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Quantum entanglement is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement

Quantum entanglement

Quantum entanglement is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects may be spatially separated. This leads to correlations between observable physical properties of the systems. For example, it is possible to prepare two particles in a single quantum state such that when one is observed to be spin-up, the other one will always be observed to be spin-down and vice versa, this despite the fact that it is impossible to predict, according to quantum mechanics, which set of measurements will be observed. As a result, measurements performed on one system seem to be instantaneously influencing other systems entangled with it. But quantum entanglement does not enable the transmission of classical information faster than the speed of light (see discussion in next section below).

Quantum entanglement applications in the emerging technologies of quantum computing and quantum cryptography, and has been used to realize quantum teleportation experimentally. At the same time, it prompts some of the more philosophically oriented discussions concerning quantum theory. The correlations predicted by quantum mechanics, and observed in experiment, reject the principle of local realism , which is that information about the state of a system should only be mediated by interactions in its immediate surroundings. Different views of what is actually occurring in the process of quantum entanglement can be related to different interpretations of quantum mechanics.

 

 

What you write in your book about entanglement is so startling, it’s hard to believe. Let’s start with a definition. What is quantum entanglement ? ... calitreview.com

 

THE STRANGE WORLD OF QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT

by Paul Comstock March 30th, 2007

Briab Clegg

received a physics degree from Cambridge University and is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of science. His most recent book is The God Effect : Quantum Entanglement, Science’s Strangest Phenomenon

What you write in your book about entanglements so startling, it’s hard to believe. Let’s start with a definition. What is quantum entanglement?

Entanglement is a strange feature of quantum physics, the science of the very small. It’s possible to link together two quantum particles – photons of light or atoms, for example – in a special way that makes them effectively two parts of the same entity. You can then separate them as far as you like, and a change in one is instantly reflected in the other. This odd, faster than light link, is a fundamental aspect of quantum science – Erwin Schrödinger, who came up with the nameentanglement” called it “the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics.” Entanglement is fascinating in its own right, but what makes it really special are dramatic practical applications that have become apparent in the last few years.Is it possible that entangled particles are not actually in immediate communication, but are simply programmed to behave in the same way? Much like twins separated at birth who live eerily similar lives - assume the same professions, marry similar spouses, etc.This is an obvious possibility. John Bell, who devised a lot of the theory for testing the existence of entanglement, covered it in a paper called “Bertlmann’s Socks and the Nature of Reality.” Reinhold Bertlmann, a colleague of Bell’s, always wore socks of different colors. Bell pointed out that, if you saw one of Bertlmann’s feet coming around the corner of a building and it had a pink sock on, you would instantly know the other sock wasn’t pink, even though you had never seen it. The color difference was programmed in when Bertlmann put his socks on.But the quantum world is very different. If you take some property of a particle, the equivalent of color, say the spin of an electron, it doesn’t have the value pre-programmed. It has a range of probabilities as to what the answer might be, but until you actually measure it, there is no fixed value. What happens with a pair of entangled electrons is you measure the spin of one. Until that moment, neither of them had a spin with a fixed value. But the instant you take the measurement on one, the other immediately fixes its spin (say to the opposite value). These “quantum socks” were every possible color until you looked at one. Only then did it become pink, and the other instantly took on another color.You write that Einstein among other scientists could not accept quantum entanglement. It seems to throw out the whole notion of cause and effect. How confident are physicists that quantum entanglement exists and what are the implications for science and the scientific method? Einstein had problems with the whole of quantum physics – which is ironic, as it was based on his Nobel Prize winning paper on the photoelectric effect. What he didn’t like was the way quantum particles don’t have fixed values for their properties until they are observed – he couldn’t relate to a universe where probability ruled. That’s why he famously said that God doesn’t play dice. I think an even better quote, less well known, was when he wrote:“I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will, not only its moment to jump off, but also its direction. In that case, I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist.

 

 

Einstein believed that underneath these probabilities were fixed, hidden realities we just couldn’t see. That was why he dreamed up the idea of entanglement in 1935. It was to show that either quantum theory was incomplete, because it said there was no hidden information, or it was possible to instantly influence something at a distance. As that seemed incredible, he thought it showed that quantum theory was wrong. It did take a long time to prove that entanglement truly existed. It wasn’t until the 1980s that it was clearly demonstrated. But it has been shown without doubt that this is the case. Entanglement exists, and is being used in very practical ways.Entanglement doesn’t throw away the concept of cause and effect. But it does underline the fact that quantum particles really do only have a range of probabilities on the values of their properties rather than fixed values. And while it seems to contradict Einstein’s special relativity, which says nothing can travel faster than light, it’s more likely that entanglement challenges our ideas of what distance and time really mean. Similarly, entanglement is no challenge to the scientific method. We need to use a different kind of math, but this is still the same science.Where do you see the first practical applications of entanglement ?

 
 
 
 
The first thing most people think of, including a report produced by for the Department of Defense shortly after entanglement was proved real, is being able to use it to communicate faster than light. The link of entanglement works instantaneously at any distance. So it would be amazing if it could be used to send a signal. In fact this isn’t possible. Although there is a real connection between two entangled particles, we don’t know what the information is that it’s going to send. If I measure the spin of an entangled electron, yes it communicates the value somehow to its twin – but I can’t use it. I had no idea what the spin was going to be. This is just as well, as faster than light messages travel backwards in time. If I could send a message instantly it would be received in the past, and that really would disrupt cause and effect.However, there are still real and amazing applications of entanglement. It can be used to produce unbreakable encryption. If you send each half of a set of entangled pairs to either end of a communications link, then the randomly generated but linked properties can be used as a key to encrypt information. If anyone intercepts the information it will break the entanglement, and the communication can be stopped before the eavesdropper picks up any data. Then there are quantum computers. These are conceptual machines that can crack problems that would take an ordinary computer longer than the lifetime of the universe to solve. We already know how to program a quantum computer to do some amazing things. For instance, if I have an unsorted database with a million entries, I will typically have to try out 500,000 of these before hitting on the right one. (Try looking for a specific number, rather than a person, in the paper version of the New York telephone directory.) But using a quantum computer it only takes 1,000 attempts. Unfortunately, though, Quantum computers are almost impossible to make.Instead of storing information in bits on silicon chips, each of which can hold 0 or 1, a quantum computer uses quantum particles like photons or atoms as the information stores. Each particle can store infinitely long numbers, but if you look at the particle, it changes the value. Entanglement means you can interact with these quantum bits (qubits for short) without frying your quantum memory. There are several technologies being tried to build the first, basic quantum computers, but they all rely on entanglement to get information into and around the system. Most dramatic of all is quantum teleportation. And for those Trekkies out there, tell us about the possibility of teleportation. It’s more than a possibility, it has been done, but only on a very small scale. What a Star Trek transporter is supposed to do is make an exact copy of an object or a person somewhere else. There’s a fundamental problem here. Because looking at a quantum particle changes it, you can’t scan a particle, see what it looks like and make an exact copy. So it might seem that teleportation is impossible. Entanglement lets you get around this restriction. By interacting the particle with one half of an entangled pair, and then putting the other half of the pair through a special process, a bit like a logic gate in a computer, it’s possible to make an identical particle at a remote location. We can only do this because the entanglement transfers the quantum information without us ever knowing what it was. In the process, the originalparticle loses its properties. Teleportation isn’t copying, it effectively destroys the original. This doesn’t mean you’ll be able to rush out and buy a transporter at Radio Shack next week. This process has been done with large molecules, similar in size to a bacterium, so it’s possible that we could teleport something living. But it won’t work with something as big as a person. You would have to scan every single molecule in the body and reassemble at the other end, which doesn’t look like it’s every going to be practical. Maybe this isn’t so bad, though. Remember, the original is destroyed (something Star Trek glosses over). Okay, you get an identical copy, but would you be prepared to be vaporized if you knew an exact, indistinguishable copy was going to be created the other side of the world? I’m not ecstatic about flying, but by comparison it sounds a safe option. Could entanglement prove to be the “Holy Grail” for merging scientific and mystical, religious thought? There have certainly been people who have tried to draw this kind of conclusion, but I think they are mistaken. Entanglement is a wholly physical process. I called my book The God Effect because it has been suggested that entanglement is the working mechanism of the Higgs boson, a very special particle that gives everything its mass, and has been called the God Particle, because it’s so fundamental. But that’s just a label.It’s also true that Nobel Prize winning physicist Brian Josephson has suggested that entanglement could explain telepathy (much to the irritation of paranormal debunker James Randi), but Josephson was saying if telepathy exists, then here’s a physical mechanism that could explain it – he wasn’t indulging in mystical navel-gazing. What entanglement (and quantum theory in general) does do is remind us is that the real world is much stranger than we imagine. That’s because the way things are in the world of the very small is totally different to large scale objects like desks and pens. We can’t rely on experience and common sense to guide us on how things are going to work at this level. And that can make some of the effects of quantum physics seem mystical. In the end, this is something similar to science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s observation that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

 

29 Responses to "The StrangeWorld of Quantum Entanglement"
  • Ulrich Mohrhoff Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:13 pm

    See http://thisquantumworld.com/faqs.htm for an explanation of why entanglement can’t be used to send information.

  • Ulrich Mohrhoff Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:14 pm

    See http://koantum.blogspot.com/2006/06/disentangling-entanglement.html for a detailed comment.

  • Bill Lang Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:14 pm

    I too have seriously considered the idea that we should be looking for entangled communications from outside worlds. When I originally asked about it on a physics blog 6 years ago, they told me that entanglement can’t extend great distances. That seems to be proven wrong now. What is the current excuse for the improbability of entangled communications?
    Wonderful article, thanks.

  • ray Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:15 pm

    Since the entanglement link is based upon probabilities, it may take some re-readings of the receiving spin to establish what the spin *isn’t* to get the spin of the sending particle. Unfortunately, this rather depends upon pre-syncing to establish the sending spin and that can’t be guaranteed to co-incide with the receiving spin.
    Suggestions about using a returning particle pairing may be useless for exactly the same reasons vice versa.

    The thought of being vaporised to be handed over to a twin scares things out of me, too. I have enough trouble coping with the fact that this could be used to duplicate my brain somewhere else let alone set it going on it’s own path over there (wherever there is), and then to trust to it and be vaporised? No way.

  • anonymous Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:16 pm

    go Spidy; he da man!

  • craig Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:16 pm

    Interviewee suggests that they have teleported a particle. This sounds like a deterministic transmission of . That is, they got what they expected out the other side. This sounds like the transmission of information.

  • Saravana Kumar Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:17 pm

    Paul - Could you explain why entanglement can’t be used to send signals.

    This concept indeed makes our understanding of science stranger and makes us think that there are invisible variables that we need to discover b4 we could have a GUT.

  • anonymous Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:18 pm

    He did explain why we can’t send a signal. From the article:

    The first thing most people think of, including a report produced by for the Department of Defense shortly after entanglement was proved real, is being able to use it to communicate faster than light. The link of entanglement works instantaneously at any distance. So it would be amazing if it could be used to send a signal. In fact this isn?t possible. Although there is a real connection between two entangled particles, we don?t know what the information is that it?s going to send. If I measure the spin of an entangled electron, yes it communicates the value somehow to its twin ? but I can?t use it. I had no idea what the spin was going to be. This is just as well, as faster than light messages travel backwards in time. If I could send a message instantly it would be received in the past, and that really would disrupt cause and effect.

  • anonymous Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    I guess the key words in all of these possiblilites such as QE commications, faster than light travel, etc., are “not yet”. 600 years ago the world was flat, now we’re on the verge of quantum computers. The great thing about physics is that it continues to grow.

  • matt Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    You say that you cannot send information because you will not know the way it will be spinning, but I think the fact that you simply sent a signal of any kind (as opposed to not sending a signal) means that you did send information. Here is a simple illustration:

    I have a “jar” with one particle (or one half of particle A depending on how you think of entanglement), and another “jar” with particle B in my home in the United States. You have the corresponding particles A and B in England. You “measure” A if by land, or B if by sea. When the one you measured communicates to the one I have, causing it to have a specific spin, I have learned something based on which one you chose to measure. Thus you have communicated to me faster than light.

    Taking this a step further, if in response to your measuring A, I measure B to tell you that I got the signal, I do not see how there would be time travel in either of our frames of reference.

    Am I missing something, or is it just this simple, yet somehow nobody has figured it out?

  • josh Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:20 pm

    Hey Matt,

    You forgot one thing, check it out…

    You have a “jar” with particle A and another “jar” with particle B in your home in the United States. I have the corresponding particles A and B in separate jars in England. I measure the spin of either particle A or B in attempt to communicate the signal to you using the entanglement of the two particles (A and A or B and B). But, the trick is that YOU have to measure the spins of BOTH of your particles in order to tell which one I measured in England.

    So after you measured both of your particles you’d need to get in touch with me in England and ask for my measurement, only then could you deduce which particle, A or B, that I measured originally (I guess it would be the particle with an opposite mathematical value for spin compared to yours, or something like that).

  • kurz Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    What if you had a seperate quantum pair for each letter of the alphabet?
    Would there be anyway to know when one had been measured without measuring it yourself?

  • chelsea Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    brian clegg is the best i am chelsea clegg and i am his daughter he is the best daddy anyone could ask for so by his books cos i want new clothes lol only joking

  • Cyberbian Perepatetic Says:
    July 30th, 2007 at 6:08 am

    Saying you cannot use it to communicate is simply myopic.
    You do not need to know what the value which you will set in order to communicate. You use the positional transition, like edge detection in electronics signal processing.

    Please let me demonstrate.

    I set up a four bit message as follows in binary.
    xy xy xy xy

    Each bit is actually two unrelated halves of entangled pairs. By changing the x of the duo I have a 0 by changing the y I have a 1.
    So if the values are scaled as follows
    8 4 2 1
    and I set all the pairs to represent 1, I have sent the number 16.
    So if you can tell that changing one of a pair has altered the other which is clearly stated that you can in the first paragraph, then you can communicate.

  • laiden Says:
    November 26th, 2007 at 4:05 am

    Perhaps we are looking at what can be perceived as a unification of multiple governing forces. I am not a stick in the mud as far as the mathematical implications of the speed of light is concerned, so I have no reservations about believing that something could move faster. And indeed, the likely hood that this “entangled” effect is being misinterpreted is rather great,.. considering the most logical explanation would be that of a “programmed” consequence. ( Of course this means I don’t believe you when you say that particles can be teleported ) But perhaps this phenomena is observable evidence of the unification of governing forces. However, should this be accurate, or perhaps even embellished theoretically and philosophically, there is no stable platform from which it can be mathematically conceived, as is of course made very clear by the principles of relativity. How willing would you be, or your physics professor, for that matter, to throw away the fundamentals of physics for the postulation of a GUT?

  • Mr. Shddd Says:
    November 26th, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    yea i never knew that you don’t know what way the proton will spin. can’t you specify it?

  • doug Says:
    December 18th, 2007 at 4:43 pm

    Well, now they’ve entangled five particles we can communicate. If one particle state is changed, the other 4 react to their entangled partners, and by reading two of them (for reliability/security?) you know the message without destroying them all.

  • Roger Says:
    May 28th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    Well, looks like this happens due to the observer…

    I suggest that the spin can be predictable, but the tecnology of the observer must be newer, I dont know how the observers see those scales today, i believe they throw some kind of laser or any other kind of energy to the point of view that affects it and make it change.

    The Entangled effect seems very confuse, how they could find the entangled particles brothers and estimulated then considering that these brothers could be anywhere in all the universe?! this probability is for sure impossible… the entaglement effect must be created by the observer on the Lab not by Bigbang or any kind of born from far distances.
    ..

  • tim Says:
    June 4th, 2008 at 4:48 am

    hey were can i start from scratch to learn EVERYTHING about this?

  • Charles Says:
    June 5th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    If so many people have said that they can create entangled pairs, then why haven’ they try to develop a way of inputing data, like binary to one of the pair and see what happens to the other.

    if one spins one way and the other spins opposite. like two gears spinning, why can’t we just “grab” the one gear and turn it to and fro, and the other one reacting to transmit information.

    maybe I’m just grossly simplifying the subject. But it seems to me like there is so much talk about what might happen and not enough physical experimentation and just find out what happens and observe it.

  • Jonathan Mueller Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    Can energy be transfered from one entangled particle to the other? If I entangle two particles, and then increase the energy of one, will this affect the energy of the other?

    Thanks

  • geoff Harries Says:
    July 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    Examination of my website resolves the wave-particle duality paradox (light or emr is a wave and so removes the need for the “photon”. I use modern antenna and Sannon’s noise theory. As this is so desperately important I beg you to caste an eye on it and tell me where I am wrong. In particular criticize my classical explanations of the photoelectric effect and Compton effect. No one at the Max Planck Institut here (Munich) or my friend John Cramer “has the time”. Do you?

    Geoff Harries

  • Geoff Harries Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 5:33 am

    See my website which shows with simple, repeatable, intuitive experiment that there is no need for the concept of a “photon”. All can be explained with emr as a wave.

  • Omer Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 3:30 am

    What kind of particle properties depicts quantum entanglement?
    Also is it possible to determine exact position and momentum of particle (such as electron) through the quantum entanglement phenomenon?

  • Omer Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 12:03 am

    When the photon strike the event horizon of black hole, pair production takes place, one particle goes into the black hole and the other goes in the opposite direction in the outward direction. I want to know that the quantum entanglement phenomenon may be used to determine the particle status which goes inside the black hole by altering the properties of the outside entangled particle and thus enabling us to get information of inside the black hole.

  • Omer Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 12:09 am

    I want to know how faster than light(FTL) information is mediated? and what particles can be used for it(may be tachyons)? How does the quantum entanglement explain in terms of particle and antiparticle entangled pair?

  • Omer Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 12:11 am

    What is the entangled pair of gravitons if quantum gravity exists? I want to say that how quantum entanglement is used to describe the gravity?

  • Steve Koke Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 am

    Interesting topic, very poor command of English and clarity of explanation. You guys should not appear in a Physics Review.

  • Theron Says:
    September 10th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    Thank god this isn’t an English discussion, Steve. Scientists are notorious for their ignorance of grammar rules.

    I am a novice in Physics. I only studied for 1.5 years at UCSD and further studies were via juco and, lately, as my interest has grown and time has allowed. I am intrigued by entanglement and quantum theory, though. It doesn’t seem to me that Einstein’s rule has been broken, because the struggle has been trying to word quantum theory in relativistic terms. Speed is not being violated because we are not really referring to classical mechanics and motion. We seem to be referring to state-changes. Also, the concept that we have [only]2 discrete particles is suspect to me now. What we seem to really have is an infinitely expanding particle that can be “measured” only in one dimension, by our modern standards of measurement. Ugh, this is why q-theory is the stuff that makes one “dizzy”.

