Lord Bacon, "There God speaks"

Petter Amundsen (author of Oak Island…..) was unable to source (as was I) Lord Bacon as having said "There God speaks" as quoted on page 126 of "The Tunnel Thru the Air".  I have located an indirect attribution to "The Watchman",  July 21, 1904, page 7 as follows:

Mystery solved.  Mr. Gann wasn't inventing a phrase for purposes of encoding another thought, even though the letters can produce several anagrams involving the aberrant spelling of "Shakespeare" as "Shakesper."  Apparently, one less rabbit to chase.

Jim

The Mammouth Building and 9/11

I have long held the suspicion that Mr. Gann veiled a prophecy of 9/11/2001 in The Tunnel Thru the Air and have written lengthy essays on the matter not to be repeated here.  Simply consider, The Mammouth Building….the largest building in New York City.  110 stories.  Ditto the World Trade Center.  There's numerology linking TMB and WTC and gematria that provide contextual Biblical allusion to the purpose of 9/11 in God's plan (Daniel 9:11 and Rabbi Cahn's thesis).  Here, I'll consider a simple pointer Gann may have designed.

The veiling is the same page and chapter number pointer method identified in the previous two essays.  Select a prominent concept (the 'circle' or 'St Marie', etc., in the previous essays), list all occurrences including page number and chapter number, sum those numbers and infer a pointer to a subject relevant page in the book.  In this case I have selected "The Mammouth Building" and all permutations of that subject.

First note, Gann prominently misspelled "Mammouth."  That is not a mistake Mr. Gann would have made in my opinion.  Second, he repeatedly describes it interchangeably as the 110-story building as if to make a point in itself.  So, the definition of the Mammouth Building for my purposes is each occurrence of Mammouth or 110.  With that in mind, here is the analysis:

[Note 1.  Previously I've computed the 'page number difference' as including all pages up to the first instance as being a page number difference.  For example, for the first instance on page 110, the number that would have fallen in the middle column of numbers would have been 110.  That's a mathematic fallacy because when you find the total of that column, you would always compute the last page number.  There isn't any new information in a number so computed.  So, the first item in that column is '0' yielding a total difference of '291.']

From the above sheet I derive three possible pointers to pages relevant to The Mammouth Building, pages 53, 233 and 401.  [All are interesting prime numbers and 53 has further geometric, philosophic and encoding significance explained below.  Of course, 401 minus 233 yields 168, the number of hours in, say "Robert Gordon's Seven Days."]

Page 53.  Page 53 is a key method used by Lord Francis Bacon allegedly used to embed information into William Shakespeare's to prove (again allegedly) he was at least a co author of those works (see Ignatius Donnelley's "The Great Pentagram" and Petter Amundsen's "Oak Island….").  As the theory goes the Pythagorean 3 4 5 triangle has angles of 37, 53 and 90 degrees and it was natural for a Rosicrucian (Bacon) or Mason (Gann) to locate key information on one or all of those pages.

We find the point to page 53 and on page 53 we find the Biblical allusion to, perhaps, a missile:

Of course, the planes that struck the WTC were, planes with 2 primary wings.  Still, they were used as missiles.

Page 401.  The sum of chapters is the exact page as the last occurrence of the Mammouth Building in TTTTA.  It is the return of Robert Gordon at about noon on the seventh day of his having circumnavigated the earth and destroyed all of its major buildings in great cities.  And on that 7th day he rested.

Page 233.  Not that it supports the argument here, but I find it interesting that on this page Robert discovers the light ray method that would allow him to "melt down skyscrapers."

At the same time, the upper steel infrastructure of each of the WTC towers were melted, causing them to pancake downward (or so I understand).

Enough for now.

Jim

Encoding the Circle in The Tunnel Thru the Air

Key concepts are encoded in TTTTA using page number and chapter title summations as demonstrated in last nights essay:

http://markettimeandpricetownhall.blogspot.com/2014/12/ttttas-st-marie-rosy-cross-and-prophecy.html

If you have not read the above essay, the remainder of this essay may not make sense.

A key concept of Mr. Gann's geometry of all things…and the market, is the circle.  Using the encryption methods found in the "St Marie" and the "rose", I find the "circle" to be meaningful as well. Here are the locations and associations of numbers with the word "circle" found in TTTTA:

The sum of page numbers is 2149 twice reduce to 7 and the difference in page numbers is 401 reduced to 5.  So what do we find of meaning on page 75?

Why its "Future Cycles".  The concept that all things repeat and, we might read into that, future cycles repeat as a function of the circle.  From page 75 of TTTTA:

I guess we all get the meaning of the above from a plain reading of TTTTA and so much of Gann's work.  I find twofold comfort in the above exercise of Gann's having encoded his emphasis on the circle.  First, he puts emphasis on what we already know.  But second, I connect to the allusion that the circle will become the mathematical means to divine the future….the "process" to which Gann speaks in the immediately forgoing paragraph on page 75:

The "process" is a function of the circle.  Again, we know its the process but how does the "process" work?  I believe, at this point in my education and subject to revision as I learn, that it is the most important lesson of TTTTA.  And that lesson is declared at the end of the next to the last paragraph of the 'Foreword:'

If one understands 'Robert Gordon's 7 Days', one will have gained the understanding necessary to divine the future, to understand why Jesus rose on the third day, why the Lord rested on the seventh day and the nature of Death….  Quite a promise upon reaching the an understanding of 'Robert Gordon's Seven Days.'  And as we know RG circled the earth in those seven days (actually 6 days and 5 hours…and there's even some nuance to that).  Quite a circle indeed.

So one last item to button up in that spreadsheet way up there; the sum of the chapters.  Would we like just a little more comfort that Gann designed this encryption to lead to deeper contemplation of the circle?  The sum of the chapters is 19 (see above spreadsheet) and 19 squared is 361.  And 361 degrees is the number of degrees that it takes for the earth to rotate relative to the sun to constitute one day.

Ponder onward.

Jim

TTTTA's St Marie, The Rosy Cross and the Prophecy of the 266th Pope

Background.  The Tunnel Thru The Air provides on page 82 the mystery of the 266th Pope about which I've written on several occasions.  Why, in 1927 did Mr. Gann introduce the 266th Pope who would not be elected until OUR generation?  Pope Francis was elected May 9th, 2013 as I recall and he is widely accepted as the 266th Pope.  Page 82 of TTTTA:

I call your attention to "....remarkable event that are to follow the election of the new Pope."  Now defer that all important thought for the moment.

On that same page, Gann, in 1927, predicts the dire conditions of the first years of the depression and the stock market collapse:

And then he alludes to WWII:

Obviously he made some good predictions.  But what about the remarkable events destined for the generation of the 266th Pope?  Our generation.  Again, defer that thought.

