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BUDDHA
THE
NOBLEEIGHTFOLDPATH
AUMMANIPADMEHUM AUMMANIPADMEHUM
9 NINE 9 NINE 9
ASTRONOMY
James Muirden 1964
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6 + 3 = 9
"We now know the solar system to consist of nine planets."
9 NINE 9 NINE 9
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FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS 9876543210
Page 49 Chapter 6
"He Came in a Time of Chaos"
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ILLUMINATUS!
Part 1
THE EYE IN THE PYRAMID
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson 1975
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Page 286
THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE
Arthur C. Clarke 1979
"NIRVANA PRAPTO BHUYAT"
Page 90
Precisely. Still paying tourist dividends after four thousand years.'
'Hardly a fair comparison though. Their running costs don't compare with those of the bridge - much less your proposed Tower's.'
The Tower may last longer than the Pyramids. Its in a far more benign enviroment.' "
GODS OF THE DAWN
THE MESSAGE OF THE PYRAMIDS
and
THE TRUE STARGATE MYSTERY
Peter Le Mesurier
1997
"The Great Pyramid is a symbol of a now almost wholly alien mentality "
Arthur C. Clarke
Profiles of the Future
Foreword
Page ix
"TRUTH, IT HAS BEEN SAID, IS STRANGER THAN FICTION."
And so when two major theories converge to identify the pyramids of Giza in Egypt as elements of an ancient star- map - a map designed by who knows whom to grab our collective attention and summon us to the - stars it is perhaps no suprise to be reminded of the fiction-al 2001: A Space Odyssey and the equally fictiiona Stargate."
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" As Arthur C. Clarke's perceptive Third Law puts it: Any sufficient-ly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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"This is always the function of statements of belief. In the very / Page 235 / act of defining what we believe, they also define what we do not believe. And since what we believe can only ever be a very small part of what is, we thereby rule out the overwhelming balance of probabilities, whether for our present or for our future. The long story of the steady disappearance of God in the face of expanding scientific knowledge offers more than ample evidence of this. Be-lief, in short, is merely our way of making the world conceptually safe for ourselves. It rules out the unknown. It abolishes the unex-pected. It banishes the unthinkable.
Yet as I said earlier, it is precisely the unthinkable that I have dared to think in this book. To that extent it goes beyond all con- ventional belief. In the final upshot, though, something rather sur- prising has happened. The unthinkable has paradoxically turned out to be - if in surprising and disturbing ways - remarkably simi-lar to what has always been thought before. Indeed, it is precisely the extent to which this book's outline of humanity's future des-tiny turns out to mirror the immemorial beliefs of antiquity that. is most likely to worry the religious in particular.
It is as if we always knew what the eventual outcome might be. Some seed, planted in our ancient consciousness by who knows whom, long ago gave us an inkling of the end of the story even be-fore we knew how to begin it.
That, of course, is how visions work. They posit a goal and erect a signpost. They do not tell us how to put one foot in front of the other. They do not tell us what to believe. They do not tell us what dragons and precipices we shall encounter. Often they do not even tell us how far it is to our goal.
Yet where there is no vision (as the Authorized Version of the Bible incorrectly but perspicaciously translates it) the people perish.
The ancient signpost of imagination whose finger we have been following is one such. It is a signpost that has led from the twilight of the last ice age, by way of the dawn of pre-dynastic Egypt and / Page 236 / the sunrise of Greece, via the respective lights of classical Rome and the much later European Renaissance to the blinding light- ning flashes of the atomic era and the space age.
And its function has always been to face us with the inconceiv-able and present us with the impossible. Its message has been that we are limited only by our own imaginations, hemmed in only by our own beliefs.
In the event, we have gone on to learn both - the hard way. The ancient message has been first ritualized, then questioned, then ig-nored, then forgotten, then encountered anew. What should have set us free has been turned into religions that have bamboozled us, dogmas that have enslaved us, mumbo-jumbo that has passed us by, then new babblings that have invited our credulity all over again.
But the real function of the Elohistic initiative, if I have recon-structed it aright, is not to subject us to beliefs that shackle us, but to blast apart our imagined limitations. Its purpose is not to en-chain us, but to set us free - not by telling us, like most religions, what we cannot do, but by hinting, however remotely, at what we can.
Somehow it has managed to adumbrate what the world's reli-gions have only managed dimly to foreshadow - that humanity's potential is unlimited provided that we let go of our self-imposed limitations, that our greater identity is served only by identifying ourselves with each other and with our world, that we have a des-tiny that is not confined to Planet Earth, that there are friendly in- telligences elsewhere in the universe, and that our consciousness may yet be raised to levels beyond our wildest dreams.
In all this, imagination is the key. That is what visions are about. The future described by the Great Pyramid has something of the substance of a dream. To this extent, at least, my unthinking critics will be right, and possibly nearer to the truth than most.
The humanity of the future may well encounter the mooted / Page 237 / superior beings 'out there'. But it will also have encountered a dream in the mind of man - or of the universe. For dreams, too, can take on concrete form.Light, motion, relativity and the whole of the perceived universe are all dreams, all functions of human consciousness. If there is a universe beyond our perceiving we can- not perceive it. Even the Elohim themselves are a dream made manifest.
Though who the original Dreamer was is, of course, not appar- ent to those within the dream itself.
Dreams in due course become reality. What we dream today we experience tomorrow. The science-fictionists, no less than the scientists, are the creators of our future. Let them take care, then, what they dream. For mind is the maker of worlds. Yet, just as in the case of the atomic bomb, it can be their dissolver, too.
Mind - the selfsame Mind that we share with the Elohim and with all other sentient beings - is Brahma the Creator. It is Shiva the Destroyer. It is blue Vishnu in the sky, Orion in the flesh, the starry bones of God, the forger of destiny, the embodier of all that humanity has ever been and is ever likely to become.
THE SIRIUS CONNECTION
Murray Hope1996
Origins and Anomalies
Page 18
"With reference to the sun's different rising and setting points, this can now be substantiated in the works of such experts as Professor Charles Hapgood, John Ivimy, Jeffrey Goodman, Richard Mooney, and other scholars of repute. The fact that the / Page 19 / poles and equator have changed position in epochs past is common knowledge among those specialising in the disciplines concerned. There is also evidence to suggest that at some point during the Age of Cancer we acquired the extra five days known as epagomenal, the Earth having previously taken only 360 days to complete its annual cycle. Mooney offers the following information:
The Reverend Bowles, a nineteenth-century archaeologist and authority on megalithic monuments in Britain, says that the circles of Avebury represent a calendar of 360 days, and that an extra five days were added later.
