today is Pentecost Sunday, important in Pynchon

[David Morris]

BTW,

The number 6 indicates less than perfection, AKA Sin.  Thus the meaning of
666.

David Morris

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 9:59 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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