CONSULT THE ORACLE

or

HOW TO READ THE FUTURE

A GUIDE TO THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS AND TO OTHER MATTERS MAGICAL AND MYSTERIOUS

BEING

THEWISDOM OF PAST TIMES AND PRESENT TIMES AS TO WHAT WILL SURELY COME TO PASS

BY

Gabriel Nostradamus

LONDON

C. Arthur Pearson Henrietta Street

1899

Page 126

THERE IS MUCH TO BE LEARNED FROM THE HEAVENLY BODIES.

THE science which, under the name of astrology, found universal belief among all the nations of antiquity, except the Greeks, and has many followers even at the present day, is based upon the supposition that the heavenly bodies are the instruments by which the Creator regulates the course of events in this world, giving them different powers according to their different positions. This is the view of the most learned astrologers.

That there is nothing repugnant to human nature in the basis of astrology is sufficiently proved by the number of great minds which have been led by it. Nearly every physician and man of science in mediaeval Europe was an astrologer. and even at the present day, as we have said, many are found adhering to belief in stellar influences.

Astrology which deals with the influence of constellations on the destiny of men and empires is known as judicial astrology, to distinguish it from natural astrology, which predicts the motions of the heavenly bodies and eclipses of the sun and moon.

Of personal problems dealt with by astrology there are two. One is the determination in general outline-of the life and fortunes of an inquirer: this is known as natal astrology. The other is the means of answering any specific question about the individual: this is known as horary astrology. Both depend upon the casting or erecting of what is called a horoscope. The astrological" planets" are seven in number, and include the sun and moon. They are Saturn, or the Great Infortune ; / Page 127 / Jupiter, or the Great Fortune; Mars, or the Lesser Infortune; the Moon; Venus, the Smaller Fortune: Mercury, and the Sun."

"The astrological" planets" are seven in number, and include the sun and moon.

They are Saturn, or the Great Infortune ; Jupiter, or the Great Fortune; Mars, or the Lesser Infortune; the Moon; Venus, the Smaller Fortune: Mercury, and the Sun."

 

THE CRUX OF THE MATTER

  

 BELIEVE BELIEVE

IN

THAT GOD

BELIEVE BELIEVE

ME

M
E

13
5
+
=
18

1+8
=
9

1+3

4
5

9
NINE

THAT GREAT AND ONLY ONE

 

I AM...THAT... I AM

 

I
THAT
9

NINE

AM

 THAT

SUN EARTH MOON

leading each others merry dance.

The Scribe with a capital s, takes time from out the turning of the circle

SUN + EARTH + MOON = 12 . . . 1 + 2 = 3

SUN x EARTH x MOON = 60 . . . 6 x 0 = 6

 

 THE FLOWERING OF THE ESSENCES

 

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A
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M
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19

5

13

= 37
3 + 7 = 10

21

1
18
20

15

15

= 90
9 + 0 = 9

14

8

14

= 36
3 + 6 = 9

 

PRECIPITATION

 

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66

 

THE TRANSMUTATION

 

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9

5

9
10

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6

6

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1+9

14

9
19

+
=
42

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A
N
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B
I
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14
21
2
9
19

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=
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6+6
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12
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=
3

1+4
2+1

1+9

5
3

10

1+0

1

1
5
3
2
9
1

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21
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=
3

3
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DISTILLATION  

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ADD

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14
21
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9
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12
1+2
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3
TO

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5
3
2
9
1

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=
3

THREE
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TO

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9
1

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THREE
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8
5
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TO

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2+0

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REDUCE

3

5

2

5

1
3
8
5
5
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7

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8
5
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7

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With epispasodic sense of dejvu. The far yonder scribe, and oft times shadowed substanences, watched in fine amaze the Zed Aliz Zed, in swift repeat, scatter the nine numbers amongst the letters of their progress. At the throw of the seventh arm when in conjunction set, the far yonder scribe made record of the fall.

 

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 Added to all, minus none, shared by everybody, multiplied in abundance.

 

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SUN MOON EARTH

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SUN + MOON = 7

EARTH + SUN = 8 

MOON + EARTH = 9

SUN + EARTH + MOON = 12

7 + 8 + 9 + 12 = 36

 

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SUN x MOON = 12

EARTH x SUN = 15

MOON x EARTH = 20

SUN x EARTH x MOON = 60

 

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A
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19

5

13

= 37
3 + 7 = 10

21

1
18
20

15

15

= 90
9 + 0 = 9

14

8

14

= 36
3 + 6 = 9

 

AZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZ

 

S
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19
21
14
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1+9
2+1
1+4

10
3
5
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1+0
3
5

1
3
5
+ = 9

M
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R
C
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13
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18
3
21
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25

+ = 103

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5

1+8
3

2+1

1+8

2+5

4
5
9
3
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9
7

+ = 40 . . . 4 + 0 = 4

V

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5
14
21
19
+ = 81

2+2

5

1+4

2+1

1+9

4

5

5

3

1+0

4
5
5
3
1
+ = 18 . . .1 + 8 = 9

E
A
R
T
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5
1
18
20
8
+ = 52
5
1

