Time Machine

The planetary attributions of the Tree’s numeral points tend to follow a sequential pattern from slowest to fastest, as seen from Earth: 

♄ 3

♃ 4

♂ 5

⊙ 6

♀ 7

☿ 8

☽ 9

Their rearrangement into the sequential pattern of the days of the week, or of the double letters in the alphabet, each abide by distinct topologies in accord with the recursive architecture induced by the Book of Formation (Sepher Yetzirah).  

By evenly placing these 7 ‘planets’ visible to the naked eye around a circle, 

from slowest to fastest, and connecting them with the star heptagram, they rearrange into the days of the week - a fact somewhat obscured in the English speaking world by their Greco-Roman ‘gods’ having been replaced with corresponding deities from the Norse pantheon:

⊙ Sol/Helios = Sunna / Sunday

☽ Luna = Mani / Moonday

♂ Mars = Tiw / Tuesday

☿ Mercury = Wodan / Wednesday

♃ Jupiter = Thor / Thursday

♀ Venus = Freya / Friday

♄ Saturn-day

The 7-fold symmetry underlying this topological transformation may be seen in the figurate shape formed by the numeral 22 as a centered heptagon & by the sum of the ‘double letters’ digit roots configured as nested heptagons radiating from a single vertex: 18 = 1+2+3+(1+0)+(1+6)+(1+9)+(2+1)

The star heptagram complementing this heptagonal symmetry may be alluded to by the 7th trump of the Tarot deck as “Merkabah”, the Hebrew word for ‘Chariot’, appears in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible precisely 44 times, and 44 = maximal number of regions by which 7 circles may divide a plane.  Just as 22 = the maximal number of regions into which 5 circles may divide a plane, or 32 = the maximal number of regions into which 6 circles may divide a plane, the kernel at the heart of such an interlinking of rings makes a star. 

With respect to the sequence of 7 glyphs ‘doubled’ within the 22 letter alphabet (22:7 ≈ π), their transformation from the Tree’s given order of slowest to fastest planets into the attributions of planet to ‘double letter’ are best reckoned within the context of a centered hexagon:

1 ☿

2 ☽

3 ♀

10 ♃

16 ♂

19 ⊙

21 ♄

Given the Hebrew Calendar’s basis in the Metonic cycle, ‘The Sun’ possesses a natural affinity with the number XIX as a cycle of 19 solar years, being roughly equal to 235 lunar months, serves as a useful measure for keeping the lunar & solar years in synch.  As the solar year is 11.25 days longer than the 354 day lunar year, an extra month had to be added every 2-3 years to keep the Hebrew months in tune with the seasons.  This intercalary month was/is added according to a proscribed formula.  Perhaps significantly, this means of keeping the Sun & Moon in synch also follows the 12:7 scheme of months:weeks, and of simple:double letters.

19 (13 months)

1 

2 

3 (13 months)

4

5

6 (13 months)

7

8

9 (13 months)

10

11 (13 months)

12

13

14 (13 months)

15

16

17 (13 months)

18 

That the sum of the simple letters (4+5+6+7+8+9+11+13+14+15+17+18 = 127) forms the 7th centered hexagon, serves to further illustrate this recursive pattern.

Though it may be purely ‘coincidental’, such a centered hexagonal perspective on planetary ‘shifts’, also traces out the hyperbolic ‘Whitehead Link’ - whose spatial complement (ie- its’ surrounding ‘nothingness’) is very closely related to that of the Borromean Rings in that both preserve the metrics of ideal octahedra in hyperbolic space.  Whether the ancient Hebrew knew of this is debatable.  However, it may be observed that such an arrangement does establish an ‘ideal’ set of matrices for traveling across ‘time’.  

Along similar lines, the life spans of the antediluvian patriarchs described in the fifth chapter of "Genesis" play with name and number to conceal cyclical measures of time relevant to the balance of light & darkness between the Sun & Moon.

"When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died. When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enos." -Beginnings 5:3-6 

"When Qanen had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel. After he became the father of Mahalalel, Qanen lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Qanen lived a total of 910 years, and then he died." -Beginnings 5:12-14 

"When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away." -Beginnings 5:21-24

The age of Adam ['Earth'] at the birth of his grand-son, Enos ['Mortality']=235
235 = the number of lunar months in 1 metonic cycle of XIX years. The age in years of Enoch ['Mouth'] when god took him = 365 = the number of days per year.
(19x 365) / 235 = 29.51 ≈ average number of days per lunar month

70 = The age of Qanen ['Spear'] when his son Mahalalel ['Praise to God'] was born.
840 =The length of this Spear's life from the birth of its Praise to God .
7 = The generations from Qanen to Noah.
7x 70 = 490 ≈ number of lunar years to 475 solar years = 25 metonic cycles.
7x 840 = 5880 ≈ number of lunar months to 475 solar years.
(490 x 354) / 5880 = 29.5 ≈ average number of days per lunar month
(840/70)x 29.5 = 354 = days in lunar year

The life span of Adam ['Earth'] = 10x 93
93 = 3rd triacontakaidigonal (32-sided polygonal) number
(360/32) +354 = 365.25 = tropical year of Earth

The age of the Spear at death = 910 = 10th icosikaidigonal number: 10th in the sequence of 22-sided polygons nested within one another, radiating from a single vertex.


There are other planetary cycles embedded within this tabulation of Earth's lineage from Adam to Noah ['Wanderer']. 10 generations concealing the wisdom of the 'fathers'. Coupled with the matrices of the Book of Formation's 32 wondrous paths, these antediluvian patriarchs calculate more than just the measure of mortal being. They outline the dwelling place of "the Name" as well. But that is another story...