A mea culpa, caveat emptor and WD Gann's prophecies

I've twice revised my mapping of the number of lines in "The Tunnel Thru the Air" and twice been wrong.  I first offered the structure of TTTTA in the post "WD Gann's Book of Numbers" on January 19, 2015 and found that there were 15608 lines in TTTTA when counting 2 lines after each chapter ended and not counting the number of lines that appeared on the rear dust cover jacket.

But I realized that was wrong.  Mr. Gann would not provide a framework of meaningful pages without providing proof of why the correct number of pages was correct.  He did that in two metrics; first, the reconciliation of the "great-1000 year cycle" to the total lines (see essay on the "Great 1000-year cycle" and its 24th subdivision of 41.666 years) and, second, an acrostic "Phi" found on page 120:

[An acrostic is a word spelled using the first letter of consecutive lines and a telestic is the same using the last letter of each line.  The author contrives line breaks in order to spell a word that conveys a hidden message.  These techniques were used prominently by Lord Bacon and John Dee.]

That acrostic, "Phi," is the only place that word is found in any of the acrostics and telestics in TTTTA.  And it appears with the telestic "Dee" which is the 17th century scientist, mathematician, magician of Queen Elizabeth I's court and close friend of Lord Francis Bacon.

Note that 432 pages in TTTTA (418 numbered pages + 2 Foreword + cover + inside cover + back + dedication + copyright + 4 blank pages in front + 3 blank pages in rear) and that divided by 120 is 3.60 or the degrees in the circle if ignoring the decimal.  Not a coincidence.  Likewise, then, I expect that IF I have the number of lines correctly identified, line number 4625 divided into the CORRECT number of lines would result in a Phi proportion.  That would be the iron clad check I expect Mr. Gann created.

As aforementioned, my first counting of the lines in TTTTA was wrong.  15608 / 4625 = 3.374 is close to Phi X 2 but close is not what I'd expect of Mr. Gann's intent.  The second time I counted lines, I came up with 15218 lines by giving 1 line between every paragraph (including between chapters).  This was a number that was extremely pleasing because it is exactly 1000 years X 365.242 days per year / 24.  I continue to think that number has merit, but it doesn't pass the second or Phi test.  The most logical Phi test would be 4625 X Phi X 2 = 14966 lines.  Yes, my line counts are close.  But there is something I am missing.

So, that's where I was yesterday when I discovered a major numbering error involving Chapter 17.  Simply a "Ross-up".  Each time I re-number pages, it costs me hours and hours.  This time I have a total page count of 15304 lines, but I no longer have the comfort that it is correct in accordance with EITHER the 1000-year reconciliation or the Phi marker.  Close, but not exact.  Mr. Gann's real truths did not involve close IMO.

That's my mea culpa.  I've checked back on my conclusions with regard to Mr. Gann's having forecast when he would die and they remain firm.  The line number used in that analysis, 3801, remains the same as the error was in a later chapter.  The 86 line discrepancy in the total pages will not change the conclusion.  Gann knew 77 years was the end of his earthly stay.

The caveat emptor is a thought Mr. Gann emphasized in his Foreword and throughout his lifetime of work;  prove it to yourself.  Given that not a person, not a single Gann expert, has identified and published proof of the extensive acrostic telestic coding of TTTTA in 88 years until now nor suggested a line structure of TTTTA, I will allow myself the error.  But the error cannot go unnoticed by me to anyone who reads this.  Gann's advice remains all important.  Prove all things to yourself.  And, of course, that means anything that I say in this blog.

That brings me to a crossroads.  I have noted several prophecies that I believe Mr. Gann intended to be discovered in the age of the 266th Pope.  I have written extensively on the curious reference to 266th Pope that was only elected in 2013; by near acclamation of experts on the subject, Pope Francis is the 266th Pope to which St Malachy (or some would say Nostradamus) prophesied and Gann discuses on page 82.

My dilemma is that I'd prefer to write a book on the 7 manifest prophecies that Gann provided in TTTTA and I've written about a half dozen chapters including a Preface.  They aren't good but they convey the wonderment of his documented predictions.  The other, not so fully document prophecies have yet to be adequately researched although the seed is there.  So the matter is time and my ability to limit myself adequately so that the task is achievable.  I am drawn to the math of "Robert Gordon's 7 Days" and thats my passion.  It competes with the need to present the manifest prophecies of Gann.

My plan has become publishing here the fully developed prophecies in the hopes that others will make further progress.  My desire of writing a book is probably more a matter of attributing myself than one of doing something worthy.

I perceive only one of the prophecies that Gann envisioned as having continuing future implications.  It was a work in progress in the context of the 266th Pope and the "…remarkable events…." to occur in the wake of his election (page 82).  It is the same prophecy that is laid out by Rabbi Jonathan Can in "The Harbinger." It begins with the "first warning" began September 11, 2001.

Mr. Gann, I will assert, predicted the World Trade Center tragedy 73 years prior to its occurrence in 1927.  He predicted its onset of to within one minute of when Muhammad Ata departed Logan Airport and the fall of the South Tower to within mere minutes.  He gave the name of "Ata", the number of attackers, the number of attacks, the cities involved, the name of the airline, the elements of Rabbi Cahn's interpretation of Isaiah 9/10 (the 'cedar') and more.

To fully understand this first prophecy, I'll have to provide some background.  Anyone with a reasonably inquisitive mind should have been alerted when he read "…the 110-story Mammouth building."  Intentionally misspelled, no less, to underscore its importance.  But who has?  I have not read a single person that has ruminated on the remarkable similarity to the 110-story WTC.  I've written on it extensively in the past and the 266th Pope.  Now I will provide the proof of the prophecy.  

With all that said in this post, first suspect my analysis, second do the work yourself to prove it to yourself, and finally decide for yourself if Mr. Gann predicted 9/11.

And if, after doing the work, you come to the affirmative conclusion, what is the continuing prophecy? That's what's really important.

Jim Ross