REVELATION 23 

or, (now and then there's) A fool such as I

"I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.” 

- ἀποκάλυψις of ♏ 22:16

22 = The Fool "Kesil"

7 = XVI The Tower

22/7 ≈ π

In the land of Shinar there was once a king who built a Tower to heaven. From his city of BaBeL it rose unto the sky, and a divine wrath was said thereafter to have punished him for his hubris. To quote Genesis, the BiBLical book of “Beginnings” (11:7), “Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” And so The Tower fell, rendering humans unintelligible to one another that they might not ever again share in a single vision.  

11/7 ≈ ◑

Recorded in the oral tradition of the Judaic Midrash, King Nimrod was thereafter pinned to the night sky by the belt of Orion - called in Hebrew “Kesil” for the "Fool" that he was. 



Incidentally, the word for fool in medieval Latin (cifra) was the same as that for the number zero, nothing, nothingness & cipher. In the folk humor of the age, such fools led festive carnival parades and were treated as honored guests at the feast table. Otherwise regarded as mad, a person of no account, yet elevated to king for a day and celebrated for their vulgar lampoon of all society’s rigid mores. 

The fool is as he ever was: a loophole in the Law.

And, despite the diameter of God, Nimrod still reached the heavens, albeit in ridicule. Funny that a shared sense of purpose should so threaten the Almighty and evoke such mutual mistrust among the people. Perhaps it was an allegory for the prism of duality, splitting each concept and its opposite from some plainly hidden truth. Or maybe there really is a pile of rubble somewhere in the desert that marks the death of our mother tongue.  

Of course, it could be argued that our Tower naturally “falls” once we see and recognize “ultimate truth” through the veil of appearances, but one might also find it attached to a kind of wheel for weaving serpents - placed in an element obscured from view on the game board of letters. A foolish sleight of hand to be sure, but fair game if you can read the cut of this wicked, wicked deck.

"Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth."
- ἀποκάλυψις of ♏ 2:16  

216 = 6x6x6

Among the letters of Hebrew - a derivation of an older alphabet held in common with the Phoenicians and drawn from the ancient hieroglyphs of Egypt - there was a subdivision into 12 simple, 7 double and 3 mother letters. It’s oldest known written description comes from the ‘Book of Formation’ (Sepher Yetzirah) - a manuscript by some accounts dating from the last days of the Gnostics, and the earliest text ascribed that vein mystical Judaism called "Kabbalah". In it, the 12 simple letters were equated with the signs of the zodiacal houses, the 7 doubles with planets visible to the naked eye (including the sun & moon), and its 3 mothers composing a kind of scale balancing Fire, Air & Water upon the Tree of Life.

∆

0

∇

Numbered 0-21, these types of letters build shapes - distinct configurations formed from their count of 'pebbles' - and articulate a pattern of universal constants.

Here the ‘mark’ of wisdom is posed, an apocalypse unveiling the hidden secrets of alphabet & allegory. Unlocked, as it were, by a five-pointed star traced with the coiling path of Venus, relative to the Earth. In the latin tongue of ancient Rome this planet was called “Lucifer”, or “morning star”. Though the moniker has since taken on more nefarious implications, it was once the name for our bright neighbor. An orb with whom our own aligns with the sun every 2³ x73 days, each time 6x6x6º apart upon the ecliptic plane. 5 such cycles, joined sequentially, draw a pentagram of points.

In addition, various combinations of the numbered letters, summed by type, equal the number of days (2920-1) required for this pentagram to reach completion - much like the shapes they build, fit together, measure the music between those spheres.

Which raises the question: Why a “Great Beast”?

Was the science of antiquity so scorned by the rising Christians that knowledge itself, outside their proto-orthodox dogma, was to be shunned as the devil incarnate? -or was there some deeper lesson to be learned by such a frame for the numerology of letters? Furthermore, why should a planet named for the goddess of Love in turn be confused for a sign of ultimate evil? 

Let that one stir a bit before you make up your mind. But, as the names for gods were just capitalized nouns & verbs describing nuances of the human condition, it should come as no surprise that a thousand-year dark age followed the decrees of Theodosius which banned their utterance under penalty of death.  The burning of many libraries followed. 

Whatever possessed them?

"So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns." 
- ἀποκάλυψις of ♏ 17:3 

XVII "The Star"

III ♀

265/153 ≈ 1.73 ≈ √3

⧉

17/12 ≈ 1.414 ≈ √2

צ XVII 

▽ XII 

"...but even with so many the net was not torn." 
- Gospel of ♏ (21:11)

VITRIOL perhaps?

There is an Eye within the Great Pyramid at Giza - a secret sight beheld by those who’ve learned the architecture underpinning the alphabet’s design. You may recognize it- either as a mark of Cain upon the darkened brow of some shadowy fraternal cult, or as the providential foresight of our illumined maker.  

Whose to say for what purpose it ever was? 

The craft of signs & symbols through human time has been the work of authors whose names go largely unknown, or relegated to an act of divine intervention. Yet, when the map of letters leads unto the gaze of their creator, one might easily approve a new order for the ages.  Or at least entertain the esoteric musings of those who’ve plied the puns of alchemy and the poetry of myth.

You may notice that atop those quarried blocks carefully set there lies no capstone at its tip: a Pyramid without a point. Though it could be argued its keystone went missing, toppled from its height after an arduous stripping of the casing stones that once defined the slope of its angles, the matter is uncertain. I suspect there never was - for the Great ‘Mer’ of Khnum-khufu hides an eye elsewhere, deep within the interior of Earth.

◃30ºN ⊣3430 nautical miles 

1 nautical mile = 1/60º Earth meridian

 

Can you see it?

Does it not seem that the stone which the builders rejected has indeed become the new cornerstone?  From a certain vantage point, one might see how a silhouette of proportion and measure, simple as the symmetric joining of circles, was cast across the the earth and sky to hide a mysterious truth.  A blueprint, if you will, of the 7th wonder, curiously synchronized to the numerology of the Hebrew alphabet - the root of our own, still recognizable in A’s inverted ox head or the all-seeing eye looking out from O. Letters born from a time when the spelling of a word was a magical act.

Legend has it that the Pentagram was once a symbol utilized by the students of Pythagoras - a pre-Socratic philosopher reputed to have journeyed thru Babylon after the destruction of Solomon’s temple and the Chaldean enslavement of the Jews. He was also attributed with the introduction of shapes made by “figurate numbers” into Greek mathematics. Given their role in this human equation, one might surmise he learned a thing or two about the art of building mandalas with alphabets from the ancient rabbis.

Prometheus Unbound.

Selah

“I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last..." 

- ἀποκάλυψις of ♏ 1:11 = 1:2³