Kingfisher2926
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dafydd said:
Kingfisher2926 said:
dafydd said:
Having promised to show a relationship between the Genesis Seal and Pythagoras, I am now able to kill several birds with one stone. For one thing, I had previously claimed that the Genesis Seal must also have influenced the Ancient Egyptian priesthood, the Babylonian priesthood and the Jews in exile in Babylon. In fact, all those threads of Seal awareness probably came together at the same time, with Pythagoras possibly taking a leading role. It is indicative of a shared influence that the first evidence of a coherent Hebrew Torah may be dated to around the end of the Babylonian Exile (bc587 to c.538). So much for the possibility of the Torah having been dictated by God to Moses, letter-by-letter.
The Greek philosopher Pythagoras (bc581 to 497) is now best remembered for his contributions to Man’s understanding of geometry. Yet geometry was only a part of a broader esoteric philosophy. Pythagoras’ beliefs were based on his fact-finding journeys that took him to India and Egypt (where he stayed for around 22 years), and to Babylon (where he would have encountered the Jews in exile). His stay in India could easily have exposed Pythagoras to humanity’s first experiments in a positional form of decimal arithmetic, similar to the system we use today. As I shall show, that alone would have given the Greek scholar a head start in understanding the Genesis Seal.
The period of Pythagoras’ travels was undoubtedly one of widespread cultural enlightenment, a veritable renaissance. This was, after all, the same era that gave rise to the Gautama Buddha (bc563 to c.483). History records all of these facts, but remains unaware that there could have been a specific, common cause or inspiration.
[Enter the Genesis Seal]
If you have read my post #119, you will be aware of a notable geometrical attribute of the first verse of Genesis that is greatly enhanced in the context of the G1 Square’s perimeter. This is the presence of a square-within-a-square, created by the letters of the word for ‘three’, equally spaced at the mid-points of the perimeter’s four (seven-letter) sides. I shall repeat that illustration later, in Figure 6, as just one component of a related collection. First, take a look at Figure 5(a), which shows the same four sides of that perimeter, stacked from the top downwards. For obvious reasons, the word shelosheh (three) occupies the complete middle column of the matrix. I have also included the external latter ayin, prefixed to the first row as per the G1 to G2 transformation (see my post #288); keep in mind that the perimeters of the G1 and G2 Squares are the same. The result of this addition is that the word arba (four) is found abutting the word for ‘three’ with a right-angle between them. It is tempting to suppose that this might be a deliberate allusion to a standard 3:4:5 right-angle triangle. But, is there any other supporting evidence for such a conclusion?
Well, part (b) of Figure 5 is included for that very reason. Here, each letter is replaced by its equivalent qatan (small) value. These are given in the ‘Q-val’ column of Table A in my post #289. Notice especially that the vertical word for ‘three’ in the middle column gives rise to a 3335 group, which utilises every occurrence of a 3 to be present in Genesis 1:1. I have also highlighted every occurrence of a 5 in this matrix, showing there to be one in each of the middle three columns, and none elsewhere. And each 5 can be associated with the right-angle position of a compact 3-4-5 triangular group.
Now we come to the artistic bit. Figure 6(a) shows the G1/G2 perimeter, highlighting the square-within-a-square word for ‘three’, and its obvious similarity to part (b). Parts (b) and (c), however, illustrate a well-known proof of the famous Theorem of Pythagoras that goes: In a right-angled triangle, the square described on the hypotenuse is equal in area to the sum of the squares described on the sides containing the right-angle.
The really important point to notice is, of course, that it is the same word shelosheh (three) that participates in the proof of the Theorem and in the construction of a 3:4:5 triangle that illustrates the same Theorem.
To round out this post, I should like to show some other ways in which the matrix of Figure 5(b) makes use of triangles. These examples depend on the kind of decimal arithmetic that Pythagoras would have encountered in India.
First, the words for ‘three’ and ‘four’ give rise to digit sequences of 3335 and 1227, respectively. If read as 4-digit decimal numbers, their ratio is: 3335 / 1227 = 2.7180…
…which is within 0.01% of the value of the number e, the base of Natural Logarithms.
Second, in the top-right corner Figure 5(b), there is a compact triangular group consisting of three 2s and three 1s. As 222111, this is the 666th triangular number.
Third, in the centre-right of the matrix, there is a triangular 1-1-3-3-5-5 sequence. Separating these digits into left and right halves will suggest the ratio: 355 / 113 = 3.1415929…
…which is within 0.00001% of the value of Pi.
Finally, note that the bottom row of the matrix includes all of the first seven decimal digits of the fractional part of Pi. That is, all except the initial whole-number 3, which is represented by the middle column.
All the observations in this post are easily verifiable. So, did Pythagoras see confirmation in the Genesis Seal for his own brilliant understanding of Geometry? Or, did he learn everything from the remarkable Seal while mixing with ‘esoteric’ adepts in Egypt, India and elsewhere? While most of the examples of arithmetic presented in this post would not have been possible before a decimal system was developed, it is intriguing to speculate that Pythagoras was in the right place at the right time to have seeded those very concepts using knowledge obtained elsewhere.