    I believed we have reached the metaphorical “edge of the Earth” and now we have to be brave enough to sail past it.

 

 

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Message 765818 Posted 10 Jun 2008 20:59:38 UTC

I am just woundering if there was a signal found. how long wound it take for the public to be informed.

I hate to think that this information would be kept to a choosen few.

I also think it is possable, that we have already found a signal and the general public will not be told for a very very long time.

One more thing, If ET says hello... What are we going to say back?

 

Message 765821 Posted 10 Jun 2008 21:06:26 UTC - in response to Message ID 765818.

I am just woundering if there was a signal found. how long wound it take for the public to be informed.

I hate to think that this information would be kept to a choosen few.

I also think it is possable, that we have already found a signal and the general public will not be told for a very very long time.

One more thing, If ET says hello... What are we going to say back?

Despite the denials, we\'d not get to know for a few years I\'d guess. There\'s too many vested interests ranging from the church to governments, the military and big business.

SETI has the Wow signal and at least one other signal that have ALL the hallmarks of being extra terrestial. But, there\'s always something that stops them saying so ie not confirmed by another source or, there\'s \'nothing in that particular part of the sky\' etc. Yes, Im a cynic now. Just returned to SETI but I know, as I suspect we all do, that we\'ll never get to find \'that\' signal.

 

Message 765857 Posted 10 Jun 2008 22:14:54 UTC

To answer the main question: yes, the public will know once a signal is confirmed, and yes, they will know as soon as possible (days not years).

Matt

BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
"Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude ID: 765857

 

Message 765952 - Posted 11 Jun 2008 7:12:47 UTC - in response to Message ID 765912

btw - is your response to this based upom what you just (recently) Posted re: sys admin ;))

Actually.. no - though I see where you might have drawn a hopeful conclusion. I just always feel it\'s important to snuff out wrongful conspiracy theories concerning my day job. Things are never are as complicated/secretive/conspiratorial as people think (or hope in some cases)

Matt

BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person

"Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

 

Message 766101 - Posted 11 Jun 2008 7:12:47 UTC - in response to Message ID 765857

To answer the main question: yes, the public will know once a signal is confirmed, and yes, they will know as soon as possible (days not years).

Matt

How many unconfirmed signals found? Other than the WOW! one

 

Message 766204 - Posted 11 Jun 2008 15:07:35 UTC

A couple of days ago I watched as the graphics catched or stumbled upon a big gaussian (not the same one as mentioned some place else). It did not come up in the numbers thereafter and I did unfortunately not take the number of the WU, sorry to say.

Possibly (but very uncertainly) it may have been WU 06mr08ah.13828.82132.6.8.73._2_0 . In any case, that WU had a spike of 1.70, a gaussian of -8.01 (which is low and not the opposite as some other like to tell) and a pulse of 100996 (Yes!). No triplet. If it was that one, it could be interesting...ID: 766204

 

Message 766238 Posted 11 Jun 2008 16:41:52 UTC

It would be nice if somewhere in the seti program when it knows positive that it has a signal that is states across the screen... \"CANDIDATE SIGNAL FOUND!\" like it did in the movie Contact. ;)

 

Message 766299Posted 11 Jun 2008 18:49:23 UTC - in response to Message ID 766238.

Last modified: 11 Jun 2008 18:58:49 UTC

It would be nice if somewhere in the seti program when it knows positive that it has a signal that is states across the screen... \"CANDIDATE SIGNAL FOUND!\" like it did in the movie Contact. ;)

The problem is, it doesn't know.

Only humans can make that determination, and only after revisiting what they determine are *possible* candidates and scanning their locations again and again.

How many unconfirmed signals found? Other than the WOW! one

Zero

No signal has ever been found which had the characteristics of the WOW! signal (ie; unconfirmed origin and not a natural source, either a glitch, interference, or the real thing)

The closest that the SETI@Home team ever came was this one- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_source_SHGb02%2B14a

Unlike WOW!, this is not something that appeared for an instant and could never be found again; this was found again, and presumably can still be detected by any radio telescope with sufficient capability. This is not an "unconfirmed signal" because it was determined not to be a signal at all.

I'll admit, I'm not satisfied with the explanations as to why it was eventually determined not to be a candidate signal, and to my knowledge, no thorough public explanation has ever been given. It's not that I personally think it's a signal (I don't), I'd just like to know exactly why scientists are so sure it's not.

 

Message 767007- Posted 12 Jun 2008 19:44:03 UTC - in response to Message ID 766299.

This is not an "unconfirmed signal" because it was determined not to be a signal at all.

Thats my point! People argue over the very basic question whether a signal is a candidate. It doesnt fit the bill so lets dismiss it therefore we havent got an 'unconfirmed \ potential signal' to talk about.

I'll admit, I'm not satisfied with the explanations as to why it was eventually determined not to be a candidate signal, and to my knowledge, no thorough public explanation has ever been given. It's not that I personally think it's a signal (I don't), I'd just like to know exactly why scientists are so sure it's not.

Im not satisfied either but I think its highly unlikely you'll get scientists to agree. The signal appears to meet all the criteria for a 'candidate' but is dismissed because 'there's nothing in that part of the sky' and something to do with rotational period or something I mean were either of those two conditions in SETI's original conditions for a candidate?

I dont think so.Im not satisfied either but I think its highly unlikely you'll get scientists to agree. The signal appears to meet all the criteria for a 'candidate' but is dismissed because 'there's nothing in that part of the sky' and something to do with rotational period or something.

I mean were either of those two conditions in SETI's original conditions for a candidate? I dont think so.

 

Message 767082- Posted 12 Jun 2008 22:12:21 UTC - in response to Message ID 76007. Last modified: 12 Jun 2008 22:18:08 UTC

The signal appears to meet all the criteria for a 'candidate' but is dismissed because 'there's nothing in that part of the sky' and something to do with rotational period or something.

The WOW! signal did apparently fit the criteria for artificial origin, but an Earthbound source or glitch in the system couldn't be ruled out since it could never be detected again or independently verified by any other telescope.

As for the SETI@Home signal, while I think they know the criteria better than we do, I admit that I don't fully understand the explanation. Just because I don't understand it doesn't mean I don't agree with it. If the signal were as compelling as you seem to think it is, it wouldn't have been dismissed, certainly not by the SETI@Home team which has put years' worth of effort and investment into this project, and certainly not by other SETI teams, like the SETI Institute.

I may not be happy that it turned out not be a signal from ET, and I may not be personally satisfied with the explanations, but I have to concede that they know more about the signal than I do and they know more about why it's not a good candidate than I do.

 

Message 767267- Posted 13 Jun 2008 4:53:21 UTC - in response to Message ID 765952.

btw - is your response to this based upom what you just (recently) Posted re: sys admin ;))

Actually.. no - though I see where you might have drawn a hopeful conclusion. I just always feel it\'s important to snuff out wrongful conspiracy theories concerning my day job. Things are never are as complicated/secretive/conspiratorial as people think (or hope in some cases).

- Matt

Yeah, but everyone likes a god conspiracy theory :)

 

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"Suffering superlatives/or how Marr got his particles all shook up"

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"A few of them said 'wow! from time to time but there was nothing much to see or hear"

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"DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS"

 

 

FIRST CONTACT

THE SEARCH FOR EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE

Edited by Ben Nova and Byron Preiss 1990

Page 256

"Two types of unexplained signals were detected during this search. The first kind is quite rare, with the best example being the 'Wow' signal found in 1977. This /Page 257/ name was unintenionally applied from Jerry Ehman's comments in the margin of the computer printout when he noticed the signal. The signal was unmistakably strong and had all the characteristics of an extra-terrestrial signal."

"We searched in the direction of the 'Wow!' signal hundreds of times after its discovery and over a wide frequency range. We never found the signal again.

"...the 'Wow signal was received only once..."

"What was the wow signal? Probably we will never know."

 

 

LIFE OUT THERE

Michael White1998

SIGNALS FROM BEYOND

5

Page 99/100

Page 102

"So far the most important find was a signal detected at the Ohio University 'Big Ear' radio telescope in August 1977. Known by SETI researchers and enthusiasts as the 'Wow' signal, after the monoyllabic exclamation written on the computer print-out by an astonished astronomer at the station, it lasted exactly thirty-seven seconds and appears to have come from the direction of Sagittarius. Although, most strikingly, the signal was a narrow-band signal precisely at the hydrogen frequency of 1420 MHz, it has not been detected even a second time, in Sagittarius or anywhere else.

So, what of the future? Is the continuing search for intelligent life in the Universe a total waste of money, as its opponents insist, or are we perhaps on the threshold of a great discovery?

 

 

LIFE OUT THERE

Michael White 1998

THE TRUTH OF AND SEARCH FOR EXTRA TERRESTRIAL LIFE

SIGNALS FROM BEYOND

5

Page 99/100

Page 102

"So far the most important find was a signal detected at the Ohio University 'Big Ear' radio telescope in August 1977. Known by SETI researchers and enthusiasts as the 'Wow' signal, after the monoyllabic exclamation written on the computer print-out by an astonished astronomer at the station, it lasted exactly thirty-seven seconds and appears to have come from the direction of Sagittarius. Although, most strikingly, the signal was a narrow-band signal precisely at the hydrogen frequency of 1420 MHz, it has not been detected even a second time, in Sagittarius or anywhere else."

 

 

MAN AND THE STARS

CONTACT AND COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER INTELLIGENCE

Duncan Lunan 1974

THE MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS FROM OUTER SPACE

Page 323

DID ANYONE FOLLOW IT UP

13

"Oh whistle and i'll come tae you my lad . . ."

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IS ANYONE HERE NOW

14

"Arthur Clarke said we must learn to live with our/ Page 836 / selves, to meet others properly.14 Chris Boyce said here, in Chapter 8, that we should set our own house:" in order, in our relations with one another and with other life on Earth. Robert Burns said: "Oh wad some po'er the giftie gie us, to see oorsels as ithers see us. . . ." It's time we took some action on that basis; indeed, it always has been."

"Oh wad some po'er the giftie gie us, to see oorsels as ithers see us. . . ."

 

 

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Ephraim Hardcastle

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"Oh, wad some power the gift to gie us/ To see oursels as others see us"

 

 

MAN AND THE STARS

CONTACT AND COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER INTELLIGENCE

Duncan Lunan 1974

a liberating adventure for mankind? Or a disaster...?

Page 72

"Here John Macavey quoted Pope:

Observe how system into system runs,

What other planets circle other suns,

What varied beings people every star

 

 

OF TIME AND STARS

Arthur C. Clarke 1972

The Sentinel

"I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long."

 

 

OF TIME AND STARS

Arthur C. Clarke 1972

Page 81

If I forget Thee, Oh Earth

"He stared into the west, away from the blinding splendour of the sun - and there were the stars, as he had been told but had never quite believed. He gazed at them for a long time marvelling that anything could be so bright and yet so tiny. They were intense unscintillating points, and suddenly he remembered a rhyme he had once read in one of his father's books:

Twinkle, Twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are."

 

 

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".........nursery rhymes and songs such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

 

 

Good Morning Starshine

Good Morning Starshine The earth says hello You twinkle above us We twinkle below

Good Morning Starshine You lead us along My love and me as we sing Our early morning singing song

Gliddy glub gloopy Nibby nabby noopy La la la lo lo Sabba sibby sabba Nooby abba nabba
Le le lo lo Tooby ooby walla Nooby abba naba
Early morning singing song

Good Morning Starshine The earth says hello You twinkle above us We twinkle below

Good Morning Starshine You lead us along My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing song

Gliddy glub gloopy Nibby nabby noopy La la la lo lo Sabba sibby sabba Nooby abba nabba
Le le lo lo Tooby ooby walla Nooby abba naba
Early morning singing song

Singing a song Humming a song Singing a song
Loving a song Laughing a song

Singing a song Sing the song song the sing
song song song sing sing sing sing song
song song song sing sing sing sing song

Let the sunshine Let the sunshine in The sunshine in

Let the sunshine Let the sunshine in The sunshine in

Let the sunshine Let the sunshine in The sunshine in

Let the sunshine Let the sunshine in The sunshine in

Let the sunshine Let the sunshine in The sunshine in

Let the sunshine Let the sunshine in The sunshine in

Let the sunshine Let the sunshine in The sunshine in

Let the sunshine Let the sunshine in The sunshine in

Let the sunshine Let the sunshine in The sunshine in

 

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1967

is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot

 

 

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By Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895

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Zeitgeist (pronounced [ˈt͡saɪtgaɪst] (help·info)) is a German language expression literally translated: Zeit, time; Geist, spirit, meaning "the spirit of the age and its society". The word zeitgeist describes the intellectual, cultural, ethical and political climate of an era or also a trend. In German, the word has more layers of meaning than the English translation, including the fact that Zeitgeist can only be observed for past events.

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The concept of Zeitgeist goes back to Johann Gottfried Herder and other German Romantics such as Cornelius Jagdmann, but is best known in relation to Hegel's philosophy of history. In 1769 Herder wrote a critique of the work Genius seculi by the philologist Christian Adolph Klotz and introduced the word Zeitgeist into German as a translation of genius seculi (Latin: genius - "guardian spirit" and saeculi - "of the century").

The German Romantics, habitually tempted to reduce the past to essences, treated the Zeitgeist as a historical character in its own right, rather than a generalized description for an era.

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"Zeitgeist" refers to the ethos of an identified group of people, that expresses a particular world view which is prevalent at a particular period of socio-cultural progression.

Zeitgeist is the experience of a dominant cultural climate that defines, particularly in Hegelian thinking, an era in the dialectical progression of a people or the world at large. Hegel's main contribution to the formulation of the concept of Volksgeist is the attribution of a historical character to the concept. The spirit of a nation is one of the manifestations of "World Spirit" (Weltgeist). That Spirit is essentially alive and active throughout mankind's history. Now, the spirit of a nation is an intermediate stage of world history as the history of the World Spirit. The World Spirit gives impetus to the realization of the historical spirits of various nations (Volksgeister').

The spirits of individual nations are both the articulations (Gliederungen) of an organization and its realization. The spirits of individual nations represent a segment of the World Spirit out of which emerges the unlimited universal spirit. A comparison is introduced here between the status of an individual and that of a nation's spirit. In the process of his formation the individual undergoes various changes without, however, losing his identity. As a part of world history, a nation—exhibiting a certain trend expressed in its Volksgeist— plays its part in the total process of world history. But once it contributes its share to world history it can no longer play a role in the process of world history. The submersion in the total process prevents a people's cultural rebirth, because it has exhausted its creativity in the historical growth of its guiding spirit. It is for this reason that one of Hegel's disciples, Michelet, considered the idea of a renaissance of the Jewish people as philosophically impossible.

 

 

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[edit] Origins The concept of Zeitgeist goes back to Johann Gottfried Herder and other German Romantics such as Cornelius Jagdmann, but is best known in relation to Hegel's philosophy of history. In 1769 Herder wrote a critique of the work Genius seculi by the philologist Christian Adolph Klotz and introduced the word Zeitgeist into German as a translation of genius seculi (Latin: genius - "guardian spirit" and saeculi - "of the century").
 
The German Romantics, habitually tempted to reduce the past to essences, treated the Zeitgeist as a historical character in its own right, rather than a generalized description for an era.
 
 
[edit] Definitions "Zeitgeist" refers to the ethos of an identified group of people, that expresses a particular world view which is prevalent at a particular period of socio-cultural progression.
 
Zeitgeist is the experience of a dominant cultural climate that defines, particularly in Hegelian thinking, an era in the dialectical progression of a people or the world at large. Hegel's main contribution to the formulation of the concept of Volksgeist is the attribution of a historical character to the concept. The spirit of a nation is one of the manifestations of "World Spirit" (Weltgeist). That Spirit is essentially alive and active throughout mankind's history. Now, the spirit of a nation is an intermediate stage of world history as the history of the World Spirit. The World Spirit gives impetus to the realization of the historical spirits of various nations (Volksgeister').
 
The spirits of individual nations are both the articulations (Gliederungen) of an organization and its realization. The spirits of individual nations represent a segment of the World Spirit out of which emerges the unlimited universal spirit. A comparison is introduced here between the status of an individual and that of a nation's spirit. In the process of his formation the individual undergoes various changes without, however, losing his identity. As a part of world history, a nation—exhibiting a certain trend expressed in its Volksgeist— plays its part in the total process of world history. But once it contributes its share to world history it can no longer play a role in the process of world history. The submersion in the total process prevents a people's cultural rebirth, because it has exhausted its creativity in the historical growth of its guiding spirit. It is for this reason that one of Hegel's disciples, Michelet, considered the idea of a renaissance of the Jewish people as philosophically impossible.

 

 

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Zeitgeist is originally a German expression that means "the spirit (Geist) of the time (Zeit)". It denotes the intellectual and cultural climate of an era. The German pronunciation of the word is [ˈtsa͡ɪtga͡ɪst] (IPA). The concept of Zeitgeist goes back to the German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder. In 1769 he wrote a critique of the work Genius seculi by the philologist Christian Adolph Klotz (German Wikipedia article) and introduced the word Zeitgeist into German as atranslation of genius seculi (Latin: genius - "g

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n. The spirit of the time; the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation: “It's easy to see how a student . . . in the 1940's could imbibe such notions. The Zeitgeist encouraged Philosopher-Kings” (James Atlas).

[German : Zeit, time (from Middle High German zit, from Old High German) + Geist, spirit; see poltergeist.]

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Zeitgeist [tsyt-gyst], the German word for ‘time-spirit’, more often translated as ‘spirit of the age’. It usually refers to the prevailing mood or attitude of a given period.

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The spirit of the times; the dominant beliefs of a particular period. The term is usually applied to the study of literature, but it has also been applied to sport (for example, in connection with the current belief that winning is all that matters).

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the general intellectual, moral and cultural climate of an era

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This article is about the German word. For other uses, see Zeitgeist (disambiguation).

Zeitgeist (pronounced ['tsa??tga??st] (help·info)) is originally a German expression that means "the spirit of the age", literally translated as "time (Zeit) spirit (Geist)". It describes the intellectual and cultural climate of an era. In German, the word has more layers of meaning than the English translation, including the fact that Zeitgeist can only be observed for past events.

Zeitgeist has achieved a unique status among German loanwords in other tongues, having found an entrance into English, Spanish and Japanese.