In all the ancient classical writings of the Hindu Aryans, there is a year of 360 days. The Aryabhatiya, the ancient Indian mathematical and astronomical work, says: ' A year consists of 12 months. A month consists of 30 days. A day consists of 60 nadis. A nadi consists of 60 vinadikas.'
The ancient Babylonian year was of 12 months of 30 days each. The Babylonian zodiac was divided into 36 decans, this being the space the sun covered in relation to the fixed stars during a 10-day period. Thus the 36 decans require a year of only 360 days. Ctesias wrote that the walls of Babylon were 360 furlongs in circumference, 'as many as there are days in the year.'
The Egyptian year was originally 12 months of 30 days each, according to the Ebers papyrus. A tablet discovered at Tanis in the Nile Delta in 1866 reveals that in the ninth year of Ptolemy Euergetes (237 BC), the priests of Canopus decreed that as it was 'necessary to harmonise the calendar according to the present arrangement of the world.' One day was ordered to be added every four years to the 360 days, and to the five days which were afterwards ordered to be added.
The ancient Romans also had a year of 360 days. Plutarch, in his life of Numa, wrote that in the time of Romulus the year was made up of twelve 30-day months.
The Mayan year was of 360 days, called a tun. Five days were later added, and an extra day every fourth year. The Mayans computed the synodal period of the moon as 29.5209 days, as accurately as we can calculate today with our sophisticated equipment. Their degree of accuracy would surely not have been less when they computed the 360-day year. 'They did reckon them apart, and called them the days of nothing; during which the people did not anything,' wrote J.de Acosta, an early writer on America.
The Mexicans at the time of the Spanish conquest called each 30- day period a moon. / Page20 / The Incan year was divided into 12 quilla, or moons of 30 days. Five days were added at the end, and an extra day for every four years. The extra days were regarded as unlucky, or fateful.
The ancient Chinese calendar was a 12-month year of 30 days each. They added 5 1/4 days to the year, and also divided the sphere into 365 1/4 days, adopting the new length of the year into geometry
as well.
The aforegoing has usually been explained away by scholars as representing errors that were latterly refined as mathematical knowledge increased. One is tempted to ask, however, why so many different cultures, from different parts of the world, would have simultaneously committed the same error. We have heard of the Law of Synchronicity, but surely this tends to stretch coincidence a little too far! An alteration in the Earth's orbit changing its proximity to the sun would, however, account for the difference in the length ot the year. And if the Earth had been jolted out of its former position, the moon would also have been affected. As Mooney puts it:
Since the moon is a smaller body than Earth, and the distances between them much smaller than between the Earth and the sun, the differences would have been even more noticeable in the case of the Earth/moon system than in the case of the Earth/sun system.
This would appear to have been the case. In several ancient sources it has been found that there were four 9-day weeks to each lunar month, making a month of 36 days. This 9-day phase has been found in ancient Greek, Babylonian, Chinese and Roman sources, among others. As these lunar computations did not fit with a year of 360 days~ the calendars were altered to a 10-month year. This was an attempt to regulate the 'new' year to fit the 'old' 360-day year!9
The ancient Celts, who were decidedly lunar orientated, ascribed magical powers to the number 9, associating it with the three aspects of the Triple Goddess - Maiden, Mother and Crone.
Presuming legend to be the embodiment of past deeds, no- where is the advent of the epagomenal days better described, albeit allegorically, that in the Egyptian myth of the birth of the five great gods, or Neters, of ancient Egypt. Shu and Tefnut, the Twin Lion gods of Time, were the children of the Solar Lord Ra (seen in this context, I feel, as the binary star Sirius rather than our own sun). They, in turn, gave birth to Geb and Nut (the Earth and the sky). But Nut, who was also believed to have been the / Page 21 /spouse of Ra, offended her husband by cohabiting with her brother. Enraged by his wife's infidelity, Ra swore that she should not be delivered of a child on any of the 360 days of his year, which might have caused her considerable difficulty had not Thoth, god of science and mathematics, Keeper of the Akashic Records, divine Advocate and Lord of Time, played his famous game of draughts with the moon, from which he won one seventy-second part of her light (1/72 of 360 is exactly 5!) which he made into five new days called 'epagomenal'. Nut was then able to give birth to the five children she had been carrying
- Osiris, Horus the Elder, Set, Isis and Nephthys, in that order. The legend is also reiterated in the Greek myth of Cronus (Time) swallowing five of his own children and disgorging them after taking a potion administered to him by Metis Justice!).
Although various magical and mystical interpretations have been placed upon these stories by scholars, metaphysicists and romantics, what the myths are bascally telling us is that as a result of some drama played out between the Earth, the moon and some solar energy external to our star system, the calendar had to be changed, and that it was Thoth, a lunar deity, who effected the alteration. In other words, a change in the Earth's orbit involving the moon, which precipitated a change in the Earth's axis, was responsible for the five extra days we now have in our calendars, and since, as the ancient Egyptians have been most careful to tell us, the five epagomenal Neters have strong connections with Sirius, we may presume that a bright blue-white star in the constellation of Canis Major was the third, and probably most influential, player in this celestial drama."
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THE SIRIUS CONNECTION
Murray Hope1996
Page 20
"In several ancient sources it has been found that there were four 9-day weeks to each lunar month, making a month of 36 days. This 9-day phase has been found in ancient Greek, Babylonian, Chinese and Roman sources, among others. As these lunar computations did not fit with a year of 360 days~ the calendars were altered to a 10-month year. This was an attempt to regulate the 'new' year to fit the 'old' 360-day year!9
"The ancient Celts, who were decidedly lunar orientated,
ascribed magical powers to the number"
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THE ELEMENTS OF THE GODDESS
Caitlin Williams
1989
Page 38
LIGHT
The triplicities and ninefold permutations derived from these aspects are far more subtle than arbitrary divisions of the Goddess into triple moon-phases, or as reflections of the female life cycle-Maiden / Page 37 (Fig 6 and 7 omitted / Page38 / Mother and Crone. It is not that such definitions are invalid so much as that each of the triple-aspects of the Goddess contains elements of the ennead.
This ennead of aspects is endlessly adaptable for it is made up of nine, the most adjustable and yet essentially unchanging number. However one chooses to add up multiples of nine, for example 54, 72, 108, they always add up to nine.
