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THE
LOST LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLISM
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF CERTAIN
LETTERS, WORDS, NAMES, FAIRY-TALES, FOLK-LORE AND MYTHOLOGIES
Harold Bayley 1912
CHAPTER XVI
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS
Page 101
"The roses of Greece have shed their petals; Imperial Rome has seen corruption. But the holy spirit of Man has risen, reappearing in each age of faith, arising as each Eastertide the Soul of the world appears in resurrection. Youth and age in eternal recurrence keep the spiritual lamps aflame upon the altars that we raise to life. The same Death guards his portals, the same Love sets the bell of morning ringing the carillon, as the horses of Aurora leap into the light of day. Tithonus, the weary one, reminds us .for ever of our mortality, while every grove is full of fauns and dryads. And Pan but sleeps. Those of us who look for the union of Christianity with the beauty of Hellas, feel that the hour draws nearer wherein men and women will live a fuller life, wherein all that is pale and mean in modem times will
sink into nothing, and the full sunlight of a new day will flood the Soul of Man, waking daily to the far call of an ever clearer Destiny."
Reginald R. Buckley.
THERE is a Slav fairy-tale entitled OHNIVAK, the Bird 'of Fire, which tells how a certain young and inexperienced Prince acquired a feather from the wing of OHNIVAK; "so lovely and bright was it that it illumined all the galleries of the palace and they needed no .other light." 1. One of the Sufi poets in a mystical poem called The Language of the Birds, tells how the mysterious SIMURGH (which in his allegory typifies God) passed over the land of CHINA and let fall thereon one of its feathers. This single feather filled CHINA with wonder and delight, and everyone who saw it sought to preserve for himself, in a sketch or painting, some semblance of its beauty:
Page 101 Notes 1 Slav Tales, p. 269.
Page 101
"Therefore says a tradition / Page 102 /
attributed to MAHOMET,' "seek knowledge even unto China,' for there, as in every land, be it never so remote or uncouth, shall traces of that for which you seek be found." 1
The story of OHNIVAK recounts that the King could think upon naught else 'than how this beautiful and miraculous Bird of Fire might be acquired. One day, summoning his three sons, he said: " My dear children, you see the sad state I am in. If I could but hear the bird OHNIVAK sing-just once, I should be cured of this disease of the heart; otherwise, it will be my death." Whereupon the three sons dutifully set forth in quest of the Bird of Wonder, and their first adventure is to meet a famished Fox who begs for food. The two elder brothers maliciously ill-treat this creature, but the youngest compassionately gives it his food. The Fox says: "You have fed me well ; in return I will serve you well; mount your horse and follow me. If you do everything I tell you, the Bird of Fire shall be yours." Then he set off at a run before the horseman, clearing the road for him with his bushy tail. By this marvellous means mountains were cut down, ravines filled up, and rivers bridged over. 2
The Fox of Europe corresponds to the Jackal or Fox of Egypt, which was reverenced as the maker of tracks in the desert. "The Jackal paths," says Professor PETRIE, "are the best guides to practicable courses, avoiding the valleys and precipices; and so the animal was known as U P-UAT, the opener of ways,' who showed the way for the dead across the Western desert." 3
Page 102 Notes 1 Religious Systems of the World, p. 325. Compare Ecclesiasticus: "In every people and nation I (Wisdom) got a possession; with all these I sought rest."
2 Slav Tales, p. 274. 3 Religion of Ancient Egypt, p. 24
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Page 102
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS
" It is clear that one may equate the road-levelling Fox of European fairy-tale with /Page 103 /
UP-UAT, the Egyptian "opener of the ways" ; and from the emblems herewith it would appear that their designers, supposing themselves to be U P-UATS, self-applied the injunction of Isaiah, "Prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people." 1
Fig. 978 is intently nosing along the ground, and in fig. 979 the parched and thirsty wilderness is ingeniously implied by the lolling tongue, "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. . . for in the wilderness (Figures
of animals 978,
980,
979,
981, omitted)
shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness." 2
The Egyptians hailed OSIRIS as the" opener of ways to the Gods"; also as He who " bringeth three to the mountains"; 3 and they represented ANUBIS, whose office in the Pantheon was that of the pathfinder, with the head of a jackal.
1 \xii. 10. 2 Isaiah xxxv.
3 The Burdell of lsis, J. T. Dennis, pp. 41, 48.
Page 103
The word ANUBIS is an alternative name for ANPU, the / Page104 /"one Father," and in EGYPT anpu was the generic term for
jackal. In fig. 982 (omitted) the jackal-headed ANUBIS, the" one orb of Light," is apparently blessing a candidate, over whom hovers the Dove of the Spirit.
The Fox was the symbol of wiliness, quick-wittedness,
and wisdom, and in the Gnostic monument already referred
to, the eager recipient of the mystic blood is represented as a fox.
