I
OPEN FOR YOU
THE
IEYEI
OF
HORUS
E = 5
Y = 25
E = 5
S = 19
TOTAL = 54. 5 + 4 = 9
FIFTYFOUR. Guess what sequence of numbers, the blessed PLATO'S FIFTYFOUR reduces to on its journey to reveal the wholly holy number 9.
The word PHYSICS = 99 then 9+9 =18 and 1 + 8 = 9
The names of the holy family when expressed in the order
JOSEPH - root numerical value 1. . .6 letters in the word JOSEPH . . . 1 + 6 = 7
JESUS - root numerical value 2 . . . 5 letters in the word JESUS . . . 2 + 5 = 7
MARY - root numerical value 3 . . . 4 letters in the word MARY . . . 3 + 4 = 7
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = 21. . . 2 +1 = 3
How many times shall I forgive my brother
?
THE
MAGIKALAPHABET
NUMERICAL CONSEQUENCE OF
CHRIST
IS
77
C = 3
H = 8
R = 18 and 1 + 8 = 9
I = 9
S = 19 and 1 + 9 = 10 1 + 0 = 1
T = 20 and 2 + 0 = 2
First Total 3 + 8 + 18 + 9 + 19 + 20 = 77
Second Total 3 + 8 + 9 + 9 + 1 + 2 = 32 finally 3 + 2 = 5
The numerical transposition of the words
JESUS CHRIST
First Total = 151
Second Total 43
Finally 4 + 3 = 7
THE
SO EVEN SEVEN THE SEMEN OF THE WORD SEVEN
SEVEN
Reduces initially to 65 then 20 and finally to its distilled root number of (two) 2
GOLIATH of GATH
9 foot 9 inches tall
GOLIATH = 9 GATH = 9
MIN DOTH DREAM WHAT DOTH MIN MEAN
TWO EYES YOU ARE TWO EYES YOU BE
i
SEE YOU ARE TOO WISE FOR ME
Chapter Three Page 63 6+3 = 9 "There is a simple trick involving numbers that can be guaran-teed to produce astonishment at any party. You ask someone to write down his telephone number, then to write it a second time with the figures jumbled up. Next, tell him to subtract the smaller from the larger number, and keep on adding up the figures in the answer until he has reduced it to one figure. (5019 becomes 10, which in turn becomes 1 plus 0 - that is, 1.) When he has finished, you may tell him authoritatively: 'The answer is nine.' You can afford to be dogmatic; for the answer is always nine. It works with any set of figures, no matter how small or how large. Jumble up the figures, subtract one from the other, and the answer always reduces to 9. I have no idea why this is so, and have never come across a mathematician who could explain it. It is just one of those peculiar properties of numbers." "You ask someone to write down his telephone number, then to write it a second time with the figures jumbled up. Next, tell him to subtract the smaller from the larger number, and keep on adding up the figures in the answer until he has reduced it to one figure. (5019 becomes 10, which in turn becomes 1 plus 0 - that is, 1.) When he has finished, you may tell him authoritatively: 'The answer is nine.'
You can afford to be dogmatic; for the answer is always nine. It works with any set of figures, no matter how small or how large. Jumble up the figures, subtract one from the other, and the answer always reduces to 9."
?
AND THE ANSWER ALWAYS REDUCES TO NINE 9
NINE
ABRAHAM WAS CIRCUMCISED IN HIS
OF TIME AND STARS Page15 (number omitted) " ' This is a slightly unusual request,' said Dr Wagner, with what he hoped was commendable restraint. 'As far as I know, it's the first time anyone's been asked to supply a Tibetan monastery with an Automatic Sequence Computer. I don't wish to be inquisitive, but I should hardly have thought that your - ah - establishment had much use for such a ma-chine. Could you explain just what you intend to do with it?' 'Gladly,' replied the lama, readjusting his silk robes and carefully putting away the slide rule he had been Using for currency conversions. 'Your Mark V Computer can carry out any routine mathtiilatical operation involving up to ten digits. However, for our work we are interested in letters, not numbers. As we wish you to modify the output circuits, the machine will be printing words, not columns of figures.' 'I don't quite understand. . .' 'This is a project on which we have been working for the last three centuries - since the lamasery was founded, in fact. It is somewhat alien to your way of thought, so I hope you will listen with an open mind while I explain it.' 'Naturally.' 'It is really quite simple. We have been compiling a list which shall contain all the possible names of God.' 'I beg your pardon?' Page 16 The Nine Billion Names of God 'We have reason to believe,.' continued the lama imper-turbably, 'that all such names can be written with not more than nine letters in an alphabet we have devised.' 'And you have been doing this for three centuries?' 'Yes: we expected it would take us about fifteen thousand years to complete the task.' 'Oh,' Dr Wagner looked a little dazed. 'Now I see why you wanted to hire one of our machines. But what exactly is the purpose of this project?' The lama hesitated for a fraction of a second, and Wagner wondered if he had offended him. If so, there was no trace of annoyance in the reply. 'Call it ritual, if you like, but it's a fundamental part of our belief. All the many names of the Supreme Being - God, Jehova, Allah, and so on - they are only man-made labels. There is a philosophical problem of some difficulty here, which I do not propose to discuss, but somewhere among all the possible combinations of letters that can occur are what one may call the real names of God. By systematic per-mutation of letters, we have been trying to list them all.' "I see. You've been starting at A A A A A A A . . . and work- ing up to Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z . . .' 'Exactly - though we use a special alphabet of our own. Modifying the electromatic typewriters to deal with this is, of course, trivial. A rather more interesting problem is that of devising suitable circuits to eliminate ridiculous com- binations. For example, no letter must occur more than times in succession.' ' Three? Surely you mean two.' 'Three is correct: I am afraid it would take too long to explain why, even if you understood our language.' Page 17 'I'm sure it would,' said Wagner hastily. 'Go on.' 'Luckily, it will be a simple matter to adapt your Automatic Sequence Computer for this work, since once it has been programmed properly it will permute each letter in turn and print the result. What would have taken us fifteen thousand years it 'will be able to do in a hundred days.' Dr Wagner was scarcely conscious of the faint sounds from the Manhattan streets far below. He was in a different world, a world of natural, not man-made, mountains. High up in their remote aeries these monks had been patiently at work, generation after generation, compiling their lists of meaningless words. Was there any limit to the follies of man- kind? Still, he must give no hint of his inner thoughts. The customer was always right. . . 'There's no doubt.replied the doctor, 'that we can modify the Mark V to print lists of this nature." Page20 ' Well they believe that when they have listed all his names - and they reckon that there are about nine billion of them - Gods purpose will be achieved. "
Page 15 'Th9s 9s a sl9ghtly unusual request,'said Dr Wagner, w9th what he hoped was commendable restra9nt.' As far as 9 know, 9t's the f9rst t9me anyone's been asked to supply a T9betan monastery with an Automat9c Sequence Computer.9 don't w9sh to be 9nqu9s9t9ve, but 9 should hardly have thought that your - ah - establ9shment had much use for such a ma-ch9ne.Could you expla9n just what you 9ntend to do w9th 9t?' 'Gladly,' repl9ed the lama, readjust9ng h9s s9lk robes and carefully putting away the sl9de rule he had been us9ng for currency convers9ons. 'Your Mark V Computer can carry out any rout9ne mathemat9cal operat9on 9nvolv9ng up to ten d9g9ts. However, for our work we are 9nterested 9n letters, not numbers. As we w9sh you to mod9fy the output c9rcu9ts,the mach9ne w9ll be pr9nt9ng words not columns of f9gures.' '9 dont qu9te understand…' 'Th9s 9s a project on wh9ch we have been work9ng for the last three centur9es - s9nce the lamasery was founded, 9n fact. 9t 9s somewhat al9en to your way of thought, so 9 hope you w9ll l9sten with an open m9nd wh9le 9 expla9n 9t 'Naturally.' '9t is really qu9te s9mple.We have been comp9l9ng a l9st wh9ch shall conta9n all the poss9ble names of God' '9 beg your pardon?' / Page16 / 'We have reason to bel9eve' continued the lama 9mper-turbably, ' that all such names can be wr9tten with not more than n9ne letters 9n an alphabet we have dev9sed,' 'And you have been do9ng th9s for three centur9es? 'Yes: we expected 9t would take us about f9fteen thousand years to complete the task.' 'Oh, Dr Wagner looked a l9ttle dazed. 'Now 9 see why you wanted to h9re one of our mach9nes. But what exactly 9s the purpose of th9s project ? 'The lama hes9tated for a fract9on of a second, and Wagner wondered 9f he had offended h9m. 9f so there was no trace of annoyance 9n the reply. 'Call 9t r9tual, 9f you l9ke, but 9t's a fundamental part of our bel9ef. All the many names of the Supreme Being - God , Jehova , Allah , and so on - they are only man made labels. There 9s a ph9losoph9cal problem of some difficulty here, which 9 do not propose to d9scuss, but somewhere among all the poss9ble comb9nat9ons of letters that can occur are what one may call the real names of God. By systemat9c per-mutat9on of letters, we have been trying to l9st them all' '9 see. You've been start9ng at AAAAAAA… and work-9ng up to ZZZZZZZZ …' 'Exactly - though we use a spec9al alphabet of our own. Mod9fy9ng the electromat9c typewr9ters to deal w9th th9s 9s of course tr9v9al. A rather more 9nterest9ng problem 9s that of dev9s9ng su9table c9rcu9ts to el9m9nate r9d9culous com-b9nat9ons. For example, no letter must occur more than three t9mes 9n sucess9on.' 'Three? Surely you mean two.' 'Three 9s correct; 9 am afra9d 9t would take too long to expla9n why , even 9f you understood our language.'/ Page 17 / '9'm sure 9t would,' sa9d Wagner hast9ly. 'Go on.' 'Luck9ly, 9t w9ll be a s9mple matter to adapt your Automat9c Sequence Computer for th9s work, s9nce once 9t has been programmed properly 9t w9ll permute each letter 9n turn and pr9nt the result. What would have taken us f9fteen thousand years 9t w9ll be able to do 9n a hundred days.' 'Dr Wagner was scarcely conscious of the faint sounds from the Manhatten streets far below. He was in a different world, a world of natural, not man-made mountains. High up in their remote aeries these monks had been patiently at work generation after generation, compiling their lists of meaningless words. Was there any limits to the follies of mankind ? Still, he must give no hint of his inner thoughts. The customer was always right…"
OR ARITHMETIC REVISITED Herbert McKay 1940 "Multiplication does not always increase a number. If the multiplier is less than 1 we have a decrease. When we. multiply by .5 we get a half of the original number; when we multiply by 1 we reduce the number to a tenth of itself; and so on. The square of a small number (less than 1) is a very small number; the cube is an extremely small number.Thus: .0012= .00001, .0013 = .000000001. Even when a number is a very little less than one, con-tinual multiplication of it by itself (raising it to higher and higher powers) finally reduces it to an exceedingly small quantity. .99999 is a mere one-hundred-thousandth less than 1; if we multiply any number by it we deduct a one-hundred-thousandth of the number. Thus .999992 is a very little more than .99998. .9999910 is a little more than .99990. .99999 to the power 1000 is about .99015. .99999 to the power 1,000,000 is .00005. .99999 to the power 10,000,000 is the tenth power of .00005. We should have a string of 42 noughts before the significant figures begin. For the l00,000,000th power we / Page 148 / should have over 400 noughts before the significant figures begin." Page 147 40 x 9 = 360
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SUPERNATURE Lyall Watson (1974 Edition) Page 108 "An American mathematician noticed that the earlier pages in books of logariths kept in his university library were dirtier than later ones, indicating that science students, for some rea-son, had more occasion to calculate with numbers beginning with 1 than with any other number. (261) He made a collection of tables and calculated the relative frequency of each digit from 1 to 9. Theoretically they should occur equally of-ten, but he found 30per cent of the numbers were 1, whereas 9 only occupied 5 per cent of the space. These are almost exactly the proportions given to these numbers on the scale of a slide rule, so the designers of that instrument clearly recognized that such a bias existed. This preponderance of the number 1 may have been caused by the fact that the tables were not really random, but bigger tables provide a similar bias."
Graham Hancock 1995 Page 273 "The precessional numbers highlighted by Sellers in the Osiris myth are 360, 72, 30 and 12." "These he joined to the 360 days of which the year then consisted (emphasis added)." "Elsewhere the myth informs us that the 360 - day year consists of "12 months of 30 days each". Note 6 And in general,as Sellers observes , "phrases are used which prompt simple mental calculations and an attention to numbers ". note 7 "Elsewhere the myth informs us that the 360-day year consists of '12 months of 30 days each'. Thus far we have been provided with three of Seller's precessional: 360, 12 and 30. The fourth number,which occurs later in the text, is by far the most important. As we saw in Chapter Nine, the evil deity known as Set led a group of conspirators in a plot to kill Osiris. The number of these conspirators was 72."
THE SPLENDOUR THAT WAS EGYPT Margaret A. Murray Page 101 "In many countries the Divine King was allowed to reign for a term of years only , usually seven or nine or multiples of those numbers".
SEVEN OR NINE OR MULTIPLES OF THOSE NUMBERS
THE MAYAN PROPHESIES Adrian G. Gilbert and Morris M. Cotterell Appendix 7 Page 345 'Mayan numbers - summary nine = magic number of the Maya. All relevant numbers compound to nine.' ALL RELEVANT NUMBERS COMPOUND TO NINE
THE SUPER GODS Morris M. Cotterell Page 188 'The recurring 9999 is an invitation to round up this number to 269, i.e. 260 and 9."
THE RECURRING 9999 THE 9ECU999NG 9999
NUMBER 9 The Search for the Sigma Code Cecil Balmond Page 45 "From ancient times number nine was seen as a full complement; it was the cup of special promise that brimmed over" FROM ANCIENT TIMES NINE WAS SEEN AS A FULL COMPLEMENT
THE SPLENDOUR THAT WAS EGYPT Margaret A. Murray Appendix 4 The New Year of God Cornhill Magazine 1934 Page 231/233 "Three o'clock and a still starlight night in mid-September in Upper Egypt. At this hour the village is usually asleep, but to-night it is a stir for this is Nauruz Allah, the New Year of God, and the narrow streets are full of the soft sound of bare feet moving towards the Nile. The village lies on a strip of ground; one one side is the river, now swollen to its height, on the other are the floods of the inundation spread in a vast sheet of water to the edge of the desert. On a windy night the lapping of wavelets is audible on every hand; but to-night the air is calm and still, there is no sound but the muffled tread of unshod feet in the dust and the murmur of voices subdued in the silence of the night. In ancient times throughout the whole of Egypt the night of High Nile was a night of prayer and thanks giving to the great god , the Ruler of the river, Osiris himself. Now it is only in this Coptic village that the ancient rite is preserved, and here the festival is still one of prayer and thanksgiving. In the great cities the New Year is a time of feasting and processions, as blatant and uninteresting as a Lord Mayor's Show, with that additional note of piercing vulgarity peculiar to the East. In this village, far from all great cities, and-as a Coptic community-isolated from and therefore uninfluenced either by its Moslem neighbours or by foreigners, the festival is one of simplicity and piety. The people pray as of old to the Ruler of the river, no longer Osiris, but Christ; and as of old they pray for a blessing upon their children and their homes. There are four appointed places on the river bank to which the village women go daily to fill their water-jars and to water their animals. To these four places the villagers are now making their way, there to keep the New Year of God. The river gleams coldly pale and grey; Sirius blazing in the eastern sky casts a narrow path of light across the mile-wide waters. A faint glow low on the horizon shows where the moon will rise, a dying moon on the last day of the last quarter. The glow gradually spreads and brightens till the thin crescent, like a fine silver wire, rises above the distant palms. Even in that attenuated form the moonlight eclipses the stars and the glory of Sirius is dimmed. The water turns to the colour of tarnished silver, smooth and glassy; the palm-trees close at hand stand black against the sky, and the distant shore is faintly visible. The river runs silently and without a ripple in the windless calm; the palm fronds, so sensitive to the least movement of the air, hang motionless and still; all Nature seems to rest upon this holy night. The women enter the river and stand knee-deep in the running stream praying; they drink nine times, wash the face and hands, and dip themselves in the water. Here is a mother carrying a tiny wailing baby; she enters the river and gently pours the water nine times over the little head. The wailing ceases as the water cools the little hot face. Two anxious women hasten down the steep bank, a young boy between them; they hurriedly enter the water and the boy squats down in the river up to his neck, while the mother pours the water nine times with her hands over his face and shaven head. There is the sound of a little gasp at the first shock of coolness, and the mother laughs, a little tender laugh, and the grandmother says something under her breath, at which they all laugh softly together. After the ninth washing the boy stands up, then squats down again and is again washed nine times, and yet a third nine times; then the grandmother takes her turn and she also washes him nine times. Evidently he is very precious to the hearts of those two women, perhaps the mother's last surviving child. Another sturdy urchin refuses to sit down in the water, frightened perhaps, for a woman's voice speaks encouragingly, and presently a faint splashing and a little gurgle of childish laughter shows that he too is receiving the blessing of the Nauruz of God. A woman stands alone, her slim young figure in its wet clinging garments silhouetted against the steel-grey water. Solitary she stands, apart from the happy groups of parents and children; then, stooping , she drinks from her once, pauses and drinks again; and so drinks nine times with a short pause between every drink and a longer pause between every three. Except for the movement of her hand as she lifts the water to her lips, she stands absolutely still, her body tense with the earnestness of her prayer, the very atmosphere round her charged with the agony of her supplication. Throughout the whole world there is only one thing which causes a woman to pray with such intensity, and that one thing is children. " This may be a childless woman praying for a child, or it may be that, in this land where Nature is as careless and wasteful of infant life as of all else, this a mother praying for the last of her little brood, feeling assured that on this festival of mothers and children her prayers must perforce be heard. At last she straightens herself, beats the water nine times with the corner of her garment, goes softly up the bank, and disappears in the darkness. Little family parties come down to the river, a small child usually riding proudly on her father's shoulder. The men often affect to despise the festival as a woman's affair, but with memories in their hearts of their own mothers and their own childhood they sit quietly by the river and drink nine times. A few of the rougher young men fling themselves into the water and swim boisterously past, but public feeling is against them, for the atmosphere is one of peace and prayer enhanced by the calm and silence of the night. Page 232 and 233 Continued. For thousands of years on the night of High Nile the mothers of Egypt have stood in the great river to implore from the God of the Nile a blessing upon their children; formerly from a God who Himself has memories of childhood and a Mother. Now, as then, the stream bears on its broad surface the echo of countless prayers, the hopes and fears of human hearts; and in my memory remains a vision of the darkly flowing river, the soft murmur of prayer, the peace and calm of the New Year of God. NINE OCCURS x 9 NINTH x 1
BHAGAVAD- GITA As it is. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Page 287 "When the embodied living being controls his nature and mentally renounces all actions, he resides happily in the city of nine gates."
"The body consists of nine gates (two eyes, two nostrils, two ears, one mouth, the anus and the genitals.)" THE CITY OF NINE GATES
GURDJIEFF A BIOGRAPHY James Moore Page 344 The Enneagram "Gurdjieff's most cherished symbol was his enneagram, or nine sided figure; he extolled it as a universal glyph, a schematic diagram of perpetual motion." ENNEAGRAM 9 LETTERS LETTERS IN THE ENNEAD 3 + 6 9 THE ELEMENTS OF THE GODDESS Caitlin Matthews 1989 "WE ARE ENTERINGTHE 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 38 "THIS ENNEAD OF ASPECTS IS ENDLESSLY ADAPTABLE FOR IT IS MADE UP OF NINE, FOR EXAMPLE 54, 72, 108, THEY ALWAYS ADD UP TO NINE"
THE HOLY BIBLE C 17 V 24 GENESIS AND ABRAHAM WAS NINETYYEARS OLD AND NINE WHEN HE WAS CIRCUMCISED IN THE FLESH OF HIS FORESKIN
AFTER DEATH Leslie D. Weatherhead 1923 Page 99 'The Christian conception of God does not allow even one per cent.of failures - it is not enough to have ninety-nine sheep out of a flock of a hundred safe in the fold"
WORK DAYS OF GOD Herbert W Morris D.D.circa 1883 Page 278 "ninety and nine" on the bright celestial plains, He came down to seek and to save "the one stray sheep." Page number missing assumed to be 415 "…Companion volume to "Silver Songs" "Golden Songs" "…Among the numerous tunes are the following : -…" "…Are you one of the "Ninety and Nine"
ANUBIS A NUMBER IS
Ask yourself the question, did ALBERT EINSTEIN ever catch that number NINE. Was it a bus was it a tram was it an I was it an AM
The magikalalphabet transcribes letters to numbers. Add to reduce, reduce to deduce.
letters of their progress. At the throw of the ninth ram when in conjunction set, the far yonder scribe made record of their fall.
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
ODD NUMBERS OR ARITHMETIC REVISITED Herbert McKay 1940 COMPARISONS "IF anyone thinks he has no use for arithmetic let him consider the number of comparisons he makes every day. Most comparisons involve the working of some sort of sum; even when we compare colours we are apt to make some kind of computation of the proportions of the primary colours in them. We are always making comparisons, well or ill, accurately or inaccurately; one of the virtues of arithmetic is that it enables one to make comparisons neatly and accurately. One is proud of having a sense of proportion,and proportion is essentially mathematical-it is a comparison of sizes measured in some way or other. Even where arithmetic does not enter directly and obviously into a comparison a knowledge of the possibilities of arithmetical comparison is not amiss; it does at least rule out many crudities and absurdities. I saw some time ago the statement that if all the herrings landed at Yarmouth in a season were placed head to tail in a line they would stretch nine times round the world. The writer had evidently been impressed by the vast number of herrings in the catch, and he had looked for a comparison that would show the immensity of the number of herrings. As we have already seen, if we want to make the most of a large number of objects, we place them in a line. We get the greatest possible length by placing the herrings head to tail, and that is what the writer had done. The idea of placing the herrings in a nine-deep queue / Page 62 / right round the world might be impressive if we once began to realize what such a queue means."
THE NEW VIEW OVER ATLANTIS
John Michell 1969
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"That this small gold pyramid ion was an integral part of the Pyramid's design is evident from the figures. Without it the dimensions are not quite complete, for if it were removed, the area of the Pyramid's side would be 99999'99 square cubits only. With the 5 cubic inches of gold pyramidion in place, the figure of 100,000 square cubits represents the total area.
As the dimensions of the Great Pyramid are multiplied by the ratios of the ancient number canon they expand to frame the dimensions of this earth, and it is possible that they could have been taken further to represent the dimensions of the grand orb (the circle described by the earth's path round the sun), planetary-intervals and the measurements. of time. Going the other way, into the microcosm, these same Pyramid measures contract proportionally through a series of pyramidions at the apex, shrinking from miles to inches, to mere specks and finally into the world of the atom. The symbolism is of a seed, planted at the apex of the Pyramid, programmed with all the numbers and ratios for its potential growth. It is like that, smallest of all seeds, spoken of in the New Testament, the 'grain of mustard', which grows up into the Tree of Life encompassing the whole universe. The numerical patterns in the Pyramid's dimensions imply that the capstone consisted of a succession of diminishing pyramidions, each forming the tip of the one below it, with the small gold pyramid, 5 cubic inches in volume, at the apex. Yet if the gold model is to represent the whole structure in miniature, it must itself have a separate tip. This tiny object, set in gold, could only have been some form of crystal. Esoteric traditions about the use of crystals in the ancient world for attracting and transmitting cosmic energies are echoed by modern seers, such as the well-known 'Sleeping Prophet' of America, Edgar Cayce, who described visions of the Atlantean crystal technology which empowered the last world civilization and finally, by its abuse, brought about the cataclysm. An illustration of how the small, golden, crystal-topped pyramidion could have been held in place, together with the other layers making up the capstone, is given by a strange hieroglyph which shows a truncated pyramid topped by a staff or gnomon"
SECRET CHAMBER
THE QUEST FOR THE HALL OF RECORDS
Robert Bauval
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EYE OF VIGILANCE
"On the 3rd October 1998, a press conference was organised in Cairo for Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni and the French composer Jean Michel Jarre. The latter has been an international household name since the 1970s due to the enormous success of his electronic high-tech music compositions 'Oxygene' and 'Equinox'. Jean Michel Jarre is also an ambassador for UNESCO and has, since the 1980s, been organising extravaganzas of laser lights and music for historical events. One of these was for the bicentennial of the French Revolution in 1989, where more than two million spectators gathered in the Champs-Elysees in Paris, from the Place de la Concorde all the way to the new 'Paris 2000' Place de la Defense. This show, which was televised around the world, featured a pyramid structure erected in front of the Grande Arche de la Fraternite, literally the' Arch of the Brotherhood'. From the high-tech pyramid, laser images were projected on to the high-rise buildings nearby, including at one stage the so-called 'eye of vigilance', a symbol commonly used by Freemasons.14 During the press conference the Egyptian Minister of Culture stated that an opera composed by Jarre, entitled 'The Twelve Dreams of the Sun', would be performed to coincide with the unveiling of the golden capstone for the Great Pyramid at the end of the millennium, and Jarre himself declared that 'since the pyramids are linked to the sun' he had decided to stage a 'modern, multimedia opera that will last twelve bows and accompany the sun from the second millennium to the third millennium in the tradition of Ra, the pharaonic sun god'.
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MAM = 9 9 = DAD
CHILD = 9
PUREST = 9 DIVINE = 9 LOVE = 9
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Dear Reader
Herein another message.
" I Think we have a common bond you and I it is the number 9, the 9th letter of the English Alphabet.
I wonder if you have seen the book by Cecil Balmond Number 9 The search for the Sigma Code, if not I think you should read it. I found it most interesting.
While typing, I am seeking to create, in this short e-mail a pattern, that I, you, and others could identify all supposing we chose to look for one, I have done this by indicating a common feature. The letter I, and the number 9 doing so as can be seen, by emphasis."
Here the garbled message ends.
Indication of the letter I ocurrs 9 times.
The symbol 9 ocurring 4 times
This is my message to you. 9 x 9 = 81 and 8 + 1 = 9
and the symbol 9 occurs four times, so I am saying to you 36 and 3 + 6 = 9
I
am also saying that 81 + 36 is 117 and 1+1+7 = 9 my distilled essence of message
9
In a book called The Curse of the Pharaohs by PhilippVandenburg.published in 1973, which is a study into the circumstances whereby a number of the people involved in the opening and subsequent scientific examination of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun met their deaths..
On the back of page 99 page 100/101 there is a quote seemingly complete from an ancient papyrus of a letter from an Egyptian army general to his wife.This was apparently found in another persons grave. It is 32 lines long.
Page 100 contains 9 lines and on page 101, there is 23 altogether 32
Within those lines, the letter I occurs 34 times. And within the I of the refracted light of a certain eye, could in certain interpretation be seen as 34 x 9 which is 306 and 3 + 6 is 9
YOU occurs in the passage x 26
YOUR occurs x 5
ME occurs x 5
My occurs x 6
Was the General labouring the point of the I, and perhaps more importantly was there a labouring of the 9s
The numerical root number of I = 9
The numerical root number of ME = 9
The numerical root number of EGO = 9
The numerical root number of CONSCIENCE = 9
The numerical root number of EYE is 8
The numerical root number of EYES is 9
The numerical root number of HORUS is 9
The numerical root number of HOURS is 9
The numerical root number of VENUS is 9
The numerical root number of ORIONIS is 9
EACH FOR TOMORROW Arthur C. Clarke 1956 Introduction to 1989 Edition "However I have made some interesting discoveries; for instance, on the very first page of the first story, I see the number 9000. Ive no idea why I selected it again for HALs serial number 20 years later. . . " I see the number 9000 Ive no idea why I selected it again for HALs serial number 20 years later. . . "
THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001 Page 189 "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 "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.' 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' Page 163 pages 69-75 Chapter notes,
"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.' "
1990
SEIZING THE MOMENT ANTHROPOCENTRISM GOOD-BYE Page311 "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 mat- ter, 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 for- ever, completing the process begun by Copernicus four centuries ago.
The revelation that we are not the most technologi-cally 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. (Arthur C. Clarke has observed that any sufficiently advanced tech-nology would be indistinguishable from magic.) "ANY SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IS INDISTINGUABLE FROM MAGIC"
JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS Thomas Mann 1875 - 1955 MINERVA 1997 "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
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"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 sev-enty-two when red Set lured Usir into the chest. And these seventy-two in their turn had had good cosmic ground to be no more and no less than that number. For it is just that number of groups of five weeks which make up the three hundred and sixty days of the year, not counting the odd days; and there are just seventy-two days in the dry fifth of the year, when the gauge shows that the Nourisher has reached his lowest ebb, and the god sinks into his grave. So where there is conspiracy anywhere in the world it is requisite and custom-ary for the number of conspirators to be seventy-two. And if the plot fail, the failure shows that if this number had not been adhered to it would have failed even worse."
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:..." Page 255 " In addition, though the monuments are enabled to 'speak' from the moment that their astronomical context is understood, we have also to consider the amazing profusion of funerary texts that have come down to us from all periods of Egyptian history - all apparently emanating from the same very few common sources5 As we have seen, these texts operate like 'software' to the monuments' 'hardware', charting the route that the Horus-King (and all other future seekers) must follow. We recall a remark made by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend in Hamlet's Mill to the effect that the great strength of myths as vehicles for specific technical information is that they are capable of transmitting that information independently of the knowledge of individual story-tellers.6 In other words as long as a myth continues to be told true, it will also continue to transmit any higher message that may be concealed within its structure - even if neither the teller nor the hearer understands that message." MAGNETIC = 72 and 7 + 2 = 9 FIELD = 36 and 3 + 6 = 9 MAGNETIC FIELD = 108 and 1 + 0 + 8 = 9 PHYSICS = 99
HARMONIC 288 THE MEASURE OF LIGHT Page 95
"The value that I calculated for length was extremely close to that of the one published in Davidson and Aldersmith's book, their value being 1836 inches," Page 95/97
JUST SIX NUMBERS I
PLANETS STARS AND LIFE Page 24 "A proton is 1,836 times heavier than an electron, and the number 1,836 would have the same connotations to any 'intelligence' "
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"A manifestly artificial signal- even if it were as boring as lists of prime numbers, or the digits of 'pi' - would imply that 'intelli- gence' wasn't unique to the Earth and had evolved elsewhere. The nearest potential sites are so far away that signals would take many years in transit. For this reason alone, transmission would be primarily one-way. There would be time to send a measured response, but no scope for quick repartee!
THE TUTANKHAMUN PROPHECIES Page 195
"Anderson's Constitutions of the Freemasons (1723) comments:
. . . the finest structures of Tyre and Sidon could not be compared with the Eternal God's Temple at Jerusalem. . . there were employed 3,600 Princes, or 'Master Masons', to conduct the w,ork according to Solomon's directions, with 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains ('Fellow Craftsmen'), and 70,000 labourers, in all 153,600, besides the levy under Adoniram to work in the mountains of Lebanon by turns with the Sidonians, viz 30,000 being in all 183,600." "being in all 183,600."
THE JUPITER EFFECT
THE TUTANKHAMUN PROPHECIES 1
999 BEHIND THE WALL OF SILENCE
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"The holy number of sun-worshippers is 9, the highest number that can be reached before becoming one (10) with the creator. This is why Tutankhamun was entombed in nine layers of coffin. This is why the pyramid skirts of the two statues, guarding the entrance to the Burial Chamber, were triangular (base 3), when the all-seeing eye-skirt of Mereruka contained a pyramid skirt with a base of four sides. The message concealed here is that the 3 should be squared, which equals 9" "The message concealed here is that the 3 should be squared, which equals 9"
STEPHEN HAWKING Quest for a theory of everything
Kitty Ferguson 1991
Page 103
"The square root of 9 is three. So we know that the third side.' (line ends)
There are 13 words and the number 9 in the 33rd line down of page 103
THE BIOLOGY OF DEATH Page 49
MIN DOTH DREAM WHAT DOTH MIN MEAN
CHEIRO'S Page106 "The question has been asked again and again, Is there some means of knowing when the moment has come to take the tide at the flood?
THE QUESTION HAS BEEN ASKED AGAIN AND AGAIN IS THERE SOME MEANS OF KNOWING WHEN THE MOMENT HAS COME TO TAKE THE TIDE AT THE FLOOD
EIGHTEENTHIRTYSIX = 9 9 = XISYTRIHTNEETHGIE 1836
THE HOURS OF HORUS O NAMUH IS UPON US THIS WORK OF MANY I DEDICATE
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HOLY
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LET PEACE DESCEND UPON THE EARTH
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GOODWILL ASCEND UPON ALL SENTIENT BEINGS
Silver and gold have I none but such az I have give I thee
DIVINE LOVE IS 99 99 IS LOVE DIVINE
RA IN BOW GOOD WISHES
David Denison
Imperfect this work is perfect as it should be within the juxtoposition of creative instants that constitute the living reality
SECRETS OF THE CODE The Unauthorised Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Edited By Dan Bursten SECRET SOCIETIES Page 178 " Granted, Guillaume [de Tyre] does provide us with certain basic information, and it is this information on which all subsequent accounts of the Templars, all explanation of their foundation, all narratives of their activities have been based. But because of Guillaume's vagueness and sketchiness, because of the time at which he was writing [1175-85], because of the dearth of documented sources, he constitutes a precarious basis on which to build a definitive picture. Guillaume's chronicles are certainly useful. But it is a mistake-and one to which many historians have succumbed-to regard them as unimpugnable and wholly accurate. Even Guillaume's dates, as Sir Steven Runciman stresses, "are confused and at times demonstrably wrong."1 According to Guillaume de Tyre the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon was founded in 1118. Its founder is said to be one Hugues de Payen, a nobleman from Champagne and vassal of the count of Champagne. One day Hugues, unsolicited, presented himself with eight comrades at the palace of Baudouin 1, king of Jerusalem, whose elder brother, Godfroi de Bouillon, had captured the Holy City nineteen years earlier. Baudouin seems to have received them most cordially, as did the patriarch of Jerusalem-the religious leader of the new kingdom and special emissary of the Pope. Page 178. 1Runciman, History of the Crusades, Vo1. 2. p. 477. Page 178 "One day Hugues, unsolicited, presented himself with eight comrades at the palace of Baudouin 1, king of Jerusalem" "For nine years, Guillaume de Tyre tells us, the nine knights admitted no new candidates to their order"
Page 179 "Nine men to protect the pilgrims on all the thoroughfares of the Holy Land? Only nine? And all pilgrims? If this was their objective, one would surely expect them to welcome new recruits. Yet according to Guillaume de Tyre, they admitted no new candidates to the order for nine years." "After nine years, in 1127, most of the nine knights returned to Europe and a triumphal welcome"
OUT OF ZERO COMETH ONE OUT OF NOTHINGNESS I HAVE COME THAT ME THAT I AM
WATCHING THE TREE Adeline Yen Mah 2000 A Chinese daughter reflects on happiness spiritual beliefs and universal wisdom Page 156 ..." Turn your paper around and look at the word che from a different angle. Does it not look like a cart with a wheel on each side and an axle running down the middle? Page 156 Ideas in mathematics, however, are better interpreted by a special numerical 'alphabet' that is able to represent an infinite variety of concepts with a small and simple assemblage of symbols. Galileo wrote, Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes - I mean the universe. But we cannot understand it [the universe 1 if we do not first learn the languagc and grasp the symbols in which it is written. This book [of the universe] is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it, without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth The way in which we think - and the degree of sophistication of the culture we create - is highly dependent on our vocabulary. The importance of mathematics in the development of science was recognised by the Chincse only relatively recently, and the Hindu-Arabic number system was not adopted or taught at schools in China until the twentieth century. Yet according to Lconardo da Vinci, 'a science is perfect to the degree that it is mathcmatical'. In the 1880s, when my grandfather was a boy, numbers were still being written in Chinese characters with a brush. Besides being cumbersome and time-consuming, the traditional Chinese method of recording numbers lacked two vital components: positional value and the symbol zero. When my son Roger was seven years old, I gave him a record called Multiplication Rock, which he loved. Morning, noon and night he would play it over and ovcr, driving our whole / Page 157 / family crazy with the same tunes, same beat, same words. One of the songs was named 'My Hero Zero'. It went something like this: My hero Zero, Roger loved the song so much that, for his eighth birthday, I wrote him a short story featuring his hero Zero (dressed in a bright red military uniform) coming to the rescue of all the other nine numbers which had moeked and belittled him for being of no value. . . . resembles an empty bowl Which, while being used, can never be filled. Bottomless, it seems to be the source of everything. Blunting all sharpness, / Page 58 / Unravelling all complications, Harmonising all glare, Uniting the world into common dust. Hidden and invisible, Yet it appears to exist. I know not whose offspring it is; It looks like the ancestor of all. Before its invention, zero played a hidden role as a blank space on the abacus. Its incarnation as a symbol (and its establishment as a place-holder) is what gave zero its unique power aud status. I have been fascinated by zero ever sincc I studied it as a schoolgirl in Hong Kong. Trying to discover the logic hidden within its shape (zi xing cang li), [ became bewitched and enchanted. I was taught that adding a number to zero or subtracting zero from a number changcd nothing. In such cases, zero counted for naught. however, any number multiplied by zero became zero itself, whereas any number divided by zero became infinity. I remember being thrilled by zero's paradoxical powers, seemingly so insignificant. To me at the age of twelve, zero and infinity, like yin and yang, or nothing and eternity, appeared to represent the two opposite ends of the universe. Between them, they held all the secrets of a magical world. unique significance. He also noted that the ten Hindu-Arabic numbers (987654321 and zero) possess the ability to express an infinite variety of numbers. Page 160 These two inventions (positional value of a digit and the symbol for zero) are considered by many to be among the most important developments in mathematics in the last 3000 years. Zero allows every number to be put in its rightful place. The number 2 in front of three zeros (2000) has an entirely difTerent value from the same number 2 in front of six (2.000,000) or nine (2,000,000,000) zeros. Each given number could be considered to have two values: a fundamental value indicated by the isolated numeral itself. and a place value dependent on the numeral's location within the sequence of digits used to express a particular number. If one compares the writings of Marco Polo (1254-1324), describing the Yuan dynasty, with those of Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), who was in China during the Ming dynasty, obedicnce meant dcath by bchcading. The only permitted ;dlcrnativc was to shave off all the hair on my head and I soon did so.'
THE I CHANGING I CHING
DAILY MAIL Wednesday, April 26, 2006 By Ben Taylor and Ian Drury Page35 "Despite five 999 calls, police took 90 minutes. . . " "Police took an hour and and a half to react to 999 calls. . ." "In the 90 minutes. . . " "90 minutes earlier on Friday night when the first in a series of 999 calls was made. . ." "One 999 caller claimed. . . "
DAILY MAIL Friday, January 20, 2006 By Steve Doughty Page 13 "Nine in ten" "More than nine out of ten. . ."
DAILY MAIL Friday, January 20, 2006 By David Wilkes and Andre Levy Page 31 "90 years on, love letters of soldier's sweetheart have a happy ending"
UNITARIAN CHURCH WAKEFIELD "William Thomas Marriot of Sandal Grove" "Died February 2nd 1899"
WAKEFIELD MUSEUM DISCOVERING ANCIENT EGYPT 23rd September 05 - 23rd April 06 Scientific American updated from the 1996 issue Page 68 Daily Life in Ancient Egypt Andre G Mc Dowell "Workmen and their families lived some 3000 years ago in the village now known as Deir el Medina
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Meir : Middle Egypt / Asyut / Meir Meir A-1 : Middle Egypt / Asyut / Meir (Niankh-hpepy) ..... Ukhhotep, Tomb of : Middle Egypt / Asyut / Meir EGYPTIAN SITES - INDEX Meir lies at the edge of the cultivation, about 50km north-west of Asyut. The modern town of el-Qusiya, about 8km to the east of Meir, probably derives its name from the ancient Qis, classical Cusae during Graeco-Roman times. Although Qis was capital of the 14th Upper Egyptian nome, there are few remaining traces of the ancient town. It was in the necropolis at Meir that the provincial rulers, or nomarchs of the region were buried in tombs high in the hillside, with the more humble population further down the slope.
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AN OVERVIEW OF SACRED GEOMETRY Gregg Hall Sacred Geometry is the theory of dimensional evolution which assumes the universe is a living system kept together by the existence of a sacred geometry that encompasses the entire cosmos and makes for the blueprint for the mani-festation of what we know as our material universe and in addition organizes the context through which all love evolves. Our universe was designed to be highly efficient and is capable of performing a wide range of multiple functions at the same time. The very same geometry which provides structure to physical reality also allows for the perceptual environments that people and civilizations must move through as part of a systematic learning process on the path towardsevolution. Each dimension of this sacred geometry holds a unique place of perceptual space and a context of learning both for personal and social evolution. As each new dimension appears a new set of perceptions and potentials is awakened which we are free to accept and actualize or ignore. It is in understanding the dimensional structure which exists all around us that allows us to be able to understand the path and direction of personal and social evolution. Even though our modern science generally believes there is nothing of deeper meaning to the dimensional geometry of the universe other than the actual physical aspects, there is a view that is almost diametrically opposed to this that began with the Greek philosopher Pythagoras in 500 B.C. Pythagoras believed and taught the theory or belief that all of the mathematical patterns in the universe were actually expressions of divine intelligence and signified a divine intention. According to Pythagoras, we are surrounded by organizational intelligence that is shown in its purest from through mathematical formulas and musical harmonies and allowing ourselves to be at the center of our experience; we can know and share the organizing patterns and principles that pervade the universe. This is a thought that was even held by Albert Einstein, who stated that he received his greatest breakthroughs after praying and sleeping. The answers to the questions he was seeking came to him from the Universe while he slept! This is also the way that it can be explained for someone who is blind to be able to sculpt and for a deaf person, such as Beethoven to be able to compose intricate musical scores. Plato, who taught over a hundred years after Pythagoras, continued in the teachings of Pythagorean thought in espousing that the universe or cosmos as Pythagoras termed it was a place of "harmonious and beautiful order" and placed such a high regard on geometry that he placed a sign above the door to his academy stating, "Let no one unacquainted with geometry enter here." Sacred Geometry is the theory of dimensional evolution which assumes the ... door to his academy stating, "Let no one unacquainted with geometry enter here.". ...
AN OVERVIEW OF SACRED GEOMETRY Gregg Hall Sacred Geometry is the theory of dimensional evolution which assumes the universe is a living system kept together by the existence of a sacred geometry that encompasses the entire cosmos and makes for the blueprint for the mani-festation of what we know as our material universe and in addition organizes the context through which all love evolves Plato, who taught over a hundred years after Pythagoras, continued in the teachings of Pythagorean thought in espousing that the universe or cosmos as Pythagoras termed it was a place of "harmonious and beautiful order" and placed such a high regard on geometry that he placed a sign above the door to his academy stating, "Let no one unacquainted with geometry enter here."
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WHY SMASH ATOMS A. K. Solomon 1940 Page 77 "Once the fairy tale hero has penetrated the ring of fire round the magic mountain he is free to woo the heroine in her castle on the mountain top."
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FIRST CONTACT THE SEARCH FOR EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE Edited by Ben Nova and Byron Preiss 1990 Page 256 "Two types of unexplained signals were detected during this search. The first kind is quite rare, with the best example being the 'Wow' signal found in 1977. This /Page 257/ name was unintenionally applied from Jerry Ehman's comments in the margin of the computer printout when he noticed the signal. The signal was unmistakably strong and had all the characteristics of an extra-terrestrial signal." "We searched in the direction of the 'Wow!' signal hundreds of times after its discovery and over a wide frequency range. We never found the signal again. "...the 'Wow signal was received only once..." "What was the wow signal? Probably we will never know."
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke 1972 The Sentinel "I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long."
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Prakrti or Prakriti (from Sanskrit language प्रकृ्रति, prakṛti) is, ... Devi Prakriti Shakti in the context of Shaktis as forces unifies Kundalini, ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prakrti
Prakrti From Wikipedia Prakrti or Prakriti (from Sanskrit language प्रकृ्रति, prakṛti) is, according to Vedanta philosophy, the basic matter of which the Universe consists. It is composed of the three gunas or modes, known as tamas (ignorance), rajas (passion) and sattva (goodness). It is described in Bhagavad Gita as an inferior type of energy to the living beings (jivas), and to the Supreme Person (Paramatma or Bhagavan). It is closely associated with the concept of Maya within Vedic scripture. Devi Prakriti Shakti in the context of Shaktis as forces unifies Kundalini, Kriya, Itcha, Para, Jnana, Mantrika Shaktis. Each is in a chakra. Prakriti also means nature. Nature can be described as environment. It can also be used to denote the 'feminine' in sense of the 'male' being the purusha. According to ayurveda our body is made up of three doshas kapha, pitta, vayu. The balance or imbalance of these doshas defines the prakriti of our body (besides Devi Prakriti in sahasrara chakra.)
Prakrti or Prakriti (from Sanskrit language प्रकृ्रति, prakṛti) is, ... Devi Prakriti Shakti in the context of Shaktis as forces unifies Kundalini, ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prakrti
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Prakrti or Prakriti (from Sanskrit language प्रकृ्रति, prakṛti) is, according to Vedanta philosophy, the basic matter of which the Universe consists. It is composed of the three gunas or modes, known as tamas (ignorance), rajas (passion) and sattva (goodness).
It is described in Bhagavad Gita as an inferior type of energy to the living beings (jivas), and to the Supreme Person (Paramatma or Bhagavan). It is closely associated with the concept of Maya within Vedic scripture.
Devi Prakriti Shakti in the context of Shaktis as forces unifies Kundalini, Kriya, Itcha, Para, Jnana, Mantrika Shaktis. Each is in a chakra.
Prakriti also means nature. Nature can be described as environment. It can also be used to denote the 'feminine' in sense of the 'male' being the purusha.
According to ayurveda our body is made up of three doshas kapha, pitta, vayu. The balance or imbalance of these doshas defines the prakriti of our body (besides Devi Prakriti in sahasrara chakra.)
The Vedic divinities are considered to be the human mind's interpretation of the many facets of Purusha. According to the Rigvedic Purusha sukta, ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purusha
PurushaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Hinduism, Purusha (Sanskrit puruṣa, पुरुष "man, Cosmic Man", in Sutra literature also called puṃs "man") is the "self" which pervades the universe. The Vedic divinities are considered to be the human mind's interpretation of the many facets of Purusha. According to the Rigvedic Purusha sukta, Purusha was dismembered by the devas -- his mind is the Moon, his eyes are the Sun, and his breath is the wind. In the Rigveda, Purusha is described as a primeval giant, not unlike the Norse Ymir[citation needed], that is sacrificed by the gods (see Purushamedha) and from whose body the world and the varnas (castes) are built. He is described as having a thousand heads and a thousand feet. He emanated Viraj, the female creative principle, from which he is reborn in turn before the world was made out of his parts. In the sacrifice of Purusha, the Vedic chants were first created. The horses and cows were born, the Brahmins were made from Purusha's mouth, the Kshatriyas from his arms, the Vaishyas from his thighs, and the Shudras from his feet.[2] The Moon was born from his spirit, the Sun from his eyes, the heavens from his skull. Indra and Agni emerged from his mouth. The parallel to Norse Ymir is often considered to reflect the myth's origin in Proto-Indo-European religion. In Samkhya, a school of Hindu philosophy, Purusha is pure consciousness. It is thought to be our true identity, to be contrasted with Prakrti, or the material world, which contains all of our organs, senses, and intellectual faculties.
The Vedic divinities are considered to be the human mind's interpretation of the many facets of Purusha. According to the Rigvedic Purusha sukta, ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purusha
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In Hinduism, Purusha (Sanskrit puruṣa, पुरुष "man, Cosmic Man", in Sutra literature also called puṃs "man") is the "self" which pervades the universe. The Vedic divinities are considered to be the human mind's interpretation of the many facets of Purusha. According to the Rigvedic Purusha sukta, Purusha was dismembered by the devas -- his mind is the Moon, his eyes are the Sun, and his breath is the wind.
In the Rigveda, Purusha is described as a primeval giant, not unlike the Norse Ymir[citation needed], that is sacrificed by the gods (see Purushamedha) and from whose body the world and the varnas (castes) are built. He is described as having a thousand heads and a thousand feet. He emanated Viraj, the female creative principle, from which he is reborn in turn before the world was made out of his parts.
In the sacrifice of Purusha, the Vedic chants were first created. The horses and cows were born, the Brahmins were made from Purusha's mouth, the Kshatriyas from his arms, the Vaishyas from his thighs, and the Shudras from his feet.[2] The Moon was born from his spirit, the Sun from his eyes, the heavens from his skull. Indra and Agni emerged from his mouth.
The parallel to Norse Ymir is often considered to reflect the myth's origin in Proto-Indo-European religion.
In Samkhya, a school of Hindu philosophy, Purusha is pure consciousness. It is thought to be our true identity, to be contrasted with Prakrti, or the material world, which contains all of our organs, senses, and intellectual faculties.
Shakti, meaning sacred force, power, or energy, is the Hindu concept or personification of the divine feminine aspect, sometimes referred to as 'The Divine ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti Shakti, meaning sacred force, power, or energy, is the Hindu concept or personification of the divine feminine aspect, sometimes referred to as 'The Divine Mother'. Shakti represents the active, dynamic principles of feminine power. In Shaktism, Shakti is worshiped as the Supreme Being. However, in other Hindu traditions of Shaivism and Vaishnavism, Shakti embodies the active feminine energy Prakriti of Purusha, who is Vishnu in Vaishnavism or Shiva in Shaivism. Vishnu's female counterpart is called Lakshmi, with Parvati being the female half of Shiva.
In traditional Shiva-associated Shaktism
Shaktism regards Devi (lit., "the Goddess") as the Supreme Brahman itself, the "one without a second", with all other forms of divinity, female or male, considered to be merely Her diverse manifestations. In the details of its philosophy and practice, Shaktism resembles Saivism. However, Shaktas (Sanskrit: Śakta, शक्त), practitioners of Shaktism, focus most or all worship on Shakti, as the dynamic feminine aspect of the Supreme Divine. Shiva, the masculine aspect of divinity, is considered solely transcendent, and Shiva's worship is generally relegated to an auxiliary role.[1] In Vaishnavism
Like Shiva-associated Shaktism, Shakti embodies the active feminine energy and power of male supreme deity Vishnu in Vaishnavism. Vishnu's female counterpart is called Lakshmi. However, in Srivaishnavism, a school of Vaishnavism, Lakshmi or Sri does not play any particular part in the creative function of the Lord, because Prakriti is the manifest aspect of the Lord. [2] In Srivaishnavism, Vishnu alone is the great creator, although Sri is coeval with Him.[3] As Vishnu is the Father who stands for absolute justice, Sri is the Mother of the universe and is considered to be important element in the redemption of mankind, and is the interceder with Vishnu on behalf of spiritual seekers.[4] In Smarta Advaita tradition
In the Smarta Advaita sect of Hinduism, Shakti is considered to be one of five equal bonafide personal forms of God in the panchadeva system advocated by Adi Shankara. [5] Evolution
David Kinsley believes that the concept of "Shakti" may be derived from Lord Indra's consort Sachi (Indrani), meaning power.[6] Indrani is part of a group of seven or eight mother goddesses called the Matrikas (Brahmani, Vaishnavi, Maheshvari, Indrani, Kumari, Varahi and Chamunda and/or Narasimhi), who are considered shaktis of major Hindu gods(Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Indra, Skanda, Varaha/Yama and Devi and Narasimha respectively). The Shakti goddess is also known as Amma (meaning 'mother') in south India, especially in the states of Tamil Nadu,Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. There are many temples devoted to various incarnations of the Shakti goddess in most of the villages in South India. The rural people believe that Shakti is the protector of the village, the punisher of evil people, the curer of diseases, and the one who gives welfare to the village. They celebrate Shakti Jataras with a lot of hue and great interest once a year. Some examples of incarnations are Gangamma, Aarti, Kamakshamma, Kanakadurga, Mahalakshmammma, Meeenakshamma, Poleramma and Perantalamma.
Shakti, meaning sacred force, power, or energy, is the Hindu concept or personification of the divine feminine aspect, sometimes referred to as 'The Divine ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti
Shakti, meaning sacred force, power, or energy, is the Hindu concept or personification of the divine feminine aspect, sometimes referred to as 'The Divine Mother'. Shakti represents the active, dynamic principles of feminine power. In Shaktism, Shakti is worshiped as the Supreme Being. However, in other Hindu traditions of Shaivism and Vaishnavism, Shakti embodies the active feminine energy Prakriti of Purusha, who is Vishnu in Vaishnavism or Shiva in Shaivism. Vishnu's female counterpart is called Lakshmi, with Parvati being the female half of Shiva.
Contents[ hide]
1 In traditional Shiva-associated Shaktism
2 In Vaishnavism
3 In Smarta Advaita tradition
4 Evolution
5 Shakti Peethas
6 Adi Shakti
7 Shakti force: Devi Prakriti
8 Standard representation
9 See also
10 Further reading
11 Notes
12 External links
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In traditional Shiva-associated Shaktism
Shaktism regards Devi (lit., "the Goddess") as the Supreme Brahman itself, the "one without a second", with all other forms of divinity, female or male, considered to be merely Her diverse manifestations. In the details of its philosophy and practice, Shaktism resembles Saivism. However, Shaktas (Sanskrit: Śakta, शक्त), practitioners of Shaktism, focus most or all worship on Shakti, as the dynamic feminine aspect of the Supreme Divine. Shiva, the masculine aspect of divinity, is considered solely transcendent, and Shiva's worship is generally relegated to an auxiliary role.[1]
In Vaishnavism
Like Shiva-associated Shaktism, Shakti embodies the active feminine energy and power of male supreme deity Vishnu in Vaishnavism. Vishnu's female counterpart is called Lakshmi. However, in Srivaishnavism, a school of Vaishnavism, Lakshmi or Sri does not play any particular part in the creative function of the Lord, because Prakriti is the manifest aspect of the Lord. [2] In Srivaishnavism, Vishnu alone is the great creator, although Sri is coeval with Him.[3] As Vishnu is the Father who stands for absolute justice, Sri is the Mother of the universe and is considered to be important element in the redemption of mankind, and is the interceder with Vishnu on behalf of spiritual seekers.[4]
In Smarta Advaita tradition
In the Smarta Advaita sect of Hinduism, Shakti is considered to be one of five equal bonafide personal forms of God in the panchadeva system advocated by Adi Shankara. [5]
Evolution
David Kinsley believes that the concept of "Shakti" may be derived from Lord Indra's consort Sachi (Indrani), meaning power.[6] Indrani is part of a group of seven or eight mother goddesses called the Matrikas (Brahmani, Vaishnavi, Maheshvari, Indrani, Kumari, Varahi and Chamunda and/or Narasimhi), who are considered shaktis of major Hindu gods(Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Indra, Skanda, Varaha/Yama and Devi and Narasimha respectively).
The Shakti goddess is also known as Amma (meaning 'mother') in south India, especially in the states of Tamil Nadu,Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. There are many temples devoted to various incarnations of the Shakti goddess in most of the villages in South India. The rural people believe that Shakti is the protector of the village, the punisher of evil people, the curer of diseases, and the one who gives welfare to the village. They celebrate Shakti Jataras with a lot of hue and great interest once a year. Some examples of incarnations are Gangamma, Aarti, Kamakshamma, Kanakadurga, Mahalakshmammma, Meeenakshamma, Poleramma and Perantalamma.
Prana is a central concept in Ayurveda and Yoga where it is believed to flow through a network of fine subtle channels called nadis. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prana rana From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prana (प्राण, IAST: prāṇa) is the Sanskrit for "breath" (from the root prā "to fill", cognate to Latin plenus "full"). It is one of the five organs of vitality or sensation, viz. prana "breath", vac "speech", caksus "sight", shrotra "hearing", and manas "thought" (nose, mouth, eyes, ears and mind; ChUp. 2.7.1). In Vedantic philosophy, it is the notion of a vital, life-sustaining force of living beings and vital energy, comparable to the Chinese notion of Qi. Prana is a central concept in Ayurveda and Yoga where it is believed to flow through a network of fine subtle channels called nadis. The Pranamaya-kosha is one of the five Koshas or "sheaths" of the Atman Prana was first expounded in the Upanishads, where it is part of the worldly, physical realm, sustaining the body and the mother of thought and thus also of the mind. Prana suffuses all living form but is not itself the Atma or individual soul. In the Ayurveda, the Sun and sunshine are held to be a source of Prana.
In Yoga, the three main channels of prana are the Ida, the Pingala and the Sushumna. Ida relates to the left side of the body, terminating at the left nostril and pingala to the right side of the body, terminating at the right nostril. In some practices, alternate nostril breathing balances the prana that flows within the body. When prana enters a period of uplifted, intensified activity, the Yogic tradition refers to it as Pranotthana.[1] [edit] The Five PranasIn Ayurveda, the Prana is further classified into subcategories, referred to as pranas. According to Hindu philosophy these are the vital principles of basic energy and subtle faculties of an individual that sustain physiological processes. There are five pranas or vital currents in the Hindu system:[2]
Pranayama is the practice in which the control of prana is achieved (initially) from the control of one's breathing. According to Yogic philosophy the breath, or air, is merely a gateway to the world of prana and its manifestation in the body. In yoga, pranayama techniques are used to control the movement of these vital energies within the body, which is said to lead to an increase in vitality in the practitioner. The practice of these techniques is not trivial, and Kason (2000)[3] mentions circumstances where pranayama techniques might disrupt the balance of a person's life. [edit] See also [edit] References
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Prana (प्राण, IAST: prāṇa) is the Sanskrit for "breath" (from the root prā "to fill", cognate to Latin plenus "full"). It is one of the five organs of vitality or sensation, viz. prana "breath", vac "speech", caksus "sight", shrotra "hearing", and manas "thought" (nose, mouth, eyes, ears and mind; ChUp. 2.7.1).
In Vedantic philosophy, it is the notion of a vital, life-sustaining force of living beings and vital energy, comparable to the Chinese notion of Qi. Prana is a central concept in Ayurveda and Yoga where it is believed to flow through a network of fine subtle channels called nadis. The Pranamaya-kosha is one of the five Koshas or "sheaths" of the Atman
Prana was first expounded in the Upanishads, where it is part of the worldly, physical realm, sustaining the body and the mother of thought and thus also of the mind. Prana suffuses all living form but is not itself the Atma or individual soul. In the Ayurveda, the Sun and sunshine are held to be a source of Prana.
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1 Nadis
2 The Five Pranas
3 Pranayama
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
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[edit] Nadis Further information: Nadi (yoga)
In Yoga, the three main channels of prana are the Ida, the Pingala and the Sushumna. Ida relates to the left side of the body, terminating at the left nostril and pingala to the right side of the body, terminating at the right nostril. In some practices, alternate nostril breathing balances the prana that flows within the body. When prana enters a period of uplifted, intensified activity, the Yogic tradition refers to it as Pranotthana.[1]
[edit] The Five Pranas In Ayurveda, the Prana is further classified into subcategories, referred to as pranas. According to Hindu philosophy these are the vital principles of basic energy and subtle faculties of an individual that sustain physiological processes. There are five pranas or vital currents in the Hindu system:[2]
Prana : Responsible for the beating of the heart and breathing. Prana enters the body through the breath and is sent to every cell through the circulatory system.
Apana : Responsible for the elimination of waste products from the body through the lungs and excretory systems.
Udana : Responsible for producing sounds through the vocal apparatus, as in speaking, singing, laughing, and crying. Also it represents the conscious energy required to produce the vocal sounds corresponding to the intent of the being. Hence Samyama on udana gives the higher centers total control over the body.
Samana : Responsible for the digestion of food and cell metabolism (ie. the repair and manufacture of new cells and growth). Samana also includes the heat regulating processes of the body. Auras are projections of this current. By meditational practices one can see auras of light around every being. Yogis who do special practise on samana can produce a blazing aura at will.
Vyana : Responsible for the expansion and contraction processes of the body, eg. the voluntary muscular system.
[edit] Pranayama Pranayama is the practice in which the control of prana is achieved (initially) from the control of one's breathing. According to Yogic philosophy the breath, or air, is merely a gateway to the world of prana and its manifestation in the body. In yoga, pranayama techniques are used to control the movement of these vital energies within the body, which is said to lead to an increase in vitality in the practitioner. The practice of these techniques is not trivial, and Kason (2000)[3] mentions circumstances where pranayama techniques might disrupt the balance of a person's life.
[edit] See also Vitalism
Lung_(Tibetan_Buddhism)
Energy (esotericism)
Shakti
Yoga Sutra
[edit] References ^ Sovatsky, Stuart (1998) Words from the Soul: Time, East/West Spirituality, and Psychotherapeutic Narrative. Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology, New York: State University of New York Press.
^ Rammurti S. Mishra Yoga Sutras : The Textbook of Yoga Psychology
^ Kason, Yvonne (2000) Farther Shores: Exploring How Near-Death, Kundalini and Mystical Experiences Can Transform Ordinary Lives. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers; Revised edition.
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Pranayama (Sanskrit: prāṇāyāma) is a Sanskrit word meaning "lengthening of the prana or breath". The word is composed of two Sanskrit words, Prāna, ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranayama Pranayama From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pranayama (Sanskrit: prāṇāyāma) is a Sanskrit word meaning "lengthening of the prana or breath". The word is composed of two Sanskrit words, Prāna, life force, or vital energy, particularly, the breath, and "āyāma", to lengthen or extend. It is often translated as control of the life force (prana).[1][2][3][4] When used as a technical term in yoga, it is often translated more specifically as "breath control".[5][6][7] Literal translations include A. A. Macdonell's "suspension of breath"[8] and I. K. Taimni's "regulation of breath".[9] The Qigong practice in China may also have its roots in Pranayama.[citation needed]
Pranayama (Devanagari: प्राणायाम, prāṇāyāma) is a Sanskrit compound. V. S. Apte provides fourteen different meanings for the word prana (Devanagari: प्राण, prāṇa) including these:[10]
Of these meanings, the concept of "vital air" is used by Bhattacharyya to describe the concept as used in Sanskrit texts dealing with pranayama.[12] Thomas McEvilley translates "prana" as "spirit-energy".[13] Monier-Williams defines the compound prāṇāyāma as (m., also pl.) "N. of the three 'breath-exercises' performed during Saṃdhyā (See pūraka, recaka, kumbhaka"[14][15] This technical definition refers to a particular system of breath control with three processes as explained by Bhattacharyya: pūraka (to take the breath inside), kumbhaka (to retain it), and recaka (to discharge it).[16] There are also other processes of pranayama in addition to this three-step model.[17] Macdonell gives the etymology as prāṇa + āyāma and defines it as "m. suspension of breath (sts. pl.)".[18] Apte's definition of āyāmaḥ derives it from ā + yām and provides several variant meanings for it when used in compounds. The first three meanings have to do with "length", "expansion, extension", and "stretching, extending", but in the specific case of use in the compound prāṇāyāma he defines āyāmaḥ as meaning "restrain, control, stopping".[19] An alternative etymology for the compound is cited by Ramamurti Mishra, who says that:
The word "yama" (Devanagari: याम, yāma) means "cessation"[21][22] or more generally "control" or "restraint".[23][24] [edit] Hatha and Raja Yoga VarietiesSome scholars distinguish between hatha and raja yoga varieties of pranayama, with the former variety usually prescribed for the beginner. According to Taimni, hatha yogic pranayama involves manipulation of pranic currents through breath regulation for bringing about the control of chitta-vrittis and changes in consciousness, whereas raja yogic pranayama involves the control of chitta-vrittis by consciousness directly through the will of the mind.[25] Students qualified to practice pranayama are therefore always initiated first in the techniques of hatha pranayama.[26] [edit] Bhagavad GitaPranayama is mentioned in verse 4.29 of the Bhagavat Gita.[27] [edit] Quotes
[edit] Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Pranayama is the fourth 'limb' of the eight limbs of Raja Yoga mentioned in verse 2.29 in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.[30][31] Patanjali discusses his specific approach to pranayama in verses 2.49 through 2.51, and devotes verses 2.52 and 2.53 to explaining the benefits of the practice.[32] Patanjali refers to pranayama as the control of life force that comes as a result of practicing the various breathing techniques, rather than the numerous breathing exercises themselves.[33][29] Many yoga teachers advise that pranayama should be part of an overall practice that includes the other limbs of Patanjali's Raja Yoga teachings, especially Yama, Niyama, and Asana.[34] [edit] Medical claimsSeveral researchers have reported that pranayama techniques are beneficial in treating a range of stress related disorders,[35] improving autonomic functions,[36] relieving symptoms of asthma,[37][38] and reducing signs of oxidative stress.[39][40] Practitioners report that the practice of pranayama develops a steady mind, strong will-power, and sound judgement,[34] and also claim that sustained pranayama practice extends life and enhances perception.[41] [edit] CautionsMany yoga teachers recommend that pranayama techniques be practiced with care, and that advanced pranayama techniques should be practiced under the guidance of a teacher. These cautions are also made in traditional Hindu literature.[42][43] [44] [edit] See also
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Without rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes or other symbols instead of Indic characters; or irregular vowel positioning and a lack of conjuncts. Pranayama (Sanskrit: prāṇāyāma) is a Sanskrit word meaning "lengthening of the prana or breath". The word is composed of two Sanskrit words, Prāna, life force, or vital energy, particularly, the breath, and "āyāma", to lengthen or extend. It is often translated as control of the life force (prana).[1][2][3][4] When used as a technical term in yoga, it is often translated more specifically as "breath control".[5][6][7] Literal translations include A. A. Macdonell's "suspension of breath"[8] and I. K. Taimni's "regulation of breath".[9]
The Qigong practice in China may also have its roots in Pranayama.[citation needed]
Contents[hide]
1 Etymology 1.1 Hatha and Raja Yoga Varieties
1.2 Bhagavad Gita
1.3 Quotes
2 Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
3 Medical claims
4 Cautions
5 See also
6 Notes 6.1 References
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[edit] Etymology Pranayama (Devanagari: प्राणायाम, prāṇāyāma) is a Sanskrit compound.
V. S. Apte provides fourteen different meanings for the word prana (Devanagari: प्राण, prāṇa) including these:[10]
Breath, respiration
The breath of life, vital air, principle of life (usually plural in this sense, there being five such vital airs generally assumed, but three, six, seven, nine, and even ten are also spoken of)[11]
Energy, vigor
The spirit or soul
Of these meanings, the concept of "vital air" is used by Bhattacharyya to describe the concept as used in Sanskrit texts dealing with pranayama.[12] Thomas McEvilley translates "prana" as "spirit-energy".[13]
Monier-Williams defines the compound prāṇāyāma as (m., also pl.) "N. of the three 'breath-exercises' performed during Saṃdhyā (See pūraka, recaka, kumbhaka"[14][15] This technical definition refers to a particular system of breath control with three processes as explained by Bhattacharyya: pūraka (to take the breath inside), kumbhaka (to retain it), and recaka (to discharge it).[16] There are also other processes of pranayama in addition to this three-step model.[17]
Macdonell gives the etymology as prāṇa + āyāma and defines it as "m. suspension of breath (sts. pl.)".[18]
Apte's definition of āyāmaḥ derives it from ā + yām and provides several variant meanings for it when used in compounds. The first three meanings have to do with "length", "expansion, extension", and "stretching, extending", but in the specific case of use in the compound prāṇāyāma he defines āyāmaḥ as meaning "restrain, control, stopping".[19]
An alternative etymology for the compound is cited by Ramamurti Mishra, who says that:
"Expansion of individual energy into cosmic energy is called prāṇāyāma (prāṇa, energy + ayām, expansion)."[20]
The word "yama" (Devanagari: याम, yāma) means "cessation"[21][22] or more generally "control" or "restraint".[23][24]
[edit] Hatha and Raja Yoga Varieties Some scholars distinguish between hatha and raja yoga varieties of pranayama, with the former variety usually prescribed for the beginner. According to Taimni, hatha yogic pranayama involves manipulation of pranic currents through breath regulation for bringing about the control of chitta-vrittis and changes in consciousness, whereas raja yogic pranayama involves the control of chitta-vrittis by consciousness directly through the will of the mind.[25] Students qualified to practice pranayama are therefore always initiated first in the techniques of hatha pranayama.[26]
[edit] Bhagavad Gita Pranayama is mentioned in verse 4.29 of the Bhagavat Gita.[27]
[edit] Quotes Prana is a subtle invisible force. It is the life-force that pervades the body. It is the factor that connects the body and the mind, because it is connected on one side with the body and on the other side with the mind. It is the connecting link between the body and the mind. The body and the mind have no direct connection. They are connected through Prana only and this Prana is different from the breathing you have in your physical body.
– Swami Chidananda Saraswati[28]
Yoga works primarily with the energy in the body, through the science of pranayama, or energy-control. Prana means also ‘breath.’ Yoga teaches how, through breath-control, to still the mind and attain higher states of awareness. The higher teachings of yoga take one beyond techniques, and show the yogi, or yoga practitioner, how to direct his concentration in such a way as not only to harmonize human with divine consciousness, but to merge his consciousness in the Infinite.
– Paramahansa Yogananda[29]
[edit] Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Pranayama is the fourth 'limb' of the eight limbs of Raja Yoga mentioned in verse 2.29 in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.[30][31] Patanjali discusses his specific approach to pranayama in verses 2.49 through 2.51, and devotes verses 2.52 and 2.53 to explaining the benefits of the practice.[32] Patanjali refers to pranayama as the control of life force that comes as a result of practicing the various breathing techniques, rather than the numerous breathing exercises themselves.[33][29]
Many yoga teachers advise that pranayama should be part of an overall practice that includes the other limbs of Patanjali's Raja Yoga teachings, especially Yama, Niyama, and Asana.[34]
[edit] Medical claims Several researchers have reported that pranayama techniques are beneficial in treating a range of stress related disorders,[35] improving autonomic functions,[36] relieving symptoms of asthma,[37][38] and reducing signs of oxidative stress.[39][40] Practitioners report that the practice of pranayama develops a steady mind, strong will-power, and sound judgement,[34] and also claim that sustained pranayama practice extends life and enhances perception.[41]
[edit] Cautions Many yoga teachers recommend that pranayama techniques be practiced with care, and that advanced pranayama techniques should be practiced under the guidance of a teacher. These cautions are also made in traditional Hindu literature.[42][43] [44]
[edit] See also Ujjayi breath
Anuloma pranayama
Hatha yoga
Raja yoga
Kundalini is considered a part of the subtle body along with chakras (energy centres) and nadis (channels). The overall concept has many points in common ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini Kundalini From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kundalini (kuṇḍalinī कुण्डलिनी) Sanskrit, literally "coiled". In Indian yoga, a "corporeal energy"[1] - an unconscious, instinctive or libidinal force or Shakti, envisioned either as a goddess or else as a sleeping serpent coiled at the base of the spine,[2][3][4] hence a number of English renderings of the term such as 'serpent power'. Kundalini is considered a part of the subtle body along with chakras (energy centres) and nadis (channels). The overall concept has many points in common with Chinese acupuncture. Yoga and Tantra propose that this energy may be "awakened" by such means as austerities, breath and other physical exercises, visualization and chanting. It may then rise up a subtle channel at the spine (called Sushumna) to the head, bringing psychological illumination. Each chakra is said to contain special characteristics.[5] Yogis tend to attempt this alone, Tantrics in couples, both usually under the instruction of a guru. When Kundalini Shakti is conceived as a goddess, then, when it rises to the head, it unites itself with the Supreme Being (Lord Shiva). The aspirant becomes engrossed in deep meditation and infinite bliss.[6][7]
A number of models of this esoteric subtle anatomy occur in the class of texts known as Āgamas or Tantras, a large body of scriptures, rejected by many orthodox brahmins.[8] In early texts there are various systems of chakras and nadis, with varying connections between them. Over time a system of six or seven chakras up the spine was adopted by most schools. This particular system, which may have originated in about the 11th century AD, rapidly became widely popular.[9] This is the conventional arrangement cited by Monier-Williams, where the chakras are defined as "6 in number, one above the other".[10] The most famous of the Yoga Upanishads, the Yogatattva, mentions four kinds of yoga, one of which, laya-yoga, involves Kundalini.[11] Another source text for the concept is the Hatha Yoga Pradipika written by Swami Svatmarama (English translation, 1992) somewhere between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.[12][citation needed] [edit] Western interpretationSir John Woodroffe (pen name Arthur Avalon) was one of the first to bring the notion of Kundalini to the West. A High Court Judge in Calcutta, he became interested in Shaktism and Hindu Tantra. His translation of and commentary on two key texts was published as The Serpent Power. Woodroffe rendered Kundalini as "Serpent Power". Western awareness of the idea of Kundalini was strengthened by the Theosophical Society and the interest of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung (1875-1961)[2]. "Jung's seminar on Kundalini yoga, presented to the Psychological Club in Zurich in 1932, has been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought. Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model for the development of higher consciousness, and he interpreted its symbols in terms of the process of individuation".[13] In the early '30s two Italian scholars, Tommaso Palamidessi and Julius Evola, published several books with the intent of re-interpreting alchemy with reference to yoga.[14] Those works had an impact on modern interpretations of Alchemy as a mystical science. In those works, Kundalini is called an Igneous Power or Serpentine Fire. Another popularizer of the concept of Kundalini among Western readers was Gopi Krishna. His autobiography is entitled Kundalini—The Evolutionary Energy in Man.[15] According to June McDaniel, his writings have influenced Western interest in kundalini yoga.[16] Swami Sivananda produced an English language manual of Kundalini Yoga methods. Other well-known spiritual teachers who have made use of the idea of kundalini include Osho, George Gurdjieff, Paramahansa Yogananda, Rudi (Swami Rudrananda), Yogi Bhajan and Nirmala Srivastava. Kundalini references may commonly be found at present in a wide variety of derivative "New Age" presentations. Stuart Sovatsky warns that the popularization of the term within new religious movements has not always contributed to a mature understanding of the concept.[17] Recently, there has been a growing interest within the medical community to study the physiological effects of meditation, and some of these studies have applied the discipline of Kundalini Yoga to their clinical settings.[18][19] Their findings are not all positive. Researchers in the fields of Humanistic psychology,[20] Transpersonal psychology,[21] and Near-death studies[22][23] describe a complex pattern of sensory, motor, mental and affective symptoms associated with the concept of Kundalini, sometimes called the Kundalini Syndrome.[24] Lukoff, Lu & Turner[25][citation needed] notes that a number of psychological difficulties might be associated with Asian spiritual practices, and that Asian traditions recognize a number of pitfalls associated with intensive meditation practice. Transpersonal literature[26] also notes that kundalini practice is not without dangers. Anxiety, dissociation, depersonalization, altered perceptions, agitation, and muscular tension have been observed in western meditation practitioners[27] and psychological literature is now addressing the occurrence of meditation-related problems in Western contemplative life.[28][29] Some modern experimental research [30]seeks to establish links between Kundalini practice and the ideas of Wilhelm Reich and his followers. [edit] See also
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You can improve this article by introducing citations that are more precise. Kundalini (kuṇḍalinī कुण्डलिनी) Sanskrit, literally "coiled". In Indian yoga, a "corporeal energy"[1] - an unconscious, instinctive or libidinal force or Shakti, envisioned either as a goddess or else as a sleeping serpent coiled at the base of the spine,[2][3][4] hence a number of English renderings of the term such as 'serpent power'. Kundalini is considered a part of the subtle body along with chakras (energy centres) and nadis (channels). The overall concept has many points in common with Chinese acupuncture.
Yoga and Tantra propose that this energy may be "awakened" by such means as austerities, breath and other physical exercises, visualization and chanting. It may then rise up a subtle channel at the spine (called Sushumna) to the head, bringing psychological illumination. Each chakra is said to contain special characteristics.[5] Yogis tend to attempt this alone, Tantrics in couples, both usually under the instruction of a guru.
When Kundalini Shakti is conceived as a goddess, then, when it rises to the head, it unites itself with the Supreme Being (Lord Shiva). The aspirant becomes engrossed in deep meditation and infinite bliss.[6][7]
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[edit] Indian sources A number of models of this esoteric subtle anatomy occur in the class of texts known as Āgamas or Tantras, a large body of scriptures, rejected by many orthodox brahmins.[8] In early texts there are various systems of chakras and nadis, with varying connections between them. Over time a system of six or seven chakras up the spine was adopted by most schools. This particular system, which may have originated in about the 11th century AD, rapidly became widely popular.[9] This is the conventional arrangement cited by Monier-Williams, where the chakras are defined as "6 in number, one above the other".[10]
The most famous of the Yoga Upanishads, the Yogatattva, mentions four kinds of yoga, one of which, laya-yoga, involves Kundalini.[11] Another source text for the concept is the Hatha Yoga Pradipika written by Swami Svatmarama (English translation, 1992) somewhere between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.[12][citation needed]
[edit] Western interpretation Sir John Woodroffe (pen name Arthur Avalon) was one of the first to bring the notion of Kundalini to the West. A High Court Judge in Calcutta, he became interested in Shaktism and Hindu Tantra. His translation of and commentary on two key texts was published as The Serpent Power. Woodroffe rendered Kundalini as "Serpent Power".
Western awareness of the idea of Kundalini was strengthened by the Theosophical Society and the interest of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung (1875-1961)[2]. "Jung's seminar on Kundalini yoga, presented to the Psychological Club in Zurich in 1932, has been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought. Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model for the development of higher consciousness, and he interpreted its symbols in terms of the process of individuation".[13]
In the early '30s two Italian scholars, Tommaso Palamidessi and Julius Evola, published several books with the intent of re-interpreting alchemy with reference to yoga.[14] Those works had an impact on modern interpretations of Alchemy as a mystical science. In those works, Kundalini is called an Igneous Power or Serpentine Fire.
Another popularizer of the concept of Kundalini among Western readers was Gopi Krishna. His autobiography is entitled Kundalini—The Evolutionary Energy in Man.[15] According to June McDaniel, his writings have influenced Western interest in kundalini yoga.[16] Swami Sivananda produced an English language manual of Kundalini Yoga methods. Other well-known spiritual teachers who have made use of the idea of kundalini include Osho, George Gurdjieff, Paramahansa Yogananda, Rudi (Swami Rudrananda), Yogi Bhajan and Nirmala Srivastava.
Kundalini references may commonly be found at present in a wide variety of derivative "New Age" presentations. Stuart Sovatsky warns that the popularization of the term within new religious movements has not always contributed to a mature understanding of the concept.[17]
Recently, there has been a growing interest within the medical community to study the physiological effects of meditation, and some of these studies have applied the discipline of Kundalini Yoga to their clinical settings.[18][19] Their findings are not all positive. Researchers in the fields of Humanistic psychology,[20] Transpersonal psychology,[21] and Near-death studies[22][23] describe a complex pattern of sensory, motor, mental and affective symptoms associated with the concept of Kundalini, sometimes called the Kundalini Syndrome.[24]
Lukoff, Lu & Turner[25][citation needed] notes that a number of psychological difficulties might be associated with Asian spiritual practices, and that Asian traditions recognize a number of pitfalls associated with intensive meditation practice. Transpersonal literature[26] also notes that kundalini practice is not without dangers. Anxiety, dissociation, depersonalization, altered perceptions, agitation, and muscular tension have been observed in western meditation practitioners[27] and psychological literature is now addressing the occurrence of meditation-related problems in Western contemplative life.[28][29]
Some modern experimental research [30]seeks to establish links between Kundalini practice and the ideas of Wilhelm Reich and his followers.
