OSIRISORIONISISORIONISOSIRIS

THE SUPERGODS

Maurice M Cotterell

1997

ANCIENT LANDS AND NEW REVELATIONS

The Supergods

Page 107

"The Amazing Lid of Palenque (Volume 1) tells us there are various desti-nations for the dead (in the story of The Paradises) and of periodic phys-ical destruction (in the story of The Four Previous Ages). It tells us how this destruction comes about: through infertility cycles inspired by solar activity, increases in infant mutations, drought through mini iceages and catastrophic destruction through pole tilting adjustments of the Earth's crust and axis, in response to a variable solar magnetic field.
Volume 2 (see Chapter 5 and plates 9-24) tells us that a choice exists hetween purification of the soul through sacrifice, or alternatively a journey through the underworld, and purgatory, before rebirth on Earth. It tells us of a better place, and a worse one than Earth, and that each of us is born of the one God who created himself along with the universe. It teaches us that I am you and you are me, that night becomes day as certainly as day becomes night; life follows death as certainly as death follows life.
Clues in the Temple of Inscriptions tell us that the man in the tomb was no ordinary man, while the Mosaic Mask tells us that he gave life, and took life away. We learn that the numbering system is built into the Mayas' pyramid and that the duration of the sun-spot cycle is contained / Page 108 / in the lid as well as in the pyramid, just in case we missed it first time around. And we learn from their use of jade that the Maya understood better than we do how the universe works. They have shown us in their art and their decoding system that the mind of Lord Pacal was far supe-rior to that of his contemporaries who were not involved with the 'wrapping up' or 'encoding' of the "information, and far superior to the mind of modern man. When he died he became one with the highest God through purification and sacrifice which makes us ask: 'Who was this man who left behind these living miracles'?
Similarly, many races have spoken of spiritual teachers. In olden times a man called Jesus was said to have performed 'miracles'. They say he could walk upon water and heal the sick by the laying on of hands and stories say that in one single day he fed 5,000 people with the food from one basket. He walked among his own people and spoke of a God not of this Earth and he preached purification through love and sacri-fice, which would lead to rebirth after death, and an everlasting life. And they say that when he died he rose from the tomb and from a mountain ascended to 'heaven'.
 This was in our own year of zero, 2,000 years ago. This man Jesus was said to have been born through an 'immaculate conception' without a physical, biological 'father'. They say he was the son of God.
Five hundred years before this the Indian holy book, the Bhagava- Geeta (The Lord's Song), tells the story of a man called Krishna who claimed to represent the living God who created the universe. He too could perform miracles and spoke to\ the prodigy Arjuna, on the battle- field of Kurekshetra thus: 'Whenever spirituality decays and material- ism is rampant, then O Arjuna, I reincarnate myself...I am reborn from "age to age.. .He who realizes the divine truth concerning my birth and life is not born again; and when he leaves his body, he becomes one with me: (BG, 4:7-9)
These teachers, from 'outside', from 'somewhere else', have visited recent civilizations, bringing over and over again the super knowledge known by the Muvians, Atlanteans, Mayans and others which enabled the flowering of the great civilizations and the evidence suggests they came specifically to teach us of the higher spiritual and scientific orders."

MAGNETIC 72-36-9

FIELD 36-27-9

MAGNETIC FIELD 108-63-9

THE SUPERGODS

Maurice M Cotterell

1997

ANCIENT LANDS AND NEW REVELATIONS

Page 109

 "I have chosen to call these visitors 'Supergods', because they brought their super knowledge to mankind, and because they were not from this planet. That these visitors are 'related' became apparent while decoding the Mosaic Mask of Palenque. Was it just coincidence that the compos- ite picture of the god of the East, Xihtechutli, looked very similar to depictions of a stained glass representation of Christ? Was it just coinci-dence that the cross-legged figure covering the nose and mouth of the Christ-like face resembled the praying Buddha of India?
And why was the number 666 missing from the tomb of Lord Pacal? The book of Revelations, in the Christian Bible, tells of the revelation which appeared to St John, a disciple of Christ. It prophesies a future apocalypse and global destruction.
Few can agree on the true meaning of the undoubted allegory of the book, which is both strange and mysterious. Chapter XIII tells of a beast that rises out of the sea. The beast has seven heads and ten horns and 'upon his heads the name of blasphemy' and continues 'here is wis-dom, let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six...' (666)."

THE HOLY BIBLE

Scofield Reference

REVELATIONS

C13 V 18

"HERE IS WISDOM LET HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING COUNT THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST FOR IT IS THE NUMBER OF A MAN AND HIS NUMBER IS SIX HUNDRED THREE SCORE AND SIX"

666999999666

ST JOHN

C21 V 10

JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM BRING OF THE FISH WHICH YE HAVE NOW CAUGHT

V 11

SIMON PETER WENT UP AND DREW THE NET TO LAND FULL OF GREAT FISHES AN HUNDRED AND FIFTY AND THREE AND FOR ALL THERE WERE SO MANY YET WAS NOT THE NET BROKEN

153

1 + 5 + 3

ISISIS

9

153 x 12 = 1836

1836 divided by 34 = 54

HALL OF THE GODS

Nigel Appleby

1998

Page 322

"In John 6: 51, Jesus describes himself as 'that living bread which has come down from heaven'. As I explained earlier, the Egyptian hieroglyph for bread is identical in shape to the King's Chamber seal/boss (see figure 66).
We have already noted previously that the Grand Gallery is 153 feet in length. The number 153 has a long Christian tradition associated with the notion of enlightened souls, primarily drawn from the symbolism of 153 fish as outlined towards the end of John's Gospel. Here the disciples are told to cast their nets to the right, which they promptly do - and so catch the said 153 fish. The King's Chamber floor is exactly 153 courses of masonry below the summit platform. Years after reading about the connections of 153 within the Great Pyramid, and biblical passages that outlined the number in relation to fishing and the specific term of casting the nets to the right, I was not surprised to read almost identical symbolism within the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Pyramid rituals
The basic concept behind the ancient Egyptian initiate trying to get from this world into the next focused upon passing through 4 frontiers of the sky. This required the departed spirit to convince the guardians to grant a free passage, only granted by knowing secret words and names, which, when repeated, were guaranteed to ward off any aggressor or evil apparition. As a consequence, any person daring to venture into the underworld would require magical skills of the very highest order. In ferrying oneself across the 4 frontiers of the sky the services of a ferryman were essential, and the initiate needed to know the correct answers to the ferryman's questions in order to use his boat, which was of course a celestial boat. The knowledge required involved knowing mythology, the gods' names, and the magic of Egypt, as well as possessing mathematical and practical scientific skills. I see in these rituals a memory that the hitherto unknown pre-dynastic priests, from whom the Egyptians obtained their knowledge, were scientists, technologists and perhaps even metaphysicists."