Enter the St Marie.  Many allude to the astro connections of the St Marie, but I'll take a different tact.  I will use the St Marie to give us a graphic pointer to something Mr. Gann wanted us to find.  Here are all the instances of the St Marie:

Fifteen references to St Marie, several cleverly hidden.  Add the page numbers and you get 3,122 which reduces to 8.  Add the differences between each occurrence and the previous and you get 416 which reduces to 2.  Page 82.  And we find the mysterious reference to the 266th Pope on page 82.  Coincidence?

Not to stop there, add the chapter numbers associated with each of the instances of St Marie and you get 266....  I think Mr. Gann wants us to double underscore the remarkable events to follow the election of the 266th Pope.

A rose by any other name.  Being fully invested in the Baconian side of the Stratfordian controversy, I'm midway through the Ignatious Donnelly's "The Great Cryptogram" and the more contemporary work of Petter Amundsen "Oak Island and the Treasure Map in Shakespeare."  Still, I've followed Amundsen's path and found the same marker in TTTTA found in Shakespeare.

On page 53 of two of Shakespeare's plays marked by a acrostic, a reference to the Rosicrucian's Rosy Cross is found......  "R.C.".  Page 53 is important as the Pythagorean 3 4 5 right triangle has angles of 90, 53 and 37 degrees (180 in total of course).  Try as I might, I could not find anything on TTTTA page 53.  But how about page 37?  Yes, the Rose of Charity bolstered by the Lilly of Faith.  Rose of Charity.....R.C.  I've essayed that so I won't repeat it.  Here's the reference:

http://markettimeandpricetownhall.blogspot.com/2014/12/page-37-of-tunnel-thru-air-and-rosy.html

 So what about the Rosy Cross?  Well, the method alone ties Gann's crytographics to those allegedly used by Lord Bacon first, then secondly to some derivative of the Rosicrucianism (not surprising as Gann was 33rd degree Mason).  But that's still not "it."

Use the same method of identifying the instances of the word "rose" in the 418 numbered pages of TTTTA:

Page numbers total to 9710 twice reduced to 8 and differences in page numbers total 415 twice reduced to 2.  Page 82, the remarkle events following the election of the 266th Pope.

But it doesn't end there without providing a reference to some coloring of the events to which allusion to the character of those events.  If you take the first page where 'rose' is found, page 37, and reduce that page once you get 3+7=10.  So put that number in the next to the last column on the right.  Now reduce it again to get 1+0=1 and put that in the final column on the right.  Do that for all 37 'rose' citations and add them.  Those 2 columns total 395 and 170, respectively, and reduce to 88.

88, an attractive number in numerology?  I won't go there for now.

But page 88?  What do we find beginning on page 88?  The 100 year cycle and that wars progressed, via technology, from land to water to air.  And the then forthcoming WWII would be fought in the air.  And it was.  But how about 1914-1919 WWI plus 100 years.  A war to be fought in the air again OR will there be a new technology for the similar 2014-2019 period?  A space war.....missiles, ICBMs, EMP.  Okay, this is disconnected but what does the scripture on page....oh no, page 53!!!!

The above quote appears amid the discussion of four wings....  Something with four wings, that can fly on all four sides and goes where the head (the gyroscopic/GPS) tells it to go.  The forthcoming war envisioned by Gann, IMO, is one involving missiles and likely missiles in space.  ICBM, MERV.  Low yield nukes launched from simple freighters positioned 200 miles off the US coast and detonated in space above large coastline cities.  I'm not qualified to assess the impact of any effects of EMPs, but even North Korea could do that I'd think.

And we've tied back to page 53.  Two of the three angles of the Pythagorean 3 4 5 triangle forming meaningful parts of the divine shape.  And a prophecy of immense evil proportions?

And one last detail to button up.  What was page number of the first 'rose' citation?  Page 37, we've got that.  But how many 'rose' citations do you count in the table above?  37.

I'd say you just can't make this stuff up.  But Gann did, didn't he?

Mr. Gann successfully predicted, among things not mentioned, the Depression and WWII.  And it appears he's predicted events for our generation.  "Forewarned is forearmed?"

This stuff is really getting me a bit scared.

Jim

The Shemitah, Ezekiel 48/35, Robert Gordon's 7 days…and Dow 18000

A post awakens me to re consider the 7 years of market collapse; 2001 and 2008.  And 2015?  To that end, some thoughts.

The Shemitah.  Per Jonathan Cahn's analysis (from recollection of reading The Mystery of the Shemitah), 9/11/2001 was the last trading day (because the exchange closed) of the 2000-01 Shemitah.  And September 29, 2008, the largest loss of the 2008 decline as I recall, was similarly, the last trading day of the 2007-08 Shemitah.  [I haven't gone back to recheck the exactness of my recollection but I'm comfortable its substantially correct.]

Going forward in this Shemitah that began with 1 Tishri or September 25, 2014, the blood moons of this 2014-15 Shemitah would be 'thought' to be the moments of greatest surprise.  As with 2001 and 2008, the last day of the Shemitah would be expected to be the moment of greatest relief / forgiveness of debt.  If you look back at September 25, 2014 and shortly thereafter, there was an interesting "shaking" of the market almost to the day (again recollection).  That would be, poetically or maybe prophetically, the first of several shakings?

Somewhere along in TTTTA I was led to Ezekiel 48/35 (actually, on page 413) and 48/35 says:

The City Gates and Dimensions
…34"On the west side, 4,500 cubits, shall be three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one. 35"The city shall be 18,000 cubits round about; and the name of the city from that day shall be, 'The LORD is there.'" (Biblehub.com)

On page 413 and 414, Mr. Gann repeats in all caps "THE LORD IS THERE."  The point?  18,000 is the point.

18,000 rings a bell.  In my analysis of the distance traveled by Robert Gordon in his '7 days' (IMO Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet and 1st Baronet of Nova Scotia as in owner of 16000 acres of Nova Scotia and likely Oak Island. son of the 1st Earl of Sutherland and contemporary of Lord Francis Bacon), RG circumnavigated the globe at the latitude of New York City.  At that latitude, the Earth is about 18,842 miles based on the Haversine formula.  But the Haversine formula is slightly inaccurate and the Earth is not a perfect sphere.  Perhaps the 18000 is closer than the 'government work.'  But RG didn't travel a perfect circle, he deviated north and south.  All in, he traveled 33,000 miles plus change.  So, if he traveled 18000 miles East West, can you compute the North South mileage he traveled.  Why yes, via Haversine and other methods, you can.  See my spreadsheet and essay of several months ago.  I believe the latest version is at:

http://markettimeandpricetownhall.blogspot.com/2014/08/robert-gordons-7-days-pythagorus.html

East West mileage was computed to be 18, 213, North South mileage was computed to be 18382 and total mileage (as the crow flies) was computed as 33,298 miles (both by Haversine at 33,242 and Internet websites' computed mileage at 33,298) to put a finer point on it.  Still, however fine the Haversine 'point', its not exact.  Perhaps the Bible provides the better number?  

In "Robert Gordon's 7 Days" RG traveled a perfect sphere and the mileages he traveled traced out the dimensions, including hypothenuse, of a perfect isosceles triangle (18K, 18K, 33K).  RG traveled both a perfect sphere in distance but a perfect Pythagorean isosceles right triangle (alas, not a 3 4 5).

So here we find the Dow at 18000.....  

Jim

Page 37 of The Tunnel Thru the Air and the Rosy Cross

A new adventure.  The 3 4 5 triangle and a central focus of Pythagorean, Rosicrucian and Masonic philosophy has angles of 90, 37 and 53 degrees.  Petter Amundsen, in his "Oak Island...", finds on two page 53s of Shakespeare works encoded 3 4 5 triangles and the "R.C." or "Rosy Cross".....a reference or pointer to Rosicrucianism.  

Take a look at page 37 of TTTTA and we find the "Rose of Charity", prominently, "R C".  But might there be yet further color to convince one entertaining the obvious thought?

Google "Rose of Charity" and "Rosicrucian" and you may be led to an essay by Rabbi Dr. Raymond Apple of The Synagogue of Sydney.  Dr. Apple ties the Rose of Charity to the Rosy Cross, Rosicrucianism, the "Lilly of Charity" and the "word" or first breath of Masonry.  An excerpt of Dr. Apple's essay:

Let's keep it simple for now.....Lilly.  Back to page 37 of TTTTA and we find not only Rose of Charity or allusion to Rosy Cross, but we find the Lilly as well....the Lilly of Charity:

One last point.  There is italicized on page 37 the word "it" referring to the Rose of Charity.  In my interpretation, Mr. Gann wanted us to focus unusual attention on the Rose of Charity or, in my thinking "R C."

Page 37 seems very important in TTTTA as it was in Petter Amundsen's discussions of the hidden importance of Rosicrucianism in Shakespeare.  Again, the 37 degrees of the 3 4 5 Pythagorean triangle.

Jim 

Try "Looking Back from 1940"

Focusing on "Tunnel Thru the Air or Looking Back from 1940" pages 82 and 83.  Most see two primary prophecies; the periods 1930-33 and 1940-44.  The Great Depression and World War II.  But there's a set of 3 additional prophecies in my opinion to which I've alluded frequently; that anchored by the 266th Pope.  And one hasn't happened yet.

First, let's work out some math of the "Looking Back from 1940" which is the anchor of the 1930-33 and 1940-44 prophecies.

• 1940 minus the greatest closure of the NYSE and the initial years of WW I….namely 1914.  That's 26 years.  

• 1940 minus the crash of 1929 is 11 years.  Could be 12 year if you measure from late in 1940 rather than January 1, 1940.

• 1940 versus the onset of WWII is 1 year or as much as 23 months because the US officially entered the war with Pearl Harbor or December 7, 1941.  

Now we know Mr. Gann wasn't so daffy as to discuss the great events following the election of the 266th Pope as if they were contemporaneous with the 1920s…or 1930s or 1940s.  Mr. Gann was anything but daffy.  Eccentric, idealistic….and clearly a genius.  He was ministering to the current generation in my opinion.  He was talking to us, right now.

The 266th Pope is Pope Francis, elected on March 13, 2013.  There is debate on the number, but that's because of anti Popes and how they are handled.  Ignoring the debate, the official record has Pope John Paul II as the 264th making Pope Francis the 266th (see Wikipedia for details).  The anchor is March 13, 2013, but let's consider it 2013 because Gann's 1940 hasn't a finer date.

• 2013 minus the 26 years between 1940 and 1914 gives you the crash of 1987.  

• 2013 minus the 11 years between 1940 and 1929 gives you the bottom of the 2000-2002 Tech Wreck.  That is, if you consider the 11 years as an accurate measure.  Kinda depends when 1940 was January 1, 1940 or December 1, 1940.  The latter wold make the interval 12 plus years and that would put you in the midst of 2001, and, of course, the market acceleration attending 9/11.

So that puts us at the look forward period comparable to Gann's prediction of WWII or 1940 plus 1 year.  So now we add 2013 plus between 1 year and 23 months.  Even more play in the dates if you consider any time in 2013 as opposed to the exact date of the 266th Pope's election.  

• At the earliest, we have January 1, 2013 plus 1 year giving us January 1, 2014; not yet.

• Using the date of election, you could be looking at as early as March 13, 2014; not yet.  Or as late as February 13, 2015 (election plus 23 months); wait and see.

•  Or, yet again, you could start a 23-year period in December 2013 maturing in December 2015.

Seems to me Gann was pretty darn accurate with 2 prophecies made in 1927 on pages 82 and 83 which manifested in 1930-33 and 1940-1944.  And, having thrown the "266th Pope" anchor out there (or was Gann confused), it seems he got another 2 prophecies (1987 and 2001-02) close enough for government work…..especially CBO AFC scoring work.

So how ya feeling about 2015-17?  What would Dirty Harry say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Nci-GVuHE

Jim

[Wow, that gun has some recoil.]

Some things I really don't want to forget about Tunnel Thru the Air (TTTA)

Some Saturday notations.  Rambling but confirming.

"Omnia in numeris sita sunt" or "everything lies in veiled numbers."  (Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Freemasonry, Charleston, 1871, p. 741)

Robert Gordon.  According to Peter Bull (Google his essay "Masonry and the Cabala" which is online) the key to Masonic use of gematria can be confirmed based on Mason William Stirling's identification of the number of Jesus Christ as 1275.  Using an online gematria calculator (Gematrix) we get the following values:

So the calculator reproduces Stirling's calculation of the value 1275 under the heading of "Jewish gematria" which, according to Peter Bull is the Latin system.  In that vein, we see that other systems of gematria given by the calculator would have "Robert Gordon" having the same values as "Lord of Hosts" and "Jesus Christ" with the latter having a unique value only under the Jewish gematria system. 

[It is well worth one's time to enter Jesus Christ and Robert Gordon into the calculator and peruse the names and phrases that correspond 1275 and, in the case of Robert Gordon, 548.  I won't repeat them because, while many are confirming, one is highly noteworthy and disturbing regarding the antichrist.  I'll defer to your further investigation.  For your convenience the listing one noteworthy listing would give you: 
http://screencast.com/t/MBVqrWb8QcUr
and a second query of  Robert Gordon would give you:
http://www.gematrix.org/?word=robert+Gordon
Do it yourself if you don't believe the result.]

So perhaps the name, Robert Gordon, was designed with purpose and not haphazard on Mr. Gann's part.  Not surprised.  But dig a little further. 

The City of the Lord.Try another TTTA notable "The City of the Lord."  Here's it's value and a couple other phrases of the same value per Gematrix:

Square triangle circle circle....sounds like Gann.  But the one that intrigued me was Daniel nine eleven.  As in "911", but let's check the King James Bible, the Book of Daniel 9:11 first:

As were the Israelites banished from their land upon warnings from God for their sins of pride, might Daniel 9:11 warn the U.S.?  Recall my speculation that Gann set up similarities to the modern U.S.?  See the essay:

http://markettimeandpricetownhall.blogspot.com/2014/08/wd-gann-meets-jonathan-cahn.html

Jonathan Cahn's "The Harbinger" and the more recent "The Mystery of the Shemitah" propose  September 11, 2001 was the first of God's warnings to America.  And three times since our national leaders have declared that America will rebuild without the aid of God (Tom Daschle, John Edwards and Barrack Obama) in part fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah 9:10,23. 

Hmmmm, the 110 story Mammouth Building (with the word "Mammouth" glaringly misspelled) at 42nd and Broadway.  [Let's see, "Mammouth Building" used 7 times and "The Mammouth" used 1 time.  As in 1/7, but I digress.]  The 110 story World Trade Center, both 1 and 2?  Nah, Gann wouldn't warn 21st century America of the sin of its pride.  Or would he.  Take a look at page 130:

Did Gann see the tribulation of the 21st century a full 80 years before Jonathan Cahn?  Add the 266th Pope to the mystery (see again the previous referenced essay).  The 266th Pope, not counting anti Popes, according to St Malachy's prophecy is widely accepted as Pope Francis elected in 2013.  Gann speaks of "....some remarkable events that are to follow the election of the new Pope." (pg 82 TTTA)  Mr. Gann wasn't speaking to his 1927 audience -  he was speaking to our generation in my opinion. 

In that same page and the next (pgs 82 and 83), Mr. Gann explicitly predicts the 1930 to 1932 period as characterized by "...famine, depressing business conditions and panic."  And then, on the next page, he gives us the 1940 to 1944 period as another 'bad period;'  World War II.  Three future periods on pages 82-83 of TTTA, those being 1930-1932, 1940-44 and the period beginning with the election of the 266th Pope in 2013. 

[Lest we forget in TTTA, Gann tells us that the 100 and 5000 year cycles are the greatest of cycles.  And he recounts the World War I period of 1914-1918.....lest we forget that we are 100 years removed from the onset of that war first in Russia/Europe and later entered into by the U.S.  And Russia is again problematic.]

Just too much to tie together is a single note for a Saturday when its already time for Army-Navy football.  Go Navy!!!

Jim

TTTA - Remember the Nagato, Pearl Harbor and December 7, 1941

Today is December 7, 2014, the 73rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the day Japan opened war on the US.  Perhaps, some interesting connections to Tunnel Thru the Air:

• In TTTA Japan was first to declare war on the US (April 1930, pg 277).  When the US, fearing an attack on the west coast by Japan, rushed battleships to the Pacific. Japan immediately attacked the ships by air and destroyed all but a few of the ships by bombardment from its high flying planes.  Similarly, in WWII Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor forced the US out of its then declared neutrality in WWII.  Of course, both in the fiction and in the actual battle, the key was mass bombardment from the air on effectively defenseless battleships.

• In TTTA, Japan's forces were commanded by General Nagato.  My reading of Wilkipedia finds the order to attack Pearl Harbor that was given by Admiral Isoroku Yamamato from his then flagship and battleship Nagato.  From Wikipedia:

• And the battleship Nagato has enduring significance in post WWII nuclear armament.  The Nagato was used as a target in 'Operation Crossroads' at the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests in 1946.

Interesting coincidence?  Perhaps there are others but I haven't pursued this line for many months and I'm far be it a student of WWII.

Jim
 

Rambling on with Robert Gordon

So, in order to understand 'Robert Gordon' of Tunnel Thru the Air, I'm studying planar trigonometry.  Kinda retro because what I really want to study is spherical trig which explains, IMO, RG's trip.  One step at a time. I had to go back to the beginning...where I was at about 14 years old some 49 years ago.  Alas.

And here I'm studying planar trig before Sunday services and I come upon the chapter in my trig course deriving Cartesian coordinates.  You remember, Dr. Descartes the nerve specialist on pg. 244 of TTTA.  [Yes, Cartesian coordinate were named after Rene Descartes, the great French philosopher and mathematician.]  As a nerve specialist, Dr. Descartes undoubtedly specialized in networks having vectors connecting neural nodes.  Hmmm.  Kinda similar to vectors of a trip that RG was destined to take in a time span '7 days?'  22 stops with mileage vectors of travel in between?  Recall from my spreadsheet in prior posts, RG traveled a spherical East/West distance of 18200 miles and a gross North/South distance of 18400 miles.  He circumnavigated the spherical distance of the Earth, 18842 miles at the 40* latitude (the latitude of NYC), both East/West (time) and North/South (price).  But I selfishly digress from the trig theme.

Back to the trig course I find my trig teacher mentions he is coincidentally describing 'Kinematics,' a multi-facted body of physics/science.  Gosh, you can go in so many directions with kinematics; mechanical structures (engineering), time and space structures (astronomy), organic structure (biomechanics).....  Vectors of force in space.  Kinda like there's nothing but geometric points of force in space?  Sound familiar?  So, the study of kinematics and Cartesian coordinates, not just in the planar world but in the greater, more important and more realistic spherical world.  From Wikipedia:

Again, back to the trig text, what's he using to teach planar Cartesian coordinates and intro kinematics?  The human finger (from www.khanacademy.org):

And he finds the anatomy of the finger's 3 divisions to be 2.4cm, 1.6cm and .8cm.  Interesting multiples; 3, 2, 1.5.  Also leading to 1.333, 4......  What struck me was Gann's use of the human body to demonstrate symmetry, 5, 2....  By George, I think Guardjieff taught similar anatomic analogies, symmetry and numbers, all within his construct of 'natural law' of all things.

Just some spaced out thoughts about time and space....and Gann.  I wonder what Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle might make of these ramblings?  He'd probably saying 'booooorrrrrrriiiiinnnnnnggggg.'

Jim

Marie Stanton Gordon; 'The Case of the Missing Lady'

We find in the Foreword to The Tunnel Thru the Air:

We also find “The future will become an open book.”  In searching for Marie Stanton (ultimately Marie Stanton Gordon), Robert Gordon follows four paths.  And perhaps we find some events which 'will happen in the future.'

Path 1; Madam Cleo.  Take first the suggestive case of Madam Cleo on page 117.  Robert Gordon, desperate as he was, sought any insight into the whereabouts of his beloved Marie Gordon.  Even to the point of consulting with Madam Cleo, a questionable but apparently popular ‘Clairvoyant’ (spelled with a capital ‘C’).  The Madam “could  re-unite the separated and bring back lost lovers.”  Without taking any substantial information, the Madam pronounced Marie’s return “….in a few days.”  Pretty much, end of story.

Hmmm Madam Cleo?  Remember the “Psychic Hot Line?”  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWyHiV3l3MA

Quite a character.  Interesting, it seems “Miss Cleo”, the psychic, most notably sold her talents in recent years per Wikipedia:

Nah, surely Gann didn’t foresee Miss Cleo.  Still, this was the first of Robert’s consultations to find Marie.  Regardless, Madam Cleo told Robert that Marie would return as suddenly as she left, in a mere few days.  Which, as we know, was not to occur as described.  Marie was destined to return, but not in a few days.

