JESUS AND JOHN

If you look on the tomb of wicked King John - of Magna Carta/Robin Hood fame - you won't find "John", I'll hazard.  They spelled things differently back then.  Similarly, I think it likely there's no "Jesus" mentioned ANYWHERE AT ALL before the beginning of the C17th AD.  I'll run that by you again:  there was no Jesus before some 1600 years after the birth of Christ.  Think about it - Greek, original Latin and Hebrew have no J whilst original Latin had no U. J, U and W were added to the Latin alphabet (that our 26-letter version derives from) in the Middle Ages.  In the very first edition of the 1611 AD, Tyndale-based, King James Authorised Version Bible there's no "Jesus".*

*Witness William Shakespeare's Ist Quarto 1597 AD and its 'ROMEO AND IULIET' - or his 'KING IOHN'.  I find mention of a Petrus Ramus of Picardy origin of the splitting of '1' and 'j, this French thing being subsequently imported into these Isles.  It is somewhat thematically appropriate that Ramus was born in 1515 AD.

Both words, Jesus and John, however ubiquitous these days, are uniquely English in origin, and Jesus, in particlar, is fairly recent. Were both constructed "to order" - or did the arrival of "John" influence the tagging of an "s" on the end of the Jesus precursor, Jesu?

The birthdays are stylised Midwinter and Midsummer.  They are opposites/complements/mirrors and they are cyclical (the seasons/the year/the sun).  The exact same thing is true of Jesus and John, the words.  Quantified in our English alphabet Jesus = 10 + 5 + 19 (X 2) + 21 = 74 whilst John = 10 + 15 + 8 + 14 = 47.  74 is the mirror of 47.

In both cases 7 + 4 = 11.  11 X 11 = 121.  Mirrors again.  74 + 47 = ...... 121.

The spellings Jesus and John were of deliberate design to produce this outcome, perhaps?  Did someone think 121 (12,1) is of some GREAT SIGNIFICANCE?  Well, certainly, Chapter and Verse, it's the Woman of St. John's REVELATION, and the mystic - and albeit later - Isaac Newton was to scour this and DANIEL for the meaning of life, existence and everything whilst contemporary Evelyn evidences knowledge of the Kabbala in his submitted design to rebuild 1665 AD Great Fire London (click on Geometry/Diags.).  Both were Fellows of the (early) Royal Society - FRS.

If we look at REVELATION 4, 7 we find the four Royal Watchers coded: Antares, Aldebaran, Regulus and Fomalhaut.  These represent West, East, North and South.  They also turn up at KINGS II, 2, II and ZECHARIAH 6, 2 - 6, 6.  They are the wheels fixed the the various fiery chariots going heavenwards. Meanwhile, the angle 47 degrees is applied to the arc between Tropics Cancer and Capricorn - leaving 66.5 degrees to the Poles on either side.  A more accurate figure, though is 23.43 (c/o Gary Osborn): as 23.4 to one decimal point then .... 66.6.

Note:(27-11-07): Frank Higgins, ANCIENT FREEMASONRY ...(1919, 1923 et al). 23.5 and 47 (2X 23.5) are said to be 2 of the 4 "Cosmic Angles" of Freemasonry*.  Masonic compasses. it seems, were once set at 47 degrees** rather than the modern 60, and that 'all-seeing eye' pyramid thingy on dollar bills is at 23.5 (66.5) degrees.  He notes this in the context of the (solar) seasonal cycle of Cancer 23.5 to Equator to Capricorn 23.5 = 47.  Here are 60 degrees and 47 degrees together on a C16th AD icon of St. Catherine (of Wheel fame) from the eponymous Sinai monastery:

This is a vastly enlarged detail from the bottom left of the icon and was brought to my attention by Gary Osborn on the Graham Hancock Mysteries Forum (28-11-07).  Thanks for that - and to 'Blythe' for the original icon post.

The compasses (seem to) give angles as illustrated - by my attempts to measure them.

Notes 

* I can't find out what others they had (but the abridged text, lacking these, is on googlebooks).

 **Or were they?  I had a quick look-see and found 45 degrees, 36 degrees, 29 degrees .... all sorts of degrees, really!  See  http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/symbolism/compasses/index.html

This is ATALANTA FUGIENS, Maier, 1618 AD (1618?  1.618 is often used to represent the Golden Mean, I note - but this was first published in 1617). It is a considerable alchemical 'beastie', I gather: http://www.levity.com/alchemy/atalanta.html).  Notice the resemblance of the pyramid to the 'all-seeing eye' one on the dollar.  The angles here, though, seem 67.5, 67.5 and 45 to me (octagonal maths)*.  It is possible that the compass hypotenuse demonstrates 47 degrees, though.  I looked at the esoterically-charged Albrecht Durer, wondering what, if anything, he did with his compasses.

