THE KORAN

Everyman

Translated from the Arabic by

J. M. Rodwell

1909

INTRODUCTION

Page xxiii

"In addition Sura 18 includes two stories from the Christian periphery to the north of Arabia; the so-called legend of the

Seven Sleepers"

Page 189 (omitted)

SURA 18 - THE CAVE
MECCA - 110 VERSES
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

"Praise be to God, who hath sent down the Book to his servant, and hath not made it tortuous¹
But direct; that it may warn of a grievous woe from him, and announce to the faithful who do the things that are right, that a goodly reward, wherein they shall abide for ever, awaiteth them;
And that it may warn those who say, 'God hath begotten a  Son.'
No knowledge of this have either they or their fathers! A grievous saying to come out of their mouths! They speak no other than a lie!
And haply, if they believe not in this new revelation, thou wilt slay thyself, on their very footsteps, out of vexation.
Verily, we have made all that is on earth as its adornment, that we might make trial who among mankind would excel in works:
But we are surely about to reduce all that is thereon to dust! Hast thou reflected that the Inmates of THE CAVE and of Al
Rakim² were one of our wondrous signs?
When the youths betook them to the cave they said, 'O our Lord! grant us mercy from before thee, and order for us our affair aright.'
¹⁰ Then struck we upon their ears with deafness in the cave for many a year:
Then we awaked them that we might know which of the two parties could best reckon the space of their abiding.
We will relate to thee their tale with truth. They were youths who had believed in their Lord, and in guidance had we increased them;
And we had made them stout of heart, when they stood up and said, 'Our Lord is Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth: we will call on no other God than him; for in that case we had said a thing outrageous.
These our people have taken other gods beside Him, though / Page 190 / they bring no clear proof for them; but, who more iniquitous than he who forgeth a lie of God?
So when ye shall have separated you from them and from that which they worship beside God, then betake you to the cave: Your Lord will unfold his mercy to you, and will order your affairs for you for the best.'
And thou mightest have seen the sun when it arose, pass on the right of their cave, and when it set, leave them on the left, while they were in its spacious chamber. This is one of the signs of God. Guided indeed is he whom God guideth; but for him whom He misleadeth, thou shalt by no means find a patron, director.
And thou wouldst have deemed them awake,³ though they were sleeping: and we turned them to the right and to the left. And in the entry lay their dog with paws outstretched.⁴ Hadst thou come suddenly upon them, thou wouldst surely have turned thy back on them in flight, and have been filled with fear at them.
So we awaked them that they might question one another. Said one of them, 'How long have ye tarried here?' They said, 'We have tarried a day or part of a day.' They said, 'Your Lord knoweth best how long ye have tarried: Send now one of you with this your coin into the city, and let his mark who therein hath purest food, and from him let him bring you a supply: and let him be courteous, and not discover you to anyone.
For they, if they find you out, will stone you or turn you back to their faith, and in that case it will fare ill with you for ever.'
20 And thus made we their adventure known to their fellow citizens, that they might learn that the promise of God is true, and that as to 'the Hour' there is no doubt of its coming. When they disputed among themselves concerning what had befallen them, some said, 'Build a building over them; their Lord knoweth best about them.' Those who prevailed in the matter said, 'A place of worship will we surely raise over them.'
Some say, 'They were three; their dog the fourth:' others say, 'Five; their dog the sixth,' guessing at the secret: others say, 'Seven; and their dog the eighth.' SAY: My Lord best knoweth the number: none, save a few, shall know them.
Therefore be clear in thy discussions about them,⁵ and ask not any Christian concerning them.
Say not thou of a thing, 'I will surely do it to-morrow;' / Page 191 /  without, 'If God will.,⁶ And when thou hast forgotten, call thy Lord to mind; and say, 'Haply my Lord will guide me, that I may come near to the truth of this story with correctness.'
And they tarried in their cave 300 years, and 9 years over.^7"

 

10	NAMES OF GOD	99	45	9
7	THOUGHT	99	36	9
6	DIVINE	63	36	9
4	LOVE	54	18	9

 

 

THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN

Thomas Mann

1875 1955

MOUNTING MISGIVINGS

Page 147 Quoted in full

"other he mentally summoned up various people, the thought of whom might serve him as some sort of mental support.
 There was the good, the upright Joachim, firm as a rock-yet whose eyes in these past months had come to hold such a tragic Shadow, and who had never used to shrug his shoulders, as he did so often now. Joachim, with the "Blue Peter" in his pocket, as Frau Stohr called the receptacle. When Hans Castorp thought of her hard, crabbed face it made him shiver. Yes, there was Joa-chim - who kept constandy at Hofrat Behrens to let him get away and go down to the longed-for service in the " plain "- the " flat-land," as the healthy, normal world was called up here, with a faint yet perceptible nuance of contempt. Joachim served the cure single-mindedly, to the end that he might arrive sooner at his goal and save some of the time which "those up here " so wantonly flung away; served it unquestioningly for the sake of speedy re-covery - but also, Hans Castorp detected, for the sake of the cure'
itself, which, after all, was a service, like another; and was not duty duty, wherever performed? Joachim invatiably went upstairs after only a quarter-hour in the drawing-rooms; and this military precision of his was a crop to the civilian laxity of his cousin, who would otherwise be likely to loiter unprofitably below, with his eye on the company in the small salon. But Hans Castorp was con-vinced there was another and private reason why Joachim with-drew so early; he had known it since the time he saw his cousin's face take on the mottleled pallor, and his mouth assume the pathetic twist. He perfectly understood. For Marusja was almost always there in the evening -laughter-loving Marusja, with the little ruby on her charming hand, the handkerchief with the orange scent, and the swelling bosom, tainted within - Hans Castorp com-prehended that it. was her presence which drove Joachim away, precisely because it so strongly, so fearfully drew him toward her.
Was Joachim too "immured " - and even worse off than him-self, in that, he had five times a day to sit at the same table with Marusja and her orange-scented handkerchief? However that might be, it was clear that Joachim was preoccupied with his own troubles; the thought of him could afford his cousin no mental support. That he took refuge in daily flight was a credit to him; but that he had to flee was anything but reassuring to Hans Ca-storp, who even began to feel that Joachim's good example of faithful service of the cure and the initiation which he owed to his cousin's experience might have also their bad side.
Hans Castorp had not been up here three weeks. But it seemed longer; and the daily routine which Joachim so piously observed"

 

Page 147 containing seven letters in the names of characters

Page 147 Penguin edition 1979 contains 43 lines

Joachim occurs x 10

Joachim's (apostrophe 's x 1

 

7	BEHRENS	71	35	8
7	CASTORP	92	29	2
7	JOACHIM	59	32	5
7	MARUSJA	83	20	2
28	First Total	305	116	17
2+8	Add to Deduce	3+0+5	1+1+6	1+7
10	Second Total	8	8	8
1+0	Reduce to Deduce	-	-	-
1	Essence of Number	8	8	8

 

305 + APOSTROPPHE'S

JOACHIM'S

?

 

 

7	SPHERES	90	36	9
4	ORBS	54	18	9
7	BUBBLES	63	18	9
5	ROUND	72	27	9
4	BALL	27	9	9
4	HOOP	54	27	9
3	SUN	54	9	9
7	JUPITER	99	36	9
5	WORLD	72	27	9
11	SAGITTARIUS	144	45	9
4	GAIA	18	9	9
3	TAO	36	9	9
4	REAL	36	18	9
7	REALITY	90	36	9
1	I	9	9	9
2	ME	18	9	9
3	IVE	36	18	9
3	EGO	27	18	9
10	CONSCIENCE	90	45	9
6	DIVINE	63	36	9
7	THOUGHT	99	36	9
6	SORROW	108	36	9
4	LOVE	54	18	9
9	FIFTYFOUR	126	54	9
10	THIRTYFOUR	160	61	7
3	YOU	61	16	7
4	YOUR	79	25	7
7	LETTERS	99	27	9
8	LANGUAGE	68	32	5
9	LANGUAGES	87	33	6
9	NUMBERING	103	49	4
6	NUMBER	73	28	1
7	NUMBERS	92	29	2
10	NUMBERLESS	128	38	2
8	NUMERALS	84	30	3
5	HIERO	55	37	1
	GLYPHIC	80	44	8
12	HIEROGLYPHIC	135	81	9
8	GLYPHICS	99	45	9
5	GLYPH	68	32	5
6	GLYPHS	87	33	6
10	HIEROGLYPH	123	69	6
11	HIEROGLYPHS	142	70	7
13	HIEROGLYPHICS	154	82	1
6	SYMBOL	86	23	5
7	SYMBOLS	105	24	6
4	ZERO	64	28	1
3	ONE	34	16	7
8	ALPHABET	65	29	2
9	ALPHABETS	84	30	3
8	INSTINCT	108	36	9
9	INSTINCTS	127	37	1
11	INSTINCTUAL	142	43	7
7	NATURAL	87	24	6
6	NATURE	79	25	7
7	NATURES	98	26	8

 

 