I expect Mr. Gann perceived Madam Cleo no more credible than we of our Miss Cleo.

Path 2; Professor O.B. Joyful. The second line of consultation was with the great Canadian astrologer, O.B. Joyful.  [Surely that wouldn’t be Mr. Gann’s associate Lorne Edward Johndro; teacher of math and physics, electrician and radio engineer who was born in Franklin Center, Canada.  And tragically committed suicide within hours of his wife’s passing on 11/11/1951.]  The good Professor took information of Robert’s birth date and place and made many calculations to arrive at a complex and astrologically reasoned conclusion that Robert would find Marie, at earliest, in two years but more likely in three to four years.  As we know, the Professor was right, but hardly helpful in terms of an exact date.  Would anyone want to place bets on a stock market based on two, three or four years?

The Professor does reveal the chance meeting of Robert and Marie which does come to pass in Paris when he sees her after her passing a mysterious indecipherable note to him.

Path 3; Lady Bersford.  The third consultation was with the spiritualist, Lady Bersford, at the recommendation of friends of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  A mystery appropriate to the level of Doyle’s great detective character, Sherlock Holmes emerges.  I’ll bypass the ‘friends’ story of Claire Douglass and Aunt Silly despite spiritual implications and get right to Lady Bersford.  [As an aside, I find it interesting that Aunt Silly was 110 years old and both the Mammouth Building and the World Trade Center towers were 110 stories, but I digress.]

Lady Bersford was inspired by Conan Doyle to use her spiritual talents to help people in need.  Google Sherlock Holmes and Bersford and, likely, the first link you’ll find will be to a collection of Agatha Christie short stories, “Partners in Crime,” first published in September 1929.  Not an exact match, the detective in the series of mysteries is Tuppence Beresford with an extra ‘e.’  Nevertheless, the Sherlock Holmes reference comes from the episode “The Case of the Missing Lady.”  Now that strikes a chord?  No?

Peel it a little further.  The ‘missing lady’ is Leigh Gordan.  No, not Marie Gordon, but Leigh Gordan.  [I was very disappointed that Pythagorean system numerology produced a number 28 for ‘Marie’ and 32 for ‘Leigh’.  Regardless, the similarities are striking.  The ‘o’ versus ‘a’ in the last name doesn’t “plug” the difference.]  

So what happened to Leigh Gordan?  She was abducted by the evil Dr. Horriston, “a most unscrupulous quack.”  Tommy Beresford (Tuppence’ husband and co detective) indicates the mystery was so unremarkable that they needn’t place the case in their records.  And, as we know, Gann does not provide the details of Marie’s disappearance.  

So what’s the distinctive feature of this 3^rd path?  Most naïve readings of TTTA and the reference to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would conclude TTTA is a mystery and we need to decipher it as would Sherlock Holmes.  Duh.  Perhaps we should look at the substance of Robert’s interaction with Lady Bersford and her teaching if any.

In my thinking, the first importance of Doyle and Bersford is, like Madam Cleo, the chronology.  TTTA was published in 1927 (copyrighted in November 1927), and Agatha Christie’s “Partner’s in Crime” was first published, according to Wikipedia, in 1929.  Maybe Ms. Christie gave Mr. Gann an advanced copy two years earlier?  

My second thought is less farfetched.  It’s the substance of Lady Bersford’s teachings regarding the Marie’s mysterious note and the spirit, Laughing Waters.  The note that so many translators found objectionable was merely Robert’s strong will and psyche imposing on others its existence.  Lady Bersford reveals that she knew it did not exist and planted the suggestion in Robert’s mind.  Thereafter, Robert couldn’t find it and came to realize it did not exist.  It was Marie’s spirit that had appeared to Robert in Paris to give him hope.  And as Marie’s spirit appeared to Robert, so Laughing Waters spirit appears in order to provide Robert hope.  Whereupon, Robert realizes he has found the right path:

Greater assurance of Marie’s return.  The ‘when’ is when the struggles and sorrows have been overcome.   But, there isn’t any date.

Path 4;  A proposal.  To this point we have a progression of Robert’s inquiry; from the charlatan Madam Cleo who was, at least partly, incorrect, to the greater, but still unspecific, knowledge Canadian O.B. Joyful, to the much more insightful Lady Bersford who leads Robert to understand ‘when’ Marie will return (when his tribulations are complete).  I’d argue, each is a step from one level of understanding and specificity to one greater.  

Revisit a previous essay regarding the ‘promise’ of the Foreword to TTTA and the monument to its having been realized.  Condensed the promise would be:

    “The future will become an open book.”

And when will one know when that promise has been realized. 

“Robert Gordon’s 7 days will no longer be a mystery because you will have gained an understanding.”

I propose one must understand Robert Gordon’s 7 days and, absent the unraveling of the dynamics of that exercise, one cannot predict the future any greater than by the first three methods.  And those methods are indeterminate.  As it appears to me as an accountant and amateur mathematician, Robert Gordon’s 7 days is a mystery in math, trigonometry and physics (astrophysics).  But that's me and I'm biased.  And that said, that constitutes the fourth path IMO.

And when Robert completes the 7 days, Marie returns.

Jim

Boylai and Guardjieff weigh in on Robert Gordon's 7 days

One might subtitle this, “Why there are no straight lines in nature.”  This is going to take a long time to get to the punch line.  For me, this component of the RG story became a personal epiphany which I do not here overstate.  For others who endure it to the end will find it a yawn, maybe someone will 'consume' it.  I don’t care because this is my journey.

Recall the Robert Gordon spreadsheet which tracks RG’s 22 stops in “7 days” and 20 intervals of distance in between.  Obviously, the number of notes and intervals, respectively, in the second scale of octaves according to Russell Smith.  In that spreadsheet RG travels 33,543 crow fly miles from east to west circumnavigating the Earth. I segregate the 33543 mile between the east to west miles and the north to south miles by both Haversine formula and by referencing distances according to popular distance calculators.  The E/W miles were 18213 miles and the N/S miles were 0 miles, net.  Here is the spreadsheet for convenience:

Let’s simplify the numbers with some rationale.  Gann intended that we find the E/W miles were 18842, not 18213 miles and N/S miles were 18842 miles, not 0.  Why?  Because at the latitude of the NYSE (the misspelled ‘Mammouth’ Building) is 40.7069* and the circumference of the Earth at that latitude is given by cos(radians(40.7069))*3956*3.14159.  [The E/W distance calculated on the spreadsheet differs from the theoretic value of 18842 likely because Haversine doesn’t perfectly compute spherical distance, nor does any method since the value of pi indeterminate.]  

Now, why is N/S distance 18842 versus 0 on the spreadsheet.  If you add the absolute values of the N/S miles you find 18495 miles, not 0.  The 0 is net miles.  And, once again, I propose that Gann wanted us to find the circumference of the Earth at the 40.7069* latitude since he devised RG’s trip to be so close to that magic number, 18842.  Both E/W and N/S were very close to the magic number…not a coincidence IMO.  Contrived for a point.

