Ideas about the nature of the whole.
- Harmony of the Biblical Patriarchs
This extract from The Harmonic Origins of the World (p58-62) shows how what are taken to be arbitrary numbers, in the narrative of the Patriarchs, expressed knowledge of planetary resonances. - Gurdjieff’s Diagram of Everything Livingfirst created: 28 October 2017 Gurdjieff first presented his ideas to groups in pre-revolutionary Russia. Amongst his carefully chosen students it was the habit to reconstruct talks and diagrams as much as possible, an endeavour that gave us a textbook of Gurdjieff’s ideas called In Search of the Miraculous (P.D. Ouspensky, 1950). This early form of … Continue reading “Gurdjieff’s Diagram of Everything Living”
- Numbers of a Living Planet: Preface
The image above is Kurma avatara of Vishnu, below Mount Mandara, with Vasuki wrapped around it, during Samudra Manthana, the churning of the ocean of milk. ca 1870. Wikipedia. It is impossible to talk of a creation outside of the time and space of Existence, though from it, other dimensions can be inferred such as an “Eternity” visible in the … Continue reading “Numbers of a Living Planet: Preface” - Angkor Wat: Observatory of the Moon and Sun
above: Front side of the main complex by Kheng Vungvuthy for Wikipedia In her book on Angkor Wat, the Cambodian Hindu-style temple complex, Eleanor Mannikka found an architectural unit in use, of 10/7 feet, a cubit of 20/21 feet (itself an outlier of the Roman module of 24/25 feet, at 125/126 of the 0.96 root … Continue reading “Angkor Wat: Observatory of the Moon and Sun” - Music of the Olmec Heads
Seventeen colossal carved heads are known, each made out of large basalt boulders. The heads shown here, from the city of San Lorenzo [1200-900 BCE], are a distinctive feature of the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. In the absence of any evidence, they are thought to be portraits of individual Olmec rulers but here I propose the heads represented musical … Continue reading “Music of the Olmec Heads” - Double squares: Venus and the Golden Mean
The humble square, with side length equal to one unit, is like the number one. It’s area is one square unit and, when we add another identical square to one side, the double square appears. Above right the Egyptian Djed column is shown within a double square. The Djed is the rotating earth which the … Continue reading “Double squares: Venus and the Golden Mean” - Eleven Questions on Sacred Numbers
In 2011, Sacred Number and the Origins of the Universe was nicely re-published in Portuguese by Publisher Pensamento in Brazil. Their press agent contacted my publisher for an email interview from a journalist who posed eleven questions about sacred number. Interview: 1) Is the universe a mathematical equation? If the universe is a creation then … Continue reading “Eleven Questions on Sacred Numbers” - On the Harmonic Origins of the World
Does the solar system function as a musical instrument giving rise to intelligent life, civilization and culture on our planet? This 2018 article in New Dawn introduced readers to the lost science of the megalithic – how our ancestors discovered the special ratios and musical harmony in the sky which gave birth to religion and … Continue reading “On the Harmonic Origins of the World” - Walking on the Moon
There are plans to walk again on the moon (above is a NASA visualization), but there is a sense in which the surface of the moon belongs to the surface of the earth, since the earth’s circumference is 4 times the mean diameter of the earth, minus the moon’s circumference. The Earth and Moon were … Continue reading “Walking on the Moon” - Introduction to my book Harmonic Origins of the World
Over the last seven thousand years, hunter-gathering humans have been transformed into the “modern” norms of citizens (city dwellers) through a series of metamorphoses during which the intellect developed ever-larger descriptions of the world. Past civilizations and even some tribal groups have left wonders in their wake, a result of uncanny skills – mental and … Continue reading “Introduction to my book Harmonic Origins of the World” - The Many Faces of Great Time
Figure 7.5 The widespread tradition of a God who changes the astrological Age, through the Precession of the Equinoxes: Top left, Mithras as Sol Invictus; top right, Mithras slaying the Age of Taurus; bottom left, Aion, God of Ages; and bottom right, Orphic God Phanes. Mithras slaying the Age of Taurus (photo by Tim Prevett … Continue reading “The Many Faces of Great Time” - Twelve: determining Time and Space on the Earth
ABOVE: South rose window in Angers Cathedral of Saint Maurice. Stained glass by Andre Robin created after the fire of 1451. At centre, Christ of the Apocalypse, in glory (Revelation 21:5). At bottom, 12 radial windows showing 12 elders, crowned and playing musical instruments, rejoicing, indicating the remade world (the heavenly Jerusalem). At top, circular … Continue reading “Twelve: determining Time and Space on the Earth” - The Tragic Loss of the Geocentric Arts & Sciences
above: The first page of a significant article I wrote for New Dawn (3000 words, 5 illustrations). The PDF of this issue is available from New Dawn website. - Agni, the Indian God of Fire
Those new to Ernest McClain and his The Myth of Invariance, should know this book was a seminal work for anyone in my generation, that opened up a Pythagorean vision; of how number operates in the domain of harmony. This world of harmony can be numerically defined in a quite extraordinary and specific way and … Continue reading “Agni, the Indian God of Fire” - The Richard Syrett Interviews on Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels
I recently recorded a podcast with Richard Syrett and will be talking with him again today (January 2nd) on Coast to Coast, starting 10pm Pacific time. In the UK, this is tomorrow (Sunday the 3rd) at 6am GMT. Both these interviews are in response to my new book Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels, which … Continue reading “The Richard Syrett Interviews on Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels” - Evolving Intelligence of the Biosphere:
An Essay from DuVersity Newsletter 35 – 2014 The Light and Dark, as Value and Fact, could be viewed as reconciled by an evolved mind, within the biosphere. They could indeed be the cause of the arising of proto-minds, since existential situations in the Biosphere are of value for its beings whilst being factual. As … Continue reading “Evolving Intelligence of the Biosphere:” - from Book 5: Harmonic Origins of the World
Intelligent Star Systems The harmony of the spheres can only be found in our world of time, where it is a strong and compelling phenomenon. Such a harmony was no prescientific fantasy. Pythagoras, who coined the term, probably did so based on the geocentric time world, a view lost to history apart from cryptic references … Continue reading “from Book 5: Harmonic Origins of the World” - Sacred Number and the Lords of Time
Back Cover ANCIENT MYSTERIES “Heath has done a superb job of collating his own work on the subject of megaliths with the objective views of many other researchers in the field. I therefore do not merely recommend reading this book but can state unequivocally it is a must read.”–John Neal, British metrologist and researcher and … Continue reading “Sacred Number and the Lords of Time” - pdf: Musicological Narrative Structures in Biblical Genesis
This paper attempts to interpret the first two books of the Bible, according to Ernest McClain’s methods. It is contended that the compositions of ancient texts, as Plato insinuated, were both inspired and used for the science of numerical harmonics. The invariant properties of harmonic numbers, and their evolution through limiting whole numbers, offer a … Continue reading “pdf: Musicological Narrative Structures in Biblical Genesis” - Sacred Geometry: Language of the AngelsFor further details of the book look at the growing Publisher pages for it at Inner Traditions.
- Durrington Walls and its massive circle of Pits
Recent analysis of animal bones within Durrington Walls indicated, to the archaeologists involved, that people had travelled there from all over the British mainland, along with animals then eaten inside the henge[1]. But what would these people be doing there? It had earlier been suggested that an elite responsible for building Stonehenge lived in a … Continue reading “Durrington Walls and its massive circle of Pits” - Precessional Time: Working with IdeasMy third book, Precessional Time and the Evolution of Consciousness is my slimmest (surely a virtue) about how we work with ideas. It has its own conjunctions and disjunctions; where conjunctions are discovered meanings and disjunctions are changes in direction. The book is dominated with the cyclic metaphors of the Tone Circle of 1st Millennium … Continue reading “Precessional Time: Working with Ideas”
- YouTube: Precessional Time and the Evolution of ConsciousnessBelow is a YouTube presentation associated with this book, made after its publication in 2012. It is part of a series of films made with Anthony Blake over a weekend, in preparation for a seminar in the United States later that year – called The Politics of Number. I was employing an octave model for … Continue reading “YouTube: Precessional Time and the Evolution of Consciousness”
- Iceland’s Model of the Earth’s Meridian
Einar Palsson [1, at end] saw that the myths of foundation for Iceland’s settlement in 930 had Pythagorean roots. Since then Petur Halldorsson has identified patterns that could not have been influenced by Pythagoras (c. 600 BC) and Pythagoras was known to have adapted the existing number sciences found (according to his myth) from Egypt … Continue reading “Iceland’s Model of the Earth’s Meridian” - Review of Precessional Time and the Evolution of ConsciousnessMy third book (Inner Traditions, 2011) was recently reviewed by Paul Young in New Dawn magazine March-April 2019. It is said that we are transiting from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius in a backward precession through the 12 zodiacal signs. Examining the numbers that define these Ages is one of the … Continue reading “Review of Precessional Time and the Evolution of Consciousness”
- Harmonic Genesis of the Sumerians
The emergence of 2, 3, 5 from ONE then combining as ANU and leading to the differentiation of the World along various paths. The creation proceeds through three prime number dimensions, Ea (as in Earth) through 2, Enki through 3 , Enlil through 5. Anu remains the fountainhead associated with all three and with the … Continue reading “Harmonic Genesis of the Sumerians” - God of Harmony Osiris in Egyptian Mice Tomb
Recently an “early Ptolomaic” tomb was discovered similar in themes to the famous Egyptian Books of the Dead (Middle Kingdom). Normally written on papyrus, they feature multiple tableau of Osiris judging the dead and other scenes. Osiris is a long lasting and perhaps supreme god whose cult was present throughout 3000 years of Dynastic history. … Continue reading “God of Harmony Osiris in Egyptian Mice Tomb” - A Moon that created Life?
Extracted from Precessional Time and the Evolution of Consciousness, Inner Traditions, 2011. There is a long history of speculation concerning the origins of our Moon which is still not fully settled but an early impact seems most likely and a key proponent has been William K Hartmann of the Planetary Institute (also space artist, see … Continue reading “A Moon that created Life?” - Extremely Ancient knowledge of Precession of the EquinoxesThe above is part of the title of an 2018 paper on the Athens Journal of History website, by Martin B. Sweatman and Alistair Coombs currently available here: Decoding European Palaeolithic Art: Extremely Ancient knowledge of Precession of the Equinoxes This work concerns our understanding of the astronomical knowledge of ancient people. This knowledge, it seems, … Continue reading “Extremely Ancient knowledge of Precession of the Equinoxes”