153 x 12 Disciples = 1836 Disciples

153 x 12 inches = 1836

THE

MAGIKAL ALPHABET

1 occurs x 3 = 3

3 occurs x 1 = 3

5 occurs x 1

JESUS = 1 5 1 3 1

1 x 3 = 3

5 x 1 = 5

3 x 1 = 3

I

AM ME AND YOU

?

HOW MANY GODS ?

EIGHT AND ONE

RA - 1234 - 1234 RA

 Page 88 

"Euclidian geometries, invented by earlier mathematicians more or less as a game, provided the basis for his relativistic cosmology

Another great physicist whose thoughts moved in a similar direction was Wolfgang Pauli.

At the end of the 1932 conference on nuclear physics in Copenhagen the participants, as was their custom on these occasions, performed a skit full of that quantum humour of which we have already had a few samples. In that particular year they produced a parody of Goethe's Faust, in which Wolfgang Pauli was cast in the role of Mephistopheles; his Gretchen was the neutrino, whose existence Pauli had predicted, but which had not yet been discovered.

The scribe wondered, wondered at it all, the sheer bloody minded amazein wonder of it all.

THE

INTERNET

?

WHICH SIDE SHALL I CAST THE NET SAID THE FAR YONDER SCRIBE

CAST IT ON THE RIGHT SIDE SAID 

THE

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HALL OF THE GODS

Nigel Appleby

1998

Page 323
The Pyramid, nets and Jesus
"What also struck me in these rituals was the similarity to later Christian symbology as regards the casting of nets. In Egyptian magic one of the most important symbols is that of the net. Moreover, in Greek traditions this same net is represented by the net of Hephaestus, with which the vengeful Olympian smith ensnared his beautiful wife Aphrodite and her lover Ares, the god of war. Net symbology nearly always entails linked deities or persons and special knots for undoing the net. In Egyptian myths these two deities are Neith (known as Net) and Thoth. Wallace Budge informs us that in a group of titles, Thoth is called 'Great God in Het Abtit', or the 'Temple of Abtit', which was one of the chief sanctuaries of the god at Hermopolis. As Murry Hope points out in The Sirius Connection, Wallis Budge further states that the hieroglyphs with which the name 'Het Abtit' are written actually mean, 'House of the Net', or more precisely, 'A temple wherein a net was preserved and venerated'. According to the Book of the Dead, a dreaded net was thought to exist in the underworld, greatly feared by the dead themselves. The dying were required to know the name of every single part of it, including ropes, weights, cords, hooks and so forth. Reading this I could not help but see connections with the symbolism displayed within Masonic Lodges. Furthermore, in the Babylonian mythical battle between Marduk and Tiamat, Marduk ensnared Tiamat with his net before cutting her open. Therefore, we see that when Jesus told his disciples to cast their nets to the right and catch 153 fish, it was a continuation of ancient esoteric wisdom which connected the Great Pyramid with Jesus himself, and which included important mathematical values.
Further links between Jesus and the Great Pyramid occur in the book of Isaiah as we saw earlier. In Chapter 19, the future Messianic figure's return is described as follows: 'See how the Lord comes riding swiftly upon a clqud, he shall descend upon Egypt.' What caught my attention was the very fact that he would descend upon Egypt; why not the Holy Land? Later in the same chapter, we are informed that when that day comes, there shall be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt, and a sacred pillar set up for the Lord upon her frontier. In addition, it is stated that it shall stand as a token and a reminder to the Lord of Hosts in Egypt, so that when they appeal to him against their oppressors, he may send a deliverer to champion their cause, and he shall rescue them (Isaiah 19: 19-20).
I pointed out earlier that this passage was extraordinary as it describes exactly the site, nature and significance of the Great Pyramid itself. Please note here that the word translated as altar had' two distinct meanings for the Hebrews. It could mean either the familiar sacrificial stone or the commemorative altar of witness. In the above context, the meaning is clearly that of the commemorative altar of witness. According / Page 324 / to Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Bible,7 great heaps of stones were raised up as a witness to any form of memorable event and to preserve the remembrance of some matter of great importance, and were the most ancient of monuments among the Hebrews. Such were allegedly built by Moses, Jacob, Joshua and Gideon, to name but a few. Evidently, the Great Pyramid must be the greatest 'heap of stones' bar none. Note, too, that the second sentence uses the word 'it' to refer to both an altar and a pillar. How can a pillar look like a heap of stones? Perhaps, as Peter Lemesurier points out in The Great Pyramid Decoded,s the word for pillar is a misleading translation from the Hebrew. In Hebrew it is 'Matstsebah', which means almost any kind of monument. Intriguingly, it is linguistically very close to the Egyptian word 'mstpt' meaning 'funeral bier', and almost identical to the Arabic 'mastaba', a funerary monument."

'mastaba', a funerary monument."

HALL OF THE GODS

Nigel Appleby

1998

Page 322

Pyramid rituals
"The basic concept behind the ancient Egyptian initiate trying to get from this world into the next focused upon passing through 4 frontiers of the sky. This required the departed spirit to convince the guardians to grant a free passage, only granted by knowing secret words and names, which, when repeated, were guaranteed to ward off any aggressor or evil apparition. As a consequence, any person daring to venture into the underworld would require magical skills of the very highest order. In ferrying oneself across the 4 frontiers of the sky the services of a ferryman were essential, and the initiate needed to know the correct answers to the ferryman's questions in order to use his boat, which was of course a celestial boat. The knowledge required involved knowing mythology, the gods' names, and the magic of Egypt, as well as possessing mathematical and practical scientific skills. I see in these rituals a memory that the hitherto unknown pre-dynastic priests, from whom the Egyptians obtained their knowledge, were scientists, technologists and perhaps even metaphysicists."                                   

THE SUPERGODS

Maurice M Cotterell

1997

"Once we understood the intellectual game of the Maya, in the Temple of Inscriptions, we were invited to count. We counted firstly 11111,22222, 33333,44444,55555, 66... the number of the beast, of blasphemy, is miss-ing from the Temple of Inscriptions at Palenque. But then we began to count the beads on the necklace from the neck of Lord Pacal (see Chap-ter 4). Only when we began the count did the numbers 666 appear, not as themselves but as part of the number 13, which occurred in three sec-tions of the necklace. Then the numbers 777 and 888 appeared in the necklace and then the 9s were found elsewhere: 'Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast.'
The expression 'Let he that hath an ear, let him.hear' appears no less than eight times in Revelations, and we recall that one of the plaster heads of Lord Pacal found on the floor of the tomb had one ear missing:
'Let he that hath an ear, let him hear' (see Fig 37).
Revelations continues by telling of an angel that came to 'seal the ser-vants of God'

OF TIME AND STARS

Arthur C. Clarke

1972

Page 68

Into the Comet

"Pickett's fingers danced over the beads, sliding them up and down the wires with lightning speed. There were twelve wires in all, so that the abacus could handle numbers up to

999,999,999,999

- or could be divided into separate sections where several independent calculations could be carried out simultaneously."