THE
NUMBER
9
JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS
ThomasMann
1875 - 1955
JOSEPH THE PROVIDER
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"...You excite yourself, Meni, and it is not good for Your Majesty's health. You should rest, after the interpretation and all this exchange of views, and take a little time from the time that is given you, to let your decisions ripen, not only concerning measures against what may come, but also about the very serious proposal to change your name, which you seem to be considering; while at the same time you are thinking about a proper reward for this soothsayer. Do go and rest!"
But the King was unwilling. "Mama," he cried, "I do beg you most ardently not to ask that of me, just in the middle of such a promising train! I assure you, My Majesty is perfectly well and feels no trace of fatigue. I am so excited that I feel well, and so well that I feel ex- cited. You talk just like the nurses in my childhood; when I felt my liveliest, then they said: 'You are overtired, Lord of the Two Lands, you must go to bed.' It could only make me savage, I could have kicked with rage. Now I am grown, and I thank you most respectfully for your care of me. But I have the distinct, feeling that this present audience can lead to further good and that my decisions can better ripen here than in my bed, and in talk with this skilled soothsayer, to whom I am grateful, if for no other reason, for giving me the oppor-Page 955 / tunity to speak of my intention to take a real name, which contains the name of the unique one, namely Ikhnaton, that my name may be pleasing to my Father. Everything should be called after him and not after Amun; and if the Lady of the Two Lands, who fills the palace with sweetness, the sweet Titi, is soon brought to bed, then the royal infant, whether prince or princess, shall be called Merytaton, that it may be loved by him who is love. No matter if I draw down on my head the anger of the mighty one of Karnak, who will come and make representations and harangue me with threats of the anger of the Ram! Him I can endure - all I can endure for the sake of my love to my Father above." "Pharaoh," said the mother, "you forget that we are not alone. Matters which need to be dealt with in wisdom and moderation are probably best not discussed in the hearing of a soothsayer from the people."
"Let that be, Mama," replied Amenhotep. "He is in the way of noble lineage, that he has himself given us to understand - the son of a rogue and a lovely one, which is definitely attractive to me; while that he says he was even as a child called the lamb, that also indicates a certain refinement. Children of the lower classes are not given such nicknames. And besides, I get the impression that he is able to under-stand much, and give answers to much. Above and beyond all this, he loves me and is ready to help me, as he has done already in inter-preting the dreams and also by reason of his original view that one should call oneself according to one's own circumstances and feelings. It would all be very fine, if I liked a little better the name by which he chooses to be known. . . . I would not wish to be unfriendly or distress you," he turned to Joseph, "but the kind of name you have taken pains me: Osarsiph, that is a name of the dead, as when we call the dead bull Osar-Hapi; it bears the name of the dead lord, Usir, the frightful, on the judge's throne and with the scale, who is only just but without mercy, and before whose tribunal the terrified soul trem-bles and shakes. This old creed has nothing in it but fear, it is dead itself, it is an Osar-creed, and my Father's son believes not in it."
"Pharaoh," the mother's voice came again, "I must once more ap-peal to you and warn you to be cautious and I need not hesitate to do so in the presence of this foreign interpreter, since you grant him such extended audience and take as a sign of his higher origins his mere assertion that as a child he was called the lamb. So he may hear that I warn you to be wise and moderate. It is enough that you go about to decrease the power of Amun and set yourself against his uni-versal rule, in that wherever possible you take from him step by step the unity with Re the horizon-dweller, who is the Aton. Even to do this takes all the shrewdness and policy in the world, and a cool head besides, for heated rashness comes of evil. But let Your Majesty be./ Page 956 / ware of laying hands on the people's belief in Usir, King of the lower regions, to which it clings more obstinately than to any other deity, because all are equal before him, and each one hopes to go in unto him with his name. Bear in mind the prejudice of the many, for what you give to Aton by diminishing Amun, you take away again by offending Usir."
"Ah, I assure you, Mama, the people only imagine that they cling so to Usir," cried Amenhotep. "How could it really cling to a belief that the soul which goes up to the judge's seat must pass through seven times seven regions of terror, inhabited by demons who cross- examine it as it passes in some three hundred and sixty several magic formulas, each harder to remember than the last, yet the poor soul must have them all by heart and be able to repeat each one in the right place, otherwise it does not pass and will be devoured before ever it reaches the judgment seat. And if it does get there, it has every prospect of being devoured if its heart weighs too light in the scale; for then it is delivered over to the monstrous dog of Amente. I ask you, where is there anything in all that to cling to? - it is against all the love and goodness of my Father above. Before Usir of the lower regions all are equal - yes, equal in terror. Whereas before my Father all shall be equal in joy. With Amun and Aton it is the same. Amun too, with the help of Re, will be universal and will unite the world in worship of him. There they are of one mind. But Amun would make the world- one in the rigid service of fear, a false and sinister unity, which my Father would not, for he would unite his children in joy and tenderness."
"Meni," said the mother again, in her low voice, "it would be better for you to spare yourself and not speak so much of joy and tenderness. You know from experience that the words are dangerous to you and put you beside yourself."
"I am speaking, Mama, of belief and unbelief," answered Amenhotep; once more he worked himself out of the cushions and stood on his feet. "Of these I speak, and my own good mind tells me that disbelief is almost more important than belief. In belief there must be a sizable element of disbelief; for how can a man believe what is true so long as he also believes what is false? If I want to teach the people what is true, I must first take from them certain beliefs to which they, cling. Perhaps that is cruel, but it is the cruelty of love, and my Father in the sky will forgive me. Yes, which is more glorious, belief or disbelief, and which should come before the other? Believing is a great rapture for the soul. But not believing is almost more joyous than belief - I have found it so, My Majesty has experienced it, and I do not believe in the realms of fear and the demons and Usiri with his frightfully named ones and the devourer down there below."
ThomasMann
1875 - 1955
8 x 9
ISISIS
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"The first steps toward the goal of overturning the dynasty, bringing in a new time and elevating the nameless near-favourite to the rank of goddess-mother had been successfully taken. The plot was hatched in Pharaoh's house of women; but through certain officials of the harem and certain officers of the guard who had been eager for new things, connections had been established, on the one hand with the palace itself, where a number of friends, some of them highly placed - a head charioteer of the god, the chief of gens-d'armes, the steward of the fruit stores, the overseer of the King's herds of oxen, the head keeper of the King's ointments, and certain others - were won over for the enterprise; and on the other hand they got in touch with the outer world of the residential city, where through the officers' wives the male kindred of Pharaoh's graces were drawn in and engaged to stir up Wese's population with evil talk against the old Re, who by now was nothing at all but gold and silver and lapis lazuli.
