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Lotus
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 		Spec: the secret dotrines...
Some junk, possibly trout, from the http://www.blavatsky.net site

http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/ScienceAndTheSecretDoctrine/SeriesNumber92-of-103.html

From the "Stars and Numbers" section...

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Closely related to astrology is the Kabala and its system of numerals. The secret wisdom of the ancient Chaldees left by them as an inheritance to the Jews relates primarily to the mythological science of the heavens and contains the doctrines of the hidden or occult wisdom concerning the cycles of time. In the ancient philosophy, the sacredness of numbers began with the great FIRST, the ONE, and ended with the naught or Zero, the symbol of the infinite and boundless circle, which represents the universe. All the intervening figures, in whatever combination, or however multiplied, represent philosophical ideas relating either to a moral or a physical fact in nature. They are the key to the archean views on cosmogony, in its broad sense, including man and beings, and relate to the human race and individuals spiritually as well as physically. "The numerals of Pythagoras," says Porphyry, "were hieroglyphical symbols, by means whereof he explained all ideas concerning the nature of all things" (De Vitâ Pythag.). In the symbolical kabala --the most ancient system left to us by the Chaldeans -- the modes of examining letters, words and sentences for hidden meaning were numerical. The gemantria (one of the three modes) is purely arithmetical and mathematical, and consists in applying to the letters of a word the sense they bear as numbers -- letters being used also for figures in the Hebrew as in Greek. Figurative Gemantria deduces mysterious interpretations from the shapes of letters used in occult manuscripts and the Bible.


I have a big slimy trout ready if anybody wants me to smack myself.

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Lotus
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 		Moreover... later in this article:

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And now, in 1881, we have again a visit of three other "Wanderers." What do they forebode? Nothing good; and it would seem, as if of the great evils they are likely to pour on the devoted heads of hapless humanity, the fatal prelude is already being played. Let us enumerate and see how far we are from the truth. The nearly simultaneous and certainly in some cases unexpected deaths of great and the most remarkable men of our age. In the region of politics, we find the Emperor of Russia, Lord Beaconsfield, and Aga Khan;(7) in that of literature, Carlyle and George Eliot; in the world of art, Rubenstein, the greatest musical genius. In the domain of geology -- earthquakes which have already destroyed the town of Casamiceiola on the Island of Ischia, a village in California and the Island of Chio which was laid entirely waste by the terrible catastrophe -- one, moreover, predicted for that very day by the astrologer Raphael.


Might mean nothing. Still....

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Barbarellany
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 		Dale seems to have figured it out. The guides have congratulated him and given him a new message.

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dmax
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 		heh
We are, then, Chasing him...
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That sounds like something HITLER would say!

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mottjr
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 		Alright, lets try looking at this from a different angle. We have all been going under the assumption that the "pattern" is referring to the pattern in the modulo table. There are two four symbol sequences which repeat. The first one is in rows 1,2, and 22. The second is in rows 17 and 22. I've attached the two patterns for reference. We haven't been making much headway in our current direction so I offer this as an alternative.

pointer.gif showed four symbols which seem to have no relation to each other. Maybe it was to make us look at groups of four.

I thow this out to the group.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 12:16 pm
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cemgate
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 		I have no clue where you all are or where this grid is going, but while looking at the 4 symbols given to us and trying to think what they may represent I know that the "n" looking symbol is a Futhark? "U".

While just perusing the grid I noticed that in the 5th row there were two of them and tried to "see" a word possibilty.

"n-symbol"/"evergreen"/"n-symbol"/"eye"/"hand"/"hand"/"bare tree"

There is a word that would fit this pattern..... "USUALLY".
I tried applying it elsewhere to no avail, but sometimes I know others' "dead-end" thoughts can inspire someone else.

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