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.' "

ZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZ

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

Page 397

"and his path is in the fire; and they go round about "behind him, and they go round about behind him.' "

THE SUPERGODS

Maurice M Cotterell

1997

Page110

And I saw another angel ascending from the East, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the Earth and the sea, saying 'Hurt not the Earth, nei-ther the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads: And I saw the number of them which were sealed; and there were sealed an hundred and forty, and four thousand of all the tribes of the childrel} of Israel. (Rev VII 3,4)
It goes on, 'And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the Earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not the seal of God on their foreheads...' (Rev IX, 4).
Look again at The Physical Death of Lord Pacal, Scene 4 (Fig 49 below). Look again at his forehead, and count the number sealed: 144,000.
Like all composites, the picture is made up of two halves which are 'reflected' either side of the centre line of the drawing. It is therefore not possible to show the number 144,000 from left to right and again (the mirror image) from right to left. To overcome this, 1440 is written from left to right. The mirror image of 1440 can be seen from right to left. The missing two zeros (in Mayan notation, an oval embellished with three lines) are shown above this number.
It seems that the man in the tomb at Palenque had much in common with the other Supergods - Jesus, Krishna and Buddha - and that he brought the same message and the same super-knowledge which has powerfully influenced the intellectual ascent of man since time began."

THE SUPERGODS

Maurice M Cotterell

1997

Page 118

"Sacrifice at first appears as penance, difficult and tortuous, attracting few followers. In the Hindu holy book, the Bhagava-Geeta, the teacher Lord Krishna supports this view saying:

Hear further the three kinds of pleasure. That which increases day after day and delivers one from misery, which at first seems like poison, but afterwards acts like nectar - that pleasure is pure, for it is born of wis-dom. That which is at first like nectar, because the senses revel in their objects, but in the end acts like poison - that pleasure arises from pas-sion. While the pleasure which from first to last merely drugs the senses, which springs from indolence, lethargy and folly - that pleasure flows from ignorance. (BG, 18:36-9)

(BG, 18:36-9)

HARMONIZED

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THE STUDENT'S ASSISTANT

IN

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY

: CONTAINING

OBSERVATIONS ON THE REAL AND APPARENT MOTIONS OF THE
SUPERIOR PLANET8.-THE GEOCENTRIC LONGITUDE OF THE
SUN AND SUPERIOR PLANETS,
CALCULATED FOR 44 YEARS TO COME.
Geocentric Longitude of the Planet Herschel for 100 years during the 18th Century. The Moon's Node on the first day of
every month, from 1836 to 1880. Heliocentric
and Geocentric Longitude of all the
f
PLANETS' ASCENDING AND DESCENDING
NODES
LONGITUDE, LATITUDE, AND MAGNITUDE OF ONE HUNDRED AND
FORTY-FOUR FIXED STARS, FOR PAST AND FUTURE YEARS.
Eclipses of the Sun visible in England.
ALSO
A DISCOURSE ON THE HARMONY OF
PHRENOLOGY, ASTROLOGY, AND PHYSIOGNOMY.
BY J.T. HACKET.
LONDON:
BRAY AND KING, 55, ST. MARTIN'S LANE,
AND E. GRATTAN, 51, PATERNOSTER ROW.
Milton Press J. Nichols, 9, Chandos Street. Strand.

PREFACE

"A work of this kind may not be so amusing to some individuals as a pleasing romance; yet it is hoped will prove to the Astronomical Stu-dent and learner, gratifying and instructive. At the request of a select number of students, the present laborious calculations were made, in order to give others and themselves an opportu-nity of more perfectly understanding the appa-rent motions of the superior Planetary bodies herein mentioned, together with an illustration of the various phenomena the above planets present to us, the observers on this Earth, caused by the revolution of the planets and the earth, around the Sun, as the centre and great point of attraction tion to the Solar System. I have given a correct Table of the longitude and latitude of 144 fixed stars, calculated up to 1836,..."

Page 9 (number omitted)

INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY.

"THIS Introduction is merely intended to con-vey a sufficient idea to those who are not already acquainted with the solar system, the propor-tional distances of the Planets' orbits from the Sun, and the Earth, together with the apparent motions of the superior planets, as viewed from this Earth, called their geocentric places or motions. The path of the Planets or circles which their orbits describe in the heavens, is called the Zodiac. Suppose it a belt 20° wide with the Ecliptic, orbit, or path of the Earth in the centre thereof; in as much as a planet's orbit differs from the exact plane of the Ecliptic, or orbit ,of the Earth, so much is the planet's latitude in degrees and minutes; the points where these imaginary circles intersect the Ecliptic, are cal!ed the nodes: The ascend-ing node is that point which the planet enters / Page 10 / for north latitude, the opposite is the descending node for south latitude. The Zodiac is divided into 12 Constellations, called signs, each sign divided into 30 degrees, each degree into minutes and seconds."

HARMONIC 288

Bruce Cathie 1977

THE ATOMIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS AS A HARMONIC SERIES