1+8
2+0
8

5
1
9
2
8
+ = 25. . .2 + 5 = 7

M
O
O
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13
15
15
14

+ = 57
1+3
1+6

1+6
1+4

4
6
6
5

+ = 21 . . .2 + 1 = 3

M
A
R
S

13
1
18
19
+ = 51

1+3
1

1+8

1+9

4
1
9

1+0

4
1
9
1
+ = 15 . . . 1 + 5 = 6

J
U
P
I
T
E
R

10
21
16
9
20
5
18
+ = 99
1+0
2+1

1+6
9

2+0
5
1+8

1
3
7
9

2
5
9
+ = 36 . . . 3 + 6 = 9

S
A
T
U
R
N

19
1
20
21
18
14
+ = 93
1+9
1
2+0
2+1
1+8
1+4

1+0
1
2
3
9
5

1
1
2
3
9
5
+ = 21 . . . 2 + 1 = 3

the Pan book of

ASTRONOMY

James Muirden 1964

Page 63 "We now know the solar system to consist of nine planets. Closest to the Sun is Mercury,…" "…Next is Venus…"

"…Beyond the Earth is its outer neighbour Mars.

"…These four are often called the terrestrial planets, for they are all rocky globes like the earth and presumably are experiencing the same basic life-history…" "… But the case is quite different with the next four, the 'giant planets': Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune..."

 

U
R
A
N
U
S

21
18
1
14
21
19

+ = 94
2+1
1+8
1
5
3
1+9

3
9
1
5
3
1+0

3
9
1
5
3
1
+ = 22. . . 2 + 2 = 4

N
E
P
T
U
N
E

14
5
16
20
21
14
5

+ = 95
1+4
5
1+6
2+0
2+1
1+4
5

5
5
7
2
3
5
5

+ = 32 . . .3 + 2 = 5

P
L
U
T
O

16
12
21
20
15

+ = 84
1+6
1+2
2+1

2+0
1+5

7
3
3
2
6

+ = 21 . . . 2 + 1 = 3

 

 

BELIEVE BELIEVE IN

THAT GOD

BELIEVE BELIEVE

ME

M
E

13
5
+
=
18

1+8
=
9

1+3

4
5

9
NINE

THAT GREAT AND ONLY ONE

 

I AM...THAT... I AM

 

THAT

I
8 + 1
9

I

AM

9
1 + 8
I

 

HOLY BIBLE

SCOFIELD REFERENCES 1917

EXODUS

 Page 73

Chapter 3 B.C.1531

The calI of Moses: the burning bush.

"NOW Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

2. And the angel of the LORD ap-peared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

3. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

4. And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, 'God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

5. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

6. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

7. And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my peo-ple which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sor-rows;

8. And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyp-tians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

9. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyp-tians oppress them.

10. Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

11. And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pha-raoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

12. And he said, Certainly I will - be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent: thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

The revelation of the name Jehovah.

13. And Moses said unto God, Be-hold, when I come unto the chil-dren of Israel, and shall say unto 'them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

14

And God said unto Moses,

I AM THAT I AM:

and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the chil-dren of Israel,

I AM

hath sent me unto you.

 The commission of Moses.

15

And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, / Page 74

The LORD God

of your fathers,

the God of Abra-ham,

the God of Isaac,

and the God of Jacob,

hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

 

Page 76 Chapter 6

Verse 2

"And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him,

I am the LORD:

2. And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name

God

Almighty, but by my name

JEHOVAH

was I not known to them"

 Page 74 

Chapter 4. B.C. 1491

Moses' two objections: (1) the unbelief of the people.

AND Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not be-lieve me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.

2. And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A 'rod.

3. And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

4. And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:

5. That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.

6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.

8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to thy voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe. also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.

Moses' two objections: (2) his lack of eloquence.

10. And Moses said unto the LORD, 0 my Lord, I am not elo-quent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or :he seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

12 Now therefore go, and I will with thy-mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

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13. And he said, 0 my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him' whom thou wilt send.

Aaron joined with Moses.

14. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said. Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

15. And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his bmouth: and 1 will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

16. And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be; even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

17. And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.

18. And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

The return of Moses to Egypt.

19. And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.

20. And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

21. And the LORD said unto Mo- ses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

22. And thou shalt say unto Phar-taoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel-is my son, even my firstborn:

23. And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.

24. And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.

25. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

26. So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, be-cause of the circumcision.

27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

28. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him. Deliverance announced to the elders of Israel.

29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:

30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

 

With hand, thus writ the scribe of that wand.

 

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THE SIRIUS MYSTERY

Robert Temple 1998

 

ISISIZISISIZISISIZISISIZISISIZISISIZISISIZISISIZISISIZ

 

GENESIS OF THE GRAIL KINGS

Laurence Gardner 1999  

THE QUEEN OF REA YEN

The Unspeakable Name

Page107

"The book of Exodus relates that when Moses spoke to God from Mount Horeb prior to the Israelites' exodus from Egypt, he was somewhat baffled as to how he should convey God's identity to the people. He explained that the children of Israel would ask, 'What is his name?', and continued, 'What shall I say unto them?' (Exodus 3:13). This seemingly odd question, whether historically factual or not, does at least confirm that Moses lived in an era of many gods. From the time of Abraham, the Hebrews of Canaan had worshipped Enlil-El Shaddai, whom the Canaanites called El Elyon - but Moses had come from Egypt, where the Israelites were accustomed to gods with other names.

