COLGR49: Chapter 1 Summary

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Fifty days for the pentecost and on the 49th is the "crying"......

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cfa

> COLGR49: Chapter 1
> 
> The Over-determination of symbols
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> All Good 49ers . . .
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> 0. Seven X Seven:
> Seven is the number of the universe, the makrocosmos, completeness, a
> "totality" contrary to a singularity. Seven covers Three and Four, the
> numbers of the Heaven and the Earth. So it includes both the Spiritual
> and the Secular. There's much more to read about in any symbolic
> dictionary. These few examples are from the German version of J.C.
> Cooper, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London 1978.
> 
> 1. The original I Ching works with 49 sticks (there is a fiftieth one
> but this one is put away).
> 
> 2. The I Ching (a kind of "random-generator") hexagram No. 49 is Go,
> "The Lake above the Fire" -- the sign for moult (lost and renewal) or
> revolution, the turning of the oppositions. The youngest daughter
> (Dui, the lake) is above the older daughter (Li, the fire), so the
> "effects" are working against each other, fire and water are
> struggling to annihilate each other.
> 
> 3. 1849 - San Francisco Gold-rush.
> 
> 4. 1949 - LSD enters the US:
> "It arrived on American shores in 1949 (...)."
> (Jay Stevens, "Storming Heaven. LSD and the American Dream", 1987,
> Paladin, London 1989, p. 36)
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> 5. 49 days between Easter and Whitsunday
> 
> 6. 49 days in the Bardo according to the "Bardo Thödol" (pp. 41, 43,
> 94ff and 119 in Evans-Wentz, "Das Tibetanische Totenbuch", Walter
> Verlag, Olten und Freiburg, 1971). The "Bardo" is some kind of
> limbo-existence between death and rebirth.
> 
> COL49 p. 20 and 21 (Picador ed.): "Book of the Dead" (...) "One of
> your endless repetitions."
> 
> 7. The 7 lucky lottery numbers drawn from 49 numbers each Saturday,
> Sunday or Wednesday.
> 
> 8. Seven years of bad luck for breaking a mirror on p. 27.
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> Otto
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