Page 54

"NATURAL LAW IS NOT ERRATIC. The universe does not rely on chance to manifest within itself the physical substance which we perceive, and call reality. A very strict and ordered system of mathematical progressions is necessary to create the smallest speck of matter from the primeval matrix of space.
During my years of research into the complexities of the earth grid system I have gradually built up a picture in my mind of the possible geometric combinations necessary to form matter from resonating, interlocking wave-forms. My limited abilities in the various academic fields have made this task a taxing one at times, but I think I have discovered how to apply the original values, published in my first two books, in a practical mathematical sense, to build up a model which 'demonstrates the harmonic formation of matter.
This model indicates to me that the number of individual elements to be found in the universe will be 144. Each of these elements will have, in theory, six isotopes, which will make up a completed table of separate substances numbering 1008. An isotope is an atom of the same element which has a different nuclear mass and atomic weight.
Mathematically, the progression would create 144 octaves of separate substances giving a theoretical value of 1152. The differen~ between the total number of substances (1008) and the harmonic value in octaves (1152) would be 144, the light harmonic. The table of elements, in octaves, would create a cycle which would be in perfect resonance with the harmonic circumference of every atom from which it is constituted. It will be demonstrated that the harmonic circumference of every atom is 1152 units.
 The harmonic values which create the geometric structure of matter can all be derived from the basic harmonic of the speed of light, 144. I have shown in Chapter Four how all the spherical / Page 54 / bodies in the universe are precipitated from space by resonances tuned to the reciprocal harmonic of light (6944). This applies to an atom and to the largest of planetary bodies, as the geometric harmonic diameter of any sized sphere has a constant harmonic affinity with the light reciprocal.
Once the precipitation of physical matter has occurred, the buildup of the substances we know as the elements takes place, according to a very well-ordered mathematical sequence. Light- waves, guided seemingly by superior intelligence, form intricate interlocking grid patterns which graduate from the simple to the more complex, as the elements from hydrogen, at the l°v:'er end of the scale, to element 144, come into being.
When we think of reality we must think of mass in relation to any physical manifestation, and the smallest particle of physical matter that we are aware of is the electron. Therefore, electron mass must be the starting point in our quest for a feasible theory to explain the structure of matter. The physics books give the best experimental value for rest mass of 9.11 x 10-31 kg for the electron, (9.2 x 10-31 in some physics books) and all modern- day calculations for mass and energy have a relationship relative
to this figure. To form the basis for a harmonic series we must , find a mass number for the electron which can be derived directly! from the harmonic of light, 144.
The mathematical analysis I carried out on the Great Pyramid, gave me the first clues upon which to base a unit for electron
mass that would show connecting relationships throughout the atomic scale. The theoretical figure proved to be 9.24184 units.
This was a fairly close approximation to the harmonic equiva-lent of 9.11 found by scientific experiment. A difference of 1.426 per cent.'
To form an atomic structure, the electron mass unit must have some sort of constant mass ratio in relation to the protons which form the nucleus of an atom. Most textbooks give an experi- mental value for this ratio of 1836 units. I found again from my work on the Pyramid that the most likely true value was 1833.464944 units. This turned out to be the theoretical length of the Grand Gallery in geodetic inches, and indicated to me that the Gallery was in fact constructed as a wave guide, tuned to light harmonics." 

Page 95

"The value that I calculated for length was extremely close to that of the one published in Davidson and Aldersmith's book their value being 1836 inches, and my theoretical value 1833.46 geodetic inches..."

"...A search of my physics books revealed that 1836 was the closest approximation the scientists have calculated to the mass / Page 96 (Diagram 15 omitted)Page 97 /ratio of the positive hydrogen ion, i.e. the proton to the electron."

Page 86

"A further interesting comment was found in the preface to the third edition of Davidson and Aldersmith's book on the Great Pyramid. The religious symbolism of the displacement factor (the "hollowing-in" of the sides of the pyramid during construc- tion) was discussed as follows: "This aspect of the structural allegory throws a flood of light upon an element of the scriptural allegory that clearly refers to the completion of 'all the building'
. . . 'unto the measure of the fullness of the stature', required by the design. This concerns the symbolic '144000 . . . redeemed
from among men. . . without fault before the throne of God'
(Rev XIV, 1':'5); 'Living stones' . . . without flaw for the perfect casing."
It is the symbolic 144000 that appears to have great signifi-cance in the ancient writings and it is interesting to note that this particular value has been connected in some way by other researchers to the enigma of the Great Pyramid. Considering that the angular velocity of light value in grid seconds is also 144000, as postulated in other sections of this book, it is obvious to me that the structure is in fact a measure of light, and by applying this value it should be possible to solve the mathemati-cal puzzle which has been handed down to us."

HARMONIC 288

Bruce Cathie

EIGHT

Page 80

THE MEASURE OF LIGHT

" THE OBELISK RISING majestically from the sandswept plain has been visible to man for many centuries. Its massive bulk and geometric simplicity of shape have caused wonder and endless speculation to countless generations of wise men throughout history. The meaning, or reason, for such a structure has been lost and those responsible for the building of an edifice such as this must have been in possession of extremely advanced scientific knowledge. Were they an advanced race of this world who destroyed themselves by unwise manipulation of their own scientific achievement? Or, so-called gods? Or, people from other worlds who left amongst us an almost indestructible repository of advanced knowledge in the mathematical com-plexities of the universe?
The obelisk I speak of is not the cold, black, forbidding obelisk depicted in Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001, but a pyramid of shining splendour built on a rocky mile-square plateau ten miles west of Cairo, The plateau is known as Giza; the pyramidal structure of an estimated two-and-a-half million blocks of granite and limestone, is the

"Great Pyramid of Cheops",

Page 95

"The value that I calculated for length was extremely close to that of the one published in Davidson and Aldersmith's book, their value being 1836 inches, and my theoretical value 1833.46 geodetic inches.
A considerable amount of time was required to calculate a satisfactory value for the length of the Gallery. I eventually found that the amount of hollowing-in at the base provided the clue. If 57.6 (the amount in inches by which the base is inset) is I divided by pi or 3.1415927, the resulting value is 18.334649. The harmonic equivalent of 1833.46 when applied to Gallery length would ensure that the wave - forms set up in the cavity were finely tuned to light frequencies.
A search of my physics books revealed that 1836 was the closest approximation the scientists have calculated to the mass / Page 96 (Diagram omitted)) / Page 97 / ratio of the positive hydrogen ion, i.e. the proton, to the electron. tf we dare to assume that the value, of 1833.46 is the true geometric ratio then the wave-forms in the Gallery will also have a harmonic affinity with the structure of the atom, the building block of the universe itself. Pressing on with this train of thought I again consulted a book on atomic physics and found that the mass of the electron is given as 9.2 x 10-31 kilo- grammes. I believe that, according to the clues presented by the Pyramid, the true value of electron mass, in the harmonic sense, could be taken as a standard of 9.24184 x 10-31 kilo- grammes."

MINDOTHDREAMWHATDOTHMINMEAN

TUTANKHAMEN

Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt 1963

Page118

"...The God Min"

Page 109

"His barge, too, was called Splendour of Aten"

Page 83

"SPLENDOUR OF ATEN"

SPLENDOUR OF A TEN

A THOUGHT O THE SPLENDOUR OF AN OUGHT

THE SPLENDOUR THAT WAS EGYPT

Margaret A Murray 1951

Page 164

"In many countries the Divine King was allowed to reign for a term of years only, usually seven or nine or multiples of those numbers"

"SEVEN OR NINE OR MULTIPLES OF THOSE NUMBERS"

TUTANKHAMEN

Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt 1963

Page177

"The red oxen had been left behind; now the "Nine Friends" and the two viziers-of the North and South- drew the ropes attached to the bier behind which followed a last high dignitary of the royal procession."

Page158 (Chapter 7) 1343

The death of the king and preparations for immortality

"Analysis of his mummy shows that Tutankhamen was between eighteen and twenty years old when he died. This allows one to set the approximate date of his coronation in his ninth year, since there is no date mentioned in connexion with him after year 9 which appears on wine jars found in his tomb."

