Celestial time periods that form musical intervals.
- The Martian Moon Resonance
As with the other outer planets, Mars has a resonant relationship with the Lunar Year. UPDATED. - The Moon is Key to our Survival
With the advent of many orbital missions, the Moon is threatened with orbital and other changes due to space travel. - 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. - Why numbers manifest living planets
above: The human essence class related to four other classes in J.G. Bennett’s Gurdjieff: Making a New World. Appendix II. page 290. This systematics presents the human essence class which eats the germinal essence of Life, but is “eaten” by cosmic individuality, the purpose of the universe. The range of human potential is from living … Continue reading “Planetary Harmony” - Chartres 2: the harmony in its towers
In the previous post, the difference in height of the two towers was seen to have an exoteric and an esoteric meaning. Exoterically, the taller tower is sometimes called the sun tower, probably because the globe at its top (below its cross) is about 365 feet-as-days (hence representing the sun and its year). From this … Continue reading “Chartres 2: the harmony in its towers” - Chartres 1: the cosmic coding of its towers in height
The lunar crescent atop the “moon” tower’s cross. Chartres, in north-west France, is a very special version of the Gothic transcept cathedral design. Having burnt down more than once, due to wooden ceilings, its reconstruction over many building seasons and different masonic teams, as funds permitted, would have needed strong organizing ideas to inform the … Continue reading “Chartres 1: the cosmic coding of its towers in height” - Astronomy 4: The Planetary Matrix
The re-discovery of the ancient planetary matrix, seen through three my three books: Matrix of Creation, Harmonic Origins of the World and Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels. Harmonic Origins of the World inserted the astronomical observations of my previous books into an ancient harmonic matrix, alluded to using the sacred numbers found in many … Continue reading “Astronomy 4: The Planetary Matrix” - Gurdjieff, Octave Worlds & Tuning Theory (2019)
This is a paper I suggested for the All and Everything conference in Cumbria, but it was not selected. It developed a number of strands, which I offer here as a snapshot of my thinking and research around 2019. This text was modified to become appendix 3 of my Sacred Number and the Language of … Continue reading “Gurdjieff, Octave Worlds & Tuning Theory (2019)” - 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” - 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 squareA unit rectangle of 1 by 2, with important use for alignment (Carnac), cosmology (Egypt) and tuning theory (Honnecourt Man). appears. Above … Continue reading “Double squares: Venus and the Golden Mean” - The Planetary EnvironmentIn our planetary system, simple small-number ratios appear to have been required to create a special type of planet able to host Life. At some stage this would have required an adjustment of outer planetary orbits to suit the future lunar resonator, implying non-human intelligence influenced the orbits, to be numerically related from the earth, … Continue reading “The Planetary Environment”
- 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” - The Approximation of π on Earth
π is a transcendental ratio existing between a diameter/ radius and circumference of a circle. A circle is an expression of eternity in that the circumference, if travelled upon, repeats eternally. The earths shape would be circular if the planet did not spin. Only the equator is now circular and enlarged, whilst the north and … Continue reading “The Approximation of π on Earth” - Book: Matrix of Creation
Sacred numbers arose from ancient man’s observation of the heavens, and represent the secrets of cosmic proportion and alignment. The ancients understood that the ripeness of the natural world is the perfection of ratio and that the planetary system–and time itself–is a creation of number. We have forgotten what our ancestors once knew: that numbers … Continue reading “Book: Matrix of Creation” - 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” - Powers of the Golden Mean
Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is one of the masterpieces of Iranian architecture that was built during the Safavid Empire, standing on the eastern side of Naqsh-i Jahan Square, Esfahan, Iran. Construction of the mosque started in 1603 and was finished in 1619. for Wikipedia by Phillip Maiwald The Golden MeanThe Golden MeanThe Golden Mean is that unique ratio {1.618034}, relative to ONE {1}, in which its square and reciprocal share the same fractional part {.618034}. It is associated with the synodic period of the planet Venus, which is 8/5 {1.6} of the practical year {365 days}, by approximation. It is a key proportion found in Greco-Roman and later "classical" architecture, and commonly encountered in the forms living bodies take. is that unique ratio {1.618034}, relative to ONE {1}, in which … Continue reading “Powers of the Golden Mean” - Leak Project Interview
