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BEYOND THE VEIL ANOTHER VEIL ANOTHER VEIL BEYOND
A HISTORY OF GOD Karen Armstrong 1993 The God of the Mystics Page 250 "Perhaps the most famous of the early Jewish mystical texts is the fifth century Sefer Yezirah (The Book of Creation). There is no attempt to describe the creative process realistically; the account is unashamedly symbolic and shows God creating the world by means of language as though he were writing a book. But language has been entirely transformed and the message of creation is no longer clear. Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet is given a numerical value; by combining the letters with the sacred numbers, rearranging them in endless configurations, the mystic weaned his mind away from the normal connotations of words."
Page 250 THERE IS NO ATTEMPT MADE TO DESCRIBE THE CREATIVE PROCESS REALISTICALLY THE ACCOUNT IS UNASHAMEDLY SYMBOLIC AND SHOWS GOD CREATING THE WORLD BY MEANS OF LANGUAGE AS THOUGH HE WERE WRITING A BOOK. BUT LANGUAGE HAS BEEN ENTIRELY TRANSFORMED AND THE MESSAGE OF CREATION IS NO LONGER CLEAR EACH LETTER OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET IS GIVEN A NUMERICAL VALUE BY COMBINING THE LETTERS WITH THE SACRED NUMBERS REARRANGING THEM IN ENDLESS CONFIGURATIONS THE MYSTIC WEANED THE MIND AWAY FROM THE NORMAL CONNOTATIONS OF WORDS
THE LIGHT IS RISING NOW RISING IS THE LIGHT
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LIGHT AND LIFE Lars Olof Bjorn 1976 Page 197 "By writing the 26 letters of the alphabet in a certain order one may put down almost any message (this book 'is written with the same letters' as the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Winnie the Pooh, only the order of the letters differs). In the same way Nature is able to convey with her language how a cell and a whole organism is to be constructed and how it is to function. Nature has succeeded better than we humans; for the genetic code there is only one universal language which is the same in a man, a bean plant and a bacterium."
"FOR THE GENETIC CODE THERE IS ONLY ONE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE"
DNA AND DNA DNA AND DNA DNA AND DNA
DNA AND DNA DNA AND DNA DNA AND DNA
"BY WRITING THE 26 LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET IN A CERTAIN ORDER ONE MAY PUT DOWN ALMOST ANY MESSAGE"
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS A QUEST FOR THE BEGINNING AND THE END Graham Hancock 1995 Chapter 32 Speaking to the Unborn Page 285 "It is understandable that a huge range of myths from all over the ancient world should describe geological catastrophes in graphic detail. Mankind survived the horror of the last Ice Age, and the most plausible source for our enduring traditions of flooding and freezing, massive volcanism and devastating earthquakes is in the tumultuous upheavals unleashed during the great meltdown of 15,000 to 8000 BC. The final retreat of the ice sheets, and the consequent 300-400 foot rise in global sea levels, took place only a few thousand years before the beginning of the historical period. It is therefore not surprising that all our early civilizations should have retained vivid memories of the vast cataclysms that had terrified their forefathers. A message in the bottle of time 'Of all the other stupendous inventions,' Galileo once remarked, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the Indies, speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangements of two dozen little signs on paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of men.3 If the 'precessional message' identified by scholars like Santillana, von Dechend and Jane Sellers is indeed a deliberate attempt at communication by some lost civilization of antiquity, how come it wasn't just written down and left for us to find? Wouldn't that have been easier than encoding it in myths? Perhaps. "What one would look for, therefore, would be a universal language, the kind of language that would be comprehensible to any technologically advanced society in any epoch, even a thousand or ten thousand years into the future. Such languages are few and far between, but mathematics is one of them" "WRITTEN IN THE ETERNAL LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS"
THERE IS NO ATTEMPT MADE TO DESCRIBE THE CREATIVE PROCESS REALISTICALLY THE ACCOUNT IS SYMBOLIC AND SHOWS GOD CREATING THE WORLD BY MEANS OF LANGUAGE AS THOUGH WRITING A BOOK BUT LANGUAGE ENTIRELY TRANSFORMED THE MESSAGE OF CREATION IS CLEAR EACH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET IS GIVEN A NUMERICAL VALUE BY COMBINING THE LETTERS WITH THE SACRED NUMBERS REARRANGING THEM IN ENDLESS CONFIGURATIONS THE MYSTIC WEANED THE MIND AWAY FROM THE NORMAL CONNOTATIONS OF WORDS
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THE DEATH OF GODS IN ANCIENT EGYPT Jane B. Sellars 1992 Page 204 "The overwhelming awe that accompanies the realization, of the measurable orderliness of the universe strikes modern man as well. Admiral Weiland E. Byrd, alone In the Antarctic for five months of polar darkness, wrote these phrases of intense feeling: Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it! I could feel no doubt of oneness with the universe. The conviction came that the rhythm was too orderly. too harmonious, too perfect to be a product of blind chance - that, therefore there must be purpose in the whole and that man was part of that whole and not an accidental offshoot. It was a feeling that transcended reason; that went to the heart of man's despair and found it groundless. The universe was a cosmos, not a chaos; man was as rightfully a part of that cosmos as were the day and night.10 Returning to the account of the story of Osiris, son of Cronos god of' Measurable Time, Plutarch takes, pains to remind the reader of the original Egyptian year consisting of 360 days. Phrases are used that prompt simple mental. calculations and an attention to numbers, for example, the 360-day year is described as being '12 months of 30 days each'. Then we are told that, Osiris leaves on a long journey, during which Seth, his evil brother, plots with 72 companions to slay Osiris: He also secretly obtained the measure of Osiris and made ready a chest in which to entrap him. The, interesting thing about this part of the-account is that nowhere in the original texts of the Egyptians are we told that Seth, has 72 companions. We have already been encouraged to equate Osiris with the concept of measured time; his father being Cronos. It is also an observable fact that Cronos-Saturn has the longest sidereal period of the known planets at that time, an orbit. of 30 years. Saturn is absent from a specific constellation for that length of time. A simple mathematical fact has been revealed to any that are even remotely sensitive to numbers: if you multiply 72 by 30, the years of Saturn's absence (and the mention of Osiris's absence prompts one to recall this other), the resulting product is 2,160: the number of years required, for one 30° shift, or a shift: through one complete sign of the zodiac. This number multplied by the / Page205 / 12 signs also gives 25,920. (And Plutarch has reminded us of 12) If you multiply the unusual number 72 by 360, a number that Plutarch mentions several times, the product will be 25,920, again the number of years symbolizing the ultimate rebirth. This 'Eternal Return' is the return of, say, Taurus to the position of marking the vernal equinox by 'riding in the solar bark with. Re' after having relinquished this honoured position to Aries, and subsequently to the to other zodiacal constellations. Such a return after 25,920 years is indeed a revisit to a Golden Age, golden not only because of a remarkable symmetry In the heavens, but golden because it existed before the Egyptians experienced heaven's changeability. But now to inform the reader of a fact he or she may already know. Hipparaus did: not really have the exact figures: he was a trifle off in his observations and calculations. In his published work, On the Displacement of the Solstitial and Equinoctial Signs, he gave figures of 45" to 46" a year, while the truer precessional lag along the ecliptic is about 50 seconds. The exact measurement for the lag, based on the correct annual lag of 50'274" is 1° in 71.6 years, or 360° in 25,776 years, only 144 years less than