THE BULL OF MINOS

Leonard Cottrell 1953

Chapter VII

Page 90

THE QUEST CONTINUES

"OUT IN THE DARK BLUE SEA THERE LIES A LAND CALLED CRETE, A RICH AND LOVELY LAND, WASHED BY THE WAVES ON EVERY SIDE, DENSELY PEOPLED AND BOASTING NINETY CITIES. . . 

ONE OF THE NINETY TOWNS IS A GREAT CITY CALLED KNOSSOS, AND THERE FOR NINE YEARS, KING MINOS RULED AND ENJOYED THE FRIENDSHIP OF ALMIGHTY ZEUS

JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS

Thomas Mann

1875 - 1955

Page 968

"But we are speaking of two different things. My Majesty speaks of the fetters which the teaching puts upon the thoughts of God; yours refers to priestly statecraft, which divides teaching and knowledge. But Pharaoh would not be arrogant, and there is no greater arrogance than such a division. No, there is no arrogance in the world greater than that of dividing the children of our Father into initiate and uninitiate and teaching double words: all-knowingly for the masses, knowingly in the inner circle. No, we must speak what we know, and witness what we have seen. Pharaoh wants to do nothing but improve the teaching, even though it be made hard for him by the teaching No, we must speak what we know, and witness what we have seen. Pharaoh wants to do nothing but improve the teaching, even though it be made hard for him by the teaching. And still it has been said to me: 'Call me not Aton, for that is in need of improvement. Call me the Lord of the Aton!' But I, through keeping silent, forgot. See now what the Father does for his beloved son! He sends him a mes-senger and dream-interpreter, who shows him his dreams, dreams from below and dreams from above, dreams important for the realm and for heaven; that he should awake in him what he already knows, and interpret what was already said to him. Yes, how loveth the Father his child the King who came forth out of him, that he sends down a soothsayer to him, to whom from long ages has been handed down the teaching that it profits man to press on towards the last and highest!" ; "To my knowledge," Tiy coldly remarked, "your soothsayer came up from below, out of a dungeon, and not from above."

"Ah, in my opinion that is sheer mischief, that he came from be-low," cried Amenhotep. "And besides, above and below mean not much to the Father, who when he goes down makes the lower the upper, for where he shines, there is the upper world. From which it comes that his messengers interpret dreams from above and below with equal skill. Go on, soothsayer! Did I say stop? If I did, I meant go on! That wanderer out of the East, from whom you spring, did you not stop at the sun, but pressed on above it?"

"Yes, in spirit," answered Joseph smiling. "For in the flesh he was but a worm on this earth, weaker than most of those above and below him. And still he refused to bow and to worship, even before one of these phenomena, for they were but witness and work, as he himself was. All being, he said, is a work of the highest, and before the being is the spirit of whom it bears witness. How could I commit so great a folly and bum incense to a witness, be it never so weighty - I, who am consciously a witness, whereas the others simply are and know it not? Is there not something in me of Him, for which all being is but evidence of the being of the Being which is greater than His works and is outside them? It is outside the world, and though it is the compass of the world, yet is the world not its compass. .Far is the sun, surely three hundred and sixty thousand miles away, and yet ./ Page 969 / his rays are here. But He who shows the sun the way hither is further than far, yet near in the same measure, nearer than near. Near or far is all the same to Him, for He has no space nor any time; and though the world is in Him, He is not in the world at all, but in heaven. "

"Did you hear that, Mama? " asked Amenhotep in a small voice, tears in his eyes. "Did you hear the message which my heavenly Father sends me through this young man, in whom I straightway saw something, as he came in, and who interprets to me my dreams? I will only say that I have not said all that was said to me in my seizure, and, keeping silent, forgot it. But when I heard: 'Call me not Aton, but rather the Lord of the Aton,' then I heard also this: 'Call on me not as "my Father above," for that is of the sun in the

sky; it must needs be changed, to say: "My Father who art in heaven" !' So heard I and shut it up within me, because I was anxious over the truth for the sake of the teaching. But he whom I took out of the prison, he opens the prison of truth that she may come forth

, in beauty and light; and teaching and truth shall embrace each other, even as I embrace him."

And with wet eyelashes he worked himself up out of his sunken seat, embraced Joseph, and kissed him.

"Yes, yes!" he cried: He began to hurry once more up and down the Cretan loggia, to the bee-portieres, to the windows and back, his hands pressed to his heart. "Yes, yes, who art in heaven, fur- ther than far and nearer than near, the Being of beings, that looks not into death, that does'not become and die but is, the abiding light, that neither rises nor sets, the unchanging source, out of which stream all life, light, beauty, and truth-that is the Father, so reveals He Himself to Pharaoh His son, who lies in His bosom and to whom He shows all that He has made. For He has made all, and His love is in the world, and the world knows Him not. But Pharaoh is His witness and bears witness to His light and His love, that through Him all men may become blessed and may believe, even though now they still love the darkness more than the light that shines in it. For they under- stand it not, therefore are their deeds evil. But the son, who came from the Father, will teach it to them. Golden spirit is the light, father-spirit; out of the mother-depths below power strives upward to it, to be purified in its flame and become spirit in the Father. Im-material is God, like His sunshine, spirit is He, and Pharaoh teaches you to worship Him in spirit and in truth. For the son knoweth the Father~s the Father knoweth him, and will royally reward all those who love Him and keep His commandments -he will make them great and gilded at court because they love the Father in the son who came out of Him. For my words are not mine, but the words of my Father who sent me, that all might become one in light and love, even as I and the Father are one. . ."

THE HE AZIN SHE THAT IZ THE ONE GOD

BEYOND THE JUPITER EFFECT

John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann

Page 87

"Yet for Numerologists the change from

999 to 1000

is much more impressive than the change from

1999 to 2000.