Origins The concept of Zeitgeist goes back to Johann Gottfried Herder and other German Romantics such as Cornelius Jagdmann, but is best known in relation to Hegel's philosophy of history. In 1769 Herder wrote a critique of the work Genius seculi by the philologist Christian Adolph Klotz (German Wikipedia article) and introduced the word Zeitgeist into German as a translation of genius seculi (Latin: genius - "guardian spirit" and saeculi - "of the century").

The German Romantics, habitually tempted to reduce the past to essences, treated the Zeitgeist as an historical character in its own right, rather than a generalized description for an era.

Definitions "Zeitgeist" refers to the ethos of a select group of people, that express a particular (predominantly post-modern) world view, which is prevalent at a particular period of socio-cultural progression.

Zeitgeist is the experience of a dominant cultural climate that defines, particularly in Hegelian thinking, an era in the dialectical progression of a people or the world at large. Hegel's main contribution to the formulation of the concept of Volksgeist is the attribution of a historical character to the concept. The spirit of a nation is one of the manifestations of "World Spirit" (Weltgeist). That Spirit is essentially alive and active throughout mankind's history. Now, the spirit of a nation is an intermediate stage of world history as the history of the World Spirit. The World Spirit gives impetus to the realization of the historical spirits of various nations (Volksgeister').

The spirits of individual nations are both the articulations (Gliederungen) of an organization and its realization. The spirits of individual nations represent a segment of the World Spirit out of which emerges the unlimited universal spirit. A comparison is introduced here between the status of an individual and that of a nation's spirit. In the process of his formation the individual undergoes various changes without, however, losing his identity. As a part of world history, a nation—exhibiting a certain trend expressed in its Volksgeist— plays its part in the total process of world history. But once it contributes its share to world history it can no longer play a role in the process of world history. The submersion in the total process prevents a people's cultural rebirth, because it has exhausted its creativity in the historical growth of its guiding spirit. It is for this reason that one of Hegel's disciples, Michelet, considered the idea of a renaissance of the Jewish people as philosophically impossible.

Quotations

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Whoever marries the zeitgeist will be a widower soon. - August Everding

Opinions, that deviate from the ruling zeitgeist, always aggravate the crowd. - Germaine de Staël

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone. - Johann Georg Hamann

Ohh, spirit of the age - crusher, Peter Godfrey

Don't take any shit from the zeitgeist. - comedian George Carlin

You exist in the Zeitgeist with a cane, sir. - Debbie DeLaguardia, speaking to president Bartlet in the seventh season of The West Wing.

Jittery Zeitgeist wither by the watering hole. - Aesop Rock from his track None Shall Pass on his recently released album, None Shall Pass.

 

 

 

 

I

ME

ART

THOU ART THAT ART THOU

CREATORS ALL ALL CREATORS

THAT ART THOU THOU ART THAT

GOD SPIRIT ART THOU THOU ART GOD SPIRIT

MIND MATTER SPIRIT GOD SPIRIT MATTER MIND

THOU ART UNIVERSAL MIND GODS UNIVERSAL MIND ART THOU

 

 

 

EHT NAMUH 1977

 

 

GOD

Alexander Waugh

Page 162

Einstein's blunder. - When Einstein tried to refute quantum physics with his now famous dictum 'God does not play dice' He revealed his ignorance of scripture, for God does indeed play dice in the form of a game called urim and thummim. These flat stone dice are mentioned many times in the Hebrew Bible. Although urim and thummim actually belonged to God (Ps.-Philo 47:2) they were jealously guarded by the high priest either in his ephod (an oracular pouch) or in a pocket by his chest. The exact manner in which urim and thummim was played has been lost to the mysteries of time, but it is thought they provided the same function as a coin when it is flipped for heads or tails.

 

 

GREAT PHILOSOPHIES OF THE EAST

E. W. F. Tomlin 1952

Page 159

"Like the conpilers of the Old Testament: the editors of the Rig-Veda anthology were,careful to preserve intact material beloning to different epochs, We are thus able to trace the development of the early Aryan, religious consciousness , just as a reading of early and later parts of the Bible affords us an enlarged conception of the nature of the Hebrew Yahve. There is wisdom in this refusal on the part of priestly guardians to suppress the primitive elements of their faith; for these are better kept well before the eye than allowed to fester, as the result of exision, in that uneasy corner to be found in the most devout conscience. Some of the vedic hymns are merely satirical, such as that addressed 'To Frogs', which is considered to be a satire on the priesthood; or straightforward vers de societe- such as that on the 'The Gambler', of whose ('dice dearer than soma') it is said:

Downward they roll, and then spring quickly upward, and handless, force

The man with hands to serve them.

Cast on the board, like lumps of magic charcoal, though cold themselves, they burn

The heart to ashes."

 

 

TWO HANDS OF GOD

An Exploration of the Underlying Unity of all Things

Alan Watts 1963

The Cosmic Dance

Page 98

"In Puranic literature the Hindu gods, like those of the Greeks, disport themselves by descending to the human condition and allowing them selves to be carried away by human passions. This is perhaps a way of saying that at every level of /Page 98/ life- divine, human, or animal-the problem and predicament of life is the same; an eternal giving-in to the temptation of losing control of the situation, of trusting oneself to chance-the passion of the gambler. Hence the words of Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita " I am the gambling of the cheat."

 

 

CHANCE, SKILL, AND LUCK

The psychology of guessing and gambling

John Cohen 1960

Page57

"The propounding of a riddle to an an opponent served a purpose similar to that of divination, for it provided him with an opportunity to demonstrate that the gods supported- him. The questioner held him bound until he found the solution, and once he had found it he was free. The riddle thus had a sacred significance. 10,11 Divination by lot or riddle was never merely a resort to meaningless chance. It was an appeal directed to ssupernatural powers, as when the Greek heroes cast lots to decide who would fight with Hector.12 Since it is impossible to predict the fall of a die or the result of casting lots the outcome must presumably be decided by divine intervention. The professional diviners in the market-places of China foretold the future by means of the samse lots with which the people gambled. To this day playing cards are used for telling fortunes as well as for gambling, on the assumption that a supernatural force influences the shuffling of the cards and hence governs the result. Divination embodies the idea that the gods themselves govern the universe by gambling. The Ases of Scandinavian myths, like the Hindu Siva, god of a thousand names', determinev the fate of mankind by throw-/Page 58/ing dice. So, two, in Homer's Illiad (Bookxv), Poseidon, Zeus and Hades divide the world between them by shaking lots, which by their special power could reveal the will of the gods.13 In the myth of Osiris, Rhea (Nut= the heaven) had five children born on the the five 'epagomenal' days of the year, after the 360th day. Hermes (Thoth) had won those days during a game of draughts with Selene (the moon).

 

 

DOES GOD PLAY DICE

THE NEW MATHEMATICS OF CHAOS

Ian Stewart 1989

Page 1

PROLOGUE

CLOCKWORK OR CHAOS?

"YOU BELIEVE IN A GOD WHO PLAYS DICE, AND I IN COMPLETE LAW AND ORDER."

Albert Einstein, Letter to Max Born

 

 

EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE

Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take

Ill be watching you

Every single day Every word you say Every game you play Every night you stay

Ill be watching you

Oh, cant you see You belong to me How my poor heart aches With every step you take

Every move you make Every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake

Ill be watching you

Since youve gone I been lost without a trace I dream at night I can only see your face

I look around but its you I cant replace I feel so cold and I long for your embrace I keep crying baby, baby, please...

Oh, cant you see You belong to me How my poor heart aches With every breath you take

Every move you make Every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake

Ill be watching you

Every move you make Every step you take

Ill be watching you Ill be watching you Ill be watching you Ill be watching you Ill be watching you

 

Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take Ill be watching you Every single day Every word you say ... www.lyricsfreak.com/p/police/every+breath+you+take

 

CITY OF REVELATION

John Michell 1972

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Gnostic Numbers

Page 115

The names of the gods vary with languages; but it was formerly possible for an adept to recognise the corresponding principles in each system by arithmomancy, the science of theological interpretation by number. Every ancient god had a number which determined the value of the letters in his name and also, according to Hocart, decided the number of syllables in the verses addressed to him. No doubt the priests of Stonehenge had their own names for the deities known to the Greeks as Zeus 612, Hermes 353, (Greek letters omitted) 1080 etc., whose numbers appear in the dimensions of the temple, but these are long forgotten. The numbers however may still be discovered as the values by gematria of the names given in the Greek language to the sacred principles of Christianity. Obvious examples include Jesus 888, Christos 1480, The Holy Spirit i o8o, Lord Jesus Christ 3168, Son of God 1164, Saviour 1408 etc.; and related to these are the symbolic phrases of the New Testament, as a grain of mustard seed 1746 (666 + 1080), a grain of wheat 2220, one pearl of great price and the Ark of the Covenant, both 2178, and many others.
How it comes about that the holy names of Christianity are formed on the same numerical system as the ancient cosmic temple is the deepest of mysteries, and the established Church has always been concerned that it should remain so. It is known that several early Christian teachers, including the great gnostic masters Marcus and Valentinus, demonstrated the eternal values behind the new religion by means of arithmomancy, comparing the names and numbers of Christian cosmology with those recognised by initiates of the traditional schools. Their followers were called gnostics because they claimed to have the gnosis or knowledge through direct experience and considered it idle and superstitious to accept the unsupported word of others in matters which could be explored through personal investigation in the light of revelation. The name is generally applied to the scholars of Alexandria at the beginning of the Christian era who, with the benefit of the great library with its vast collection of /Page 116/ manuscripts drawn from every part of the ancient world, reconciled the tradition of Greek philosophy with the Hebrew cabala and the hermetic doctrines of Egypt and the East to produce the logos of the new age. It was not until the second century, when the hard party men took control of the newly organised church, that gnosticism became a heresy, but so thoroughly were their proscribed works and memorials destroyed, that information about the beliefs and practices of the Christian gnostics has been virtually limited to the evidence of the Church Fathers such as Irenaeus, Tertullian and Hippolytus, who set out to discredit them.
The most informative of these is St Irenaeus in his five books, Against Heresies. This worthy Church Father, Bishop of Lyons in the second century, acquired a superficial knowledge of gnostic practices, and may have been rejected from one of their societies, for he writes that the gnostics call him ignorant, an accusation of which he claims to be proud. Irenaeus's books are abusive and scarcely rational, written in the manner of a Sunday newspaper journalist, who `exposes' other people by presenting a selective version of their beliefs and activities in such a way as to make them appear ridiculous. This approach is typified in the charges which Irenaeus brings against the gnostics: that they seduce women, corrupt and swindle their pupils, and attach more importance to their own personal experience of truth than to the exhortations of authority. People like St Irenaeus have the trick of misrepresenting others by describing literally certain of their practices, while giving no indication of the meaning behind them. It was to frustrate this menace that the gnostics preferred to keep their teaching a secret, particularly that part which related to their numerical cosmology. Irenaeus therefore saw it his duty to expose the gnostics' use of number in order to show that their methods " were vain and meaningless, claiming also that they were a powerful inducement to heresy and to the acquisition of forbidden knowledge. These scarcely compatible objections are revived by the witch-hunters in every generation. Nevertheless, although he was obviously justified in boasting of his essential ignorance in such matters, Irenaeus gives several examples of the numerical system used by the gnostics, which, they claimed, was an inheritance from the days of Homer and the ancient philosophers.
The cosmic order, the gnostics' Pleroma, was made up of 30 aeons, representing the hierarchy of power and the stages in creation. The aeons were divided into three groups of 8, 10 and 12, of which the first, containing the 8 aeons of the primeval creation, was known as the Ogdoad. According to Irenaeus, the gnostics found in the name, /Page 117/ Jesus, a reference to the Ogdoad, for the value by gematria of (Greek letters omitted) Jesus, is 888. Since it contains six letters, the name Jesus was also associated with the number 6, and the number 888 may also be reduced to 6, for 8 + 8 + 8 = 24; 2 + 4 = 6. Again the number 888 was taken to correspond with the numerical values of the twenty-four letters of the Greek alphabet, of which there are 8 units, 8 tens, and 8 hundreds.

The following is a quotation from Irenaeus about the gnostics' convention of relating words to numbers:

`But the local positions of the three hundred and sixty-five heavens they distribute in the same way as the mathematicians, for they have taken their theorems and applied them to their own kind of learning. And their head, they say, is Abraxas, therefore he has in himself the three hundred and sixty-five numbers.'

The significance of this passage is that the value of the word Abraxas, written in Greek (Greek letters omitted) is 365, and Abraxas was god of the 365 days of the solar year, corresponding to (Greek letters omitted) Mithras, whose number is also 365. From such examples it is evident that gnostic numerology was the reconstitution of a much earlier system, applied to various orders of the gods throughout the ancient world, and adopted by early Christian scholars as the canon, by which the new sacred names were constructed to represent the same eternal principles as were recognised in the past. One of the charges brought against the gnostics was that from a numerical interpretation of the scriptures, they drew certain conclusions about the Christian Saviour and his recurrent appearance in accordance with the procession of the aeons, which contradicted the new doctrine within the Church, that the coming of Jesus was the one and only appearance of the Son of God on earth, and that the true religion was first made known at the time of his birth. According to Irenaeus, they considered that Jesus had given proof of his divinity when he spoke the words, 'I am Alpha and Omega', because the sum of the Greek letters, alpha = and omega = 800 is 801, and 801 is the number of (Greek letters omitted), a dove. 801 is also the width of a vesica about 1385 in length, and 1385 is the number of (Greek letters omitted) It is the Lord (John 21.7). Thus they believed that the divine spirit, represented by the dove, entered into Jesus, the man, at his baptism, while the Church held that the spirit and the body of Jesus Christ were indivisible, and looked forward to a bodily resurrection. The seemingly unimportant differences in the positions of the two sides veiled the eternal chasm that separates the rival principles, represented by the prophet and the priest; on /Page 118/ the one hand the fertilising, disruptive spirit of the scientist, magician and philosopher, and on the other, the rule of Caesar's law. The gnostics were concerned to examine the traditions of ancient cosmology, brought to life again in the Christian revelation. Exactly how they came by their science of numbers is not certain, but they appear to have made the discovery that the numerical code of the Hebrew cabala and those of other mystical systems throughout the world were all degenerate versions of the same once universal system of knowledge that returns within the reach of human perception at certain intervals in time. As the revealed books of the Old Testament were written in a code to be interpreted by reference to number, so were the revelations of the gnostic prophets expressed in words and phrases formed on a system of proportion, which gave.life and power to the Christian myth, while allowing initiates to gain a further understanding of the balance of forces that produce the world of phenomena.
Gematria, the science of relating words to numbers, must be extremely old. Its origins are probably coeval with the first use of writing, its purely numerical aspect being much earlier, for numbers precede literature, the introduction of which has always been regarded as, at the best, a mixed blessing. Plato in Phaedrus repeats the legend of Thoth, the Egyptian god, who discovered the use of letters and went to King Thamus to show off his invention, claiming that it would be an aid to memory and an incentive to wisdom. The king told him that the opposite would be the case, 'for this invention will encourage forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, because they will neglect to cultivate memory. You have invented an aid not to memory but to reminding. You offer your pupils the appearance instead of the reality of wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction, and will seem knowledgeable when they are for the most part ignorant and troublesome associates, thinking themselves wise, instead of being so.' Neither the art of language nor the use of letters is a natural human attribute, and in some ways the effect of their introduction has been to inhibit communication. Both have been invented or • received, and both may have been lost and rediscovered at various periods of history. Writing was formerly reserved for sacred and divinatory purposes. Its use in secular affairs coincided with and accelerated the decline of the ancient world.
To the objections raised by King Thamus may be added another: that our sense of history has been seriously distorted by the widespread use of writing, to the extent that we are now able to understand only the inscribed records of contemporary events. to the ex / Page 119 /elusion of that greater part of the human tradition concerned with pre-literary times. In this respect the illiterate members of primitive societies are to some extent better informed than ourselves about the true history of creation and the early adventures of the human race. Among the South Sea islanders, the natives of Australia and the tribes of Africa and North America, there are still those who preserve their own scholarly institutions of oral history, transmitted through generations of priests and shamans and continually reinvoked in myth and ritual. Thus the early traditions are not only kept alive by inheritance, but are also directly experienced in the ceremonial structure of tribal life.
There are, or have been until very recently, several primitive societies in which the creation myths and popular histories are further interpreted for the benefit of initiates by means of a secret magical alphabet, based on a divinely revealed system of numbers. In northern Nigeria is a sacred grove where the Creator is said to have ordered the world according to an arrangement of letters which he laid out in a circle around him, and this type of legend recurs at many esoteric centres throughout the world. The mystic in a climatic vision penetrates into the world behind phenomena and perceives the interaction between the various forces of the cosmos. Certain rhythms, notes and geometrical forms are repeated, suggesting the idea of an alphabet in which letters or numbers represent corresponding symbols, sounds and creative influences. Thus the art of writing derives from a metaphysical code of symbols, the gift of revelation.
The Chinese I Ching, in which the cosmic order is represented in 64 hexagrams, each of six lines symbolising various combinations of negative and positive forces, has had an influence on Chinese civilisation similar to that of the Hebrew cabala in European history. Both systems are of great and indefinite antiquity; both originated as revelations and have been continually renewed from the same source. The fundamental diagram of the cabala is the Tree of Life, an arrangement of ten points or centres, linked by twenty-two paths, the whole figure laid out to represent the body of a man, Adam Kadmon, the universal macrocosm. The twenty-two paths correspond to the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, also to the twenty-two trumps of the Tarot pack, and these letters express different aspects of cosmic energy according as they are related to the ten centres or archetypes. These ten, the sephiroth, are emanations from the one source, reflecting the stages of organic development in the creation of the universe from the primeval seed. The cabalistic diagram and the traditional teaching associated with it / Page 120 / provide a most comprehensive account of the order manifest in nature, while omitting any dogmatic assertions as to the form or nature of a supreme creative principle, questions on which no one has ever known very much, nor ever will.
Of all the surviving mystical languages, the Hebrew cabala remains the most complete and accessible to western scholars, for the Jews have been extremely tenacious of their ancient traditions and their convention of scriptural interpretation, by the use of gematria, has never entirely lapsed. They have, however, a tendency to exaggerate their own claims to antiquity at the expense of other races and pretend that the Greek cabala, the instrument of the Pythagoreans and of the neo-Platonists at Alexandria, was simply an adaptation of the Hebrew. In fact, it appears that both systems had a common source in Egyptian and Babylonian cosmology, or, more likely, that these and all the other related traditions of Europe and the East were fragments of a more perfect and universal science, disintegrated through gradual decay or sudden change. The evidence of Stonehenge shows the existence of a system of knowledge among the pre-Celtic British identical with that held by the Greeks and Hebrews. The same myths, monuments and even the same standards of measurement are found all over the world; so is the institution of the cosmic temple with the solar king and his dependent hierarchy drawn up by reference to a sacred canon that is everywhere said not to have been invented, but revealed by the gods. The conclusion is obvious. Unfortunately, the academic world flourishes on the proliferation of different categories of study, and minor variations in style are regarded as more significant than the essential similarities between the first civilised traditions of all people, however degenerate they may since have become. The prevailing faith in progress is founded on the nineteenth-century creation myth, taken from the sacred books of the Darwinians, according to which human intelligence has gradually evolved and grows ever brighter, each generation contributing towards the general advancement of civilisation. This idea has now been established as a religious belief and is therefore, to the faithful, proof against all the evidence of fact, reason and tradition which seems to the unconverted totally to discredit it. Theories of ancient history are debated with great fury because of their influence on current ideas, arousing the same passions as did matters of theology in previous centuries, and it is now considered best that the question of human origins should be settled by reference to a doctrine sufficiently vague to conceal the fact that this is another of those subjects on which no one really knows anything. / Page 121 / How it was ever supposed that the Hebrew alphabet of twenty-two letters, together with various geometrical symbols might serve to represent the entire moving pattern of the universe is not now easy to understand; but, since all ancient philosophy, religion, magic, the arts and sciences were based on the concept of a correspondence between numbers and cosmic law, it is impossible to appreciate the history of the past without some actual experience of the fundamental truth behind this approach to cosmology. Plato gives a remarkable account in Cratylos of the origin of language and letters. The philosopher is asked whether there is any particular significance in names, for surely they are simply a matter of convention and one is more or less as good as another. After all, foreigners call things by different names and appear to manage just as well .as the Greeks in this respect. The answer given is that despite appearances the matter is by no means so simple. Words are the tools of expression, and the making of these, as of any other tools, is the task of a skilled craftsman, in this case the lawgiver. Language has grown corrupt over the ages, and names have deviated from their original perfect forms, which are those used by the gods. But all names were originally formed on certain principles, through knowledge of which it is possible to discover the archetypal meaning of words in current use. 'So perhaps the man who knows about names considers their value and is not confused if some letter is added, transposed or subtracted, or even if the force of the name is expressed in quite different letters.' This is Plato's clearest reference to the mystical science of the cabala, in which letters, words and whole phrases may be substituted for others of the same numerical value. The force of a name is to be found in its number, and can be expressed through any combination of letters,. provided the sum of the letters amounts to the appropriate number by gematria. The matter becomes even more intriguing when Plato indicates the principles on which names are created. Each letter of the alphabet stands for a particular state or type of motion, and thus a word, being composed of individual letters, represents a certain balance of forces. Several examples are given. The letter `r.' conveys the meaning of hurry, rushing, running rapidly; 'l' suggests a sliding, flowing, slipping, gliding motion, and 'g' is found in words that mean sweet and sticky such as sugary and gummy. It is certainly remarkable that the Greek words used by Plato to demonstrate this idea should have English equivalents containing the same characteristic letters, and the fact that it is so may be taken as evidence that letters do have a certain autonomous existence as archetypal symbols. From this point of view it is but a logical step to give. numerical / Page 122 / values to the letters so that the relationship between two words can be expressed as a mathematical ratio. Even if the logic be denied, it remains a fact that this was the practice of the cabalists, the leading scholars of their time. Those who are now attracted by codes, anagrams, word games and crossword puzzles, the solution of which is largely a matter of intuition, are the natural cabalists deprived of their sacred role.
It is well known that the architects of the Italian Renaissance followed the example of Vitruvius and the ancients in drawing up plans and elevations in accordance with a Pythagorean canon of proportion, which was based on the intervals of musical harmony, on the principle that `the numbers by means of which the agreement of sounds affects our ears with delight, are the very same which please our eyes and our minds'. Not only did they use the simple musical proportions, octaves (1 : 2), fourths (1 : 4) and fifths (2 : 3), but also the dynamic ratios of canonical geometry such as i : -V2, the relationship between the side of a square and its diagonal. Professor Thom found evidence of the same practice in the groundplans of British stone circles of around 2000 BC. The stones are arranged in accordance with geometrical designs, based on Pythagorean triangles, a feature which could not be appreciated other than by the initiated. These facts are inexplicable without some recognition of the magical significance which in ancient times was attributed to the science of proportions. According to the Egyptian book of magic, the Asclepius of Hermes Trismegistos, certain statues in the Egyptian temples were cunningly contrived to become animated by cosmic forces. The interpretation of this phenomenon by the sixteenth-century cabalist, Giulio Camillo, is quoted by Frances Yates in The Art of Memory as follows:

