TTTTA Acrostic - Number…. the if and why of time?

The Tunnel Thru the Air contains acrostic and telestic encryption devices, some as markers for further encryption, some as commentary.  All invoke consideration of what Mr. Gann MIGHT have been messaging…. if anything.  Whereupon finding an acrostic, the interpreter's bias might enter.  So, employ Lord Bacon's admonition that reading should be untaken not to argue, debate or denigrate….but to consider.

I'm ever so encouraged that the following acrostics, all arranged in a tightly woven and uninterrupted space, create a self-contained and critical message.  The acrostics of which I speak are strategically, I believe, positioned.  They are in Chapter 4, line 42 of that chapter, page 36 and line 6 of that page.  Consider 6^6 is 36 and the two added are 42.  Each number has individual significance one might ponder.  [I count lines in a chapter beginning with the page number of the first page of the chapter as line 1, one space between lines and two spaces for a page break.]

Here's the TTTTA text (left), the acrostics in red and my biased speculation in italics at right:

Time as perhaps a subset of Pyrhagoras' condensed thought that "All is number."

On another level, the subject matter of the text is Robert and Marie's reconciliation and love.  The number, 36, appears to imply the circle of 360 degrees as well as the completed circle of love, having previously begun and ended, begins yet again.  Love and 360 degrees.  In Pythagorean numerology,  L-o-v-e has letter values of 3-6-4-5.  And 3 X 6 X 4 X 5 = 360.

To boot, the thoroughly inscrutable pages 36 and 37 are rich in the deepest of Gann's encryption, symbolism and key to meaning.  That's a very preliminary opinion (and more a 'feeling' than an informed opinion) because I'm far from unraveling the spacial or numerical meanings that I suspect.  However, page 37 contains the "Rosy Cross", which, as explained in other essays, affixes the signature of the Rosicrucian to TTTTA.

Enjoy the pondering if you're so inclined,

Jim Ross