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THE NUCLEAR FAMILY 1969
WISE WISDOM LOST AT SEA DROWNED IN A SEE OF KNOWLEDGE
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AFRICAN NIGHTMARE SPECTRE OF FAMINE 1975
THE JOURNEYWOMAN 1977
THE JOURNEY MAN 1971
EHT NAMUH 1977
SCULPTURE OF VIBRATIONS 1971
FIRST CONTACT 1980
AVATAR 1 AVATAR
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BEYOND THE VEIL ANOTHER VEIL ANOTHER VEIL BEYOND
A HISTORY OF GOD Karen Armstrong 1993 The God of the Mystics Page 250 "Perhaps the most famous of the early Jewish mystical texts is the fifth century Sefer Yezirah (The Book of Creation). There is no attempt to describe the creative process realistically; the account is unashamedly symbolic and shows God creating the world by means of language as though he were writing a book. But language has been entirely transformed and the message of creation is no longer clear. Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet is given a numerical value; by combining the letters with the sacred numbers, rearranging them in endless configurations, the mystic weaned his mind away from the normal connotations of words."
Page 250 THERE IS NO ATTEMPT MADE TO DESCRIBE THE CREATIVE PROCESS REALISTICALLY THE ACCOUNT IS UNASHAMEDLY SYMBOLIC AND SHOWS GOD CREATING THE WORLD BY MEANS OF LANGUAGE AS THOUGH HE WERE WRITING A BOOK. BUT LANGUAGE HAS BEEN ENTIRELY TRANSFORMED AND THE MESSAGE OF CREATION IS NO LONGER CLEAR EACH LETTER OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET IS GIVEN A NUMERICAL VALUE BY COMBINING THE LETTERS WITH THE SACRED NUMBERS REARRANGING THEM IN ENDLESS CONFIGURATIONS THE MYSTIC WEANED THE MIND AWAY FROM THE NORMAL CONNOTATIONS OF WORDS
THE LIGHT IS RISING NOW RISING IS THE LIGHT
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LIGHT AND LIFE Lars Olof Bjorn 1976 Page 197 "By writing the 26 letters of the alphabet in a certain order one may put down almost any message (this book 'is written with the same letters' as the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Winnie the Pooh, only the order of the letters differs). In the same way Nature is able to convey with her language how a cell and a whole organism is to be constructed and how it is to function. Nature has succeeded better than we humans; for the genetic code there is only one universal language which is the same in a man, a bean plant and a bacterium."
"FOR THE GENETIC CODE THERE IS ONLY ONE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE"
DNA AND DNA DNA AND DNA DNA AND DNA
DNA AND DNA DNA AND DNA DNA AND DNA
"BY WRITING THE 26 LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET IN A CERTAIN ORDER ONE MAY PUT DOWN ALMOST ANY MESSAGE"
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS A QUEST FOR THE BEGINNING AND THE END Graham Hancock 1995 Chapter 32 Speaking to the Unborn Page 285 "It is understandable that a huge range of myths from all over the ancient world should describe geological catastrophes in graphic detail. Mankind survived the horror of the last Ice Age, and the most plausible source for our enduring traditions of flooding and freezing, massive volcanism and devastating earthquakes is in the tumultuous upheavals unleashed during the great meltdown of 15,000 to 8000 BC. The final retreat of the ice sheets, and the consequent 300-400 foot rise in global sea levels, took place only a few thousand years before the beginning of the historical period. It is therefore not surprising that all our early civilizations should have retained vivid memories of the vast cataclysms that had terrified their forefathers. A message in the bottle of time 'Of all the other stupendous inventions,' Galileo once remarked, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the Indies, speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangements of two dozen little signs on paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of men.3 If the 'precessional message' identified by scholars like Santillana, von Dechend and Jane Sellers is indeed a deliberate attempt at communication by some lost civilization of antiquity, how come it wasn't just written down and left for us to find? Wouldn't that have been easier than encoding it in myths? Perhaps. "What one would look for, therefore, would be a universal language, the kind of language that would be comprehensible to any technologically advanced society in any epoch, even a thousand or ten thousand years into the future. Such languages are few and far between, but mathematics is one of them" "WRITTEN IN THE ETERNAL LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS"
THERE IS NO ATTEMPT MADE TO DESCRIBE THE CREATIVE PROCESS REALISTICALLY THE ACCOUNT IS SYMBOLIC AND SHOWS GOD CREATING THE WORLD BY MEANS OF LANGUAGE AS THOUGH WRITING A BOOK BUT LANGUAGE ENTIRELY TRANSFORMED THE MESSAGE OF CREATION IS CLEAR EACH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET IS GIVEN A NUMERICAL VALUE BY COMBINING THE LETTERS WITH THE SACRED NUMBERS REARRANGING THEM IN ENDLESS CONFIGURATIONS THE MYSTIC WEANED THE MIND AWAY FROM THE NORMAL CONNOTATIONS OF WORDS
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THE DEATH OF GODS IN ANCIENT EGYPT Jane B. Sellars 1992 Page 204 "The overwhelming awe that accompanies the realization, of the measurable orderliness of the universe strikes modern man as well. Admiral Weiland E. Byrd, alone In the Antarctic for five months of polar darkness, wrote these phrases of intense feeling: Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it! I could feel no doubt of oneness with the universe. The conviction came that the rhythm was too orderly. too harmonious, too perfect to be a product of blind chance - that, therefore there must be purpose in the whole and that man was part of that whole and not an accidental offshoot. It was a feeling that transcended reason; that went to the heart of man's despair and found it groundless. The universe was a cosmos, not a chaos; man was as rightfully a part of that cosmos as were the day and night.10 Returning to the account of the story of Osiris, son of Cronos god of' Measurable Time, Plutarch takes, pains to remind the reader of the original Egyptian year consisting of 360 days. Phrases are used that prompt simple mental. calculations and an attention to numbers, for example, the 360-day year is described as being '12 months of 30 days each'. Then we are told that, Osiris leaves on a long journey, during which Seth, his evil brother, plots with 72 companions to slay Osiris: He also secretly obtained the measure of Osiris and made ready a chest in which to entrap him. The, interesting thing about this part of the-account is that nowhere in the original texts of the Egyptians are we told that Seth, has 72 companions. We have already been encouraged to equate Osiris with the concept of measured time; his father being Cronos. It is also an observable fact that Cronos-Saturn has the longest sidereal period of the known planets at that time, an orbit. of 30 years. Saturn is absent from a specific constellation for that length of time. A simple mathematical fact has been revealed to any that are even remotely sensitive to numbers: if you multiply 72 by 30, the years of Saturn's absence (and the mention of Osiris's absence prompts one to recall this other), the resulting product is 2,160: the number of years required, for one 30° shift, or a shift: through one complete sign of the zodiac. This number multplied by the / Page205 / 12 signs also gives 25,920. (And Plutarch has reminded us of 12) If you multiply the unusual number 72 by 360, a number that Plutarch mentions several times, the product will be 25,920, again the number of years symbolizing the ultimate rebirth. This 'Eternal Return' is the return of, say, Taurus to the position of marking the vernal equinox by 'riding in the solar bark with. Re' after having relinquished this honoured position to Aries, and subsequently to the to other zodiacal constellations. Such a return after 25,920 years is indeed a revisit to a Golden Age, golden not only because of a remarkable symmetry In the heavens, but golden because it existed before the Egyptians experienced heaven's changeability. But now to inform the reader of a fact he or she may already know. Hipparaus did: not really have the exact figures: he was a trifle off in his observations and calculations. In his published work, On the Displacement of the Solstitial and Equinoctial Signs, he gave figures of 45" to 46" a year, while the truer precessional lag along the