`I have read, I believe in Merenvius Trismegistus, that in Egypt there were such excellent makers of statues that when they had brought some statue to the perfect proportions, it was found to be animated with an angelic spirit: for such perfection could not be without a soul. Similar to such statues I find a composition of words, the office of which is to hold all words in a proportion grateful to the ear . . . which words, as soon as they are put into their proportion, are found when pronounced to be as it were animated with a harmony.'

From this it appears that the power of the Egyptian statues lay in the magical effect of their divine proportions. Similarly in rhetoric, an art to which the cabalists devoted a great deal of attention, the influence of a perfectly balanced sentence transcends its obvious literal meaning to such an extent it becomes a powerful instru- / Page 123 / ment of control and communication. Just as there was a canon of ritual, of architecture, of painting and of musical harmony, taught in the mystery schools and in part revived at the Renaissance, so there was also a secret canon of rhetoric and literary composition. All the arts and sciences were based on the same cosmic truths expressed in number, and the sacred numbers were the ratios in a revealed world order, drawn from the experience of mystics and confirmed by precise measurements of the solar system.
It is impossible to exaggerate the respect in which these numbers were held by those who had knowledge and experience of their potential influence on human thought and actions. Though every master craftsman was acquainted with the canon of his particular trade, the inner mysteries of the numerical cosmology were known only to the initiated ministers of the temple, who were forbidden to disclose them and considered it in no one's interest that they should do so. Neither Plato nor any other ancient writer whose works survive gives an explicit demonstration of the science of gematria, and the reason is obvious. It is impossible to communicate the idea of a basic law of proportion inherent in nature to anyone who has not_ already begun to realise this fact for himself through his own observations. To attempt to do so is to provoke the resentment of those who find the idea contrary to the rationalised assumptions and prejudices in which they have been educated, and which they prefer to the evidence of their own poetic intuition. Yet those who deride the notion of the cosmic Temple as a primitive aberration, are often the very people who construct the great temple follies and the images of their own fantasy gods on earth. A system of knowledge, which in the-possession of enlightened men can produce a prosperous and well balanced society, may also be used as a diabolic instrument of tyranny. The Christian gnostics were discredited not by the works of their great masters, though these perished with the rest, but by the obscenities and absurdities of the fanatics, petty magicians and false or deluded prophets among their followers. It is easy to condemn the repressive attitude of the Church towards the gnostics and their magical science. However, as a former Bishop of Exeter observed to a clergyman, who applied to him for a licence to exorcise a ghost, the Church has for the most part given up her spiritual prerogatives on the grounds of their abuse. The decline of the old world order removed the authority which had made it possible for the secrets of the Temple to remain in the exclusive possession of initiates who could be trusted to keep alive the spirit behind its visible forms. Like all laws, the law of geometrical proportion, if applied without / Page 124 / understanding, burdens the soul and violates the function of life. Even in Plato's time, as he records, there were many who considered all scientific enquiry to be an offence against God, who had arranged things so far beyond the comprehension of men, that it was vain to seek any further guidance than may be provided by orthodox common sense and the inspiration of the moment. On the other hand, there will always be those who believe with Plato himself that 'a man who knows of a study which he finds sublime, true, beneficial to society and perfectly acceptable to God, simply cannot refrain from calling attention to it'.

(Greek letters omitted)

 

 

The Basic Mathematical Principals of Numerology

Numerology uses the “Fadic System” (sometimes referred to as natural addition) to reduce multiple-digit numbers to a single digit. With this style of addition, you continue to add together two digits until you arrive at a single number.

Numerology is based on the idea that everything in the universe is both made up of and affected by numbers.

Numerology is relatively simple to understand and implement, largely because it only involves addition. The method of addition used in numerology, however, is a bit different than the addition you are most likely used to.

Numerology uses the “Fadic System” (sometimes referred to as natural addition) to reduce multiple-digit numbers to a single digit. With this style of addition, you continue to add together two digits until you arrive at a single number. So for example, rather than seeing the number 23 as twenty-three, it is seen as its separate parts of a 2 and a 3. With natural addition, you would add together the two numbers to come up with a single digit:

Once you have mastered the concept of natural addition, the calculations are very simple.

Applying this to Numerology

Translating Letters into Numbers.

Pythagorean Numerology

The Pythagorean Number Values

The following chart shows the numbers assigned to each letter in Pythagorean numerology and is the basis for many numerology readings. To read the chart, find the letter you are looking for and look at the corresponding number at the top of the column containing the letter. For example, the letter A would be 1, the letter B would be 2, the letter C would be 3, etc.

To begin with, write down your full name (first, middle and last). In Pythagorean numerology, it is important that you use your name as it appears on your birth certificate. Then assign a number to each letter in your name. To do that, locate the letter in the above chart, and then look at the number at the top of the column containing that letter. That number is the number you would assign to that letter. Do that for each of the letters in your full name. For our example, we will use a fictional character named John Alan Smith.

J O H N A L A N S M I T H
1 6 8 5 1 3 1 5 1 4 9 2 8

The next step is to add up all these numbers and then reduce the result to a single digit. You will want to be sure to add each name separately, then add those sums together to get the total for the whole name, then if necessary reduce to a single digit. We add the parts of the name separately instead of adding the whole name straight across because not only does the total number for the name have meaning, but each part of the name also has some bearing on who we are.

John = 1+6+8+5 = 20 = 2+0 = 2

Alan = 1+3+1+5 = 10 = 1+0 = 1

Smith = 1+4+9+2+8 = 24 = 2+4 = 6

Adding those totals together we get:

2+1+6 = 9

This means that in our example, John’s birthname reduces to a 9.

To begin with, write down the name you are known by. Then assign a number to each letter in your name. To do that, locate the letter in the above chart, and then look at the number at the top of the column containing that letter. That number is the number you would assign to that letter. Do that for each of the letters in your full name. For our example, we will use a fictional character named John Alan Smith. Since everyone knows our character just as John Smith, that is the name we will use for our calculations.

J O H N S M I T H
1 7 5 5 3 4 1 4 5

The next step is to add up all these numbers and then reduce the result to a single digit. Be sure to add each name separately, then add together those sums to get a total for the whole name.

John = 1+7+5+5 = 18 = 1+8 = 9

Smith = 3+4+1+4+5 = 17 = 1+7 = 8

9+8 = 17

This number would then be further reduced to wind up with a single digit number:

17 = 1 + 7 = 8

It is vitally important that you understand how to translate letters into numbers in order to use numerology.

In Chaldean numerology the number 9 is considered sacred.

One big difference between Chaldean and Pythagorean numerology is that while in Pythagorean numerology you use the name that is on your birth certificate, in Chaldean numerology you use the name that you are most known by. This could be a nickname, a married name, or just your regular name if that is what you are known by.

 

 

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HAMLET'S MILL

AN ESSAY INVESTIGATING THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE

AND ITS TRANSMISSION THROUGH MYTH

Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend 1969

Intoduction

Page 1 (number omitted)

" The unbreakable fetters which bound down the Great Wolf Fenrir had been cunningly forged by Loki from these: the footfall of a cat, the roots of a rock, the beard of a woman, the breath of a fish, the spittle of a bird. The Edda

Toute vue des choses qui n'est pas estrange est fausse. VALERY


THIS IS meant to be only an essay. It is a first reconnaissance of a realm well-nigh unexplored and uncharted. From whichever way onc enters it, one is caught in the same bewildering circular complexity, as in a labyrinth, for it has no deductive order in the abstract sense, but instead resembles an organism tightly closed in itself, or even better, a monumental "Art of the Fugue."

The figure of Hamlet as a favorable starting point came by chance. Many other avenues offered themselves, rich in strange symbols and beckoning with great images, but the choice went to Hamlet because he led the mind on a truly inductive quest through a familiar landscape-and one which has the merit of its literary setting. Here is a character deeply present to our awareness, in whom ambiguities and uncertainties, tormented self-questioning and dispassionate insight give a presentiment of the modern mind. His personal drama was that he had to be a hero, but still try to avoid the role Destiny assigned him. His lucid intellect remained above the conflict of motives-in other words, his was and is a truly con­/ Page 2 / temporary consciousness. And yet this character whom the poet made one of us, the first unhappy intellectual, concealed a past as a legendary being, his features predetermined, preshaped by long­standing myth. There was a numinous aura around him, and many clues led up to him. But it was a surprise to find behind the mask an ancient and all-embracing cosmic power-the original master of the dreamed-of first age of the world.
Yet in all his guises he remained strangely himself. The original Amlodhi, * as his name was in Icelandic legend, shows the same characteristics of melancholy and high intellect. He, too, is a son dedicated to avenge his father, a speaker of cryptic but inescapable truths, an elusive carrier of Fate who must yield once his mission is accomplished and sink once more into concealment in the depths of time to which he belongs: Lord of the Golden Age, the Once and Future King.

This essay will follow the figure farther and farther afield, from the Northland to Rome, from there to Finland, Iran, and India; he will appear again unmistakably in Polynesian legend. Many other Dominations and Powers will materialize to frame him within the proper order.

Amlodhi was identified, in the crude and vivid imagery of the Norse, by the ownership of a fabled mill which, in his own time, ground out peace and plenty. Later, in decaying times, it ground out salt; and now finally, having landed at the bottom of the sea, it is grinding rock and sand, creating a vast whirlpool, the Maelstrom (i.e., the grinding stream, from the verb mala, "to grind"), which is supposed to be a way to the land of the dead. This imagery stands, as the evidence develops, for an astronomical process, the secular shifting of the sun through the signs of the zodiac which determines world-ages, each numbering thousands of years. Each age brings a World Era, a Twilight of the Gods. Great structures collapse; pillars topple which supported the great fabric; floods and cataclysms herald the shaping of a new world.
The image of the mill and its owner yielded elsewhere to more / Page 3 / sophisticated ones, more adherent to celestial events. In Plato's powerful mind, the figure stood out as the Craftsman God, the Demiurge, who shaped the heavens; but even Plato did not escape the idea he had inherited, of catastrophes and the periodic rebuilding of the world.

Tradition will show that the measures of a new world had to be procured from the depths of the celestial ocean and tuned with the measures from above, dictated by the "Seven Sages," as they are often cryptically mentioned in India and elsewhere. They turn out to be the Seven Stars of Ursa, which are normative in all cosmological alignments on the starry sphere. These dominant stars of the Far North are peculiarly but systematically linked with those which are considered the operative powers of the cosmos, that is, the planets as they move in different placements and configurations along the zodiac. The ancient Pythagoreans, in their conventional language, called the two Bears the Hands of Rhea (the Lady of Turning Heaven), and called the planets the Hounds of Persephone, Queen of the Underworld. Far away to the south, the mysterious ship Argo with its Pilot star held the depths of the past; and the Galaxy was the Bridge out of Time. These notions appear to have been common doctrine in the age before history-all over the belt of high civilizations around our globe. They also seem to have been born of the great intellectual and technological revolution of the late Neolithic period.

The intensity and richness, the coincidence of details, in this cumulative thought have led to the conclusion that it all had its origin in the Near East. It is evident that this indicates a diffusion of ideas to an extent hardly countenanced by current anthropology. But this science, although it has dug up a marvelous wealth of details, has been led by its modern evolutionary and psychological bent to forget about the main source of myth, which was astronomy -the Royal Science. This obliviousness is itself a recent turn of events-barely a century old. Today expert philologists tell us that Saturn and Jupiter are names of vague deities, subterranean or atmospheric, superimposed on the planets at a "late" period; they neatly sort out folk origins and "late" derivations, all unaware that planetary periods, sidereal and synodic, were known and rehearsed / Page 4 / in numerous ways by celebrations already traditional in archaic times. If a scholar has never known those periods even from elementary science, he is not in the best position to recognize them when they come up in his material.

Ancient historians would have been aghast had they been told that obvious things were to become unnoticeable. Aristotle was proud to state it as known that the gods were originally stars, even if popular fantasy had later obscured this truth. Little as he believed in progress, he felt this much had been secured for the future. He could not guess that W. D. Ross, his modern editor, would condescendingly annotate: "This is historically untrue." Yet we know that Saturday and Sabbath had to do with Saturn, just as Wednesday and Mercredi had to do with Mercury. Such names are as old as time; as old, certainly, as the planetary heptagram of the Har­ranians. They go back far before Professor Ross' Greek philology. The inquiries of great and meticulous scholars such as Ideler, Lep­sius, Chwolson, BoIl and, to go farther back, of Athanasius Kircher and Petavius, had they only been read carefully, and noted, would have taught several relevant lessons to the historians of culture, but interest shifted to other goals, as can be seen from current anthro­pology, which has built up its own idea of the "primitive" and what came after.

One still reads in that most unscientific of records, the Bible, that God disposed all things by number, weight and measure; ancient Chinese texts say that "the calendar and the pitch pipes have such a close fit, that you could not slip a hair between them." People read it, and think nothing of it. Yet such hints might reveal a world of vast and firmly established complexity, infinitely different from ours. But the experts now are benighted by the current folk fantasy, which is the belief that they are beyond all this-critics without nonsense and extremely wise.

In 1959 I wrote:
The dust of centuries had settled upon the remains of this great world-wide archaic construction when the Greeks came upon the scene. Yet something of it survived in traditional rites, in myths and fairy tales no longer understood. Taken verbally, it matured the / Page 5 / bloody cults intended to procure fertility, based on the belief in a dark universal force of an ambivalent nature, which seems now to monopolize our interest. Yet its original themes could flash out again, preserved almost intact, in the later thought of the Pythagoreans and of Plato.

But they are tantalizing fragments of a lost whole. They make one think of those "mist landscapes" of which Chinese painters are masters, which show here a rock, here a gable, there the tip of a tree, and leave the rest to imagination. Even when the code shall have yielded, when the techniques shall be known, we cannot expect to gauge the thought of those remote ancestors of ours, wrapped as it is in its symbols.