The Gnostics were exceptionally great artists in dissimulation, and to contemplate them at work one must observe the admonition of SOLON: "Fools, ye are treading in the footsteps of the fox; can ye not read the hidden meaning of these winning words?"
In fig. 985 (omitted) a Fox-the symbol of the pathfinder, of / Page 105 /
wisdom, of subtlety, and of pious fraud 1-is finding Honey in a Tree which doubtless represents the Tree of Life; and in fig. 986 a Marigold or Sunflower Tree is being supported by Foxes cloaked.
(Figures 983,
984, omitted)
It was a persistent complaint against the Gnostics that they cloaked their real tenets by conforming outwardly with the established worship of any state or city they inhabited, thus maintaining their secret ideas without notice or molestation. Their policy was, " Learn to know' all, but (Figures
985,
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keep thyself unknown," and as the Son of God lived unknown in the world, so they conducted themselves as beings invisible and unknown.3
Page 105 Notes
1 "The prudence of the ancients," said Richard de Bury, "discovered a remedy by which the wanton part of mankind might in a manner be taken in by a pious fraud, and the delicate Minerva lie hid under the dissembling mask of pleasure."-Philobiblon
2 Reduced from Printers' Marks, W. Roberts.
3 IRENIEUS complained: "Neither can they be detected as Christian
heretics, because they assimilate themselves to all sects." Their method was to form esoteric schools, which in many cases endangered the organisa / Page 106 / tion of the Christian communities. TERTULLlAN complained, doubtless with good reason, "They undermine ours in order to build up their own."
1 This innocent and pious emblem was often misconstrued by the clergy - into a blasphemous jibe at the Christian religion.
2 CALEB, the Israelite who with JOSHUA spied out the promised land, was evidently a personification of the Heavenly Dog. The word caleb means dog, and according to the authors of The Perfect Way, " implies the necessity of intelligence to the successful quest of Salvation."
.VOL. II.
32"
GODDOGGODDOGGODDOGGODDOGGODDOGGODDOGGODDOGGODDOGGODDOG
Page 106
"By the Gnostics Hermes and also Osiris were identified with Christ, the Guider of Souls, and. a jackal-headed figure was sometimes portrayed upon a cross.1
Not only was there a certain amount of confusion between the Fox and the Jackal, but in Egypt certain species of dogs were also held sacred and mummified on merely the general ground of similarity with the Jackal.
By the Persians the Dog was regarded as the special animal of ORMUZ, and it is still held in peculiar reverence by the Parsees. SIRIUS, the brightest star in the Sky, forms part of a constellation termed "The Great Dog," and the name SIRIUS cannot but be related to OSIRIS. The so-called Dog days were reckoned by the old astronomers from the rising of this sacred star.
In India the Dog SARAMA figures as a symbol of the Dawn and as the forerunner of INDRA, the "one enduring A," "He as whose Messenger I came hither from afar." 2 "This myth," says MAX MULLER, "is clear enough. It is a reproduction bf the old story of the break of day. The bright cows, the rays of the sun, or the rain-clouds-for both go by the same name-have been stolen by the powers of darkness, by the Night and her manifold progeny. Gods and men are anxious for their return. But where are they to be found? They are hidden in a dark and strong stable or scattered along the ends of the sky, and the robbers will not restore them. At last in the farthest distance the first signs of the Dawn appear; she peeps / Page
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about, and runs with lightning quickness, it may be, like a hound after a scent, across the darkness of the sky. She is looking for something, and, following the right path, she has found it. She has heard the lowing of the cows, and she returns to her starting-place with more intense splendour. After her return there rises Indra, the god of light, ready to do battle in good earnest against the gloomy powers, to break open the strong stable in which the bright cows were kept, and to bring light and strength and life back to his pious worshippers. This is the simple myth of Sarama; composed originally of a few fragments of ancient speech, such as 'the Panis stole the cows,' i.e. the light of day is gone; 'Sarama looks, for the cows,' i.e. the Dawn is spreading; 'Indra has burst the dark stable,' i.e. the sun has risen." 1
SARAMA, the Dawn Dog, is said to have been a greyhound, and is obviously the same as the mysterious veltro or greyhound-Messiah mentioned several times by. DANTE. In Hell the poet alludes to a ruthless monster that blocked his way and continued her accursed depredations:
" Until that greyhound come who shall destroy Her with sharp pain. He will not life support By earth or its base metals, but by love, Wisdom and Virtue. . . .
He with incessant chase, through every town, Shall worry, until he to Hell at length Restore her, thence by Envy first let loose."
In Icelandic' grey means dog. The word greyhound is a form of the Anglo-Saxon grighund, the hound, of ag ur ay, the " mighty fire A," or ag ur ig, the" mighty, mighty Fire." SARAMA may be resolved into se, the Fire, and. rama, the
Sanscrit for Sun.