So, we have 2 revised distances.  That questions the third distance, the total trip miles of 33543 crow fly miles.  The spreadsheet found that, at only one point in the entire trip did the total miles equal the application of the Pythagorean theorem to the X and Y legs of the mileages….when RG arrived home.  At that point, the then used X and Y legs plugged into the theorem gave us a 33630 mile trip.  That’s pretty darn close to the actual miles of 33543.  Again, Impossible for me to conclude that Gann did not intend for us to find that Pythagorus did not contrive RG’s trip with this in mind.  Let’s refine that hypotenuse with Gann’s intended value of the total crow fly miles.  It is:

OMGosh, that didn’t work.  We needed to find something close to 33630 miles as the hypotenuse.  Need to remember, Gann gave us a ‘key’ on TTTA pages 400 and 401 of 100 / 60 = 1.6666.  When we found that hypotenuse of 33630 miles (that was validated by the actual miles of 33543) we had to measure N/S distance from the equator, not from the 40.7069 latitude.  And eemember, the 40.7069 latitude provided a net N/S 0 miles so that would wreak havoc on the Pythagogrean squaring.  So, we calc’d the total distances from the equator to the various stops as 47117 miles and backed that down to 28271 mile via Gann’s ‘key’ 100 / 60 or 1.666.  With X and Y legs of 18213 and 28271 miles (47117 'equator' miles / 1.666) the theorem gave us 33630 miles.  Try it.  Again, Gann contrived with a purpose.  That 100 / 60 key wasn’t just an accident IMO.

So, since Gann had to fake the N/S mileage by expanding it to the equator, how do we relate it to the true N/S miles.  Let’s see if there’s a bread crumb by dividing the 28271 by the theoretic N/S absolute miles (the circumference of the Earth) or 28217 / 18842 = 1.5004.  Can exactly 1.5 be a coincidence?  Don’t think so.

So here’s the final theoretic length of the trip according to Mr. P’s theorem:

All is now simplified.  We now have 2 legs of 18842 (one extended by a key of 1.500) and a hypotenuse of 33968.  [We also have a sphere of 18842 miles in circumference but that's for another day.  Hint, cube the sphere as opposed to square the circle.]  From this point forward, those are the values I’ll use for N/S mileage, E/W mileage and the crow fly mileage (18842, 18842 and 33968, respectively).  I hope I remember that.  A beautiful and perfect isosceles right triangle.  Gosh, that seems so very very wrong because RG’s trip zig zaged all over the map.  Nothing right about that!!!! 

Mssrs. Boylai, Guardjieff, what say you?  

Ahh, Mr. Jonas “Boy genius” Boylai?  Mr. B was obsessed with proving Euclid’s #5 parallel postulate from his childhood until his demise.  His writings as a teenager were commented on by Carl Friederick Gauss saying Boylai’s ideas on the the parallel postulate were those he’d harbored for many years.  Whereupon a firestorm of controversy erupted over the authorship of the concept.  Whether it was Boylai, Gauss or Lobachevsky that came up with the seed of non-Euclidian geometry is unimportant.  But their collateral proof (story) is instructional for our Robert Gordon trip.  Pardon the CPA description as they don’t teach this on the finite, linear CPA exam.  The parallel postulate states that two vectors intersecting a third vector at the same angle on the same side of the third line will never meet.   As the story goes (recollection), the parallel postulate is invalid when one draws two lines perpendicular to the equator and extends them.  As do longitude lines, they meet at the north or south poles.  Two parallel lines that meet…invalidating Euclid's 5th postulate.  Hence, we have non Euclidian geometry.  The 5^th postulate is correct only in planar Euclidan geometry.

And Robert Gordon?  He was, no doubt intentionally IMO, confined to ‘vibrating’ between the poles.  Violating the poles would interfere with Gann’s demonstration of the E/W mileage being a proxy for time.  Ponder that for a while.  I’m pondering it and it’s my ‘solution’ de jour at the moment.  It might be a naive and unsophisticated solution but its the best I have at the moment.

Where might Mr. Guardjieff stand on all this?  We have a perfectly circular/spherical straight line (not really contradictory in non Euclidian space when you think about circumnavigating the sphere) which is E/W 18842 miles long at the 40.7069 latitude or X axis.  And we have a perfect 18842 N/S miles, but it doesn’t cross the north or south pole so it’s impossible that it be circular/spherical.  Or is it?  Just as perplexing, we have a solution for a perfect isosceles right triangle (isosceles and right are redundant but lets live with that) but the Y axis is anything but straight.  What say you G?

G speaks: “Jimmy Jimmy, fear not.  Take a look at page 128 " of “In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky (whose “Tertium Organum” was on Gann’s reading list).

[I must insert a note here to underscore my complete shock/astonishment.  I recalled the below development of the octave and ‘no straight lines’ in nature in Ouspensky.  But I wasn’t ready to find it on Ouspensky's page 128.  Why is page 128 important?  Well, 128 is twice the value of what Cousto calls “the primary tone c”.  But that provides me minor amusement.  Please recall my claim that Gann introduced the Pythagorean diatonic scale on page 128 of TTTA and confirmed it with John Clifford’s poem of the blacksmith’s anvil on page 129 (Clifford, whom I believe, at the moment, to be Sir John Herbert Clifford, a contemporary of Gann and, whom I believe, at the moment, to have been a master Mason).  Gann refers to the diatonic scale on page 128 of TTTA and G relates the diatonic scale to the circle on page 128 of Ouspensky’s work not published until several decades later.  Coincidence of Humbolt kosmos?  Without any evidence beyond coincidence, I nevertheless think not.] 

On Ouspensky's page 128 you find the linear Pythagorean diatonic scale forms a circle.   When one creates a linear reflection of the diatonic scale ((it is inherently linear) you get an irregular ‘vibrating’ jerky line.  But, when you invert the angle at each ‘retardation’ pivot, you find that it will create a circle.  And here is the circle that G was said to have created for students and as published by Ouspensky:

G would tell us that all activities are, in reality, a circle, even though they do not appear to be a circle?  RG’s trip E/W was an obvious, very ratable circle around the equator; a planar slice of a sphere.  But the 18842 mile N/S counterpart of his trip was not an apparent circle…..but for, that is, the fact that Gann conceived/contrived it to be the same distance of the N/S circle; 18842 miles.  Again, too coincidental.

And my personal amazement cannot stop there.  So as G might explain Gann’s N/S mileage as circular in the RG trip, so echoes Gann of G’s reflection (a chronologic improbability as Gann published first by decades) on the circular nature of all things (TTTA pg. 76):

Many meanings in that paragraph; geometric, metaphysical, spiritual.  Powerful.

At some point, I expect this journey of mine to relate the proxy E/W mileage to time and N/S mileage to price.  For now, I remain awestruck. Will Gann's promises in his Foreword to TTTA be realized?

Jim

Parsing Mr. Gann's promise in TTTA

I have reformatted the next to the last paragraph of the Foreword to The Tunnel Thru the Air to an argument:

IF

“When you read it the third time, a new light will dawn.