Their words are no more heard again Through lapse of many ages. . .

We think we have now broken part of that code. The thought behind these constructions of the high and far-off times is also lofty, even if its forms are strange. The theory about "how the world began" seems to involve the breaking asunder of a harmony, a kind of cosmogonic "original sin" whereby the circle of the ecliptic (with the zodiac) was tilted up at an angle with respect to the equator, and the cycles of change came into being.

This is not to suggest that this archaic cosmology will show any great physical discoveries, although it required prodigious feats of concentration and computing. What it did was to mark out the unity of the universe, and of man's mind, reaching out to its farthest limits. Truly, man is doing the same today.

Einstein said: "What is inconceivable about the universe, is that it should be at all conceivable." Man is not giving up. When he discovers remote galaxies by the million, and then those quasi-stellar radio sources billions of light-years away which confound his speculation, he is happy that he can reach out to those depths. But he pays a terrible price for his achievement. The science of astro­physics reaches out on a grander and grander scale without losing its footing. Man as man cannot do this. In the depths of space he loses himself and all notion of his significance. He is unable to fit himself into the concepts of today's astrophysics short of schizophrenia. Modern man is facing the nonconceivable. Archaic man, however, kept a firm grip on the conceivable by framing within his cosmos / Page 6 / an order of time and an eschatology that made sense to him and reserved a fate for his soul. Yet it was a prodigiously vast theory, with no concessions to merely human sentiments. It, too, dilated the mind beyond the bearable, although without destroying man's role in the cosmos. It was a ruthless metaphysics.

Not a forgiving universe, not a world of mercy. That surely not. Inexorable as the stars in their courses, miserationis parcissimae, the Romans used to say. Yet it was a world somehow not unmindful of man, one in which there was an accepted place for everything, rightfully and not only statistically, where no sparrow could fall unnoted, and where even what was rejected through its own error would not go down to eternal perdition; for the order of Number and Time was a total order preserving all, of which all were members, gods and men and animals, trees and crystals and even absurd errant stars, all subject to law and measure.

This is what Plato knew, who could still speak the language of archaic myth. He made myth consonant with his thought, as he built the first modern philosophy. We have trusted his clues as landmarks even on occasions when he professes to speak "not quite seriously." He gave us a first rule of thumb; he knew what he was talking about.

Behind Plato there stands the imposing body of doctrine attributed to Pythagoras, some of its formulation uncouth, but rich with the prodigious content of early mathematics, pregnant with a sci­ence and a metaphysics that were to flower in Plato's time. From it come such words as "theorem," "theory," and "philosophy." This in its turn rests on what might be called a proto-Pythagorean phase, spread all over the East but with a focus in Susa. And then there was something else again, the stark numerical computing of Baby­Ion. From it all came that strange principle: "Things are numbers."

Once having grasped a thread going back in time, then the test of later doctrines with their own historical developments lies in their congruence with tradition preserved intact even if half under­stood. For there are seeds which propagate themselves along the jetstream of time.

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And universality is in itself a test when coupled with a firm design. When something found, say, in China turns up also in Babyionian astrological texts, then it must be assumed to be relevant, for it reveals a complex of uncommon images which nobody could claim had risen independently by spontaneous generation.

Take the origin of music. Orpheusand his harrowing death may be a poetic creation born in more than one instance in diverse places. But when characters who do not play the lyre but blow pipes get themselves flayed alive for various absurd reasons, and their identical end is rehearsed on several continents, then we feel we have got hold of something, for such stories cannot be linked by internal sequence. And when the Pied Piper turns up both in the medieval German myth of Hamelin and in Mexico long before Columbus, and is linked in both places with certain attributes like the color red, it can hardly be a coincidence. Generally, there is little that finds its way into music by chance.

Again, when one finds numbers like 108, or 9 x 13, reappearing under several multiples in the Vedas, in the temples of Angkor, in Babylon, in Heraclitus' dark utterances, and also in the Norse Valhalla, it is not accident.

There is one way of checking signals thus scattered in early data, in lore, fables and sacred texts. What we have used for sources may seem strange and disparate, but the sifting was considered, and it had its reasons. Those reasons will be given later in the chapter on method. I might call it comparative morphology. The reservoir of myth and fable is great, but there are morphological "markers" for what is not mere storytelling of the kind that comes naturally. There is also wonderfully preserved archaic material in "secondary" primitives, like American Indians and West Africans. Then there are courtly stories and annals of dynasties which look like novels: the Feng Shen Yen I, the Japanese Nihongi, the Hawaiian Kumulipo. These are not merely fantasy-ridden fables.

In hard and perilous ages, what information should a well-born man entrust to his eldest son? Lines of descent surely, but what else? The memory of an ancient nobility is the means of preserving the / Page 8 / arcana imperii, the arcana legis and the arcana mundi, just as it was in ancient Rome. This is the wisdom of a ruling class. The Polynesian chants taught in the severely restricted Whare-wananga were mostly astronomy. That is what a liberal education meant then.

Sacred texts are another great source. In our age of print one is tempted to dismiss these as religious excursions into homiletics, but originally they represented a great concentration of attention on material which had been distilled for relevancy through a long period of time and which was considered worthy of being committed to memory generation after generation. The tradition of Celtic Druidism was delivered not only in songs, but also in tree-lore which was much like a code. And in the East, out of complicated games based on astronomy, there developed a kind of shorthand which became the alphabet.

As we follow the clues-stars, numbers, colors, plants, forms, verse, music, structres-a huge framework of connections is re­vealed at many levels. One is inside an echoing manifold where everything responds and everything has a place and a time assigned to it. This is a true edifice, something like a mathematical matrix, a World-Image that fits the many levels, and all of it kept in order by strict measure. It is measure that provides the countercheck, for there is much that can be identified and redisposed from rules like the old Chinese saying about the pitch pipes and the calendar. When we speak of measures, it is always some form of Time that provides them, starting from two basic ones, the solar year and the octave, and going down from there in many periods and intervals, to actual weights and sizes. What modern man attempted in the merely conventional metric systemhas archaic precedents of great complexity. Down the centuries there comes an echo of Al-Biruni's wondering a thousand years ago, when that prince of scientists discovered that the Indians, by then miserable astronomers, calculated aspects and events by means of stars-and were not able to show him anyone star that he asked for. Stars had become items for them, as they were to become again for Leverrier and Adams, who never troubled to look at Neptune in their life although they had computed and discovered it in 1847. The Mayas and the Aztecsin their / Page 9 / unending calculations seem to have had similar attitudes. The connections were what counted. Ultimately so it was in the archaic universe, where all things were signs and signatures of each other, inscribed in the hologram, to be divined subtly. And Number dominated them all (appendix # I ).

This ancient world moves a little closer if one recalls two great transitional figures who were simultaneously archaic and modern in their habits of thought. The first is Johannes Kepler, who was of the old order in his unremitting calculations and his passionate devotion to the dream of rediscovering the "Harmony of the Spheres." But he was a man of his own time, and also of ours, when this dream began to prefigure the polyphony that led up to Bach. In somewhat the same way, our strictly scientific world view has its counterpart in what John Hollander, the historian of music, has described as "The Untuning of the Sky." The second transitional figure is no less a man than Sir Isaac Newton, the very inceptor of the rigorously scientific view. There is no real paradox in mentioning Newton in this connection. John Maynard Keynes, who knew Newton as well as many of our time, said of him:

Newton was not the first of the Age of Reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual world rather less than 10,000 years ago. . . Why do I call him a magician? Because he looked on the whole universe and all that is in it as a riddle, as a secret which could be read by applying pure thought to certain evidence, certain mystic clues which God had laid about the world to allow a sort of philosopher's treasure hunt to the esoteric brother­hood. He believed that these clues were to be found partly in the evidence of the heavens and in the constitution of elements (and that is what gives the false suggestion of his being an experimental natural philosopher), but also partly in certain papers and traditions handed down by the brethren in an unbroken chain back to the original cryptic revelation in Babylonia. He regarded the universe as a cryptogram set by the Almighty-just as he himself wrapt the discovery of the calculus in a cryptogram when he communicated with Leibniz. By pure thought, by concentration of mind, the riddle, he believed, would be revealed to the initiate.1

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Lord Keynes' appraisal, written ca. 1942, remains both unconventional and profound. He knew, we all know, that Newtonfailed. Newton was led astray by his dour sectarian preconceptions. But his undertaking was truly in the archaic spirit, as it begins to appear now after two centuries of scholarly search into many cul­tures of which he could have had no idea. To the few clues he found with rigorous method, a vast number have been added. Still, the wonder remains, the same that was expressed by his great predecessor Galileo:

But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conccived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any othcr person, though very far distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the In dies, 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 arrangement of two dozcn little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.

'Way back in the 6th century A.D., Gregoire de Tours was writing: "The mind has lost its cutting edge, we hardly understand the Ancicnts." So much more today, despite our wallowing in mathematics for the million and in sophisticated technology.
It is undeniable that, notwithstanding our Classics Departments' labors, the wilting away of classical studies, the abandonment of any living familiarity with Greek and Latin has cut the ompha­loessa, the umbilical cord which connected our cultUre-at least at its top level-with Greece, in the same manner in which men of the Pythagorean and Orphic tradition were tied up through Plato and a few others with the most ancient Near East. It is beginning to appear that this destruction is leading into a very up-to-date Middle Ages, much worse than the first. People will sneer: "Stop the World, I want to get off." It cannot be changed, however; this is the way it goes when someone or other tampers with the reserved knowledge that science is, and was meant to represent.
But, as Goethe said at the very onset of the Progressive Age, "Noch ist es Tag, da ruhre sich der Mann! Die Nacht tritt ein, wo niemand wirken kann." ("It is still day, let men get up and / Page 11 / going-the night creeps in, when there is nothing doing.") There might come once more some kind of "Renaissance" out of the hopelessly condemned and trampled past, when certain ideas come to life again, and we should not deprive our grandchildren of a last chance at the heritage of the highest and farthest-off times. And if, as looks infinitely probable, even that last chance is passed up in the turmoil of progress, why then one can still think with Poliziano, who was himself a master humanist, that there will be men whose minds find a refuge in poetry and art and the holy tradition "which alone make men free from death and turn them to eternity, so long as the stars will go on, still shining over a world made for­ever silent." Right now, there is still left some daylight in which to undertake this first quick reconnaissance. It will necessarily leave out great and significant areas of material, but even so, it will in­vestigate many unexpected byways and crannies of the past."

Page 2 Note *. The indulgence of specialists is asked for the form of certain transliterations throughout the text; for example, Amlodhi instead of Amlodi, Grotte instead of Grotti, etc. (Ed.)

Page 9 Note 1 1 "Newton the Man," in The Royal Society. Newton Tercentenary Celebrations (1947), p. 29.

 

 

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HAMLET'S MILL

AN ESSAY INVESTIGATING THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE

AND ITS TRANSMISSION THROUGH MYTH

Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend 1969

Page 162

"Finally, there is one remarkable and disturbing coincidence from the same direction. It is known that in the final battle of the gods, the massed legions on the side of "order" are the dead warriors, the "Einherier" who once fell in combat on earth and who have been transferred by the Valkyries to reside with Odin in Valhalla-a theme much rehearsed in heroic poetry. On the last day, they issue forth to battle in martial array. Says the Grimnismal (23): "Five hundred gates and fortymore-are in the mighty building of Wal­halla-eight hundred 'Einherier' come out of each one gate-on the time they go out on defence against the Wolf."
That makes 432,000 in all, a number of significance from of old.
This number must have had a very ancient meaning, for it is also the number of syllables in the Rigveda. But it goes back to the basic figure 10,800, the number of stanzas in the Rigveda (40 syllables to a stanza) which, together with 108, occurs insistently in Indian tradition. 10,800 is also the number which has been given by Heraclitus for the duration of the Aion, according to Censorinus (De die natali 18), whereas Berossos made the Babylonian Great Year to last 432,000 years. Again, 10,800 is the number of bricks of the Indian fire-altar (Agnicayana). 32
"To quibble away such a coincidence," remarks Schroder, "or to ascribe it to chance, is in my opinion to drive skepticism beyond its limits."33 Shall one add Angkor to the list? It has five gates, and to each of them leads a road, bridging over that water ditch which surrounds the whole place. Each of these roads is bordered by a row of huge stone figures, 108per avenue, 54 on each side, altogether 540 statues of Deva and Asura, and each row carries a huge Naga / Page 163 / serpent with nine heads. Only, they do not "carry" that serpent, they are shown to "pull" it, which indicates that these 540 statues are churning the Milky Ocean, represented (poorly, indeed) by the water ditch,34 using Mount Mandara as a churning staff, and Vasuki, the prince of the Nagas, as their drilling rope. (Just to prevent misunderstanding: Vasuki had been asked before, and had agreeably consented, and so had Vishnu's tortoise avatar, who was going to serve as the fixed base for that "incomparably mighty churn," and even the Milky Ocean itself had made it clear that it was willing to be churned.) The whole of Angkorthus turns out to be a colossal model set up for "alternative motion" with true Hindu fantasy and incongruousness to counter the idea of a continuous one-way Precession from west to east."

 

 

CITY OF REVELATION
John Michell 1972

Page 36 3 + 6 = 18 1 + 8 = 9 3 x 6 = 18 1 + 8 = 9

" St Augustine in The City of God also writes of the perfection of number 6, for 'in this did God make perfect all his works. Wherefore this number is not to be despised, but has the esteem apparently con-firmed by many places of scripture. Nor was it said in vain of God's works: "Thou madest all things in number, weight and measure." ' It is the unique property of number 6, on account of which it was held perfect, that it is both the sum and the product of all its factors excluding itself, for 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and 1 x 2 x 3 = 6.
6 is the number of the cosmos, and the Greek word,..." "...sig-nifying the cosmic order, has the value by gematria of 600. The ancient astronomers adopted the mile as the unit which measures the cosmic intervals in terms of the number 6, and procured the following sacred numbers:

.

.
Diameter of sun
=
864,000 miles ( 12 x 12 x 6000 )
Diameter of moon
=
2160 miles ( 6 x 6 x 60 )
Diameter of earth
=
7920 miles ( 12 x 660 )
Mean circumference of earth
=
24,883.2 miles (12 x 12 x 12 x 12 x 1.2)
Speed of earth round sun
=
66,600 miles per hour
Distance between earth and moon
=
6 x 60 x 660 miles or 60 x earth's radius

 

 

The Fingerprints Of The Gods

Graham Hancock 1995

Page 274

"The pre-eminent number in the code is 72. To this is frequently added 36,making 108 , and it is permissible to multiply 108 by 100 to get 10,800 or to divide it by 2 to get 54 , which may then be multiplied by 10 and expressed as 540 (or as 54,000 , or as 540,000 , or as 5,400,000 , and so on). Also highly significant is 2160 ( the number of years required for the equinoctial point to transit one zodiacal / Page 275 / constellation), which is sometimes multiplied by 10 and by factors of ten (to give 216,000, 2,160,000 , and so on) " and sometimes by 2 to give 4320 , or 43,200 , or 432,000 , or 4,320,000 ,ad infinitum."

 

 

Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock 1995

Chapter Nineteen

Page 153 1 + 5 + 3 = 9

"In Egypt's early dynastic period, more than 45 00 years ago, an 'Ennead' of nine omnipotent deities was particularly adored by the priesthood at Heliopolis. 5 Likewise in central America both the Aztecs and the Mayas believed in an all-powerful system of nine deities."

 

 

the Pan book of

ASTRONOMY

James Muirden 1964

Page 63 6 + 3 = 9

"We now know the solar system to consist of nine planets."

 

 

GODS

Of The New Millennium

1996

Alan F. Alford

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Lessons in Astronomy
Few people realise that the 7 days of the week - Sunday to Saturday - were originally named after an astronomical source. Ironically, they derive from the time of Ptolemy in /
Page 162 1 + 6 + 2 = 9 / the second century AD and his incorrect theory that the Sun, Moon and five planets revolved around the Earth. Thus were the days named after the Sun (Sunday), the Moon (Monday), Mars (mardi), Mercury (mercredi), Jupi-ter (jeudi), Venus (vendredi) and Saturn (Saturday / samedi)."
The Alizzed az ever seeking to disturb the surface,counted the letter steps betwixt the planets.

 

 

CITY OF REVELATION

John Michell 1972

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CHAPTER SEVEN

3168, The Perimeter of the Temple

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The perimeter of the temple is 3168, Lord Jesus Christ, when the temple is measured by the foot, the most sacred unit of ancient metrology. In terms of the megalithic yard (2.72 feet), however, the perimeter measures 1164, because 3168 feet = 1164 MY. Yet this makes no difference to the symbolic interpretation by gematria, for 1164 is the number of another name of Christ, (Greek text omitted) Son of God.

As a geodetic or earth-measuring number, 3168 also demonstrates the antiquity and sacred origin of British metrology, for
31,680 inches = half a mile

31,680 ft. = 6 miles.

31,680 furlongs = 3960 miles = radius of the earth.

31,680 miles = perimeter of square containing the terrestrial sphere.

31,680 miles = circumference of circle drawn on the combined diameters of the earth and moon (10,080 miles)

Other cosmological correspondences of 3168 are given on page 109.

The Stonehenge sarsen circle with circumference of 316.8 feet
contains an area of 888 square yards, 888 being the number of Jesus, which is equal to 1080 square MY. The circle contained within a square of perimeter 316.8 feet, corresponding to the bluestone circle at Stonehenge, has an area of 666 square MY. Thus the two stone circles at Stonehenge have areas of 1080 and 666 square MY, these two numbers representing the opposite poles of lunar and solar or negative and positive energy.
The number 144 or 122 is characteristic of the New Jerusalem scheme, and 3168 demonstrates the value of (pi symbol 22/7 omitted) in terms of this number, for 144 x 7 = 1008 and 144 x 22 = 3168.