*Gary Osborn ascribes 23 degrees to the right-hand side slope of the pyramid (Graham Hancock Mysteries Forum, 30-11-07) noting the 23.5 dollar bill.  I'm carrying 22.5.  Too close to quarrel, methinks.

This is called ASTRONOMER, late C15th-early C16th AD.  Now I make the angle about 18 degrees here.  These two arcane hermeticists aren't exactly big on 23.5 - and that's the Earth Durer's compasses are resting on.  Equator and ?, well, where?  What line of Latitude is that?  15 degrees N or S?

Is that a 23.5 angle of the upper compass leg?  It's close.  However there's nothing masonically secretive or hermetically arcane in the idea of an 'obliquity of the ecliptic'.  Apparently, the Chinese knew of it in 1000 BCE and/or Anaximander (and pupil Pythagoras) did, circa C6th BCE, whilst Eratosthenes certainly did circa 200 BCE as confirmed C2nd BCE by Hipparchus, albeit in a geo-centric system.

That's the Baptist on the right, pointing (at 23.5 degrees according to Gary Osborn - and thanks!).  The point I want to make is that, if we accept this as a beginning of a tradition of an association of the Baptist with that angle, then we are doing it BEFORE the word 'John' (47, 2 X 23.5) is invented!  Was 'John'/47 therefore a deliberate coding for half a year: the movement from Cancer to Capricorn. the (solar) 'decrease' half of the year?  A noteworthy curiosity here is the Baptist birthday - 24th June.  Now that's both just after the Summer Solstice (marking the decline of the sun's beginning) and very close to ... 23.5.

MOVING ON:

In Gematria systems, where alphabet letters command numerical values which are summed to provide values for words and phrases - and possibly therefore influence their design!? - identical outcomes become interchangeable: Tarot = Menorah = Messiah = Joshua = Jesus* = Lucifer.  All are He Phren - Wisdom/Mind Below - 666 (74 X 9).  And this "Lower Mind" rather implies a Higher one, doesn't it?  After all, As Above, So Below works both ways: visit KING LEAR and MACBETH.

* The association of the 37X table with Jesus has some provenance in the Greek Gematria system: Ihsovs (Ihsous) Xpistos, Jesus Christ, 2388, 37 X 64.

"Mind Below" refers to the physical - as against the spiritual/intellectual.  To move from the latter (Heaven) to the former (Earth) is variously to be "fallen", "cast out of Paradise" and "word/spirit made flesh" - hence 666 being both "the number of a man" and 'Beast".  666 is also an esoteric mathematical reference to the Sun:  it represents the Magic Square (where the 'magic' lies in horizontal and vertical rows summing to identical amounts) sided 6 X 6. Fit the numbers 1-36.  And these, added, sum to 666.  The association of He Phren with 666 is old - the classic Greek Gematria system also throws up this result.  666 can also be identified with the 'Red Dragon' of REVELATION:  it occurs at 12, 3 and 12 X 3 = 36 = 6 X 6 Magic Square of the Sun gives sum 1-36 = 666 AND it follows from Power 6 where 1 (power 6) + 2 (power 6) + 3 (power 6) = 666. 

But it's all really just mumbo-jumbo messin' with maths - where many now treat the fancy packaging as the actual substance rather the MAN-MADE gift-wrapping it really is.  For example:  666 is Lucifer (74 X 9)  and 6 6 6 is a 'Venus' at dominoes .... and Venus is ..... Lucifer (Bright Morning Star = that planet).  Its mirror is 999.  999 - 666 = 333 (JEREMIAH 33, 3 .... 'great and mighty things', sometimes called "a telephone for talking to God" - and associated, by some, with the tetrahedral star and some 'whirling vortex' gobbledygook).  I note here, too that there is doubt as to the authenticity of the value '666' - apparently, the earliest REVELATION MS fragment surviving suggests 616.

Where the Sun is valued 6 (and 666 - Magic Square), the Moon is 9 (and 999 - Magic Square).  6 and 9 add to 15, and divide (9/6) to 1.5 and (6/9) .... not quite 666 (dropping the decimal).  It's really basic 2 : 3 stuff.  The real fun starts when you look at the other mirrors, including powers and roots, that these can produce.