"YET FOR NUMEROLOGISTS THE CHANGE FROM

999 TO 1000

IS MUCH MORE IMPRESSIVE THAN THE CHANGE FROM

1999 TO 1000

ANGELSANGLESANGELS

FROM THE ASHES OF ANGELS

Andrew Collins 1996

Page 13

THE SEARCH FOR THE SOURCE

The Antediluvian Pillars

Enoch had many associations with early modern Freemasonry, or speculative Masonry as it is known. According to one legend,7 Enoch, with foreknowledge of the coming Deluge, constructed, with the help of his son Methuselah, nine hidden vaults, each stacked one on top of the other. In the lowest of these he de-posited a gold triangular tablet (a 'white oriental porphyry stone' in one version) bearing the Ineffable Name, the unspoken name of the Hebrew God, while a second tablet, inscribed with strange words Enoch had gained from the angels themselves, was given into the safe-keeping of his son. The vaults were then sealed, and upon the spot Enoch had two indestructible columns constructed - one of marble, so that it might 'never burn', and the other of Latcrus, or brick, so that it might 'not sink in water,.8
On the brick column were inscribed the 'seven sciences' of man-kind, the so-called 'archives' of Masonry, while on the marble column he 'placed an inscription stating that a short distance away a priceless treasure would be found in a subterranean vault'.9 Enoch then retired to Mount Moriah, traditionally equated with the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where he was 'translated' to 'heaven. In time, King Solomon uncovered the hidden vaults while con-structing his legendary temple and learned of their divine secrets. Memory of these two ancient pillars of Enoch was preserved by the Freemasons, who set up representations of them in their lodges. Known as the Antediluvian PiUars, or Enoch's Pillars, they were eventually replaced by representations of the two huge columns named 'Jachin' and 'Boaz', said to have stood on each side of the entrance porch to Solomon's Temple.'
What exactly the nine hidden vaults constructed by Enoch were meant to represent is completely unknown. They might well refer to the nine levels of mystical initiation contained in the hidden teachings of the Kabbalah, accepted among the Dead Sea communities. On the other hand, perhaps the legends of the hidden vaults referred to actual underground chambers located  / Page 14 / somewhere in the Holy Land and constructed to hide sacred objects of importance to the future of mankind.

Walked with God

The patriarch Enoch's legendary status among both Jewish mystics and modern-day Freemasons stems from a very strange assump- tion. In the Bible, Chapter 5 of Genesis contains a genealogical list- ing of the ten antediluvian patriarchs, from Adam down to Noah. In each case it gives only their names, their age when they 'begat' their first son, and the age at which they died, with one notable exception - Enoch. In his case, he is twice said to have 'walked with God', an obscure statement elaborated only in the second instance with the enigmatic words: 'and he was not, for God took him'." Whatever the writer of Genesis had been attempting to convey by these words, they were taken to mean that Enoch did not die like the other patriarchs, but was instead 'translated' to heaven with the aid of God's angels. According to the Bible, only the prophet Elijah had been taken by God in a similar manner, so Enoch (whose name means 'initiated') had always been accorded a very special place in Judaeo-Christian literature. Indeed, Hebrew mysticism asserts that on his 'translation' to heaven Enoch was transformed into the angel Metatron.'Z
  What does it mean: 'translated to heaven'? As we know, people are not carried off to heaven by angels while still living their life on earth. Either these words are metaphorical or else they need drastic reappraisal. Might Enoch have been simply taken away from his people by visitors from another land who were looked upon as angels by the rest of the community? And where was heaven,
anyway? We know it is deemed to be a place 'in the'clouds', but did this literally mean somewhere beyond the physical world in which we live?."

"Once in this place called heaven, Enoch would appear to have made enemies immediately, for according to one Hebrew legend, an angel named Azza was expelled from Paradise - the alternative name for the heavenly domain - for objecting 'to the high rank given to Enoch' when he was transformed into Metatron.'3"

KABBALAH

11 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 8 = 38 3+8 = 11 1 +1 = 2

KABBALAH

2 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 8 = 20 2 + 0 = 2

1 x 2 = 2

2 x 3 = 6

3 x 1 = 3

8 x 1 = 8

KING SOLOMON 144-54-9

IONS - SNOI

ZIONS SNOIZ

HINOSXZ ZXSONIH

HORIZONS SNOZIROH

HORUS IONS SNOI SUROH

EARTHLIGHTS

Towards an Understanding of the UFO Enigma

Paul Devereux1982

THE SECRET SIDE OF NATURE

Page 94

"An air ion is created when an atom in the atmosphere gains an electron (becoming a negative ion) or loses one (becoming a positive ion). Most atoms in the air are electric-ally balanced-neutral-unless charged in these ways. The process whereby electrons are 'broken off' atmospheric atoms and float free before becoming attracted to other, neutral atoms is called ionization. Ions are the means by which electric charge is distributed in the atmosphere. The process can be generated by various forms of cosmic bombardment, geological radiations and meteorological phenomena such as thunderstorms. A waterfall and other examples of running water are also good generators of ionization. Negative ions have a beneficial effect on humans; with 'healthy' or 'bracing' locations such as mount- ainous and coastal regions being usually relatively rich in negative ions. Negative ions seem able to help relieve certain ailments such as hay fever, asthma and some allergies. Positive ions, on the contrary, seem to aggravate some disorders and lead to irritability and an unsettled frame of mind. Puharich has carried out experiments which show that an environment with an excess of negative ions provides more favourable conditions for the performance of at least some forms of ESP activity. Puharich points out that an ancient magical text, The Key of Solomon, instructs that calm weather is required for certain magical acts, and dowsers have noted their ability to divine water or minerals is adversely affected in poor or thundery conditions. On clear, bright days ions tend to be more highly concentrated than in unsettled weather conditions. The burning of fires also produces ions (of both charges), which can augment the preponderant electrical conditions of a given environment. Thus the use of ritual fires in conditions suitable for ESP performances, such as shamanistic rituals, could add their negative ions to enhance the suitable electrical conditions.
So it would appear that lunar and ionization effects can alter mental states. On the grand scale, there is evidence to indicate that the Moon may somehow influence the incoming rate of meteors into the upper atmosphere, which in turn may affect the production of rain in the lower atmosphere.
But whatever scale we look at, it is clear even from this glimpse at the secret processes of Nature that behind the more obvious effects of our terrestrial environment there are fantastic, wheeling forces acting on or interacting with many processes taking place on our planet, sometimes directly and / Page 95 / sometimes by devious routes that are hard to pin down. We can assemble a necessarily crude picture of Earth being buffeted by all manner of cosmic forces, emanating from Sun, Moon and planets and perhaps from sources far out in interstellar- perhaps even intergalactic-space that affect its atmosphere, its electromagnetic processes, its geology and its inhabitants. The Earth itself responds to these influences and puts out changes of electromagnetic fields which in turn add further inputs for the atmosphere and organic life to respond to.
It is entirely wrong for science to consider that the study of the Earth can be divided into disciplines such as geology, biology,
meteorology, astronomy, and all the rest. The Earth is one whole, living system: aspects of its cosmic environment impinge upon it, and effects in the terrestrial geology create further effects in its meteorology. Changes in its magnetic envelope can funnel further influences back to its geology. The whole system, as it were, resonates. All these forces and reactions play back and forth, creating responses, changes and echoes in all terres- trial structures and processes, from the most dense to the most subtle.
Perhaps the chief battlefield in this gigantic interplay of forces is the Earth's atmosphere, as it is the buffer zone between outer space and the dense surface of the Earth. If this great hinterland of cosmic and global physics manifests any anomalous effects anywhere it is probably in the atmosphere that they are most likely to appear. I consider that the objective component of UFO events is likely to be one such effect, but there are many others that may belong to the same general 'family' of phenomena, even if some are distant relatives.
Possibly amongst the most commonly reported atmospheric effects about which virtually nothing is known are those labelled 'earthquake lights'. These are curious luminous phenomena sometimes observed in the skies near or adjacent to areas of seismic activity. They can appear as 'slow sheet lightning' or as auroral beams, streamers or columns, sometimes as in- dividuallights. Just before the 1957 earthquake in England, epi-centred on Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, for example, people in several counties reported seeing lines of 'tadpole- shaped' lights in the sky10 During the Japanese Idu Peninsula earthquake of 1930 a straight row of round masses of light was seen11"

THE AGE OF FABLE

Thomas Bullfinch

1994

Page 353/4

"Pythagorus considered numbers as the essence and / principle of all things, and attributed to them a real and distinct existence; so that, in his view, they were the elements out of which the universe was constructed. How he conceived this process has never been satis-factorily explained. He traced the various forms and phenomena of the world to numbers as their basis and essence. The" Monad" or unit he regarded as the source of all numbers. The number Two was imper-fect, and the cause of increase and division. Three was called the number of the whole because it had a beginning, middle, and end. Four, representing the square, is in the highest degree perfect; and Ten, as it contains the sum of the four prime numbers, comprehends all musical and arithmetical proportions, and denotes the system of the world.
As the numbers proceed from the monad, so he re-garded the pure and simple essence of the Deity as the source of all the forms of nature. Gods, demons, and heroes are emanations of the Supreme, and there is a fourth emanation, the human soul. This is im- mortal, and when freed from the fetters of the body passes to the habitation of the dead, where it remains till it returns to the world, to dwell in some other human or animal body, and at last, when sufficiently purified, it returns to the source from which it pro-ceeded. This doctrine of the transmigration of souls (metempsychosis), which was originally Egyptian and connected with the doctrine of reward and punishment of human actions, was the chief cause why the Pytha-goreans killed no animals. Ovid represents Pythagoras addressing his disciples in these words: "Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another".

PYTHAGORUS '

TROUSERS

GOD PHYSICS AND THE GENDER WARS

Margaret Wertheim 1996

Introduction

Page 9 First 16 lines.

1. "...tainly isn't); I only wish to represent the historical fact that until

 2. the late nineteenth century, with only a few rare exceptions, physi-

3. cists were men. Until that time, women were almost entirely absent

4. from the enterprise of mathematically based science. Indeed, phys-

5. ics remains an overwhelmingly male activity. According to the

6. American Institute of Physics, in the United States today, women

7. constitute only 9 percent of the total physics work force and only 3

8. percent of full physics professors. Yet according to the Bureau of

9. Labor Statistics, in 1990 (the last year for which figures are avail-

10. able), women constituted 41 percent of biological and life scien-

11. tists, 27 percent of chemists, and 36 percent of all mathematicians,

12. statisticians, and computer scientists. In the last half-century

13. women have made tremendous strides in the social and biological

14. sciences, and even in chemistry and mathematics, yet they remain

15. chronically underrepresented in physics..."

PYTHAGORUS' TROUSERS

GOD PHYSICS AND THE GENDER WARS

Margaret Wertheim 1996

Page 9 (continues)

Again, I propose that an important part of the explanation for this inequity is to be found in the religious origins and con-tinuing religious currents in contemporary physics. The struggle women have faced to gain entry into science parallels the strug- gle they have faced to gain entry into the clergy. On the one hand, women have had to fight for the right to interpret the books of Scripture, and on the other hand, for the right to in-terpret what was traditionally regarded as God's "other book"- Nature. Yet just as women are now breaking into most denomi- nations of the Christian clergy, except Roman Catholicism, so they are now breaking into most denominations of the "church scientific," except physics. Physics is thus the Catholic Church of science. This analogy is not merely a colorful metaphor, for physics is the science whose roots are most deeply entwined with religion. As the most orthodox denomination of the "church scientific," it too will be the last to accede to female incursion.
The association between religion and mathematically based sci-ence has its origins deep in the mists of history. It goes back to the very dawn of Western culture in sixth-century B.C. Greece. At this seminal time, when the Greeks were turning away from the mytho- logical world picture immortalized by Homer and Hesiod, the Io-nian philosopher Pythagoras of Samos pioneered a worldview in / Page 10 / which mathematics was seen as the key to reality. In place of the mythological drama of the Olympian gods, Pythagoras painted a picture in which the universe was conceived as a great musical instrument resonating with divine mathematical harmonies. It is a vision that has inspired mystics, theologians, and physicists ever since. As Albert Einstein once declared: "The longing to behold harmony is the source of the inexhaustible patience and persever- ance with which [the physicist] devote[s] himself." But to Pythag-oras and his followers, mathematics was the key not simply to the physical world, but more importantly to the spiritual world-for they believed that numbers were literally gods. By contemplating numbers and their relationships, the Pythagoreans sought union with the "divine." For them, mathematics was first and foremost a religious activity."

THE AGE OF FABLE

Thomas Bullfinch

1994

Page 358

Egyptian Deities

"The ancient Egyptians believed in a supreme Being as far back in their history as knowledge extends. From very early times they worshipped the Hidden One, and it was from the various attributes of this god that all his successors in Egypt originated. His chief temple was at Thebes, where he was first worshipped under his distinctive name of Amen. The conception which the Egyptians had formed of him may be seen in the following lines from a hymn which was sung daily in this temple:

God is one and Alone, the Maker of all His creatures.
From endless time hath He been, and shall be henceforth and for ever.
Unknown of Gods and of men, Mysterious, Incomprehensible.
God is Truth, and on Truth doth He live; King of Truth divine is He.
God is Life; and man liveth through Him, the Primeval, alone.

The worship of Ra, the Sun-God, originated at Heliopolis, in the Delta. He was the Apollo of Egypt, but instead of using a chariot he travelled over the heavens in a boat known as "Millions of Years." Each morning he started in the East, after having over-come the powers of darkness, and at: sunset he disap-peared into the Underworld. Throughout the day he noted all that was done on earth, and from his glorious presence shed the energizing power of light and heat. Through the long night-watches the boat sailed along a fearful stream, and Ra carried with him the souls of / Page 359 / those who had died during the day) while he strove with resistless might against the enemies who endeavoured to resist his passage. Eventually Amen incorporated the attributes of Ra with his own and became known as Amen-Ra.
Next to these gods) Osiris the Moon-God was most widely worshipped. He was Judge of the Dead) and every night pronounced judgment upon those brought to his halls by Ra. The hearts of the dead were weighed in a great balance and the god Thoth recorded the result. Isis) the spouse of Osiris) was also his sister. Of this sacred couple a story is told which is the most interesting of all the myths of Egypt; a brief out-line of this is given in the following pages. Isis was the patron goddess of women) and presided over child-birth.
The other gods of Egypt are very numerous. They owe their separate existences to the priests) who repre-sented the different attributes of the Hidden One as different deities. In this way they found it easier to make their explanations to the common people; but nevertheless these were not able to fully comprehend their own religion. Space does not permit of the mention of more than the following:
Set) the brother of Osiris) was the chief power of evil. In the myth to which we have just referred he was finally defeated by Horus) the son of Osiris and Isis, and Horus became in Egyptian mythology the saviour of mankind. Anubis) whose parentage was doubtful) and who) according to some) was the son of Osiris and Nephthys) or to others of Set and Nephthys) or, again) of Osiris and Isis, was conductor of the dead to the kingdom of Osiris) and) later) presided over mummification. Nephthys) the sister of Isis) was also a deity of the dead."

