Sacred Number

I haven't got much into crop circles, partly because I was warned it is a contradictory area by a researcher in the field (excuse the pun). [ see also Metrology of Crop Circles]

Sugar Hill Aldbourne Wilts 01 08 2007 in wheat, copyright Steve Alexander 2007

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However, my brother sent me a picture of a crop circle design that brilliantly interprets Metatron's Cube, the root three based geometry that figures in Chapter 10 of Sacred Geometry and that is, essentially, the same geometry forming the basis of the Gothic Revival in medieval times. It is the emblem of whatever hidden change occurred in the West around about the time of the First Crusade, almost certainly associated with Islamic architecture and possibly to indigenous and Jewish sacred, but by then secret, traditions.

The Basis of the Cube of Metatron (from Sacred Number figure 10.8)

When circles are packed together from a centre (empty in the above picture) a set of "Metatronic numbers" evolve outwards from concentric rings containing  1, 6, 12, 18 circles.  One should note that the accumulating count from the centre form the numbers 1, 7, 19, 37, 61 ... as per

1 + 6 = 7 and then

7 + 12 = 19 and then

19 + 18 = 37, and then

37 + 24 = 61

61 + 30 = 91 circles contained.

These circles touch each other at points that form a hexagon upon each circle. A hexagon is a cube seen sideways (axiometrically). These hexagon numbers and the hexagon/ cube idea is important within Jewish religious thought emerging from the Old Testament, and religions based upon it. [Read about Metatron's Cube  at Wikipedia]

From my work in Matrix of Creation and Sacred Number, the four numbers 7, 19, 37 and 61 have an immediate relationship to astronomy and time as

1. Seven days is the basis of the week, based upon the concrete division into the Eclipse Seasons, the Saturnian and Jovian synodic periods and the the "Saturnian year" of 364 days.
2. 19 years is the period of the Moon's Metonic period within which the Sun, Moon, and Star repeat their orientation in the Sky
3. 37 is the number of lunar months in three years
4. 61 is, in days, one sith of the Practical Year (365 days) in sidereal days, i.e. rotations of the Earth relative to the stars and not the Sun.
   

Since "canonical numbers" only have the primes 2 and 3 in their compositions, they are naturally multiples of six, or 2 x 3, and in this crop circle there are 36 around the outside. We should note then that these packing numbers have a relationship to the canonical because the outer rings always divide by six and yet the number added to them is canonical itself but plus one. This forms a relationship, in expansion or growth, about a root-three geometry in that the two dimensional "volume" of what is contained is (canonical+1) .

Adding one to a canonical number will inevitably lead to a non-canonical number, in this case they are significant prime numbers. The first four numbers relate to the Moon's orbit and the rotation of the Earth.

The 36 around the circumference is repeated four times, equalling 144 or 12 times 12 and canonically ideal. However, the whole number gods that churn the ocean are balanced with another species, the transfinite demons (see chapter 7) epitomised by the inner planets, root three and the golden mean.

The Metatron's Cube part of this crop circle design has 18 cubes or 19 were the central one shown. the ratio 18:19 is that between the synodic periods of Saturn and Jupiter measured in units of three weeks or 21 days. This was not noted in Sacred Number because, by chapter 10, Metatron was one of the last elements tying up the root-three geometrical theme and the book was concluding with the City of New Jerusalem cube measuring 12,000 (feet) on each side.

An alternative view is the New Jerusalem pattern of John Michel, based upon canonical measures that divide by twelve around the perimeter, a perimeter that is then "squared" rather than a cube. Thus this crop circle strangely portrays two views of New Jerusalem, the canonical and the Metatronic. Were this the case then the precedent is that of a duality, a light and dark side, an outer and inner face of the same phenomenon. Rene Guenon especially remarks upon this in this book Lord of the World chapter 3 called Shekinah and Metatron in which he says

Although Mikaël is identified with Metatron, he represents only one aspect. Beside the luminous face, there is a dark face represented by Samaël, also known as Sarhaolam— in fact, it is this latter aspect, and it only, which symbolizes in a lower sense the 'spirit of the world', or the Princeps hujus mundi referred to in the Gospels. Samaël's relationship with Metatron, as the latter's shadow, so to say, justifies the use of the same title in a twofold sense as well as making it clear why the 'number of the beast', the apocalytic 666, is also a solar number.''  To quote Saint Hippolytus in conclusion: 'The Messiah and the Anti-Christ both have the lion for their emblem', another solar symbol. The same remarks may be applied to the serpent and to many other symbols. From a Kabbalistic viewpoint, we have here the two opposite faces of Metatron; we need not go into the theories we might formulate on this double meaning of symbols, only noting that the confusion between the luminous and the dark aspects is what properly constitutes 'Satanism'. It is precisely this confusion that allows some, unintentionally and through simple ignorance (an excuse, not a justification), to believe that an infernal significance is to be found in the title 'Lord of the World'.
[Let us further point out that the `Globe of the World', insignia of imperial power of universal monarchy, is frequently placed in the hand of Christ, which shows that he is the emblem of spiritual authority as well as of temporal power.]

Coombe Springs Press edition, 1983 

Interestingly, the number 666 is also of astronomical significance. many years ago I looked at the motion of the Moon's orbit (apogee) viz the nodes of that orbit. I will make another entry on this but the two meet every six
years and hence in 6 + 6 + 6 years = 18 years, the conditions are the same regarding the distance of the Moon and its nodes that generate eclipses. It so happens that this almost exactly matches the Saros period of 18.03 years which is why that period is the most reliable rule:  "if there was an eclipse at such a moment, then 18 years hence, a similar one will almost certainly occur". The Saros is 19 eclipse years long (18:19 again) and there are 223 lunar months also in the same period.

In this way the design of the planetary environment seen from Earth contains key numbers that are quite small and are very significantly "chosen" to operate together. As I point out in Matrix of Creation, these numbers are a unique configuration within the field of number itself and form a "master class" in the behaviour of number itself, a theme that continues in Sacred Number. This led to the tradition of the Demiurge or craftsman god, called Smith.