The Sun and the Moon were seen as Male/Female mirrors/opposites/complements but in a cyclical context.  They were represented as 6 : 9, white : black, light : dark, day : night, lux : nox, goat : lady, devil : woman, adam : eve, fire/air : earth/water, hot/dry : cold/wet, Leo/Scorpio : Aquarius/Taurus, equilateral (male) pointed up : equilateral (female) pointed down; equilateral (male) pointed right : equilateral (female) pointed left, Midwinter Sun: Midsummer Sun, Jesus/Evangelist : Baptist, Tarot II right : Tarot II left.  They are equated with the two pillars that once stood at the entrance to the Temple Of Solomon, Jachin (J/North) and Boaz (B/South), Autumn (West) : Spring (East).  And the difference between solar 6 and lunar 9 is 3.  And 3 is 1.5 + 1.5 = ISIS (See Tarot II).  When St. John instructs us to rise up, measure the temple, he tells us 'use a rod'.  That's 16.5 feet.  That's the mirror 6.9 added to its mirror, mirror 9.6.  It's also 15 + 1.5 ...  ISIS again?  Two mirror pillars with 'Knowledge' between them.

It is interesting to note that Euclid 47 informs one main investigative technique: recurring and thematically one must, it seems, cherchez le right-angled triangle.  Freemasons might be intrigued to find = if they don't know already, of course - that a right-angled (Pythagoras proposition) triangle hypotenused 7 with side 4 will generate another side, Square Root 33.  Since 3, 11 and 33 are supposed to signify, it's interesting that the Pembrokeshire Coast boasts a Point St. John sitting on Latitude 3113' precisely ... as well as cropping up in the "Constant of Pythagoras" Sq Rt 2-alikes 140/99 and 99/70 (it's in the '99': 3 X 11 X 3.

Similarly, a right-angled triangle sided 4 and 7, adjacent and opposite, will deliver a Square Root of 65 hypotenuse, where 65 is a combination of the 1s, 3s, and 5s we encouter thematically again and again (5 X 13 here). 

It is also worth noting that, whilst Chaper and Verse in the Bible can seem to carry "significances" - like REVELATION 4, 7's Royal (Fixed Star) Watchers and DANIEL's 7, 4 'Vision' - and sometimes the Chapter and Verse seems tied to the actual text - like REVELATION 12, 6 talking of 1260 - this, if intentional, is of fairly recent design. Why?  Biblical 'Chapter and Verse' is from the mid- C16th AD*,  previously the text was organised in 4s and 7s, I gather.  You can have some fun, though, with the modern system - if you want, that is: compare the 12, 1 Woman of REVELATION with her 'mirror', the 21, 2 'Bride', the 'new Jerusalem.  Or add them together ... 33, 3 - as in JEREMIAH'S 'great and mighty things' (and also as in what happens when you slope decagonal 36 degrees at 3 degrees off 'up').   Another  nicety is REVELATION's 666  (of this selfsame 36  connection).  Intentionally or otherwise - and only since the mid-C16th AD! - this 'lives' at REVELATION 13, 18.  13 X 18 = 234.  The mirror is 432.  They sum to 666.  'Here is wisdom ...', it says.  666 is he phren, 'mind below'.

*Stephen Langton, 1205 AD, invented Chapter whilst the mid-C16th AD saw the first Bibles with Verse/Chapter and Verse.  So you need to be wary of the New Testament's possible 'messages' drawn from this.  The Old Testament, hoowever, is structured on ancient practice.

Baptism note: apparently baptism by water, air and fire but NOT earth, I read.  Midsummer John the Baptist is associated with water and I read that Midsummer was a water festival marking the beginning of the waning/death of the sun whilst (the Jesus/John the Evangelist) Midwinter was a fire festival celebrating the rebirth of the sun.  Fire indicates (solar) male and water (lunar) female - but it is the Beloved Disciple John - Leonardo's LAST SUPPER - who seems feminine and this Evangelist person is also set opposite the Baptist.  Confusing, eh?

"Another chance to see ..."

I imagine Isaac Newton and his mates were heartily sick of the zillionth rerun of Spartacus - I am Spartacus! - and Ben Hur, the Robe, the Great Escape and Spartacus ....  Bored brainless, they reached for the nearest biros 'n A4 and started doodling - messin' with maths.

Take 234*, as above, mirror of 432.  Whilst these sum to 666, their difference informs the Michell CPC (Circle of Perpetual Choirs) as 198, half the circumference (of Michell's original model).  "Take a rod .... measure the temple of God" is a somewhat loose REVELATION 11, 1 (where 111 = 3 X 37, Jesus being 2 X 37 ... X 9): 198".  That's a good old measure in these Isles: 16.5 feet, 5.5 yards, 22 spans.  If we bend it, we get "22/7" (a Pi value), 22 being wicket to wicket on a cricket pitch and the atu of the Eyptian Wisdom and Moongod, Thoth.  A semicircular rod would be to scale to the CPC 1 : 2 X 63360.