the figure of 25,920. With Hipparchus's incorrect figures a 'Great Year' takes from 28,173.9 to 28,800 years, incorrect by a difference of from 2,397.9 years to 3,024. Since Nicholas Copernicus (AD 1473-1543) has always been credited with giving the correct numbers (although Arabic astronomer Nasir al-Din Tusi,11 born AD 1201, is known to have fixed the Precession at 50°), we may correctly ask, and with justifiable astonishment 'Just whose information was Plutarch transmitting' AN IMPORTANT POSTSCRIPT Of course, using our own notational system, all the important numbers have digits that reduce to that amazing number 9 a number that has always delighted budding mathematician. Page 206 Somewhere along the way, according to Robert Graves, 9 became the number of lunar wisdom.12 This number is found often in the mythologies of the world. the Viking god Odin hung for nine days and nights on the World Tree in order to acquire the secret of the runes, those magic symbols out of which writing and numbers grew. Only a terrible sacrifice would give away this secret, which conveyed upon its owner power and dominion over all, so Odin hung from his neck those long 9 days and nights over the 'bottomless abyss'. In the tree were 9 worlds, and another god was said to have been born of 9 mothers. Robert Graves, in his White Goddess, Is intrigued by the seemingly recurring quality of the number 72 in early myth and ritual. Graves tells his reader that 72 is always connected with the number 5, which reflects, among other things, the five Celtic dialects that he was investigating. Of course, 5 x 72= 360, 360 x 72= 25,920. Five is also the number of the planets known to the ancient world, that is, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus Mercury. Graves suggests a religious mystery bound up with two ancient Celtic 'Tree Alphabets' or cipher alphabets, which as genuine articles of Druidism were orally preserved and transmitted for centuries. He argues convincingly that the ancient poetry of Europe was ultimately based on what its composers believed to be magical principles, the rudiments of which formed a close religious secret for centuries. In time these were-garbled, discredited and forgotten. Among the many signs of the transmission of special numbers he points out that the aggregate number of letter strokes for the complete 22-letter Ogham alphabet that he is studying is 72 and that this number is the multiple of 9, 'the number of lunar wisdom'. . . . he then mentions something about 'the seventy day season during which Venus moves successively from. maximum eastern elongation 'to inferior conjunction and maximum western elongation'.13 Page 207 "...Feniusa Farsa, Graves equates this hero with Dionysus. Farsa has 72 assistants who helped him master the 72 languages created at the confusion of Babel, the tower of which is said to be built of 9 different materials We are also reminded of the miraculous translation into Greek of the Five Books of Moses that was done by 72 scholars working for 72 days, Although the symbol for the Septuagint is LXX, legend, according to the fictional letter of Aristeas, records 72. The translation was done for Ptolemy Philadelphus (c.250 BC), by Hellenistic Jews, possibly from Alexandra.14 Graves did not know why this number was necessary, but he points out that he understands Frazer's Golden Bough to be a book hinting that 'the secret involves the truth that the Christian dogma, and rituals, are the refinement of a great body of primitive beliefs, and that the only original element in Christianity- is the personality of Christ.15 Frances A. Yates, historian of Renaissance hermetisma tells, us the cabala had 72 angels through which the sephiroth (the powers of God) are believed to be approached, and further, she supplies the information that although the Cabala supplied a set of 48 conclusions purporting to confirm the Christian religion from the foundation of ancient wisdom, Pico Della Mirandola, a Renaissance magus, introduced instead 72, which were his 'own opinion' of the correct number. Yates writes, 'It is no accident there are seventy-two of Pico's Cabalist conclusions, for the conclusion shows that he knew something of the mystery of the Name of God with seventy-two letters.'16 In Hamlet's Mill de Santillana adds the facts that 432,000 is the number of syllables in the Rig-Veda, which when multiplied by the soss (60) gives 25,920" (The reader is forgiven for a bit of laughter at this point) The Bible has not escaped his pursuit. A prominent Assyriologist of the last century insisted that the total of the years recounted mounted in Genesis for the lifetimes of patriarchs from the Flood also contained the needed secret numbers. (He showed that in the 1,656 years recounted in the Bible there are 86,400 7 day weeks, and dividing this number yields / Page 208 / 43,200.) In Indian yogic schools it is held that all living beings exhale and inhale 21,600 times a day, multiply this by 2 and again we have the necessary 432 digits. Joseph Campbell discerns the secret in the date set for the coming of Patrick to Ireland. Myth-gives this date-as-the interesting number of AD.432.18 Whatever one may think-of some of these number coincidences, it becomes difficult to escape the suspicion that many signs (number and otherwise) - indicate that early man observed the results of the movement of Precession and that the - transmission of this information was considered of prime importance. With the awareness of the phenomenon, observers would certainly have tried for its measure, and such an endeavour would have constituted the construction-of a 'Unified Field Theory' for nothing less than Creation itself. Once determined, it would have been information worthy of secrecy and worthy of the passing on to future adepts. But one last word about mankind's romance with number coincidences.The antagonist in John Updike's novel, Roger's Version, is a computer hacker, who, convinced, that scientific evidence of God's existence is accumulating, endeavours to prove it by feeding -all the available scientific information. into a comuter. In his search for God 'breaking, through', he has become fascinated by certain numbers that have continually been cropping up. He explains them excitedly as 'the terms of Creation': "...after a while I noticed that all over the sheet there seemed to hit these twenty-fours Jumping out at me. Two four; two, four. Planck time, for instance, divided by the radiation constant yields a figure near eight times ten again to the negative twenty-fourth, and the permittivity of free space, or electric constant, into the Bohr radius ekla almost exactly six times ten to the negative twenty-fourth. On positive side, the electromagnetic line-structure constant times Hubble radius - that is, the size of the universe as we now perceive it gives us something quite close to ten to the twenty-fourth, and the strong-force constant times the charge on the proton produces two point four times ten to the negative eighteenth, for another I began to circle twenty-four wherever it appeared on the Printout here' - he held it up his piece of stripped and striped wallpaper, decorated / Page 209 /
with a number of scarlet circles - 'you can see it's more than random.'19 So much for any scorn directed to ancient man's fascination with number coincidences. That fascination is alive and well, Just a bit more incomprehensible"
NUMBER 9 THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODE Cecil Balmond 1998 Cycles and Patterns Page 165 Patterns "The essence of mathematics is to look for patterns. Our minds seem to be organised to search for relationships and sequences. We look for hidden orders. These intuitions seem to be more important than the facts themselves, for there is always the thrill at finding something, a pattern, it is a discovery - what was unknown is now revealed. Imagine looking up at the stars and finding the zodiac! Searching out patterns is a pure delight. Suddenly the counters fall into place and a connection is found, not necessarily a geometric one, but a relationship between numbers, pictures of the mind, that were not obvious before. There is that excitement of finding order in something that was otherwise hidden. And there is the knowledge that a huge unseen world lurks behind the facades we see of the numbers themselves."