1 Science of Language, ii. pp. 488-489.
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THE
LOST LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLISM
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF CERTAIN
LETTERS, WORDS, NAMES, FAIRY-TALES, FOLK-LORE AND MYTHOLOGIES
Harold Bayley 1912
THE EYE OF THE UNIVERSE
Page 303 (figure illustrations omitted)
Among the ancient Mexicans the word on served to denote anything circular.5 The celtic for circle is Kib - / Page 304 / ak ib, the "great orb," and for round, krenn-ak ur en, the "great fire sun."
It would appear to be one of the prime clues to language that sharp and blunt consonants, such as S and Z, T and D, P and B, were originally identical or at all events .had a value so nearly identical that they may be grouped together like male and female' of one species. This fact is recognised in the alphabet of Pitman's Shorthand, where P and B, T and D, Ch and J, K and G, etc., are represented by the same signs,hbut light and dark, thus:.\ = p, \ = b; I = t, I = d ;
/ = ch, I = j; - = k, - = g. In accordance with this rule the ob of the Russian, Gaelic, Irish, and Lithuanian apple becomes the ap of the English apple, the German apfl, the Icelandic. epli.1 The knowledge that ap is equal to ob or orb enables us to reduce the name Apollo into Ap ol lo, the "orb of the Lord Everlasting."2
"I am the EYE with which the universe
Beholds itself and knows itself divine,
All harmony of instrument or verse,
All prophecy, all medicine are mine,
All light of Art and Nature. :-to my song
Victory and praise in their own right belong." 3.
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Ap must be the root of the Greek apo, meaning" far away," and it may also be equated with our up and upwards, both meaning towards the orb: it is also the foundation of optimus, the best, and of optimism or faith in the highest.4 / Page 305 /
Country people pronounce up "oop," and the child's hoop may have been so. named because it was a circle like the Sun. Op is not only the root of hope and happy but it is also the foundation of optics, optical, and other terms relating to the eye or eyeball. The word eye, phonetically" I," may have arisen from the fact that the eye is a ball like the Sun, and this idea runs through the etymology of "eye" in
many languages.1"
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"OPS or OPIS 2 was one of the names of JUNO, the "unique,
ever-existent O," or, as she was'sometimes known, DEMETER,. the "Mother of brilliant splendour." Ops was the giver of ops, riches, whence the word opulent; plenty is fundamentally opulenty, and the Latin for plenty is copia, ak-ope-ia. A synonym for plenty is ab-un-dance.
The syllable OP, meaning Eye, occurs in many proper names S and place-names, notably in ETHIOPIA and EUROPE. Cox translates EUROPE as meaning" the splendour. of morning," and the word is alternatively rendered "the, broad-eyed." But the two syllables of EUROPE are simply a reversed form of the English surname HOOPER, the Eye or "Hoop of Light," i.e. the Sun. It is a curious coincidence that in the Island of LEWIS (LLEW=light) there is a place named ERROPIE, close to which is EYE Peninsula.
Within the OPE or Hoop or Agape 4 of fig.708 appears the letter P. The earliest form of P-judging from figs.709 to 711, which are reproduced from Mons. Briquet's collection of archaic P's-was a shepherd's crook, and P in these emblems,stands seemingly for PA, the Father, the Shepherd, and Bishop of all souls."
Page 305 Notes
1 The Sanscrit for Eye is AKSHI (= AKISHI ?), Lithuanian AKIS, Latin OCULUS (diminutive of Ocus), Greek OMA, Swedish OGA, Russian OKO Spanish OJo (=ever-existent 0), Pprtuguese OLHO (Lord 0).
2 Pinches (T. G.), Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, pp. 17,93.
S Compare Hopps, HOPE, OPIE, JOPE, JEPPE, JOPPA.
4 Agape is the Greek for Love.
Page 304 Notes
1 This etymology of "Apple" is confirmed by the French pomme, i.e. op om, the Sun Ball; also by pom%, the name for a giant orange. The word orange resolves into or-an-je, the golden everlasting Sun.
S Among the Peruvians capac was not only an adjective meaning great and powerful, but it was also a name for the Sun. Apsu and' APASON were
alternative forms of ABZU, the Babylonish great Abyss. .
3 Shelley, Hymn of Apollo.
4 "High 11 may similarly be equated with towards the I or Eye."