In all there were two-and-seventy conspirators privy to the plot. It was a proper and a pregnant number, for there had been just seventy-two when red Set lured Usir into the chest. And these seventy- two in their turn had had good cosmic ground to be no more and no less than that number. For it is just that number of groups of five weeks which make up the three hundred and sixty days of the year, not counting the odd days; and there are just seventy-two days in the dry fifth of the year, when the gauge shows that the Nourisher has reached his lowest ebb, and the god sinks into his grave. So where there is conspiracy anywhere in the world it is requisite and customary for the number of conspirators to be seventy-two. And if the plot fail, the failure shows that if this number had not been adhered to it would have failed even worse."
FINGERPRINTSOF THE GODS
Graham Hancock
1995
THOTH
THE
SEVENTH PHARAOH
IN SEARCH OF SCHRODINGER'S
CAT
John Gribbin 1984
Page 77
"With the elements arranged in a periodic table, even in 1922 there were a few gaps, corresponding to un-discovered elements with atomic numbers 43, 61, 72, 75, 85 and 87. Bohr's model predicted the detailed properties of these "missing" elements and suggested that element 72, in particular, should have properties similar to zirconium, a forecast that contradicted predictions made on the basis of alternative models of the atom. The prediction was con- finned within a year with the discovery of hafnium, ele-ment 72, which turned out to have spectral properties exactly in line with those predicted by Bohr.
This was the high point of the old quantum theory. Within three years, it had been swept away, although as far as chemistry is concerned you need little more than the idea of electrons as tiny particles orbiting around atomic nuclei in shells that would "like" to be full (or empty, but preferably not in between). * And if you are interested in the physics of gases, you need little more than the image of atoms as hard, indestructible billiard balls. Nineteenth- century physics will do for everyday purposes; the physics of 1923 will do for most of chemistry; and the physics of the 1930s takes us about as far as anyone has yet gone in the search for ultimate truths. There has been no great break- through comparable to the quantum revolution for fifty years, and in all that time the rest of science has been catching up with the insights of a handful of geniuses. The success of the Aspect experiment in Paris in the early 1980s marked the end of that catching-up period, with the
'I am, of course, exaggerating the simplicity of chemistry here. The "little more" that is needed to explain more complex molecules was developed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. using the fruits of the full development of quan- tum mechanics. The person who did most of the work was Linus Pauling, more familiar today as a peace campaigner and proponent of vitamin C, who received the first of his two Nobel Prizes for the work, being cited in 1954 "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application 10 the elucidation of the structure df complex substances." Those "complex sub- stances" elucidated with the aid of quantum theory by Pauling, a physical chemist, opened the way to a study of the molecules of life. The key signifi-cance of quantum chemistry to molecular biology is acknowledged by Horace Judson in his epic book The Eighth Day of Creation; the detailed story, alas, is beyond the scope of the present book.
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Bohr's model predicted the detailed properties of these "missing" elements and suggested that element 72, in particular, should have properties similar to zirconium, a forecast that contradicted predictions made on the basis of alternative models of the atom. The prediction was con- finned within a year with the discovery of hafnium, ele-ment 72, which turned out to have spectral properties exactly in line with those predicted by Bohr.
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THE FINGERPRINTS Of THE GODS
Graham Hancock 1995
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"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 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."
"The pre-eminent number in the code is 72
KEEPER OF
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RobertBauval Graham Hancock
1996
A
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FORTHE HIDDEN LEGACY OFMANKIND
"In short it seems that secret knowledge is indeed available in the myth of Osiris and in the dimensions of the Great Pyramid. With this secret knowledge, if we wanted to fix a specific date - say 1008 years in the future - and communicate it to other initiates, then we could do so with the 'special number' 14( 72 x 14= 1008).
RE
MEMBERING OSIRIS
Tom Hare
1999
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"There is, in fact, a striking omission from most Egyptian accounts of the story: the murder itself. The Pyramid Text reference to Osiris having been "laid low" is hardly specified in more detail until Plutarch. As he tells the tale, Setekh has woven a fine deceit in revenge for an adulterous (although apparently mistaken) encounter between Osiris and his own wife, Nephthys. Having designed a beautiful coffin, Setekh brings it to a banquet and offers it to whoever might lie in it and find it a match to his own dimensions. He has, of course, built it expressly for Osiris. After many of the other banqueters have tried the coffin, Osiris falls for the trick and lies down in it himself.
Setekh and some 72 accomplices immediately fall upon him, nail the coffin shut, and seal it with lead. They carry the coffin to the Nile and set it adrift. It eventually floats down the Tanite branch in the delta out into the Mediterranean and along the coast of Palestine as far as Byblos.
Isis, in a frenzy of grief, sets out to search for the coffin, eventually finding it in the royal palace at Byblos. She brings it back to Egypt with the aid of ruses and magical feats ingeniously unfolded in the Greek narrative.
When she has returned to her son Horus in Buto (Arab. Tell el-Fara 'in), she hides the body in an out-of-the-way place. Setekh manages all the same to find it. He chops it in fourteen pieces and scatters them through- out Egypt. Isis manages to retrieve them all, except for the phallus, which falls into the Nile where it is devoured by fish.
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1996
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Special numbers
"We suspect that the phrase to 'go down to any sky' suggests an awareness - and recording - of precessionally induced changes in the positions of the stars over long periods of time. And we also note its implication that if the chosen initiate was equipped with the correct numerical spell then he would be able to work out - and visualize - the correct positions of the stars in any epoch of his choosing, past or future.