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THE LIGHT IS RISING NOW RISING IS THE LIGHT
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875-1955 Page 466 "Had not the normal, since time was, lived on the achievements of the abnormal? Men consciously and voluntarily descended into disease and madness, in search of knowledge which, acquired by fanaticism, would lead back to health; after the possession and use of it had ceased to be conditioned by that heroic and abnormal act of sacrifice. That was the true death on the cross, the true Atonement."
THE TRUE DEATH ON THE CROSS THE TRUE AT ONE MENT
ATONEMENT
ADVENT 479 ADVENT
THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD E. A. Wallace Budge 1899 OF LIVING NIGH UNTO RA Page 397 Or, "The Chapter of making the way into heaven nigh unto Ra "
Chap. cxxxi. 5] [From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheets 17 and 18).) Vignette: This Chapter is without vignette, both in the Papyrus of Nu and in the Saite Recension (see Lepsius, OF. cit., Bl. 54). Text: (1) THE CHAPTER OF HAVING EXISTENCE NIGH UNTO RA. 1 The overseer of the house of the overseer of the seal, Nu, triumphant, saith :-
"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. The " heart of Osiris Nu, the overseer of the house of the overseer of the seal, triumphant, is glad (3) because "he is one of those beings, and his enemies have been "destroyed by the divine princes. I am a follower of "Ra, and [I have] received his iron weapon. (4) I "have- come unto thee, O my father Ra, and I have " advanced to the god Shu. I have cried unto the "mighty goddess, I have equipped the god Hu (5) and "I alone have removed the Nebt god from the path of "' Ra. I am a Khu, and I have come to the divine "' prince at the bounds of the horizon. I have met / Page 398 / [Chap. cxxxi. 6 " (6) and I have received the mighty goddess. I have "raised up thy soul in the following of thy strength, "and my soul [liveth] through thy victory and thy "mighty power; it is I who give commands (7) in "speech to Ra in heaven. Homage to thee, O great " god in the east of heaven, let me embark in thy boat, " O Ra, let me open myself out in the form of a divine "hawk, (8) let me give my commands in words, let me " do battle in my Sekhem (?), let me be master under "my vine. Let me embark in thy boat O Ra, in "peace, (9) and let me sail in peace to the beautiful " Amentet. Let the god Tem speak unto me, [saying], " 'Wouldst [thou] enter therein?' The lady, the "goddess Mehen, is a million of years, yea, two million "years in (10) duration, and dwelleth in the house of "Urt and Nif-urt [and in} the Lake of a million years; "the whole company. of the gods move about among "those who are at the side of him who is the lord of "divisions of places (?). 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.' " AND HIS PATH IS IN THE FIRE AND THEY GO ROUND ABOUT BEHIND HIM AND THEY GO ROUND ABOUT BEHIND HIM
THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS Lois Pauwels and Jacques Bergier 1963 Page 226 "...dreams can foretell even distant future events,* and two German research workers, 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. "He saw himself on a Sun consisting of burning gas. Planets whizzed by, whistling as they passed" "The 'Sun' was the fixed centre round which the electrons revolve"
THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS Lois Pauwels and Jacques Bergier 1963 Page 226 "THE SUN WAS THE FIXED CENTRE ROUND WHICH THE ELECTRONS REVOLVE"
THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD E. A. Wallace Budge 1899 OF LIVING NIGH UNTO RA Page 397 "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.' "
"and his path is in the fire; and they go round about "behind him, and they go round about behind him.' "
In 1913 Bohr perfected the Rutherford theory of the atom by an early use of quantum theory. An electron moving in a circle around the nucleus can be held in orbit by a balance between the electrostatic force of attraction to the nuclei and the centrifugal force due to its motion.
THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS Lois Pauwels and Jacques Bergier 1963 Page 226 The 'Sun' was the fixed centre round which the electrons revolve"
THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD E. A. Wallace Budge 1899 OF LIVING NIGH UNTO RA Page 397 "and his path is in the fire; and they go round about "behind him, and they go round about behind him.' "
THE CONCISE DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS William Blake 1757-1827 Page 38 13 'What,' it will be questioned, 'when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?' 'O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying, "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY !"
Descriptive Catalogue,1810 The Vision of Judgement
A HISTORY OF GOD Karen Armstrong1993
UNITY THE GOD OF ISLAM Page182 "As they converge on the Kaba, clad in the traditional pilgrim dress that obliterates all distinctions of race or class, they feel that they have been liberated / Page 183 / from the egotistic preoccupations of their daily lives and been caught up into a community that has one focus and orientation. They cry in unison; 'Here I am at your service, O al-Lah' before they begin the circumambulations around the shrine. The essential meaning of this rite is brought out well by the late Iranian philosopher All Shariati: The Kabah is the world's sun whose face attracts you into its orbit. You have become part of this universal system. Circumambulating around Al-lah, you will soon forget yourself. . . You have been transformed into a particle that is gradually melting and disappearing. This is absolute love at its peak.".