[edit] See also Kaula
Kundalini Yoga
Prana
Qi
Qigong
Samādhi
Pranotthana
Shaktipat
Taoist sexual practices
Tummo
Turiya
Peak experience
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The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history. ... "The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history.[1][2][3] It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant. Beginning with the now-iconic phrase "Four score and seven years ago...", Lincoln referred to the events of the Civil War and described the ceremony at Gettysburg as an opportunity not only to consecrate the grounds of a cemetery, but also to dedicate the living to the struggle to ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"."
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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that governmen of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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Edfu (also spelt Idfu or in modern French as Edfou and known in antiquity as Behdet) is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River between ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edfu
Edfu : Temple of Horus, Edfu , Egypt The Temple of Horus in Edfu (also known as the Temple of Edfu ) is considered the best-preserved cult temple in Egypt. This partly because it was built later .www.sacred-destinations.com/egypt/edfu.htm
Egypt: Edfu Temple, A Feature Tour Egypt Story Edfu was the capital of the second nome of Upper Egypt, an important ... The Temple at Edfu was in fact the first new temple commissioned by the Ptolemies
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/Edfu .htm Egypt: Edfu Temple, A Feature Tour Egypt Story Edfu was the capital of the second nome of Upper Egypt, an important ... The Temple atEdfu
Edfu was the capital of the second nome of Upper Egypt, an important ... The Temple at Edfu was in fact the first new temple commissioned by the Ptolemies. ...www.touregypt.net/featurestories/edfu.htm
EDFU By Marie Parsons The town of Edfu is located on the west back of the Nile River, some sixty miles south of Luxor, with Aswan further south. Its ancient name was Wetjeset-Hrw, or "The Place Where Horus is Extolled."
The modern Arabic name of Edfu is derived from the ancient Egyptian name Djeba, or Etbo in Coptic. Djeba meant "Retribution Town", since the enemies of the god were brought to justice therein. The site of ancient Djeba was the traditional location of the mythological battle between the gods of Horus and Set, and its sandstone Ptolemaic temple, dedicated to Horus, is the most complete and best preserved of all the temples of Egypt. It was built on the site of a New Kingdom temple, which was oriented east to west, the Ptolemaic structure follows instead a north-south axis. In Graeco-Roman times Edfu was called Apollinopolis Magna, the Egyptian god Horus by then being identified with the Greek god Apollo. Edfu was the capital of the second nome of Upper Egypt, an important regional center from the Old Kingdom, partly due to the large area of fertile land belonging to the town, partly to the fact that Edfu was situated near the frontier between Egypt and Nubia, though not as close as was Philae. Edfu was probably a starting point for desert routes leading to the Kharga Oasis in the west, and to the mines of the Eastern Desert and the Red Sea coast in the east. Although there is no incontrovertible evidence of Early Dynastic occupation at Edfu, a number of oval graves, completely plundered, have been found. Edfu had an attractive geographic location, elevated within the floodplain in Upper Egypt, so logically it would have attracted settlers at that time. Confirming this, pottery dated from the Old Kingdom has been found within the town enclosure, perhaps as early as the Third Dynasty. There is a tradition that Imhotep, the vizier and architect who designed the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, designed the first stone temple at Edfu. Little is known of this temple today, and none of its remains have been found, but it was dedicated to Horus, Hathor of Dendera, and their son, Herumatawy, or Harsomtus in Greek. No larger remains dating earlier than the 5th Dynasty have been found at Edfu. Its most ancient cemetery comprised the mastabas of the Old Kingdom as well as later tombs, and covers the area southwest of the precinct of the great temple of Horus. Before the beginning of the New Kingdom, the necropolis was transferred to Hager Edfu, to the west, and then in the Late period to the south at Nag’ el-Hassaya. The entire area was called Behedet. The god Horus was herein worshipped as Horus Behedet. One of these mastabas belonged to a man named Isi, who was the "great chief of the Nome of Edfu" in the 6th Dynasty. Isi lived during the reign of King Djedkare Isesi of the Fifth and into the reign of Pepi I of the Sixth Dynasties. He was an administrator, judge, chief of the royal archives and a "Great One among the Tens of the South. Isi later became a living god and was so worshipped during the Middle Kingdom. As the Sixth Dynasty and the Old Kingdom drew to a close, local regional governors and administrative nobles took on a larger power in their areas, away from the royal central authority.
During the Tenth Dynasty, in the First Intermediate Period, Thebans from the south fought with the Herakleopolitan rulers of the north. A man named Ankhtify, the governor of the third nome of Upper Egypt and a follower of the Herakleopolitan kings, held among other titles that of "Great Chief of the nomes of Edfu and Hierakonpolis." He became governor of Edfu after he had defeated his predecessor in that regard, one Khuy, who had been loyal to the Thebans. And in his autobiography writes that there was famine throughout Upper Egypt. But he refused to see anyone die of hunger in his province, and "brought life to the provinces of Hierakonpolis and Edfu, Elephantine, and Ombos!"
Later on, Ramesses II and Shabaka, among other New Kingdom monarchs, built at Edfu. But its most famous (for us today at least) monumental structure, its great Temple to the god Horus, was built during the Ptolemaic period. The Temple at Edfu was in fact the first new temple commissioned by the Ptolemies. The Ptolemies were great builders in Egypt, these descendants of one of Macedonian Alexander’s generals. They left as their architectural legacy the great Temple of Isis at Philae, the temple of Hathor at Dendera, the Temple of Horus at Edfu, and others.
At Edfu, Horus was worshipped as the falcon Horus of Behdet. The Temple was called Mesen, The Place of the Harpoon, the Mansion of Ra, Nedjem-Ankh, Pleasant to Live In, the Window of the Falcon, the Shrine of Horus, and Wetjeset, the Place of Extolling the God.
The main building was the great Temple of Horus Behedti. It was begun on August 23, 237 BCE, by Ptolemy III. In 206 BCE, work was halted by an insurrection, during which two chiefs from the Theban area declared themselves independent of Ptolemaic rule (history repeating itself, perhaps). The temple was formally dedicated in 142 BCE by Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II and his wife Cleopatra II. Closer to the eastern tower of the temple pylon, the remains of another pylon have been unearthed dating to the Ramesside period. This may have formed part of one of the predecessors of the extant temple. The temple precinct consisted of the temple itself, within its own enclosure wall, and other subsidiary temples, small chapels, workshops, storehouses, and dwellings. Most of these, including the sacred lake and slaughterhouse, have now either been destroyed or lay under the houses of the present town. South of the temple are the ruins of the mammisi, or birth-house, a temple in which the birth of the god Harsomntus was celebrated. The scanty architectural remains to the east probably belong to the temple of the sacred falcon.
The twin towers of the great entrance pylon of the temple were planned as perfect mirror images of each other, both in their construction and in the rather curiously rendered scenes carved on their surfaces. Two statues of Horus as a falcon flank the entrance gate, and behind the pylon, at the base of the walls on either side of the entrance are scenes depicting the Feast of the Beautiful Meeting, in which Horus was united with Hathor of Dendera.
The outer hypostyle hall contains twelve columns inside and are the highest of the whole temple. In the eastern part the library was installed in a small chamber and two catalogs inscribed on the walls list the titles of every book held therein. Some of these scroll-books included "The book for performing the ritual for the protection of the city, of the houses, of the White Crown, of the year," the roll book of temple guards, and Information about the regular appearance of the sun and moon and the periodical return of the other stars.
The small chamber in the western part of the facade was dedicated to the consecration of the priest who performed the religious rites on behalf of the king. The main entrance of the pronaos opens to a large court, surrounded on three sides by a covered colonnade of thirty-two columns. To the south, the court is limited by the mighty pylon, the towers of which are more than 130 feet high.
The most sacred part of the temple, and its nucleus, is the granite shrine, or naos, which sheltered the main statue. The sanctuary was surrounded by seventeen chambers and store rooms, and eight-pillared hall, two smaller halls, and two staircases leading to the roof. A chapel at the very rear of the sanctuary contained the god’s barque. Eight chapels open off the corridor that leads around the sanctuary, each probably dedicated to the major deities such as Isis, Osiris, Min, Khonsu, Ra etc.
In front of the sanctuary was an antechamber, and east thereof was small sacrificial court giving access to the wabt, or pure place, where the statues were anointed and dressed, where they received crowns and amulets, before leaving the interior and accessing the roof. To the west of the antechamber is a small room dedicated to the god Min. The next main chamber toward the exit is the wall of the offering tables, and on each side therein is an approach to one of the two staircases leading to the temple roof. Next follows the inner hypostyle hall, the roof of which is supported by twelve columns with rich floral capitals. The adjoining side chambers to the east served as access to the inner passage round the temple, and as a treasury for precious metals and stones. Adjacent chambers to the west are the "labs" for making sacred oils and ointments, with instructions on the walls for making the same, and the Nile chamber where the sacred water was poured into a basin after it had been brought from the nilometer, situated outside the girdle-wall.
A large hypostyle hall with eighteen columns was added at the southern end of the temple, and a forecourt and pylon gateway were added south of that. Doors were hung on the pylon gateway in 57 BCE, marking the final completion. Today, Edfu is the best preserved temple in Egypt.
From the Pylon gateway to the North Enclosure wall, the temple is just over 150 feet long and covers an area of about 8400 feet. While the temple is intact, the auxiliary buildings- kitchens, storehouses, slaughterhouses, administrative offices, even the sacred lake, the grove of falcons, and the quay-all lie buried under the modern town.
So much is known about the construction of the temple and its sections come from sets of inscriptions within the temple itself. These are called the Building Texts and were placed on the exterior walls of the Sanctuary and the Enclosures Walls.
A lengthy inscription on the outer face of the girdle-wall, about 300 meters in length, gives details on the names and functions of the different halls and chambers of the temple, an account of the entire building and the history of its construction. Reliefs on the pylon, enclosure, and interior walls, also tell the stories of the ritual journey and Reunion of Hathor of Dendera with Horus, depict representations of the 42 administrative nomes of Egypt, of the traditional "Smiting of Enemies" pose common throughout Egypt’s history, the Conflict between Horus and Set, The Triumph of Horus, the Procession of the Divine Falcon, and various ritual offering-scenes, also traditional in the religious practices of ancient Egypt.
When Auguste Mariette first began the clearance of Edfu Temple in 1860 CE, the temple had become a village filled with stables and storehouses, the roof of the Sanctuary area covered in mud-brick houses, and the inner chambers filled with rubbish almost to the ceiling.
Fortunately, much conservation work has been done, and tourists and scholars can visit Edfu’s great temple as well as the other great temples such as Karnak. But, when you visit, whisper to whatever Divinity or force in which you may believe, that we safeguard our historical heritage with much care and appreciation. One day, our great buildings will be the legacy left to descendants uncounted. Would we not want them to receive a true picture of ourselves?
Sources:
The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt by Richard Wilkinson
Early Dynastic Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
A History of Ancient Egypt by Nicolas Grimal
Who’s Who in Ancient Egypt by Michael Rice
The House of Horus at Edfu by Barbara Watterson
Encyclopedia of Archaeology of Ancient Egypt ed. By Katharine Bard
Marie Parsons is an ardent student of Egyptian archaeology, ancient history and its religion. To learn about the earliest civilization is to learn about ourselves........."
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