Two Encyclopedias, Fat and Thin

[Glenn Scheper]

I say the Hebrew seven are the Egyptian eight, excluding one.
That is the basis of the judgment that permeates Christianity.

>From the top of a quick Go ogle:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdoad

 In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad are the eight deities
 worshipped in Hermopolis. They were arranged in four
 male-female pairs, with the males associated with frogs,
 and the females with snakes: Nu/Naunet, Amun/Amaunet,
 Kuk/Kauket, Huh/Hauhet. Apart from their gender, there was
 little to distinguish the male god in a pair from the
 female goddess; indeed, the names of the males are merely
 the male forms of the female name. Essentially, each pair
 represents the male and female aspect of one of four
 concepts, namely the primordial waters (Nu/Naunet), air or
 invisibility (Amun/Amunet), darkness (Kuk/Kauket), and
 eternity or infinite space (Huh/Hauhet).

 http://www.byzant.com/Mystical/Scriptorium/Ogdoad.aspx

 Valentinius was a prominent second century Gnostic, and he
 used the term Ogdoad to describe eight emanations - grouped
 in pairs of male/female, active/passive principles - by
 which Creation was effected. Initially there was the
 masculine principle of Bythos (the Abyss or Depth which was
 boundless and unqualified) from which came the feminine
 Silence, Grace or Thought. The uniting of these two
 produced Mind (masculine) and Truth (feminine). These four
 principles are the root of everything, bringing forth
 further powers called Aeons, again grouped in
 masculine/feminine pairs. The union of Mind and Truth
 brought forth Word (masculine) and Life (feminine), which
 together created Man (masculine) and the Church (feminine).
 Together, this group of eight principles formed the Ogdoad,
 which in turn produced further Aeons. The thirtieth of
 these was Sophia, the desire for wisdom, and it was the
 error of Sophia in not comprehending her limits that caused
 the Fall that made our Universe, according to Valentinian
 myth.

 http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/PT/m7.html

 The Heptad is the Monas Arcana (Hidden Monad) or Second
 Monad, for it is the impulse that finds completion in the
 Decad, just as the First Monad finds completion in the
 Tetrad (10-7 = 4-1). Like the Monad, the Heptad is its own
 independent Principle; it is Incommensurable, because it
 neither divides nor is divided by any of the other numbers
 of the Decad, excepting only the Monad. The Monads and
 their Completions form an arithmetic progression (1, 4, 7,
 10), the First Completion being the Mean of the two Monads
 (4 = mean[1,7]), and the Second Monad being the Mean of the
 two Completions (7 = mean[4,10]). In each case the Monads
 (1, 7) evolve through stages of Separation (2, 8),
 Completion (3, 9) and Consolidation (4, 10). Similarly, the
 Pythagoreans call the Heptad "Athena", for like Her the
 Heptad is born of neither mother (Even) nor father (Odd),
 but is a Second Monad, sprung like Her from the Source, the
 First Monad, the Head of the Father. As Athena, the Forager
 (Agelaia), gathers disparate things and brings them
 together in one place, so the Heptad gathers together many
 disparate influences and from them makes a new Monad, a new
 Beginning, a new Principle of Generation.

 Likewise the Pythagoreans call the Heptad a "Flock"
 (Agelos), for it is a Cluster of multiple forces, as when
 the Seven Planets act at once, each exerting Its own
 influence. This Cluster of Forces is an unsymmetrical and
 unstable equilibrium, and so the Passive Heptad has a
 delicate structure and represents an ill-defined situation.
 Thus the slightest perturbation may cause a sudden,
 unpredictable change, for whichever force happens to
 dominate at that moment may thereafter prevail over the
 others. Therefore, the Pythagoreans call the Heptad
 "Chance," since it represents the Critical Point, the
 Crisis, the Coincidence, and thereby the Impulse to the
 Second Creation and thus the Second Completion, which
 constitutes Full Embodiment.