THEN SINGS MY SOUL MY SAVIOUR GOD TO THEE HOW GREAT THOU ART HOW GREAT THOU ART
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875-1955 Page 888 "Now Isis, the Great One of the island, Eset, a millionfold fertile in guile, felt that her moment was come. Her wisdom embraced heaven and earth, like that of the old superannuated old Re himself. But there was one thing she did not know or command, and the lack of it / Page 889 / hampered her: she did not know the last, most secret name of Re, his very final one, knowledge of which would give power over him. Re had very many names, each one more secret than the one before, yet not utterly hopeless to find out, save one, the very last and might-iest. That he still witheld; whoso could make him name it, he could compel him and outdistance him and put him under his feet.
THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD Wallis Budge 1899 Page 397 "and his path is in the fire; and they go round about "behind him, and they go round about behind him.' "
SUN 54 54 SUN SUN 9 9 SUN
THE RA EXPEDITIONS Page 14 "The largest reed boats in Peru were depicted as two deckers. Quantities of water jars and other cargo were painted in on the lower deck, as well as rows of little people, and on the upper deck usually stood the earthly representative of the sun-god the priest king, larger than all his companions, surrounded by bird-headed men who were often hauling on ropes to help the reed boat through the water. The tomb paint-ings in Egypt also portrayed the sun-god's earthly represen-tative, the priest-king known as the pharaoh, like an imposing giant on his reed boat, surrounded by minature people, while / Page 15 / the same mythical men with bird heads towed the reed boat through the water.
THE COSMIC SERPENT Jeremy Narby 1 999 Page 53 "For several hours after drinking the brew, I found myself, although awake, in a world literally beyond my wildest dreams. I met bird-headed people, as well as dragon-like creatures who explained that they were the true gods of this world." Page 54 After several minutes he found himself falling into a world of true hallucinations. After arriving in a celestial cavern where "a supernatural carnival of demons" was in full swing, he saw two strange boats floating through the air that combined to form "a huge dragon-headed prow, not unlike that of a Viking ship." On the deck, he could make out "large numbers of people with the heads of blue jays and the bodies of humans, not unlike the birdheaded gods of ancient Egyptian tomb paintings." After multiple episodes, which would be too long to describe here, Hamer became convinced that he was dying. He tried call / Page 55 / ing out to his Conibo friends for an antidote without managing to pronounce a word. Then he saw that his visions emanated from "giant reptilian creatures" resting at the lowest depths of his brain. These creatures began projecting scenes in front of his eyes, while informing him that this information was reserved for the dying and the dead:
OBJECTIVE REALITY Poems and Essays by Lloyd C. Daniel 1985 Page 32 sun energy energy energy energy energy energy energy energy energy energy rrrraaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I AM ME I AM FREE David Icke 1996 Page 33 The Global Dictatorship "I'm sorry, would you just excuse me once more? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke 1972 THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD Page15 (number omitted) " ' This is a slightly unusual request,' said Dr Wagner, with what he hoped was commendable restraint. 'As far as I know, it's the first time anyone's been asked to supply a Tibetan monastery with an Automatic Sequence Computer. I don't wish to be inquisitive, but I should hardly have thought that your - ah - establishment had much use for such a ma-chine. Could you explain just what you intend to do with it?' 'Gladly,' replied the lama, readjusting his silk robes and carefully putting away the slide rule he had been using for currency conversions. 'Your Mark V Computer can carry out any routine mathematical operation involving up to ten digits. However, for our work we are interested in letters, not numbers. As we wish you to modify the output circuits, the machine will be printing words, not columns of figures.' 'I don't quite understand. . .' 'This is a project on which we have been working for the last three centuries - since the lamasery was founded, in fact. It is somewhat alien to your way of thought, so I hope you will listen with an open mind while I explain it.' 'Naturally.' 'It is really quite simple. We have been compiling a list which shall contain all the possible names of God.' 'I beg your pardon? Page 16 'We have reason to believe,.' continued the lama imper-turbably, 'that all such names can be written with not more than nine letters in an alphabet we have devised.' 'And you have been doing this for three centuries?' 'Yes: we expected it would take us about fifteen thousand years to complete the task.' 'Oh,' Dr Wagner looked a little dazed. 'Now I see why you wanted to hire one of our machines. But what exactly is the purpose of this project?' The lama hesitated for a fraction of a second, and Wagner wondered if he had offended him. If so, there was no trace of annoyance in the reply.'Call it ritual, if you like, but it's a fundamental part of our belief. All the many names of the Supreme Being - God, Jehova, Allah, and so on - they are only man-made labels. There is a philosophical problem of some difficulty here, which I do not propose to discuss, but somewhere among all the possible combinations of letters that can occur are what one may call the real names of God. By systematic per-mutation of letters, we have been trying to list them all.' "I see. You've been starting at A A A A A A A . . . and work- ing up to Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z . . .' 'Exactly - though we use a special alphabet of our own. Modifying the electromatic typewriters to deal with this is, of course, trivial. A rather more interesting problem is that of devising suitable circuits to eliminate ridiculous com- binations. For example, no letter must occur more than times in succession.' ' Three? Surely you mean two.' 'Three is correct: I am afraid it would take too long to explain why, even if you understood our language.' Page 17 'I'm sure it would,' said Wagner hastily. 'Go on.' 'Luckily, it will be a simple matter to adapt your Automatic Sequence Computer for this work, since once it has been programmed properly it will permute each letter in turn and print the result. What would have taken us fifteen thousand years it 'will be able to do in a hundred days.' Dr Wagner was scarcely conscious of the faint sounds from the Manhattan streets far below. He was in a different world, a world of natural, not man-made, mountains. High up in their remote aeries these monks had been patiently at work, generation after generation, compiling their lists of meaningless words. Was there any limit to the follies of man- kind? Still, he must give no hint of his inner thoughts. The customer was always right. . . 'There's no doubt.replied the doctor, 'that we can modify the Mark V to print lists of this nature." Page20 ' Well they believe that when they have listed all his names - and they reckon that there are about nine billion of them - Gods purpose will be achieved. " Page 16 "I see. You've been starting at A A A A A A A . . . and work-ing up to Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z . . .'
THE NEW ELIZEBETHAN REFERENCE DICTIONARY Fourth Edition Editor Peter Finch Page 747 incandesce (in kan des) [L. incandescere] (IN- (1), candescere, incept. of candere, to be white)], v.i. To glow with heat. v.t. To cause to glow with heat. incandescence, n incandescent, Glowing with heat; intensely luminous with heat. incandescent lamp: An electric or other lamp in which a filament or mantle is made intensely luminous by heat."
MUSIC OF THE MIND Darryl Reanney 1994 Page 140 "So only this 'moment' was right for us, or something like us, to evolve. It takes 104° units of time for the universe to create complex creatures with brains powerful enough to surge through the limitations of matter. As the Jesuit scientist Teilhard de Chardin said: We already knew that everywhere the active lines of life glow warm with consciousness towards the summit. But in one well-marked region at the heart of the mammals, where the most powerful brains ever made by nature are to be found, they become red hot, And right in the heart of that glow burns a point of incandescence. We must not lose sight of that line, crimsoned by the dawn. After thousands of years rising below the horizon, a flame bursts forth at a stricrly localised point. Thought is born.l27" "And right in the heart of that glow burns a point of incandescence." "a point of incandescence" "incandescence" "Thought is born"
THOUGHT DIVINE THOUGHT 9 9 9
OBJECTIVE REALITY Poems and Essays by Lloyd C. Daniel 1985 Page 32 sun energy energy energy energy energy energy energy energy energy energy rrrraaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
I AM ME I AM FREE David Icke 1996 Page 33 The Global Dictatorship "I'm sorry, would you just excuse me once more? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
OF TIME AND STARS Arthur C. Clarke 1972 THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD Page 16 "I see. You've been starting at A A A A A A A . . . and work- ing up to Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z . . .'
A HISTORY OF GOD Karen Armstrong 1993 Page 278 "All I can say remembering you', the prayer concluded, 'is ayyyy and ahhhhhhhh"
THE NINE FREEDOMS George King, D. D.1963 Enlightenment Page173 CHAPTER 9 "THE NINTH FREEDOM WILL BE SOLAR EXISTENCE"
THE COSMIC SERPENT Jeremy Narby 1 999 Page 53 "In reading the literature on Amazonian shamanism, I had noticed that the personal experience of anthropologists with indigenous hallucinogens was a gray zone. I knew the problem well for having skirted around it myself in my own writings. One of the categories in my reading notes was called "Anthropologists and Ayahuasca." I consulted the card corresponding to this category, which I had filled out over the course of my investigation, and noted that the first subjective description of an ayahuasca experience by an anthropologist was published in 1968-whereas several botanists had written up similar experiences a hundred years previously. 10 The anthropologist in question was Michael Harner. He had devoted ten lines to his own experience in the middle of an academic article: "For several hours after drinking the brew, I found myself, although awake, in a world literally beyond my wildest dreams. I met bird-headed people, as well as dragon-like creatures who explained that they were the true gods of this world. I At first Michael Hamer pursued an enviable career, teaching in reputable universities and editing a book on shamanism for Oxford University Press. Later, however, he alienated a good portion of his colleagues by publishing a popular manual on a series of shamanic techniques based on visualization and the use of drums. Page 54 Hamer explains that in the early 1960s, he went to the Peruvian Amazon to study the culture of the Conibo Indians. After a year or so he had made little headway in understanding their religious system when the Conibo told him that if he really wanted to leam, he had to drink ayahuasca. Hamer accepted not without fear, because the people had wamed him that the experience was After multiple episodes, which would be too long to describe here, Hamer became convinced that he was dying. He tried call / Page 55 / ing out to his Conibo friends for an antidote without managing to pronounce a word. Then he saw that his visions emanated from "giant reptilian creatures" resting at the lowest depths of his brain. These creatures began projecting scenes in front of his eyes, while informiig him that this information was reserved for the dying and the dead: "First they showed me the planet Earth as it was eons ago, before there was any life on it. I saw an ocean, barren land, and a bright blue sky. Then black specks dropped from the sky by the hundreds and landed in front of me on the barren landscape. I could see the 'specks' were actually large, shiny, black creatures with stubby pterodactyl-like wings and huge whale-like bodies. . . . They explained to me in a kind of thought language that they were fleeing from something out in space. They had come to the planet Earth to escape their enemy. The creatures then showed me how they had created life on the planet in order to hide within the multitudinous forms and thus disguise their presence. Before me, the magnificence of plant and animal creation and speciation-hundreds of millions of years of activity-took place on a scale and with a vividness impossible to describe. I learned that the dragon-like creatures were thus inside all forms of life, including man."
THE WASTE LAND and other poems T. S. Elliot 1940 Page 13 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock "I AM LAZARUS, COME FROM THE DEAD, COME BACK TO TELL YOU ALL I SHALL TELL YOU ALL"
I AM THE OPPOSITE OF THE OPPOSITE I AM THE OPPOSITE OF OPPOSITE IS THE AM I AM
THE TENTHENETTENEHTNET THE NETERS NET THE INTER NET
DEOXY.ORG "South American Ayahuasca Practice This brew, commonly called yage, or yaje, in Colombia, ayahuasca (Inca 'vine of the dead'*) in Ecuador and Peru, and caapi in Brazil, is prepared from segments of a species of the vine Banisteriopsis, a genus belonging to the Malpighiaceae.-Michael Harner *Inca "vine of the dead, vine of the souls," aya means in Quechua "spirit," "ancestor," "dead person," while huasca means "vine," "rope"). Pablo's Warning: Ayahuasca is not something to play with. It may even kill, not because it is toxic in itself, but because the body may not be able to stand the spiritual realm, the vibrations from the spirit world. Pablo said he had several frightening experiences with ayahuasca. Three times he thought he was going to die.*One needs courage, a strong discipline, and to proceed by degrees. It is a long process that might take two or three years before one can venture into the higher realms. One needs a teacher that shows the correct procedures, and how to defend oneself against supernatural attack. But after some time, one needs to continue alone, because even one's teacher might become jealous of one's progress and could take away all one has learned.
*Frightening ayahuasca experiences are quite frequent. It is common that people take ayahuasca only once, and are afraid to take it again." From Ayahuasca Visions by Luna and Amaringo "Ayahuasca is not something to play with. It may even kill, not because it is toxic in itself, but because the body may not be able to stand the spiritual realm, the vibrations from the spirit world. Pablo said he had several frightening experiences with ayahuasca. Three times he thought he was going to die.*One needs courage, a strong discipline, and to proceed by degrees. It is a long process that might take two or three years before one can venture into the higher realms." "Frightening ayahuasca experiences are quite frequent. It is common that people take ayahuasca only once, and are afraid to take it again."
SUPER SCIENCE Michael White 1 999 " The alchemists, Jung believed had been inadvertantly tap-ping into the collective unconscious. This led them to assume / Page 99 / they were following a spiritual path to enlightenment-when they were actuafly liberatiing their subconscious minds through the use of ritual. This is not far removed from other ritualistic events- those exploited by faith healers, the ecstasy experienced by ritualistic voodoo dancers, or charismatic Christian services. Jung said of alchemy: 'The alchemical stone symbolises something that can never be lost or dissolved, something eternal that some alchemists 'Compared to the mystical experience of God within one's own soul.It tusually takes prolonged suffering to burn away all the superfluous psychic elements.concealing the stone. But some profound inner experience of the Self does occur to most people at least once in a lifetime. From the psychological standpoint, a genuinely religious atiitude consists of an effort to discover this unique. experience and;gradually to keep in tune wth it (it is,relevant that the stone is itself something permanent), so that the Self becomes an inner partner towards whom one's attention is continually turned.'5 To the alchemist, the most important factor in the practice was participation of the individual experimenter in .the process of transmutation. The genuine alchemist was convinced that the emotional and spiritual characteristics of the individual experimenter was involved intiimately wth the success or failure of the experiment. And, it is this concept, more than any other aspect of, alchemy, that distinguishes it from orthodox chemistry,- the scientific discipline that began to supersede it at the end of the seventeenth Century. The alchemist placed inordinate importance upon the spiritual element.of his work and for many sceptics it was this which.pushed the subject into the realms of magic and left it forever beyond the boundaries of 'science'."
SUPER SCIENCE Michael White 1 999 Page 99 'The alchemical stone symbolises something that can never be lost or dissolved, something eternal that some alchemists 'Compared to the mystical experience of God within one's own soul.It usually takes prolonged suffering to burn away all the superfluous psychic elements.concealing the stone. But some profound inner experience of the Self does occur to most people at least once in a lifetime.'
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875-1955 Page 466 "Had not the normal, since time was, lived on the achievements of the abnormal? Men consciously and voluntarily descended into disease and madness, in search of knowledge which, acquired by fanaticism, would lead back to health; after the possession and use of it had ceased to be conditioned by that heroic and abnormal act of sacrifice. That was the true death on the cross, the true Atonement."
THE TRUE DEATH ON THE CROSS THE TRUE AT ONE MENT AUM MANI PADME HUM HAIL THE JEWEL AT THE CENTRE OF THE LOTUS NAMASTE PEACE LOVE AND LIGHT UNTO ALL SENTIENT BEINGS
HOLY BIBLE
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
Page 217 'A man may be born ,but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.'
CITY OF REVELATION John Michell 1972 Page 160 "All who study the cabalistic science and the geometry and numbers of creation are attacked by melancholy, some-times fatally, the suicide rate among cabalists being notoriously high. The Point is clearly made in Durer's Melancholia. The garden of paradise, symbol of the ultimate perfection of human consciousness, has many delightful inhabitants which are at the same time dange-rous beasts to whoever fails to recognise their nature and function; and of these the most treachorous is the mercurial old serpent of wisdom, that leads men on in the search of the treasure of which it is in itself the the venomous custodian." "The garden of paradise"
PARADE EYES IN THE GARDEN OF NEED
DOCTOR FAUSTUS Thomas Mann 1947 Page 91 Chapter Twelve "The room was not much more than adequate, with some slight indications of middle-class amenity in the shape of a red plush cover on the square in the front of the table, where his books lay / Page 92 / and he drank his morning coffee. He had supplemented the arrangements with a rented cottage piano always strewn with sheets of music, some written by himself. On the wall above the piano was an arithmet-ical diagram fastened withdrawing-pins, something he had found in in a second-hand shop: a so-called magic square, such,as also appears in Durer's Melancolia, along with the hour glass-glass, the circle,the scale, the polyhedron, and other symbols. Here as there, the figure was, divided into sixteen Arabic numbered fields, in such a way that number one was in the right-hand lower corner, sixteen in the upper left; and the magic or the oddity; simply consisted in the fact that the sum of these numerals, however you added them, straight down, crosswise, or diagonally,always came to thirty-four. What the principle was upon which this magic uniformity rested I never made out, but by virtue of the prominent place Adrian, had given it over the piano, it always attracted the eye, and I believe I never visited his room without giving a quick glance slanting up, or straight down and testing once more the invariable, incredible result."
THE COSMIC CODE Heinz R. Pagels 1982 Page 306 "Laying down the 'law in the.physical sciences is a frustrating activity, an activity that promotes a sense of rational piety; a recognition that one is up against a major problem. I, have always felt that Albrecht Diirer in his engraving Melancholia captured the spirit of rational inquiry. The' engraving depicts a contemplative, angel surrounded by the instruments of science, a magic square on a wall. It is an image of a consciousness whose isolation niatches that of the stars"
ALBRECHT DURER'S "MELANCOLIA"
www.mathpuzzle.com/ Melancholia Magic Squares "Several palindromic magic squares can be found at The World of Numbers. The World of Palindromic numbers would be more appropriate".
"Here is the most famous magic square, from Albrecht Durer's Melancholia. He did it in 1514."