*2 X 117 - see 'Station Stones' www.awugabunnies.co.uk/10.html

But suppose we juggle with the 2, the 3, and the 4 (and their mirrors and combinations):  we already have he phren, the 666 'Mind Below' (234 + 432) - and somewhat evocative of Hafren!? (Welsh Severn name) - but what of  'Noos', 'Mind Above?  That's 567, 99 away: 243 + 324.  And if we look, say, at 243 and 234? 9 away.  Our varying combinations produce patterns of differences: 9s, 99s and 198s.  The one I was drawn to was (flying) mirror 747: 324 + 423,  where 423 = 'John' X 9.  Suppose I quantify Merlin: 13 + 5 + 18 + 12 + 9 + 14?  83.  X 9? 747.  Suppose I try Tehuti (Thoth)?  20 + 5 + 8 + 21 + 20 + 9?  83 (but a 'u' necessarily limits it, timewise) ... again X 9 = 747.

And that led me to another idea: eclipses.  Since we are As-Above-So-Below 'happy', what if we eclipse the sun (666) with the moon (396).  A partial eclipse would give us, visibly, 6 6 3 6 9 = 15 + 15, but we could go for a hidden sum: 666 + 369 = 1035.  Nephthys?  Sister of Isis?  14 + 5 + 16 + 8 + 20 + 8 + 25 + 19 = 115.  X 9? 1035.

And 747?  That would be a 'John' eclipsing 'Jesus' or vice versa.  Now .... deep breath ... 7 + 4 = 11 (and it's a fair bet so does 4 + 7) so we can take our 11:11 'insight' and eclipse it: 111 is visible but 121 is actually there .... and 121 is the 12, 1 Woman of REVELATION and the mirror of the 21, 2 Bride/New Jerusalem. (The 2 11s, of course make Thoth's 22).

*1296 is a Platonic precessional number - 1/20th of the stylised 25920 cycle.  The current best bet is about 144 years shorter!

Note: Cherchez le right-angled triangle!  A somewhat evocative one would be sided 1, 6 and square root 37 and angled nearly 67.8 and 22.2 ( to well within about .005 of a degree).  222 is 37 X 6 (and 666/3).

Gary Osborn finds his '23.5' in the company of '52' (both degrees) thematically in art 1515-1717 AD - as well as certain other numbers - http://garyosborn.moonfruit.com - enter site by clicking, put mouse over 'NEWS' on left-side menu and see there REVELATION and REVELATION 2.  It is interesting that 52 belongs more readily to 23.4 (66.6) than 23.5 in that X 13 applies to the former (X 1.8 and X 4).  It is also interesting trhat the Michell Circle of Perpetual Choirs (CPC - my version, not John's!) has a centre exactly on the 'mirror' Lat. 52.025?

I've just noticed: sepirot 9 on the Tree of Life is Yesod, Hebrew Gematria value 74 - where 9 X 74 = 666.  But this sepirot has been acquainted c/o those who shove on the Ptolmaic system with the Moon, which is also accorded value 999, the mirror of 666.  In a chakra-related system, 999 would be the Crown and not the Foundation.

Update (thanks to Stephen Dail - 13-12-07):  two authors of interest,

1.  Gary Val Tenuta of 'GreatDreams'/'Code Consortium' and 'The Ezekiel Code' has done some work in the area of an 'English Gematria' having also found the Jesus 74 (X 9 = 666) and I find the Jesus = Lucifer = 666 well-established as 'out there' on the internet these days!  I seem to remember John Michell once ALSO made the identification.  Gary finds the (decagonal!) value 144 of great significance, I note.  Gary's system employs a 26-letter alphabet.  Gary kinda hints at a 'hand' creating the 26-letter alphabet to (gematric) order ...

2.  Peter Bull - www.masoncode.com/Simple%20Gematria.htm
An example of very simple code from the C16th AD.  Note that i/j are valued at 9 - and uses a 24-letter alphabet.  The system above needs j = 10.  - and a 26-letter alphabet.  Neither had been invented yet.  I've emailed Peter to see if he can shed any light on developments.

Reply here (13-12-07) - and my thanks:

"There are allusions to it in the Chemical Wedding (letter j/10 - my note) - 1616 but written at least ten years earlier.  I don't exactly know when it came in.  Almost certainly it was known in the C15th Century.

Peter"

Notes: a German who died 1572 AD was the first (and in German!) to differentiate explicitly twixt 'i' and 'j'.  English adoption must have been subsequent to its continental one, methinks.  Hence not in Shakespeare ... that I know of ... but look at the c1600-1640 given at

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=j

There again, there's the 1775 AD offered (Iewe to Jew) by http://christianparty.net/wm/wm0154a.html