The reply that Moses received was vague in the extreme:

'And God said unto Moses,

"I am that Iam"

 THAT

GREAT AND ONLY ONE

 I AM...THAT... I AM

 THAT

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"I met a girl she gave me a Rainbow"

 The AlizZed asks the far yonder scribe to make a symbiotic gesture

energy

energy

energy

energy

energy

energy

energy

energy

energy

energy

rrrraaaaacaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

OBJECTIVE REALITY

poems and essays by lloyd c.daniel

HURRAH FOR RAH 

HIP HIP HIP

HOORAH

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

The English Alphabet numbers TwentySix symbols The Greek Alphabet Twenty Four The Jewish Alphabet 22

The far yonder scribe putting two and two together came up with a nine.

22 + 24+ 26 = 72 7 + 2 = 9

 

DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE

Siegfried Mandel 1868

Page 157

" alpha - beta - gamma - delta - epsilon. - zeta - eta - theta - iota - kappa - lambda - mu - nu - xi - omicron - pi - rho - sigma - tau - upsilon - phi - chi - psi- omega " Twenty Four letters

EPSILON

 

The Complete Book of

FORTUNE 1988

Page 285

" In the Hebrew alphabet there were twenty-two letters, and to everyone of them , a certain mystical significance was attached. The method which we recommend in these pages, however, attaches the chief importance to the nine primary numbers, in accordance with systems of numerology more ancient than the Jewish. Neverthe-less, the remaining numbers, those from 10 to 22 inclusive (corresponding with letters of the Hebrew alphabet), must not be totally ignored. We prefer to give them a secondary significance, and to treat their influence as being comparatively slight, seeing that each one can be reduced to a primary number."

 Page 287 "...It must be remembered, however, that it is the primary number which has the greater influence, and that the secondary influence is often so slight as to be almost imperceptible.

If the middle name or names have a value which falls within the primary numbers, as 8, for example, we must convert these primaries into secondaries according to the equivalents given in the following table:-

PRIMARY
Converts to
SECONDARY
1

10
2

11
3

12
4

13
5

14
6

15
7

16
8

17
9

18

It will be seen that this is just a reversal of the reduction process, and that the equivalent secondary number is that of which the digits, on being added together, equal the primary."

 

 THE NEW VIEW OVER ATLANTIS

John Michell 1983

Page 124

"Seven orders of magic squares and their traditional planetary associations. The smallest consists of the numbers 1-9 and the largest of 1-81, so arranged that the sum of numbers in each row, column and diagonal is the same. Each square has its characteristic numbers which, in the Sun square, are 111 (the sum of each line) and 666 (the sum of the numbers 1-36 contained in it). The squares can also be given geometric expressions (see page 195). expressing the notes of the traditional musical scales in terms of the smallest possible integers or whole numbers. Music in the ancient world was intimately related to measure, the lengths of strings and of wind instruments representing certain measuring units. These same units were used by architects, who also planned the proportions of their buildings by the ratios of canonical music. Why they should have insisted on this correspondence is not easy to understand. An aesthetic explanation was given by the Renaissance architect, Leon Battista Alberti, who wrote that 'the numbers by means of which the agree-ment of sounds affects our ears with delight, are the very same which please our eyes and our minds'. In other words, proportions in architecture have the same pleasing effects as in music.

Yet the matter is deeper than that. In the design of temples, to give human satisfaction was only one part of the architect's purpose. The chief object for which a temple was built was to attract the gods or forces in nature to which it was dedicated. This was done by use of the principle of sympathetic resonance or 'like attracts like'. Each temple was so framed as to include symbolic references to the appro-priate deity. It was orientated according to the season and the heavenly body corresponding to that deity, whose characteristic numbers were also expressed in the dimensions of the building. Certain patterns of number, each with corresponding musical and geometric types, represented certain aspects of universal energy. Thus, according to the theory of ritual magic, they were effective in invoking that energy. Examples of number patterns, traditionally used for magical invocation, occur in those curious figures known as 'magic squares', as illustrated here, in which are encodified certain numbers of reputed magical potency. Among them are the numbers found prominent in the plans of ancient temples.

 