Once again Sellers stands out amongst Egyptologists for being the first to have entertained such apparently outlandish notions. 'It is possible', she writes, 'that early man encoded in his myths special numbers; numbers that seemed to reveal to initiates an amazing knowledge of the movement of the celestial spheres.' 27
Such numbers, she argues, appear to have been derived from a sustained, scientific study of the cycle of precession and a measure- ment of its rate and, puzzlingly, turn out to be extremely 'close to the calculations made with today's sophisticated procedures'. Intrigu- ingly, too, there is evidence not only 'that these calculations were made, and conclusions drawn', but also that 'they were transmitted to others by secret encoding that was accessible only to an elite few':28 In short, Sellers concludes, 'ancient man calculated a special number that he believed would bring this threatening cycle [of precession] back to its starting point. . .'29
The 'special number' to which Sellers is referring to is 25,920 (and multiples and divisions of it) and thus represents the duration, in solar years, of a full precessional cycle or 'Great Year,.30 She shows how it can be derived from a variety of simple combinations of other numbers - 5,12, 36, 72,360, 432, 2100, etc., etc. -all of which are in turn derived from precise observations of precession. M(Jst crucially of all, she shows that this peculiar sequence of numbers occurs in the ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris where, notably '72 consipirators' are said to have been involved with Seth in the murder of the God-King:
As was shown in Fingerprints of the Gods, the sun's perceived motion through the signs of the zodiac at the vernal equinox proceeds at the rate of one degree every seventy-two years. From this it follows that a movement of the vernal point through 30 degrees will take 2160 / Page 248 / years to complete, 60 degrees will take 4320 years, and a full 360-degree cycle will require 25,920 years!2
Curiously enough, as the reader will recall from Part I, the Great Pyramid itself incorporates a record of these precessional numbers - since its key dimensions (its height and the perimeter of its base) appear to have been designed as a mathematical model of the earth's polar radius and equatorial circumference on a scale of 1 :43,200. The number 43,200 is, of course, exactly 600 times 72. What we have in this remarkable monument, therefore, is not just a scale model of a hemisphere of the earth but also one in which the scale involved incorporates a 'special number' derived from one of the key planetary motions of the earth itself - i.e. the rate of its axial precession.
In short it seems that secret knowledge is indeed available in the myth of Osiris and in the dimensions of the Great Pyramid. With this secret knowledge, if we wanted to fix a specific date - say 1008 years in the future - and communicate it to other initiates, then we could do so with the 'special number' 14( 72 x 14= 1008). We would also have to specify the 'zero point' from which they were to make their calculations - i.e the present epoch - and this might be done with
some kind of symbolic or mathematical marker to indicate where the vernal point presently is, i.e. moving out of Pisces and into Aquarius.
A similar exercise could likewise be carried out in reverse. By following the 'eastwards' direction along the ecliptic path we can 'find' (calculate, work out) where the vernal point was at any epoch in the past. Thus if today we wished to use the precessional code to direct attention towards the Pyramid Age we would need to confide to other initiates the 'special number' of 62.5 (72 x 62.5 = 4500 years ago = approximately 2500 BC). Again, we could rule out any ambiguity as to the zero date from which the calculations were to be made if we could find a way to indicate the present position of the vernal point.
We have seen that this is what Sneferu appears to have done with the two Pyramids at Dahshur, which map the two sides of the head of the celestial bull- the 'address' of the vernal point in his epoch. And in a sense, though with a great deal more specificity and precision, this could also be exactly what the builders of the Great Pyramid were doing when they deliberately targeted the southern shafts of the King's and Queen's Chambers on the meridian-transits of such / Page249 / significant stars as Orion and Sirius in the epoch of 2500 BC. To be clear about this, it seems to us well worth investigating the possibility that by setting up such obvious and precise 'time markers' they were trying to provide an unambiguous zero point - circa 2500 BC - for calculations that could only be undertaken by initiates steeped in the mysteries of precession, who were equipped by their training to draw out the hidden portents concealed in certain 'special numbers'.
We note in passing that if the Horus-King could have been provided with the 'special number' 111. 111, and had used it in the way described above, it would have led him back to (72 x 111. 111 years =) 7,999.99 years before the specified 'ground zero', i.e. to almost exactly 8000 before before 2500 BC - in short, to 10,500 BC.
We know this seems like wishful numerology of the worst sort-i.e. 'factoring in' an arbitrary value to a set of calculations so as to procure spurious 'corroboration' for a specific desired date (in this case the date of I 0,500 DC, twelve and a half thousand years before the present, that we have already highlighted in Chapter 3 in connection with the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza). The problem, however, is that the number 111.111 may well not be an arbitrary value. At any rate, it has long been recognized that the main numerical factor in the design of the Great Pyramid, and indeed of the Giza necropolis as a whole, is the prime number 11 - a prime number being one that is only divisible by itself to produce the whole number1. Thus 11 divided by 11, i.e. the ratio 11:11, produces the whole number 1 (while 11 divided by anything else, i.e. any other ratio, would, of neccessity, generate a fraction).
What is intriguing is the way that the architecture of the Great Pyramid responds to the number 11 when it is divided, or multiplied, by other whole numbers."
Fingerprints Of The Gods
Graham Hancock 1998
Why a mathematical language?
Page 197 "...Perhaps because, no matter what extreme changes and transforma-tions human civilization might go through, the radius of a circle multiplied by 2pi (or half the radius multiplied by 4pi) would always give the correct figure for that circle's circumference. In other words, a mathematical language could have been chosen for practical reasons: unlike any verbal tongue, such a code could always be deciphered, even by people from unrelated cultures living thousands of years in the future."
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THE
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Arthur C Clarke
Introduction to 1989 Edition
"Unlike authors of so-called mainstream fiction, the writer of science fiction has the responsibility (often an embarrassing one) of confronting his readers every decade or so, to report on how his ideas have stood the test of time. This, of course, is one excellent reason for setting stories in the very distant future.
Then there's no need to explain - or to apologize.
In the case of this volume, much of which was conceived, if not written, almost half a century ago, I'm happy to find relatively few embarrassments. However, I have made some interesting discoveries; for instance, on the very first page of the very first story, I see the number 9000. I've no idea why I selected it again for HAL's serial number, twenty years later. . .
I
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NON ANGLI SED ANGELI NON ANGELI SED ANGLI
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
E.A.Wallis Budge
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[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No 10,477, sheets 17 and 18).]
OF LIVING NIGH UNTO
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Text (1) THE CHAPTER OF HAVING EXISTENCE NIGH UNTO
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"...I am that god Ra who shineth in the night. Every : -
"(2) being who followeth in his train shall have life in
"the following of the god Thoth, and he shall give
"unto him the risings of Horus in the darkness..."
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"...And I say, 'On every road
"and among (11) these millions of years is Ra the lord,
"and his path is in the fire; and they go round about
"behind him, and they go round about behind him.' "
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THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
E.A.Wallis Budge
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"behind him, and they go round about behind him.' "
A. P. Rossiter 1939
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THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS
Louis Pauwels and Jaques Bergier 1960
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"The
'Sun'
was the fixed centre round which the electrons revolve."