Rex Bear talked to me by Zoom on the 11th March; about the extensive background of my new book Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels. Below is embedded from the Leak Project YouTube channel. - The Stonehenge Trilithons (Part 2): Day-Inch Counting
In the previous article, it was shown that the form of the trilithons, of five taller double sarsens approximating to a five-pointed star, matches the astronomical phenomena of the successive morning and evening stars, as Venus approaches Earth from the east and then recedes to the west as the morning pass. On approach, the planet … Continue reading “The Stonehenge Trilithons (Part 2): Day-Inch Counting” - The Geocentric Planetary Matrix
Harmonic Origins of the World inserted the astronomical observations of my previous books into an ancient harmonic matrix, alluded to through the harmonic numbers found in many religious stories, and also through the cryptic works of Plato. Around 355 BC, Plato’s dialogues probably preserved what Pythagoras had learnt from ancient mystery centers of his day, … Continue reading “The GeocentricThe ancient view of the planetary world in which the inner planets orbit the sun and the sun and planets orbit Earth (the geo part). The Chaldean order was Earth - Moon - (Mercury - Venus -Sun) - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn. Planetary Matrix” - 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” - 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 geocentricThe ancient view of the planetary world in which the inner planets … Continue reading “from Book 5: Harmonic Origins of the World” - Astronomy 3: Understanding Time Cycles
above: a 21-petal object in the Heraklion Museum which could represent the 21 seven-day weeks in the 399 days of the Jupiter synod. [2004, Richard Heath] One of the unfortunate aspects of adopting the number 360 for calibrating the EclipticThe path of the Sun through the sky along which eclipses of sun and moon can … Continue reading “Astronomy 3: Understanding Time Cycles” - Geometry 6: the Geometrical AMY
By 2016 it was already obvious that the lunar month (in days) and the PMYproto-megalithic yard of 32.625 (261/8) day-inches, generated at Le Manio Quadrilateral as the difference between three solar and three lunar year counts., AMYA megalithic yardAny unit of length 2.7-2.73 feet long, after Alexander Thom discovered 2.72 ft and 2.722 ft as units within the geometry within the megalithic monuments of Britain and Brittany. which, in inches, expresses the true astronomical ratio of mean solar months to lunar months. and … Continue reading “Geometry 6: the Geometrical AMY” - pdf: Synchronicity of Day and Year with the Lunar Orbit
This document was prepared by Richard Heath as a letter for Nature magazine and submitted on 14th April 1994 but remained unpublished. For readers of the Matrix of Creation (2nd ed, Inner Traditions Press, 2004) it marks the discovery of a unit of time proposed and named the ChrononThe average excess of the day over … Continue reading “pdf: Synchronicity of Day and Year with the Lunar Orbit” - pdf: Counting lunar eclipses using the Phaistos Disk
This paper* concerns itself with a unique fired-clay disk, found by Luigi Pernier in 1908 within the Minoan “palace” of Phaistos (aka Faistos), on the Greek island of Crete. Called the Phaistos Disk, its purpose or meaning has been interpreted many times, largely seen as either (a) a double-sided text in the repeated form of … Continue reading “pdf: Counting lunar eclipses using the Phaistos Disk” - pdf: Astronomical Musicality within Mythic Narratives
Ancient musical knowledge came to Just tuning long before Greek music, in Babylonia. It now seems likely that two sources of musical information, were involved in an early tradition of musical tuning by number: firstly, the early number field is the original template upon which musical harmony is based; and secondly, the prehistoric geocentricThe ancient … Continue reading “pdf: Astronomical Musicality within Mythic Narratives” - 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 megalithsStructures built out of large little-altered stones in the new stone age or neolithic between 5,000-2,500 (bronze age), in the pursuit of astronomical knowledge. with the objective views of many other researchers in the field. I … 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” - Cretan Calendar Disks
I have interpreted two objects from Phaistos (Faistos), both in the Heraklion Museum. Both would work well as calendar objects. One would allow the prediction of eclipses: The other for tracking eclipse seasons using the 16/15 relationship of the synod of Saturn (Chronos) and the Lunar Year: - St Pierre 1: Jupiter and the Moon
The egg-shaped stone circles of the megalithic, in Brittany by c. 4000 BC and in Britain by 2500 BC, seem to express two different astronomical time lengths, beside each other as (a) a circumference and then (b) a longer, egg-shaped extension of that circle. It was Alexander ThomScottish engineer 1894-1985. Discovered, through surveying, that Britain’s … Continue reading “St Pierre 1: Jupiter and the Moon” - Further Ratios of the Outer Planets to the Lunar Year