7	SPHERES	90	36	9
4	ORBS	54	18	9
7	BUBBLES	63	18	9
5	ROUND	72	27	9
4	BALL	27	9	9
4	HOOP	54	27	9
3	SUN	54	9	9
7	JUPITER	99	36	9
5	WORLD	72	27	9
11	SAGITTARIUS	144	45	9
4	GAIA	18	9	9
3	TAO	36	9	9
4	REAL	36	18	9
7	REALITY	90	36	9
1	I	9	9	9
2	ME	18	9	9
3	IVE	36	18	9
3	EGO	27	18	9
10	CONSCIENCE	90	45	9
6	DIVINE	63	36	9
7	THOUGHT	99	36	9
6	SORROW	108	36	9
4	LOVE	54	18	9
9	FIFTYFOUR	126	54	9

 

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DAILY MIRROR

Tuesday June 8, 2004

Jonathan Cainer

VENUS MAKES A PASS

THE TRANSIT OF VENUS ACROSS THE SUN

Page 26 / 27

"IF YOU'RE reading this before noon, there is a show that is out of this world happening over your head.Venus is passing in front of the face of 

THE SUN.

A miracle of nature is causing the famous twinkling evening star to become briefly visible in broad daylight. Nothing like this has happened since 1882 - which means not a single living soul has ever witnessed it.
If you'd like to be part of history, all you have to do is to grab two bits of card and make the simple pinhole projector on the far right.
Do not, repeat not, look directly at the sun.
Don't kid yourself that you will be safe as long as you are wearing sunglasses, either. If you're foolish enough to watch through cheap tinted specs, or stupid and rich enough to use Dolce & Gabbanas - you'll go blind just the same.
After all, this is an event that will affect rich and poor alike. Yet the alignment symbolises the kind of love that'money can't buy. Deep, true, compassionate., dedicated, unconditional love.
Love is coming in waves towards the earth and, just as surely as it is going to cross economic boundaries, it is will ignore astrological distinctions. No matter your sign, you will experience an uplift in your spirits soon.
Your material circum-stances will also improve as a result of the love that you are willing to share, and the loving support from others you are humble enough to accept. You think this is a cold, harsh world?
It can be... but this transit means we're heading for a phase during which less selfish ideals predominate.
And it's going to last for the next eight years.
The next transit of Venus is on June 6, 2012, and many New Agers believe that the period between now and then marks a "gateway between worlds of positive possi-bility". The way they see it, every 121 years or so, the Earth gets a chance to become the brighter, happier place it has always had the potential to become. An eight-year "window" opens up, during which people become far more receptive to inspirational
 ideas and grow less inclined to nurse old grudges and grievances. .
 The Venus transits usually (though  not always) come in pairs, eight years apart, at the end of a 121-year cycle. Though those eight-year periods don't always coincide with peace, they do create a more mellow, forgiving climate.
The New Agers believe that the first Venus transit in the sequence (the one happening today) is the key turning in the lock, opening the door to a paradise future. The second brings the moment when people must decide whether to permanently welcome an era of higher consciousness or return to the old ways of war, greed, suspicion and hatred.
It is no coincidence, they say, that the Mayans - the pre-conquest inhabitants of what is now Southern Mexico and Guatemala - ended their astonishingly accurate calendar in 2012. It is, after all, based on the Venus cycle. According to those who still believe in the Mayan vision, 2012 will be when the Venus-god Quetzalcoatl returns to earth, to ask one last time whether its inhabitants are ready to create paradise. Or will they remain in the same hell of mutual hatred?
Of course, this is not the only interpreta-tion of the Venus transit.
Others, as you can see on this page, have their views of what it means. Most agree that it is about love-and some, too, reckon it is related to increased prosperity. But the majority, myself included choose to reserve judgment. First we need to observe the event. Then digest it. But on one point, at least, we are all already agreed. In so far as one event can ever be good news for the whole race, this is!"

 

CATCHING THE LIGHT

Arthur Zajonc

1993

Page 44

ANGELIC LIGHT - HUMAN LIGHT

"HOW YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, BRIGHT SON OF THE MORNING FELLED TO THE EARTH!"

Isaiah 14:12-15

 

GATEWAY TO ATLANTIS

Andrew Collins 2000

SNAKE OF FIRE

Chapter xx

Page 264

"THE LONG WAIT WAS WORTH IT. What lay in front of me in the depths of Punta del Este's Cueva # ¹ was something quite special. The entrance is perhaps seven metres in width and three metres in height, and inside is a central chamber around twelve to fifteen metres deep. Positioned around its walls are a series of separate bays of different shapes and sizes, and a long corridor off to one side. It possessed roughly seven bays or com- partments, perhaps reflecting the septuple symbolism of Chico-moztoc, the Seven Caves.
The corridor, or chamber, on the right-hand side was around ten metres in length and of undoubted human manufacture. Johnny Rodriguez, the Cuban archaeologist, pointed out that here the skeletons of Guayabo Blanco women had been found. Each one, over 2,000 years old, was laid out in a foetal position and covered in red ochre.
From this knowledge alone, it seemed clear that the Guayabo Blanco venerated this cave site as a womb-like structure. If this was true, it made sense of why Chicomoztoc was seen as the place of emergence of the present human race.