ecliptic is about 50 seconds. The exact measurement for the lag, based on the correct annual lag of 50'274" is 1° in 71.6 years, or 360° in 25,776 years, only 144 years less than the figure of 25,920. With Hipparchus's incorrect figures a 'Great Year' takes from 28,173.9 to 28,800 years, incorrect by a difference of from 2,397.9 years to 3,024. Since Nicholas Copernicus (AD 1473-1543) has always been credited with giving the correct numbers (although Arabic astronomer Nasir al-Din Tusi,11 born AD 1201, is known to have fixed the Precession at 50°), we may correctly ask, and with justifiable astonishment 'Just whose information was Plutarch transmitting' AN IMPORTANT POSTSCRIPT Of course, using our own notational system, all the important numbers have digits that reduce to that amazing number 9 a number that has always delighted budding mathematician. Page 206 Somewhere along the way, according to Robert Graves, 9 became the number of lunar wisdom.12 This number is found often in the mythologies of the world. the Viking god Odin hung for nine days and nights on the World Tree in order to acquire the secret of the runes, those magic symbols out of which writing and numbers grew. Only a terrible sacrifice would give away this secret, which conveyed upon its owner power and dominion over all, so Odin hung from his neck those long 9 days and nights over the 'bottomless abyss'. In the tree were 9 worlds, and another god was said to have been born of 9 mothers. Robert Graves, in his White Goddess, Is intrigued by the seemingly recurring quality of the number 72 in early myth and ritual. Graves tells his reader that 72 is always connected with the number 5, which reflects, among other things, the five Celtic dialects that he was investigating. Of course, 5 x 72= 360, 360 x 72= 25,920. Five is also the number of the planets known to the ancient world, that is, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus Mercury. Graves suggests a religious mystery bound up with two ancient Celtic 'Tree Alphabets' or cipher alphabets, which as genuine articles of Druidism were orally preserved and transmitted for centuries. He argues convincingly that the ancient poetry of Europe was ultimately based on what its composers believed to be magical principles, the rudiments of which formed a close religious secret for centuries. In time these were-garbled, discredited and forgotten. Among the many signs of the transmission of special numbers he points out that the aggregate number of letter strokes for the complete 22-letter Ogham alphabet that he is studying is 72 and that this number is the multiple of 9, 'the number of lunar wisdom'. . . . he then mentions something about 'the seventy day season during which Venus moves successively from. maximum eastern elongation 'to inferior conjunction and maximum western elongation'.13 Page 207 "...Feniusa Farsa, Graves equates this hero with Dionysus. Farsa has 72 assistants who helped him master the 72 languages created at the confusion of Babel, the tower of which is said to be built of 9 different materials We are also reminded of the miraculous translation into Greek of the Five Books of Moses that was done by 72 scholars working for 72 days, Although the symbol for the Septuagint is LXX, legend, according to the fictional letter of Aristeas, records 72. The translation was done for Ptolemy Philadelphus (c.250 BC), by Hellenistic Jews, possibly from Alexandra.14 Graves did not know why this number was necessary, but he points out that he understands Frazer's Golden Bough to be a book hinting that 'the secret involves the truth that the Christian dogma, and rituals, are the refinement of a great body of primitive beliefs, and that the only original element in Christianity- is the personality of Christ.15 Frances A. Yates, historian of Renaissance hermetisma tells, us the cabala had 72 angels through which the sephiroth (the powers of God) are believed to be approached, and further, she supplies the information that although the Cabala supplied a set of 48 conclusions purporting to confirm the Christian religion from the foundation of ancient wisdom, Pico Della Mirandola, a Renaissance magus, introduced instead 72, which were his 'own opinion' of the correct number. Yates writes, 'It is no accident there are seventy-two of Pico's Cabalist conclusions, for the conclusion shows that he knew something of the mystery of the Name of God with seventy-two letters.'16 In Hamlet's Mill de Santillana adds the facts that 432,000 is the number of syllables in the Rig-Veda, which when multiplied by the soss (60) gives 25,920" (The reader is forgiven for a bit of laughter at this point) The Bible has not escaped his pursuit. A prominent Assyriologist of the last century insisted that the total of the years recounted mounted in Genesis for the lifetimes of patriarchs from the Flood also contained the needed secret numbers. (He showed that in the 1,656 years recounted in the Bible there are 86,400 7 day weeks, and dividing this number yields / Page 208 / 43,200.) In Indian yogic schools it is held that all living beings exhale and inhale 21,600 times a day, multiply this by 2 and again we have the necessary 432 digits. Joseph Campbell discerns the secret in the date set for the coming of Patrick to Ireland. Myth-gives this date-as-the interesting number of AD.432.18 Whatever one may think-of some of these number coincidences, it becomes difficult to escape the suspicion that many signs (number and otherwise) - indicate that early man observed the results of the movement of Precession and that the - transmission of this information was considered of prime importance. With the awareness of the phenomenon, observers would certainly have tried for its measure, and such an endeavour would have constituted the construction-of a 'Unified Field Theory' for nothing less than Creation itself. Once determined, it would have been information worthy of secrecy and worthy of the passing on to future adepts. But one last word about mankind's romance with number coincidences.The antagonist in John Updike's novel, Roger's Version, is a computer hacker, who, convinced, that scientific evidence of God's existence is accumulating, endeavours to prove it by feeding -all the available scientific information. into a comuter. In his search for God 'breaking, through', he has become fascinated by certain numbers that have continually been cropping up. He explains them excitedly as 'the terms of Creation': "...after a while I noticed that all over the sheet there seemed to hit these twenty-fours Jumping out at me. Two four; two, four. Planck time, for instance, divided by the radiation constant yields a figure near eight times ten again to the negative twenty-fourth, and the permittivity of free space, or electric constant, into the Bohr radius ekla almost exactly six times ten to the negative twenty-fourth. On positive side, the electromagnetic line-structure constant times Hubble radius - that is, the size of the universe as we now perceive it gives us something quite close to ten to the twenty-fourth, and the strong-force constant times the charge on the proton produces two point four times ten to the negative eighteenth, for another I began to circle twenty-four wherever it appeared on the Printout here' - he held it up his piece of stripped and striped wallpaper, decorated / Page 209 /
with a number of scarlet circles - 'you can see it's more than random.'19 So much for any scorn directed to ancient man's fascination with number coincidences. That fascination is alive and well, Just a bit more incomprehensible"
NUMBER 9 THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODE Cecil Balmond 1998 Cycles and Patterns Page 165 Patterns "The essence of mathematics is to look for patterns. Our minds seem to be organised to search for relationships and sequences. We look for hidden orders. These intuitions seem to be more important than the facts themselves, for there is always the thrill at finding something, a pattern, it is a discovery - what was unknown is now revealed. Imagine looking up at the stars and finding the zodiac! Searching out patterns is a pure delight. Suddenly the counters fall into place and a connection is found, not necessarily a geometric one, but a relationship between numbers, pictures of the mind, that were not obvious before. There is that excitement of finding order in something that was otherwise hidden. And there is the knowledge that a huge unseen world lurks behind the facades we see of the numbers themselves."