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THE
LOST LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLISM
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF CERTAIN
LETTERS, WORDS, NAMES, FAIRY-TALES, FOLK-LORE AND MYTHOLOGIES
Harold Bayley 1912
THE STAR OF THE SEA
Page 234 (figure illustrations omitted)
"In the Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom, clear and undefiled, is defined as the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of His Goodness.1
1 vii
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O+P+P+O+S |
81 |
27 |
9 |
- |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
T+E+S |
44 |
17 |
8 |
17 |
MIRRORED OPPOSITES |
234 |
108 |
72 |
1+7 |
- |
2+3+4 |
1+0+8 |
7+2 |
17 |
MIRRORED OPPOSITES |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
MIRROR IMAGE |
- |
- |
- |
6 |
MIRROR |
91 |
46 |
1 |
5 |
IMAGE |
35 |
26 |
8 |
11 |
- |
126 |
72 |
9 |
|
|
1+2+6 |
7+2 |
- |
2 |
- |
9 |
9 |
9 |
THE
LOST LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLISM
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF CERTAIN
LETTERS, WORDS, NAMES, FAIRY-TALES, FOLK-LORE AND MYTHOLOGIES
Harold Bayley 1912
THE STAR OF THE SEA
Page 235 (figure illustrations omitted)
"Among certain West African tribe at the present day, the natives symbolise the Deity by a triangle surrounding a piece of looking-glass or something bright to represent Light, and this custom is supposed by Dr Churchward to have originated in ancient EGYPT.1 Japanese mythology relates that the Sun goddess when taking leave of her
grandchild, gave him a heavenly mirror, saying: "My child
when thou lookest upon this mirror, let it be as if thou wert looking upon me; Let it be with thee on thy couch and in thy hall, and let it be to thee a holy mirror.' 2 This
mirror which is regarded by the Japanese as a symbol of knowledge, is preserved at the shrines of ISE.3 According to
Indian poetry:"
TRIANGLEALTERINGTRIANGLEALTERINGTRIANGLEALTERING
"There are two mirrors, where in bliss reflected lie The sun of heaven, and the Spirit-Sun Most High; One mirror is the sea o'er which no storm-wind blows, The other is the mind that no unquiet knows." 4
There is hardly a nation whose history has come down to us that does not record the existence. of some Saviour God born of an Immaculate Virgin, and not infrequently this Virgin Mother is named Maria or, an equivalent word, pointing to the Sea. DIONYSOS was born of the virgin / Page 236 /
MYRRHA; HERMES, the Logos of the Greeks, was born of the. virgin MYRRHA or MAlA, and the mother of the Siamese Saviour was' called MAYA MARIA.l All these
names. are related to Mare, the' Sea, and the immaculate purity of the various Mother-Marys is explained by the mystic tenet that Spirit in its element was like water,
essentially pure, and that sin and materialism being merely
foreign bodies, would in the course of time settle into sediment and leave the Spirit in its pure pristine beauty. Thus Schemer sings:
"I must become Queen Mary and birth to God must give,
If I in blessedness for evermore would live."
The knowledge that Mary the Virgin was symbolised by
Mare, the Sea, seems to have been intentionally recognised by the Sienese painters, of whose Madonnas Mrs Jenner writes: "The excessive grace of the lines of .her (Mary's) undulating' figure recalls the wonderful curves, of rolling waves." 2 In the rules laid down, in 1649 by the Art Censor of the Holy Inquisition, it was ordained that Mary was to. be portrayed in a scarf or mantle of Blue, her robe wasto be of spotless white and her hair was to be golden.3 In fig. 506 the Star of the Sea appears over the letter M; surmounting fig. 510 are the three circles of perfect Power, Love, and Wisdom, and into Ag. 508 have been introduced the six a'ttributes previously associated with the Water Mother.
When the letter M was taken over from the Egyptians by the; Phrenicians, it was supposed to resemble ripples and was christened Mem, "the waters." "The word em is / Page 237 / Hebrew for Water, and in the emblems herewith the letter M is designed like the waves or ripples of Water."
| 1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
| 2 |
ME |
18 |
9 |
9 |
| 2 |
EM |
18 |
9 |
9 |
MEEMMEEMMEEM
ENERGYMASSMASSENERGY
"Sometimes, as in fig. 5I5, the symbolists constructed it .from two esses placed back to back, which, as on all previous occasions, read Sanctus Spiritus.
CINDERELLA, as we have already seen (ante, p. 191), is in various localities known as MARA, MARIA, MARY,
MARIETTA, and MARIUCELLA, all of which are said to be derivatives of the glittering light of the sea. The Indian Goddess of Beauty was, like APHRODITE, said, to have been born of the Sea, and there is an inscription to Isis which hails her as :
"Blessed Goddess and Mother, Isis of the many names, To whom the heayens gave birth on the glittering waves of the sea, " And whom the darkness begat as the light for all mankind." 1
v "