SATURN

4
9
2

3
5
7

8
1
6

JUPITER

4
14
15
1

9
7
6
12

5
11
10
8

16
2
3
13

MARS

11
24
7
20
3

4
12
25
8
16

17
5
13
21
9

10
18
1
14
22

23
6
19
2
15

THE SUN

6
32
3
34
35
1

7
11
27
28
8
30

19
14
16
15
23
24

18
20
22
21
17
13

25
29
10
9
26
12

36
5
33
4
2
31

VENUS

22
47
16
41
10
35
4

5
23
48
17
42
11
29

30
6
24
49
18
36
12

13
31
7
25
43
19
37

38
14
32
1
26
44
20

21
39
8
33
2
27
45

46
15
40
9
34
3
28

MERCURY

8
58
59
5
4
62
63
1

49
15
14
52
53
11
10
56

41
23
22
44
45
19
18
48

32
34
35
29
28
38
39
25

40
26
27
37
36
30
31
33

17
47
46
20
21
43
42
24

9
55
54
12
13
51
50
16

64
2
3
61
60
6
7
57

THE MOON

37
78
29
70
21
62
13
54
5

6
38
79
30
71
22
63
14
46

47
7
39
80
31
72
23
55
15

16
48
8
40
81
32
64
24
56

57
17
49
9
41
73
33
65
25

26
58
18
50
1
42
74
34
66

67
27
59
10
51
2
43
75
35

36
68
19
60
11
52
3
44
76

77
28
69
20
61
12
53
4
45

Page 125

The study of the ancient number code is a most delightful pastime; but it is not merely that; nor is it merely of academic antiquarian interest. To investigate number itself in the Pythagorean mode is to become aware of particular numbers which recur constantly in different systems of both numeration and natural phenomena, providing subtle and unexpected links.. The emphasis placed on these numbers in all the instruments and products of ancient science, and their enduring reputation as numbers of magical potency, hint that they were formerly regarded as something more than just arithmetical curiosities. It may be that the advanced physicists and cosmologists today, who are beginning to express again the Pythagorean notion that the basic patterns of creation are made up of limited groups of number, will come to realize that they are treading in ancient footprints on paths marked out by long-forgotten predecessors.

Measure

A tradition hinted. at by several ancient writers is that their more learned predecessors of prehistoric times encodified their knowledge of the world in the dimensions of their temples. To interpret these, the first requirement is to ascertain the exact lengths of their units of measure. Some of the greatest scholars have found this problem worthy of their attention. In 1639 John Greaves, professor of astronomy and geometry at Oxford University, travelled to Rome in order to discover, from careful measurements of ancient monuments, the values of the two versions of the Roman foot, and he also went to Egypt where he measured parts of the Great Pyramid, including the stone coffer in the King's Chamber. His researches were continued by Sir Isaac Newton. In order to test his theory of gravitation, Newton needed to know the earth's true dimensions. In his time these were no longer known, but Newton understood that the units of measure in the Temple at Jerusalem and the Egyptian Pyramids represented accurate geodetic fractions. He was particularly interested in the Jewish 'sacred cubit', reputed to be a six-millionth part of the earth's polar radius, and his Dissertation on the subject was included in his Lexicon Propheticum, printed ten years after his death. It is strange that Newton, who laid the foundations of modern cosmology, was also one of the last of the scholars of the old tradition, who accepted that the standards of ancient science were higher than the modern, and sought, like Pythagoras, to rediscover the ancients' knowledge.

 

G
A
I
A

9

4
G
A
I
A

7
1
9
1

+
=
18

1+8
=
9

 

8

19
9

19

+
=
55
5+5
=
10
1+0
=
1

7
P
H
Y
S
I
C
S

16
8
25
19
9
3
19

+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
=
9

1+6

2+5
1+9

1+9

7

7
10

10

1+0

1+0

1

1

8

9
3

+
=
20
2+0
=
2

7
8
7
1
9
3
1

+
=
36
3+6
=
9

NINE
9

7
P
H
Y
S
I
C
S

16
8
25
19
9
3
19

+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
=
9

7
8
7
1
9
3
1

+
=
36
3+6
=
9

NINE
9

 

 CITY OF REVELATION

John Michell 1972

Page 62

"Confronted with facts such as these, it is scarcely possible to avoid the conclusion, of orthodox in every age but the present, that the cosmic canon, inherent in the solar system as in every other department of nature, was revealed to men, not invented by them."

 

9
F
I
F
T
Y
F
O
U
R

9

=
9

=
9
NINE
9

6

=
6

=
6
SIX
6

1+5

9

15

+
=
24
2+4
=
6
SIX
6

F
I
F
T
Y
F
O
U
R

6
9
6
20
25
6
15
21
18

+
=
126
1+2+6
=
9
NINE
9

2+0
2+5

1+5
2+1
1+8

2
7

6
3
9

+
=
27
2+7
=
9
NINE
9

6
9
6
2
7
6
6
3
9

+
=
54
5+4
=
9
NINE
9

F
I
F
T
Y
F
O
U
R

6
9
6
20
25
6
15
21
18

+
=
126
1+2+6
=
9
NINE
9

2
7

6
3
9

+
=
27
2+7
=
9
NINE
9

6
9
6
2
7
6
6
3
9

+
=
54
5+4
=
9
NINE
9

 

F
I
F
T
Y
F
O
U
R

6
9
6
2
7
6
6
3
9

+
=
54
5+4
=
9
NINE
9

F
I
F
T
Y
F
O
U
R

CITY OF REVELATION

John Michell 1972

Page 62

 "The combined radii of the earth (3960) and the moon (1080) amount to 5040 miles, Plato's mystical number, so the circumference of a circle struck from the centre of the earth and passing through the centre of the moon measures 31,680 miles, which is also the perimeter of the square containing the earth."

 Alizzed

an emphasis repeats

THE FINGERPRINTS Of THE GODS

Graham Hancock 1995

Fingerprints Of The Gods

Graham Hancock

Page 242 " The earth makes a complete circuit around its own axis once every twenty-four hours and has an equatorial circumference of 24,902.45 miles…" "…Viewed from outer space, looking down on the North Pole, the direction of rotation is anti-clockwise,

While spinning daily on its own axis, the earth also orbits the sun (again in an anti-clockwise direction) on a path which is slightly elliptical rather than completely circular. It pursues this orbit at truly breakneck speed, travelling as far along it in an hour - 66, 600 miles - …"

"…To bring the calculations down in scale, this means we are hurtling through space…" "…at the rate of 18..5 miles every second."