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THE LIGHT IS RISING NOW RISING IS THE LIGHT
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875-1955 Page 466 "Had not the normal, since time was, lived on the achievements of the abnormal? Men consciously and voluntarily descended into disease and madness, in search of knowledge which, acquired by fanaticism, would lead back to health; after the possession and use of it had ceased to be conditioned by that heroic and abnormal act of sacrifice. That was the true death on the cross, the true Atonement."
THE TRUE DEATH ON THE CROSS THE TRUE AT ONE MENT
ATONEMENT
NINETYNINE NAMES OF GOD GOD OF NAMES NINETY NINE 9 x 11 = 99 99 = 11 x 9
METRO Tuesday, August 23, 2005 David Harding Front Page "DROWNING MOTHER'S DYING CALL OF LOVE"
THE HOLY BIBLE JEREMIAH Page 809 C 33 V 3 CALL UNTO ME AND I WILL ANSWER THEE AND SHEW THEE GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS THAT THOU KNOWEST NOT
THE HOLY BIBLE SAINT LUKE Scofield References The crucifixion Page 1110 C 23 V33 "And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and he other on the left"
CRUCIFIED
ALL IN ALL THE ONLY WAY TO DIE
THE HOLY BIBLE SAINT JOHN Scofield References Page 1117 C 3 V 3 JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM VERILY VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU UNLESS A MAN BE BORN AGAIN HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD 6 THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT 7 MARVEL NOT THAT I SAID UNTO THEE YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN 8 THE WIND BLOWETH WHERE IT LISTETH AND THOU HEAREST THE SOUNDS THEREOF BUT CANST NOT TELL WHENCE IT COMETH AND WHITHER IT GOETH SO IS EVERYONE BORN OF THE SPIRIT
THE ENLIGHTENMENT NATHAN THE WISE Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729-81 Page 24 " She has one dream - a fancy, if you like, Most dear to her. It's that her Templer No mortal man, no son of mortal man, But one of the angels, whom her young heart From childhood onwards loved to think of as Her own protector. Stepping from the cloud Which veiled him, hovering round her even in The fire, he suddenly appeared in Templar's Form - don't smile at her! - Who knows? or if You smile, let her at least emjoy a dream Where Christian, Jew and Muslim can unite As one - a dream that is so sweet!
NATHAN THE WISE Page 77 Scene 5 Saladin and Nathan SALADIN Come closer, Jew - closer - right up to me. Don't be afraid. NATHAN That's for your enemies! SALADIN You call yourself Nathan? NATHAN Yes. SALADIN The wise Nathan? NATHAN No. SALADIN You may not; but the people do. NATHAN The people! Possibly. SALADIN You surely don't Believe that I despise the people's voice? For some time now I've wished to meet the man Whom all the people call the Wise. NATHAN And if They call him that in mockery? If wise 78 Means to the people nothing more than shrewd, And shrewd just means aware of his own interest. SALADIN You mean his own true interest, I presume? NATHAN Then the most selfish man would be the shrewdest. Then shrewd and wise would be the same. SALADIN I hear You proving what you wish to contradict. Humanity's true interest, which the people Cannot understand, you understand. At least you've tried to understand it. You have reflected on it. That alone Makes a man wise. NATHAN But everybody thinks He's wise. SALADIN That's quite enough of modesty! To hear this all the time when what I seek For is sober reason fills me with disgust. (He gets up quickly) Now let's come straight to the point. But, first of all Be honest with me, Jew! Be honest! NATHAN Sultan You can rely on me. I'll serve you, and Prove worthy of your further patronage. SALADIN You'll serve me? How? NATHAN I promise you the best Of everything, and at the cheapest price. SALADIN What are you talking about? Surely not About your goods? My sister may well haggle With you sometime. (That's in case she's listening!) I have no business with you as a merchant. NATHAN In that case, I expect you want to know What news about the enemy I gathered On my travels. It is true the enemy Is active once again, and to be frank... SALADIN No, that was not my aim in meeting you. I know already everything I need To know of that. - In short - NATHAN Command me, Sultan. SALADIN I want your teaching on another subject. Something quite different. Since you are so wise, Tell me, what kind of faith, what kind of law Has seemed most plausible to you? 79 NATHAN Sultan I am a Jew. SALADIN And I a Muslim. And The Christian is between us. Of these three Religions only one can be the true one. A man like you does not remain, where chance Of birth has cast him: if he does, he stays From insight, reason, choice of what is best. So, share with me your insight. Let me hear The reasons which I haven't had the time To ponder for myself. Tell me the choice Determined by these reasons - in the strictest Confidence, you understand - so I Can make that choice my own. I see you hesitate. You look me up and down. It may well be That no Sultan has ever had this kind Of whim before. And yet it does not seem Unworthy of a Sultan. Do you think? - Speak! - or do you want a moment to Collect your thoughts? Very well, you may. (I'll go and see if Sittah's listening And hear if I've done it right.) Now think! Think quickly. And I'll soon be back. (He goes into the ante-room where Sittah went) Scene 6 Nathan (Nathan alone) NATHAN How strange! How do I stand? What does the Sultan want? I come expecting money. And he wants The truth. The truth! and wants it so - straight out. In cash, - as if it were a coin! If it Were ancient coinage, valued by its weight -- That might have passed. But such new kinds of coin Valued by their stamp, which you must count Out on a board, are not like truth at all. Can truth be counted out into our heads Like money in a sack? Now who's the Jew? - He or I? And yet I wonder. Is He truly searching for the truth at all? Should I suspect that he is only using Truth to trap me? That would be too petty. Too petty? Nothing is too petty for A great man. And, of course he rushed right in, 80 Like someone bursting through the door. But when You're visiting a friend, you knock and listen First. I must be on my guard. But how? I can't insist that I'm a Jew; but to Deny that I'm a Jew would be still worse. Then he could simply ask, "If not a Jew, Why not a Muslim?" That's it! That can save me! It's not just children who can be fobbed off With fairy tales. He's coming. Let him come! Scene 7 Saladin and Nathan SALADIN (And so the coast is clear) - I hope I've given You enough time for reflection. Have You finished ordering your thoughts? Speak! Not a soul can hear us. NATHAN I don't mind If the whole world were to hear us. SALADIN Nathan Is so certain of his case? That's what I call A wise man! One who never hides the truth. A man who, for its sake, will gamble everything His blood and land, life and limb. NATHAN Yes, if it's needed and of use. SALADIN I hope I may in future earn the right to bear One of my titles; "The Reformer of the World And of the Law." NATHAN A truly splendid title! But before