1 A Ha1zdbook of Egyptian Religion, A. Erman, p. 245.
Page 236 Notes
1 Blble Myths, A. W. Doane, p. 332. 2 Our Lady In Art, p. 44.
3 Ibld., p. 7.
4 Chambers's Encyclopa!dla, vi. 760.
Page 235 Notes
1 Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, p. 132
2 The Story of Old Japan, J. H. Longford, p. 22. 3 Ibid., p. 17.
4 Translation from tJ,te German of F. Ruckhart by Eva M. Martin.
| 9 |
UNIVERSAL |
121 |
40 |
4 |
| 8 |
LANGUAGE |
68 |
32 |
5 |
| 17 |
First Total |
189 |
72 |
9 |
| 1+7 |
Add to Reduce |
1+8+9 |
7+2 |
- |
| 8 |
Second Total |
18 |
9 |
9 |
| - |
Reduce to Deduce |
1+8 |
- |
- |
| 8 |
Essence of Number |
9 |
9 |
9 |
10 |
|
|
|
|
- |
R |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
E+D |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
E+M |
18 |
9 |
9 |
- |
P+T |
36 |
9 |
9 |
- |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
V+E |
27 |
9 |
9 |
10 |
REDEMPTIVE |
117 |
54 |
54 |
1+0 |
- |
1+1+7 |
5+4 |
5+4 |
1 |
REDEMPTIVE |
9 |
9 |
9 |
10 |
|
117 |
54 |
9 |
10 |
|
119 |
56 |
2 |
8 |
REDEEMER |
73 |
46 |
1 |
6 |
REDEEM |
50 |
32 |
5 |
3 |
RED |
27 |
18 |
9 |
HOLY BIBLE
Scofield References
Page 1342
C 13 V18
HERE IS WISDOM LET HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING COUNT THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST FOR
IT IS
THE
NUMBER OF A MAN AND HIS NUMBER
IS
SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX
HOLY HOLY HOLY
6 6 6
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
F |
6 |
6 |
|
|
O |
15 |
6 |
|
|
X |
24 |
6 |
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
4+5 |
1+8 |
1+8 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
HE
LOST LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLISM
Harold Bayley 1912
THE TREE OF LIFE
Page 303 (figure illustrations omitted)
"According to Greek legend, the Dragon guardian of HESPERIA (or JASPERIA?) was named LADON, ie. the "Ever-lasting stronghold." In Greece there is a river LADON, and / Page 304 / in LYCIA there is a volcano named CHIMlERA. According to some versions, the guardian of the Hesperidian apples was GERYON, " the mighty fire, the ever-existent one, " a three headed Being possessing herds of the most splendid cattle.
The three hearts upon the back and the heart-like tongue of fig. 1268 stamp this emblem unmistakably as the agathadaemon or "good demon." But before the Greek word agatha came to mean good it must have meant ag atha, the Mighty A-Tau or the Ether. The father of King Arthur was UTHER PENDRAGON-emblemised ante, p. 10 -and one of the Greek titles for ZEUS was AETHER. Thus EURIPIDES: " Seest thou the immense aether on high and the earth around hetd in its moist embrace? Revere Zeus and obey god."1 And VIRGIL: "Thus the Omnipotent Father, great AEther with fecund showers, descends into the bosom of his rejoicing wife,2 and, united in love with her great body,
nourishes all her offspring."3
The word agathadaemon may thus be resolved into the fundamental "Mighty Ether or Author, the Resplendent Sole One."
In SOUTH AMERICA the alligator (el agatha?) is known alternatively as the cayman or ac ay man; and in crocodile the initial syllables are kr, the Creator or Great Fire.
In COREA the_alligator is known as the a-ke; in CHINA the Dragon is termed nake or naga, arid the word leviathan is no doubt cognate with the surnames LEVI and LEVEY, both of which may be compared with lovey. The Persian mar, which cc may be supposed the same as that serpent which guards the golden fruit in the garden of the Hesperides,". may be equated with the Egyptian mer, meaning love; and Love or La Pie, the" Everlasting Life," / Page 305 /
may be identified with AMOR, the oldest and the first-born of the Gods.
In some localities CINDERELLA is known as AGATA1 and CINDERELLA-no larger than one's little finger-may, like the grain of mustard seed, be compared to. that agathadtCmon of which the Chinese mystics say: "The bright moon pearl is conce'aled in the oyster, the dragon is there."
It is believed in CHINA that "The dragon's skin has five colours, and he moves like a spirit; he wishes to be
small and he becomes like a silkworm; great, and he fills all below heaven; he desires to rise, and he reaches the ether; he desires to sink, and he enters the deep fountains. The times of his changing are not fixed, his rising and descending are undetermined; he is called a. god (or spirit)." 2
It is further related of the Chinese dragon that when he opens his eyes it is day and when he shuts them it is night. He is said to have nine characteristics and eightyone scales. The number eighty-one is nine times nine, and as the immutable nine was the symbol of immutable Truth, eighty-one may be obviously understood as a ninefold nine or the fundamental Truth of Truths. KIAO, a
Chinese name for the mystic Dragon, may be equated with ak iao, the great and ever-existent Beginning and the End. Azhdaha, the Persian name for dragon, resolves into the " blazing and resplendent A."... "
"He is said to have nine characteristics and eightyone scales.
