Why "Luo" "Clement?"

Mr. Gann never wastes a thing, in my estimation.  So its been a persistent doubt that, if Gann=Luo Clement, as claimed by a previous essay, why did Gann select the pen name Luo Clement for "The Ancient Science of Numbers?"

Recall the coincidental evidence of Gann's authorship of "Ancient Science..."

• "Ancient Science..." is published in the same years as Gann's "great discovery,"
• The date of the Preface is May 8 and the date of TTTTA's Foreword is May 9 (this is incorrect, there isn't a Preface to "Ancient Science…I don't know where I found the May8.  Thanks to a commenter and friend for keeping me honest.)
• The cover of "Ancient Science..." sports a triple triple where one of the last pages of TTTTA finds Robert Gordon receiving a triple triangle medal,
• "Ancient Science...." reprises Mark 9:29, "According to they faith be I unto thee," on page 16, the same scripture comprising Marie's note of farewell repeated 7 times in TTTTA,
• The five asterisks on page 45 of "Ancient Science..." and page 130 of TTTTA,
• 19 years between "Ancient Science...." and TTTTA, a hallmark number being the square root of the number of earth axis degrees in one solar day,
• As endpoints of time, "Ancient Science.." published in 1908 and TTTTA in 1927 is bisected by the essays of the Einstein Editor (another theory) beginning in 1920 yielding Biblical intervals between the three of 12 and 7,
• and the enigma of the promise in "Ancient Science..." of a subsequent book that has, as best can be determined, not been published (the promised book is "Numerical Vibration").

Since my request for information on any person having existed named "Luo Clement" in my February 16 essay, I have not received any indication of such from anyone.  Similarly, no proof of the subsequent publication of "Numerical Science."  The only response to the proposition that Luo Clement = WD Gann is "I doubt it."

Moreover, I believe (have not proven to myself), the vibration of letters found in "Ancient Science..." is the key to mathematically integrating Pythagoras diatonic scale into the Pythaorean theorem structure of the 22 locations visited by Robert Gordon during his seven days.  It is the final key to the greatest mystery of TTTTA; the one mystery that Mr. Gann says that, when solved, the student will 'understand' why Jesus rose on the 3rd day and rested after the sixth.  [Next to last paragraph of the Foreword to TTTTA.]  There isn't a greater lesson.

Back to the name.  My considered observation; Gann never misses an opportunity to link to an important concept or a historic person possessing an important concept.  So what lesson might be taught by "Luo" and "Clement?"

My first thought was an anagram, as was Edna Quinton in TTTTA.  Not following me?  Look strictly and Quinton and consider if if there's an anagram that might imply a Gann prophecy?  Regardless, I tried for weeks to find a meaningful anagram of 'luoclement' but its just not there.  So I started looking for simple meaning in the two words.

First, let's look at "Luo."  There's a Kenyan population of "Luo" with their own language of "Luo," but I hardly think Mr. Gann was drawing meaning there.  The prominent and promising link is the Chinese etymology of "Luo."  It is prominently a last name but only rarely is it used as a first name.  There is also a series of meanings as a noun and as a verb; a net for catching birds, a silk, to catch birds in a net, and to sieve.  The word that struck me is silk and what is one prominent eastern use of silk?  It is a veil.  And what is the method of imparting truth in TTTTA and the Bible?  Veil.

The first name was only a 'throwaway.'  ["Throwaway," was a premature description as I am thankfully corrected by a commenter.  Luo is an aspect of ancient Chinese numerology and magic squares of Luo-Shu.  It is, again, an important lead given us by Gann, if the subject thesis is correct.]  Gann's objective, IMO, is the word Clement.   There are fourteen Pope Clements and three antipope Clements.  But I didn't see anything among them that would be Gannesk in knowledge.  There was Pope Clement V who reigned over the assault on the Knights Templar on Friday, October 13, 1307 and Gann was very opposed to the institutional church.  But that was a personal thing and I don't believe that he would stoop to a petty personal selection of a name when the opportunity to teach a lesson when such an opportunity existS.

There is a non Pope 'Clement' that is appropriate.  St Clement of Alexandria was a near contemporary of Philo of Alexandria (the latter having taught the secretive Biblical methods of allegory and parable).  Clement is known as being one of the first, if not the first, Christian authors with substantial works being still available and he was first to identify gematria as a key to the understanding of the Bible's hidden meanings.  From "The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins, pg 114:

Hmmm, what is "The Ancient Science of Numbers" about?  Gematria, albeit, gematria light and the Pythagorean (so named by some) system of gematria values.

Clement's most interesting work (as if I'd read all of his 8 books) is Stromata.  In it (itself, it is divided into 3 books), Clement develops the secretive ancient mysteries (even in the 2nd century being considered then ancient) as being hidden in the Bible because the Lord knew of the ignorance of people and their ignorance could only be addressed in parable and allegory (much as Gann taught).  My favorite quote of Stromata is at the beginning:

As a separate thought, Clement gives an interesting accounting for the hierarchy of all things; that at the bottom is the human, elevated is the angel and each 1000 years an angel might become an archangel.  Put that in the 'heard it before' column but had forgotten it.  He also gives in-depth treatments of the lives and training of Moses, Pythagoras, Philo and others as may have best been available to him in the second century.  Certainly, being of Alexandria, Clement would have been close to ground zero for that information as it then existed.

If this is the point Gann wanted us to arrive at by teasing with the inscrutable "Luo Clement," it's well taken.  If I am mistaken, well, I'm not the worse for having read Stromata...  I've become a less dirty swine.

One last piece of "evidence"... or allusion thereto:

St Clement giving the veil to Flavia Domitilla.  [Subsequent to posting the above, I questioned the link that represented the above was Clement of Alexandria.  It could be Pope St Clement I who lived in generally the same period.  After study, I believe St Clement in the painting is Tituts Flavius Clemens aka Clement of Alexandria and not Pope Clement I.]

All that said, I am entirely comfortable in my thesis that "The Ancient Science of Numbers" was, in fact, ghost written by WD Gann.  The coincidental evidence first cited in this post, alone, is persuasive to a person with an open mind....a self serving opinion, styling myself as a reasonable and impartial person.  My wife might take issue.

If anyone can plausibly propose an American living in the early 1900s who may have written "The Ancient Science of Numbers" I'd be appreciative of that information.  Or any indication that "Numerical Vibration" was published.  I cannot find any such evidence and I've tried, exhaustively.

Now, I have proven that connection to myself, pending refutation.  With the Luo and Clement now understood, I have met my personal burden of proving the thing to myself.

I understand the "I doubt it."  Its the adopted mindset to paint oneself with gravitas of global consideration in the absence of having done the work.  The antidote for the disease is doing the work.  That would be reading Stromata and arriving at one's own decision to either believe or not believe.  As St Clement said (and as many have heard in a Sunday sermon) faith is a choice.  And I'd add, it should be a considered choice arrived at after wrestling with the alternates or otherwise having found the dispositive evidence.  As both Marie and Luo Clement (err Mark 9:29) said:

According to your faith, be I unto you

The importance of the relation of "Ancient Science..." to Gann is immense if numerical vibration unique to each stock proves to be the final piece to the solution of the Gann's greatest enigma; Robert Gordon's 7 days.

Jim Ross

qui non intelligit, aut taceat, aut discat