 

Page 274 / 275

"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."

7 + 2

The pre-eminent number in the code is nine

9

 

HAMLET'S MILL

By

Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend

1969

Page 303

" 45 Omphalos belongs among the words which are easily said and hard to "imagine." Yet, during the Middle Ages, Jerusalem, with the Holy Sepulcher, was understood as the Omphalos of the earth and, moreover, the tomb of Adam lo-calized under the Cross in Golgatha, "in the middle of the earth." (See, for ex- ample, Vita Adae et Evae, in F. Kampers, Mittelalterliche Sagen vom Paradiese und vom Holze des Kreuzes Christi (1897), pp. 23, 106f.; W. H. Roscher, Omphalos (1913), pp. 24-28."

 Page 303

"It well might be rewarding to look at the tombs of Anu and of Marduk, 43 to consider the fundamental role of the Abaton in Philae, tomb of Osiris, 44 and of divine sepulchers generally. The basic difficulty which has to be / Page 304 / overcome is our ignorance of the concrete meaning of the technical term "tomb," whether one has to do with the Omphalos of Delphi, grave of Python,45 with the "burial mound of dancing Myrina" (Iliad 2.814), with the burial mound of Lugh Lamhfada's foster mother, around which the Games of Taillte were performed, or with many others.

 

Page 303

" 45 Omphalos belongs among the words which are easily said and hard to "imagine." Yet, during the Middle Ages, Jerusalem, with the Holy Sepulcher, was understood as the Omphalos of the earth and, moreover, the tomb of Adam lo-calized under the Cross in Golgatha, "in the middle of the earth." (See, for ex- ample, Vita Adae et Evae, in F. Kampers, Mittelalterliche Sagen vom Paradiese und vom Holze des Kreuzes Christi (1897), pp. 23, 106f.; W. H. Roscher, Omphalos (1913), pp. 24-28".

46Cf. Atharva Veda 18.1.50 (Whitney trans.): "Yama first found for us a track, that is not a pasture to be borne away; where our former Fathers went forth, there (go) those born (of them), along their own roads."

 

 

8
O
M
P
H
A
L
O
S

15
13
16
8
1
12
15
19

+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
=
9

6
4
7
8
1
3
6
1

+
=
36
3+6
=
9

NINE
9

 

 CITY OF REVELATION

John Michell 1972

Page 27

"Of the Temple at Jerusalem, the mystical centre of the Jews, Dr Raphael Patai writes in his book Man and the Temple:

'Nor was the cosmic significance of the Temple exhausted with the light that emanated from it. In the middle of the Temple and con-stituting the floor of the Holy of Holies, was a huge native rock which was adorned by Jewish legends with the peculiar features of an Omphalos, a Navel of the Earth. This rock called in Hebrew Ebhen Shetiyyah, the Stone of Foundation, was the first solid thing created, and was placed by God amidst the as yet boundless fluid of the pri-meval waters. Legend has it that just as the body of an embryo is built up in its mother's womb from its navel, so God built up the earth concentrically around this Stone, the Navel of the Earth. And just as the body of the embryo recieves its nourishment from the navel.' so the whole earth too recieves the waters that nourish it from this navel.'

The invariable practice in antiquity of locating sacred buildings immediately above underground springs and watercourses, as at the Temple of Jerusalem, constitutes one of the greatest mysteries of the past, for evidently some principal was involved of which we are now totally unaware."  

THE SIRIUS MYSTERY

Robert Temple 1998

THE ORACLE CENTRES

Page 251

Now we get into geodetics, a fearsome subject that involves a bit of bother. It concerns latitudes and longitudes, and most people would run a mile upon hearing those mentioned (sailors and pilots of aircraft excepted). In fact no one is more likely to flee with terror from the subject than an archaeologist. There is almost nothing an archaeologist likes less than being reminded how little he may know about the Earth as a body in space and about astronomy. The average archaeologist is almost bound to be ignorant of even the most elementary astronomical facts. There are many caustic comments on this state of affairs to be found in The Dawn of Astronomy, written by the distinguished Victorian astrono-mer and friend of Sir Wallis Budge, Sir Norman Lockyer,6 and more recently some severe remarks have been made also by Santillana and von Dechend in Hamlet's Mill.

But we must come now to some extremely interesting further discoveries. Egypt is 7 o long - in latitude - from Behdet to the Great Cataract. I have reasons for believing that the ancient Egyptians thought of distances of 7 ° as an octave, by analogy with music. Most readers will know that an octave contains eight notes on a scale over a space of seven intervals (five tones and two semitones actually, but let us think only of the seven intervals).

Ancient Mediterranean peoples did indeed know the principles of our musical octave. In the London Times7 an article appeared describing the work of Dr Richard L. Crocker, Professor of Music History, and Dr Anne D. Kilmer, Professor of Assyriology and Dean of Humanities, both at the University of California, Berkeley. The article quoted Dr Crocker as saying: 'We always knew there was music in the earlier Assyro-Babylonian civilization. But until / Page 253 /this, we did not know that it had the same heptatonic diatonic scale that is characteristic of contemporary Western music and Greek music of the first millennium BC.' After fifteen years of research, Crocker and Kilmer demonstrated that some clay tablets from Ugarit on the coast of present-day Syria, dating from about 1800 BC, bore a musical text based on our familiar octave. Dr Kilmer summed it up by saying: 'It is the oldest "sheet music" known to exist.'..."

"...I believe that the Egyptians laid out a 'geodetic octave' commencing at 10 north of Behdet (to emphasize its separateness from Egypt) and culminating at Dodona. For Dodona is precisely 80 north of Behdet in latitude, and the related oracle centre of Delphi is exactly 70 in latitude north of Behdet. (These last two facts were discovered by Livio Stecchini, as will be explained somewhat later.) As we have seen, octaves go back at least to the Sumerians. "

Figure 24 Page 257 omitted

"...I have arrived at this sequence for a geodetic oracle octave

(see Fig. 26): fig 26 omitted

8. Dodona

7. Delphi (with its famous omphalos, a stone navel)

6. Delos, the famous shrine of Apollo, once an oracle centre (also with an omphalos)

5. Kythera (Cythera), a site on the north-east coast (see. later); or Thera (Santorini)

4. Omphalos (Thenae) near Plain of Omphaleion) / Page 254 /

3. Undiscovered site on Southern or South-western coast of Cyprus? (Paphos?) (Cape Gata?)

2. Lake Triton (or Tritonis) in Libya

1. El Marj (Barce or Barca)

Figure 25.( omitted) " The god Apollo sits on his tripod at the Oracle of Delphi, in this ancient Greek vase painting. Beside him the Delphic laurel is growing. In his right hand he holds the mantic bowl into which the priestess, who approaches him with a gesture of welcome, will gaze as she goes into trance. A female attendant stands with a jug of water to refill the bowl as it becomes necessary. The bowl was filled with a hot steaming liquid containing powerful decoctions of narcotic herbs such as henbane, thorn apple and black and white hellebore, which helped induce a prophetic frenzy in the self-hypnotized priestess. The terrible smell was explained away to the public as 'fumes from the rotting corpse of the monster Python', supposedly oozing up through a chasm under the temple (although modem excavators have proved that there was no chasm). For a lengthy account of how these proceedings worked, of the drug plants, and of the oracular institutions, see my book Conversations with Eternity,

Rider, London, 1984; on pp. 53, 58 and 59 of that book further illustrations are to be found which relate directly to this one

Page 255 continues

" The ones ones which I have identified are spaced apart by one degree of latitude from each other in sequence and are integral degrees of latitude from Behdet, which we shall see was the geodetic centre of the ancient world (akin to Greenwich in the modern world) and was also a pre-dynastic capital of Egypt.

What justification have I for speaking of a link between the oracle centres and the musical octave? I have several reasons, and it would be just as well for me to give some slight indications here to make the reader who is justifiably puzzled at this point a little less so.

Graves9 informs us of some interesting facts about Apollo, who was official patron god of Delphi Delos (two of the centres on our list): 'In Classical times, music, poetry, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and science all came under Apollo's control. As the enemy of barbarism, he stood for moderation in all things, and the seven strings of his lute were connected with the seven vowels of the later Greek alphabet, given mystical significance, and used for therapeutic music. Finally, because of his identification with the Child Horus, a solar concept, he was worshipped as the sun, whose Corinthian cult had been taken over by solar Zeus. . . .' (The italics are mine.) Note also the reference to Horus, whose falcon would have presided over the Colchian dead in their hope of resurrection. In fact, one meaning of kirkos (Circe - 'falcon'), which I did not elaborate on earlier, is 'ring'. I wish to comment in passing that not only was the ring traditionally a solar symbol (as was the golden fleece, and as was the falcon), but the Cyclopes who were one-eyed were really one-ring-eyed. Cyclopes .means 'ring-eyed', in fact. Graves says:l0 'One-eyed Polyphemus. . . can be traced back to the Caucasus. . . . Whatever the meaning of the Caucasian tale may have been, A. B. Cook in his Zeus (pp 302-23) shows that the Cyclops's eye was a Greek solar emblem.'

The following remarks by Graves then tend to dissociate / Page 256 / Cyclops from Cyclopes, but perhaps this should not be done, in the light of all these new insights. After all, the older Cyclopes were three, wild, and ring-eyed, and sons again of Gaia the Earth goddess just as were the three fifty-headed monsters (there is to be much discussion of this later). They would, according to my 'system', be solar too, and 'ring', 'falcon', 'earth-born of Gaia' and solar seem always to go together in the schema. Gaia, indeed, preceded the solar Apollo as presiding deity at Delphi. Not surprising, as Deukalion's ark landed on Mount Parnassus above Delphi (according to Delphic propaganda) and his 'mother' was Gaia, whose 'bones' he threw behind him to people the desolated Earth once again.

It is not only Deukalion's ark that is connected with Delphi. There are connections also with the Argo, as we learn from Godfrey Higgins:11 'In the religious ceremonies at Delphi a boat of immense size was carried about in processions; it was shaped like a lunar crescent, pointed alike at each end: it was called an Omphalos or Umbilicus, or the ship Argo. Of this ship Argo I shall have very much to say hereafter. My reader will please to recollect that the os minxae or..." * * * * * * " (Delphys) is called by the name of the ship Argo.'