The Transit of Venus

Strewn across the cavern's dusty floor were fragments of conch shell left behind by the last Taino to occupy, or use, the grotto. Overhead were two circular skylights, like the' zenith tubes' found at Olmec sites to mark the arrival of the sun at the time of the equinoxes. Beneath the one closest to the entrance was a circular concrete dais, where, according to Johnny, a stone plat- form would have been set in the ground. The rear skylight was difficult to approach, since it was now directly above a mound of earth displaced during excavations. Yet its apparent function was / Page 265 / interesting indeed. According to those scholars who had studied these skylights, it marked the 584-day cycle of the planet Venus. How this might have been achieved was not made clear.
Should the skylight really mark the transit of the planet Venus, then this was extremely important. Quetzalcoatl was seen as the Morning Star, while his twin, Xolotl, was viewed as the Evening Star, names given to the dual aspects of Venus.
Had we truly found the original site of the Seven Caves? Did this riddle, preserved by the Aztecs, relate in some way to the manner in which Cueva # 1 was able to catch the planetary influence of Venus, which, together with the seven stars of the Pleiades, deter-mined the 52-year calendar cycle marking the birthday of Quetzal-coatl? If this was correct, might there also be a connection between the seven-fold symbolism of the Seven Caves and the seven stars of the Pleiades? Remember, aside from being known as Ah-Canule, 'People of. the Serpent', those who established high culture in Mexico and the Yucatan were known as Ah-Tzai, 'People of the Rattlesnake'.¹
As a constellation, the rattlesnake was composed of a series of stars that emanated from the Pleiades which formed its seven-fold rattle. If we recall, too, that Quetzalcoatl's own serpentine body was that of the rattlesnake, and that the entire cult of the Chanes, or 'serpents', appears to have revolved around a species of rattlesnake known as the Crotalus durissus durissus,2 then this deadly snake begins to playa hitherto unknown role in the gradually unfolding story.

12	QUETZALCOATL	153	45	9
5	VOTAN	72	18	9
5	VENUS	81	18	9
	V+E	27	9	9
	S+U+N	54	9	9
9	FEATHERED	72	45	9
7	SERPENT	97	34	7
5	SEDNA	43	16	7
5	ANDES	43	16	7

QUETZALCOATL

PRESENTS THE FEATHER RED SERPENT

 

 

LURE & ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY

C. J. S. Thompson

1990

 
THE MYSTERY OF THE EMERALD TABLET

Page 31(chapter IV)
"AN atmosphere of romance and mystery surrounds the tradition of an emerald tablet or table that is said to have been discovered in the tomb of the legendary Hermes. It is first mentioned in Western literature in a treatise attributed to Albertus Magnus called De Mineralibus, written in the early part of the fourteenth century. In this manuscript it is stated that the tomb of Hermes was discovered by Alexander the Great in a cave near Hebron, and that in the tomb was found a tablet of emerald, taken from the hands of the dead Hermes by Sarah, the wife of Abraham. On this were inscribed in Phrenician characters the precepts of the Great Master concerning the art of making gold. The Hermes alluded to is doubtless intended to mean the traditionary Hermes Trismegistus mentioned in Chapter III.
There are many translations of the inscription supposed to have been found on the tablet, and these in varied Arabic and Latin forms have been carefully studied by Ruska.1 The earliest forms of the text are in Arabic, and the following is a translation from an Arab collection of commentaries of the early twelfth century known as

The Emerald Table of Hermes:

True it is, without falsehood, certain most true. That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to 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.
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 there of 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."

 

THE SPIRITUAL TOURIST
Mick Brown
Edition
1
999
"Sir Edwin Arnold was another of the same breed. An educationalist and journalist - he was at one time editor

of the Daily Telegraph - Arnold was originally sent to India as the principal of a government college in Poona.

He became absorbed in Oriental studies and wrote an epic poem on the life of the
Buddha,
The Light of Asia"

 

WHY SMASH ATOMS

A. K. Solomon 1940

"ONCE THE FAIRY TALE HERO HAS PENETRATED THE RING OF FIRE ROUND

 

 

THE

MAGIC MOUNTAIN

HE IS FREE TO WOO THE HEROINE IN HER CASTLE ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP"