today is Pentecost Sunday, important in Pynchon

[David Morris]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecost

The 50th day after Easter. And the 49th new day after Easter.  Both numbers
have significance:

Pentecost: 50
http://mysticalnumbers.com/number-5/
Five (5) is the number of Man (humans).
Ten (10) is a multiplier.
50 (5x10) is man augmented to the first power.

But the underlying number is the 49 days before Pentecost, the force that
made Pentecost happen.

http://mysticalnumbers.com/number-7/
Number 7 is the number of perfection.

Perfection is another word for completion (the end of a cycle).  49 days is
7x7 days.  Completion, perfection times perfection.  Complete
completeness.  The END.

Then comes Pentecost:  Man Augmented.  The new man.

David Morris

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you know...
>
> [image: Pentecost Miracle]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eichst%C3%A4tt-Spitalkirche_(2).JPG>
> *Pentecost Miracle*
>
>    - ... that Bach <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach>
>    's *O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe
>    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_ewiges_Feuer,_o_Ursprung_der_Liebe,_BWV_34>* (O
>    eternal fire, o source of love) was a wedding cantata
>    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantata> before he adapted it for
>    Pentecost <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecost> *(pictured)*?
>
>
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