THE GROWTH OF SCIENCE
A. P. Rossiter 1939
Page 18
"In Philolaus, of the later Pythagoreans, this theory gave something near the facts: the Earth and its opposite were like balls hanging in space turning about a secret Fire, the middle point of all things, never seen by living eyes.
Some 200 years later, Aristarchus was to put forward a true theory of the Earth's motion about the Sun; but even then there was not enough observation to make it seem true. Without good instruments and detailed measurings, it was more readily seen that the Sun and stars did go round; and again, there was the natural feeling that Man was necessarily the middle of things."
'. . . . In each of the planetary spheres there are invisible stars which revolve together with their spheres"
THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS
Louis Pauwels and Jaques Bergier 1960
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"Moufang and Stevens, in a work entitled The: Mystery of Dreams have cited a number of cases, which have been carefully checked, in which dreams revealed future events and led to important scientific discoveries.
The celebrated atomic scientist, Niels Bohr, when he was a student, had a strange dream. He saw himself on a Sun consisting of burning gas. Planets whizzed by, whistling as they passed. They were attached to the Sun by thin filaments, and revolved round it. Suddenly the gas solidified and the Sun and planets crumbled away. Niels Bohr then woke up and realized that he had just discovered the model of the atom, so long sought after. The 'Sun' was the fixed centre round which the electrons revolve. The whole of. modem atomic physics and its applications have come out of this dream.
The chemist Auguste Kekule tells the following story: 'One summer's evening I was on the platform of my bus, on my way home, and went to sleep. I saw clearly and distinctly how, on every side, the atoms united in couples which were then merged in larger groups which, in their turn, were attracted by others still more powerful; and all these corpuscles were spinning round in a frenzied dance. I spent part of that night transcribing what I had seen in my dream. I had hit upon the theory of atomic structure.'
Mter reading in the newspapers accounts of the bombardment of London, an engineer of the American Bell telephone company had a dream one night in the Autumn of 1940 in which he saw himself drawing the plan of an apparatus which would enable an anti-aircraft gun to be aimed at the exact spot where an aeroplane whose speed and trajectory were known, would pass. On awakening he traced the blueprint 'from memory'. A study of this apparatus, which was to use radar for the first time, was undertaken by the eminent scientist Norbert Wiener, and Wiener's report on this machine resulted in the birth of cybernetics.
'One certainly ought not to underestimate,' wrote Lovecraft (in Beyond the Walls of Sleep) 'the gigantic importance of dreams.' "
THE
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Robert Temple
1999
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"The Moons of the Planets, the Planets around Stars, and Revolutions and Rotations of Bodies in Space
- Described by the Neoplatonic Philosopher Proclus
'. . . . In each of the planetary spheres there are invisible stars which revolve together with their spheres. . .' So said Proclus the Platonic successor in AD 438.
The non-specialist reader may never have heard of Proclus, one of the greatest intellects in the history of philosophy, who lived from AD 410 to 485. The English translations of this Greek philosopher's gigantic output are his Elements of Theology1 (which is not relevant to what we are to consider here), his Commentary on Euclid,2 his Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato,3 and one partial and one complete translation of his Commentary on the Parmenides of Plato4"
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EMPEROR'S NEW MIND
CONCERNING COMPUTERS.MINDS, AND THE LAWS OF PHYSICS
Roger Penrose 1990
QUANTUM MAGIC AND QUANTUM MYSTERY
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position do not apply to consciousness! A rough mathematical model for such a viewpoint was put forward by EugeqeP . Wigner (1961). He suggested that the linearity of Schrodinger's equation might fail for conscious (or merely 'living') entities, and be replaced by some non-linear procedure, according to which either one or the other alternative would be resolved out. It might seem to the reader that, since I am searching for some kind of role for quantum phenomena in our conscious thinking - as indeed I am- I should find this view to be a sympathetic possibility. However, I am not at all happy with it. It seems to lead to a very lopsided and disturbing view of the reality of the world. Those corners of the universe where consciousness resides may be rather few and far between. On this view, only in those corners would the complex. quantum linear superpositions be resolved into actual alterna- tives. It may be that to us, such other corners would look the same as the rest of the universe, since whatever we, ourselves, actually look at (or otherwise observe) would, by our very acts of con- scious observation, get 'resolved into alternatives', whether or not it had done so before. Be that as it may, this gross lopsidedness would provide a very disturbing picture of the actuality of the world, and I, for one, would accept it only with great reluctance.
There is a somewhat related viewpoint, called the participatory universe (suggested by John A. Wheeler 1983), which takes the role of consciousness to a (different) extreme. We note, for example, that the evolution of conscious life on this planet is due to appropriate mutations having taken place at various times. These, presumably, are quantum events, so they would exist only in linearly superposed form until they finally led to the evolution of a conscious being - whose very existence depends upon all the right mutations having 'actually' taken place! It is our own presence which, on this view, conjures our past into existence. The circularity and paradox involved in this picture has an appeal for
some, but for myself I find it distinctly worrisome - and, indeed,
barely credible.
Another viewpoint, also logical in its way, but providing a picture no less strange, is that of many worlds, first publicly put forward by Hugh Everett III (1957). According to the many- worlds interpretation, R never takes place at all. The entire
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evolution of the state-vector - which is regarded realistically - is always governed by the deterministic procedure U. This implies that poor Schrodinger's cat, together with the protected observer inside the container, must indeed exist in some complex linear combination, with the cat in some superposition of life and death. However the dead state is correlated with one state of the inside observer's consciousness, and the live one, with another (and presumably, partly, with the consciousness of the cat - and, eventually, with the outside observer's also, when the contents become revealed to him). The consciousness of each observer is regarded as 'splitting', so he now exists twice over, each of his instances having a different experience (i.e. one seeing a dead cat and the other a live one). Indeed, not just an observer, but the entire universe that he inhabits splits in two (or more) at each 'measurement' that he makes of the world. Such splitting occurs again and again - not merely because of 'measurements' made by observers, but because of the macroscopic magnification of quan- tum events generally - so that these universe 'branches' proliferate wildly. Indeed, every alternative possibility would coexist in some vast superposition. This is hardly the most economical of view- points, but my own objections to it do not spring from its lack of economy. In particular, I do not see why a conscious being need be aware of only 'one' of the alternatives in a linear superposition. What is it about consciousness that demands that one cannot be 'aware' of that tantalizing linear combination of a dead and a live cat? It seems to me that a theory of consciousness would be needed before the many-worlds view can be squared with what one actually observes. I do not see what relation there is between the 'true' (objective) state-vector of the universe and what we are supposed actually to 'observe'. Claims have been made that the 'illusion' of R can, in some sense, be effectively deduced in this picture, but I do not think that these claims hold up. At the very least, one needs further ingredients to make the scheme work. It seems to me that the many-worlds view introduces a multitude of problems of its own without really touching upon the real puzzles of quantum measurement. (Compare DeWitt and Graham 1973.)