THE MAGIC SQUARE JUPITER
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875-1955 Page 10 Chapter 1 "Number 34" "But come and see your room now" "What a nice room! I can spend a couple of weeks here with pleasure." Page 663 "Lie down here in the sand! How cool as death it is, / Page 664 / how soft as silk, as flour! It flows in a colourless, thin stream from thy hand and makes a dainty mound beside thee. Dost thou recognize it, this tiny flowing? It is the soundless, tiny stream through the hour glass, that solemn, fragile toy that adorns the hermit's hut. An open book a skull, and in its slender frame the double glass, holding a little sand, taken from eternity, to prolong here, as time, its troubling, solemn mysterious essence. . ." "For the moment, however, and before Holger withdrew to the tranquillity of his hastening while, it would be better, and certainly most amiable of him, if he would consent to answer a few practical questions. They scarcely as yet knew what, but would he at least be in principle inclined to do so, in his great amiability? The answer was yes. But now they discovered a great perplexity - what should they ask? It was as in the fairy story, when the fairy or elf grants one question, and there is danger of letting the precious advantage slip through the fingers. There was much in the world, much of the future, that seemed worth knowing, yet it was difficult to choose. At length, as no one else seemed able to sttle, Hans Castorp, with his finger on the glass supporting his cheek on his fist, said he would like to know what was to be / Page 665 / the actual length of his stay up here, instead of the three weeks originally fixed. Very well, since they thought of nothing better, let the spirit out of the fullness of his knowledge answer this chance query. The glass hesitated, then pushed off. It spelled out something very queer which none of them succeeded in fathoming, it made the word, or the syllable Go, and then the word Slanting and then something about Hans Castorp's room, that was to say, through number thirty-four.What was the sense of that."
NUMBER THIRTY- FOUR "WHAT WAS THE SENSE OF THAT" ?
THE MAGIC OF NUMBER
THE NEW VIEW OVER ATLANTIS John Michell 1972 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 I-36 contained in it). The squares can also be given geometric expressions (see page I95)."
THE MAGIC SQUARE SATURN
THE MAGIC SQUARE MARS
THE MAGIC SQUARE SUN
THE MAGIC SQUARE VENUS
THE MAGIC SQUARE MERCURY
THE MAGIC SQUARE MOON
NUMBERS OF THE MAGIC SQUARES
MAGIKALALPHABETICAL ROOT NUMBERS
THE NEW VIEW OVER ATLANTIS John Michell 1983 Page 121 "THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH the great stone monuments of the ancient world were so carefully planned and sited can only be understood in terms of the scientific ideals of their builders, which were very different from the ideals of modern science. They were not based, as today, on respect for inventiveness and the notion of progress, but arose from the traditional world-view of the earth as a living creature in a living universe, whose health and prosperity was bound up with that of its inhabitants. Ancient science was based on number and measure, as is science today; but modern arithmetic, as it is now applied to the torture of schoolchildren, scarcely touches on the aspect of number which the ancients most particularly emphasized - its structure and symbolism. A common assertion in traditional creation myths is that the Maker of the World first laid down a pattern of number, from which all else proceeded. Number was thus regarded as the first archetype or paradigm of nature. This was found apparent from both reason and observation. In the first place, number itself outlasts all the phenomena which it numbers, and so presumably preceded them. Secondly, every natural form of growth and movement evidently conforms to certain cycles and patterns, which themselves relate to certain combinations of numerical types. With this in mind, the ancient philosophers were concerned above all to seek out the patterns in number which correspond to those in nature, and to set them up as models in the conduct of human affairs. The most highly regarded studies in the ancient world were those which were considered most particularly numerical and thus closest to the essence of things. These were arithmetic, music, astronomy, geometry and stereometry (the study of geometric solids and the structure of the universe). To modern ways of thought it seems strange that the very same code or canon of number was applied to all these subjects in common; but such was the case. And the same numerical canon was further applied to activities which are now considered / Page 122 / beyond the scope of number principles, such as statecraft. According to Plato in Laws, the Egyptian priests, who controlled education, ensured that all who sought advancement in life studied and worked according to the sacred canon of number and proportion. This, said Plato, had the effect of maintaining the level of culture for at least ten thousand years. It was the chief object of Pythagoras and his school to reconstitute and reinvigorate the ancient numerical code and the philosophy associated with it, and similar attempts have been made since, as at the time of the Renaissance. This study becomes all the more fascinating to modern scholars as it becomes evident from current research that the same numerical canon was once possessed by civilizations world-wide. The respect and veneration formerly given to numerical studies arose from the understanding that not only could the intervals of music, the ratios of geometry, astronomical periods and the cycles of time be measured by the same standards of number, but the numerical patterns to which they conformed were also somehow inherent in the structure of the human mind. Plato believed that human nature, like the nature of the entire universe, was essentially and from the beginning a creature of number. He also put forward in Timaeus a more evolutionary view, suggesting that 'the sight of day and night, of months and the revolving years, of equinox and sunset, has caused the invention of number. . . whence we have derived all philosophy'. However it may have come about, the numerical structuring of the mind was commonly recognized, and so therefore was the power of music. The intervals of music clearly express numerical ratios, and of all the arts music has the most direct effect on human emotions. This allows it to be used for better or worse to manipulate individuals and masses. The earliest legendary rulers, the Orphean bards, were said to legislate through music alone, and die priests of later times were most careful in upholding the traditional musical scales, whose intervals were those'of classical geometry, because these, by resonance, were inclined to'invoke corresponding harmonies in the human soul. Innovations in musical form were by the same token forbidden because of their disruptive tendencies. As Plato observed, changes in government are brought about by changes in music. In traditional cosmologies the universe was regarded as a vital organism whose every part is subtly related to every other. It was taken as the supreme manifest image of the number One, which is unique among integers as being indivisible and as containing and generating all other numbers.The individual was seen as a microcosm or lesser image of the universal monad, linked to the greater body through the / Page 123 / seasons and cycles common to both and through natural sympathy between their corresponding parts. By studying these correspondences the ancients developed a form -of science which would now be called magic, because it operated through certain natural principles which in the modern world are no longer openly recognized and are referred to as esoteric. Among them are the principles of dynamic equilibrium and fusion, by which opposite tendencies are reconciled, and the ordering principle of 'like attracts like' which underlies the phenomenon of coincidences. These until recently were left for the exclusive attention of mystics and metaphysicians, but the modern progress of the atomic physicists into areas where rationalism and solid matter desert them has confronted their advance guard with the complementary and reflexive nature of the universe, as recognized in ancient philosophy: It has also brought them to reconsider the traditional view of the world as essentially a structure of number, and to resume the old Pythagorean quest for the numerical patterns which best symbolize the dynamics of atomic, solar and galactic systems alike. In all ancient codes of art and science certain integers and series of numbers are found to recur, which also recur in the processes of arithmetic. An example of a canonical number is 5040, which has more factors for its size than any other, is the product of the first seven numbers multiplied together, and is divisible by every number up to ten (1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 = 5040 = 7 x 8 x 9 x 10). Plato gave 5040 as the number of citizens and land holdings in the city of Magnesia in Laws, and in effect it represents the radius of that city. We also find 5040 ft. as the value of the shorter Greek mile (see table on p. 133)' Dr Ernest McClain, the Pythagorean musicologist, in the first of his two books listed here in the Bibliography (which should be in the library of every serious student of this subject), shows that 5040 is of necessity the top note of the octave in the musical scale which Plato conceals within the structure of his book. Yet Plato's numerical canon' was not his own invention, for a hundredth part of the number 5040, or 50.4 ft., is the measure of the mean diameter of the Stonehenge lintel ring, making its circumference 316.8 ft.or a hundredth part of 6 miles. Among other numbers ana number series prominent in the ancient canon are the powers and multiples of six (36, 216, 864, 1296 etc.) and of 12 (144, 1728,20736,248832 etc.), the multiples of 37 ( 111, 222 etc., including the famous 'number of the beast', 666) and also certain nodal numbers which stand in geometric ratios with the main canonical numbers anp lin.k the various systems of numeration. Many of these numbers, as McClain has shown, arise naturally from / Page 124 / 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 agreement 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 appropriate 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 in vocation, 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."
