Sacred Number

“…Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. I shall not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion” Job 41:11-12, K J Bible

The world of number found in the Sky becomes something quite different in the world of manifestation, the Earth; where the stage is set for the drama of Life.

Given that the higher worlds are just that, then there is a practical issue of how numerosity in the Sky is to commune with numerosity on the Earth, as represented in myth and iconography as in the tableau of Nut and Shen (Egypt) and less directly, Shiva and Shakti (India). The drama is portrayed as sexual since polarity and interpenetration are involved.

It may not be, as modern science would have it, that “people were superstitious” in their beliefs in celestial influence. Rather, they may have believed in ideas that had once been worked out from first principles, during an age when the numerical world was being explored as a spiritual influence - rather than being used to organise the material world for man.

We really cannot tell, just by living in it, if our world is a projection of active higher powers (the spiritual view), or just a random sampling of valueless experience (the scientific view). There has to be a re-education of the senses and mind to test such possibilities, and this tradition has to be regenerated within human cultures that have lost the traditional ways of seeing the world.

In a sphere like the Earth or a circle such as its equator, the constant Pi that relates radius to circumference is present. In a sense, Pi is the god of all circular forms and there is evidence that this was an “early” form of perception that led to different understandings than those of the modern scientific-mathematical perception. It allowed, for instance, the Egyptians to investigate the size of the Earth (See Sacred Number, Chapters 3 and 4). We know this because the Great Pyramid records in its form the process used to measure the radius of curvature at any point on the Earth.

Where moderns take the formula Perimeter = 2 x Pi x Radius to work out either radius or perimeter, I believe the Egyptians saw the radius growing at the same time as the perimeter so that part of a radius generates part of the perimeter as 2 x Pi. When they, or their predecessors, started measuring the Earth it became clear that, as one travelled north and measuring the latitude from the stars, that the length of a degree increased and therefore the Earth was not perfectly spherical, each degree having a different radius (of curvature).

That is, one degree of latitude can be assumed to be the perimeter of a perfect circle rather than an ellipse, and that portion of perimeter must equate to the same proportion of the radius. From this, latitudes could be numerically related to each other as spheres.

We are suggesting that in rational numbers lie actual control in the sense of autocratic power, without which nothing can really happen. At the core of rational numbers lie the special class of prime numbers, that cannot be divided by any other number (Chapter 2). Prime numbers interact, and through the measures revealed in ancient metrology, the ancient yet accurate model of the Earth involves only the primes 2,3,5,7, and 11. Eleven is generated only within the excellent approximation to Pi of 22/7, a primary ratio within the Great Pyramid and the numerical model developed for the Earth as its creative template.

This is the bridge I was looking for between my first book, Matrix of Creation: Sacred Geometry in the Realm of the Planets, and my Second, Sacred Number and the Origins of Civilization. Metrology and prime numbers were the key but then, the integration with disparate streams of ancient and earth mysteries revealed a journey through the traditional arts including the mythology of earth energies.

(based on a preliminary essay, April 2003)