You will find the hidden secret, the veiled meaning and

will understand why the Bible says, “Seek and ye shall

find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.”

THEN

1. “You will want to understand more about the Bible.”
2. “Then read the Bible three times and you will know why it is the greatest book ever written. It contains the key to the process by which you may know all there is to know and get all that you need to supply your demands and desires.”
3. “You will appreciate why Solomon said, “Wisdom is the principal thing: therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting, get understanding.”
4. “The future will become an open book.”
5. “You will know that by following the laws laid down in the Bible, man’s last great enemy, Death, will be overcome and will understand why Jesus rose on the third day and rested on the seventh day.”
6. “Robert Gordon’s seven days will no longer be a mystery because you will have gained understanding.”

Six consequences.  Okay, I understand 1, 2 and 3.  

Item 4 is a major promise.  Very important.  But how do we know when the promise is realized?  

Number 5 is a promise but its very curious to me.  Death will be overcome.  Jesus rested on the 7^th day?

Number 6 leads me to believe that IF I understand the mystery of Robert Gordon, I will have passed a test of sorts and can then be confident I have gained understanding.  That I will possess the promises of 4 and 5.

RG's 7 days, a work in progress for me.  Way more than 3 readings for this chimp thus far Mr. Gann.  You must have been talking about smart people.

Jim

Robert Gordon's circle

Continuing my personal journey in understanding Tunnel Thru the Air, I happened to consider Mr. Gann's use of the word 'circle.'  He used the word 8 times, 5 of which were 'circled' as opposed to 'circle'; pages 76, 88, 174, 287, 322, 394, 400 and 401.

Obviously, 8 / 5 = 1.60 or phi.  Obviously, the concept of the circle follows Gann's theme that all things in nature are elliptical (a circle is theoretic perfection of the ellipse) as he writes on page 76:

Remember, everything in this universe is elliptical or circular in motion; that applies both to the abstract and the concrete, the mental, physical and spiritual.  Every thought you think makes a circle, and it comes back to you. It may take years but you will get the effects, good or evil, according as the thought was either good or evil. That is a truth we should learn, and the world will be the better for it.

Not so obviously, 8 is the number of notes in the diatonic scale.  The diatonic scale attributed to Pythagoras contains 8 notes (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si and do - again) that define 7 intervals.  The 8^th note, ‘do’, is a repetition of the first and is both the beginning of the higher octave and the ending of the lower octave.  ‘do’ might, logically, be thought of as the beginning and ending of a circle.  ‘do’, also known as ‘c’, is most often consider 256 vibrations per second.  Its multiples and divisions by 2 yield higher and lower ‘do’s’ or ‘c’s’and those vibrations are found in nature; 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512….  Remember the memory size growth of the first computers…16K then, 32, then 64, then 128….

I’d suggest that we can think of the diatonic scale as a circle beginning and ending with ‘do.’  But we when we write it we write it as a vector.  The marriage of the linear and circular perhaps?  Deeper…make that the planar and the spherical?  File that thought away for the moment as I provide some more support for the meaningfulness of connecting the circle and the diatonic scale.

As Gann often does, a couple disconnected numbers on page 128 are thrown out that seem odd for their inclusion:  

A popular author of fiction boasts 9,000,000 copies of his book published in eight years. 240,000,000 copies of the Bible have been sold in the same eight years.

8, 9 and 24.  8 is the number of notes defining the diatonic scale.  24 /8 = 3 which is one of two laws, the Law of 3 and the Law of 7,  that define the subdivisions of the diatonic scale.  That same 3 defines ‘fa’ at 1 / 3 = .333 and ‘la’ at 2 / 3 = .666.  Continuing, 9 /8 = 1.125, the note re.  That remainder, .125 and its multiples gives you mi at .125 X 2 = .250, sol at .125 X 4 = .500, si at .125 X 7 = .875.  

Not sold on the idea that Gann meant to connect the Bible missive and Pythagoras’ diatonic scale?  Read the first lines of the poem on the page after page 128:  

Last we passed beside a blacksmith’s door,

And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime,

Then looking in, I saw upon the floor

Old hammers worn with beating years of time.

It is the story of how Pythagoras, walking by the blacksmith’s shop, heard the various tones made by the blacksmith striking different hammers against the anvil and thereby creating differing tones.  [Though the ‘story’ is discredited, it remains the written record (see Nichomachus in The Manual of Harmonics) of events that reportedly prompted Pythagoras to, however he accomplished it, create the diatonic scale.]  I'll note the poem brings in the concept of "beating years of time" but not add comment….time and circularity…. as in "nothing new under the Sun" etc…..context for another day's essay.

Oh, and did I mention the above begins with page 128;  lower c or lower ‘do’?

Back to the idea that the diatonic scale may unite the linear and the circular.  But first recall my various essays on “Robert Gordon’s 7 days” (actually, they’re pretty forgettable if you aren’t a TTTA obsessive).  RG set forth on a circular trip, east to west, around the Earth in, reportedly, 7 days.  Of course, he bounced back and forth, north and south, east and west, between cities during his trip.  Ultimately, he returned to New York City on the 7^th day plus 5 hours.  In those essays I found that, if you segregated the east and west miles (horizontal on the xy axis) from the north and south miles (vertical on the xy axis) the linear Pythagoras theorem calculation of a trip would equal the total distance RG traveled.  More to the essays, RG’s trip did not look like a triangle (to say the least) but Gann created the distances necessary to MAKE the math calculate of a Pythagorean right triangle.  

Again back to the linear and the circular…planar and spherical.  RG takes a circular trip around the spherical Earth proving the hypotenuse of a Pythagorean right triangle…..a linear/planar construct.  [There is a formula for a spherical Pythagorean right triangle.] 

And now to tie in the Pythagorean diatonic scale.  In the “Robert Gordon’s 7 days” essays, you’ll find that a diatonic ‘nothing to all’ scale of 0 to 32768 (based on Russell Smith’s terminology of “all to nothing” being from 0 to 2^15 or 32768) defined Robert Gordon’s 7 days.  RG left New York City at 0 miles, circled the Earth with many diversions from the “straight line” and ultimately returned to New York City 5 days and 5 hours later having traveled 33,543 miles later.  He left at 0 miles or the lowest possible ‘do’ or note c and returned at 32,768 miles or ‘do’ or note c (shame on you Mr. Gann, your mileage missed the ideal by 775 miles).  

[Did I say 5 days and 5 hours as opposed to 7 days as billed?  That's another daydream which was previously considered as well…. and answered incorrectly.]

Whew, such are the things I think about in the wee hours between sleep and awareness.  I need to get a life.

Jim

Robert Gordon and QQQs

My reading of "Robert Gordon's 7 days" is that RG circumnavigated the globe in 5 days and 5 hours....not 7 days.  A recalcitrant reprobate binge sitting on a bench in Central Park would have seen 6 sun rises from 7am on July 21 to the 7th day at just before noon.  But RG would have seen only 5.  If so, that would be 125 hours.  