I tell you all my thoughts, Sultan, would you allow me to relate A little tale? SALADIN Why not? I've always loved To listen to a story, if it is Well told. NATHAN I must confess I'm not the man To tell it very well. SALADIN A' Your pride and modesty Again! Go on, just tell the story, now. NATHAN Once long ago, a man lived in the East Who had a ring of priceless worth, a gift 81 From someone dear to him. The stone was opal, Shot through with a hundred lovely colours. The ring had secret power to gain favour In the sight of God and humankind For anyone who wore it and who trusted In its power. No wonder that the man Would never take it from his finger; and He made provision that the ring should stay Forever in his dynasty. And so He left it to the dearest of his sons, With firm instructions that he, in his turn, Should leave it to the son he loved the most. In this way, by the power of the ring, Without respect of birth, the dearest son Should always be the master of the house. You understand me, Sultan? SALADIN Yes, go on! NATHAN And so the ring passed down from son to son, Until it reached a father of three sons. All three alike were dutiful to him. And he was therefore bound to love all three Sons equally. And yet, from time to time, When each in turn was with him on his own, And did not have to share his overflowing heart With his two brothers, then the one who stood Before him seemed most worthy of the ring. And thus by loving weakness he was led To promise it to each of them in turn. So matters rested for a while, until The father's death drew near; and then the worthy Man was in a quandary. He could Not bear to hurt two of his sons, who'd trusted In his word. So what was he to do? He sent in secret for a craftsman who Was ordered to devise two further rings, Exactly on the pattern of his own, Whatever cost or effort was required, To make each ring precisely like the first. The craftsman did well. When he brought the rings 82 The father was unable to distinguish The original. With joyful heart He called his sons, but each one on his own. To each he gave his blessing and his ring. And then he died. - You hear me, Sultan? SALADIN (turns away disconcerted) Yes, I hear! - Just finish off your fairy tale. I hope you're near the end. NATHAN That is the end. It's obvious what follows. Scarcely had The father died, than each comes with his ring, And each one claims to be the master of The house. There are enquiries, arguments, Complaints. In vain. There was no way to prove Which ring was true. (After a pause in which he waits for the Sultan s answer) Almost as hard as now ! For us to prove the one true faith. 1 SALADIN Is this 1 To be the answer to my question? NATHAN I Apologize - I cannot trust myself To tell the difference between the rings, Because the father had them made precisely So that no one could distinguish them. SALADIN The rings! - Don't play with me! I should have thought That the religions which I named to you Were easy to distinguish. Even by Their clothing; even down to food and drink. NATHAN But not the grounds on which they rest. For are they not all based on history, Handed down or written? History We take on trust, on faith. Is that not true? In whose good faith can we most put our trust? Our people's, those whose blood we share, and who, From childhood on have proved their love for us, Who never have deceived us, save, perhaps, When it was good for us to be deceived? Can I believe less in my ancestors Than you believe in yours? Or vice versa, Can I demand of you that you accuse Your own forebear of lies, just so that I Don't contradict my own? - or vice versa. The same is true of Christians, isn't it? 83 SALADIN (Upon my lifel the man is right. I must be silent:) NATHAN Let us now come back To our three rings. I said before: the sons Accused each other, each swore to the judge He had received his ring directly from His father's hand - and it was true. - And he'd Been promised by his father long ago That one day he would have the privileges Of the ring - and that was also true. The father, each declared, could not have been So false to him; and rather than allow Suspicion of deceit to fall on his Beloved, father; he preferred to charge His brothers with deceit, although he would In general believe only the best Of them; and vowed that he would find a way To expose the traitors and to take revenge. SALADIN And what about the judge? I want to hear What you will make him say to this. Go on! NATHAN The judge pronounced: Unless you bring your father Here to me at once, I shall dismiss you From my court. Do you think that I am here For solving riddles? Or do you expect For the one true ring to speak up for itself? But wait! You tell me that the true ring has The magic power to make beloved; to Gain favour in the sight of God and humankind. That must decide it! For the false rings cannot Have this power. Which brother do two Of you love most? Come on, speak up! You're silent? Do the rings work only inwards and Not outwards? So that each one only loves Himself the best? All three of you are then Deceived deceivers; none of your Three rings is genuine. The one true ring Has probably been lost. To hide the loss, As substitute, your father had three rings Made to replace the one. SALADIN Splendid! Splendid! NATHAN And so the judge went on, if you do not Want my advice instead of judgement, go! But my advice is this: accept the case Precisely as it stands. As each of you 84 Received his own ring from his father's hand, Let each believe for certain that his ring Is the original. Perhaps the father Did not want to suffer any more The tyranny of one ring in his house. Certainly he loved all three of you, And loved you equally. He could not injure Two of you and favour only one. Well then! Let each one strive to emulate His love, unbiased and unprejudiced. Let each one of you vie with the other two To bring to light the power of the stone In his own ring. And may this power be helped By gentleness, sincere good nature, Charity and deepest of devotion to God. And when in time, the power of the stone Shall find expression in your children's children's Children, I invite you in a thousand, Thousand years to come again before This court. A wiser man than I will then Sit in this chair and speak. Now go! - so said The modest judge. SALADIN God! God! NATHAN Saladin, If you should feel yourself to be this promised, Wiser man ... SALADIN (who rushes to him and seizes his hand and does not let go again until the end) I who am no more than dust? Than nothing? God! NATHAN What is it Saladin? SALADIN Nathan, my dear Nathan! The thousand, Thousands years of your wise judge have not - Yet passed. His judgement seat is not the one On which I sit. Go! - Go! - But be my friend. NATHAN And is there nothing more that Saladin Would say to me? SALADIN Nothing. NATHAN Nothing? SALADIN Nothing
THE JOURNEYMAN 1977
AVATAR
THE NEW ELIZABETHAN REFERENCE DICTIONARY FOURTH EDITION Circa 1900 Page 92 "Avatar (av a tar, av a tar) [Sansk. avatara, descent], n. The descent of a deity to the earth ; the incarnation of a deity ; (fig.) manifestation, phase."