3168 in Plato's city
A remarkable use of the number 3168 occurs in Plato's account in Book V of.Laws of the mystical dimensions of the perfect city. Throughout his work Plato makes guarded reference to a secret canon of numbers that applies universally to every aspect of human life and activity, including government, astronomy, acoustics, kinetics, plane and solid geometry and divination. Linear measurements, areas and volumes are obviously incommensurable, but Plato declares that there are certain numbers that link these with each other and with all phenomena capable of being measured. As an example of these numbers, the study of which Plato recommends as the most sanctifying of all pursuits, he gives 5040. This is the ideal number of citizens in the state and serves other purposes in con­/ Page 79 / nection with the framing of laws and standards. The reason why it is most suitable for all matters of division is that for its size it has the greatest number of divisors, 60 in all, including the entire decad, the numbers 1 - 10. Another property of the number 5040 is that it is the radius of a circle with circumference 31,680. Further examina­tion of the numerical foundations of Plato's state shows that the scheme to which he refers is the ancient plan of the cosmic temple.
The lawgivers in Plato's state are reminded that the perfect human society would be one in which all possessions, wives, children, land and chattels were held in common, where all the citizens were of one mind and acted together so harmoniously that it were as if eyes, ears and hands were also common property. To keep this ideal alive is the function of the prophet. Human nature and conditioning, however, demand a more practical alternative, 'very near to the first in immortality and second to it in merit'. This is provided in Laws V.
Plato's state is arranged in a manner that can scarcely be under­stood literally, and is obviously intended, like the New Jerusalem, as a geometer's allegory. The land is all divided into twelve parts, each dedicated to one of the twelve gods and populated by one of the twelve tribes of the 5040 households. The city is similarly divided, forming a microcosm of the state as a whole. In the centre of the city is the acropolis and 'from this centre he must divide up the city itself and the whole country into twelve parts. The twelve parts must be equalised by making those of good land small and those of inferior land greater. He must mark off 5040 allotments, and each of these he must cut in two and join two pieces to form the allotments, so that each contains a near piece and a distant piece - joining the piece next to the city with the piece furthest off, the second nearest with the second furthest, and so on with the rest.'
The only way in which this division can be represented is by a circle of radius 5040, a hundred times larger than that of Stonehenge measured in feet; the perimeter of this circle is 31 ,680. In Fig. 24 (Figure 24 omitted) the radius of the circle should be divided equally into 5040 parts to produce 5040 concentric circles. These are bisected into 10,080 semi­circles by the diameter and positioned out in Plato's manner into 5040 double allotments, each of equal area.
In this scheme 31,680 is not only the circumferenceof the circular state, but also the area of each of its 2520 pairs of rings, proving Plato's assertion that linear and area measurements can be made / Page 80 / (Figure 24 omitted) commensurable by number. The entire circle is divided into two halves, each containing 39,916,800 square units of land. These numbers, which are inherent in the New Jerusalem scheme, have the following significance:
31,680 is divisible by all the numbers1-12 with the exception of 7

5040 = 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7

39,916,800 = 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5x 6 x 7 x 8 x 9 x.10 x 11

5040, the radius of the circular city, is the product of the numbers1 - 7; 7920, the side of the square city, is the product of numbers 8 - 11. In each case the perimeter of the city is 31,680. In Plato's Republic is the famous, cryptic reference to the 'marriage number', which should be consulted by the guardians of the state in all matters relating to the seasonal union of male and female. There appear to be two numbers involved, adding up to a third, but the riddle is so obscure that no firm solution has been reached despite the vast literature on the subject. For various reasons the number 12,960,000 or 36002 is most commonly proposed, and this would seem appropriate, for 12,960 = 5040 + 7920. 12,960 therefore represents the union of square and circle, symbol of the sacred marriage, and the gematria is also appropriate, for 1296 = (Greek text omitted) Mary mother of Jesus.

FIGURE 24 (Figure omitted) Plato's city divided into 5040 rings, Perimeter = 31,680, Areas: A + a = B + b = C + c = 31,680.

 

 

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CITY OF REVELATION

John Michell 1972

Page 78

CHAPTER SEVEN

3168, The Perimeter of the Temple

Plato declares that there are certain numbers that link these with each other and with all phenomena capable of being measured. As an example of these numbers, the study of which Plato recommends as the most sanctifying of all pursuits, he gives 5040. This is the ideal number of citizens in the state and serves other purposes in con­/ Page 79 / nection with the framing of laws and standards. The reason why it is most suitable for all matters of division is that for its size it has the greatest number of divisors, 60 in all, including the entire decad, the numbers 1 - 10. Another property of the number 5040 is that it is the radius of a circle with circumference 31,680. Further examina­tion of the numerical foundations of Plato's state shows that the scheme to which he refers is the ancient plan of the cosmic temple.

 

 

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"Plato declares that there are certain numbers that link these with each other and with all phenomena capable of being measured. As an example of these numbers, the study of which Plato recommends as the most sanctifying of all pursuits, he gives 5040."

 

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THE ORIGINS OF THE ARYANS

THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE SERIES

Isaac Taylor 1889

Page 300

"No importance was attached to the objection that the harits, the nine horses of Indra"

NINE HORSES OF INDRA

Page 255

"Schmidt catologues ninety-nine words which occur only in Greek and Indo-Iranian,"

 

 

WORK DAYS OF GOD

Herbert W Morris D.D.circa 1883

Page 22

"As all the words in the English language are composed out of the twenty-six letters of the alphabet,.."

Page 278

"He was mindful of the lowest and the least of the works of his hands. He would not have
this one revolted world perish. Leaving the "ninety and nine" on the bright celestial plains,
He came down to seek and to save "the one stray sheep."

Page 415

"Silver Songs : Contains 180 Beautiful Melodies for the Sunday School, Home and Sacred Use"
"…Companion volume to "Silver Songs"
"Golden Songs"
"…Among the numerous tunes are the following : -…"

"…Are you one of the "Ninety and Nine"

 

Number 9
The Search for the Sigma Code
Cecil Balmond 1998

Page 45

"From ancient times number nine was seen as a full complement;
it was the cup of special promise that brimmed over"

 

 

The Splendour That Was Egypt
Margaret A. Murray 1997

Page 101

"In many countries the Divine King was allowed to reign for a term of years only , usually seven or nine or multiples of those numbers".

 

 

The Mayan Prophecies
Adrian G. Gilbert and Morris M. Cotterell 1996
Appendix 7

Page 345

'Mayan numbers - summary nine = magic number of the Maya. All relevant numbers compound to nine.'

 

 

The Super Gods
Morris M. Cotterell 1997

Page 188

'The recurring 9999 is an invitation to round up this number to 269, i.e. 260 and 9."

 

 

The Search for the Sigma Code
Cecil Balmond 1998

Page 29 2 x 9 = 18 1 + 8 = 9

Is nine special ?
"At first I did not think so; it was not obviously a num-ber I thought of as auspicious. But then I found that Buddhist relics in stupas are buried at a central ninth point, around which eight small buddhas sit marking the directions of the world

I found that the number nine seems to be a point of initiation and departure, a beginning and an end.
In human life it is nine months from the moment of conception to the birth of a baby. And at a practical level there are nine passageways in and out of the body
There are nine parts to heaven and nine planets! Yes, there are other numbers that are used in old legends; numbers like 7 are part of the Bible stories and its lucky mark holds in many myths of good omen. And looking through the reference books on myths, number 3 comes over as a very powerful number because the first organisation of 'things' seem to be in threes: the Three Bears, the Three Blind Mice, the Three kings, and the
Holy Trinity. But 3 of course is the prime mover of 9. It is the thrice magnification of three that makes up
the power of nine!"

 

 

9
5 + 4
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3    +    3       3    x     3
St John Chapter 3 verse 3
He cannot see the kingdom of God."
I say unto thee, Except a man be born again
"Jesus answered and  said unto him, Verily, verily,

Holy Bible
Scofield Reference

Page 1117

A. D. 30.

St. Mark.   A. D. 33       3 x 3 = 9

Page 1068

Chapter 15
 
33  "And when the sixth hour was come, there was a 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 ? "

 

 

Holy Bible
Scofield Reference

St. Luke. A. D. 33

Page 1099/1100
Chapter 17

Ten lepers healed

11    "And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
12    "And as he entered into a cer-tain village there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
13      And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mecy upon us.
14      And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that
          as they went, they were cleansed.
15      And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,
16      And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
17      And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine
18     There are not found that re-turned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
19      And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole."

 

 

Cassell's English Dictionary 1974

Page 69

"Augean (aw je an ) [L. Augeas, Gr. Augeias], a.Pertaining to Augeas (mythic king of Elis, whose stable, containing 3000 oxen, had not been cleaned / Page 70 out for thirty years, till Hercules, by turning the river Alpheus through it, did so in a day) ;…"

'3000 Oxen  x   thirty years'
90000

' thirtyyears'

30 x 360 = 10800
RE + the eight gods
RA + the eight gods

 

 

The True And Invisible Rosicrucian Order
Paul Foster Case 1884 - 1954.

Page 124  

"Since the bible says, "The Lord our God is a consuming fire," the Divine presence is properly represented by the Lion and Fire. Furthermore, in the Qabalah, the element of fire is attributed to the Holy letter ,Shin, because the numeral value is 300, and 300 is the value of RVCh ALHIM, Ruach Elohim - literally, "The Breath of the Creative Powers", or as the English Bible puts it, The Spirit of God. "
 
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"The number 27 is important in occultism as the second cube, or 3 x 3 x 3. Qabalists would have recognized it as the number of the Hebrew adjective ZK, zak, meaning "clean" or "pure"…"
"…Furthermore, though it designated  by another adjective, the idea of purity is associated with the aspect of the Life Power that Qabalists call Yesod, meaning "Basis" or "Foundation." Yesod is the ninth Sephirah, corresponding to the ninth circle on the Tree of Life. Note that 9 is the sum of the three 3s, which, multipled together, produce 27, and that the digits of 27 also add up to 9.  

The quote "3 x 3 x 3" occurs on the 36 th, line up of page 90

 

 

Stephen Hawking
Quest For A Theory Of  Everything
Kitty Ferguson 1992

Page 103

"The square root of 9 is 3. So we know that the third side"
This occurs on the 33rd line down  of page 103

 

 

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THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN

Thomas Mann. 1875 - 1955

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"I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of
mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh

 

 

NUMBER

9

The Search for the Sigma Code
Cecil Balmond

Page 5

"One...two...three....My eye went over the figures. Suddenly I saw something. There were hidden patterns; the old man's story about secret numbers came back to me and I became curious. I started to look into these simple ideas and the more I searched the more fascinated I became. Something was indeed going on underneath the surface of arithmetic and what appeared as a unique calculation to the outside

/ Page 6 /

world was something quite different when viewed from below. Looked at another way, six and six was not necessarily twelve but something much more exciting - the number 3, of a secret code..."

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"...The thing to do is to follow the path until all the clues are in place and let your mind run free. It is only then that you find what the young master saw: the fixed points in the wind."

 

"...it is in this spirit I dedicate the journey to you. Follow the clues, build up the jigsaw piece by piece and make your own investigations; become part of the search. Go back in time and let the free spirit in you enter. Talk to it, play ask the strangest questions.
Start to count again in the simplest of ways,
one, two, three, four...up to nine.

 

ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE

3 3 5 4 4 3 5 5 4

3 x 3 x 5 x 4 x 4 x 3 x 5 x 5 x 4

3 + 3 + 5 + 4 + 4 + 3 + 5 + 5 + 4

ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE

 

 

CITY OF REVELATION

John Michell 1972

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Gnostic Numbers

Page 115

The names of the gods vary with languages; but it was formerly possible for an adept to recognise the corresponding principles in each system by arithmomancy, the science of theological interpretation by number. Every ancient god had a number which determined the value of the letters in his name and also, according to Hocart, decided the number of syllables in the verses addressed to him. No doubt the priests of Stonehenge had their own names for the deities known to the Greeks as Zeus 612, Hermes 353, (Greek letters omitted) 1080 etc., whose numbers appear in the dimensions of the temple, but these are long forgotten. The numbers however may still be discovered as the values by gematria of the names given in the Greek language to the sacred principles of Christianity. Obvious examples include Jesus 888, Christos 1480, The Holy Spirit i o8o, Lord Jesus Christ 3168, Son of God 1164, Saviour 1408 etc.; and related to these are the symbolic phrases of the New Testament, as a grain of mustard seed 1746 (666 + 1080), a grain of wheat 2220, one pearl of great price and the Ark of the Covenant, both 2178, and many others.
How it comes about that the holy names of Christianity are formed on the same numerical system as the ancient cosmic temple is the deepest of mysteries, and the established Church has always been concerned that it should remain so. It is known that several early Christian teachers, including the great gnostic masters Marcus and Valentinus, demonstrated the eternal values behind the new religion by means of arithmomancy, comparing the names and numbers of Christian cosmology with those recognised by initiates of the traditional schools. Their followers were called gnostics because they claimed to have the gnosis or knowledge through direct experience and considered it idle and superstitious to accept the unsupported word of others in matters which could be explored through personal investigation in the light of revelation. The name is generally applied to the scholars of Alexandria at the beginning of the Christian era who, with the benefit of the great library with its vast collection of /Page 116/ manuscripts drawn from every part of the ancient world, reconciled the tradition of Greek philosophy with the Hebrew cabala and the hermetic doctrines of Egypt and the East to produce the logos of the new age. It was not until the second century, when the hard party men took control of the newly organised church, that gnosticism became a heresy, but so thoroughly were their proscribed works and memorials destroyed, that information about the beliefs and practices of the Christian gnostics has been virtually limited to the evidence of the Church Fathers such as Irenaeus, Tertullian and Hippolytus, who set out to discredit them.
The most informative of these is St Irenaeus in his five books, Against Heresies. This worthy Church Father, Bishop of Lyons in the second century, acquired a superficial knowledge of gnostic practices, and may have been rejected from one of their societies, for he writes that the gnostics call him ignorant, an accusation of which he claims to be proud. Irenaeus's books are abusive and scarcely rational, written in the manner of a Sunday newspaper journalist, who `exposes' other people by presenting a selective version of their beliefs and activities in such a way as to make them appear ridiculous. This approach is typified in the charges which Irenaeus brings against the gnostics: that they seduce women, corrupt and swindle their pupils, and attach more importance to their own personal experience of truth than to the exhortations of authority. People like St Irenaeus have the trick of misrepresenting others by describing literally certain of their practices, while giving no indication of the meaning behind them. It was to frustrate this menace that the gnostics preferred to keep their teaching a secret, particularly that part which related to their numerical cosmology. Irenaeus therefore saw it his duty to expose the gnostics' use of number in order to show that their methods " were vain and meaningless, claiming also that they were a powerful inducement to heresy and to the acquisition of forbidden knowledge. These scarcely compatible objections are revived by the witch-hunters in every generation. Nevertheless, although he was obviously justified in boasting of his essential ignorance in such matters, Irenaeus gives several examples of the numerical system used by the gnostics, which, they claimed, was an inheritance from the days of Homer and the ancient philosophers.
The cosmic order, the gnostics' Pleroma, was made up of 30 aeons, representing the hierarchy of power and the stages in creation. The aeons were divided into three groups of 8, 10 and 12, of which the first, containing the 8 aeons of the primeval creation, was known as the Ogdoad. According to Irenaeus, the gnostics found in the name, /Page 117/ Jesus, a reference to the Ogdoad, for the value by gematria of (Greek letters omitted) Jesus, is 888. Since it contains six letters, the name Jesus was also associated with the number 6, and the number 888 may also be reduced to 6, for 8 + 8 + 8 = 24; 2 + 4 = 6. Again the number 888 was taken to correspond with the numerical values of the twenty-four letters of the Greek alphabet, of which there are 8 units, 8 tens, and 8 hundreds.

The following is a quotation from Irenaeus about the gnostics' convention of relating words to numbers:

`But the local positions of the three hundred and sixty-five heavens they distribute in the same way as the mathematicians, for they have taken their theorems and applied them to their own kind of learning. And their head, they say, is Abraxas, therefore he has in himself the three hundred and sixty-five numbers.'

