| When we take a close look at creation, we see that
everything is mathematically related so even if one doesn't like math in
school, one cannot get away from fact. Joseph Campbell, our favorite
mythologist has this to say in his book "The Inner Reaches of Outer Space"
- Metaphor As Myth And As Religion:
"Some notion of the whole, profoundly conceived, macro-microcosmic import
may be gained from a consideration of the mathematics of the mythological
and actual cycles of the calendars of the rites of various ancient peoples.
For example, in the Hindu sacred epics and puranas (popular tellings of ancient
lore), the number of years reckoned to the present cycle of time, the so-called
Kali Yuga, is 432,000, the number reckoned to the "great cycle" (mahayuga)
within which this yuga falls being 4,320,000. But then reading one day in
the Icelandic Eddas, I discovered that in Othin's (Wotan's) warrior hall,
Valholl, there were 540 doors, through each of which, on the "Day of the
Wolf" (that is to say, at the end of the present cycle of time), there would
pass 800 divine warriors to engage the antigods in a battle of mutual
annihilation. (800 x 540 - 432,000.) And so I asked myself how it might ever
have come to pass that in tenth-to-thirteenth century Iceland the same number
of years were reckoned to the present cycle of time as in India.
In Babylon, I then recalled, there had been a Chaldean priest Berossos,
who, c. 280 BC, had rendered in Greek an account of the history and mythology
of Babylonia, wherein it was told that between the time of the rise of the
first city, Kish, and the coming of the Babylonian mythological flood (from
which that of the Bible is taken), there elapsed 432,000 years , during which
antediluvian era, ten kings reigned. Very long lives! Longer even than
Methuselah's (Genesis 5:27), which had been of only 969.
When counting the begats of the Patriarchs from Adam to Noah and the
first drop of rain came to 1656 years. Any relation to 432,000?
Julius Oppert, a distinguished Jewish Assyriologist of the last century,
(written in 1986) in 1877 presented before the Royal Society for Sciences
in Gottingen a paper on "Dates in Genesis" in which it was shown that in
1656 years there are 86,400 seven-day weeks. 86,400 divided by 2 = 43,200.
And so, it appears that in the Book of Genesis there are two contrary
theologies represented in relation to the legend of the Deluge. One is the
old tribal, popular tale of a willful, personal creator-god, who saw that
"the wickedness of man was great in the earth . . . and was sorry that
he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord
said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground,
man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that
I have made them' " (Genesis 6:5-7).
The other idea, which is in fundamental contrast, is that of the disguised
number, 86,400, which is a deeply hidden reference to the Gentile,
Sumero-Babylonian, mathematical cosmology of the ever-revolving cycles of
impersonal time, with whole universes and their populations coming into being,
flowering for a season of 43,200 (43,200 or 4,320,000) years, dissolving
back into the cosmic mother-sea to rest for an equal spell of years before
returning, and so again, and again, and again. The Jews, it will be remembered,
were for fifty years exiled from their Capital to Babylon (586-539 BC), when
they were subject, willy, nilly, to Babylonian influences, so that although
the popular, exoteric version of their Deluge legend is from the period of
David's kingdom, tenth century or so BC, the exquisitely secreted indication
of priestly knowledge, beyond that, of a larger, cyclic version of the legend
- where the god himself would have come into being and gone out of being
with the universe of which he was the lord - is post-Exilic, as are, also
, the genealogical datings of Genesis Chapter 5, which are so very nicely
contrived to join the 600 years of Noah's age at the time of the Flood to
furnish a total exactly of 1656.
It is to be noticed, by the way, that 1+6+5+6 = 18, which is twice 9,
while 4+3+2=9: 9 being a number traditionally associated with the Goddess
Mother of the World and its gods. In India the number of recited names in
a litany of this goddess is 108. 1_-0_8=99, while 108 x 4-432.
In Roman Catholic Europe, when the Angelus tolls (at morning, noon, and
evening), it ring 3+3+3 and then 9 times, in celebration of the Virgin's
conception of the Savior. The recited prayer at those junctures, "The Angel
of the Lord declared unto Mary, and she conceived by the Holy Ghost . .
. and THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH . . ." is in recognition of this miracle at
the opening of a new world age.
In ancient Greece, 9 was the number of the Muses, patron goddesses of
the arts. They were the daughters of Mnemosyne ("memory"), the source of
imagination, which in turn is the carrier of archetypal, elementary ideas
to artistic, realization in the field of space-time.
The number 9, that is to say, relates traditionally to the Great Goddess
of Many Names (Devi, Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Artemis, Venus, etc.) as matrix
of the cosmic process, whether in the macrocosm or in a microcosmic field
of manifestation. The reason for the suppression of her image by a clergy
interested in the claims only of a divinity heavily bearded, therefore, can
be readily surmised; but why the same company of priestly doctors so artfully
concealed in their document an unmistakable notice of their own knowledge
of her power awaits interpretation.
The profundity and sublime majesty of the suppressed mythology can be
appreciated best by way of two apparently unrelated clocks, one, the ultimate
clock of outer space, and the other of inner space - respectively, the
astronomical precession of the equinoxes and the physiological beat of the
human heart.
Regarding the first; the slow westward motion, in the course of years,
of the equinoctial points around the beltway of the zodiac (the vernal
equinox, for example, moving from the sign of Aries, where it had been before
the birth of Christ, through Pisces, where it is now, toward Aquarius, where
it will be in a couple hundred years )
NOTE: that date is highly controversial: See
AQUARIUS and
AGES
This complete cycle of the twelve zodiacal signs exactly 25,920 years,
which term is known as a "great" or "Platonic" year. But if we divide 25,920
by 60 (which is the ancient Mesopotamian soss, or basic segesimal unit of
astronomical measurement, still used in the measurement of circles whether
of time or of space), the quotient is 432. Moreover: 2+5+9+2+0 = 18.
And regarding the second, the inward clock: I have read in a popular book
on physical education that "A conditioned man, who exercises regularly, will
have a resting heart rate of about 60 beats per minute or less . . . Sixty
per minute time 60 minutes, equals 3600 beats per hour. Times 24 hours, equals
86,400 beats a day.
NOTE: In another article read just moments ago, it was stated that the
heart rests in between beats for 9 hours a day.
It is strange that in our history books, the discovery of the precession
of the equinoxes should be attributed always to the Greek Hipparchus, second
century BC, when the magic number 432 (which when multiplied by 60 produces
25,920) was already employed in the reckoning of major cycles of time before
that century. "
See: The Number 432
by Joe Mason
See: The Code of the
Ancients
Along with this subject comes this fitting dream:
9-13-98 - DREAM - The dream started out with a vision of a clock-like
symbol which resembled a rounded diamond-like shape with the largest point
up, down, and to both sides. These points all had feminine names. There was
a dark man involved also to prevent us from getting all the way around the
Zodiac clock.
I woke up and went back into a dream in which I was at home at my 16th
St. house. It was going to rain and I rushed inside the house to get a gauge
to hang up to measure the rain because the prediction was for 71 inches of
rain.
I hung up the first part of the gauge which was a rectangle-like block
plaque with a slot on it on which I balanced what looked like a small book
which looked like a diary to keep records in. There was a name written on
the book. (I can't remember what it was) A strong mist began to fall as I
rushed back to the house to get the gauge tube and my mother held open the
door for me because I had to hurry if I was going to catch all of the rain
which I knew was going to get a lot heavier.
End of Dream
Sounds rather Deluge-like to me!!!! |
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Islamic, Tibetan, Buddhist, Celtic, Indian and Jewish traditions. A magic
square is when each number is used only once, but the horizontal, vertical
and diagonal sums are all equal. The Chinese have patterned their architectural
temples along the harmonious principles of the magic square.
At 1:11 a.m. on September 13, 1990, I drew a 14-pointed star based
on this Tantric Yantra that I found in a book called
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