THEOSOPHY, Vol. 48, No. 12, October, 1960 THE Avatara is a divine incarnation. It is the descent of a god or some exalted Being, who has progressed beyond the necessity of rebirths, into the body of a simple mortal. Krishna was an avatar of Vishnu. The Dalai Lama is regarded as an avatar of Avalokiteswara; the Teshu Lama as one of Tson-kha-pa, or Amitabha. All these are but different terms used by different peoples to indicate one and the same LOGOS, the Divine Christos, the Anima Mundi. It is the "Word made Flesh" in every religion, in India a Proteus of 1008 divine names and aspects, from Brahma-Purusha down through the Seven divine Rishis ... to the divine-human avatars. As the synthesis of the seven Dhyani-Buddhas, Avalokiteswara was the first Buddha - the LOGOS; so Amitabha is the inner "God" of Gautama who, in China, is called Amita-(Buddha). As the reader is supposed not to be acquainted with the Dhyani-Buddhas, it is as well to say at once that, esoterically, they are seven, of whom five only have hitherto manifested, and two are to come in the sixth and seventh root-races. They are, as Mr. Rhys Davids correctly states, "the glorious counterparts in the mystic world, free from the debasing conditions of this material life" of every earthly mortal Buddha. They are, so to speak, the eternal prototypes of the Buddhas who appear on this earth, each of whom has his particular divine prototype. Buddha means "the Enlightened" in the highest degree of knowledge. To become a Buddha one has to break through the bondage of sense and personality; to acquire a complete perception of the REAL SELF and learn not to separate it from all other selves; to learn by experience the utter unreality of all phenomena of the visible Kosmos first of all; to reach a complete detachment from all that is evanescent and finite, and live while yet on Earth in the immortal and everlasting alone, in a supreme state of holiness. Yet it is taught that everyone may become a Buddha; and a precept of Tibet has it that "even the mountains will become Buddha." The Way of Gautama, and of all the avatars, is the Way for every human soul, and is thus beautifully described. Starting upon the long journey immaculate; descending more and more into sinful matter, and having connected himself with every atom in manifested Space, the Pilgrim, having struggled through and suffered in every form of life and being, is only at the bottom of the valley of matter, and half through his cycle, when he has identified himself with collective Humanity. This, he has made in his own image. In order to progress upwards and homewards, the "God" has now to ascend the weary uphill path of the Golgotha of Life. It is the martyrdom of self-conscious existence. Like Visvakarman he has to sacrifice himself to himself in order to redeem all creatures, to resurrect from the many into the One Life. Then he ascends into heaven indeed; where, plunged into the incomprehensible absolute Being and Bliss of Paranirvana he reigns unconditionally, and whence he will re-descend again at the next "coming," which one portion of humanity expects in its dead-letter sense as the "second advent" and the other as the last "Kalki Avatar." The Logoi of all nations are the "Word" who was "in the beginning" (or the reawakening of the energizing powers of Nature) with the One ABSOLUTE. Whenever it - the "Word," the Divine Spirit which is sevenfold -- is manifested, desiring to impress itself upon humanity in a shape intelligible to our intellect, whether we call it an Avatar, or a king Messiah, or a permutation of the Divine Spirit, Logos, Christos - it is all one and the same thing. In each case it is "the Father" who is in the Son, and the Son in "the Father." The immortal spirit overshadows the mortal man. It enters into him, and pervading his whole being makes of him a god, who descends into his earthly tabernacle. Esotericism teaches that there never yet was a great World-reformer, whose name has passed into our generation, who (a) was not a direct emanation of the LOGOS (under whatever name known to us), i.e., an essential incarnation of one of the Seven; and (b) who had not appeared before, during the past Cycles. This explains the cause which produces in history and chronology certain riddles of the ages; the reason why, for instance, it is impossible for men to assign any reliable dates to Zoroaster, who is found multiplied by twelve and fourteen in the Dabistan; why the Rishis and Manus are so mixed up in their numbers and individualities; why Krishna and Buddha speak of themselves as "reincarnations," i.e., Krishna is identified with the Rishi Narayana, and Gautama gives a series of his previous births -- and why the former, especially, being "the very supreme Brahma," yet is called "Amsamsavatara" - "a part of a part" only of the Supreme on Earth. Finally, why Osiris is a great God, and at the same time a "prince on Earth," who reappears as Thoth-Hermes, and why Jesus (in Hebrew, Joshua) of Nazareth is recognized, cabalistically, in Joshua, the Son of Nun, as well as in other personages. The esoteric doctrine explains it by saying that each of these (as many others) had first appeared on earth as one of the seven powers of the LOGOS, individualized as a God or "Angel" (messenger); then, mixed with matter, they had reappeared in turn as great sages and instructors, who "taught the Fifth Race," after having instructed the two preceding races, had ruled during the Divine Dynasties, and had finally sacrificed themselves, to be reborn under various circumstances for the good of mankind, and for its salvation at certain critical periods - until in their last incarnations they had become truly only "the parts of a part" on earth, though de facto the One Supreme in Nature. This is the metaphysics of Theogony. And as every power among the Seven has (once individualized) in his charge one of the elements of creation, and rules over it, hence the many meanings in every symbol, which unless interpreted according to esoteric methods, generally lead to an inextricable confusion. The personages called in Northern Buddhist religion "Buddhas," may just as well be called Rishis, Avatars, Manus, etc. These great Mahatmas, or Buddhas, are a universal and common property ... the day when much, if not all, of that which is given here from the archaic records will be found correct is not far distant. Then the modern symbologists will acquire the certitude that even Odin, or the god Woden, the highest God in the German and Scandinavian mythology, is one of the Buddhas. All the avatars of Vishnu are said to come originally from the White Island. According to Tibetan tradition the White Island is the only locality which escapes the general fate of other dwipas and can be destroyed by neither fire nor water, for it is the "eternal land." Arghya Varsha -- "the land of libations" -- is the mystery name of that region which extends from Kailas mountain nearly to the Schamo Desert, from within which the Kalki Avatar is expected. It is now said to have been situated between the sea of Aral, Baltistan, and little Tibet; but in olden times its area was far larger, as it was the birth-place of physical humanity. Dionysos is one with Osiris, with Krishna, and with Buddha (the heavenly wise), and with the coming (tenth) avatar, the glorified spiritual Christos, who will deliver the suffering Chrestos (mankind, or Prometheus, on its trial). This, say Brahminical and Buddhistic teachings, echoed by the Zoroastrian and now by the Christian teachings (the latter only occasionally), will happen at the end of Kaliyuga. It is only after the appearance of the Kalki-Avatar, or Sosiosh, that man will be born from woman without sin. Then will Brahma, the Hindu deity; Ahura-Mazda (Ormazd), the Zoroastrian; Zeus, the Greco-Olympian Don Juan; Jehovah, the jealous, repenting, cruel, tribal God of the Israelites, and all their likes in the universal Pantheon of human fancy - vanish and disappear in thin air. If we examine the ten mythical avatars of Vishnu, we find them recorded in the following progression: Matsya, as a fish; Kurm, as a tortoise; Varaha, as a boar; Nara-Sing, as a man-lion; Vamuna, as a dwarf; Parasu Rama, as a hero, but yet an imperfect man; Rama-Chandra, as the