The significance of this passage is that the value of the word Abraxas, written in Greek (Greek letters omitted) is 365, and Abraxas was god of the 365 days of the solar year, corresponding to (Greek letters omitted) Mithras, whose number is also 365. From such examples it is evident that gnostic numerology was the reconstitution of a much earlier system, applied to various orders of the gods throughout the ancient world, and adopted by early Christian scholars as the canon, by which the new sacred names were constructed to represent the same eternal principles as were recognised in the past. One of the charges brought against the gnostics was that from a numerical interpretation of the scriptures, they drew certain conclusions about the Christian Saviour and his recurrent appearance in accordance with the procession of the aeons, which contradicted the new doctrine within the Church, that the coming of Jesus was the one and only appearance of the Son of God on earth, and that the true religion was first made known at the time of his birth. According to Irenaeus, they considered that Jesus had given proof of his divinity when he spoke the words, 'I am Alpha and Omega', because the sum of the Greek letters, alpha = and omega = 800 is 801, and 801 is the number of (Greek letters omitted), a dove. 801 is also the width of a vesica about 1385 in length, and 1385 is the number of (Greek letters omitted) It is the Lord (John 21.7). Thus they believed that the divine spirit, represented by the dove, entered into Jesus, the man, at his baptism, while the Church held that the spirit and the body of Jesus Christ were indivisible, and looked forward to a bodily resurrection. The seemingly unimportant differences in the positions of the two sides veiled the eternal chasm that separates the rival principles, represented by the prophet and the priest; on /Page 118/ the one hand the fertilising, disruptive spirit of the scientist, magician and philosopher, and on the other, the rule of Caesar's law. The gnostics were concerned to examine the traditions of ancient cosmology, brought to life again in the Christian revelation. Exactly how they came by their science of numbers is not certain, but they appear to have made the discovery that the numerical code of the Hebrew cabala and those of other mystical systems throughout the world were all degenerate versions of the same once universal system of knowledge that returns within the reach of human perception at certain intervals in time. As the revealed books of the Old Testament were written in a code to be interpreted by reference to number, so were the revelations of the gnostic prophets expressed in words and phrases formed on a system of proportion, which gave.life and power to the Christian myth, while allowing initiates to gain a further understanding of the balance of forces that produce the world of phenomena.
Gematria, the science of relating words to numbers, must be extremely old. Its origins are probably coeval with the first use of writing, its purely numerical aspect being much earlier, for numbers precede literature, the introduction of which has always been regarded as, at the best, a mixed blessing. Plato in Phaedrus repeats the legend of Thoth, the Egyptian god, who discovered the use of letters and went to King Thamus to show off his invention, claiming that it would be an aid to memory and an incentive to wisdom. The king told him that the opposite would be the case, 'for this invention will encourage forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, because they will neglect to cultivate memory. You have invented an aid not to memory but to reminding. You offer your pupils the appearance instead of the reality of wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction, and will seem knowledgeable when they are for the most part ignorant and troublesome associates, thinking themselves wise, instead of being so.' Neither the art of language nor the use of letters is a natural human attribute, and in some ways the effect of their introduction has been to inhibit communication. Both have been invented or • received, and both may have been lost and rediscovered at various periods of history. Writing was formerly reserved for sacred and divinatory purposes. Its use in secular affairs coincided with and accelerated the decline of the ancient world.
To the objections raised by King Thamus may be added another: that our sense of history has been seriously distorted by the widespread use of writing, to the extent that we are now able to understand only the inscribed records of contemporary events. to the ex / Page 119 /elusion of that greater part of the human tradition concerned with pre-literary times. In this respect the illiterate members of primitive societies are to some extent better informed than ourselves about the true history of creation and the early adventures of the human race. Among the South Sea islanders, the natives of Australia and the tribes of Africa and North America, there are still those who preserve their own scholarly institutions of oral history, transmitted through generations of priests and shamans and continually reinvoked in myth and ritual. Thus the early traditions are not only kept alive by inheritance, but are also directly experienced in the ceremonial structure of tribal life.
There are, or have been until very recently, several primitive societies in which the creation myths and popular histories are further interpreted for the benefit of initiates by means of a secret magical alphabet, based on a divinely revealed system of numbers. In northern Nigeria is a sacred grove where the Creator is said to have ordered the world according to an arrangement of letters which he laid out in a circle around him, and this type of legend recurs at many esoteric centres throughout the world. The mystic in a climatic vision penetrates into the world behind phenomena and perceives the interaction between the various forces of the cosmos. Certain rhythms, notes and geometrical forms are repeated, suggesting the idea of an alphabet in which letters or numbers represent corresponding symbols, sounds and creative influences. Thus the art of writing derives from a metaphysical code of symbols, the gift of revelation.
The Chinese I Ching, in which the cosmic order is represented in 64 hexagrams, each of six lines symbolising various combinations of negative and positive forces, has had an influence on Chinese civilisation similar to that of the Hebrew cabala in European history. Both systems are of great and indefinite antiquity; both originated as revelations and have been continually renewed from the same source. The fundamental diagram of the cabala is the Tree of Life, an arrangement of ten points or centres, linked by twenty-two paths, the whole figure laid out to represent the body of a man, Adam Kadmon, the universal macrocosm. The twenty-two paths correspond to the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, also to the twenty-two trumps of the Tarot pack, and these letters express different aspects of cosmic energy according as they are related to the ten centres or archetypes. These ten, the sephiroth, are emanations from the one source, reflecting the stages of organic development in the creation of the universe from the primeval seed. The cabalistic diagram and the traditional teaching associated with it / Page 120 / provide a most comprehensive account of the order manifest in nature, while omitting any dogmatic assertions as to the form or nature of a supreme creative principle, questions on which no one has ever known very much, nor ever will.
Of all the surviving mystical languages, the Hebrew cabala remains the most complete and accessible to western scholars, for the Jews have been extremely tenacious of their ancient traditions and their convention of scriptural interpretation, by the use of gematria, has never entirely lapsed. They have, however, a tendency to exaggerate their own claims to antiquity at the expense of other races and pretend that the Greek cabala, the instrument of the Pythagoreans and of the neo-Platonists at Alexandria, was simply an adaptation of the Hebrew. In fact, it appears that both systems had a common source in Egyptian and Babylonian cosmology, or, more likely, that these and all the other related traditions of Europe and the East were fragments of a more perfect and universal science, disintegrated through gradual decay or sudden change. The evidence of Stonehenge shows the existence of a system of knowledge among the pre-Celtic British identical with that held by the Greeks and Hebrews. The same myths, monuments and even the same standards of measurement are found all over the world; so is the institution of the cosmic temple with the solar king and his dependent hierarchy drawn up by reference to a sacred canon that is everywhere said not to have been invented, but revealed by the gods. The conclusion is obvious. Unfortunately, the academic world flourishes on the proliferation of different categories of study, and minor variations in style are regarded as more significant than the essential similarities between the first civilised traditions of all people, however degenerate they may since have become. The prevailing faith in progress is founded on the nineteenth-century creation myth, taken from the sacred books of the Darwinians, according to which human intelligence has gradually evolved and grows ever brighter, each generation contributing towards the general advancement of civilisation. This idea has now been established as a religious belief and is therefore, to the faithful, proof against all the evidence of fact, reason and tradition which seems to the unconverted totally to discredit it. Theories of ancient history are debated with great fury because of their influence on current ideas, arousing the same passions as did matters of theology in previous centuries, and it is now considered best that the question of human origins should be settled by reference to a doctrine sufficiently vague to conceal the fact that this is another of those subjects on which no one really knows anything. / Page 121 / How it was ever supposed that the Hebrew alphabet of twenty-two letters, together with various geometrical symbols might serve to represent the entire moving pattern of the universe is not now easy to understand; but, since all ancient philosophy, religion, magic, the arts and sciences were based on the concept of a correspondence between numbers and cosmic law, it is impossible to appreciate the history of the past without some actual experience of the fundamental truth behind this approach to cosmology. Plato gives a remarkable account in Cratylos of the origin of language and letters. The philosopher is asked whether there is any particular significance in names, for surely they are simply a matter of convention and one is more or less as good as another. After all, foreigners call things by different names and appear to manage just as well .as the Greeks in this respect. The answer given is that despite appearances the matter is by no means so simple. Words are the tools of expression, and the making of these, as of any other tools, is the task of a skilled craftsman, in this case the lawgiver. Language has grown corrupt over the ages, and names have deviated from their original perfect forms, which are those used by the gods. But all names were originally formed on certain principles, through knowledge of which it is possible to discover the archetypal meaning of words in current use. 'So perhaps the man who knows about names considers their value and is not confused if some letter is added, transposed or subtracted, or even if the force of the name is expressed in quite different letters.' This is Plato's clearest reference to the mystical science of the cabala, in which letters, words and whole phrases may be substituted for others of the same numerical value. The force of a name is to be found in its number, and can be expressed through any combination of letters,. provided the sum of the letters amounts to the appropriate number by gematria. The matter becomes even more intriguing when Plato indicates the principles on which names are created. Each letter of the alphabet stands for a particular state or type of motion, and thus a word, being composed of individual letters, represents a certain balance of forces. Several examples are given. The letter `r.' conveys the meaning of hurry, rushing, running rapidly; 'l' suggests a sliding, flowing, slipping, gliding motion, and 'g' is found in words that mean sweet and sticky such as sugary and gummy. It is certainly remarkable that the Greek words used by Plato to demonstrate this idea should have English equivalents containing the same characteristic letters, and the fact that it is so may be taken as evidence that letters do have a certain autonomous existence as archetypal symbols. From this point of view it is but a logical step to give. numerical / Page 122 / values to the letters so that the relationship between two words can be expressed as a mathematical ratio. Even if the logic be denied, it remains a fact that this was the practice of the cabalists, the leading scholars of their time. Those who are now attracted by codes, anagrams, word games and crossword puzzles, the solution of which is largely a matter of intuition, are the natural cabalists deprived of their sacred role.
It is well known that the architects of the Italian Renaissance followed the example of Vitruvius and the ancients in drawing up plans and elevations in accordance with a Pythagorean canon of proportion, which was based on the intervals of musical harmony, on the principle that `the numbers by means of which the agreement of sounds affects our ears with delight, are the very same which please our eyes and our minds'. Not only did they use the simple musical proportions, octaves (1 : 2), fourths (1 : 4) and fifths (2 : 3), but also the dynamic ratios of canonical geometry such as i : -V2, the relationship between the side of a square and its diagonal. Professor Thom found evidence of the same practice in the groundplans of British stone circles of around 2000 BC. The stones are arranged in accordance with geometrical designs, based on Pythagorean triangles, a feature which could not be appreciated other than by the initiated. These facts are inexplicable without some recognition of the magical significance which in ancient times was attributed to the science of proportions. According to the Egyptian book of magic, the Asclepius of Hermes Trismegistos, certain statues in the Egyptian temples were cunningly contrived to become animated by cosmic forces. The interpretation of this phenomenon by the sixteenth-century cabalist, Giulio Camillo, is quoted by Frances Yates in The Art of Memory as follows:

`I have read, I believe in Merenvius Trismegistus, that in Egypt there were such excellent makers of statues that when they had brought some statue to the perfect proportions, it was found to be animated with an angelic spirit: for such perfection could not be without a soul. Similar to such statues I find a composition of words, the office of which is to hold all words in a proportion grateful to the ear . . . which words, as soon as they are put into their proportion, are found when pronounced to be as it were animated with a harmony.'

From this it appears that the power of the Egyptian statues lay in the magical effect of their divine proportions. Similarly in rhetoric, an art to which the cabalists devoted a great deal of attention, the influence of a perfectly balanced sentence transcends its obvious literal meaning to such an extent it becomes a powerful instru- / Page 123 / ment of control and communication. Just as there was a canon of ritual, of architecture, of painting and of musical harmony, taught in the mystery schools and in part revived at the Renaissance, so there was also a secret canon of rhetoric and literary composition. All the arts and sciences were based on the same cosmic truths expressed in number, and the sacred numbers were the ratios in a revealed world order, drawn from the experience of mystics and confirmed by precise measurements of the solar system.
It is impossible to exaggerate the respect in which these numbers were held by those who had knowledge and experience of their potential influence on human thought and actions. Though every master craftsman was acquainted with the canon of his particular trade, the inner mysteries of the numerical cosmology were known only to the initiated ministers of the temple, who were forbidden to disclose them and considered it in no one's interest that they should do so. Neither Plato nor any other ancient writer whose works survive gives an explicit demonstration of the science of gematria, and the reason is obvious. It is impossible to communicate the idea of a basic law of proportion inherent in nature to anyone who has not_ already begun to realise this fact for himself through his own observations. To attempt to do so is to provoke the resentment of those who find the idea contrary to the rationalised assumptions and prejudices in which they have been educated, and which they prefer to the evidence of their own poetic intuition. Yet those who deride the notion of the cosmic Temple as a primitive aberration, are often the very people who construct the great temple follies and the images of their own fantasy gods on earth. A system of knowledge, which in the-possession of enlightened men can produce a prosperous and well balanced society, may also be used as a diabolic instrument of tyranny. The Christian gnostics were discredited not by the works of their great masters, though these perished with the rest, but by the obscenities and absurdities of the fanatics, petty magicians and false or deluded prophets among their followers. It is easy to condemn the repressive attitude of the Church towards the gnostics and their magical science. However, as a former Bishop of Exeter observed to a clergyman, who applied to him for a licence to exorcise a ghost, the Church has for the most part given up her spiritual prerogatives on the grounds of their abuse. The decline of the old world order removed the authority which had made it possible for the secrets of the Temple to remain in the exclusive possession of initiates who could be trusted to keep alive the spirit behind its visible forms. Like all laws, the law of geometrical proportion, if applied without / Page 124 / understanding, burdens the soul and violates the function of life. Even in Plato's time, as he records, there were many who considered all scientific enquiry to be an offence against God, who had arranged things so far beyond the comprehension of men, that it was vain to seek any further guidance than may be provided by orthodox common sense and the inspiration of the moment. On the other hand, there will always be those who believe with Plato himself that 'a man who knows of a study which he finds sublime, true, beneficial to society and perfectly acceptable to God, simply cannot refrain from calling attention to it'.

(Greek letters omitted)

 

I dreamed I saw St. Augustine
Alive as you or me
Tearing through these quarters
In the utmost misery
With a blanket underneath his arm
And a coat of solid gold

 

SOTHIS SIRIUS SOTHIS

SO THIS SIRIUS SO THIS

OSIRIS ISIS OSIRIS

ISIS OSIRIS ISIS

 

 

PREHISTORIC GERM WARFARE

Is Mankind an Alien Experiment?

Robyn Collins 1980

CHAPTER 6

The Egyptian Connection

Page 79

In F. H. Brooksbank's fascinating 1924 book Legends of Ancient Egypt: Stories of Egyptian Gods and Heroes, the author outlines an extraordinary legend relating to the arrival of the ancient Egyptian deities Isis and Osiris.

Brooksbank remarked that the first to greet Isis and Osiris was an Egyptian astronomer and Holy Man who said 'Long have I known of your coming, but never did I think that I should be the first to greet you here on Earth'. Thereupon in reply, Osiris said:' ...I charge thee straightly to tell no man what thou knowest, whence we came or why'.



'LONG HAVE I KNOWN OF YOUR COMING,

BUT NEVER DID I THINK THAT I SHOULD BE THE FIRST TO GREET YOU HERE ON EARTH'.

Thereupon in reply, Osiris said:

I CHARGE THEE STRAIGHTLY TO TELL NO MAN WHAT THOU KNOWEST, WHENCE WE CAME OR WHY'.

 

 

THE SIRIUS MYSTERY

Was Earth visited by intelligent beings from a planet in the system of the star Sirius

Robert K. G. Temple 1976

CHAPTER TWO

A Fairytale

Page 55

Once there was a beautiful bright star named Sothis, as fine as any goddess. She had long held a dominant position in the sky and been admired by all for her beauty. But of late she had felt unwell; indeed, it distinctly seemed to her that she felt her life ebbing away. Night by night she fell further from her high, proud place in the sky — closer to the skyline and what must surely be her certain death. Failing, failing, she clung to any companion star she could find, only to discover that they too felt this deathly weakness, and were sinking into a kind of sweet sleep. What was she to do? She felt her strength going nightly; she could hardly shine the way she wished. Once she had been as glamorous, as scintillating a queen of the night sky as ever had been seen. And now she felt she was as worthless as any old woman, her position at the centre of things gone, and her beauty fading steadily. . . . Towards the end she wept bitterly and her eyes reddened with the shame of her coming eclipse. She was so ill, her discomfort so acute. She was almost glad to welcome her fate, and that terrible line of earth and hills which she had dreaded, at last devoured her brilliant presence entirely. The night came and she was no more. Beneath the earth she rested in the balm of death.
But because this queen of the sky had been good during her ascendancy and had not been too haughty or vulgar, there were many admirers of her beauty to mourn her passing. Down on the lowly earth moved less brilliant mortals. Many nights they had stood in awe of the beautiful Sothis when she was in her prime. Some, indeed, had watched her birth when, red as a baby from the womb or as the Sun when he rises daily, this bright and beautiful immortal (or so she had seemed) had first flashed the most piercing and glittering rays of her incomparable presence sideways across the earth seeming almost to scorch the very ground with her flaming beauty. This first appearance had been brief, for immediately behind her had come the all-engrossing grandeur of the great Sun himself. Heedless of Sothis, he soon washed the sky white with his splendour. All the stars dissolved like tiny drops of milk, lost when their bowl is suddenly filled to overflowing. So great was the Sun, so irresistible his presence — he whom some compared to a great wild bull bellowing and lording it over the heavens and the earth alike. But every night the Sun retired to his resting place, and night by night the flaming goddess Sothis entranced and bewitched mortal men, as she rose steadily higher and grew to great perfection. And further and further ahead of the Sun she rose each night.

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But with her absence, how barren, how bleak, the sky now seemed. The disappearance of this renowned beauty from the vault of the heavens seemed such an unbearable deprivation. How the goddess was missed! Many mortal men shed bitter tears not to see the beauty who had infatuated them with her glancing eyes, her winsome smile, her slim waist and delicate feet. Were they never again to see her light tread in the celestial round dance of the stars ?
Day followed night, and the sorrow of many became soothed by time's healing wings, which slowly fold themselves around the sufferer in invisible layers of sleep, forgetfulness, and the new interests which life must bring. The beautiful Sothis, though mourned, was lost only to the sight. For all remembered her, and that image of her burned into memory was so glorious, that to expect her actual presence came to seem almost too much to ask of many-hued, shifting, and various Fate.
Seventy days had elapsed. Hope had long since been abandoned to acceptance; sorrow had become numb. A shepherd had gone out before sunrise to his lambs now fully six months old. The Sun would not long be delayed, it was approaching the time of daybreak. The shepherd looked towards the skyline in the east. And as he looked, he saw the horizon burn with a refulgent fire, and the shimmering red birth of the goddess. It was she, it must be she! No other star had that aura, such a penetrating persona. The shepherd stood transfixed; his eyes were seared by this fresh star, dripping it seemed, with the waters of life, and aflame also with the fiery resurgence of its renewed existence. As the quick Sun behind her moved up to erase Sothis's tantalizingly brief appearance, the shepherd turned and ran to the nearest settlement. 'Awake! Awake! The goddess has returned! She is reborn, immortal, come back from death!' And all the devotees assembled with excitement and renewed hope. They heard the tale, saw for themselves the next morning, and they instituted a yearly celebration. This celebration exists to this day, and many are the temples, many are the priests, who gather in the month of July throughout all our land of Egypt to witness the much-heralded yearly rebirth of the great Sothis, Mother Isis, bestower of concord and blessings to her people, And in honour of her seventy days spent in the underworld, we have instituted the seventy-day embalming and mummification rites for our own dead, as it is pious and indeed right that we should do.
I wrote this fairytale, from the point of view of an ancient Egyptian priest, in order to convey to the reader not only certain facts but also certain equally important and, unfortunately, extinct emotions. For the attitudes and feelings of ancient peoples are just as important as the dry description of what facts they believed.
Sothis was the ancient Egyptian name for Sirius as it was spelt by the Greeks. The Egyptians had a Sothic calendar and the first appearance of Sirius on the eastern horizon just before the sun — after 70 days in the Duat (Underworld) — was what is called the heliacal rising (or 'with-the-sun' rising) of Sirius. This event occurred once a year and gave rise to the Sothic Calendar, whose details we need not go into.