 The Heptad itself is Victory and Fulfillment, for it brings
 many things to completion. The Heptad is a return to the
 Unity and Wholeness of the Monad. As there is a Descending
 Triadic Path, from Unity (1), through Goal (2), to
 Achievement (3) and finally to Order (4); so also is there
 an Ascending Triadic Path, from Order (4), through Crisis
 (5), to Reconciliation (6) and finally to Hidden Unity (7).
 In this way too a person's life is brought to completion in
 Seven Stages (corresponding to the Planets), and the
 Seventh Stage brings one to the Threshold of Rebirth. So
 also is the Heptad the Root of all Cycles, of the moon, of
 women, of tones, of weeks, et cetera.

 The Heptad is the Seventh Door, the Gateway to Initiation
 and Rebirth, for it is both the Completion and the New
 Beginning (the Second Monad). Such was Inanna's (Ishtar's)
 Descent to the Underworld, which was through Seven Gates.
 Further, the First Tetrad (1, 2, 3, 4) is the Nigredo, the
 Descent to Matter; the Second Tetrad (4, 5, 6, 7) is the
 Albedo, the Ascent to Spirit; but the Third Tetrad (7, 8,
 9, 10) is the Rubedo, the Descent of the Spirit into
 Matter. This is what the Alchemists tell us.



Here is my complete revelation
I am publishing in WordsEx.exe
as notes to Book of Revelation:


Here are my intuitions after 30 years of hard study.

Persons accumulate attributes, so fall under those rules.

Let 0-6 number the attributes of Ephesus, ..., Laodicea.

Now I must speak subtly:

Let a = Strong's Gk 730

Let t = Strong's Gk 2338

Let < = Strong's Gk 4750

Let - = Strong's Gk 3751

Let @ = Strong's Hb 8306

Let % = Strong's Hb 7699

Language indexicals correlate: < this,here; - that,there; : what,where.

Dyads gain attributes thus:

t0<-t'4

a1<-t5

t2<-a6

a3<-a'3

Monads exist. They "say to" 0-6.

Seraphim: t( 0=4 )<-t( 0=4 )

Cherubim: a3<-a3

Serendipitous events:

Son-of-Man: a at -a

Lamb: a at -a, ... a<-a

Mimicry by transgressor: a- at a', ... a->a' See 1Enoch.

Similar transgressor t=Semiramis/Isis/Jezebel: t- at a, t->a

Doubling transitivity: a-:t + t%>x = a->x

Similar transgressor t=Babylon: a-:t, a- at x, t- at x, t%>x

Distress of an abject man/Watcher ( e.g., Hamlet ) is: Lamb uncovers transgression.

Notable complementarity: t%>x = t-:x

Lamb's work:

Seals 0-5: a--t; 6: t<-a

Rev 12: a at -a, ... a<-a, ... a<%a, a at -a

Mark: Two red sun-signs. Appear and fade during Rev 12.

666: Appear upon double the third part of ten cubed.

Compare the alter of incense: double a golden cube.

Numbering: one-to-one correspondence; short of Naming.

Three & Thousand: related to a; Four & Myriad: related to t.

Trumpets: a<%a, ... a<-a

Sickles: a-:a, ... a<-a

Vials: a<:a, ... a<-a

I could name many more, but will not. Enough hermeneuticists 
now given the breadth of the target space should be able, as have a few 
individuals before, to see the strong isomorphism of the domains, 
make tentative symbol mapping by associations and exclusions, 
weigh it all, and come to some consensus about revealed truth. 

The interplay of these attributes describe, govern, bless, and curse, 
both temporally and spiritually, all human life. Using these insights, 
one can map the metaphorical, or spiritual, terms on physical reality. 
Thus, one can interpret and openly read all the secrets of the bible. 

These same metaphors are used cunningly by many classical authors. 
Coming readily to mind are: Dickinson, Shakespeare, Kafka, Dante, 
Spare, Blake, Exupery, Nietzsche, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Goethe, Poe, 
and many more whose works belie knowledge of this ground. 


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
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