Notably beginning on pages 36 and continuing on page 37, Robert Gordon writes a poem to Marie about beginning again and about a journey through The Garden of Love. I have pondered these inscrutable pages many times and resolved they'd always be a mystery. I figured they'd somehow identify the 'Tree of Life' but could never fit them together in the implied form and nodal points. I was wrong. I did identify on page 37 the "Rose of Charity" or "RC" identifying, as I conjured, Mr. Gann as a Rosicrucian (see the 6th paragraph of the essay found HERE). And 17th century Rosicrucians are said to represent they could predict the future.
According to pages 36, we first enter The Garden of Love from the gate of selfishness. On my first visit to Green-Wood Cemetery (June 21, 2015, the summer solstice), I walked from the road roughly south east up the hill from Border Road searching for Mr. Gann's grave. Ultimately, after a seeming interminable time of searching, I texted my wife to let her know I might be very late in the evening because GWC seemed very poorly arranged relative to the Green-Wood Cemetery map. And when I hit send on my cell I looked up the hill and to the right and there was the stone "Gann." I approached Mr. Gann's gravestone from roughly the south west. I was oblivious to the stones surrounding that of Mr. Gann's. It would be several days before I sensed the "WD Gann Gravestone Geometry." It would be weeks before I understood the philosophical (as I interpret it) arrangement/content of the stones. I do now understand, or believe I understand.
This last Sunday, August 2, 2015, when I revisited GWC I drove on Border Road past the place in GWC where I believed Mr. Gann's grave to be, turned right on Hemlock Avenue and parked under a shade tree. I expected it would be a bit easier to find and access the grave from higher up the hill, walking downward. I walked up the Canna Path (note that a canna is a species of the lilly, the canna lilly), turned right and then, after a surprisingly long time to find the grave, I did find the stone number 5. [You can find a copy of the GWC map HERE.] I had approached the grave from roughly the east / southeast as the Sun was to my back at about 11am. This is very important.
Of course, on this later visit, I was keenly aware of 12 stones that were geometrically arranged for a reason; that they would ultimately create what I envision as a time and space clocklike mechanism. I went about affixing number identifications on each stone and found that Mr. Gann's stone was number 3 rather than number 5 as I'd previously believed from a Google Earth reflection of the 12 stones. The revised Google Earth enumeration of stones is this:
You may recall I'd previously identified point C of the WD Gann Memorial Triangle as Mr. Gann's grave or stone number 5. The above is the actual configuration of the 12 stones as I discovered.
On June 21, 2015, when I was unaware of the other 11 stones, I approached the group of stones from approximately the left most red vector. This approach was up the hill. As a bearing, the rightmost red vector points exactly to the Conde Nast Building at Times Square and is near perfectly North.
On August 2, 2015, I approached the stones from the far bottom right corner or roughly from the south east. I can now verify that as I realize the sun was generally at my back and nearly overhead at 11am.
How I differently I approached the 12 stones on those two trips is important. In the first visit, I was ignorant of the 11 stones other than that of Mr. Gann. In the second case I was aware. I was, on the first visit, seeking some insight that would lead me to Mr. Gann's secrets. In the latter I was filled with a reverence of a possible conspiracy of great men to create a timeless geometry rivaling that of the Great Pyramid. On the first trip I selfishly sought a valuable secret….on the second I'd hoped to simply understand.
And what do we find on pages 36 and 37 of TTTTA? We find that we first enter into the Garden of Love from the Gate of Selfishness and we find that "Imagination" leads us from the wrong path. But then we find that when we approach the Garden from the correct gate, the Gate of Unselfishness, we correctly perceive the Garden of Love. We find many flowers; lilies, perhaps Canna Lillies, and the thornless rose. The Lilly of Faith and the Rose of Charity.
I had to put a number sticker on each of the 12 stones because it was too confusing to otherwise stand amidst them and know my alignment among them. I was there, among many things, to take measurements between the stones, verify alignments, etc. so I had to have good bearing; hence the number stickers. I felt guilt and irreverence for putting stickers on the stones, but it had to be done. I did remove them before leaving. With that admission, following are 12 stones:
You will find a rose, lilly and/or a branch with berries of the hickory tree (I have identified the "Great Tree" as a "Buckeye Hickory" as will be discussed in a later essay) on each of the above 12 stones. Unfortunately, picture 12 was not taken well, but I have another picture that shows that, in the right and left margins, you will find the thornless rose:
So, there you have it. And what is that? You have the 12 stones of the WD Gann Gravestone Geometry sporting either a lilly, rose and/or hickory leaf. I can document that the stone to the right of stone #1 in the GGG does not have any flower on it. The 12 stones in the GGG are unique from other stones in their similarities on their face. It is, in my opinion, the Garden of Love.
And, as detailed in pages 36 and 37, I first entered it from the Gate of Selfishness on June 21 and later on August 2 I entered from the exact opposite direction, through the Gate of Understanding. And, of course, then believing Mr. Gann's stone to be stone #5, I entered at that stone. But it was not Mr. Gann's stone, it was Mr. D'Agostaro's stone. But that is where I "entered".
And what is unique among all 12 stones on stone #5. Please refer to the 12 stones above. Only stone 5 contains this one symbol.
It is a gate…. I entered at the Gate of Understanding that is etched on stone #5.
Another realization. If you are convinced of the relation of the symbology of the 12 stones as am I, you need to consider the perspective of all this. The first lot among the 12 comprising the Garden of Love was purchased in 1932 according to the records of Green-Wood Cemetery. WD Gann published "The Tunnel Thru the Air" in 1927 and, doubtlessly, composed it years before that date. How then, when writing TTTTA, did he know the configuration and nature of the 12 stones?
And one bit of perceived philosophy more. If I have found the Garden of Love, is it The Land of Beginning Again. When I entered from the Gate of Understanding, I entered from the same path as the Sun. Had I found the correct beginning as Mr. Gann said was imperative to success in forecasting? An interesting exercise is to search for each instance of the word "beginning" in TTTTA and read its surrounding context. It would seem there's a secret there….'discern the end from the beginning" perhaps?
How fitting that The Land of Beginning Again is found in a cemetery. How encouraging.
Did I mention? Page 37. We find that every lot number among the 12 lots begins with the two digits, 37. Again, the sign of the Rosicrucian and smallest angle of the Pythagorean 3-4-5 right triangle. Just coincidence no doubt. [This is wrong. Stones 6 and 7 are in the 38XXX series.]
Always in a state of amazement, I am,
Jim Ross
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