The number eighty-one is nine times nine,
and as the immutable nine was the symbol of immutable Truth,
eighty-one may be obviously understood as a ninefold nine"
Page 305 Notes
Cinderella, p. 315. 2 Gould (C.), lWystlcal Monsters, p. 400.
Page 304 Notes
1 Heraclida. 2 JUNO or YONI.
4 Gould (C.), Mystical Monsters, p. 211.
3 Georgics, ii. p. 324.
THE MUMMY
FUNEREAL RITES & CUSTOMS IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Ernest A. Wallis Budge 1893
Page 350
EYGYPTIAN WRITING MATERIALS
"The width of papyri varies from six to seventeen inches, and the longest papyrus known
(Harris, No. 1 B,M. 9999) measures 135 feet in length
GREAT CAT TALES
Anthology
1992
Mike
Ernest A.Wallis Budge
Page 383 / 4
"(The cat who assisted in keeping the main gate of the British Museum from February, 1909, to January 1929)"
"...Early in the spring of 1908 the Keeper of the mum-/mies in the British Museum was going down the steps of his official residence, when he saw Black Jack coming towards the steps..."
"...The Keeper of the Mummied Cats took care to feed him during the lean years of the war..."
THE GUINESS ENCYCLOPEDIA
John Foley
1993
ALPHABETOLOGY
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
Page 22
The most commonly used numerical symbols throughout the modern World; the so-called Arabic numerals
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
derive ultimately from a system developed by the Hindus in India sometime between the 3rd Century B,C. and 6th Century A.D.
"The more rounded Western Arabic numerals were introduced into Spain by the Moors in the 10th Century.
The first European to take serious note of the new numeration was the French scholar Gerbert of Aurilliac (Pope Sylvester II from 999 to 1003) who had studied the system in Spain
The Hindus are also credited with the invention at some unknown date of the symbol for zero, which was first written as a small circle and later reduced to a large dot.
The nine Indian figures are : 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
With these nine figures and with the sign O any number may be written.
Leonardo of Pisa
Liber abaci
DAILY MIRROR
Thursday May 27, 2004
Geoffrey Lakeman
Page 35
SLABBY CAT
Pet's tombstone is 900-yr old carving
"A huge stone used to mark a beloved pet cats grave has been identified as a rare 11th-century carving. Amateur historian and potter Chris Brewchorne stumbled on the eight stone slab in the garden of a house near his gallery.
Expert Prof Rosemary Cramp says the carving of St Peter is one of the most important medieval pieces found in Britain.
Mr. Brewchorne, 44, of Dowlish Wake, Somerset, said: "You do not find top-quality 11th century stonework like this on top of a dead cat. It is remarkable. I would think it is worth many thousands. You can't buy this sort of thing at a car boot sale."
The owner's late husband was a stonemason who bought the carving, now thought to come from a frieze in a Saxon church, among a job lot.
He realised it was too good to use so for nine years it has marked Winkle's grave."
JUST CATS
Fernand Mery 1957
Page 24
"In the year 999, in the tenth day of the Fifth Moon,
at the Imperial Palace of Kyoto, a cat gave birth for the first time recorded here, and to five little kittens."
IN THE YEAR
999
http://www.museumca.org/exhibit/exhib_forbiddencity.html
page 1, 2
Secret World of the
Forbidden City
Splendors from
China's Imperial Palace
Great Hall
HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY
"In the heart of Beijing, the Imperial Palace remained the residence of the emperors for nearly five hundred years, from the 15th century to the early 20th century, and was the actual and symbolic seat of imperial power. Popularly known as the Forbidden City, it was built in the Ming Dynasty between the 4th and the 18th years of the Yongle period (1406 - 1420 AD). Many of the buildings of the Palace have been repaired and rebuilt, but their basic form and layout remain in their original state.
This magnificent, palatial architectural complex covers an area of over 2,350,000 square feet and contains 9,999 rooms. The largest complex of its kind in the world, it is surrounded by ten-foot-high walls that are crowned by four observation towers and flanked by a deep moat. The walls are pierced by four large gates, each with three openings and a broad crowning pavilion."
and contains 9,999 rooms.
GREAT CAT TALES
Anthology
1992
THE CHESHIRE CAT
Lewis Carroll Circa 1836
Page 349 (number omitted)
"...The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
"Cheshire -Puss,' she began rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however it only grinned a little wider.'Come, it's pleased so far, 'thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the cat,' said the Cat.
I dont care where-'said Alice.
Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat..."
THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE
Sir Arthur Eddington 1932
Page
99
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic-like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensible character-istic, It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin.
Physics is concerned with interrelatedness of
cats and grins.