QQQs first trade was 3/10/1999 (presumably 9:30am).  If you add 1086 intervals of 125 hours from that date you arrive at 9/3/2014, the date of the extended and regular hours all time high for QQQs.  If you add three more intervals of 125 hours you arrive at tonight and we are revisiting that extended market high as I write this note.

 

Let's see what the 'morrow brings.  Oh, and here's a chart:

Jim

Singularity in SPX?

**The below is incredible wrong.  I'm using 8/5/2014 and the current month is 9/5/2014.  Blame it on two pots of coffee before 8:30am or stupidity.  But it does point to the problem of finding a number emerge from the market which makes you go "Oh my" and then jumping off a cliff.  Numbers need to be placed in an order.  The ancient word for order was 'cosmos.'**

In "The Square Spiral" Treavor Casey finds the square of 9 produces meaningful results because it models in 2D the 3D pyramid.  The meaningful results do not occur as a rule or law but because the So9 finds points of higher *likelihood* that a 'singularity has occurred.

Digging deeper, Casey indicates the market is comprised of complex  quadratic relationships that would challenge even the mega computers designed to model global climate (no, not climate change). Where the complex relationships find a common solution (similar to solving simultaneous linear equations), you have a singularity.

We all know singularities by some other name.  Where we look back at a great pivot and see that it occurred at a price that was a multiple of Phi from the reference point and the square of the number of days it took from the date of pivot a and pivot b.  As if there's a rule that can be gleaned from that relation, we expect it to occur the next time we get to a price of that Phi relation or a square of that number of days....  and it doesn't.

Nevertheless, today might have some interesting numerological relations.

Price increase between periods a geometric factor of 3 over a cubic or exponential relation of the same time period.  Poetry in math?

A simple octave of 0-2048 (2048 = 2^15) would have price of 2011 only 37 points below 2048 or DO at the higher note C.  2011 would be note SI at four levels of octave.  And note C according to Guardjieff would be the note at which 'force' from outside the system must be introduced into the octave to progress further.  Otherwise the system, if it is ascending, will reverse to decline.

Something, perhaps, to provide an 'aha' should the week have created a meaningful top.

Jim

Robert Gordon's 7.83333 days

Such a simple but profound lesson *I think* Gann teaches us.  How many days, in round numbers, is Robert Gordon’s 7 days?  Simple a, b or c choice….6 days, 7 days or 8 days?  This may take a while so if the answer comes naturally to you, skip to the “Moral to the story” line.  It takes me a while and several bloviating paragraphs just to convince myself.

If I were the Supreme Commander and faced with the choice, would I travel southwest and destroy the Allied Enemy Command in Mexico City or would I travel east and attack the home of the enemy?  Gann chose to send Robert Gordon east to London.  A purpose or just a useless part of the story?  I'd probably go after Mexico City, but that's me, an accountant, not a general.

East is the same direction as the Earth spins on its axis.  For the moment, forget the extra 4-5 hours beyond 7 days that RG traveled (he returned to New York City at about noon and therefore 4-5 hours greater than 7 days).  Let’s just deal with days.

Beginning on July 21, 1932 at 7am, a person sitting on a New York City park bench would not see sun rise #1 for another 22.5 hours.  That day’s sunrise had already occurred by 7am.  So RG leaves NYC at 7am and travels in the same direction as the rotation of the earth to London, Berlin Paris.  Let’s flip forward to 7am on July 22, 1932 and visit the fella on the park bench.  He saw the sun rise 1.5 hours ago.  RG is 3700 miles or so east of NYC.  Did RG see the first sunrise before the fella on the park bench?  Of course he did.  At the end of the first day RG was roughly 3 hours east of NYC ‘vibrating’ around London and Berlin.

Proof?  Ponder this time line in TTTA for yourself:

• July 21, 1932, RG leaves NYC at 7am.  Page 393
• “Supreme Commander Gordon then proceeded on the following day to Berlin.  That would be July 22 wouldn’t it?  Page 394 
• “The President notified him that France would declare a holiday and give him a reception greater than that tendered Captain Lindbergh when he landed there on May 21st, 1927.”  Page 395

No, not exact proof but a suggestion, perhaps, that the great celebration occurred on a monthly anniversary of Lindbergh’s….the 21^st.  If so, RG had been traveling more than a day and the date had not changed.  Again, not proof but otherwise, "Why the date Mr. Gann?"

Gann doesn’t otherwise tell us much about time during RG’s trip and probably for a reason.  And the reason being that we must assume the trip was somewhat ratable.  If so, then the second day RG was another 3-4 hours further east and saw the sun rise 7-8 hours earlier than the fella on the park bench in NYC.  So you get my drift.  At the end of 7 NYC days and 7 NYC sun rises, RG sees the 7^th  sunrise 21 hours earlier than the NYC vagrant.

I think it’s c, roughly 8 days plus a couple hours.  By RG’s time he was gone 8 sun rises.  Think of it this way.  The earth at the equator spins at a speed relative to a fixed star at roughly 24,901 miles / 24 hours or 1,037 MPH.  Hmmm, wasn’t the St. Marie capable of 1,000 MPH?  RG could have made that trip in 1 day plus change, but he took 8 days (or 7 days by NYC stationary time).  Obviously, RG made 20 diversions from the straight line to visit locations north and south.  He traveled an angled distance which is much farther than a straight line distance.  But he also spent some time at some locations “vibrating” or circling the location.  [Again, hmmm, kinda like Russell Smith describes vibrating about specific notes in his discussion of the ‘duality’ on page 43.  Was Gann telling us that certain points in the trip ‘vibrate’ as might occur during the progression of the diatonic scale?  Context for another essay perhaps?]  

Getting to the moral of the 8 day story.  The stock market travels east to west just like RG.  Look at the X Y stock charts; left to right, the direction of time as we know it.  Ponder that.  And just like RG, the stock market travels part time, not full time.  In Mr. Gann’s day, the regular trading hours were largely 10am to 2pm as best I can determine.  There were Saturday trading hours for some periods, but largely 20 hours a week for the stock market. [I should go back and check the dates of RGs cotton, beans and Major Motors trades to see if any were on Saturday, but I have not.]

So, IF the stock market travels the same speed as Earth rotates, in the same direction, and travels only 20 hours over 7 days of stationary time, when will the stock market see the 8^th sun rise.  In terms of stationary New York City time, I believe it will take 7 stationary New York City days plus 4 hours. 

And Robert Gordon saw 8 sun rises in 7 New York City days plus 4 hours, arriving back in NYC just before noon of the 7the New York City day.

Is Robert Gordon’s 7 days (errr 7.83333 days or [(8 X24 - 4 ) / 24 because he was 4 hours short of the 8th sunrise) telling us something about the market’s short term cycle?  ….The time of one complete cycle of vibration?  do re mi fa sol la si do….

Lastly, keep in mind the market "travels" 32.5 hours per week these days.

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”  

Francis Bacon, “The Essays.”

Jim