Edited by Peter Brooksmith c 1980
"Below: the appropriately named Lucky, a tomcat, was found in a sealed drain in Bristol in June 1982. Workmen had blocked the drain five weeks before - with Lucky in it. His only injury was a stiff neck.
After a hearty meal he was able to pose with kennel maid Joyce"
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I n the 1930s the United States and Europe were treated to repeated demonstrations of live burials by three Egyptians, Tara Bey, Rahman Bey and Hamid
Bey. While in England Rahman Bey effected various 'mysterious' feats under the auspices of psychical researcher Harry Price, including a live burial at Carshalton, Surrey, in July 1938 (right). Although he emerged in good condition some time later (below right) his 'miraculous' abilities were later shown to be only average tricks by Harry Houdini, who outdid every trick the Beys performed
Below: the appropriately named Lucky, a tomcat, was found in a sealed drain in Bristol in June 1982. Workmen had blocked the drain five weeks before - with Lucky in it. His only injury was a stiff neck. After
a hearty meal he was able to pose with kennel maid Joyce
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of a similar burial, by an unnamed fakir, at Jaisulmer. It might have been Haridas, for he too 'stopped the interior opening of the nostrils with his tongue' and made similar yogic preparations. This fakir was sewn into a thick cloth bag and placed in a stone cell lined with brick, which in turn was sealed with stone slabs, bricked up and guarded night and day.(At the end of a 'full month' he was removed frol:n his tomb perfectly senseless - and his skin was so dry and shrunken that he seemed to be almost mummified. His teeth were jammed together so fast that an iron lever was needed to force them apart in order to administer a little water. Even so, he too was fully recovered in a few hours.
In the 1920S three self-styled Egyptians- Tara Bey, Rahman Bey and Hamid Bey- aroused considerable interest in their tour of Europe and the USA. They performed live burials attended by newsmen and physi- cians, and in the ground of the witnesses'
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A HISTORY OF THE SECRET LINKS BETWEEN MAGIC AND SCIENCE
C.J.S.Thompson
1990
THE MYSTERY OF THE EMERALD TABLET
Page 31
That which is above is like to that which is below,
and that which is below is like that which is above,
to accomplish the miracles of one thing
And as in all things whereby contemplation of one,
so in all things arose from this one thing by a single act of adoption
The father thereof is the Sun, the mother the Moon.
Page32
LURE fS ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY
The wind carried it in its womb, the earth is the source thereof. It is the father of all works of wonder throughout the world.
The power thereof is perfect.
If it be cast on to earth, it will separate the element of earth from that of fire, the subtle from the gross.
With great sagacity it doth ascend gently from earth to heaven. Again it doth descend to earth and uniteth in itself the force from things superior and things inferior.
Thus thou wilt possess the brightness of the world, and all obscurity will fly far from thee.
This thing is the strong fortitude of all strength, for it over- cometh every subtle thing and doth penetrate every solid substance.
Thus was this world created.
Hence will there be marvellous adaptations achieved of which the manner is this.
For this reason I am called Hermes Trismegistus because I hold three parts of ' the wisdom of the whole world.
That which I had to say about the operation of Sol is completed.
What is the meaning of this enigma? Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, and other philosophers of the Middle Ages sought to solve it, but their comments only point to a vague doctrine of correspondence between heaven and earth, so that inanimate nature answers to the planets and the heavenly bodies. It obviously emphasizes the dependence of all earthly things on the sun, thus following the idea of Aristotle that man is gene- rated from man and the sun. I t refers to the action of the moon upon the earth, the action of fire on a solid body, causing distillation or sublimation, and the subsequent solution of a rarer liquid. It is, indeed, a brief summary of the principles of change in nature and the foundation of alchemical doctrine, and shows the close connexion between alchemy and astrology.
One of the earliest doctrines of astrology was a belief in a mysterious emanation from the heavenly bodies which in- fluenced man's life in health and disease, and also affected all minerals, plants, and flowers, their properties being derived from the sun, the moon, and the planets.
Legends of the discovery of ancient stone tablets or documents 32
Page33 / MYSTERY OF THE "EMERALD TABLET
are not infrequent; another is provided by the story of the find- ing of the famous book on magic known as The Key of Solomon, which, according to tradition, was discovered secreted in an ivory casket in a tomb.
In the account of the emerald tablet given by Roger Bacon in the Secretum Secretorum it is stated that "These precious sentences of Hermes were found by Galienus Alfachim the physician, on a plaque of emerald in a cave, clasped in the hands of the corpse of that mysterious legendary figure Hermes Tris- megistus, The Thrice Great." The reader is exhorted" to preserve the strictest secrecy from all except men of goodwill, this treasured text, even as Hermes himself had hidden it within the cave."
Another instance of a similar discovery is the story respecting the treatise entitled Concerning the Seven, attributed to Alexius Africanus, in which the seven herbs connected with the seven planets are named. This document is said to have been found enclosed within a monument with the bones of the first King K yrannide~ in the town of Troy.
Several early historians record that the lore of the Egyptians was preserved in the stelre of their temples. Iamblichus, in the fourth century, mentions" ancient stelre of Hermes in which all science was written down"; while Olympiodorus, in the sixth century, says, "The secret of the mystic art is inscribed on the obelisks in hieroglyphics."
The tradition that the text was inscribed on an emerald may have arisen from the fact that in Grreco- Egyptian times the name was applied to any green stone.
It may be well to quote another and freer translation of this historic text; it can be judged more clearly from this that the writer designed to teach the doctrines of alchemy that were common in the early Christian era.
I speak not fictitious things, but that which is certain and most true. What is below is like that which is above, and what is above is like that which is below to accomplish the miracles of One
Page 34 / ALCHEMY
Thing. And as all things were produced by the One Word of One Being, so all things were produced from the One Thing by adaptation. Its father is the Sun, its mother the Moon, the wind carries it in its belly, its nurse is the earth. It is the father of all perfection throughout the world. The power is vigorous if it be changed into earth. Separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, acting prudently and with judgment. Ascend with the sagacity from the earth to heaven, and then again descend to the earth and unite together the powers of things superior and things inferior. Thus you will obtain the glory of the whole world and obscurity will fly far from you. This has more fortitude than fortitude itself, because it conquers every subtle thing and can penetrate every solid. Thus was the world formed. Hence pro- ceed wonders which are here established. Therefore I am called Hermes Trismegistus, having three parts of the philosophy of the whole world. That which I had to say concerning the operation of the Sun is completed.