hero of Ramayana; Krishna; Gautama, and tenth, Maitreya, which has not yet occurred. In the succession of avatars is to be seen clearly carried out the truly philosophical idea of a simultaneous spiritual evolution of creatures and man. The Matsya (fish, or dolphin) avatar was one of the earliest incarnations of Vishnu. Matsya avatar happened before the Varaha or boar avatar, and has reference to an event which happened on our Earth during this Round. Esoteric philosophy distinctly teaches that after the first geological disturbance in the Earth's axis which ended in the sweeping down to the bottom of the seas of the whole second continent, with its primeval races - of which successive "Earths" or continents Atlantis was the fourth - there came another disturbance by the axis resuming as rapidly its previous degree of inclination; when the Earth was raised once more out of the Waters. Little, however, can be said about the mystery which underlies the Matsya (fish) avatar of Vishnu, the Chaldean Oannes - the Man-Fish, recorded in the imperishable sign of the Zodiac, Pisces, and running throughout the two Testaments in the personages of Joshua "Son of the Fish (Nun)" and Jesus; the allegorical "Sin" or Fall of spirit into matter, and the Moon - insofar as it relates to the "Lunar" ancestors, the Pitris. One sees why Occultism places Oannes and the other Annedoti in the group of those ancient "adepts" who were called "marine" or "water dragons" - Nagas. Water typified their human origin (as it is a symbol of earth and matter and also of purification), in distinction to the "fire Nagas" or the immaterial spiritual Beings, whether celestial Bodhisattvas or Planetary Dhyanis, also regarded as the instructors of mankind. The hidden meaning becomes clear to the Occultist, once he is told that this being (Oannes) was accustomed to pass the day among men, teaching; and when the sun was set, he retired again into the sea, passing the night in the deep, "for he was amphibious," i.e., he belonged to two planes; the spiritual and the physical. The Greek word amphibios means simply "life on two planes," from amphi, "on both sides," and bios, "life." The word was often applied in antiquity to those men who, though still wearing a human form, had made themselves almost divine through knowledge, and lived as much in the spiritual supersensuous regions as on earth. The symbolism of the ten avatars of Vishnu is further illustrated. From a fish, the progress of dual transformation carries on the physical form through the shape of a tortoise, a boar, and a man-lion. Then, appearing in the dwarf of humanity, it shows Parasu Rama physically, a perfect, spiritually, an undeveloped entity, until it carries mankind personified by one god-like man, to the apex of physical and spiritual perfection - a god on earth. It is well known that the earliest Christian emblems, before it was ever attempted to represent the bodily appearance of Jesus, were the Lamb, the Good Shepherd, and the Fish. This is an inheritance from the Chaldees, and relates, as the very name explains, to the Babylonian Dag-on, the Man-Fish, who was the instructor and interpreter of the people to whom he appeared. Likewise in Krishna and the other Saviours of the World we see the philosophical idea of the progressive dual development understood and as clearly expressed in the Zohar. The "Heavenly Man," or the universal Form and Idea, engenders Adam. Hence the latter is god-born humanity, and endowed with the attributes of all the ten Sephiroth. "Man is both the import and the highest degree of creation," says the Zohar. "As soon as man was created, everything was complete, including the upper and nether worlds, for everything is comprised in man. He unites all forms in himself." But this does not relate to our degenerated mankind; it is only occasionally that men are born who are the types of what man should be, and yet is not. Vaivasvata Manu is the Indian Noah connected with the Matsya (or the fish) avatar of Vishnu. There are those who are aware that the "great Flood" was connected with sinking of an entire continent -- save what became afterward a few islands. In the Hari Purana, in the Bhagavad-Gita, as well as in several other books, the god Vishnu is shown as having assumed the form of a fish with a human head, in order to reclaim the Vedas lost during the deluge. Having enabled Visvamitra to escape with all his tribe in the ark, Vishnu, pitying weak and ignorant humanity, remained with them for a long time. It was this god who taught them to build houses, cultivate the land, and to thank the unknown Deity whom he represented, by building temples and instituting a regular worship; and, as he remained half-fish, half-man, all the time, at every sunset he used to return to the ocean, wherein he passed the night. Krishna is the most celebrated avatar of Vishnu, the "Saviour" of the Hindus and their most popular god. He is the eighth avatar. In the story of Krishna's conception, birth, and childhood are the exact prototypes of the New Testament story. Kwan-Shi-yin is in China "the great Dragon of Wisdom born of Fire and Water," and this Bodhisattva is said "to assume any form he pleases" from beginning of a manvantara to its end, though his special birthday (memorial day) is celebrated according to the Kin-kwang-ming-King in the second month on the nineteenth day, and that of Maitreya Buddha in the first month on the first day. Yet the two are one. Kwan-Shi-yin will appear as Maitreya Buddha, the last of the Avatars and Buddhas, in the seventh Race. This belief and expectation are universal throughout the East."
"With the Buddhists, when Maitreya Buddha has come, then our present world will be destroyed; and a new and better one will replace it. The four arms of every Hindu Deity are the emblems of the four preceding manifestations of our Earth from its invisible state, while its head typifies the fifth and last Kalki Avatar, when this world will be destroyed, and the power of Budh, Wisdom, will be again called into requisition to manifest itself as a LOGOS to create the future world. The final destruction of the wicked, the renovation of "creation" and the "restoration of purity" will take place at the end of Kaliyuga, 427,000 years hence. The latter end of every yuga is called "the destruction of the world," as then the Earth changes each time its outward form, submerging one set of continents and upheaving another set"
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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"
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875 -1955 Page 466 "HAD NOT THE NORMAL, SINCE TIME WAS, LIVED ON THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ABNORMAL? MEN CONSCIOUSLY AND VOLUNTARILY DESCENDED INTO DISEASE AND MADNESS, IN SEARCH OF KNOWLEDGE WHICH AQUIRED BY FANATICISM, WOULD LEAD BACK TO HEALTH; AFTER THE POSSESSION AND USE OF IT HAD CEASED TO BE CONDITIONED BY THAT HEROIC AND ABNORMAL ACT OF SACRIFICE. THAT WAS THE TRUE DEATH ON THE CROSS, THE TRUE ATONEMENT."
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Tuesday September 6, 2005 Front Page "Why Britain should sing Jerusalem" Page 10 "TIME TO RECLAIM THIS GLORIOUS ANTHEM FOR OUR NATIVE LAND" Commentary by Roy Hattersley "I shall not cease from mental fight/nor shall my sword sleep in my hand/Till we have built Jerusalem/In England's green and pleasant land. William Blake was inspired to write those lines by chapter 21 of the New Testament Book Of Revelation. St John the Divine 'saw a new Heaven and a new Earth descend like a bride adorned for her husband' and promised that God would wipe away all tears' " Page 11 "ENGLAND EXPECTS" "JERUSALEM" William Blake wrote the poem in 1804. The words were set to music by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916
DAILY MAIL Thursday September 8, 2005 By Bill Mouland and Sam Greenhill Page 3 "SING LOUD SING PROUD" "SING JERUSALEM"
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HALL OF THE GODS Nigel Appleby THE QUEST TO DISCOVER THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ANCIENTS Page 207 "One of the most intriguing elements in the Old Testament is the name of the unspeakable Lord God Almighty, 'Jehovah', which means 'I am that I am'."
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Deir el-Medina At the time when the world's press was concentrating on Howard Carter's discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun a team led by Bernard Bruyère began to excavate the site.[5] This work has resulted in one of the most thoroughly documented accounts of community life in the ancient world that spans almost four hundred years. There is no comparable site in which the organisation, social interactions, working and living conditions of a community can be studied in such detail.[6] The site is located on the west bank of the Nile, across the river from modern-day Luxor.[7] The village is laid out in a small natural amphitheatre, within easy walking distance of the Valley of the Kings to the north, funerary temples to the east and south-east, with the Valley of the Queens to the west.[8] The village may have been built apart from the wider population in order to preserve secrecy in view of sensitive nature of the work carried out in the tombs.[9]
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NUMBER 9 THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODE Cecil Balmond 1998 Page 12 Talisman Enjil slept uncomfortably, his mind full of torment in fear of the Examination to come. He was standing in front of the Elders, those of the supreme rank, and he had nothing to say! He had not found a proof or a clever hypothesis to place before them on this auspicious day. And the day could not be put back - it marched right up to him, dragging him out brutally into the open, while the Elders, in their crimson robes, sat at the high table waiting for him. They motioned him to come up. He climbed up the steps and went to the blackboard and picked up the dry chalk in his wet, nervous hands. Villagers crammed the square to see him perform. Word had gone out that the boy with the limp had magic powers; for when he lay dying from smallpox a strange bird had suddenly flown in and settled on his fevered brow, pecking at it. Superstition said it was the devil who seized a person's brain at such times, to give out great powers only to suck it back again at the moment of death, to prevent that tender soul from being re-born. And amazingly, as the bird flew away Enjil recovered and began talking in strange languages and writing down sheets of numbers, confusing everyone with ideas that they had never heard of Page 13 Stories travelled through the mountain communities about the boy with the pockmarked face. How could the child be so precocious if not for some super-natural power? (No-one mentioned the devil's name for that would bring bad luck down on all of them!) Enjil's beleaguered parents took him to the temple and gave him away to the priests, who in turn gave him away to the Academy and the Elders, these same Elders who now were laughing in his face- "Where is the cleverness that brought you here?", they mocked. "You insult us with your silence. We know who you are; The Devil's Child, a horrible trick; a wretch we now must throw out from this place of learning - Go! Only scholars are admitted here, true scholars like Vivek, who can work out the symmetry of magic squares better than you. " The insults came thick and fast like poisoned darts thrown at him, tipped with venom. But the boy had nothing to say, his hand stuck fixed in the air with the chalk wet in his fingers. And the villagers became angry at being deceived. Provoked by Vivek, Enjil's older rival for the title of Master; the villagers aroused themselves into a riot. As the mob hurtled towards him Enjil woke up with a scream, his heart racing. The sweat poured off him; he felt he was dying. But framed in his window the night moon shone brightly, the wind rustling the leaves like waves washing the shore. There was no mob, there were no accusing Elders. Everything was quiet and peaceful. There was really nothing wrong with the world, or him. The Examination was still days away; and he was well prepared! Page 14 His thesis was done - he had a proof written out in the higher algebra which his mentor had said would easily give him the title of Master; it was the sort of thing the Elders would like, for it was similar to the studies each of them had done. "It is not about being original, Enjil", his mentor said, "for you must not sit uncomfortably in your superiors minds. If you present something they do not understand, or agree with as high learning, they will fail you. Conform, and then privately get on with your real discoveries. That is what we all do. " His teacher shrugged at the way life was at the Academy and worry grew on the old man's face at the thought of what his stubborn student might do. But Enjil had listened, he had conformed - his thesis was as fine a piece of complicated mathematics as one could wish for; deliberately put together in an obscure way so that difficulties abounded in every line of the argument. In truth, Enjil had a much simpler proof but it would appear too easy. So he had put it to one side and applied himself to obscurities in the demonstration of his thesis, knowing this approach would be more favoured by the Elders. And the peace of the night said he had nothing to worry about but go back to sleep and wait happily for that day of the Examination. As he lay there looking up at the moon, his mind began to wander over the ideas he really loved to think about, like the expansion of3t. Was there a pattern to it? Or how many unlike squares could fit into a rectangle or another square? This was a problem no one at the Academy could solve, though /Page 15/ Enjil had come near. Was every even integer the sum of two prime numbers as ten was the sum of three plus seven? And there was more - the multiplication patterns along diagonals used by the Chinese or the elegant ratios used by the ancient geometers that gave beauty and shape to the spiral and to the growth of the leaves around a stalk or the petals in a flower. As he roamed through the numbers in his mind a strange thing then happened. A moon beam suddenly reached out to him and dropped to Earth and turned into a shining woman. "So here you are!", she said smiling. "I have kept looking out for you. I find you here of all places, in a musty old Academy or is it a temple?" She Wrinkled up her nose at the small room he slept in. The woman stroked his leg- "Does your leg hurt? I saw you as a child, limping, dragging your leg through the sand, making patterns that were wonderful-my friends still talk about you. I am Soma. Do you still play such games? You gave me and my companions a lot to think about that day, about the possible patterns in a matrix, instead of just the straight across and up and down. And now here you are, almost fully grown, yet still only a boy and sitting for the Examination of Master! Hah, that will sound fine - Master Enjil, Master Mathematician! How'd you like that?" She patted him on the head and stroked his hair. Enjil could see the beautiful colours in her eyes. Her energy flowed into him. She took his thoughts away and she spoke to him: Page16 "There are the cumbersome proofs you follow that only the few will ever understand. Your proofs are carrion for those vultures, the Elders. So why don't you do something else, something amazingly different for your Examination? You are capable of it! Why give the elders what they want, such a narrow outcome from your learning; why not something that everyone can enjoy? Imagine even the villagers following your every sign on the blackboard, understanding it and seeing a simple but great truth unravelling right before their eyes. Something that lies under their noses, wouldn't that be fun? How about drawing the many different shapes of squares it takes to fit in just one square. Ah - I know you were thinking of this already. You see I know your thoughts - so I count them out. And I'll spoil it for you anyway, I'm going to give you the answer; twenty-four! Yes, don't look so amazed, it takes that many different squares to fit into one square. You want to know the size of the square that allows this to happen? Ah, that is harder. That you must work out for yourself ." She smiled teasingly and added, "Do you know the answer to the simpler problem; how many different squares does it take to fit in one rectangle? I'll tell you: It's nine! Nine unequal squares go to make up a rectangle." "But why bother about geometry; why not something simpler than that? What is it that everyone knows and feels expert about? I'll tell you. It's numbers of course! Imagine the village folk clapping hands and cheering as they see you, their /Page17/ new master; working with the humble materials of numbers, the tools they use every day of their lives to count coins and goats and sacks of grain from the harvest. Let your mind dwell on this: numbers! Take the most simple ones. Think of their make up. Don't be afraid of the Elders; they are not bad men, but men with too much oldness stuffed into their brains. Take them back to their childhood, let them smile again and hop, skip and jump through your constructions; what do you think of that? You smile? Do I take that as yes? Good! Then here is the riddle you must solve. And remember I will be watching, now that I have found you; but I won't help. I will only give you a signal when you succeed. Remember the only thing that will slow you down or stop you is the amount your mind has grown up to be like the Elders, the brain of an expert. The problem I set is for a child, with a mind that in innocence questions everything and finds new beginnings. I too, believe it or not, am like that. I live in the moon and each night I set a new day. The turning of a fresh beginning uplifts me. It keeps me from falling into endings and dull repeat reasonings. Think about that. In your dreams I will speak to you, I will help. My spirit will be with you. But now I must go for I have to set another day. And this is the question I leave you with: What is the fixed point in the wind?" The woman withdrew along the moonbeam and vanished as if she had never been. /Page18/ Enjil sat up. He looked hard at the moon, staring into the white disc of cold light - and the moment of magic vanished. Was it a trick? Was Vivek his arch rival for the title of Master trying to hypnotise him from a distance? If he listened to the woman it would be like suicide. Standing in that great open courtyard and speaking about simple things that did not need proofs would have the Elders laughing at him, baying like jackals at his feeble efforts. Certainly he would be thrown out. This must indeed be a hex put on him by his enemies! But what was the fixed point in the wind? The question intrigued and teased him. How can something be unmoving in the swirling wind; what was its fix, if indeed there was such a point? For hours he lay awake struggling with these thoughts until his tired brain came to a stop and wanted rest. Finally Enjil fell asleep. The woman in the moon entered his dreams. And he woke up with a new conviction - the doubts and torments of the night well behind him. He whistled and even smiled at Vivek, winking at his arch rival as if to say he had prepared a brilliant proof Enjil laughed to himself when he thought of the title he would introduce to his Elders on the day of the Examination. He would wear the yellow robe of scholarship, go up to the blackboard and announce in his most stern voice the customary words, "My respectful Elders and Seniors. I submit for your Examination and proper adjudication this thesis I have now prepared for the award of the Most Expert Master of Mathematics, the honour I now seek, /Page 19/ and pronounce as the title of my learned subject: 'The Fixed Points in the Wind'." He could see them writhing in agony, splitting their sides with laughter and thirsting for his blood. The images made him break out in a cold sweat. But a small voice spoke inside saying, "Don't be afraid - of course you can do it - after all it is an easy question - so solve it like a child, think like one, just like I said." To solve the riddle Enjil went to a secluded spot and sat in the shade of a banyon tree and blanked everything he knew out of his mind. The great blackness descended. Nothing moved. Shadows went into deeper shadows, layer into layer. A black disc grew. First as a dot, then a circle, then a rushing blind movement. Then the numbers cameout, tumbling one over the other; rolling the patterns over in his head. There were the star patterns, zigzags, squares, cubes, seesaws and the weaving patterns going in and out, all twisting over each other. Mindful of the woman spirit, he looked at the simplest numbers; he followed their trails, the white and black patterns, some, dotted with colour; moving like the wind, changing shape and turning all the time. And there in the simplest patterns were points that did not move or change, no matter what the numbers were. And they were fixed points. When the woman in the moon had talked of the wind Enjil knew she must have spoken of numbers, jumping over each other in gusts of multiplications or blowing steadily in ordered breezes of additions and subtractions. But within these patterns, there was one number and point through which all the others /Page20/ seemed to gather- it indeed must be the fixed point. Could that be the answer to the riddle? Then Enjil opened his eyes and composed his thesis. It was so simple that he laughed out loud. Never mind the Elders - they would have to love it, for he would draw the movements of all numbers in one simple diagram. What was clever about it was the method he had in his mind. He would take the secret code the Elders knew about but had never thought of using to look beyond their rituals of prophecy, for they would take the letters of someone's name and use such secret numbers to divine the character of that person. But Enjil vowed to go beyond this. That night he wrote out his thesis. When he had finished he went out into the deserted courtyard and held up each page to the moon. "Look ", he said to the woman in the moon, "I have finished - the task is done. I pray these are the answers." A shape seemed to move across the face of the yellow disc though he could not be sure. But the woman did not appear. The wind picked up, the night chill made him shiver. Tomorrow was the day, and Vivek would be hoping for his downfall; and his teacher would fret to the last moment as the Elders assembled, sharpening their wits in readiness to humble the nervous candidate. The crowd would gather and settle. Everyone would be waiting, watching. Still, Enjil was at peace. His ideas were simple, innocent; he believed they would shine through no matter what. While Vivek performed great feats /Page 21/ of algebra Enjil would offer to the Elders and the gathered crowd the four precious mirrors of arithmetic. They could all laugh or puzzle at the reflections he would show them, but in time their doubts would vanish or be blown away, just as the gusting wind cleans out the dirt lying on the ground. Suddenly a bright light flared, lighting up the compound for an instant, and then faded. Had the woman come to him and acknowledged his answer? Enjil rolled up the pages of his thesis and held up his hand, just in case, to the night sky in salute and farewell and then went to bed. He slept the peace of the innocent, a fixed point himself in that night of swirling anxieties and jealousies. Tomorrow would be a new beginning. I wear Enjil's Talisman now, whenever I calculate and look into numbers, and remember the mathematician who was a boy. He inspires me to look afresh at things. Enjil went on to be famous. He surprised the Elders with his arguments of the fixed point in numbers; he astonished the crowd. And if not for them cheering as they did at what was being drawn on the board, the Elders would surely have failed him - the old men being insulted that there was no high algebra or long- winded, obscure complications to be resolved. Enjil's workings were just basic arithmetic, they grumbled, which even a nine year old could follow, they whispered to each other. It was laughable; it was ridiculous and all too simple. But the crowd cheered and cried out, "Master, Master," so many times, that the Elders /Page 22/ gave in. On the boy's shoulders they placed the purple sash of Master embroidered with winding circular motifs in gold thread, and then they held up Enjil's hand to the crowd who in turn roared, "Mas-Ter, Mas- Ter". The four syllable chant rocked the compound. When the dust cleared and the noise subsided and the courtyard was empty, the temple still hummed long into the night with stories of the new Master's cheek and sheer luck. So Enjil went on to be the real Master of the Academy, outshining everyone and everything. He proved many things, much of it beyond the best minds in that Academy of high learning. But he kept faithful, from what we know of his teachings, to the simple and straightfoward, and always the beautiful and intriguing. The Master saw patterns where others only saw calculations. Then disaster struck. In the wars that ravaged the country the Academy was set on fire and the intellectuals speared to death. Enjil and his papers and all the great library of learning in the Academy were lost forever. No one found the young mathematician's body. Soon the story went out confirming Enjil as a spirit child, one that visited Earth now and then to remind us of the greater glories that hid elsewhere. Others said it was the work of the devil, who flew in to collect the soul that he had claimed for himself long ago, when the little boy had lain dying from a fierce attack of smallpox. Whatever the truth of it the crooked smile and limping walk of the Master was no more, severely missed by those who loved him. Those who were there /Page 23/ on that day of the Examination told others. And the words and diagrams spread. The ideas travelled from community to community; changes and additions were made along the way. But the basic structure Enjil proposed is still there in the teaching. Modem ways have swept across the culture of this great land and hand calculators and computers have taken away the simple romance of numbers, but in remote parts of the highlands, in locked away villages, young mathematicians still look at Enjil's patterns and meditate for half an hour before doing any serious mental computation. What follows is a trace of the young Master's working, gleaned from private study and old village stories. With Enjil we move towards finding the magic of numbers and that special point, which though full of movement itself, remains unmoving and stationary; just as a fixed point does in the wind. Page73 Armed with the code we go on to look into the precious mirrors of arithmetic, the four infinite planes of adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying, that manipulate all numbers. The sigma code lays down a trace of how numbers work in secret, we can peer into their basic patterns. But it is only when these patterns are seen as a whole that the beauty of the code is revealed and the astonishing truth of number nine at the heart of our number system. (And here we must thank zero for even allowing the sigma code to exist. For without zero the process of reduction would not work. Adding digits to pare down to a single digit is dependent on our unique placement value system of units, tens, hundreds, etc. Zero allows the code to be bound within the range 1-9)."
SUN EARTH MOON
LETTERS TRANSPOSED INTO NUMBERS REARRANGED IN NUMERICAL ORDER
SUN EARTH MOON NINE SEVEN THREE
LETTERS TRANSPOSED INTO NUMBERS REARRANGED IN NUMERICAL ORDER
NINE SEVEN THREE 163-82-10-1 163-64-10-1 SUN EARTH MOON
GLOBAL WARNING GLOBAL
SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT FOR A MESS OF POTTAGE
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD AND WITHOUT GOD WAS NOT ANYTHING MADE THAT WAS MADE IN GOD WAS THE LIGHT AND THE LIGHT WAS THE LIGHT OF THE LIVING RAINBOW HAIL THE JEWEL AT THE CENTRE OF THE LOTUS PEACE UPON EARTH GOODWILL UNTO ALL SENTIENT BEINGS
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