 

 

 

 

...,

JUST SIX NUMBERS

Martin Rees

1
999

OUR COSMIC HABITAT

PLANETS STARS AND LIFE

Page 24

A

proton

is

1,836 times heavier than an electron, and the number 1,836

would have the same connotations to any 'intelligence'

 


" the number 1,836 would have the same connotations"
"A remarkable use of the number 3168 occurs"




1836
       1863
             1683
                   1638
                         1368
                               1386
                                     8613
                                            8631
                                                  8316
                                                        8361
                                                              8163
                                                                       8136
                                                                             6813
                                                                                   6831
                                                                                         6381
                                                                                               6318
                                                                                                      6138
                                                                                                             6183
                                                                                                                   3861
                                                                                                                         3816
                                                                                                                               3681
                                                                                                                                     3618
                                                                                                                                           3186
                                                                                                                                                 3168

 

 

 

FIRST CONTACT 1980

 

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-
-
-
-
-
-
6
7
-
-
F
=
6
8
1
F
6
6
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
7
-
-
O
=
6
13
1
O
15
6
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
7
-
-
H
=
8
2
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
8
-
H
=
8
10
1
H
8
8
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
8
-
R
=
9
5
1
R
18
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
6
6
4
25
18
7
16
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2+5
1+8
-
1+6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
6
6
4
7
9
7
7
9
T
=
2
1
3
THE
33
15
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
2
3
ARC
22
4
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
O
=
6
3
2
OF
21
12
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
T
=
2
4
3
THE
33
15
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
C
=
3
5
8
COVENANT
94
31
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
14
-
19
First Total
203
86
23
-
2
6
6
4
7
9
7
7
9
-
-
1+4
-
1+9
Add to Reduce
2+0+3
8+6
2+3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
10
Second Total
5
14
5
-
2
6
6
4
7
9
7
7
9
-
-
-
-
1+0
Reduce to Deduce
-
1+4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
1
Essence of Number
5
5
5
-
2
6
6
4
7
9
7
7
9

 

 

CRUCIFIXION

 

-
CRUCIFIXION
-
-
-
-
C
3
3
3
-
R
18
9
9
-
U
21
3
3
-
C
3
3
3
-
I
9
9
9
-
F
6
6
6
-
I
9
9
9
-
X
24
6
6
-
I
9
9
9
-
O
15
6
6
-
N
14
5
5
11
CRUCIFIXION
131
68
68
1+1
-
1+3+1
6+8
6+8
2
CRUCIFIXION
5
14
14
-
-
-
1+4
1+4
2
CRUCIFIXION
5
5
5

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
CRUCIFIXION
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
C
=
3
1
1
C
3
3
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
R
=
9
2
1
R
18
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
U
=
3
3
1
U
21
3
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
C
=
3
4
1
C
3
3
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
I
=
9
5
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
F
=
6
6
1
F
6
6
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
I
=
9
7
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
X
=
6
8
1
X
24
6
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
I
=
9
9
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
O
=
6
10
1
O
15
6
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
N
=
5
11
1
N
14
5
5
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
68
-
11
CRUCIFIXION
131
68
68
-
1
2
9
4
5
18
7
8
9
-
-
6+8
-
1+1
-
1+3+1
6+8
6+8
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
-
-
-
-
-
14
-
2
CRUCIFIXION
5
14
14
-
1
2
9
4
5
9
7
8
9
-
-
1+4
-
-
-
-
1+4
1+4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
2
CRUCIFIXION
5
5
5
-
1
2
9
4
5
9
7
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
CRUCIFIXION
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
C
=
3
1
1
C
3
3
3
-
1
2
3
4
-
-
7
8
-
U
=
3
3
1
U
21
3
3
-
1
2
3
4
-
-
7
8
-
C
=
3
4
1
C
3
3
3
-
1
2
3
4
-
-
7
8
-
N
=
5
11
1
N
14
5
5
-
1
2
-
4
5
-
7
8
-
F
=
6
6
1
F
6
6
6
-
1
2
-
4
-
6
7
8
-
X
=
6
8
1
X
24
6
6
-
1
2
-
4
-
6
7
8
-
O
=
6
10
1
O
15
6
6
-
1
2
-
4
-
6
7
8
-
R
=
9
2
1
R
18
9
9
-
1
2
-
4
-
-
7
8
9
I
=
9
5
1
I
9
9
9
-
1
2
-
4
-
-
7
8
9
I
=
9
7
1
I
9
9
9
-
1
2
-
4
-
-
7
8
9
I
=
9
9
1
I
9
9
9
-
1
2
-
4
-
-
7
8
9
-
-
68
-
11
CRUCIFIXION
131
68
68
-
1
2
9
4
5
18
7
8
9
-
-
6+8
-
1+1
-
1+3+1
6+8
6+8
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+8
-
-
-
-
-
14
-
2
CRUCIFIXION
5
14
14
-
1
2
9
4
5
9
7
8
9
-
-
1+4
-
-
-
-
1+4
1+4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
2
CRUCIFIXION
5
5
5
-
1
2
9
4
5
9
7
8
9

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
CRUCIFIXION
-
-
-
-
3
5
6
9
C
=
3
1
1
C
3
3
3
-
3
-
-
-
U
=
3
3
1
U
21
3
3
-
3
-
-
-
C
=
3
4
1
C
3
3
3
-
3
-
-
-
N
=
5
11
1
N
14
5
5
-
-
5
-
-
F
=
6
6
1
F
6
6
6
-
-
-
6
-
X
=
6
8
1
X
24
6
6
-
-
-
6
-
O
=
6
10
1
O
15
6
6
-
-
-
6
-
R
=
9
2
1
R
18
9
9
-
-
-
-
9
I
=
9
5
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
9
I
=
9
7
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
9
I
=
9
9
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
9
-
-
68
-
11
CRUCIFIXION
131
68
68
-
9
5
18
9
-
-
6+8
-
1+1
-
1+3+1
6+8
6+8
-
-
-
1+8
-
-
-
14
-
2
CRUCIFIXION
5
14
14
-
9
5
9
9
-
-
1+4
-
-
-
-
1+4
1+4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
-
2
CRUCIFIXION
5
5
5
-
9
5
9
9

 

 

I
=
9
-
1
I
9
9
9
A
=
1
-
2
AM
14
5
5
T
=
2
-
3
THE
33
15
6
R
=
9
-
4
ROOT
68
23
5
A
=
1
-
3
AND
19
10
1
T
=
2
-
3
THE
33
15
6
O
=
6
-
9
OFFSPRING
110
56
2
O
=
6
-
2
OF
21
12
3
D
=
4
-
5
DAVID
40
22
4
A
=
1
-
3
AND
19
10
1
T
=
2
-
3
THE
33
15
6
B
=
2
-
6
BRIGHT
64
37
1
A
=
1
-
3
AND
19
10
1
M
=
4
-
7
MORNING
90
45
9
S
=
1
-
4
STAR
58
13
4
-
-
51
-
58
First Total
630
297
63
-
-
5+1
-
5+8
Add to Reduce
6+3+0
2+9+7
6+3
Q
-
6
Q
13
Second Total
9
18
9
-
-
-
-
1+3
Reduce to Deduce
-
1+8
-
-
-
6
-
4
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

 

The categorical imperative (German: kategorischer Imperativ) is the central philosophical concept in the deontological moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Introduced in Kant's 1785 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, it may be defined as a way of evaluating motivations for action

 

categorical imperative (German: kategorischer Imperativ)

 

K
=
2
-
13
KATEGORISCHER
139
67
4
I
=
9
-
9
IMPERATIV
113
50
5
-
-
11
-
22
Add to Reduce
252
117
9
-
-
1+1
-
2+2
Reduce to Deduce
2+5+2
1+1+7
-
Q
-
2
Q
4
Essence of Number
9
9
9

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative

The categorical imperative (German: kategorischer Imperativ) is the central philosophical concept in the deontological moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Introduced in Kant's 1785 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, it may be defined as a way of evaluating motivations for action.

According to Kant, human beings occupy a special place in creation, and morality can be summed up in an imperative, or ultimate commandment of reason, from which all duties and obligations derive. He defined an imperative as any proposition declaring a certain action (or inaction) to be necessary.

Hypothetical imperatives apply to someone who wishes to attain certain ends. For example:
If I wish to quench my thirst, I must drink something.
If I wish to pass this exam, I must study.

A categorical imperative, on the other hand, denotes an absolute, unconditional requirement that must be obeyed in all circumstances and is justified as an end in itself. It is best known in its first formulation:
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.[1]
Kant expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the popular moral philosophy of his day, believing that it could never surpass the level of hypothetical imperatives: a utilitarian says that murder is wrong because it does not maximize good for those involved, but this is irrelevant to people who are concerned only with maximizing the positive outcome for themselves. Consequently, Kant argued, hypothetical moral systems cannot persuade moral action or be regarded as bases for moral judgments against others, because the imperatives on which they are based rely too heavily on subjective considerations. He presented a deontological moral system, based on the demands of the categorical imperative, as an alternative.

 

Categorical imperative. Categorical imperative, in the ethics of the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, founder of critical philosophy, a moral law that is unconditional or absolute for all agents, the validity or claim of which does not depend on any ulterior motive or end.Categorical Imperative - Queensborough Community College

www.qcc.cuny.edu/SocialSciences/ppecorino/INTRO.../Categorical_Imperative.htm

Kant expressed this as the Categorical Imperative. Act according to the maxim that you would wish all other rational people to follow, as if it were a universal law. For Kant the GOOD involves the Principle of Universalizability! Kant argues that there can be four formulations of this principle: The Formula of the Law of Nature: ...
For Kant the basis for a Theory of the Good lies in the intention or the will. Those acts are morally praiseworthy that are done out of a sense of duty rather than for the consequences that are expected, particularly the consequences to self. The only thing GOOD about the act is the WILL, the GOOD WILL. That will is to do our DUTY. What is our duty? It is our duty to act in such a manner that we would want everyone else to act in a similar manner in similar circumstances towards all other people.

Kant expressed this as the Categorical Imperative.

Act according to the maxim that you would wish all other rational people to follow, as if it were a universal law.

For Kant the GOOD involves the Principle of Universalizability!

Kant argues that there can be four formulations of this principle:

The Formula of the Law of Nature: "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature."

The Formula of the End Itself: "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end."

The Formula of Autonomy: "So act that your will can regard itself at the same time as making universal law through its maxims."

The Formula of the Kingdom of Ends: "So act as if you were through your maxims a law-making member of a kingdom of ends."

Never treat a person as a means to an end.

Persons are always ends in themselves. We must never use or exploit anyone for whatever purpose.

 

C
=
3
-
11
CATEGORICAL
94
49
4
I
=
9
-
10
IMPERATIVE
112
55
1
-
-
12
-
21
Add to Reduce
212
104
5
-
-
1+2
-
2+1
Reduce to Deduce
2+1+2
1+4
-
Q
-
3
Q
3
Essence of Number
5
5
5

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
C
=
3
-
11
CATEGORICAL
94
49
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
I
=
9
-
10
IMPERATIVE
112
55
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
12
-
21
Add to Reduce
212
104
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
C
=
3
1
1
C
3
3
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
2
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
T
=
2
3
1
T
20
2
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
E
=
5
4
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
5
-
-
-
G
=
7
5
1
G
7
7
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
O
=
6
6
1
O
15
6
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
R
=
9
7
1
R
18
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
I
=
9
8
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
C
=
3
9
1
C
3
3
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
A
=
1
10
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L
=
3
11
1
L
12
3
3
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
49
-
11
-
94
49
49
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
I
=
9
12
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
M
=
4
13
1
M
13
4
4
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
-
P
=
7
14
1
P
16
7
7
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
E
=
5
15
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
5
-
-
-
R
=
9
16
1
R
18
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
9
A
=
1
17
1
A
1
1
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
T
=
2
18
1
T
20
2
2
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
I
=
9
19
1
I
9
9
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
V
=
4
20
1
V
22
4
4
-
-
-
4
-
-
-
E
=
5
21
1
E
5
5
5
-
-
-
5
-
-
55
-
10
-
112
55
55
-
3
4
9
8
15
6
14
8
45
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1+5
-
1+4
-
4+5
C
=
3
-
11
CATEGORICAL
94
49
4
-
3
4
9
8
6
6
5
8
9
I
=
9
-
10
IMPERATIVE
112
55
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
12
-
21
Add to Reduce
212
104
5
-
3
4
9
8
6
6
5
8
9
-
-
1+2
-
2+1
Reduce to Deduce
2+1+2
1+4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Q
-
3
Q
3
Essence of Number
5
5
5
-
2
4
9
8
6
6
5
8
9

 

 

C
=
3
-
11
CATEGORICAL
94
49
4
I
=
9
-
10
IMPERATIVE
112
55
1
-
-
12
-
21
Add to Reduce
212
104
5
-
-
1+2
-
2+1
Reduce to Deduce
2+1+2
1+4
-
Q
-
3
Q
3
Essence of Number
5
5
5

 

 

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
3
4
5
6
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THE R IN EVOLUTION REVOLUTION

 

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WHOS THERE

 

I

SAY

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MENTIONED DIVINE THOUGHT DIVINE CONSCIENCE

I

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DIVINE LOVE DIVINE

HAVE

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GOOD

 

Daily Mail,Thursday, April 1, 2010

Page 32

"WHY THE WHITE RABBIT DESERVES A BLUE PLAQUE

WING COMMANDER FOREST YEO-THOMAS GC MC was a world war ii legend known to his fellow spies by his codename the White Rabbit and his friends as plain old tommy.

His exploits in Occupied France were immortalised by Kenneth More in the Sixties "

"The second time the White Rabbit parachuted into France, he escaped capture by swapping identities with a corpse and hiding in a hearse."

 

 

THE WHITE RABBIT

THE SECRET AGENT THE GESTAPO COULD NOT CRACK

Bruce Marshall 1952

frontispiece"One of his many cover names was 'The White Rabbit', and when the BBC broadcasts to France stated that the white rabbit had gone back to his hutch it meant that Yeo-Thomas had safely returned to England." 

 

 

Page 9 "White Rabbit"

Page 10 "And although Yeo-Thomas was not stupid enough to believe that his lack of faith in the Holy Ghost entitled him to believe in the sacramental potency of black cats..."

Page 13 "It was one of Barbara's friends who nicknamed Tommy 'the white rabbit'.

Page 99 "I dont think that Tommy very often reads the bible, but there is a lament in the Old Testament which expresses his grief: O Absalom, my son, my son. Would God that I had died for thee O Absalom my son." 

Page 266 "The White Rabbit had returned to his hutch again"

 

 

Daily Mail

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Page 26

A singular BBC hero

A white rabbit at war: Kenneth More playing F. F. E Yeo-Thomas

QUESTION

The TV series The White Rabbit starring Kenneth More is said to have been shown only once and then destroyed. Was it?

KENNETH MORE (1914-82) was a very British type of film star; the sort of chap who favoured Harris Tweed over leather jackets.
In contrast to the tortured angst of American contemporaries such as Marlon Brando and James Dean, he portrayed a breezy charm. But there was more to More than this.
His showed his skill with light comedy in the classic family film Genevieve. And as Douglas Bader in Reach For The Sky, More became a stiff-upper-lipped icon of British cinema. A Night To Remember is the definitive Titanic film, and Northwest Frontier is a glorious Boy's Own adventure romp.
So he was the ideal choice to play Wing Commander F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas in the BBC production of The White Rabbit (1967).
Forest Frederick Edward Yeo Thomas was the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent codenamed The White Rabbit in World War II. His sphere of operations was Occupied and Vichy France, and while liaising with the Resistance in Paris, 'Tommy' was betrayed, taken to the Gestapo at 84 Avenue Foch for interrogation and subjected to brutal torture. After stints in several prisons and many escape attempts, he ended up in Buchenwald concentration camp, from which he eventually escaped in 1945.
The taut and suspenseful miniseries, The White Rabbit, was possibly More's best work. Sadly, it no longer exists. As More explains in his autobiography More Or Less (1978), the film copyright to White Rabbit was held by Hal Chester, who did not want the BBC series to be made in case he decided to make a film of it himself.
The BBC was able to bypass this by agreeing to screen the series just once and not selling it. According to More, the then controller of features at the BBC, David Attenborough, considered the project worthy, but had the tapes destroyed.
Michael Taylor, Cheltenham, Glos.

 

 

THE WHITE RABBIT

THE SECRET AGENT THE GESTAPO COULD NOT CRACK

Bruce Marshall 1952

Page 9

CHAPTER 1

NO ARMS AND THE MAN

"FACT', says Somerset Maughan in his preface to Ashenden, 'is poor story teller. It starts a story at haphazard, generally long before the beginning, rambles on inconsequentially and tails off, leaving loose ends hanging about, without a conclusion.' His contention generally true. In the case of The White Rabbit, however, which, like Ashenden, is the story of a British Agent, I shall hope to prove that there are occasionally exceptions to the rule"

Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the leading poets of the Transcendentalist movement of early American poetry. He remains one of America's most popular poets.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again."

Ralph Waldo Emerson from Brahma a poem based on the Bhagavad Gita

 

 

THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWNTREADER

C. S. Lewis 1952

Page 155

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE WORLD

But Lucy, looking out from between the wings of the birds that covered her, saw one bird fly to the Old Man with something in its beak that looked like a little fruit, unless it was a little live coal, which it might have been, for it was too bright to look at. And the bird laid it in the Old Man's mouth.

 

Page 159

"When I set for the last time, decrepit and old beyond all that you can reckon, I was carried to this island. I am not so old now as I was then. Every morning a bird brings me a fire-berry from the valleys in the Sun, and each fire-berry takes away a little of my age. And when I have become as young as the child that was born yesterday, then I shall take my rising again (for we are at earth's eastern rim) and once more tread the great dance."

 

 

THE RIVER GOD 

Wilbur Smith 1993

Page 47

"If I had known then how close my words would turn out to being the truth, I think I should have placed a live coal on my tongue before I spoke them."

 

 

HOLY BIBLE

Scofield References

Page 922

ISAIAH

C 6 V 6

 

6

Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

7

And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

 

 

Daily Mail

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Page 43

Hallelujah!

 

 

HURRAH FOR RAH FOR RAH HURRAH

 

THE WHITE RABBIT MAKING RARE APPEARANCE SAID ALIZZED WE MUST NOW SAY OUR GOODBYES THE COCOON FOR YOU IS ABOUT TO UNRAVEL THE SPIRAL TO REVERSE UPON ITSELF TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FROM A TIME WITHOUT TIME IT IS TIME TO ENTER UPON THE ADVENTURE OF AN ANYBODYS LIFETIME THERE IS A LABYRINTH TO EXPLORE AND THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN TO DESCEND AND MUCH ONCE SECRET AND PERILOUS AWAKENING LIES AHEAD TAKE THIS RAINBOW BALL OF TWINE HANG IT ON YOUR HOOK OR BY CROOK AND NO MATTER THE TWISTS AND TURNS ENCOMPASSED IN THE THIS AND THAT OF YOUR JOURNEY REMEMBER THAT ONCE INSIDE THE EVER NEVER DREAM LAND OF GREAT AMAZE YOU MUST HOLD FAST THE WHEREBY MEANS OF RETURN FOR THEE THY COMPANIONS IN KIND THE FAR YONDER SCRIBE AND SUCH AS THOSE THAT WITHIN THE PRESENT OF THE FUTURE PAST WILL SHADOW THEE ON THY BLESSED WAY AND THEN THE WHITE RABBIT WAS GONE

 

 

THE NUCLEAR FAMILY 1969

 

 

 
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