The traditional way to express the Harmony of the Spheres is geometrically, despite the fact that geometrical knowledge of the heliocentricThe modern view of the solar system in which all planets orbit the Sun and the Moon orbits the Earth as third planet out. planetary system was not available to Pythagoras who, for the West, … Continue reading “Further Ratios of the Outer Planets to the Lunar Year” - Fibonacci in Jupiter’s 12-fold HeavenThe Fibonacci series is an ideal pattern, widely found within living systems, in which the present magnitude or location of something is the product of two previous magnitudes or locations of it. The next magnitude will again be the sum of the last two magnitudes in what is, an algorithmic pattern producing approximation to the … Continue reading “Fibonacci in Jupiter’s 12-fold Heaven”
- Use of Ad-Quadratum at Angkor Wat
Ad Quadratum is a convenient and profound technique in which continuous scaling of size can be given to square shapes, either from a centre or periphery. The differences in scale are multiples of the square root of two [sqrt(2)] between two types of square: cardinal (flat) and diamond (pointed). - Video: Some Numbers of Cosmic Intelligence
This was recorded before 2012 using diagrams slides and voice-over. It still introduces well how the megalithic solved astronomical problems. - Venus: Planet of Harmony: part 1Venus has played a strong role in mankind’s imagination, being a bright object in the sky in the evening sky and then the morning sky, whilst also viewed as the primary female goddess of the Ancient Near East. To recent astronomers, she is covered in impenetrable clouds, whilst the invention of radar revealed a rocky … Continue reading “Venus: Planet of Harmony: part 1”
- Politics of Number part 2
The YouTube talk below, from 2012, discusses how numbers are more significant in understanding past and present societies, through the medium of a museum reproduction I made of an object to be seen in the Heraklion Museum. It records a Saturnian calendar that must have existed in the matriarchal societies of the Minoans in Crete … Continue reading “Politics of Number part 2” - REVIEW of The Harmonic Origins of the Worldby Bryan Carr alias Skholiast During the latter part of the twentieth century, three divergent speculative perspectives opened up on the ancients’ cosmology: astronomical, musical, and metrological. The astronomical perspective found its classic expression in von Dechend and de Santillana’s Hamlet’s Mill. The musical perspective was spelled out, almost single-handedly, by Ernest McClainAmerican Cryptologist and … Continue reading “REVIEW of The Harmonic Origins of the World”
- Harmonic Earth Measures
The Size of the Earth’s Meridian It appears the ancient world had unreasonably accurate knowledge of the size of the earth and its shape: Analysis of ancient monuments reveals an exact estimate for the circumference of the mean Earth, a spherical version of the Earth, un-deformed by it spinning once a day. Half of this … Continue reading “Harmonic Earth Measures” - 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?” - Tetraktys as plan of planetary harmony and the four Elements
Figure 1 The elimination of 5 as a factor in the harmonic mountain for 36 lunar years, resolved using matrix units of one tenth of a month and the limit 360 units. In a previous post I explored the astronomical matrix presented in The Harmonic Origins of the World with a view to reducing the … Continue reading “Tetraktys as plan of planetary harmony and the four Elements” - Harmonic Astronomy within Seascale Flattened Circle
first published in July 2018 Only two type-D stone circles (see figure 3) are known to exist, called Roughtor (in Cornwall) and Seascale (in Cumbria). Seascale is assessed below, for the potential this type of flattened circle had to provide megalithic astronomers with a calendrical observatory. Seascale could also have modelled the harmonic ratios of … Continue reading “Harmonic Astronomy within Seascale Flattened Circle” - Planetary Resonances with the Moon
Readers of my article [post2post id=”327″] will be familiar with the finding that in 32 lunar months there are almost exactly 945 days, leading to the incredibly accurate proximation (one part in 45000!) for the lunar month of 945/32 = 29.53125 days. In the previous article on Seascale I noticed that 36 lunar months (three … Continue reading “Planetary Resonances with the Moon” - Musical Tones of the Outer Planets
My crucial entré to planetary harmony came when I noticed musical ratios in the synodicThe recurring time cycle of a given celestial phenomenon seen from the Earth. time periods of Jupiter and Saturn relative to the lunar year. This approach differs from the norms for “harmonies of the spheres” (a.k.a. Musica Universalis) which are geometrical … Continue reading “Musical Tones of the Outer Planets”