Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00254)

Gene:
> Kim, comments?

Gene, you never cease to amaze me.
Let me explain: years ago I was sitting with the Secret Doctrine in my lab,
having just been reading about Heiric of Auxerre's praise of the hexad in
his "Life of Sanct Germanus" (quoted in John MacQueens "Numerology"). I was
trying to analyze the chaldean-sumerian-babylonian numeric key to their
cosmogony, based on a combination of the hexad and decad in a base-60
system. The system represents the solar system in relation to the microcosm,
I will explain below. I was wondering if other systems were used in esoteric
philosophy.
Suddenly I looked down upon the lines "Add to this the fact that Jehovah is
the third Sephiroth, Binah, a feminine word, and you have the key to the
mystery"
I can still remember the feeling of a great light-flash within my mind.
But back to the Chaldean system, it is breath-takingly beautiful. You will
know of the geometrical and zodiacal properties, the division of time, etc.

The basic value was 60, represented by Anu or An (meaning atom in sanskrit).
In the earliest sumerian (pre-cuneiform) notation, 10 was represented by a
point ,1 by a half-point, etc.
The seven major gods are fractions of their father Anu (1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 1/3,
1/2, 2/3, and 5/6 or  Marduk, Nergal, Ishtar, Shamash, Sin, Ea-Enki.
Bel-Enlil) Each of the seven gods represent a musical note, if Anu is taken
as the basic string length.

But enough of this, much more could be said (note that the unity precedes
its parts) . But I have exhausted myself beyond those little flashes of
understanding. Gene, I will not have time to answer your other e-mail
tonight, so here follows my adress:

Kim Poulsen
Sdr. Ringvej 60 4-10
4000 Roskilde
DENMARK

I have CCed your friends and group.
;-) Kim

----- Original Message -----
From: Eugene Carpenter
Subject: Re: Theos-World Fundamental theosohical principles and their
relationship toscience.


> I think Charles is pointing out very interesting stuff worth pursuing.
This
> is the area I'm struggling to throughly understand.  The I Ching, The Book
> of Changes, uses this binary idea so there is an awe-full lot of
commentary
> concerning subjective meaning in this area.  I've seen that one of the
> entities in the Eastern Kabballa is called  Binah.  I found in the SD, I
> belief, a note indicating a connection of Binah with binary.  The symbol
of
> the circle or chakra with the diameter that follows(or rather is
> simultaneous with) the circle or chakra with the central point seems to
> relate to this and then the diameter relates to the circle or whole chakra
> bringing up the idea of Pi, etc.
>
> It seems the THINKER must take Unity at the Atmic level and polarize it
into
> Spirit-Matter at the buddhic level and then appear in the  "world" as the
> Higher Self understanding the continous relationship of Spirit-Matter,
> Energy-Matter at the scientific level and then be willing to "die" in
order
> to ascend once again from this scientific trinity(concrete mind, Ego,
> Abstract mind)  back to the buddhic-intuitive dualistic continuum of Life
> and then back to Unity at the Atmic level. "Light" would be given off
during
> the descent and absorbed in the ascent.
>
> I've free-associated a bit, but I get too excited when someone touches in
> this area of contemplation.  This is group work, and I think the basis of
> the renaissance for Theosophy in science and art worldwide, especially in
> Russia.
>
> Thankyou, Charles.
>
> Kim, comments?
>
> Gene
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Sitwell <csitwell@xtra.co.nz>
> To: theos-talk@theosophy.com <theos-talk@theosophy.com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 6:31 AM
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Fundamental theosohical principles and their
> relationship toscience.
>
>
> >Eugene Carpenter and others have been saying interesting things about
> numbers,
> >the significance of Zero, and One. I just thought I would throw in
 there
> was a
> >reference to binary arithmetic, that I find it interesting to consider
the
> the
> >numbers 1 through seven in binary form (using three bits) written under
> each
> >other.
> > Knowing the unfortunate effects of formatting in eMail I'm reluctant to
do
> it
> >here, but as most of you will well know (but I don't want to mystify any
> who
> >don't :-) ) the sequence is 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, 111.  My point
is
> that
> >the leftmost position is zero for the upper triad, and 1 for the lower
> >quaternary.  Also the alternating polarity idea for the levels (planes of
> >consciousness or whatever term you prefer) gets some support from the
> rightmost
> >column.
> >It may of course be just coincidence? :-) but its interesting, at lest to
> me; so
> >I thought I'd share it.
> >Regards
> >Charles Sitwell.
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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