THE SPLENDOUR THAT WAS EGYPT

Margaret A. Murray 1951

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"The underlying basic religion and the three great challenges in creed and ritual affected one another. New ideas of God and of the relation between God and man were evolved by the clash or combination of the varying forms of religion, and this growth from a primitive and savage cult to the highest religious ideals can be best studied in the i worship and ritual of Osiris.-
The cult of Osiris is also the most important of all the Egyptian cults because it belonged to all classes from the highest to the lowest. It is perhaps the most perfect example of that belief which is found in so many countries, viz. that God is incarnate in man, which belief is usually accompanied by the rite of killing the Divine Man.
The chosen man is almost invariably the king. In him dwells the Spirit of God, and he thus becomes God Incarnate. The indwelling Spirit is that of the Creator, the Giver of Life, and to the Incarnate God was therefore ascribed the power to give fertility to his people and land. In the eyes of his subjects the king was actually God.'" The appeal of such a belief is obvious, God Himself living and moving among His people, visible to their eyes, a man amongst men but at the same time possessing the mystic and mighty power of God. With this belief there went another belief, which to the primitive mind was the logical corollary. The Spirit was not necessarily im-mortal, any more than the body in which it was incarnate; nor was it exempt from the failure of the bodily powers which come with age. If the Divine Man grew old and became weaker, the Spirit within him also grew weaker; if the Divine Man died a natural death or was accidentally killed, the Spirit shared the same fate. If the Creator Spirit, the Force of reproduction, were dead, what.could happen to the worshippers but death and destruction: they themselves and all their belongings were doomed. To prevent so disastrous a fate, some means had to be devised for removing the Spirit from its ageing home and housing it in a younger, stronger body. The only way by which the Divine Spirit could be removed was by the death of the man in whom it was incarnate; and as he could not be allowed to die a natural death, he had to be killed. This had to be done with every kind of precaution, every kind of religious ceremony, for it was equivalent to killing a god. It follows then that while the king was young and active he was sacrosanct, not a finger might be raised against him, and his subjects, literally his worshippers, were ready to die in his defence; but when he showed any sign of age and his time had come, not.a finger could be raised to save him.
In many countries the Divine King was allowed to reign for a term of years only, usually seven or nine or multiples of those numbers.
* See Wainwright, The Sky Religion in Egypt.

THE AGE OF FABLE

Thomas Bullfinch

1994

Page 360

Myth of Osiris and Isis

Osiris and Isis were at one time induced to descend to the earth to bestow gifts and blessings on its inhabitants. Isis showed them first the use of wheat and barley, and Osiris made the instruments of agri- culture and taught men the use of them, as well as how to harness the ox to the plough. He then gave men laws, the institution of marriage, a civil organiza- tion, and taught them how to worship the gods. After he had thus made the valley of the Nile a happy country, he assembled a host with which he went to bestow his blessings upon the rest of the world. He conquered the nations everywhere, but not with weapons, only with music and eloquence. His brother Typhon saw this, and filled with envy and malice sought during his absence to usurp his throne. But Isis, who held the reins of government, frustrated his plans. Still more embittered, he now resolved to kill his brother. This he did in the following manner: Having organized a conspiracy of seventy - two members, he went with them to the feast which was celebrated in honour of the king's return. He then caused a box or chest to be brought in, which had been made to fit exactly the size of Osiris, and declared,that he would give that chest of precious wood to whoso-ever could get into it. The rest tried in vain, but no sooner was Osiris in it than Typhon and his com- panions closed the lid and flung the chest into the Nile. When Isis heard of the cruel murder she wept and mourned, and then with her hair shorn, clothed in black and beating her breast, she sought diligently for the body of her husband. In this search she was materially assisted by Anubis, the son of Osiris and Nephthys. They sought in vain for some time; for Page361/ when the chest, carried by the waves to the shores of Byblos, had become entangled in the reeds that grew at the edge of the water, the divine power that dwelt in the body of Osiris imparted such strength to the shrub that it grew into a mighty tree, enclosing in its trunk the coffin of the god. This tree with its sacred deposit was shortly after felled, and erected as a column in the palace of the king of Phrenicia. But at length, by the aid of Anubis and the sacred birds, Isis ascer-tained these facts, and then went to the royal city. There she offered herself at the palace as a servant, and, being admitted, threw off her disguise and appeared as the goddess, surrounded with thunder and lightning. Striking the column with her wand, she caused it to split open and give up the sacred coffin. This she seized and returned with it, and concealed it .in the depth of a forest, but Typhon discovered it, and cutting the body into fourteen pieces scattered them hither and thither. After a tedious search Isis found thirteen pieces, the fishes of the Nile having eaten the other. This she replaced by an imitation of sycamore wood, and buried the body at Philoe, which became ever after the great burying-place of the nation, and the spot to which pilgrimages were made from all parts of the country. A temple of surpassing magnificence was also erected there in honour of the god, and at every place where one of his limbs had been found minor temples and tombs were built to commemorate the event. Osiris became after that the tutelar deity of the Egyptians. His soul was supposed always to inhabit the body of the bull Apis, and at his death to transfer itself to his successor.

72 x 14 = 1008 1 + 8 = 9

72 x 13 = 936

13 + 14 = 27

JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS

Thomas Mann

1875 - 1955

Page 890 8 x 9 = 72

 "In all there were two-and-seventy conspirators privy to the plot. It was a proper and a pregnant number, for there had been just sev-enty-two when red Set lured Usir into the chest. And these seventy-two in their turn had had good cosmic ground to be no more and no less than that number. For it is just that number of groups of five weeks which make up the three hundred and sixty days of the year, not counting the odd days; and there are just seventy-two days in the dry fifth of the year, when the gauge shows that the Nourisher has reached his lowest ebb, and the god sinks into his grave. So where there is conspiracy anywhere in the world it is requisite and custom-ary for the number of conspirators to be seventy-two. And if the plot fail, the failure shows that if this number had not been adhered to it would have failed even worse."