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The authorship of this remarkable message still remains a mystery, although philosophers have laboured for centuries to prove its authenticity and to interpret its cryptic words. In the Middle Ages it was regarded as a marvellous revelation full of sublime secrets of great importance to mankind, but what these secrets were none was able to reveal.
Ferguson enumerates forty-eight treatises and commentaries on the Emerald Tablet, and remarks that we cannot well ignore it-less perhaps now than ever in view of the discovery of Egyptian writings like the medical Papyrus Ebers, which he calls an hermetic treatise of 1550 B.C., a date coinciding with that assigned to Hermes by Lambeck. Other researches have shown that the belief in a person or persons of the name of Hermes has been so widespread and persistent that the whole Hermes legend forms a legitimate subject of inquiry as to its origin.
The text is certainly not modern; it has been assigned to Hermes from the first, and its significance does not lie on the surface. It is a profound mystery and remains a great puzzle. Everything concerning it remains a problem; its legendary and romantic discovery, its author-whether one of the several per- / Page 35 / sonages of the name of Hermes or an anonymous writer who ascribed it to him to give it authority-and its possible con- nexion with so-called hermetic writings of an earlier time. De Sacy was of the opinion that the Emerald Tablet was the work of Apollonius of Tyana, but gives no grounds for his conclusion. The story of its discovery may be a myth, but we must remem- ber that the earliest Egyptian papyri dealing with medicine, which are believed to date from 1550 B.C., were found reposing between the legs of a mummy. The most that can be hoped for is that some future discoveries may lead at least to a plausible theory, if not to perfect certainty, regarding its origin
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"There is further evidene in the Bible of the richness of the country in the precious metal, for it is recorded1 that the Queen of Sheba brought much gold and precious stones and / Page 27 and gave to King Solomon 120 talents, a sum equivalent to £240,000. The navy of Hiram also brought gold from Ophir, and the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents,.."
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Reference (omitted)
THE GIZA PYRAMIDS
The alignment of the pyramids Grand Gallery pointed to the
centre of one of the circles
"Above the entrance to Plato's Academy at Athens was the legend 'Let none ignorant of geometry enter here'. To the ancient Greeks, pure geometry lay at the heart of all things. It was the way of reconciling the world of the divine with the form of the world we see. The golden mean proportion, for example, can be depicted in terms of geometry but not number. It can be drawn, but the number that represents it cannot be written down as it runs to an infinite number of decimal places. Geometry can be seen as a way of defining what is otherwise indefinable.
Our knowledge of the use of pure geometry in ancient Egypt is more tenuous. We do not have any papyri which give the geometrical equivalent of the equations of Plato, Thales and Euclid, epitomising ancient Greek thought. However, Plato considered that Egypt possessed a profound canon of knowledge based on harmony and proportion. We can infer that the ancient Egyptians were as adept with the compass and the rule as their Greek counterparts. This knowledge would have influenced their art and architecture. Unravelling how the Egyptians might have selected the proportions they used is a way of reaching back into the roots of their civilisation."
Reference omitted.
Are we really supposed to believe that a people who could design and build a monument to the precision shown in the Great Pyramid, or the pyramid of Khafre, inv,olving exact measurements over considerable dis- tances, would never have measured or worked out the lengths of the hypotenuses of the triangles they were using? Surely, any people seeking precision of measurement would check all lengths as a matter of course as part of their general exploration of number, form and geometry. It would be an essential part of their working methods. So, I would maintain that simply by using the ratio 3:4 in their building plans, they implicitly knew the length of the third side.
HARMONIC 288
THE PULSE OF THE UNIVERSE
Bruce Cathie1977
Page 35
He discovered the mathematical relationships of the musical scale and the connection of musical harmony and whole num-bers. He firmly believed that all harmony and things of nature can be expressed in whole-number relationships. Even the planets in their orbits, according to him, moved in harmonious relationship, one to the other, producing the so-called "music of the spheres".
The Pythagoreans explained the elements as built up of geometrical figures. One of the most interesting of these was the dodecahedron, which will be discussed in Chapter Seven. That particular figure has locked within it a great deal of information on the geometrical nature of the universe. My first introduction to Pythagoras however was in the discovery that the humble right-angled triangle, with sides to the ratio of 3, 4 and 5, was the key to the relationship of the speed of light, to the circle."
3, 4 and 5,
THE GROWTH OF SCIENCE
A. P. Rossiter 1939
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"...The Egyptians, on the other hand, were experts at this. Their respect for the dead was so great that bodies were kept from destruction by special processes; and in the cutting open of bodies for this purpose they got a great amount of know1edge about their structure: enough to be able to do a number of operations safely. They made good observations on the stars and were able to say when the sun or moon would become dark in an eclipse (a most surprising event even in our times), and when the land would be covered by the waters of the Nile: they were expert at building and made some discoveries about the relations of lines and angles-among them one very old rule for getting a right-angle by stretching out knotted cords with 5, 4, and 3 units between the knots."
5, 4, and 3
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"INTO THE SPIRAL"
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IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBILITIES
Lois Pauwels and Jacques Bergier 1968
THE MAN WHO LIKED QUIET
The history of machines constructed to help and
support the human mind began in 1642 with the cal- "" culating machine invented by Blaise Pascal, which was +J
capable of doing additions. Thirty years later Leibnitz built a machine capable not only of adding but also of multiplying. He used a numerical system based solely on the digits 0 and 1 (it was constructed around the powers of 2); it is designated as the binary or dual- digit system.
In this system the sequence of digits of the tradi- tional decimal system is used in the following way:
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The numbers in the dual-digit system are composed i
of approximately three times as many digits as those in the decimal system; for that ~reason this system is not particularly well suited to the human brain as a system for working with figures. But it is perfectly suited for a mechanical brain. Such a machine h~ only two alternatives: it can answer "Yes" or "No," using the symbols + or -,lor O. When the current is switched on, it gives the first answer; when there is no current, the second. The big and complex computers combine a large number of electronic switching devices.
In the nineteenth century operating calculating ma- chines built according to the Leibnitz model appeared
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