THE BALANCING ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE NINE EIGHT SEVEN SIX
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ZERO ISISIS ONE ONE ISISIS ZERO
CITY OF REVELATION John Michell 1972 "The great alchemists, whose ultimate aspiration was to procure the birth of a divinity among men found it necessary first to invoke within themselves the spirit they wished to share with others. In the same tradition Plato wrote that the man who aquires the art of stereometry, the likening of unlike things which is function of the canon, sanctifies not only himself but also the city and the age in which he lives. The thought behind these various expressions was that the state of a society is determined by the individuals who comprise it; that the cosmic influences are manifest on earth through the medium of the human mind, and this is the instrument by which they may be controlled and held in balance. For the instument to be Effective, it requires that the individual become aware of the current influences to which he is subject, and to this end the canon was devised; for by analogy with the dynamics of geometrical and numerological relationships, the world of phenomena is revealed as the product of archetyple forces, whose behaviour in any circumstances is predicatable once the nature is understoood."
THE UNIT OF ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE IS THE OHM THE UNIT OF ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE IS THE MHO
IN SEARCH OF ZARATHUSTRA Paul Kriwaczek 2002 Page 148 "Unlike other prophets of antiquity, Zarathustra had taught that history was neither cyclic nor eternal. The struggle he described between good and evil would one day be brought to a head in a great battle, and after many troubles and torments, the forces of good would be victorious under the leadership of a divine saviour called the Saoshyant (Future Benefactor): in the view of later Zoroastrian theologians, he would be a descendant of Zarathustra himself Evil would be vanquished; history - the world as We know it - would come to an end. In what Zarathustra called Frasho-kereti, to which some translators give the splendid name 'The Making Wonderful', the victorious Saoshyant and his helpers will restore the world to its pristine purity. As the hymn called the Zamyad Yasht, has it: which from that day on will never grow old and never die, will never decay and never be corrupted; In our own days, when shambling men with sandwich boards proclaiming that 'The End of the World is Nigh' are a commonplace and comic sight, it is hard to grasp how revolutionary and powerful the idea of the End of It was this fervent belief in the Saoshyant the Zoroastrian Messiah, which came to the psychological rescue of the conquered Iranians, who convinced themselves that the horrific destruction of Ahura Mazda's ordered world and the triumph of the godless Greeks was just the first stage in a final battle whose ultimate outcome would be glorious. To be sure, good would triumph in the end. How do we know what the Persians were thinking? The historical record of Hellenistic and even Parthian times is very sparse indeed. In fact, some of the Parthian rulers and their approximate dates are only known from the coins they left behind. Though literary activity surely continued, hardly any secular texts dating from the yawning six-hundred / Page 149 / year gap between the victory of Alexander and the age of Shapur have been preserved, let alone religious writings. But we know from later references that a series of Iranian oracles, modelled on those of the Sibyl, an ancient Greek prophetess, began to circulate among the inhabitants of the Hellenised Middle East, prophesying that the end of the world was at hand. One of these so-called Sibylline Oracles, the 'Oracle of Hystaspes' (supposedly delivered by the Iranian monarch who was Zarathustra's first convert), is extensively quoted by Lactantius, a Church Father from thirdcentury North Africa:"
"Hystaspes says. . . that will be the age when justice is banished, when innocence is despised and the evil ones drag away good men as their prey. No laws, no order, no rigour of military discipline will survive. None will honour the aged, none will acknowledge the duty of piety, none will take pity on women and children: all will unite and conspire against the divine law, against the laws of nature. The whole earth will be despoiled, as though by a universal pillaging. We are so familiar with prophesies of the End of Time from the last books of the Jewish and Christian Bible that most believers have always taken for granted that the Iranian Lore of Last Things - eschatology, to give it its proper title - had been learned from Jewish teachers. But that is unlikely to be true. The biblical Hebrews had no notion that time would one day come to an end, that the world was of finite duration. Their understanding of the future was rather different, if no less glorious. As they looked out at the increasingly dangerous world of the eighth century, prophets like Isaiah had warned of troubles to come. Woe, the multitude of many peoples, which roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of the nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! After the destruction of the northern kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians in 721 BC, and the deportation of the upper class from the southern kingdom of Judah in 597, prophets of fire and brimstone, from Ezekiel to the second sage writing under the name of Isaiah, developed their own revanchist dreams and revenge fantasies, telling themselves that one day soon, a Messiah, an anointed descendant of the house of David, would be sent by God..."
HOLY BIBLE
Scofield Reference REVELATION Verse 16 part quoted Verse 17 'him' x 3 has been substituted by the word them. C22 V 13 I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA THE BEGINNING AND THE END THE FIRST AND THE LAST 16 I AM THE ROOT AND THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID AND THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR 17 AND THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY COME AND LET THEM THAT HEARETH SAY COME AND LET THEM THAT IS A THIRST COME AND WHOSOEVER WILL LET THEM TAKE THE WATERS OF LIFE FREELY
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