In this case the
"cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat"
are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies"
GREAT CAT TALES
Anthology
1992
THE CHESHIRE CAT
Lewis Carroll
Page 351
"All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which waited some time after the rest of it had gone.
'Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice; 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!..."
WAKEFIELD EXPRESS
Friday March 5th 2004
"ROOKIE officer PC999 Phil Jacobs met his' collar-number counterpart - and discovered they had the same surname too.
In a bizarre coincidence 20-year-old Phil, of West Yorkshire Police, met PC 999 David Jacobs, who has been a North Yorkshire officer for more than 30 years, and realised they shared the same profession, name and famous number.
The veteran officer, who came to Wakefield to teach in the force's driver training school at Crofton, had a word of advice for his young namesake,
"Hand the number in," David joked. , "I heard the same jokes over and over again. A popular one was, 'What are you doing with your phone number on your shoulder?'
"Sometimes you just laugh it off and eventually your colleagues get sick of making jokes. But I stuck it for 30 years and they still remember me.""
David, 51, spotted Phil's picture in West Yorkshire Police's internal magazine The Beat.
"I was snapped in an identical pose in the Police Review magazine as Phil was for his picture in The Beat almost 25 years later," he said.
David was front-page news in the national papers in 1980 when his quirky number was noticed and recent recruit Phil hit the headlines in December when he was given his collar number.
Phil, who will begin walking the beat in Wakefield next month after he finishes training, said: "It is such a coincidence and quite spooky that we both have the same name and unusual number. We're not related though."
DAILY MAIL
Front Page Wednesday June 22, 2005
"LIVES AT RISK IN 999 CALLS 'COVER UP' "
"The clock is supposed to start ticking when the 999 operator has the phone number of the caller"
Page 4, Col.1
THE 999 'COVER UP'
"waited 90 minutes"
'took 90 minutes'
"called 999 when"
"dialled 999 and"
"dialled 999"
"of its 999 calls as"
"one in four of its 999 calls were
"after a 999 calls
Page 12
COMMENT
"receiving a 999 call."
immediately a 999 call is received"
HOLY BIBLE
Scofield References
Page 922
C 2 V 16
AND IT SHALL BE AT THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD, THAT THOU SHALT CALL ME
ISHI
- |
ISHI |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
2 |
SH |
27 |
18 |
9 |
1 |
I |
9 |
9 |
9 |
4 |
|
45 |
36 |
9 |
- |
- |
4+5 |
3+6 |
- |
4 |
|
9 |
9 |
9 |
THE ALMOST FORGOTTEN DAY
Mark A. Finlay 1988
The first law actually commanding Sunday rest was issued by the Emperor Constantine in March. 321 A.D. His decree declared. "On the venerable Day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing' in cities rest. and let all workshops be closed. In the country. however. persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits." SDA Source Book. p. 999. But church historian Philip Schaff makes this significant point: " . . . the Sunday law of Constantine must not be overrated. . . There is no reference whatever in his law either to the fourth commandment or to the resurrection of Christ. Besides he expressly exempted the countty districts. . . Christians
and pagans had been accustomed to festival rests; Constantine made these rests to synchronize. and gave the preference to Sunday." - Ibid.. pp 999. 1000"
.
MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN AND OTHER STORIES
Thomas Mann
1936
Page 336
" Abraham, was likewise so old and stricken in years, already ninety-nine. And what woman could not but laugh at the thought of indulging in lust with a ninety-nine year old man "
ATLANTIS
FROM LEGEND TO DISCOVERY
Andrew Thomas 1973
Plato indirectly received the original story of Atlantis from Solon. the great statesman and the richest man in ancient Greece. According to Solon. Atlantis perished 9.000 years before his trip to Egypt. or in 9560 B.C.
However. Professor Galanopoulos thinks that Solon, the ,Onassis of antiquity, could not even count properly. ", It was not 9,000 years, but 900 years," he claims, adding 900 to 560 B.C., the date of Solon's voyage to Egypt,"
OF TIME AND STARS
Arthur C. Clarke
Into the Comet
Page 67
"Sometime after the Second World War, there was a con-test between an American with an electric desk calculator and a Japanese using an abacus like this. The abacus won / Page / 68 / 'Then it must have been a poor desk machine, or an incom-petent operator.'
'They used the best in the U.S. Army. But let's stop argu-ing. Give me a test - say a couple of three-figure numbers to multiply.'
'Oh - 856 times 437"
Pickett's fingers danced over the beads, sliding them up and down the wires with lightning speed. There were twelve wires in all, so that the abacus could handle numbers up to 999,999,999,999 - or could be divided into separate sections
where several independent calculations could be carried out simultaneously."
THE SUN
April 13th 2005
Cash Flow
Page 1
THE POUND 99p IN YOUR POCKET
NINETY NINE
PENCE
99
(Illustration of coin omitted)
"Do you know what the political parties are promising to do about the 1£ in your pocket if they win the election?
One party is promising to mint a 99p coin to save on change when you are out shopping"
"We also list suggestions from smaller parties two - such as the mad 99p coin"
DAILY MAIL
WEEKEND
Jonathan Cainer
Page 94 (number omitted)
Saturday 9th April
"NEW MOON ORACLE"
7 |
|
|
|
|
6 |
ORACLE |
54 |
27 |
9 |
13 |
Add to Reduce |
|
|
|
1+3 |
Reduce to Deduce |
1+5+3 |
6+3 |
1+8 |
4 |
Essence of number |
9 |
9 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
10 |
LOVE + EVOLVE |
135 |
45 |
9 |
DAILY MAIL
Richard Kay
April10/11
"NINE SMILES ALL FROM THE HEART"
"No wedding is complete without a family photograph, but no royal portrait has surely been like this one.
Here are nine adults who for once look as happy as they undoutably are.
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles Married April 9th 2005"
THE ALMOST FORGOTTEN DAY
Mark A. Finley
1988
Page 48
The first law actually commanding Sunday rest was issued by the Emperor Constantine in March, 321 A.D. His decree declared, "On the venerable Day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing' in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country, however, persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits." SDA Source Book, p. 999. But church historian Philip Schaff makes this significant point: " . . . the Sunday law of Constantine must not be overrated. . . There is no reference whatever in his law either to the fourth commandment or to the resurrection of Christ. Besides he expressly exempted the country districts. . . Christians and pagans had been accustomed to festival rests: Constantine made these rests to synchronize, and gave the preference to Sunday." - Ibid., pp 999, 1000."
4 |
ZERO |
64 |
28 |
1 |
|
3
|
ONE |
34
|
16
|
7
|
|
3
|
TWO |
58
|
13
|
4
|
|
5
|
THREE |
56
|
29
|
2
|
|
4
|
FOUR |
60
|
24
|
6
|
|
4
|
FIVE |
42
|
24
|
6
|
|
3
|
SIX |
52
|
16
|
7
|
|
5
|
SEVEN |
65
|
20
|
2
|
|
5
|
EIGHT |
49
|
31
|
4
|
|
4
|
NINE |
42
|
24
|
6
|
40 |
- |
522 |
225 |
45 |
4+0 |
- |
5+2+2 |
2+2+5 |
4+5 |
4 |
- |
9 |
9 |
9 |
THE ELEMENTS OF THE GODDESS
Caitlin Matthews 1989
Page38
"This ennead of aspects is endlessly adaptable for it is made up of nine, the most adjustable and yet essentially unchanging number. However one chooses to add up multiples of nine, for example 54, 72, 108, they always add up to nine"
THEY ALWAYS ADD UP TO NINE
THE
ACTS
10 V 3
HE SAW IN A VISION EVIDENTLY ABOUT
THE
NINTH
HOUR
OF THE DAY
THE
HOLY BIBLE
SAINT LUKE
Ten lepers healed
C 17 V 17
AND JESUS ANSWERING SAID WERE NOT TEN CLEANSED BUT WHERE ARE THE
NINE
SAINT MATTHEW
18 V 12
HOW THINK YE IF A MAN HAVE AN HUNDRED SHEEP AND ONE OF THEM BE GONE ASTRAY DOTH HE
NOT LEAVE
THE
NINETY AND NINE
AND GOETH INTO THE MOUNTAINS AND SEEKETH THAT WHICH IS GONE ASTRAY
13
AND IF SO BE THAT HE FIND IT VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU HE REJOICETH MORE OF THAT SHEEP THAN
OF
THE
NINETY AND NINE
THAT WENT NOT ASTRAY
SAINT LUKE
C 23 V 44
AND IT WAS ABOUT THE
SIXTH HOUR
AND THERE WAS DARKNESS OVER ALL THE EARTH UNTIL
THE
NINTH HOUR
SAINT MARK
C 15 V 33
AND WHEN THE
SIXTH HOUR
WAS COME THERE WAS DARKNESS OVER THE WHOLE LAND UNTIL
THE
NINTH HOUR
34
AND AT THE
NINTH HOUR
JESUS
CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING
ELOI ELOI LAMA SABACHTHANI
WHICH IS BEING INTERPRETED,
MY GOD MY GOD
WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN
ME
SAINT MATTHEW
C 27 V 45
NOW FROM THE
SIXTH HOUR
THERE WAS DARKNESS OVER ALL THE LAND UNTO
THE
NINTH HOUR
46
AND ABOUT THE
NINTH HOUR
JESUS
CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE SAYING
ELI ELI LAMA SABACHTHANI
THAT IS TO SAY
MY GOD MY GOD
WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME
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999181818181818181818 AZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZ 818181818181818181999
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AUM MANI PADME HUM
ALL
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