Other matters which Higgins connects with Delphi are the sacred syllable om of the Indo-Europeans which he says 'is not far from the divina vox of the Greek. Hesychius,. also Suidas x in voce, interprets the word omph to be ..." * * * * * * * * * * (theia chledon), the sacred voice, the holy sound - and hence arose the..." * * * * * * * "(omphalos), or place of Omphe.' He relates all this with sacred music and the traditional sacred name of God which consists of the seven vowels spoken in / Page 257 / sequence to form one word, which is the 'not-to-be-spoken word'. He says: 'As a pious Jew will not utter the word Ieue,x so a pious Hindu will not utter the word Om.' But whether this is strictly true or not, the sacred quality of the names is undisputed. Higgins says..." **, "phe, is the verb root in Greek of phao 'to speak or pronounce' and phemi, 'to say'. (I might add that..."* * * * *, " phegos, is the word for oak, as at Dodona, and... * * * * " 'pheme, literally means 'oracle'. Hence Omphe means 'the speaking of Om'. (At the pheme Dodona the phegos literally practised omphe because the oak spoke there.)

Delphi was said to be the omphalos, 'navel', of the world. But it was in fact only one of many .12 In Figure 26 (omitted) the reader can see that there is an Omphalos near Knossos in Crete which is one of the octave sequence of oracle centres laid out in geodetic integral degrees of latitude from Behdet, pre- dynastic capital of Egypt. A photograph of the omphalos stone of Delos may be seen in Plate 21 as well. The seven vowels, the seven strings of Apollo's lyre, the seven notes of the octave (the eighth being a repetition one octave higher of the first, as most people will know), the eight oracle centres in the 'northern octave' of oracles, the seven degrees of latitude marking the official length of ancient Egypt itself, the mystic and unspeakable name of God consisting of the seven vowels run together in one breath - all these are part of a coherent complex of elements forming a system, which also involves cosmic bodies."

x. i.e. Yahweh.

Notes to page 256

x Alexandrian lexicographer, fifth century AD.

+ Now correctly called Suda - a lexicon, not an author, compiled about the end of the tenth century AD at Byzantium.

 

That all went with something of an OOMPH said the scribe, almost out the corner of a mouth.

15

8

15
19

+
=
57
5+7
=
12
1+2
=
3

8
O
M
P
H
A
L
O
S

15
13
16
8
1
12
15
19

+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
=
9

1+5
1+3
1+6

1+2
1+5
1+9

6
4
7

3
6
10

1+0

1

8
1

+
=
9

6
4
7
8
1
3
6
1

+
=
36
3+6
=
9

NINE
9

8
O
M
P
H
A
L
O
S

15
13
16
8
1
12
15
19

+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
=
9

6
4
7
8
1
3
6
1

+
=
36
3+6
=
9

NINE
9

 

 

 

15

+
=
15
1+5
=
6

6
O
R
A
C
L
E

15
18
1
3
12
5

+
=
54
5+4
=
9

1+5
1+8

1+2

6
9

3

1
3

5

+
=
9

6
9
1
3
3
5

+
=
27
2+7
=
9
NINE
9

6
O
R
A
C
L
E

15
18
1
3
12
5

+
=
54
5+4
=
9

6
9
1
3
3
5

+
=
27
2+7
=
9
NINE
9

8
9

+
=
17
1+7
=
8

6
D
E
L
P
H
I

4
5
12
16
8
9

+
=
54
5+4
=
9

1+2
1+6

3
7

4
5

8
9

+
=
26
2+6
=
8

4
5
3
7
8
9

+
=
36
3+6
=
9
NINE
9

6
D
E
L
P
H
I

4
5
12
16
8
9

+
=
54
5+4
=
9

4
5
3
7
8
9

+
=
36
3+6
=
9
NINE
9

 

Page 381

"Before leaving Plutarch behind, we might note also that in 'Isis and Osiris', he tells us that a name for Osiris was Omphis. An interesting tie-in with the oracles, attested by Plutarch as current in Egypt in his day."

 

8

+
=
8

8
P
L
U
T
A
R
C
H

16
12
21
20
1
18
3
8

+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
=
9

1+6
1+2
2+1
2+0

1+8

7
3
3
2

9

1

3
8

+
=
12
1+2
=
3

7
3
3
2
1
9
3
8

+
=
36
3+6
=
9

NINE
9

8
P
L
U
T
A
R
C
H

16
12
21
20
1
18
3
8

+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
=
9

7
3
3
2
1
9
3
8

+
=
36
3+6
=
9

NINE
9

 
G
O
D
S

7
15
4
19

+
=
45
4+5
=
9

9
NINE
9

G
O
D

7
15
4

+
=

26
2+6
=
8

8
EIGHT
8

S
A
T
A
N

19
1
20
1
14

+
=
55
5+5
=
10
1+0
=
1

1

1+9

2+0

1+4

10

2

5

1+0

1

1
1
2
1
5

+
=
10
1+0
=
1

1
ONE
1

19

9

9

+
=
37
3+7
=
10
1+0
=
1

6
S
P
I
R
I
T

19
16
9
18
9
20

+
=
91
9+1
=
10
1+0
=
1

1+9
1+6

1+8

2+0

10
7

9

2

1+0

1

9

9

+
=
18
1+8
=
9

1
7
9
9
9
2

+
=
37
3+7
=
10
1+0
=
1
ONE
1

6
S
P
I
R
I
T

19
16
9
18
9
20

+
=
91
9+1
=
10
1+0
=
1

1
7
9
9
9
2

+
=
37
3+7
=
10
1+0
=
1
ONE
1

 The scribe expresses the

SEVEN

in

EGYPT

5
E
G
Y
P
T

5
7
25
16
20

+
=
73
7+3
=
10
1+0
=
1

2+5
1+6

2+0

7
7
2

5
7

+
=
12
1+2
=
3

5
7
7
7
2

+
=
28
2+8
=
10
1+0
=
1
ONE
1

5
E
G
Y
P
T

5
7
25
16
20

+
=
73
7+3
=
10
1+0
=
1

5
7
7
7
2

+
=
28
2+8
=
10
1+0
=
1
ONE
1

7
7
7

E
G
Y
P
T

 

alpha - beta - gamma - delta epsilon. - zeta - eta - theta - iota - kappa - lambda - mu - nu - xi - omicron - pi - rho - sigma - tau - upsilon - phi - chi - psi- omega

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.  

Page 77

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- firmed 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.

H
A
F
N
I
U
M

72

add to reduce

8
1
6
14
9
21
13

+
=
72

7 + 2 = 9

1+4

2+1
1+3

5

3
4

+
=

12

1+2
=
3

8
1
6

9

+
=
24
2+4
=
6

reduce to deduce

8
1
6
5
9
3
4

+
=
36
3+6
=
9
NINE
9

 

THE FINGERPRINTS Of THE GODS

Graham Hancock 1998

Page 274 / 275

"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."

7 + 2

The pre-eminent number in the code is 9.

 

MIND SCULPTURE

UNLEASHING YOUR BRAIN'S POTENTIAL

Ian Robertson 1999

Page 164 

Fingerprints on the Brain

"Sam's tongue and brain wrestle for the sound. Something to link to the peculiar, curved little mark on the page. Kuh? Why 'kuh' for C? Why not 'blah'? And where is he to look, anyway? All these rows of anonymous squiggles, and he has to force his eyes not just to one of these rows" but to an arbitrary little point on the row. Start on the left? Where's left? Why left? Now move right to the next letter? Why right? What's a letter" anyway?

'Ah . . .' 'Good boy!' he hears his father say" feeling the squeeze of encouragement from the arm round his waist. In his brain" another arbitrary correspondence between a squiggle on the paper and a sound in his ear is made. Somewhere behind his eyes a trembling web of synapses bind together a fraction stronger. Next time he sees that 'a'" an electric whisper along the filigree connections will evoke a shadow of the half-linked sound and it will come out more easily. Sam won't have to knit his five-year-old brow so tightly tomorrow night" as he tries to bind together these tiny" disconnected and random features of the world which the adults so badly want him to do.

'Tuh . . .!' he announces triumphantly" duly accepting victor's laurels from an admiring father. But then his face falls as he is asked to run them all together. All what together? 'Kuh . . . ah . . . tuh. . .': what does that spell" Sam? Spell? / Page 165 Yes, run them together, Sam. OK, here goes: 'T. . . ac!' Tac? 'What's a tac, Daddy?' No, no, not a 'tac', Sam. Say the first letter first, then the second. . .. But what's first? The one at the beginning, Sam! 'Kuh': left is always the beginning.

Not in Arabic, Daddy. Now don't get precocious on me, Sam - it's your brain we're sculpting tonight, not mine. OK, OK, Dad, keep your hair on: 'Kuh. . . . ah.. .' Good, now run them together, Sam - like this: 'kuh . . . ah'. . . kuh. ah . . . kuh-ah . .. 'Kah!' Great, Sam - excellent - 'ca'! Now the last letter. . . what's the last letter? 'Tuh.' Good, now run 'ca' and 'tuh' together 'Ca. . . tuh'.

'Kahtuh!' Kahtuh? Kahtu? Kaht? CAT! 'Cat!' Brilliant, Sam, brilliant - that's right, it's 'cat'.

Sam is beginning to learn the secret code of written language, changing his brain as he does so. Next week he will look at the scratches on the paper which we understand as 'cat' and the sound will come effortlessly, fluently borne on an electro- chemical wave across the newly embroidered neural tissue.

So his intelligence will be slowly built on the scaffolding of literacy, each day bringing a tranche of new words with their retinue of concepts and categories and understanding about the self and the world. Just as his father helped him bind together the unrelated sounds to their secret code of arbitrary squiggles, so words will for Sam begin to bind together the disconnected aspects of the world.

Here is the brain being engineered to do what Sam's genes never planned it to do. Here we see humanity leapfrogging its genetic patrimony to sculpt a brain using the tools of human culture. What a privilege, and what a responsibility, to be able to leave fingerprints on our children's brains.

Mind's triumph over matter

What an awesome responsibility it is, physically shaping a child's brain like this."